Obama Unveils Gun Limits 'In Defense of Our Kids'
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FAVORITE RECIPES OF 2015 Dishes, drinks that enter ‘I’m making this once a week’ ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABEL URIBE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE territory Food & Dining E. JASON WAMBSGANS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Wednesday,January6,2016 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com Wheaton prof faces firing over Islam view Evangelical college cites fundamental differences in faiths By Manya Brachear Pashman Chicago Tribune Wheaton College has be- gun the process of firing a professor who said Mus- lims and Christians worship the same God, the teacher and the west suburban school confirmed Tuesday. Larycia Hawkins, a ten- ured political science pro- fessor who in December demonstrated solidarity with her Muslim neighbors by wearing a hijab, said at the end of last year that the college appeared ready to force her out after she had rejected recommendations to resign. This week she received word from Provost CAROLYN KASTER/AP Stanton Jones that the ter- President Barack Obama was joined Tuesday for his announcement on requiring private gun sellers to conduct background checks by Vice President mination process had be- Joe Biden, right, and others touched by gun violence, including, at far left, Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, the mother of slain teen Hadiya Pendleton. gun. “The Notice is not a termination; rather, it be- gins Wheaton College’s es- tablished process for em- Obama unveils gun limits ployment actions pertain- ing to tenured faculty mem- bers,” the private evangelical college said in a statement confirming the ‘in defense of our kids’ latest development. Hawkins, 43, announced last month that she would Emotional president to bypass defense of making it effort- ing for them to act. day.” This time he flicked don the hijab as part of her less for guns to be available Flanked Tuesday by away a tear from his left Advent devotion to show Congress; speech draws GOP fire for anybody, anytime,” he more than a dozen men cheek. support for Muslims who said. “Well, you know what, and women, many of Still, even after months have been under scrutiny By Christi Parsons can muster. the rest of us, we all have to whom he had consoled of study, the president’s since mass shootings in Tribune Washington Bureau With tears wetting his be just as passionate. We privately shortly after they actions on guns amount to Paris and San Bernardino, face at one point, Obama have to be just as organized lost loved ones to gun ahandful of relatively mi- Calif. WASHINGTON — mourned the deaths of in- in defense of our kids.” violence, Obama said he nor steps on a policy matter “I stand in religious soli- President Barack Obama nocent victims and By delivering an emo- decided on the new curbs that has long been a per- darity with Muslims be- joked, preached and wept preached the right of chil- tional speech rather than a unilaterally because guns sonal priority. cause they, like me, a Chris- in the East Room of the dren to attend school with- more sober argument de- have cut short too many Under his plan — not an tian, are people of the book,” White House on Tuesday, out fear of a mass shooting, signed to persuade law- American lives. executive order, but rather she posted on Facebook. outlining how he’ll use his and he voiced anger about makers, Obama further il- “Every time I think “guidance” for agencies — “And as Pope Francis stated authority to fight gun vio- the country’s epidemic of lustrated what his execu- about those kids, it gets me law enforcement officials last week, we worship the lence but revealing along gun violence and his well- tive action itself showed: mad,” he said, wiping a tear will warn private gun sell- same God.” the way that an appeal to funded opposition. without Congress, he can from his right eye. “And, by ers that they may be vul- Though the college did the heart may be the most “Yes, the gun lobby is make only limited changes, the way, it happens on the not take a position on her powerful tool a president loud and it is organized in but he’s given up on wait- streets of Chicago every Turn to Obama, Page 13 wearing the headscarf, some evangelical Christians State law: Illinois is already far ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to background checks. Page 13 Turn to Wheaton, Page 10 At the briefing: Parents of Hadiya Pendleton stood with President Barack Obama as he announced action on gun control. Page 13 THE GLOBAL CITY CHICAGO’S PLACE IN THE WORLD CUTLER TALKS How workforce of tomorrow is taught FAMILY, FOOTBALL Schools rethink The Jay Cutler who arrived in Chicago in programs to meet 2009 is a different guy needs of digital age than the Jay Cutler who