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But now students are finding By Christine Layous new ways to help ease their Staff Writer workload by buying papers o fT the Internet. "Plagiarism is a serious To make it easier for stu offense and is not, by any dents, there are Web sites that means, c<,mdoned or encour offer papers for a price. aged by Genius Papers." Geniuspapers.com was even A disclaimer with that mes featured on the search engine sage would be taken serious. Yahoo. They offer access to but how seriously when it term papers written by stu comes from an Internet site dents for a subscription of only that's selling term papers? $9.95 a year. "You've seen For years, students have inadequate. over-priced. bar always found ways to cheat. gain j unk." they state on their As soon as new media site. ''We think vou deserve emerged. new ways of cheat bener. We think ;,ou deserve ing were invented. If a class high quality. low priced. eas) required the student to read access. AT papers. which will Shakespeare's Romeo and help you on your own papers:· Juliet, students would go to Most students don't read past Blockbuster Video and rent the "A+" but it states that they film the day before the reading help with the papers: not sup was due. ply the student with one. If a paper was due on the AcaDemon.com is another topic, the student may have site that offers "research" stayed up and wrote whatever O·Nayne M. Tho.,as.'Chron.cle came to mind. See Internet, page 2 Grammy-nominated Hlp-Hop artist and former Columbia student, Common, (foreground), performs with members of the band, Water Babies for the packed crowd at the Street Beats Festival, Friday, May 18. Gourmand extends south Common-beats from the street along with Loop district By Michael Hirtzer the equipment involved in jazz nized pop locking, a beautiful By Jill Helmer changes in the last five years. big bands. spoken-word poem entitled There's the new Women's Park Staff Writer Announcers Michelle Gilliam, "Lonely Train Ride," and Thugz Staff Writer between the G Iessner and a freshman public relations 4 Life with more rhymes. C lark Houses, and there 's new The sun was shining and the major, and Reina Alvarez, a sen OJ Nole played fellow Chicago For the past 14 years, housing both under construc winds subsided for the inaugura l ior film major, provided back resident Derrick L. Caner's. "A Gourmand's Coffeehouse has tion and planned," she said. celebration of Columbia's new ground information on all artists Hope Comes O ver You." as Vice been serving South Loop cus Lynne said that she thinks president. The event, called the as well as comic relief. as they President of Student Affairs tomers in the historic Printer's Gourmand will be a good Street Beats Festival. hosted per made small talk and tried to ener Mark Kelly, stepped in to intro Row. addition to the Prairie District. formers from a variety of musi gize the crowd. duce the college's president A little over a year ago, "You need that type of thing ... cal genres featured alongside The Reed Sisters perforn1ed Warrick L. Carter. Kellv reiterat Gourmand expanded, opening small restaurants and pubs. Grammy nominated Hip-Hop next in the line-up. setting a la id ed Columbia's view that a new location at 180 I S. That sort of thi ng makes a artist and former Columbia stu back romanti<: mood with sultrv "Chicago is our campus" and Indiana, serving Chicago's neighborhood a neighborhood. dent, Common. sing ing to mellow beats. One of Columbia is the " best student historic Prairie District. I think (Gourmand) will do The parking lot across from the the sisters. Brandi. sa id she centered art colle~e in the coun A coffeehouse in an area that, fine," Lynne said. " People 623 S. Wabash building was an th ou~ht more s~hool~ should trv. and the world~" until recently, was composed need a place like that- some ideal setting for the event. w hich hold events like Street Beat. · Carter introduced the Ch ica!!ll of not much more than vacant where to go meet friends when gave Columbia artists a .:hance Onlv Columbia studt·nts "ere artist !'avinu ··common nh~a;1s warehouses? they come home from work." to show.:ase their diverse talents civen ·,u;~cs s to the 1.:\ l.!'llt. as it avcral!c. · hul this is outstandint.! There is no doubt that the With more and more people in a tightly run professional envi ~vas funded by their uollars: but music~ an uutstandinu 1\ h.~ssa!.!~ .':". South Loop is changing. It's coming to the area, either for ronment. Columbia students manv bvstandcrs- students frnm Drl'Ss~d in an olive.:- !.!rec.·n 'Suit getting easier and easier to residency or for employment. were treated to Coca-Cola. o ther schools. homeless and con with a bow tie. Carter :ukkd find a Starbucks near Yelaska said, Gourmand is try Cheetos. pretzels. along with st ruction workers- danct.•d to thl' ·· 1·m glad tn he part llf~nu·· ~tnd Columbia... ma ybe not on ing to cater to the new demo various pastry snacks and music on the other sic.k \)r thl..' Common proves tha t ~~ every sing le corner like on the graphic of the area. Mountain Dew's new Code R~d . fence. "Columbia Coll~g~ ~ducation North Side, but at least every "We'll be open at night even O pening the a liernoo n was [)J The hand Sudden Dark. t· am~ ~an take.• you anywhcn: ~ nu " ant three blocks or so. tually," he said. "We've had a Nolc. He played deep house up next on the hard-ro.:k kv~l. as it to." Gourmand's owner Michael lot of requests from residents records at the beginning and dur they re-dire<:ted their :Ul!!t'r in to l'omnllln. · .-\K:\ i.<>nnit• Rashid Yelaska observed this transi for us to be open at night. ing intermissions. He said the positive t•ncrgy. The sk~1 band. L\'1\11. is a former South Side.· rc.·:-;. tion, and in it, saw an opportu Right now, we basically just wide va riety of bands "opcn~d Last Man Out. li11l ow~d with icicnt. wlw 1ww l i\'c.~s in Nl''' nity waiting to be seized. get the lunch crowd." up people's cars" providing power chords and ho rn stabs. York. "'I love hc in~ hl'rl·. this is " [The Prairie D istrict] is a Patrons of the new music that's rarely performed in Both rn~ k hands were well Ill\ ' hom e.~. It ~ IIW ~l\'S ti:l'ls !.!l)lld growing area; it's going to be a Gourmand's also agree that it the same place let alone the same rehears~d and skilled. hut the lll. l'llllll' ha~o.'k . r h~.: crowd l ~)da\ fantastic area in just a matter is a good addition to the neigh atlcrnoon. crowd was largely there li>r llip lll~H.k llll' kcl n:all\' l!,OOd \\1 1~1 of time. That's why I' m borhood. Bill Stronks, a resi The lirst band to play was t h~ llop. that's whv I lov<' t
Companies rescind Street Beats Continued from Front Page job offers to recent "Doin' It," along with dreams. "Work hard and honored to be approached by homage's to James Brown, believe in yourself," the Senior Administration George Clinton, and a Common said exhaustely who referred to him as "a college graduates freestyle where he gave after his two-hour perform Chicago artist who would respect to his former school ance, "Don't fall victim to the reflect the Chicago scheduled to start her (Luther South High) and system trying to be like other Community in a true man By Margaret Steen human resources job in Harold's Chicken's tasty mild people. It's important to find ner." Knight-Ridder Newspapers June after finishing her sauce your common ground-your MBA at the University of After the show Common foundation in order to be suc -Contributing writer Sabina Graduating students California-Berkeley. She said he wants to encourage cessful." Ghebremedhin entering the job market learned about it one day students to go after their Common added that he was this year are learning an last month, when she heard early lesson about the on the news that Agi lent world of work: Nothing is was cutting all empl oyees' guaranteed. salaries by 10 percent for Great summer jobs In the face of a swift one or two quarters. economic downturn that "The day after, I got a has caused many compa phone call from my future nies to lay off workers, manager, which I really some employers, like appreciated," Granada harder to get this year Cisco Systems, are said. " I was definitely rescinding job offers they relieved that I still had the when he enrolls at the returning for her third summer made months ago to stu offer." By Rick Barrett University of Southern job at Quad/Graphics Inc. in dents. Others are postpon Charles Schwab, which Knight-Ridder tribune California in fall to study Hartford, her hometown. ing the start dates for new has announced layoffs, has computer science. Hetzel is studying graphic postponed the date some of hires or, like Intel, are dan MILWAUKEE Students "I might possibly find a sec arts at Waukesha County its new graduates were gling buyouts to persuade seeking summer employment ond job this summer too," Technical College and hopes going to start special train new graduates not to show are learning a painful lesson: said Frautschi, who last sum to land a permanent job at ing programs. A group that up for work. And Agilent The best-payingjobs aren't as mer earned money cutting Quad/Graphics after she Technologies is including was preparing to start in lawns and operating his own obtains a bachelor's degree in April won' t begin until plentiful as in years past, and new hires in an austerity competition for available home-based computer techni graphics art management at program that wi ll cut all later this year, said spokes cal support business. her next educational stop _ woman Sarah Bulgatz. positions is more intense. salaries by I 0 percent for In particular, summer job Overall, Wisconsin's work the University of Wisconsin Students aren't the only at least a few months. seekers wi ll find fewer force expands by about Stout. ones affected, but they are The companies are also employment prospects at 150,000 jobs every summer, Hetzel said she is fortunate taking pains to make the more likely