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Tuition increases 3.5 percent for next year

Carly Cundiff Campus Editor John Carroll University announced on Tuesday, April 5 that Beth Mooney, chairman and chief executive officer of KeyCorp, will serve as the 2016 Commencement Speaker at graduation on May 22. Mooney will also receive an honorary doctorate degree at the ceremony.

Mooney has been chairman and chief executive officer of KeyCorp since 2011.

Fortune Magazine recently named her one of the top 50 “Most Powerful Women in Business” and in 2015 she was named the most powerful woman in banking for the third year in a row by American Banker.

Mooney joined KeyCorp in 2006 and has more than 30 years of experience in retail banking, commercial lending, and real estate financing.

A native of Michigan, the new commencement speaker has a deep love for the city of Cleveland, saying, “We have a great city” according to a 2014 article in Photo courtesy of Flickr Cleveland.com A member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s Board of Directors, Beth Mooney will serve as the 2016 Mooney served as the chairman of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, one of the Commencement speaker. largest Chambers of Commerce in the Nation. She is also a trustee and treasurer of the board of the Musical Arts Association, which governs the Cleveland Orchestra, and is a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Mooney has been very involved with the Cleveland Public School district, championing renovations of the urban schools.

She is also very passionate about attracting immigrants to Cleveland, saying employing immigrants makes good economic sense.

“I think we’re at this inflection point where so much is coming together in downtown Cleveland,” Mooney said in the article.

“I think it’s an incredibly exciting time.”

Mooney will address 660 undergraduate and 200 graduate students in the 130th class to graduate from John Carroll University.

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Mary Frances McGowan was elected as the editor-in-chief for next year.

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Mary Frances McGowan, current managing editor of The Carroll News, was elected the new editor-in-chief on Thursday, March 31. She will begin her term as editor-in-chief on Thursday, April 14.

McGowan, a junior, began writing and copy editing for The Carroll News as a freshman in 2013. She was made the assistant editor to the Campus section at the end of her first semester, and became a Campus section editor at the end of her freshman year. After a successful year in this position, she rose to managing editor.

McGowan is currently double majoring in Communication and Political Science. She is also the president of the John Carroll University chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, she is a member of Eta Eta –the John Carroll chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society– as well as the Kappa Delta Sorority.

“I hope that The Carroll News embodies its purpose of providing a voice for the student body and holding the university accountable when it is due, as well as putting out a publication each week that speaks to the interests of the student body,” McGowan said. “I’m lucky that our staff is a group of talented, creative and curious folks, so I’m confident that, as a publication, we won’t be afraid to take risks and address campuswide issues in an ethical and balanced way (and have a lot of fun, that’s good too).”

“I have complete confidence in Mary Frances,” said Katelyn DeBaun, the current editor-in-chief. “I’ve worked with her for three years now and have 100 percent faith that she will lead this newspaper successfully. I’m extremely excited to see what the future holds for her and The Carroll News.”

Carly Cundiff Campus Editor In a letter sent to students dated Feb. 11, the John Carroll University Board of Directors announced a 3.5 percent increase in tuition to $37,190, effective for the 2016-2017 school year. This represents a change of $42 per credit hour for full-time students.

“There is no one reason that drives the tuition price increase,” Rich Mausser, the Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer of JCU said.

“Among these are an evaluation of current competitive positions, anticipated total enrollment, revenue generated by non-tuition sources, like endowments, and financial aid required for returning students of the new freshman class.”

Tuition has been steadily increasing every year, but this increase is the lowest increase for the University since 2009. Tuition for the 2015-2016 school year amounted to $35,930.

“The Board and the University of administration work diligently to control out costs and find efficiencies in our operations while also investing in the quality education for our future. We are committed to delivering on the promise of or Jesuit education now and into the future,” said the letter signed by university president the Rev. Fr. Robert Niehoff.

JCU is a tuition-dependent institution, meaning that the University cannot rely on outside sources for funding.

“The impact of incremental operating expense needs also affects the tuition rate,” Mausser continued. “These expense demands arise from our need to provide reasonably competitive salary and benefits to our faculty and staff, provide funds for new academic initiatives, maintain our building and information technology infrastructure and comply with the externally driven regulatory environment.”

Students are having mixed reactions to the announcement, with some in support and some taking it as a fact of going to a university.

“It doesn’t bother me much,” said sophomore Marlon Robertson. “It seems like a lot of money, but it’s all relative.

When you are already talking about paying $60,000 to go here, then $1,300 more is only a drop in the bucket.”

On the other hand, sophomore Stephen Lee said, “It’s not something that makes me excited, but I can see why they would raise tuition.”

Room and board rates are increasing for the 2016-2017 school year. as well.

For more information and a detailed fee schedule including room and board rates, visit www.jcu.edu/ tuition.

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Q&A with Madeline Smanik, the next “Meet the Press” fellow Compiled by Katelyn DeBaun Editor-in-Chief

Celebration of Scholarship

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The 2016 Celebration of Scholarship will take place from April 11-16 in various locations around campus.

The Celebration of Scholarship is a yearly event that showcases the academic achievements of the John Carroll community by celebrating the four general views of scholarship: teaching, discovery, integration and application.

The event will showcase art, a poster competition, panels and paper presentations.

For a complete schedule and more information, visit http://sites.jcu.edu/celebration/pages/art-exhibit/.

JCU Debate wins title Freshman Zak Zinda won the Pi Kappa Delta Debate national championship in the Lincoln Douglas debate at the University of Kentucky on March 19.

Zinda was undefeated in the initial preliminary and subsequent qualifying rounds before triumphing unanimously over Central Michigan University in the final round.

This win is JCU’s fifth national debate title and the first since 2006.

The debate topic was “Resolved: that the United States federal government should substantially increase restrictions on bioprospecting.”

English Club beat poetry night

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The English Club will be presenting a special evening of poetry and music on Thursday, April 7 at 8 p.m. in the Marinello Little Theater located on the second floor of the DJ Lombardo Student Center.

The theme of the event is The Beat Generation, and will focus on the poets and writers of the 60s, like Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouc.

English professor and special guest Ray McNiece, a nationally renowned musician and poet will perform alongside students.

Free pizza will also be provided.

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Madeline Smanik, a senior at John Carroll University double majoring in Communication and Political Science, has been named the next “Meet the Press” fellow. The Carroll News sat down with her to discuss this opportunity.

Can you talk about the journey that led you to this point?

Since I chose [Communication and Political Science] as my two majors, [the “Meet the Press” Fellowship] was my goal from when I declared my majors and realized that’s what I wanted to study and the field I wanted to work in. That’s when I started working toward the fellowship as my ultimate goal. Obviously, being apart of the Carroll News and even the leadership position I had in the Kappa Delta Sorority also helped me in terms of establishing my work ethic to do well.

What’s something that really helped you get here?

I think just being active outside of the classroom is something I suggested to the potential freshmen at Celebration Day; I also talked to potential Communication majors. I was encouraging them to get involved in whatever capacity they can. I got involved at the end of my freshman year, and I’m glad I did, but the sooner the better. Academics are really important to me, but committing yourself to an organization that’s volunteer based is important too. Those experiences are rewarding on their own.

Did any professors or classes provide you with notable guidance?

I’ve taken multiple classes with Carrie Buchanan. Even the first journalism class was influential for me, just to establish the baseline of what I wanted to study. I’ve taken a variety of classes [in the Political Science department], from International Relations, to American Presidency, to Political Thought. I liked that there’s a variety of topics. That’s why I did the general track of communication, so that I could take a variety of communication courses to get a taste of them.

Can you discuss what this process was like for you?

I first saw this advertised when I was a freshman. I was undeclared; I thought I was going to be a business major and I clearly changed my mind. I thought it was an incredible opportunity. Once I declared my majors, I realized I qualified to pursue [the “Meet the Press” Fellowship] and fell into the fields

of study that are the prerequisites for the fellowship. I applied in the beginning of February, and at the end of the month, finalists were notified. It was half exciting and half terrifying, because I had been thinking about it for so long. Going to D.C. was a whirlwind because it was only two days, but it was a wonderful experience. Even just interviewing, I was grateful. Just having the ability to test myself, to push myself to that point to interview at a position at such an influential and well-known show as “Meet the Press”, so that was incredible.

Coming home and waiting to hear from the producers was a little nerve-wracking. I finally heard from them on Friday; it still feels surreal. It sounds so cliché to say that, but it really feels unreal for me right now, but in the best way. Once you find out, you’re like, “I’ve imagined this for so long.” After you apply, you keep imagining what’s going to happen next, and so I thought about what it would be to get it, how I’d want to response if I didn’t get it, so once it actually happened, I still feel like I’m imagining it; it doesn’t feel real yet.

What’s funny is I found out on April 1, which was a little scary; I knew they were nice people so I was confident it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke, but I did think for a second, “Wait, it’s April Fools Day.” And then, April 1 was the deadline for a fellowship and a paid internship I applied for as well, so I found out about this within 24 hours of applying to those, so that’s just kind of ironic.

What happened during the two days spent in Washington, D.C.?

On Saturday night, we got dinner with some of the former fellows and John Carroll alum who work in the area. It was very relaxed, not like a networking event, but just to be able to hear from people who went to your school who work in D.C. On Sunday, we got to the studio, we got to watch the show from the studio, we saw it taped live, which was a really cool experience we had not had before, so that was fun. After that, each of us did our interviews, and Ashley Bastock, the current fellow, took us on a tour of the studio, and that was really fun.

Did the former fellows give you any notable advice?

When we had dinner with some of the former recipients, Dan Cooney was there, and at the end of the dinner he said to all of us, “You’ve made it, just soak it in. Being here and having this opportunity is what you’ve worked for. No matter what happens after this point, just appreciate the experience that you’re having right now and make the most of it.” That really resonated with me the next day when we went to the set; everyone was nervous and jittery and watching the show and getting their interviews right after. It helped me sit back and breathe and think, “I’m grateful to have gotten this far.”

What’s next for you?

I don’t know if I can think that far ahead. I’m extremely thankful to have a position after graduation and to have something that’s not just a job, but that’s related to my area of study.

I’m really thankful to NBC and John Carroll for being able to go to D.C. to pursue this dream of mine. To think that far ahead, I’d say I want to stay in the realm of political journalism, whatever capacity that might be.

Any final comments?

I’m incredibly excited and looking forward to this. I just want to reiterate how thankful I am to the John Carroll community. Kate Malone, who works in government relations for John Carroll, went down with the finalists to D.C., and I’m really thankful to her for taking the time out to do that. Cole Hassay and Kate Finneran are really talented individuals and I know they’re going to go really far in whatever they pursue.

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Campus Safety Log March 10, 2016 A water fountain and bathroom stall door were ripped away from the walls in a second floor bathroom in Millor Hall, causing major flooding.

Feb. 24, 2016 A suspicious male walking on the ground floor of Murphy Hall dropped an object consistent with drug storage, and then refused to identify himself.

These incidents are taken from the files of Campus Safety Services, located in the lower level of the Lombardo Student Center.

For more information, contact x1615.

UHPD Crime Blotter March 11, 2016 Police were called to Heights High School in response to a confiscated stun gun. Both the student and her mother maintained that the gun was for the student’s personal protection. Police charges were not filed.

Feb. 22, 2016 A Traymore Road resident reported that his son had been intentionally hit by a car. The report was determined to be unfounded.

Incidents taken from the University Heights police blotter at Cleveland.com.

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John Carroll alumna creates app for Clevelanders Ellen Liebenguth Staff Reporter

Every year at the Celebration of the incoming class, John Carroll University hosts a Legacy Breakfast to celebrate legacy families and alumni that have gone out into the world to become successful and prosperous individuals. One such alum that was in attendance was Lauren Kluth, class of 2013, who is the founder of a new app called CLEseats.

CLEseats is an app and website where people can search for restaurants in the Cleveland area. It is similar to Yelp in its ability to search by price range, location, food type and by name of a particular restaurant. Once on a restaurant’s page, a person can see that restaurant’s menus and also its address, phone number and hours for each day of the week. Reservations can be made online and if they have an Open Table page, it can be reached from the restaurant page.

In addition to the basic information such as offering menus and the hours of business, CLEseats contains updates about social events and specials occurring at local restaurants. Kluth says of its benefits, “We show you all of their happy hours, food specials, live entertainment, karaoke nights, trivia nights and it’s broken up [into days each week]. Then, you can get an exclusive discount, such as 20 percent off at a restaurant that you can’t get anywhere else.”

Restaurants in partnership with CLEseats include Fire Food and Drink in Shaker Square, Michaelson and Morley, Great Lakes Brewing Company and Melt.

The app launched on Feb. 1 after six months of preparation, spending on brand awareness, recruiting restaurants and developing software. However, CLEseats has been a long time coming for Kluth since she came up with the idea two years ago.

Kluth said of the process, “I graduated in 2013 from John Carroll and then I moved to Chicago for two years. I created it while I was in Chicago and I would say it was in summer 2014.” She continued, “I created it while I was there and did all the necessary legal stuff such as getting an LLC (limited liability company), figuring out my name, my logo and hiring my developers. I was preparing to launch it the minute I moved back home.”

As Kluth’s business continues to grow, she is looking to hire more interns for sales and marketing positions, in particular students from John Carroll. Currently, she has one intern, John Carroll senior Mary McDonnell, working with her at CLEseats.

McDonnell said of working at CLEseats, “I am so lucky to have the opportunity to work with CLEseats this semester. It’s fascinating to watch this startup company evolve and to be apart of it all.” She continued, “Interning with CLEseats has been a great learning experience and amazingly fun thus far. Not to mention, I always know which Cleveland restaurants to check out with exclusive CLEseats deals!”

