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Death of student spurs petition NU senior urges city to lower speed limit on Sheridan
the truck. No traffic violations have been issued to the driver. Although a preliminary investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing on the driver’s part, Blim said a lower speed limit would make Sheridan Road safer for cyclists. “Of the two people on the road — a driver and a cyclist — the person in the car is not any way as likely to be injured if there is a collision,” Blim said. “The person on the bike is infinitely more likely to be injured or killed. And therefore the people in the huge piece of metal going however many miles per hour should be more cautious.” But Ald. Brian Miller (9th) isn’t sure a lower speed limit would make Sheridan Road safer, saying it could inadvertently create more traffic. Miller is a member of the Administrative and Public Works Committee and is listed as someone the petition will be forwarded to. Blim said she hopes to enact local change by involving committee members. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), chair of the Administrative and
By ERICA SNOW
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An online petition created by a Northwestern senior to reduce the speed limit on Sheridan Road gained nearly 500 signatures this weekend. Communication senior Emily Blim made the petition on Change.org in response to a bicycle accident Thursday that killed first-year student Chuyuan “Chu” Qiu. The petition calls for the city’s Administration and Public Works committee to lower the 35-mile-per-hour speed limit to about 20 miles per hour, Blim said. Qiu was killed Thursday in a bicycling accident after she was struck by a cement truck near the intersection of Garrett Place and Sheridan Road. Qiu collided with the last curbside wheel of the truck, with the impact causing her to roll under
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Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein speaks at a memorial for Northwestern student Scott Boorstein. More than 300 people gathered in the Louis Room of Norris University Center on Friday and shared memories of Boorstein.
More than 300 attend memorial Scott Boorstein remembered as ‘the best of us’ during Norris event By PETER KOTECKI
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Dozens remembered Scott Boorstein as generous, modest and kind at a memorial held on campus Friday night. “He was the selfless friend that would sacrifice anything and everything to make those
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The current speed limit on Sheridan Road is currently 35 miles per hour. A petition started by an Northwestern senior in response to Thursday’s bike accident calls for the speed limit to be lowered.
Woman falls off Evanston pier into lake
A woman is in critical condition after falling into Lake Michigan Saturday afternoon
around him happy,” said Ali Boorstein, his older sister. Boorstein, a rising Weinberg senior from Riverwoods, Illinois, took his own life on Sept. 2. More than 300 people attended the memorial in the Louis Room of Norris University Center, and 1,100 others watched via a Facebook livestream hosted by The Daily. The
University funded the catering for the event and helped facilitate it. About a dozen people delivered prepared remarks during the memorial, which included a photo slideshow and a video montage of Boorstein’s life. Some of the videos showed Boorstein dancing at a concert, a surprise birthday celebration his friends
organized for him and several of his friends saying what they will miss about him. The last hour of the event included an open mic session for attendees to speak on stage. Ali Boorstein said her brother was excited about an internship he secured at his uncle’s company a few
while walking along the pier, police said. The 67-year-old Evanston resident was walking on the pier near the Church Street boat ramp, 1701 Sheridan Rd., at about 4:45 p.m. when she fell into the lake, according to a news release.
Both the Evanston police and fire departments responded to the scene. When they arrived, a bystander had already pulled the woman from the lake and was administering CPR. The woman was unresponsive when she was pulled from
the lake but regained her vitals as paramedics administered additional medical care. The paramedics transported the woman to Evanston Hospital, where she is listed in stable but critical condition.
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Kellogg group aims to facilitate conversation about race By MATTHEW CHOI
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More than 350 students, faculty and administrators from the Kellogg School of Management gathered on Deering Meadow Friday to organize a photograph meant to show solidarity with protests against police killings of black people. The photo, organized by the Kellogg Black Management Association, was part of a series of events to engage the Kellogg community in conversation about race, said Sarah Deming, co-president of BMA. The group started organizing discussions on race over the summer in response
to police killings of black people, the second-year MBA student said. Zignat Abdisubhan, firstyear BMA conference alumni director, photographed the group. In addition to the photograph, BMA hosted a town hall discussion Thursday on race and plans to host small meetings and dinners to discuss race in a more intimate setting, said Obi Osuji, co-president of BMA. The organization plans to coordinate with the Kellogg Veterans Association and the Kellogg Sports Business Club to host discussions about protests in sports, the secondyear MBA student said. Students, faculty and administrators wore black for the photo and will continue to do so for the rest of the week to
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express solidarity. Although the town hall was initially intended to be an internal discussion for BMA students to discuss how racial issues affected them personally, Deming said it evolved into a larger discussion with several other students and faculty on allyship and the experience of being a minority student in business school. “So many allies were asking us if they could come to the meeting, how they could come support BMA, how they could be a better ally, how they could change,” Deming said. “Our original thought about the town hall evolved in a very good way because of all of the support we got from the Kellogg community.”
BMA had previously planned a similar event for Black History Month last February where
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This is rare in business school. People don’t like to talk about race. Sarah Deming, BMA co-president
students wore black to encourage conversation about violence against black lives, Osuji said. BMA also coordinated with students at other top business
schools including Harvard University, New York University’s Stern School of Business, University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, who also gathered to take pictures to show solidarity. Deming said race rarely gets discussed in business schools, including Kellogg, which she described as being “less progressive” than Northwestern’s undergraduate schools. “This is rare in business school. People don’t like to talk about race,” Deming said. “It’s more similar to a corporate environment than it is to a regular college campus, so this is a big step for us just to get people
talking.” Second-year MBA student Tiffany Smith also found the events productive. Smith said seeing videos online of police officers shooting black men makes her worry for men in her family. To see the large amount of support was both encouraging and unexpected, she said. “It’s surprising, I’ll be honest, because we don’t talk about a lot of challenging stuff sometimes,” Smith said. “To know that we have the space to do that now, with the deans of the school coming out, it just means that much more to us that people care.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu
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