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www.ColumbiaChronicle.com The official news source of Columbia College Chicago September 20, 2010 Volume 46, Issue 3 Staff opposes fees for union Group organized disapprove of regulations, create platform for communication byxDrewxHunt Assistant Campus Editor

IN RESPONSE to alleged irresponsibility on the part of United Staff of Columbia Col- lege—Columbia’s designated staff labor union—Jennie Fauls, assistant director of First Year Writing, has formed the US of CC Opposition Forum. The group was born after Fauls and other staff members received a letter from the US of CC demanding they submit a series of forms to the Illinois Education Association to complete their union membership. Additionally, a number of annual fees totaling $354 were to be paid by staff members on a date yet to be determined. The result of members not submitting these forms, which were due Sept. 15, may be termination, according to the letter Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE sent to staff members. Mark Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, led a rally on the doorstep of the Chicago Police Department headquarters at 3510 S. Michigan Despite the termination threat, some Ave. The rally brought over 200 officers and supporters to ask for the resignation of Jody Weis, the police superintendent, because of his handling of the members of the opposition forum, violence against officers over the summer and the understaffing that has taken place under his command. including Fauls, chose not to submit their forms. According to Fauls, some staff claim they never received the letter. Addi- tionally, others were unaware of their membership in the union until they saw Battle over city cops the letter. Chicago officers, led by William Cozzi, who violently beat a man the Fraternal Order of Police rally. Some staff members, have been critical of Fraternal Order of Police, handcuffed to a wheelchair in 2005. According to Mark Donahue, president of the role Human Resources plays concern- denounce leadership Officers say Cozzi was made to pay for FOP, the rift between FOP and Weis began ing supplying the union with inaccurate the same crime twice when Weis, a former developing within months of his of first day contact information. byxDarrylxHolliday FBI agent, referred his case to the FBI after as superintendent in February 2008. One person said their letter somehow Assistant Metro Editor Cozzi had already pleaded guilty to a state In the open letter, Weis stated he has ended up at their parent’s house. misdemeanor. In an open letter posted on “led [the] department in a manner which— In the past, Ellen Kurtz, vice president CHANTS OF “More police, no Weis” could be the CPD ClearPath website Sept. 10, Weis on many issues—reflects what the mem- of Human Resources, expressed incre- heard blocks away from Chicago’s police denied doing this, stating “the U.S. Attor- bership has asked for.” dulity toward any responsibility on her headquarters at 3510 S. Michigan Ave., ney’s Office had already been investigating Donahue however, disagrees.“Apparently department’s behalf concerning staff during a rally on Sept. 15, at which mem- the matter.” the superintendent has not gotten the mes- members being unaware of the role they bers of the Chicago Police The dispute between a seg- sage about the lack of confidence in him play in the US of CC. Department displayed ment of city police officers from the members of the Chicago Police “I can’t communicate with [the] their disappointment with and the superintendent has Department,” Donahue said. employees about their union because the Police Superintendent been on-going for some time. He also noted the CPD is down union represents them,” Kurtz said. “It Jody Weis. Some officers see Weis as an approximately a thousand officers due to is how these things have to work. I still Led by the Fraternal outsider who is out of touch Chicago’s budget constraints. believe the [US of CC] is the one respon- Order of Police, the rally with the needs of city offi- So far this year, seven officers have been sible for communicating with their mem- drew hundreds of officers, cers. Weis has never been a shot while on duty—three fatally. bership. We provided as accurate a list as potential mayoral candi- Chicago police officer. According to John Castaneda, a retired we can.” dates and city residents With Mayor Richard M. officer of 32 years, the police department is Still, Fauls maintains that an alarm- t o d e m a n d t h a t W e i s Daley’s recent announce- budgeted for 13,500 officers, yet only approx- ingly large number of people considered resign immediately. ment he would not seek imately 9,000 are currently on the streets. to be union members were completely A range of issues were re-election, the superin- “So where’s the money going?” Castaneda unaware of their involvement in the US of presented, from the short- Courtesy Chicago Police Department tendent’s future employ- asked during the rally. CC, let alone of any fees that might come age of city police officers to pure outrage ment with the CPD is uncertain. Weis Aside from police supporters of the with being a union member. over Weis’s effect on the CPD, which officers could not be reached for comment rally, Alderman Bob Fioretti (2nd Ward) “How can [the union] support this”, said include a widespread drop in morale at press time. A spokesperson for the and civil rights attorney Christopher C. and a feeling that Weis has sold out some superintendent’s office said no com- x SEE UNION, PG. 8 of their own, such as in the case of Officer ment has been released regarding x SEE POLICE, PG. 35 Health & Fitness » PG. 11 Arts & Culture » PG. 23 Metro » PG. 33 INDEX Big Hurt gets Campus 2 his moment H&F 11 A&C 17 Re-reversing Commentary 30 The art of the Chicago saving species River Metro 33 2 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

EDITOR’S NOTE

Student loans cloud future 9/23/10 IT’S NOT rare for a 2005 one in every five government loans has recent graduate gone into default that entered repayment. The Yes Men presentation to travel back to Though the job market is offering fewer their hometown opportunities for young people, this hasn’t Columbia’s Artists in Residence Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, also known with nothing to do stopped recent high school graduates from as the Yes Men, will give a presentation as part of the Art+Design Lecture Series. but pay off a mon- enrolling in a four-year college and joining Admission is free. strous debt from the loan repayment rat race. higher education. A higher education is a must for many 1104 Center As recent college fields and often a decent paying wage. How- 1104 S Wabash Ave. by Spencer Roush graduates move ever, it’s more likely for a high school gradu- Editor-in-Chief their dorm-worn fur- ate to enter the workforce than an enrolled 9/24/10 niture into parents’ graduate, according to 2010 data released by garages and basements for storage, it’s time the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Discussion by Michael Jackson insiders for them to find a boring retail job to make Right now there are many factors play- payments on their student loans. ing against graduates. Even though col- Numerous industry insiders will discuss and share stories about their expe- The retail sales job at the mall is defi- lege graduates are more likely to receive rience working with the late King of Pop. Among them are singer-songwrit- nitely not what their college education was a higher paying job than those with only er Siedah Garrett and producer Harry Weigner. Tickets are $20, available preparing them for. In fact, a college gradu- a high school degree, with tuition costs through Ticketweb.com. Harold Washington Library Center, Pritzker Auditorium ate is probably competing with high school rising by as much as 83 percent, wages 400 S. State St. students searching for an after-school job. after reaching the work force have only Because the economy is recovering and increased 38 percent. So even if one does 9/30/10 jobs for the 16–24 age group are few, the find a job after graduation, wages are still number of students defaulting on college not necessarily comparable to college loan Data Mining art exhibit loans increased in 2009, according to data repayment amounts. released by the U.S. Education Department If attending college has always been a This exhibition provides insight into a newly emerging process of extracting hidden on Sept. 13. goal, students need to understand their patterns from data. The manner in which artists and designers are appropriating The percentage of student borrowers with financial obligation to repay the bank this process creates new forms of communication. Admission is free. loans that entered the repayment stage in and must take the adequate steps to keep Ferguson Auditorium the 2008 fiscal year and were in default by their contract. 600 S. Michigan Ave. ,1st floor the end of last September reached an 11-year Just because someone graduates from high of 7 percent. college doesn’t mean a career will be The 16–24 age group needs to develop handed to them. There is a risk of only long-term backup plans so if a job isn’t ending up with astronomical debt, living obtained immediately after graduation, in one’s parent’s basement with no career there will be alternatives. This is especially to show for the money and time spent in true for Columbia students, considering it’s school. However, these statistics should an art school with many graduates who are never hinder the collegiate or job find- trying to break into a cut-throat industry ing process, but make students aware of where few stars emerge. This makes having the situation and the need to rise above “How has the Campus Card not working in a backup plan a necessity. the average. the vending machines affected you?” According to an analysis conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education, since [email protected] Heather Schroering Caro Griffin Sophomore Junior STAFF journalism major interdisciplinary Management Photo major Spencer Roush Editor-in-Chief Brent Lewis Senior Photo Editor Stephanie Saviola Managing Editor Brock Brake Photo Editor Benita Zepeda Managing Editor Tiela Halpin Photo Editor “It’s a major “Normally I inconvenience don’t have cash, Graphics Campus for me because and there’s not Sam Charles Jonathan Allen Assistant Campus Editor Graphic Designer I don’t carry an ATM right Drew Hunt Assistant Campus Editor Ying Kau Graphic Designer cash. I feel like each time I come [to here, and I usually have a very short Katy Nielsen Assistant Campus Editor Elizabeth Puetz Graphic Designer Shardae Smith Assistant Campus Editor Erik Rodriguez Graphic Designer the vending machines] it’s not going break. So rather than spending $1.50 to work. ‘Ok maybe they’ll fix it,’ I in a vending machine, I end up having Arts & Culture Multimedia/Web thought. ‘Yes they’re going to be fixed, to go spend six or seven dollars on real Mina Bloom Arts & Culture Editor Bethany Reinhart Interactive Media/Outreach Editor brand new semester.’ Not so much.” food. I try to bring my lunch, but that Brianna Wellen Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cristina Aguirre Multimedia Editor doesn’t always happen.” Luke Wilusz Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Marco Rosas Assistant Multimedia Editor Kevin Lilienthal Webmaster Max Tarlton Lauren Williams Metro Junior Junior Darryl Holliday Assistant Metro Editor Advertising journalism major theater major Meghan Keyes Assistant Metro Editor Ren Lahvic Advertising & Business Manager Michael Ranieri Assistant Metro Editor Andrew Billmyer Advertising Account Executive “I actually “All my loan Commentary Senior Staff wanted to try the money is on my Eleanor Blick Commentary Editor Jeff Lyon Faculty Adviser campus card to Campus Card. Chris Richert General Manager see if it was more I’m usually in the Copy convenient. Right theater building, Lisa Wardle Copy Chief Operations now was the first time I used it, and it and the drink machine works there, so Amber Meade Kelly Dickerson Copy Editor Operations Assistant has positively influenced my time at it’s nice to be hydrated. But if I ever Ciara Shook Copy Editor Colin Shively Operations Assistant Columbia. Now I know a more conve- need a snack, or if I forget to have Jackson Thomas Copy Editor nient way to use the vending machine. lunch, I never have cash on me, and Health & Fitness [If a time comes when it doesn’t work], [if I] go to get [a snack] and it doesn’t Jaclyn Howard Assistant Health & Fitness Editor I will probably yell at Columbia.” work, then I’m hungry.” Etheria Modacure Assistant Health & Fitness Editor

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“And that’s [student] tuition dollars.” Senators made posters and flyers to inform students about the money the college spends to remove graffiti. “If you see something, say something,” Trierweiler said. “Call Security.” Another goal for this year is a push SGA to combat for the creation of a student center. It is something Trierweiler said he thinks is important for the Columbia community. “Almost every college in America has fi nancial burdens one and we don’t,” Trierweiler said. “We’ve got the space and we’ve definitely got the imagination to create one, but I think we just need to get the ball rolling and get people motivated.” In addition to a student center, the SGA is working on ways to reduce stu- dent expenses. Senators are in commu- nication with other Chicago colleges and universities, including Roosevelt and DePaul universities, to get Metra involved in a reduced student fare. “We’re hoping to team up with U-Pass,” Trierweiler said. “There’s Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE really no reason why we can’t include The  rst Student Government Association meeting of the academic year took place on Sept. 14. Members of the SGA Executive Board, from left to right, include Metra too.” Nicole Erhardt, Jessica Kovarik, John Trierweiler and Constance Calice. According to Trierweiler, the partner- New council attempts to move dent enrollment, maintain a clean campus, said. “The point behind it is we understand ship would benefit Metra as well because Columbia forward, reflects on fi ll its Senate seats and add more bike racks. the need to express “it would increase Metra’s progress made last year SGA President John Trierweiler, senior yourself and We encourage ridership” and encour- broadcast journalism major, said he is opti- your artistic abil- students to draw age students to ride to by Katy Nielsen mistic about what the SGA can accomplish ity, but know the and write on our the suburbs. Assistant Campus Editor this year. line between art graf ti walls.” Other ways the SGA The continuation of the anti-gra– ti and vandalism.” is working to reduce AN ANTI-GRAFFITI campaign, a new student campaign—an effort to raise student The graffiti walls –John Trierweiler student expenses have center and a partnership with Metra are awareness—was one of the fi rst issues on were used during been through supporting some of the Student Government Associa- the SGA agenda. Gra– ti walls, or large Manifest last spring and at Convocation scholarship funds. tion’s initiatives, which were presented at white boards, are an instrumental part of this year. “We’ll continue to push for scholar- its fi rst meeting for the coming year on that initiative. “The college spends over half a mil- ships on campus,” Trierweiler said. Sept. 14. “We encourage students to draw and lion dollars on cleaning up vandalism The SGA will also work to increase stu- write on our gra– ti walls,” Trierweiler and graffiti every year,” Trierweiler said. » SEE SGA, PG. 8 New program to offer Creative Producing Film & Video Department gram because it includes almost the gives students business, same curriculum, according to Sheri- creative side to film dan. He said all film and video stu- dents, as well as industry profession- by Shardae Smith als and those returning to school after Assistant Campus Editor hiatus are welcome to apply to the Cre- ative Producing program at Columbia. “This is the first graduate degree we’ve WITH THE Media Production Center in done that we’re looking for people who place, Columbia’s Graduate Program will have just finished their undergraduate offer in fall 2011 a Master of Fine Arts in [studies] as well as people with more Creative Producing through the Film and experience,” Sheridan said. “We’ve put Video Department. a lot of thought and effort into how we The graduate program in Creative Produc- can have a cohort of students that mixes ing will focus on identifying, encouraging those two to their mutual benefit.” and nourishing aspiring entrepreneurial Although Columbia students are producers who have an interest in producing welcome to apply, they will still have meaningful and appealing fi lms, according Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE to compete with students from across to the department’s website. The program the country. will include a three-week pre-semester ses- Creative producers are there from a produce this media will be a good place Sheridan said because old distribution sion, followed by two full academic years, film project’s beginning until its end, to start.” structures were collapsing due to the Inter- with the second fall semester spent in according to Wenhwa Ts’ao, an associate Columbia’s curriculum for the graduate net, the department studied what other Los Angeles. professor in the Film and Video Depart- Creative Producing program will revolve schools were doing and saw there was “All of these film schools ment. They are respon- around the business aspect of the role, a need to rethink fi lm education for the are putting out people who We are so sible for finding writers according to Cate Lagueux, Graduate 21st century. want to write scripts and affected by to turn raw material into Program director. She said other schools “All of the students who complete this want to direct films, but media in visual entertainment, offering similar programs tend to blend degree successfully will have produced often they can’t get their pitch ideas, secure fund- these components together with no short fi lms that go to festivals because we films made because one everyday life.” ing and have entrepre- real context. are the biggest producer of student short thing that is missing is -Wenhwa Ts’ao neurial spirits. “The Columbia program is really holis- fi lms,” Sheridan said. “And feature fi lms this creative producer,” “We are so affected by tic in that every semester you’re taking will be developed that [students] can take said Film and Video Department Chair- media in everyday life,” Ts’ao said. “I don’t some business courses and some creative to the markets.” man Bruce Sheridan. “They will try and know how conscientious we are about it courses, and the link between the two is Applications to apply for the Creative find people, who are money people, but because of the possibility of cell phones made clear from the start,” Lagueux said. Producing program will be accepted until those people can’t stay with the project and downloading short films and feature Students who majored in film and January 2011. long enough and don’t know enough length films to watch anywhere you go. video as undergraduates aren’t encour- about it creatively to make it successful.” But I think to generate people who can aged to apply to the current M.F.A. pro- [email protected] 4 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 Hip-hop crew represents at World Expo Columbia b-boys and find out who doesn’t know each other.” musicians perform in The project is really an exploration into Shanghai, China global hip-hop culture, Tom said. The program has given young people the by Katy Nielsen chance to experience Asian culture first- Assistant Campus Editor hand and take part in an historic event. “I’m extremely excited,” Sisney said. “I’ve SIXTEEN PERFORMERS representing Columbia never really been overseas, and I’ve definite- are in China during the week of Sept. 19 to ly never performed overseas.” perform at the 2010 World Expo in Shang- The artists are from many backgrounds, hai. Hip Hop ChicaGO, a project developed reflecting Chicago’s cultural range. by Columbia’s Center for Asian Arts and “To me it feels like we’re representing Media, offers a new approach to Asian stud- Chicago,” Sisney said. “We’re representing ies and is bringing international attention the diversity of the city and coming up with to Columbia. a cohesive project together.” The 2010 World Expo lasts 184 days and The group will perform in Shanghai for Courtesy STICK AND MOVE DANCE CREW Courtesy RAMONA GUPTA connects more than 200 nations and 10 mil- people from all over the world. Members of Hip Hop ChicaGO are shown above. J Funky performs with Hip Hop ChicaGO. lion spectators. Hip Hop ChicaGO is part of “It’s big,” Sisney said. “Just the idea of the Expo’s Chicago Days, which last from ous parts of the city. Hip Hop ChicaGO is a new approach to get making this huge production and doing a Sept. 16–20. Columbia’s President Warrick L. To create a team for the expo, the center people interested in Asian studies. couple performances is cool.” Carter is expected to attend. held open auditions in May. Members were “When it’s a first-time thing, it’s extremely Part of the hope, Tom said, is for this per- “It is definitely a big deal for us,” said chosen, and Hip Hop ChicaGO was born. difficult,” Tom said. “I have to find the people formance to bring awareness to Columbia Ramona Gupta, program coordinator of the Hip Hop ChicaGO is a collaborative proj- that believe in [Hip Hop ChicaGO] the same via Hip Hop ChicaGO. Center for Asian Arts and Media. ect involving several art forms. The group way I do.” The project is an opportunity to showcase Soul and gospel singer, songwriter Otis includes a disc jockey, emcee, hip-hop band The emcee Rico Sisney, a senior music Chicago’s diversity and to highlight the col- Clay and Columbia’s Executive Director of and dancers. The music is influenced by blues, composition major, is also a composer, per- lege on a world stage. the Asian Arts and Media Center Nancy Tom jazz, funk and house. Dance styles include former and teacher. Sisney explores many “People will see we’re doing something were chosen by the city of Chicago to form a popping, locking, acrobatics and martial arts. musical genres as an artist and student. great,” Gupta said. “No matter what, we’re team for the Expo. “Some of these kids are the top break danc- He came into the group as an emcee and getting Columbia’s name out, not just to a Tom said she wanted to showcase the city’s ers in Chicago,” Tom said. was promoted to music director. He said per- Chinese audience, but to a world audience.” wide range of talented performers. Eight of the group’s 16 members are forming with Hip Hop ChicaGO allows him A documentary about Hip Hop ChicaGO “The reason I chose hip-hop was because I Columbia students, alumni and faculty. to unite his composition education with his is currently in production, and Tom said she am fascinated that Asia is so into this,” Tom Until this program, the Center for Asian emcee experience. would like to expand the hip-hop program said. “I educated myself on how I could teach Arts and Media offered only traditional Asian Sisney said Columbia has fostered his at Columbia. young people about other cultures.” studies classes. artistic growth through collaboration with “We will probably have lectures and tie Tom started attending hip-hop shows “I noticed when I kept doing traditional other artists. it in with another department,” Tom said. around Chicago last year. She said the venues programs, I wasn’t able to reach out as much “The biggest resource Columbia has is sometimes took her to notoriously danger- to younger people,” Tom said. its people,” Sisney said. “It’s amazing to [email protected]

