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“AUTHOR THE CULTURE of your time,” is one of

many slogans Columbia repeatedly touts at its orientations and open houses, but what serves as arguably the biggest opportunity for students to do just that has been quietly canceled. Freshmen and transfer students, along with Chicago’s devoted literary community, will miss one of Columbia’s most celebrated events this spring.

For the last 19 years, Columbia students and thousands of Chicagoans have gathered every March to enjoy Story Week, a Columbia-sponsored festival that enables prominent and rising authors to share their work.

However, the event, hosted by the Creative Writing Department, has been canceled just shy of its 20th year, as reported in the Front Page article.

Described as “one of the largest and longest creative writing festivals in the country,” the annual Story Week festival has drawn as many as 2,500 attendees to its readings and discussion panels. Last year’s festival brought in more than 50 noteworthy speakers, as reported March 9, 2015, by The Chronicle.

Students and local residents have adored the festival for years for many reasons.

Story Week allowed students interested in writing careers to be exposed to successful industry professionals, offered nearly a week of entertaining and educational events for those not enrolled in writing curricula, promoted diversity by exposing all attendees to a slew of stories written by authors of various backgrounds and served as an unmatched networking opportunity by bringing some of the most talented creative minds right to the college’s own campus. This cancellation, paired with the 2014 discontinuation of Conversations in the Arts, another Columbia-hosted event that ran for 10 years and offered students the chance to hear from the most compelling creatives in various industries, including Joan Rivers and Horatio Sanz in recent years, marks another missed opportunity for students resulting from the college’s reprioritized budget.

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Journalism student becomes correspondent in Paris » Page 6 Hanna Hanson, a senior design major, and President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim expressed their desires for the recently announced Student Center during the Student Government Association’s open forum on Nov. 17.

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STUDENTS ENVISIONED GIANT ball pits, bowl-

ing alleys and a basketball court as part of the recently announced student center during the Student Government Association’s open forum held Nov. 17.

The forum, titled “Build Your Student Center,” offered students a chance to share with Chicago-based architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz what qualities and facilities they want to see in the student center, which is scheduled to be completed by the Fall 2018 Semester.

“It is important [the center] is highly reprogrammable so it doesn’t privilege any particular form of greater practice or intellectual endeavor,” said President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim. “It has to be a place that helps us keep building the culture of inclusion that is so defining of Columbia.”

Most students at the forum requested that the center be designed to support open collaboration, provide efficient technology options with open labs, offer healthy and inexpensive food and drink choices, contain recreational facilities and speak to Columbia’s various personalities.

“There has always been a need for a student center on campus,” said Jerel Ballard, a junior journalism major and SGA president. “It means a lot because all of the students who commute—which is a majority of our students—[will soon] have a centralized location they can collaborate, eat [and] spend time in.”

The center was approved Oct. 28 by the board of trustees and will rise from 26,000 plus square feet of ground-level space where the Papermaker’s Garden and the adjoining parking lot are currently located at 8th Street and Wabash Avenue, as reported Nov. 16 by The Chronicle.

Amanda Hamrick, a sophomore interactive arts & media major and executive vice president of SGA, said she would like the center to include a graffiti room similar to the one located in Dwight Lofts, 642 S. Clark St. She also said a rooftop garden would provide students with a space to work and hold student organization gatherings.

Hamrick also suggested the center be used as a space for current students and alumni to showcase their work.

Shay Maor, a junior creative writing major and interfaith coordinator for Hillel, Columbia’s Jewish student organization, said the center should offer spaces for religious organizations to meet. Maor said Hillel currently meets at Panera Bread because there is no designated space for the group to meet on campus.

“We are a Columbia group, [but] it just feels like we are a group of people meeting

Representatives for Chicago-based architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz took notes of students’ ideas during the Nov.17 forum.

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from wherever,” they said. “[With the new center], people will feel like they have a safe space to practice their religion so we can include everyone and be diverse.”

Hanna Hanson, a senior design major, said she hopes the center will enable collaboration among students across various majors. “[Creating open spaces] is how you can break down those barriers [between majors],” Hanson said. “The student body would benefit from it immensely.”

Other students mentioned the need for vibrant colors, large windows throughout the center, free printing, and a universal equipment and technology cage, as well as lockers and showers.

Kim said creating a student center has long been a dream of his, adding it will become a physical manifestation of the college’s commitment to student success and student well-being.

“Columbia never stops moving,” said Luther Hughes, a senior creative writing major and SGA vice president of Finance.

“We are always ambitious, always going, always driving toward our dreams. I think Columbia is described as someone who never stops. They love what they are doing, and they will never stop doing what they love.” lkostiuk@chroniclemail.com

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senior theatre major, contacted the Student Financial Services Office through its online chat function Nov. 9 to resolve an issue with the second half of her tuition refund, which she had yet to receive.

After an unexplained transfer to another SFS employee and more than an hour of back-and-forth conversation about her situation, Johnston was told nothing could be done to receive her remaining loan refund until the state disbursed all Monetary Award Program grants, a state-paid fund given to some Illinois natives which she receives.

Johnston said she was infuriated to hear there was no estimated time of arrival for the rest of her refund, which she said she was counting on.

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“It’s money I need,” Johnston said. “I’m not putting myself in debt for fun. I don’t want to have to take out more loans and [have] to fight for money that is mine.”

As reported Oct. 5 by The Chronicle, students who rely on MAP grant funds are facing disbursement delays due to the state budget standoff. Cynthia Grunden, assistant vice president of SFS, said Columbia is deferring the sum of the MAP grants to avoid imposing financial holds, but the office is handling the situation on a caseby-case basis. While Grunden said some colleges with significantly high endowments or other funding sources may be able to provide students money before the state pays them back, many colleges do not have the funds to follow suit. “[Johnston’s situation] could easily happen because whenever aid

applies, it applies to outstanding charges,” Grunden said. “However, if a student is in a scenario like that—is in need of a refund and is entitled to that refund [if] a MAP grant credited—they can let us know and we’re happy to work with that student.”

Johnston said what upset her most was not the MAP grant situation but the communication with SFS. “If I didn’t have a single semester left, I probably would’ve transferred

out,” she said. “I don’t like being treated like a sack of money.”

Johnston is one of a number of students frustrated by a perceived lack of communication from SFS. According to Grunden, though, SFS does not get a high number of student complaints regarding customer service. When complaints do occur, the office reviews the situation to ensure no misinformation was given, she said.

“A lot of times, we find it was an issue of misinterpretation,” she said. “The student was told something, they heard something else—which is part of normal human communication—and is

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Laura Bissett, a junior television major, said she also recently had an issue with SFS when she received conflicting answers about setting up a payment plan after she already paid her semester’s tuition in full.

Bissett said she and her mother were told on the phone several times that she did not need to set up a payment plan, but she later received emails—which Grunden said are sent from on-campus staff—that said she would lose her scholarship and be charged a fee because she did not set up a plan.

“If we hadn’t called to make sure everything was okay, and they said ‘Yeah you’re fine, you can go to school,’ I wouldn’t have been so mad,” Bissett said.

Grunden said it is important to help students when they think they have received contradicting information from SFS, but added it can often depend on how the question is phrased each time and when they ask for the information.

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of Nov. 13, the terrorist attacks on Paris that killed at least 129 people that day were known worldwide. Within two days, Michael Esparza, a graduate journalism student, was on a plane overseas to cover a different side of the story.

Esparza said he received a ticket to Paris Nov. 14 from a friend who was not going to use it. Esparza said he was apprehensive at first, but decided to go after being encouraged by several journalism professors.

According to a Nov. 17 email to faculty and staff from Senior Vice President and Provost Stan Wearden, four students and one staff member were abroad in Paris during the attacks, but all are safe.

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the killers, Esparza said he sought stories about individuals affected by the attacks, adding it became difficult at times to find people who wanted to talk.

“The mood altogether was very tense,” Esparza said. “People didn’t want to speak to you. Taxi drivers kind of gave you a second look to unlock their door to let you in. That was all very surprising to me. I’ve never been [to Paris] before, but I’ve never experienced that in [other parts of] Europe.”

Among the people he interviewed during his trip was a Parisian man who lived near the site of the most deadly attack at the Bataclan music hall.

“In my interview with him, he got tense and choked up and said ‘I saw people running with blood and I wanted to go out and help them but I couldn’t because I was afraid,’” Esparza said. “He

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Michael Esparza, a graduate journalism student, traveled to Paris Nov. 15 to report personal stories of the Nov. 13 terrorist attack

barricaded himself inside the house with his daughter.”

Yolanda Joe, an associate professor in the Communication and Media Innovation Department and coordinator of the Broadcast Journalism program who is on sabbatical this semester, said she encouraged Esparza to take the trip and helped him prepare.

She said she advised him on what materials to bring, how to stay safe and about “storified” spaces, meaning areas that would be the least dangerous but possible to find people to talk to.

Joe said she helped get Esparza’s stories published in the U.S. His photos and videos aired on WGN, WBBM and Telemundo, she said.

“I told him if he went for the main story, you are competing against CNN, MSNBC, Fox [and other outlets],” Joe said. “They’re doing the main story about the investigation.

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Look for the niche, the story that they don’t have time to get.”

Esparza said getting airtime was not his main goal in traveling to Paris.

“I didn’t care where this story was published,” he said. “It’s a part of history, something that needs to be told from different perspectives and different angles. That’s important.”

Suzanne McBride, interim chair of the Communication and Media Innovation Department, said she heard about Esparza’s trip after seeing him being interviewed on WGN before he flew to Paris.

McBride, who traveled overseas with Michael for a 2015 J-Term course in Ireland, said she saw him push himself and

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who teach at the college are calling for representation by Columbia’s part-time faculty union but are facing pushback from members of the adjunct union’s steering committee, according to Tanya Harasym, operations coordinator of the Learning Studio and an adjunct professor in the Humanities, History & Social Sciences Department.

The group of about 55 full-time staff members who teach parttime at the college emailed P-Fac members Nov. 9, raising concerns about class availability and expressing their beliefs that staff who teach deserve representation from P-Fac because they perform part-time faculty duties separate from their full-time staff member FULL-TIME STAFF MEMBERS

jobs. According to Harasym, P-Fac’s leadership rejected their attempts to join the union.

According to Michael Persoon, P-Fac’s attorney at Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Ltd., staff who teach have been excluded from P-Fac since its original election in 1998. P-Fac’s recognition clause in the union’s contract states that the unit excludes “all full-time staff members.”

Additionally, P-Fac’s new contract, ratified in 2013, included the union’s collective bargaining agreement with the college, which guaranteed courses would be assigned to adjunct faculty members before being assigned to staff members.

However, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in the summer of 2015 “It is determined that there is no question for [staff who teach]...P-Fac is their exclusive

collective bargaining representative” in matters regarding teaching.

Persoon said staff who teach are not part of the bargaining unit because there was no factual evidence to prove they should be, adding that the only thing the NLRB’s ruling did was dismiss a petition filed by the staff who teach that sought not to join P-Fac but start a competing union.

Persoon said P-Fac is the exclusive representative for all parttime faculty and under the federal labor law, there can only be one majority exclusive representative for any bargaining unit at a college.

