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Faculty discuss global report Concerns raised about funding, resource allocation
By ALLYSON CHIU
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Facult y members expressed concern about University task force recommendations regarding funding and resource allocation during a town hall discussion Thursday on the new global report. About 50 people attended the event hosted by the Global Strategy Task Force in the Allen Center. Members of the task force engaged with attendees to discuss their report, which was released last Friday. The report made nine recommendations, which included creating three new international sites and increasing support for language studies. Histor y Prof. Rajeev Kinra said the task force did “extraordinary work,” but he would like administrators to also consider infrastructure and programming on this campus. “ W here can we also
improve here on campus, both in coordinating what’s already here, but also allocating some of the kind of financial resources they’re talking about to existing programs that will also help us improve the kind of education we can offer to our undergraduates?” Kinra said. “That’s really what it ends up being all about.” Faculty members, who made up a majority of the audience, also raised questions about where funding for programs would come from and how research projects in various departments could be impacted by the report’s six central themes. The themes cover topics such as human conflict and violence, finite earth, and cities and migration. It is still too early to determine exact sources of funding, said Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount, who co-chaired the task force and led the town hall. In response to worries about research being influenced by the administration, political science Prof. Elizabeth Hurd, who represented » See GLOBAL, page 8
Credit reduction pleases students
Change in School of Communication receives feedback By ALLYSON CHIU
daily senior staffer @_allysonchiu
at a loss Wednesday morning. ETHS Principal Marcus Campbell said in an email that the school had seen an uptick in students wanting to talk to social workers after the election. The school was was providing “the supports for our students as we would on any given day,” the email said. In his morning announcements, District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said it was time to reflect and “reaffirm our appreciation for one another.” “This morning I want to remind all of you that ETHS is a safe and welcoming place for you. You attend a school where we not only respect differences, we embrace our diversity,” he said in the
The School of Communication was the first undergraduate school at Northwestern to lower its credit requirements, which students say will give them more academic flexibility. The school dropped the number of credits needed to graduate from 45 to 42, said theater department chair Prof. Harvey Young. It made the change due to a recommendation from a University task force report released in January, said Young, who was a member of the task force. Young said the reduction aims to strike a balance between academics and life outside the classroom. “My hope is that it allows students to realize their full potential,” he said. “This includes taking classes, but also being actively involved in a number of extra-curriculars as well as cocurriculars, such as student performances, productions, athletics and more.” Before the change was announced, Communication sophomore Amanda Xiang said she was thinking of adding a Kapnick Business Institutions Program minor to her communication studies and music double major. Xiang said she is more certain she will complete the minor now that she has fewer credits to do for her communication studies major. However, Young said, having fewer requirements should not change the quality of the education students receive. “Our goal is having this sense of balance without sacrificing the integrity of any single major,” he said. “The majors are strong, they remain strong, students aren’t missing out on things, and they can actually have a day where they can do other activities and get a full night’s sleep.” Fewer mandatory classes within each major in the school
» See STUDENTS, page 8
» See CREDIT, page 5
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MSA assistant director JT Turner (center) talks with Rapper Kool Moe Dee (left) and Afro-Punk festival creator James Spooner during this year’s State of the Black Union. Both artists discussed black representation within the punk and hip-hop communities and the commercialization of both musical genres.
State of Black Union held
Speakers address black representation in music By MARIANA ALFARO
daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro
Hip-hop and punk came together at Lutkin Hall on Thursday night as Grammy
Award-winning rapper Kool Moe Dee and Afropunk Festival co-founder and tattoo artist James Spooner spoke about black representation and the corporatization of both genres at this year’s State of the Black Union.
During the event, held by For Members Only and moderated by Multicultural Student Affairs assistant director Jordan Turner, Dee and Spooner spoke about their » See UNION, page 8
City educators seek to ease post-election anxiety By NORA SHELLY
daily senior staffer @noracshelly
Some teachers and administrators at Evanston Township High School took time out of the school day to help students process the results of Tuesday’s election. Bill Farmer ( Weinberg ‘03), the Teachers Council president at ETHS, said he was not looking forward to going into work on Wednesday morning. Farmer said being one of the first adults to help students process the results felt daunting. Farmer said he tried to create a space for students to discuss their reaction to the election, but the mood was somber in his first period biolog y class. He gave
post-it notes to students to write down how they felt and talked through the election results with former students who came to his room to “vent,” he said.
His students seemed tired and sad, he said. “They were motivated to try to do something, (but) I think at the age of 14 and 15 they’re not sure exactly how
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ETHS/D202 Board President Pat Savage-Williams speaks at a community dialogue. Some Evanston Township High School teachers tried to help their students process the election results.
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to engage in the democratic process,” Farmer said. Farmer said some students were discussing planning a protest or joining larger protests that were taking place in Chicago on Wednesday night. The timing of the election was particularly poignant for one of Farmer’s classes, he said. They had spent the past week studying climate change and the impact humans had on their environment. In light of Trump’s rhetoric on climate change, students had questions about environmental policy moving forward, Farmer said. The president-elect has said climate change is a “hoax” perpetrated by China and threatened to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Farmer said students and teachers alike seemed to be
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