ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION JANUARY 2019 VOL 5 NO. 1 Law Related Education The newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Committee on Law Related Education

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From the chair From the chair 1 BY NANCY G. EASUM Martin Luther King Jr. Day As chair of the Law Related Education at the University of Illinois Springfield. 2019: A different perspective (LRE) Committee, I wish you a most Further information is available on the Law on the ‘legacy’ of MLK Jr. happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. Related Education page of the ISBA website from Civil Rights Attorney Vernon Jordan The committee is busily working away at www.isba.org/teachers. If your school 1 on various projects and I would like to has participated in the past, thank you highlight some of them for you. and welcome back! If your school has not The High School Mock Trial participated, please consider doing so. The The joy of sharing our Invitational will be held March 9-10, 2019, Continued on next page knowledge and experience with high school seniors moving on to college, Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019: careers, and beyond 5 A different perspective on the 10 things to know: Chapman Learning Community August ‘legacy’ of MLK Jr. from Civil 22, 2018 keynote address Rights Attorney Vernon Jordan 6 Kickstart to Career Pathways BY SHARON L. EISEMAN & College participants 8

When Was the MLK, Jr. Holiday holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Established and Why? Jr. and commemorate his legacy? It did, First, before turning to a discussion of from southern legislators as well as from Dr. King’s legacy and what it means, let’s President Ronald Reagan who opposed review how a holiday in his memory was any national observance for Dr. King who established. Are you surprised to learn was variously described as “an outside that serious controversy arose in 1983 agitator” (by Senator Strom Thurmond in when Congress moved to create a national Continued on page 3 1 Law Related Education ▼ JANUARY 2019 / VOL 5 / NO. 1

