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6 “High” schools?

COD hosts drug in schools symposium FEATURES

9 Ben Pohl: car crash survivor, motivational speaker

10 Kong Skull Island, all-star apocalypse 12 Mirror Face: Candid portraitures of artists’ lives OPINION

16 Pro-Hijab, the Nike version

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NEWS Q&A: A sit down with the Vice President for Student Affairs Earl Dowling Kitt Fresa · News Editor

Kitt Fresa: Can you run me through a typical day at your job?

Earl Dowling: The best part about my job, I do not have a typical day. I have a calendar that was setup days in advance. You come into the office, meetings; something's come up; student needs to see me.

That’s the fun part, there is just not a typical day.

KF: What are the functions here at the office of student affairs?

ED: Well student affairs division, over 200 people, counting student employees. Over $19 million, near $20 million in the budget, and the thing that we like to say in student affairs is that we touch every prospective student whether they were in high school, in the workforce, the military. We get to touch, figuratively speaking, from the time they think about college, through every day that they're a college student, when they finish, during their free time. I go to the fitness center in my noon hour. Students, athletics and the fitness center reports to me.

So student affairs touches all the students o v e r

there. Whether they finish and complete why they came to College of DuPage in the first place, in one semester, one year, two years, three years, and they walk across the stage with a certificate for a degree, or they enter the workforce with a promotion or a new job. That’s what we do.

KF:What kind of decisions have you made that affected students in a big way?

and our practices are aimed toward that North Star, the strategic plan. We may make a decision, such as comfort dogs. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but for a number of our students they are. The registration decisions, we made a decision that when the federal f i -

ED: I don’t unilaterally make decisions. What we do as a division is that we use the strategic long-range plan as our North Star. What do I mean by that? That’s our guide. That strategic plan, we went through all the constituents groups on this campus, signed off on by the president, adopted by the college’s board of trustees. This is our North Star, and so the department heads and I sit around this table, and we make sure that our policies

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nancial aid rule changed, and college universities could start awarding aid earlier, many community colleges in our area decided they weren't going to do that. We said, “no.”

Our strategic plan calls that making College of DuPage affordable, points toward our North S t a r.

soon as they get on this campus. This is my college, and I’m going to get something out of this. We have students on this campus, and I see them out here in the living room everyday.

We’ve got students on this campus that had all the advantages in high school.

Every advantage that you could think of, they got it, and they’re here, and they’re on their way to doing something else. I’ve got students that didn't have a dime growing up, and we treat that individual just like the one that had all those advantages.

KF: So what are your That’s what I want to do in main objectives as vice student affairs. You’ll feel president of student af- a pride about this place, so that when it’s all done fairs? you’re going to tell me ED: We want, I want, the same thing that two but I, personally, I want graduates told me. One is College of DuPage to be a physician down south, known as a welcoming way out of state. Startcampus. I believe that it is. ed at College of DuPage I want to keep it that way. because he didn't quite I want students to, this is know what he wanted to going to sound a little sil- do. Bright guy, good test ly, I want students’ scores, good high school. chest’s to He just didn't know exswell as actly what he wanted to do. So he came here and went through College of DuPage, got his bachelor's degree, went through med school and is now, I think, a n emerDAVID JURA/COURIER gency We’re one of the few community colleges to award financial aid on the federal schedule, which was a brand new schedule. You had to re-tool your computer, and all of that stuff so, there are large decisions, medium decisions, small decisions, some students know about. Some are, thank goodness, transparent to students that doesn’t make any difference to them. We think that the decisions we make are for the better, but, regardless, it all points toward that North Star.

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room physician. He told me in a telephone conversation, College of DuPage was the best education he got, and he’s now a doctor.

So I’m having breakfast the other morning with an attorney, started at College of DuPage. Went through here, undergraduate and then an area of law school, and told me at breakfast it all started here.

My last example, I have a guy who just rocked the socks off test scores, bright guy, and you’d think this guy is going to be a nuclear whatever. He wanted to own his own automobile garage. Well, guess what?

Today in this area he owns an automobile garage, right here. That’s what's exciting about student affairs; I get to see all this.

KF: What do you report to the president?

ED: I keep the president informed. I like hanging around the living room.

