Wednesday, October 30, 2013 VOLUME 32 / NUMBER 10 www.uicnews.uic.edu facebook.com/uicnews twitter.com/uicnews NEWS UIC youtube.com/uicmedia For the community of the University of Illinois at Chicago Photo: Sarah Cole Kammerer Photography During her nine-month Fulbright fellowship in India, Sarah Cole Kammerer (center right) lived in the rural town of Chakradharpur, where the people spoke various languages and conditions were far different from Chicago. “I thought I would never be able to connect with people from a place so different from my home,” she says. “But I was able to see, in many ways, how similar we really are.” Read more on page 11. Finding community far from home INSIDE: Profile / Quotable 2 | Campus News 5 | Police 6 | Calendar 8 | Student Voice 9 | People 10 | Postgraduate 11 | Sports 12 Ranga Chandrasekaran feels at Honoring UIC’s award-winning Ready for Halloween? These No. 1 soccer kicks it on with fifth home onstage employees students are! Horizon win More on page 2 Special section More on page 9 More on page 12 2 UIC NEWS I www.uicnews.uic.edu I OCTOBER 30, 2013 profile Send profile ideas to Gary Wisby,
[email protected] Ranga Chandrasekaran feels at home onstage By Gary Wisby As an experiment, Mahendran agreed to direct two plays for the Chicago troupe. He first stepped onto a stage at age “We did our rehearsals on Skype, tele- and 4, and whenever Ranganathan Chan- videoconferencing,” Chandrasekaran said. drasekaran isn’t working in theater — “Then he spent 10 days with us in person.