The Daily Northwestern Thursday, May 3, 2018
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Fifty years after Bursar’s Takeover, NU reconciles continued parallels in black student concerns By TROY CLOSSON
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Kathryn Ogletree (Weinberg ’71, Graduate School ’76) was just a freshman when she helped mobilize and lead a 38-hour sit-in that
would change the course of the University’s relationship with black students. It was May 3, 1968. Black students at Northwestern had organized the night before to finalize plans to take over an undisclosed campus building. The protest had been in the works for a while,
Ogletree said, and everyone had a designated role: The then-president of For Members Only helped guide students into the Bursar’s Office at 619 Clark St., while some led diversions at the Rebecca Crown Center. Others simply showed up in solidarity. “It was agreed that this is what we were
going to do, and then everyone who was in support showed up (at) seven o’clock in the morning the next day and we were fed into the Bursar’s Office, and that’s the history,” Ogletree said. » See IN FOCUS, page 4
NU research fellow D65 proposes dress code changes runs for state Rep. Decision follows ETHS revisions enacted earlier this school year Daniel Trujillo running as Green Party candidate By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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Daniel Trujillo, a research fellow at Northwestern, said he was “frustrated” watching state politics from the sidelines and decided he had to get involved. He is now running as the Green Party candidate for Illinois’ 18th District representative seat against incumbent state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston). Trujillo announced his candidacy at the beginning of 2018 and has since been campaigning to collect signatures to appear on the ballot in November, his campaign press secretary Molly Laatsch said. Although Trujillo has the Green Party’s endorsement, he said he identifies as an independent and votes across party lines. “I myself am just a regular, working-class father,” Trujillo said. “I have six children. … We’re involved in the everyday
lives of raising children and being a part of our community.” Trujillo said he is facing a plethora of challenges trying to get on the ballot. Ballot access procedures are particularly “regressive” in Illinois, he said. As a third party candidate, he said he must receive signatures from 5 percent of the voting population from the last election — about 5,000 signatures — while Democratic and Republican candidates only need 500 signatures. Candidates file signatures between June 18 and 25, giving Trujillo some time to get on the ballot. He said there is a good chance his signatures will be challenged, so his campaign must be especially thorough. Laatsch said she is working to make her candidate visible in the community. She said the campaign has gathered a couple hundred signatures by canvassing neighborhoods and attending community events geared toward Trujillo’s mission of empowering working-class voters. She said Trujillo will be at the Evanston Farmers’ Market this weekend to meet with constituents. » See TRUJILLO, page 3
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By AMELIA LANGAS
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The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board Policy Committee decided at a Monday meeting to propose changes to the district’s dress code policy and follow in the footsteps of Evanston Township High School. In the beginning of the school year, ETHS implemented a policy highlighting marginalized communities and favoring dialogue surrounding dress code. Soon after, a group of ETHS students — who had worked to enact the changes — attended a Board Policy Committee meeting along with District 65 students and parents to advocate for a similar review of the District 65 dress code, board president Suni Kartha told The Daily. “It was a combination of District 65 students as well as high school students who had been through District 65 saying this is not just an issue for the high school,” Kartha said. “That was really the impetus for us to look at (the ETHS) policy and look at our policy and see what we needed to do.”
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board president Suni Kartha at a meeting. The district’s Board Policy Committee decided Monday to begin to make amendments to the district’s dress code.
Sergio Hernandez, a board member and chairperson of the Board Policy Committee, said after hearing the community’s concerns, the committee asked the district administration to take a look at both the district’s current policy and ETHS’
edited policy. He also said the administration was asked to review policies of nearby school districts. At Monday’s meeting, the administration presented a memo to the committee. The memo recommended that the
district review and update the code, and it also included a summary of current practices at other Illinois school districts as well as at districts in Portland and San Francisco. » See DRESS CODE, page 3
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