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EPD charges man with sexual assault Ex-priest accused of abusing minor in 2001 incident By SYD STONE
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Evanston Police Juvenile Bureau arrested a 56-year-old Colorado resident Friday in connection with a 2001 criminal sexual assault incident. Arvada, Colorado, resident Kenneth Lewis was charged with sexual assault against a minor stemming from an incident that took place in an Evanston hotel in July 2001, according to an Evanston Police Department news release. Lewis, who was a Catholic priest at the time of the incident, was with the boy’s family on a trip to Evanston. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the alleged assault occurred at 1501 Sherman Ave., the current location of the Holiday Inn Chicago North. The boy assaulted was a 13-year-old resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the time. The boy’s parents reported the incident to Tulsa police in
2004, and Tulsa police then reported the incident to EPD. Lewis was not charged as part of the initial investigation because the state declined to charge him, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily. Stephen Komie, Lewis’s private attorney, told the SunTimes that Lewis, who has not yet been arraigned or indicted, is expecting to enter a not guilty plea. According to the EPD news release, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Evanston Police Juvenile Bureau reopened the investigation in 2017, which led to an arrest warrant for Lewis for predatory sexual assault of a child. The warrant was issued on Dec. 27, 2017. Lewis was in Ecuador when the warrant was issued, but was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents upon returning to the U.S. on May 9 at HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport. He was then transported back to Illinois by the Cook County Sheriff ’s Police » See LEWIS, page 6
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Starbucks in downtown Evanston, 1734 Sherman Ave. Equity and Empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom said she will host equity forums on May 29 in response to an incident of racial bias in a Philadelphia Starbucks.
City to hold public equity forums Meetings come after racial bias incident at Philadelphia Starbucks By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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In response to the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks last month, Evanston
officials have organized public forums for residents to discuss the incident and reflect on greater issues of racism and discrimination in the country. On April 12, two black men were arrested at Starbucks after they tried to use the restroom
without purchasing anything. After the men declined an employee’s request for them to leave, the employee called the police. The men were escorted out of the coffee shop in handcuffs, and the video of their arrests went viral — sparking a national
conversation about racism and discrimination. Five days later, Starbucks announced it would close its more than 8,000 locations in the United States on May 29 to conduct » See STARBUCKS, page 6
Student activists unite for teach-in Cost estimate for Campus groups discuss goals, stress importance of coalition building By ALAN PEREZ
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Student activist groups came together Monday at University Hall for a teach-in to inform the community of their progress and future plans to accomplish their goals. Members of Black Lives Matter NU, the Latinx Asian American Collective, Students for Justice in Palestine and Students Organizing for Labor Rights discussed strategies to overcome barriers facing student activists at Northwestern. The groups stressed their interconnections and the importance of coalition building to reach their goals. Weinberg sophomore Sharmain Siddiqui of SJP stressed the importance of “BlackLatinx-Palestinian” solidarity, referencing a 2015 demonstration organized with MEChA de NU. Activists also referenced the May 2017 protest against the visit of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations officer, organized in part by MEChA and BLM NU. More recently, some activists — many of whom are in several of the groups — walked in on a May 3 panel discussion
of the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, holding a banner that read “You Never Completed Our Demands.” Members of the groups released a list of demands on the same day that outlined broad concerns regarding the black student experience, departmentalization and the dining service transition on
campus. The collective action and support is representative of the shared struggles nonwhite students face at a predominately white institution. “We’re all oppressed under similar, if not the same, forces,” said Weinberg freshman Eliza Gonring, a member of BLM NU. Members of each group said they plan to support each
other’s efforts, as many of them face the same difficulties when trying to get administrators to act. Siddiqui said she plans to double down on efforts to urge the University to divest from companies that supply Israeli forces with weapons and machinery. SJP plans to urge » See TEACH, page 6
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Student activists discuss strategies and progress at a Monday event in University Hall. The activists stressed the importance of forming supportive relationships between activist groups.
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Robert Crown up Aldermen, staff talk $4.5 million increase to budget By KEERTI GOPAL
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Aldermen and staff discussed a $4.5 million increase to the cost estimation for the Robert Crown Community Center and looked ahead to new sources of revenue at Monday’s City Council meeting. The total budget estimate is now $52.9 million, assistant city manager Erika Storlie said. She said the timeline for the project remains the same, with construction scheduled to begin this summer and the initial opening set for fall 2019. Barring any major changes before June, $52.9 million will likely be the maximum price for the community center, Storlie said. The cost increase comes from several new developments, including a steel price increase, new knowledge surrounding the poor soil at the site and a new $1.4 million owner contingency added to the city’s contract with Bulley & Andrews, the site’s construction manager. Mayor Steve Hagerty said investing in a project like Robert Crown was important for Evanston, and he urged the council to
continue searching for creative forms of revenue. “We ought to take a look at some of the city-owned assets that we have and ask ourselves … should we sell some of these assets and take the proceeds of that sale and put it into another asset that is benefiting the community, i.e. the new Robert Crown,” Hagerty said. “That doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.” Friends of the Robert Crown Center, an organization dedicated to raising money for the project, updated City Council on its own fundraising efforts — which representative Pete Giangreco said have been very successful. Storlie noted the work of FRCC will offset the $4.5 million cost increase. Giangreco said that between now and the end of the year, FRCC will meet with potential donors and will host an event June 22 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the site. Just one day after sending out invitations, the event has reached more than half of its $250,000 fundraising goal, Giangreco said. “We feel very good about the path that we have to ($)15 million,” he added. “We are just going to keep going until we get (there).” In addition to brainstorming forms of revenue for the project, » See CROWN, page 6
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