Spring quarter music guide
Summer concert scene...
A look at upcoming music and concerts
Which summer music fest is best for you? Arts & Life, page 16
Focus, page 14-15
Vol. # 97, Issue # 19
| April 8, 2013
Student killed in wrong-way crash Off-duty police officer allegedly hit student’s vehicle on Lake Shore Drive
By DYLAN MCHUGH News Editor Asuncion Torres’ last words to her son were “Be careful.” But it was the alleged carelessness of another that caused her son’s death. Fabian Torres, a DePaul University student, and his friend Joaquin Garcia were killed in a car accident on Lake Shore Drive March 15, after an off-duty North Chicago police officer allegedly drove on the wrong side of the road while intoxicated. Torres, 27, was a first-year DePaul student. Joaquin Garcia, 25, was set to graduate from Malcolm X College in May and aspired to be a surgical technician. Both were traveling southbound on Lake Shore Drive in a black
Photo from his Facebook profile
Fabian Torres. Jeep at around 4 a.m. when Terrell Garrett, 35, collided head-on with his Chevy Trailblazer. According to Huffington Post Chicago, a judge set Garrett’s bail at $500,000 at a hearing March 18. Garrett allegedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.184 — more than double the legal limit — according to prosecutors at the
hearing. Garrett celebrated his birthday on the same day as the accident. Garrett is charged with two felony counts of reckless homicide and two felony counts of aggravated driving under the influence. In a statement released Friday, the North Chicago Police Department said they “immediately relieved Officer Terrell Garrett of his police powers and has placed him on administrative leave pending the outcome of the Chicago Police Department’s investigation.” Cecilia Garcia, Joaquin Garcia’s mother, told WGN-TV that she was heartbroken about the accident. “I don’t know how to feel about… that this man comes out with a bail bond and gets to walk home,” said Garcia. “Our kids never will come home to us, never.”
Garrett was recovering from injuries and was in serious condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center at the time of the hearing, according to Huffington Post Chicago. In the days following the accident, some protestors held signs outside of the hospital intended for Garrett, including one that read “Happy Birthday Killer!” The Torres and Garcia families also held a vigil on March 18, and marched from 26th and Pulaski streets to the Cook County Criminal County Administration buildings protesting Garrett’s bond. Garrett was released from the hospital March 25, and needed to post 10 percent of the bail — $50,000 — to return home under electronic monitoring. Garrett’s first hearing See TORRES, page 7
On alert..?
The threat of North Korea may not be what the media portrays. Opinions, page 12
Remembering Roger Arts & Life, page 19
DePaul Art Museum celebrates anniversary of Armory exhibit Modern art show’s 100-year return By COURTNEY Jacquin Arts & Life Editor There were no riots at the DePaul Art Museum Friday evening. It is unlikely riots will break out at the museum in the foreseeable future. In 1913, it was a different story. For and Against Modern Art: The Armory Show + 100, on view at the DePaul Art Museum through June 16, revisits some of the original works and artists from the Armory Show of 1913, the show that introduced shocked Americans to modern art. The Armory Show visited the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913 to roughly 189,000 outraged patrons. “The Armory Show was the most important art exhibition ever in America,” said Mark Pohlad, guest curator for the exhibit and associate professor of art and architecture at DePaul. One hundred years later, of course, it seems wild that works by great artists like Matisse and Picasso would’ve incited such rage, but DPAM’s exhibit is striving to look at the work on a more conceptual level. “We wanted to go beyond the clichés,” said Pohlad. “It’s not just the fact that people flipped out and were really offended, but why were they offended. We’re really trying to understand that.”
AMANDA DRISCOLL| The DePaulia
A patron reads information about For and Against Modern Art: The Armory Show at the opening reception Friday, April 5 at the DePaul Art Museum. The show will run through June 16. The DPAM exhibit, like the original, Academy, The City as Subject and Body. ing taught one way, and their art is radicombines American and European art- The Academy references the art that art cally different,” said Pohlad. “It’s a hoax.” City as Subject works cover the right ists of the time with “radicals of former education students were receiving around years,” like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and the turn of the century in America focusSee ART, page 21 ing mainly on realism. Gauguin. “You’re an art student and you’re beThe exhibit takes three focuses: The