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JACOB SCHMIDT, SOPHOMORE music major, and Jordan Gillespie, senior education major, were named 2018’s Blood Ball King and Queen at Dec’ed Out: A Dance Through the Decades March 9 at the Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Schmidt and Gillespie, both members of the Student Athletics Association, otherwise known as the Renegades, sported their crowns after the winners were announced. An annual celebration in honor of Mary Ann Blood, who founded Columbia College in 1890 with Ida Morey Riley, Blood Ball provides a night of dancing, food and activities for students.

At this year’s event, hosted by the Student Life Advisory Board,the decades theme featured interactive pop-up rooms, such as a ‘70s-themed silent disco and a T-shirt tie-dying booth crafted in the spirit of the ‘90s. Students came dressed in overalls, neon baseball caps and graphic tees to celebrate the theme, as Blood Ball typically encourages party-goers to wear costumes or dress up.

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higher education foundation because of political squabbling? a difficult OPINIONS EDITOR Although Rauner did have task when elected, faced with tough

opposition from the DemocraticCOPY CHIEF controlled state legislature, he is the face

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No matter how many times Rauner claims “I am not in charge” and accuses GRAPHIC DESIGNERS House Speaker Michael Madigan of manipulating the system for his own

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SENIOR PHOTO EDITORS To no surprise, The Chronicle Editorial Board did not endorse Rauner

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But just because The Chronicle wants a change in Illinois leadership doesn’t mean students should blindly support

MULTIMEDIA EDITOR MULTIMEDIA REPORTERS Democrats and not demand progress from the other side of the political aisle.

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The Illinois primary is March 20, and while residents will have their opportunity to select who will represent their political party in the November general election in the state legislature and Congress, they’ll also have a say in who will be the state’s chief executive.

Under freshman politician Gov. Bruce Rauner, the state was budget-less from July 2015–July 2017, which devastated state-funded programs including higher education. During his 2014 campaign, the Republican governor touted his savvy business sense and how he could solve the state’s fiscal shortcomings.

But that obviously didn’t happen.

Illinois’ backlog of overdue bills skyrocketed to nearly $17 billion in November 2017, which has dropped to just above $9 billion thanks to buying bonds, according to the state comptroller’s website.

During that time, tuition increased by 6.7 percent and about 7,500 higher education-related jobs exited the state, which costs Illinois’ economic output by $1 billion annually, according to the Illinois Economic Policy Institute.

The state’s Monetary Award Program was also ravaged during the budget impasse. Just 42 percent of eligible applicants received the much needed grant, but it covered only about a third of average tuition costs. A sad state for a program that fully covered average public university or community college tuition and fees in 2002, so it only makes sense that those institutions’ enrollment numbers slumped by more than 72,000, according to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.

The financial and enrollment consequences of Rauner’s tenure in office are a kick in the gut, but it’s nothing compared to its ultimate sacrifice: trust in Illinois.

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» MOLLY WALSH CAMPUS REPORTER A DATA SECURITY breach resulted in the disclosure of the names and Social Security numbers of Columbia employees and their family members on IRIS, the college’s internal website.

The college learned Feb. 15 that SharePoint, the search portal application used to apply for the Tuition Exchange Program, a college employee benefit, displayed the personal information, according to a March 2 email sent out to those affected by Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and CFO Jerry Tarrer.

Communications and External Relations Mark Rosati said in a March 6 emailed statement sent to The Chronicle.

“The college takes the security of personal information seriously and regrets the incident. The college sent letters to everyone whose data may have been displayed on the internal site,” Rosati said in the email. “While there is no evidence of misuse of the information, as a precaution the college is offering LifeLock identity protection, including credit alerts and other safeguards, at no cost for 12 months.”

Former Security Engineer Jeffrey Champion said communi-

The college is taking steps to prevent a similar event from happening in the future and assures you that maintaining the privacy of your personal information is paramount.

JERRY TARRER Communications Academic Manager Craig Sigele, who is also an adjunct professor in the Communication Department and president of the United Staff of Columbia College, said he learned from Human Resources that 46 employees were affected by the data breach.

“I am concerned that there was a data breach after everyone has started to use SharePoint,” Sigele said. “I’m disconcerted and I’m disappointed that [Human Resources] did not contact the union as union staff members were affected by this, which could impact them greatly.”

Once the breach was discovered, Columbia’s Information Technology Department immediately took steps to secure the information and changed the application so that personal information could no longer be displayed on the program, Vice President of Strategic

cation, awareness and tightening access to the employees’ programs are the safest methods to secure data from breaches.

Champion advised that the passwords for the websites should be changed daily.

Champion also said he was happy to hear of the protection Columbia was offering the employees and the family members that were affected by the breach.

LifeLock would protect the identities of the employees as well as the family members affected by the security breach, according to the letter from Tarrer.

“The reason we went to SharePoint in the first place was supposed to be for more protection against breaches,” Sigele said. “I had assumed we were protected more from data breaches and from security access to documents so now it makes me wonder if we really are more secure.” mwalsh@columbiachronicle.com

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PRE-BROADWAY WORLD PREMIERE

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COLUMBIA STUDENTS AND the Student Government Association will host a walk-out March 14 in support of gun regulation reform as part of the school walkouts taking place around the country.

The National School Walkout, organized by the Women’s March Youth EMPOWER, a branch of the Women’s March organization, will be held at schools and colleges nationwide. Students and faculty will walk out of classrooms for 17 minutes starting at 10 a.m. to protest Congress’s inaction on gun control following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 students and teachers dead.

Students can meet in two places during the college’s walk-out: outside of the 618 S. Michigan

Ave. and 1006 S. Michigan Ave. buildings until 10:17 a.m., according to Malik Woolfork, SGA president and a senior business and entrepreneurship major.

Woolfork said this walk-out is important in Chicago because of the city’s rampant gun violence.

“Over the last couple of weeks, we just met and discussed the plans for it,” Woolfork said. “We are here to support gun reform and we are open to the conversation that needs to happen around gun reform.”

In a March 7 email to faculty, Senior Vice President and Provost Stan Wearden sent information about the walk-out and stressed the importance of supporting students’ First Amendment rights without penalty. Wearden also said faculty must continue classes for students who choose to not participate but can exercise their own

First Amendment right to protest if all of their students walk out.

Senior Associate Provost Suzanne Blum Malley said she was approached by Sara Jaffe, junior art and art history major, who wanted to organize the walk-out.

Blum Malley directed the student to SGA, which then took over the effort, but the administration met with security in order to ensure participants in the walk-out will be able to do so safely. The college supports the right to participate in the walk-out in order to demand gun reform, she added.

“It’s important that should students choose to participate in this 17-minute walk-out that they don’t face penalties for doing so,” Blum Malley said. “That’s what we did.

We sent the message, we made sure they met with security, made sure they connected with SGA and then I think appropriately, it is in the students hands.”

Jaffe said she was inspired to organize the walk-out at Columbia after noticing that not many colleges or universities had signed up for the protest. So she decided

to approach the administration because she knew they would support her. She added that any student who does not have class during this time is welcome to join the walk-out “I hope this is looked at as a peaceful protest and everybody feels a sense of hope when they leave this walk-out,” Jaffe said, “because there is hope and change

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occurring and it’s remarkable what young people can do if they use the power of their voice.”

Chris Rice, president of the college’s Socialist Students organization and junior cinema and television arts major, said his organization is also planning an April 20 student walk-out for the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine shooting.

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SGA plans walk-out supporting Parkland victims

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campus THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO PRESENTS:

RUSSELL GUNN RESIDENCY CONCERTS Featuring The Columbia College Jazz Ensemble Directed by Scott Hall With Special Guests: The Fusion Ensemble, Directed by Bill Boris ChicagoVox, Directed by Martez L. Rucker

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March 18, 4 and 8 p.m.

Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Ct. $20 General Admission $10 Family of Performers, Faculty, and Staff $ 5 Students with ID For tickets, call 312-369-8330 or visit tickets.colum.edu

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Buzz (left) and Biff Ruttenberg said their donation is in support of an institution their parents created and will allow MoCP to obtain more established artists.

MoCP receives $1M gift from Foundation

THE MUSEUM OF Contemporary Photography received a $1 million donation from the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Foundation Feb. 1, the largest donation the museum has ever seen.

The Foundation, 1101 W. Monroe St., is an organization that provides grants to qualifying organizations dedicated to the exhibition and/or collection of fine arts in Chicago and surrounding Midwest cities.