From the chair

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Published at least four times per year. mock trial process is a wonderful learning available through the ISBA. experience for all students regardless of Law Related Education is not just for To subscribe, visit www.isba.org or call their long-term goals. The mock trial teams school students—it’s for adults as well. 217-525-1760. do an amazing job addressing the issues Another project of LRE, Courtroom in OFFICE presented by the problems. Of course, the Community, brings a program about ILLINOIS BAR CENTER this would not be possible without the the judicial system to adult civics and 424 S. SECOND STREET SPRINGFIELD, IL 62701 dedication of the students, teachers, and community organizations. Community PHONES: 217-525-1760 OR 800-252-8908 coaches. Thank you for guiding them groups may also request presentations on WWW.ISBA.ORG through this process! specific legal topics through the Speakers EDITORS The Lawyers in the Classroom Bureau. More information about these Sharon L. Eiseman Program volunteers continue to visit programs can be found under the Speakers Hon. Edward J. Schoenbaum schools to provide information related Bureau area at www.isba.org/civics/ PUBLICATIONS MANAGER to our legal system. Visit www.isba.org/ speakersbureau. Sara Anderson  [email protected] lawyersinclassrooms for a list of potential All these programs would not be topics and to locate a presenter. The possible without the dedicated members LAW RELATED EDUCATION COMMITTEE COUNCIL site also contains lesson plans on topics of LRE and other volunteers who support Nancy G. Easum, Chair such as civic duty, the Illinois legislative these projects. Thanks to all of them! Stephen D. Iden, Vice-Chair Christine G. Zeman, Secretary process, and kids going to court. Pamphlets Teachers, hope to see you and your team at Kateah M. McMasters, Ex-Officio Robert O. Ackley discussing jobs in the legal profession and the Mock Trial Invitational on March 9- 10, Catherine R. Brukalo n Hon. Michael J. Chmiel driver’s licensing laws for minors are also 2019, in Springfield! Hon. Rosemary Collins Sharon L. Eiseman, Newsletter Co-Editor David M. House Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019: A different perspective on the Marylou L. Kent Jacquelyn S. Leleu ‘legacy’ of MLK Jr. from Civil Rights Attorney Vernon Jordan Raquel G. Martinez Hon. Edward J. Schoenbaum Sandra L. Sweeney Sarah J. Taylor CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Angelica W. Wawrzynek, Board Liaison Kimberly A. Furr, Staff Liaison Kristin Anne Alferink, Associate Member Kelsey Chetosky, Associate Member Kathleen A. Karayannis, Associate Member 1968 following King’s assassination), and advocating for peaceful integration. Thus, Billie Saunders, Associate Member as someone who “welcomed collaboration this year as in every previous year the Stanley N. Wasser, Associate Member with Communists” (by North Carolina holiday has been observed, people all Senator Jesse Helms). To express his over our country—and beyond—will pay resistance that year, Helms led a sixteen- homage to this great man, preacher, and day filibuster of the MLK Holiday bill acknowledged leader of the civil rights but then finally voted for it in exchange movement in America that has defined for Congress’ approval of his tobacco bill. for generations what our country must Despite this opposition, the bipartisan vote acknowledge and address in order to in favor of the bill handily won the day, eliminate racism in our society. possibly because many Republicans may Dr. King’s Early and Relevant have believed they needed to show the DISCLAIMER: This newsletter is for subscribers’ personal Education use only; redistribution is prohibited. Copyright Illinois public their support for civil rights. State Bar Association. Statements or expressions of And did you know or do you recall that Even before he stepped onto the national opinion appearing herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Association or Editors, and Dr. King died before he even reached the ‘stage’ and ignited a widespread movement likewise the publication of any advertisement is not to be for peace, justice and racial equality construed as an endorsement of the product or service age of forty, having been assassinated in offered unless it is specifically stated in the ad that there is Memphis, Tennessee on April 4 of 1968 through his electrifying voice and powerful such approval or endorsement. words invoking hope for the dreamers Articles are prepared as an educational service to members when he was in the midst of preparing of ISBA. They should not be relied upon as a substitute for to lead a protest march in support of the in his audiences, Dr. King had achieved individual legal research. many impressive goals. At an early age, The articles in this newsletter are not intended to be used City’s striking sanitation workers? Yet in and may not be relied on for penalty avoidance. his short lifetime, Dr. Martin Luther King and in short order, Dr. King proved the accomplished the unimaginable, especially belief that he was bright, articulate and for a black man from the South and one driven by earning a B.A. in Sociology from

