MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER WWW.MVCCGLACIER.COM OCTOBER 18, 2013 VOLUME 47, ISSUE 5
Working to erase the stigma By Ashley Meitz News Editor In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Counseling and Career Development Center hosted Pillars Community Services as they presented Smack’d, a campaign to Erase the Stigma of Domestic Violence. “Violence Awareness Month is intended to mourn those who’ve died of domestic violence, celebrate those who’ve survived and bring those who work with victims together,” said Jessica Cordero of Smack’d Campaign. Nearly one in every four women in the United States is a victim of domestic violence, a statistic too severe to ignore. A dialogue between domestic violence survivor, Jamie Ford, and a domestic violence professional, Jessica Cordero, was intended to bring awareness and remove the stigma associated with domestic vio-
lence. Jamie Ford, a survivor of domestic abuse, became involved with the Smack’d campaign in hopes of showing other victims of domestic violence that there is ‘a way out’. Jamie grew up with a functioning alcoholic father. “He was stern, believed children should be seen not heard,” she said. Her father’s way of telling her she had to lose weight was by taping pictures of pigs on her bedroom door and pasting her face on the body of cows. Many years later, Jamie met Bob. Bob was wonderful; he gave her the things she wanted and made her feel special. “He gave me time to fall in love,” she said. His hold on Jamie started small, with insisting they skip social events to spend time together and constantly questioning her whereabouts. These flattering acts were easily mistaken as love. It wasn’t until Bob began plac-
ing tissues beneath phones to monitor Jamie’s social life and searched for footprints in the snow that she realized Bob was isolating her from the world, acquiring ultimate control and power over her. The first time Bob hit Jamie, he promised to never do it again and told her, “I don’t know what got into me”. Jamie believed him, unknowingly beginning a cycle of violence and psychological mind games. Before long, Bob began punching her in front of friends and even stabbed her in public. Jamie tried to leave, contacting friends, family and even police. People asked why she never left him, wondering why she would put up with being treated that way. “After hearing ‘You’ll never find anybody else’ or ‘Nobody else would want to be with you’ so many times, you start to believe it,” explained Jamie. SMACK’D | page 4
Domestic violencer survivor, Jamie Ford, speaking of her journey as a domestic violence surviver. [Erica Sinnott]
Students get heated with Fire Academy By Connor Reynolds Layout Editor
Firefighter Instructor Ryan Hornback demonstrating how to saw through steel. [Erica Sinnott]
Things got heated as Moraine Valley’s Fire Academy welcomed area high school students to campus for Fire Prevention Week on Oct. 9. High school students from Sandburg, Reavis, Richards and Delta took part in a hands-on presentation in the parking lot of the T building, where they learned the basics of fire safety. Students were encouraged to participate in all 7 stations , including target practice with fire hose, demonstration of thermal imaging device to locate survivors in smoke and forcing open a steel door. Headlining the event was the demonstration of the effectiveness of sprinklers. Two living room scenes were set up, enclosed in a wood and dry-
wall box. Small fires were set in both to demonstrate how little a sprinkler system needed to do to prevent an all out blaze. The sprinkler-less room, within three minutes, was ablaze. Before the Fire Academy students stepped in, heat given off from the fire caused discomfort in the crowd stationed 50 feet away. Coordinating the event was Bryant Krizik, formerly of the Orland Park Fire Department. “The event coincides with fire prevention week… We annually did a fire safety day to teach everyone about safety and fire prevention. This year we changed it using our Fire Academy students,” said Krizik. “The Fire Academy – this is our third year running the event – students are doing the teaching for the high school FIRE | page 4
IN THIS ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT Matthew Litteken Art Exhibition: Ten Objects of Veneration SOCIAL PAGE 7
SPORTS Women’s Tennis team headed to National Tournament PAGE 12
FEATURES See who won the flag football games at “Crash the Campus.” SOCIAL PAGE 1