Biff Ruttenberg, director of the David C. and Sarajean Arts Foundation, said his father David C. Ruttenberg was one of the founders of MoCP and the donation is a tribute to that creation. Biff and his brother Buzz have both continued the foundation after their parents’ death.

“What my brother and I have done is to continue to support an institution that was important to our parents, and for which they get some credit for [having] founding it,” Biff Ruttenberg said. “It’s exciting. My dad and mother would be extraordinarily proud of the legacy they helped to create.”

Natasha Egan, executive director at MoCP, located in the 600 S. Michigan Ave. Building, said the museum is thrilled to have received such a large contribution.

“This is the largest gift given to the museum in our history, so it’s an empowering feeling to receive the funds,” Egan said. “For us, it’s a testament to the good work we’ve done all these years.”

This contribution comes shortly after another $1 million donation to the college by the Efroymson Fund in support of the new student center’s construction, as reported Jan. 27 by The Chronicle.

Egan said this contribution will specifically go toward the funding of new

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exhibitions and allow them to add more work from established artists.

“We already have a collection of about nearly 15,000 works and this gives us a way to collect slightly more established artists than we have been collecting in the past,” Egan said. “One of our missions is to collect emerging artists, but these funds [will] allow us to reach some artists who are actually on our wish list that have been unattainable before.”

Biff Ruttenberg echoed Egan’s comment regarding what a gift of this capacity will allow the museum to attain.

“The majority of the funds will support the acquisition of annually a limited number of pieces of photography, so the MoCP can build the stature of its collection,” Biff Ruttenberg said. “We wanted to give MoCP the ability to acquire more important works, and spend more money on any given piece than they have historically been able to in the past.”

Buzz Ruttenberg, vice president and secretary of the foundation, said he and his brother had been discussing the possibility of a donation of this size for several years and, at their age, decided to donate to ensure the continuation of the museum.

Buzz Ruttenberg said even though the donation is generous, it is not the amount that matters.

“It’s not about the size of the gift as it is the ability of the museum to be able to carry on with the type of activity that Dad loved,” Buzz Ruttenberg said.

Biff Ruttenberg said ultimately the gift was given to honor their parents’ contributions to Chicago’s art world.

“This gift has nothing to do with Biff and Buzz, [but] this has everything to do with Sarajean and David,” he said. odeloian@columbiachronicle.com

» OLIVIA DELOIAN CAMPUS REPORTER

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» MOLLY WALSH CAMPUS REPORTER ALTHOUGH THE THEATRE Department is taking steps toward becoming a more diverse organization, there are still concerns about levels of representation and inclusion after the department terminated a prize for African-American playwrights several years ago.

Senior theatre major Bree Bracey was in her “African American Theater” class this year when she learned that the Theodore Ward Prize for AfricanAmerican playwrights was discontinuted nearly eight years ago.

African-American playwrights had submitted their work to the department and a panel of students and faculty selected the top three to be produced on the mainstage at

Columbia and receive a cash prize, according to Bracey.

“This is a purely a legal issue,” former Theatre Department chair John Green told The Chronicle.

“I was contacted in 2009 or 2010 by the Theodore Ward estate who said we didn’t have permission to use Theodore Ward’s name for the prize we were giving. This was news to me and the Theatre Department. We all thought that we were behaving legally.”

Green also sent a departmentwide email in May 2010 saying “[the estate] did not reflect the emerging consenses that the competition should begin to reflect the growing ethnic diversity in our student population, and in the population at large.”

Bracey said she was frustrated about the absence of the award because it seemed like a good

opportunity for students to not only gain professional experience but also work with performance pieces from people of color.

“In a typical mainstage season, we will have five plays and of the five plays, usually only one will be written by a woman or by a person of color,” Bracey said. “I am frustrated that not only are we having an issue with the way we select shows but also the way we handle diversity and inclusion in the entire department. It is supposed to be a big initiative at Columbia.

It is a part of our Strategic Plan.”

Dean of Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Matthew Shenoda said in a March 6 email interview that the college, as well as the Theatre Department, is taking action to increase representation on campus.

“We are in the process of hiring a new tenure-track faculty member as part of the DEI cluster hires who is focused on African-American theatre,” Shenoda said in the email.

After learning about a prize no longer being awarded to African-American playwrights, senior theatre major Bree Bracey has sought to bring more diversity to the Theatre Department.

“And the faculty have all attended an Undoing Racism workshop and are presently working on both diversifying the curriculum of the Theatre Department as well as expanding the types of plays produced as part of the main stage series. We are looking at issues like casting and ways to make those processes more equitable.”

Peter Carpenter, chair of the Dance Department and interim

chair of the Theatre Department, said he recognizes there is always room to improve diversity, equity and representation in the theatre department. The department is taking a multifaceted approach, including pedagogical development, curriculum development and programming to ensure a better department in the future, he added.

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CORY HENRY GREW up in Brooklyn, New York, with his mother, a musical director of a local church.

He started banging pots and pans in his kitchen at a young age and eventually started to match notes to the music his mother played.

Now, Henry is a three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz organist and pianist, gospel musician and music producer.

Henry spent March 5–9 on campus for the college’s Artist in Residency program for the second year in a row.

Creative director and producer Joe Cerqua manages the Music Department’s visiting artist program, which arranges for artists to spend a week on campus teaching master classes, rehearsing with

students and recording with other student ensembles.

Henry participated in the department’s first Deep Dish Music Festival March 9, starting at 8 a.m. in the Music Center, 1014 S. Michigan Ave. High school bands and music teachers had the chance to workshop with Henry while experiencing Columbia’s quality teaching, said Associate Professor of Instruction in the Music Department Gary Yerkins in a Feb. 27 email interview with The Chronicle.

Yerkins said Columbia is fortunate to have a musician such as Henry work with students because he represents a cutting edge in many areas of contemporary music the department focuses on, including the melding of R&B, Rock, Gospel, Fusion and highlevel improvisation.

Henry said he has been looking forward to being on campus and working with students.

“I’m excited for the recording band because we created some music last year [and] wrote a song that really stuck with me.

I’m excited to create new music with them,” Henry said. “I am also happy and cannot wait to work with the gospel choir.”

It is helpful for student artists to work with Henry because of how he manages his career, Cerqua said, noting Henry booked all his tour dates and started his band, The Funk Apostles, himself.

“It’s really important for the students to see somebody who has been incredibly successful at a young age [and] who is doing it himself,” Cerqua said. “[Henry] will work with well over 100 of our students.”

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Cory Henry spent March 5­– 9 on campus as part of the college’s Artist in Residency Program. Henry closed out his week at Columbia by performing in the Deep Dish Music Festival.

A career in the music industry can be scary, Henry said, because of the risk of facing an audience.

But that should not deter music students from doing what they love and creating the music they love, he added.

“If you can share information that will help somebody get to their next goal, they’ll never forget you,” Henry said. “Playing music is great.

Helping somebody else is greater. That’s why I’m here.”

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“This season in the Theatre Department is interesting and has exciting opportunities for a lot of different kinds of students to perform,” Carpenter said. “But it doesn’t necessarily offer the perspective of contemporary voices of people of color which is something really important. We are ensuring that they will happen next year on the season.”

Onye Ozuzu, dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, said the department is discussing a possibility of a playwright residency rather than reinstating an award for playwrights of color because it would have a greater impact on all students.

“It’s easy to think that when you bring diverse content into a curriculum that it is just to benefit students of color,” Ozuzu said. “It benefits all students no matter what race or background they come from to have exposure to content in all disciplines that reflects the complex diversity of life outside the campus.”

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Rice said they are planning meetings following spring break in order to discuss the importance of the walk-outs.

Rice said these walk-outs are critical because of the high volume of mass shootings in the nation that have taken place not only this year but cumulatively. “[Parkland students] changed the national conversation,” Rice said. “They didn’t let energy dissipate into thoughts and prayers and then not doing anything, so now more than ever, we need to be engaged and in solidarity with this movement to try to stop a very preventable thing from happening.”

Derek Brinkley, senior director of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment, said the college has never held actions of peaceful protest against a student in the admissions process ,although, some high schools nationwide have said they may discipline students if they choose to walk out.

“We’ve always held those students in high regard in terms of just

making sure that those students feel free to express themselves in a non-violent way through their high school advocacy,” Brinkley said. “Hopefully, those students are coming to Columbia and continuing to stand up for the causes that they hold dear to them.”

If students want to be involved in protesting national issues, they should devote time to an organization that can make a real difference, Rice said.

“That’s the best way to stay involved. If that means local politics or national politics, there’s lots of ways to do that,” Rice said.