2 Atlanta’s Morehouse College when he was August 28, 1963, King delivered perhaps his possibly the momentum toward a more civil only nineteen, a B.A. in Divinity just three most stirring and memorable speech, one and just society, took a tragic turn on April years later, and then, in 1955, a Doctorate in that has come to be known as the “I Have a 4, 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated Systematic Theology from Boston University. Dream” speech. To the 250,000 participants in Memphis, Tennessee and it seemed the Those studies and his degrees both reflected in that day’s organized march to D. C., King world had come to a stop. By that time, his interest in canonical teachings and pronounced: “I have a dream that one day many who questioned his motives and grounded him in the power of oratory of this nation will rise up and live out the true his means to achieving peace and equality a spiritual nature that would engage his meaning of its creed, ‘We hold these truths had begun to appreciate the import of his listeners and move them to action. to be self-evident: that all men are created messages and his work on the ground toward equal.’” In that same speech he made the implementation of his mission—even though How Rosa Parks’ Courage Helped dream personal when he stated: “I have a some believed Dr. King was espousing more Inspire Dr. King’s Early Activism and dream that my four children will one day aggressive actions to bring about the change Advocacy for the Oppressed and live in a nation where they will not be he wanted. While his death left a terrible Dispossessed judged by the colour of their skin, but by void, his legacy as a ‘champion of peace’ has Also in 1955, Dr. King was chosen by the content of their character.” The theme continued to move us forward toward a more local civil rights activists to lead a one- of non-judgmental equality and respect just society, even if slowly and with ‘bumps’ day boycott of the buses in Montgomery, for human rights and opportunity for all in the road in recent years. Still, we all need Alabama. Their protest was spurred by area without regard to color resonated with many to keep vigilant to make sure we don’t lapse residents upset when Rosa Parks, a black individuals besides the marchers, which is in our efforts or allow prejudice, anger and woman, was arrested and fined on the bus what King intended: that his message of hope distorted perspectives to further divide us as she was taking home from work for violating would take hold across the nation and trigger a nation into separate and unequal factions. the City’s segregation laws. Parks had refused needed changes in the law. And this is where Vernon Jordan enters the the order of the bus driver to give up her seat scene and shares a somewhat different and to a white man who had been standing on In the Face of Many Threats to thus refreshing view of how to best honor the crowded bus. Under local law governing Him and His Family and All His the work done and progress achieved by Dr. public accommodations, he was entitled to Detractors, Dr. King Received the King. preferential seating because of his race. That Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 single day turned into a year which is how The era of the sixties was also witness to Who is Vernon Jordan and What long it took Montgomery to desegregate the the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Does He Have to Say About MLK buses. King—in 1964. In the presentation to King, Jr.? By persisting in its defense of racial Nobel Committee Chairman Gunnar Jahn Vernon Jordan, who is African-American, segregation within its public transportation described the Reverend as an “undaunted graduated from Howard University Law system, the City not only faced legal and champion of peace” who had distinguished School in 1960 and joined the firm of a financial challenges but it also, perhaps himself by showing that “a struggle can prominent civil rights attorney in Atlanta as unwittingly, simply stoked the flames of be waged without violence”. Mr. Jahn also a law clerk earning $35 a week, eventually a significant and growing national civil praised Dr. King for never abandoning his becoming a well-known civil rights advocate rights movement. That movement, which faith despite his having been subjected to in his own right. As a new lawyer, Jordan engendered many other battles for racial numerous imprisonments and bomb threats, was part of an NAACP team representing a equality, was borne of one black woman’s as well as repeated death threats against young black man who, in a mere 48 hours, using her voice to demand equal access to him and his family. Although detractors had been arrested, arraigned, indicted, public services. Ms. Parks later explained continued to attack Dr. King’s teachings, tried, convicted and sentenced to death that she claimed her seat that fateful day, not much progress had been made toward the by electrocution. That was a time when because she was physically tired but because goals of equality, justice and peace that King ‘colored’ people had to find outlying black- she was “tired of giving in”. For more was preaching. As notable examples, in only motels when transacting business in about Rosa Parks, who was lauded for her the middle of the sixties, Little Rock High the courts—or anywhere. And because they courage, wrote two compelling memoirs, and School and the University of Mississippi were banned from restaurants, they had to lived into her nineties, see https://www. were integrated, Congress enacted the 24th buy food at a grocery store and eat in their biography.com/people/rosa-parks. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and car. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Mr. Jordan’s firm, which included Etched Forever in Our Collective Rights Act of 1964. Constance Motley, sued the University of Memories: Dr. King’s Compelling Georgia in Federal Court, alleging that its Words Dr. King’s Assassination: A Dark restrictive admission policies constituted Events in the sixties related to Dr. Martin Day for All, and Its Aftermath racial discrimination. Despite challenges and Luther King Jr. are forever etched in our Sadly, as we all know, that decade didn’t a stay that was reversed, the case concluded memories and in America’s history. On end well. Dr. King’s good fortune, and successfully for the plaintiffs in 1961 with the

