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Nonprofit adds youth housing By JULIA JACOBS
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IN MEMORIAM Students light candles before a vigil at The Rock on Wednesday. The vigil, hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association, was held in honor of three Muslim students who were fatally shot in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Tuesday.
Vigil honors shooting victims By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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More than 80 members of the Northwestern community gathered at The Rock on Wednesday night to commemorate the lives of the three Muslim students who were fatally shot Tuesday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The three students, Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor AbuSalha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were all shot in the head. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been arrested in connection with the shooting. The vigil, hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association, began with a recitation and translation from the Quran. “The Quran signals that these
people are not dead,” said Tahera Ahmad, associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement. “They are very much alive, and they are going to continue their legacy.” Ahmad highlighted Barakat’s work assisting Syrian refugees. “I think we need to start thinking about how we can make positive » See VIGIL, page 10
Connections for the Homeless has absorbed a new transitional housing program for young adults. Our House will provide housing, 24-hour supervision, tutoring and counseling services to young adults between ages 18 and 23 in Evanston. The Connections board voted to approve the addition at its Jan. 22 meeting, ultimately agreeing to take full responsibility for the program after its launch in the spring, said Sheryl Bartol, a founder of the program. The pilot of the program will take in five young men who currently work at Curt’s Cafe, a nonprofit that provides job and life skills training for at-risk Evanston youth, said Djorgy Leroy, the social services director at Curt’s Cafe. Leroy will be working with Our House to communicate with community members who are interested in supporting the program. “We’re giving them the tools that they need to find permanent employment and establish themselves in the community,” Leroy said. Bartol said Nehama Morton and Melissa Rooth, her co-founders, volunteered at Curt’s Cafe as social workers and recognized that the graduates of the program who were having the
Pet care company partners with shelter By JULIA JACOBS
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The Evanston Animal Shelter announced Feb. 5 a partnership with a pet care company that will provide discounted food for the shelter’s dogs and cats. Merrick Pet Care not only offered to sell pet food at a reduced price but also will include a free shipment of food every three months, said Meredith Rives, chair of the city’s Board of Animal Control. They will also offer a coupon for a free bag of food for every individual who adopts an animal from the shelter. The partnership begins amid a search for a volunteer animal organization to take over management of the shelter. “We wanted to be able to reduce that cost and simultaneously get the best food we could afford,” Rives said. “The aim was that we didn’t want to settle for grocery store food because we really wanted to move toward a higher level of nutrition for these animals, many of whom are in need.” Volunteers introduced the idea of a partnership with Merrick because it is currently the feeding partner of PAWS Chicago, a no-kill shelter, said Evanston’s animal warden David Rose. A Merrick sales representative
visited the shelter and served its food to one of the shelter’s dogs, he said. “She enjoyed the food, and she’s a picky eater,” Rose said. The shelter has been managed by the city’s animal control and police department after the City Council terminated its relationship with the nonprofit organization Community Animal Rescue Effort i n Apr i l . The Board We wanted of Animal to be able to Control was estabreduce that lished later cost and that month simultaneously to re vie w get the best food reports of the shelter we could afford. and animal control. Meredith Rives, The city Animal Control set aside Board chair $35,000 in the 2015 budget to pay for the entirety of the shelter’s expenses. Since May, the city has been in the process of finding a new volunteer organization to run the shelter, Rives said. During the initial stage of the
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INCREASING INCLUSION Dancers celebrate during Dance Marathon 2014. This year, almost three times more participants than last year received scholarships to cover DM’s registration fee.
DM increases registration fee scholarships Dance Marathon is working to increase inclusion and accessibility, including almost tripling the number of registration fee scholarships for participants, DM executive board
members said Monday. “We want every member of the Northwestern community to feel welcome, no matter their level of participation,” board members wrote in a statement. Gender-open changing rooms may be available for students to use during DM, said Ander Aretakis, DM executive co-chair. The Weinberg senior said he is currently in conversation with Norris University Center and the Center for Student
hardest time sustaining a job were those that did not have stable housing. Along with Leroy, the three met last August to discuss the idea of establishing an organization for at-risk youth that felt like a home instead of an instiI had been tution, she interested ... said. “I had in the issue of been interested … in youth housing and had the issue of youth hous- recognized it as ing and had kind of a hole recognized it as kind of in the social a hole in the social ser- service fabric of Evanston. vice fabric of Evanston,” Sheryl Bartol, Bartols said. Our House founder Seniors in Northwestern’s Brady Scholars Program, a three-year civic engagement program, collaborated with founders from the start to develop Our House as a community-specific way to combat youth homelessness. The students are involved in creating a curriculum to help the participants learn to manage a budget, Leroy said. “That is really what allows them to
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» See HOUSE, page 10 Involvement about the plausibility of creating such spaces. “It’s not 100 percent guaranteed … but it’s something we’re actively pursuing and putting a priority on,” he told The Daily. “If Northwestern students do identify they want to utilize a gender-neutral changing room, we’ll find a space for them.” Aretakis said more than 200 students received scholarships to cover the $50 registration fee this year, up from around 70 students last year. When registering for DM, students indicated whether they wanted to be considered for the scholarship. Undergraduate Financial Aid then provided University President Morton Schapiro’s office with a list of eligible students. Last year scholarships were funded by Associated Student Government’s Senate Project Pool, Aretakis said. He said DM worked with Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president of Student Affairs, and Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of student engagement, who then discussed possible funding of the scholarship with the president’s office. “It was really meant for students who considered the fee a barrier to participation,” Aretakis said, “So that was the goal, to remove one of the barriers to participation in DM.” The statement also said a fundraising guide was made available to participants this year to provide ideas for fundraising. — Olivia Exstrum
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