To be allowed into the bargaining unit, staff who teach much show a shared community of interest with the unit, he said.

“Usually the way you get any type of judicial or administrative ruling is there is the law and there is the facts, and you create a factual record and apply the law to that,” Persoon said. “In this case, there is absolutely no factual record presented to anyone who could decide this.”

» LOU FOGLIA/CHRONICLE Tanya Harasym and Clint Vaupel, full-time staff members who teach, stand in support of about 55 others seeking representation from P-Fac.

After the NLRB ruling, 55 fulltime staff members sent membership forms to P-Fac and recently heard back from P-Fac’s lawyers that they cannot join the union, Harasym said. She said P-Fac interpreted the ruling as the staff’s petition to create a competing union, which she said they were never trying to do.

“We [ just want to] stay in the classrooms so we can keep engaging with students [and] keep the extra income on top of it,” Harasym said. “Because like

many P-Fac members, we are teachers with day jobs, and we teach around our day jobs.”

Persoon said allowing staff to join the union would cause many issues and concerns, including staff holding supervisory duties, having different interests than adjuncts and already having full-time employee benefits, which makes it hard to effectively bargain as a cohesive union.

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Alumna’s thesis film succeeds in festival circuit

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came to Columbia in 2012, she said she had no film experience but knew she could tell stories. Terrell has since made two short films that have been shown and won awards in the film festival circuit.

“I had never made a film; I had never turned on a camera, [and] I WHEN KELLEE TERRELL

2014 cinema art + science alumna Kellee Terrell’s film “Blame” has won four awards at film festivals since it began showing in early 2015.

had never written a script,” Terrell said. “I knew I wanted to tell stories, and I knew that I was creative [and] had something to say.”

Terrell, who graduated in 2014 with a master’s degree in film directing, worked as a journalist for news organizations like

The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera and Glamour before coming to Columbia. She added that she still works as a journalist while continuing her film career.

One of her films, “Blame,” has been shown at 16 festivals since early 2015 and won awards at EXPO Chicago, CIMMFest Student Film Competition, Ivy Film Festival and Living Skies Student Film Festival.

It will be shown at the International Black Women’s Film Festival from Dec. 4–13 in San Fransisco.

“Blame” is the story of a working class, African-American father who is haunted by a deceased rape victim and discovers that his only son is the rapist. In the story, he faces a moral struggle in deciding whether to protect his son or turn him in to the authorities. “[The idea] just came to me, and I wrote it down,” Terrell said. “The more I started working on it, the more it became this ghost story.”

Cari Callis, an associate professor in the Cinema Art + Science Department who was Terrell’s thesis advisor, said her dedication

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to education made her successful.

“She is focused on her work and very mature,” Callis said. “She had a clear vision [for her thesis film].”

Terrell collaborated on the film with fellow Columbia students, including Tyler Bailey, a 2014 cinema art + science alumnus.

“I do not think it was one thing specifically that made [the film] shine,” Bailey said. “It was how all the parts worked together.”

Terrell said studying film in college was necessary to establish her film career.

“I do believe you need training,” Terrell said. “[Film school] set a foundation, and I am really grateful for that.”

Terrell said she faced racism and sexism while in the film program at Columbia, which reflects the current issues faced by filmmakers in the film industry.

“I felt I had to defend why I wanted to tell the story I wanted to tell,” Terrell said. “I have talked to people who have gone to film schools all around the country, and their experiences are very similar.”

As reported May 12, 2014, by The Chronicle, other students of color have voiced similar concerns about the Cinema Art + Science Department’s faculty and curriculum.

“A lot of the faculty [are] limited in their understanding of black art in the sense of black story,” said Marcus Martin, former cinema art + science major in the 2014 article.

“Because of their foreignness to it, they don’t know how to critique it. They don’t know how to give us what we need.”

Issues of racism and sexism need to be discussed, but filmmakers cannot have their ideas shut down, Terrell said.

“To have a teacher tell a student who writes a script about racism in Chicago that [racism] does not happen anymore, and you have to set that script back to 1950, is very demoralizing for students of color,” Terrell said. “We need more diversity [in film], and I think that push is coming.” abreck@chroniclemail.com

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US of CC continues fight for cost-of-living increase » arabella breck CAMPUS REPORTER

of bargaining with the college, Columbia’s staff union still may not see cost-of-living raises in its upcoming contract, according to statements made by President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim at the Nov. 6 Breakfast with the President meeting.

Kim said at the meeting that the college’s enrollment must increase before Columbia can afford to grant cost-of-living raises, according to Cat Bromels, the print services manager in the Design Department and vice president of the United Staff of Columbia College, who attended the meeting.

According to Bromels, Kim said the college cannot afford cost-ofliving raises, which are given at the same rate across the board, but AFTER THREE YEARS

members of Columbia’s administration have expressed support for a merit-based pay system for staff members in which raises are tied to performance reviews. As reported Nov. 2 by The Chronicle, the US of CC has opposed this.

JeeYeun Lee, development and communications director for the Center for Community Arts Partnerships and secretary of the US of CC, said Kim’s statement is upsetting in the context of merit pay.

“If [the college] finds money for merit pay and not for cost-of-living increases, the staff will be very upset,” Lee said.

On Nov. 18, US of CC posted a petition on Change.org calling for Michelle Gates, the CFO and vice president of business affairs, to grant staff an annual 5 percent cost-of-living salary increase.

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percent,” the US of CC petition stated. “Columbia has given staff salary increases that amount to only 5 percent.”

As of press time, the petition had 69 supporters.

Under a renewed contract from 2012, the US of CC has been advocating for a cost-of-living increase but failed to reach an agreement, as reported Nov. 2 by The Chronicle.

Cara Birch, the college’s spokeswoman, said a performance-based

salary increase system would attract and retain talented staff.

According to 2014 data provided by the US of CC, staff salaries at the college range from $27,318–$83,000 a year with the majority of staff earning between $30,000–$50,000 a year.

Due to the lack of salary increases, staff making $40,000 per year have lost $15,000 throughout the last six years, according to the petition from US of CC.

Lee said staff salaries are not competitive, and most staff members would make more money working elsewhere in their field.

“The [pay] scale has been low in relation to positions both at other higher education institutions as well as in the industries each department is a part of,” Lee said.

Nick Hoeppner, president of the US of CC and an engineer in the Radio Department, said if the college can afford merit-based raises, cost-of-living increases should not be out of the question. Having funds for one but not the other “creates a double standard,” he said.

A cost-of-living increase of 5 percent for staff at the college would be 0.6 percent of the college’s budget, according to a flyer from the US of CC about staff contracts.

“A cost-of-living adjustment should be considered part of the cost of doing business,” Lee said. “A budget is a reflection of an institution’s priorities, and it is clear that the staff is not a priority.” abreck@chroniclemail.com

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Week. Those staff members did not remain in the department following “We could have maybe done a the 2013 department merger with small festival, but I did not want the Nonfiction and Poetry programs. to do something half-assed after “The department [is] now down to 19 years of building it to something two staff people,” May said. “They that was very professional,” he said. have so much work to do. There [are] In previous years, Story Week just not enough hours in the day for received about $25,000 to $30,000 them to do the department-related each from the department, grants work and work on Story Week.” and donations.

May said there was no announceAlbers said Story Week orga- ment of Story Week’s discontinnizers had done some preliminary uation, but he heard from Albers planning for the event and applied that it was canceled. Albers said for some grants. They had also been he relayed the information about asked by the Richard H. Dreihaus the provost’s budget decision to Foundation if they wanted to renew the Interim Chair of the Creative a three-year grant that Story Week Writing Department, Tony Trigilio. received in 2013.

Trigilio and college spokeswoman “The first indication anything Cara Birch both refused repeated was wrong was when we were requests from The Chronicle for invited to apply to renew [the] grant, comment. However, both were and I was told to hold off [by the quoted in a Nov. 19 Chicago Tribune provost],” Albers said. article about how the recent changes Eric May, an associate professor in the department were earning the in the Creative Writing Department college attention. The article briefly and the festival’s 2015 artistic direc- mentioned the cancellation, which tor, said there were staff members has yet to be announced on campus. in the former Fiction Writing Though the department offered Department whose job descrip- a new Creative Writing Reading tions included organizing Story Series this fall, May said the

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“width and breadth” of opportunities provided by Story Week will be missed.

Albers said Story Week offered expert knowledge about the publishing industry for people of all ages and offered students a diverse look at writers and professionals.

“We had a plan to continue [events] where we would keep diversity but shine a light on a particular underrepresented group each year,” he said.

The famous writers that Story Week attracted included Gillian Flynn, author of “Gone Girl;” Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses;” and Sapphire, author of “Push,” which was exciting for students, faculty and staff, May said.

“It was something I looked forward to,” May said. “I knew we were going to get a whole host of good writers. It was very informative in a lot of ways.”

Story Week, which has been sponsored by organizations, including the Chicago Public Library, the Metro and the Illinois Arts Council, engaged Columbia with the Chicago community, May said.

“It was a lot of publicity to the college when you look at the list of the

names of authors, editors and agents that would come through here,” May said. “It certainly got Columbia’s name on a lot of people’s radar.”

Representatives of the Chicago Public Library, which hosted previous Story Week events, declined to comment.

Sheryl Johnston, Story Week 2015’s artistic consultant and former publicist and a 1993 Fiction Writing alumnus, said Story Week attracted prospective students to the college.

Arnie Bernstein, a 1993 Fiction Writing alumnus, said Story Week offered vital networking opportunties. While on a Story Week panel a few years ago, he met an agent who later helped him publish his most recent book, “Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund.”

The book has been published in the United States and Poland and reviewed by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, Bernstein said.

Berstein said Story Week benefited the college too much for it to be discontinued.

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“It makes no sense to me whatsoever,” Bernstein said. “It’s pointless.

They’re saving money, but what are they gaining?”

Jacklyn Andersen, a junior creative writing major, said she had not been informed of Story Week’s cancellation.

“There were the industry people who talk about publishing, editing and how that actually works,” she said. “[They answered] questions I would not even know to ask.”

As of press time, Albers said he is considering ways to continue Story Week in future years.

“There’s always the possibility that we’ll be able to resurrect it somewhere, unless Columbia reprioritizes again and feels that Story Week is doing the things that the administration wants and [justifies] the expense,” Albers said. “I would love to do this at Columbia.

If not, we are looking at other possibilities. I hope we will be able to do something that will benefit the city, the [literature] community and students at Columbia.” campus@chroniclemail.com

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adjunct professor in the Cinema Art + Science Department, said many full-time staff members do not work a typical 9–5 shift, allowing them time to teach part-time during the day or night.

“It is baffling to me why you would try to stop dedicated people from joining your union,” Vaupel said.

A letter of response posted to P-Fac’s website said the union has tried to reach solidarity with full-time staff members through the Illinois Education Association and United Staff of Columbia College, but all their attempts have been “rebuffed.”

The college has remained neutral on the subject because no argument is final, Harasym said, adding that staff who teach cannot speak with the college because the college considers staff who teach P-Fac. “It just blows your mind,” Vaupel said. “[They] are leaving us nowhere to go.”

