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Committee shares John Evans report By ciara mccarthy and rebecca savransky
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‘HAIL TO THEE, NORTHWESTERN’ The class of 2017 sings the alma mater in Chicago’s Millennium Park during Wildcat Welcome. The class of 2018 will be the most diverse Northwestern class.
2018 to be most diverse class By tyler pager
the daily northwestern @tylerpager
The class of 2018 will be the most diverse class in Northwestern’s history, undergraduate admissions dean
Christopher Watson said Thursday. Watson said approximately 9 percent of the class is composed of African American students and approximately 14 percent of the class is Latino or Hispanic. Both are records for NU. Additionally, about 9 percent of the class is from outside
the United States, matching the class of 2017. “We’re very happy with the diversity of the incoming class and very happy to be able to set another record with that,” Watson said. » See admissions, page 11
Northwestern released Thursday a report detailing NU founder John Evans’ involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre, finding no evidence that Evans was directly involved in planning the massacre but that the University ignored his moral failures both before and after Sand Creek. The report was released by the John Evans Study Committee, a group formed last year to investigate whether Evans played a role in the massacre. Members of the committee included English Prof. Carl Smith, committee chair, and several other senior scholars from NU and universities across the country. The report concluded Evans, the governor of Colorado at the time, did not know about the massacre in advance, but says he retains some responsibility in an attack by U.S. Army cavalry soldiers that killed about 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people. “John Evans nonetheless was one of several individuals who, in serving a flawed and poorly implemented
federal Indian policy, helped create a situation that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible,” the This committee oversight goes said in the against the report. The fundamental report finds puposes of a Evans failed to fulf ill university and his responNorthwestern’s sibilities own best as superintendent traditions. of Indian affairs, and John Evans Study Committee t h at h i s response to the massacre was “reprehensibly obtuse and self-interested.” Although the report says Evans “favored using deadly force against hostile Indians,” it cites evidence suggesting Evans “did not consider the Indians at Sand Creek to be a threat and that he would have opposed the attack that took place.” Still, the committee found NU has “ignored his significant moral failures before and after Sand
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» See evans, page 11
Council holds off CARE’s Eva Ball to leave NU on fee increase By jeanne kuang and Tyler pager the daily northwestern @jeannekuang, @tylerpager
By sophia bollag
daily senior staffer @SophiaBollag
City Council voted Tuesday to hold off on a proposed fee increase for contractors who do not employ Evanston residents on city-funded construction projects. The proposed change would amend Our goal is the Minornot to create ity, Women and Evanadditional ston Based revenue. It’s Employer really to drive Program and compliancy. ... the L o cal Employment We’re getting Program to ready to go into increase the fine contracconstruction tors must pay season right if they fail to employ Evannow with a ston residents failing grade of on construction projects compliancy. funded by Ald. Peter the city. Braithwaite (2nd) Currently a b out 43 percent of contractors comply with the rule. Ald. Don Wilson (4th) suggested that discussion be held for a future date in order to allow time to meet
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with contractors whom the penalty increase would affect. “We need to make some changes and need to make adjustments to have this become … an effective program,” he said. “But I feel very strongly that we should also be including the contractors that have been on the jobs as part of this conversation. I’m looking at this as an opportunity to find out exactly why they’re not hiring our people.” As of Thursday, there were no plans in place to schedule the meetings, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. He added that the proposal will be discussed again at the council’s June 9 meeting. The proposed change would amend the MWEBE penalty, which currently fines contractors $100 per day if they fail to comply with the policy, to a progressive fine of 3 percent of the total project value. “Our goal is not to create additional revenue,” said Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), who introduced the amendment at the April 28 Administration and Public Works Committee meeting. “It’s really to drive compliancy.” The MWEBE Committee suggested the 3-percent penalty so that all projects, regardless of size, would be compelled to comply with the rule. “I feel much more comfortable with a progressive fee that’s more scaled to the amount of the contract,” Ald. Jane » See COUNCIL, page 11
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Eva Ball, the Center for Awareness, Response and Education’s sexual violence response services coordinator, will leave Northwestern after two years of working with sexual assault survivors on campus. Ball, who was on leave this quarter, has worked at CARE to provide confidential services to survivors and advise them on responding to their assault. She resigned from Northwestern for family reasons, Lisa Currie, director of health promotion and wellness, announced in an email to the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence last week. Her final day at the University is Friday. Ball joined CARE in January 2012, after being hired as part of a grant NU received in 2011 from the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, which supports sexual assault
Sharma selected for Last Lecture
African American studies and Asian American studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma was chosen to give the Last Lecture for the class of 2014. Sharma will speak at The Cubby Bear on Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. She said after hearing about the opportunity in the past, she is looking forward to the experience.
prevention and response programs on college campuses, also funded the establishment of CARE. Before CARE, Ball worked at Rape Victim Advocates in Chicago and represented the center on the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence since the group’s inception in 2010. “As a representative to the CCSV from Rape Victim Advocates, she was a huge help in outlining what CARE would look like,” said Laura Stuart, coordinator of sexual health education and violence prevention. “(Ball) really advocated strongly to have survivor-centered services and to have it confidential.” Stuart said Ball’s perspective of a building a community-based rape crisis center was instrumental in CARE’s creation and Stuart urged Ball to apply for the survivor advocate position at NU when the office was established. “We’ve been really lucky to have her for two years ... to help develop our first official sexual assault response protocol, do training for
staff and faculty and student leaders on what to do when someone discloses (sexual assault), to help more than a hundred survivors that she has worked with over the years since she was here,” Stuart said. While at NU, Ball also served on the Title IX Coordinating Committee, co-led the CCSV and helped to revise the University’s sexual misconduct policy, which was implemented in January. In the fall, she founded SPEAK for Change, a survivor activism group on campus. “Eva has been a joy to work with and her vibrant presence will be truly missed in our office and on campus,” Currie wrote in the email. Stuart said a search for Ball’s replacement has begun. The position was posted last Friday, and the University is assembling a search committee with the hopes of hiring someone before Fall Quarter.
“I’m really excited about it,” she said. “I’ve heard about it before. I think I was nominated a few years ago but wasn’t ultimately selected so I had heard about it and thought it was very exciting to have a lecture in a bar.” Sharma added she is excited to be able to send off the class of 2014 due to the close relationships she has created with many graduating students. “I’m really excited that this is the
specific year that I got elected to do this. There are so many amazing students that I’ve actually known from their first and second years who are now graduating,” Sharma said. “I think that this kind of forum will be the perfect one for me to send them off — both the class as a whole but also for the specific students that I’ve really kind of grown with, grown to love and to really respect.”
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