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COD Begins COVID-19 Vaccination Verification for Employees Plus: • 5 Books Purely Worth Your Time and Money • Time Crystals Could Make Science-Fiction Science-Fact

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COD Begins COVID-19 Vaccination Verification for Employees COVID-19 vaccination submission now open for COD employees

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The Frida Kahlo Exhibit Closes After Successful 4-Month Run One of COD’s most popular exhibitions closes as online tours begin

OPINION

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Screw You Texas, and Your Abortion Ban Too The Texas Heartbeat Act came into effect on Sept. 1 and the details are a mess

5 Fantastic Fall Reads Worth Your Time & Money Fall is my favorite time of year to curl up with a good book, here are the ones I’m reading

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Guest Column – Joe Prendergast – Vaccine Tyranny A fellow COD student offers a different viewpoint on vaccine mandates

Time Crystals Could Make ScienceFiction Science-Fact Researchers have created the most stable time crystal yet, opening the door to potential gamechanging leaps in technology

Anti-Mask Protests at Glen Ellyn School Spark Conversation During Online Event Glen Ellyn League of Women Voters’ online event highlights local mask mandate tensions

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NEWS COD BEGINS COVID-19 VACCINATION VERIFICATION FOR EMPLOYEES Bee Bishop, Staff Writer

COD’s administration released COVID-19 vaccination submission forms for COD faculty on Friday, Sept. 17. Still in the works are details for the testing procedure among other things, including consequences for failing to adhere to the new guideline for vaccination or testing.

While the deadline for staff to turn in vaccination proof is Sept. 24, they’re still encouraged to have their information in before the governor’s deadline of Sept 19. The twostep process begins with an online form found in the employee portal at inside.cod.edu. After filling out the form, employees are required to submit a picture or scan of their vaccination card through email. The email must come from a COD email (example@cod.edu), and the file attached can be a PDF, JPEG, or TIFF file.

For faculty who are not yet fully vaccinated but are planning to get vaccinated, the process will remain open after the deadline. Until fully vaccinated, faculty members must adhere to weekly testing. An individual is considered fully vaccinated after two weeks have passed since either the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

require medical provider approval to exempt an employee. Religious exemptions need to be stated on the form. General reluctance to the COVID-19 vaccine is not a sufficient basis for a religious exemption. If an employee is granted an exemption, either religious or medical, the employee is still required to adhere to the weekly testing protocol.

picked out yet, Bente says the options are between a saliva and nasal test. The process will involve the testee signing a waiver before the test is administered, and both the testee and the school will be notified of test results simultaneously. Bente reasoned that due to the sheer amount of testing that is projected, it would be nearly impossible to manually match According to College of DuPage Vice individuals with test results.

President Jim Bente in a personal interview, Though the school is not requiring vaccination student guidelines will be coming this week, for in-person activities and classes, Bente still but he was unable to give a specific date. put heavy emphasis on getting vaccinated.

However, Bente was confident that the system “It is the best way to curtail transmission,” he is ready to go and students should be getting the said. “It does not mean you will not get COVID, information shortly. but it is shown to reduce hospitalizations and Testing procedures are still being finalized. reduce the severity of the disease. We just want to encourage people to get the vaccine.”

While a specific COVID-19 test has not been

Medical and religious exemption forms are also available for employees at inside.cod. edu> COVID-19 Employee Protocols and Information > Vaccine Requirements and will be sent via email. Medical exemption forms

Stay current with the latest COVID-19 updates at cod.edu/coronavirus

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NEWS THE FRIDA KAHLO EXHIBIT CLOSES AFTER SUCCESSFUL 4-MONTH RUN Haley Battle, Staff Writer

After four months, the College of DuPage’s “Frida Kahlo: Timeless” exhibit has come to a close. The exhibition ran from June. 5 to Sept.

12 and was one of the largest exhibitions in the Chicagoland area in the past 40 years, according to a recent press release, “It’s been an exciting summer” according to Diana Martinez, the director of the McAninch Arts Center, which hosted the exhibition.

According to Martinez, the exhibit was very successful from an audience perspective, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. People from all 50 states and 43 countries came to the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Overall, around 10,000 people attended the exhibit during its fourmonth run. Martinez said the exhibition was an outstandingly popular event in regard to its artistic excellence and academic impact on visitors.

