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HAMILTON AND WOZNIAK ON THE BOARD The Courier asks questions to future board chairmen Joseph Wozniak and Kathy Hamilton who were voted onto the board after the elections on April 9. W: I know there’s been a lot of controversy with that as far as signing the contract and other things aside from that at the college. I think we should work together as a board to try to come up with the best solution possible for the college.

JORDIN GIGNAC NEWS EDITOR

reaction to winning the election? Wozniak: I was happy about winning the election and all but I am kind of disappointed about candidate Carlin not [being able to join me]. Hamilton: I was very pleased. Why do you think you were voted into the board instead of the other four candidates? W: I was greeting a lot and I think people responded well to that. I think the taxpayers are the most important people. I funded my own campaign so I did not owe anything. The only people I owe are the students and taxpayers. H: The community heard my message. What are your goals for the new 6 years on

H: Find more avenues of communication. KATHY HAMILTON

JOSEPH WOZNIAK

the board? W: My plans are to push for sustainability and cient on campus. To keep tuition as low as possible and continue to do the best job I can for the public and the college. H: 1. Keeping COD affordable by ensuring ardship. 2. Supporting and improving programs that meet the needs of the community. 3. Improving the relationship between the community, faculty, and taxpayers. What do you plan to

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ority? W in the best interest of the college and the taxpayers. I also want to help create the best environment as possible for everyone at the college. H: To listen, learn and implement solutions. How will you handle any further tension between the full time faculty members?

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32,424 CARLIN

What will you bring to the board that is different than the other candidates?

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W: Ever since I joined the board, I was the only one who was ever pushing [sustainability]. Our previous Board Chairmen Mike McKenna was talking to me a little more about that and he said that he was pushing it but I was the only one really pushing it at the meetings because I was the only one bringing it up and talking about it. I would like to create more sustainability at COD because I think that is a very important thing.

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13,904 Wozniak and Hamilton will begin their 6 year terms at the beginning of the fall 2013 semester. The two candidates will swear in at the May 7 meeting. The next upcoming board meeting will be Tuesday, April 18.

What is your opinion on the two candidates that were voted onto the board of trustees?

“I just hope the board continues to do what is best for the community,”

“ The results weren’t exactly what I expected, but the district has spoken,”

- Chloe Rodny, 19

- Hank Gordon, 21

“I hope the winners bring good ideas to the table,” - Lucie Leone, 18

“ It’s kind of surprising to see that Carlin didn’t make the board as he seemed to be pretty involved with the student

“ Congratulations to the winners, I hope they continue to remember the importance of students and the impact they have on the school,”

- Jeremiah Rodriguez, 18

- Olivia Martin, 20

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SUICIDE IS THE 3RD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

DID YOU KNOW? • 64% of young adults stop attending college because of mental health related reasons. • 7% of college students have “seriously considered suicide” during the past year. • About 1,100 college students take their own lives each year. • One in four adults experience a mental health disorder in a given year. • Over 50% of students with a mental disorder age 14 and older drop out of high school – the highest dropout rate of any disability group. SOURCE: NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS

ARE YOU OR A FRIEND DEPRESSED? SIGNS TO LOOK FOR

COD and DuPage county spreading awareness about depression and suicide, offer support ROSALIE DEASTIS FEATURES EDITOR

This past Monday, COD’s Human Services Network Club and Mental Illness Support and Advocacy Alliance (MISAA) Prevention and Depression Awareness Fair to shine a light on this issue that effects millions of Americans and to offer plenty of resources for individuals to receive help. Organizations at the event included representatives from Metropolitan Family Services of DuPage, the National Institute of Mental

Health (NIMH), the DuPage County Health Department, Suicide Prevention Services of America (SPS), the DuPage County Illinois Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and others. “Spreading awareness about suicide and depression is important because people don’t talk about it enough. There are places to turn and many resources in the community,” commented Dennis Emano, Mental Health Counselor at the college and advisor of MISAA. NAMI DuPage is the largest NAMI af-

