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Kish College names new president Vice president of student services at Wisconsin technical college chosen as school’s leader reins of Kishwaukee College on Jan. 19, the first day of second-semester classes. MALTA – Kishwaukee College She replaces Tom Choice, who officials have picked a Wisconsin announced his plans to retire in technical college administrator to June. be the college’s fifth president. “I’m very excited to make the Laurie Borowicz, who is vice transition to Kishwaukee Colpresident of student services for lege,” Borowicz told the Daily Northcentral Technical College in Chronicle on Thursday. “I think Wausau, Wisconsin, will take the it’s got a great tradition of excel-
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lence, and I’m excited to be part of the campus community.” The Malta college’s Board of Trustees announced Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Borowicz. Her employment contract is to be approved at a special board meeting. A date hasn’t been set for the meeting, according to a news re-
lease from the college. Borowicz was selected from a group of four finalists. Borowicz, 53, previously served as dean of K-12 relations and student success at Northcentral Technical. She earned a bachelor’s degree in retailing from the University of
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“I think it’s got a great tradition of excellence, and I’m excited to be part of the campus community.” Laurie Borowicz Incoming Kishwaukee College president
Protests target police agency
BLUE CHRISTMAS SERVICE HELPS RESIDENTS DURING DIFFICULT TIME
Chicagoans shift to criticize Emanuel’s proposed reform By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press
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ABOVE: Rowan Frontjes, 9, lights a candle for his father Wednesday during the Blue Christmas service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in DeKalb. BELOW: Jocelyn Prall lights the fourth candle Wednesday for the Blue Christmas Mass. Prall said she started coming to the annual service after receiving a role, but she continued to come because the prayers calm her during all of the holiday stress.
Coping with holiday blues Loneliness, stress among factors contributing to winter depression By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The silence at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s “Blue Christmas” Mass was quiet enough to bring members of the congregation to tears. Despite the cheerfulness marketed throughout the holiday season, many people find themselves feeling alone or exasperated by the stress that comes with complicated family dynamics and elaborate planning. The winter months can take an emotional and physical toll that can be hard to bounce back from. But there are ways to combat a seasonal funk, experts say. At the Rev. Stacy Walker-Frontjes’ “Blue Christmas: A
Voice your opinion Do you think the holidays are stressful? Vote online at Daily-Chronicle.com. Service of Darkness and Light” on Wednesday, visitors were asked to meditate on their emotions during prolonged moments of silence interrupted by group prayer. “I love that silence because so much of our world is busy, busy, busy, talk, talk, talk,” Walker-Frontjes said. “And if we have silence, it’s that kind of lonely silence that we don’t really appreciate that much.” The time change and shorter days
also can up the stress level around the holidays, according to experts. Ani Kalayjian, a professor at Columbia University and an integrative healer, founded Meaningful World, a humanitarian outreach program and healing clinic. Kalayjian, whose work specializes in seasonal affective disorder, regularly sees an increase in clients with depressive symptoms shortly after the holidays, she said. “Because of the seasonal change, there’s a shift in our inner biological clock, what the biologists call the circadian rhythm – due partly to changes in the sunlight patterns,” Kalayjian said. “The other biological
element is the melatonin, a sleep-related hormone released by the pineal gland that has been linked to sadness. “That’s why some practitioners recommend people to take melatonin supplements.” About 10 to 20 percent of recurrent depression cases follow a seasonal pattern, most commonly where a person is depressed in the winter and fall months and feels better during the spring and summer, according to the The National Center for Biotechnology Information. “When the symptoms are reduced or uplifted with the change of season,
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CHICAGO – Protesters who have been calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation also have another target: a much-criticized, quasi-independent agency that was created to investigate complaints against police officers but has rarely ruled against them. The mayor’s critics complain that his pledge to Rahm reform the Inde- Emanuel pendent Police Review Authority is too limited because he seeks to improve an existing system rather than scrapping it and starting over. In the outrage that erupted over the video showing an officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, Emanuel sacked his police chief and set up a task force to recommend changes. He also replaced the head of the authority known as IPRA. Former IPRA investigator and supervisor Lorenzo Davis said he was fired this year after refusing to reverse his finding in one fatal police shooting that it was not justified. The idea behind IPRA when it was set up in 2007 was for the agency to be wholly independent of police and the mayor’s office as a way to weed out bad officers, but that never actually happened, Davis’ lawyer, Torreya Hamilton, said Thursday. “The goal became to exonerate the police officer and therefore the city,” said Hamilton, who represents Davis in a lawsuit he filed against the city over his firing. Suspicion about reforms initiated by City Hall runs deep in Chicago, especially among blacks, who have heard similar pledges every couple of years, whenever allegations of police brutality arose. Many put more hope in a just-launched federal civil rights investigation, although
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