than other according to the Department to have a summer job in workers to have their manufacturing plants and affected students fee l they high-tech companies _ two of Workforce Development. Quad/Graphic's customer have been treated fairly, offers changed or with In recent years, summer service department, because drawn. That's because areas that provided many since they know bad feel with gainful employment dur worker shortages have been some of her classmates have ings now could lead to there's often a lag between severe in such tourism hot had more trouble finding when students accept their ing the recent economic problems recruiting in boom. spots as Wisconsin Dells and decent positions. future years. offers and when they start Door County. "I think employers are a lit work. "Manufacturing and con Cisco, which is laying off struction jobs haven't taken But even in the Dells, which tle more reluctant to hire this thousands of workers, has Observers of college requires more than 7,000 sum summer," she said. "I know recruiting say that off this year as they have in told about 70 or 80 stu past years, and there will be mer employees, the labor short enthusiasm counts when you dents -just under 10 per although relatively few age is not as severe as usual, are looking for a job now. You students are seeing their more competition for summer cent of its college hires - jobs," said Terry Ludenman, local business leaders say. can't just walk into a compa that it won't have jobs for offers rescinded, the prac The Dells has cultivated a ny any longer and expect to tice is not a new strategy chief of local work force them after all. These stu planning fo r the state stronger year-round work be hired." dents will receive 12 for struggling companies. force and has recruited at least Although summer jobs are "That's a reality in the Department of Workforce weeks' pay and assistance Development. 25% of its summer employees still plentiful in many service finding other jobs. workplace," said Andy from overseas, said Tom industries, some students Ceperley, director of the In recent years, high-tech Lance Choy, assistant companies have clamored for Diehl, president of Tommy might find they are compet director of the Stanford career center at Santa Bartlett Inc. and a veteran of ing for employment with Clara Uni versity. "There summer help as a way to give Career Development their year-round workers the tourism industry. workers who have lost their Center, said several com are times through history "We are in better shape this year-round jobs. where employers have vacations and to groom stu panies that recruit on cam dents fo r permanent jobs year than ever," Diehl said. In Lake Geneva, for exam pus have told him they are pull ed out." Door County tourism busi ple, resorts said they have The companies that are later. rescinding job offers. The But with a softening econo nesses also are well-stafted noticed an influx ofjob appli companies are offering struggling with how to heading into the summer, said cants who have been laid off handle the college recruits my, many companies are not compensation ranging opening their doors widely to Karen Raymore, executive from the Motorola cell-phone from several thousand dol they no longer need are director of the Door County manufacturing plant in trying to minimize damage summer help _ especially lars in cash to, in the case when it comes to higher-pay Chamber of Commerce. Harvard, Ill. That is a marked of one foreign student, to their reputations. "We are in better shape change from previous years Some of the severance ing positions, said Liz help from an im migration Fredrichs, vice president of because so many employers when older adults showed no attorney. packages for students who started recruiting even in interest in summer jobs typi have never worked for a Waukesha Staffing Services, Other companies are try a regional employment February," she said. "There cally held by college students. ing different strategies. company are comparable are still some worker short Earlier this year, Motorola to what established work agency. Intel, which is trying to cut "The job market is pretty soft ages, but many employers eliminated 2,500 jobs at its about 5,000 jobs this year ers at some companies have told me they are in great Harvard plant, putting a dent receive. One reason is that right now compared to a year through mostly voluntary ago," she said. "Many compa shape." in the rural northern Il linois departures, has offered companies want to make Door County businesses economy. sure that next time they nies are trying not to lay off some of the students it had permanent staff, and where raised their summer wages to In some fi elds, such as culi promised to hi re this sum need to hire college stu attract workers from outside nary arts, summer job-seekers dents, the students wi II they need summer help it's in mer incentives not to show the lower-paying positions." the area, and few employers are doing well. Jesus up. The compensation gen take their offers seriously. are paying less than $8 per Balestena of Milwaukee "Word of mouth is huge In Mi lwaukee, Marquette erally includes two High School senior Jacob hour, Raymore said. Also, like recently landed a summer job months' pay plus the stu among students," Choy the Dells, Door County has working in a banquet kitchen said. "Students come Frautschi said he received a dent's sign-on bonus, said lot of rejections before recruited college students at the American Cl ub resort in Tracy Koon, director of back, they tell their from other states and Eastern Kohler. friends, "This is how they receiving a job offer to be a corporate affairs for the computer Web page techni Europe. Balestena is a culinary arts company. Students who are treated me.' That makes a "The summer labor shortage student at Waukesha County huge difference." cian at the Medical College of offered the program can Wisconsin. was so critical in the past that Technical College. choose to come to work Granada said that even we had to get more aggres "It wasn't hard at all to find a though she'll be starting at "Companies said either they anyway, but they may end weren't hiring any more or sive," Raymore said. job," he said. "Actually, I had up in a different job than Agilent earning less money Students who have experience too many offers." than she anticipated, the they didn't have open posi the one they signed up for. tions," Frautschi said. with specific companies are Although tough on would Agilent is lowering salaries, experience confirm ed her better positioned to get the be workers, the tightening job good impression of her The Medical College job pays at least temporarily. about $7 an hour, somewhat best jobs with those firms this market has been a boon to The pay cut will apply to future employer. summer, according to some employers who have "They had the option of less than he hoped. But Emi ly Granada, who Frautschi said he believes the employment agencies and stu found a much-improved pool laying off people or taking accepted an offer from experience will be valuable dents in the job market. of resumes from qual ified Agilent in February and is back offers," she said. Tiffany Hetzel said she's individuals. 6 Columbia Chronicle ., 21,2001
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226 South Wabash Avenue 224 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605 Chicago, IL 60605 10% Discount with A valid college ID 312-939-5685 10 May21, 2001 COMMENTARY Letters to The other side of reparations the Editor Slavery is far from the only issue to be considered of the project tenement and various other If the United States is going to We deeply regret the error By TreAndres Members social/political systems made the playing Staff Writer field so unequal that Affirmative Action enforce human and civil rights In the May 14 issue of the could never be a viable solution. throughout the world, then it Chronicle an inappropriate letter Should African-Americans be compen This is more than 200 years of oppres must first rectify the atrocities was anonymously submitted for publication. The letter was hastily sated in a monetary form for what their sion I'm talking about. Blacks could not that have been committed on placed in the commentary section. ancestors endured during slavery? totally exercise their right to vote until behalf of its government and its In recent years this has gotten many the passage of the Civil Rights acts in It is not generally the policy of the white Americans on the offensive. A !965. That was 3 5 years ago, not even subsequent prosperity Chronicle to run anonymous let number of white Americans don't agree one average lifetime. ters. We deeply regret the error. that contemporary blacks, who did not Also, the industry of slavery produced endure slavery, are entitled to money just incalculable amounts of money for the because their ancestors were slaves. United States, which is one of the reasons Slavery stripped African-Americans of Following up redux The biggest assumption in this whole America is the super power it is today. their mother culture and separated the debate is that people assume slavery Slaves fue led the U.S. agricultural and cot African-American family. The tour guides of Undergraduate ended with the defeat of the Confederate ton industries. The repercussions of this fact are very visi Admissions wish to respond to the Army in the Civil War and the additions Some critics argue that the African ble today. In the African-American commu letter to the editor, "Following Up," of the 13th and 14th Amendme.. ts to the American community grosses a higher nity, single mother households are not a nov dated May 7, 2001 regarding hous Constitution. However, slavery still per income than most third-world countries, elty, in fact many times they are the norm. ing problems and policies. sisted long after that, through Jim Crow so they conclude that African-Americans There