The Weekend Ahead is back. Over the summer, we’ll highlight events on campus and in Evanston to help you craft the perfect weekend plans. On campus: “FORTITUDE or/AND GENTLENESS” Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at 2:00 p.m. $6 in advance for full-time NU students, see.
The Redistricting Committee voted unanimously to recommend a new ward map to City Council on Tuesday night. The proposed map would impact about 4,000 residents’ ward placements and significantly reduce current differences in population between wards. The council will vote on whether to approve the map June 12. If approved, the changes would be implemented.
Northwestern President Michael Schill reaffirmed the University’s commitment to diversity in an email to the community Thursday. The message comes ahead of two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that will consider the role of race in college admissions. The cases Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
Evanston is now seeking community feedback on the latest draft of the city’s ward map. The city began its redistricting process in December 2021 to determine a new ward map based on the 2020 census. The last change to the ward map was in 2003. Residents can now view and comment on the newly proposed.
The African Studies Program hosted writer Ike Anya for a reading of his upcoming memoir “Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria” on Tuesday. Anya, a consultant in public health in Nigeria and the U.K., has had work published in The Guardian, HuffPost and other news outlets, but his autobiography is his debut.