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Pipe Break, Flooding Close Sherman Hall
In 1970, Dr. Alfonso Sherman joined the GSU faculty and helped formulate the first fme arts program and staffed it with outstanding faculty. Sherman was the first dean of the College of Cultural Studies at GSU. Sherman was one of the main contributors to what GSU's fine arts program is today. In 1987, the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities agreed to name the Music Recital Hall at GSU in honor of Dr. Alfonso Sherman. GSU's then-President Leo Goodman-Malamuth noted, "In the course of the universities development he was instrumental in the conception, design and furnishing of the Music Recital Hall, the facility that is to be renamed in his honor." Dr. Alfonso Sherman died in 1980. At that time Goodman-Malamuth said, "Naming the Music Recital Hall after him is an appropriate honor for an individual who contributed so much to the university and to its fine arts program in particular." Had it not been for the contributions of Dr. Alfonso Sherman, Sherman Music Recital Hall may not have ·· existed.
Underground water pipe rupture causes GSU's Sherman Hall to Flood. Phoenix Photo by Trio Martinez
By Krystal Lang if appropriate - take the pipe out of service. We hope to Contributing Writer reopen Sherman in mid-April but we cannot confirm that date until we receive results of the video Extensive water damage in the E-wing's Sherman investigation." Music Recital Hall has prompted several plays, The flooding affected (he main hall as well as an performances and other events to be cancelled, post adjacent store room, a painting studio and the hallway poned or moved to other campus locales. outside the entrance. It appears that maintenance crews The university sent out a notice of the hall's responded promptly when they learned of the flooding. temporary closing Feb. 17. That week, wet carpet and "We had the carpet and other surfaces professionally damp walls could be seen along with at least 15 cleaned and have scheduled an investigative team to industrial fans blowing full throttle in every comer as send a camera into the pipe to determine the point of hoses snaked from one side of the hall to the other pipe break," said Rakstang. sucking up excess water. Sherman Music Recital Hall has been an important Susan Rakstang, Associate Vice President of part of GSU for decades. There have been many plays, Flooding wasn't only a problem inside GSU, Facilities Development and Management said, "An cultural events, lectures and speeches held in Sherman. but also on the exterior grounds. The pond underground water pipe broke causing a flood in This Hall was the turning point for GSU's Fine Arts flooded due to heavy rains in early March. Sherman. Other contractors will be on site to repair or - program and has an interesting history that follows. Phoenix Photo by Trio Martinez GSU President Chats With Students By Krystal Lang will be making by 2015 as demonstrated in the GSU bureaucracies is another issue Maimon discussed. Contributing Writer Strategic Plan. Enrollment is on the rise, she noted, and GSU is "As a nation we're confronting financial difficulties, looking into possibly offering more classes during the With everyone worried about the economy and their but we're in good shape." Maimon said referring to day and making it easier for students from other schools own future, GSU Elaine Maimon gathered with students GSU. "We're in uncharted waters in challenging to take summer classes. and some of her top administrators to answer questions economic times." Maimon also addressed issues involving increases on a variety of topics from students and faculty during The Strategic Plan, available on-line at in student fees. A future student trustee raised the an informal chat session earlier this month. www.govst.edu under the About link, is a strategy of question of why technology fees have been increased The atmosphere was relaxed and informal with pizza, institutional goals that GSU hopes to accomplish by the but no other fees were increased. popcorn, cookies and coke, which Dr. Maimon declared year 2015. The plan addresses continued academic Maimon said they decided to keep student fees as her favorite foods as she opened the initial discussion. excellence, high quality of faculty and staff, social low as possible so that is the reason they only raised the There was a modest group of students, student ethical and environmental responsibility, and financial technology fee which was increased by seven dollars. representatives and faculty gathered in the cafeteria growth and sustainability, annex for the talk. The GSU Strategic Plan, was one of Strengthening the connection with community the main topics discussed by Maimon. She assured all in colleges and expanding dual admissions simultaneously attendance of the positive progress GSU has made and with GSU to avoid student difficulties dealing with two See 'President Chat' page 2
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By Sarah Silhan every time I leave the students I'm teaching. When I teach Editor something and they "get it," there is absolutely nothing better. When a student tells me, "That was so cool, Miss When you first decided on the career Silhan! I finally understand!" I can't tell you the or major you chose, what was it that overwhelming feeling of success I feel. inspired your decision? Was it a wish to In 2007, I questioned whether or not I was making the fulfill a childhood dream? The desire to right decision, but now, in 2009, I am sure that I have. As I work with children? A yearning for a six-figure income? near the end of my last term of heavy classwork at GSU No matter what inspired you to pursue your course of before I student teach in the fall, I hope that all of you feel action, how can you be sure that you will still be happy the same connection and fulfillment in your career path with your choice years down the road? I asked myself all that I do. these questions when I decided to quit my corporate job a I write this editorial because I hope that if you haven't few years ago and return to school to become a high school found something