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‘It’s absolutely horrible’: Current and former students, staff and faculty at Northwestern Law allege toxic work environment, lack of transparency since 2021 under Dean Hari Osofsky By JACOB WENDLER

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In June 2022, Northwestern Law student Alicia Crawford took over as president of the Pritzker

School of Law’s Student Bar Association — the organization that serves as a liaison between the student body and administration. Just nine months later, Crawford resigned. “While in the navy, I made a promise to myself, that I would never advocate for something I did not believe in, nor would I remain silent and complicit in

things I believe to be fundamentally harmful,” Crawford wrote in her Feb. 28, 2023, resignation letter. Crawford’s complaint would be followed by several more from other community members raising concerns about turmoil at Pritzker since Dean Hari Osofsky joined the law school in August 2021. Nearly two dozen current and former students,

staff and faculty members told The Daily that the law school has been plagued by mismanagement, a toxic work environment and a lack of transparency since Osofsky stepped in, leading many longtime employees to flee the school.

» See OSOFSKY, page 6

Leaf blower ban debated ASG splits funding for clubs Businesses concerned about propane prevention Five thousand distributed among new organizations By SHREYA SRINIVASAN

daily senior staffer @shreyasrin

Almost a year after the city banned gas- and propane-powered leaf blowers — an effort meant to reduce the city’s “carbon footprint” — the city is considering a short-term pause for the coming spring. The pause will be considered at the city’s Health and Human Services Committee’s March meeting.

The pause comes after an “outpouring” of concern from small landscaping Evanston businesses, according to Ald. Juan Geracaris (9th). Geracaris said the pause will be used to create more robust provisions for landscaping businesses, who said they need more resources to be able to transition to electric-powered leaf blowers. After learning about the city’s plan, Natural Habitat Evanston member Amy Parker,

a long-term advocate of discontinuing gas- and propane-powered leaf blowers, said she sent a letter to Geracaris to oppose a pause to the ban. “Evanston is under the microscope here, we are a leading community,” Parker said. “If we walk this back, other communities are going to say ‘Ah, see? Didn’t work.’ ’” In the letter, she said the city can change how information

» See LEAF BLOWER, page 9

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By ISAIAH STEINBERG

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The Associated Student Government Senate passed five resolutions and distributed $5,000 to 10 new student organizations at its Wednesday meeting. ASG’s New Student Organization Support Fund allocates $5,000 in funding to new organizations each quarter, for a total of $15,000 in funding each year.

To qualify for funding, organizations must have been active for two years or less and have a Student Organization Finance Office account. Senators asked representatives from each group questions to determine how much money to allocate them. Organizations requested funding to host events and live performances, attend competitions, perform community service and ensure transportation for initiatives.

Vibrant Colors Collective received $850, Black Poetry Society received $750, Gymnastics Club received $705, Bienestar received $616.27, Emerging Coders received $500, 180 Degrees Consulting received $400, Safe Security received $385.93, United Students for Veteran Health received $300, Prairie Cats Ecological Restoration Club received $292.80 and BridgeNU received $200.

» See ASG, page 9

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