Frida Kahlo expressed her artwork as “her reality.” In return, the exhibit highlights and documents Frida Kahlo’s artwork throughout various moments of her life. And the way that Kahlo portrays her life in her work is still relatable to people to this day.

taking into account COVID restrictions. Already postponed once because of the pandemic, Martinez noted COD followed CDC guidelines for museums, forums and meetings. This included touchless ticketing, online ticket sales, touchless ticket scanning, hand sanitizer dispensers and enforced mask policies. According to Martinez, out of 10,000 staff and attendees who attended, no one contracted COVID-19 from visiting the exhibit.

But the experience is not over yet. Those still interested in viewing Frida Kahlo’s work can also book virtual tours offered by the Cleve Carney Museum through Oct. 15. According to the press release, “​​The virtual tour includes the 26-piece collection on loan from the Museo Dolores Olmedo, including 100+ photographic images from the artist’s life. There are also more virtual tours being offered to those who want to learn more about Frida’s work. You can book a virtual tour by going to theccma.org/tickets.

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The exhibition was even more successful when

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OPINION SCREW YOU TEXAS, AND SCREW YOUR ABORTION BAN TOO! Bee Bishop, Staff Writer

On Sept. 1, the Texas Heartbeat Act took effect, banning all abortions six weeks after insemination. The tricky part about the bill is that the patients receiving the abortion aren’t on the chopping block, but instead those that administer the abortion, or assist the patient in receiving the abortion. While this act never directly implicates the patients, it will undoubtedly have an effect on abortion rates, and not a positive one.

if the plaintiff wins they gain money and the defendant loses money, and if the defendant wins no one gains money and everyone loses money.

When Roe v Wade was passed by the Supreme Court in 1973, central to its passage was the idea that any individual who wanted to receive an abortion should not be prohibited by the law, as it would obstruct the 14th amendment, particularly the part that reads “…nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Abortion is a medical procedure and, like any other medical procedure, when a patient is denied that procedure, it can and will affect a person’s quality of life. Therefore any move to ban or limit abortion is threatening a person’s quality of life and is unconstitutional. The fact that the abortion debate is still happening is absolutely baffling to me, but therein lies a bigger problem with the Texas Heartbeat Act.

However, that’s all semantics. For all intents and purposes, it gets rid of abortions in the state of Texas.

Even before the court comes into session, the law already seems to favor the plaintiff. Moreover, the burden of proving the abortion was lawful falls on the defendant, not the plaintiff. On top of that, the defendant cannot use the following justifications as defenses: the defendant did not I am pro-choice. I think there should know about the law; the patient gave consent be unobstructed access to safe abortions. to the procedure; and belief that the law is Pregnancy is something that drastically changes unconstitutional. It even goes on to say that a a person’s life and if someone isn’t ready to be person’s right to an abortion does not mean pregnant, or never had the wish to be pregnant, that the abortion performed was legal. then that is their decision and they should be All things considered, the law doesn’t able to make it without judgement. Unless the technically ban people from getting abortions. patient decides to have that decision involve And the biggest problem-word in that previous someone else, it is strictly the patient’s business. sentence is “technically.” Because never, Having an abortion is just like having any other anywhere on the act, does it say that a person medical procedure; it’s a decision between an is not allowed to have an abortion. The law individual and their doctor. doesn’t apply to people who have abortions.

At the bare minimum, this isn’t about whether or not you think abortion is a morally sound procedure. At its core, this act is nothing more than a devious attempt to confine people in terrible living situations. Even the name is misleading; a fetus doesn’t have a developed heart at six weeks, just electrical pulses. And the politicians in Texas know this. They are using technicalities and misconceptions to mislead and confuse the general public.

I can understand that some people may see this as an opportunity to lower the abortion rate.

But the reality is that abortion rates don’t go down because abortions are restricted. Abortion The Heartbeat Act works like this: a random rates go down because of proper sex education, stranger with no affiliation to a case sues greater access to safer and better birth control, someone who aids or administers an abortion. and reduced stigma around sex and pregnancy.

If the stranger wins, they get $10,000, and If your end-goal is less abortions, do not support the person aiding and abetting the person this bill. If your end-goal is more informed sex, seeking an abortion gets to pay a fine, as well as do not support this bill. If your end-goal doesn’t cover all legal fees for the person suing. If the have anything to do with abortion and is just defendant wins, they still have to pay their own about a government that respects it’s citizens, legal fees, not the stranger. In layman’s terms, do not support this bill.