to inspire you or to test your commitment English teacher. to your chosen field, now is the time. Don't wait until Honestly, I questioned whether or not I was making the you've spent four years crying in the parking lot of your I WANT! YO~ U! right decision. Maybe I just wasn't giving my cubicle company parking lot because you "hate your job" to decide TO WRITE FOR THE STUDENT enough credit. Or maybe I just wasn't with the right to make a change. · . NEWSPAPER OF COURSE! company yet. Maybe my "dream job" was downtown, on Your classwork at GSU is an indication of the kind of Michigan Avenue. Or maybe it was in another city. work you will be doing for years after graduation. If you If you have an interest in writing, So I took a chance. I applied to GSU, got accepted and love it, congratulations! Finding the "perfect career" isn't journalism, or design, the Phoenix has a started slow, taking only two classes in the fall of 2007. always easy, but if you leave your classes, your internships After graduating in 2004 from St. Ambrose University in · or whatever it is that is preparing you for the "real world" place for you! Davenport, Iowa, it had been awhile since I'd been in the that awaits with a true feeling of joy, then you've already The Phoenix Student Newspaper is classroom, but something told me I was doing the right got your answer. looking for student contributors to help in thing. If not, maybe now is the time to talk to your advisor, making the Phoenix a success. As I see the light at the end of tunnel of the Winter visit the career center or consider making a change. If you are interested, please contact the 2009 term, I am more confident than ever before that I Though it may seem like a daunting task, you'll be so very made the right choice. I've spent many hours glad you took the steps to achieving your career goals. Phoenix office at 708-534-4517 or microteaching (the step before student teaching) at Rich As for me, I can't wait to get into a classroom in the fall [email protected]. Central High School and Crete Monee High School, and I and begin to make a difference in the lives of young can honestly say that nothing in my past life as a corporate people. But until then, I've got to practice writing my ------1 minion was as gratifying- or as exhausting. lesson plans. But there is a feeling of contentment and self-worth
'President Chat' cont. from page 1 the system we have to show a fee that covers that debt. If we don't have to replace the system with technology The Phoenix is Governors State University's student newspaper. It is Maimon said the Jenzabar system controls all becoming so advanced we still have published twice monthly during the fall and technology for the college and may need upgrades or tremendous technology needs, she said. winter, and monthly during the repairs. At the end of the questions, Maimon and a staff mem spring/summer. But with the economy being what it is and Jenzabar ber headed to Springfield for budget discussions where We welcome articles, suggestions, being a small company there could be a chance that they they planned to lobby for using federal stimulus monies to photos, commentary, cartoons, and letters may suffer and if they experience difficulties staying in renovate the E and F wings, a project that has been on hold to the editor on issues that concern you or business that puts the GSU technology system at risk of for years during to a lack of funding. the greater GSU population. being shut down. Maimon noted that authorities are looking to use those We reserve the right to edit submissions So Maimon said to protect the school and the funds for "shovel ready" projects. "What could be more for clarity, legality, and interest to our GSU students she would rather increase the technology fee as a shovel ready than a project we've had ready for seven years?" readership. back up to any possible problems and if we have to replace All submissions should be signed, and include the student, faculty, or staff member's ID number, department, and phone number.
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Contributors: Margie Glass-Sula Barbara Hogu Michelle Hulett Krystal Lang Patti McGoldrick Amy Beth Porter Renee Wiechmann ~0=3=11~2=1~Q=9======~D<======~ Table Tennis Comes to GSU Who's Who The first round will be conducted from 11 :30a.m.to 1p.m. and the second round from 5:30-7:00p.m. on the 23rd thru the 26th. @GSU? All students can come to play at any time during those periods. No advanced registration is required, though they must register at the time of competition. The top 8 players from the first Ting Jie Wang round will go on to the final round, held from 5:30p.m.to 7p.m. on Tuesday, March 31 in the By Michelle Hulett Cafeteria Annex. Further, the top four players Staff Writer will be awarded with trophies. Wang notes that "table tennis offers mans Ting Jie Wang (otherwise known as TJ) has had nothing short of an many benefits to our health and physical extraordinary life. To see the full picture, however, we must look back wellness since it requires arm and leg muscles to 1953, as Chemists at a West German pharmaceutical company and reflex physical skills." He says the best thing worked to produce an anti-histamine. about table tennis is that it is an equalizer. Accidentally, they stumbled across a new tranquilizer, which they "Size, age, and gender do not matter very began marketing in 1957. Hailed as a "wonder drug", Thalidomide much," he says. "You can find young players as was sold in 46 countries including Taiwan, where Wang was born. GSU's newly formed Table Tennis Club. well as old players, male and female, and In 1961, an Australian obstetrician made a connection between the Phoenix Photo by Trio Martinez differently-abled players." birth of disabled babies and the use of the drug. Though the drug was As our economy becomes increasingly global, recalled in 1962, there had been at least 12,000 victims, only 8,000 By Michelle Hulett Wang says "table tennis provides an excellent newborns surviving past the first month of life. But Wang is one of the Staff Writer venue for networking worldwide." Popular in survivors. both European and Asian