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VOLUME 48, ISSUE 29
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GRADUATES ZIP-LINING through the South Loop in caps and gowns, stationary bike racing and rock climbing will all be sights to see during Columbia’s largest and most elaborate event of the year: Manifest. The 13th annual event, taglined “Student Powered,” will take place May 17 and feature about 80 departmental showcases of work by more than 2,000 graduating students, held in the streets of the South Loop and inside campus buildings, according to Mark Kelly, vice president of Student Affairs. For the second year, the festi-
val will include a pedal-powered amusement park, featuring BMX bikes and a lowrider carousel, which represent the student power it takes to create the festival, according to Aldo Guzman, director of Student Engagement. “[Attendees] should expect wild and whimsical surprises everywhere they turn,” Kelly said. According to Kari Sommers, assistant dean of Student Life, this year’s festival will differ from previous years in that approximately 750 students in about 30 classes, including two Event Management courses, incorporated Manifest planning into their curricula. Guzman said the main attraction this year will be a 200-foot
zip line in the parking lot across the street from the 916 S. Wabash Ave. Building, where graduating students can wear a cap and gown and hold a dry-erase board, which will display a message they wrote, as they glide down the zip-line. Free photos will be taken, and students will be able to download or “tag” themselves in the photos, Guzman said. Students who are not graduating can also use the zip line wearing a cap and gown or costumes created by Columbia students who previously used The Workroom, formerly known as The Bill Shop,
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STUDENTS AT THREE Chicago Pub-
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Students at the Academy for Global Citizenship, 4941 W. 47th St., participate in an April 30 press conference introducing a clean air campaign that will be available to Chicago Public Schools. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and Illinois Partners for Clean Air partnered to promote National Air Quality Week April 30–May 3.
CAMPUS
Axelrod on mental health • page 4
SPORTS & HEALTH
Shattering the athlete stereotype • page 15
lic Schools saw new flags waving outside their buildings April 30 after the Illinois Partners for Clean Air unveiled a new program to raise awareness about local air quality. Participating city schools received five color-coded flags representing air quality conditions ranging from “good” to “very unhealthy.” After registering for an account on the state EnviroFlash website, schools will receive emails about their zip code’s daily air quality reports. Upon receiving
ARTS & CULTURE
Pilsen’s cultural array • page 19
the report, each school will change its color-coded flag to reflect current air conditions. The colors range from green, the best quality air, to purple, which symbolizes dangerous conditions. The inaugural flag-raising took place April 30 at the Academy for Global Citizenship, a Southwest Side charter school. Dan Schnitzer, director of sustainability operations for AGC, said he thinks the program will ingrain air quality awareness into children at a young age. The effort was announced on the first day of Air Quality Awareness Week, a national initiative to decrease pollution, which took
METRO
Raising the smoking age • page 37
place April 30–May 3. “One of the main intents of the program is to not only make the students and staff aware [of air quality] but parents who have to come by the school and more so the community,” said Kim Biggs, chair of Illinois Partners for Clean Air. “They’re brightly-colored flags, and [they] catch your eye. I think it will pique the interest of a lot of people who may start paying more attention to air quality.” City monitors gauge air quality based on ozone and particulate matter pollutants, which are xx SEE AIR, PG. 39
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Campus .......................................................3 Sports & Health ..........................................13 Arts & Culture ..............................................19 Commentary ..............................................34 Metro ........................................................37