As for the future of CLEseats, Kluth hopes it will cover most of Northeast Ohio and incorporate every restaurant in Cleveland, including cafes, coffee shops and other businesses that are food-related. She hopes it will become “more of a guide” for Clevelanders rather than just a select few restaurants that CLEseats is in partnership with.

“Within the next five years, I would also like to expand to another city, maybe Columbus next, but that is definitely down the road,” said Kluth of her dreams for the future of the app.

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JCU alumna Lauren Kluth, class of 2013, has founded a new app called CLEseats. CLEseats allows users to search for restaurants in the Cleveland area and view menus, reviews and make reservations.

Junior Tim Haubert said, “I would use it, it looks like a good place to broaden your horizons and find new places to eat. The fact that you can book a reservation right from the website and it offers coupons are also a major plus.”

Senior Wanda Rosario added, “I think [the website] could use more visuals. I know from experience that people like to look at pictures and videos and things that are lengthy in words lose people’s interest. Otherwise, its pretty good!”

Anyone can download the app for free from iTunes App Store, and the Android app will be released within the next five to six months. If unable to download the app, then the person can use the website for free or view it on their phones as it appears on the app.

Student Union president signs letter in support of people of color Julie Hullett Staff Reporter John Carroll University Student Union President Will Hudson signed a letter in support of people of color at Jesuit colleges and universities. Student Union presidents at the other 27 Jesuit colleges and universities across America signed the letter as well.

This letter is the first collaboration between student body presidents of all 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.

David Tassone, Student Body President at Loyola Marymount University, contacted Hudson via email in January to introduce his idea of writing a collaborative letter in support of people of color. Hudson presented the idea to the Student Union Executive Board, who unanimously supported the idea. “Everyone was pretty excited,” said Hudson.

Back in June, Canisius College held the National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference (NJSLC) in Buffalo, New York. The Canisius student body president Richard Kubiak called a meeting of all student body presidents at the conference, where they exchanged contact information. The student body presidents wanted to be able to collaborate on various topics in the future.

In November, Loyola Marymount’s student government felt the need to address current race issues at colleges and universities, in particular at the University of Missouri.

Tassone explained his reasoning behind the letter: “We realized that this would be a great opportunity for all Jesuit colleges and universities to stand behind one issue, an end to racial inequality in the higher education system.”

According to America Magazine, Jesuit institutions have a moral obligation to address racial inequality. In one of the magazine articles entitled, “Breathing Space,” Alex Mikulich argues that Jesuit colleges and universities must help undo racism because of their Ignatian mission to be men and women for others.

Mikulich explains that there are three shared Jesuit goals that inform this argument.

First, Jesuit institutions must analyze and understand racism. The administrators cannot move forward to solve the problem without first understanding it. The second goal is transformation. The institution must be dynamic, open minded, and willing to learn

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and change. As these Jesuit colleges and universities begin to understand racism, they must change their policies to combat it. Third, liberation from racism is necessary.

These institutions must let go of their prejudices so that all may once again celebrate the multicultural face of God. When drafting the letter, Tassone saw these same Jesuit values, which is what caused him to ask for collaboration between all Jesuit colleges and universities.

After several months of discussion via email, all 28 Jesuit higher education institutions had signed the letter in support of people of color. The final letter was released March 28.

Since a student union president initiated this idea, Hudson did not need approval from the administration or the Rev. Fr. Niehoff to sign the letter.

The letter is not a plan of action, rather, a statement of support and solidarity. It reads, “As Jesuit institutions, we are prepared to engage in conversations of race, microaggressions, representation, intersectionality, and the injustices that exist within flawed systems.”

Sophomore Casey Bednarski reacted to the letter. “Signing this letter is an amazing step forward for this university,” she said. “Our participation shows that we acknowledge racial inequalities at this institution and elsewhere. As a Jesuit university, we are striving to create a wholesome, welcoming environment for everyone.”

Gloria Vaquera, a professor on the sociology department and advocate of diversity and equality, is pleased to see student union’s support of people of color, but also wants to see further action taken.

“As Jesuit institutions that advocate for creating ‘men and women for others’, this kind of negative racial climate goes counter to our mission,” said Vaquera.

She continued, “We should be doing more to challenge racist attitudes and to educate our students, staff, faculty and administration. I am happy to see our student union signing on to this letter but I hope that real action follows that challenges the status quo at JCU.”

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Augustine Lecture “Augustine and the Irish” at 7:30 p.m. in the LSC Conference Room.

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Decorate a potted plant with the Environmental Issues Group from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Student Center Atrium.

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SUPB-sponsored Movie Night at 10 p.m. in the Donahue Auditorium.

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Mass at 12:05 p.m. at Men’s tennis versus St. Francis Chapel.

Baldwin Wallace at 3:30 p.m. at the Bracken Tennis Courts.

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Mass at 5:05 p.m. at Rodman Chapel.

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Tuohy Chair Lecture “Art, Ritual and Sacred Space on the Silk Road” at 7:30 p.m. in the Donahue Auditorium

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Competition provides practice field for leadership skills Elissa Filozof Staff Reporter

The Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC) is only one day away from its second annual competition, to be held on Saturday of this weekend in the Dolan Center for Science and Technology.

Represented in the 2016 competition will be a total of six teams representing Walsh, Akron and Widener Universities, the University of Southern Maine and naturally this weekend’s host: John Carroll.

It has been a few years since Scott Allen, a professor of management development within the Boler School of Business, first began to realize that as far as the leadership skills he teaches his students, he didn’t have an answer as to where and how the teams would practice.

“People rehearse their acting because they’re going to give a performance; they go to football practice because they’re going to play in a game,” he explains. “But there is a gap for students to practice leadership.”

Junior Emily Koeritzer would agree. “As a leadership minor, I learn a lot of dry theory in my classes, which can get boring,” she said.

Two years ago, Allen proposed the idea he had about creating a competition, which would provide college students with the opportunity to develop their leadership skills to a colleague from Widener University.

The two set to work, planning, designing and promoting their brainchild. Last year, the first CLC took place at Widener, which is found just outside of Philadelphia. “It was awesome,” Allen, who coached his students throughout the two-day-long event, recalls. “The team had a great experience representing John Carroll, and saw tangible improvement in their leadership skills.”

Koeritzer, now a second-year competitor, expresses that by participating in the competition she’s been able to “practice hands-on” the material she is taught in class, outside the classroom setting.

Bridges Sayers said that the CLC has caused her to “step up the game as a rising leader here on campus.” Although Sayers is the first freshman to compete, she had already been interested in the leadership development program offered at JCU. Sayers said the CLC gave her “a structured environment in which I could put these skills to practical use, and test myself in a real-world setting.”

The teams traveling to John Carroll for this weekend’s competition go through a schedule very similar to that of last year’s, in which they share dinner together on Friday evening before spending the whole of Saturday locked in intellectual competition.

Each team has been engaging in weekly practices simulating the various activities they will be faced with during the actual event for months. “The old adage ‘practice makes perfect’ rings true, even in the world of leadership,” said Allen. Sayers finds the weekly practices “actually really fun!” She explains, “We do these little challenges like the egg drop (we have to find the egg and supplies and be able to protect it) to build teamwork and enhance creative thinking capabilities.”

Junior Zeanna Otis said that what she enjoys about the CLC is the opportunity to “work on a team with people of all different leadership styles.”

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Above is one of the leadership teams that will be competing. Left to right: senior Kyle Kieffer, junior Lea Breckner, freshman Bridges Sayers, senior Angelica Carrino, senior Gabriel Petkac and junior Emily Koeritzer.

Half the students who made up last year’s team have returned as second-year competitors, and the original number of those participating has doubled. “Can you develop leaders? Research says ‘yes.’ So we’re exploring,” Allen says. He hopes ultimately that the CLC will become an international event with teams from universities across the globe represented. “I was at a conference in Barcelona last year at which there were people from all over the world, and they were very receptive to the idea. So we’re going for it, or so to speak,” said Allen.

As she prepares for this weekend’s event, senior Hannah Rich wants to remind the John Carroll student body that, “students of all majors are welcome.” Rich continued, “It’s really cool to be able to be among the first take part in something that originated here at John Carroll, and will eventually go international.”

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CN participates in call with cast from “Barbershop: The Next Cut” Katherine Oltmanns Staff Reporter

The Carroll News participated in a phone interview with Ice Cube and Anthony Anderson, in addition to both local and college newspaper editors and reporters, for the Warner Brothers film, “Barbershop: The Next Cut” premiering Friday, April 15.

Q: Is the community bond in this film inspired by any recent political movements, such as Black Lives Matter?

Ice Cube: “The story was actually inspired by an article that I read before we did the movie and it was about a guy who had a barbershop. He was dealing with violence in the community and he offered free cuts for people who would stop the violence. I just thought it was a good idea to have the movie wrapped around things that are really going on in Chicago. So that’s kind of how that worked out.”

Q: It has been 12 years since the last “Barbershop” film. Obviously, so many things have changed in this world, but what is it about the ‘Barbershop’ series that makes it so timeless that it can pick up more than a decade later and still work so well on screen?

Anthony Anderson: “It’s been interesting.

It’s been 12 years since the last installment and the world has changed so differently, but the Barbershop never changes. Eddie, Cedric the Entertainer’s character, has been present since the original movie. The Barbershop is the cornerstone of the community; that’s exactly what it is. It’s part therapy session, part marriage counselor, part rights of passage for young men; we’ve all gone through that as a barbershop. I take my 16-year-old son to the shop and I let him sit in there and hear what’s being talked about and have him get in on the discussion just to help shape him outside of what I’m doing at home with him. But the Barbershop is something that never changes.”

Q: How is it different working with professional actors rather than working with musicians and comedians?

Ice Cube: “You either you have it or you don’t when it comes to acting. I feel like if somebody’s doing their thing, then it’s no difference between acting with somebody like Common or acting with somebody like J.B. Smoove, or acting with somebody like Lawrence Fishburne. Of course, there’s degrees of talent and degrees of range that you’ll probably get more of with an actor, but as far as performance, I think you can get a great performance from anybody who has it on that day, at hat time and that place.”

Q: The “Barbershop” series has grown and changed from movie to movie. Do you think the film’s current change is going to appeal to the same audience or do you think it’ll bring in a new generation of younger people who are really interested in seeing how the film plays out?

Ice Cube: “I think both. I think the film is going to definitely bring in an audience that’s curious about what the ‘Barbershop’ is about. I think we have a movie that satisfies our core audience. The first people who saw ‘Barbershop’ back in 2002, they’re still going to love this movie and be behind it, and they’ll be interested in how the characters have evolved. So I think we’ve got a movie that hopefully will appeal to a lot of different demographics.”

Q: What are your thoughts on Hollywood now and the film industry, especially in light of the Oscars?

Ice Cube: “I mean Hollywood – it is what it is. For the most part, Hollywood is all about green and what we’re fighting for are the opportunities to show that we can make money with these movies, that people enjoy them and our audience is big enough to invest into. As far as the Oscars, to me, that’s a different kind of thing. It’s kind of

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Ice Cube (left) and Common (right) join an all-star cast including Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer and Nicki Minaj in “Barbershop: The Next Cut.” representing Hollywood at the end point. So whether or not we make strides in the Oscars, to me, it’s not as important as making strides in these studios and these meetings to get movies made, because until you get one made, you can’t think about an Oscar. I think we’ve got to start at the beginning of the line and not at the end of the line.”

Anderson: “Gatekeepers. That’s where it all begins. It begins with the gatekeepers who are controlling strings for who are in control, what’s being made, how it’s being made, and who it’s being made with. The Oscars is just a byproduct of that. We have to convince them that this is a movie they should make and these are the people that they should make it with and they should allow us to tell our stories because our stories are just as entertaining and valuable as the other stories that are being told. These are stories that people want to hear, that people want to be entertained by and see.”

Q: Ice Cube, how does your lyric writing influence your screenwriting and the messages within the film?

Ice Cube: “The way my lyric writing has helped my screenwriting is having the ability to tell a story, being able to take your thoughts and put them on paper, and being able to take your thoughts and project them where a person can understand what you’re talking about.

They are both the same thing, as far as trying to get the ideas out your head and onto paper, where people can understand what you’re talking about. When I first start writing, it was John Singleton who directed me in ‘Boyz n the Hood.’ He looked at me one day and said, ‘Yo, when you going to write a script?’ And I said, ‘What are you talking about? I don’t know how to write a script.’ He said, ‘You can write those lyrics, you can write those records so I know you can write a script if you put your mind to it.’ Writing was the best thing I’ve ever done in the industry, even over acting, because everything starts with the material.

You can sit back and want people to give you good stuff, or you can just go write you some good stuff. You can want somebody to put you in a movie, or you can go write a movie that you know you’re already in. So those, to me, are the keys to trying to solidify your career in Hollywood, especially as a black actor.”

Cleveland International Film Festival celebrates 40 years Pakinam Moussa Staff Reporter

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The Cleveland International Film Festival celebrates 40 years of film, showcasing feature films at Tower City Cinemas and other theaters across Cleveland.

The 40th annual Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) began Wednesday, March 30 and will continue until Sunday, April 10.

The festival, mainly taking place at Tower City Cinemas, will also showcase film presentations in other theaters across the Cleveland area.

The Cleveland International Film Festival, which started on April 13, 1977, showcased eight films from seven countries. This year’s festival is larger compared to previous years, with over 192 features and 213 short films, drawing in larger audiences to participate in the event.