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New community service However, the group’s small size may organization aims affect its success. At its first meeting of the high, stays local year on Sept. 15, a total of 10 people were in attendance, including the president, vice by Sam Charles president and secretary. Many members Assistant Campus Editor have a history of working with the elderly, people with disabilities or in other areas of STUDENTS HELPING Humanity, a new stu- volunteer work. dent group at Columbia, has a goal to do Though modestly sized at the moment, whatever it can to help those in need, the organization plans to expand by work- not only within the college or city but ing with other students and organizations. globally as well. “We definitely want to collaborate with No other student organization at Student Programming Board, the Inter- Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE the college is regarded as a commu- national Student Organization, Black nity service group. The members’ future Student Union, Latino Alliance and Asian At the group’s first meeting of the year, on Sept. 15, Students Helping Humanity discussed the different fundraisers they plan to sponsor. plans, while ambitious, are very new Student Organization,” said Ariel Aguilera, and will face some challenges in their vice president of SHH. “[Students] don’t Third World countries. New member Alyssa Honduras did. first year, those close to the group say. necessarily have to be a member, but if Rogers said she believes there are pros and “We don’t want to focus on the area but “The first challenge is [to help] the they want to come with us, [they’re] more cons to this approach. any area that is a Third World country,” Agu- student body understand what the goal than welcome.” “It’s hard to focus your attention on two ilera said. “We just have more of a connection and objective of this new organiza- Amalia Gonzalez, president of SHH, said things, especially two different places that [to that area] because our adviser is tion is so they once the group are very far away,” Rogers said. “But overall, from Argentina.” can contribute and Our plan is to link grows, committees I think it will be helpful because the more Students Helping Humanity worked be part of some- ourselves with other will be appointed to people you help, the better.” over the summer and has already spon- thing,” said Mar- chapters of similar orga- help focus on spe- There was a similar organization at the col- sored some events on campus. The group celo Caplan, associate nizations. You cannot cific aspects that lege last year, Students Helping Honduras. is currently collecting backpacks for children professor in the Sci- be an isolated drop in the sea. may need atten- However, its focus was to help at-risk children in Argentina and recently put on a tamale ence and Math Depart- You want to be the sea.” tion. For example, in the impoverished country. There were no sale to benefit NephCure, an organization ment and faculty the research team global ambitions. that conducts research to find cures for adviser for SHH. -Marcelo Camplan will work on Caplan is a native of Argentina. Because kidney diseases. Students Help- finding worthy of his ties to the country, the group may A few plans are set in stone for the organi- ing Humanity describes itself in its causes to raise money for, and the go on a service trip later this academic year to zation even though it is so young. mission statement as an organization marketing team will promote help Argentinians in need. “Our goal first is to be sure that we can dedicated to helping local communi- the events. Many of the group’s plans involve Third mount this organization at Columbia,” ties around the Chicagoland area. It also Focus is another area that may present World countries in Latin America and South Caplan said. “Our plan is to link ourselves aims to educate college students about problems for the group. America, but SHH is not attaching itself with other chapters of similar organizations. volunteerism, global responsibility and In its mission statement, SHH says it to one specific area as Students Helping You cannot be an isolated drop in the sea. You sustainable development. wants to help local communities but also want to be the sea.”

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Was arrested, charged, Missouri, including at seven MCT Newswire stabbed desecrated. War U can’t ence of drugs, and deported. MISSION ACCOM- community colleges. him sev- handle. Make a choice police said. PLISHED,” he wrote. He is scheduled to talk more ON SEPT. 20 Jackson County, Mis- eral times. and Officers found Last week, Brezik posted a story about the topic Wednesday after- souri prosecutors charged a stu- The dean -Casey Breznik marijuana in about a Florida church whose noon in Springfield, Mo., and dent wearing a bullet-resistant collapsed his front pocket. members planned to burn copies Camdenton, Mo. vest with slashing the throat of to the floor. Students and faculty Other s t u de n t s described him of the Quran. 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» UNION when the US of CC and Columbia’s admin- istration fi nally settled contract negotia- Continued from Front Page tions that spanned years through a voting process in which a large majority of sta‡ said Fauls. “There were those who didn’t members attested to not being privy to any get the letter, and I’m the fi rst person who voting taking place. told them they’re even in the [union]. Basi- Therefore, some sta‡ said they felt they cally, for the last week, I’ve been doing the were not given ample opportunity to vote union’s work.” on behalf of themselves. This perceived misrepresentation was When dismayed members asked for the main catalyst in Fauls deciding to take information regarding how many sta‡ action against the US of CC. members voted in favor of the negotia- “All I want to do is not have anyone sign tions, US of CC leadership refused to release their name to a national union that you the information. might not ever be able to extricate yourself “I just think they don’t really know the Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE from,” Fauls said. scope of what they’re dealing with,” said The Student Government Association holds its weekly meeting, where key issues are voted on and discussed. However, according to Mike Bright, US of Fauls. “I feel that they’re a bunglingly dis- CC president and administrative assistant organized unit.” » SGA in the Film and Video Department, any per- Still, Bright maintains that despite the ceived negligence on the US of CC’s part is confusion, the US of CC has followed the Continued from PG. 3 not a matter of deliberate misrepresenta- guidelines it is expected to follow, saying it tion, but rather persistent confusion con- has met any and all state or federal guide- The SGA supported the Faculty and Sta‡ photography students as well as Columbia cerning the contract details as they relate lines placed in front of it. Scholarship Initiative last year. students in general.” to the sta‡ . When it comes to the possibility of sta‡ Columbia SGA members traveled to She said she hopes other departments “A lot of people were a little confused termination, Bright maintains he must Springfield, Ill., last year and lobbied will collaborate with photography students. about it,” Bright said. “I had people in abide by contract stipulations. to save the Monetary Award Program. Aldo Guzman, director of the O‘ ce of my department come to me and say “We’re bound by the contract,” Bright They succeeded. Student Engagement and adviser to the ‘Am I going to get fi red?’ And I’m like said. “But we’ll do our best [to help] people If the program had been cut, it would SGA, said student government is an impor- ‘No, no, no, no, no.’” understand that not only are we bar- have a‡ ected Columbia students as well as tant part of the college and an amazing Bright said union leaders will continue gaining for our members, but we’re bar- thousands of college students throughout opportunity for students. to communicate with people who did not gaining for people who haven’t signed the state, Trierweiler said. “They get to have a real impact on submit their forms, whether out of defi ance membership forms.” At the meeting, two students were o‘ - decisions being made in the college,” or confusion, to ensure they stay informed He said he hopes no sta‡ member will cially appointed to the Senate. Guzman said. on what is expected of them. lose his or her job as a result of poor com- Casey Gold, junior arts, entertainment Lobbying for MAP in Springfi eld was one “We’re trying to get the people [who] munication on the behalf of the US of CC. and media management major, was way SGA impacted students across Illinois. didn’t turn in their forms to [do so],” Bright “I know it’s sexy to say ‘Yes, we’re going appointed senator-at-large and AJ Abel- As a new school year begins, the SGA is said. “The door is still open, but we need to go and terminate people’ … but that’s man, sophomore photography major, was working to improve Columbia. the forms as soon as possible so we know not what we’re about,” Bright said. “We appointed photography senator. “We’re looking forward to a very positive what’s going on.” don’t want anybody to be terminated. “There are a lot of changes I would like and infl uential year,” Trierweiler said. “A lot Issues surrounding communication God forbid.” to see happen in the Photography Depart- is going to be happening.” between the union chiefs and the sta‡ they ment,” Abelman said. “There are a lot of represent have continued since February, [email protected] opportunities I would like to provide for [email protected] CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 9 A history in images: ‘The Return of Navajo Boy’ uranium house she lived in with her eight children. Making Meaning: She also showed me the uranium mine on the mesa Reflections on Image directly above her home. She showed me the old & Implication mining equipment that had been left there to rust in the desert. Two of her sons died of cancer. These by Jeff Spitz tragedies are part of our story. Associate Professor of the Film and In 2000, I asked the Environmental Protection Video Department Agency to investigate her house. They got really image + interested when they learned a film was coming to BACK IN 1997, a local homebuilder named Bill Ken- Sundance about this topic. They did investigate the nedy asked me what he should do with an old house one week before our premiere at Sundance, silent film called “Navaho Boy: The Monument but they did not want to release the results. I used implication Valley Story,” which his late father made in the the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 1950s. This was the beginning of a very strange findings, which showed extremely high levels of odyssey for me. radiation inside the traditional Navajo house. This I showed his father’s film to an “expert” at the radiation came from the floor, which was made Newberry Library, who said it was just another out of solid slabs of uranium, and the walls, which example of Indians being exploited by white men were constructed of cement mixed with uranium. and should never have been filmed. He told me to Yellow, black and green uranium rocks decorated burn it. Instead, I talked to Bill, and we decided to the exterior walls. look for the people in the old film so we could give It took more than a year to force the EPA to do it back to them. something about it. I kept calling and asking for a The Navajo family that appeared as unidentified response. In 2001, the EPA returned to Monument Indians in Bill’s father’s film in the 1950s comes Valley to demolish and remove the structure. We Photo Caption Contest Last week’s photo back to life in our new documentary film, “The filmed this for an epilogue we hoped to produce. Return of Navajo Boy.” Our film actually reunited The film’s modest popularity and my frequent the Navajo family with a long lost child, John pestering of the EPA created a groundswell. In addi- Wayne Cly, who was taken away by white mis- tion to the family reunion, house removal and a sionaries. He appears as a baby in the old film and compensation check to Bennie, media interest in as a middle-aged man in our new film. the story kept increasing. I contacted many news- The grandmother at the center of our story, papers and radio stations. Every time a college or Elsie Mae Begay, appreciated seeing herself and film festival asked for the film, I asked them in turn her family as they were in the 1950s. “There are to provide a speaker fee and an all-expenses-paid thousands of pictures of us, but we never got to trip for Elsie Mae Begay. She has traveled to Chicago, say anything,” she told us. In addition to speak- New York, the Sundance Film Festival, Washington, ing, she helped us edit our film. Her son, Lorenzo, D.C., and England. narrated it. We worked together in a cross-cul- In 2006, a four-part investigative series in the Los tural creative process along with our co-producer Angeles Times opened many eyes to Cold War ura- Bennie Klain, a Navajo radio journalist who gave nium contamination in the Navajo Nation. Henry the film its Navajo voice. Waxman (D-California), the powerful chairman of Kennedy’s father’s film was one of many films the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, featuring Elsie’s family. In most of the old films excoriated the heads of five departments of the and postcards of her family, she appears as a voice- federal government for legacies of the nuclear age: less teenager. Ironically, one of the other films was the EPA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the a pro-uranium mining film made by Kerr-McGee Department of Energy, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Corporation, titled “A Navajo Journey,” which I and the Indian Health Service. He called this situ- found in the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural ation “a 40-year history of bipartisan failure and a History Museum. modern American tragedy.” Winning Caption I made it a personal mission to find Elsie’s Navajo Nation went on to use our film and its “A warm welcome to Columbia’s Convocation with family images and bring them back to the family new epilogue in a campaign to win a congressio- a hint of southern hospitality, in only a way Columbia in Monument Valley. We formed a very close bond. nal mandate for the clean up of Cold War uranium could create.” But weaving a new film out of the threads of old contamination. The clean up has begun, but it is far Lucas James, freshman arts, entertainment, media films was only half the battle. Our film is about from complete. management major family, filmmaking and environmental justice. Elsie taught me a picture may be worth a thou- Authentic Navajo voices and our modest sand words, but one living witness is worth more film caused a federal investigation of uranium than any picture. Together we are witnesses to houses—ones built from materials containing history. And we are witnesses to the possibilities uranium that exposed their residents to unsafe for documentary and social change. Photo Caption Contest levels of radiation. Elsie, the main character in our This week’s image film and matriarch of the family, showed me the [email protected]