A group of the staff who teach filed a grievance against Columbia this month because the college refused to include staff who teach as members of the P-Fac unit or honor past class credits, despite the NLRB ruling.

Harasym said many times staff members who teach are being portrayed as the reason for the decrease in classes and are accused of being “moonlighters.”

“We are the ones losing classes in this scenario,”Harasym said.

P-Fac said in the union’s letter of response that it will continue to foster a community of solidarity and face the college’s “cooperate takeover” as one with staff members.

“We are basically cutting our legs off trying to work [something out],” Vaupel said.

Diana Vallera, an adjunct professor in the Photography Department and president of P-Fac, and Nancy Traver, an adjunct professor in the Communication and Media Innovation Department and P-Fac publicity chair both declined to comment. lkostiuk@chroniclemail.com SFS, FROM PAGE 4

According to Grunden, SFS’ phone and online chat assistance is handled through a third-party service, CMD Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., a Baltimore-based company that specializes in college customer service communication.

Grunden said the service received about 54,000 calls and almost 8,000 online chat logs regarding student accounts in 2014.

She added Columbia has used the company since 2003 because the SFS staff of about 33 people cannot efficiently answer all calls and chats.

SFS communicates with CMD officials weekly and coordinates regular

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that he always went above and beyond when reporting.

“Michael is a good example for other students because he had this idea, he called people who he had taken classes from at the college and made it happen,” she said.

“I am constantly happy and surprised those opportunities are encouraged here.”

Esparza said the trip was emotional and nerve wracking, but the experience strengthened his love for journalism.

“The story becomes bigger than you,” he said. “You’re just a vessel to make the story come alive. That is what changed in me, it confirmed that this is my passion.”

Among the students studying abroad is Rachel Miller, a junior business & entrepreneurship major.

Miller said the college supported the students’ decision to either stay in Paris or come back to the United States, adding she received communication from International Programs and Ron Sodini, associate vice president of Safety & Security, who reached out to her and her family. She said among the friends she made from other American colleges, she was the only one to hear from her school.

While she recalled watching the attacks unfold as “devastating” and originally considered returning to the United States following the attacks, Miller said her perception of Parisians is forever changed by witnessing their resilience following the first few days of mourning, which makes her feel “completely safe.”

“The French people are so strong and empowering to watch,” Miller said. “I don’t know how they do it. I have a whole different perspective. I’m not grateful this happened on my trip, but it opened my eyes to a lot. I learned a lot about the reality of living.” mbennett@chroniclemail.com

training for its employees, Grunden said, adding that most account issues can be solved through CMD assistance, but SFS will communicate with the on-campus staff, who still handle walk-ins and in-person appointments, if there is a complex issue.

“That’s why we have a service—so we know a student’s call gets answered, [and] students can get their questions [answered],” Grunden said. “If everybody just came in house, then nobody is going to be served well. If there is something special, it is escalated to the in-house team right away.” mbennett@chroniclemail.com

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ARTS & CULTURE REPORTER IT SEEMS THIS is not the “winter of our dis-

content” because Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Nov. 13 a yearlong festival, which is scheduled to take place in Chicago during 2016, in honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death.

Shakespeare 400 Chicago, spearheaded

by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, will include cultural institutions from across the city and has been in the works for two years, said Doreen Sayegh, festival producer of Shakespeare 400 Chicago.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand Ave., will produce a production of “Othello” to be performed in early 2016 and “Twelfth Night” to be performed in

spring 2016 as part of their festival contribution. Both will run at the theater and tour schools around Chicago, Sayegh said.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s main production for Shakespeare 400 will be the two-part, six-play “Tug of War” series produced by the theater’s founder and artistic director Barbara Gaines, Sayegh said. The first part will take place in the spring and the second, running in the fall, are part of the festival’s more than 800 events and 1,000 artists, she said.

“There was always the idea that this festival would need Chicago’s great cultural institutions as anchors, and it would be strongest if it was a city coming together,” Sayegh said. “The festival is curated to bring the best of Chicago together and to reflect the people of Chicago.”

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The Newberry Library is the largest archive of Shakespeare-related material in Chicago and will host events to accompany the celebration, said Jill Gage, reference librarian and bibliographer of British history and literature.

“We have a major exhibition that opens in September [2016] that runs until December 2016,” Gage said. “It will be about 125 items related to Shakespeare. This is everything from first editions of Shakespeare’s works to adaptations.”

Gage said Newberry Library is still finalizing events for people to experience Shakespeare at the library.

“One of the things Chicago Shakespeare 400 wants to do is make this global,” Gage said. “They have a lot of theatrical groups coming in from around the world, and what the whole project and Newberry does is talk about Shakespeare throughout time and how he has managed to touch people’s lives.”

The Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Deputy Director of Communications Holly Gilson said the opera will perform “Romeo and Juliet” in the spring.

“We’re going to see how we can contribute as the year goes forward, but the centerpiece will be ‘Romeo and Juliet,’” Gilson said. “There will be multiple opportunities Mayor Rahm Emanuel, flanked by Chicago Public Schools student Jennifer Gonzalez, Chicago Shakespeare Theater executive director Criss Henderson and artistic director Barbara Gaines, announced Shakespeare 400 Chicago at a Nov. 13 press conference.

Phoebe Pryce (Jessica) and Jonathan Pryce (Shylock) will perform in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of “The Merchant of Venice,” featured at Chicago Shakespeare Theater as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago in 2016.

for people to enjoy the performance even if they can’t be in the opera house.”

Gilson added “Romeo and Juliet” will run Feb. 22­—March 19.

According to Caroline Latta, a professor in the Theatre Department, Columbia’s Theatre Department intends to make every effort to be as involved in Shakespeare 400 as it can be, but she cannot say much until the department finalizes its season for the 2016–2017 academic year.

“We offer a Shakespeare class every semester, so we will definitely be looking for the ability to bring in some people to liaison in some way that is yet to be determined,” Latta said. “We think it’s a wonderful opportunity, [but] we’re still in the planning stages at this point.”

Latta said she thinks the festival is a wonderful opportunity for the Chicago theater community to come together as a group from the top tier theaters to the college level. She added it is exciting that the festival is happening worldwide, and that Chicago will participate. “[Shakespeare 400] positions [Chicago] as an ambassador to the world community,” Gilson said. “Chicago plays a very global role in the arts community, and this just serves to reinforce Chicago’s prominence.” zeitel@chroniclemail.com

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ith the Nov. 20 release of Adele's third album, 25, it's clear that the 2015 year in music has reached its climax. According to Billboard, Columbia Records will ship as many as 3.6 million copies of the album during its first week, making it the largest number of new-release CDs shipped since *NSYNC shipped 4.21 copies in 2000.

Adele's opening week will be massive, and her success will surely continue in weeks to come. While 25's release is a defining moment of this year in music, there are still a number of other releases to look forward to.

Below is a list of my most-anticipated yet-to-be-released albums of 2015.

1. ANTI by Rihanna It has been a long three years since Rihanna last released an album. The wait for Riri's highly anticipated eighth album, ANTI, has been made more agonizing by the slow unveiling of album details throughout the year. Fans got a taste of the elusive album this spring when Rihanna released a slew of singles and snippets. Finally, following the Nov. 22 release of Rihanna's "Anti Diaries" video series, it seems that rumors of a Nov. 27 album release may be true.

2. Speedin' Bullet To Heaven by Kid Cudi Rapper Kid Cudi gained a massive following between 2009–2010 with the release of his first two albums—installments of his acclaimed Man on the Moon trilogy. Cudi's upcoming Dec. 4 release is not the long-awaited part three and conclusion to the trilogy, but it will definitely be worth a listen. While his core fanbase has remained strong, Cudi lost much of his following when his last two albums, Indicud and Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon, were deemed too experimental by fans who felt nostalgic for his earlier albums.

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film immensely, started talking with Swift about possibly adapting “The Dark Side of Disney” into a documentary, Swift said.

For his adaptation, however, Swift decided to focus on the reasons some of the scandalous activity—taking drugs, sneaking behind the scenes and sexual activity—occurred, a slight deviation from the book’s focus.

“The book tells how and where to do these things,” Swift said. “I thought it would be more interesting to make a documentary about

“For 10 years, they had no crime at all, and then a man was bludgeoned with an ax in his own FILMMAKER PHILIP B. SWIFT’S latest apartment,” Swift said. “In the documentary, “The Dark Side of ensuing investigations about the Disney,” examines the subcul- murder, it came out that there was ture and sometimes scandalous a huge swinger scene there.” goings-on at the family-oriented Swift sent “The Bubble” to resort in Orlando, Florida.

Kinsey, who, after enjoying the The documentary takes its title » Courtesy PHILIP SWIFT from an exposé written by Leonard Kinsey about the “steamy, raunchy and often hilarious underbelly of Walt Disney World.”

The Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave., held a special screening event on Oct. 29.

Swift is no stranger to the creepy side of Disney, as his first documentary, “The Bubble,” is Director Philip Swift, and filmmakers about Celebration, Florida—a Emily Strong and Brent Bandemer all were city built on land owned by Disney surprised at the amount of support they received in Chicago for their documentaries.

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A second film screened at the event, entitled “Keep Moving Forward,” chronicles how Guy Spagnoli, a Vietnam veteran and 2014 cinema art + science graduate, uses Disney to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Director Brent Bandemer said he first heard about Spagnoli from a roommate, and upon becoming Facebook friends with him, found that his timeline was filled with two things—posts about Vietnam and photos of Spagnoli dressed up like a Disney character or at the Disney parks.

“Right away I started seeing the Disney stuff he was posting,” Bandemer said. “I wondered if there was any connection between the two—so I got the idea to extend [a previous film about Spagnoli].”

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According to Swift, he began to talk with his own Disney-obsessed family. The documentary itself tells of his mother’s illegal quest to scatter his Disney-loving grandmother’s ashes by Cinderella’s castle, an activity that is surprisingly common, Swift said.

The documentary also chronicles the stories of other Disney fanatics, including Hoot Gibson, who while working as a custodian at Disney World would sneak off rides and explore their scenes and animatronics, and the subculture of “Disney Gangs,” which are groups of adults who explore the park dressed in outlandish garb—from biker outfits to brightly colored hair and lipstick akin to a pin-up doll.

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ictureplane, the solo project of musician Travis Egedy, has been noted for its kaleidoscopic mixture of industrial, noise, hip-hop and rave sounds.

Prior to the inauguration of Pictureplane, Egedy studied painting at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, an experience he still deems valuable to his work.

Pictureplane released its debut album Dark Rift in 2009, gaining media attention shortly thereafter for coining the term “witch house,” referring to darker EDM. Having released its latest album Technomancer Oct. 30, Pictureplane is set to perform Nov. 28 at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. The Chronicle spoke with Egedy about Pictureplane’s influences, themes and upcoming Chicago performance.

THE CHRONICLE: How did you get into making music?

TRAVIS EGEDY: When Pictureplane formed, I was still a freshman in art school.

I was around 19 when I came up with that name. I started making rap music with my friends in high school, but when I went away to college, I started getting into more experimental music and my influences

changed. So, I wanted to start a new project that reflected that, but I didn’t start playing shows as Pictureplane until around 2006.

