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NU, Chicago memorialize James Foley By REBECCA SAVRANSKY daily senior staffer @beccasavransky
More than two months after the Islamic State group executed Northwestern alumnus James Foley, the NU and Chicago communities are continuing to honor and remember his legacy. NU will hold a memorial service on Nov. 20 at the Alice Millar Chapel to give members of the University community a chance to remember him, said Belinda Clarke, Medill’s director of alumni relations and engagement. “We knew that we’ve wanted to do something for a while,” Clarke said. Foley (Medill ‘08) earned his master’s degree at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. He worked as a freelance journalist in Syria and Libya, where he reported
for GlobalPost and Agence FrancePresse. Foley was captured in Syria in November 2012, and had been missing for 636 days before he was killed, according to FreeJamesFoley.org. He was executed by the Islamic State group in a video posted on YouTube on Aug. 19. Clarke said organizers decided to wait to hold a memorial at NU until after Foley’s family held their service, which took place in New Hampshire last month. Members of the NU community attended the mass memorial and remembrance, including Medill professors Jack Doppelt and Ellen Shearer, former director of the Medill Washington Program, which Foley participated in during his time at NU. NU’s memorial, which is being planned by Clarke in collaboration with University Chaplain Tim Stevens and Sheil Catholic Center » See FOLEY, page 10
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TREE DOWN Two people observe a fallen tree near the intersection of Foster Street and Orrington Avenue after a storm on Friday. Evanston’s fire department responded to 51 calls related to down trees and power issues, according to city manager Wally Bobkiewicz. For the full story, see page 6.
Play prompts income discussion Affordable housing group talks diversity
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TALKING TUITION Communication senior A.J. Roy, left, moderates a panel of Northwestern students, a professor and an administrator as they discuss socioeconomic inequality in college. The panel was hosted by NU’s Quest Scholars and the upcoming Arts Alliance production of “Good People.”
By MICHELLE KIM
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The Arts Alliance’s “Good People” and Northwestern Quest Scholars Network hosted a panel Sunday featuring student and administrative leaders to start a conversation about the spectrum of socioeconomic difference at NU.
The panel was organized to address the themes covered in the student play, Good People, which will run Nov. 13-15. The panelists included sociology Prof. Leslie McCall, director of sociology Undergraduate Studies, Communication junior Amanda Walsh, president of NU Quest Scholars, Carolyn Lindley, University director of Financial Aid, and Communication senior Aileen McGraw, creator of Project Wildcat’s Camper Financial Aid
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Fund. Good People director A.J. Roy, a Communication senior, moderated the discussion, which centered on the roles of people’s circumstances and the influence of hard work in determining success. Lindley discussed the emphasis NU places on addressing the range of financial circumstances of its students. More than half of the undergraduate class receives scholarships to attend NU, Lindley said. “We are encouraged that we can offer scholarship assistance to students but we are conscious of the fact of the students who still have to borrow money,” she said. “We want to make sure that we are concerned about their debt and watching as closely as we can.” Walsh talked about how low-income students may often feel underrepresented and embarrassed being open about their economic situations. She said economic inequality can be most felt in terms of academic accessibility of textbooks and resources and of involvement in extracurricular activities and social interactions. “There are discussions of things like a textbook fund or we have the student activities fee so that students have access
» See TALKING TUITION, page 10
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An organization that focuses on affordable housing in Chicago’s northern suburbs held a meeting Sunday to discuss diversity and inclusion in the community. Evanston resident Mary Trujillo moderated Open Communities’ annual meeting at Niles West High School in Skokie. During the meeting, she quoted the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., who spoke in Winnetka about 50 years ago. King made a speech in a Winnetka park, said Open Communities executive director Gail Schechter. Open Communities used the anniversary as a way to open up discussion about diversity and inclusion in the North Shore community. “In 1965, the issue in the North was housing,” Schechter said. “We’re using the anniversary to see if we’ve made
progress.” During the 1960s, community residents organized the North Shore Summer Project to try to show discrimination in real estate throughout the area. Evanston resident Nina Raskin served as the freedom coordinator at the time. “In Evanston, we were already very involved in a local, neighborhood level,” Raskin told The Daily. “We would march with our children every single day. There’s still a lot to be done in terms of having a truly diverse community.” The goal of the group was to make it possible for black residents to buy housing and live in integrated neighborhoods, she said. The event Sunday brought out about 50 North Shore residents, including Wilmette resident Gerald Smith. Smith, director of minority affairs at the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told The Daily he appreciated the openness of » See COMMUNITY, page 10
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