is no doubt that African First, let it be clear that housing is laws in the South that prohibited African don't need reparations. However, that is Americans are due compensation for the limited with nearly 450 spaces. The Americans from enjoying their full rights not the issue. The issue is that Africans work their ancestors have done to make Residence Life Office determined as citi zens to the defacto practices in the were abducted and forced to work for the America prosperous. that the fairest solution in awarding Nonh that still hinder African financial gains of the U.S. economy. If the United States is going to enforce housing is a first-come first-serve Americans: These people were denied their human human and civil rights throughout the policy with priority given to out-of From gentrification of black neighbor and civil rights at the expense of making world, then it must first rectify the atroc state students. This has been the hoods, to blacks being denied cenain profits for the United States. ities that have been committed on behalf policy for years, and will continue loans from banks because they are per These people or their surviving families of its government and its subsequent to be for some time. ceived as credit risks to blacks receiving are entitled to back pay due to services prosperity. However, there may not be For students who wish to seek fair and equal treatment from the judicial rendered on behalf of the U.S. govern enough money to give African campus housing this fall, we sug system, blacks have been mistreated. ment from 1776 to 1865. Americans what they accurately deserve. gest you add your name to the wait The fact is that after the Civil War pro Due are billions of dollars in lost wages Some possible alternatives are: making ing list, or contact the off-campus visions such as the "Grandfather as a result of racist practices on behalf of African-Americans exempt from paying housing coordinator. For students Clause" stated that if your grandfather the United States and individual state gov federal and state taxes for 165 years; who seek future housing our best was a slave you could not own land. ernments, and due to psychological and making college free to African advice to you: APPLY EARLY! Segregation and the share-cropping fiasco emotional damage that has been inflicted Americans for 165 years; or even a com In regards to Ms. Johnson's situa that took place in the South, the creation on the African-American community. bination of the previous suggestions. tion, we acknowledge that she faces unfortunate circumstances and we wish her the best in her search. We, however, cannot accept responsibil ity for an issue beyond our reach. Each of us strives to provide as Exposure much current, relative and accurate information as possible. On aver age we see 120 prospective stu dents and their families each week. It is our hope that after each tour those families research further beyond our introductory overview of Columbia in order to make the best educated decision in choosing a school.
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Washington) ScottVenci Sports Editor (U-WIRE) SEATILE - One of the easiest targets of modem liberal dogma is Sal J. Barry the theory of evolution. It is attacked Web master quite lividly, and many see it as such a ridiculous notion that they can only laugh Dave Gibbons at "those crazy hooligans." Jim Norman To my chagrin, public support for evo Assistant Web masters lutionary theory doesn't hold a candle to the antagonists' dogged stratagem. While Vince Kong unfortunate, this is understandable; you Neda Simeonova don't hear much public activism promot Cassie Welcher ing a spherical Earth either, because it's something most people take for granted. Assistant Editors In the past, faith-based maneuvers have failed to discredit the theory, because Sheila Bocchine faith-based arguments have no power Tribune Media Services Photograhy Editor over scientific data, just as many scientif ic data have no relevance in faith. This Chris Watts has led to the creation of new anti-evolu Copy Chief/ Special Section Editor tion theories. One of the newest rising stars is called intelligent design. A different take on capital punishment lee Scheier Succinctly, intelligent design isn't a very Tina Spielman original theory. It relegates God to the role By Kelly Anderson Before you make the judgment Copy Editors of ambiguous, intelligent Creator, thus ally Correspondent that the death penalty is ing itself with agnosticism- though I'll bet Patricia Dieball you a steak dinner that no one who calls cruel and inhumane, Design Editor himself an intelligent design supporter is You all scream about human rights. before you scream that it is agnostic. This is because the purpose of You yell about the death penalty and how evil it is, and the inhumanity of not our right to take another Daniel Ebert-Balzano intelligent design is to sugarcoat a pill that human's life, the Ashleigh Pacetti many non-believers find difficult to swallow. Timothy McVeigh. You object and say it Advertising Assistants There's no point spending my time dis is not our right to take another human pain of those who crediting intelligent design. If you already life. How well do you really understand have lost a loved one believe in it, more power to you. But for this view that you so passionately Kelly·Rae Anderson those who accept evolution, or who are at oppose? Robert Barto least still wondering whether or not it is Let's say YOU are the one that Prema Chandrathll plausible, I hope to try and solidify its receives that call one day telling you living together in a downtown Las Allison Clarl< credibility by showing its appeal. that someone in your family, someone Vegas hotel. When Jack wouldn't sell Chad Deininger Evolution is a theory - j ust like the who supported you, made you laugh, them his car, they tried to kill him with Megan Diaz opponents say it is. It is not proved. This someone who loved you for who you lethal doses of heroine and any other JUlian Helmer is often the case in science. Just like a are, was brutally murdered. On July I, kind of drug. When that didn't ki ll him, Michael Hirtzer human being, it's very hard for a scientific 1998, my family received that call. the man began to beat him and the Christine Layous Jack, my mother's younger brother, woman pulled a plastic bag over his Melanie Masserant thep!Y YJ, .~ cg,mpletely perfect1 because there is always some unknown factor that had been found dead in a dumpster in head. To destroy the evidence, they TreAndres Members escapes our knowledge. However, even if downtown Las Vegas, burned beyond dumped his body in a dumpster, set it Molly Moonen evolution is not a proven law, it is a very recognition so bad that it took five on fi re, and then drove away in Jack's Janetta Rance well-supported theory. days for them to identify his body. We car. Immediately, the woman was Dave Renderman You must first understand that evolution were told they found metabolized hero picked up on a check fraud charge. The Sarah Schmidlin ine in his system and immediately said Angela Timmons itself does not preclude the possibility of man was nowhere to be found. She Staff Writers God. What it does preclude is the validity it was an overdose. So we flew to Utah remained in jail until her accomplice to bury him in a closed casket, never of a canonical Bible-which is why was picked up. With a second-degree Christin a Mann seeing, never really knowing, never some organized religions are staunchly murder charge against her, she received Brenna Mclaughlin opposed to the theory. Really, though, really sure that it was him that was li fe in prison and 15 years for the car Jamie McNee evolution does not force you to abandon inside. We returned home thinking he robbery. Dwayne Thomas your faith. Science is a purely intellectual took his own life. Technically she can be paroled in 13 Staff Photographers force, far less sullied by petty human con Four months later, we received anoth years. He received five years in prison fl icts than most things. It is our attempt to er call. The Las Vegas police happened with an accessory to murder charge, grow wiser by understanding how the uni on information about Jack's death with parole possible after two years.lt is verse works, one piece of knowledge at a through a plea bargain in another case. sad to know that you can take another Jim Sulski time. Evolution in particular asks the fas Now a man and a woman were human being's life and be back on the Faculty Advisor cinating question of life's mechanism. involved in his death. The woman had streets within 13 years. I'm not a theologian. I don't know who or bragged to others about taking Jack's Before you make the judgment that Christopher Richert what God is. And whether or not the soul is life and had it not been for that plea bar the death penalty is cruel and inhumane, Business/ Advertising Manager real, it is a symbol of everything good in us. gain, we would have never known that before you scream that it is not our right Evolution is just a theory, kids, not an Jack's death had really been a murder. to take another human's life, the pain of We later found out from police that Jack enemy of personal beliefs. those who have lost a loved one. Until The Columbia Chronicle is a student·pro And since that is the case, then the theory had picked these people up after their you have experienced this pain, you will duced publication of Columbia College stands on solid ground. car had broken down and they ended up never understand. Chicago and does not necessarily repre sent, in whole or in part, the views of Columbia College administrators, faculty or students. 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By Angela Timmons Several Beer Gardens around Chicago feature both inside and outside facilities where Staff Writer you can enjoy an ice cold beer and a tasty lunch while still enjoying the warm summer weather.
