August 24, 2017 Volume 97 Number 02 THE DUQUESNE DUKE www.duqsm.com PROUDLY SERVING OUR CAMPUS SINCE 1925 DU prof Duquesne avoids being blinded by the light researches books for refugees KAYE BURNETT staff writer Education professor Xia Chao’s daughter was 12 years old when she moved with her family from China to the United States nine years ago. Through the ex- perience of observing and help- ing her daughter as an English as a second language (ESL) student, Chao developed a personal pas- sion for learning more about how immigrant families and their children interact with teachers to adapt to their new homes. “As a parent, I was very curi- ous and enthusiastic about what I could do [to help my daughter learn],” Chao said. Now Chao, an education re- searcher awarded by the Ameri- can Educational Research Asso- ciation and the Literacy Research KAILEY LOVE/PHOTO EDITOR Association, is working on a new Crowds of students gathered behind Mellon Hall and all across campus to watch a near-total eclipse of the sun on Monday afternoon. The eclipse reached totality in project involving ESL students in several regions of the country, the first total eclispe since 1979. Numerous viewing parties were held across campus and the nation. The next visable eclipse is in 2024. the Pittsburgh area called Sav- ings Stories. Saving Stories is a collaborative effort by Baldwin- Whitehall teacher Renee Christ- man and Paul Kelly, librarian at Law school renews agreement with Costa Rica Whitehall Public Library, to turn RAYMOND ARKE sential in laying the groundwork stories from local refugee fami- news editor and building up the cooperative lies into bilingual picture books. program. He first visited Costa These picture books contain In late June, Duquesne law Rica as a member of the Peace stories collected from the refu- professor Robert Barker traveled Corps stationed in Panama in gee families in their native lan- to the land of deep rainforests, 1968, not long after receiving his guages, then translated side-by- pristine beaches and “one of the undergraduate and law degrees side into English and illustrated most stable and respected legal from Duquesne. by Baldwin-Whitehall students. systems in the world,” Costa Rica. “I was a Peace Corps volunteer The books are then profession- Barker visited the small Cen- not in Costa Rica but in Panama ally bound and added to the tral American country to renew a at the time. And we were working shelves of the Whitehall Library more than 20-year-old academic to establish a legal services pro- for use by the public, according cooperation agreement between gram for the squatter settlements to Christman. Duquesne’s School of Law and of [Panama City],” he said. There are also sets of books Costa Rica’s Supreme Court. Since Costa Rica had a simi- COURTESY OF ROBERT BARKER at local schools and organiza- The program includes Duquesne lar program to what Barker was Duquesne law professor Robert Barker shakes hands with Justice Carlos Chinchilla, tions that help resettle refugees, professors traveling to give lec- working on, he made his first trip president of the Costa Rican Supreme Court. They renewed a cooperation agreement. she explained. Some of the sto- tures, Duquesne students doing to the country in 1968. ries are fables from the refugees’ internships for the Costa Rican “I persuaded my boss in Panama study its system of judicial review, with Costa Rica began in 1995 when home countries, while others are Supreme Court and Costa Rican to send me up to Costa Rica, so I which lead to more trips and the cre- a justice of the Costa Rican Supreme simple picture books for very jurists giving presentations at could take a look and perhaps gain ation of the agreement in 1995. Court, Justice Luis Fernando Solano, young children. Duquesne. some information that would be use- “From 1984 on, I visited Costa suggested to me that a program of Christman said she got the idea Barker, a distinguished profes- ful back in Panama,” Barker said. Rica pretty frequently and wrote cooperation be established between for the project almost four years ago, sor of law emeritus with a long The trip was successful, and Barker articles which eventually got put the Costa Rican Supreme Court and connection to Central America — returned to Costa Rica in 1984 with together into a book,” Barker said. see STORIES — page 3 especially Costa Rica — was es- a research grant from Duquesne to “Duquesne Law School cooperation see COSTA — page 3 opinions features sports a & e Follow us on... 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Options Food Court has Affairs reported. been transformed to now include a Around 2 p.m., the professor ap- ment has been at work all summer, renovating and updating campus for popular new Chick-fil-A. The Cinco proached a student who was wear- Cantina and a sushi bar now serve ing a “green Army-style jacket,” ac- new and returning students. Crews spent the summer prepar- Options’ familiar Mexican food and cording to a statement obtained by sushi choices. the The Duke. ing the Living Learning Centers for their new residents. Rod Dobish, The sixth floor of the Union will be The statement said that the stu- the home of Career Services in the dent’s hand was inside the jacket, Assistant Vice President & Chief Fa- cilities Officer of Facilities Manage- near future, slated to open in Janu- and a “black item” was visible, at- ary 2018. tached to his belt. When the pro- ment, explained that this involves “general maintenance in 1,908 tradi- Facilities Management completed fessor questioned the student, the all of these projects despite the con- student said he had a gun. tional student rooms.” Over the summer, crews cleaned struction on Stevenson Street and The professor alerted Duquesne while under a unique time constraint. police, who then responded and de- and finished hundreds of thousands KAILEY LOVE/PHOTO EDITOR of square feet across the residence “All of this construction and reno- tained the individual. The student A photo looking down A -Walk. Class began on Monday. However Facilities Man- vation work had to be completed be- revealed to police that he did not halls with carpeting and flooring. St. agement was kept busy over the break, maintaining and improving campus Ann Hall had all of its cooling and tween spring commencement and the have a gun and that the object was beginning of the fall semester, which heating pipes replaced. Dobish expects these same reno- seen major projects completed this in fact a medical device. was a mere thirteen weeks. Normally, Assumption Hall had its 1950s-era vations to be completed on the Bluff summer. One of College Hall’s first Police are questioning the stu- the summer break is fifteen weeks,” bathrooms finally demolished and re- Street side of Assumption Hall this floor lecture halls has been com- dent and have determined that Dobish said. placed on the Stevenson Street side. coming summer. pletely renovated. Libermann Hall there is no threat to campus. Dobish is happy with the work The new bathrooms also feature a Students passing by Gumberg now boasts a new fourth floor bio- completed over the summer. larger, private American Disabilities Library may have noticed the new medical lab and is having its HVAC “Overall, I am very proud of our Act-friendly shower area for students walls enclosing the group study areas system replaced over the course of POLICE briefs team in Facilities Management,” with disabilities. along the window on Locust Street,. the next few years. said Dobish. “We have many proj- Greetings young whippersnap- Matthew Ireland, Associate Di- Inside, the fourth-floor restroom Rockwell Hall’s fourth floor over- ects over the summer and we al- pers, it’s Grandpa PB taking over rector of Residence Life, said that and computer labs have undergone haul will be done in late September, ways manage to complete them your Police Brief section. I’ll be “a laundry room was added to overhauls, as well. according to Dobish, with “new bath- with one goal in mind—to enhance here all year to keep a close eye on each floor” of the Stevenson side Several campus buildings have rooms, replacement of the HVAC the student experience.” you Millennials and the libertine of Assumption. behavior. On August 15, a student in St. Martin’s was caught with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The offender was DU prof switches departments for new year referred to the Office of Student Conduct KAILEY LOVE Duquesne Public Safety investi- gated a room in Towers on August photo editor 16 after the smell of marijuana was With all the political division that caught drifting from inside. The has been the central focus of debate student was sent to the Office of in the U.S.