countries, "an "When my mother was pregnant with me," Wang explains, "a local GSU has recently approved a new club. The understanding and appreciation for the sport will pharmacist in Taiwan gave her the drug to ease her severe morning Table Tennis Club, started by TJ Wang, is already help our students in the future by giving them a sickness." Wang was born with short arms that lack wrists and elbows. growing as word spreads through the campus. mutual interest around which they can cultivate His left hand has two fingers, his right hand has three fingers, and Wang explains, "Table Tennis is perfect for GSU business and social connections." neither hand has a thumb. since we have a long winter which does not Table Tennis dates back to 1901, when John "I could not independently carry out activities of daily living until I permit us to enjoy many outdoor sport activities." Jacques registered "Ping-Pong" as a trade name was 12 years old." Wang did not let his disability hinder him, however. He adds, "GSU has many international in England. Though the names "Table Tennis" He says he can "use chopsticks, write, type, ride a bicycle, swim, play students who can easily enjoy having the sport and "Ping-Pong" were interchangeable, the sport table tennis and pool, and drive an automobile without any which they are used to playing." has split into two camps: the recreational players, modifications." He can also cook and do Chinese calligraphy. With no dominate sport on campus; the Table who use the names interchangeably, and the Further, Wang has won trophies in competitive table tennis. He Tennis club has plenty of opportunities to use the serious players, who call it Table Tennis and began playing table tennis when he was a teenager. "I played table indoor facilities on campus. The club is planning view it as a sport. tennis for about 2 years because of peer pressure", he explains. "At their first tournament from March 23-26 in the Whatever you call it, the game is taking hold that time, I did not really enjoy playing the sport because of my Cafeteria Annex. ofGSU. disadvantages due to my short arms." However, he won third place in Because of students' varying schedules, the Second National Handicapped Table Tennis Championship in Wang has decided on two rounds of competition. Taiwan. Twenty years later, while writing his Ph.D. dissertation in Seattle, Wang took up the sport again at a community club. "Since then, I have been playing table tennis once a week for about 2-4 hours for 11 years," he says. Wang has established three clubs thus far; TTC at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Shorwood TTC, and TTC at GSU. He has also organized many tournaments and workshops. Never allowing his disability to control his life, Wang has truly become an inspiration to all. ======~D<======03='=19='=~= Dr. Quentin Young at GSU
and another 50 million have poor insurance. About 66 The University of Chicago hospital has seen a jump percent of people in the United States filing for in emergency room visits in part because Michael Reese bankruptcy file due to unpaid medical bills. hospital has shut its doors. The situation may only get The United States also has the most expensive worse as Dr. Young stated, "other southside hospitals healthcare system compared to other industrialized are suffering acute financial and economic hardship." nations. The current cost ofhealthcare is about $7,129 These healthcare system issues are why 59 percent of per capita; other nations spend half that on healthcare. doctors in the United States are for Single Payer In the United States, $2.5 trillion goes to healthcare. Insurance. This plan is not socialized medicine, where Despite the higher cost the U.S. has poor life physicians are paid by the government. Single payer expectancy, infant mortality rates, and immunizations health insurance pays for the services not the salaries of rates compared to these countries. the healthcare professionals, which will be paid by hos According to the PNHP website, www.phhp.org the pitals or practices they work for. reason healthcare costs more in the U.S. is not because Services covered under this plan would be any of better services but administrative fees. About 32-38 service provided by a licensed healthcare professional. percent of all healthcare costs go to these fees. Included The plan would also regulate the cost of medications as in these costs are for profit insurance companies and well. If people have health insurance they are more CEO retirement funds. likely to receive preventive care thus lowering their Currently, if one has insurance a co-pay ·is usually healthcare costs as preventive medicine catches health required and there is a cap on how much you can get. problems before they become serious, Young said. Plus, most insurance companies don't cover For profit insurance companies and pharmaceutical By Renee Wiechmann "pre-existing conditions." companies are opposed to this plan and are lobbying to Contributing Writer The U.S. has already begun taking steps towards a stop the bill in congress. There are roughly 650 national healthcare system. Medicare is an example of lobbyists working for the drug companies on Capitol Public Health in the United States is an ever this system. However, it is only available to individuals Hill, which is more than there are members of Congress, increasing concern for politicians and their constituents over 65. Medicaid is another example but many doctors at 535. as evidenced in the recent presidential election and the will not accept Medicaid, mostly because they aren't The federal government is looking for a new daily news headlines. getting paid in a timely manner. These doctors have to healthcare system, but at this time single payer health On Feb. 25, Dr. Quentin Young, the CEO of pay their bills as well. insurance has been put at the bottom of the list. Dr. Physicians for a National Health Program and longtime Dr. Young stressed, "The poor get sicker and the sick Young urges the public to be heard over the big drug health care activist, gave a lecture on the issue of public get poorer." and insurance companies. Make your congressman take healthcare and the