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Mayfest plans for Dillo Day 2014 App, rotating stage among new features 2 Chainz confirmed as nighttime headliner
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TALK DILLO TO ME tori Zuzelo, university relations chair for mayfest, explained several updates about dillo day during a community meeting.
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Mayfest representatives announced the launch of a smartphone application for Dillo Day at a dialogue on Tuesday night with representatives from the Northwestern and Evanston communities. The application will provide users with a detailed timeline of the events of Dillo Day, as well as the music lineup and a shuttle schedule, Mayfest co-chair Patrick Leonard said.
“That is going to be for us a really useful tool to make sure that we’re communicating with everyone in the community that day of,” said Leonard, a McCormick senior. “We’re just making sure that it’s a centralized source of information for anybody that is either an Evanston resident or a guest of somebody.” The announcement came at a Community Conversations event, hosted in Fall and Spring Quarters with the goal of connecting offcampus students and their neighbors through a discussion about city issues. Attendees included Evanston and NU policemen, aldermen,
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members and parents are petitioning the Illinois General Assembly to ask that having a concealed gun be illegal anywhere on school grounds. “We believe that all school property, including school grounds and parking lots, should be exempt from the Concealed Carry Law regardless of where and how those guns are stored,” the District 65 School Board said in a draft of a letter to the state legislature approved May 5. Illinois passed the Firearm Concealed Carry Act in July 2013, making
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2 Chainz has been confirmed as the nighttime headliner for Dillo Day this year, Mayfest announced Tuesday evening. Mayfest and Northwestern Ski Trip teased the name Tauheed Epps, 2 Chainz’ legal name, on the Dillo Day website Monday night. 2 Chainz, a rapper who hails from College Park, Georgia, released his debut solo album, “Based on a T.R.U. Story,” in 2012. He has collaborated with many well-known artists including Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and Jason Derulo. Michael Bass, Mayfest’s director of concerts, said 2 Chainz’s performance at Lollapalooza, a musical festival in Chicago, solidified his committee’s desire to bring the artist to Dillo Day. “The energy was just so incredible,” the Communication junior said. “This is something we want for our nighttime headliner. We want the energy to increase throughout the day.” Although Chance the Rapper has already been announced as the festival’s daytime headliner, Bass said his committee was not focused on specifically having two rappers serve as the main acts for the event. “We were trying to capitalize on
trends,” he said. “Just through our understanding of campus taste – via polls, going to parties, talking to people – it seemed like both these acts just have massive popularity.” Bass added that even though both confirmed artists are rappers, their styles are different. “We do think that they have very different styles that complement each other very nicely, so it’s not redundant,” he said. Mayfest spokeswoman Bri Hightower said the results from the group’s campus-wide survey played » See DILLO, page 6
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ALL I WANT FOR MY DILLO rapper 2 Chainz was confirmed as the headliner for dillo day tuesday. 2 Chainz is well-known for his songs “i’m different” and “Birthday Song” and his collaborations with Kanye West, drake and Nicki minaj.
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representatives of Associated Student Government and Mayfest and University staff, who talked about plans for Dillo Day and the end of the academic year. Leonard said he hoped the smartphone app and other changes will allow the music festival to run more safely and smoothly. Mayfest staff will also be able to send out notifications through the app to provide people with updates in the event of inclement weather, he said. “This year, we’re really focused on making sure we’re giving people as much information as we think they need, and that’s something that hasn’t necessarily been done in the past,” Leonard said. “I think that it’ll help spark a shift in sort of the way people interact and behave,” he said. Among the modifications for Dillo Day are the revised wristband policies, which restrict attendees to those from the NU community, their personal guests and Evanston residents over the age of 19, unless accompanied by a chaperone. Dean of Students Todd Adams discussed an initiative to have Dillo Day events run more continuously, with the goal of keeping students on the Lakefill as much as possible and not wandering through the city. “We’re moving the activities closer into where the people are, the core of the venue … in an effort to really concentrate the programming
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it the last state in the U.S to legalize concealed carry. The act, which allows residents to bring concealed weapons into public places, came after a lawsuit that prompted the state to address the legislation. A provision in the law sparked discussion within District 65. Board members discussed concerns they had with the law in reference to their visitors policy at an April 1 school board policy meeting. Under the concealed carry act, firearms that are locked in vehicles are allowed in school parking lots even though firearms are not allowed on school grounds. Upon reviewing the district’s visitors policy, District » See CONCEALED, page 6
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Northwestern workers and students spoke Tuesday night about the increasingly corporate culture of universities like NU and announced a petition supporting the rights of campus workers. The talk, “$$$: Workers’ Rights & Neoliberalism at the University,” was held in University Halland sponsored by Peace Project, NU’s oldest social justice and anti-war organization, as a part of Social Justice Week at NU: Oppression at the Academy. Two Northwestern employees, Rafael Marquez and Tom Breitsprecher, kicked off the discussion by sharing their personal experiences as campus workers. On April 16, Marquez, a food service worker in 1835 Hinman dining hall, said
he attended an afternoon meeting with other workers and members of Sodexo management. After an employee was called out at the meeting for working too slowly, Marquez defended her, and members of Sodexo management subsequently threatened to call campus police, Marquez said. He said he was accused of being “overexcited” and “under the influence” at the workplace and was then put on temporary suspension. In an effort to maintain his job, he was required to turn in statements to the Sodexo Human Resources Office. “As my duty as a steward, I will not back down or shut up when it comes to defending one of my coworkers when something unjust is put upon them,” Marquez said. “If I don’t stick up for my coworker, it’s like we don’t have a right to freedom of speech.” Marquez said a week before his accusations, a fellow employee had been laid
off but was not replaced. Instead, the former employee’s responsibilities were allocated to other workers, he said. Students in support of Marquez organized a march from the Arch to the Sodexo Human Resources Office where he turned in his statements. During the suspension, he said he was also called into the office and “interrogated.” Marquez said support and solidarity from students is key in changing the way Sodexo and the University engage with workers’ issues. Breitsprecher, a cook at the Willard Residential College dining hall, said even though there is a union, there are often incidents in which workers are unfairly treated and not represented equally by campus management and the University. “Although this was a single incident, » See WORKERS’ RIGHTS, page 6
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