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Court Order directing that the two named young and engaging Senior Pastor of when we see imbalances and inequities. It African American plaintiffs be admitted the Trinity United Church of Christ in is especially important that, as lawyers, we to the University. (See Holmes v. Danner, the Washington Heights Community on also use our knowledge, our words, and our 191 F. Supp. 394 (M. D. Ga. 1961.) In Chicago’s South Side, to give the guest penchant for persuasion to convince others 1970, having left his firm, Jordan became sermon at the Church’s September 30, to join the movement and commit to action the executive director of the United Negro 2018 Sunday morning service focused on toward a more fair and just treatment of College Fund, and in 1971 he assumed the ‘Honoring Our Elders’. How did I learn those groups in our communities who have presidency of the National Urban League, about this meaningful event? Attorney no voice, no advocates, and waning hope. a position he held until 1981 when he Juan Thomas, a member of the ISBA’s Meanwhile, let’s not forget the upcoming resigned to become legal counsel in the Standing Committee on Racial and Ethnic 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday to Washington, D.C. law office of a Texas firm. Minorities and the Law, had invited his be observed on Monday, January 21, 2019. Aside from serving as a presidential REM colleagues—which includes me—to We hope you will join in the tributes likely advisor and a consultant to other high this special church service, and I decided taking place all over Chicago—especially level government officials, and in demand to attend-with my husband Noel. Besides in our public schools and in other public for appointment to the boards of multiple being quite touched by the warm welcome arenas, as Chicago is a City that particularly corporations, Jordan has recently held the we received from the congregants that day and warmly embraced King and to which position of senior managing director for in a venue where we were two of just a he had many close ties. Between 1956 an investment banking firm. He has also handful of white people in attendance, we and 1966 Dr. King gave three speeches at authored two books, most recently (2008) were moved by Pastor Moss’ sermon and by the University of Chicago’s well-known Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Mr. Jordan’s compelling insights. Rockefeller Chapel, all of which became Out, a collection of his public speeches The primary message Jordan conveyed famous for his inspiring messages and with commentary. The title certainly is simple: While it is important to honor brought him to the attention of the public. makes plain what Jordan has fought for all MLK Jr. for his accomplishments and Resources for learning more: If of his life and career. This indefatigable celebrate his storied career as a civil you wish to read more about Dr. Martin humanitarian has continuously used his rights activist, we cannot, must not, Luther King Jr. and his legacy, check out legal and oratory skills and his talent for stop there as we often do, assuming it is the University of Chicago’s website at advocacy to help move the dial forward on enough to pay a yearly tribute to Dr. King http://mlk.uchicago.edu/ which offers the task of eliminating racial injustice. as our means of supporting racial, ethnic significant material about the subject, and gender equality. Instead, we have to what the University is doing to pay tribute Vernon Jordan’s Characteristic keep King’s DREAM alive by working to to Dr. King this year, and how to pursue ‘Call to Action’ as a Means to achieve the goals he pursued. In other ‘civic engagement’ toward increasing Change words, we should consider ourselves the diversity and inclusion. Much historic It is on the stage before attentive heirs of his legacy and take on the tasks detail is available on the website for the audiences such as college graduates, that he left to us—unfinished—until they are National Park Service’s Martin Luther Jordan is most effective. In June of 2015, finished. King, Jr. Memorial located in Washington, speaking to Stanford’s graduating class at a D.C. That site, though unable to provide multi-faith celebration for the students and What Can We D to Make a continuing updates due to the current their families, he minced no words, instead Difference ‘Going Forward’? ‘shutdown’ of the Federal Government that urging the audience to be ‘disturbers of the For us to stay on track toward achieving is severely affection the NPS’s ability to unjust peace’. Using a question from the justice for all, we must have strong take care of its various sites, is nevertheless prophet Isaiah: “Who will go, and whom leadership in our local, state and federal at least accessible at: https://www.nps. shall we send?” as a basis for his message governments and in the private sector, as gov/mlkm. Teachers will also find many that day, Jordan said he prays the answer well as great teachers in our schools. It resources for observing the Holiday at is “Here am I. Send me.” He continued is through the polls at each election and, www.MLKDay.gov. For the young and on: “Send me to help clear the rubble of of course, through our political discourse older, participating in a ‘Day of Service’ racism still strewn across this country. and educational systems, that we can as part of the MLK, Jr. Holiday is a way to Send me to be one of the bulldozers on encourage each new generation to attain help preserve Dr. King’s legacy and keep the behalf of equality and in the cleanup a better understanding as to the positive torch of equality burning crews against injustice. Send me to outcomes when diverse communities live One additional reference is The Martin ‘disrupt’ injustice. Send me to ‘hack’ bias and work together in mutual respect for Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent and bigotry. Send me to ‘lean in.” their differences. We must also do what Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, which And now, ‘fast tracking’ right to we can to assure that equal opportunities Mrs. Coretta Scott King established in 2018: Vernon Jordan, at 83 years of age, for achievement are available to all. Part of tribute to her husband, not as a ‘dead was invited by Dr. Otis Moss III, the this equation is having the will to speak up monument’ but as a living testimonial that