College students have a history of taking actions and creating, and this march can do so because of the college’s platform, Woolfork said.

“It is important for college students to acknowledge the voice that they have,” Woolfork said. “It’s important that we know we are taking that next step from not just being students but being adults and having a say in how our country runs.” tbrubaker@columbiachronicle.com

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significant progress with better female representation of characters and creators, but there is still room for improvement, said Emily Decker, executive assistant to the vice president of institutional advancement at The Field Museum.

At a March 5 lecture at The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Decker discussed the history of female comic book characters from 1941’s Wonder Woman to 2013’s Kamala Khan, the new Ms. Marvel, as well as their female creators.

In a presentation titled “Unmasking the Myth of Superwoman,” Decker described

women in modern comic books as a second-wave feminist movement.

This has allowed women to take part in the fantastic medium that society has historically deemed most suitable for boys, Decker said.

“Comics are such a good outlet and source of entertainment because you don’t need that movie,” said Decker, who is also a former librarian at Marvel Comics. “Sure, it’s a storyboard on some level and your mind is thinking that way, but there’s [more] creative stuff [in comics].”

Since the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s–1950s, women have struggled to gain representation, Decker said. While there was a massive influx of female creators during WWII, thanks to the military draft, she said it did not last because of child psychologist Fredric Wertham’s 1954 book “Seduction of the Innocent,” which

claimed that children who read comic books become delinquents.

This led to the Comics Code Authority, which was composed of parents, educators and clergymen who regulated comic books’ context, to make sure the material was appropriate. This caused many female characters to disappear because they were deemed too sexy, Decker said.

Even in the new millennium, women creators still struggle to get work in the industry. In 2011, DC Comics rebooted all of its titles. In 2010, 12 percent of its creators were female; however, after the relaunch, female creators were only 1 percent of the total, according to Decker.

It has gotten better, Decker said, but female creators are at about 15–20 percent in both DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

“You have something that will change with culture, so I hope we will get the heroes we not only deserve but also need,” Decker said.

Aquila Wilks, who works in the Collections Department at The Field Museum, grew up reading Japanese manga and is an anime fan but has recently started

reading comic books, such as “Witchblade” and “Monstress,” which Wilks said she wanted to discuss more.

However, Wilks said she did watch the “X-Men” animated series during the ‘90s and was blown away by the female characters.

“That encouraged me. That blew my mind,” Wilks said. “I’m used to seeing what’s called distaff counterparts like Superman and Supergirl.”

Katlyn Hemmingsen, a traveling exhibition manager at The Field Museum, said despite not being a comic book reader herself, she is proud to see more female representation in comic books. With more superheroines in comics, the companies are tapping into another market, both for readers and potential creators, she added.

The mentality that says comic books are only for boys stems throughout society. Decker picked up her first comic when she was 5 years old, but it was immediately slapped out of her hand by a “horrible boy” who said, “Girl’s aren’t meant to read comics,” she told The Chronicle. ebradach@columbiachronicle.com

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Comic book fans were treated to a March 5 lecture by Emily Decker, executive assistant to the vice president of Institutional Advancement at The Field Museum and former librarian at Marvel Comics, about the history of superheroines in American comics and female creators.

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With the accomplishments of women in 2017 and so far this year, there was much to celebrate on U.N.-recognized International Women’s Day March 8 and more to look forward to. While the list is too long to fit in one column, a few notable accomplishments stand out.

In 2017, history was made Jan. 5 when three women enlisted as the first female Marines. On Jan. 21, an estimated 3.2 million–5.2 million people in 600 cities nationwide took part in the Women’s March, making it one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history. On March 17, Nancy Abu-Bonsrah became Johns Hopkins Hospital’s first black female neurosurgeon, one of only 219 board-certified female neurosurgeons in the U.S. “Wonder Woman,” directed by Patty Jenkins, was the hero Hollywood needed during a historically low-earning summer, bringing in $100.5 million its opening weekend and earning more than $821 million worldwide.

Let’s not forget movements that shook the world, including Me Too and Times Up. An Oct. 5 New York Times article written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey revealed decades of sexual harassment by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, inspiring women worldwide to share stories of sexual harassment and assault.

Soon after followed Times Up, an organization started by more than 300 women with the goal of improving gender parity issues. Equal pay was a major topic of discussion as well, reaching a tipping point in December after Catt Sadler left E! Entertainment after 12 years because of a pay gap between her and co-worker Jason Kennedy.

Celebrations were well-deserved and could be seen far and wide for this year’s International Women’s Day. Freeform launched its #NotSorry campaign March 8 across its platforms, which bleeped out every “sorry” said by a woman, keeping count with a #NotSorry “meter” throughout the day, which the network said amounted to nearly 50. Google created an

interactive Doodle celebrating stories of everyday women with visual narratives created by women. Barbie continued its efforts of inspiring women and young girls with the announcement of a Barbie collection based on 17 influential women, including gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas, journalist Martyna Wojciechowska, NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson and artist Frida Kahlo.

Along with our accomplishments, women still face battles. Although NASA announced Jan. 4 that Jeanette Epps would be the first African-American to live on the International Space Station in May 2018, she was replaced by a white astronaut for Expedition 56-57 in a Jan. 18 NASA news release. While NASA did not explain the reason for this decision, Epp’s brother cited racism.

Oxford University came under fire on International Women’s Day when an ironic photo taken by a professor went viral showing a female cleaner scrubbing the words “Happy International Women’s Day” off the University’s steps while male security guards stood by. While McDonald’s tried to celebrate the day by inverting its golden arches on signs and logos, it was also criticized for not providing livable wages, equal pay and maternity leave.

Despite these disappointments, we’ve had an incredible amount of success and there is more to come.

There is no shortage of strength within us and we have the power to continue to change the world. So let’s continue to celebrate women.

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THE WORST BAR in Philadelphia will be making a stop in the Windy City until March 18—Yuck Puddle and all— as Replay Lincoln Park hosts an “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” pop-up bar.

Replay Lincoln Park, 2833 N. Sheffield Ave., opened its Paddy’s Pub pop-up March 9. The pop-up is scheduled to close March 18, though dates may be flexible after the last pop-up, a “Rick and Morty”-themed arcade, was extended for two weeks.

According to owner Mark Kwiatkowski, the pop-up will feature many “Always Sunny” inspired events, including an “Always Sunny” trivia night and a “Flipadelphia” flip-cup tournament. It will also host a musical revue of “The Night Man Cometh,”

a musical from the show, on March 18. Drinks will be based on fan favorite gags from the show such as Fight Milk, Rum Ham and Riot Punch. “[This pop-up] was a no-brainer,” Kwiatkowski said. “The show is so funny. [It has] amazing content that it was [an obvious choice].

People were bending my ear about it off and on for a couple months, and it just clicked that, ‘Oh, we have to do it for St. Patrick’s Day.’” Kwiatkowski thought Replay Lincoln Park, as an arcade bar, might not be a go-to option for bargoers on St. Patrick’s Day and hoped the pop-up could help make it a destination.

Jason Heidel, founder of MakeGrandmaSmile.org, which connects millennial artists to Alzheimer’s patients, hosted a smash room, for which people are charged a fee to enter a room where

they can destroy fragile objects with a baseball bat. The event was held March 9 with the possibility of future dates throughout the pop-up’s run, according to Heidel.

The room was modeled after the Winner’s Circle from CharDee MacDennis, a game created and played by the show’s protagonists, which ends with the winners destroying action figures that represent the losers. Smashable objects at Heidel’s smash room included action figures, whiskey bottles and porcelain figurines, “Like Charlie’s mother might have,” Replay Lincoln Park, 2833 N. Sheffield Ave., opened an “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” pop-up bar March 9. It will continue until March 18 and will feature according to Heidel. various “Always Sunny”-themed events.

“We had done a smash room [with Replay Lincoln Park] back in “It’s awesome,” Morin said. “‘It’s case and he would have to step December, where people smashed Always Sunny’ has developed a up his game. holiday decorations,” Heidel said. cult fan base. There’s definitely an “The reaction to it was so “We wanted to do another one audience that wants to see [this], over the top and I said, ‘God, [together], and then [Mark] told especially in Chicago.” we have to deliver. We can’t me he was doing the pop-up for When Kwiatkowski announced just turn it into a version of ‘Always Sunny’ and we were like, the pop-up, he thought it was going Paddy’s Pub and call it a day,’” ‘Yes. CharDee MacDennis.’” to have the down-and-dirty aes- Kwiatkowski said. “’We have Miranda Morin, a junior public thetic and vibe of the show itself. to figure out how to do Night relations major and fan of “Always When people responded so enthu- Man Cometh, we have to Sunny,” thought the pop-up siastically over social media, how- find some other fun stuff.’ So sounded impressive. ever, he knew that could not be the we did.”