Today I played a hand of cards, Uno. The other day I played a game from Pakistan. The students won’t admit it, but I cleaned up. When they read this they’ll say, ‘No Way.’ I cleaned up. No money.

I tell the president about what I’m hearing, what I’m sensing. She will ask me how are things going.

My department heads are closer to students than I. You're the first student I’ve seen this week. I don’t see a lot of students, except when I go out there.

My department heads see them every day, and so when they pick up on something, when they find out students are under stress, or that our students are concerned about something, or our students are happy, then they tell me, and I pass it on to the president. The big thing, the thing I probably get

paid to do, is that when the president’s cabinet sits around the cabinet table and starts talking about college direction, and college procedures, and college practices, and college policy, and all of that.

Everyone around the table will, of course, express their opinion, and they are all student friendly, and they’ll give their idea.

My perspective will be from the students’ point of view, because I’m the only vice president that has the word “Student” in his or her title.

KF: So how has the MAP Grant situation last year affected this year?

ED: This is probably the most frustrating part of the past couple years. We have students that are entitled to the MAP Grant. The State of Illinois will not fund it. Well, for us that’s anywhere in the neighborhood of a $2 million to $3 million shortfall. So thank goodness we have for our neediest student; for those Illinois students that are really, really needy. The Federal Pell Grant can't pay tuition, with a little bit left over. Last year when the State of Illinois did give us the MAP money late, then we went through all of our files, found out which student would have been eligible for the MAP Grant, and then we sent them a check. So we gave them the money back, but the frustrating part is that’s way down here in the calendar, when really we want to give it to the students way up here. This budget impasse on the State of Illinois, and its effect on our MAP students is just mind boggling.

KF: Is it possible tuition could increase or decrease next year?

ED: Well, anything’s possible of course. The board meeting is next week, and we had a good committee meeting last week talking about tuition.

The board of trustees will receive a recommendation, and they’ll make their decision, I hope at the Thursday Board Meeting.

KF: What else would you like the students to know about you and what you do for COD? ED: I’ve spent my entire career on a college campus, never ended. Once I entered a college campus as an undergraduate I never left. I spent most of my career at very, very large research universities.

If I were going to do it all over again, and if I were going to advise someone just coming out of college who wanted to work in my line of work,community college is where the action is. I know students out here. At the fitness center I’m on the bike, students walk by. They probably don’t know my name; they see me around. I think that working here where you have a kind of personal relationship, if you will, with college students.

I mean, you and I don’t know each other, but if we see each other in the living room we’re probably going to say, ‘Hi,’ and the fact that you've reached this point in my career, and I’m still having the time of my life and enjoying myself where I don't mind my hour commute each way. Because I’ll get here, and some student will say, ‘Hey, how’re you doing?’

Not because they know who I am, they just know that I’m around. So I like to think that’s the fun part about being a vice president for student affairs.

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“High” schools?

COD hosts drug in schools symposium Vandy Manyeh · Reporter

Drug Enforcement Agency’s Chicago Field Division Intelligence Manager Patrick O’Dea

Bill Clayton, grew up in a middle-class family, had a good relationship with his parents and younger siblings, scored good grades in high school and also played football. At the age of 15, he had his first experience with drugs as a freshman in high school.

At 17, he tried opiates.

Clayton went on to college, and experimented “every other drug under the sun.” Out of college he had a lucrative job, got married and started to raise a family. He vividly recalls losing an uncle who was addicted to heroin.

“I remember saying then that I will never have anything to do with heroin,” said Clayton. “At that time, heroin just started coming around the Chicago area.”

Years later, he was diagnosed with serious back pain. A family doctor gave him a prescription and later suggested surgery, which Clayton declined.

Clayton continued “doctor shopping” and bought pills online, something that was

once prevalent. His back pain subsided, but it resurfaced years later.

“That led to buying medicine off the streets, for several years it became daily use,” added Clayton.

Clayton remembers being told: “Why are you paying for a pill when you can buy a $5 bag of heroin?”

“That doesn’t make sense; I am a reasonable man,” concluded Clayton.

“This was how I was introduced to heroin.”