4 would engage and empower visitors. The 1. Constance Motley, widely known as an early civil out of her ten cases. As lead counsel, Motley was also rights activist, was born in 1921, the ninth of twelve successful in defending protestors arrested in the early King Center, a 23-Acre National Historic Site children, to parents who emigrated from the West Indies. sixties for taking part in the Freedom Rides, and for that invites and enables visitors to embark on At the age of 15, having been inspired by reading about helping James Meredith gain admission to the University civil rights heroes, Motley decided she wanted to be a of Mississippi in 1962. Ultimately turning to the a self-guided tour, includes a Library and an lawyer—and ultimately became the second black woman political arena, Motley became the first black woman to Archive and, as of last year, it had initiated a to graduate from Columbia Law School where she serve in the New York State Senate. In another first for met Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the NAACP an African American woman, Motley became a federal project for an “innovative digital strategy and Legal Defense Fund where Motley worked while a law judge when President Lyndon Johnson appointed her to conference series”. Check it all out at http:// student. She later clerked for Supreme Court Justice the Manhattan Federal District Court in 1966. After a Marshall, became chief counsel herself of the NAACP very full and productive life, Constance Motley died in thekingcenter.org. n Legal Defense Fund, and wrote the draft complaint for 2005 at the age of 84. Brown v. Board of Education. As a practicing attorney, Motley argued before the Supreme Court, winning nine

The joy of sharing our knowledge and experience with high school seniors moving on to college, careers, and beyond

BY SHARON EISEMAN WITH SUPPORT FROM KAREN DIMOND

Through a series of interesting achievement and academic training required in their lives and educational histories, to connections, Lisa Edelson, the Education for particular careers. the many options available, and give them To Careers Coordinator for Niles Township The group of ‘industries’ featured on the a chance to explore and inquire about the High School District 219, discovered our website includes the Hospitality Industry, different vocations or ‘industries’ as possible ISBA Committee on Law Related Education Law Enforcement, Journalism, Accounting, life careers. In such an environment, for the Public. She then reached out to our Business Management and Administration, students are enabled to identify choices that Chair, Nancy Easum, to request volunteers Computer Science/Tech, the Performing are perhaps consistent with the interests and from Committee members to speak at the Arts, Agricultural Science, and, of course, intellectual abilities they have developed District’s Niles North facility the evening of LAW. Most of those career choices and in high school. Being so informed then October 16, 2018. The focus of the event others were represented at the KICKSTART serves as a means for them to decide which was the launching of its ‘Kickstart to Career event by people working in those institution of higher learning, apprenticeship Pathways’, a newly minted program for high industries—with Karen Dimond from the or other path to pursue or consider pursuing, school seniors, based upon a project recently Cook County Public Defender’s Office and and what to study in college, vocational initiated by the Illinois State Board of ‘yours truly’, Sharon Eiseman, representing school or elsewhere in order to get there. Education (ISBE) in collaboration with other practitioners in the field of LAW. The Accordingly, Karen and I met with government agencies. representatives from each industry or two different groups of students and Titled ‘WORK LEARN GROW: Pathways profession were assigned a separate room their families to offer insights into what to the Jobs of Illinois’ Future’, the project also in which to meet, consecutively, with two ‘practicing’ law is like—both in a government aims to help young people become ‘College groups of seniors and their parents or other office and in a law firm. We also shared and Career Ready’. A wealth of information family members who chose to learn about with them our sometimes crooked paths to acquaint students with myriad industries, that career—and also to learn from the to our goals—meant to reassure them that professions and vocations that offer presenters how they arrived at that particular one doesn’t always know what path to take, apprenticeships and other courses of study, choice—not always in a straight line but and that exploration is OK and can even is available on the ISBE website at https:// often after trying several other careers until lead to growth and better choices. One of www.isbe.net where you will find, among ‘getting it right’. the writings we shared with them is the other resources, a link to ‘College and Career The purpose of KICKSTART and similar following version of a delightful lecture Readiness’. The website is user-friendly, events being held for seniors across Illinois given to entering freshmen at BGSU by Prof. making it easy to identify the type/level of is to expose them, at a critical turning point Emeritus Thomas Klein.n

