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MAY 14, 2010
CHICAGO
AROON
VOLUME 121 ISSUE 45
CHICAGOMAROON.COM
The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892
ADMINISTRATION
CAMPUS
Ad hoc committee to probe policy fixes after Reg arrest
Logan, Alper dig into Arts Center
By Asher Klein News Editor A committee charged with monitoring policy changes cre ated in the wake of the February arrest of fourth-year Mauriece Dawson will convene next week. The 17-person committee will provide oversight on policies being implemented in the wake of the arrest. It will involve students and administrators from the groups most involved in the protracted debate that has flared up at open forums and meetings in the two-and-a-half months since the arrest. Those groups are named in the committee’s official t i t l e : t h e Ad H o c C o m m i t t e e of Campus and Student Life, Student Government (SG), and the Alliance for Student and Community Rights (ASCR). “There’s a lot of things, to-dos that they’re going to provide input on,” said Vice President for Campus Life Kim Goff- Crews, who stressed the importance of student input. “They’ll have a much more integrated sense of what needs to be done.” All three groups have b een involved in resolving the issues raised by the arrest, in which Dawson was arrested with undue force by a UCPD officer in the Reg’s A-Level. SG and the Office
of Campus and Student Life sponsored a forum a week after the arrest; the ASC R formed in the aftermath of that forum, and has been vocal ever since. Administrators have consulted with ASCR members on policy changes and the group has vocalized a list of demands for the administration regarding more changes. “The Ad Hoc Committee...was established so that there would be one group, with an integrated understanding of the important issues related to this incident, working together to address these issues in a timely manner,” said Karen Warren Coleman, associate vice president for Campus Life and one of the committee’s cochairs, in an e-mail. The committee, also co-chaired by Graduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Toussaint Losier, is slated to work over the course of a year to advise administrators on a slew of policy changes to prevent similar conditions to those that led to Dawson’s arrest. Changes to be imple mented include a new code of library conduct, new policies for the Dean-on- Call program, and retraining for staff on student interaction. In addition to Coleman and
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David Logan (center right) shares a celebratory moment with his sons Jon (center left) and David (right) and Board of Trustees Chairman Andrew Alper (left) . MATT BOGEN/MAROON
By Al Gaspari News Staff Donors broke ground on the Logan Arts Center Wednesday evening in front of students, alumni, and faculty. The Center, on 60th Street and Ingleside Avenue, is expected to be finished in spring 2012 at a cost of $114 million. It will be two build-
ings—an 11-story tower and a surrounding complex—with a 450-seat auditorium and a 120-seat theater. The Center will have a seminar room, studios, and practice spaces for teaching and performances. “If you take the vibrant energy of the arts and you add the intellectual vigor of a core curriculum… and you whip it up, you will have the Logan Arts Center,”
said actress Marilu Henner (X ‘74), as part of a series of remarks from students, faculty, and alumni on what the Logan Center means to them. President Robert Zimmer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Andrew Alper (A.B. ‘80, M.B.A ‘81), and Daniel Logan, son of donors Reva and David Logan, for whom the Center is named, all
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ACADEMICS
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Yerkes to link up with world telescopes
Goff-Crews hears student complaints, all three of them
By Jonathan Lai News Staff T h e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s Ye r k e s Observatory plans to join a network of remotely controlled telescopes called Skynet next month, in an effort to expand its
educational outreach programs. Founded in 1897 in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, Yerkes has the largest refracting telescope in the world, but since radio telescopes overtook observatory research in the 1940s, its mission has shifted focus from scientific research to
The Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, founded in 1897, has the world's largest refracting telescope. KYLE CUDWORTH/YERKES
OBSERVATORY
astronomy education. According to current and former Yerkes directors, Skynet will allow students and visitors at Yerkes to study the sky through other telescopes, which will further the educational mission of the observatory. “Skynet [has an] education outreach aspect, and that is what w e a t Ye r k e s a r e m o s t i n t e r ested in and what we are most i n v o l v e d i n , ” Ye r k e s D i r e c t o r Kyle Cudworth said, adding that Skynet’s use in American high schools reflects its educational value. “What is really nice about [Skynet] is that it’s a very easy system for teachers to use.” Skynet, an international network of robotic telescopes, was founded by University alumnus Dan Reichart (SM ’98, PhD ’00) four years ago at the University of North Carolina. In exchange for the viewing use of Skynet-associated telescopes, Yerkes’ telescopes will join the network. “There are other colleges and universities that we’re associated with and that come to Yerkes anyway to use our tele scopes,” said Vivian Hoette, point
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By Amy Myers News Staff Three may be a crowd, but not at yesterday’s Student Government (SG) open forum, which resembled office hours with Vice President for Campus Life Kim Goff-Crews. Students met with Goff-Crews, outgoing SG President and fourthyear Jarrod Wolf, and incoming Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees, first-year Frank Alarcon, to discuss student life issues. Th e t h r e e s t u d e n t s p r e s e n t voiced concerns over the limited services provided by CAPS for careers outside of business. Thirdyear Talia Barzel called for events geared toward educating students on careers in the non-profits and the arts, along with better publicity for CAPS events. CAPS will expand to serve students in a wider range of fields, Goff-Crews said, introducing the Chicago Careers in the Arts program, to begin next year. It will follow similar CAP S programs, already in place, like Chicago Careers in Business.
“We’ll see a lot of shifts with [the arts] in the next few years” GoffCrews said, pointing to the opening of the Logan Center as a catalyst for new arts initiatives on campus. Alarcon asked Goff- Crews to address faculty involvement in the sexual assault policy, a topic that has been addressed at a number of recent forums. “Our system isn’t that different from other research institutions like ours,” Goff-Crews said. She agreed with Alarcon that students should be involved in the disciplinary processes at the University, but did not specify if changes were underway. Second-year Edward James brought up new legislation banning ethnic studies in Arizona public schools, calling for the University to make a statement on the law, despite the Kalven Report, which establishes the University as a politically neutral entity. “As a leading research institution, we’ve been on the front lines. It’d be great if we could be on the front lines in opposing, in my opinion, this egregious piece of legislation,” James said. While Goff- Crews said the
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