What inspires your work?

While working on my newest album, I was reading a lot of books on alternative history, which is the idea that everything we have been told about history has been controlled and is not the full story at all. It just looks at ancient humans in a much different light.

[It speculates] that they were far more advanced than we give them credit for. I am really inspired by people who question reality and the status quo.

heard before. It’s a sort of dark-rave pop or a mutant strain of rave music.

to impress people right away or try to blow up over night, but people should try not to stress too much about that. They should just What does your music represent? have fun and experiment. Experimentation I really want my music to represent resis- is key. tance and rebellion to a lot of things. I think rebellion is really important. I want dmiller@chroniclemail.com it to represent the human spirit, the human condition and freedom. I want it to inspire people to break free from all forms of control.

My music is also a way for me to explore that within myself. [It helps me] break free of social conditioning in a world that doesn’t really want us to be free.

What do you like most about Chicago?

Where does the name Pictureplane There’s a really great group of people in come from?

Chicago that throw parties. They throw a Pictureplane is a term in art that isn’t used lot of great parties at Club Berlin. I want to very much. I found it in the back of an old shout out to all the club kids of Chicago— art textbook. It’s just a word for the flat, Deathface and Teen Witch in particular. two-dimensional surface the canvas is sitting on. I like the word “plane” a lot. It What advice do you have for your fans? makes me think of planes of existence. It Just have no limits. Don’t put yourself into has a lot of meaning. some kind of box. Have fun and don’t be concerned with other people’s opinions.

How would you describe your music? With the Internet, there’s a lot of pressure I’ve been influenced by a lot of industrial Travis Egedy, commonly known as music and minimal-synth, darkwave stuff.

Pictureplane, will perform songs from I wanted to blend that with my hip-hop his new album at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. influences. I wanted to create an indusLincoln Ave., on Nov. 28. trial hip-hop production that I had never

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beautiful sets and the supposed sexiness of the movie, it stands alone as what it is, which is just a bad work of art.”

Bowman said he asked all the actors not to read or watch “Fifty “The ‘50 Shades’ show is a little Shades of Grey,” so they have no » zoe¨ eitel ARTS & CULTURE REPORTER break for [Bowman] to recharge idea what is going to happen. before the longer run,” McMahon McMahon and Bowman both COMEDY LOVERS CAN witness a live said. “It’s not as much work explained there will be different retelling of “Fifty Shades of Grey” because it’s already been tranforms of audience participation sans the sex scenes at Under The scribed and packaged.” during the show like inviting an Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport Kevin Mullaney, artistic direcaudience member to release a balAve., as a holiday spin-off of the tor of Under The Gun Theater, said loon whenever there is supposed theater’s popular show “Porn the actors typically like to do these to be a sex scene and voting on the Minus Porn.” shows because they require no awkwardness of the dialogue.

“I thought for the holidays we preparation, just cold readings of “We’re going to bring people on would do something special and the scripts on stage. stage and give them some voting Angie McMahon, executive director at Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport distill ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ down “The actor is learning the ridicpaddles, and they’ll be able to vote Ave., said if the “50 Shades of Grey in 50 Minutes” show does well, it might return after the second run of “Porn Minus Porn.” on whether the dialogue is sexy to, ‘If you take the sex scenes out of ulousness of the line at the same “Fifty Shades of Grey,” what’s left?’” time the audience is, so the fun is is not just the ludicrous dialogue, in “Fifty Shades of Grey” makes it or creepy,” Bowman said. “I have said Ben Bowman, who created in part watching the actors realize but [Bowman] reads the stage less sexy and more awkward. a feeling we’re going to get a lot of “When you remove the context creepy votes.”

“50 Shades of Grey in 50 Minutes” how silly the thing they’re about to directions, and his interpretation and “Porn Minus Porn.” say is,” Mullaney said. of what’s happening on stage is of people being naked or people “50 Shades of Grey in 50 Minutes” Angie McMahon, Under the Gun According to McMahon, the hilarious,” Mullaney said. “A lot having sex, the dialogue is com- is scheduled to run at Under The Theater’s executive director, said lineup for the show will rotate of the comedy comes from his pletely nonsensical,” Bowman said. Gun Theater the first three Fridays the show was created in response weekly as to ensure the actors descriptions of what’s happening.” “There’s no reason this is romantic of December, and tickets are availto the popularity of “Porn Minus remain unaware of the lines they Bowman said he thinks the or enticing. When that’s brought to able at UnderTheGunTheater.com.

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and the Industry Interactive program. Chicagoverse will focus on new artists in the entertainment and culture industry; Panelclass will feature panel discussions with Chicago entrepreneurs and businesses focusing on specific topics; Podclass will focus on classroom learning and instructional videos for students and teachers; and Industry Interactive will encompass industry practices and tours that Dynasty will take to show its audience the lifestyles that correlate with chosen career fields.

Chicagoverse is set to broadcast every Sunday starting Nov. 29 and will host new guests each week, Black said.

“There is something exciting about talking to someone very early on in their career,” Black said.

“We want to help showcase some of the younger, emerging talent.”

Jaime Black, founder and host of Dynasty Podcasts, wanted to create a podcast to showcase inspirational talent emerging from Chicago and give Columbia students an avenue to reach wider audiences.

Black said he wants to include more Columbia students on his podcasts because they are the next wave of artists and could benefit from the exposure.

“Teaching at Columbia inspired me to look even earlier [at young talent] and now that I am plugged into this network, it has helped give [students] a look,” Black said, adding that students were a driving force for the reboot. He said he hopes to expose their names more.

Local writer and media entrepreneur Jake Krzeczowski, who reports on the music industry, will be on Chicagoverse Nov. 29 to start the season and said he was already featured on Dynasty’s panel.

“I am always appreciative to put my name out there,” Krzeczowski said. “I spend a lot of time in the background [being a writer], so it’s nice when people know what I look like or who I am.”

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anniversary, Black decided to add updated components that will allow Dynasty to compete in the AFTER 10 YEARS, a Chicago web growing popularity of the podcast podcast is rebooting with new world, he said. programs, a video component “Now that people know what and a new campaign to include a podcasting is thanks to Serial, we visual storytelling experience. wanted to start them all over at Dynasty Podcasts’ new initia- number 1 because people will start tive is called Dynasty Next and listening from the first episode of showcases the coming wave of something,” Black said. young local talent across various The new campaign, revamped platforms such as music, writing, logos and a video stream are some performance and entrepreneur- of the elements he was excited to ship—something Dynasty has share with audiences. done for the last 10 years through “We wanted to re-evaluate live audio streaming only. Now, everything and start from scratch,” live video broadcasting will be Black said. “[We wanted to] take added to the web series. the spirit of what we were doing Dynasty Podcasts was cre- before, update and refocus it.” ated by Jaime Black, a lecturer Black said the reboot will in Columbia’s Business & introduce four programs under Entrepreneurship Department. the Dynasty Next umbrella— After the podcast ’s 10th Chicagoverse, Panelclass, Podclass » ariel parrella-aureli

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t’s not easy being a fan of World Wrestling Entertainmen, or so freshman theatre major Sharonda Tutson discovered when she shared her love of the wrestling program in a class presentation and learned some people thought WWE was for kids, she said.

“People don’t think I’m mature because [WWE is] like fake wrestling and has a bunch of cheesy storylines, but I like it,” said Tutson, noting that she has about 40 action figures and 11 games and gets looked down upon because people do not typically expect an 18-year-old girl to collect wrestling action figures.

Groups of fans with a particular shared interest are commonly known as fandoms. Each fandom also has factors that contribute to whether they are seen as OK or valid in society like the quality and popularity of the content they appreciate and age or gender of a fan group’s majority. There’s a pecking order in a fandom, with activities that are seen as childish at the bottom and those with an established status, prestige or wide-spread acceptance at the top.

Acceptance of a fan group ultimately depends on what a culture thinks is an appropriate thing to be a fan of, said Paul Booth, associate professor of media and cinema studies in the College of Communications at DePaul University.

“Outside of media, if you talk about any sort of fan group that’s accepted, your sports fans are going to be much more accepted than any sort of TV or movie fan,” Booth said.

“The reason sports fans are rarely looked down upon in our culture is because sports is considered a normal activity.

It’s considered a part of everyday life, so sports fans are just doing something ‘normal.’”

Tutson said along with her age, she thinks being female makes people look at her more strangely for liking WWE. “WWE is seen as a men’s interest, not women’s,” Tutson said. “To be a girl and own action figures and video games and watch [‘WWE RAW’] every Monday night—it’s different.”

Fan activities seen as stereotypically feminine, like a common adoration for a particular movie star, do not fare much better.

“If [a fan group] is all females, people are like, ‘Um, this doesn’t really matter because it’s what girls like, and girls just think the guys are attractive, and that’s all that matters to them,’” said Tayler Reed, senior design and creative writing double major and Muggles Association of Columbia president.

Those who retain an interest in childhood games or entertainment are also ridiculed.

Freshman film major Graham Frassinelli said he has had a similar experience with his love of Tokusatsu, Japanese live-action TV and movies like “Power Rangers” or “Godzilla.”

“A lot of the shows I watch are targeted to an age range of 8- to 13-year-old Japanese youngsters, so I do get some weird looks when I’m watching it, and they’re spouting dialogue that makes no sense outside of a children’s show,” Frassinelli said.

Robin Brenner, a teen librarian at the Brookline Public Library in Massachusetts and author of the article “Teen Literature and Fan Culture” in Young Adult Library Services vol. 11 issue 4, said the general power balance of our culture affects how people view fan groups, and if a person is already outside of the mainstream majority, what that person likes is automatically considered less valuable.

“There is a gender bias, and there always will be for something young teenage girls like [especially],” Brenner said.

“There will be a lot more criticism and policing of the way people are fans.”

According to Brenner, people were up in arms a few years ago about the extent to which teenage girls were fans of and enjoyed “The Twilight Saga.”

“The Twilight Saga” was a phenomenon among most young women, but it also resonated with adults and became a large fan group that was likened to a cult by people like Miley Cyrus in 2009 and many media sources.

Along with gender and age bias, Frassinelli said other factors influence people’s perceptions of fan groups.

“Some [fan groups] are based around a work that is not high quality in a lot of people’s eyes, like ‘Twilight,’ and there are fandoms where the work is not necessarily low quality, [but] it’s the actions and the way the people who are into it behave that makes people uncomfortable,” Frassinelli said.

So much for external perceptions of fans being the only negativity fans face, because being an active member of a fan group ends up inviting other problems as well. Each fandom has fans who go too far at times like those who make “rules” and try to make other fans prove their knowledge on the material before conceding they are a “real” fan, Brenner said.

“It’s just a matter of knowing not every fan is like that,” said Tabitha Rees, a junior business & entrepreneurship major and vice president of Muggles Association of Columbia. “You have to be able to differentiate between the [fans] who go too far and the ones that have an average, healthy relationship.”

Reed said she thinks larger fandoms like that of “Harry Potter” tend to be more widely accepted because of the “nostalgia factor.” People understand those types of fandoms because they have been around for so long.