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AUDIENCES, PREPARE TO be challenged with the Chicago premiere of “Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” a feminist deconstruction of a popular internet meme put to stage.

The play began previews March 9 with an official opening March 23 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. The play, written by Sheila Callaghan, satirically confronts society’s expectations of women at a time when the issues are on everybody’s mind.

“It was written before the Me Too movement,” said Devon de Mayo, the play’s director. “It was written to identify a huge problem in society, which is how we treat women’s issues around body

image and influence their levels of confidence and hold them back in terms of their professional life and social status.”

De Mayo will be the first woman to direct this play in theaters and said she admires Theater Wit for its bravery in producing it.

“I’ve had a long relationship with Sheila Callaghan,” de Mayo said.

“I’ve known her and her work for Laughing Alone with Salad,” opening March 23 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. over a decade and I know how “Women Belmont Ave., takes the classic stock image meme and turns it on its head. risky it is to produce. It’s exciting [Theater Wit] wanted to dedicate argument rather than the melo- challenge the audience to consider the time and resources to doing drama of emotion. their role in the play’s issues. this play, something that needed This process starts at the box One of the play’s key themes is to be produced urgently and with office. To correct for Illinois’ complicity, Wechsler said, and a lot of gusto.”

79 percent gender wage gap, Theater Wit wants it to be conJeremy Wechsler, artistic direc- male-identifying patrons are sidered the moment patrons step tor of Theater Wit, said the play expected to pay 21 percent more into the theater. was near perfect for the theater’s than their female-identifying “In this mess that we built for mission to find plays that win counterparts. This decision, ourselves culturally, who’s ownaudiences over with logic and Wechsler said, was made to ing it and who’s participating in » COURTESY THEATER WIT

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it? The answer the play gives is ‘everybody,’” Wechsler said.

In casting for the play, Casting Director Clare Cooney said she was faced with a unique challenge: having to find people who fit certain body types, as body image is an important aspect of the play.

“We want to make sure we’re casting real people, not stereotypes,” Cooney said, “but this show, to some extent, confronts a lot of different female stereotypes, so we needed people that were able to fit these different stereotypes, but then turn the table on what you think these women are.”

The play is equal parts scene and production driven, de Mayo said, and it takes serious coordination between the cast and design team. At one point, thousands of pieces of lettuce fall from the sky, an effect that took hours of intricate work to create.

“It’s a heavily designed show, and it’s a show in which everybody is leaning on each other to make any moment successful,” de Mayo said.

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STORY BY: MACKENZIE CROSSON DESIGN BY: JOCELYN MORENO Jeri’s Grill, a 24-hour greasy spoon at the corner of Montrose and Western in North Center, looks like any other 24-hour restaurant.

Aldi-brand bottles of ketchup and mustard sit on every table, a stack of the day’s Chicago Sun-Times is next to the door, and old photographs hang next to dry-erase boards of daily specials.

The classic jukebox was recently replaced by a new digital TouchTunes machine, but much of the space has remained the same since its opening. The well-worn countertop bears cigarette burns and the wear and tear of time imposed by the regulars who have made this diner a second home.

“The place isn’t pretty. It’s not glamorous.

It is what it is,” said Frank Di Piero, owner of Jeri’s Grill. “When you walk in here, you’re walking back in time like it’s 1963,” referring to the year the diner opened.

But in an era when the once common 24hour diner is slowly disappearing from Chicago’s landscape, Jeri’s Grill has come to mean much more to customers, employees, the neighborhood and the city as a whole.

“We’re not changing the face of the world

here, we’re not curing cancer, but it’s a little more than a food business, a little more than a restaurant. It means more to people,” said Frank, who’s proud of Jeri’s impact.

Frank’s father, Anice, started several grills in Chicago, each named after one of his children. Jeri’s was his final establishment, named after his daughter Geri. Though he’s been actively involved with the diner for 28 years, Frank took over the restaurant after his father passed away in 2000.

After nearly 55 years of business, Jeri’s has closed its doors for only an estimated 60 to 90 work days, Frank said.

“The place, if it wasn’t here, would be a very sad day for lots of customers, employees, the neighborhood,” Frank said. “I feel this little sense of obligation to all those people.”

From noon on Saturday, March 3, until noon on Sunday, March 4, The Chronicle darted between countertop stools and booth seats to speak with the people who make Jeri’s Grill the sanctuary it has become over its more than five decades of 24-hour service.

“It’s a place that I’m proud to say is a small part of a lot of people’s lives,” Frank said.

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6:05 p.m. Vickie Lynn Curtis, an employee at Jeri’s for 18 years, is off from her opening shift but returns to spend time on the other side of the counter. Despite the restaurant’s new digital jukebox costing one dollar for two song credits, Vickie plays several tunes before leaving for the day around 10 p.m.

1:28 p.m. Judy, 77, comes to Jeri’s around the same time every day, which has been her routine since it first opened. “This is my social life,” Judy said. “They were closed for six days because they had to do maintenance, and I was at a total loss.”

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2:48 p.m. Candice Curtis, a Jeri’s employee for nine years, updates the soup list on the specials board. Jeri’s has a few signature dishes including “The Mop,” a full order of biscuits and gravy over hash browns and topped with deep fried bologna.

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9:58 p.m. Jabriel Martin, 18-year-old senior at Lane Technical College Preparatory High School and trumpet player for the band CASE, sings along to “I Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha Franklin as it plays on the jukebox. “This is our band’s song. Every time after a show ... this is the song we play,” Jabriel said.

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5:24 p.m. Candice chats with three regulars (from left) William, Terry O’Neill and Howard Russell. “If you’re alone and you sit in a booth, you’re in a booth,” Frank said. “But at the counter, you’re open to what’s going on and talk to people.”

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11:33 p.m. Lorrie Nuno, who’s worked at Jeri’s for 10 years, stares out at an ambulance that arrived outside the condos next door to Jeri’s during a slow part of the night shift. “I started working here just to help out and I fell in love with a lot of the people that came in here,” Lorrie said. “I went to college and here I am at 54-years-old working in a diner, and I’ve never been more happy.”

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1:55 a.m. Jon Hardman, 23, and Kaitlyn Beiriger, 20, celebrate Jon’s birthday with a movie and a late bite. The couple frequents Jeri’s not only for the food but also to visit Lorrie, an employee they’ve come to adore. “I told him we would go anywhere he wanted for his birthday, but he just wanted to come here,” Kaitlyn said.

“I think that we represent life more than the Michelin five-star [restaurants of Chicago] because not everybody can go [there]. They don’t have the funds to support it. Everybody can come to Jeri’s Grill—that’s the difference. The homeless can come in here, the poor guy, the alderman, the judge, the famous, the infamous, the nobodies. They’re all treated the same .... It’s that kind of place.” — Frank

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7:37 a.m. “The finest people in the world walk through these doors,” said Charlie Whittle, a regular at Jeri’s. With painting as a hobby, Whittle has created pieces depicting scenes across Chicago, including the exterior of Jeri’s, and has a rotating art piece for sale on the wall.

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5:31 a.m. George McCourt, a nighttime grill chef at Jeri’s for five years, places a pair of hoop earrings that were left behind by a customer into a paper bag for safekeeping. “We got a lot of regulars, but they’re more fun when they’re drunk,” George said.

7:42 a.m. Frank hangs a photograph of his father and original owner of Jeri’s Grill, Anice, above the new jukebox. “There’s the legacy of my dad, I wouldn’t be here without him—that’s for sure,” Frank said. “He started it all.”

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AFTER PERFORMING TO sold-out houses for three months, Free Street Theater’s “Meet Juan(ito) Doe” has been remounted for a limited four-week run until March 30.

“Meet Juan(ito) Doe,” a surrealist movement and monologue-based play, tells the stories of MexicanAmericans in Chicago. The show, at 4346 S. Ashland Ave., relates the similarities and differences of members of Chicago’s MexicanAmerican community, according to Ricardo Gamboa, the show’s co-director.

Instead of using conventional interviewing techniques, Gamboa said he collected stories from people in the community through nontraditional events that were conducive to storytelling.

commiseration,” he said. “We had a karaoke night where people were able to request songs on the list, [but] the songs were like ‘a song that your grandmother played.’