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Diet decisions matter 9/21/10 Study shows animal- 12,555 female and 8,678 male participants based, low-carb diets died, 5,204 of them from cardiovascular Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants increase mortality rates disease 8,740 from cancer, and the rest from other causes. by Jaclyn Howard Fung said the participants who ate low- The Giants look to improve their record and lead in the National League Assistant Health & Fitness Editor carbohydrate diets rich in animal protein West against the Cubs. San Francisco has a half game lead over the San had a 23 percent greater risk of cardiovas- Diego Padres as of press time. BE SURE to thank your mom for remind- cular disease and cancer. ing you to eat your vegetables, especially Dawn Jackson-Blatner, a dietitian and Wrigley Field if you’re on a low-carbohydrate, high- spokesperson for the American Dietetic 1060 W. Addison St. protein diet. Association, said this study makes a lot of A recent study published in the journal sense to her. 9/25/10 Annals of Internal Medicine said those “Generally when people start gearing up on such diets who get their protein from to do a more vegetarian, plant-based diet, Chicago Fire vs. Seattle Sounders animal sources, such as meat and eggs, may their overall health improves,” Jackson- have an increased mortality rate. But those Blatner said. whose protein comes from plant sources Animal-protein diets include more than The Chicago Fire will look to gain three points as the regular season begins to have a lower than average mortality rate. just meat products, Fung said, citing butter, close. The team is on the outside looking in for the Major League Soccer The study followed 85,168 women and eggs and cheese. playoffs. The Fire has never missed the playoffs in club history. 44,548 men between the ages of 34 to 59 “Based on this study, as well as other stud- Toyota Park for up to 26 years. It focused ies, the best diet is something 7000 S. Harlem Ave. on whether a low-carbohy- This is the that is plant based,” Fung Bridgeview, Ill. drate diet can lower one’s fi rst study said. “That does not mean risk of cardiovascular vegetarian, just that most 9/25/10 disease and cancer over a that looks at foods [consumed] come from number of years. clinical endpoints plant sources rather than “This is the fi rst study rather than interme- animal sources.” Northwestern vs. Central Michigan that looks at clinical end- diate risk factors.” A plant-based diet stresses points rather than inter- eating vegetables, though it mediate risk factors such -Teresa Fung does include eating more The Wildcats close out their non-conference schedule against Central as cholesterol and blood whole grains and plant Michigan University. Northwestern has been effective in non-conference pressure,” said Teresa Fung, associate pro- products. Jackson-Blatner said a plant- play; they have gone 2-0 so far. Tickets start at $25. fessor of nutrition at Simmons College and based diet doesn’t completely exclude adjunct assistant professor at Harvard Uni- animal-based or meat products, just versity School of Public Health. Fung was downsizing proportions. Ryan Field the lead researcher on the study. 1501 Central St. During the time period of the study, » SEE DIETS PG. 16 Evanston, Ill Great evening for Big Hurt, Coach K in Chicago Former White Sox slugger, FIBA 2010 and was the head coach for the 2008 Gold Medal winner honored at Gold Medal U.S. Olympic Men’s basketball Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame team and most recently won the gold medal at the Federation of International Basket- by Etheria Modacure ball World Championships in Istanbul. Assistant Health & Fitness Editor The hall of fame coach didn’t put the spotlight on himself as he acknowledged all AFTER HAVING his jersey retired and picture of the great players whom he has coached placed on the outfi eld wall at U.S. Cellular in the past. Field, Frank Thomas is one step closer to “I think I’ve been fortunate to be on being enshrined in Cooperstown after he teams that have been very successful,” was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Krzyzewski said before he was inducted. Hall of Fame on Sept. 15. “The coach is happy to stand next to The 14th annual induction ceremony good players.” and dinner was held at Hawthorne Race In attendance with Krzyzewski and his Course, 3501 S. Laramie Ave. , in Cicero, Ill. family, was former player and Northbrook, Thomas, Duke University’s head basket- Ill. native Jonathan Scheyer, who helped ball coach, Mike Krzyzewski and others guide the Blue Devils to their fourth nation- were in attendance to receive honors al championship in April. and join a long list of sport legends in Scheyer praised his former coach for Chicago. his work ethic and dedication to the game Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE The Hall of Fame has inducted 422 of basketball. athletes, media members, coaches, o - “Late nights, he would be in the o ce Former White Sox rst baseman Frank Thomas at the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 15. cials and others who have made contribu- watching tape and in the morning he tions to Chicago through sports. Thomas would be doing the same thing,” Scheyer fan and said the team should do well this the content is there, it’s something fans and Krzyzewski were the headliners of the said. “When I was at Duke, we were follow- season with Carlos Boozer and Luol Deng. want to watch.” event on Sept. 15. ing his lead.” Both players were coached by Krzyzewski Corno said his achievement wasn’t Krzyzewski received the Ray Meyer Col- Krzyzewski, who recently coached Chi- at Duke. about him but the people who have lege Coach of the Year Award. cago Bulls’ all-star point guard Derrick Rose Also inducted was Comcast SportsNet worked for Comcast SportsNet, Sportvi- The late Meyer coached at DePaul Uni- in the FIBA tournament, praised the player President Jim Corno. Corno has watched sion and Fox Sports Net. versity from 1942 to 1984. Krzyzewski said he said has a lot of potential and passion the network grow from 13,000 subscribers With the White Sox winning the World he admired Meyer as a coach and later as a for basketball. in 1984 when it was Sportvision, to more Series in 2005, the Bulls instant classic friend. He said Meyer set the standard for “Derrick is a great young man,” Krzyze- than 5 million today. seven-game playo series against the all college basketball coaches. wski said. “He just wants to keep getting “[I was] fortunate to be sitting in the Boston Celtics in 2009, the Cubs playo Krzyzewski has won four national cham- better. It was an honor for me to coach him.” right chair at the right time,” Corno said. pionships with Duke —1991, 1992, 2001 and Krzyzewski admitted to being a Bulls “As long as pro teams are a part of it and » SEE HALL OF FAME PG. 16 12 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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I did the juice “shots” every day for Age: Must neck be 21 or older For more information: www.worldkickball.com calorie equivalent of two meals still—popping a month. I needed co­ ee the entire 30-day Condition slowly worsens, then remains up on every street corner? trial period. The juice test was a major failure 7 the same for several months It seems we always look for immedi- in my book. As for the two times I purchased Players on field: FOUL! FAIR! Eight to 11, at least ate fi xes for things that should be more a kombucha drink, well, I never got past Treatment Source: “AMA permanent than taking a supplement the taste. four men, four women Family Medical After injury, move Get medical Guide,” “The every morning. So for now I’m sticking to my daily serv- Johns Hopkins Inning: Threeshoulder outs gently as much advice if injured Good health and well-being has no fi x. It ings of fruits and veggies and semi-weekly Medical as possible and use pain- shoulder does Handbook” is more of a lifestyle change that is needed fi tness regimen. I am still working on the FOUL! Game: Fivkillerse innings such as aspirin or not improve © 2010 MCT in order to fully get the benefi ts these prod- exercise part. ibuprofen promptlyFAIR! Graphic: Paul Trap ucts claim to provide. Self-discipline, a well balanced diet and a well-rounded exercise [email protected] © 2010 MCT Wildcats take initiative, seek recognition Northwestern University ed; in 2008 against Syracuse, 20,015 came ; increases efforts to make and against Northeastern University in 2007 Chicago aware of team 16,199 were in attendance. Polisky said the past is not relevant to by Etheria Modacure the university at the moment while they Assistant Health & Fitness Editor work to make the Wildcats more prominent in Chicago. AFTER CONSECUTIVE bowl appearances for “We are not focusing on things that hap- the second time in Northwestern Uni- pened in the past,” Polisky said, “We are versity’s gridiron history, the school isn’t doing things at Northwestern for the fi rst looking only to go to another bowl game time in 161 years.” this season, but also to reach out to Chi- Some of the new additions include a cago to garner more attention on their tunnel for the team to enter through before football program. kicko­ , with fi reworks to complement The Wildcats have been consistent on the introduction. the fi eld; they have gone 23-13 in their last “I loved the fi reworks and the tunnel,” three seasons, with trips to the Alamo Bowl said Sidney Stewart, a senior wide receiver in 2008 against the University of Missouri for the Wildcats, after their 37-3 victory and the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE against Illinois State University. “It set against Auburn University in Tampa, Fla., a nice tone. It’s great to see our program Northwestern Wildcats running back Stephen Simmons rushing against Illinois State on Sept. 11 earlier this year. moving forward to have all the extra e­ ects The Wildcats’ new marketing campaign of people we draw from and we’re fi nally seasons, in numbers expected, given that to match the way we play.” is geared toward raising Chicagoans’ aware- getting out and about to make sure they the team was e­ ective in one of the premier The Wildcats drew 25,547 attendees for ness that the proximity of Evanston, Ill. realize we’re here.” college football conferences in the Big Ten. their Sept. 11 home opener. Season ticket makes this one of Chicago’s teams. Polisky previously worked as president Ryan Field seats approximately 47,100, sales are up 40 percent compared to last “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” is the slogan of the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football the smallest of any stadium in the Big Ten— season, according to Polisky. Northwestern has begun marketing itself League and the Chicago Wolves of the but there has been only one sellout in the With tickets starting at $25 for non- with in newspaper ads, radio commercials American Hockey League. His experience last three seasons, according to attendance conference games and $35 for Big and pregame displays on the fi eld. helped him land the task of marketing the fi gures pulled from NUSports.com. Ten conference games, Polisky said Mike Polisky, senior associate athletics Wildcats in what he called a very competi- The sellout was on Nov. 8, 2008, when the the onus is on the program to raise director at NU, said the beauty of the slogan tive marketplace. Wildcats lost 45-10 to a 12th-ranked Ohio more awareness. is its simplicity. “We’re very encouraged [and] excited,” State team. “I don’t think there’s reluctance; I think “We have one of the best universities in Polisky said. “We know we’re going to have For home openers in the past three sea- there’s a lack of awareness,” Polisky said. the world,” Polisky said during halftime of growth, but it’s going to take time.” sons, the Wildcats pulled fewer than 21,000 “That’s on us. It’s up to us to make [Ryan Northwestern’s home opener against Illi- The Wildcats have not drawn fans to spectators to Ryan Field. In last season’s nois State on Sept. 11. “We have millions Northwestern’s Ryan Field in the past few home opener against Towson, 17,857 attend- » SEE WILDCATS, PG. 16 HEALTH & FITNESS I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 13 KEEP IT SLICK

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Some of the obstacles include barrow race, with the twist that the par- that line up to what our values are,” by Jaclyn Howard human bowling, wheelbarrow racing and ticipant who would normally walk on their Kravitz said. Assistant Health & Fitness Editor bike jousting. hands had to balance on a wheel and be The proceeds from the beer sold at “We don’t get many oppor- pushed across the field by their partner. t h e a f t e r - p a r t y i n C h i c a g o g o t o W e s t BIKES LINED the streets and the sun glis- tunities as adults to let our The event advocates being environmen- Town Bikes. tened off of 450 helmets as people crowded guard down, be silly and tally friendly during each stage of the race. “We teach bicycle mechanics and safe together in the parking lot outside Mur- play,” Cutler said. The venues are solar powered, event trucks cycling instruction to youth along with phy’s Bleachers, 3655 N. Sheffield Ave., for Kravitz explained direc- are run on biodiesel fuel and 95 percent of social and environmental association,” the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault tions to the check- what is discarded is recycled. said Alex Wilson, executive director of West Bike Ride. Contestants showed off their points were not Dan Klezynski, participant and ambas- Town Bikes. spirited costumes as they waited for the provided; par- sador for the Urban Assault Bike Ride, Kravitz said Chicago is a great city for signal to race toward the first checkpoint. ticipants must said he thinks the focus on the environ- biking, which is one of the reasons it was The Urban Assault Bike Ride is a plan their own ment is a bonus and the Urban Assault chosen for the event three years ago. national event that combines a bike race, route. B i k e R i d e a d v o c a t e s i t i n a “The city is rather progressive for people a scavenger hunt and a festival all in “That’s the really creative way. using bikes as transportation,” Kravitz one. Beginning in 2003 in Austin, Texas, element of the Kravitz explained said. “And people in the Midwest certainly the Urban Assault Bike Ride is now held event where that, along with the l i k e t h e i r b e e r . S o w e t h o u g h t i t w o u l d in 13 U.S. cities with 7,000 riders across people actually environmental initia- be a good fit.” the country participating in the events teach themselves tive, the Urban Assault After every race, participants get to enjoy this year. how to use their bikes Bike Ride partners the afternoon as Urban Assault Bike Ride “The event is a really funky, fun way for for transportation,” with nonprofit orga- hosts an after-party. It includes two free people to see how great bikes are for trans- he said. nizations. Out of the beers from New Belgium Brewing, compe- portation around the city,” said Josh Kravitz, Volunteers are a big 13 cities that host titions and music, as well as people sharing founder and producer of the Urban Assault part of the event, as the event, there are their experiences of their trip. Bike Ride. they participate in run- approximately 25 “I like to see the smiles on everyone’s faces According to Sharon Cutler, spokeswom- ning the different obsta- different organi- when they get back,” Kravitz said. “[And lis- an for the event, the goal is to encourage cles and oversee the zations that are tening to] stories of their ride, enjoying a people to grab their bike lock instead of competition. Lauren beneficiaries. beer and a nice afternoon.” their car keys. Sailor, a volunteer from West The final New Belgium Brewing Urban “We just want people to have a great Bridgeport, Ill., spent Town Bikes, 2459 Assault Bike Ride of the year will take place non-threatening, non-intimidating oppor- her time supervising W. Division St., is on Sept. 26 in Madison, Wis. tunity to go and ride in downtown Chi- the wheelbarrow race. the beneficiary for cago, and have the epiphany that it’s easy, “It’s very comical to Tiela Halpin THE CHRONICLE the Chicago event. [email protected] xx HALLxOFxFAME xx DIETS Continued from PG. 11 Continued from PG. 11 appearance in 2008 and the Blackhawks Having a diet that includes variety is Stanley Cup win this year, Corno said having ideal, according to Fung. “Three char- winning teams helped the network thrive. acteristics of a good diet are minimally Thomas, who hit the most home runs processed, plant-based and a wide variety in White Sox history (448) and was a of fruits and vegetables.” model of consistency with his .301 life- Charles Cannon, professor of chemistry time batting average, received his honor and nutrition at Columbia, explained the in the city he played in for 16 seasons. importance of eating a variety of foods Thomas’ jersey was also retired on Aug. 29 to ensure the body gets the nutrients at U.S. Cellular Field. He reflected on what a it needs. year 2010 has been given his induction into “Some of those nutrients our bodies the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. can manufacture ourselves if we eat a “It’s [been] an overwhelming year for me,” balanced diet,” Cannon said. Thomas said. “I’ve had two jersey retirement Lifestyle is also a factor when consid- ceremonies. Now coming to the Chicagoland ering a diet in order to maintain what [Sports] Hall of Fame, [I’m] really proud of Jackson-Blatner calls optimal wellness. the career and happy Chicago is giving me “Optimal wellness is this idea of the love.” Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE increasing your health span, as well as Thomas is the only player in White Sox his- Northwestern Wildcat senior wide receiver Sidney Stewart running to catch a pass against Illinois State. your lifespan,” Jackson-Blatner said. tory to win consecutive MVP awards (1993 “ W e w a n t t o l i v e a l o n g t i m e a n d a l s o and 1994), and said his proudest moment with xx WILDCATS be healthy.” the franchise was when his jersey was retired. In order to reach optimal wellness, “It’s unimaginable to have 40,000 people Continued from PG. 12 “[I’m] looking forward to contin- Jackson-Blatner advises beginning with [give you a] standing ovation, screaming your ue making this one of the more dif - simple, small changes to your diet like name and giving you the love that you can ficult places to play in the Big Ten,” eating a vegetarian meal once a week only wish and dream for,” Thomas said. Field] a compelling place to go.” Fitzgerald said. instead of trying to eat one every day or Because Thomas officially retired in Febru- Compared to other Division I football minimizing meat proportions. ary, he won’t be eligible for induction into the programs, Northwestern has a better record [email protected] “Any small changes you make can sort Baseball Hall of Fame until 2015, but he said, than Notre Dame and the University of Illi- of put you on the road for having this “That will close out my career and that will nois in the last two seasons combined. diet,” Jackson-Blatner said. be a huge achievement.” Notre Dame has gone 13-12 with one bowl The study didn’t seek to find the best Thomas is one of four players in baseball appearance, and Illinois has gone 5-11. The overall diet, the authors wrote. Cannon history and the only right-handed hitter to Wildcats have a 17-9 mark over two years. said he encourages students to not to have a .300 or better career average, more than Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald—who was a debate on what diet is best, but what diet 500 home runs, 1,500 plus hits and more than star linebacker for the Wildcats when it is best for the students themselves. 1,500 runs batted in. made its last Rose Bowl appearance in 1996 “I want them to see the importance of The other three players are Mel Ott, Ted against the University of Southern Califor- having all those nutrients available to our Williams and Babe Ruth. Thomas said he nia—said he is happy with the job Polisky bodies rather than to preach that one par- would hope to be a first ballot hall of famer and other staff members have done to raise ticular diet is better than another diet,” in 2015. the profile of Northwestern football. Cannon said. “Each of us has different “I think my resume speaks for itself,” With other Big Ten schools having dis- body chemistry.” he said. tinct home field advantages, Fitzgerald is ready for Ryan Field to enjoy that same [email protected] [email protected] distinction. Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE

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I saw you on Halsted… Local comedy show we decided we just want to keep it com- draws inspiration from pletely simple,” Spence said. “It should be Chicago’s classifieds all about the words written on the page. The actors are really funny, and they defi- by Brianna Wellen nitely do their part. But when it comes Assistant Arts & Culture Editor down to it, what’s going to bring people in is everybody knows these ads.” A DIMLY lit bar with tables set for two The audience’s familiarity is polled right could be the setting where a 25-year-old away. Before each performance starts a man seeking a woman with a good sense cast member asks the audience mem- of humor meets his bers to raise their Internet compan- When you deal with hands if they’ve ion in person. At the this stuff you can read or written Town Hall Pub, 3340 either read it and personal ads. N. Halsted St., this really kind of internalize it, Rich Cole, a regu- is the setting where or you can laugh at it.” lar attendee, said he his “man seeking believes the number woman” personal ad –Mark Spence of hands raised does is read out loud—not not always reflect in hopes of getting him a date, but to the number of people who write ads; entertain a crowd. usually not everyone admits it. He lives The Bruised Orange Theater Company across from the pub and first came to takes a break from its storefront theater the show on accident, looking for a place once a week to present “I Saw You,” a to get a drink with his neighbor, he said. loose-form comedy show with the script Something caught their attention despite based solely on personal ads from Craig- attempting to ignore the performance. slist, the Chicago Reader and other local From then on, Cole was hooked. classifieds. A rotating cast reenacts real “The first time we saw it my neighbor “Missed Connections,” “Casual Encoun- leans over to me and says, ‘I hope they ters” and the typical “man seeking don’t read one of [my ads],’” Cole said. woman/woman seeking man” ads. “That’s part of it. It almost puts you The idea came to Bruised Orange The- on edge.” ater Company co-founder Mark Spence It’s the sense of real life and discomfort when he and the theater’s other founder, that Spence credits for audience interest. Clint Cheffer, were carting props for a No matter how strange or bizarre some fundraiser back and forth. To pass the of these people seem, the writers are real time in the car, they read Chicago Reader Chicago residents. Beneath the humor, personal ads out loud to each other. Spence sees an over arching theme: “For a while we just kept laughing Everyone is lonely. and laughing and laughing and then we “When you deal with this stuff you can thought, ‘You know, there is something either read it and really kind of internal- here,’” Spence said. ize it, or you can laugh at it,” Spence said. After talking with actors and working “That can either really depress you, or through the concept with experienced you can laugh it off and just keep going.” improv performers, the show was born. The actors’ interpretations often make “The more we worked with it the more the ads seem more humorous than depressing. An hour before the show, the three actors perform- ing that night are given their material for the evening Courtesy MARK SPENCE and are only Ann Sonneville (above) and Clint Sheffer (below) are rotating cast members for “I Saw You.” They perform able to preview old favorites along with new ads. The ads are at the end of every section to anchor the show. their own. Part of the toward the actor who just read the ad dating becoming more and more the performance of a “cool and hip” older man seeking norm, the show’s wealth of ideas con- is the actor’s a younger female companion. For an tinues to grow. reacting off ad soliciting a father-son team, the Even Spence admitted to placing per- the cuff when, actor playing the father wraps his arm sonal ads, but doesn’t see them being for example, around another actor, presenting his picked for the show. the ad of a “son” like a product on an informercial. “I told one of the cast members and Courtesy CRAIGSLIST young female According to Kevin Alves, a frequent he was like, ‘I’ve got to see it, I’ve got to student seek- performer in the show, it’s just as much read it, we’ve got to do it!’” Spence said. ing an older about making each other laugh as it is “I showed it to him and he said, ‘Yeah, graphic entertaining the audience. this isn’t funny.’ Of course it’s not funny, design pro- “I walk out with my face hurting I read these ads every week, I know what fessor is read in from laughing every night,” Alves said. to not put in there.” a sheepish, innocent voice “That’s the part I like, even while I’m “I Saw You” is performed every Wednes- with knowing glances performing the show I feel like I’m day at the Town Hall Pub, 3340 N. Hal- watching it because I don’t know what sted St., at 8 p.m. The show is 21+ and these guys are about to say.” costs $5. For more information, visit To Alves and the rest of the cast, real BruisedOrange.org. life will always be the funniest mate- rial to draw from, and with internet [email protected] ARTS & CULTURE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 19 Battle of the bacon Amateur cooking friends to come on down, and it ends up competition brings out being a really positive experience.” best in local cooks Since then, Timms has toured the Take- down across the country and themed it by Luke Wilusz around a variety of foods, including tofu, Assistant Arts & Culture Editor fondue, salsa, lamb and chocolate. The fi rst Bacon Takedown took place in Brooklyn ALTHOUGH LOCAL pigs may have cowered in February 2009, and Timms was over- in fear, bacon fans had good reason to cel- whelmed by the response. ebrate when bacon tacos, bacon cupcakes, “This bacon craze has really hit America, bacon Bloody Marys and even more bizarre so I just did this thing, and suddenly 700 concoctions battled it out for the title of people showed up,” he said. “I’m never best bacon dish in Chicago. ready for 700 people. My events are fairly The Chicago Bacon Takedown—a cooking small and intimate, like 200 or 250 people, competition organized by Brooklyn-based so I was not ready for that at all.” actor, producer and food afi cionado Matt Takedown contestant Elise Covic cred- Tiela Halpin THE CHRONICLE Timms—challenged local cooks to make its the newfound popularity of bacon as Local amateur cooks served up a myriad of bacon dishes to audience voters at the Chicago Bacon Takedown their best bacon dishes at home and bring an ingredient in a variety of dishes to its on Sept. 11 at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. Attendees cast ballots to decide which dish was best. them to Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., general versatility. on Sept. 11. The food was then rated by both “Everything is easier with bacon because, and our proximity to some of the nation’s kitchen with your friends and have a couple audience and judges, voting to determine basically, if you have a recipe that’s just best pig farming,” Roth said. “I think [as] glasses of wine,” she said. “It makes it a which amateur chefs would walk away so-so, if you add bacon to it, suddenly it’s Chicagoans, we really know our pork.” much more personal, intimate experience.” with the prizes, including knives, cookware awesome,” Covic said. Timms likes to focus his competitions on Timms said he thinks his Takedowns and a year’s supply of bacon. The people’s She entered the competition with a group amateur at-home cooking because of the encourage this sort of heartfelt home cook- choice winner was Rafael Lopez with his of her friends, submitting sea salt caramels personal touch it lends to the food. ing, which he sees less of these days. bacon English mu ns, and the judges’ with bacon on the inside, a bacon-and-asia- “The experience I’ve had and the reason “People in this day and age are cook- choice winners were Marah Eakin and go quiche with sautéed onions and bacon I do this is because I have this idea that ing less, and they shouldn’t be,” Timms Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club with their fat ginger snaps. the food I’ve loved best is made by people said. “When you go to an event like this, “sow-moa” cookies. Caitlin Roth, 26, of Bucktown, entered the who are friends of mine,” he said. “The food and you see this thing across the tables— Timms’ fi rst Takedown was a chili cook- Chicago Bacon Takedown with her bacon that I’ve always remembered the most is how people prepared all this amazing o in Brooklyn, which he organized in 2003 to ee caramel corn, which included home- from people who are making it in a very stu —you realize it’s something you can in an attempt to o er a more relaxed cook- made to ee, candied pecans and peanuts, personal way.” do yourself.” ing competition than those he had seen. bacon clusters and popcorn popped with Roth agrees home cooking o ers a dining For a full list of contestants and winners in “It’s not some vicious throwdown where bacon fat to give it additional fl avor. 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Most people who consider them- “There is a tremendous community out there,” said said they like to encourage people to try more com- selves gamers spend hours in front of Marc Heller, owner of Galactic Force Toys and Games, plex, lesser-known games they might not have heard TVs or computer monitors, basking in 1121 W. Belmont Ave., a shop catering mainly to fans of of before. electronic glow as they immerse them- collectible and trading card games. “I know when you “It kind of helps to have some classics that people can selves in digital bliss. However, there’s see there aren’t that many shops, you think there aren’t recognize because it kind of gives them a psychological another type of gamer, that doesn’t get as much atten- a lot of players, but it’s really evident when you see us foundation to build on, but that’s not really what we try tion these days. running our Magic events and stuff, how big of a com- to stock,” LeMoine said. “I don’t think we ever sell much These gamers can often be found sitting around ta- munity there is. There are hundreds of people who play Monopoly or anything like that.” bles in homes or specialty shops around the city—roll- very specifi c games in this area.” Jon-Paul Nery, co-owner of Chicagoland Games, ing dice of all shapes and sizes, moving pieces, laying Heller, a 1997 graduate of Columbia’s Fiction Writ- 5550 N. Broadway., sees the shop as not only down cards and bickering good-naturedly amongst ing Department, said he started Galactic Force ap- a place for local gamers to buy their games, but themselves, often into the wee hours of the morning. proximately three years ago as a toy kiosk in Westfi eld as a place where they can go to play them with Old Orchard Mall, 4999 Old Orchard Center, in Skokie, other people. Ill. The business grew rapidly when Heller began sell- Chicagoland Games hosts weekly open board ing Magic cards and catering more specifi cally to the gaming nights every Wednesday, where anybody We support the gaming gaming community. Now, Galactic Force holds weekly can come to the shop and play for free. The store’s Magic tournaments and game nights, which draw any- motto is “We don’t close ’til the game is over,” and community in Chicago, where from 25–40 people per week, along with spe- the staff will often hang around until midnight or later cial quarterly events that bring in crowds ranging from to let players fi nish. and they’ve continued 75–120 people. Nery said another reason people are so drawn to “We support the gaming community in Chicago, and board games is because they are a great value, es- to support us.” they’ve continued to support us,” Heller said. pecially when compared to the price of other forms —Marc Heller The social aspect and sense of community are of entertainment. what attract many players to tabletop gaming. Accord- “For two people to see a movie, it’s almost 20 bucks, ing to Andre LeMoine, who co-owns the Cat & Mouse if not more,” Nery said. “You could buy a board game [for Tabletop gaming is alive and well, both in Chica- Game Store, 2212 W. Armitage Ave., with his wife Linda that price]. “The board game’s going to last longer, go and across the country. While specialty gaming Schmidt, board games offer a more personal social ex- you can play it longer and you can play shops may be few and far between, the ones around perience than an online video game. with more people … that’s more value serve a large and dedicated fan base. A handful of “When you play against somebody you can’t see, than seeing a movie that might suck. gaming shops around the city cater to the needs of it doesn’t feel as rewarding,” LeMoine said. “You don’t You walk out of a theater with a both casual and hardcore players, whether their in- get that feedback or the sense that you’re actually play- memory of what happened—it terests lie in obscure, European board games, card ing a person. You often feel like you’re just playing a might have sucked, it might games like “Magic: The Gathering,” role-playing computer.” have not. You walk out games like “Dungeons and Dragons” or anywhere Cat & Mouse doesn’t only stock run-of-the mill board with a board game, you in between. games like “Monopoly” or “Scrabble”. Instead, LeMoine have that for life.” ARTS & CULTURE | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 21

While the hobby certainly has a large following, ta- bletop gaming still isn’t as popular or mainstream as video gaming. Part of the reason for that, according to LeMoine, is accessibility. “With a lot of video games, people can just jump right in,” LeMoine said. “Most people never read the rules for a video game; they just open it up, put it in and fi gure it out. It’s intuitive, which is a nice aspect because a lot of people don’t like to read rules. A lot of board gamers do like to read rules, though, to a certain extent.” According to Nery, the increased complexity and potential educational value are what make board games so appealing to their niche audience, even more so to some people than video games. “You get parents wanting games for their kids that basically teach something other want to play games, and if you want to keep “Lots of loyal customers come back,” LeMoine said. than swearing,” Nery said. “Video games, playing games here, we have to stay open, and “I think people like that personal touch. They like having what is that, move your thumbs and pull a people keep buying games here.” things explained to them a little bit. I know I personally trigger? With board gaming, you have strategy, Heller, on the other hand, does see online sales as a like touching a game, picking it up, feeling how heavy it logic skills, reading skills, mathematics, all kinds of stuff threat, but knows customers are willing to support him if is. We have a lot of open games you can open up, look like that.” he treats them right. at the rules, see the components—it’s not just a mystery He admitted he still loves to play video games, but for of what you’re getting in the box.” very different reasons than board games. This personal touch and welcoming atmosphere “Video games are easy. They’re just easy,” Nery I know I personally pays off for Cat & Mouse in the form of regular custom- said. “I like going home and not doing anything, so I ers like David Morkrid. play a video game.” like touching a game, Morkrid, 62, has played board games his whole life Despite the popularity of the hobby among its niche and has come to Cat & Mouse’s Tuesday night, open audience, there are very few shops dedicated exclu- picking it up, feeling board gaming for two years. sively to tabletop gaming these days. Comic book stores “A lot of people that play here, because we get the often have gaming sections, but they’re usually limited how heavy it is.” chance to play here, tend to buy our games here even to one or two shelves of the more popular games. There —Andre LeMoine though we might be able to buy them online cheaper,” are currently only four dedicated specialty gaming Morkrid said. shops in the city of Chicago. Because most games can “You have to be honest with your customers,” Heller He personally favors European-style board games, be purchased at lower prices online than at specialty said. “If you’re charging more than the guy on the Inter- or Euro games—strategic games such as “The Set- shops, things wouldn’t look so good for these stores if net, it’s because your costs are more. It’s not because tlers of Catan” or “Dominion”—over more traditional, they didn’t have loyal customers. But Nery isn’t fazed by you just decided you want to go ahead and charge a classic games. his online competition. buck extra for this stuff.” When it comes down to it, the reason people are “Internet sales don’t hurt us because there are some LeMoine agrees that customer service, along with a so passionate about tabletop games is the same people who are going to buy games on the Internet more personalized shopping experience, are crucial in reason anybody plays any game: because they’re anyway,” he said. “But people come here because they keeping people coming back to his store. fun. For tabletop gamers, though, a lot of that fun comes from sharing experiences with friends in a personal way. “Anytime you experience something with people there [as opposed to over the Internet], it changes the whole experience because you can see if they’re hav- ing a good time and stuff,” Heller said. “If your buddies are having a great time, and they’re all pumped about playing the game, then you’re going to get more excited and have more fun.”