on our drinking shoes and went to check a When summer hits the city of big shoul Ave., (773) 445-2675, was first on our list ty), anytime you pass by on a warm night ders (and a few big beer bellies), there's few out. and though we hit it a little too early on a Seizing the opportunity to get out of my it's filled with fo lks from the ' nothing like enjoying a cold one alfresco Fnday-around six- it was evident that neighborhood. Unfortunately again, the with your cronies. And where better to do ne ighborhood and experience what barley this was a swell place to unwind after a and hops taste like outside of my zip code, night we swung by, it was a wee bit frigid so than at one of Chicago's beer gardens? long week. so we hung out with the patrons inside. With my roommate and some of our clos we zeroed in on South Side first and head The staff is friendly, and manager Iri s The back room has a pool table and a est binge-alcoholic friends in tow, we put ed down to the l rish enclave of Beverly. Tremaine gave me a nice little tour of the Cork and Kerry at l 0614 S. Western couple of dart boards. Ray's offers food, expansive, fenced-in beer garden. When I but we couldn't check it out that night asked Tremaine if she knew the origins of because the kitchen was being remodeled. the beer garden she said, "l don't know. Owner Raymond Garcia said they offer OTHER CHICAGO HOT-SPOTS THAT YOU Years ago people went outside, sat down, a variety of"pub grub" and from the looks drank some beer and called it a beer gar of the menu, he's right. You can start an den." That was good enough for me. appetizer such as the "Chicago Fire" CAN TRYOUT: One raucous group of neighborhood chicken wings for $4.95 and move on to Cork and Kerry's devotees (or CK's as one of their sandwiches or wraps that they call it) braved the chilly temperatures range from $4.95 to $6.95. The beer garden at Navy Pier is a pop from the Near West side and even and were whooping it up under one of the The front bar is uniquely decorated with ular place during the summer months. Bridgeport stop in. A band is usually many beer garden's heaters. an enormous stuffed sailfish hanging There's free entertainment offered at squeezed into the front of the bar near The tipsy women in the group, probably overhead caught by one of Garcia's pals. the Miller Lite Stage. Check out the the large, open windows on Saturday in their late forties and early fifties, chal There's also a stuffed rooster perched on a pier's Website or call the beer garden at nights. An added bonus: if you find you lenged us to find a better beer garden any high shelf to watch over you as you glug (3 [ 2)595-5439. need to stretch your legs a bit while where in the city, particularly on the down your beer. Rock Bottom Brewery has a roof-top bellying-up to the bar, you can run out North Side, "This is the best!" they shout Anyway, if you're in the West Lakeview beer garden open when the weather is side and play a quick game of Ping ed. One of them ended just about every area, and need a comfortable place to cooperating. Located at 1 W. Grand Pong. The table is set up outside on the sentence with an Irish dance that would drink, Ray's is the place to do so. Ray's Ave. (312)755-9339, Rock Bottom sidewalk- during the summer. Just be put Michael Flatley to shame. We were has 12 beers on tap including Newcastle, offers a variety of their own brews on careful when running out into busy hooked. Gui nness and Harp. tap and has a fu ll menu of lunch and Halsted traffic to retrieve any stray Oh yeah, what about the beer? Cork and Leaving Ray's with a buzz, we hopped dinner itetns. balls-you can find yourself becoming Kerry offers 18 different beers on tap at in a cab and headed for Big John's at 1147 For the far-far-Northsiders, check out a little fearless after a few hours at $3 for domestics and $4 a pint for W. Armitage, (773) 477-4400, in Lincoln the Pinewood Beer Garden and Dugan's. imports. Domestic pitchers are $7, pitch Park. Big John's is a bright, rustic little Restaurant at 2310 W. Touhy Ave., If you've ever been to a Cub's game, ers of Imports are $13. They don't serve pub, and according to Linda Abu (773) 973-4443. The prices are reason then it's likely you've been to food, so if you'd rather not have to fill up Shalback, a waitress and Columbia-alum, able and according to Metromix.com, Murphy's Bleachers at 3655 N. on their popcorn, eat before you come. shock-jock Mancow Muller from Q I0 I is the atmosphere is quiet and hospitable. Sheffield Ave., (773) 281-5356. After Hours are Monday through Friday from 2 known to frequent the bar. Their specialty is prime-rib. the Cubs suffered a disappointing loss p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday from 12 p.m. to 3 That usually would be enough to run me l wou.ld be remiss to not include a to the Houston Astros last Wednesday a.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. out of there, but l had a job to do and Big couple of bars that were patronized on night, the 'Chronicle' dropped in to A shillelagh's throw away down Western John's certainly seems like a great neigh our recent drinking tour of Chicago. check out the scene. The extremely Avenue, and you'll find Joe Bailly's at borhood bar. l f Mancow chooses a place Though neither have beer gardens, popular watering hole for baseball fans 10854 S. Western Ave., (773) 238-13 13. like this to drink, l guess he can't be all they certamly are worth a visit if you first popped up in the 1930s and was Though the restaurant and inside the bar that bad. find yourself on the Near West Side. then Ernie's Bleachers-a drive-thru seemed a little too much like a grubby Their beer garden is located out back Hawkeye's on 1458 W. Taylor, (312) hotdog stand that sold beer by the pail. version of a TGIF or Bennigan's, the beer and was a little on the small side, though 226-3951. Owner Ed Claussen came to Murphy's has three outside bars, and garden was pretty decent. And, it's open on a nice day with a few friends, I'm sure the Taylor Street neighborhood to open several inside, that are staffed with year-round so in the cold weather, it's the experience would be enjoyable. But up Hawkeye's in 1987 after managing plenty of people willing to serve you under a tent-like covering and heated. again, it was cold so l had to use my imag dance cl ubs on Division Street. cans {not pails) of beer. Just don't Joe Bailly's offers a full, reasonably ination and head back inside. Hawkyeye's is technically a sports bar expect a reprieve from the steep beer priced menu and after leaving Cork and We ordered a couple of rounds of beer though Claussen shows his dance club prices in Wrigley Field (my can of Kerry's, we were ready to put on our food in the bar and checked the place out . Big roots when the disc jockey fires up the Rolling Rock was $4.50). critics' hats. You can get anything from John's has a few pieces of vintage Cubs small dance floor. Hawkeye's caters to Murphy's is a good place to rev up lamb chops and filet mignon for $16.95, and Sox memorabilia hanging on the !he dio.:erse neighborhood in Little Italy before a game, or to continue the fun to sandwiches for $6.95. walls and like most neighborhood bars, mcludmg UIC students, medical per you were having in Wrigley Field. There's also an array of pasta, salads, seems to be a place where people from the sonnel from Rush-Presbyterian and There's plenty of interesting eye and seafood to choose from. My room neighborhood come to watch the game UIC hospitals, and men and women catching memorabilia to check out, mate opted for the rueben and I had the and relax on a weekend night. going through the nearby Chicago and the south bar has a little museum cajun chicken, and both were as good as Big John's does serve food until 11 p.m. Police and Fire training academies. It that houses a miniature replica of you'd probably get anywhere in the city. and offers daily lunch specials including has a respectably-sized outdoor patio Wrigley Field. Your beer munchies Joe Bailly's also has drink specials each their famous buffalo wings that are half and offers a full lunch and dirmer can be satisfied too, with reasonably weekend night (we got bottles of Mi ller priced from 4 p.m. to 7 p. m. daily. menu. Shuttle buses are available to priced menu items such as burgers, Lite for $2 each). They offer a full range Big John's chili is billed as "the best major sporting and concert events at hotdogs, and chicken sandwiches of domestic and imported bottled and around"and you can get a bowl for $3.50. the United Center, Soldier