[Then] there was space for them “[The development process] was into the process as a form of com- to share their stories.” about weaving story collecting munity building, communion and These stories are seldom told by the people experiencing them, Gamboa said. Stories of underrepresented communities are typically outsourced to white writers or produced in spaces that are inaccessible to the communities about which they are writing, he added.

Gamboa has seen “Meet Juan(ito) Doe” generate considerable excitement from the community. He suspects this is in part due to the performances being offered in an accessible location.

“One of the things that was really important [to us] was basing the show in the South Side,” Gamboa said. To make this a reality, Free Street Theater rented a storefront in Pilsen.

According to Coya Paz, artistic director at Free Street Theater, Free Street Theater’s show “Meet Juan(ito) Doe,” which uses both nonverbal 1419 W. Blackhawk St., the space movement and monologues to tell the stories of Mexican-Americans in Chicago.

only seats 42, but that does not diminish its importance.

“So often, black and brown audiences are asked to travel far from their homes in order to see plays,” Paz said. “We’re thrilled to offer an alternative.”

Aurelio Rodriguez, a sophomore cinema and television arts major who teaches photography in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, has taken his students to several of Free Street’s shows. He thought “Meet Juan(ito) Doe” was showcasing many issues they could relate to. “[‘Meet Juan(ito) Doe’] gave a little more insight to things that students in the neighborhood were feeling,” Rodriguez said.

For Gamboa, one of the more crucial aspects of the show was offering representation.

“What does it mean for a population that’s omnipresent in Chicago [to be so] underrepresented?” he said. “And how is that a defacto way of telling them they are not here or they don’t belong or they don’t matter?” mmanier@columbiachronicle.com

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aki King, a Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer, has released six albums over 10 years, each more virtuosic than the last.

Kaki is currently touring with her innovative multimedia experience The Neck is a Bridge to the Body, which projects prophetic visions of creation and death onto her guitar as she plays. Kaki will be coming to City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph St., March 13.

The Chronicle spoke with Kaki about relationships, the creative process and the power of visualization.

THE CHRONICLE: As an artist who doesn’t really use words to communicate on stage, how do you see the relationship with your audience?

KAKI KING: I try to stay out of the way as much as I can and let the relationship be between the music and the audience, and that goes for live [and] recording. I’m not an artist that inserts myself into my art, as I’m kind of finding out when I look back at what I’ve done and what I want to do in the future.

There is not a personality cult. That being said, I come across as a very serious guitar

You said you tend to remove yourself from your work, but earlier this year, you came out with “Bruises,” a visualization of data surrounding your daughter’s medical treatment. What did you learn from getting that visualization?

The person who did the visualization, Giorgia Lupi, is a wonderful friend of mine who is so helpful and supportive, and we have done two other projects prior to this. It was only because I knew her and I’d worked with her that I knew to collect data, period. I had no idea we were going to turn it into an art project. Ultimately, my daughter is fine.

She doesn’t know that she has this. This is an inconvenience [to her] because she has to go and get her blood checked at a doctor, player who takes playing and performing instance, my favorite times to play guitar are but for me, I was beside myself with seriously. I want to do it at the highest level often while something else is going on, while this diagnosis. possible, but everything else is a bit of a joke I’m watching a movie [or] my kids are playFrom a caretaker perspective, it to me, and I don’t want to sound too imma- ing on the rug in front of me, while making was much more about me being able ture or silly, but I don’t take the rest of life as dinner or someone’s waiting for someone to look at my actions and behavior and seriously as I do the performance. So there’s else to go out. seeing how her platelet count could be a little bit of a dichotomy.

It’s actually harder than I realize for me really low, and I would be acting out. to just sit and play in total isolation. It’s I would pick a fight with someone or How much quiet contemplation goes very unconscious, and it only happens and just be so angry at the world, but my into your creative process? works because I’m constantly touring and daughter was actually fine.

Sometimes it doesn’t take any, and a lot of I’m constantly playing. I don’t really take times it takes me not focusing on trying to a break from the guitar as a person or as Visit ColumbiaChronicle.com for the complete Q&A. work on something to get something out. For a performer. mdarbyshire@columbiachronicle.com

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» ZOË EITEL EDITOR-IN CHIEF Whether you’re looking for a nice hors d’oeuvre to complement your next fancy dinner or are tired of your usual meal-prep, these meatballs are a great choice. The sauce has a bit of a kick, but the heat level can be adjusted for tastebuds that aren’t made of steel. Not a fan of beef-based meatballs? Use ground chicken, turkey, pork or a mix of meats.

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Directions: 1. In medium saucepan, melt butter.

When melted, add sauces and spices.

Simmer on low heat for 20–30 minutes.

2. In large bowl, mix ground beef, egg and seasonings until combined.

3. Form inch-wide balls.

4. In large non-stick or greased frying pan, cook meatballs until nearly cooked through, flipping for even browning.

5. Either pour sauce over the meatballs and simmer in frying pan or transfer meatballs and sauce into slow cooker and cook on high for two hours.

6. Serve on a tray with tiny toothpicks or eat them all in your pajamas while binge-watching your new favorite show.

If you’ve got a strong stomach, I recommend “Fear the Walking Dead” on Hulu.

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Column: ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ still holds up » ERIC BRADACH MANAGING EDITOR

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arvel Comics launched “Ultimate Spider-Man” in 2000 to attract new readers because the comic character’s decades of heavy continuity were seen as intimidating, which discouraged potential readers.

Written by Brian Michael Bendis with artwork by Mark Bagley, the first volume, “Power and Responsibility,” expanded Peter Parker’s original 11-page origin story into a seven-issue story arc. This allowed the characters to truly develop and for readers to invest in them before Peter dons the classic red and blue costume.

While it’s been nearly two decades since this version of the web slinger’s origin, “Ultimate Spider-Man” holds up.

Bendis’ writing is the comic’s greatest strength. He maintains the qualities that drew fans to Spider-Man while providing unique tweaks to intrigue readers.

The comic is laden with witty dialogue, which complements Bagley’s dynamic art to create an enjoyable and easy read.

However, some elements in “Ultimate Spider-Man’s” first volume can’t be ignored. All the high school boys wearing baggy jeans and “Blink-182” T-shirts scream late ‘90s and early 2000s.

Despite those minor annoyances, Bendis’ strong writing carries this comic, making it nearly timeless.

He is always at his best telling character-driven stories, and “Ultimate Spider-Man” is no exception.

The dialogue is genuine, the characters feel real and, because uncle Ben isn’t killed until the end of issue four, the reader becomes invested in his character, which makes his inevitable death more tragic.

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SHOWS TO STREAM

DAD JOKES

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“Bloodline” (Netflix):

Cashier: “Would you like your milk in a bag?” Dad: “No, just leave it in the carton”:

“Taxi Driver” (Directing):

This Florida Keys-based family drama is an excellent show with acting from talents such as Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek and the late Sam Shepard. All this is combined with a slow-burn narrative about what happens when good people do bad things and dark family secrets are exposed.

“Castlevania” (Netflix): I’m not normally a fan of shows like “Castlevania,” but the charm in its surprisingly mature, funny and action-packed episodes reeled me in. By the time I was done with episode 4, I was fully invested. There are only four episodes, but oh my goodness, it’s a crime there aren’t more.

“Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” (Amazon): Amazon is home to some weird shows, and while “Electric Dreams” falters in its commentary on real-world issues, the show ultimately comes together for a serious exploration of science fiction and the dystopian genre.

“Sneaky Pete” (Amazon): Bryan Cranston. Giovanni Ribisi. Crime shenanigans and scary monologues from Cranston playing a character who isn’t a meth cook. Watch now and enjoy.

“Vikings” (Amazon): Kind of cheating on Netflix here, but the first four seasons of “Vikings” are on Amazon Prime. This show takes the story of mythical viking Ragnar Lothbrok and makes a pulp-y sprawling epic about his life while pondering the volatile birth of modern western civilization.

This is the classic “let’s-make-fun-ofthe-cashier,” dad joke. Unfortunately, you find yourself having to explain to the manager that your dad is not rude: He’s simply a poor comedian.

Waitress: “Soup or salad?” Dad: “I don’t want a SUPER salad, I just want a regular salad”: This is an example of the “maybe-thiswaitress-will-understand-my-humor” dad joke. Fortunately, she was nice enough to still bring out the food following the awkward silence.

“The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi”: I call this the “let’s-make-fun-of-history” dad joke. You find yourself explaining to your dad that Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, Sir Geraint, Sir Percival and Sir Bors the Younger would not have appreciated this joke.