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the illustration is finished, each print is sold own body of work. for $50 and printed on paper “in the highest Kendler’s rendition of the whooping crane, post-consumer recycled percentage avail- for example, could be shown at a gallery with Art with a porpoise able,” according to the ESPP website. the rest of her work, she said, which is what “I wish there was an upper limit and we she hopes for every artist-submitted print. Environmentally driven art “We were thinking about doing some- could say there’s only 200 endangered spe- Scalin, a longtime family friend of Kendler, project aims to protect thing that’s outside the gallery system, but cies so we’ll only do 200 prints, but there are was attracted to the project because its spirit endangered species still has one foot in that system,” said Kend- thousands,” Kendler said. “We could never matches his professional work. The creative ler, who owns and operates a company that create them fast enough to keep up with director and founder of Another Limited by Mina Bloom designs websites for artists, called OtherPeo- new endangered species that humans are Rebellion, an environmentally conscious Arts & Culture Editor plesPixels, with her husband. “[The project] creating everyday.” graphic design company, Scalin said he likes allows us to really have a direct impact So far the co-founders, along with to use his artistic skills for a good cause if ONLY A couple hundred rare porpoises, or on the things we care about. We other artists who are either he can. vaquitas, are still alive in the Gulf of California were not leveraging our friends or artists who Even 32-year-old artist and writer Chris- to this day, as they often die in fishing nets. power in the way it was have contacted them topher Reigher wanted to contribute to the But by meticulously weaving together multi- most effective.” through their web- project, despite living in San Francisco. He colored thread in the shape of the animal, The project fulfills site, have created 20 created prints for both the javan rhinoceros 38-year-old Virginia-based artist Noah Scalin an artistic need for original art- and the red wolf, as he felt personally con- is practicing environmental activism Kendler, who said works based on nected to the mission after growing up in a A photograph of this piece of art—which showcasing fine specific animals. rural area of Virginia and spending a lot of both mimics a vaquita’s fate and reflects art at a gallery isn’t A high-resolu- time outdoors. Scalin’s own body of work—is sold through always enough. tion photograph “My dad is a conservation writer, and we the Endangered Species Print Project. The “Both of us were of an original art would travel together a lot for his magazine proceeds will go directly to Viva Vaquita!, really dissatisfied with piece, or a gicleé, is assignments,” said Reigher, who writes for an organization devoted to protecting the the gallery system and sold in limited edi- his blog titled Hungry Hyena. “I was exposed sea mammal. how market-oriented the tions, roughly based to a wide range of environmentalists. There’s The Chicago-based, environmentally art world is,” Kendler said. on the number of animals definitely a lot of animals and plants in driven Endangered Species Print Project is a “People really seem to be left. The whooping crane, my imagery.” little more than a year old. What started out as navel-gazing. They’re for- Sumatran tiger, Hawaiian Schafer, who teaches art classes at Lillstreet an effort by former School of the Art Institute getting about how amazing monk seal and the Van- Art Center, 4401 N. 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“A” To Zepeda Don’t tweet your life, live it IN MY previous Meanwhile, in that time I squander column, I discussed on Facebook, I could have talked to my one flaw of my mother at home or caught up with the generation—the friend I haven’t talked to in a couple of societal divide that weeks. I have stopped appreciating these finds us becoming real connections I have in my life, the face- too dependent on to-face ones, because I have worked this the Internet and habit of social networking into part of my virtual commu- “hectic” schedule. by Benita Zepeda nication. I under- It wasn’t until I felt as if I could lose Managing Editor stand that with something, or someone, who is very impor- what I am going to tant in my real world (not my virtual one) say I run the risk of sounding entirely too that I began to focus on my lack of apprecia- emotional, too cliché and too knowledge- tion for things that matter. able about something I find hard to live by I couldn’t care less about which person I every day. knew once upon a time in high school who But despite all those risks, I don’t care. is dating another person from my home- I’ve recently rediscovered this sense of town. I couldn’t care less about the smelly self-evaluation and I must admit, I really bum on the train who ruined someone’s didn’t like parts of the lifestyle I have commute that morning. I also couldn’t care CHECK OUT OUR NEW become accustomed to. Like many of us, I less about people’s extreme left or right think I am over-stressed, over-worked and wing political comment of the day blazing lacking time to take care of the things in on their status. life I truly appreciate. I spend hours glued I’m not trying to be insensitive, because behind a computer screen, writing words I too live in this social networking world. I for readers I will never meet and using my simply want to remind people to appreciate “downtime” to aimlessly wander on Face- what really matters. Your profile picture mini book, catch up on Google Chat or waste my and status updates can wait. Life will con- brain on Stumbleupon.com. tinue to move while you tweet and if you This brief description of what goes on don’t pay attention, you will miss it. in my daily life probably isn’t much differ- So I am making a conscious effort to get ent from many. However, during my self- away from the computer screen and start evaluation, I learned that my dependence calling home more often, take that break SALAD on technology, once again, is something I from work and get lunch with a friend or go am learning to despise. home and play video games with my room- For instance, when I catch glimpses mate at my apartment. I know if I don’t, I of the online personas of my Facebook might regret my life negligence when it is SELECTION friends, some of whom I am exclusively too late. an online friend, I waste time I don’t have with profiles of people I barely know. [email protected]

Modern English is back ALREADY MADE ’80s pop stars reunite was an important time for music.” for new album, tour; still You understand, then, why Modern Eng- QUICK TO GRAB want to ‘Melt With You’ lish used “old school” equipment to record its new album, “Soundtrack.” by Nicole Brodeur The album was produced by Hugh Jones, BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT MCT Newswire who produced their first album, and the band used things like an analog keyboard EVENand BETTER the best TO NIBBLE yet... ON BURGER KING Double Cheeseburgers. Ritz to recreate the ’80s sound. crackers and M&M’s. The Nicolas Cage “We love all that stuff,” Grey said. “It’s got movie “Valley Girl.” And, of course, MTV. a tone and a depth to it. It’s quite a moody all under Modern English has gotten plenty of album, whereas modern recordings are mileage and money from its 1982 single, kind of clean.” “I Melt With You”—the kind of expo- The single off the album, “It’s OK,” is sure that could ban a song from a set straightforward pop. list forever. “It’s got a nice bounce to it,” Grey said. But it’s just too good to skip. “That’s where we come from, the punk- “I never get sick of playing it,” said Robbie rock movement. We’re going back to what Grey, lead singer of the British punk-pop we know.” band. “Because when you look out at the So, too, are the audiences, who pack in audience, everyone is look- and cut loose like the kids ing back at you and smiling I really think the they used to be. and singing.” reunions have a lot “The audience is gener- That kind of scene is to do with the fact ally 50-year-olds with big • playing out a lot this year, that music doesn’t seem stomachs and long hair, and 1112 SouthWabash elevencitydiner.com as bands that made their as important as it used then you’ll have their sons names in the ’80s are reunit- to be.” and daughters,” Grey said. ing and giving it another “It’s brilliant.” go. Post-punk bands like -Robbie Grey And here Grey thought he Squeeze and the English was going to “walk on stage Beat are back together and teaming up on and sit on a stool.” tour. We’ve seen the reunions of Ultravox, “But the energy comes from some- the Specials and ABC. Even Spandau Ballet where,” he said. “We’re so happy with the laid down its lawsuits and pulled “True” out new album. Having new stuff to play really of storage. works for us.” $5.95 “I really think the reunions have a lot to Playing the old stuff doesn’t hurt, either. do with the fact that music doesn’t seem It may have paid the bills and sold a lot of as important as it used to be,” Grey said. burgers and candy, but one song in particu- “A 12-year-old kid on the street, they’re lar was just good, solid post-punk, Grey said. getting music free, they don’t want to buy “‘I Melt with You’ is an amazing it. But I was knocking on the door of the song,” Grey said. “I don’t know why, but record shop. it’s fantastic.” “It’s nostalgia, but at the same time, ours [email protected]

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Square. Fashion designers Sam Shipley and recent Thursday afternoon in Silver Lake, Jeff Halmos spent August promoting their Calif. Rowley’s truck, open for business in Shipley & Halmos label by meeting custom- the parking lot of Dangerbird Records on ers at Barneys Co-op locations across the Sunset Boulevard, had sold $1,000 worth country. And women’s contemporary label of Cynthia Rowley goods in the first 2 Alice + Olivia spent the summer touring 1/2 hours, according to truck manager the southern United States in a revamped Paige Segal. Airstream mobile home. Among those who clambered into the “It’s an idea that’s absolutely ripe for back of the truck to search the racks was exploitation at the moment,” said David Brie Grousbeck, 34, of Los Feliz, Calif., who Wolfe, creative director of the New York said she found out about the event through trend-forecasting firm the Doneger Group. the charity it was supporting that day. “Shoppers are exhausted by the traditional “I found out about it through Pablove, venues; the whole world is ‘over-retailed’ to and that’s my main motivation,” she said. beat the band. It’s not like the merchandise “But this is a brilliant idea—going to peo- is any different, but the setting is unexpect- ple’s neighborhoods like this makes them

MCT NEWSWIRE ed, funky, weird and young. And definitely want to shop.” not serious.” Rowley isn’t sure how popular the fash- Cynthia Rowley’s mobile boutique brings her fashion right to her customers’ backyards, making her clothes Connecting with the consumer was the ion truck will end up being. nationally accessible—not just in Chicago and New York City, where her main stores are located. big draw. “It allows for a more personal, in- “It has to be a good fit for your brand,” she depth, one-on-one experience,” said Jenni- said. “It has a little bit of that band-on-the- fer Weiderman, vice president and general run spirit that fits in with my personality manager of Skechers Fitness Group. “It lets more than a pop-up shop.” them see and touch, to try on the product, Doneger’s Wolfe concurs. “It’s not for talk to fitness experts. We have treadmills everybody—I can’t see [fashion designer] Truck and cover and even a little mock track that we set up. Carolina Herrera driving a truck around, Designers use different boutique on wheels—has been on the road It’s the kind of whole experience you can’t for example.” method for displaying, for the last year. “It’s more convenient, really have if you’re doing [an event] at But Rowley, who also uses her mobile selling clothes more immediate and more of an experi- a store.” boutique as a way to test potential future ence than buying online to actually bring Could the mobile format be the next retail market sites, says her experience by Adam Tschorn the store to our customers.” evolution of the pop-up boutique—those has been so positive, she’s contemplating MCT Newswire The concept is hardly novel—mobile temporary bricks-and-mortar storefronts expanding into a full-fledged fashion fleet. shops of one kind or another have that sprout up unexpectedly—and have a “I can see doing a truck for every part of FAST FASHION has taken on a new meaning, existed for years (think of the old milk lifespan measured in weeks or months? our business—there could be one geared with designer racks rolling into driveways; trucks and dry-cleaner delivery services “Absolutely,” Wolfe said. “For one thing, toward moms and kids filled with kids’ truckloads of athletic shoes, fitness experts of the last century)—but so many cloth- it’s fun. The recession has made shopping clothes and maybe our Pampers [yes, she and treadmills touching down at food festi- ing brands climbed behind the wheel into a very serious pursuit—even for the is designing diapers in a collaboration] that vals; and full-fledged runway shows staged this summer that a sartorial traffic jam people who have plenty of money to do it. would be able to go somewhere convenient on the backs of flatbed trucks. seemed imminent. The joy and thrill of the hunt is no longer for moms and dads with kids—like near “On many levels it’s the ultimate in cus- In addition to Rowley’s rolling store- appealing, so I think this strikes a whole playgrounds—and another one geared more tomer service,” says fashion designer Cyn- front, Skechers recently wrapped a 20-city, different chord and elicits a whole different toward beauty and grooming products.” thia Rowley, whose “mobile style unit”—a three-month, coast-to-coast “Shape-Up response from the consumer.” converted courier truck that serves as a America Tour” in New York City’s Times Wolfe’s theory seemed to bear out on a [email protected]

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Courtesy JULIA KLEE CAKE // LOVE YOU MADLY FUN // WALKING THE DOG Classically trained Julia Klee will continue doing local shows while in the studio recording her new album. FIONA APPLE // PAPER BAG BOWERBIRDS // IN OUR TALONS Songstress steps out by Brianna Wellen JK: I sing backup for Joe Pug, he’s a Assistant Arts & Culture Editor local musician, and it was exciting. It was the greatest thing I’ve ever done. It was AFTER SINGING backup with Chicago’s scary, but it was really fun. Joe Pug on a Lollapalooza side stage last Week ending Sept14, 2010 summer, Julia Klee is coming into the The Chronicle: What’s the process of cre- spotlight and moving forward on her own. ating the album been like so far? #1 Album Top tracks ( ) Last week’s ranking in top five She’s sold out local shows with her piano- driven songs and strong vocals. She now JK: I’m just trying to sort through the United States hopes to reach a national audience with material I’ve been writing. A lot of times Just the Way You Are • Bruno Mars (3) 1 her newest album coming out sometime I get really attached to a song, and I think Teenage Dream (1) 2 this winter. it’s great. I’ll hear it again a couple weeks • Katy Perry The classically trained vocalist has later, and I won’t be so attached to it. So DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love • Usher (5) 3 been compared to Neko Case and Kelly I’ve been trying to go through everything Kaleidoscope Just a Dream • Nelly 4 Hogan but is working to maintain a style I’ve been writing and try to find ones that Heart uniquely hers. Pulling from an alterna- are above the others. Dynamite (2) 5 Sara Bareilles • Taio Cruz tive country background, jazz and classi- cal music and her professional technique, The Chronicle: Are there any themes United Kingdom she’s carved out her niche in Chicago’s running through the album? Start Without You 1 music scene. The Chronicle caught up with • Alexandra Burke Klee to talk about her personal influences, JK: As far as themes are concerned, I kind Teenage Dream • Katy Perry (2) 2 singing on stage at Lollapalooza and an of go through more musical themes than Dynamite • Taio Cruz (3) 3 upcoming tour. subject matter. I think a lot of times when I’m writing, stuff just kind of comes out. Science & For the First Time • The Script 4 Faith The Chronicle: With your music, do you When I pick a subject and try to write The Script Please Don’t Let Me Go • Olly Murs 5 pull a lot from personal experiences? about that subject, for me, it’s really harder to get an honest message across. I listen to Spain Julia Klee: A lot of the songs I’ve all kinds of music. I like jazz, I like classical. been writing lately have definitely I’m going through an alt-country-like ’60s Club Can’t Handle Me • Flo Rida (3) 1 been influenced by my relationship. I folk phase. I think I go through themes that Love the Way You Lie • Eminem & Rihanna 2 think life is always influencing what way, that kind of rubs off from whatever I’m Waka Waka (Espanol) • Shakira (1) 3 you’re writing. listening to. XX Blanco y Negro 4 The xx • Malu The Chronicle: How has your classical The Chronicle: What’s the next step for We ... Americano • Yolanda Be Cool, DCup (2) 5 background helped the music you’re your career? Source: iTunes © 2010 MCT making now? JK: I’m really hoping to tour. Right now JK: I think just having a good technique the album is my main focus, and I’m just and studying a lot when I was younger trying to put all my energy into that. Then definitely was a good foundation for what I’m really hoping to hit the road with the Follow The Chronicle on I’m doing now. I can manipulate my voice band this summer or next fall. more to get the sounds I want, which are Julia Klee will be performing with Alison all technique. So I think that influences Breitman at Uncommon Ground, 3800 N. it a lot, just having experience pretty Clark St., on Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. They will be early on. performing each other’s songs. The show is free. www.twitter.com/ccchronicle The Chronicle: What was the experience of singing at Lollapalooza like? [email protected]

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Chelsea: Lately she’s more of a bigot