Field and that range from $3.50 to $6.50 with draft beer ranging from Newcastle to They also offer a wide selection of sand Comiskey Park. Call ahead. fries. A cynical person might say the Haaker Pschorr Weisse. wiches and salads. A bit of a cultural anomaly, Dugan's, popularity of Murphy's Bleachers Joe Bai lly's hours are Monday I 0:30 Melvin B's at 1114 N. State St., an Irish pub, is located in the heart of keeps one from really enjoying the a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday (3 12) 75 1-9897 is THE outdoor drinking Greektown at l 28 S. Halsted (3 12) place. The crowds are enormous and I 0:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Friday and experience according to Murphy's 421 -7191. Definitely one of my uh, shall we say, difficult to navi Saturday l 0:30 a.m. to l 0:30 p.m. and Bleachers patron Eric Zoerb who said my favorite bars, the place was fi lled with gate. But when wann weather hits in Sunday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. journalistic integrity would be threatened Irish police officers from New York Chicago, everyone is itching to get On day two of our beer garden excur if I didn't mention it. City last St. Patrick's day (O.K., so outside and drink. As Columbia sion, we headed up to the North Side, and Metromix.com l ists the cafe NYPD Blue is one of my favorite senior Katie Tumbleson said, while checked out Raymond's Bar and Grill at (which is n 't open in t he w inter) shows). O:len until 4 a.m. on Fridays enjoying the quieter back bar at 2824 N. Ashland Ave., (773) 883-7297 in as "blader- friendly" w here ro ller and Sat~s, the place fills up quick Murphy's, "We look forward to it Lakeview. bladers from Lincoln Park stop by ly with off-duty Chicago patrol officers from October to March." So do I Though their small outside dining area to down a few beers and sample and detectives, and plenty of civilians Katie, so do I. is technically a cafe by city zoning stan Melvin B 's s pecialty-turtle dards (because it's sitting on city proper- soup. May 21,2001 a rts & e nte rta inment 17 Blues Traveler Performs Live at the Riviera Theater
This new ,.a lbum showcases newcomer bassist, Tad Like Blues Traveler, they are still better musicians than K inchI a, the Ybunge~ brotl:ier of guitarist Chan Kinch Ia. writers. The band w ill appear on the Tonight Show w ith After SheeHan died' trom a drug overdose in 1999, the Jay Leno on June 5th. By Prema Chandrathll remaining membetst,took time deciding who would Staff Writer replace him. , ' fi * The decision to bring in T. K inch Ia was made by Popper Back after a I 0-month hiatus from the Chicago venues, and C . Kinchla. Another new addition to the band was the Blues Travelers are back on spring tour. keyboardist Ben Wilson. They came to Chicago and played at the Ri viera Theater The addition of Kinch Ia and Wilson changed the band's on May 16. O pening act for the group was Peter Yo m , a appearance and overall outlook. Yet one o f the biggest folk rocker from New Jersey. changes was made by Popper. About two years ago, Blues Traveler's set featured a change from their past Popper fo llowed in Carnie Wilson's footsteps and got h is concerts. T hey moved away from their jam -band routine stomach stapled. On s tage, the trimmed down Popper and played a s horter, less improvised show pulling back looked as if he lost about 100 pounds. from so los. T he group still played their blues-based blend The concert sounded tight as the band stuck to their stu of t ight arrangements, but was loose enough to allow a dio sound, keeping their songs short. Popper's harmoni few solos primarily by John Popper and Chan Kinch Ia. ca p lay ing and g uitarist Kinchla, were the dri ving forces Not surprisingly the group opened with the sentimen behind the band, giving the audience something to g roove tal "Back in the Day," which touched on Bobby Sheehan's to. John Popper, front man of Blues Traveler, plays the night death. T hey then followed w ith "Believe Me." Though the s how was not so ld out, those who came away on his harmonica. The Blues Traveler just released Blues Traveler featured so ngs from their past albums, were treated to two and a half hours of groove-infused their new CD 'Bridge' after a ten-month hiatus . Straight on Till Morning, Live from the Fall, Four and rock, plus an entertaining solo from Popper who played their new album Brid ge, wh ich is availab le for purchase guitar behind his back and with his teeth. now.
Beatfreak Freshman Shows Skill Behind The Boards
thick, things get missed even with repeated listens. By Michael Hirtzer At times, like on " l lurricane," they sound sim ilar to Staff Writer Bone T hugz, as they " leave you strangled and mangled" and "bang you from every ava il able ang le,'' hitting on beat after beat at a break-neck pace. Other times, on Sheboygan llip-1-l op? Yes. While Minneapolis, "Only a Few" and ''Shoot the Gif1." they come ofT quirky Minnesota is usually associated with the quasi-bisexual like AWO L-One and furiously intelligent like defunct funk of Prince and the MLB's low-payroll underdog, the Company Flow's EI-P. Twins, something else is materializing under the s urface, Sticking to (indie) l!ip-l!op's unwritten ethos, Kell er away from the mainstream's eyes and ears. inc ludes a spoken-word "Introduction." a ski t. "Shoot the T he eight-plus Warriors Crew come off hard-edged and Shot," about tequil a consumption. and an instrumenta l underground, as blue-collar MCs rhy me o n beats banked entitled "Art o f War." by Columb ia freshman and Minneapo lis native, Jonathan T he fact that Ke ller is "mesmerized by string hip-hop" Keller 'AKA JP. is evident throughout the EP: he even goes as far to re Keller produced the Warriors E P in its entirety , at his interpret J.S. Bach on "This is fo r \1~ Fa mil~ ." previous school, Perpech l ligh School. The school, which Most people think of llip-llo p as East Coast. West focuses strictly on the arts, is eq uipped with a fully Coast, or Deep South, but no-coast hip-hop is going stocked record ing studio. strong in the underground. Ke ll er said his crew g ive I !e has cultivated a sound that nods to his mentors (Pete "much respect" to fe llow M inncapolitans Atmosphere Rock and Dr. Dre), while heading o ut to unpaved terri to and ( last year's Blaze battle winner) Eyedea, but they ry. Images o f backpackers with wa lk ing sticks come to don't want to be associated with that sound. Keller sa id mind as spooky synths and clicky snares provide the back "A lot of people just stereotype, that all Minneapolis l!ip beat as the mostly white MCs rock complicated verses. llop sounds like that. " The overall vibe is mystical, and not in the newly James I le seems to be on the right track though, the produc Brownesque sense. MIDI-guitars, harps, and stri ngs are tion on the EP is clean, even in the ! lip-! lop worl d of has to o ffer. he may. o ne da~ . be the beat freak in peppered throughout, along with Castlevania-style (the intentiona l roughness. Whil e this EP is his firs t release. he demand. nintendo game) atmospherics. Kell er shyed away from has 35 beats he hasn't even used. I !e said he plans to usc usmg samples becausehe likes "to stay completely orig i those as a foundation for an album, to be produced this If you would like more information on the nal," he said. summer. Aside from a piece of paper and a pen, the MCs take Many of l!ip- llop's innovators have carved original band, contact J P 13 Wa rrior@hotmail. com advantage of every Hip-I !opper's most important tools-a structures w ith off-key ideas. People like DJ Prem ier. dictionary and thesaurus. They ditch slow, monotono us Timberl and, and the Ncptunes all became large doing rhy mes for the quickness, keeping their verbiage so the ir own thing . If this EP is only a taste of what Keller Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Hour of the Wilderbeast' Bombarded with Attention