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Texas Abortion Law

Who Can be Sued?

drivers

institutions and their workers

doctors

family providing financial support

What is Deceptive About the Bill?

The Act uses misleading terminology to rally supporters.

Those who sue are not required to provide a connection to the individual they are suing.

Alexia Lukose

Zainab Imam

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OPINION 5 BOOKS PURELY WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY Eva Koureta, Staff Writer

During the pandemic I realized it’s been a long time since I read a good novel, so I decided to track down some books that are not only interesting but also wonderfully written. Here are the books that are on my “fiction to read this fall” list. I chose these books because they’re all dramatic and beautifully layered, offering you pure joy, enthusiasm, agony and just a tiny sense of guilt for our humanity.

“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”

Eva Koureta

If you’re an enthusiast of the old, glamorous Hollywood times, then this is a book made for you. It illustrates in the most beautiful way the agony young actors endured to become big movie stars in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, and how a journey like this can either destroy or shape you as a character. Of course, a book with a title like this would emphasize the nature of love.

Not only is it interesting to find out who these seven husbands were, but its unpredictable plot twist makes you understand how impulsive love can be, and that perhaps in those times it was not easy to just marry your biggest love. “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a New York Times best seller and a potential major motion picture movie.

“Anna Karenina”

“Anna Karenina” by Leo T story, which most of you are p Over the years, there have bee plays based on Leo Tolstoy’s gre around the world. This terri place in imperial Russia, where married to a powerful minister in love with a wealthy army offi description of the characters an live in creates a perfect mental 1800s Russia. Great novelists h as a flawless piece of literature we can say about the book. Ho it is, some of you might find this to the great number of pages (86 looking for a novel to get you in should consider “Anna Karenin

“My Policeman” If you love Harry Styles you will certainly adore this book. Not only is “My Policeman” by Bethan Roberts a frequently suggested book by Styles, but it’s also a soon-to-be major motion picture starring none other than Styles himself.

Set in the ‘50s, “My Policeman” tells the story of two young lovers who fall in love with the same person. A tragic tale of thwarted love that takes place in one of the most difficult periods for the LGBTQ+ community, the story makes us feel both anticipation and guilt while trying to understand the feelings of the three characters.

Anticipation, to find out what happens in the end, and guilt, for all the unfair situations gay people suffered through back in those days. It is an astonishing novel worth your time.

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“Daisy Jones & The Six” Another great novel by Taylor J. Reid is “Daisy Jones & The Six.” A complex story about a teenage girl whose dream is to become a rockstar and a band that has already made its first steps in the music industry. The nostalgia of the ‘60s and ‘70s illustrated in the book makes the reader, regardless of age, visualize what those years looked like, or empathize with how they felt. This is an extraordinary book that portrays the abuse of substance, money, love and rock-and-roll. If you want to know how rock stars lived their lives, then this is a novel worth reading. Although it is a novel, the excellent writing of the book makes you think you’re reading a true story.

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“The Song of Achilles”

Eva Koureta

As an enthusiast of Greek tragedy, I could not leave out one of the most powerful, cruel and passionate stories of all time, Achilles in Troy.

“The Song of Achilles” is beautifully written by Madeline Miller. Her captivating writing is one of the best novelistic adaptations of Homer’s epic. In this book, you can’t help but love the description of the greatest of all Greek warriors, Achilles. The way that Achilles is described by his lover Patroclus is purely magic. Perhaps it is the only book that emphasizes Patroclus’ and Achilles’ love story rather than the war itself.

While there are a few facts about the Trojan War mentioned in the book, such as how and why it started, the main concern of the novel is the true and unconditional love between the greatest Greek and the delicate warrior Patroclus. As a Greek American who knows a few things about Greek mythology, I would certainly rank this book in my top five favorite Greek literature novels.

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OPINION

GUEST COLUMN

Opinion - Vaccine Tyranny

by Joe Prendergast, COD Student

Recently, Governor JB Pritzker has issued a decree requiring institutions of higher education in the state requiring that, very soon, students and employees to show proof of Covid vaccination, or be subjected to testing.

President Joe Biden announced his intention to use bureaucratic, administrative means in an effort to force private business employing 100 or more people to require their workers to be vaccinated or face testing requirements (one can almost hear James Madison rolling over in his grave). These tyrannical measures are not only unethical and unreasonable, but also dangerous.

