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Oct 21, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Ann Vettikkal |Ayaan Ali
Editor’s note: Two lecturers spoke to The Eye on the condition of anonymity. Their pseudonyms were generated using a random name generator. Iris had one condition before speaking with me: Find somewhere private. We met in Spectator’s Riverside Church office—empty during the afternoons—which felt like a world away from the thin walls and shared offices of her department. “Retaliation is rampant,” she told me, as March rain quietly streamed down the windows.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal |Alex Harrison
In the months since Evanston’s City Council approved the Rebuild Ryan Field project, Northwestern University has been busy making its stadium visions a reality. On Central Street, the old stadium has been wiped away, and trucks have removed a massive volume of earth to create the new stadium’s below-grade bowl. A temporary stadium is now in use along the university’s lakefront, and it seems to be a hit with Wildcat fans.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Northwestern University posted a statement on Thursday explaining major changes to university policies after the Pro-Palestinian protests and encampment on Deering Meadow last semester. Protesters responded to ongoing policy updates with a continued push for disclosure and divestment, criticizing what they consider a crackdown on free expression by Northwestern.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Around 50 members of the League of Women Voters of Evanston gathered on Monday to hear from their elected officials of the Illinois General Assembly about the major accomplishments of the past legislative sessions and the challenges ahead. State Rep. and Majority Leader Robyn Gabel (18th District), State Sens. Ram Villivalam (8th District) and Laura Fine (9th District), and Rep.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Horizon Realty Group’s presentation for a revised design of a 12-story mixed-use residential building at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Church Street in downtown Evanston responded to several objections from Evanstonians about the building’s height, allotment of affordable apartments and impact on a nearby alley and local businesses.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Evanston police responded to two separate shootings on Tuesday afternoon, each reportedly resulting in one person suffering gunshot wounds. One shooting occurred in the 1700 block of Dempster Street; the other in the 1700 block of Dodge Street. In each shooting, the injured individuals were adult males who are stable after the Evanston Fire Department transported them to an area hospital, according to posts by EPD on the social media platform X.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Local union representatives and members in favor of a Responsible Bidder Ordinance spoke to the city’s Minority, Women, Disadvantaged and Evanston Business Enterprise Development Committee at the Morton Civic Center on Wednesday. Jeremy Esparza, a labor attorney for Laborers Local One, explained that the ordinance, which would impact publicly funded construction projects, would tighten and add language to the current “overbroad” procurement policy.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
Residents met for the second city-led open house on Tuesday to survey and critique new proposals for the Mason Park expansion and Church-Dodge intersection. Among the most common suggestions were concerns for pedestrian and biker safety, designing around the idea of “natural play” and creating community spaces. City Project Manager Stefanie Levine said the plan is set to be finalized by the end of the year. Consultants from Teska, Christopher B.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
evanstonroundtable.com | Ann Vettikkal
With the Evanston Fourth of July centennial celebration now in the rearview mirror, participants and residents ushered in a new era of festivities on Thursday while keeping with this year’s “Seeds of Change” theme. The Evanston Fourth of July Association named Reparations Committee Chair and former Fifth Ward Council Member Robin Rue Simmons as grand marshal, acknowledging “her work on restorative and social justice in the Black community” in the parade pamphlet.
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May 3, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Andrew Park |Ann Vettikkal
When University President Minouche Shafik authorized the New York Police Department to move into the east side of South Lawn on April 18, hundreds of Columbia students watched from behind the fenced perimeter as protesters sat in two concentric circles, arms linked. In the outside circle, protesters faced the crowd, media, and police; on the inside, shielded from view, protesters faced each other, singing and crying together as they watched police arrest their colleagues one by one.
