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Alyce Brown/Daily Senior Staffer
Weinberg adjusts Residents pay price of waste station required courses Church Street Village community concerned about noise, health impacts and Fine Arts” New foundational “Literature requirement will broaden to disciplines will “Literature and Arts,” allowing to count classes from begin in fall 2023 students the Art Theory and Practice By MAIA PANDEY
daily senior staffer @maiapandey
After more than seven years of research and review, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is set to adjust its undergraduate degree requirements beginning Fall Quarter 2023. Incoming undergraduates will be required to complete classes across a set of “foundational disciplines,” as opposed to the current “distribution requirements.” Though the subject areas remain largely the same, each requirement will include a specific set of learning goals. In a key change, the current
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department. New students will also be required to complete two “overlay” courses, which they can simultaneously apply to other degree requirements: the first is “U.S. Perspectives on Power, Justice and Equity” and the second, “Global Perspectives on Power, Justice and Equity.” Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Mary Finn said the changes reflect Weinberg’s overarching goal to equip each student to “observe, critique, express, reflect.” “I think that our students will have a clearer sense of how their degree is about much more than their major,” Finn said. “They
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By JESSICA MA
daily senior staffer @jessicama2025
Day in and day out, trucks carry trash past Church Street Village townhouses and trundle up a long driveway to the Church Street Waste Transfer Station. For 29 years, Evanston resident Cindy Levitt never paid much attention to the station, which is located between the 2nd and 5th Wards. That changed when she moved into Church Street Village in 2008. On her first night, Levitt woke up to quaking vibrations she likened to an earthquake. But she realized the vibrations actually came from her next-door neighbor: the waste transfer station. “(When I moved in), I was pretty naive about what was next door,” Levitt said. “There’s the issue of the vibrations. There’s
Seeger Gray/Daily Senior Staffer
The Church Street Waste Transfer Station is located between Evanston’s 2nd and 5th Wards. Nearby residents have raised concerns about the station’s impacts on safety, health, noise and more.
the issue of the noise. There’s the issue of what we’re breathing.” For more than a decade, residents living near the waste station have raised concerns about safety,
health, loud noises and more. The private company Waste Management, one of the largest garbage collection companies in the U.S., owns and operates the station.
Waste transfer stations are designated areas where trucks discharge their solid waste. The
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