For its 40th anniversary, artistic director for the Cleveland International Film Festival, Bill Guentzler has been preparing for this particular festival for the past 18 years. Alongside Mallory Martin, CIFF director of programming and projection, Guentzler visited about 10 other festivals to select the particular films shown at this year’s film festival.

Coming from 72 countries, the festival’s featured films will include web series selections and music videos, in addition to the first showing of a 3-D documentary, “The Art of Burning.” Another festival highlight will be the world premiere of “Believeland,” the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary that chronicles the shortcomings of Cleveland sports franchises for the past several decades, which screened for the first time at Playhouse Square on March 30.

For the fourth time in the festival’s 40-year history, the festival will present a Legacy Award to this year’s recipient, Michael Loderstedt, who works as a professor of art in printmaking and photography at Kent State University. Other winners of the festival’s various awards will also receive a piece of his artwork as an additional prize.

“We have a really strong lineup of local films,” said Guentzler, according to Clevescene.com. “One film that really floored me in terms of the quality of the filmmaking and direction is ‘Mad.’ It’s directed by Robert Putka. It’s about three women — two daughters and their mother — and the problems they’re having after their mother checks herself into a mental clinic. The writing is fantastic and I’m really happy we’re screening at the Capitol as one of our neighborhood screenings.”

One particular film of interest is “All About Them,” a French film depicting a controversial love story. Charlotte and Micah are in love.

They make dinner together, Micah rushes home from his job as a veterinarian to see Charlotte, and the two seem to be edging closer and closer to the prospect of marriage, but Micah is also in love with someone else—a beautiful lawyer by the name of Mélodie.

Another film to look out for is the animated feature made in the United States, “Alex and Sylvia.” The film tells the story of Sylvia, a successful scientist that must take over her grandmother’s small-town bakery. Audiences follow Sylvia’s story as she discovers how life sometimes has different plans for you than what you expected.

A new addition to the film festival this year is a “perspectives exhibition,” which will take over an empty storefront at Tower City Center. This exhibition will feature 10 virtual reality films and six other interactive media programs and will be free and open to the public.

“If you haven’t experienced what virtual reality is now, this is the next generation of it,” says Guentzler. “The projects we have are films that immerse you into the film. You’re watching a film take place and you’re inside of it, which is pretty amazing. There are lots of film festivals around the world that are now featuring this and we wanted to get in on the ground floor. It’s a new way of telling stories.”

Tickets for the 40th Cleveland International Film Festival are $14.00 for Cleveland International Film Festival members and $16.00 for non-members. To purchase tickets or to become a Cleveland International Film Festival member, visit clevelandfilm.org.

Editor’s Note: Information from Clevelandfilm.org, Clevescene.com and Newsnet15.com was used in this report.

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10 Cleveland accounts to follow on Instagram Compiled by Grace DeMarco Staff Reporter

CLEfoodies @clefoodies

CLEfoodies features the delectable eats of Cleveland.

Lisa @amusemymuse

Lisa posts striking photos of the city and daring poses from her “muses.”

Houses of Cleveland @housesofcleveland This account features houses in and around the city of Cleveland.

Janey Schafer @foodsofjane

Janey Schafer’s account offers a mouthwatering view of her own kitchen creations, as well as Cleveland’s best dishes.

Cardboard JT @cardboardjt

Cardboard JT is “bringing sexy back to Cleveland.”

This account dedicated to photos of a cardboard cutout of Justin Timberlake placed around Cleveland.

Dogs of Cleveland @dogsofcleveland Cleveland’s cutest pups all compiled into one account.

Machine Gun Kelly @machinegunkelly

One of Cleveland’s most acclaimed artists makes this list. Get an inside look into the rapper’s everyday life.

Destination Cleveland @thisiscle

This Instagram account captures what Cleveland is all about, showing others why our city is the best.

Paige Robar @photog.blues

Paige Robar’s account offers an interesting view of Cleveland’s aesthetically pleasing architecture, accompanied by beautiful blue skies.

Lisa Lorek @lisalorek

Track Lisa Lorek’s amazing artistic talent as she showcases her work through Instagram.

JCU student blog spot Blog: Love Gingersnaps

by Katie Hills, junior About: “Love Gingersnaps” features snapshots of food, courtesy of a ginger-haired girl obsessed with food. Katie’s blog entries, as Kate the Kollege Kid, highlight her favorite foods and obsessions with a conversational tone. Rather than posting wordy, multi-paragraph posts, Katie uses tons of mouthwatering pictures to tell her stories. From her first mac and cheese recipe to talking about her undying love for Diet Coke, Katie hopes “Love Gingersnaps” will be a fun-loving and relatable blog that audiences will enjoy in their downtime.

In addition to her current posts about foodie favorites, Katie plans to add more about her traveling adventures and tackling new recipes in the future. “Love Gingersnaps” is simply about “your average 20-year-old ginger taking snapshots of food, travel, and pretty much everything in-between.”

One of Katie’s Instagram posts for “Love Gingersnaps” was recently featured in Buzzfeed’s “listicle,” “21 Food Truths Anyone From Michigan Will Understand.”

Blog Link: lovegingersnaps.weebly.com Follow Love Gingersnaps on Instagram @gingersnaps_blog

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Blue Streaks bounce back with sweep over Polar Bears Jacob Hirschmann

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The Tournament returns Anybody who talks to me at all during the months of April-July probably knows about “The Basketball Tournament.” Now in its third year, “TBT” is a winner-take-all basketball tournament that is open to literally anybody.

Two friends of mine and myself joined TBT in 2014 when the field was just 32 teams and the grand prize was only $500,000. In two years, its grown to a grand prize of $2 million, a field of 64 teams and a championship game live on ESPN. While I GM a team (Eberlein Drive) that participates in TBT, I’m not here to beg or plead for votes (although I won’t say no to those that vote for us), I’m here to talk about why TBT is the greatest kind of sports tournament out there today.

To start off, there’s literally no downside to signing up. Over the past two years, my team and I have traveled to Philadelphia and Chicago to play games, and the only thing we’ve ever had to pay for is hotel rooms. Team jerseys, team socks and our team logo were all supplied for absolutely free.

On top of that, TBT supplies an opportunity for me and my friends to potentially play on ESPN and win $2 million. While we don’t necessarily have the skill to win it all (which is why we recruit professionals), the fact that we are given that opportunity isn’t comparable to anything else in sports right now.

The playing field is leveled even more when it comes to how the teams in TBT are selected. The field for TBT is decided on by the fans.

Every year, there’s a two-month voting period in which fans can log on to TBT’s website and vote for which teams they want to see play. Even if a team with no talent whatsoever, such as my team in 2014, wanted to play, we would be admitted into TBT as long as we got the support from our fans.

Ultimately, the teams with the most talent are usually the ones that walk away with the title. In 2014, a team of Notre Dame alumni won the championship and in 2015, a team of Overseas Professional that included the top scorer in the entire world (Erick McCollum), won the title.

This year, the competition is as tough as ever and the number of alumni teams is at an all-time high.

To name some of the bigger names, Syracuse University, Kansas State University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Utah all have entered alumni teams to compete in TBT 2016.

The registration and voting just opened and there’s bound to be plenty of more intriguing teams and players to hop in on the action in the coming weeks. If you’re any sort of basketball fan, you wont want to miss out on the most exciting basketball of the summer. TBT is back, and it’s as exciting as ever.

Contact Jacob Hirschmann at jhirschmann16@jcu.edu

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The John Carroll University baseball team entered their doubleheader against Ohio Northern University on Sunday, April 3, on the heels of a three-game losing stretch.

That losing streak was wiped out as JCU’s offense exploded in a 13-3 game one victory over ONU, followed immediately by a second victory, this time 2-0, over the Polar Bears.

Game one was highlighted by a seven-run third inning from the Blue Streaks.

The big inning was catalyzed by a two-run double by senior Rob Cifelli, as he knocked in junior

James Molnar and freshman Dominic Mittiga to give JCU the 2-1 lead.

Just a few batters later, sophomore Monroe Donnelly smacked a double of his own, scoring three JCU runners.

The Blue Streaks would add one more in the third to take a 7-1 lead into the fourth.

Despite a couple of runs allowed in the seventh inning, ONU’s rally proved too little, too late, as JCU extended their lead over the final five innings, ultimately winning the opening contest, 13-3.

Game two was much more of a pitchers duel, as senior Brandon Maddern took to mound for the Blue Streaks.

The southpaw struck out 11

Inside The Box Score

April 3: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JCU 0 0 7 0 1 1 3 1 0 ONU 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 W: A. Lapaglia (2-2)

L: Eltzroth (4-2)

April 3: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 JCU 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ONU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 W: Maddern (3-4)

R H E 2 5 0 0 3 1

L: Glischinski (3-2)

April 5: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CWRU 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 3 8 JCU 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 W: Williams (3-0)

R H E 13 9 2 3 7 6

R H E 15 14 1 3 10 2

L: Vargo (0-4)

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Sophomore Monroe Donnelly notched five RBIs on four hits in JCU’s two wins against ONU on April 3 in Ada, Ohio.

batters over 7.2 innings pitched, allowing just three hits and no runs allowed.

A solo home-run off the bat of JCU sophomore Mike Raschilla in the second inning proved to be difference for the Blue Streaks. An insurance run courtesy of Donnelly in the sixth gave JCU some extra breathing room as the Blue Streaks won game two, 2-0.

JCU played their third game in three days when Case Western Reserve University came to University Heights, Ohio for an afternoon battle on Tuesday, April 5.

Unfortunately for the Blue Streaks, the Spartans’ bats were on fire, as CWRU lit up the scoreboard for 15 runs, defeating JCU by a final tally of 15-3.

Despite the loss, there were a few

bright spots for the Blue Streaks.

RBIs off the bats of senior David Crowley and freshman Dominic Mittiga, along with Cifelli, were the lone scoring plays for JCU on the day.

Heading into Thursday’s matchup, the Blue Streaks sit at 8-12 overall, with a 2-2 record against Ohio Athletic Conference opponents.

JCU is still in search of their first victory of the season at home as they are currently 0-2 on the season at Schweickert Field in University Heights, Ohio.

Editor’s Note: The John Carroll University baseball team returned to action on Thursday, April 7, against Ohio Wesleyan University in University Heights, Ohio. Head to jcusports.com for a full game recap and box score.

Softball

Wade’s walk-off hit highlights split with ONU David Adkins Staff Reporter

Behind a walk-off double off the bat of senior Christine Wade, the John Carroll University softball team won game one of a doubleheader with Ohio Northern University. Although the Blue Streaks fell to the Polar Bears in the second game, 4-3, Wade’s walk-off was the moment to remember.

In game one, ONU scored first when junior Amanda Lahti doubled in a run in the top of the first inning. JCU wasn’t shut out for long,

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though, as they answered in the bottom of the frame with three runs of their own.

Senior Alyssa Coleman started the two-out rally for the Blue Streaks with a triple, scoring sophomore Hannah Mizener. Consecutive RBIs by Wade and junior Angie Zappitelli to end the inning gave JCU the 3-1 lead after the first.

Both teams were shut down offensively for the next four innings, until the sixth inning, when ONU tied the game up at 3-3.

In the bottom of the 6th, Coleman was up to bat first for the Blue

The JCU softball team storms the field after senior Christie Wade knocked in the game-winning run with a walk-off hit in JCU’s game one win over ONU on Saturday, April 2.

Inside The Box Score April 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E ONU 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 11 1 JCU 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 10 3 W: Kirchner (3-3)

L: Lightel (6-2)

April 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E ONU 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 7 1 JCU 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 0 W: Surdej (5-5) Streaks. She singled, then quickly advanced to second on an error, and then to third on a passed ball. The following pitch, Wade hit the ball to the gap right behind second base to score Coleman and gave the Blue Streaks a 4-3 advantage going in to the seventh.

ONU rallied to score two runs, setting up Wade’s heroics in the bottom of the seventh.

After tallying two outs, the Blue Streaks had little breathing room.

After Mizener and Simecek were both walked, Coleman came up to bat and singled to load up the bases.

Next up was Wade, who finished the game off with a walk-off double to score Mizener and Simecek for a 6-5 win.

In game two, the Blue Streaks got off to an ideal start, as Simecek

L: Cook (2-4) hit a two-run homer to right field to give JCU an early 2-0 lead.

However, in the fourth and fifth inning, the Polar Bears used backto-back two-run innings to take a 4-2 lead that they would never relinquish.

Mizener reignited the Blue Streaks in the sixth inning as she smacked a deep home run over the center field fence to close to the gap, 4-3, but it was too little, too late for JCU as ONU took game two.

With the split, JCU now sits 7-9 on the season.

Editor’s Note: The John Carroll University softball team returned to action on Wednesday, April 6, for two games against Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Head to jcusports.com for a full game recap and box score.

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Blue Streaks fall in close contest with Titans JCU continues hot streak with big win Joe Ginley Staff Reporter

Two high-powered offenses squared off in Don Shula Stadium on Saturday in a matchup of the John Carroll University men’s lacrosse team and Illinois Wesleyan University.

Expectations did not match the outcome.

The Blue Streaks’ defense put forth an outstanding effort, but the offense could not follow suit, leading to a 11-7 home loss on Saturday afternoon.

The Blue and Gold entered the contest with a 4-3 mark following a one-goal loss to Albion College on March 23. Hungry for a win entering conference play, the Blue Streaks played host to the Titans, one of the top offensive teams in the nation.