A serious addiction started, causing his eventual arrest and criminal charges. Today, Clayton recounts, “As a 38-year-old heroin addict, it has been a recovery for four years.”

He is leading the charge to help prevent heroin addiction, by being a success story that a person can overcome drug addiction and avoid conflicts with the law.

Unlike Clayton, many aren’t that lucky to share this success story. According to the Gateway Foun-

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dation, an Aurora-based drug and alcohol treatment center, 43 persons died as a result of heroin in DuPage County in 2015.

In 2016, “seventy-eight people overdosed heroin compared to 51 in 2015,” according to the coroner’s office of DuPage County.

In Clayton’s scenario, students across the state are being introduced to drugs in school, and may never be able to recover from this “regional epidemic.”

This necessitated the College of DuPage to include in its 50th-anniversary celebration the first of a three-part series titled “The human condition,” an event named and styled ‘“High” School – Drugs in our Schools” on March 8.

The gathering brought together hundreds of healthcare professionals, counselors working with kids addicted to drugs and community members to the Jack H. Turner conference room to get an outlook on the state’s heroin

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problem, and to hear from peers about ways this epidemic can be remedied.

“You used to think that children who have basic psychiatric need were exploring the world in search of the solution to their problem, and in most cases, that’s not true,” said Dr. Lukasz Konopka, a neuroscientist, and clinical psychologist at Spectrum Clinic for Integrative Neuroscience, in McHenry, Ill. “The idea is that kids are very much influenced by their peers, activities, media and home environment,” Konopka continued “So they will go out and try to fit in. It may be true that your friend Edward has been using all types of drugs, and they had very limited effects. But he may have a very different genetic makeup than you.

You may do it just once, and you are stuck.

“Now it becomes very difficult to rewind once that film is in play.”

The Gateway Foundation’s lead adolescent cli-

nician, who works with teens struggling with substance abuse, described the current trend on drug addiction among young students. Cassie Taylor outlined how kids abuse drugs through “Xanax crunched in gummy bears” and other ways.

“They will know how to use a drug, and use it very uniquely before any of the adult people will ever get to hear about it,” said Taylor. “If I need to know about a new trend, I will need to go to one of the 15-year-olds in my program rather than any of the adult counselors. Kids want to get high and do whatever they want to do.”

In fact, a doctor recently concluded that a gummy bear candy distributed by two teens to fellow high school students in Naperville contained marijuana.

The teens involved have since been charged in connection with this incident.

To put this drug epidemic into perspective, Patrick O’Dea, the Drug

Enforcement Agency’s Chicago Field Division intelligence manager, outlined his organization’s pivotal role in stopping drug trafficking. O’Dea provided statistics about what has been going on across the state and other states under his control.

“You have a strong source of supply, a plentiful number of users, high demands and high supply,” said O’Dea. “The result is the street gang and violent crimes, and of course the money changing hands from the heroin addicts to the street gangs.”

There are two remaining series earmarked by the college through its Human Services program. They are “Human Trafficking” scheduled for April 5, and “Domestic Violence” on April 19. Visit http:// oucalendar.cod.edu/cal/ main/showMain.rdo for updates pertinent to these events.

NEWS

North Korea Tests Missiles in an Effort to Target US Bases Kitt Fresa · News Editor

North Korea’s quest for power is slowly coming to fruition. March 6th, North Korea launched five ballistic missiles, four of which landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. This military unit is said to be tasked with targeting US bases in Japan according to KCNA. Kim Jung Un himself supervised the tests and was so to be pleased with the results. Sources also say that this test was seen as a surprise to US intelligence.

These missiles were launched simultaneously for a reason. If an attack were to actually happen, launching multiple missiles on a single target would overwhelm a missile defense system and most likely still achieve it’s goal. A correspondent for CNN said in an interview,

“They’re putting together salvos of missiles that may be harder to defeat, so three, four missiles going to the same place, maybe from different places.

That’s the thing that’s going to be a little bit harder, not impossible, but a little bit harder to defeat.”

The missiles themselves were not very accurate missiles and also not nuclear capable.

