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Mayfest to charge Dillo Day guests By Emily Chin
the daily northwestern
Northwestern students can bring just one guest to Dillo Day this year and guest wristbands will cost $10, Mayfest announced Monday night. All NU students are guaranteed to receive a wristband, but Mayfest’s new policy limits the number of available wristbands for students’ guests, NU graduate students, alumni, faculty and staff. Additionally, a small number of wristbands will be made available for Evanston residents for $25. Guests could previously attend Dillo Day for free. The wristband fee was implemented this year to reflect the cost NU students pay for Dillo
Day through the Student Activities Fund. “Dillo Day is an event for students and the wristband policy allows us to kind of ensure that students are the ones that are getting access to the Lakefill,” said Mayfest co-chair Justin Wolf, a Communication senior. After registering for Dillo Day, every student will be guaranteed a free wristband distributed through the Norris Box Office. Guest wristbands will be sold in waves so people have equal opportunity to purchase them. Mayfest co-chair Ian Robinson said the wristbands may sell out. However, each student has an opportunity to buy one online until they run out, he » See MAYFEST, page 7
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DIversity Debate Noah Star, Christina Kim, Chris Harlow and Haley Hinkle discuss issues of inclusion and identity at a Coalition of Colors-sponsored debate Monday night. Star and Kim are running together against and Hinkle and Harlow.
Candidates discuss inclusion By SHANE MCKEON
the daily northwestern @Shane_McKeon
Daily file photo by Julia Azarcon
PAYING TO PARTY Students dance at last year’s Dillo Day. This year, each student will only be able to bring one guest and will have to pay $10 for the guest wristband.
Hopefuls vie for school board spots By Marissa Page
the daily northwestern @marissahpage
Residents will choose from among eight candidates to fill six open spots on local school boards in Tuesday’s election. Five people are running for the positions on the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education and four candidates are vying for spots on the School District 202 Board of Education, which oversees Evanston Township High School. Two of the four candidates on the ballot for the District 65 board are incumbents: Omar Brown, who could not be reached for comment, and Richard Rykhus, who declined to comment. The other two candidates are newcomer Jennifer Phillips and Adrian Dortch, who previously ran for both boards in 2007. Phillips, a mother of three District 65 students, has centered her campaign on fiscal responsibility and technology in classrooms, as well as hands-on education that includes strong programs in the arts and science, technology, engineering
and mathematics — known as STEM. “The fact that we don’t have an instructional technology plan that is really focused on how to advance instruction and student learning is problematic to me,” Phillips said. “Evanston as a community could do a lot better thinking forwardly about educational technology, the science of how children and humans learn.” Dortch, an alumnus of both District 65 schools and ETHS, is running for both boards and hopes to combine the two districts. He said he wants to streamline city education and narrow the racial achievement gap in the two districts. “We have had plenty of people on our school board with a lot of degrees, and I feel like degrees are not going to fix our situation, nor is money going to fix our situation,” Dortch said. “We really need to get some real creative people in there that are willing to think outside the box.” A large percentage of property tax dollars — around 65 percent in 2013, according to the city’s website — goes to fund Evanston schools, a number » See ELECTION, page 7
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The two tickets for ASG president and executive vice president squared off in a Coalition of Colors-sponsored debate Monday, fielding questions about issues of identity and inclusion. Medill junior Haley Hinkle and her running mate SESP junior Chris Harlow faced Weinberg junior Noah Star and his running mate McCormick junior Christina Kim. More than 75 students attended the debate in Harris Hall. Many posed questions on issues of race and class, including asking candidates to define terms such as intersectionality, structural racism and community. Weinberg junior Cinthya Rodriguez, one of the Coalition’s cochairs, opened the debate saying
past candidates haven’t always delivered on campaign goals. “We’ve seen how candidates, to be really honest, haven’t kept up all of their promises and all of the things they put in their platforms,” she said. “So we’re here to remind people that we’re watching.” The Coalition is a collection of student groups that advocate for marginalized students. Hinkle said students shouldn’t just discuss issues of race and identity but should take action to fix them. “We talk a lot about dialogue being the end game, and it’s not,” Hinkle said. “We have to turn it into action.” Star advocated for a “buddy system” that would include members of relevant student groups in Associated Student Government meetings with administrators. Using the topic of sexual assault as an example, Star said groups such as Sexual
Health and Assault Peer Educators should accompany ASG members to meetings with administrators, because that group likely has more expertise on the issue. “Sometimes administrators use us as their foray into the student voice,” Star said, “but if an administrator says, ‘We want to get what students think about this particular issue,’ then I think it’s our duty to find the student groups who are working (on that issue) day in and day out.” Star and Hinkle wouldn’t say whether they support the Northwestern Divest resolution that passed Senate in February asking the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s authors say violate Palestinian human rights. Star, who formerly served as speaker of the Senate, stayed » See DEBATE, page 7
Police hold NU student at gunpoint By TYLER PAGER
daily senior staffer @tylerpager
Police held a Northwestern student at gunpoint and briefly detained him Friday morning. Weinberg senior Daniel Ngai said he was riding in an Uber back to his apartment around 3 a.m. Friday when the car was pulled over by Wilmette police near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, right outside of his apartment. Both Ngai and the driver were told to get out of the car and lie on the ground, he said. Ngai said he was handcuffed while multiple police officers stood less than 15 feet away pointing assault rifles at him. The police patted him down, took his cell phone and wallet, and put him in the back of a police car, Ngai said. Ngai said he spent at least 10 minutes in the police car before he was told why he was being detained. “What I don’t understand is that
they patted me down, they took everything from me, they handcuffed me behind my back so obviously I wasn’t a risk anymore,” he said. “I wasn’t going to do anything at that point so at that point, I was wondering why they couldn’t tell me in 10 words or less what was going on.” Officers followed standard protocol during the stop, Wilmette Deputy Police Chief Kyle Perkins said. He said officers stopped the car because it matched the description of a vehicle seen leaving the area in Wilmette where calls to police reported hearing shots fired. “This is the standard procedure because if the guns are not out and the person exits the car and starts shooting, then we are not protecting ourselves,” Perkins said. University Police responded to the incident, but Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer deferred comment to the Wilmette Police Department. Evanston police assisted Wilmette police in the stop, Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said, but he declined to comment
further on the incident. Ngai said the incident was particularly scary in light of the recent police brutality around the nation. “Being a person of color … obviously I couldn’t help but think of Ferguson and a lot of things where there are guns pointed at someone and they didn’t do anything wrong and they had their hands up and still got shot,” Ngai said. Ngai said that after police released him, a police officer said, “Well, at least now you have a good story.” Ngai said he’s not “anti-police,” but he wished officers had acknowledged that something traumatic happened. Perkins said he was not surprised by Ngai’s reaction. “Anytime you get anyone on a felony spot, especially a student, they’re probably going to be a bit freaked out,” Perkins said. “This isn’t a a game we’re playing. Our concern is the safety first, not about someone’s feelings.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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