The cold weather matched the limited scoring in the first quarter. Michael Julius started off the scoring in the first with a goal at the 11:40 mark of the period, granting Illinois Wesleyan an early advantage. The score remained 1-0 until MacGregor Roberts responded for JCU with 4:17 left in the first, notching his third tally of the season with an assist from Collin Rice.

Less than two minutes later, James Maibuecher scored for the Titans, giving the hosts a narrow advantage heading into

the second stanza.

The teams could only manage one goal apiece in the second quarter, a quiet time for both offenses. Julius struck again for the Titans before Declan O’Grady netted a goal for the Blue and Gold at the midpoint of the second. Heading into the third quarter, the Titans possessed a narrow 3-2 lead.

After a quiet start, the Titans came out of the break firing on all cylinders in the second half. Roberts started the scoring, but Julius, Evan Mok-Lamme and Jacob Perry scored three straight goals to up the Illinois Wesleyan lead to 6-3.

The Blue Streaks attempted to fight back, as a Gary Anile touched the twine at the 4:29 and 3:20 marks of the third to keep the score within two. However, the Titans thwarted every JCU comeback opportunity. Tim Smith and Perry pushed the contest out of reach early in the fourth quarter with clutch goals.

O’Grady and RP Whitty managed tallies in the final stanza, but Nick White and Maibuecher also scored to prevent a JCU victory.

Thanks to solid defense, the Titans held on for an 11-7 victory, advancing to 7-3 on the season. Julius led all scorers with three goals and three assists, while Anile led the pack for the Blue Streaks with two markers and two assists. Sophomore Carl Roman had 10 saves on the day for JCU.

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Sophomore defender Connor Jones picks up a ground ball in the defensive zone during JCU’s 11-7 loss to Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday, April 2.

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There was no warm welcome for Southwestern University when they made the 1,400 mile trip to University Heights, Ohio. In a brisk night match-up on Friday, April 1, John Carroll University exploded to an 18-8 win over the Pirates.

Sophomore Gina Vilsack and freshman Jillian Millard led the way for the Blue Streaks with four goals apiece. The victory pushes JCU to a 6-2 record through the non-conference portion of the regular season schedule.

Vilsack and Millard provided the opening tallies for the Blue Streaks in just the opening three minutes of the game. At 23:47 to play in the first half, freshman Brooke McQuinn went coast-to-coast for her fifth goal of the season.

After SU cut the JCU lead to 3-2 at the 22:36 mark, the Blue Streaks went to work.

JCU scored five unanswered goals, sparked

by Vilsack and Millard, to open up an 8-3 lead with just under 12 minutes to play in the opening frame. Sophomore Meghan Harte got into the action with her 12th and 13th goals of the year.

In the final minutes of the first half, the Blue Streaks would go on two, three unanswered goal streaks, helping set a new season best for goals in a half.

Heading into the half time, JCU led Southwestern, 14-5. The 14 goal explosion in the first 30 minutes of the game marks the highest total for the 2016 season.

Seven different goal scorers were featured for JCU in the first half, including four different multiple goal scorers. Millard tallied all four of her goals in the first half.

It was a much more tame second half offensively for both squads.

The Blue Streaks opened the second half with back-to-back scores from Vilsack and sophomore Grace Curatolo.

Southwestern freshman Kate David provided the most resistance, scoring on backto-back occasions in the opening minutes of the second frame. Junior Courtney Ragland capped the scoring for the contest at the 9:15 mark of the second half. The tally was the 42nd goal slotted by Ragland this year. The final nine minutes of the half was scoreless.

After the game, Curatolo talked about the teams confidence heading into the squad’s upcoming games.

“The team is looking great, but there is always room for improvement. With all of the handwork we have been putting in this season we feel confident going into the OAC games.”

She continued, “We have gone through so much as a team and when we hit the field you can feel the chemistry executing.”

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Sophomore Meghan Harte notched two goals and three assists in JCU’s 18-8 victory over Southwestern on Friday, April 1 in University Heights, Ohio

Streaks of the Week

Softball

Christie Wade Senior

Wade compiled four hits over JCU’s two games against ONU on Saturday, April 2, none bigger than her walkoff double in game one. In game one, Wade finished the game 3-for-4 with four RBIs and two stolen bases.

Baseball

Women’s Lacrosse

Men’s Tennis

Women’s Tennis

Monroe Donnelly Sophomore

Gina Vilsack Sophomore

Jad Abdul-Aal Junior

Catherine Engel Senior

The sophomore more than doubled his season total in RBIs during JCU’s backto-back victories over ONU on Sunday, April 3. Donnelly had five RBIs over the two contests, bringing his season total to eight.

Vilsack lit up the scoreboard in JCU’s 18-8 win over Southwestern on Friday, April 1. The sophomore scored four goals on eight shots in the contest and picked up four groundballs as well in the victory.

The junior went 4-0 over the long weekend for the men’s tennis team. Abdul-Aal won both his doubles matches with teammate David Sinense, as well as winning both of his singles matches against opponents from Capital and ONU.

Engel put together a nearly perfect performance on Saturday, April 2. The senior won her doubles matchup 8-5 with teammate Jennifer Stroyne, then followed that up with a dominant 6-1, 6-0 victory in her singles match.

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Cruz, Sanders win Wisconsin primary elections Katelyn DeBaun Editor-in-Chief

The state of Wisconsin held its presidential primary for both major political parties on Tuesday, April 5. The winner of the Republican primary was Ted Cruz and for the Democrats, the winner was Bernie Sanders.

The Washington Post reported that Cruz’s win, called by The Associated Press just after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, was notable, marking him as the “last best hope” on behalf of the GOP to stop Trump from winning the Republican candidacy.

Demographically, most Republicans with college degrees voted for Cruz; he led Trump in this category by over 20 points. He also narrowly beat out Trump for votes among Republicans without college educations. In addition, Cruz also performed well among both men and women and the evangelical base, according to The Washington Post.

“Tonight is a turning point,” Cruz said during his victory speech in Milwaukee.

“It is a rallying cry. It is a call from the hardworking men and women of Wisconsin to the people of America. We have a choice, a real choice.”

Cruz’s win in Wisconsin could potentially be enough to stop Trump from winning the 1,237 delegates needed to obtain the candidacy, according to NBC News. This would lead to a contested convention this summer, which is what many Wisconsin residents seem to want, as

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Voters line up to register and vote in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday. Some people waited in line for two hours or more just to get into the polling location to vote. an NBC News Exit Poll found that over one the gap between him and his Democratic third of the Republicans in Wisconsin said rival, Hillary Clinton, who has won over they would abandon the Republican party if 200 more delegates, not accounting for either Cruz or Trump became the candidate. superdelegates, than Sanders as of 10 p.m.

In addition, according to The New York Tuesday. However, The Washington Post Times, 55 percent of voters surveyed in stated that this win will provide Sanders exit polls said they would be “concerned or with much needed momentum going scared” if Trump was elected. forward to the primary in New York on As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, Trump had April 19. There, Clinton has a home-state won 737 delegates, Cruz had won 505 and advantage, having served as a senator from Ohio Governor John Kasich had won 143, 2001 to 2009. according to The Guardian.

Shortly before Sanders’ victory was Sanders’ win was also noteworthy, announced, his campaign manager Jeff but still not enough to strongly bridge Weaver told NPR, “I think it looks like

we’re headed for another victory, which would be seven of the last eight contests the senator will have won.”

“He really has a tremendous amount of momentum,” Weaver continued. “We’ll see what the margin of victory is tonight. But I think we’re expecting that there’s going to be a victory.”

Shortly after The Associated Press called his victory, Sanders tweeted, “Wisconsin, today you sent a strong message: when we stand together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.”

“At a time when many of the pundits said ‘Oh, you know those young people, they don’t want to get involved in politics.

They’re not really concerned about the major issues facing our country; they’re too busy with their video games or whatever,’” Sanders said during his victory speech.

“Well, you know what is happening? All over this country, young people are standing up and they’re saying, ‘You know what?

We want to help determine the future of this country.’”

Wyoming holds its Democratic caucus on Saturday, April 9. New York holds its primaries for both parties on April 19, and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island hold their primaries on April 26.

Editor’s Note: Information from The Washington Post, NBC News, The New York Times, The Guardian and NPR was used in this report.

Shooting in Richmond kills officer, others injured Mariella van der Sluijs Staff Reporter

Chad Dermyer, a Virginia state trooper, got shot to death on March 31,

by James Brown III at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, according to NBC News.

Two other troopers at the scene immediately responded to the incident and opened fire on Brown, who later died in the hospital. Two civilians also got hurt in the line of fire and were rushed to the hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries, according to CNN. It remains unclear who at the scene shot them.

Dermyer had been taking part in a police training mission on criminal interdiction practices. The training would teach troopers to be on the outlook for and interfere in any suspicious behavior, CNN reported.

“If you see some suspicious behavior, go over and engage and have a normal conversation,” was the assignment given to the state troopers at the day of the accident, according to the state police superintendent, Col. W. Steven Flaherty, according to The Washington Post.

NBC News mentioned that Dermyer approached Brown, who sat at the bus

station, as part of the exercise. Flaherty explained that the conversation between the two lasted about 30 seconds before Brown pulled out a gun and shot Dermyer multiple times.

Dermyer was not wearing a bulletproof vest when he was shot, said Flaherty.

While it is encouraged to wear a vest during a training session but is not required. The troopers were wearing plain clothes, not their uniforms at the time of the shooting according to USA Today.

However, they were wearing their badges and carrying guns.

After the troopers shot Brown, he went back to the station’s restaurant, where the authorities were able to take him into custody and rush him to the hospital, where he died of his injuries, according to USA Today.

“Why he [Brown] reacted, why he had a gun in his waistband, we don’t know,” said Flaherty to The Richmond Times.

The Washington Post reported Flaherty described the police unit Dermyer was a part of as a counterterrorism and criminal interdiction unit. This unit gets assigned to public transit zones, such as the Greyhound station, and highways, where it is their job to recognize and talk to people regarded as suspicious and often intercept guns and drugs, according to

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Chad Dermyer recieves his diploma after graduating from the Virginia Police Academy.

Flaherty. demeanor he had and the professional The motive for the shooting is still image.” under investigation, but police did find The incident drew an immense law two 30-round magazines and 143 rounds enforcement presence on the case of ammunition in the suspect’s bags, according to The Richmond Times, according to CNN. There were, however, including agencies such as the FBI, no drugs found. the Department of Homeland Security, Flaherty mentioned that this is an the U.S. Marshall Service and the state especially tough loss to take among police. the police department in Richmond, Editor’s Note: Information from “[His colleagues] have taken this very the USA Today, NBC News, CNN, The hard because of how well he was liked. Richmond Times and The Washington Former Marine, you know the type, the Post was used in this report.

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President Obama speaks at a news conference at the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit.

President Barack Obama hosted a nuclear security summit that was attended by representatives from over 50 other countries, including nations that, like the United States, currently possess nuclear weapons. The summit lasted two days, March 31 and April 1.

According to CNN, leaders such as David Cameron of Britain; Francois Hollande of France; Justin Trudeau of Canada; Matteo Renzi of Italy; Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto Park Geun-hye of South Korea; Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader; and Shinzo Abe of Japan were all in attendance. Notably absent were the leaders of Pakistan and Russia, both of whom received an invitation.

According to the BBC, the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif canceled his trip after a bombing in his country, but originally intended to make the trip. Vladimir Putin, however, refused to have himself or a representative of his country attend the summit. Both Pakistan and Russia have nuclear stockpiles. The only other country known to have nuclear weapons that was not present was North Korea, which was a major topic of the summit’s conversation. According to The Guardian, North Korea, in the summit’s eyes, poses the most recognizable and immediate threat to global peace and nuclear agreements and disarmament. The nation’s rouge actions cause great concern for South Korea, Japan, and China. All of whom expressed this at the summit.

Donald Trump, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, recently made comments about nuclear weapons in Asia, and the possible proliferation of nuclear arms to South Korea and Japan to “balance” the region against potential U.S. enemies, most notable among them being North Korea. These statements, according to The New York Times, were brought up at the summit to Obama, who condemned the comments. Obama and the rest of the summit affirmed their position on halting the spread of nuclear weapons and pledged to fight their proliferation. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his officials were adamant and quick to remind the world that Japan, the only country to have been subject to nuclear attack, would under no circumstances obtain, hold or use nuclear weapons.

The BBC reported the other major topic that the summit discussed was the potential for rouge, unstable and/or hostile states from acquiring nuclear weapons. The talks discussed the danger and potential of terrorist organizations building or obtaining nuclear weapons. The Islamic State terrorist group and al-Qaida were the primary groups discussed. The Islamic State has, as the BBC and President Obama pointed out, already used weapons of mass destruction in its campaign in the Middle East: the Islamic State on several occasions used chemical weapons against its enemies that it acquired from Syria and Iraq. This left little doubt in President Obama’s mind that these “madmen,” as he called them, would be all too willing to use nuclear weapons if they could.

The Guardian reported that no terrorist organization is known to have nuclear weapons.

Obama and the rest of the summit cited past successes in agreements and actions to draw down nuclear weapons, and remain hopeful towards the future.

Editor’s Note: Information from BBC News, The New York Times, The Guardian, and CNN was used in this report.

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Human Rights Campaign activists speak at press conferene about House Bill 2.

The state of North Carolina passed a law blocking anti-discrimination laws on the local level. Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, that requires everyone to use the bathroom of their born biological sex and gives the state priority over the passage of anti-discrimination laws. After signing the bill, McCrory tweeted, “Ordinance defied common sense, allowing men to use women’s bathroom/locker room for instance. That’s why I signed bipartisan bill to stop it.”

