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ASG fails to give out stipend Funds for student engagement not awarded this year By ERICA SNOW
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Amanda Walsh didn’t buy textbooks this quarter. A Communication senior and former president of Northwestern’s Quest Scholars Network chapter, Walsh said she planned to buy books with a share of an Associated Student Government-sponsored stipend for students heavily involved in extracurriculars — but the applications were never released and the funds were not disbursed. The Student Engagement Stipend, a fund awarded to 20 students by ASG of $500 each, aimed to help students with financial need pursue time-consuming student group positions and was established in 2014. Walsh sat on the committee that reviewed student applications that year and planned to apply for the stipend this academic year. ASG allotted $10,000 to the stipend program
in this academic year’s internal budget, which was $80,000 total. But this academic year, the funds were not paid out because discussion over how to reform the process has not yet been resolved, former ASG president Noah Star said. Instead, the funds will “roll back” to the pool of money ASG controls, he said. Walsh said although the process may have been imperfect, the money would’ve been beneficial to her and other students. “I was already planning on the ways I could use that money,” Walsh said. “It was really frustrating that logistics and because something wasn’t perfect and something wasn’t the best it could be would take that opportunity from students like myself.” In 2014, part of the application review process involved a committee of students — who didn’t have access to applicants’ financial aid data — ranking applications based on merit, before the Center for Student Involvement, now called the Office of Campus Life, weighed in. Star, a Weinberg senior, said he objected to how large a role students played in determining their peers’ » See STIPEND, page 6
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SWAG UNLOCKED Aaquil “Slim Jxmmi” Brown performs as part of Rae Sremmurd at A&O Ball, which was co-hosted by FMO. The rap duo headlined and electronic musician Baauer opened the annual concert.
Rae Sremmurd lights up Ball By KESHIA JOHNSON
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When one of the members of Rae Sremmurd asked the room if Northwestern is “always this lit,” the crowd’s response was mixed.
Nonetheless, hundreds of NU students crowded the dance floor for the southern hip hop act’s set at A&O Ball, co-hosted by For Members Only, on Friday night at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. With about 1,800 tickets sold for this year’s Ball, students spent the night
jumping and dancing as headliner Rae Sremmurd pumped music out of the speakers and even chucked half-eaten pineapples into the mosh pit. The duo of brothers Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jxmmi” » See BALL, page 6
Fight for $15 rallies in Evanston By MARIANA ALFARO
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WAGES PROTEST Workers, protesters and activists march to the Burger King on Orrington Avenue on Sunday afternoon to protest low wages in Evanston. The marchers later demonstrated outside McDonald’s on Dempster Street.
Evanston workers, activists and community members marched to Burger King, 1740 Orrington Ave., Sunday afternoon as part of a demonstration against low wages and poor working conditions in fast food restaurants across the city. Fight for $15, an international movement that supports workers who are campaigning for higher wages and union rights, held the demonstration at Evanston’s Fountain Square. The event, which was also intended to celebrate International Workers’ Day, was the first time Fight for $15 held a rally in Evanston. Participants later delivered a petition to the McDonald’s on 1919 Dempster St. that requested better workplace conditions for
employees, higher wages and unionization. About 80 people attended the rally, where activists, workers, community members and state Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) spoke to the crowd in support of higher wages. The minimum wage in Evanston is the state-mandated $8.25 an hour. In comparison, Chicago increased its minimum wage to $10 last year. By 2019, Chicago plans to raise it to $13. In an interview with The Daily last month, Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said although she supports a minimum wage of $15, she doesn’t think Evanston will implement it until it becomes a statewide ordinance. “It’s a good thing to do, I think it is a necessary thing to do but I do think it needs to be statewide,” she said. Gabriel Machabanski, a member of Open Communities, a group that combats
housing discrimination in Chicago’s north suburbs, said during the rally that it is unfair for workers on the “other side of Howard (Street)” to receive an income so different from those who work in Chicago. “Evanston is becoming increasingly less welcoming to its low-income residents by way of rising property values and lack of affordable housing and … stagnant poverty wages,” he said. Before marching to Burger King, various Evanston residents spoke about their experiences working for fast food restaurants in the area. Carlota Gomez, who has worked in an Evanston McDonald’s for over 20 years, said she was protesting verbal abuse in her workplace and was advocating not only for $15 wages but also for worker unionization and the right to drink water while working. » See FIGHT, page 6
Rapper ScHoolboy Q to perform as Dillo Day headliner By EMILY CHIN
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Rapper ScHoolboy Q will perform at Dillo Day this year as the festival’s headliner, Mayfest announced Sunday night. ScHoolboy Q, whose real name is Quincy Matthew Hanley, dropped his first mixtape, “ScHoolboy Turned Hustla,” in 2008. Since then, he has released
three albums: “Setbacks” in 2011, “Habits & Contradictions” in 2012 and “Oxymoron” in 2014. “What you get is a lot of more classic rapping, more tighter rhymes, the style of rap that a lot of people really enjoy at shows,” said Mayfest spokeswoman Elisa O’Neal. “Not everyone is really into rap, but because of the singles and the amount of music that he’s put out that is widely popular that’s broken out of rap circles, we’re excited about what he’ll bring to the stage.”
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The rapper has also collaborated with artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown, A$AP Rocky and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He also worked with Anderson .Paak, another Dillo Day artist, on the single “Am I Wrong.” O’Neal, a SESP senior, said ScHoolboy Q’s collaborations with other artists will make him more recognizable to students, even if they aren’t as familiar with a lot of his work. C ommunication junior
Yumiko Mannarelli, Mayfest’s director of concerts, said she thinks students will respect the fact that ScHoolboy Q has worked with so many well-known artists in the past, and many students will recognize his name. She said she wanted to bring a headliner who has well-known hits, but also can perform newer material. ScHoolboy Q released his newest single, “Groovy Tony,” in April and will be releasing a new album soon. “Some of his tracks are still
so relevant despite how long ago they came out, and I think that speaks to just how incredible of an artist he is,” Mannarelli said. “We’re not going to bring someone who’s a one-hit wonder. As a headliner he’s an incredible choice because of the things he’s done in the past, the people he’s worked with and the places he’s going to go.” Dillo Day will take place May 21. emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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