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City introduces new ethics code Changes include special counsel, new term limits By JOSHUA IRVINE
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The city’s proposed ethics code will appoint a special counsel for the Board of Ethics and shorten term lengths for board members. City Council introduced the ordinance Monday. The proposal is a total rewrite of Evanston’s ethics code and contains significant modifications to the operations and organization of the Board of Ethics, the independent committee charged with upholding the code. The Ethics Subcommittee of the Rules Committee, a now-dissolved group comprised mostly of aldermen, drafted the new ethics code. The ordinance has faced subsequent revision from the Rules Committee on Oct. 7. The code was last updated in 2007, with minor amendments made in accordance with amendments to the City Code in 2012 and the dissolution of Evanston Township in 2014. The new ordinance creates a new role in the administration of the Board of Ethics. According to the proposal, a
“special counsel” will receive all complaints and determine with the chair of the Board of Ethics committee which ones fall under the board’s jurisdiction. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the position will replace a role previously fulfilled by city attorneys, who could find themselves in a conflict of interest in proceedings. “This is a way to take that out of the equation and have a more independent person in the role,” Wilson said. The special counsel can also initiate an ethics investigation on their own volition with approval from the board chair. The ordinance specifies that the special counsel must be a licensed member of the Illinois State Bar Association and demonstrate “relevant experience” for the role. The city manager’s office will administer the position as an independent contractor. Unlike board members, the role has no stated term limit. The ordinance also shortens the term lengths for members on the Board of Ethics from three years to two. Language in the ordinance also suggested board members would only be able to serve one term. When asked about this restriction, Wilson said he would revisit the portion of the ordinance, though he did » See ETHICS, page 7
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Andrea Lin and Khizar Nandoliya edit essays in Norris. The two Northside College Prep alumnae created an editing service for CPS seniors affected by the strike.
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Students organize essay editing service for CPS seniors during strike By EVA HERSCOWITZ
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For Northside College Preparatory High School senior Resty Fufunan, November is the height of college applications: polishing resumes, scoring last-minute letters of recommendation and — with the guidance of his Chicago public school teachers — writing
admissions essays. But for Fufunan and the thousands of seniors enrolled in Chicago Public Schools, Nov. 1 also marks the first day back to school since the Chicago teachers strike began Oct. 17 — the end of an 11-day-long stretch without teacher feedback on their college essays. “I’ve been working closely with my AP Lit teacher, conferencing with him during class,” Fufunan
said. “There are study hall periods in our schedule. I was looking forward to conferencing with him then, but I missed out on that during the strike.” But Fufunan won’t submit unedited essays. Thanks to Northwestern juniors Andrea Lin and Khizar Nandoliya, who organized an essay feedback project for CPS seniors, Fufunan received comments on his Common Application essay and a University of
Chicago supplemental essay. Many CPS students have submitted college essays for review through Lin and Nandoliya’s outreach. CPS teachers took to the streets to protest a shortage of school nurses, librarians and social workers and large class sizes. In the Oct. 31 compromise between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago » See CPS, page 7
Provost Holloway talks admissions Evanston Made In interview, Holloway lays out vision for NU, departmentalization By JAMES POLLARD
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In mid-October, members of The Daily’s editorial board sat down with Provost Jonathan Holloway for an interview. Jeri Ward, the vice president for global marketing and communications, also sat in on the meeting. Holloway talked through his academic vision for the next few years, along with his reactions to the college admissions scandal — among other topics. His answers to these questions have been edited for clarity and brevity. The Daily: With only a few months left until we’re in 2020, what’s your academic vision for Northwestern for the next decade? Holloway: The basic point is start from the place that Northwestern is an excellent university that is unique amongst almost all of its peers. And when I’m saying “peers,” I’m talking about the top 15 in the U.S. News & World Report — we are like so many of them because we are a comprehensive research university founded with a liberal arts foundation. We are unlike all of
them, except for maybe Penn, in the extent to which we are interdisciplinary, and that there’s a really strong mix of theory and application. Yale, where I came from, is a theory school. There’s very little there at the undergrad level that is about what one could simply call like vocational education. Northwestern has a mix. So if you take that as the foundation of what Northwestern is, the vision is how can we amplify those things that make us really distinctive? It’s a vision that we need to build upon our — I’ll call it — conceptual strength, which is this interdisciplinary ethos that has a marriage of applied and theoretical thinking. And we do need to find our talent in those areas and push that to the front of the queue. The Daily: Students and some faculty in LLSP and AASP have been seeking departmental status for years. We know Weinberg created a group to conduct faculty searches to appoint tenure-track professors for the programs last year. But is departmentalization still a possibility for them? What’s been delaying the process?
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creates community The group aims to create artist community By MAIA SPOTO
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Provost Jonathan Holloway speaks at Convocation during Wildcat Welcome. Holloway, in an interview with The Daily, discussed his academic vision for Northwestern.
Holloway: It’s certainly a possibility for them. Until you get a critical mass — let’s just pick Latinx Studies for simplicity. Until you get a critical mass of Latinx scholars in Weinberg who actually want to work in the Latinx study space, it doesn’t make a whole bunch of sense to have a department in that regard, because departments need to be staffed and need to be managed, just like the languages. And if you don’t have enough faculty to have a healthy rotation of chairing, being a director
of Undergraduate Studies, and eventually a director of Graduate Studies, you actually aren’t going to be able to have a functional department. Because if I’m a chair of a department it also means my teaching load has been reduced — so you’re taking people out of the classroom to manage the department. The main thing is we’ve got to get more faculty who are teaching these areas. And Dean Adrian Randolph was able to » See HOLLOWAY, page 7
“Cutting-edge,” “dynamic” and “contemporary” are not generally words associated with Evanston’s art scene, said Lisa Degliantoni, the executive director of Evanston Made. She said outsiders often picture a grandmother painting watercolors when they think of Evanston, but that could not be further from the truth. Evanston contains 10 times more artists than the national average, according to a report by evanstARts. Degliantoni founded Evanston Made, an organization that aims to shine a spotlight on the city’s vibrant arts scene. Her core mission is to engage local artists with the public. “I want to know the painter who lives next door,” Degliantoni said. “Making art can be so isolating… there’s tremendous validation and community coming out of this organization.”
Since 2012, Evanston Made has worked with about 500 local artists. Currently, 217 artists are paying members. They participate in studio tours on the first Saturday of every month, attend monthly social mixers and fill the Evanston Art Center with their pieces throughout June. The organization recently launched an online calendar to centralize community arts events in Evanston. In April, Evanston Made will lead an initiative called Art of the Earth, where local artists will display Earthrelated works. A percentage of artwork sales will also support a tree-planting initiative. Before Evanston Made, the city lacked a coherent arts scene, said Darren Oberto, a member and co-owner of Alley Gallery. Since the inception of Evanston Made, a network of artists has crystallized, bringing both exposure and a sense of community, Oberto said. “This is the most concrete idea that anyone’s had that has really stuck around,” Oberto said. Liz Cramer, a co-director at Evanston Made, said artists often struggle with self-promotion. For » See MADE, page 7
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