CNN reported that the bill passed the state’s House of Representatives in an 82-26 vote. After Senate Democrats walked out of the vote in protest, the bill passed in a 32-0 vote in the Senate.

The new law has outraged numerous civil liberty groups. CNN reported that acting executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina, Sarah Preston, said “Rather than expand nondiscrimination laws to protect all North Carolinians, the General Assembly instead spent $42,000 to rush through an extreme bill that undoes all local nondiscrimination laws and specifically excludes gay and transgender people from legal protections.” Politico reported that Governor Andrew Cuomo (D- N.Y.), banned all “non-essential, publicly funded travel” to North Carolina.

Cuomo also did this last year in response to Indiana’s highly controversial “religious freedom” bill, which did not directly prohibit discrimination towards LGBT people, until an explicit clause was put in to address that issue.

McCrory has been fighting the backlash from the law. In an interview with NBC News, McCrory said “We are not taking away any rights whatsoever.” He reaffirmed his position on the law, stating that he would refuse to hear pleas to repeal it. On another interview with Fox & Friends, McCrory noted that voters in Houston overwhelmingly voted against Proposition One, better known as the Equal Rights Ordinance, last fall.

Proposition One would have made business that restricted the bathroom transgender people could use a punishable offense of up to $5,000. “And there are no protests for boycotts of Houston, Texas during the Final Four basketball tournament. Nor should there be,” McCrory said. “So none of these corporations that are now criticizing North Carolina, they’re all going to be advertising during the NCAA championship, and there’s a lot of corporate and political and media elite hypocrisy about this. It’s really sad.”

McCrory is the third governor to take action on LGBT issues in the month of March.

According to NBC News, South Dakota’s governor vetoed a bill barring transgender students from using the bathroom of their choice after much outcry. Along with South Dakota and North Carolina, Georgia’s governor vetoed a “religious freedom” bill that drew threats of boycotts from major companies such as Yelp and Intel.

Editor’s Note: Information from NBC News, Fox News, CNN and Politico was used in this report.

Refugees set to move off of Greek islands The Associated Press

An agreement between the European Union and Turkey to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish mainland is to take effect Monday morning, but the operation is threatened by a shortage of personnel.

Frontex, the EU’s border management agency, is responsible for the implementation of the deal, but has less than one tenth of the 2,300 officers that it needs to do the job. The agency relies on the EU’s 28 member states to provide translators and other officials to process asylum seekers, but these have not been forthcoming, even as the continent faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II. The EU-Turkey deal aims to control the mass influx of people into Europe, many of whom have crossed the dangerous Aegean Sea with the help of smugglers. Under the deal, migrants arriving illegally in Greece will be returned to Turkey if they do not ap-

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Turkish refugees staying in makeshift houses at a camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece. ply for asylum or if they make an asylum Greek government’s refugee crisis committee, told The Associated Press that Frontex claim that is rejected.

For every person sent back, EU countries only has 200 officers in place to accompawould take in one person confirmed to have ny the deported migrants, but almost none of the other personnel that would facilitate made a legitimate asylum request.

Giorgos Kyritsis, a spokesman for the screening those who apply for asylum.

Frontex has secured three vessels that will make the short trip from the island of Lesbos to the Turkish coast starting Monday morning. It aims to deport about 750 migrants, mostly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who either did not apply for asylum or whose applications have been rejected, in the first three days. To safeguard against unrest, the number of deported migrants will be matched by the same number of Frontex border guards on each ship.

“We do not know how this operation will proceed...This is being done for the first time and it raises unprecedented legal issues as well,” Kyritsis said.

The Greek government must also deal with the over 46,000 migrants and refugees now on the mainland, more than 20,000 of whom live in makeshift camps on the northern border with Macedonia and in Athens.

They have become stuck after Macedonia and other counties have closed their borders, essentially closing off a popular route through the Balkans into Western Europe.

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An international coalition of media outlets on Sunday published what it said was an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous, based on a vast trove of documents provided by an anonymous source.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, said the cache of 11.5 million records detailed the offshore holdings of a dozen current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars.

The Associated Press wasn’t immediately able to verify the allegations made in articles that were published by the more than 100 news organizations around the world involved in the investigation.

However, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which first received the data more than a year ago, said it was confident the material was genuine.

The Munich-based daily was offered the data through an encrypted channel by an anonymous source who requested no monetary compensation and asked only for unspecified security measures, said Bastian Obermayer, a reporter for the paper.

The data concerned internal documents from a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca. Founded by German-born Juergen Mossack, the firm has offices across the globe and is among the world’s biggest creators of shell companies, the newspaper said. Mossack Fonseca did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment.

ICIJ said the law firm’s leaked internal files contain information on 214,488 offshore entities connected to people in more than 200 countries and territories. It said it would release the full list of companies and people linked to them early next month.

Obermayer said that over the course of several months Sueddeutsche Zeitung received about 2.6 terabytes of data - more than would fit on 600 DVDs. The newspa-

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A security guard sits outside of the Mossack Fonesca law firm in Panama City, Panama. The data leak includes documents from the company pictured. per said the amount of data it obtained is The ICIJ said the documents included several times larger than a previous cache emails, financial spreadsheets, passports and of offshore data published by WikiLeaks in corporate records detailing how powerful 2013 that exposed the financial dealings of figures used banks, law firms and offshore prominent individuals. shell companies to hide their assets. The data “To our knowledge this is the biggest leak spanned a time frame of nearly 40 years, from that journalists have ever worked on,” Ober- 1977 through the end of 2015, it said. mayer said.

“It allows a never-before-seen view inside The newspaper and its partners verified the offshore world - providing a day-to-day, the authenticity of the data by comparing it to decade-by-decade look at how dark money public registers, witness testimony and court flows through the global financial system, rulings, he told the AP. A previous cache of breeding crime and stripping national treaMossack Fonseca documents obtained by suries of tax revenues,” the ICIJ said.

German authorities was also used to verify According to the media group’s website, the new material, Obermayer added. global banks including HSBC, UBS, CredAmong the countries with past or present it Suisse, Deutsche Bank and others have political figures named in the reports are Ice- worked with Mossack Fonseca to create offland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and shore accounts.

Russia.

“The allegations are historical, in some In Russia, the Kremlin last week said it cases dating back 20 years, predating our was anticipating what it called an upcoming significant, well-publicized reforms im“information attack.” plemented over the last few years,” HSBC Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Rob Sherman said in an emailed spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters response to an AP request for comment. that the Kremlin had received “a series of “We work closely with the authorities to questions in a rude manner” from an organi- fight financial crime and implement sanczation that he said was trying to smear Putin. tions,” he said.

“Journalists and members of other organizaUBS, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank tions have been actively trying to discredit Pu- did not immediately respond to a request for tin and this country’s leadership,” Peskov said. comment.

California plans to increase minimum wage Quynh Tran The Carroll News

California’s legislature approved minimum wage increase according to The Los Angeles Times. The current minimum wage in California is $10 per hour, and will increase to $15 per hour over the next six years, which is the highest statewide wage.

According to the plan, by Jan. 1, 2017, the minimum wage per hour will be increased to $10.50. After that increase, the minimum wage will increase annually by $1 per hour.

By 2022, the minimum wage in California would be $15. According to Los Angeles’ ABC affiliate, Jerry Newman, a professor at the University at Buffalo’s School of Management said, “the most important thing is that California is doing this over a six-year period, that is the smart move.” The plan also states that businesses with fewer than

26 employees have an additional year to comply and if there is an economic downturn, the annual increase of $1 per hour could be pushed back another year.

The Los Angeles Times reported that economists have estimated the measure would increase the pay of about 5.6 million workers across the state. These are the workers that work at the minimum wage.

“Workers are struggling,” said California state Senator Mark Leno. “2.2 million Californians are currently earning minimum wage, and they are struggling in poverty because it is a sub-poverty wage.” Many experts hope that this would help alleviate poverty.

This does not mean that raising minimum does not have its downside, according to some experts. Increasing the minimum wage would place pressure on small busi-

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Holly Dias, supporter of raising the minimum wage, speaks at a news conference in Cali.

nesses and governmental budget. The Los Angeles Times reports from the California Department of Finance that by 2023 there would be an increase of $3.6 billion annually on the state budget due to the wage increase.

Some economists are also concerned that the increase in minimum wage would cost jobs in the market because businesses are unwilling to hire employees. According to economic consultant Christopher Thornberg, founding partner at Beacon Economics, employers might decide to cut positions that are low-income. Arindrajit Dube, associate professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, said “The risk of course is that when you raise wages sufficiently higher, you slow down hiring…

When you go big, both the rewards and the risks are bigger.”

Steve Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, told ABC News, “The big challenge today is we have technology that’s replacing people. With that headwind of technology, the worst thing to do is to make jobs more expensive. Technology is already taking jobs.

What you ought to do is make it easier to hire people.”

However, California Governor Jerry Brown is optimistic and says in a news conference in Sacramento, “I’m hoping that what happens in California will not just stay in California but will be exported to the rest of the country.”

Editor’s Note: Information from The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, ABC7 and Reuters was used in this report.

Minimum wage is a hot button issue in this year’s election. The two main political parties have vastly different opinions on the issue, and for good reason. Liberals would say that it is impossible to survive on a wage of $7.25 an hour (which is around what a common minimum wage would be). Conservatives would say if you raise the minimum wage then the people getting paid that wage would lose their jobs. Both are right, and both should work together to come up with a good compromise (I know crazy, right?) to solve the problem.

The fact is that it is nearly impossible to live off of the minimum wage if that is your only source of income. And if you add in any kids or dependents to the equation, it is impossible. I do not think any good-hearted conservative would try to make the argument that it is possible to live off of that low of a wage. People at the bottom of the income ladder do need help to get themselves out of poverty.

A key part of that process of getting out of poverty is a job, and conservatives are right when they say that raising the minimum wage would cut jobs among people working at the minimum wage level.

Businesses need to make up for the increase in the wage by cutting those type of low paying jobs. This isn’t just a theory, this is backed up by economists across the world.

But something needs to be done. A 40-year-old mother of four cannot raise a family on a minimum wage job, but does a 14-year-old high school student working at the local Heinen’s really need to make $15 an hour? In my opinion, no they do not. Especially because that is the kind of worker that would probably be let go if minimum wage were raise up to $15 an hour.

My proposition is that we add simple age brackets to the minimum wage. Let’s make it so that if you are between the ages of 14 (or whatever the legal age to start working is) and 21, you get the normal base minimum wage. Let’s make it $7.25.

If you are 21 or older, you should get paid more than someone who is just learning how to drive or taking a college 101 class.

Let’s make their wage $10.10 an hour.

Frankly, I am no expert, so I do not know what the age brackets should be or the dollar amounts, but drastically raising the minimum wage will hurt the minimum wage worker. So we have to do something that will help the worker, not something that seems like it would help but actually hurt them.

Another conservative option would be to institute an earned income tax credit which would let a worker keep more of the money they earn in their pay check, rather than taking so much out for taxes.

The bottomline is this: something needs to be done about poverty in America and both sides should come together to fix it.

We all agree people need help, so let’s figure out a way to help the people who need it most.

Contact Ryan Brown at rbrown18@jcu.edu.

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The problem with raising the minimum wage A minimum wage in the United States was established in 1938 at $0.25 per hour. When adjusted for inflation, this would be $4.23. The minimum wage now has increased substantially to $7.25. In California, the plan is to raise the minimum wage to $15 by the year 2022. The has been talk of doing the same in other states, such as New York.

America is not the only country to be drawn into the appeals of a higher minimum wage. This Friday, the minimum wage in Great Britain will be raised to 7.20 pounds per hour. This would exchange to $10.36.

Many debate whether or not this is necessary.

My personal stance is over whether or not this is economically healthy. Depending on who you may ask, you may receive very skewed answers.

For uneducated teenagers working at the mall, this is awesome. For those who are already retired, it doesn’t make much difference. However, for all of the rest of the people in between those two age groups, there are various shades of good and bad.

It is not surprising to many folks in tune with the United States’ economy that the country is looking for a little inflation. Raising the minimum wage across the country could, however, create more inflation than the country is ready for.

When workers are paid more, corporations must charge more for their products and services in order to recover the money they lost to higher wages. So although Americans may have more money in their wallets and bank accounts, if the prices of all commodities has risen by the same amount, the country isn’t necessarily any wealthier.

It is hard to say how a minimum wage of $15 would specifically affect the economy because there has never been a minimum wage that high before. An instantaneous raise may shock the system, which is why government officials have opted for a slower plan of attack.

Much like the Federal Open Market Committee’s plan to slowly and incrementally raise interest rates, California will be raising the minimum wage a little at a time. Although this a good way to safeguard the success of this plan, it still worries me deeply.

Higher wages and unemployment have a direct positive relationship. This means that as the minimum wage for workers is raised, unemployment will rise. Workers will be laid off in attempts to offset the cost of labor. Whether or not this occurs at a considerable rate is certainly something that economist should be watching and prepared for.

Lifting the minimum wage raises many people out of poverty, but throws some others a tough break. Personally, it is hard to justify helping some at the expense of others. Is any one alternative better than the other?

I anxiously await to see the effects of the raised wages on California’s economy. Should this prove useful, I predict that it would make it much easier for other states to do the same.

Should the whole country join in, I feel as though we may be entering into a new situation that we have no prior data on.

