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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 VOLUME 31 / NUMBER 25 www.uicnews.uic.edu facebook.com/uicnews twitter.com/uicnews UIC NEWS youtube.com/uicmedia For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago “I’m looking forward to starting the next chapter — finishing up the school part and actually start practicing.” Photo: Joshua Clark Medical school classmates Shrinal Vyas and Janai Carr celebrate their good news at Match Day Friday. It was a day of tears and cheers for UIC fourth-year medical students when, like others all over the country, they received their residency placements through the National Resident Matching Program. Vyas will train in pediatrics at Advocate Lutheran General; Carr, who is completing an MD and Ph.D., will be a resident in internal medicine at the University of California at San Francisco with plans for an oncology fellowship. Read more about this rite of passage for medical students on page 6 and watch the video at youtube.com/uicmedia. Medical students meet their match INSIDE: Profile / Quotable 2 | Campus News 4 | Calendar 8 | Student Voice 9 | Police 10 | Sports 12 Joel Demuth follows his dreams On July 1, new policy will make UIC robots crush the competition Postseason tourney tonight: on land and water UIC smoke-free at Midwest contest Flames vs. Chicago State More on page 2 More on page 3 More on page 11 More on page 12 2 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I MARCH 20, 2013 profile Send profile ideas to Gary Wisby, [email protected] Joel Demuth puts heart into swimming, serving country By Gary Wisby Joel Demuth is a Division I athlete — a swimmer — and an ROTC cadet, a rare combination. He first made a connection between the two pursuits at age 10, when he at- tended a swim camp at West Point, N.Y., home of the U.S. Military Academy. “Seeing all that [military] stuff at a young age piqued my interest,” Demuth (pronounced “d’-mewth”) said. “I thought the whole Army thing was cool.” As a UIC student, he was interested in the Reserve Of- ficer Training Corps, but “I never thought I would have time for it because of my swimming,” he said. When he approached ROTC officials at the beginning of his sophomore year, “they said we can work around that.” It will require a fifth year of school — he’s a junior now — that’s all ROTC, no swimming. Both programs provide Demuth with a scholarship, so between them, he has a full ride. He swims freestyle at distances of 50, 100 and 200 yards. UIC’s team was 6-4 in dual meets last season, with Demuth winning eight first-place finishes. At the conference meet, he won the 100 free and placed third in both the 50 free and 200 free. With him leading off, his relay team won the 400 free. Demuth also swims in Puerto Rico, where his mother was born, in competitions organized by the Puerto Rico Swimming Federation. Last May, he finished third in one race and second in two others. Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin “The guy that beat me went to the Olympics,” he said. Joel Demuth found his passion for the Reserve Officer Training Corps after attending a swim camp at the home of the U.S. Military Academy. Demuth will race in Puerto Rico again this May. “In July, there are Central American and Caribbean of high school, I really had to make a choice to commit to After graduation comes military service. If he’s in the top championships they want me to compete in,” he said. one sport or the other, or else I was not going to be able to 50 percent — his score determined by grade point average, While attending Naperville North High School, Demuth excel at both,” he said. Army physical fitness test and ROTC grades — he’ll spend coached swimming and water polo for park district teams. “As much fun as lacrosse was — and I was pretty good — the next four years on active duty with the Army. He swims 20 hours a week — “The NCAA says you can I decided to go with swimming.” If not, he’ll be attending monthly meetings in the Army do 18, but I do extra on my own,” he said — and lifts weights He realized he’d made the right choice at his first state Reserve or National Guard for eight years. for three to four hours. meet junior year. “My main interest in serving is the thought of being able He played lacrosse from age 10 to 15, and water polo “Walking on the pool deck and seeing hundreds of to represent my country,” he said. from 13 to 18. swimmers walking around and warming up, it felt like I was “I love that I’ll be out there serving my country in what- “After playing lacrosse and swimming my freshman year a professional,” he said. ever way I’m needed.” “It was awesome. And then swimming in front of hun- Demuth is majoring in criminology and may end up in dreds of screaming fans was a very exhilarating feeling. the military police. “I feel more comfortable with a Speedo on than I do with If he doesn’t choose a career in the military, he may go to any other clothing. The pool is where my heart is.” grad school or get a job in the criminology field, anything Demuth lived in Naperville until he was 9. The family from being a police officer to working for the Drug Enforce- moved to New Jersey when his father got a job transfer, re- ment Administration or FBI. turning to Naperville when Demuth was 12. “Or I could definitely see myself pursuing a career as a Now he lives in an apartment near campus with two collegiate swim coach if the opportunity came up,” he said. Joel Demuth won eight first-place finishes for the Flames last year. gymnasts and a track and field athlete. [email protected] quotable “It was disappointing that, with such clear evidence “This was a good time in my life to do what I thought “I tell my students, don’t trust anything you read in about the effects of carrageenan on inflammation, was interesting. I didn’t mind taking an adventure. I the popular press. Even if there is a [peer-reviewed the FDA did not restrict the use of carrageenan, didn’t mind going someplace new.” scientific] paper, there’s often a disconnect between particularly in infant formula.” what is in the paper and in the popular press.” Rachel Ressler, a recent graduate of the College of Urban Joanne Tobacman, associate professor of clinical medi- Planning and Public Affairs who is working as a city Peter Doran, professor of earth and environmental sci- cine, on the safety of carrageenan, a food additive, March planner in the fracking boomtown of Williston, N.D., March ences, on later-discredited reports by Russian scientists 18 Chicago Tribune 17 Chicago Tribune that they had found a new form of bacteria in an Antarctic lake, March 12 Christian Science Monitor MARCH 20, 2013 I UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu 3 Higher ed likely Campus becomes tobacco free this summer to face decline By Christy Levy Effective July 1, UIC will become a to- bacco-free campus, prohibiting all forms of in state support tobacco: cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing By Sonya Booth tobacco, electronic cigarettes and smoke- less tobacco products. The American economy is gradually im- The new policy, available online at proving, but it’s too soon to stop worrying http://bit.ly/15mmr2b, will mean a healthi- about Illinois’ grave financial circumstances er campus, administrators say. — and the effect on higher education fund- “UIC is committed to creating and ing. maintaining a healthy, productive envi- That was the message from campus ad- ronment for all its students, faculty, staff, ministrators and economic experts at a town patients and visitors,” Chancellor Paula hall meeting on the university’s budget Mon- Allen-Meares and vice chancellor for ad- day in Student Center West, sponsored by ministrative services Mark Donovan said Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares. in a March 15 email to the campus com- Another budget town hall meeting will munity. be held today, 1 to 2:30 p.m., in the Illinois The Urbana-Champaign campus will Room, Student Center East. become smoke-free in November. “As a result of the state’s continuing finan- Administrators consulted with the uni- cial challenges, it appears that public higher versity president, UIC vice chancellors and tions that they’re taking or what they have in smoking when they’re out there?’” she said. education will face yet another year of declin- deans, campus senate, graduate and under- mind. Greg Maddix, a junior in English and a ing state support,” Allen-Meares said. graduate student government and student “We find a safe and effective approach to smoker himself, said he wasn’t sure the policy The state is about $9 billion behind in pay- organizations before enacting the policy, quitting smoking.” would stop people from smoking. ing its bills, said David Merriman, professor Donovan said. The process of quitting is difficult, Wilken “I just don’t see how they’re going to en- of economics and public administration and “The consensus was that we should said, but it can be done effectively within a force that,” he said. associate director of the Institute of Govern- move on this, especially because of the fact few months. Repeated violations of the policy could ment and Public Affairs.