I’VE NEVER really enjoyed Chelsea Handler’s irrever- ent brand of humor. Mina Bloom/Arts & Culture Editor Luke Wilusz/Assistant Arts & Brianna Wellen/Assistant Arts & This is mainly Culture Editor Culture Editor because I feel like Reasons why it’s lame to say you Ways to survive a Fall TV shows I’m most excited for I’ve tuned into hate “The Hills” and its spin-o s zombie apocalypse “Chelsea Lately” enough times to Who cares?: I hear people complaining all Wear protective armor: Cover yourself in leath- “30 Rock”: I am a Liz Lemon fan all the way by Mina Bloom assess she’s not the time, saying things like: “I wouldn’t be er from the neck down: jacket, gloves, pants and would be anticipating this anyway. The Arts & Culture Editor very likable. She’s caught dead watching it,” “it’s so trashy,” etc. and boots. Wear a motorcycle helmet to cover news that they’ll be doing a live show in Octo- reached this weird Well, let’s be really honest, here. Nobody actu- your head. Because human teeth generally ber featuring dreamboat Jon Hamm just put my level of hyper-celebrity that isn’t rooted in ally cares if you think you’re better than “The can’t bite through leather or hard plastic, this love for this show over the edge. any meaningful sort of accomplishment. I Hills.” If you’re spending energy talking about it, should keep you relatively safe from zombie mean, this much is common these days, but you clearly don’t have better things to do with bites and infection. “The Walking Dead”: Though I think this is it doesn’t mean I have to like it. your time. technically a mini-series, my excitement is She was the natural choice to host this Stay armed at all times: Always keep a good, there all the same. I’ve wondered when zom- year’s Video Music Awards on MTV, I guess. The concept is ridiculous and therefore awe- reliable melee weapon on hand, such as a bies would come to the small screen ever Her self-deprecating, yet obvious and there- some: It is my personal opinion that the show’s machete, metal pipe or metal baseball bat— since my 12-year-old self became obsessed fore boring books ended up on the New York bizzaro interpretations of real life are fascinat- something that won’t break and you won’t with “Night of the Living Dead,” and I have full Times Best-Seller List this year, and “Chelsea ing. After all, they’re just insanely rich and reck- need to reload. faith in AMC’s television smarts. Lately” continues to get great ratings. less characters in a made-up story masquer- But I’m guessing the woman who likely ading as real people, as made evident by the Avoid gun shops: They’re just a bad idea. “Running Wilde”: I have high hopes for FOX’s reads “Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chel- series nale of “The Hills.” Everyone else in your area will be there trying new comedy. It’s the creator of “Arrested Dev- sea,” works part time at a pet store at age 35 to get a gun, and the owners will have most leopment,” Mitchell Hurwitz, teaming up with and most likely wears New Balance sneakers Brody Jenner’s bromances: Jenner, the son likely barricaded themselves inside anyway— Will Arnett (who plays basically the same char- with fl ared jeans—possibly with bedazzled of Olympian Bruce Jenner, is the ringleader and they probably won’t be willing to share. acter as Gob) and Keri Russell. This is a pretty pocket details— when going on a date. By and his band of cronies (even though Frankie strong lineup, and if it’s exactly the same as my defi nition, anyone who thinks Handler Delgado’s title is “Brody’s Manager,” which is Be in good shape: Zombies are typically pretty “Arrested Development,” even better. is funny or clever lives in a small town, prob- awesome) follow him everywhere and worship slow, so you might not need to outrun them ably has a few uncles named Cletus, etc. everything he says. It’s amazing because he’s per se, but being able to make a quick es- “Mad Men”: Sure this show is already in full At the VMAs, she told the audience she this rich partydawg and that’s kind of it, but cape from a bad situation never hurts. And swing from its July opener, but after a ho-hum had a gun with her and could easily carry it they are obsessed with him! How can you not if zombies do turn out to move fast, you still start (scene setting and whatnot, I get it) this past security because she’s white. She also nd this amusing? It’s tragic his spin-off “Bro- don’t necessarily have to outrun them—just season is nally starting to pick up. The last said: “It’s time to acknowledge the big black mance” didn’t get a second season. any other poor sap who happens to be nearby. few episodes have been some of the best tele- elephant in the room. Where’s Kanye?” And vision I’ve seen in a while. in reference to Jennifer Lopez being a new Kristen Cavallari’s donkey voice: Enough said. Look for rescue: If zombie lms have taught judge on “American Idol,” she said it was us anything, it’s that the military will come to “Bored to Death”: Last year’s premiere of this the fi rst time a Puerto Rican will appear as It’s the equivalent of saying you hate TV: the rescue—eventually. Check your radio of- series was great, the stream of consciousness a judge instead of before one. O -color jokes And that’s just about the most annoying thing ten for emergency evacuation information and and bizarre humor I would come to expect from paired with bland delivery and a certain you could ever say. We all tune in sometimes, head toward wherever it tells you to go. Just Jason Schwartzman’s acting along with great smugness (that is far more creepy than it is and it doesn’t make us any less genuine or in- be ready for some disappointments, some supporting characters and guest stars. Unlike endearing) makes me uncomfortable. teresting people. changed plans and a lot of undead swarms some of HBO’s other shows, I don’t have to along the way. get too mentally involved. [email protected]

Jessica Hall; Senior; fiction writing major Sam Hall; Freshman; theater major ”I want everyone to start wearing these “Right now I’m just kind of lazy and this is shoes.” comfortable and it looks cool.” Dress; Resale store, $3; Shoes: Bordello, Sweater: Urban Out tters, $50; Shoes: $70; Glasses: The Alley, $7 Standard Style Boutique, $90

Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE ARTS & CULTURE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 29

Nothin’ Could be worse... Not bad, not bad I’m feelin’ this HOT HOT HOT PRINT

“EATING THE DINOSAUR” BY CHUCK KLOSTERMAN MY RECEIPT FROM STARBUCKS 27BSLASH6.COM Anyone who can write about Garth Brooks for 15 pages and Even if I choose to ignore the uninspired font choice of the The fact that David Thorne is a genius when it comes to annoying keep me interested has to be good, right? Klosterman’s stinging receipt, I am still confronted with a complete lack of imagination and infuriating people is obvious to anyone who takes even the sarcasm and unbelievably dry wit leaves you laughing hysterically and risk where literary value is concerned. However, the promise most cursory glance at his website. In posted e-mail exchanges, and wondering why you haven’t read more of his work. “Dinosaur” of a free pumpkin spice latte will surely have me going back for Thorne provokes and mocks co-workers who ask for stupid favors is a bit more analytical than “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs,” but more.—J. Allen and tries to pay overdue bills with a drawing of a seven-legged still a necessary read for any pop culture junkie.—S. Charles spider. The reactions he gets are priceless.—L. Wilusz

MOVIES / TV / DVD

BLU-RAY PHIL DAVISON’S NOMINATION SPEECH JETS HOME OPENER ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL I am hereby outing myself as the only Columbia student who Phil Davison’s video has become one of the top viral videos this After a summer filled with hype, contract holdouts and a reality hates Blu-ray. I just don’t buy into it. And each time the (normally month. I love this guy’s passion and effort he put into his speech. show, the New York Jets failed to deliver in primetime. The Jets’ incredible) Criterion Collection re-releases another one of my If you are looking for a good laugh or looking to learn about the offense was anemic and pathetic to watch throughout the game favorite classics in the format, I die a little inside. Seriously, can don’ts of public speaking, Davison is a great example.—M. Rosas as they lost 10-9 to open their new stadium.—E. Modacure anyone give me a legitimate reason for “Breathless” to have a Blu-ray edition? Other than “it looks better?” Not to these eyes, bucko.—D. Hunt

MUSIC

“AMANDA PALMER PERFORMS THE POPULAR HITS BRANDON FLOWERS: “CROSSFIRE” “STEP UP 3-D” SOUNDTRACK OF RADIOHEAD ON HER MAGICAL UKULELE” The Killers was the first band I can remember being completely As if 3-D hands and feet break dancing at lightning speeds Amanda Palmer can do no wrong. That being said, I was skeptical obsessed with. When I saw Brandon Flowers is now working wasn’t entertaining enough, the soundtrack to the third “Step about her most recent release, “Amanda Palmer Performs the on a solo career, I had to check out his single “Crossfire.” The Up” movie took the experience to the next level. From Estelle to Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele.” Upon purchas- excitement I had faded when the song finished and I realized Jessie McCartney with plenty of T-Pain mixed in, every track set ing the seven-track EP on her website, AmandaPalmer.net, I soon that it sounds exactly the same as his work with The Killers. But the screen off. But seriously, “Bust Your Windows” by Jazmine learned never to doubt the punk cabaret queen. Between the I wasn’t too disappointed because The Killers do hold a special Sullivan was incredible for the tango scene.—E. Blick eerie quality the uke lends to Radiohead’s tunes and Amanda’s place in my heart.—J. Howard wavering alto, the quirky, spunky and somber juxtaposition is pleasantly surprising.—T. Halpin

RANDOM

CABLE GUY “SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME” STEAK QUESADILLAS It’s now been two weeks and I have no cable in my apartment. The This is one of the best party games I’ve ever played. The game After years of only cheeseburgers and fries because of a bad cable guy failed to come twice and I’m furious! I’ve been miss- has you and three friends playing your way through the plotline experience with Chinese food, I found myself wanting something ing my shows and peeking out my apartment window watching of the graphic novel, while beating the daylights out of everything different. So I went beyond the bun and found myself eating other people watch their television. It’s the only way I can watch in your path in a beautifully retro eight-bit world, all against an a mouth watering classic: the steak quesadilla. It’s just meat cable.—C. Aguirre amazing soundtrack from chiptune rock band Anamanaguchi. and cheese. Sure you can have lettuce and tomatoes, but why? You’ll laugh. You’ll shout. You’ll accidentally knock your friends Just give me the goods, as American of me as that may seem. out. It’s a great time.—L. Wilusz —B. Lewis 30 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Editorials Affordable, no-frills housing needed WHEN MANY people think of college dor- The majority of Columbia’s students mitories, they picture buildings full of live off campus where the average cost small, symmetrical, cramped rooms for to rent is significantly lower. This finan- two, with beds lofted to make more space cially accessible alternative is something and closets overspilling with clothes Columbia should consider more closely. and books. In newer college housing, For example, New York University has an more apartment-style rooms are becom- extensive rental listing website devoted to ing popular, usually designed for four students looking for off-campus housing students with a bathroom and shared and roommates, with all the information living space. novice renters could need. Considering At Columbia, though, student spaces most Columbia students move off campus are cutting edge. The majority of hous- after their freshman or sophomore year, a ing options include full kitchens with similar program that goes beyond just a dishwashers, cable television and build- forum would do students a great service. ing amenities like gyms, music practice For new students who aren’t acquainted MCT Newswire studios, pools and small movie screen- with the city, Columbia should do more to ing rooms. The Dwight, 642 S. Clark provide housing options that realistically St., goes even further with flat screen reflect an average rental experience in Chi- televisions and granite countertops, cago. Although practice studios and mul- luxuries some students have never lived timedia rooms are great creative spaces, with before. students have said they rarely see these Columbia’s dorms are certainly attrac- facilities used. Columbia should consider tive to prospective students, but the price acquiring buildings with fewer frills. If tag is a heavy one. Only one building offers realty prices prevent these buildings from rooms for under $10,000 per academic year, being in the South Loop, so be it, as long as and that is without the cost of a meal plan. development doesn’t interrupt the life of In comparison, other local campuses offer the community. extensive options for $7,000–$8,000. Of We faintly remember the slogan “The course Columbia has to keep up with realty City is our Campus” echoing from years costs in the South Loop, but the cost of living past. Columbia could be doing more to on campus is a tough sell for many families. encourage its own motto.

Next mayor: Work from inside out MCT Newswire AMIDST THE city and state’s ever-increas- down 29 percent—Chicago consistently ing reputation for political corruption, remains more dangerous than New York Letter to the Editor Mayor Richard Daley’s plummeting City or Los Angeles based on the crime approval ratings and his wife’s poor ratio to population. AN E-MAIL was recently sent out and a vote, all future employees who are covered health, it isn’t a surprise that Daley We also want the next mayor to have a letter to the editor printed in the Columbia under the contract will receive the rights recently announced he is stepping strong proposal for improving the most Chronicle that urged people not to join or and benefits negotiated by the union. down. Nonetheless, the announcement desperate Chicago Public Schools. Daley support the United Staff of Columbia Col- US of CC has worked hard to include, not was a shock. introduced several school reforms during lege. We in US of CC believe that the Union exclude, all eligible employees. Although It is time for a fresh face. Chicago needs his years in office, many of which had an should encourage differing opinions and communications have been a challenge, a mayor and city council who work from impact, but the toughest schools in the respect differing views; however, we would we have sent all interoffice, U.S. postal the inside out, rather than putting the district have failed to show improvements. like to correct misinformation presented. mailings and e-mail transmissions to each city’s national and international repu- Mayoral candidates should not come The union is not holding up a salary member of the bargaining unit, not just to tation above the reputation it has with from within Daley’s inner circle or make increase. There was no indication from the union members. Our union is transparent its own citizens. We don’t want a mayor any attempt to follow in his footsteps. We college in its letter to staff that a pay raise and made up of hardworking, honest staff who will use an Olympic bid as an excuse want an election that promises reform and was to be given. The college followed the law members; accusations to the contrary are to propose plans to improve transporta- then delivers. If City Hall politics inter- in stating that any decision regarding pay not based in fact. tion and prevent crime; we want a mayor fere, we will end up with another plight rates would not occur until negotiations We realize that many people are new who uses the plan results to present an like Harold Washington’s—a mayor full with the union are completed. The union to unions and want to learn more before Olympic bid. of incredible ideas for improvement, is fighting hard to ensure that employees they become involved. As US of CC works to The next mayor should make reducing but whose proposals were repeatedly get a fair increase, not another pay freeze. improve in areas in which we have lagged, crime a top priority. Chicago’s now defunct blocked by City Council members under The union was organized because of a we welcome all types of assistance. Our aim handgun ban was clearly not preventing the influence of outside parties and vote by a majority of employees who wanted is to build a grassroots, representative staff shootings, but the same can be said for political schemers. US of CC. The determination of who is eli- organization that works with and for all, nearly every other anti-crime measure It is time to move past the politics gible was made in an agreement between and of which we can all be proud. taken by the city to date. Although violent City Hall has been pressured by for so US of CC and Columbia College, and certified crimes in Chicago have decreased over- long and focus on the politics Chicago’s by the National Labor Relations Board—it is —US of CC President Mike Bright, all in the past decade—with homicides residents need. in no way up to US of CC. By virtue of that Film & Video Department Staff