John Carroll University has some good news for its students in the Boler School of Business.

In addition to providing its students with an outstanding education, they are now providing them with a tool that many business majors will use in the business world. More specifically, the school has recently acquired a new Bloomberg Terminal.

The terminal is located in the Boler tech lab, room SB 235. Right now, there is only one terminal in the computer lab, but the school hopes to expand the number of machines that it owns to create a possible capital markets lab in the near future.

The Bloomberg Terminal provides financial data that provides access to the Bloomberg Professional service; from there, users can analyze current financial market data and trades on the Wall Street.

The quest to provide students with this data analysis system began in November 2016, when the school began looking into the cost of the system.

The terminal costs $2,090 per month, and is being funded by the Boler School of Business.

The terminal was installed over John Carroll’s spring break, and is up and running for use now.

The system, however, is not exactly easy to use without training. There are short-cut keys that help one to navigate the dual-screen computing system. The Bloomberg Terminal analyzes 60 billion new pieces of information from the market each day. This analytical data is all in the hands of John Carroll students, faculty and staff, if they know how to use it.

There is an eight-hour training course, called Bloomberg Market Concepts, that teaches the user all of the ins and outs of the terminal, and how to utilize its functions most efficiently. It focuses on economics, currencies, and fixed incomes and equities. This instructional course costs $249 for professionals, for John Carroll students, it is free.

Some classes will be walking through this course and how to use the terminal this semester.

Specifically, FN 342, Investments classes taken with William Elliott, professor in the Boler School of Business, will be using this device before the end of the year.

However, anyone associated with John Carroll

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The new Bloomberg Terminal is located in the Boler Tech Lab, room SB 235, ready for the use of John Carroll University students and faculty.

University can receive free customized training if they wish. The Boler School of Business intends to incorporate the use of this terminal into the syllabi of various finance classes, and eventually into some political science classes, for the Fall 2016 semester. Using this machine in class will allow students to apply the theoretical concepts that they have learned in classes to real life data analytics.

Knowledge of how to use this technology will make John Carroll’s Economics and Finance students more competitive for jobs after graduation.

Many other grads are unfamiliar with the machine.

Also, it is a machine that they have a high chance of coming into contact with in the workplace.

Prior knowledge of its functions means that employer would not have to pay the $249 fee associated with the training of a new employee on how to use it. That being said, prior use with the machine looks very good on a resume.

Acquiring the new Bloomberg Terminal not only makes John Carroll’s grads look more competitive, it makes the entire business school more competitive. Not all colleges in the area have a piece of technology such as this. The terminal is the most frequently used data analytics machine in the workplace. Approximately 32 percent of market shares of financial data users on Wall Street use the Bloomberg Terminal.

The next most commonly used is the Thomson Reuters Terminal which is used by less than 26 percent of financial data users on wall street. This

is because the Bloomberg Terminal has multiple features that its competitors are lacking.

The Bloomberg Terminal takes litigation and industry data and matches it with its corresponding corporation to help users make sense of some of the mass amounts of data that it can access.

Also, the Bloomberg Terminal can access current information about how many bonds are currently being issued by any given company.

According the Bloomberg website, “[The terminal] is the most powerful and flexible platform for financial professionals who need real-time data.”

Finance and Economics students are not the only people that stand to benefit from the new terminal. Various finance and investing clubs can use this to their benefit. Also, the Portfolio Management class that uses the Dorman Fund to trade stocks can now analyze how well or poorly the sectors that they are interested in are doing.

To reserve a time slot to work with the Bloomberg Terminal, students and faculty may visit sites.jcu.edu/boler. Time slots are available from 6a.m.-12a.m.

Editor’s Note: Information from interviews with William Elliot and Kara D’Angelos, and Bloomberg was used in this report. For more information on how to receive free, customized training on the terminal, please contact the Economics Department which is located on the second floor of the Boler School of Business.

Ford recalls cars for safety reasons JK Freyvogel

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Ford Motor Company recently issued three recalls for safety reasons. The first recall was the sports utility Lincoln MKC’s and Ford Explorers 2015 and 2016 model year, according to Bloomberg. A defect in the engine has caused the engine block to overheat. Two cars reportedly had under the hood fires leading to the recall, of its vehicles from the U.S. and Canada.

The recalled Lincoln MKC’s were produced in Louisville, KY from November 2013 to January 2016. The 2016 Ford Explorers were also produced in Louisville from October 2013 to January 2016.

Ford released a statement saying “The engine block design, coupled with the particular block heater installed in these vehicles, causes the unit to be susceptible to overheating when the vehicle is parked and the block heater is plugged in, increasing the risk of an underhood fire,” according to The New York Times.

Following their public statement, Ford stated they will be replacing the heater with an updated version and expects no other problems.

The second recall concerns 2015 and 2016 model year low roof Ford Transit Vans. The side air bags need to be inspected and adjusted because the side curtain airbags may be incorrectly positioned in some vehicles causing Ford to recall 38,000 Transit Vans, The Washington Post reported. If the air bags are not in the right position, it will affect their ability to

keep the passengers safe, especially during car-related accidents. These vehicles were produced between March 2014 and March 2016 in Kansas City.

The last and most recent recall effects model year 2015 and 2016 F-650 and F-750 heavy trunks. It is approximately 4,764 cars manufactured between January 2015 and November 2015, according to Bloomberg.

These cars were manufactured in Ohio in the past six months.

“In some vehicles, the parking brake connector clips were not manufactured to the correct specifications and could break, resulting in unintended movement of the vehicle and increased risk of injury,” Ford said in a statement, according to The New York Times. Fords say that the faulty clip has not caused any crashes or injuries.

These recalls affected over 48,000 vehicles according to The Washington Post. Since the recent recalls that were announced the week of April 1, Ford has made these recalls their number one priority.

Ford told Bloomberg that conducting extensive safety tests on both the recalled vehicles and all their manufactured models are their top concern at the moment.

Luckily, Ford caught the defects before any injuries or crashes because of the recognizable defects. Ford made the statement to The New York Times on April 1 saying that they hope to resolve the issues with the three recalls regarding their vehicles within the next two months.

Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Washington Post was used in this report.

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Foxconn makes $3.5 billion deal with Sharp Nicole Spindler

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The Apple iPhone transformed the technology industry by promoting the smartphone and creating a mobile future.

To continue to do this, the company needs a Taiwan-based factory operator called Foxconn, or Hon Hai Precision Industry Company.

Employing thousands of workers in mainland China, Foxconn discovered a way to assemble an iPhone at a cost low enough for middle-class Americans to afford.

This company offered low profit margins, but the work planned Foxconn’s financial results, obtaining the status as the world’s largest maker of hardware for companies like Apple and Sony.

On Wednesday, Foxconn announced it struck a deal to acquire control of the Japanese screen maker Sharp for $3.5 billion, after weeks of AP negotiations and high-profile setbacks The Foxconn’s Vice Chairman Tai Jeng-wu and Sharp’s President Kozo Takahashi Washington Post reported. meet at a press conference to sign a takeover deal on April 2, 2016.

Vice Chairman Tai Jeng-wu, Chairman Terry ing labor costs and a slowdown in the global In addition, near Beijing, Foxconn operates Gou and Sharp President Kozo Takahashi met smartphone market. a hardware incubator called Innoconn, which for a press conference in Sakai, Osaka in western The recent deal highlights the huge pressure helps start-ups with production management Japan on Saturday, April 2, 2016. that the industry’s shifting dynamics are placing while looking for investment targets.

The head of Taiwanese contract manufacon Foxconn. According to Bloomberg, Foxconn Foxconn, founded in Taiwan as a maker of turer Foxconn pledged Saturday to turn around is trying to control more and more of the suptelevision knobs in 1974 by Mr. Gou, became a Japan’s Sharp Corporation by driving change at company with more than $100 billion in annual ply chain, while Apple needs to switch screen the struggling LCD panel and home appliance revenue by making things for other companies producers soon. maker, as the two companies signed a takeover according to The New York Times.

The deal is a return to form for Foxconn, deal after a one-month delay, according to At the Longhua complex, Foxconn coordiformally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, Bloomberg. nates more than 100,000 workers assembling in its emphasis on scale. The company has been The deal, for a 66 percent stake in Sharp, devices, including the iPhone, in daily and looking in recent years for ways to further cut is intended to make Foxconn a more attractive nightly shifts, and the feeding, clothing and costs, including investment in automation. partner for Apple. planning for the turnover of workers are garIt has also expanded into businesses poThe American technology company uses tentially more profitable than unskilled-work gantuan challenges.

Sharp screens, which could give Foxconn added manufacturing, opening factories producing Recently, Foxconn’s sales growth has leverage in dealings between the two. new technology like batteries for electric cars slowed to single-digit percentages in the last two The Sharp purchase will weigh down reported Bloomberg. Foxconn, most of whose years from the double-digit growth it posted in Foxconn with an ailing business that will take factories are in China, is symbolic of the chalthe past, although profit growth has picked up considerable money and effort to turn around, recently, thanks in part to consumers buying biglenges facing the Chinese economy at large. according to The New York Times. ger, more expensive phones with bigger screens.

Even while it tries to maintain the huge scale However, Apple has been diversifying its Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, and efficiency of its production base, it is trysupply chain, giving some production contracts The New York Times and The Washington Post ing to climb the value chain to find new, more to other assemblers and component makers, was used in this report. profitable streams of revenue. while Foxconn is grappling with China’s ris-

Chipotle expands to burger market Jackie Witwicki The Carroll News

In the past several months, Chipotle has been making the headlines for the all the wrong reasons due to multiple E. coli incidents.

Now, Chipotle hopes that this new announcement will appear as good news for the public. On March 31, Chipotle stated that they are making plans to open a burger market called “Better Burger,” according to Bloomberg.

At one point, Chipotle was said to have the perfect business model, expertly crafting an image of quality and value in order to avoid the need to offer any form of discounts, value meals, or specials, which dip into profits.

However, this image built of paying a little more for better value was completely shattered when a national E. coli outbreak sparked from the popular chain.

Since the start of this outbreak in November 2015, Chipotle has been scrambling to regain its image, with disappointing results.

The chain has shut down around 50 locations where the initial outbreak occurred, according to The Washington Post.

They have worked closely with the FDA in order to run microbial tests at all of their locations and provide their workers with new food preparation instructions.

All stores in the chain closed their doors for a day in order to implement these new programs, according to the FDA. When the chain reopened, it attempted to regain its customer base with a promotion involving free burritos with a special coupon code.

However, despite these attempts to save face, Chipotle’s stock is still seriously suffer-

ing and continuing to fall.

Chipotle’s image, before the fall, was based largely on quality and urban style. Reserving the copyright to “Better Burger” attempts to regain that image.

In a recent statement addressing the legitimacy of this business move, Chipotle company spokesman Chris Arnold told Bloomberg, “Once you look more deeply, you realize that it actually makes a lot of sense. The fast-casual burger category grew nearly 16 percent last year. If you looked at the overall burger market, you would see that fast casual only represents 5 to 7 percent of it.”

This statement indicates that Chipotle will not be moving into the territory of restaurants like McDonald’s and Wendy’s. Instead they will be pursuing the customer base of more “gourmet” burger joints like Steak and Shake and Five Guys Burger and Fries, according to

Bloomberg.

Pursuing this venture serves to ensure Chipotle’s customers that everything is fine and that the company is healthy and capableenough to pursue new projects.

It also aids Chipotle in regaining the positive image that their entire business model is built on. Before the outbreak, they came across as “the better Taco Bell” now they are trying to regain this association of quality as “the better Burger King.”

Whether or not this business move will actually serve to distract customers from previous health scandals remains to be seen. Chipotle told The Washington Post that more details about “Better Burger” will be released within the next three months.

Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, the FDA and The Washington Post was used in this report.

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Several Chipotle locations that temporary closed due to the E.coli outbreak have been working with the FDA to improve food preparation instructions.

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Boler Business Once again, the U.S. is a big importer of oil.

Nicole Spindler

Business & Finance Editor

In the first three months of 2016 and since the U.S. lifted its forty-year ban on crude oil exports, U.S. crude shipments to foreign buyers have stalled.

Additionally, imports into the U.S. jumped to a three-year high in what looks to be a reversal of a year-long decline in the amount of foreign crude brought into the American market according to Bloomberg.

As of March 25, the monthly average of imports was running at 7.9 million barrels a day, which is 9.8 percent higher than the year 2015 according to Bloomberg.

U.S. producers no longer appreciate a steep price advantage over foreign rivals in selling to domestic oil or other natural resource producers.

Bloomberg reported that production has fallen by about 600,000 barrels a day from its peak of 9.6 million in 2015.

Now refineries are buying foreign oil to replace the lost U.S. output and are storing much of the less-expensive imported oil to sell when prices rise in the near future.

One of the biggest winners this year is Nigeria, who regained lost market share.

Imports from Nigeria surged to 559,000 barrels a day in mid-March, compared with an average of 52,000 for all of 2015 reported Bloomberg.

The irony of the oil boom is that it came just as U.S. refiners were spending billions to process heavy oil.

Bloomberg discovered a linkage between freeing up the U.S. barrels and replacing them with foreign crude that U.S. refiners are better suited to run and manage.

The U.S. is hoarding a significant amount of the imported oil. Since March 25, the U.S. commercial crude inventories reached 534 million barrels.

This was near the all-time high in 1929, when U.S. commercial storage hit 545 million barrels, as huge oil finds coincided with the beginning of the Great Depression back in 1929 according to Bloomberg.