“Did you know the first French fry wasn’t cooked in France? It was cooked in Greece”: This is the “you’ve-heard-it-before-butit-never-gets-old” dad joke. For you, this seems to be the case for all of Dad’s work friends, leaving you seemingly even more disappointed.

“Two peanuts were walking in the park. One was a salted”: This is what I like to call “the greatest dad joke of all time.” A timeless classic, this joke will get me laughing time and time again.

Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece was nominated for four awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Score. However, Marty was snubbed despite his incredible ability to use the camera.

“Brokeback Mountain” (Best Picture): “Brokeback Mountain” received eight nominations, and heading into the 78th Academy Awards, it looked like the obvious choice to win the biggest award of the night. Alas, The Academy went with the safest choice and awarded “Crash” as Best Picture.

“The Godfather” (Best Director): Does anyone remember “Cabaret”? It was a good movie for 1972, but it doesn’t stand up to one of—if not the—greatest films of all time, “The Godfather.” This was a snub as The Academy rewarded spectacle over emotion as it often tends to do.

“Saving Private Ryan” (Best Picture): I’m at a loss for words. Can anyone tell me how a romantic comedy— “Shakespeare in Love”—that aged atrociously beat out Steven Spielberg’s WWII period film masterpiece? The moment Harvey Weinstein walked past Spielberg to grab his statue will go down as one of the biggest embarrassments in Oscar history.

Alfred Hitchcock (Everything): Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for five directing awards and never won. “Psycho,” “Rear Window” and “Lifeboat” are all masterpieces. He wasn’t even nominated for “Vertigo.” There is no way The Academy would ever make such a horrifying error in judgment again. Right?

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This song gets a 5/5 not because I’m a huge Cheat Codes fan, but because Kiiara is back after a break from the music scene.

Although her 2016 EP Low Kii Savage didn’t get recognition, her song “Gold” was played frequently on radio stations. After what seemed to be one-hit-wonder, she disappeared. After discovering this song, I was happy to have Kiiara’s voice back in my life. Yes, the song is a mainstream pop hit, but it’s Kiiara.

The March 5-6 finale of “The Bachelor” was a rollercoaster of emotions. There were tears, laughs and screams from all involved. I tried to give Arie the benefit of the doubt when he called off his potential engagement to Becca and chose Lauren, but then he filmed their breakup and proposed to Lauren when Becca was there.

He could have gone about it in a more respectful way. However, I am thrilled Becca gets to be the new Bachelorette.

Frances McDormand, filled with humility and joy, gave a revolutionary March 4 acceptance speech for Best Actress for her role in “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.” She expressed so much gratitude and then stunned everyone when she asked all female nominees to stand with her, telling them that all women have stories to tell and people are going to want to listen. McDormand made the Oscars worth watching.

I wrote this review last week on my birthday, and I can say I’m not the biggest fan.

Birthdays include two of my least favorite things: being the center of attention and unreasonable expectations. Sure, it’s fun to get gifts and throw parties sometimes, but is it really worth the impending doom of getting older? Or all the random Facebook friends you don’t actually talk to coming out of nowhere to post on your timeline? No, It’s not.

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What’s better than Gael Garcia? Gael Garcia sharing the stage with Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade. The three performed the famous track “Remember me (Recuerdame)” from the Disney Pixar movie “Coco,” March 4 at the Oscars. The song won for Best Original Song, too. It warms my heart to see some of my favorite actors and artists making it to the big screen. Representation is crucial to society’s progress and we’re starting to see it.

Their performance was breathtaking.

Another year, another “Spongebob” meme. This time Patrick is the star—pun intended—and I’m not sure how to feel about it. On one hand, it’s nice to see the “timeline” of “Spongebob” memes continuing, on the other hand, there’s something about this one that seems a little off.

When you first look at it, it’s funny and warms your meme-centric heart, but once that’s done, you can’t help but feel a little creeped out. Maybe we should stick to the happy “Spongebob” memes.

I don’t think pancakes get enough recognition. Fast, easy and flat-out delicious, they are easily one of the best reasons to wake up. You can add chocolate chips to the mix and make it the best form of nourishment ever. Plus, you can freeze pancakes and live off them for weeks at a time. Most importantly, I don’t think I’ve seen another type of food that brings people closer together than a grand ole plate of pancakes and hot syrup on a lazy Sunday morning.

Niall Horan’s song, released on his debut album Flicker in October 2017, and now its music video were both misses for me.

The song is beyond repetitive, and the lyrics are dull. The music video, released March 6, is basically Niall stalking his ex-girlfriend from a car in the desert. It’s very strange and a bit concerning. He just follows her around while she has fun with her friends drinking and dancing. Giving this a two because, despite all the missteps, Niall is still a cutie.

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Gubernatorial endorsement:

Daniel Biss is the governor Illinois needs

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ith the March 20 gubernatorial primary elections nearing, The Chronicle is proud to endorse Democratic candidate Daniel Biss for Illinois governor. Biss received approximately 87 percent of the staff’s vote with 6 percent voting for J.B. Pritzker and 6 percent for Chris Kennedy.

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Illinois residents have endured years of a tumultuous government, and we need a governor who will help mend the state’s

damaged reputation and lift up the residents who have long been disregarded.

From July 2015 to July 2017, Illinois suffered under the nation’s longest budget impasse, and many felt left behind by the state.

Low-income students who relied on the Monetary Award Program grants the state government could not disburse, the social service organizations that could not help the vulnerable without needed funds from Springfield and the thousands of residents who moved across state borders in fear of the unstable government, lost faith in Illinois and the leaders meant to represent them.

But Illinois has the chance to elect a leader who can restore our faith. Biss has shown he relates to residents’ everyday struggles.

Unlike candidates like J.B. Pritzker or incumbent governor Bruce Rauner, both worth billions of dollars, Biss understands what affects Illinois’ middle-class families because his family faces the same obstacles.

We believe Biss will make an effort to help college graduates saddled with thousands

Corporations struggle to do what health-care system won’t

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ber launched Uber Health on March 1, a new form of non-emergency medical transportation.

The new service allows patients to schedule rides to and from medical appointments hours before or up to 30 days in advance. Providers who order the rides do so through an online dashboard, and patients receive a text message or phone call for information about their trip, making rides accessible to those without smartphones.

Lyft Concierge, which launched in 2016, allows businesses to schedule rides on behalf of individuals, and Lyft has already partnered with health-care providers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield with this platform.

On March 5, Lyft announced it is expanding its medical transportation service after

partnering with Allscripts, one of the largest electronic health-care service companies.

Uber and Lyft have touted their services as solutions for the 3.6 million people who miss appointments due to a lack of accessible medical transportation. Although their services should be great ways to modernize medical transportation, Uber Health and Lyft Concierge come with concerns.

Unlike Medicaid’s non-emergency transportation program, for which a transportation provider’s staff must receive patient privacy and safety training, neither ridesharing company requires drivers to have any special training for escorting patients to and from their appointments.

This poses a serious health risk for passengers who may be dealing with severe,

of dollars in student loan debt because he has made it known his family has just finished paying off their student loans, as Biss told The Chronicle March 5. Biss has represented Illinois students by sponsoring the Student Loan Bill of Rights in November 2017, which protects borrowers from being taken advantage of by loan servicers.

Although Chicago’s political and economic issues have been dire enough to draw many legislators’ attention, most have forgotten about the rural communities that have been just as deeply affected by Illinois’ budget issues. Biss is the only candidate for governor out of eight who has been vocal in addressing the problems rural communities encounter. Illinois residents, whether or not they are from urban areas, must be encouraged to come together to heal the state, and that is impossible without a leader who shows equal consideration for our individual communities.

Biss can bring hope to Illinois, but hoping for progress is useless without a plan.

Fortunately, Biss is the only candidate who has been organized enough to thoughtfully address the ills that have plagued the state.

Like other Democratic candidates, Biss has used his campaign to address issues such as legalizing recreational marijuana,

EDITORIAL seeking criminal justice reform and protecting marginalized Illinoisans, but instead of pandering to constituents without providing details of how exactly he expects to mend the state’s condition, Biss has set realistic goals for the state that make progress possible. Seeking to rejuvenate Illinois’ rural communities, Biss is pushing for Social Purpose Corporations, which are businesses that focus on doing a social or environmental good, as a refreshing model to boost the economy downstate.

Of all the gubernatorial candidates, Biss has been the most genuine in his campaign by not resorting to endless pandering to Democratic voters.