also won the UK Mercury Prize in September, nooding By Tina Spielman the Bewildcr beast with attention. Copy Editor Bcw i lderbeast was released on Gough ·s own Twisted Nerve record label then sold to XL Records for a whoop "Jimi Hendrix is alive and well," said Damon Gough of ing six-fi gures. "The Shining" is being used t<>r the Gap's Bad ly Drawn Boy, fu ll o f British wit, las t Sunday at the latest jean commerc ial. And the enlist ing o f Joan Collins Metro. Gough gave his Chicago audience over two and a for their fourth video, " Pissing in the Wind,'' w ill help half ho urs of music, dis play ing why he 's the latest Eng lish p lunge Bcwildcrbcast fi1rther into the mainstream. installment to pop music. Manchester born, Gough has Since their Metro pcrfonnance. B ad ! ~ Drawn Boy seems established a cult following with his self-proc laimed to be having little trouble promoting Bcwildcr bcast on "ground breaking" debut a lbum , T he H our of their own. While Gough and his band pia~ ed. "T his Bewilderb eas t, released in 2000. Since then, the a lbum Song." o n a hare stagt: consisting on l ~ of a banner and has infi ltrated m usic with its innocent sounds rem iniscent table lamps. he acc ura tl'l~ dc..·sc.:r ihcd the fc c..·ling of the of the Beatles and Richard Ashcroft. C<~IH.:Cr!. when singing the I~ r i~.:. ''lkautifu l St'lll:! it has At the concert, Gough mixed simple vocal and g uitar w 1ngs. rifts with a candy -coated grittiness. ! !e also showed ofT T he pcrformam:c ''as~ ~ bknd t l fth~.-· cthcn:a l and the t... ind his harmon ica stylings in a tribute to Bob Dylan called, of Fnglish nrro ~; ancc associ:w.:d with Oasis. Some sho'' "Absolute Geni us." The performance was nothing short hig hlights inc lmlcd Bruce Spri ngsteen and Joumc..·~ rovers o f rock star q ua lity, as Gough started the evening po inti ng as encores. The concert ended'' ith IJewihit.'rbl·usf s fi nal his guitar and finger at the audience. The show was com track, " Eulogy." '' ith Gough pk·aciing. " Plea se..· don't plete with Gough's chain-smoking, and arrogant out lc:w c me wanting more." which is exactly ' ' hat the pcr bursts. I !owever, the band 's set shined when songs from fonnancc provided- just enough music to fullill the..· audi Bewilder beast were played, with 8 -Sidc interludes. ence's pop appetite. Songs such as "Mag ic in the A ir," as well as "Another With the influx of s upcrfk ia l m u s ic a nd JH c..' tc..· n Pearl" had the indie-rock crowd's heads bopping. "T he s how. tio us rock/rappers infest ing m u s ic charts. Bad ! ~ Shining," Bewilderbeas t's first track, hit a sentimental With their refreshing s implicity, Badly Drawn Boy hard D ra w n 13o y str ips music down to its origin:tl form. note, as Gough sang to a photograph of his newborn chi ld, ly goes unnoticed by the mus ic world. At the 2000 Q bring ing the ir audie nc e that feel-good- ft·clin g. which, he also passed around the a4~ i ~ !1 ce d uriM the ,,¢-w,ards, they !O.O~ . h o\n e .tJ:l c award for Best New Act, and thc:y so des perate ly need . 18 arts&entertainment May21,2001
The future In punk his brothers Joey, J!>hnny and Marky. Brian Costello totumbla displays finest Johnny: Power mad, loves Reagan. Joey: Contributor Sloppy drunkard. Marky: Snaps in studio, gets naked, clucks like a chicken. Student film festival ends with a bang Lobotomy is a welcome NYC punk com This revie·w was panion to Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, written prior to rhe with the deceptive simplicity of everything wuime(v death of Joey the Ramones recorded. The Ramones By cassle Welcher Ramone. singer for the inspired me in hi gh school to start a band, Assistant A&E Editor band derailed in this and this book inspires me in grad school book. The editors and not to stan a band, under any circum Mr. Costello wish to stances. Dee Dee. unlike many sentimen leven specially selected film express their lament at tal old school punkers prone to overly students displayed their work this sadfac t. - Ed romanticizing the halcyon days of '77, Elast Thursday at The Big looks back in anger. For every happy Screen 200 l film festival. The fes anecdote, he tells about a mil lion unhappy tival was held in the massive Some so-called friends of mine are tryi ng anecdotes of being a screwed-up junkie Harold Washington Library to shanghai me into playing in their band. playing in a functionally dysfunctional Auditorium. The films were sub Funnv. because this Dee Dee Ramone band that was criminally ignored by radio. mitted to the festival by a group of autobiography is as convincing an argu and hanging out with fe llow screwed-up over I 00 students and only eleven ment as anv that even ifvou're successful. junkie musicians (the Sid Vicious shoot films were chosen (they ranged from documentary to animation). there's no future in dickin2 around with a ing-up-with-to ilet-water anecdote is alone "Paradise Lounge,'' by Shanra band. even if you're successful. Not only wonh the price of the book). He also After a speech from the head of the Film and Video Department, Kehl is about the fantasy world of that. but playing in a band is a surefire way includes a brief mention of his criminallv . 9 year-old Evelyn, who dreams of to destroy the friendships you had with fe l unsuccessful career as a rap artist. His Michael Rabiger, the event started off with an opening ceremony and being a singer in an upscale rught low band membe~ prior to unleashing overall tone is bitterness. club. Her fantasies continue when your musical brilliance on an unsuspectinl! It's a sad read in the end, a worthwhile the fi~t six student films. The first student that presented the arms of Valentino, her imagi world. I have nothin2 but caustic words for read. not 2reat Iitera rv shakes. but enl!ross nary love, grasp her. Shortly after, most of the maladjuSted schmucks I wast ing just the same. So.you should go buy it. his film that night was Keith Dunkerley, with "The Basement." her fantasy is brought to an abrupt ed my time with in bands. and Dee Dec and get uninspired to waste your time with end. \\TOte a whole book all by himself (except music. and inspired to write books. This is a story about a mother who asks her son to retrieve a block of "Gypsy Blood," by Samantha tor ghostwriter Veronica Kofman) about because. as all good punx know. if Dee Dee Sanders, is a comic fable about a "hat an ordeal it was making music with can do it. so can you. wood from the basement. Nine year-old Jonathan loves horror woman who grows wings and must movies and his imagination runs learn how to fly. She grows into away when he enters the dark and her wings by examining the magic scary basement in her mother and grandmother's Elizabeth Lawrence, creator of life, enabling her to come to tenns Everything & nothing ''Nightmarecrawlers," was the next with her own magic. student to present her fi Jm. This is "The Mirror," Maris Lidaka's a story about a little girl who is film tells a story about dealing with By Monica C. Kirsch oir is as raw, uncompromisinl!. and troubled by the notion that her physical appearance. The charac ter looks in the mirror .and is not Contn outor unflinchingly honest as her fiction -writing recently deceased grandmother is m Bastard out of Carolina. From anecdote being eaten away by night happy with what he sees. He tri~ to anecdote. t h~ stories are inte~pe~ed crawlers. The girl struggles with to make it better, but nothing T"o or Three Things with black and white photographs of her the notion of mortality and, for the works. Finally he looks in the mir ror and, uhimately, smashes it. I Know for Sure self and othc~ . This memoir form of fi~t time in her life, faces it. b' Dororh' All ison Allison's theater piece still has the urgencv, Sccma Shastri showed "Why is "0' Janay Walay,'' by Usman Paper back. Penguin the immediacy of the poetry. the grab-you God ...:· a short narrati vc about a Zuberi, is a music video montage Plume. 