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ASG holds final campaign debate Patterson, Kim talk policies on safe spaces, assault By RACHEL KUPFER
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During their second and final debate on Thursday, candidates for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president discussed support for marginalized communities, including ensuring they have safe spaces. The half hour-long debate, attended by about 20 people in Technological Institute, was originally supposed to be hosted by the Coalition of Colors, but after a last-minute change, ASG moderated the debate instead. Of the five questions moderators posed, two asked about candidates’ policies to provide marginalized students with resources, support and safe spaces.
SESP junior Justine Kim and her running mate, SESP sophomore Austin Gardner, said they hope to address the different intersections of student identities, both inside and outside of ASG. Specifically, they said they hope to better communicate with and understand organizations on campus to allocate money more holistically. For example, Gardner said, many student groups have lost the funding they need to attend conferences. “We want to advocate for bringing back their funding to alleviate the barricades made to access, financially,” Gardner said. Their opponents, Weinberg juniors Sky Patterson and Emily Ash, highlighted their campaign’s uniqueness in addressing LGBTQ issues on campus and their desire to “show, not tell” policies by omitting using buzzwords throughout their platform. Patterson proposed ensuring safe social spaces for » See DEBATE, page 6
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Morton Schapiro speaks at the McCormick Foundation Center on Thursday. Schapiro was joined by other administrators at “Conversations with the President” event, where he discussed matters from academic research and diversity efforts.
Schapiro talks research, inclusion NU administrators speak at ‘Conversations with the President’ By ADRIAN WAN
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University President Morton Schapiro updated community members Thursday on
Northwestern’s commitment to academic research and campus inclusion efforts. At the second of two “Conversations with the President” events this year, Schapiro discussed matters ranging from the University’s increased funding for
research and continued implementation of an array of inclusion initiatives. About 200 people packed the McCormick Foundation Center Forum to attend the talk, which was sponsored by Northwestern University Staff Advisory Council, faculty senate
and the Office of the President. Schapiro compared the amount of federal research funds the University received last year to what other member schools in the Consortium on Financing
» See CONVERSATION, page 7
Hagerty, developers break ground Nsombi Ricketts Construction of contentious 811 Emerson St. building begins By CLARE PROCTOR
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Mayor Steve Hagerty joined the real estate companies CA Ventures and Focus Development for a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday to mark the construction of a new development at 811 Emerson St., which underwent more than a year of discussion before it was approved. Hagerty said it is important to have more people living in downtown areas all across America, including Evanston — a sentiment he said is shared by Evanston restaurant and business owners. “I’m a big believer in smart and sensible development,” Hagerty said. “I’m a big believer in transit-oriented design.”
Although City Council approved the building in June, not everyone has been supportive of the new development, which has also been referred to as 831 Emerson St. Residents expressed concerns about the building’s height and lack of contribution to affordable housing at a City Council meeting last April. Susan Wolin, a resident at the Sherman Garden Apartments across the street from the new development, said at the April meeting that she was concerned the project was a “student-focused development” and would increase noise around the area. “I would argue that, in effect, the proposed development will end up functioning as a high-end dormitory, attracting affluent students,” she said. “The proposed project
to leave University Ricketts to finish year, join Pratt Institute in July By AMY LI
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Mayor Steve Hagerty speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for the 811 Emerson St. development. The project underwent more than a year of discussion before it was approved.
is targeting an affluent rental market that is already wellserved in Evanston.” Tim Anderson, owner and CEO of Focus Development, told The Daily at the Thursday
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ceremony the building’s units will be marketed toward students. He added that the development occupying the lot prior to the new apartment building » See EMERSON, page 7
Assistant provost for diversity and inclusion Nsombi Ricketts will be leaving Northwestern to join the Pratt Institute in July as their vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. Ricketts said her decision to move to Pratt was for a combination of both professional and personal reasons. While she said her time at NU was rewarding, Ricketts said she did not want to miss the unique opportunity to relocate back to New York City, where she was born and still has a support network.
Before joining NU’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion in April 2017, Ricketts served as the assistant dean at The Graduate School, where Ricketts said she and her team recruited recordbreaking numbers of underrepresented minority students and achieved the most diverse Ph.D. class in Northwestern’s history. Theresa Bratanch, a manager at the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, said she has worked with Ricketts since her time at The Graduate School. Bratanch said Ricketts’ success in recruiting the diverse Ph.D. cohort “speaks to her leadership and strategic eye.” Ricketts said she has been working in diversity and inclusion for more than a decade across multiple institutions. “Diversity is everyone,” Ricketts said. “It is the differences in
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