Some of those people who are considered most fanatic— the word from which fan is derived—are known as “shippers.” They want the character, actor or artist to be in a relationship with someone of their choosing, often another character, actor or artist. These shippers are known for creating fan art or fanfiction depicting the people they “ship” in a relationship together.

“Each fandom has a weird part of it,” Rees said. “Shippers are usually looked down upon in every fandom. I totally get how shippers are looked down upon because there are those crazy ones who make actors uncomfortable.”

Rees added people think star-oriented fan groups are only made up of women who watch shows like “Supernatural” because the main characters are attractive, but the fan group has a huge subgroup made up of nonheterosexual women or men.

For example, it is assumed the majority of “Glee” fans are teenage girls, when most of the friends Rees has made are either adult women older than 30 or males, she said.

“When the loudest part of a fandom is teenage girls, everyone assumes everyone who follows those people is a teenage girl,” said Skyler Ray, Columbia Whovians president—a group devoted to all things related to the BBC show “Doctor Who”—and a senior cinema art + science major. “There’s this crazy atmosphere because they can be really excited and there’s a lot of screaming that happens, but that’s their way of being excited.”

In fact, the only difference between teenage girl fandoms and sports fandoms is: it is typically older men screaming instead, which makes it OK, Ray said. If the straight, white male majority of the population can relate to the interest, it confers automatic acceptance.

Someone interested in wine or cigars rather than anime is more likely to be considered an aficionado, devotee or connoisseur. People who do not fit into that straight, white male label have a harder time being accepted for their interests.

“I have a friend who is very into One Direction but is a 20-year-old, genderqueer human being, and those [fans]

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get looked down on so much, even though it’s just four boys running around on stage,” Ray said. “The fact that they have a [mainly] female teenage following, everyone is like, ‘They’re all crazy.’”

Or as Booth notes, the things young people are fans of tend to be less valued than the things adults like. “[The prejudice] is not because the fans of One Direction are any different than other fans, it’s that One Direction is considered a juvenile type of fandom,” Booth said.

David Zoltan, Fleet Admiral and founder of Geek Bar Beta, 1941 W. North Ave., believes the inherent prejudice against things teenage girls like should be challenged.

“We have a culture of people who are deeply passionate about all these various things we surround ourselves with as geeks,” Zoltan said. “We need to find ways to not just celebrate the things we love but the things other people love as well and find ways to celebrate them together in a way that is conducive to all of us living our lives with joy.”

Ray and Reed both agreed the ranking system put in place to decide which fandoms deserve respect does not make sense and should not be the social norm.

Ray noted people always have “weird” prejudices against things other people like, but no one has any basis for why they are against people liking a certain thing.

Reed said respecting everyone’s interests is just the kind thing to do.

“People are just shitty,” Reed said. “Just because you love something so much, people want to ruin it for you. They don’t like it, so you shouldn’t like it. I don’t think there’s any good reason people have to be mean about fandoms.”

Reed said because YouTube fandoms are still fairly new, older people are still trying to understand why it is popular among the youth.

There are different ways to find a fandom one may fit into whether it is online or in person because fan groups exist for almost everything. People who love something a lot will find others who do as well.

Brenner said communities can form at conventions, but the biggest communities are forming online. She added that conventions are ways for fans to connect with each other and find other people who like what they like and will not think it is weird.

“I think [fandom is] an amazing space people have created outside of school where you learn and create together by helping each other,” Brenner said. “Everyone has that moment in life [when] they find their people—some people have it in high school, some have it in college.”

Fan groups help people express their creativity in ways they probably would not otherwise do, and fan art, fanfiction, fan videos and fan music come from a desire to share and be part of the art someone loves, Brenner said.

“Anyone who considers themselves part of geek culture should have every right to celebrate within that culture,” Zoltan said. “[At Geek Bar], we embrace the fact we recognize people like ourselves who embrace that geeky side of their nature and have cool stuff they’re doing and want to share with the world.”

Rees said she believes attending Columbia and finding people accepting of her fandoms is karma coming back to help her after she lost a friend group in high school because they did not understand her love of “Harry Potter.”

“I’m in college now, so I’m supposed to be growing up and getting a life and moving on passed all those children’s franchises, but I can’t bring myself to tear away from them,” Frassinelli said. “They’re such a big part of my identity that I have no desire to let them go away.” zeitel@chroniclemail.com

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How to celebrate Thanksgiving away from home in Chicago » ariel parrella-aureli

roasted tomatoes, bread crumbs, scallions and bacon.

“We added it to the menu after TO MANY, THANKSGIVING can mean a couple of people requested it,” gathering with family and enjoy- Sportun said. ing copious amounts of food, but The Goddess and Grocer’s there are other ways to spend the Thanksgiving menu will be availday than eating mashed potatoes able in stores from Nov. 24–29. and becoming a couch potato.

For a complete list of the menu For students who will stay in and the store locations, visit Chicago for the holiday, there GoddessAndGrocer.com. are several take-out restaurant options that can satisfy their County Barbeque, a popular barThanksgiving needs without becue joint at 1352 W. Taylor St. in breaking the bank. Volunteer Little Italy, will offer a take-out opportunities in the city also give Thanksgiving menu for the first students a chance to do something time, said Bonni Cameron, the meaningful for the community. restaurant’s general manager.

“I figured it was a good time to get ready for the season,” said Take-Out Options Cameron, who has been the manT he G oddess and G rocer , a ager since Aug. 1. restaurant and bakery with six Cameron said County added its Chicago locations, has served a own spin to the Thanksgiving turThanksgiving menu for pick-up key after researching what others or in store for about 12 years, were serving and decided to offer according to Sara Sportun, the a smoked turkey, keeping the BBQ restaurant’s director of catering. house’s theme.

She said the menu includes tradi“[The menu] is fairly traditional tional Thanksgiving dishes with a because people like to keep to traclassic and gourmet twist. dition,” Cameron said.

Sportun said the turkey sausage The Thanksgiving menu for with apple stuffing is a popular County Barbeque is available at dish that is an unexpected hit.

DMKCountyBarbeque.com. The She said this year the creamy turkeys come in 10–12 pounds and mac and cheese will make its are $70 each, with sides at $10 per debut on the menu, which features quart. 72-hour notice is required.

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are needed to help collect donated food bags and hand them out to people in need from GCFD’s warehouse, 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, as well as through their local partners at soup kitchens, food pantries and homeless shelters.

He said volunteer space fills up quickly, so those wanting to participate should check the website calendar at ChicagosFoodBank. org for availability.

“We want to be sure people can have a good holiday,” Conwell said.

Volunteer Opportunities

T he G reater C hicago Food Depository is always seeking volunteers, especially during the holiday season, said Jim Conwell, director of Communications.

“The Greater Chicago Food Depository responds to hunger all year long,” Conwell said. “We do some special things around the holidays because we know the important role food and tradition play in people’s lives.”

The Salvation Army of Chicago Conwell said GCFD distributed strives to help homeless people Thanksgiving food last Saturday, and others in need, according to and will continue to give out meals Jacqueline Rachev, communicathroughout the week. On Nov. 25 tions manager at The Salvation and 26, Conwell said volunteers Army Metropolitan Division. She » Courtesy GODDESS AND GROCER

said The Salvation Army depends on volunteers, especially during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

“Volunteers are our backbone,” Rachev said. “They are really important to what we do.”

The Salvation Army will host several Thanksgiving dinners around Chicago. On Nov. 24, the Temple Corps Community Center, 1 N. Ogden Blvd., will serve food to approximately 150 residents, according to a press release from The Salvation Army. Two dinners will be held Nov. 26 at the Freedom Center, 825 N. Christiana Ave. in Humboldt Park, and at the Englewood Corps Red Shield Center, 945 W. 69th St. Students can volunteer to serve food by calling volunteer coordinator Linda Reiter at (773) 205-3502.

Rachev said the Freedom Center dinner will be the biggest, serving about 1,700 meals. Of those, 500 will be served at the center as a sitdown dinner, while center-based Mobile Feeding Units will deliver another 1,200 meals to homeless people at various locations in Chicago, Rachev said.

“Salvation Army depends on volunteers and donors this time of year to help us,” Rachev said.

“Any little bit is important.”

The Goddess and the Grocer offers an affordable take-out menu every year, and this Thanksgiving the restaurant is leading with its new mac n’ cheese dish.

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Samhain Publishing, Bollywood more human experience-[based], Don De Grazia, an associate romance writer Sonali Dev and specifically [addressing] things professor in the Creative Writing Amy Jo Cousins, who is known women deal with.”

Department, teaches a class about for her heterosexual and LGBT Dev added that no matter how censorship and said “taboo” suberotica novels. dark or taboo a subject might be, jects in fiction deal with what he Desir’s novel “Fault Line” she strives to create happy endings called “common secrets”—things explores issues of sexual assault for her characters. everyone knows about but people told through a male’s perspective Cousins said increasing accep- choose not to discuss openly. to make the subject more accessi- tance of queer individuals has He added that contemporary ble for men, she said. made her work well-received, fiction can serve as a vanguard for

discussion of taboo issues, citing how American writer John Irving helped create a conversation for tolerance and inclusion of gay people long before it was at the forefront of people’s minds.

“Even a few years ago, people did not openly endorse gay marriage, whereas John Irving has been presenting characters he calls ‘sexual outsiders,’ and making the arguments for inclusiveness, for several decades,” De Grazia said.

De Grazia explained he has personal experience with censorship and taboo subjects. His own novel “American Skin,” about the skinhead movement, could not get published in the U.S. because of the subject matter.

“At that point in time, once people heard ‘skinhead,’ they didn’t want to hear any more. The main character is a non-racist skinhead,” De Grazia said. “Even if it was about racist skinheads, there still would have been a story beyond that.”

Overall, the panel conversation focused on the idea that literature’s purpose is to create empathy

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Christa Desir has written three young adult novels, all dealing with what she called “edgy” subjects.

between the subject matter and the characters.

“It’s a breath of fresh air to have that sort of thing in the world,” Desir said. fenyart@chroniclemail.com

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INGREDIENTS: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 serrano chilies, diced 1 can diced tomatoes 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 3 garlic cloves, minced

Chana masala and healthy. The recipe can be altered in many ways by adding potatoes or any other vegetables to hana masala is a pop- add extra flavor. In some parts of ular vegetarian dish in Pakistan, it is cooked with chicken Pakistani and Indian cui- and known as chicken cholay. sine. I make this dish once a week Chana cholay—which is a bit because it is spicy, easy to prepare more dry than chana masala—is

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Krzeczowski said Chicagoverse Black has also helped give is a positive and beneficial out- Columbia students who want let for the city’s talent. He said to work in radio an opportunity Chicago is not as thriving a place to to gain valuable skills. Ingrid be a musician as is New York City Lejins, a sophomore audio arts & or Los Angeles, but outlets like acoustics major, has interned at Dynasty and the one he created Dynasty Podcasts for more than a are helping promote new music, year. Lejins is an audio and visual he said. producer for the podcast programs “I push out more music from and edits all the live streams. Prov Chicago than anybody else,” said Krivoshey, a senior business & Krzeczowski, who works closely entrepreneurship major, is the with musicians to uncover their show’s other producer. sound, showcasing them on his “Prov and I have been given the blog and various publications in responsibility of doing the video

live streaming and syncing it up with the audio and incorporating video,” Lejins said. “That is an aspect of the new chapter.”