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I extend a warm welcome to all of you. more successful self – on you own. psychology, biology, sociology, art, music, College can be the greatest adventure of your 2. You’re here to get a practical- literature, religion, ethnic studies, and life; in college you are shaping a self that will liberal education. A practical education history. Learning things that lack an carry you into your adult years—that’s both and a liberal education. Which is more immediate payoff but pay off richly in the scary and exciting. Right now you may be important?? Hands…. Most educators long run. Studying history, psychology, feeling alone and afraid. But remember that will single out one or the other as the most and literature will give you a larger mental only a third of Americans have a college important educational pillar. I think that’s and verbal vocabulary, a sense of global and degree, and world-wide, just 7 percent do. a mistake. Both are equally important in national literacy, a better understanding And remember that you are NOT alone; you shaping the choices you make about courses about yourself and others; a liberal are surrounded by new friends and people and majors. And to graduate as a well- education can also make you interesting to who will support you in good and bad times. rounded and educated person, you need others, reduce symptoms of depression and Today I have tried to load your college both. stress, and open doors to far away worlds. backpack with good ideas that can make the What is a practical education? It’s what Few in the BGSU community know next four or four plus years as successful as you can learn in order to make a living. It’s about this rare opportunity open to all of possible. the ‘College of Business’ where, for most you. And it’s only for those of you who dare To set the mood and the topic, here’s a American college students, you might to dream. It introduces you to multiple short and easy quiz—no grades/no worry. look for a major. The courses you take, countries and three continents (Africa, Asia A. What book has most shaped your the majors you choose, and the campus and Europe) first hand. It’s called Semester thinking and values? Share that with your activities you engage in will introduce you at Sea. It gives you a semester of college neighbor. Share some titles with all of us. to possible vocations, jobs, and internships. credit. It’s a voyage around the world in a B. How many hours do you spend on a Want to be an accountant? A nurse? A four month semester. My wife and I were screen on average daily? Raise your hands: teacher? An actor or actress? A dancer? faculty for one of those adventures in 2006; 2? 4? 6? 8 or 10? Share that answer with An artist? A salesman or saleswoman? for us and 650 college students, it was life all of us. A coder? Meet the faculty and consider changing. Here’s some SAS literature from C. Based on your answer to B, how many courses in those subjects. Check out campus past trips. think the amount of time you spend on line clubs and interest groups. Leave your room 3. Testing authority and not automatically is too much time? Raise your hands. and smart phone behind. accepting all you hear and read is an Brief discussion of above… I meet many 17, 18, and 19 year olds essential to the practical and the liberal. That My topic is ten things you should know who have no or just the vaguest idea about means thinking twice about what you think, about college. what they want to do after college. I tell do, read, what parents say, what professors 1. You’re on your own. THAT’S GOOD. them that’s ok. That’s healthy. Their search say, what government says. Study and In college you are intellectually, emotionally, for a future is really a search for identity. stay aware of local, national and global and socially ALONE, cut off from your And that takes a while and some guts. Best events so you’ll have the knowledge-base to home, high school and city or town life, advice: be patient, make smart choices, take think clearly and express your ideas with even if you commute. You’ve cut your most risks, be on the lookout for opportunities, confidence. Without those skills, you risk essential ties to mom, dad, siblings, high and be honest with yourself. being an empty vessel. school and friends. What you routinely What’s a liberal education? It’s Twitter and Instagram will not keep you did then out of love or obedience…curfew, certainly NOT about becoming a liberal or a alert and informed. Being well informed eating habits, your online life, your reading democrat. It’s about developing as a broadly means that in a job interview, you’re habits, social life, and study habits…all are educated thinking and feeling person. It’s prepared to talk about more than sports and up for grabs. Your life now gives you the about having a life beyond work. rock music. Being culturally literate comes chance to construct a new, stronger and It’s about taking courses in philosophy, from regular visits with a good newspaper