However these missiles were not North Korea’s most advanced missiles. North Korea has been working up to long range missiles that could house nuclear capabilities and also reach the US. However North Korea has been questionable in their effort to have those missiles survive the full flight of reentering the Earth’s

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sanctions. Former President Barrack Obama warned the then incoming president about what he thought was the largest foreign threat; North Korea. The Trump administration has said that this is a “very serious threat” and has also said they are prepared to use “the full range of capabilities.”

Thus still allowing the possibility of a military response.

North Korea only has the power to be at a full scale war for a very short amount of time. Approximately a week. If North Korea were to face a war with the US and most likely also South Korea, they would lose almost instantly. This is why North Korea has been chasing after Nuclear Weapons for

so long. The threat of Nuclear war is something neither the US, South Korea or any country wants. This is where the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) strategy comes into play. This is also the same strategy the US and Russia used in the cold war. Essentially, if you fire nukes on us, we fire nukes on you and we’re all dead.

It’s questionable what exactly could happen in the future. The only real attacks on North Korea by the US have been cyber attacks. The US has been reported to attempt hacks on North Korea in order to slow their missile progress until new political roles in the North take place. These hacks most likely had their start under former president Obama.

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F E AT U R E S Ben Pohl: car crash survivor, motivational speaker, automotive student Caroline Broderick · Features Editor (L) Car wreckage from the accident.

(R) Ben Pohl recovering

Ben Pohl saw himself as invincible. He was the self-proclaimed class clown in his small high school in Iowa of 250 students. He looks back at himself as having a life of luck. At the age of 17, Pohl’s luck ran out within seconds when he became a distracted driver and totaled his blue Volkswagon beetle, ending up in a coma for a month.

It was the Ides of March, Pohl’s own doomsday. His distraction came from his four other friends in the car, all with high spirits and headed to a party. His best friend, Tim Lewis, sat next to Pohl. They exchanged smiles and their lives changed forever.

Lewis found a friend had been thrown out the back of the beetle’s window, and he later found Pohl

drenched in his own blood and barely breathing.

Doctors were unsure whether or not Pohl would wake up from his coma.

They weren’t sure if he could speak. They weren’t sure if he could carry on past 17 years. Six months after the incident, Pohl was discharged. To this day, at the age of 37, Pohl has daily reminders of his accident, living with a speech impediment and often unstable motor functions.

“Life is so interesting,” said Pohl. “How things happen, why they happen.

It had to have happened.

I came to the realization that things have to happen to people. I’m not religious, but God knows he gives things to those who can handle it. It’s made me a lot stronger.

At the age of 17, Pohl’s

life had almost been over, but he would not have had it any other way. Because of his incident, Pohl flipped his entire life around. He is now an automotive student at COD as well as a motivational speaker.

“If I wouldn’t have crashed, I was already going to be a lawyer,” said Pohl. “I had it all mapped out. I’d be a big shot lawyer in Downtown Chicago, my life would suck. I wouldn’t be happy. Now, I am very happy.”

Pohl’s accident pushed him to live a life dedicated to living and to helping. “I feel like I owe something back to society,” said Pohl.

“If I can make sure that this does not happen to at least one person, it’d be worth it. Although my life now is awesome, what I’ve been through is crushing.”

Giving back to society to Pohl came in many ways.

Turning far away from his goal to be a lawyer, Pohl went to school for recreational therapy and ended up working with violent sex offenders at Statesville Prison.

Pohl labels himself as somebody who gets “burned out” easily. Everything must be changing around him, he sees this originating from his accident. After his time at Statesville, Pohl joined the armed forces and went to Baghdad as a government reconstruction consultant.

The Peace Corps. were Pohl’s next project. He worked as a special education consultant in Jordan where he lived in a village of 1,000. The treatment of special education students left Pohl in awe. He

worked in the village for a year, assisting in the development of new education systems, before leaving and coming home.

After all Pohl experienced, there had still been something missing. There was not one thing where he could not get bored.

Life back in Ill. became his worst nightmare. Consulting jobs consumed his life, he could not find another adventure.

“Last year I had done a consulting job,” said Pohl.

“I sat down, did a lot of thinking about my life and what I wanted to accomplish.”

Ironically, what Pohl’s dream was brought him back to the beginning: cars. His Volkswagon beetle was a passion project worked on by him and his father. Pohl recalls always

loving cars, even if they were the very thing that almost ended his life.