Biss hasn’t solely relied on the fears surrounding President Donald Trump’s administration as a means to win votes, and he does not need to constantly remind voters that he will stand up to the federal government when his progressive agenda speaks for him. He has proven he is strong and morally sound enough to face the federal government when sanctuary states are threatened for protecting marginalized residents.

Illinois is in dire need of change and robust protection, and if elected, Biss would be the governor armed with a plan for a new, progressive state.

chronic illnesses and, in the event of an emergency, will not have proper assistance.

Uber has stated its service is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which protects patients’ privacy, but the company has already failed multiple times in ensuring both drivers’ and passengers’ information is protected. After revealing in November 2017 that hackers had stolen 57 million riders’ information in 2016, the company faces another lawsuit in Pennsylvania where it broke a state law for failing to notify potential victims their information was stolen.

Uber and Lyft say their platforms will cut the number of medical appointments patients miss, but a March 2018 study in JAMA Internal Medicine came to a different conclusion. In a five-month clinical trial following 786 adults with Medicaid with a mean age of 46 years old who used rideshare companies for medical transportation, there was no effect on the rate of appointments patients missed.

EDITORIAL Although there are issues with these services, we are seeing an age-old effort by corporations to fill the gaps in the health-care system. Apple, Amazon and Google have also begun to infiltrate the industry with Apple’s wellness clinics for its employees, Amazon’s venture with JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway into cutting healthcare costs for employees, and Google possibly entering into Medicaid-managed care plans.

With so many faults in national health care, companies that dominate the market are taking advantage of a broken system to compensate for the country’s missteps and making a profit from bandage solutions. If Google enters the health insurance industry, for example, and the company successfully helps bring down costs, it has the potential of raking in up to $1 trillion.

We can keep giving large companies more power as our middle man to the services and care we deserve, or we can question how our wellbeing has ended up in their hands in the first place.

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Down syndrome representation gives my brother a voice » OLIVIA DELOIAN CAMPUS REPORTER

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n June 6, 2007, the lives of my family and I were changed for the better. On that day, my little brother Patrick was born. After undergoing open heart surgery at two months old, initially only being fed with a feeding tube, making countless trips to the hospital and receiving a diagnosis of bronchiectasis, stories like his deserve to be told.

Patrick was born with Down syndrome, and he was the one who introduced me to the disabled community—a beautiful, loving and yet commonly underrepresented one. Though we have made progress giving disabled people a platform in 2018, we can still strive to do better. We need to give more individuals with Down syndrome representation in the media by telling their stories and recognizing their accomplishments.

World Down Syndrome Day is coming up on March 21 and is celebrated annually to raise awareness and recognize individuals with Down syndrome.

On Feb. 7, Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Georgia, was named the first ever Gerber baby with Down syndrome. In a Feb. 7 interview with Today, Warren’s father said, “We’re hoping this will impact everyone—that it will shed a little bit of light on the special needs community and help more individuals with special needs be accepted and not limited. They have the potential to change the world, just like everybody else.”

Baby Lucas’ selection as a Gerber baby is a milestone, and there are other firsts in the Down syndrome community that should be celebrated.

According to Parent24, a website for parental and familial guidance, Isabella

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Springmuhl Tejada, a 20-year-old from Guatemala, is the first fashion designer with Down syndrome as well as the first to be featured at London fashion week in 2016.

According to its website, many universities had declined her admission because of her disability, yet Tejada was able to overcome that discrimination with her talent. Jamie Brewer, a 33-year-old actress who has starred in four seasons of “American Horror Story,” was also the first woman with Down syndrome to model during New York Fashion week in 2015.

Brewer has always been a strong proponent for disability awareness and acceptance, using her voice as an actress to promote change. According to a March 7 Today article, Brewer was vital in the elimination of the R-word when she was a teenager and advocated for legislation in Texas in favor of more supportive language.

Individuals with Down syndrome not only have the potential to change the world but are and have been doing so already. People with this disability made these changes, but it is non-disabled people’s responsibility to continue practicing inclusion and providing a platform to tell these stories of change.

The individuals initiating these firsts are people my brother can look up to. Patrick is the light of each of my family members’ lives.

He reminds us every day that he can, and has, overcome the countless obstacles coming his way since his earliest moments.

Patrick deserves to see people who look like him in his favorite shows, creating clothing brands, making art or furthering activism. With this representation and Patrick’s own amazing abilities, he can even achieve a first of his own.

With continued representation, the Down syndrome community can continue to flourish and change the world. Yes, we’ve come a long way, but for people like Patrick, let’s go even further.

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Illinois Attorney General candidates (from left), Sharon Fairley, Aaron Goldstein, Gary Grasso, Erika Harold, Renato Mariotti, Pat Quinn, Kwame Raoul, Nancy Rotering and Jesse Ruiz came together to debate for the first time this election cycle at a March 7 forum hosted by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.

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AFTER LISA MADIGAN announced she would not seek re-election in 2017, a plethora of candidates have entered the March 20 primary to succeed her.

All 10 candidates met at a March 7 forum at the Union League Club of Chicago, 65 Jackson Blvd., where they discussed gun control, conflicts of interest in campaign funding and methods to address sexual harassment in the capitol. The panel included Democrats Scott Drury, Sharon Fairley, Aaron Goldstein, Renato Mariotti, Pat Quinn, Kwame Raoul, Nancy Rotering and Jesse Ruiz, and Republicans Gary Grasso and Erika Harold.

Organized by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, the debate was moderated

by NBC Chicago’s Carol Marin.

While almost all candidates agreed on the need for stricter regulations to prohibit elected officials’ conflicts of interests, Raoul, a state senator from Chicago, said nearly every profession will be subject to the law and certain conflicts of interests cannot be avoided. Other candidates disagreed.

“It is vitally important to our democracy to know that the people are representing us and not their own personal interests, not personally getting rich [to] the detriment of the public that they have been elected to serve,” said Rotering, who is the current mayor of Highland Park, Illinois.

Mariotti, a Chicago attorney, said the voters must be aware of the special interest donations funneling into the current attorney general race.

“It’s up to all of you to do your homework because those 30-second ads don’t say ‘paid for by property tax appeal lawyers,’ or ‘by a ComEd conglomerate,’” Mariotti said.

Marin confronted Raoul about his campaign funding from “Big Tobacco” industries, for which he has been attacked in opponent’s TV ads. Raoul replied he is “not for sale,” has never voted in favor of the

Rotering, Ruiz and Harold have all received campaign money from utility companies such as People’s Gas, Exelon Corporation and ComED, Marin indicated.

“If I thought a contribution created a conflict of interest, I would not accept the contribution,” said Harold, a practicing attorney.

“If there was a case that was pending before the attorney general’s office, then I would not accept [those] contributions.”

When the Me Too movement headed to Springfield, state legislators, lobbyists and staff spoke up about the capitol’s culture

The reality is that you can’t trust the General Assembly to police itself, RENATO MARIOTTI tobacco industry and consistently supports the American Lung Association.

While some candidates have largely selffunded their campaigns, Fairley argued that candidates are disadvantaged by current laws.

“I didn’t create the laws on campaign finance, which are pretty terrible in my view,” she said. “I am not the one who broke the [campaign funding] caps in this case, that created the situation where we had hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing to a lot of candidates from sources [where] there are conflicts of interest.”

of sexual harassment. At the time, there was no legislative inspector general to investigate complaints. Marin asked the candidates how as attorney general they plan to combat sexual harassment in state government more effectively.

Rotering had three specific initiatives: amend the Human Rights Act to include all employers; establish a confidential hotline for people to report misconduct directly to the attorney general’s office, protecting them from retaliation; and change the current laws so “serial sexual harassers are viewed as the criminals that they are.”

Alicia Dale, owner of a South Loop consulting firm, attended the debate and said Rotering’s answer was the most direct and relevant of all the candidates’ responses.

Mariotti suggested extending the statute of limitations so women can hold perpetrators accountable, even if incidents happened years ago. The current statute of limitations for sexual assault is to report the offense within three years of its occurrence and file charges within 10 years.

“The reality is that you can’t trust the General Assembly to police itself,” Mariotti said.

Harold said she has been a victim of sexual harassment and knows that many people are afraid to come forward with allegations.

“The attorney general needs more oversight over [the] inspector general ,” she said.

“People fear coming forward [that] they won’t be believed or will be retaliated against.”

During questions on gun control, Grasso characterized gun violence and mass shootings as a mental health epidemic.