6 (Wall St. Journal, NYT and Washington the lead headline of the local newspaper, or 8. Always go to class. Don’t cut. Even if Times), a good magazine (Time, Atlantic, circulated around campus. Many may recall it’s early in the morning. Even if you’ve been The Economist, National Review, Nat Geo, a recent court case: 20 year old Michelle up all night. Even if you have to go to work. The Smithsonian, or the New Yorker), or Carter texted her friend to help him commit Attendance is important because learning news shows that will enrich your thinking. suicide. She then spent 20 months in jail. is cumulative. What’s learned in week 1 is What are your reading habits? If you Further, social media can so consume essential for understanding week 8 content. don’t have any, it’s time to start! If most of your time that you neglect much-needed 9. Learning communities are created your reading is on a screen, that could well face-to-face relationships, exercise, and to make new ways of learning and being be a serious problem. study. When you do most of your reading possible. They can make new ways of 4. Don’t fear thinking, writing and talking on line, you are consuming scraps, excerpts, knowing provocative, enriching, fun, politically, but be careful not to trap yourself parts of articles, messages and pieces of and essential. Out of class trips, debates, in unwinnable arguments and shouting information from everywhere and nowhere. speakers, meals together, films. In-class matches that produce more fire than light. (David Denby) creative writing: active learning with Family gatherings often have unwritten Adam Alter’s book Irresistible is your interviews, dialogues, blogs, Twitter rules: beware of talking religion or politics. common book for this year and most of exchanges. Take advantage of these wonders. That’s family. College on the other hand is a you will hear him speak on campus in Wonders? Wait and see. But remember it’s a think tank where curiosity, exploration, and a few weeks. Thus, large portions of the two way street. learning about yourself and others have no BGSU student body will read the book in 10. Writing may be the most important limits. one or more of their classes. Usually, the skill in college. It develops a kind of 5. Treat all persons equally: with respect, University invites the author to visit and thinking that’s absent from most forms of value, and consideration. Never judge speak. Irresistible is about the way the social talking, reading, imagining and dreaming. on the basis of appearance. Appearances media manipulate all of us to depend on It demands effective communication of easily mask the real person. Never limit their screen time. Are you aware of that? Do complex ideas. When you talk, the ideas your friends to those who look, dress, you like it? have a very short life span, no more than a speak and think like you do. Doing that Books. How many of you have read few seconds. You really can’t cleanly modify will invite narrowness, bigotry, and a small, Fahrenheit 451 by sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury? or clarify what you just said. When you homogeneous social circle that only feeds on It’s required reading for anyone who reads write, you can labor over a word, a sentence, itself. Don’t let differences in race, religion, Irresistible. Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit tone, your audience and organization. And appearance, gender, sexual orientation, age, 451 in 1953. I was 12 and my family had there is the added advantage of being proud or politics control you. Instead, befriend just purchased our first TV. TV was the of what you created on the page, whether it is those who are different or alone; they invention that changed the world and in pen of on screen. might turn out to be your best friend or alarmed Bradbury. He thought, and I think Here’s your second and last quiz: teacher. Expand your circle of friends and he was right, that TV and other mass media What will you remember about this talk? acquaintances. Later you’ll discover that technologies can dumb us down by taking What I’d like you to remember: networking may be the most important skill us away from books. 451 is the temperature Today’s writers and readers are in your life. at which books burn. The novel is about a tomorrow’s leaders! n 6. Beware of social media and their effects society where books are for burning. on your mind, spirit and body. Some of you 7. Reach beyond your comfort zone spend exorbitant amounts of time on-line. because growth requires risk. You signed Your avoidance of reading serious books and up for a LC (Learning Center). That’s a risk. thinking about serious topics, perhaps from You left home. That’s a risk. You made a fear, could be a force that trips you up here new friend—another risk. Risk is the best and in life. I and many other thinkers in the route to learning and deeper thinking. In field of education suspect that heavy loads high school you could hide or brown nose of screen time may be the cause. A Jr. High to the top; now you have to move forward teacher in town tells me that her students, authentically and with purpose. comparing themselves to so many they see A tip: Introduce yourself to your online, fear standing out as different. instructors and ask if you can meet in their So, as powerful and accessible as social offices to get acquainted. The wider network media are, they can get us into mountains of of contacts you can make, the better off trouble. Many employers search Facebook you’ll be when you need them for letters of and Twitter before hiring. When you’re recommendation, advice, or building new online, imagine your thoughts (or rants, relationships and friends. ridicule, biases, insults, and complaints) as

