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Remembering Jacquis Irby 18-year-old Irby, a loving father and brother, died in the Clark Street Beach shooting on April 12 By AVIVA BECHKY and AVANI KALRA
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Content warning: This article contains mentions of gun violence and death. Jacquis Irby was always willing to
protect his three siblings, his younger brother Yaris Irby said. “He was a family person and (all) about his brothers,” Yaris Irby said. “He was a good person to be around, very encouraging and always knew how to make somebody happy.” Jacquis Irby, 18, died from a fatal gunshot wound on April 12,
following a shooting at Clark Street Beach that left two of his brothers injured. A Skokie resident, he was born and raised in Evanston. He leaves behind a one-year-old son. His uncle Daris Tinch said Jacquis Irby often asked him questions about parenting, since Tinch was a single parent.
“He was always inquisitive and trying to make sure that he was doing it right,” Tinch said. “And always there to love on (his son).” Jacquis Irby also loved basketball and lived “vicariously” through Yaris Irby, an award-winning high school player, Tinch said. He served as a coach and an “at-home motivator” for his younger
brother, always offering pointers on how he could improve his game. Tinch said Jacquis Irby was his brother’s number one fan. “He was there at every game cheering him on, coaching him,” Tinch said. “They have their little thing
» See IRBY, page 6
Locals engage in Students protest policing on campus budget program More than 200 demonstrators talk Black student demands at The Rock students to study the City, NU team up and process and contribute to the on participatory community. said his team budgeting initiative of Easterday researchers submitted an By CASEY HE
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Evanston received $43 million from the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and 2022 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoping to identify areas of need, the city put $3 million toward a novel solution: participatory budgeting. The program allows residents, with the support of city staff and volunteers, to submit their ideas for funding allocation to the city and develop some of them into policy proposals for citywide consideration on the ballot. When SESP Prof. Matt Easterday heard about Evanston’s participatory budgeting, he thought the program would be the perfect opportunity for Northwestern researchers
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application to the city, which contracted them to help develop the program. Sixth-year learning sciences Ph.D. candidate Kristine Lu, a researcher on Easterday’s team, studies democratic deliberation –– the process groups use to work on a shared political problem. Lu said Evanston’s participatory budgeting allowed her to study the real-world applications of democratizing deliberation through designing and facilitating in-person meetings with residents. “It has helped me see a lot of things that most people aren’t able to see, whether it’s researchers taking traditional political science methods or teachers who are trying to teach civic knowledge,” Lu said.
» See BUDGETING, page 6
By PAVAN ACHARYA and RUSSELL LEUNG
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More than 200 students protested Northwestern’s policing of Black community members and presented a set of demands for Black student safety and support at a Tuesday demonstration at The Rock. Students chanted phrases including “No justice, no peace” and “Money for students, not police.” The event’s co-organizers condemned the University’s response to the Clark Street Beach shooting on April 12, both during and after the emergency, in addition to the school’s failure to meet some of the demands Black students presented during the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover. Medill freshman Atarah Israel then read a poem about racial justice she originally wrote in 2020 but that she said “still has a lot of resonance today.” Some attendees said the
protest was also prompted by recent changes in policy enforcement at the Black House. According to SESP and Weinberg sophomore Micaiah Ligon, a protest co-organizer, Multicultural Student Affairs recently announced a University representative will make students leave the space at midnight Saturday through Thursday and 10 p.m. on Fridays. Previously, students said, the University would not enforce a closing time at the Black House. Several attendees, including event co-organizer and Medill senior Onyeka Chigbogwu, said Black students should have been consulted about the decision. “This is one of those small forms of policing,” Chigbogwu, a former Daily staffer, said. “People think of police just as the squad cars (or) how many literal physical cops are hired by Evanston or by the University on each corner. But policing is also an action we do in so many spaces.” Weinberg sophomore
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The Rock. Students painted it black with phrases such as “Stop policing Black spaces” and “#BLM” after the protest Tuesday.
Dylan Carey attended Tuesday’s protest. He said he sees police officers all across campus and that their presence makes him “uncomfortable.” He added Universit y Police’s response to the Clark Street Beach shooting showed the force’s inadequacy in keeping community members safe –– despite its size and presence.
“I feel like I see them everywhere. And for me, I don’t do anything wrong, but yet I still get a visceral reaction,” Carey said. “I just think that for the amount of money that we spend on them, they don’t do enough.” Student organizers referenced a statement they
» See DEMANDS, page 6
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