Lejins said she has learned a great deal about the business side of the entertainment industry and live audio producing with Dynasty Podcasts through her internship.

“I’ve learned how to live stream, network and brand [myself],” Lejins said, but added the best part is working with Black and the other interns.

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She said the first video live stream test was Aug. 30 for the podcast’s 10-hour broadcast and was the initial experiment that launched the video component.

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Video: “Drunk girls get surprised with puppies” BuzzFeed is known for making clickbait comedy sketches that go viral on YouTube. However, this video has been all over social media. Female BuzzFeed employees were presented with alcohol and puppies. The girls reactions were hilarious after receiving multiple puppies. Let’s just say there were a lot of tears.

Blog: “The Jello Mold Mistress” Victoria Belanger of Brooklyn wrote a book on Jell-O and is therefore the authority we all need to tell us what Jell-O recipes are worth our time. From holiday-themed Jell-O shots to raspberry chocolate pudding pie, there is a dessert option for everyone who likes Jell-O, and if you don’t, the photography of the Jell-O is just as beautiful as it must be tasty.

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best shows from my childhood

reasons i’m not excited for thanksgiving

ways i procrastinate

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“Hannah Montana”:

My younger cousin:

Scrolling through Facebook:

I still remember walking into my 5th grade class and talking about things we could not believe from last night’s episode. Remember the time Miley maxed out her dad’s credit card? Or the time Rico fired Jackson because he was mad at Robby? That was good drama.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my family, and my little cousin has been adorable up until now. Last week when I visited my grandma in the hospital, this cousin whispered in my ear, “I’m going to cut you up in pieces and put them in jars.”

All I do is scroll. I pretty much see the same few posts: “Look I got engaged,” “Look at my cute baby” or “Look at this ridiculously fake website I get my news from.” I don’t know why I even open my Facebook app because I always wander on, get annoyed and log off.

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“Even Stevens”: The show that made Shia LaBeouf a star was a favorite in my house, maybe because the shenanigans resulting from Louis and Ren’s sibling rivalry were similar to those between my sister and me at the time, but we’ve mostly outgrown that. Sort of.

“Lizzie McGuire”: OK, so I’m a bit of a Disney fan. But what kid born in the early ‘90s didn’t love Hilary Duff ? I’m just glad Lizzie finally kissed Gordo in the movie that served as the show’s finale. He was much more genuine than Ethan Craft. Also, Lizzie and Miranda taught a generation of kids how to be best friends, even in middle school.

“Roseanne”: Don’t tell me this isn’t a kid show. Nick at Nite was the best thing about Nickelodeon, and probably still is. I never missed the 9 p.m. reruns of the Conner family.

“The Fairly Oddparents”: “The Fairly OddParents” is a classic. In fact, they’re still making new episodes!

Season 10 was announced in August, featuring Timmy’s new neighbor, Chloe, who will share Cosmo and Wanda as fairy godparents. Viewing party, anyone?

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Jell-O: My grandma’s in the hospital, but that won’t stop her from making her infamous cherry Jell-O. The thing is, I hate Jell-O—the texture just doesn’t sit with me. Every time I eat it, I feel like I’m eating the slime that falls on celebrities at the “Kids’ Choice Awards.”

Lack of mac and cheese: Am I the only one who doesn’t get to eat mac and cheese on Thanksgiving? When boredom hits around 4 or 5 p.m., I scroll through Instagram and look at all the delectable holiday goodies, and mac and cheese always seems to be present.

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Looking through Netflix: Most of the time I’m not even watching a show because I’m indecisively looking through all the options. It’s better to look through everything to make sure I’m watching the best TV show or movie while procrastinating.

Lying in bed and letting my responsibilities crush me: This statement becomes more accurate the closer finals are. Before I actually get down to work, I have to sit around and freak out about how much I have to get done.

Suburbia:

Watching HGTV:

My hometown is approximately 30 minutes north of Chicago, but you would think it’s a ghost town. Nothing exciting ever occurs, so when my family starts to ask me questions about my future, I have nowhere to seek refuge.

This one isn’t even my fault. I mean, the way these people take ugly, broken-down homes and make them into dream houses is so captivating. I can’t avert my eyes. I also dream of the day when I can afford nice things because my current style is clearance.

My mom’s “Lord of the Rings” playlist: I live seven houses down from my adorable grandparents, and they have a pretty sweet sound system in their living room.

Unfortunately, mother assumes that because it’s the holiday season, she can play “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” music. No, mom—please stop.

Staring at an empty email message: I open up a new email with good intentions of getting work done, but then I get caught up in my thoughts and pretty soon I’ve been staring at the same blank email for 10 minutes. Of all the ways I procrastinate this is the worst.

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With this app, you can easily determine whether or not a food product is vegan or vegetarian by scanning the barcode with a smartphone camera.

If the food does not have a barcode, there is an option to search for a food, ingredient or restaurant name to see if vegan options are available. The only downside is the app can be unreliable and quit sometimes.

So it seems One Direction didn’t listen to me when I asked them not to play “Love You Goodbye” live because of the emotional wreck I would be. They performed the song off their new album for the first time in the U.S. on “Good Morning America’s” 40 for 40 event Nov. 17 and absolutely killed it. Buy Made in the A.M. on iTunes—you won’t regret it.

Coldplay’s song “Adventure of a Lifetime,” released Nov. 6, feels like I just stepped into a galaxy world filled with electronic music, rainbow cats and glitter. I enjoy the new tune off their upcoming album, A Head Full of Dreams, even though it consists of repetitive beats and somewhat bland lyrics. As a longtime Coldplay fan, I know this song is not the band’s best work.

The CTA launched its “Ventra” app Nov. 19. Exciting—but not too exciting. It allows passengers to reload Ventra passes without visiting a machine, though that could already be done online. My favorite feature is the bus and train tracker. One feature missing from the app is near-field communication, which would let me use my phone as my Ventra pass.

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I do not think I’ll ever love anything greater than the ability to live-stream my DVR recordings using my iPhone or iPad. My new “XFINITY Go” app is hooked up to my parent’s cable, which means all of my recordings that I left in limbo in suburbia are finally at my fingertips whenever I want. I think I fell asleep to reruns of “Friends” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” every night this week.

Mulaney returns with his hilarious new Netflix stand-up special, filmed at the Chicago Theatre. Considered by some to be the best stand-up comedian around, Mulaney does not disappoint.

Mixing anecdotes about his Chicago and Catholic upbringing, his family and his adorable French bulldog, Petunia, Mulaney shows his comedic chops and—dressed in a sharp suit—looks great doing it.

Logic has never been anything but ambitious in his music, and his sophomore album shows no difference, taking place in the distant future. It alternates Logic’s solid music with audio of space pilots searching for a new planet, subtly acting as a warning of what will happen to Earth if we aren’t environmentally careful. The skit throughout is a bit cheesy, but Logic is still a rapper to watch if you aren’t doing so already.

Set to be released Feb. 12, “Zoolander 2” is just another movie with a thin plot and lots of celebrities. What is with this trend of making a sequel years after the original is released?

Everyone knows this movie is going to be bad, yet everyone will still watch it. Because Kristen Wiig is featured in it, I will probably wait until the movie comes to Redbox. I’ll be glad I didn’t pay $10 to be disappointed.

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Campus network update is long overdue

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olumbia’s website promises prospective students they will be immersed in an innovative environment with “leading-edge” programs that boast “state-of-the-art technology.”

It is true that professional equipment and digitally-integrated classrooms are readily available, but one technological failure continually holds students, faculty and staff back—Columbia’s Internet network.

Students frequently struggle to connect their laptops, smartphones and other devices to the college’s Wi-Fi

network. If students are lucky enough to connect on their first attempt, they often have to reconnect to the network several times in a single session.

Professors who integrate multimedia into their lessons are forced to spend their classes lecturing because the Internet is down. Faculty and staff can report technological difficulties online, but tech support is frequently delayed.

At a Nov. 13 Faculty Senate meeting, Byron Nash, chief information officer and associate vice president of editorial

Critics of campus activism ignoring root of student demonstrations

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tudents at the University of Missouri, Yale University, Ithaca College and Claremont McKenna College have made national headlines for organizing protests to address systemic racism and administrative indifference or abuse on their respective campuses.

The students who have organized demonstrations have been heavily criticized by the media. TIME Magazine chided them in a Nov. 17 article titled “The New Millennial ‘Morality’: Heavily Sensitive and Easily Offended.” The Washington Post’s website featured a Nov. 16 article with the headline “College is the last place that should be a ‘safe space’: A voice of protest against student protests.” In a Nov. 12 editorial about the Mizzou protests, The Chicago Tribune said colleges have created, “an environment in which seemingly

fragile young adults are allowed and enabled to avoid troubling thoughts, and the people who are supposed to be educating those students are required to second-guess their every word.”

These headlines flow from a widely held assumption that student-led protests result from raising a generation of overly sensitive, coddled brats who refuse to accept conflicting opinions and need trigger warnings for everything. However, those who criticize the millennial generation for being unable to accept others’ perspectives would like nothing better than to silence students who are speaking out against injustice and racism in their communities.

In a Nov. 10 column titled “College is not for coddling,” The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus argues that students are too easily affronted on campus

Editorial Board Members Kyra Senese Editor-in-Chief Abby Seitz Opinions Editor Arabella Breck Campus Reporter Dominique Jackson Metro Reporter Katlyn Tolly Copy Editor

Jake Miller Arts & Culture Reporter Alexander Aghayere Graphic Designer Chris Shuttlesworth Multimedia Reporter Evan Bell Photo Editor

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Technology Services, said the college’s information technology systems are 7–15 years behind, and the wireless network is two generations behind modern times, as reported Nov. 16 by The Chronicle. Nash also raised concerns about IT’s aging infrastructure.

The college has approved plans for a new fiber ring that will double the network’s current capacity from 10–20 GB. Upgrades are underway and should be completed by the Fall 2016 Semester.

There has been little communication between the college and students regarding updating the network. The implementation of a faster wireless network will certainly affect students, so informing them of the planned changes is essential to reassure students that their tuition goes toward reliable, secure, high-speed wireless Internet access.

Better Internet service is vital to academic success. The college has pushed for students, faculty and staff to use Moodle for syllabi, assignments,

homework and grading. Columbia also offers dozens of online classes that should not be jeopardized because of faulty Internet connections. Every student may not have Internet access at home, so it is crucial the college offer a reliable wireless network on campus.

Columbia is constantly adjusting and modernizing its curricula to adapt to technological advancements, and students are given access to cutting-edge equipment and software to prepare for their careers. However, this equipment and software is useless when it is supported by spotty Wi-Fi connections. The college’s wireless network has been an ongoing issue, and an upgrade is long overdue. Students have habitually resorted to using Wi-Fi in Starbucks and Panera Bread to get work done. Prioritizing and communicating efforts to update the college’s network would allow students to enjoy the advanced equipment and technologies that the college offers.

when “professors have to worry about showing famous paintings with topless women” because some may find the images degrading. Marcus’ criticism of recent protests at Yale, Missouri and Ithaca College ignores students’ legitimate concerns about racism.

