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Total Applications and Acceptance Rates
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With 32,090 total applications for admission to the Class of 2019, Northwestern has received 4.7
Evanston police step up patrol at transit stations
The Evanston Police Department will be increasing patrol officers at eight mass transit stations because of alerts from the state department, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The state department sent alerts to EPD advising officers to use caution. There have been no specific or imminent threats and the department is not responding to anything in particular, Dugan said. However, because mass transit areas in other areas have been targets for violent activity in the past, EPD wants to have a presence at stations as a result of the alerts, he
percent fewer applications than it did last year. Regular decision applications totaled 29,297. Although they were due Jan. 1, applications continued to “trickle in” for the following few weeks, said Mike Mills, associate provost for University enrollment. said. Patrol will increase at the CTA stops at Howard, Main, Dempster, Davis, Foster and Central, Noyes and South Boulevard, he said. “You turn on any news station and you see … talks about terrorist attacks on people and on law enforcement,” Dugan said. “There’s just a feeling going on … so we’re just trying to be out there and visible and step up our presence there for that reason.” Recently, there was a robbery off of the Purple Line’s Main Street stop. A couple of women stole from another woman at the stop. The increased patrol could also help deter future robberies like this so they do not turn into a pattern, he said. — Stephanie Kelly
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Mills said applications from African-American, Hispanic and international students have increased, while applications from Asian-American and Caucasian students have decreased. In addition, » See ADMISSIONS, page 6
Before the new Republican-dominated Congress, President Barack Obama focused on solving income inequality and easing partisan gridlock during Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The president asserted his goal to increase the security of working families by introducing initiatives to make community college free and using tax money to fund childcare for lowincome families. While touting an economy with the strongest growth in 11 years, the president ushered in a new year with values of “middle class economics” at its core. “At this moment — with a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production — we have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth,” Obama said. “It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years, and for decades to come.” In his speech Obama proposed raising taxes on large corporations and using the savings from those capital gains tax hikes to build infrastructure. “We need a tax code that helps working Americans trying to get a leg up in the new economy, and we can achieve that together,” Obama said. The president said he supported raising the minimum wage and passing a law to ensure that women are paid equally to men. He also said he plans to help states adopt their own
laws introducing mandatory paid sick leave. In the wake of hacks by North Korea on Sony Pictures, Obama recommended Congress pass legislation to combat the growing threat of cybersecurity attacks. “If we don’t act, we’ll leave our nation and our economy vulnerable,” Obama said. “If we do, we can continue to protect the technologies that have unleashed untold opportunities for people around the globe.” On the foreign policy front, the
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None of the things he’s asking Congress to pass are going to pass, and he knows that. Sam Houskeeper, Politics and Policy editor
president underscored the U.S.’s solidarity with victims of recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan and France, while calling on Congress to pass a resolution to authorize the use of force against the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. Quentin Heilbroner, president of Northwestern’s College Democrats, said he thought this State of the Union address had a strength that none of Obama’s previous ones had. “I think the proposal for free community college would be an absolute revolution for our work force,” Heilbroner said. “We are slowly falling behind other industrialized countries… when it comes to getting our kids to college. If he can pull that off… I think that it would have huge, » See SOTU, page 6
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ALL ABOARD A train arrives at the Foster Street CTA station. The Evanston Police Department will increase patrol officers at eight mass transit stations, including the Foster Street stop.
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