just finished his By Mark Caro seventh season as and Kathy Bergen Bears quarterback. He Chicago Tribune now undergoes regular introspection. He got DALTON, Ga. —Mario married to Kristin Arzateembodies the type Cavallari, gaining a of workforce transforma- perspective on life that tion needed in Chicago and makes the 32-year-old other American cities. father of three a more Less than a year ago, the likable player and 19-year-old son of Mexican respected team leader. NUCCIO DINUZZO/TRIBUNE immigrants was wiping Arelaxed Cutler sat counters, frying fish and down with the Tribune’s David Haugh to talk foot- working the cash register ball, marriage and fatherhood. “This year was good,” at a fast-food restaurant in Cutler said. “The system was very agreeable. There the Blue Ridge Mountains’ was never a situation where I thought, ‘This is awful, foothills. It was pocket- Ican’t do this.’ Adam (Gase) put together a real money work with a man- friendly system for quarterbacks that’s highly effec- ager’s job as the only hope ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE tive. There are a lot of things that happened this year for advancement — far Dalton High School student Kirsten Swafford, 18, center, works on her certification as a that came together for us to have some success.” from the foundation for a certified nursing assistant at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Conversation in Chicago Sports future that Arzate envi- sioned. School, which introduced in civil engineering. states removed from Chi- Now Arzate designs him to computer-aided de- “I didn’t think I’d have a cago, but his story is one sewer routes for a carpet sign during a series of future in engineering be- that this region may want Mayor: No need Occupiers: Won’t mill and water lines for manufacturing/engineer- cause I heard it was ex- to heed. Chicago’s econo- residential streets for the ing classes and helped him tremely tough,” he said, my once rested on the for inquiry of leave till locals local utility company. The line up an internship with “but now I can see it broad shoulders of steel LawDepartment control fedlands catalyst for change in his the utility. He’s going to happening.” life was Dalton High college and wants a career Arzate may be several Turn to Education, Page 8 Chicagoland, Page 4 Nation & World, Page 11 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $1.99 city and suburbs, $2.50 elsewhere Tom Skilling’s forecast High 38 Low 32 forecast on back page of A+E section 168th year No.6©Chicago Tribune 8 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Wednesday, January6,2016 THE GLOBAL CITY CHICAGO’S PLACE IN THE WORLD ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Bernardo Olveraedits photos with Vanessa Agundiz at his Dalton, Ga., studio. Agundiz, a Dalton High School film student, works part time as a photo editor there. companies band together to cre- Swiss ate uniform criteria for vocational certifications, American business- es in a given field are more likely to view themselves in competition — model and therefore less likely to col- laborate on setting vocational cer- tification standards. “It’s a totally different culture tempting here,” Hoffman said. Also, many American schools and parents resist the idea of choice setting children onto “tracks” at an early age. “Nobody wants their kid denied the possibility of going Education, from Page 1 to Harvard,” said workforce train- ing expert Anthony Carnevale of mills and stockyards. Today it’s Georgetown University. “We’re reinventing itself — it’s tech- not European. We’re not going to driven and hungry for skilled take kids when they are in 10th workers at ease with the digital grade and decide their futures.” age. Yet, he added, the result is But there are growing pains. “we’re leaving all these kids be- Companies complain of an hind . ... They are going nowhere.” ever-widening skills gap as they Katz debates the notion that the struggle to fill increasingly sophis- European systems actually track ticated jobs. At the same time, the kids. “They give kids exposure to population is becoming more di- multiple kinds of options, and you verse. The Chicago region, which get on one track, and from there was 71 percent white in 1980, is ZBIGNIEW BZDAK/CHICAGO TRIBUNE you can stay with the company or projected to be minority white by Mario Arzate, 19, works as an intern for Dalton Utilities in Georgia, designing sewer routes and water lines for go back to school and get a degree 2030, outpacing a similar shift residential streets. Dalton High School helped him line up the internship. in engineering or computer sci- across the nation. The U.S. is ence, and then you go back into projected to be minority white by firms helped shape tech-career exports and 85 percent of its academic performance or wealth, the workforce,” he said.