College campuses have historically been and should continue to be a place where students are introduced to new ideas. The Chicago Tribune’s Nov. 12 editorial concludes by saying, “Students are supposed to come to college to be exposed to challenging ideas, not be protected from them.”

The editorial assumes the root of student protests are hurt feelings and a resistance to others’ opinions. However, students are protesting to have their voices heard and are rallying for the racial equality that has been continually withheld from minority students at universities across the nation.

Glossy university brochures have advertised their campuses as hubs for diversity, inclusivity and equality, yet black students across the nation have felt underrepresented, ignored and discriminated against. When black students at Mizzou tried to reach out to their

administrators, they were ignored. When centuries-old prejudices revealed in culturally-insensitive costumes at Yale were defended by a residential college master, minority students’ concerns were ridiculed. Multiple authority figures at Ithaca College have been accused of making insensitive comments or being physically aggressive toward non-white students.

Student protesters should be held accountable if their demands are unreasonable or if their tactics are violent or excessively aggressive, but students who exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully and legally assemble should not be attacked for bringing up uncomfortable or marginalized issues that outsiders dismiss as trivial.

Many Baby Boomers and Generation X’ers participated in civil rights and anti-war protests while attending college. Those protests changed culture and policy. The protests happening from California to Connecticut are no different. Students who protest injustices in 2015 should not be held to a different standard or be instantly discredited for being college-aged when speaking out against ingrained prejudices in their own communities.

Did you catch a mistake, think we could have covered a story better or have strong beliefs about an issue that faces all of us here at Columbia?

Why not write a letter to the editor? At the bottom of Page 2, you’ll find a set of guidelines on how to do this. Let us hear from you. —The Columbia Chronicle Editorial Board

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Million Student March lacks actionable plan » megan bennett CAMPUS EDITOR

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How do you think the college could improve its technology?

he Million Student March, a series of day-long demonstrations and educational initiatives—led by college students demanding tuition-free public college, student debt forgiveness and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers—sparked rallies at more than 100 colleges nationwide on Nov. 12.

In a same-day interview on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” the national student organizer Keely Mullen, a senior at Northeastern University, was berated by host Neil Cavuto, who criticized her requests for free college and debt forgiveness. He asked Mullen one thought-provoking question: “And how is that going to be paid?”

After a painfully long pause, Mullen replied “Great question.” She then proposed that the country’s richest pay 90 percent in taxes to fund the initiative, which Cavuto scoffed at, explaining that even taxing the country’s 1 percent at 100 percent of their income would not cover the costs of eliminating student debt.

A lot of dorm buildings are having trouble with [wireless Internet] and it’s really hard to get work done. ari lindo

freshman music major

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Statute for teen sexting necessary » abby seitz

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oung adults were once scolded for making out at drive-in movies, but now middle and high schoolers have smartphones and social media offering new ways to explore sex at a younger age.

Teenagers who distribute or obtain nude photos of peers and sexual partners who are under the age of 18 can face child pornography charges. States each have their own penalties, but child pornography possession, distribution and production typically result in jail time and registration with the state’s sex offender database.

Twenty-eight percent of undergraduates reported sending sexual photos via text as minors in a 2014 Drexel University study. Sixty-one percent of those surveyed were not aware that sending sexts is legally considered child pornography, according to the study.

Teenagers who exchange explicit photos, especially with a boyfriend or girlfriend, are generally not doing so with exploitative intentions. Teens frequently use pornography and Internet articles to learn about sex, so it is natural for high

The Million Student March’s failure to explain how its initiatives will be funded casts doubt about the practicality of its free tuition and loan forgiveness demands.

College affordability has become a hot topic now more than ever as the 2016 presidential hopefuls are addressing it in their campaign rhetoric. Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have outlined their own ideas— Bush has gone back and forth on the idea of free community college, and Clinton has discussed a cheaper but not free in-state tuition. However, Bernie Sanders—whose student organizations on college campuses make up a large number of the organizations that stand in support of the March— has taken the most extreme approach.

Sanders’ campaign website outlines six steps he will take if elected to make college more accessible, including making tuition free at all public colleges and universities, cutting loan interest rates by nearly 2 percent and imposing a tax on Wall Street speculators.

While I respect the students’ desires to fix a broken system that often forces

students to live with crushing debt even before reaching graduation, and I agree action needs to be taken, the group’s inability to articulate how such drastic initiatives can be financed makes its movement useless and further discredits its calls to action.

The millennial generation already has trouble getting recognition as a legitimate voice of the democratic system, and the Million Student March’s failure to provide answers to reasonable questions asked by Cavuto and others does not help. It only makes millennials seem hungry for handouts.

Students participating in this movement need to understand the drastic change they are demanding and whether it will help or hurt the country’s already-fragile economy. The idea of free college tuition and a debt-free future is appealing, but passion cannot outweigh feasibility when it comes to national issues of this magnitude. mbennett@chroniclemail.com

They could get new cameras for the film cage. It’s very outdated. berlin mair junior creative writing major

matthew hendricks sophomore cinema art + science major

The technology in classes is pretty good, but Moodle goes down a lot and that’s confusing.

schoolers to extend their sexual exploration to Snapchat and other applications.

When photos are passed on without the consent of the subject of the photo, there should be consequences. Like most digital content, photos are permanent and could resurface years after their original distribution and teenagers may not have taken that into account. Unlike adults, whose judgment is informed by the brain’s more logical frontal lobes, teens process decisions through the amygdala, which can result in more emotionally-loaded decision making, according to the University of Rochester Medical Encyclopedia.

Parents and sex education teachers have a responsibility to inform underage teenagers of the possible long-term effects of sending explicit photos to their peers.

The consequences of breaking child pornography laws are indisputably fair for adults who sexually exploit and abuse minors. However, under current laws, a 17-year-old who willingly exchanges nude photos with a peer can face the same criminal charges, despite

vastly different intentions. Lawmakers should change child pornography laws to account for teenagers who exchange explicit but consensual photos.

In the last decade, states have adjusted statutory rape laws to account for instances in which one partner is older than 18 while the other is a minor. Before the statutes were enacted, 18- and 19-year-olds who had sex with their high school-aged girlfriends or boyfriends could face statutory rape charges and be forced to register as sex offenders.

Enacting a similar provision to child pornography laws could protect teenagers who engage in sexting with their peers.

A criminal charge can affect college acceptance and employment later in life. Sexual exploration through technology is natural. As long as the parties are educated about the potential consequences of having these photos in circulation and no coercion is present, there’s no need for criminal prosecution. aseitz@chroniclemail.com

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METRO

First disability inclusion summit kicks off » ColumbiaChronicle.com/Multimedia

Can a more welcoming police station bring cops and residents together?

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A PANEL OF architects, building commission

members and real estate developers discussed redesigning the North Lawndale police station to foster a better relationship between police and residents as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial on Nov. 17.

Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang—an architecture, interior and urbanism practice in New York and Chicago—presented the “Polis Station,” named after the Greek word for a tight-knit community. The proposed, redesigned police station, which for now is a conceptual proposal, features a community center with a community meeting place, shared athletic amenities and more.

Gang, a recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” also designed Columbia’s Media Production Center, which was built in 2010.

The panel included Felicia Davis, director of the Public Building Commission in Chicago and a former police officer; Mitch McEwen, an architect and designer who works out of Detroit and New York; Scott Plank, executive director of War Horse, a real estate development firm; and Ghian

the South Side and civilian member of the Chicago Police Board.

The panelists and moderator Gia Biagi, senior director of Civic and Urban Impact at Studio Gang, discussed the would-be impact of the Polis Station.

Gang said nationwide calls for police reform led to discussions of creating Polis Station.

“Polis Station seeks to contribute to this dialogue by exploring how design can help people imagine changes in police and community relations by taking a close look at the police station and the architectural space it has become over the years—in many communities it has become a jail,” Gang said. “This project hopes to offer ideas to help transform urban spaces into neighborhood investments and ultimately strengthen the community in return.”

Gang said her studio chose the North Lawndale police station because they were familiar with the area and crime that occurs there frequently.

Gang said the studio received funding to build a basketball court in the North Lawndale station parking lot from the park district and through private funding after presenting the design.

This project hopes to offer ideas to help transform urban spaces into neighborhood investments and ultimately strengthen the community in return.

— Jeanne Gang Foreman, executive director of the Greater Southwest Development Corporation on

Davis said that when she worked as an officer in the Englewood neighborhood, an

As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, a panel discussed the reimagined police station designed by Studio Gang called Polis Station. It is named after the Greek word for a tight-knit community and it is the root word of police.

» Courtesy STUDIO GANG

ATM was relocated to the inside of the police station because many people were getting robbed at outdoor ATMs in the ‘90s.

She said it was revolutionary because it brought people to the station for a non-police-related function. She said people also

SEE POLIS, PAGE 39

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often visit the station during the winter and summer to warm up or cool off.

During the panel, an audience member raised the question of whether a mere building would solve the disconnect between police and community members.

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Rumored 79th Street gang war hurts local businesses » gretchen sterba METRO REPORTER

Chicago is not only threatening the safety of residents in affected neighborhoods, but is also making it difficult to keep nearby establishments running, business owners say.

Chatham business proprietors on 79th Street claim rumors of a local gang war are deterring customers in the wake of the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Talks of a gang war in retaliation for Lee’s murder took place on social media after his funeral, but there has been no evidence, according to Victor Love, president of 79th Street Business Corridor Association and co-owner of Captain’s Hard Time Dining & Josephine’s Cooking in Chatham.

The issue was addressed Nov. 11 at a press conference held by the GANG ACTIVITY IN

79th Street Business Corridor Association at 436 E. 79th St., where community members planned to fight for struggling local businesses in the area.

“79th Street has come to be known as a very dangerous corridor,” Love said. “No matter if it doesn’t happen in our business or in close proximity, it still affects our business and businesses like ours.”

Love said the solution is for the community to come together to make businesses strong again.

Contessa Houston, owner of shoe boutique Lure Chaussures at 319 E. 79th St., said all the businesses along the corridor have seen significantly less traffic since Lee’s death.

Houston said she has created more events, like Zumba Tuesdays, and is teaming up with other local businesses to engage clients and attract more business. Houston said there are also employees who

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» ZOE¨ HAWORTH/CHRONICLE The neighborhood of Chatham is seeing a decrease of customers in local businesses on 79th Street due to a rumored gang war.

will drive customers home at night.

“At first it started to look like a desert,” Houston said. “It was the violence of [Tyshawn’s murder] that was the tip of the iceberg, but a lot of robberies happen in this area.”

Houston said she is considering

moving her business to the North Side after her lease ends in March because of the constant violence.

Melinda Kelly, executive director of Chatham Business Development Inc., said businesses in the area need to be “aware and alert” due

to the crime rate. However, Kelly said she does not think violence is the only factor causing business problems in Chatham, like poor accessibility and lack of mastery to technology, like the utilization of social media.