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Jonathan Allen Graphic Designer Michael Ranieri Assistant Metro Editor Did you catch a mistake, think we could have covered a story better or believe strongly about an issue Eleanor Blick Commentary Editor Ciara Shook Copy Editor that faces all of us here at Columbia? Sam Charles Assistant Campus Editor Shardae Smith Assistant Campus Editor Why not write a letter to the editor? At the bottom of page 2 you’ll find a set of guidelines on how to do Darryl Holliday Assistant Metro Editor Jackson Thomas Copy Editor this. Let us hear from you. Brent Lewis Senior Photo Editor Brianna Wellen Assistant A&C Editor Etheria Modacure Assistant H&F Editor —The Columbia Chronicle Editorial Board COMMENTARY I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 31 Calorie counts on menus only hint at nutrition value “The intricacy of As people might have noticed, Panera counts. But understanding what the menu count would be a turkey sandwich, black nutrition facts Bread is ahead of the curve. All the corper- number means is the next step many Amer- bean soup and French baguette slice. With is something ate stores have had calorie content posted icans aren’t equipped to take. Unfortunately, this combination, though, fat only accounts rarely taught on menus since April in order to test con- the intricacy of nutrition facts is something for 180 of the meal’s 920 calories. It is a much in schools and sumer reaction. Following regulations, rarely taught in schools and is not common healthier fat portion and probably more is not common calorie information has to be printed in the knowledge in many homes. food than you can finish. Of course, the fat same size type as the menu item or price— It wasn’t until I enrolled in a college nutri- mostly comes from the mayonnaise on the knowledge in whichever is larger. tion course that I really learned to dissect sandwich, which is a separate echelon of many homes.” Thanks, Obama, for ruining my macaroni. the side of a cereal box. Being a vegetarian, nutrition information. At least it’s fewer calories than McDon- I scanned ingredients for years (vegetarian Other restaurants are slowly phas- ald’s Mushroom and Swiss Burger Value dairy products are harder to find than you ing in calorie counting menus, including by Eleanor Blick Meal, right? think), but I rarely glanced at the nutrition Starbucks, which is struggling to rede- Commentary Editor Providing calorie information is a big step information until I was taught to calculate sign its drive-through menus in order in the right direction when trying to better its meaning. to fit the calorie information of so many I DIDN’T really want to know a bowl inform consumers, but many people don’t Panera’s signature macaroni and cheese, customizable drinks. of macaroni and cheese has almost know how to digest those numbers. for example, weighs in at a whopping 980 Consequently, drive-through menus 1,000 calories. Calorie counts are a good way to get calories for the large size, according to its will no longer feature the “tall” size, or the As part of the health care legislation people thinking about the content, ingre- menu board. Considering the dish is com- smallest, cheapest option with the least signed into law by President Barack Obama dients and proportions of food they eat, posed of noodles, cheese, butter and milk, calories. A large latte with whole milk in March, it will become a federal require- but feeding your body properly can’t come it can be presumed a lot of those calories has almost as many calories from fat as ment for restaurants with 20 locations or from calorie counting alone. Two bowls of come from fat. Panera’s macaroni. more to post calorie counts alongside menu Panera’s macaroni get you near the average Panera lists more detailed nutrition infor- Of course, a menu can’t tell you all of this. items by March 23, 2011. recommendation of 2,000 calories for the mation on its website, which confirms 550 All you’re going to get, come March, is a little Some cities and states already had simi- day, but macaroni isn’t going to help your calories worth of fat in the macaroni, or just number next to your favorite sandwich, the lar guidelines in place, but the law creates arteries any time soon. over 100 percent of the daily recommended meaning of which you’ll have to figure out a national standard as part of an effort to Critics of the new rules argue a height- fat intake based on a 2,000 calorie diet. for yourself. That is, if you want to know. address the nation’s problems with obesity, ened level of personal responsibility is For comparison’s sake, another Panera heart disease and other health concerns. needed more than in-your-face calorie meal weighing in at nearly the same calorie [email protected]

Percentage of Percentage of Americans who Percentage of insured adults who Percentage of Americans who have chosen not to fill a prescrip - have switched providers for a less U.S. voters who expect to pay more tion because it costs too much, expensive option within the past said they at least 45 for health care one according to a Rasmussen survey year, according to a somewhat favor a 53 year from now, according to a Sept. released Sept. 15. Rasmussen report pub- repeal of the new national health 14 Rasmussen report. The same Among those with lished Sept. 14. Fifteen 19 care law. Of those, 42 percent percentage said they do not pay any 40 insurance, 34 percent percent of those surveyed said they strongly favor its repeal, according more for health care now than they said they have not filled a prescrip- were uninsured. to a poll conducted by Rasmussen did one year ago. tion because of the cost. from Sept. 10–11. After Daley’s departure, establishing legacy will take time

“Daley’s legacy decisions that have come to define him, ers pick up the tab on any cost overruns— attention is the state of Chicago will be debated not only as the mayor, but as a man. something he said would never happen. schools. While seen as a good thing by many long after he Millennium Park has quickly become Daley, in effect, wrote the International within city government, Daley’s overhaul leaves office, one of the biggest symbols of the entire Olympic Committee a blank check. of Chicago Public Schools made a bad but there are a city. During its construction, it was criti- The bigger issue is Daley’s fixation on problem worse. cized as unnecessary and too costly. How- making Chicago a global city, which it The education secretary in 1995 gave him few policies and ever, since its completion, it has helped already has been for years. Chicago is one control of the entire public schools system. decisions that bolster Chicago’s tourism industry and of the 30 largest cities in the world. He appointed new leaders instead of allowing have come to bring in money the city desperately needs. Before trying to build the city’s interna- the public to vote for a superintendent and define him.” The park was Mayor Daley’s vision. In tional reputation, it’s necessary to focus on board members. the plan’s embryonic stages, he knew it its problems. There are several issues that Public education has always been an by Sam Charles had potential to be something great, some- would have been great things to address issue that confuses people. Assistant Campus Editor thing that every Chicagoan could look to before the Olympics or any other kind of It is completely counterproductive to and be proud of. He was right. global attention-grabber. appoint outside people to run Chicago ASIDE FROM a 13-year intermission head- Typically, I find tourists beyond frustrat- One of the problems that should have Public Schools instead of voting for expe- lined by Jane Byrne and Harold Washington, ing. Walking down Michigan Avenue on been given more attention is the city’s issue rienced educators who have children’s the Daley family has starred in Chicago’s a nice day feels like rush-hour gridlock. with gun violence. best interests in mind. Look at the job Ron show since 1955. But when I go to Millennium Park and see Daley was dealt a heavy blow when the Huberman is doing as the current CEO of Richard M. Daley, like his father Richard people from all over the world who have U.S. Supreme Court struck down the city’s CPS. He’s proposing all kinds of budget cuts J., is a native of Bridgeport. The Chicago come to marvel at what Daley fought so ordinance on banned handguns, which had but still finds enough money to give him- neighborhood is a blue-collar enclave on hard for, it’s difficult to be angry about how been in place since 1982. Chicago has long self a raise. the South Side that has managed to retain slow tourists walk. been a violent crime city, often statistically But these are only a few examples of the its identity while surrounding areas have But the desire to draw international visi- in the top five for murder. ripple effect Daley has had and will con- changed. There is a mentality one picks up tors went too far in the time leading up to Though the ban was lifted, Daley and tinue to have on Chicago. from being a lifelong South Sider. There is a the decision about which city would host city officials quickly put new restrictions It’s nearly impossible to dissect every feeling of having to stick to your guns and the 2016 Summer Olympics. in place that, while not completely effec- aspect of his time in office. While not not be intimidated by others. Those char- Daley campaigned for the Olympics with tive, sent the message. Higher-ups in everyone will agree with the job he’s done, acteristics Daley grew up with have shown more vigor and conviction than he did for Chicago government are doing what they everyone can agree Daley’s impact on the during his time in office. his own job in most election years. But can to stop the flow of illegal handguns city will be felt for decades. Daley’s legacy will be debated long after he once budget details were revealed, it came within the city. leaves office, but there are a few policies and to light that Daley agreed to have taxpay- Another area that desperately needs [email protected] 32 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 METRO I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 33

Mayor suggests reversing river Redirecting Chicago waterway Dumping and pollution in Lake Michi- could help clean up water, lake, gan currently comes from the surrounding help solve Asian carp problem states of Indiana, Michigan and Wiscon- sin, according to Lanyon. by Meghan Keyes The Prairie Rivers Network, a non-profi t Assistant Metro Editor focused on river protection, conservation, and restoration, supports the idea. IN THE 1870s, the Chicago River was dump- “The waterway is a supportive super- ing commercial and industrial waste into highway for invasive species,” said Glynnis Lake Michigan, which quickly became Collins, executive director of the network. a threat to the public’s health. With the “A lot of smart people are working on it. If completion of the fi nal major engineering we could fi gure out how to do it a hundred project in 1928, the river’s direction was years ago, surely we can fi gure out how to reversed. Today, it fl ows away from the lake. undo it, and to undo it in a way that could Recently, Mayor Richard M. Daley said solve other problems.” while on the lakefront with his brother, he The current system in place includes thought about re-reversing the fl ow of the various man-made canals, dug on a grade Chicago River. Returning the river to its to use gravity to reverse the fl ow, as well natural fl ow could help clean up the river as a deep tunnel to divert the storm water. as well as divert invasive species such as Flooding is a major concern should the the Asian carp, according to Friends of the system be reversed back to its natural fl ow. Chicago River. “If the river were to fl ow into the lake, it “I said, ‘Boy, that’s a great project,’” Daley would be privy to the fl uctuations of the told the Tribune. “Instead of diverting all lake,” said Kim Rice, outreach program that water, maybe we should reverse it. That coordinator for the Friends of the Chicago could be the salvation of the Great Lakes.” River group. “If the river is at a high point Dick Lanyon, executive director of the and we get rain, there is nowhere for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of overfl ow to go except into streets and base- Greater Chicago, does not think the project ments and all the places we don’t want it.” is feasible or likely because of engineer- Rice thinks the idea of undoing the ing problems and cost. The city has not reversal is possible and could have many approached the district to begin work on important benefi ts, including alleviating the project. the state’s ongoing problem with Asian “The rivers, both the Chicago and the carp. The invasive species damages the Calumet, were reversed with good purpose,” ecosystem and food web, as well as causes Lanyon said. “It’s to provide drainage for physical harm to people on the Illinois Brock Brake THE CHRONICLE the city so it does not go back into Lake The Chicago River currently ows west, away from Lake Michigan, but a new project proposed by Mayor Michigan and pollute our water source.” » SEE RIVER, PG. 35 Richard M. Daley would undo the reversal and return it to its natural ow, eastward. Alderman proposes watchdog department Comprehensive audit could Kresse put forth a more specifi c defi ni- would be “an outstanding place to start lars, according to Kresse, but assuming the cut fraud, wasteful spending, tion: “Internal audits with proactive fraud an audit.” inspector general is independent of politi- overall corruption in Chicago examination components.” Recently, the O ce of the Inspector cal infl uences, he said in the short and long All of the terms basically amount to General, a six-person sta charged with runs it should save taxpayers money. by Darryl Holliday the same thing—a labor and resource the proactive identifi cation of waste for a The O ce of the Inspector General is Assistant Metro Editor intensive analysis of city spending. city budgeted at more than $6 billion a year, indeed independent of partisan politics, “The nuts and bolts [of the proposal] found one particular TIF fund in which an according to Ferguson. Though appointed THE TERM “forensic audit” is mildly decep- would essentially be pulling together an account that had been completely closed by the mayor, the inspector general’s term tive, though according to a growing number independent budget o ce to go through out contained $1.2 million in taxpayer is not tied to the mayor’s tenure. In fact, it of city and state leaders, it could be exactly contracts and departments, and have audi- money. According to Ferguson, the money is one of the few city positions in which what Chicago needs. tors go through to see had been sitting unbe- the o ce holder cannot be removed at will. Alderman Scott Waguespack (32nd Ward) if they can find ways knownst to anyone for “If I’m politically infl uenced, I should be has most recently elevated the issue of a to root out waste, inef- three years and was even- drummed out of o ce,” Ferguson said. comprehensive audit through calls to open ficiency and any cor- tually redirected back to Though Waguespack concludes that Chicago’s books. ruption that’s in some the city. Daley would never allow a forensic audit, According to Adam Andrzejewski, found- of these contracts, or This is exactly the sort he said he believes the audit would “abso- er and CEO of For the Good of Illinois, the in some of the ways of waste an internal audit lutely” fi nd aspects of city administration issue is poised to be an important factor in that we run the city,” aims to prevent. that could be made more e cient, in order upcoming state and city elections. Waguespack said. “If we continue to to save money through cutting corruption “A forensic audit would do all of the The audit called for by do business the way and wasteful spending. fact fi nding and legal exploratory work Waguespack would focus [Mayor Richard M. Daley] With what Kresse calls a “woefully that prosecutors could then use to pros- largely on the Daley has done over the last underfunded” Chicago Inspector General’s ecute corruption and clean up the state,” administration—espe- 20 years, then we will o ce, Waguespack’s call for a nonpartisan Andrzejewski said. cially the mayor’s com- Tiela Halpin THE CHRONICLE be broke,“ Wagues- independent budget o ce is receiving The audit is largely about fi nding any plicated Tax Increment Chicago City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St. pack said. “We will attention from both political sides. proof that could be used in court, depending Financing funds. become insolvent.” Andrzejewski, a republican, attempted on irregularities—if any are found. According to Joe Ferguson, Chicago’s Likely the most agreeable part of a similar approach in March with the Associate professor William Kresse, direc- inspector general, the TIF funds have “very any forensic audit to city residents is Forensic Audit Act (HR 1057), which focused tor of the Saint Xavier University Center for little transparency in standards, protocol that when done right, it pays for itself. on the Illinois State budget. However, the the Study of Fraud and Corruption, said the and tracking.” A forensic audit for a city the size of Chi- term has been “bandied about.” However Andrzejewksi said the TIF funds cago might cost a couple of million dol- » SEE AUDIT, PG. 35 34 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 Huberman, teachers union join panel Head of Chicago Public the Catholic schools she oversees. Schools, union president attend Meanwhile, Lewis questioned whether discussion of education issues Catholic schools had the capacity to hold the infl ux of students and whether many by Azam Ahmed students would be kicked out because of MCT Newswire their more restrictive policies. On the issue of teacher evaluations, IN A panel discussion that included the Huberman said there must be a way to heads of the Chicago Public Schools and its di erentiate the performance of educa- teachers union, sparks fl ew as the debate tors doing exceptional work from those touched on hot-button issues ranging from not cutting it. school vouchers to teacher evaluations. Lewis said such a measure would need to Accountability was a theme of the night, be scientifi cally sound. She pushed for any coming up repeatedly in the discussion, evaluations to be tied directly to e ective which was largely between CPS Chief Ron teacher training. Huberman and Chicago Teachers Union She also made the point that a wall of President Karen Lewis. It was one of the mistrust exists between teachers and fi rst times the two had debated these school district administrators, one that issues before a public audience. would require a lot of work to take down. Huberman said accountability begins Among the issues she highlighted was with management, pointing out princi- Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE the fact that the chief education o cer pals at 120 of about 680 schools are new A CPS public meeting that took place last February at CPS headquarters, 125 S. Clark St. position has been vacant at the school this year. He also said charter schools— district for several months. That role is long a point of contention between fi xes often championed by administrators Thorne Auditorium. typically fi lled by an educator who can talk the union and the system—would be in their drive for results. The atmosphere was lighthearted, with to the CEO from the perspective of a class- held to the same standards as regular “I wish I could give you the magic wand panelists taking opportunities to chide one room instructor, Lewis said. neighborhood schools. and wave it so everything is fi ne ... but I another and garnering laughs and rounds The arguments prompted at least one “It’s [important for] us as a school dis- have seen the bodies of children buried of applause from the estimated 600 audi- fresh idea to crack the deadlock over issues trict to be agnostic—sorry, Sister,” Huber- over things that we think are quick fi xes,” ence members in attendance. that have long festered between manage- man added, looking at Catholic Schools Lewis said. The panel’s focus was on ways to improve ment and labor in city schools. Superintendent Mary Paul McCaughey, The panel discussion was organized education, and participants largely stuck Both Huberman and Meeks suggested causing the auditorium to erupt in laugh- by the Chicago Tribune and moderated to their respective scripts. a new process in which an indepen- ter. “In the sense that we don’t care if it’s a by Bruce Dold, the newspaper’s editorial Huberman said the school district dent body would weigh in on disputes contract school, we don’t care if it’s a char- page editor. Participants included state supported a public school vouchers bill between the two sides in a binding way. ter school, we don’t care if it’s a traditional Sen. James Meeks, D-Chicago, Huberman, fl oated in the state legislature earlier this Meeks suggested that body be the Illinois school,” Huberman said. “If it’s failing kids, Lewis, McCaughey and Harriet Meyer, year because he wanted students to have General Assembly. we need to take dramatic action.” president of the Ounce of Prevention Fund. options. McCaughey agreed, as many of But Lewis cautioned against the quick It was held at Northwestern University’s those students would likely elect to attend [email protected] METRO I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 I THE CHRONICLE 35

