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Fewer courses required for SESP School reduces number of credits for degree to 42 By JONAH DYLAN
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The School of Education and Social Policy announced Tuesday that it is lowering the number of credits required to earn a degree from 45 to 42. In an email to SESP students, SESP assistant dean for student affairs Susan Olson said the change will go into effect in the 2017-18 academic year. Current students who will be enrolled next year may choose to complete the 42-credit requirement, the email said. SESP Dean Penelope Peterson told The Daily that the school has a higher proportion of first-generation and Pell Grant-eligible students than any other undergraduate school at Northwestern. Peterson said the change adds flexibility to those students who receive financial aid. “One of the things we’re concerned about is the fact that many students who are first-generation and/or come from under-resourced schools don’t come in with as many AP credits as students do who come from private schools and schools with good resources,” Peterson said. The change comes nearly 16 months after a University task force recommended
that Northwestern reduce the credit requirements for undergraduate students. SESP is the second school to implement the new requirement this academic year, as the School of Communication reduced its requirement to 42 credits in November. Peterson said SESP made the decision “independent” of the School of Communication, but both schools received the proposal from the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience. “We’re also sympathetic to the issues that the task force raised, that students are feeling a lot of stress with the large number of courses they have to take each quarter and the fact that if you’re on financial aid, in order to finish since you only get 12 quarters of tuition paid, that you have to really take a full load every quarter,” Peterson said. Peterson said current seniors who will have between 42 and 44 credits after Spring Quarter will be able to graduate without staying at NU for an additional quarter. For students majoring in Secondary Teaching, the writing requirement has been removed from the list of distribution requirements, Olson said in the email. The Social Contexts of Education course will double count as an Ethics and Values distribution credit, the email said. In the email, Olson also said students majoring in » See SESP, page 6
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Medill Prof. Alex Kotlowitz and philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey talk at an Evanston Literary Festival event on Tuesday. The two professors worked together on a project to help prisoners tell their stories.
NU profs talk teaching in prison Lackey, Kotlowitz discuss work at Stateville Correctional Center By AARON BOXERMAN
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Two Northwestern professors, who set out to help prisoners tell their stories, shared their work Tuesday night at an Evanston Literary Festival event. Medill Prof. Alex Kotlowitz and philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey discussed their project, “Written Inside,” at Sojourner Covenant Church, 1101 Church St., in front
of an audience of about 20 people. The project features stories written by prisoners in Lackey’s class at Stateville Correctional Center about ordinary life in prison. “Collectively, these stories really speak to the everyday moments in prison life,” Lackey said at the event. “My students have written about the horrors of solitary confinement and their relationships with their correctional officers. … But these stories really deal with the moments
that are left out of those narratives.” Lackey has taught inmates at Stateville — a maximum security prison located in Crest Hill, Illinois — for two years. The project was born in February 2016 when Lackey was teaching a 10-month course at the prison on mass incarceration. Lackey said for many of her students, it was their first sustained engagement with the issue in an academic setting. As part of the course,
Lackey invited several people to speak to the prisoners, including Kotlowitz. While Kotlowitz had initially come to discuss one of his books, he was inspired by the results of a 10-minute writing exercise in which he asked the prisoners to write about their cells. “There was a kind of magic about this group,” Kotlowitz said. “They were fully engaged and engaging.” Kotlowitz began a year-long » See PRISON, page 7
Dance group wins third national title Female justices
NU Bollywood team Anubhav named champions in Los Angeles By MADELEINE FERNANDO
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Northwestern’s Bollywood dance team Anubhav claimed the 2017 championship title at the Legends Bollywood Dance Championship, marking the group’s third win in a national championship in the last four years. The Legends Bollywood Dance Championship took place for the first time April 15 in Los Angeles. In addition to taking first overall, NU’s team was also recognized for best choreography, best costumes and best male lead. Ushasi Naha, a team captain, said she was excited to see the group’s hard work pay off. “We have had a pretty » See ANUBHAV, page 6
interrupted more By ALLY MAUCH
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Source: Ushasi Naha
Anubhav poses after claiming the national championship title. The team placed first nationally for the third time for their performance based on “Life of Pi.”
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An empirical research study conducted at the Pritzker School of Law revealed female justices of the Supreme Court are about three times more likely to be interrupted by men than their male counterparts. Third-year law student Dylan Schweers noticed a high number of instances of female justices being interrupted during oral arguments while working on a term paper in January 2016. Law Prof. Tonja Jacobi, who was teaching Schweers’ class, said she noticed as well and the two decided to begin a more extensive study of the topic. Their research began in summer 2016, Schweers said. “I was blown away by the
amount of times the female justices were interrupted by their male colleagues,” Schweers said. “We wanted to look at systematic … gender interruptions occurring at the Supreme Court.” Jacobi and Schweers’ study was posted on the Social Science Research Network in March, but will not be published until November. It will then appear in the Virginia Law Review after going through an editing process, Jacobi said. The study also found that conservative justices are more likely to interrupt than liberal justices, and that female justices are interrupted by both male justices and by male advocates, who are subordinate to justices and are specifically told not to interrupt, Jacobi said. » See COURT, page 7
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