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SOLR sponsors May Day event Student groups table, fundraise to support workers By JERRY WU
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Graduate student attacker Izzy Scane hugs sophomore attacker Madison Taylor after breaking the NCAA Division I career goals record against Denver Sunday afternoon.
Scane’s legacy exceeds goal tally Division I career goals leader pioneers lacrosse’s national growth By JAKE EPSTEIN
daily senior staffer @jakeepste1n
Mere moments after graduate student attacker Izzy Scane
wrapped up a postgame interview in College Park, Maryland, more than a dozen youth lacrosse players swarmed the reigning Tewaaraton winner. Scane signed autographs, took selfies and talked shop with the
flurry of young athletes hoping to one day trod a similar path. “Help her out,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said with a chuckle to one of Northwestern’s media coordinators, but the eventual NCAA Division
I career goals queen appeared content holding court in one of the sport’s grandest meccas. Just like when she made time for a young fan in the
» See SCANE, page 6
On May 1, 1886, thousands of workers across the U.S. organized a strike to demand an 8-hour work day. Three years later, a federation of labor unions and socialist parties designated May 1 as a day to celebrate worker rights and commemorate the Haymarket Affair — a violent confrontation between labor demonstrators and police in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Northwestern students and workers gathered at the Multicultural Center on Friday for Students Organizing for Labor Rights’ second annual May Day event. Friday’s event featured band performances from University Singers and Latin Music Ensemble along with food sales, including spam musubi, empanadas and tacos, to help fundraise for mutual aid. “The significance of May Day is a day to celebrate workers around the world and to honor the work they provide for
communities,” said SOLR member and SESP sophomore Anusha Kumar. “This school would literally not function without the labor campus workers have provided and the community they have built on campus.” Student organizations from Fossil Free NU, Asian Pacific American Coalition, SOLR, Undergraduate Prison Education Program to NU Community for Human Rights and Society and Society of Transgender and Non-Binary Students also set up tables, handed out flyers and posted sign up sheets. Attendees said May Day offered a chance for student organizers to become familiar with the different activist groups. “Student activist groups really need to know they can rely on each other for organization,” said STANS member and SESP freshman Shepherd Williams. “Events like this are a good remedy to that and encourage club communications.” Evanston organization Community Alliance for Better Government President Sebastian Nalls spoke at the event, stressing the need for civic engagement among students in the city. “Evanston here is your home away from home,” Nalls said. “Our goal as community
» See MAY DAY, page 6
House committee Wesley tenants receive grace period to investigate NU City begins boarding up apartments ahead of original deadline Probe comes as Schill set to testify before Congress By JACOB WENDLER
daily senior staffer @jacob_wendler
Northwestern is under investigation by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding its response to antisemitism on campus, according to a document obtained by The Daily. In a Friday letter addressed to University President Michael Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who chairs the committee, requested that the University supply the committee with seven sets of documents related to its response to the recent pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering Meadow by May 17. The documents include communications between University officials about the encampment and alleged incidents of antisemitism on campus, Board of Trustees meeting minutes, video and audio recordings of the
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encampment, and documents related to NU’s campus in Qatar. Schill is set to testify before the committee on May 23 alongside Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway, who served as NU’s provost from 2017-2020, and University of California, Los Angeles Chancellor Gene Block. Since reaching an agreement with student demonstrators to deescalate the encampment on April 29, Schill has come under fire from organizations including StandWithUs and the Anti-Defamation League Midwest, who are calling for his resignation. “The unlawful pro-terror encampment, dubbed the ‘Northwestern Liberated Zone,’ disrupted campus life and became a hotspot for pervasive antisemitic harassment and hostility,” Foxx wrote in the letter. “Rather than enforcing University rules and disciplining those who violated them, Northwestern’s leaders surrendered to the violators in a shameful agreement.” The letter points to Schill’s decision not to consult the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and
» See INVESTIGATION, page 6
By WILLIAM TONG
daily senior staffer @william2tong
Evanston will allow a weeklong grace period for the remaining tenants at 2014 and 2024 Wesley Ave. to move out of their apartments, Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) told The Daily Sunday. In February, city officials informed tenants at the two properties and 2018 Wesley Ave. that structural deterioration in the buildings’ stairs and platforms had made the apartments unsafe to live in. The city set a May 13 deadline for tenants to leave the buildings, city officials announced at an April 9 Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center meeting. As of Friday, at least seven tenant households still live at 2014 and 2024 Wesley Ave., according to a city statement. Since January, five households have moved out of the buildings, not including the tenants ordered to evacuate on May 9. The remaining tenants are planning to stay for the grace period, according to 2014 Wesley Ave. tenant William Carter. “We’re in panic mode trying to pack up everything we can so we can move that day if they tell us we
have to get out,” Carter said. Ahead of the May 13 deadline, the city ordered the remaining three tenant households at 2018 Wesley Ave. to move out and boarded up the building Thursday night. It did so citing Evanston’s dangerous buildings code — a steel support holding up a stair platform on the building detached, according to a Thursday notice signed by City Manager Luke Stowe. In a Friday statement, the city said it reached out to each household at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday and that all tenants agreed to leave by 7:30 p.m. The families were placed in temporary housing, according to Community Alliance for Better Government President Sebastian Nalls. Thursday’s nighttime board-up operation caused alarm among several of the remaining Wesley tenants, they said. Neighboring 5th Ward residents and community activists also arrived, some shouting at the board-up crew and police to leave the apartment area. Carter said the tenants were “bullied” out of their homes. “If you tell them they have to leave because the building is unsafe — ‘you have to get out now’ — what choice do they have?” Carter said.
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After the city boarded up 2018 Wesley Ave., it is offering a weeklong grace period for 2014 and 2024 Wesley Ave. tenants to move out ahead of a previously set May 13 deadline.
He also questioned why the city didn’t take more action early on when the building’s structural issues were first discovered in 2022. Nalls arrived on the scene Thursday night because some neighboring tenants contacted him after noticing police and city contractor presence around the apartments, he said. The residents were concerned about their home being boarded up with little notice, Nalls added — in part because of
what he called poor communication from the city to tenants. “They have been through a traumatic experience,” Nalls said. “The lack of communication or the inability to communicate effectively and intentionally with people has caused an exacerbation of the trauma.” Carter agreed. He said the city did not communicate the move
» See WESLEY, page 6
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