The Daily Northwestern — November 11, 2015

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NEWS On Campus Northwestern Law School to host symposium on fair policing. » PAGE 3

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Podcast features student stories By KELLEY CZAJKA

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prevention programming and police officer training, would have cost the city about $472,000 — funds that Miller said he intended to come from new revenue sources. In Miller’s initial proposal, funds for the program would come from increased seat belt violations fines and an added fee for vehicle tows, as well as tax revenue from the city’s marijuana dispensary that first opened its doors to the public Monday. However, Miller’s idea for how to fund the antiviolence program were disqualified by information from city staff.

The First-Year Experience initiative within the Office of New Student and Family Programs recently created “This Northwestern Life,” a podcast series in which students can share their stories about transitioning into life at Northwestern. FYE and NSFP created the podcast after hearing many freshmen talk about personal growth and their challenges navigating the NU community, often through an unrealistic lens, FYE Director Josh McKenzie said in the first podcast. “There’s so many paths and directions that students take in their first year here, and everyone has a different narrative, and that’s exactly what we want to do, to share with you, through this series, different stories to help us understand how we each experience this community and journey differently, but in so many instances strangely similar,” McKenzie said in the podcast. FYE has released two episodes, each featuring three students who talk about a certain topic relating to the transition. There are four more episodes in the works, with the next one to be released before the end of Fall Quarter, said Nicole Reed, the graduate assistant for FYE. Reed told The Daily that FYE is trying to choose podcast topics that

» See PREVENTION, page 4

» See PODCAST, page 4

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PROPOSAL REJECTED Ald. Brian Miller (9th) attends a City Council meeting. Aldermen rejected Miller’s proposal at Monday’s meeting for a gun violence prevention program that would add five youth outreach workers to city staff.

City dismisses anti-gun proposal By JULIA JACOBS

daily senior staffer @JuliaRebeccaJ

Aldermen rejected a proposal Monday to add five full-time youth outreach workers to help combat gun violence in Evanston. Ald. Brian Miller’s (9th) proposal that would have put more “boots on the ground” to address violence in the community left other members of City Council with questions as to how effective additional employees would be in reducing violence that stems from more entrenched problems

such as joblessness. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said adding outreach workers is not the answer to issues of violence often caused by people lacking jobs or homes. Although Evanston’s progress in alleviating the problem is not always apparent, an ongoing community effort aims to implement lasting solutions, Holmes said. “It’s going to take more of an effort of us coming together as a community to get rid of some of these problems,” Holmes said at Monday’s meeting. “We have to do something that is going to be sustainable.” Miller’s plan, which also included new violence

Northwestern begins student leadership initiative By EMILY CHIN

daily senior staffer @emchin24

Northwestern’s Division of Student Affairs is working to create a framework for bringing together different campus leaders. The division is assessing the current leadership climate and holding roundtables with students to gauge what kind of leadership initiative students hope to see. “The idea is that no matter if you’re a business assistant, or an employee at Norris, or a Greek leader, or an ASG leader, you’re getting similar opportunities in leadership that prepare you for other opportunities in leadership post-Northwestern,” said Adrian Bitton, assistant director of

City recognized for measures to stop child obesity

Evanston received recognition Nov. 5 for its work to combat childhood obesity and promote healthy living through first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign.

Leadership and Community Engagement. The Division of Student Affairs is addressing the question of what it means when someone says they are a “Northwestern leader,” Bitton said. Campus Life was restructured late last year and over the summer, creating three separate departments: Fraternity and Sorority Life, Student Organizations and Activities, and Leadership and Community Engagement. This restructuring gave Leadership and Community Engagement more room to make an impact on student leadership. “The reorganization reflects some new priorities in the works that we’re doing within the student affairs division of investing in student leadership and investing in student activities,” said Kelly Benkert,

director for Leadership and Community Engagement. “It gives us the capacity to do our work differently and do it better.” Benkert said the idea of developing a leadership framework came from the Division of Student Affairs and noted that there is already great leadership on campus but there are no common goals or learning objectives. The goal of the framework will be to bring together different parts of campus to develop a strong leadership brand, Bitton said. “We have really amazing strong leaders on campus, who are very professional, organized, passionate and committed students who are involved in a variety of different things,” Bitton said. “How do we continue to support that as we build out

different programs and initiatives around leadership?” The Division of Student Affairs is also working on harnessing some of the pressures that exist due to students’ high involvement on campus and the fast-paced quarter system, she said. Last week, the Division of Student Affairs held a think tank in which it invited eight students to discuss their experience with student leadership on campus. Weinberg junior Benjamin Kraft, a former Daily staffer, was invited to the think tank because he is a Resident Assistant. He said being an RA has given him a chance to grow as a leader by working with people’s strengths and weaknesses. Kraft said the think tank gave him a good perspective on the campus attitude

on leadership. The Division of Student Affairs will be receiving feedback from students in Student Leadership Roundtable Discussions, which will take place on Nov. 19 and Dec. 2. After the roundtables, they will be extracting themes from the conversations and looking at common goals. In addition, the Division of Student Affairs will be mapping out what the different leadership opportunities on campus are and where the gaps are. “It’s to take the potential work that’s already happening and figure out how we can try to coordinate that into a shared outcome so we’re all working together,” Benkert said.

The city received five gold medals from the National League of Cities for its involvement in Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties, which calls on elected representatives to adopt sustainable initiatives to promote healthy living. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) traveled to Nashville last week to accept the award at the NLC’s annual Congress of Cities and Exposition. Launched by the first lady in

2010, LMCTC sets forth five categories through which cities, towns and counties can promote healthy lifestyles. Evanston was awarded the gold medal level for each of these categories, which include officially recognizing the Let’s Move! initiative in the area; helping parents make healthy choices; improving the health of schools; increasing opportunities for physical activity;

and making healthy food affordable and accessible. The city’s Health and Human Services department announced that its efforts to educate day cares about the importance of physical activity, collaboration with schools to expand student meal access into the summer and updating play spaces in Evanston were among some of the ways the city achieved this honor.

“We are proud of the award and excited to see the effects of these programs,” said Health and Human Services director Evonda Thomas-Smith in a news release. “The Health and Human Services Department strives to empower our residents to make good, healthy choices that will keep them on the path of wellness.”

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