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Residents learn campaign basics Foundation hosts in-person Public Service Challenge By SARAH SEROTA
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Dancers moved to the beat of Riize’s “Talk Saxy.”
KASA hosts night at the ‘osKA rs’
Annual show features songs, dances and taekwondo performances By KELLEY LU
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With an audience of over 500 to cheer on singing, dancing and taekwondo performances,
KA SA Show closed out with a win at the “osKArs” Friday night. The Korean American Student Association hosted its annual show at the Technological Institute, with this year’s theme being the “osKArs.” With
a show committee of over 40 people to cater to KASA’s over 600 members, the event is the club’s biggest of the year. Weinberg senior and KASA co-President Christine Lee said the show is an opportunity to invite the broader Northwestern
community to learn about and celebrate Korean American culture beyond what’s featured in the media. “Our KASA community really united together going
» See KASA SHOW, page 6
Evanston Community Foundation held its first in-person Public Service Challenge since before the COVID-19 pandemic at the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center Saturday. Established in 2000, the Public Service Challenge seeks to help Evanston residents navigate the intricacies of running a city office or school board campaign through nonpartisan training, according to Senior Director of Community Leadership Karli Butler. The event covered topics like setting up a bank account, filing necessary paperwork and establishing what makes a successful campaign. Evanston Community Foundation continues to hold the program to ensure running a campaign is accessible and to inspire residents to become more involved in the community, Butler said. “If we want to encourage folks to be civically engaged, they have to know about the process,” she said. “By providing
pre-information, where people didn’t have to go hunting for it, it would bring people out who maybe had considered running but didn’t know where to start.” This year, event partners included the Evanston Public Library and the Evanston/North Shore Branch of the NAACP. The first part of the event was a panel discussion between Evanston leaders. City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza discussed the specifics of filing for office, including qualifications to run, signature requirements and key filing dates. She also addressed the details of getting on the ballot that participants may not be aware of, including how to bind the paperwork. Democratic Party of Evanston Board President Rachel O’Konis Ruttenberg talked about the fundraising process and fieldwork aspect of campaigns. She encouraged voters to put effort into fundraising if they run for office because mailings can be a crucial determiner of voter contact. “You want people to know who you are, and you want to get your message out about the campaign,” O’Konis Ruttenberg said. “Voter contact should be your North Star.”
» See PUBLIC SERVICE, page 6
Pinoy Show breaks Panel discusses Israel-Hamas war attendance record First Presbyterian Church of Evanston hosts Nashashibi, Rosen Kaibigan raises more than $1000 for Project People By KAAVYA BUTANEY
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Four years ago, when Weinberg senior and former internal president Abby Burt joined Kaibigan, the PhilippineAmerican Student Association at Northwestern, she said there were only five members. The club now has around 50 members and broke the attendance record for its annual Pinoy Show for the second year in a row Saturday. Pinoy Show 2024, “The Bachelor: More than Kaibigan,” saw 328 attendees and, during a “Miracle Minute” of donation, raised $828 for Project People. The charity supports Filipino refugees and their families from Gaza resettling in the Philippines. Proceeds from the show’s ticket sales also contributed to the donation. As a whole, the club raised over $1,000.
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During event preparation, Burt said she saw other members 12 hours a day. Although it was stressful, she said the group put “so much love” into the show. All of the co-producers this year are seniors. “(We) get one last hurrah to this club that we love so much and have dedicated our entire college lives to,” Burt said. Several other co-producers, like Weinberg senior and former external president and socio-cultural chair Aidan Ocampo and Weinberg senior and former external president MJ Nidea, said their final show was a culmination of their time spent in Kaibigan. Ocampo said this year’s Pinoy Show is the highlight of his college experience. He added he was proud of everyone who was involved, from writing the scripts to holding the benches for sayaw sa bangko, a traditional Filipino dance. “It’s once a year when we get to have such a big platform and to use this opportunity to have such a big audience
» See PINOY SHOW, page 6
By MISHA OBEROI
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First Presbyterian Church of Evanston hosted a Sunday panel discussion in collaboration with nonprofit Bright Stars of Bethlehem on the role of religion, politics and solidarity in the Israel-Hamas war. Panelists included Rev. Mitri Raheb — co-founder of Bright Stars and Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, a city in the West Bank — Rabbi Brant Rosen, founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, Palestinian-American activist Rami Nashashibi and Iva Carruthers, the general secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. Linda Edens, vice chair of the Bright Stars of Bethlehem board of directors, moderated the discussion. Each panelist had 15 minutes to speak about the topic. Raheb started the conversation and spoke about what he called the “settler colonial project” that Israel has exercised in Gaza over the last century. “It’s always about two issues: geography and demography,” Raheb said. “Israel would like to take all the geography, from the
river to the sea, and to kick out the demography — the Palestinian demography, in all different kinds of ways.” Raheb also spoke about Israel’s ground and air offensive in Gaza and the thousands of children that have been murdered. He said there are no more universities left in Gaza. Israel’s military action in Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian officials. Israel’s ground and air offensive follows the militant group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel which killed about 1,200 Israelis, according to Israeli officials. Raheb spoke about Bright Stars, an organization committed to uplifting Palestinians by raising awareness and support for Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, the first and only liberal arts university in Palestine. The university’s Gaza training center was destroyed in an airstrike by Israel during Holy Week, according to Raheb. Several volunteers of the center were killed or escaped to Rafah, Gaza, Raheb said. “We were reaching out to thousands of kids through our program,” Raheb said. “All of
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Panelist Rev. Mitri Raheb, who co-founded Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, West Bank, said the university’s training center in Gaza was destroyed in an airstrike by Israel during Holy Week.
this was totally destroyed during Holy Week.” Rosen returned last week from the Erez crossing on the Gaza border, where he stood in solidarity with other rabbis calling for a ceasefire. He said the Jewish participation in the
pro-Palestine movement, especially from young Jews, has been remarkable. Rosen also visited the proPalestinian encampment at DePaul University on Saturday,
» See GAZA PANEL, page 6
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