of wastewater dumped into the lake. Any major project requires money, and » RIVER “They would have to make the river much cost was a concern for all of the groups. » AUDIT closer to pristine,” Rice said. “A cleaner “We’re talking about billions,” Lanyon Continued from PG. 33 waterway would draw more people to it. said. “There’s the extra cost of treatment Continued from PG. 33 The key would be to not disrupt the com- and overfl ows.” River, as these fish jump out of mercial and industrial tra› c.” He said there would be more detailed act was defeated along partisan lines. the water. However, according to Lanyon, the river estimates in upcoming months as a change Waguespack argues his proposal for a “The hydrological separation would curb does not just a‹ ect the Chicago River, it this big is hard to estimate. comprehensive audit wouldn’t be a one- the invasive species,” Rice said. “You would a‹ ects its connections—another reason he “If we just think outside the box and look time only review but would occur annually. have to create an actual, physical divide does not support the change. at a totally new way of doing things, I think He also cited a new 10-year contract [between canals].” “Whatever we put into the south end of we can benefi t the rivers, the lakes, the between Lollapalooza and with a private In order to stop the fl ow and switch direc- Lake Michigan stays there awhile,” Lanyon citizens and the businesses in the Chicago company represented by Daley’s nephew, tions, Rice said there would have to be a said. “The fact that we’re drawing water out area,” Collins said. Mark Vanecko as “the kind of stu‹ that creation of new locks and the existing ones of Lake Michigan is a benefi t now because it Rice said the feasibility is there, and a needs to be looked at.” would be opened. The current locks regulate counterbalances the in-fl ow from all these cost benefi t study would be conducted Considering Chicago’s history—for the water fl owing in from the lake. neighboring states.” before any work begins. example, in the last 38 years, 29 current and The other major benefi t would be an Lanyon said parts of the river could Regardless, Rice said, “This is Chicago, we former Chicago alderman have been sen- improvement of the river’s water quality become stagnant, especially during dry can do anything.” tenced to prison—the list of sources where because it would be forced to meet Lake weather because the river would not be fraud and/or corruption may be found Michigan’s higher standard of cleanliness flowing out the mouth near Lockport. [email protected] could be extensive. “Audit is one word for it, but it’s essen- “We have a lot of problems,” Struck said. tially getting down to the nitty-gritty,” » POLICE “We have a manpower shortage. People and Waguespack said. o› cers are getting hurt.” In the long run, residents will decide if Continued from Front Page Twenty-year veteran of the CPD and FOP such an audit is in the city’s best inter- Trustee Rhonda Bullock, who currently est. An opening for mayor, along with the Cooper, a confi rmed mayoral candidate, were resides in Chatham—where O› cer Thomas upcoming election season, could provide present to lend their voices to the already Wortham was shot dead in May outside of the opportunity for enhanced transparency. strident chorus of marchers. his home—worries about her son leaving “[A forensic audit] is more than just “People don’t understand this is a 24/7 their home. trying to locate someone who’s driving a job and these guys, these gals, don’t have “If they’ll kill a uniformed police o› cer, city car to his vacation home,” Kresse said. enough resources,” Fioretti said. “They need they’ll kill anyone,” Bullock said. “This can have much wider implications the backing of the next mayor—they need a As for an adequate police force on Chi- in the way people behave within the city good superintendent.” cago’s streets, Donahue said he doesn’t know and government.” Cooper claims Weis is unqualifi ed for what the number would be. According to Ferguson, there’s a place the job. “Do you want no murders at all—zero where auditing for the city is already “He doesn’t know the fi rst thing about murders?” Donahue said. “Or what’s an being done. police work,” said Cooper, a former Washing- acceptable level of crime? I don’t think we’d “If we are serious about believing that ton metropolitan police o› cer. “It’s time for be able to defi ne that, so I don’t think we’d be more of it needs to be done, it’s a simple him to leave.” able to defi ne what an acceptable number of Brent Lewis THE CHRONICLE fi x: Give the inspector general’s o› ce more According to Detective Joe Struck, police o› cers would be to keep the city safe.” Since Weis took over as superintendent, accord- resources to do it,” Ferguson said. who’s been with the CPD for 21 years, ing to the FOP, the number of assaults on police assaults on officers are up 20 percent. [email protected] increased from 2,677 in 2007 to 3,298 in 2009. [email protected]

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Pimpin’ ain’t easy CTA crime spree Prank phone call Pipe bomb

According to ChicagoTribune.com, 88 per- The number of Chicago Transit Authority An Elk Grove man was charged with dis - According to TribLocal.com, students cent of pimps and madams surveyed in robberies has risen dramatically in the orderly conduct after he called 911 asking returned to Evanston’s Nichols Middle the study “From Victims to Victimizers: past four years, according to the Chicago for sexual favors from a Des Plaines police School on Sept. 16. A decapitated body Interviews with 25 ex-pimps in Chicago” Sun-Times, and is on the rise yet again. Chi- officer, according to MyStateLine.com. had been found 2 days prior in Fitzsimons suffered physical abuse as children. The cago Police Department data shows CTA The man is reported to have laughed a Park where a 21-year-old man had appar- pimps studied said they considered their crimes rose from 1,538 in 2006 to 1,942 in few seconds before hanging up at 12:54 ently blown himself up. Plenty of unan- work less risky than dealing drugs or com- 2009. Though ridership has risen .4 per- a.m., police said. He was arrested after swered questions remain. Leila Lemieux- mitting felonies. They report their earn- cent in the first six months of 2010, crime police traced the call, where they discov- Jordan, an 11-year-old student, said she ings to be between $150,000 and $500,000 is expected to be up 12 percent. Accord- ered the man hiding behind a park bench. was nervous about going back to school a year. According to the study, more than ing to the same data, aggravated battery He was cited for disorderly conduct and and was a little scared when she learned half the pimps said they paid law enforce- and assault on CTA buses and trains have warned not to call 911 unless there was about the incident. “It made my stomach ment in order to survive in the business. shown an overall decrease since 2006. an emergency. drop,” she said.

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1 Red-lining 2 Counterfeit checks A train passenger encountered According to Chicago police two men at the Roosevelt Red Line CTA plat- reports, an agent for the Chicago law form at 1167 S. State St. on Sept. 13. According firm Hoey & Farina, 542 S. Dearborn St., to police reports, an argument took place reported four counterfeit checks totaling between the parties, which allegedly result- $9,861 were cashed at two Integra bank ed in violent threats to the passenger. The locations from Sept. 9–11. Two females victim eventually contacted the conductor and one male are suspected of having and transferred to the front car. committed the crime.

3 It would last longer 4 Hard copy

According to police reports, on Sept. 6 a A Harold Washington Library security guard 24-year-old Chicago resident parked and observed a 56-year-old man attempting to left his vehicle at 531 S. Federal St. Upon his steal a reference book worth $5.95 from the return, he found the driver side window library, 400 S. State St., on Sept. 14. Accord- broken and his camera and camera equip- ing to police reports, the suspect informed ment missing. The Canon 7D camera, three officers he was “intending to permanently Compiled by Chronicle staff with information provided by the Chicago Police Department. Map courtesy lenses, memory card and LED totaled $3,530. deprive the library from use of the book” of Google Earth. No suspect was mentioned in the report. because “he had always wanted a copy.” 38 THE CHRONICLE I SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Social charisma and workplace appreciation is on the rise. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Creative workplace suggestions will this week trigger Friends, colleagues and new business officials may now search out your advice concern- fast progress and detailed negotiations. Several weeks of low ambition or vague fi- ing group events, team leadership or short-term contracts. Offer predictable responses. nancial promises are no longer valid. Use this time to establish an improved business Creative suggestions or new proposals will not be well received. This weekend a key role. Key officials will provide new pathways to success. Later this week a close friend relationship may experience a brief wave of emotional negotiations. No serious conse- or relative may disclose an unique social triangle or ongoing romantic power struggle. quences here, so not to worry. Do, however, ask gently probing questions. Wait for further information: At present, private emotions may be unusually intense.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) Loved ones are now ready to address complex home con- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) Delicate group debate or unclear instructions from au- cerns. Family planning or draining emotional triangles may be a central theme. Use thority will not be easily resolved this week. After mid-week encourage patience and this time to encourage discussion. At present, strained relationships require consistent find positive ways to share social bonds. Co-workers will study your actions and com- public attention. After mid-week some Cancerians will encounter an unusual job offer or ments for guidance. Later this week a friend or relative may ask probing social ques- new workplace assignment. In the coming weeks workplace tensions or hidden politics tions. At present, loved ones may feel overly protective or emotionally isolated. Stay may be draining. If so, accept all revised duties but remain cautious. quietly detached. Friday through Sunday rest and gain perspective. Energy may be low.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Several weeks of slow home progress will now fade. After Tuesday AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) New friends or colleagues may this week search out your expect relatives or friends to push for greater involvement in family decisions. Pay special approval or emotional expertise. Complex team assignments or strained workplace attention to issues of social planning and privacy. At present, loved ones may need to relations are accented. Stay focused and ask for clear statements of intention. Social feel validated by the group. Thursday through Saturday business promises and workplace sensitivity is now vital for group success. Wednesday through Saturday family mem- proposals may be easily canceled. Remain determined, however, and watch for key of- bers may be unexpectedly moody or withdrawn. Don’t push for detailed explanations ficials to soon reveal new ideas and complex policies. or immediate answers. Loved ones will soon reveal their hopes or fears.

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Columbia alums Everett Downing (’00), Aaron Hartline (’98) and Daniel Lopez Munoz (’96) who now work for Pixar, visit as part of Alumni Weekend, bringing clips from “Toy Story 3,” “WALL-E,” “Ratatoullie” and the 2009 Academy Award winner of Best Animated Feature, “Up.” (312) 369-8640 FREE

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Heather McElhatton Elizabeth Barret Multicultural Affairs Family Reunion The Yes Men reception and book signing 11:30 a.m. 2 – 3:15 p.m. presentation 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Film Row Cinema 1104 Center, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Columbia Library, South Campus Building Expression 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Glass Curtain Gallery 1104 Center, 624 S. Michigan Ave. Wabash Campus Building, 623 S. (312) 369-8690 1104 S. Wabash Ave. (312) 369-7355 Wabash Ave. FREE (312) 369-6643 (312) 369-7812 FREE FREE FREE “One Tribe” 7 p.m. Cultural ReMIX: Exploring the Mixed Acoustic Kitchen Susan Tallman Stage Two Race Generation 7 – 10 p.m. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. 618 S. Michigan Ave. Building 5 – 7 p.m. Quincy Wong Center for Artistic Expression Ferguson Auditorium, Alexandroff (312) 369-8664 Multicultural Affairs Conference Room Wabash Campus Building, Campus Center FREE 618 S. Michigan Ave. Building 623 S. Wabash Ave. 600 S. Michigan Ave. (312) 369-8664 (312) 369-7920 Contact: Audrey Mast, [email protected] “Flow” FREE FREE FREE 7 – 9 p.m. The Court, Residence Center 731 S. Plymouth Court Neale Baldyga [email protected] Friday 09.24 FREE

Columbia Kayaks 2:30 – 6 p.m. Saturday 09.25 Fitness Center, Residence Center 731 S. Plymouth Court Genius without Borders: A (312) 369-6659 Symposium in Honor of the $15 for students; $30 for faculty Genius of Michael Jackson and staff 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Film Row Cinema, 1104 Center 1104 S. Wabash Ave. (312) 369-8550 FREE fi tness music columbia photography The Business of Being Funny: “1306: Ten Years Later” Comedy Panel 9.25.10 9.25.10 All day Sunday tv cultural audio arts childhood 09.26 4:30 – 6 p.m. The Dance Center, Getz Theater, 72 E. 11th St. 1306 S. Michigan Ave. Opera in Cinema: “TOSCA” (312) 369-8640 (312) 369-8345 2 – 4 p.m. Film Row Cinema, 1104 Center Columbia’s Dance Department dance museum theater english 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Alumni discuss how they molded celebrates 10 years at The Dance Center, (312) 369-6709 successful careers from comedy. Panel 1306 S. Michigan Ave., which included FREE includes the following guests: Actor more than 45 companies and artists. Andy Richter, comedienne Erica Watson, Performances include Judy Atalee, Ayako Peter Teschner of “Borat,” Steve Pink of a+d radio iam journalism Kato, Boom Crack, Double DJ and Lucky “Hot Tub Time Machine,” Chris McKay of Plush Productions. “Robot Chicken” and Karyn Bosnak of “What’s Your Number?” speaker marketing fi lm celebrity

Pick up the Chronicle every Monday to see what free movie passes we offer each week Zanetoberfest “Mad Men” viewing party 09.25.2010 09.26.2010 2 – 6 p.m. 9 p.m. Joe’s Bar Fat Cat “Do It Again: One (773) 549-0203 940 W. Weed St. 4840 N. Broadway (773) 337-3486 (773) 506-3100 Man’s Quest to $75 FREE $10 Zane Lamprey, host of Watch the AMC drama series Reunite the Kinks” the Travel Channel’s while snacking on $1 appetizers, Watch the Chicago premiere of “Three Sheets,” throws such as pigs in a blanket and fi lm screening an Oktoberfest-style bash deviled eggs, and sipping $6 old- the documentary about director featuring German oompah fashioneds prepared tableside, 09.23.2010 Geoff Edgers’ attempts to get music, comedy, food and plus $6 mai tais and Stolichnaya the band back together again. an open bar, plus a special martinis. performance from his buddy 7:30 p.m. Steve McKenna. Metro 3730 N. Clark St.

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“The Female Funnies” “Lasting Impressions: Chinese 10-year Photography Retrospective Pizza cooking class 8:30 p.m. Rubbings” 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Zanies Comedy Night Club 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Carter G. Woodson Library Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar 1548 N. Wells St. The Field Museum 9525 S. Halsted St. 3358 N. Paulina St. (312) 337-4027 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive (312) 747-6900 (773) 248-5222 $10 plus a two-item food or drink (312) 922-9410 FREE $20; RSVP recommended minimum $12–$15 general admission; $8–$10 for kids ages 3–11 “Jersey Shore” viewing party Chicago Chamber Musicians “Planet Earth: Shallow Seas” 9 p.m. Prudential Plaza Farmers Market 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Uncle Fatty’s Rum Resort 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. 2833 N. Sheffi eld Ave. Merit School of Music, Gottlieb Hall Prudential Plaza Shedd Aquarium (773) 477-3661 38 S. Peoria St. 125 E. Lake St. 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive FREE before 9 p.m.; $5 after (312) 225-5226 (312) 744-3315 (312) 939-2438 $10–$40 FREE FREE for kids 3 and under; $17.95– $24.95 general admission Sunday Outlaw 09.26 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday 09.24 The Sunday Night Sex Show The Blackstone Hotel 7:30 – 10 p.m. 636 S. Michigan Ave. “Americans in Peril!” Saturday 09.25 The Burlington 10 p.m. (312) 542-3437 3425 W. Fullerton Ave. Studio BE (773) 384-3243 FREE Of Montreal 3110 N. Sheffi eld Ave. FREE (773) 248-5900 7 p.m. $12 Riviera Theatre 4746 N. Racine Ave. Hyde Park Arts and Crafts Chicago Critical Mass (773) 275-6800 Adventure monthly bike ride 5:30 p.m. $23 University of Chicago, Hyde Park Daley Plaza Center Outdoor Courtyard 50 W. Washington St. Rib-a-Que Smoke-out 1526 E. 55th Place cultural museum music movie art (773) 710-4143 Noon – 6 p.m. (312) 751-2500 FREE Moonshine Brewing Company FREE Joe Dobbyn’s Comedy Writing School 1824 W. Division St. political theater speaker food celebrity 11:59 p.m. (312) 862-8686 Donny’s Skybox Theatre $30–$35 1608 N. Wells St. reading bicycling tv photography (312) 337-3992 $10; $8 for students

Pick up the Chronicle every Monday to see what free movie passes we offer each week