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KICKSTART TO CAREER PATHWAYS & COLLEGE October 16, 2018 6:30 - 8:30 pm AGRICULTURE, FOOD Niles North High School • 9800 Lawler, Skokie & NATURAL RESOURCES CULINARY & HOSPITALITY - ROOM 1605 INFORMATION ARTS & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FINANCE & BUSINESS SERVICES TELEVISION BROADCAST, PRODUCTION, COMPUTER SCIENCE - ROOM 1340 DIRECTING - ROOM 1335 HOSPITALITY & HOTEL - ROOM 1400 Deborah Nicole Bosco Edwards Career Services Sr Recruiter Kendall College Lettuce @National Louis Entertain You Ronald Greenberg CULINARY & RESTAUR. MGMT - ROOM 1610 Steve Novak PhD Associate Professor of Director/Producer John Callan Computer Science WGN-TV General Manager DoubleTree Hotel & Loyola University JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATION Conference Center & SOCIAL MEDIA - ROOM 1500 BUSINESS MGMT & ADMINISTRATION COMPUTER SCIENCE - ROOM 1340 Dan Coudreaut ROOM 1400 Managing Director Coudreaut & Associates, LTD CULINARY & HOSPITALITY - ROOM 1610

Kathleen Lee Mike Asst Director of External Tod Moore Paul Franz Banducci Asst Mgr-Talent Programs VP Performance & Reward Software Eng S&C Electric Co Medill School of Journalism, HSBC North America Northwestern University S&C Electric Co Greg Beachey Associate Dean VISUAL ARTS & PERFORMING ARTS - INVESTMENTS & SECURITIES - ROOM 1445 Washburne Culinary Institute ROOM 1675 FOOD/RESTAURANT SERVICES - ROOM 1610

Neil Gardner Julie Ownings Financial Advisor Talent Acquisition Terrell Johnson Wendy Kaplan Edward Jones Investments S&C Electric Co Executive Director Executive Director Illinois Restaurant Assoc. Skokie Theatre & MadKap Productions ACCOUNTING & TAX - ROOM 1445 SCIENCE, NATURAL RESOURCES & FOOD - ROOM 1620

Presented by John Kate Russell Alex Wasson Poulopoulos Michael Silver & D219 Student Services & Lucas Allen Co, LLC HS Representative Michael Silver & Agriculture Prog. Adv. American Academy of Art Education to Careers IL Agricultural Education-FCAE Co, LLC

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