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City plans on making buildings ‘solar-ready’ said. “That’s what we’re Resident advocacy Pratt working towards, and in the key to progress on past, it’s just been a matter of constraints.” renewable energy resource Two key components By SAMANTHA STEVENS
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Solar panels power three of the city’s buildings: the Evanston Ecology Center, Levy Senior Center and Evanston Water Treatment Plant. Now, the city is planning to contract outside developers to increase its solar energy usage. Evanston plans to use solar power purchase agreements, which involve having outside developers finance, install and maintain the solar panels. In exchange, the city would buy power generated by the panels from the developer, in a system that would minimize the upfront costs of solar power for Evanston. Sustainability and Resilience Coordinator Cara Pratt said solar power purchase agreements are a financially sustainable way for the city to install solar panels. “Any city facility that has appropriate sunlight and a new enough roof should eventually have solar panels,”
ensure a structure is solarready, according to City Engineer Lara Biggs. The building’s roof must be suitable for solar panels, which generally involves being fairly flat and unshaded. The building’s electrical panels must also have enough capacity to use the solar power generated, Biggs said. “Instead of worrying about how to install solar, now we worry about how to make our buildings solar-ready so that they’re ready for solar installation,” Biggs said. The Robert Crown Community Center, completed in 2020, was designed to have solar panels, though they have yet to be installed. The city is now preparing to solicit proposals from private companies to install these panels. “Our first focus is on installing solar at the Robert Crown Community Center, which always contemplated having solar on the roof,” Pratt said. “Moving forward for any new municipal roof,
» See SOLAR CITY, page 6
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Classics Prof. Sergey Ivanov, who will teach classes in the Classics and History departments in Winter and Spring Quarter, arrived in Evanston earlier this month.
Fleeing Russia to teaching at NU
Classics Prof. Ivanov brings Byzantium specialty to the department By FIONA ROACH
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When Sergey Ivanov was 11 years old, he found a Greek and
Roman antiquity picture book on a beach while on vacation, away from his home in Moscow. He fell in love with Classical studies soon after completing the book, he said. “I immediately, right away, felt
that this is mine,” said Ivanov, a Classics professor at Northwestern. “At this moment I realized that I am different from other people because I’m interested in this very weird, very separate sphere of life.”
Ivanov studied Classics at Moscow State University for five years before becoming a researcher, and later, a professor at universities in Russia and
» See IVANOV, page 6
‘Painful and infuriating nodal point’ Ifill speaks on civil Pro-choice advocates march in Wisconsin ahead of pivotal state election By DIVYA BHARDWAJ
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Content warning : This article contains discussions of unsafe abortions. Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade and seven months after the court overturned that precedent with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, over a thousand protestors filled the Wisconsin state capitol Sunday to advocate for abortion rights. Immediately after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, one in three American women lost access to abortion. Fourteen states — including Illinois neighbors Wisconsin, Kentucky and Missouri — now ban most abortions, and courts have temporarily blocked enforcement of bans in eight others. Abortion remains legal in Illinois, so people from nearby states with little to no access often travel across state lines to seek abortion care.
“We are a safe haven. We have protections here,” Ali Cassity of Chicago for Abortion Rights said. “But because of that, it’s even more our responsibility to show up for our neighbors. They travel here so often because they have to in order to get the care that they’re looking for.” In Wisconsin, an 1849 law banning abortion in nearly all cases resumed effect immediately after the Dobbs ruling. Cassity traveled to Madison on Sunday with other Illinois organizers ahead of Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election, which will determine the balance of power between conservative and liberal justices and could impact the future of abortion rights. Madison Abortion & Reproductive Rights Coalition for Healthcare hosted the Sunday protest, working with over 30 Wisconsin and Illinois organizations. Their demands included overturning Wisconsin’s abortion ban; teaching medically sound sex education for all; repealing the federal Hyde
rights, abolitionism Keynote reflects on effort needed to sustain dreams By LEXI GOLDSTEIN
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Photo courtesy of Linda Loew of Chicago for Abortion Rights
Protestors gathered in the Wisconsin state capitol demanding abortion rights on the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
Amendment, which bans federal funding of abortions; diverting Wisconsin’s $6.6 billion tax surplus to the costs for pregnant people seeking care in other states; and re-opening the state’s
reproductive healthcare clinics, which were closed by the Wisconsin legislature and state Supreme Court. Sunsara Taylor and Merle
» See ABORTION RIGHTS, page 6
Content warning: This story contains mentions of police violence. Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as the keynote speaker for Northwestern’s Dream Week in front of a packed audience in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The event concluded the week commemorating Dr. King and was kicked off by a performance of the Black National Anthem by Soul4Real, NU’s premiere Black a cappella group. Former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Ifill said dreaming is not enough and that putting in work is necessary. “I just think it’s important that we remember that dreaming is also work,” Ifill said during the
keynote. “When we listen to his speech, we don’t allow ourselves to be carried away into flights of fantasy, that we give due honor for the kind of metal it took for Dr. King to draw from himself that poetry.” Ifill’s talk covered how the civil rights movement has evolved in recent years, with global protests following the torture and murder of George Floyd. She noted that people of all ethnicities, ages and parts of the country participated in Black Lives Matter marches, demonstrating an expansion of civil rights marches in the ‘60s. “They want you to give away your compassion and your love and it takes work not to do it,” Ifill said during the event. “It took work to get both feet on the floor the day after the November election in 2016. It took work after Charleston. It took work after the Tree of Life and Walmart.” After Ifill’s speech, director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic at Pritzker
» See KEYNOTE, page 6