In October, Pohl enrolled in COD’s automotive services department and chased his dream of changing his downfalls into inspiration. Out of everything he has done, he finds himself the happiest and most fulfilled today as a student Pohl travels the area sharing his distracted driving story to civic organizations, clubs and schools.

Each presentation is individualized to its audience so that his struggles can be instilled into each listener, so he can save at least one person.

To read more about Pohl or book him for an event, go to benpohlspeaks.com

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MOVIE REVIEW:

Kong Skull Island, all-star apocalypse Kitt Fresa · News Editor

Kong: Skull Island is pretty much what you can expect from a movie that costs $185 million. It’s big, huge to be honest, and so is Kong. The classic monster is no longer dwarfed by skyscrapers. Now he’s almost just as big. Unfortunately, the plot is shallow and left unexplored.

The island itself is as big a mystery as Kong, and just as interesting as well, but the story only brushes the interesting bits and leaves most of the screen time to fights or long walks through the jungle. Skull Island is full of mystery, but only Kong and a few other details are truly uncovered for the audience.

The classic story of King Kong has been ditched.

No longer does it take place in the 30’s but in 1975, just one day after the end of the war in Vietnam.

Scientists, Bill Randa and Houston Brooks (played

by John Goodman and Corey Hawkins) bring the secret discovery of Skull Island to the U.S. Government in a request for exploration. In a jealous effort to beat the Russians to the punch, the government agrees and off goes

a melting pot of scientists and badass army men, led by none other than Col. Packard (Played by Samuel L. Jackson).

Kong: Skull Island is full of great action moments.

Classic rock plays as choppers fill the stormy skies.

The orange sun fills the background as the towering Kong rises up, splitting the sun in half. Those classic Vietnam vibes are most definitely captured well and intertwined with the insanity of fighting a 1,000-foot tall gorilla. If Apocalypse Now and Peter Jackson’s King Kong had a love child, this movie would be it. Unfortunately though that love child ends up being more of a ignored s t e p child as the

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movie loses it’s momentum.

If action is all you want, then Kong will deliver

(Don’t waste your time not seeing it in IMAX).

However, if you’re searching for a deeper story into who Kong is, you won’t find much of it here. In the beginning of the movie the setup for a great story is created. A new plot and unheard of discoveries are talked about plenty in the first half. I waited for those discoveries to be explored, but they never were. All of the most interesting and new plots that had been talked about in the first half had been ditched for ac-

tion. Don’t get me wrong. The action is great, but only the action is great. If you’re going to spend $185 million wouldn’t you want a great story, too? It feels like the studio played it safe this go around, and that feels all too common in film nowadays.

One of the movie’s greatest pieces also tends to be its worst- the cast.

Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Shea Whigham, John C. Reilly all are in Kong: Skull Island. The acting is good, but it feels like too many cooks are in the kitchen.

These notable actors are known for filling big roles, but in Kong they seem dwarfed and uninvestigated. When a character dies it feels contradictory to what is normally felt when a notable actor’s character dies, and it distracts from the movie as a whole.

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an over-prestigious standard we’ve placed on actors, but I couldn’t help but feel an emptiness to a character’s death. Some deaths just seemed like the studio was just trying to get rid of them. I never thought I’d say this, but there were too many good actors.

The money would’ve been better spent on developing emotion on just a few characters and exploring some of those cool, but unexplored, plot lines.

The movie overall is very entertaining, though few moments left me with chills that weren’t expected, and that’s always the best thing a movie can do.

It’s also very much worth saying that Kong: Skull Island is also attached to the same universe as the newest Godzilla movie, the one with Bryan Cranston. This means we can all expect to see the two King of Monsters duel it out on the big screen in a year or two. One can only pray that it ends up being better than Batman V Superman.

If you like action, then see Kong: Skull Island because it’s a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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Mirror Face: Candid portraitures of artists’ lives Joseph Molino · Graphics Editor Lucas Koprowski · Editor-in-Chief

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“Mirror face” is an expression used to describe the face someone makes while being photographed.