I know that this piece incite certain invectives that have become all too familiar. However, such epithets prove one of my reasons for dissenting against this madness. People who have decided against receiving the Covid vaccines are being and have been treated as evil, vile, second-class citizens

their concerns and hesitations. These reasons may be hard to find online, as Big Tech has done the work of censoring viewpoints and stories contradictory to the acceptable narrative, which is itself is a reason to be skeptical.

from Covid, and may make it less likely that one contracts the virus. So if the vaccines protect those who have gotten them, and those who really want the jab could have gotten it, then why all the fearmongering?

For all the talk of “following the science” from the governor, the president, and the public health establishment, they have strikingly ignored one key factor in all of this: natural immunity. It appears that natural immunity, gained from previous infection, is perhap stronger than that from the vaccines. (Editor’s Note: The CDC said in August that the most recent credible studies show COVID-19 vaccines provide stronger protection than previous infection.)

The argument that invokes diseases such as polio and smallpox, and how the triumph of those vaccines does not seem valid to me as polio and smallpox are, generally, significantly more threatening Covid.

I am not saying that Covid poses no threat whatsoever especially for the elderly and those with comorbidities. Not so much, it seems, to relatively younger people in relatively good health (although I am not saying there is no The arguments for forced vaccinations and chance). Why must we ignore these crucial facts compulsory mask wearing that invoke concern and distinctions? for the protection of those who have received the vaccine against those who have not seem to contradict the political class’s own narrative regarding the vaccines. If the vaccines are so effective and great, then why must one who has received them still worry?

As much as the Unvaccinated (capitalized because of their status as a sort of reviled social class) may be portrayed as stupid conspiracy I would support the notion that the vaccines theorists, there are plenty of logical reasons for do reduce the risk of severe illness and death

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FEATURES TIME CRYSTALS COULD MAKE SCIENCE-FICTION SCIENCE-FACT John Moore, Managing Editor

Teleportation and faster-than-light travel, computations for researchers, leaving a lot of guesswork. They’re just not very reliable. anyone?

discovery leading to universally-effective cancer treatments.”

Time crystals could change this by giving researchers the means to create super-stable, highly predictable, easily maintainable quantum computers. Neural reporter Tristan Greene sums up the potential quite nicely in a recent article:

Keep in mind that this is very preliminary research that will need to undergo rigorous peer review and be proven to be reproducible in other laboratories before it can be confirmed.

And this isn’t the first time crystal created, just the most stable to date (the first is believed to have been created in 2016).

Toward the end of July, scientists from several top universities, together with researchers at Google’s quantum computing laboratories, announced they had created a stable time crystal.

If this sounds like science fiction you wouldn’t be far off the mark. Time crystals are real, and they could revolutionize quantum computing in the very-near future, leading to incredible scientific and technological breakthroughs once thought to be decades away, or unattainable, with our current technology.

Time crystals defy explanation. They represent a new category of phases of matter.

Because all matter (liquid, solid and gas) is ruled by physical laws, the explanation has a lot to do with the second law of thermodynamics, entropy (the continual process of random change in matter and systems), as well as Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of motion, which states that a moving object tends to keep moving, whereas a resting object tends to remain at rest.

“Nearly every far-future tech humans can imagine, from teleportation to warp drives and from artificial food synthesizers to perpetual motion reactors capable of powering the world without burning fuels or harnessing energy, will require quantum computing systems.”

He goes on to explain, “At the far-fetched, super-optimistic end of things – we could see the creation of a working warp drive in our lifetimes. Imagine taking a trip to Mars or the edge of our solar system and being back home on Earth in time to catch the evening news.

And, even on the conservative end with more realistic expectations, it’s not hard to imagine quantum computing-based chemical and drug

Where it stands now, the team at Google and the collaborating universities think they’ve finally shown how time crystals can be made using a reproducible process. It’s now up to the rest of the scientific community to take the baton and start hoofing it toward a brighter future for humanity.

This new phase of matter refuses to be constrained by the laws that rule other phases of matter. While these other phases are fenced in like herd animals, time crystals are out doing their thing, and doing it very well, thank you. According to a report on tech-news site Slashdot.org, “A novel phase of matter that physicists have strived to realize for many years, a time crystal is an object whose parts move in a regular, repeating cycle, sustaining this constant change without burning any energy.