1995 by-the-pants qualitv of contact with a live woman whose newborn child dies that is a metaphorical jowney of 94 pages audience. · in her arms. forcin& her to face the the filmmaker's life in the United "Let me tell you a story." Allison says. question of who she really is and States during the past two years. but she has no intention of letting us go if the reality of God in her life. The film is about his struggles with cultural differences during his trav we don't care to hear what she has to say. Andrew Hodges is the mastermind She is simply going to tell her story so well behind ''Hue,r a stop-motion ani els. The film festival attracts a large that we have no choice but to listen. mation film about a frustrated com and wide audience each year. - Lord, girl , there's onl) t"'o or three This exceptionally quick read has the poser and a gardener's song that People had to be turned away this things I know-for sure," Allison's Aunt Dot feeling of a spiral pulling in on itself. and tnspires him. "Hue" features year. As I went outside for inter· used to say. "Of cou~c it 's never the same yet it is the loose spiral of oil and water unique characters and the world mission. there was a long line of things, and I'm never as sure as I' d like to mixed together. This is not a linear book; that they inhabit people waiting for their chance to be . ~ What do we know for sure? What sto this is not biography. It 's something less. Rikei Kubo is the creator of see the students' films. The ries do we tell ourselves to make sense of and something more. Allison tells us who "Shira-Tama." The story is about everung was like the Oscars, with our lives? These arc Allison's stories. the she is, without giving us a timcli ne of her Rikei Kubo and his wife. The awards and cash prizes being given ones she tells '"to prove I was meant to sur life because those facts and figures restrict premise of this piece is that his out to the best students for screen wife suddenly disappears one day, vive, knowing it is not true." her fuel for hope. Allison knows many writing, cinematography and other Although in the telling this book feels things for sure, and yet nothing at all. in search of a life as an individual. categories. much like a conversation on a sunny after "I can tell you anything," she says. "All Justin Krohn is the visionary Each film was unique. All films behind Subway 2:36 a.m., a story noon on a park bench with your sister, at you have to believe is the truth." reflected their filmmaker's person the same time there's nothing particularly about a minimalist ciry symphony al visions. I suggest attending safe and comforting about the subjects Monica C. Kirsch, book reviewer, is a where two strangers pass each 'The Big Sc~en 2002. Allison tackles-family, poverty, relation graduate students in the Fiction Writing other in the night. ships with women. rape-or what she has Department. She can be reached at to say about them. Her writing in this mcm chroniclereviewsr.ilhotmail.com.
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A merger with the AHL While the Chicago Wolves fu rther reach and stability On Ice Collision they are at their end. The would be the best thing for are partially affiliated with to the league. league, which had as many the remaining IHL teams, the New York Islanders, NHL commissioner Gary as 18 teams in 1995, has although technically the and get some players Bettman made it clear that Recently, it was reported AHL claims that they are assigned to them, they are he wants to see one "Triple that the International Hockey shrunk to II. League mainstays such as "expanding" and not still free to sign good play A· • level hockey league League would merge with the "merging". ers like Wendell Young and made up of 30 Baseball. American Hockey League. the Fort Wayne Komets and the Peoria Rivermen have So, why could this merg Rob Brown to bolster their And Bettman may get his This is a fled to other, lower echelon er be a bad thing, anyway? chances at winning. A full wish as early as next sea mixed bless hockey leagues where oper First of all, remember that time affiliation with an son. The AHL has 20 ing, as it ating costs are less expen the IHL is made of mainly NHL c lub might mean the teams, and wil l add two may mean sive. Other teams, like the independent teams, so these Wolves players and coaches more of their "own" teams the demise Michigan K-Wings (nee teams sign the best non would be different next next year. Should they of the IHL Kalamazoo Wings) have NHL players that they can. season. The Wol ves mi ght decide to accept the as we' ve fo lded. Making things While it's not the NHL in affiliate with a bad NHL remaining eight JilL clubs, known it for worse is the fact that the the caliber of play, the IHL team- like the Chi cago that would bring their the past 56 Cleveland Lumberjacks and is still quite entertaining. Blackhawks-and not be league to 30 teams. This years. the Cincinnati Cyclones are The games are rough, and the same cali ber of team may seem like a coinci For those bankrupt, while the Detroit the players- many with they •v e been for the past dence, but the numbers add Sal J. Barry of you who Vipers are rumored to sus slim chances of returning to few years. up. Webmaster just uttered pend operations for at least the NHL-are in it because But despite all that, the Sure, IHL fans may mi ss "What the next season. That would they love to play, and not AHL- IHL merger would be the exciting shootouts that hell did he bring the " I" down to 8 because they th ink they can great for the Midwest and are used to settle tied say?" allow me to elaborate teams-hardly a league at land a big-league contract. western markets, adding matches, as well as other (die-hard fans may skip the next four paragraphs). The American Hockey League (AHL) is one of the top two minor league hockey systems; the other is the International Robinson Hockey League (IH L). The Continued from Back AHL is comprised of 20 Page teams, concentrated in east at the same time. who was abused herself shocked at how many play coast cities, and each of those "It was hard to write during her first marriage. ers didn' t really know the teams is directly affiliated because it brought back " There was a child story of her father. " It did with an NHL team. The IH L, memories," Robinson said. from San Diego whose n' t surprise me at all on the other hand, is made up "But it was a wonderful father was hitting him," because they were repre of II team-all in the book to put together." She said Robinson. " And he sentive of many young Midwest except for Orlando has just come out with her wrote an analogy between players who have not and Winnipeg, Canada- but new book, Jackie s Nine, hi s fathe r abusing him learned to appreciate histo each of these teams is either which details the steps that and Jackie Robinson ry. They don't always independent, or partially her father took to become field ing a fastball. It was understand how something affiliated with a NHL team. successful in baseball. "This a n incredible story and in the past will effect their Therefo re, the AHL has a book was more a labor of very upsetting at the future." lot of young players love," said Robinson. same time. It was the Things have changed prospects who were drafted The recent publishing of first time he told anybody quickly though. "They but not ready for the NHL . the book has put the spot that he was abused." T he have hung out with me for The AHL also contains veter li ght back on Sharon and child's teacher asked the past four years and ans whn :uc In and out of an her father. During base Sharon if Mark McGwire I've had guys who you NHL lineup, as well as career ball 's year long celebration would come and meet with would not imagine feel minor leaguers. But over the of Jackie Robinson back in him. " I told the teacher very connected to my past decade, it has become 1998, Sharon met with that Mark wasn't coming father. It's not just the NHL's favorite "develop Leonard Coleman, who at by, but I made sure to African Amercian players. mental league", as many that time was the president bring a Padre," Robinson I've had white people con teams who used to have IHL of the National League . said. nect with him on a certain minor-league affiliates me and simply tells me Together they developed a A couple of days late r, that he can't wait for the level and also the Hispanic switched to AHL affiliates new program geared Tony Gwynn walks through players. I' m real proud of (The Chicago Blackhawks game later that night. He towards educating chil the doors of the boys was already thinking of them. They are good guys were affiliated with the IHL's dren. They offered lesson classroom and immediately and they share wonderful Indianapolis Ice during the being honored on the field ." plans that were designed to beg ins to speak to his The program has flour stories when I'm on the I 990s up until a few years teach children how to over awestruck class. "He actu road with them. They have ago, when they switched over ished since its inception, come certain barriers in ally got there early," said mostly because of the man come to appreciate the pio to the AHL's Norfolk their li fe, much like Jackie Robinson. "He spent a neer my father was." Admirals). they use as an example. had done when he played half-hour with the kid in " We all have barriers to So much in fact, that On the other hand, the IHL baseball. Children from the principal's office. He Toronto Blue Jay second has a lot of older, more sea overcome in life," said schools in Major League then went to an assembly, Robinson. "And we use the baseman Homer Bush soned players-many of them cities write essays detail where the kids kept asking call ed up Sharon the other with NHL experience. But nine values my father used ing a certain