In this exhibit, artists Sarah McEneaney, Christa Donner and Keiler Roberts takes this idea and reinvent the meaning through transformative portraiture onto different mediums. The exhibit will be on display at the Cleve Carney Art Gallery from March 9 to April 13.

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The Ballad of the Sad CafÊ Caroline Broderick ¡ Features Editor Photos Provided

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College Theater's production of "Ballad of the Sad Cafe," written by Edward Albee and adapted from Carson McCuller's novella, will close its run March 19th. Directed by Brad Lawrence, the show follows an odd love triangle of the rugged Miss Amelia, conniving Cousin Lymon, and ex-convict Marvin Macey.

The show begs the question: is it better to love or to be loved? Tickets are $12 for students, $14 for the public. The show runs at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sunday.

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Welcome to the end of privacy

Vault 7, espionage and an attempt to change culture You are no longer in control of your life. Every single aspect of your existence can be tapped into, hacked and cataloged by the eyes of Big Brother as you are labeled with an ID number specifying you as a resource rather than a human. The threat of Big Brother spying on its citizenry is no longer just behind the cover of an Orwellian nightmare; it has become absolute and reality.

“Year Zero” is part one of a multi-phase information leak of classified documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called “Vault 7.”

This information purge will be released through Wikileaks, the illustrious organization which handled the Hillary Clinton and John Podesta email scandal. Year Zero revealed covert programs run by the CIA that leave the American citizen in peril through their malpractice of manipulating weaknesses in popular software for their advantage.

From Bradley Manning to Edward Snowden, and now to Vault 7, data leak after data leak has shown the entire world how much information the U.S. stockpiles on the global community and its domestic citizenry.

Manning released hundreds upon thousands of documents about the Iraq

and Afghanistan War, miscellaneous airstrikes gone rogue with countless citizen casualties and Guantanamo Bay documents illustrating the cruelty brought onto its prisoners. Snowden released priceless information on the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) countless projects and programs that aim to find vulnerabilities in software and technology like Google Drive, multiple popular social media websites and your smartphone in order to track down criminals and terrorists.

Vault 7 is yet another marker that shows how notorious and deeply un-American the U.S. government runs its agencies. No other country in the world has had three major data leaks in the past decade outlining in vivid detail how three major parts of said government goes against the moral fabric upon which it was built.

The most scandalous part of this new leak is the CIA’s disgusting practice of hoarding vulnerabilities in American software.

EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LUCAS KOPROWSKI FEATURES EDITOR CAROLINE BRODERICK GRAPHICS EDITOR JOSEPH MOLINO PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID JURA REPORTER VANDY MANYEH REPORTER HULON WARE SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ALIZAY RIZVI

Hoarding vulnerabilities means the government found ways to break into software and

lected them and used them in order to further allow themselves access inside large user databases.

Through hoarding vulnerabilities, the CIA has been able to create permanent b a c k d o o r s into everything you use d a i l y.

Most notably, your smart-

jeopardize the information its holding, and chose not to share the liabilities with the software manufacturers in question.

Instead, the agency col-

phone has been utterly compromised. Both Android and Apple have been broken into, and now have backdoors available to the U.S. government for

whenever they want to tap into someone’s daily activity.

Whether or not you worry about the government tapping into your phone camera while you smoke weed or take a shower is irrelevant to the fact that every single phone in the world is now compromised. The U.S. has the ability to tap into anyone’s phone across the globe and listen in on their conversations, whether over a call or turning the phone’s microphone on as it sits in a person’s pocket.

The CIA also has the ability to tap into smart TV’s microphones and listen to people when the TV is in a fake off mode while plugged into an outlet.

As well, they can control cars remotely through their comp u t e r systems.

W i r e d magazine showed how this is possible in a video from 2015, where they hacked into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee and turned off the engine while it was being driven on the highway.

What is most worrying about these documents,

however, is how they prove the government is attempting to shift culture through subliminal alterations in everyday media. The CIA proposed a program called the “Meme Warfare Center” (MWC), which aims to create memes in order to shift societal ideas and morals through analyzing the culture of specific populations of people, friendly or foe, and disseminate them organically into the population.

The MWC is just one of many different programs linked in this leak aimed at altering cultural values and shifting them to those which would provide less friction.

