Inside “A day for the records ” Arts & Life, page 16
Vol. # 94, Issue # 17
April 11, 2011
Smith wins 43rd ward By PAIGE WAGENKNECHT Ward’s runoff election for alderman on Tuesday. Michele Smith emerged victorious with 51 percent or Photo courtesy of 4,938 votes over Tim Michele Smith Egan, who captured 49 percent and just 245 votes less than his opposition, according to the Chicago Board of Elections. The alderman-elect gave an enthusiastic acceptance speech around 9:30 p.m. at her election night party held at Grand Central on Wrightwood Avenue. “I am so proud and I feel so obligated to follow in the footsteps of the people who paved the way before us,” said Smith. “I want to publicly thank the people who put their names next to mine and said I was good enough to be your alderman. This was the most hotly contested race in the city of Chicago.” Egan accepted defeat at his election night party held at John Barleycorn at the corner of Lincoln and Belden Avenue around 9:40 p.m. after 58 of the 59 precincts reported Smith was ahead by a slim number of votes. “It’s been one hell of an election, folks,” said Egan. “It’s been one hell of a battle. All the votes have not yet been counted, but I’ll be honest, it’s not looking good.” “I want to thank my army, my team of volunteers, you guys are warriors. By the end of the day tomorrow, we might not have won this election, but tonight we have won something else. You’ve won something else. You’ve won my deepest respect, my greatest love, and my friendship, and that will never die. Thank you.” The two candidates first faced off during the Feb. 22 general municipal elections against other aldermanic hopefuls Rafael Vargas, Jim Hinkamp, Bita Binbuestro, Mitch Newman, Mike Jankovich, Charles Eastwood and Carmen Olmetti. Smith also emerged ahead of Egan in that race, 38 to 27 percent, which forced the two highest votegetters into a runoff election. Several of the candidates who were once opponents of Smith and Egan in February backed Egan during the April runoffs. Several of them, including Mitch Newman and Rafael Vargas, appeared at Egan’s election night party to show their support. Vargas said he backed Egan because he represents a new brand of leadership beyond old politics and would move the ward in the right direction. He also favored Egan over Smith because of their distinct views on development in the ward. He believes Egan embraced more inventive economic and environmental planning in projects for the ward and the city. Smith won despite Egan’s long list of endorsements including the political action committee For A Better Chicago, the Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicagoland Chamber
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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press
Afghan protestors against the buring of a Quran in Florida burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011.
Quran buring erupts in global outrage, reflection in Chicago
By SACHIKO YOSHITSUGU
In the days following large protests in Afghanistan over the publicized burning of a Quran on March 20 at a Florida Evangelical Church, protests erupted across many parts of the world. At DePaul University, many members of the community felt burning may put troops in harms way by injuring the nation’s image abroad.
Last year, Pastor Jones garnered international media attention when he threatened to burn the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He backed down after several government leaders asked him not to warning that it could endanger troops' lives. This time around major newspapers in the U.S. did not cover the staged trial and burning of the Quran at the small
Dove World Outreach Centre (DWOC) in Gainesville, Fla. According to the Pew Research Center, from March 28 to April 3, 1 percent of the media coverage was devoted to the Quran burning. Even without mainstream coverage, Pastor Terry Jones, an Evangelical Christian leader, and his supporters managed to send shock waves around the world with the help of social media
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Redefining cyber sex New site for students by students takes casual hookups online
By CHERYL WAITY Editor-In-Chief It started with matchmakers and arranged marriages, then there were personal ads in newspapers, then dating services, and then the internet took finding a mate public first with chat rooms and later dating sites. Now eduhookups.com is making it casual – for college students who don’t want commitment, that is. The site was launched as a coding project by a group at University of Chicago in early February and the site developers didn’t necessarily intend on expanding the selfproclaimed “Where fun comes to thrive” to other universities, that is until the national and international media stumbled
upon this little corner of the web and ran with it. That’s when the team started to get e-mail requests from students at other universities. “We decided to pretty much roll with it,” said PR manager for eduhookup. com, Danny, whose last name is anonymous for confidentiality. The only requirement to join the site is a .edu e-mail address, provided your school is one served by the new website. DePaul, along with Loyola, was added to the site on March 30. The site now serves 11 campuses, seven of which are in the Chicago area. The university released a statement to Re-
Graphic by Samantha Schroeder
dEye stating “DePaul University strongly recommends that its students avoid the potentially dangerous and anonymous situations that this new website facilitates.” This is not like Facebook or any dating site. At eduhookups.com, anonymity rules. “The entire site was built with user privacy in mind,” said Danny. This means all a user has is an e-mail address and username
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