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NU reflects on role in Sand Creek Annual event highlights Evans’ role in massacre By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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The Northwestern Lakefill. Evanston’s Climate Action Team is looking to unify city environmental efforts at an upcoming meeting.
Climate group aims to unify efforts
Democratic Party of Evanston to join different enviornmental groups By EMMA YARGER
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The Democratic Party of Evanston’s Climate Action Team is seeking to unify local climate action efforts at Tuesday’s CitySchool Liaison Committee
meeting. At their Sunday meeting, DPOE Climate Action Team Chairman Bob Heuer, volunteer Neal Weingarden and Evanston Township High School District 202 sophomore Ethan Schaefer discussed strategies to unify climate action efforts. Heuer said the City-School Liaison Committee
can be the platform that centralizes a “hodgepodge” of efforts to implement the city’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan. In December 2018, Evanston City Council approved CARP, a series of strategies for the city to combat climate change in multiple categories including waste, buildings and municipal
operations. “We can engage youth through municipal level action around climate,” Heuer said. “Really work at the local level where you can have the biggest impact.” Heuer said he hopes to engage various groups to work toward » See CLIMATE, page 6
As dawn broke on November 29, 1864 — while Northwestern University founder John Evans served as the governor of the Colorado territory — U.S. troops launched an attack on a Native American camp at Sand Creek. Under the direction of Col. John Chivington, the soldiers killed over 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children. Today, indigenous people still feel the effects of that tragedy, which came to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre, said Gail Ridgely, a Northern Arapaho tribal member and descendant of the massacre. “Today, we’re still healing from this atrocity that happened in 1864,” Ridgely said. “It’s still very real today in our communities.” Ridgely and other descendants spoke Saturday at Northwestern’s sixth annual Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration, sharing stories about the massacre and discussing the tribes’ efforts to heal. About 70 people
gathered in the McCormick Foundation Center for the event, which also included musical performances by the Chicago-based group Redline Singers, a screening of a short documentary and a communal meal. The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance hosted the commemoration, co-sponsored by Multicultural Student Affairs, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. “Given that we’re in an institution that’s somewhat cyclical, where folks are arriving and folks are leaving, it’s just important that we continue to think about this history,” said Aaron Golding, Multicultural Student Affairs assistant director. “In 2013, this memory of John Evans and his involvement in the massacre kind of resurfaced. But in the late 1800s, this was common knowledge.” NU commissioned its John Evans Study Committee in 2013 to research Evans’ involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre. Their report found that Evans did not directly plan or order the attack but did enact policies that made the massacre possible. A separate study released » See SAND CREEK, page 6
YouTube star Students adjust to new Black House speaks on campus During renovations, temporary location still a hub for community
KevJumba discusses early rise to digital fame By VIVIAN XIA
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Asian American blogger, activist and humanitarian Kevin Wu described his ascent to early YouTube stardom, well before big names like James Charles or JoJo Siwa. Northwestern’s Chinese Students Association hosted Wu on Saturday at Lutkin Hall as their 2019 fall speaker. Wu joined YouTube in 2006 just a year after the site started, rising to fame under the username KevJumba. Since then, he’s garnered over 323 million views. “My first video was me dancing in my backyard,” Wu said. “It wasn’t until a week later I was like, ‘You know what, I’m going to try this vlogging thing,’ and I posted a video of me — it was called
‘Looks Are Everything’ on YouTube — and it was just me talking to a camera.” Motivated by comments he received, Wu posted a video a week later called “I Have to Deal with Stereotypes.” Later, a YouTube desk editor from Japan reached out, and Wu ended up getting featured after improving his video. “So all those people that I was like, ‘Oh my god they’re getting hundreds of comments,’ that became me,” Wu said. Following his introduction speech, a few members of CSA’s executive board and members of the audience asked Wu questions in a moderated conversation. Then students could take pictures and chat with him in a meet-and-greet after the talk. During the Q&A, he revealed that at 17 years old, he was the youngest person accepted into the YouTube Partner Program to get paid » See KEVJUMBA, page 6
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By AHLAAM DELANGE
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A temporary Black House sign marks a small residence hall at 1856 Orrington Ave., where organizations, students and staff congregate while the Black House undergoes renovations. But many students said the temporary location doesn’t have the same charm as the original Black House. Students came in and out of the temporary Black House as temperatures dropped below freezing this week. Faculty and staff shared leftover food with students. Organizations moved upstairs for their weekly meetings. Students also enjoyed downtime between their obligations. The Black House Renovations Steering Committee spent Spring Quarter touring potential spaces for the temporary Black House that would fit students’ needs. The space the committee ended up selecting is a small residence hall with two floors that has staff offices and student spaces on both levels.
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The original location of the Black House, on 1914 Sheridan Road. The Sheridan location has been closed for renovations and will open Fall 2020. However, a temporary location on 1856 Orrington Ave. is open to the Northwestern community until renovations are completed.
While some students said they are adjusting to the temporary space, they said they are excited to return next year to the renovated Black House at 1914 Sheridan Road. SESP senior Ayana Davis said the Black House is an important space for the black community at NU, created by
black alumni. “It is a nice bubble where I know people are there to support me,” said Davis. “People are able to get all of these resources, like food, here.” Davis said she uses the temporary location less than the original location. She added that she does
not use other spaces on campus more and instead spends the additional time in her room. The temporary space does not have the warmth of the original Black House, she said. “The Black House was literally » See BLACK HOUSE, page 6
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