Although Year Zero is only about one percent of the entire information mass that will be leaked under the guise of Vault 7, it is enough to show how little the U.S. cares about respecting anyone’s privacy. Through the signing of the Espionage Act and the Patriot Act, slowly but surely the government has taken the voice of its people away and has given it a false sense of free will.

We, as a nation, have given up our freedom for a false sense of security.

To quote George Orwell’s 1984, “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

Views expressed in The Courier represent opinions of majority of editorial board. The Courier encourages all students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members to voice their opinions on all the topics concerning them both in and out of school. We encourage readers to submit a “Letter to the Editor” voicing their opinions on topics discussed in the editorial.

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OPINION

Pro Hijab, the Nike version Alizay Rizvi · Social Media Manager

Woman in a Nike Pro Hijab.

Hijab, the Arabic word translated to English as headscarf is known to be a symbol of fear amongst the western world. However, recently, Nike has released its Pro Hijab in an effort to try to dispel the stigma around hijabs and what they mean. Officially coming out in spring of 2018, the original ad is marketed specifically to the Middle East and athletes in the Middle East.

The ad shows top female athletes from the Middle East who also ended up testing the product: Zahra Lari, the first figure skater from the United Arab Emirates to compete internationally; Manal Rostom, a runner and triathlete who resides in Dubai, and Amna Al-Hadad, an Olympic weightlifter from the United Arab Emirates. While the ad is meant to be inspirational, and it truly is, I believe that although there is a high market for it, it could prove to be quite difficult to push through certain barriers. The sociocultural barriers are incredibly strong and can be difficult to break through, and often it will take more than

SOURCE: Nike

just a simple product to create a shift in the culture.

Now for a moment, I would like to really discuss what hijab is. As someone who has been a firm practicer of hijab since the eighth grade, I believe I have much experience in this format. Many people have this misconception of the fact that hijab is a form of oppression upon women. However, hijab is something that is personalized amongst each individual and each individual’s reasoning for doing it will be different. While the overarching reason for wearing the hijab is to elicit respect and modesty in the community, there could be multiple reasons as to how a person comes to choose this lifestyle, and often it is a powerful one.

When I was in the seventh grade, it was my first time attending a public school.

It was my first real impression of a world from going to a privatized religious school for most of my life.

And honestly, it was very scary.

The way that young girls and women were treated both in society and at school horrified me

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in a very drastic matter. I learned very quickly that it was imperative to know self-defense and to be agile.

However, the main reason I started wearing the hijab was because I was attacked in my neighborhood. I had learned through this event that because my body was rather small, my wrists could easily fit into a single hand of a high school boy.

Although this left some bruising, there was no major damage, and because of my rather heightened sense of fear in my younger years I neither told anyone nor did I report it. There was no amount of respect for women, and I felt that my dignity was going to be snatched from me. Therefore, through my own willpower, I started observing hijab and although it was very difficult, I found it to be rewarding in the experiences I had with people.

However, unlike the stereotypical aura that surrounds hijab, it is far greater than simply a cloth upon your head. Hijab, in general, is the observance, by both men and women, of respect for another person, regardless of gender, as a human being. The purpose

of it is to look at a person as a person based on their personality and human qualities rather than their physical beings. For both men and women who decide to follow this lifestyle, it becomes essential for them to lower their gaze before someone as a matter of respect and dignity and to be able to fully and comprehensively speak to them as an equal human being. The point is to not think of any single human being as a lesser due to physical appearance. Now the reason as to why women are requested to cover their bodies is one that is known of great importance. One of the scholars of the local mosque in Glendale Heights, Syed Mehboob Mehdi Abidi, said that women have a certain sense of delicacy that men do not have. The aspects of their physical form are one of grandeur yet a certain softness that is felt to be protected.

While wearing the hijab was empowering it was not without it’s challenges.

I was a long time lover of soccer, basketball and volleyball. I participated in some of the teams at my

high school. Many of the sports were difficult due to the fact that I wore hijab, and I would have to take a separate scarf that was made of lighter material specifically for sports so that I wouldn’t get too hot when performing. It turns out I wasn’t the only one who was having this problem. According to female Emirati Olympic weightlifting athlete Amna Al Haddad, who actually visited Nike’s sports research lab at their global headquarters in Oregon, there were very limited options for hijabs that are comfortable and lightweight enough to compete in.