need for change. Healthcare is costly in the United States; it's also notice. Currently the government pays for 60 percent of The lecture, titled "Empowering Community to serve costly to become a doctor. Many medical students are all healthcare costs, while employers pay 20 percent and Public Health," is part of a lecture series sponsored by looking at specialized fields because they pay more. the patient pays the remaining 20 percent. GSU's university honors program. Every year the Not only is the prospect of higher pay enticing it has Dr. Young and PNHP are calling for the public to program chooses a theme for the lecture series. This also become a necessity. write to their congressman in support of House Bill 676 year's theme is "Empowering Community from self Many medical students have student loans to pay and their state representative on State House Bill 311. service." The theme was chosen to reflect GSU's new back, these loans total up to $150,000 or more. Family Currently House Bill 676 has 92 sponsors and House goal called Strategy 20 15: Inspire hope, realize dreams, practice or primary care physicians are in demand Bill311 has 25. and strengthen community. One particular goal of the because of the lack of interest. If interested in this cause you can look at PNHP's university is the recommit itself to civic and community With a national healthcare system primary care website at www.pnhp.org or call312-782-6006. engagement. physicians will benefit and many specialists will begin Future lectures in the series are: "Bringing in the As a result of this plan this lecture and future to receive pay similar to their colleagues in family Community to Serve Juvenile Offenders" by Sr. lectures in the series are open to the public and are practice. Catherine Ryan, Executive Director of Maryville taped and aired on the universities cable access channel. Many hospitals are also in economic trouble. This is Academy, on March 25; "Community Development" by Dr. Young's lecture discussed the need for a national especially true for the poorer sections of the United Mary Houghton, President of Shorebank, the first healthcare system, providing health insurance for States. Dr. Young used the southside of Chicago as an community development bank in the country on April 1; everyone. He is an advocate for what is called Single example when he discussed how the University of "Promoting Civic and Community Engagement" by the Payer National Health Insurance. Single payer health Chicago hospital has cut its medical student admissions Honorable Abner Mikva, Federal District Court Judge, insurance is where a single public agency handles health along with emergency room activity by half. former state representative, legal council to the Clinton financing, but the healthcare remains private. The hospital implemented the emergency room White house, and sponsor of the Mikva Challenge, a The Physicians for a National Health Program or policy because many uninsured or poorly insured go to grant given to schools committed to community service PNHP is an advocacy group that is working to achieve the emergency room because the hospital has to provide on April15. this goal. Under the current health system about 45 care regardless of what type of insurance if any the million people in the United States have no insurance patient has.
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By Barbara Hogu King, Marianne Nelson, Eric M.Rektorski, Contributing Writer Steve Sainsbury, Brandon Swartz, and Amanda Watson; Kankakee Community If you take a walk through the Visual College: Patricia Paris Cheffer, Annalea Arts Gallery at GSU, you'll see something Hooper, Helen Kupferer, Peggy Miller, new. The University is hosting the 2009 Greg Roling, Alea Shea, Christopher Illinois Community College Juried Art Sheets, Emily Snider, Mary Weeks, Shane Exhibition, which includes student Wells, and Erin E. Williams; Kishwaukee paintings, drawings, printmakings, College: Peggy S. Klus and Zaneta photography, digital media, sculptures, and Taylor; Lewis and Clark Community ceramics from seventeen community College: Sean Williams; Lincoln Land colleges .. Community College: Jeff Miller and Jeremy Biles juried this year's David Murray; McHenry County College: exhibition. Biles is an instructor and Robert Jordan, Andy Lechner, and Richard graduate student adviser at the School of Neubauer; Morton Community College: the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the Gini Lange and Kathryn A. Budd; Oakton editor ofthe visual art journal Prompt. He Community College: Jude Kitts and Andy has also taught philosophy, religion and art Harris; Parkland College: Anora Johnson, courses at several institutions, which Judy Selen, Siti Mariah Sullivan, Brian include the University of Chicago and Sullivan, and Alena Yakirnkova; Prairie DePaul University. State College: Kristin Borst, Michelle D. Biles is an author as well as an Cox, Irene Ganas, Diana Gudowski, editor. He has written articles for such Leonard Ferris, Bruce Peerson, Charles Journals as the Journal of Religion, Janus Rohrer, Zachary Sala, Stephanie Specht, Head, and the Journal for Cultural and Lisa Marie Stevens, Kevin Stewart, and Religious Theory. In 2003, he curated the Margaret Werling; South Suburban "Zounds" show for the Hyde Park Art College: Maria Carrillo, and Alix Center for which he also wrote the Metcalfe; Triton College: Nicole M. exhibition catalogue. In 2007, Fordham Reichel; Waubonsee Community College: University Press published his book Ecce Emily Joy. Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the While some of the photographs Sacrifice of Form. included in this issue of The Phoenix were The exhibition will run until Friday, taken in the Visual Arts Gallery, all of the April 3 when a closing reception will take works can be viewed online at: place from 1-3 p.m.in theE-Lounge. At http:/I gsuvisualartsgallery. blogspot.com. that time, Biles will announce the merit The gallery hours until April 3rd are award winners The awards will go to the from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through selected best works of the exhibition and Thursday. The gallery is generally closed will include monetary prizes totaling on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. $1000. Everyone is invited to view the The following students are exhibition and is welcome to attend the competing for the awards: Hartland reception. Admission is free. Community College: Chasiiy Logan and Laura-Meador; Illinois Central College: Zak Harvey and Danielle Brown; John A. Logan College: Pakaphon Viriratana; John Wood Community College: Steven Stoll; Joliet Junior College: Heather Cochrane, Maureen Catterson, Anna Dankova, Anastasiya Dankova, Ashley Dedin, Sam ART Photos by Barbara Hogu