Volunteers from this organization have visited many high schools and colleges to educate students on mental health and to offer support. “The more we talk about it, the more people won’t be afraid to open up about it,” said Julie Clucas, NAMI volunteer. “We can get this public.” “NAMI on Campus” is an extension of NAMI onto campus communities where students can lead clubs aimed to address mental health issues. NAMI on campus leaders have access to

a variety of materials to help them maintain their club. If you’re interested in starting one Campus Interest Form” on www.nami.org. With national hotlines, support groups, drop-in recreation centers, hospital programs, school presentations, education programs, and many other ways to reach out for guidance, all of these organizations are committed to assisting people who are not only dealing with mental illnesses, but also people who just need someone to talk to.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO • Join a NAMI support group. Call (630) 752-0066. • Call a SPS 24/7 Lifeline to talk to someone. 1-800-273TALK. • Get an assessment. Call the DuPage County Health Department Crisis Services at (630) 627-1700. selor. Call 630-942-2259 or stop by SSC 3200. • Attend classes and psychiatric services with Metropolitan Family Services of DuPage. Call 630-784-4800.

Entrepreneurship Club brings in professionals to motivate business students ROSALIE DEASTIS FEATURES EDITOR

On Wed. April 10, COD’s Center for Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship Club held a “Find Your Path to Creative Entrepreneurship” seminar where two guest speakers were featured to explore many aspects that go into creating and maintaining a successful business environment. retail and wholesale professional Nicole Leinbach

Reyhle. She has worked for a variety of retailers and wholesalers including Nordstrom, Adidas America, Sears Corporation and Franco Sarto Footwear. In 2007, she founded Retail Minded to support boutique style businesses throughout the world. Retail Minded was founded to help business owners thrive in their unique goals. Reyhle has also been an adjunct instructor at Columbia College Chicago since

2004, teaching various retail and writing courses. The second speaker was Joe Abraham who has been featured on FoxNews, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC and other radio shows on topics having to do with entrepreneurship and small business growth. He is founder/CEO of bosiDNA.com, a breakthrough technology that helps people discover their entrepreneurial ‘DNA’. “The main focus of this event was to get in

touch with non-traditional business majors such as photography and fashion design,” said Entrepreneurship club president, Michael Batts. “It’s important to try and bring the whole business environment together.” Batts also mentioned how Reyhle and Abraham let this vision come to life with their two different approaches to business. “I hope that people left the sessions with motiva-

tion to speak out and turn their ideas into action.” Entrepreneurship club’s next event will be this Tues. from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM in room SSC 3245. The speaker will be Debbie Myers Martin, Community Affairs Specialist from the IL Treasure’s She will be discussing the Business Invest program-government backed low interest rate loans for small businesses through local banks.

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Festival season is just around the corner and it is beyond awesome that I have been receiving emails from students asking me to teach them a little bit about the dance music world. Friends, here are the Cliff Notes of Electronica 101. CAROLINE KOCH

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Far too much time had past since we had seen our favorite glow-in-thedark rodent. We hadn’t seen deadmau5 in about twelve months, and by twelve I mean four... and that is four too many. It was 99 degrees in Chicago on the last day of Lollapalooza; it had been raining off and on all afternoon. all-electronic stage had been added to the 20 year running festival that sees over 210,000 attendees over three days. This was dance music act would headline a mainstage, not to mention close out the weekend. Plus, said act just so happened to be debuting a new stage set up, along with new material. Needless to say, we were Watching the glowing city skyline dwarf the massive stage in front of it, we waited in the perfect spot for the show to begin, worried the impending rain may ultimately doom our good time. The downpour began though, and it was not friendly. My brother and I looked at each other silently way this set was happening when – almost on cue – the stage was Where My Keys began battling the storm, both The deck was stacked: last day of Lolla, favorite artist, stage production premiere, new song, epic rain storm. There was no way this would not turn out to be the best show of all-time. Or would it? “Was that not the most unbelievable thing you’ve ever seen!?” Little bro and