As a result, Amna had to wash her hijab every single night during competitions, something that I, too, had to do after sports events.

Nike does a good job of marketing out to women who wear hijabs. Its ad is something that would be very inspiring to young girls because of the fact that many of them are put down for being interested in sports. In much of the Middle East, it is difficult for women to seemingly obtain a high role in society due to the socio-cultur-

al constructs that surround the region. Being athletic is seen as a negative in much of the Middle East due to the patriarchal view that sports are only for men.

It is imperative to much of the younger generation of young women and girls who see these successful female athletes. Seeing them break through the bounds of their stereotypes truly provides a sense of hope for these young girls.

They should not have to fear the dreams that they have due to socio-cultural construct. According to Manal Rostom, who wrote to NYTimes over WhatsApp, “For young girls to see these women and to see the revolutionary shift will change the face of sport for Muslim Arab girls, whether they wear hijab or not.” And while Nike does its very best to try to push through the barriers, it is up to us who wear hijab to actually be able to leap through the bounds of the stereotypes that surround it.

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The Dick Show Genre: Comedy Similar to: The Biggest Problem in the Universe No other podcast in my life has brought me so many good memories. From his feud with balding menace to society Maddox to his eloquently crass and sharp rants he goes on multiple times per episode, Dick Masterson has built a prime example as to how a podcast should be run. Every week, he brings in a rage topic, which is something that makes him absolutely bubble up on the inside, yet most of the time has such menial impact on his everyday life. Every Tuesday when a new episode is released, I know I have something to look forward to after being drained from my three-hour long genetics night class. —Lucas

Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Genre: Comedy, Exploration, Excellent Conversation / Similar to: Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Joey Diaz, Bill Burr Joe Rogan is a comedian at heart, so it’s no surprise that his podcasts are full of laughs. Often it’s kept conversational and a wide range of his comedian friends get together and laugh and dive into just about anything. That alone is amazing to listen to, but it’s definitely not what the podcast is limited to. Scientists, scholars, athletes, and people with the most amazing stories come as well and that’s where the podcast shines. Joe Rogan himself searches out the most interesting people he can find and lets them all spread their ideas and messages to his audience. I guarantee you if you listen you’re going to laugh, and learn a lot. I certainly have and there’s always much more to come. If you want to watch live, you can watch him on YouTube at PowerfulJRE. —Kitt

Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast Genre: Comedy Similar to: Doug Stanhope’s Podcast, Joe Rogan Experience Bill Burr has been one of my favorite comedians to watch and listen to since I was first getting into stand-up comedy. His sharp east coast accent on top of his building rage towards topics always added an extra kick on top of all of his routines. With this podcast, he talks about what he’s been up to throughout the week, whether he’s writing his next comedy special, on the road or producing his Netflix animated show “F is for Family.” He releases a new episode every Monday and Thursday.

Serial Genre: Crime/Mystery Similar to: This American Life Serial is a genre-defining series of hour long podcasts dedicated to uncovering the mysteries and grey areas of criminals who may not be guilty of the crimes they are convicted. With each season of 10 podcasts, the host dives into the past life of a convict and uncovers ways evidence used against them could have been misconstrued or twisted in way to frame them for a crime they didn’t commit. With two seasons out, that’s more than 20 hours of content just begging to be explored for anyone interested in Stephen King or James Herbert.

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COFFEE BREAK SUDOKU

No. 330

Medium

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How to beat Str8ts – Like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But... rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These need to be filled in with numbers that complete a ‘straight’. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column, and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to The solutions will be published here in the next issue. see how ‘straights’ are formed.

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To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely.

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SUDOKU

No. 331

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How to beat Str8ts – Like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But... rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These need to be filled in with numbers that complete a ‘straight’. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column, and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to The solutions will be published here in the next issue. see how ‘straights’ are formed.

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STR8TS

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To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely.

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College of DuPage Board of Trustees Candidates' Forum Monday, March 20, 2017 Turner Conference Center – SRC 2000 3:30–6:00 p.m.

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