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Students protest Dakota pipeline Rally at The Rock held for Indigenous Peoples’ Day By YVONNE KIM
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Jed Smock preaches to NU students about sin during a demonstration at The Arch on Monday. Smock is the president and founder of The Campus Ministry USA, a conservative religious group from Terre Haute, Indiana, that travels to college campuses nationwide.
Students spar with demonstrators Group staked out at Arch warns students they’re headed for hell By ALLYSON CHIU
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Wielding a large wooden cross and a banner warning “pot-heads” and “porno freaks” that they’re headed for hell, members of The Campus Ministry USA clashed with Northwestern students at The Arch on Monday. Led by founder and president Jed Smock, 73, the conservative religious group
Illinois voters allowed sameday registration
Illinois voters will be able to register and vote up through Election Day next month, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said last week. Madigan made the announcement after the Seventh District Court of Appeals stayed an order by a lower court last week to limit same-day voting registration in counties with populations of more than 100,000. The law requires counties with populations of more than 100,000 to offer sameday voter registration at precinct places, while counties with populations less than
Firefighter injured after fire on Sherman
One firefighter was injured Monday after responding to a structure fire in the 800 block of Sherman Avenue. The firefighter was treated in stable condition and then
–– based out of Terre Haute, Indiana –– travels to college campuses nationwide preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, but with a twist. “ When you smoke the pot, the gay demons come and start talking to you,” said Cindy Smock, who is married to Jed Smock, as she engaged with students who questioned why smoking weed is a sin. One demonstrator held a sign that listed various types of sinners whom the group
said should repent. The list included “feminists,” “lesbians,” “sodomites,” “masturbators,” “fellatists,” “baby murderers,” “gossips,” “nonChristians” and “vixens,” among other things. W ith the presidential election drawing near, the group expressed support for Donald Trump during their demonstration. Jed Smock said they decided to come to NU because he believes its students are predominantly liberal.
100,000 are not required to offer the same-day registration service at all voting sites. The initial ruling would have allowed same-day registration only at central voting locations. “Election day registration allows all voters the opportunity to participate in our elections,” Madigan said in a news release. An appeal was filed to the decision in late September that limited same-day registration only to central voting locations. Nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center challenged the law by saying it allowed some people in populous counties to register and vote on the same day, but didn’t extend the same right to some people in sparse counties, violating
the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. “(Democrats) set up a scheme designed to boost Democratic voter turnout more than it would boost Republican voter turnout,” Jacob Huebert, a senior attorney at the Liberty Justice Center, said in a statement. “This is just another example of how Illinois politicians rig the system to keep themselves in power.” The election day registration law was passed in 2014. In the March 2016 primary, more than 100,000 people statewide registered and voted in the same day. Early voting has already begun in Illinois and will last until the election on Nov. 8.
released from the hospital, according to a news release. The fire also displaced families from three of the residences at the two-story brick townhouse. At about 3:20 p.m., residents reported a fire at the structure. Heavy smoke and fire vented from a first floor window, according to a press release. Firefighters reported fires in
the basement and the first floor. The alarm was upgraded to a Code 4 and then to a MABAS Box Alarm, which brought more fire departments to the scene. Fire departments took two minutes to respond, according to the press release, and the fire was under control about an hour later.
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“Liberals need to hear what I have to say because they tend to be more agnostic and atheistic than conservatives,” Jed Smock told The Daily. The group was met with anger from some students who said they were insulted — and laughter from others. The police were also called twice in an attempt to remove the group from campus. However, they were protected » See ARCH, page 7
About 50 people gathered at The Rock on Monday afternoon to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline for this year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The rally was organized by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance along with the American Indian Center-Chicago. Fossil Free NU was also present and collected clothing that will be donated to pipeline protesters. The Dakota Access Pipeline, which was proposed to tap into undiscovered oil and reduce foreign oil dependency, will span more than 1,000 miles between Illinois and the Dakotas if completed. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said in a federal complaint that the pipeline “threatens the Tribe’s environmental and economic wellbeing, and would damage and destroy sites of great historic, religious, and cultural significance to the Tribe,” according to CNN. Ninah Divine (Weinberg ’16), who is Cherokee and serves as the coordinator of the Native American and
Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, provided background on the pipeline for the crowd. “Should it burst or break or anything happen, it’d be damaging to sacred land as well as the water supplies,” said Divine, who was a member of NAISA as an undergraduate. A sign over The Rock read “#NoDAPL” and expressed “solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline.” Al Eastman, a Lakota archery teacher at the American Indian Center-Chicago and an organizer for Chicago in Solidarity with Standing Rock, also helped put on the event. He urged those present to “put our bodies on the line” against “this desecration of our earth.” “ There’s generations of people who have fought long and hard for their land, for future generations,” Eastman said. “We need people like you to come together, to call your politicians, to call banks … to let them know that we disagree with this movement poisoning our waters. Water is life. You cannot drink oil.” These words were the cry of the rally as the group marched from The Rock to Norris University Center chanting, “Water is life. You can’t drink oil,” and “Haha, hoho! The DAPL has got to go!” » See RALLY, page 7
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Connections for the Homeless runs a transitional shelter called Hilda’s Place at 1458 Chicago Ave. Several churches and host sites across the city will be offering additional shelter space in the winter months through Interfaith Action of Evanston.
Group ups shelter access Non-profit for homeless plans to open at 15 degrees By ALLY MAUCH
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A local non-profit organization is hoping to provide more relief for Evanston’s
homeless population this winter by increasing the temperature required to open its shelter’s doors. In past winters, Interfaith Action of Evanston, a homelessness advocacy organization, has opened its emergency overnight homeless shelter only when the temperature has dipped below 5 degrees. This winter, the organization has plans to raise that minimum
temperature to 15 degrees, said Susan Murphy, executive director of the organization. “ We feel that nobody should have to sleep outside ever — even in the summer,” Murphy said, “But we don’t have another emergency overnight shelter in Evanston, so we are trying to be open more often (in the winter).” » See SHELTER, page 7
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