‘The consequence is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,’ said co-author Roderich Moessner, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. That’s the law that says disorder always increases.”

What makes time crystals so meaningful?

Quantum computing. Quantum computers are uber-powerful systems capable of running thought-defying numbers of processes, and solving incredibly complex problems, but they’re basically glass cannons. Not only are they fragile and hard to maintain, they don’t bother interpreting the results of their

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FEATURES RECENT GLEN ELLYN ANTI-MASK PROTESTS SPARK CONVERSATION DURING ONLINE COMMUNITY POLICING EVENT Devin Oommen, Staff Writer

Deep opposition to mask and vaccine mandates sparked conversation in an online event hosted this past week. The Glen Ellyn League of Women Voters hosted an event to educate voters and the public; the event also ended up allowing concerned parents to engage Glen Ellyn Chief of Police about protests that have been happening outside of Forest Glen Elementary School.

who have witnessed these events asked where the boundary is between the first amendment rights of the protestors and the safety of the kids. Karin Daly, Vice President of the League of Women Voters of Glen Ellyn revealed she had been witness to the protests, saying that she and other parents formed a human shield of sorts between the schoolchildren and protestors.

The event, titled “A Conversation on Police Partnerships and Community Policing” provided a real-world example of Glen Ellyn PD community partnerships.

The speakers of the event, Glen Ellyn Chief of Police Philip Norton and COD Professor Theodore Darden, spoke about community policing and police partnerships; the partnerships were witnessed in real time as Norton described what has been happening outside of Forest Glen Elementary and how the department has been handling the situation.

Norton spoke about partnerships the police department had formed with the community.

According to Norton, the department prioritizes all opportunities to do community outreach.

He emphasized the department has important partnerships with Glen Ellyn schools and elderly citizens and looks to reach the entire community as opportunities for interaction arise.

Glen Ellyn Chief of Police Philip Norton gave a brief summary of the protests that have been happening outside of Forest Glen Elementary which are against the recent mask and vaccine mandates; specifically opposing the need for elementary-aged children to wear masks in school. According to Chief Norton, there have been instances where protestors have yelled phrases or confronted the kids and/or their parents sometimes yelling things such as “Hail Hitler” and/or “Your kids are part of Hitler youth for wearing masks.” Concerned parents

Darden covered vast information in a small amount of time. He commended the Glen Ellyn police department for its efforts to make police partnerships and community policing a departmental philosophy. He also touched on everything from popular beliefs about law enforcement to the reality of policing, differences between state and local level agencies, and specifics of HB 3653. HB 3653 is a bill that was signed into law by Governor Pritzker on Feb. 22. It includes changes to laws such as those concerning cash bail, mandates for body cameras, bans on police chokeholds, and many others.

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ACROSS 1. Locker room infection?

6. Vow at #41 Across 9. Smoke plus fog 13. Veranda in Honolulu 14. Salmon on a bagel 15. Hindu religious teacher 16. To the left, on a boat 17. Hula dancer's necklace 18. Cheryl Strayed on the Pacific Crest Trail, e.g.

19. *Winningest World Series team 21. *Infield shape 23. Acronym, abbr.

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DOWN 1. Kill 2. Spanish appetizer 3. Any minute, arch.

4. Winter cover 5. Of advanced technology, colloquially 6. Bad wishes 7. Buck's partner 8. Nitrous ____, a.k.a. laughing gas 9. Sink or this?

10. Type of shark 11. Damien's prediction 12. To put a girdle on 15. Showing signs of wear and tear 20. Writer ____ Jong 22. Retirement plan acronym 24. Like a Zoom session 25. Port of old Rome 26. *____ of dreams?

27. Let out of jail 29. *____ Classic 31. *Runner's destination 32. Frankincense and myrrh, but not gold 33. Adjust, as laces 34. Between rain and snow 36. Outback birds 38. Prickle on a wire 42. "Super" Christopher 45. Definitely 49. p in mpg 51. Glittery decoration 54. Digression 56. Bone hollows 57. Young female socialites, for short 58. Fail to mention 59. Earnhardt of racing fame 60. Coating of aurum 61. Attention-getting sound 62. Pirates' affirmatives 63. *ALCS counterpart 64. *Nickname of Red Sox manager who won two World Series 67. "____ the season ..."

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