I just smiled and kept on trucking, walking with the droves of people leaving the festival raving about deadmau5. There was nevwe were thinking the same thing until we sat down on the train with matching Eeyore expressions. It was written all over our faces: austere disappointment. The planets had basically aligned, and what should Photo via Rukes have been something to talk about forever just… artist is going to play their wasn’t. We were confused. own records and not veer Had we become playlist too far from that, the setsnobs? Had we seen too list already begins to build many shows? Is there itself. However, the major such a thing? What makes make-or-break factor in a a show good or bad? set like this is the order. There are so many things Just as in a DJ set, there that go into a show: the is a great time to play a location, the atmosphere, certain song and a not the crowd. Artists don’t so great time; the same always have a say in the goes for artist-only sets. where, who, how, when When we saw deadmau5 of a show, but they most at Lollapalooza there was a good 45 minute chunk over the what; the setlist. in the middle where he I hear over and over played nothing but ambiagain, that there is no ent, down-tempo songs. more paramount sign of There is no doubt that a a great DJ set than walkset is built around the ups ing out of the club going, and downs - the peaks and ‘I’ve never heard one of valleys if you will - but a those songs but that was great setlist makes it a the best night of my life.’ point to spend the correct While not completely amount of time on each true or false, the fact of portion. Everyone needs a the matter is, DJs are break to cool off, relax and meant to be tastemakers enjoy the music but if it and thus their sets thrive is too long, the artist runs on being built up live to the risk of losing the aufeed the need of their dience’s attention. For an audience. It is possible artist-only set it is imper that some combination of ative that the ordering of tunes that no one in the songs is built up just as house has heard could it would be in a DJ set, be the optimal setlist for only this time with the a show, but at the same artist’s own compositions. time, a setlist with nothOne of the biggest detering but Beatport’s top minants of a successful 40 could make for ‘the show is the energy bebest night ever’ too. tween crowd and artist. Flip over to artist-only The best gift an audience sets and it’s a bit different. can give is raw energy, Given the fact that the which in turn causes

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artists to select tracks that will move listeners and steer them in whatever direction they are intending to go. It’s bewildering when you think the DJ is literally reading your mind, but really, it’s the vibe being just right. That is the mark of a damn good show. The greatest enemy of any set is comparison, so when you go to ten festivals a summer, shows begin to get predictable. Even if you walk into every different event with optimistic clean slate, chances are details will get tweaked but set structure will remain similar. A large reason why so many fans go to festivals is because the hope is, the quality or scarcity of each act’s playlist will be greater than a regularly scheduled tour stop. These kinds of theories put supreme pressure on your experience, whether you are doing it subconsciously or not. We saw Bassnectar destroy his set at Summer Camp in southern Illinois last year, which made us even more pumped to see him again a few months later at the inaugural Electric Forest. So excited, that we even brought eleven hundred glowsticks to launch

into the crowd as a part of the ongoing Basshead tradition. Sadly, the set dragged. So upsetting! Could it have been that after seeing Kaskade and Tiesto we just were not in the mood? The expectations we set for the show were probably way too high. Does that mean it was a bad set or just bad timing? If we teleport back to Electric Daisy Carnival this summer we can study what is probably the best example of timing in dance music history. Here are hundreds of thousands of fans ready to see some outrageous sets from all the international titans of electronic music. Whether you were there or even just listened to the sets, you can spot the running song trends with little effort. Almost every set included some variation of the same ten songs. By the end of the second night we had heard Knife Party’s Internet Friends a dozen times. Any one of those sets in a different context would be one to talk about for eons, but because each ‘special’ set was back to back (to back), it made them all too common. (Continued on pg. 12; see DJs)

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Probably the worst part about all of it was that we were all just like hungry dogs waiting for the next bone to get thrown into the pen! Even when there was a break from the repetition, say an artist-only set from Pretty Lights or Bassnectar, the crowd was too caught up in the playlist and it’s like we didn’t know how to function without it. We just sat there waiting and waiting for these sets to be over so we could all jump up and down again . At some moments I thought things were going to take

ly obvious until Armin van Buuren catapulted us into a legitimately ground-shaking cyclone of songs we could not recognize if our lives depended on it, and BOOM: instant best set of the festival – a wizard among muggles. So what kind of conclusions can we draw about sets and why they make us go bonkers or feel like we just missed the boat completely? A multitude of components all come together to make a perfect moment, or there’s something that isn’t quite right. Ultimately the most