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+ 03 !1 9 0 9 ~~======~ Puzzled by Art? Let GSU Graduate Student Art Exhibition Piece it Together By Margie Glass-Sula the April 20 lectures. a team. Contributing Writer Puzzled Together offers everyone a chance to see They chose the title for their multi-faceted art exhibit and learn about several types of artworks by the GSU due to the fact that they all were "puzzled" as to how A remarkable group of twelve GSU Graduate art emerging visual artists, historians, and curators placed they would all be able to display such a wide array of students, including both curators and visual artists, will about the campus. The art showcased in Puzzled artworks in various locations, but still remain a group. display individual, limited scale exhibitions of artwork Together includes visual artists Peter Bosy, Michael Group member Elizabeth Farnesi came up with the at various locations around the University from March Costanza, Monique Doyle, Sarah Ogren, Patty "puzzle" idea and collaborated with another of the 30 through April 20, 2009. McWilliams, Joyce Speechley, Elizabeth Farnesi, twelve artists, Peter Bosy, on designing an announce These exhibits, all under the blanketed title Puzzled Margie Glass-Sula, the curatorial skills of Traci Ores ment to represent the group. Together will showcase examples of experimental and and Rene Riley, along with Rachel Pendergast who is The Puzzled Together Graduate art students hope for traditional photography, compelling process works presenting the works of artist KLeo, and Silvia Melby the rest of the GSU community and visitors to enjoy the incorporating smoke as an art medium, digital imaging, who is presenting the works of artist James S. Crews. artworks and lectures, with hopes for the University to mixed media work, large-scale paintings, ceramic Under the direction of GSU Printmaking Professor continue to embrace more visual art, and display it on a mosaic, and various forms of new twists on traditional Heather Page, the group of Graduate art students has regular basis. drawing. come together during her. current course on To learn more, please visit the Puzzled Together site Informative lectures on each art exhibit will be given professionalism in the arts. Page herself an and blog: http://gsuart.blogspot.com or contact by the student curators and artists for three consecutive internationally shown visual artist, wanted the students Professor Heather Page: [email protected]. Monday evenings, April6, 13, and 20 beginning at to all have a chance to not only learn, but to experience Maps of the Puzzled Together art exhibitions and the 7:30p.m. in the F-Wing, room Fl622. Night owl tours just what it takes to organize and participate in a campus will be available at the information desk located of the campus-wide exhibitions will follow the professional art event. In doing so, each student has the inside the main entrance of the University. evening's lectures, with a closing reception following opportunity to could showcase their talents, and work as Criminal Profiling Workshop at GSU Writing competition celebrates GSU's 40th By Renee Wiechman By Renee Wiechman Contributing Writer Contributing Writer
If you enjoy watching CSI and The Mentalist - or you have a real career in law If you have been thinking about entering GSU's 40th Anniversary writing compe enforcement- you might want to check out this summer's criminal profiling workshop tition there still is time. The entries, which are about what GSU means to you, need to be held on four Fridays in June. to be in by April 30. The course will cover a variety of topics. Students will learn about interview and The anniversary celebration's planning and invitations committee created the com investigation tactics, personality descriptions of criminals, and behavior of offenders petition as their contribution to commemorating the 40th anniversary. Each college and department on campus is represented in this committee as well. To further pro- · after the crime. The instructors will also discuss how the behavior of victims may lead mote the competition, Sheree Sanderson, the chair of the committee said, "The com to being targeted by criminals is important in recognizing and profiling criminal con mittee decided to bring forth pieces themselves." They are also working on obtaining duct. Students will also be able to recreate a crime scene and build a profile on the entries from some of GSU's notable alumni, such as Debbie Halvorson, a member of offender. the United States House of Representatives. The workshop will be taught by former FBI Special Agents Timothy Eley and Eileen The topic of the competition is "What impact GSU has made on your life or com Schmidt. The workshop is open to all students and GSU tuition does apply, as this is a munity." It is open to anyone, including students, faculty, staff, alumni; retirees or two credit hour course. The course will also be available for non credit if police depart even anyone in the community who feels GSU has made an impact on their life. ments are interested in brushing up on their criminal profiling skills. All styles of writing will be accepted. These styles can be anything from essays to For more infonnation and to register for this course, CruS 510 QA, call (800) 478- poems or limericks. The minimum number of words is 200 and the maximum is 750. 