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Ill. OKs samesex marriage By JOSEPH DIEBOLD
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SAFER CYCLING A cyclist rides along the bike lane on Church Street. Another bike lane will be built along Dodge Avenue with a $480,000 grant Evanston secured from the federal government.
City lands $480K grant for protected bike lane
Evanston has secured nearly half a million dollars in federal money to build a protected bike lane along Dodge Avenue, a city official announced Tuesday morning. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the $480,000 grant will bring
a “comfortable corridor” to Dodge Avenue between Howard and Church streets, a roughly 2-mile stretch that already offers a separate lane for bike riders. The protected bike lane would connect Dodge Avenue with downtown Evanston through Davis and Church streets. City officials hope to complete the protected bike lane before Evanston Township High School students return to class next fall, Bobkiewicz said. The design will be done over
the winter. Bobkiewicz credited Suzette Robinson, director of the city’s Public Works Department, and her team with working toward the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement grant. Administered by the state, the federal program aims to reduce car emissions by promoting alternative forms of transportation. — Patrick Svitek
By JOSEPH DIEBOLD
daily senior staffer @josephdiebold
Source: Under Armour
DISPUTED DESIGN The uniforms Under Armour designed for Northwestern’s Nov. 16 game against Michigan drew criticism for what some perceived as blood stains on an American flag. An athletic department official defended the design as a “distressed pattern.”
After Northwestern football team’s special Veterans Day jerseys sparked controversy for their design, the athletic department clarified on Tuesday the uniforms’ intent to be patriotic and benefit wounded veterans. The design came under fire for its red and blue splattering pattern over the American flag, which some saw as resembling blood. The Cats will wear the uniforms for their Nov. 16 game against Michigan, after which the uniforms will be auctioned to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a service organization for injured veterans.
» See SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, page 7
Schapiro talks open forum
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University defends uniform design
Northwestern students and Evanston representatives praised the passage Tuesday of a bill making Illinois the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. In a surprise move, the state House took up the bill Tuesday afternoon, voting 61-54 in favor of its passage. The state Senate, which first passed the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act in February, voted later Tuesday to pass the House’s amended version. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) has pledged to sign the legislation. Illinois will become the third most populous state to legalize same-sex marriage, behind only California and New York. The bill will go into effect June 1, 2014, supplementing the state’s current civil union law, which passed in 2011. Local supporters of the law quickly shared their positive reactions to the news. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), perhaps at a loss for words, posted a sequence of 61 exclamation points on Twitter. “I am ecstatic that the Illinois General Assembly has followed the Illinois State Senate and passed SB 10, the Religious
Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act this afternoon,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) said in a statement. “Every citizen of our state and our nation deserves equal treatment under the law, and SB 10 will assure that every committed couple in Illinois enjoys the same protections and benefits.” Schakowsky pledged to continue her fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Senate is expected to take up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act for a final vote Wednesday. The legislation would prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Weinberg sophomore Kevin Cheng, College Democrats’ vice president of programming, said he found out during a class the House had passed the bill and was “ecstatic” with the result. “I didn’t focus for the rest of the class,” Cheng said. “It was just like that was all I cared about.” The group has been hosting phone banks with Equality Illinois since April to advocate for the issue. “It’s a really big feeling of fulfillment because we put in so much work for this.
“We’re very proud of the partnership we have with the Wounded Warrior Project and look forward to auctioning off each of the jerseys after they’re worn on the field,” athletic department spokesman Paul Kennedy told The Daily in an email. Under Armour, in conjunction with Northwestern, created the uniforms to honor U.S. veterans. Kennedy’s comments came a day after he told The Associated Press the athletic department was sorry “for any misinterpretation” of the uniform’s design. In his statement to the AP, Kennedy denied the design was meant to evoke blood splatter.
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University President Morton Schapiro said Tuesday a “productive” open forum held Oct. 23 by the John Evans Study Committee convinced him the timeline for selecting a second committee on the issue should be moved up. Schapiro said in an interview We don’t do with The anything, Daily that he basically, to try recognized at the forum to get Native that no matAmericans. We ter the first have very few committee’s ultimate undergrad, grad, conclusion, Northwestprofessional, ern can and very few. will take Morton Schapiro, steps toward improving University the camPresident pus climate toward Native Americans. “Regardless of what the final report is from the first committee, it seems like, why waste another year to figure out what we could be doing in any case?” Schapiro said. “And that’s why we decided to do it.” He said NU recognizes it lags behind some of its peers in efforts to recruit more Native Americans at all levels of the University. “We don’t do anything, basically, to try to get Native Americans,” he said. “We have very few undergrad, grad, professional, very few.”
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The University announced Friday it was soliciting nominations immediately for people to sit on the second committee, initially scheduled to advise NU following the first committee’s report, to be delivered by June 2014. “The group will be asked to make recommendations for ways that Northwestern can define more clearly the University’s relationships with Native Americans in the areas of academic programs, admissions, support services, and civic engagement and partnerships, as well as respond to the recommendations of the study committee,” Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer said in a statement. The open forum, in which the committee solicited public feedback for the first time, was marked by tense dialogue. Committee members urged
caution, noting that the historical record regarding Evans’ culpability in the Sand Creek Massacre — and the University’s eventual profit from it — is murky. “I think if we hadn’t had that public forum, it wouldn’t have crystallized in my mind — and I think Provost Linzer’s mind — that it was kind of two separate issues to a certain extent, so go ahead with one,” he said. Schapiro thanked the students who brought the issue to his attention, saying he was previously unaware of Evans’ continued involvement with the University after its 1851 founding. “They said, ‘Au contraire, he was the chairman of your Board of Trustees’ and I said, ‘Say what?’” Schapiro said. josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu
Sand Creek Massacre
Daily file photo by Ebony Calloway
MAKING PROGRESS The John Evans Study Committee hosts an open forum Oct. 23. University President Morton Schapiro, who attended the forum, said Tuesday the “productive” discussion pushed him to expedite the creation of a second committee to determine how the University can become more friendly toward Native Americans.
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