important truth of any show is that the artist has total control over what we’re listening to and at the core of any great set is the orchestration of where the set will take us at any given moment. On top of that, we also have to realize the non-musical experience is almost just as important as the tracks playing in the foreground. Whether it be the friends you’re with or the stage production and visuals, for the perfect set to play-out there has to be that one extra piece of the puzzle that puts everything over the top and allows you to ride

the glorious wave that is the live performance. But to send out the good vibes, let things come to you and just roll with it. This year we got a chance to see Tiesto at Summerfest in Milwaukee. He played late at night in a large pavilion and we could only get lawn tickets, but that wasn’t going to stop us from seeing our favorite DJ on the planet. To be honest we weren’t expecting much considering our seats, the overall feel of the festival and the sound quality. However that night, something we can’t explain

occurred and for two hours it seemed like all the planets had actually aligned. quieted down and we were on our way back to the car, we found ourselves in that same moment we had years before at deadmau5, but this time there was nothing but smiles on our faces and a lasting memory forever burned into our hearts. Remember: the next time you head to a show, no matter how big or how small, just know that the perfect storm may come at any time. Sit back, relax and ride the rave.

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SPORTS

Veterans Association tees up for golf outing AUSTIN SLOTT

SPORTS EDITOR

It is time once again to break out your golf clubs, as the Student Veterans Association will host its second annual golf outing Saturday, May 11. The event will cost $80 per player and will be held at the Village Greens golf course in Woodridge with tee-time starting at 10 a.m. The $80 will provide each golfer with a full 18 hole round of golf and a riding cart, food and drink All proceeds from the event will go towards the Student Veterans Association to help them get organizations like the Wounded Warriors Project or the United Service Organizations, as well upgrading the Veterans

Lounge on campus. “If I’m not mistaken there are around 1300 veterans on campus,” Student Veterans Association member Vinny Romano explained. “A lot of them don’t even know vets lounge exists.” According to Romano, there are 30 people currently signed up to golf but they are looking for more participants. “We had about 40 guys last year so we’re trying to double that,” Romano said. “We’d just like to get more of the college involved.” The club hopes to double the $1700 it raised Romano believes that the club’s jump-start planning the event will help draw in more golfers. The club has been preparing for the outing since February as opposed to the 40 day time period

in which they organized the whole thing last year. “When you do it the error, but now we know the basics,” Romano said. “Last year we went into it with hardly any money. Now we have some money in our account which we can use to get The Veterans Associprizes as good as the previous year’s, which included a free night in the Lisle Hilton, tickets to Six Flags and movie passes. “We hope for the same thing this year as well as getting restaurants in the area to help out, maybe with sponsorship,” Romano said. Students, faculty or anyone around the college are encouraged to join the festivities. “This event isn’t just for the veterans asso-

Who’s hot, who’s not? with Slott

AUSTIN SLOTT

SPORTS EDITOR

call yourself a Cubs’ fan these days. It has been a dismal past few seasons and the saving grace that is supposedly Theo Epstein has not brought the Cubbies many victories.

Of course instant success is not expected for a franchise that has as many issues as the Cubs, but it would be nice to see at least some progress being made. Hot prospects like Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo have showed promise in their few seasons with the team, but their recent play has fans second-guessing. Castro is poor defensively and immature and both he and Rizzo can look undisciplined in the batters’ box, lackadaisically swinging at crumby pitches. The good news is they’re both very young and have time to improve their game. However, the bad news is they are surrounded by incompetence, a los-

ing culture and deadbeat players like Alfonso Soriano whose embarrassing and poor attitude could have a negative effect on the younger guys. The pitching rotation is in desperate need of some consistency. Their best pitcher Matt Garza is on the Disabled List and the Cubs have no ace (not that they would even if Garza was healthy). Guys like Jeff Samardzija and Edwin Jackson are far from what they need and the bullpen is a joke (i.e. Carlos Marmol). Don’t expect any breaking of the Billy Goat curse this year Cubs’ fans, it will be yet another humiliating season. Final Verdict: NOT HOT, 55-107.

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