84 78, extension 3983 or visit www.govst.edu/schedule. If interested in GSU's Criminal Entries need to be submitted to [email protected] in Microsoft word Justice Program or other courses related to forensics and criminal justice please call only. No graphics should be included. Competitors can only give one entry too. 708-534-4390 or visit www.govst.edu/cas. The entries will be judged by a panel of GSU students, faculty, alumni, and staff. Entries will be featured on the 40th Anniversary website. The winners will be GSU Extends Recycling to Community announced at the GSU Gala Celebration on Nov. 7, 2009. The top 40 entries will be featured in IMPACT, a magazine designed to honor the best entries. Governors State University is extending an invitation to surrounding communities to If interested, go to http://www.govst.edu/40years/default.aspx?id=21990 or call join its commitment to recycling and preserving the environment. With the placement of Sheree Sanderson at 708-235-3956. two large collection containers on campus, GSU is asking people to bring their recycla ble paper products for deposit. "GSU already has an extensive recycling program within the university. Some local communities, however, do not have curb side recycling and some of our faculty and staff were looking for a place to recycle paper products from home," said Peggy Schiesher, Supervisor of Housekeeping. "These large containers provide a great solu tion." ;\lt!\R K f .TJNC ·~ C~R.L1LTP The university has contracted with Abitibi Bowater, North America's largest newspa per manufacturer and newspaper recycler, to pick up and reuse the paper products col lected in the bins. Newspaper, magazines, catalogs, mail, office paper, and paperback Exceptional Concepts for Enriched Living books are accepted. Cardboard and phone books are not recyclable at this location. The bins are located in the Wagoner House parking lot, on the south side of Stuekel • Total Health and Road, adjacent to the railroad tracks, and in the E parking lot off University Parkway. Wellness today is For more information, call 708-534-4515. essential. Courtesy of the GSU Public Relations Department. • Is your health and financial wellness important to you?
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U-WIRE: UC-Berkeley According to the 2007-'08 constructed an essential cellular component Church, whose announcement Saturday California Physical Fitness Report, responsible for synthesizing proteins- a came at an event sponsored by the Harvard A fast food restaurant being in only 14.1 percent of Berkeley High discovery that marks a major stride towards Origin of Life Initiative, also said that close proximity to a high school School freshmen met all the criteria of creating artificial life, according to the lead studying ribosomes--one of the few cell increases the obesity rate among its a fitness test, compared to the investigator behind the project. components common to almost all life--can freshmen, according to a recent study statewide rate of 35.6 percent. The first man-made ribosome was be relevant to our understanding of the first by UC Berkeley economists and a A Round Table Pizza restaurant is announced to an assembly of Harvard life on Earth. Columbia University researcher. located approximately 0.3 miles from alumni Saturday afternoon in a symposium "Ribosomes ... allow us to connect the The study, released in January, the school, and there is a McDonald's titled "The Future of Life," by George M. dots between the origins of life and the found that freshmen who attend high restaurant 0.4 miles away, according Church, the lead investigator of the project modem organism," Church said. "Synthetic school a tenth of a mile from a fast to Google Maps. Berkeley High and a professor of genetics at Harvard ribosomes will hopefully allow us to do food restaurant have an obesity rate at Parent Teacher and Student Medical School. those things better, or do things that haven't least 5 .2 percent higher than other Association President Mark van "[The ribosome is] the catalytic core of been able to do before." freshmen. Krieken said although there are many the cell," said Michael C. Jewett, a research The next step, researchers said, is to Additionally, there was "no local healthy options, students can be fellow who worked with Church. "The create a ribosome that will be completely discernible effect" on obesity for high tempted. advantage of building them [in a lab] is that synthetic, without the use of bacterial RNA schools with fast food restaurants "Ideally parents raise their kids you can manipulate the system directly. It's and other protein additives. within a quarter mile or half mile, or properly and tell them, 'you don't eat like opening the hood of a car and having Labs have created functional models of with non-fast food restaurants nearby. fast food at home with us, don't eat direct access to the machination." ribosomes in the past, Jewett said, but never "What we found was basically that fast food when you're off on your own Although their work is "a milestone ... in a way that so closely mimicked life itself. only very close fast-food places at lunch,'" he said. "But the bottom towards artificial life," according to Jewett, "We've shown for the first time that we matter," said Vikram Pathania, a line is a lot of kids are doing that both he and Church emphasized that they can actually carry out ribosomal synthesis, researcher in the study who recently anyway." have not yet created any synthetic life, nor is assembly, and protein synthesis in one received his doctorate from UC Mat Rogers, co-executive director that their main goal. compartment" said Jewett. Berkeley. "[And] if it's not a fast food of the Society for Agriculture and Instead, the research team's aim is to Jack W. Szostak, a genetics researcher at restaurant then it does not lead to a Food Ecology at UC Berkeley, said "make useful products," said Church. Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard spike in obesity." people tend to eat what is convenient The research behind the ribosome, Medical School professor who has been The study looked at data from 3 and available. funded by the National Institute of Health, investigating the origins of life, million California public school "The fact that researchers are could give scientists "unprecedented power acknowledged Monday the significance of freshmen, who are all required to take seeing these correlations just shows to evolve ribosomes to produce unique Church's discovery. a fitness test in the spring. that we need to redouble our effort to proteins for compelling applications," Jewett "It's always been a very difficult thing to The study also found that pregnant expand farmers' markets and expand said. Crucial vaccines and pharmaceuticals do," Szostak said. "It opens up more mothers who live within a half mile of consumer education so that consumers could evolve from the discovery. interesting experiences where you make fast food outlets have a 2.5 percent know what kind of food to get their "The idea of being able to make new something useful. It's a step in a long increased chance of gaining 44 hands on to avoid the obesity polymers, maybe one day making a pathway [to creating artificial life]. pounds or more. epidemic,'' he said. Pathania said this discovery can be For many students, the study's used to argue for stricter regulation of findings stated the obvious. fast-food locations. "[That's] hardly surprising. "There are all these zoning Humans tend to act on emotional restrictions in place now. For impulse. Fast food is fast, flashy and example, LA has been trying to stop teenagers haven't developed much of the opening of new fast food places," a palate yet," said Jon Kelvey, a he said. "And so there's also interest graduate student in cognitive into whether you can use zoning laws neuroscience. in intelligent ways to reduce the
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The research they have done prevent more than just sleep during lecture. negative stigmas, such as cigarettes and cancer, will impact the farming community, which gives A team of researchers-led by Paul Nghiem '86 of the University researchers at the University of Maryland are their discoveries an economic ripple, Lo added. of Washington Department of Dermatology- released a study last working to find positive alternative uses for the Farmers can gain revenues of $400 per acre of week that determined that the topical application of caffeine may plant. tobacco, so the project aims to provide similar prevent the some types of skin cancer. Martin Lo, the head researcher of Alternative benefits to farmers through their new methods, The research- published in the Journal for Investigative Uses for Tobacco and an associate professor of Lo said. Dermatology- provides a biological explanation for recent clinical food science at the College of Agriculture and The Alternative Uses for Tobacco research studies that have shown a negative correlation between caffeine Natural Resources, said their goal is to help team consists of professors, graduate students, intake and the risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer. revolutionize the way tobacco is grown and used research assistants and undergraduates. According to the study, caffeine appears to reduce the risk of with the goal of helping the economy adjust to "For me, it has been a learning experience," some skin cancers by interrupting the ATR pathway, causing changing times. said Ansu Elizabeth Cherian, a second-year apoptosis or cell suicide of these damaged and potentially cancerous The ingredients recovered from tobacco will master's student. "Apart from the usual stigma cells. have applications in food, chemical and attached to tobacco, we can find good uses for ATR is a protein kinase that is responsible for facilitating the fermentation industries, Lo said. However, exact it. II replication of DNA, especially in damaged and dividing cells. uses for the tobacco plant could not be revealed Research assistant Sandra Catalian Rodriguez While ATR plays a minimal role in normal cells, recently due to pending patents. said that while at the Library of Congress, she damaged and precancerous cells need the function of ATR, Nghiem The researchers conduct experiments on raw explained the Alternative Uses for Tobacco explained. tobacco plants, extracting proteins and finding project to a group of Fulbright Scholars. Many of The researchers determined that low levels of caffeine have no uses for them in alternative fields. the people were surprised at possible alternative effect on normal cells. "We here at the university are the uses for the crop. The study specifically addressed the preventative effects of troubleshooting team," Lo said. "This [research] "People are getting sick from tobacco and caffeine for cases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma-the second most expands the horizons." cigarettes, and now you can try to fmd something common type of skin cancer in the United States. Another aspect of the research, according to different," Rodriguez said. "That was a really It has not been proven to have a similar effect in reducing the risk Lo, involves finding more efficient processing nice experience, just mentioning that. The of melanoma or other varieties of skin cancer, said Rachael A. Clark methods after the plant has been harvested. learning process is very open field." of the Harvard Skin Disease Research Center. Currently, the tobacco leaf is preserved, but In addition to the oral intake of caffeine, the topical application of the new method would involve chopping up the caffeine may also help to reduce the risk of skin cancer. leaf, effectively decreasing labor and production One possible application Nghiem and his team are considering is its addition to sunscreen. Even though caffeine is not opaque, it absorbs UV radiation, and CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT as an additive, would increase the efficacy of a sunscreen. In addition, once UV damage has been done, putting topical caffeine on mouse skin and in human cells has the effect of increasing the rate of cell suicide by 100 percent, thus decreasing the risk of cancer, Nghiem said. "From a skin cancer perspective, I think it is a great idea," Clark said, though she added that she believes that more research needs to be done concerning the topical application. 