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PARC, Shepard to relocate By Tyler pager
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Public Affairs Residential College and Shepard Residential College will be housed in the Mid-Quads next academic year when their current buildings undergo renovation as part of Northwestern’s Master Housing Plan. PARC students will live in the North Mid-Quads Hall and Shepard students will live in the South Mid-Quads Hall. Residential Services Executive Director Paul Riel announced the changes in an email Friday to PARC and Shepard residents. The Mid-Quads will undergo renovations this summer and will open in time for Fall Quarter. The first floor of both buildings will be “reimagined,” Riel said. No rooms will be on the first floor, Riel said, apart from an Americans with Disabilities Act compliant suite. The majority of the area will be used as public space. Except for the first floor, the structure of the two buildings will remain the same, Riel said. All the rooms will be upgraded with new furniture and the bathrooms
will be redone. The renovations will also lay the groundwork for the buildings to have air conditioning, which they currently do not have, he said. “The circulation of space is much more generous and more thoughtful for the students that’ll be living there,” he said. Students did not live in either of the Mid-Quads this year, which allowed construction to begin earlier than expected, said Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, associate vice president for student auxiliary services. “We assigned everything appropriately so we could keep them empty, which is smart. It’s far more efficient,” she said. “Let’s take advantage of the time that they’re dark. While we don’t anticipate we’ll have a lot of those opportunities, if we do we’re going to take it.” Riel said construction on the MidQuads is expected to start around this year’s Commencement on June 19. PARC’s president Sohini Gupta said the move to NMQ is inconvenient, particularly because they completed housing assignments for next year before they » See HOUSING, page 6
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TBT-PAIn Wearing Northwestern apparel, T-Pain performs at A&O Ball on Friday in front of a full crowd. T-Pain headlined the concert with British electronic group AlunaGeorge opening the event.
T-Pain electrifies the Riviera By Matthew Choi
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Throwbacks and new remixes energized the Riviera Theatre on Friday night as T-Pain and AlunaGeorge performed at A&O Ball. Rapper T-Pain headlined this year’s concert with AlunaGeorge, a British electronic pop group, who opened the evening by performing songs off of its first studio album,
“Body Music.” Under blue spotlights and clad in a Northwestern basketball T-shirt, T-Pain came out on stage singing “Cyclone.” Throughout his set, T-Pain mixed some of his wellknown songs, such as “Bartender” and “Low,” with works from other artists. His covers included “Black and Yellow” by Wiz Khalifa, “Make It Rain” by Travis Porter and even “Royals” by Lorde, which he customized the lyrics and sang without
Auto-Tune. T-Pain and his ensemble danced across the stage and encouraged the crowd to wave their hands, particularly as he performed “All I Do Is Win.” Throughout the concert, T-Pain engaged the audience, thanking everyone for coming. “Imma tell you this is by far the best crowd I’ve ever had in Chicago,” he said. “We’ve been here a bunch of times, and this is the most pumped » See BALL, page 5
Thousands stand to fight racism By Michelle Kim Daniel Tian/The Daily Northwestern
welcome home South Mid-Quads Hall will be renovated this summer and will be occupied by Shepard Residential College next year. Public Affairs Residential College will move to North Mid-Quads Hall, as both Shepard and PARC’s buildings will undergo renovations.
Weinberg’s new dean to begin July 1 By Mariana Alfaro
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Adrian Randolph saw Northwestern as an opportunity he couldn’t refuse. “Northwestern is one of the premiere institutions for learning in the world,” he told The Daily. “I’ve long admired Northwestern.” NU selected Randolph in February to serve as dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He has been associate dean of the faculty for the arts and humanities at Dartmouth College since 2011. He joined Dartmouth’s art history
department in 1995 and became the art history department chair in 2002. Randolph, who will start July 1, said he looks forward to living in Evanston near Chicago, compared to rural New Hampshire, where Dartmouth is located. What draws him to Weinberg, he said, is its commitment to the arts and sciences and how familiar it feels to him, as it reminds him of Dartmouth. “I believe strongly in the teaching of arts and sciences as a really great way to educate,” he said. He said one of the biggest differences, » See RANDOLPH, page 6
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Around 3,000 people took to the streets of Evanston on Friday afternoon to raise awareness of and fight racism. This was the largest crowd that has ever come out in the city for Stand Against Racism, an annual nationwide campaign sponsored by the YWCA. People from more than 80 groups lined up along Ridge Avenue and Church Street to support the movement, which aims to address the negative impact of institutional and structural racism, according to the YWCA website. In its fourth year, the event, hosted by the YWCA Evanston/ North Shore, started in Skokie and Niles Township at Friday morning with around 3,000 people, said Eileen Heineman, YWCA director of racial justice programs. Another 3,000 people then came out for the event held later that day in Evanston, Heineman said. This was the first year Skokie has held an event for Stand Against
Racism. Heineman said the high participation — which was much greater than it has been in the past — was most likely due to recent events nationwide that have revived discussions about racism in society. “Over this past year, society has given us a lot of reasons to be continuing and growing the conversation
about racism,” Heineman said. “It’s brought people into the conversation that didn’t really think race was still an issue in our country.” Participants held handmade signs that encouraged cars to “honk for fairness” and read a pledge together » See RACISM, page 6
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coming together People line the sidewalks in front of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore for the annual Stand Against Racism. Around 3,000 people participated in the Evanston event this year.
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