Rotering said the Illinois attorney general should work with other state attorneys general to create change at the federal level, adding that gun data should be studied by the Center for Disease Control as a public health issue.

Drury suggested using conspiracy laws to hold gun manufacturers accountable for the loss of lives.

Reflecting on the event’s evaluation form that asked if attendees are students, nonprofit workers, professionals, elected officials, government employees or advocates, Dale said she realized first and foremost she is a citizen.

“Every citizen needs to be informed,” she said. “I would like events like this reach more of the everyday people.” seadens@columbiachronicle.com

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» BLAISE MESA METRO REPORTER FOR HALF A century, the Special Olympics has been raising awareness of the intellectually disabled, but there is still more work needed, according to experts.

To commemorate the Special Olympics’ 50-year anniversary, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Park District broke ground on the Eternal Flame of Hope March 2 on Soldier Field’s north lawn, 1410 Museum Campus Drive. Chicago will also host the

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anniversary celebration and Special Olympic Games July 17–21, according to a March 2 mayoral press release.

“The Special Olympics Flame of Hope has always been a beacon lighting the way for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities,” Special Olympics International CEO Mary Davis said in the press release. “The Eternal Flame of Hope monument will be a constant reminder that when in doubt, choose to include.”

Intellectual disabilities are organized into five classifications,

said Chad Rollins, assistant executive director for William DeBell ARC, a Wood River, Illinois-based group that works with intellectually disabled people. These categories are borderline, mild, moderate, severe and profound.

Even with awareness raised by the Special Olympics and the March 4 Polar Plunge, the estimated 6.5 million intellectually disabled individuals in the country are more likely to be victim of hate crimes, according to Rollins.

A July 2017 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics concluded that individuals with disabilities were up to 2.5 times as likely to be a victim of violence in their lifetimes.

However, this study includes all disabilities and is not specific to intellectual disabilities.

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Because some intellectually disabled people have a difficult time communicating when someone is treating them improperly, Rollins noted the true number of hate crimes against the group may never be accurately known.

“If anybody is discriminated [against], it’s [more likely] out of ignorance,” said Chris Winston, chief marketing officer for Special Olympics Illinois.

A long with the Special Olympics, programs such as the NORA Project—which brings children with intellectual disabilities into the classroom—have made progress in increasing awareness, said Lauren Schrero Levy, executive director of the NORA Project.

Students with intellectual disabilities are normally separated from other students in different classrooms, which can lead to misconceptions about the group, Schrero Levy said.

Both the NORA Project and the Special Olympics have programs and events for children with and without disabilities to interact and help tackle misconceptions

early in a child’s life, according to Schrero Levy and Winston.

“A lot of the myths are dispelled [when you interact with more people],” Schrero Levy said. “It’s the same as when you meet any person who may seem different from you. The more we get to know one another, the more we realize we are all fundamentally the same.”

Approximately 60 to 70 percent of Americans are unaware of what intellectually disabled people can do, according to Winston.

As a parent of someone with an intellectual disability, Schrero Levy said she has had more conversations with “more kindness, reaching out and empathetic questions instead of unkind words” in the past few years.

But there is still work to be done, Schrero Levy added, and Winston agreed.

“People are becoming more and more knowledgeable,” Winston said. “Are we there yet? No. But who is there [when it comes to] discrimination?

But we are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were.” bmesa@columbiachronicle.com

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AS MORE INDUSTRIES look for employees with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math, Illinois is working to better equip its students for STEM careers.

State officials announced a partnership with the Illinois Math and Science Academy Feb. 23 to create the Illinois Bicentennial STEM Fusion campaign. This is just one of Illinois’ programs to celebrate the state’s 200th anniversary, according to a Feb. 23 press release.

The new three-year STEM program will be offered to students at 25 different elementary and middle schools in underserved communities across the state, according to Angela Rowley, director of State and Federal

Educator Outreach at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.

An original STEM program, designed for students in fourth to eighth grade, has existed for 20 years and was originally developed as an after-school program.

It was created as a teacher professional development program, which focused on how to inspire inquiry and imagination in students, according to Rowley.

“We’re changing the way teachers are teaching science,” she said.

“We’re hoping it’s not just for the after-school program, but that it will flow into what they do everyday and have a greater effect all throughout the school.”

Emily Bastedo, a senior adviser to Gov. Bruce Rauner who focuses on education policy, will be a member of the committee to review applications and determine which schools will enter the program.

Americans attribute the limited diversity of the STEM workforce to a lack of encouragement for girls and black and Hispanic children to pursue STEM-based education from an early age. Thirty percent of Americans also said the U.S. is below average in STEM education compared to other countries.

Many organizations are working to combat this reality.

Janet Bandows, president and CEO of the Association for Women in Science—a nonprofit that works to achieve equity and full participation of women in all areas of science, technology and engineering—

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“Gov. Rauner believes in an education from cradle to career,” Bastedo said. “The most fast-growing careers are in STEM, so the governor wanted to be able to deliver this curriculum to students regardless of race or income level, to be prepared and equipped to succeed in any college or career.”

Kevin Pitts, vice president of Undergraduate Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will also help review the STEM program applications.

“We’ve talked about this [program having] a multiplier effect,” Pitts said. “When one teacher is trained, that teacher goes out and affects the lives of hundreds of students every year.”

Though the schools have not been chosen, Bastedo said the committee will give more consideration to schools in rural, minority and low-income communities.

According to a Jan. 9 Pew Research Center study, many

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» BLAISE MESA METRO REPORTER WITH CHICAGO ON the cutting edge of eco-friendly policies, a new grant could help spur even more green initiatives.

The U.S. Green Buildings Council has partnered with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to announce new grant funding to recognize cities and communities worldwide pursuing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Cities certification.

Chicago—along with Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and San Jose, California—has been awarded the grant, for which municipalities apply, according to a Feb. 28 USGBC press release.

Vatsal Bhatt, director for Cities and Communities at U.S. Green Building Council, was unable to

disclose the amount of money awarded by the grant.

“This starts benchmarking [performance]; cities can see what works in other cities and customize it to their own conditions,” Bhatt said. “Something may work perfectly in Chicago, and any city may want to work with those experiences.”

The grant will look at cities performance in 14 key areas which include energy, water, waste,

transportation, education, health, safety and equity, according to the release. The USGBC also wants the grant to inspire other cities to pursue green energy policies, Bhatt said.

Chicago was a strong candidate because the city has been working to improve sustainability and quality of life, Bhatt added.

Some of Chicago’s recent ecofriendly work includes hosting the North America Climate Summit with mayors across the continent

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to discuss and develop plans to reduce their carbon footprint, as reported Dec. 11, 2017, by The Chronicle. Chicago has yet to publicly announce its plans for the funding.

Along with the funding, the grant could also provide educational materials and city-specific technical assistance, such as measuring public transportation performances or how much energy buildings use, Bhatt said.

“There’s got to be someone who goes first,” said Ellen Bell, senior manager of the Midwest Clean Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund. “For any city to go first, there has to be an incentive. Programs like this are incredibly important to demonstrate success and create usable lessons down the road [for] other cities.”

This grant can help government departments collaborate because it provides a “framework” for them to work with, said Marissa Ramirez, project manager for the Healthy People and Thriving Communities program at the National Resources Defense Council.

“At a federal level, we are not necessarily talking about climate [change],” Ramirez said. “Cities, communities and business people have to take that [responsibility] on. So this is another tool in the tool box to get some high [ecofriendly] standards.”

Currently, three cities are LEED certified—Washington, D.C., Phoenix and Arlington, Virginia—and other cities such as Chicago are working toward achieving future certification, according to Bhatt.

“Cities are learning as they go,” Bell said. “Every time a city like Chicago attempts something new, it should be lauded. There’s always room to do more, but we are on a pretty good track right now.” bmesa@columbiachronicle.com

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said its Chicago chapter works in the community to become role models for young girls interested in the STEM fields.

“Kids that don’t have exposure to people in those career fields don’t understand what those careers fields do and so they don’t pursue them,” Koster said. “Our research and work continually shows that you’ve got to be inclusive and include everyone and provide equal resources so they have an equal chance to pursue the jobs that they want to, the jobs that are available and going to pay well.”

Rowley said the younger students are exposed to STEM programs, the better.

“If we can ignite that passion in the fourth and fifth grade level, this becomes part of what they normally do,” Rowley said. “If our young girls can see a teacher really enjoying STEM—enjoying biodiversity, chemistry, etcetera—it makes the whole thing [much]more approachable.”

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