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NROTC balances school, military Despite low numbers, students prep for careers By ZOE MALIN
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Every morning at 5:30 a.m., Weinberg junior Daniel Witte wakes up and shaves. It’s “the rule,” he said. The midshipman — which refers to students enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps — walks from his dorm to Floyd Long Field for physical training, followed by a naval science class. Then, he has a full day of Northwestern classes. By 4:30 p.m., Witte has been awake for 11 hours. But he still has plans left in his day. Sometimes Witte goes to Model United Nations, and other times he heads to the library to study. Witte usually goes to sleep around 10 p.m. so he can be well-rested for the next day’s wake up call. For Witte and his fellow midshipmen, this is their dayto-day routine. He says it’s challenging and takes a lot of self-discipline. But overall, Witte believes it is worth the commitment. “My dad was in the Army, and that was a big influence on my choice to join the military in general,” Witte said. “The Navy provided me with the best opportunities. It’s really
developed me as a person.” The Reserve Officer Training Corps is a program on college campuses that prepares students to become officers in the U.S. military and guarantees them a post-college career. NU’s ROTC program is a Navy unit, NROTC. It specifically trains midshipmen to take jobs in the Navy or the Marine Corps. NU’s NROTC unit was one of the original six established by the Navy across U.S. college campuses in 1926. At one point, NU’s NROTC program comprised of hundreds of students, said Capt. Christopher Adams, NROTC Chicago’s commanding officer. But this school year, there are only 35. “Having 35 students in our battalion is historically low,” Adams said. “So much of our demographics for a given class is affected by Northwestern University’s admissions process.” McCormick sophomore Dylan Utterback said low enrollment numbers have some benefits, though. He described this year’s group as a “small, close-knit and supportive environment,” especially because he is one of two sophomores in NROTC. Utterback said he applied because he wanted a “meaningful career,” as well as opportunities to travel. The NROTC scholarship pays tuition and » See ROTC, page 6
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‘Evil’ Dave Sheldon (left) on a return visit to campus and Nick Siebers (right) receiving the call learning he qualifies for the runoff election. Both are former ASG presidents from the ‘90s who ran on unconventional platforms, especially by the serious standards seen in ASG today.
Reflecting on past ASG presidents A retrospective on some unusual campus leaders of the 1990s following is a history of two particularly unusual ASG presidents, and the elections, traditions and platforms that defined their legacies.
By GABBY BIRENBAUM
daily senior staffer @ birenbomb
This week, Associated Student Government president Izzy Dobbel, a SESP junior, will complete the first week of her term after winning an uncontested election with 75 percent of the vote. While Dobbel’s path to the presidency was fairly straightforward, past ASG presidents have come to power in a variety of ways while prioritizing different initiatives. The
1995-1996: Nick Siebers The Context:
In 1995, ASG was having a rough time attracting the respect of the student body. Students perceived the organization as a space for political science majors looking to pad their resumes. In February, two months before the election, ASG president Alix Rosenthal
was found to have exceeded a $75 campaign spending limit by $26.02, and chose to resign rather than face impeachment after lying about it.
The Election:
Nick Siebers had two presidential campaign promises — to open an on-campus bar, and to bring either the Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd to perform at Dyche Stadium — now known as Ryan Field. A Weinberg sophomore at the time, Siebers had no ASG
experience and ran as an outsider. His campaign poster featured him holding bottles of alcohol on the steps of Beta Theta Pi, with a slogan of, “Is anyone else gonna try to do cool s--t? No! Why not vote for me?” After using his campaign funds to hold a party whose costs exceeded the campaign spending limit, Siebers was removed from the ballot. But a write-in campaign launched him to 30.3 percent of » See ARCHIVES, page 6
Panelists discuss universal health care UP investigating Speakers describe current state of health care, threats to ACA By EMMA EDMUND
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Panelists discussed universal healthcare possibilities with Evanston residents at Tuesday’s Indivisible Evanston meeting. Indivisible Evanston brought three speakers to their May chapter meeting who described the current state of health care in Illinois and explained legislation that could lead to universal health care, including the Medicare for All Act. Indivisible Evanston is an organization whose mission is to “resist Donald Trump’s attempt to replace our democracy with authoritarian plutocracy” through non-violent action. Graciela Guzman, one of the panelists, is a coalition manager for Protect Our Care Illinois — a statewide coalition of health care advocates who fight against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. She said the ACA has been under attack, citing the Texas judge who
struck down the ACA as unconstitutional in December. The ruling is currently in the appeals process in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. “There’s been some pretty heavy sabotage on both the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid,” Guzman said. “We’re seeing less folks... enrolled than before.” Panelists then discussed alternatives to the ACA, including the Medicare for All Act, introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 27. The bill would provide health care to all U.S. residents and cover items and services required for medical treatment, such as hospital treatment and prescription drugs. It would also prohibit certain charges for services, such as deductibles, copays and coinsurance fees. Dr. John Perryman, another panelist and a pediatrician from Roscoe, Illinois, talked about current American spending on health care. He discussed statistics from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that lists the U.S. as having the second-lowest coverage rate of
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May 2 hate email African American Studies professor received last week By GABBY BIRENBAUM
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Leslie Combs, district director for Jan Schakowsky (9th) at Tuesday’s meeting. Combs relayed Schakowsky’s support for the Medicare for All Act introduced in February.
OECD countries despite spending the most for health care as a nation. “I’m a doctor,” Perryman said. “I like people to spend money on health care, but this is clearly not a sustainable thing.” U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), who has publicly supported the Medicare for All Act, introduced the Medicare
for America Act to the House in 2018. The Act provides for more incremental change, allowing employer-sponsored care, which Medicare for All would prohibit. The final panelist, Schakowsky’s district director Leslie Combs, said that Schakowsky still supports Medicare for All “100 » See HEALTH CARE, page 6
University Police is investigating an instance of racist hate mail sent to African American studies Prof. Barnor Hesse on May 2. On May 3, Hesse, who teaches a class called “Unsettling Whiteness,” tweeted the text of an email he had received. “Hey Doc., after I finish AFAMST 380: Unsettling Whiteness, I want to take AFAMST 101: Unsettling Chimps, you racist mother f***er,” the email said, per Hesse’s tweet. Within two hours of reporting it to the University, Hesse said he received responses from Provost Jonathan Holloway and dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Adrian
Randolph offering support and resources and ensuring him UP had opened an investigation. “Response was rapid,” he tweeted. Randolph addressed the incident in a May 3 email to all Weinberg faculty. In his email, Randolph called the anonymous email “racist” and noted how it explicitly targeted Hesse’s work. “On behalf of the Weinberg College community, I condemn the cowardly act of sending such an email and strongly denounce all forms of racism, discrimination, and harassment,” Randolph wrote. “Such racism violates our expectations concerning inclusion and respect.” In a Tuesday statement, University spokesperson Bob Rowley said UP is actively investigating. “(UP) continues to investigate this hateful email and is trying to identify the sender,” Rowley said in a statement to The Daily. Hesse declined to be interviewed for this story. gbirenbaum21@u.northwestern.edu
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