Kelly said Chatham Business Development Inc. surveyed some of the businesses in the area and saw several were moving for reasons unrelated to criminal activity. Kelly emphasized that the business owners needed to better utilize technology and to expand customer base.

“Business in today’s day and age that doesn’t have technology is going to hurt its bottom line because you have to be innovative to grow with the economy,” Kelly said.

Despite rumored and real violence, she thinks it is still a great community for local businesses.

“I hope the only image when [Chicago residents] hear and think of the businesses or our community, it’s not the bad things that occur,” Kelly said. gsterba@chroniclemail.com

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Anthony Nielsen

Nielsen poses for a picture with a polar bear on his trip with Polar Bears International’s Climate Alliance.

occupation: Lead keeper of carnivores at Lincoln Park Zoo neighborhood: Uptown

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nthony Nielsen has worked as lead keeper of carnivores at Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 N. Clark St., since 2010, but has worked at the zoo since 2000. Nielsen said his favorite parts of the job include interacting with and training animals, but he is especially passionate about protecting polar bears. Nielsen has a Bachelor of Science in fisheries and wildlife biology from Iowa State University. He took a trip to Canada to represent Lincoln Park Zoo in Polar Bears International’s Climate Alliance in October to observe the bears in their habitat and learn what can be done to protect them. He is also planning an event for the zoo that is meant to educate residents about how their actions’ impact the environment.

The Chronicle spoke with Nielsen about his work, his fondness for polar bears and the reduction of energy consumption.

THE CHRONICLE: What is your favorite part of working at the zoo?

ANTHONY NIELSEN: Spending time with the animals—getting to know them, their behaviors [and] personalities. One thing we do at the zoo is train them for husbandry behaviors to make their lives and our jobs easier when it comes to anything medical. When you train an animal to trust you, and you’re able to get them to do what you want to do without any stress on them or yourself— it just makes everything worthwhile. That’s what I love— spending time with the animals and working with them on a dayto-day basis.

Why are you passionate about protecting polar bears?

I worked with the polar bears at the zoo before they left a year or so ago. [There is] just something about their personalities [and that] they are a species that is threatened. The polar bears seem to act as an indicator for climate change, so by looking at the animals and their habitat,

According to Polar Bears International, penguins and polar bears live on opposite poles. There are no polar bears live in Antarctica.

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» Photos Courtesy Lincoln Park Zoo

you’re able to form that connection and realize that stuff going on here in Chicago affects the animals up in Canada or up in Alaska. They’re one of the animals I started working

with and just fell in love with and enjoyed being around.

greatly reduce the emissions into our atmosphere.

What can Chicagoans do to lessen the effects of global warming?

What we’re trying to do with the Climate Alliance is get people to reduce their carbon emissions in their daily lives. When you burn natural gas, oil and coal, you are releasing all this carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. You need carbon dioxide in your atmosphere, but [when] you’re burning carbon dioxide [and] there is too much in your atmosphere,it’s getting thicker and [is] trapping that heat.

That heat is unable to escape out of the atmosphere, which causes a disruption in our climate. Some things you can do is use your car less—use public transportation [or] ride your bike, shop locally because those goods are traveling less distance, turn your lights off, lower your thermostat in the winter or not turn on your air conditioning in the summer or try to run it less often.

Small things in your daily life can

What are you working on next?

What I’m hoping to do next year—hopefully sometime in July— is have some type of green fair here at the zoo, which will bring different vendors and things [to] show people how they can reduce their emissions on a daily basis and try to get people to [have] more green practices. So that is going to be a lot of my work over the next few months, getting this all together.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I have a wife and two kids, so that takes up a lot of my free time at the moment. If I ever get some time away, I like to go for bike rides.

I like to cycle. I also like to spend time outdoors near the lake and enjoy the lakefront [and] enjoy what the city has to offer as much as I can. mbraid@chroniclemail.com

METRO

CTA approves 2016 budget, restores cut bus routes » jordan watkins METRO REPORTER

LOCAL GROUPS ADVOCATING the return of certain axed Chicago Transit Authority bus routes declared victory Nov. 18 after the Transit Board approved its 2016 budget.

The approved $1.48 billion budget was recommended by Board President Dorval Carter, Jr. and includes a pilot program to bring back the routes.

Carter announced the CTA would launch a pilot program reinstating two previously eliminated bus routes, the No. 11 along Lincoln Avenue and the No. 31 along 31st Street, according to CTA spokesman Jeffrey Tolman.

The Transit Board made no previous indication it would restore the routes, but residents and elected officials have actively

lobbied the board to bring the routes back. “[President Carter] had conversations with elected officials and community members about the No. 11 and No. 31 bus routes,” Tolman said. “After engaging in those conversations and discussing possible options, [he] decided the CTA would conduct a pilot test of service in 2016 on the two routes.”

The pilot will begin this spring, but few other details are confirmed, Tolman said. CTA officials have yet to finalize specific routes, locations of stops or how long the pilot will last before a permanent decision is made.

Dozens of advocates wearing matching yellow shirts requested the routes be restored at a public forum Nov. 16 at CTA headquarters, 567 W. Lake St., which included all eight members of the Transit Board

Residents spoke to Transit Board members at a public forum Nov. 16 about cut bus routes.

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and various other high-ranking CTA personnel.

Alderman Patrick Thompson (11th Ward) spoke in favor of restoring the No. 31 route and said the areas served by the route have changed dramatically since its elimination in 1997.

“It’s been many years since [the 31st Street] bus has run, but there’s been a lot of change in our community,” he said. “The city has invested millions of dollars rebuilding our lakefront.... I think it would be a great attraction for many.”

One group that actively lobbied for the No. 31 bus route was the Bridgeport Alliance. The

group’s president, Ruby Pinto, called the news both “surprising” and “exceptional.”

Residents advocating for the restoration of the No. 31 route worked with North Side residents who, led by Alderman Ameya Pawar (47th Ward), fought to bring back the No. 11 route.

“Forming this coalition with the North Side allowed us to make this a city-wide issue,” Pinto said.

Residents of different neighborhoods are often pitted against each other but should band together more often to demand better public resources, Pinto said. She also praised the Coalition for A Better Chinese American Community for

its involvement in advocating for the bus routes, as many potential riders are Chinese-Americans who speak little or no English.

The budget does not raise fares or cut service, but it restores express service on Ashland and Western Avenues, continues existing capital improvement projects and predicts a $2 million increase in revenue from advertising, charters and concessions.

The budget assumes state funding will remain at 2015 levels because the state legislature has not yet passed its budget, though Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal would slash nearly $130 million from the CTA’s coffers. It is unclear how state budget cuts could affect the CTA, but residents at the forum expressed concerns that statewide cutbacks would result in fare hikes or service cuts.

Transit Board members declined to comment after the forum. jwatkins@chroniclemail.com

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the Chicagola nd Cha mber of Commerce Foundation and ADA 25 spawned the city’s first Disability Inclusion Opportunity Summit, held Nov. 16–17 at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Building, 300 E. Randolph St. A PARTNERSHIP BET WEEN

The summit featured teachings on strategies about how to include people with disabilities in the workplace and attracted about 300 attendees, according to Ann Kisting, executive director of CCCF. Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke during the first day of the summit, announcing the launch of Chicago’s first literacy task

The event included speakers, workshops and panel discussions about strategies on how to create a diverse workplace.

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» G-JUN YAM/CHRONICLE Scott Hoesman, CEO and founder of Inquest Consulting, led a panel discussion about disability inclusion in the workplace.

Disabilities Act, which passed 25 years ago, according to Risa Rifkind, program coordinator for ADA 25 Chicago.

“While there has been great progress over the 25 years, there is still a lot left to do specifically in education and employment,” Rifkind said.

People talked during one of the panel discussions about their personal experiences with the

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force to help decrease the educational reading gap of students with disabilities, according the Chicagoland Business Leadership website.

One in 10 Illinois residents live with a disability, according to the ADA 25 website.

“Economic and educational empowerment for people with disabilities is the next frontier in the fight for equal access,” Emanuel said in his address. “Today we have an unacceptable achievement gap of 43 percent in terms of reading proficiency between students with and without disabilities.”

Several executives and government officials attended the summit as speakers, including Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Kyla McNally, managing director and corporate investment banker for JPMorgan Chase.

“I hope attendees walk away with the belief that disability inclusion is doable and important,” Kisting said.

The summit celebrated the progress of the Americans with

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“[The building] has to be a part of it and the relationship goes hand in hand with the building itself,” Foreman answered.

Plank agreed that the redesigned building would help build relationships between the community and police officers, but said a drastic change must come from policy.

“The building can be a tool for the policy to change, and we also know when the building looks like a fortress, regardless of the policy, you are going to have less comfort walking toward that building.” Plank said. “The building [and] the rooms are just tools, but [something] has to happen at a policy level, and hopefully we are supporting the strategy to make a change.”

Foreman said the design would allow residents to see officers in a natural environment doing everyday things like getting a haircut or picking up dry cleaning . He said by allowing the community to see this side of officer’s lives community members would be better able to relate and establish healthy relationships with them.

“It’s still not a welcoming place,” Foreman said. “It’s never going to be welcoming, but we can make it more welcoming.”

Megan Baker and Maria Pia Jimenez, both students studying design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, said they found the panel discussion interesting.

“It also makes you think, as a citizen, of how you can claim those spaces,” Jimenez said.

They said they enjoyed the panel and agreed that the design is a starting point for a change in community and police relations.

“I wished they had talked more about police brutality.... It was like they wanted to, but they were shying away from actually talking about it,” Baker said. “You can’t resolve a problem without saying it’s a problem.”

Jimenez said the station could be a place for police and community members to come together to address issues like police brutality.

Polis Station is currently on display at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., until Jan. 3. mbraid@chroniclemail.com

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According to Mary Jo Lampar- “When people start to work ski, chief advancement officer alongside our clients, when the strategies for its clients, said she at Envision Unlimited, only 25 non-disabled work along [disattended the event to show support percent of people in the U.S. with abled] people, they see that there and gain a deeper understanding intellectual and developmental are capabilities that haven’t been of the obstacles people with dis- disabilities are employed. She tapped yet,” Kisting said. abilities overcome. said it is challenging to get peoKisting said that the inaugural “I’m hoping to [learn] how we as ple to understand that her clients summit was successful. a society can attract and engage are able to do the work, and that “We plan to repeat this next year people with disabilities—disabili- when people are open-minded and with robust additional programties that are visible and nonvisible,” work as a team, great work can ming,” Kisting said.

Cotton said. be achieved. djackson@chroniclemail.com The summit featured panel dis- The Disability Opportunity Summit allowed people to share their personal expecussions and breakout sessions, riences about being disabled in the workplace. including a workshop called “Do the Right Thing,” which Cotton said opened her eyes to the experiences people with disabilities have to endure.

“What can we do to raise our awareness of what it must be like to be in the body, mind and heart of someone who just thinks differently than some of us?” Cotton said.

Kisting said around 17 businesses registered to attend the summit, including Envision Unlimited, an organization that connects adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities with job opportunities » G-JUN YAM/CHRONICLE in the city.

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