Today, with oil so cheap, producers and traders are choosing to wait for prices to rise instead of selling, especially with the futures market signaling that oil prices will continue to rise.

Traders can lock in those prices by taking out a contract for delivery a few months down the road or in a year in advance. Putting away oil is one of the few risk-free plays in the world right now, especially in this current situation when oil prices are as low as they are.

As of September 2015, the U.S. had 551 million barrels of working oil-storage capacity, 50 million more than it did two years before, according to Bloomberg.

As long as futures prices remain higher than current ones, the incentive will remain to pump oil and store it for a future time. The U.S. is stuck in a strange pattern where the higher its inventories go, the more downward pressure that puts on quarter prices, which then increases the incentive to store it.

The only way to break that cycle is for interest rates to rise, resulting in increases in the financing costs to build storage tanks. As long as money is cheap, it would beneficial to have the incentive to build storage tanks in the U.S., rather than have the public use up all of the oil they have been importing within a short period of time.

Economists are predicting that by storing oil in tanks across the U.S. it may allow effects from a predicted recession in the next few months to lessen and hopefully save the U.S. millions in payments.

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PHILOSOPHY 101 LECTURE

LYRIC:

“Now I’m falling asleep, and she’s calling a cab, while he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag.”

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PHILOSOPHY 101 TEST

Try to look on the bright side.

LAST ISSUE’S

WINNER:

Anthony Blue Hailing from Buffalo, Anthony enjoys spending his time talking long walks on the beach and doing research in the Dolan Science Center.

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Jack Lupica, ‘18

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“You have a moral obligation to be happy.”

BSOB named as mastermind of Panama oil scandal

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Map of University Heights (and other local townships)

A) The tallest building in the city, the belltower (it’s top floors hidden from public).

B) “Where should we go get food?”

C) A perfect location for a Sheetz.

D) Social paradise of the south.

E) “Where should we go to get food?” if we have a car.

F) The northern social headquarters G) JCU owns this land?

H) When you need to buy ______.

I) A forgettable Burger King (north of here is Colony).

J) Deciduous forest with wicked turns K) Houses that look too good for UH L) The only 24/7 gas-station within the area.

M) There is a low-key school here, suprisingly.

N) The NEW drive-through Panda Express is located here.

O) The heaven of all study-locations: Panera Bread.

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Go big in CLE

It’s no question John Carroll University grads are doing great things out there in the “real world,” but one alumni in particular is taking exceptional strides. Lauren Kluth, class of 2013, is not only the entrepreneur of a city-wide start-up, but also she is doing so with the help of a current John Carroll student. The Carroll News feels that her business model deserves a shout-out. Not only because she using her degree to start a business, but also beacuse she is also actively including current students in her success by hiring a John Carroll intern.

This is an interesting take on “giving back” to John Carroll. Rather than wait a few years and donate her funds, she has hired a student to help as she expands and further develops CLEseats, an app made to search and reserve a place at Cleveland restaurants. The student intern designs flyers and advertisements and is the voice behind CLEseats’ social media accounts. By providing this student with business experience, Kluth is offering more depth to her resume, ultimately contributing greatly to the student’s post-grad job-search process.

“Interning for a start-up is definitely something you don’t see often,” says Raechel Boyko, senior. able, for it offers current JCU students a chance to test the waters in a startup business. There are a variety of alumni networks offering preferential admission and set spots aside for John Carroll University graduates. The CLEseats example, though, presents students an opportunity to get a real-world look at what their immediate post-grad experience could be as an entrepreneur.

This is a twofold solution for businesses like Kluth’s and for hungry, internship-seeking college students. Kluth gets a cheap (if not free), motivated and well-educated staff while the student gets direct entrepreneurial experience. It is the hope of The Carroll News that more businesses run by JCU alumni, especially start-ups, follow in Kluth’s lead and call for current students so they may gain professional experi-

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“I am grateful to the students and the many families who invest in the promise and prominence of Jesuit Catholic education.”

–The Rev. Fr. Robert Niehoff, President of John Carroll, in his letter to parents and students for the 3.5 percent rise in tuition

ence and personal growth among representatives of their alma mater.

HIT & miss

Hit: The 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball final was full of buzzer-beaters Miss: Voice of “Star Wars” Admiral Ackbar dies at age 93 Hit: A new study shows meditation can change both the body and brain Miss: Iceland’s Prime Minister has resigned amidst allegations linking him to the controversial “Panama Papers” Hit/miss: Seniors picked up their caps and gowns this week Miss: Ted Cruz refused to wear a Wisconsin cheese hat while campaigning in Wisconsin Miss: Tuition is on the rise, again. Miss: A magnitutde-6.9 earthquake hit Vanuatu Hit/Miss: This year is coming to a close, fast, but that means the therapy dog population on campus is going to sky-rocket Hit: New York has passed a revolutionary law that permits up to three months’ family leave Don’t Miss: Celebrating soon-to-be-nice weather with the tribe!

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OURVIEW

For the love of the game

Ryan Brown

World News Editor

As editor of the World News section and a Political Science major, most of my days are full of bad news. Currently, Donald Trump is leading in the polls, a report shows that there is corruption of massive proportions on the global scale, and not a day goes by where I don’t hear about a shooting, bombing, attack or something of the sort. But this week is a good week, because baseball is back.

America’s pastime is in its opening week and I could not be in more need for the game we all love. There have been many turbulent times in American history since 1903, the year Major League Baseball was founded. But baseball has been something the American people can always rely on. It’s a sport that has united this country from it’s very beginning. A fitting example of this is the third World Series game at Yankee Stadium after 9/11.

It was the first home game for the

Yankees in the series and President George W. Bush was slated to throw out the first pitch. Bush stepped out on to the mound, with a hefty bulletproof vest draped over his torso, to thunderous applause from everyone in the stadium.

The president got up on the mound, gave a thumbs up to the crowd and threw a beautiful, sloping fastball right down the middle. The strike was met with even louder cheers from the crowd.

In that moment it didn’t matter what team you were rooting for or what political party you sided with because in that moment those silly labels disappeared and only one mattered: we were all Americans.

When I go through the gates at any ballpark in this country, it’s as if the world’s problems just go away. The smell of the freshly cut grass hits you, the PA announcer announcing the line ups makes you forget the news anchor telling you about another shooting or another dumb thing Donald Trump said.

When I walk in to that stadium I know that during the next three hours all that matters is that game. Nothing happens fast, so if I want to have a conversation with the guy I just met sitting next to me about how the starting rotation for whatever team is looking, I can. If I just want to sit back and not talk to anyone I can do that, too.

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Some people don’t like baseball because it’s “too slow” or there’s “not enough action.” And I have to say, to a point, I would agree. Baseball is not always as action packed or fast paced as football or basketball, but to me that’s what makes the game so special. You never hear of a fight breaking out at a baseball game. You do at football games, but not baseball. Baseball brings people together it doesn’t divide. I think it’s the pace of the game that makes it so enjoyable and relaxing for everyone in the park no matter what team you want to win.

Now, don’t think that baseball isn’t a competitive sport and doesn’t have any action because it certainly does. In fact, the pace of the game might add to the action as well. If it’s the bottom of the ninth inning with a team’s slugger at the plate and the team is down by one run, I challenge you to find me a more stressful time in any sport than the time it takes the pitcher to get set and throw the next pitch.

So as 2016 goes on and more bad news hits our airwaves, if you just decide you can’t take it anymore switch the TV to a baseball game. Or better yet, buy tickets and go to the ballpark.

And once you’re there just let the game work it’s magic and restore your faith in America again.

Contact Ryan Brown at rbrown18@jcu.edu

What does bumfuzzle mean?

“A deep state of confusion”

“A quarrel between bums”

Austin McIlvaine, sophomore

Clare Chastain, junior

“A diet of only corn and Diet Coke”

bumfuzzle: to confuse, perplex or fluster

Mike Hydzik senior

Katelyn’s Candor : Media mayhem

Katelyn DeBaun Editor-in-Chief

Another day, another column decrying, another political trend of which I’ve grown tired.

This time, it’s the public insisting that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders does not receive a fair amount of media coverage as compared to the other candidates. Sanders himself has criticized the media for failing to adequately cover his campaign.

Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told CNN in January, “Clearly, we were not getting coverage that was commensurate with our support among the electorate.” In the same month, Sanders asked his supporters to sign a petition demanding increased airtime for Sanders’ campaign after evening news broadcasts spent exponentially more time covering Donald Trump than Sanders.

I’m not disagreeing that there is or was a disproportionate amount of evening news coverage between Donald Trump and Sanders. However, I’m inclined to disagree with the blanket conclusion Sanders and many of his supporters have come to, that the media as a whole is not giving him enough coverage.

I recently came across an Op/Ed about criticisms of Sanders’choice to run as a Democrat rather than an Independent. In a town hall in Columbus, Ohio several weeks ago, Sanders said he did so because he knew, as an Independent, he would never get any media coverage, and, in correlation, would receive very little fundraising for his campaign. The public didn’t seem to favor this answer, but I have no problem with it; it’s honest and realistic.

That said, I do find some irony in the response. So far in this race, Sanders has raised the second highest amount of money, totaling to just under $140 million as of March 21, according to The Washington Post. Clinton is the only candidate to outdo him, having raised $160 million; all Republican candidates have raised considerably less than Sanders has. So, while he has criticized the

media for not covering him, Sanders also said he relied on the media to give him a spotlight so that he could fundraise. And he’s done so--phenomenally, especially when you consider that he doesn’t rely on a Super PAC. But it feels like he’s having his cake and eating it too, in my opinion.

In terms of data regarding news reporting, I did a search on Factiva, which allows users to run a search of sources such as newspapers, magazines and television and radio broadcasts. In the past year, Bernie Sanders has had nearly 229,000 articles or broadcasts directly related to him. Yes, that’s far from Trump’s 471,000 articles and broadcasts and Clinton’s 327,000 articles and broadcasts. However, I am inclined to agree with the general consensus that Trump is subject to an intense amount of overcoverage, and, in Clinton’s defense, she’s been in the news for decades as it is, but more recently for her nonsense, overhyped “email scandal.” However, despite being a political unknown a year ago, Sanders’ coverage is fairly close to that of Ted Cruz, who has had 234,000 articles and broadcasts related to him in the past year.

Let’s narrow that down a bit. In the last three months alone, Sanders has had 192,000 broadcasts and articles published about his campaign. Again, Trump and Clinton have an increasingly higher amount, but Sanders’ coverage is still in line with that of Ted Cruz; he has had 199,000 articles and broadcasts published about him.

Did you notice I left someone out?

Let’s talk about John Kasich. For the record, I’m not a fan; I did not vote for him in the last gubernatorial election and I don’t want to see him occupy the Oval Office. That said, if my choices are him, Trump or Cruz, Kasich’s the least toxic.

In the last year, only 111,000 articles and broadcasts have directly pertained to Kasich--that’s still less than the amount of articles and broadcasts published about Sanders in the last three months alone! And, in three months, Kasich has only seen 95,000 articles and broadcasts directly related to his campaign.

If there’s a victim in this media circus, it’s Kasich. Although many Republicans and Moderates despise the likes of Trump and Cruz, they’re unable to see Kasich as an alternative--probably because many of them aren’t seeing him at all.

Contact Katelyn DeBaun at kdebaun16@jcu.edu

McGowan’s Manifesto: Rejoice and love yourself today

Mary Frances McGowan Managing Editor

In high school, my day would begin a little something like this.

Lady Gaga blared from my alarm clock at 6 a.m., and all at once, insecurity wrapped ar ou nd my ank les like s erpents. Grabbing a bundled up uniform kilt in the corner of my room, I would begin to formulate a highly detailed plan regarding the ways I would break dress code that day.

After snaking patterned tights up my legs, bedazzling the corners of my collared shirt and slaving over the perfect winged eyeliner, I would

grab the latest copy of Vogue for my commute.

As the bus rattled down to Akron, my breath would be taken by avante-garde photography on page 16, descriptions of suede shoes on page 30 and emaciated models draped in feathers on page 43. Underlining passages like scripture, I dreamt of writing about the the only thing that had ever made me feel anything: art.

As the words of Bowie, Madonna and Gaga feed me rebellion through my earbuds, I dreamt of making a mad dash from Ohio to NYC, becoming bilingual in French and befriending Diane Von Furstenberg. I wanted so badly to be part of their world; where creativity was boundless and morals questionable.

While some channeled their teenage angst in heavy metal and body piercings, I desperately tried to find myself through the artistic and outlandish, worshipping icons

who encouraged their admirers to forcefully combat conformity through fashion, Lady Gaga at the top of the worship list. My friends and I would spend hours crafting costumes for her concerts, laboring in vain in the hope that she would spot us in the sea of glitter, disco balls and haphazard meat dresses.

M y s e n i o r y e a r, I f i n a l l y woke up, longing to write about social justice and politics, and in a fit of panic, I abandoned my former identity.

I ripped down posters of Gaga in my room feverishly and replaced them Cesar Chavez, Malala Yousafzai and Gloria Steinem. In my new found passions that stay with me to this day, I renounced my former self as petty and self-absorbed, and spent copious hours before entering college attempting to destroy any and all evidence of the girl I used to be.

Now that I have a bit more retrospect, I wish I could tell

my freshman year Mary Frances to be a bit kinder to herself.

While my friends and I lived for the drama of the pop star that is Lady Gaga, her message also provided us with something we were incapable of giving ourselves at the time: acceptance. Many of my dear friends were struggling with understanding their sexuality, and I, my identity.