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The song itself does not more than this tiny Quitte Pas still translates loud and clear. disappoint, either. Get it Together, a space to fully and Perhaps the most lyrically gorgeous As most people personal favorite, looks at different justifiably glorify songs on the album, however, is the under age 30 already meanings the title could hold, but settles Nina Simone. Born Feb. 21, 1933, oft-imitated Wild is the Wind- "Like a know, the Beastie Boys on the notion of getting one's personal Simone began playing the piano at the leaf clings to a tree, my darling, cling to are an iconic affairs in order so as to follow one's tender age of four, with the early me." representation of hip hop in an earlier dreams ("Listen to the abstract I got it intention of becoming a classical A woefully overlooked and critically experimental and risk-taking hey day. going on/Listen to the ladies come on pianist. disregarded song, See Line Woman Members include Adam "MCA" Yauch, and let me spawn.") The Update is Mike-D (Mike Diamond), Adrock (Adam prophetically ahead of its time, In her teenage years, she was hired resonates long after it's over. Simone's Horowitz), and DJ Mix Master Mike. addressing global concerns like racial at an Irish bar in Atlantic City that failed rendition of the jazz standard, Strange Their 1994 release, Ill harmony ("Race against race, such to mention that she was expected to sing Fruit, is darkly brooding. Pirate Jenny, Communication, remains seminal and a/Foolish waste") and aiding the planet. for her pay. She continued to sing in also operatically based, runs the full ambitious. The twenty-track album Alright Hear This is technically bars until she was recognized for gamut of emotions despite its brevity. juxtaposes a self-aware style of old perfect and demonstrates momentum on George Gershwin's famous ballad from Four Women was banned from the school hip hop with several instrumental this album: "As we learn to breed love Porgy and Bess titled, I Loves You, airwaves in 1966 for its allegedly tracks that smack of the disco era. for one another/In these times of melding Porgy. insulting overtures toward African Thematically speaking, this album reads cultures." Do It is a little more relaxed Nina Simone aimed to break barriers Americans (Ironic, no?) Mississippi a lot like a and whimsical ("Amalgamating styles so of race, sex, and class, as evidenced by Goddamn was released in response to a motivational speech, touching down on I have something to/Grow on.") Heart her catalogue of jazz, gospel, folk, 1963 event in Birmingham in which topics ranging from women's rights and Attack Man sounds exactly like the title, blues, pop, and African chanting hits. In four black children were killed in a cultural unity to self-actualization and painting the picture of an odious this 16-song collection, the full breadth church bombing. Tibetan awareness. stereotype, the Type-A guy: "Lungs full of her expansive music career is Her frustration lives on in Don 't Let Always upbeat, this collection of tar and a stomach full of Spam." highlighted. Me be Misunderstood, which predated manages to be dead serious, sensitive, The Scoop reminds listeners that the The first track, Black is the Color of the more popular take from The sexy, and absurd all at once. What is album will not end quietly: "I'm getting My True Loves Hair, is operatic, Animals by a year. The fundamental even more impressive is that this album intense, not talking nonsense/I've made wistful, and wholly self-sacrificial. I Put message in I Hold No Grudge is, "you consistently communicates (no pun up my mind, not sitting on the fence." a Spell on You seizes control and is can go ahead and hurt me, but if you do intended) a sense of gratitude toward life Bodhisattva Vow, a promise to behave layered by jaunty piano, swelling there's no going back." and the hip hop legends and family better unto self and others, has strings, and a saxophone solo ("I don't One of seven children brought up in members who guided this group along remarkable sensitivity and depth: "We care if you want me/I'm yours right an impoverished rural Southern home, the way. need other people in order to create/The now.") Nina Simone's acquisition of worldly The opening track, Sure Shot, is an circumstances for . . . learning." Considering the ultimatum inherent wisdom and eventual freedom is instrumentally eclectic classic that Sure, they may curse like sailors, they to this next song, Love Me or Leave Me, chronicled in this compilation album. aspires to "send [their] rhymes out to all may carry on like sex-crazed its delivery is oddly lighthearted (is Go ahead and draw your curtains on a nations." Tough Guy has a punk edge, adolescents, and their voices may comes there a cheery way to say, "There'll be rainy day, play this CD, and get ready to and the lyrics are yelled at a frenetic off whiny sometimes, but it's impossible no one unless that someone is you?") rue life and love. pace. B-boys Makin With the Freak not to feel refreshed and validated, even Little Girl Blue strikes a familiar Freak is muddled and has a layer of 15 years after the debut of Ill chord; it plays to the tune of the static over the entire song, but this Communication. My advice is to roll Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas, doesn't compromise the lines ("I got down your windows and crank it up. but this time with very different word. game like I worked/At Hasbro.") By way of an uncharacteristically Bobo on the Corner is one of the happy-go-lucky detour, My Baby Just instrumental tracks, and much like the Cares for Me shows high esteem for others, it carries a drum-heavy and unpretentiousness ("Liz Taylor is not his almost tribal beat complicated by an air style, or even Lana Turner's smile.") of disco. Root Down, a joyful tribute to I Loves You, Porgy marks Simone's the art of rhyming, is one of the album's career breakthrough from pub chanteuse best and most definitive tracks. Buy Listen EarPlugs Buy Listen EarPlugs to opera diva. The locomotive force of Remember the video to Sabotage her voice is nicely rendered in Work Published Author Is ava\lab!e to E<:llt, Write, and Type! EOJTS Books, Screenplays, Ois""rla!ions. 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