struggle that how he hit the ball. Tony to get over our barriers." day and asked what ki nd these players sign contracts they've had to endure. went through all the steps of car Jackie was driving directly with the IHL club, A benefit to the program Each fall the essays are and the little boy who had has been the increase when he di ed in 1972. He and not an NHL club. submitted and three win been abused by his father wanted the exact model Therefore, most of them don' t awareness by current play ners are selected. The is next to me and is getting ers who are slowly starting and ended up buying a vi n get " called up"; they are in grand prizewinner gets to fidgety. I'm thinking he's tage car. He gave the pio the IHL until they can to understand what Jackie throw out the first pitch at getting nervous because did for them. When the pro neer of baseball and hi s impress an NHL club enough a Major League game. he's remembering a scene proud daughter the biggest to get a pro contract. This gram first started, Sharon Some of the stories are where his father is abus was disappointed but hardly honor he knew how. doesn' t happen too often, so heartbreaking to Robinson, ing him. He leans over to He named hi s car Jackie. most IHL players are there because they love what they do. A way to look at it is this: the AHL is made of p layers Columbia baseball team wraps up its first season who will end up in the NHL By Dave Renderman determination in their The team played compet " These guys were fun to one day, whi le the IHL is Correspondent hearts. "Everyone on team itively against teams like: hang with, and I hope they made of players who a lready was always upbeat, and we DePaul, University of have better success in the had their time in the NHL. a lways went out there and Wisconsin Eau-Ciaire, fall," Ramirez said. But both are considered equal Columbia, along with had fun no matter what Uni versity of Wi sconsin The team was special as far as skill level. One the Student Organization happened," said Dassow. Madison, Robert Morris because it brought together a could equate AHL and IH L Committee, introduced The team consisted of College, Northwestern, group of guys who want and hockey to Triple A baseball. America's pastime, base Steve Sharp, who caught Loyola, and Marquette. love to play the game of According to a press ball , to the college for the every game for the Bees. " I had fun playing with baseball. The team came release by the AHL, the fi rst time in the school's Nick Panico, who played in these guys, and it was fun for together on a cold Friday in .. league approved a "signifi existence. With the help of the outfield, David Ri chichi, me getting back out on the March, and clicked right cant expansion prior to the Adam Dassow, who played who pitched and played sec diamond again," Smith said. away. No matter how bad 2001-2002 season." Rumors c lub baseball with the ond base. Jim Dunn who These guys also seemed they were doing, they always have c irculated that six IHL DePaul Blue Demons, got played shortstop, Brain to clown around, and keep stood by one another, and teams would jump ship-but the ball rolling for the Kover who pitched, and each other's spirits up never got down on any one. which six? Some reports say spring semester. played :he outfield as well. whenever they were doing This team was the first of its that the Milwaukee Admira ls, The baseball team began Other players include Dillon badly. The y never gave up, ki nd at Columbia. Before Manitoba Moose, Chicago its season towards the end Smith, who played third and seemed to get fired up this, a ll Columbia had was Wolves, Utah Gri zzlies, of March, with practices on base, Mark Ramirez in the for every game they played. Ultimate Frisbee, and now Grand Rapid Griffins, and Fridays and Sundays, over outfield, and Buddy Fugitt Most of the team will be you can add baseball to the Houston Aeros as the teams at Union Park. The team also in the outfield. Chris returning fo r the fall sea mix as we ll. Baseball has that would go. Unfortunately, brought together Columbia Bender played second base, son. Some guys that won't always been loved by every no one from the AHL or IHL students, who had a love Joe LoSasso played outfield be returni ng are Fudgitt, little boy or girl, anci nnw is commenting on this, and for the game itself. The and pitched, and Matt Shepard, Smith, and Columbia gives guys 1 .d the AHL will not further elab Bees, despite going winless Shepard played first base Ramirez. " It was a fun and even girl s a chance to Ii ve orate on their plans until the in its inaugural season, and outfield. Jason Ring great experience fo r me, out a dream of playing a end of the Calder Cup play played every inning of pitched and Dassow rounded and it was one I will never game they have always lo ved offs, which end in two weeks. every game with pride and out the team by playing first. forget," Fudgitt said. to play. Sadly, the !HL-whtch was Like father, like daughter Jackie Robinson's daughter continues her father's legacy as baseball's director of education By Noel Sutcliff and Scott Venci Correspondent, Sports Editor Sharon Robinson wasn't even born vet when her father made his tory. And even though she was 6- ,·ears-old when he retired. it \vouldn't be until she was much older that she trulv understood just "hat Jackie Robinson had done. It was 194 7 when a then 28-Har-old R0binson broke the color barrier bv being the fi rst African .-\.merican- to play Major League baseball. Sharon and her brothers. David and Jackie Robinson Jr.. grew up in a small neil!hborhood with no sidewalks or- streetlights in Stanford. Connecticut. Each morn ing they would get up and eat breakfast with their father. "ho "0uld get up at the crack of da" n and get the morning paper befor<' the children got up for school. Sharon and her brothers "ere a h> a ~ s in the spotlight because of their famous dad. and thev didn' t alwa~ s handle the pressures 'er~ well. especiallv Jackie Jr. He had Photo of LooHlagalll1e no place to hide from the shado" Sh R b' h'ld . h h fa II p· d fro ft . h J k' S R .oounesy of Jackie. It got so bad that Jad.ie Jr. aron o mson as a c t wtt er m y. tcture m 1e to ng t: ac te, Jack 1e Jr., haron, achel, and 0 avtd. stopped talking to his father alto gether and turned to drugs a< , n ha< to gro" up and go through ado Robinson. "I j ust needed 10 go there started to write. It was a way for her escape. lescence. The difficulty in trying to and not havl· e ve ryone know my to express her feelings like she had ''It was a real hard path for hi m." figure out who I " as was particular fa ther was Jackie Robinson." never done before. She eventually said Robinson of her brother. " lie ly hard." Sharon " ent to a number of East got up the courage to write a book "as vel)' self-destructing." She married ri ght out of high Coast schoo ls with the hope of about her life with her father. which At 18. he went to Vietna m. Upon school and quickl~ changed her becoming a nurse. he was innu was difficult and rewarding at the returning home Jackie Jr.. no" 2-1. name. She went to college under her enced greatl) b) her grandmother. same time. "'as dead. He was killed in a car married name and tried to cstablo sh who lived with the fa mily while "It was hard to write because it accident. even though by that time an idcntit) of her 0"n. After two Sharon was growing up. "She always brought back memories." Robinson he had kicked his drug habit. years in college. Sharon wa< thro v said that women were supposed to be said. "But it was a wonderful book Sharon had difficulty dealing with ing . She in vited her parents to her nurses and they where to marry doc to put together." She has j ust come the fame too. "Mv life was a little school one weekend. and after ''"' tors. She was kind of sexist like that. out with her new book. Jackie s more complex bec.ause I had famous ) cars of anonymity. she introduced A II the romance books she ever read None. which details the steps that her pa rents." said Robinson. "My life Jackie a' her fa ther for the fi rst IIIII<' had a nurse as the subject. .. "as also j ust like an ~ other kod who publocl~ . " I loved m) parents." By Sal J. Barry And,•rsson ( IG & 12A). and Steve Webmaster Maltais ( .JG & 7 A l have also done supt•rh fur the Wolves. Leading the For the >ccund yeur in n row. und Sulnr l:h-nrs in scoring are Curtis th<' third time in four years. the Murph ~ (2G & 9A) a nd Todd ( ' ho u ll!l0 Wnh•t•s nrc in the Turtt<'r Rkhnn ls (I ' & lOA): ironi ,,nll~. Cup Fntuls. l.nst yeur. they won hoth an·