When a pop goddess told us that we could be anyone we wanted to be and that breaking the mold was cool, we latched on to the encouragement.

When she wasn’t singing about emotionally unavailable men, she spoke out against bullying, gave voices to the LGBTQ community and professed love of all people.

This message of equality and bravery got me thinking about social justice for the first time, when in high school, I became passionate about actively advocating for marriage equality efforts. As some of my

friends made their first acts of immense courage in coming out to their friends and family, I wanted to work for a world that supported their love as well as mine.

I never anticipated that this passion would open my heart to all social justice issues, but it did. Without my first findings of courage through fashion, I wouldn’t have built the courage I needed to pursue journalism.

At the risk of sounding clichéd, I am now a firm believer in honoring your past for what it did to shape your present. My former self was definitely a little naive, but also endearing, curious never short of passion. While I’m glad my efforts are no longer concentrated on pop-punk and high fashion, I can’t fault myself for trying. High school me, thanks for being you.

Contact Mary Frances at mmcgowan17@jcu.edu

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Why so quiet?

Candy for teachers to bring to class

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Madeline’s Montage: Forever an STP tiger

Madeline Sweeney Editorial & Op/Ed Editor

I begged my parents to send me to public school for years– they never budged.

I’m from a moderately small city in Michigan, and my high school was surrounded by dominating public schools, all of which offered more classes, more sports teams and more clubs.

For a long time, I was completely consumed by the idea of all that was “more,” but as my days in private schools are coming to an end, I find myself looking back at certain educational experiences with an immense amount of gratitude.

I g r e w u p i n a n e i g h b o rhood with kids who all went to public school together. In high school, I found myself going to more football games and dances at their school than my own, because, let’s be real, nobody wants to go to a high school dance where 40 of the 140 students actually show up.

I became increasingly irritated at my parents for making me stay at a school with zero opportunity for AP courses and little to show for their “college p r e p ” s t a t u s – a t l e a s t t h a t ’s what I thought.

While my parents assumed I wanted to leave because I had more friends at the nearby public school, I seriously thought that I wasn’t getting the education I needed to be successful in college.

Well, it turns out I was ready for college, and I’m speaking on both the academic and personal levels.

I graduated with a class of 32 students, and, of those 32, I was in the same class with 13 of them from kindergarden to senior year.

That’s a long time with the same group of people.

In a matter of 13 years, with few exceptions, I became a pro-

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fessional at reading my classmates. I knew every tick, every trait and every study strategy of my brothers and sisters at St. Philip Catholic Central.

It didn’t stop there.

Because of the classroom sizes, the students could read the teachers as well. We knew them like the backs of our hands, thus ensuring excessive button pushing with little apology.

It’s important for me to address the intimate size of my school, for the small classrooms and decade-plus relationships contributed greatly to my educational experiences.

Wi t h i n t h a t l i t t l e b r i c k school, as I wandered throughout three straight hallways, a single gym and locker room, and a cafeteria filled with red rolling chairs and round tables, I became an individual that I am proud of.

Because of the opportunit i e s t o v o l u n t e e r, I l e a r n e d the importance of developing relationships with all types of people–that is something that has helped me expand greatly at my time at John Carroll– with little fear, I’ll add.

When it came to track and field we were missing two things: the track and the field.

Because our school didn’t have the funds or space to have our own stadium, the track team practiced and held meets down the street at an inner-city public school. I learned the importance of collaboration and support on that track as I practiced with individuals who still inspire me years later.

In those small classrooms with my classmates, I learned t he t r ue val ues of l ove and passion. The individuals at St. Philip are some of the kindest, most beautiful souls, and although I still believe I would have been successful at the local, public school, I am truly grateful for my parents’ decision to provide me with private school education.

So, to the now young-adults I grew up with who will probably never read this, thank you for providing me with years of growth and acceptance, love and encouragement and WWKGD (What Would Kathy Grosso Do (Kathy Grosso being our principle)) bracelets.

Oh, and to my mom and dad, you’re welcome for finally giving up and embracing all that the STP Tigers had to offer.

Contact Madeline Sweeney at msweeney16@jcu.edu

Ben Gebhardt Editorial & Op/Ed Editor A decades old, bloody conflict flared up this week for the first time in several years. It is one so contentious that it has displaced over one million people since the 1990s, killed thousands more and involves key Central Asian and Middle Eastern powers that influence American foreign policy—and probably 90 percent of us have never heard of it or even of the countries involved.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, fought between the former Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, has added another chapter to its grisly saga.

Yep, Azerbaijan and Armenia—two countries that don’t make the American headlines very often, especially when we are in an election year. Nonetheless, it is a very impactful international conflict. Tanks have been mobilized, troops have died, and Russian, Turkish and Iranian heads of state have all voiced their position on the matter—yet domestically, we know nothing of it or of its implications on the global stage.

Articles on the matter are very scarce in the American media—

Faculty Commentary The five pillars of a Jes u i t E d u c a t i o n a r e : D e d ic a t i o n t o Hu m a n D i g n i t y, Reverence for Reflection on the Human Experience, Creative Companionship with Colleagues, Focused Care for Students and Emphasis on Educating for Justice and Solidarity.

These pillars serve as the foundation for our Jesuit education at John C a r r o l l Un i v e r s i t y.

As I s h a r e wi t h y o u t h e e v e n t s d e s c r i b e d b e l o w, please keep these foundational values in mind.

Early in November 2015, African American students from the University of Missouri protested the lack of representation in their curriculum, the lack of cultural sensitivity of campus leaders and the lack of faculty of c o l o r.

T h e Un i v e r s i t y o f M i s souri football team, as a s h o w o f s o l i d a r i t y, a l s o j o i n e d t h e p r o t e s t s b y r efusing to practice. This sparked protests around t h e c o u n t r y.

On N o v. 2 0 , 2 0 1 5 , t h e African American Alliance made the decision to revisit their demands that

but that is hardly the fault of the news companies. Rather, it is that President Obama has said nothing about the conflict since its recommencement, said nothing to bring it to the public eye or to establish a stance for the United States—an omission that I feel isn’t wise.

This is a problem for a number of reasons. Primarily, it’s a shame that our chief diplomat hasn’t said much/anything on the matter simply because it means that the American news won’t cover it.

And if the media doesn’t cover it or give the people exposure to the issue, Americans won’t talk about it. We rely on the President to bring matters to the public eye and deliver a stance on what we, as a nation, should do about it.

Secondly, the President’s silence is misguided because it makes it seem as if America has a weak presence in this region— which, it is worth noting, is of strategic importance, as it is could be considered a conflict within the greater Middle Eastern area.

In a BBC interview, Matthew Bryza, former American Ambassador to Azerbaijan, expressed his concern that with Washington’s relative silence on the matter and, conversely, Vladimir Putin’s swift response, the United States is only giving Russia an avenue to increase their already strong influence in Central Asia and their growing role in the Levant.

President Obama has made some commendable achievements in foreign policy. Everybody is optimistic that we are finally

having bilateral, diplomatic relations with Cuba again. But at the same time, he has failed to say enough—if at all—when catastrophe strikes.

This inaction has been a recent trend, as the unfolding of the Belgium attacks shows.

While I am not as critical of his inaction as are the Republicans, I do think that he could have handled himself better when Brussels was attacked a few weeks ago. I am not sure if he truly should have cut short his tour in Cuba—it was, after all, a groundbreaking visit. However, offering only a few sentences toward the matter and then going to a baseball game was clearly insufficient—Belgium is a member of NATO and a very close ally to the United States (an ally that, it is worth noting, voted to enact Article 5 in the NATO charter after the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001).

I think that it is in the nation’s best interest that the President exert more force in the international arena. Staying quiet on issues like the Brussels attacks and the restart of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not what the leader of the free world ought to be doing. It conveys hesitance on the global stage and also does an injustice to us, his constituency—we depend on his word in order to interpret what happens abroad.

Contact Ben Gebhardt at bgebhardt18@jcu.edu

were originally drafted i n 2 0 11 . A A A f o r m a l l y presented these demands t o F a t h e r N i e h o ff a n d h e a g r e e d to meet w ith th em.

In an effort to more publicly call attention to these d e m a nd s , A A A o rg an ized t h e f o llo w in g ev en ts : O n D ec. 8 , th e A frican American Alliance held class room sit-ins througho u t c a mp u s On Dec. 8-9, AAA occupied public spaces throughout campus to demonstrate the need for s p a c e as a cu ltu ral g ro u p .

On Dec. 15, the African American Alliance m e t f o rmally w ith F ath er N i e h o ff a n d o t h e r s e n i o r J C U a d min is trato rs .

Below are some examples of the responses from the JCU student comm u n i t y: Yi k Ya k w a s o n f i r e !

Hateful and racists comm e n t s d irected to w ard th e JCU African American students were frightening.

The posts ranged from b i a s , to racis t to h ate.

The two most disturbi n g p os ts w ere as fo llo w s : “AAA should partake in a n o l d -fas h io n ed ritu al…. called lynching?” and “ H o n e s t l y, w e j u s t n e e d t h e KK K to ex p el A A A . ” In addition, bias reports

were submitted to JCU administration reporting th e “mere p res en ce” o f memb ers o f A A A in th e lo catio n s th ey o ccu p ied as “in timid atin g . ” Also, comments heard around campus included, “How dare they mak e d eman d s . W h o d o they think they are,” “I have never experienced discrimination on campus”(words spoken b y a w h ite s tu d en t). “I have the right to use th e “N ” w o rd b ecau s e it is freedom of speech.”

Ye s , e v e r y o n e h a s a rig h t to free s p eech b u t n o t to h ate s p eech .

Please, ask yourself: “Is this the John Carroll U n iv ers ity co mmu n ity I envisioned? Do I want to live in this type of co mmu n ity ?”

By Danielle Carter Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion

Editor’s Note: Faculty Corner commentaries are written by members of the John Carroll University faculty and staff and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Carroll News staff.

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FOR RENT - 4/5 bedroom house for rent on Colony Road in South Euclid. Available June 2016. $350 per month, per person plus utilities.

Call or text Zoran at 440-840-3239 for additional details.

Cute house less than 2 blocks from campus. Spacious, 2 full bath rooms. Email nursecaitlin90@gmail.com for complete details.

For JCU Students, Clean 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom house, 2 car garage, front porch, back deck, refridgerator, stove, dishwasher, 1 mile from JCU. Max 3 students for $335.00 / month each plus utilities. Contact Joe at jw15@uakron.edu Duplex for Rent - 3 bedroom up and 3 bedrooms down. Call Curt - 216-337-7796 For rent- Single family in University Heights. 3/4 bedroom house located within walking distance to JCU campus. Clean, safe, well-maintained. All appliances included. Central air, detached 1 car garage, nice yard with patio, dog permitted. $400.00 per month, per person plus utilities. Available June, 2016. Call Donna at (440) 3460827.

Univ. Hts – Walking Distance to Campus – 4, 5 and 6 Bedroom houses are available.

AC, newer appliances, screened porch, washer and dryer included. Only a few blocks and within walking distance from campus!

DON’T WAIT! Lease to begin in June.

Call Regis at (216) 374-7164 Nice 2 Family House on Warrensville Rd (Walking distance to JCU). Available for rent June 2016. Appliances, hardwoods, newer windows, partially furnished. 2 additional fully finished rec. rooms in basement. Price is right. Be first to get best!! Call Levy (216) 502-5406 2016-2017 Terrific Duplex very near Fairmount Circle $1200.00 Kitchen, Dish washer, garbage disposal, living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms, finished rec room, basement, washer, dryer, and garage.

Call Diane 216 990 2711 June 2016 to May 2017 school year. Since 1990 this home has offered young men and women clean and safe residence. A history of graduate and undergraduate students have walked from these steps to campus in 7 minutes.

Well maintained and updated year after year. Couches, chairs, dining tables, end tables, dinner ware, all appliances, remote garage, trash, water and sewage, fireplace, finished basement with bar. Cable, Wi-Fi hook ups. This house usually taken quickly. Just bring books, clothes, bed and food.

SEMI_OPEN HOUSE. Set up appt with me this Friday, Saturday or Monday (Feb 5,6 & 8) from 4 to 6pm. House is occupied so appointment is necessary.

Send email or text with Subject: Meadowbrook House. $1605 - 3 / 4 br / 1.5 bathroom - 1650ft2 Furnished John Carroll Campus Home (3966 Meadowbrook Blvd) Call - RJ Thacker 216-288-0028 House for rent in south Euclid.

3 beds 2 full baths. Central a/c, free water/sewer. Minutes from campus! Please call 440488-9863 Warrensville Duplex, 5 minutes from JCU, available for 20162017. Each floor bedrooms, large closets, completely remodeled, hardwood, 2.5 baths each floor, living dining and sun rooms, large kitchen, appliances, C/A, washer/dryer, 2 car garage, 4 parking spaces. Each floor $1,150 + utilities and security deposit.

Lawn Care included. Call Alex 216-932-5555

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2 3-bed/1-bath units available for 2016-17 school year. Each unit is $1,000/mo. Water/sewer included. Willing to rent units separately to two groups or entire house to one group of 6 students. Approximately 1 mile from campus.

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4 bed 2 bath house available for rent in South Euclid. Only 1.3 miles away from JCU. Includes laundry, A/C, dishwasher. $1500/ mo. Available July 1.

Call or text Todd at 216-3383000 for details.

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Oversized 3 bedroom duplex in walking distance to campus.

Finished basement and two car garage. Water and sewer utilities are included.$325 per person. Email Jack at jack.marinelli@gmail.com

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