MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER WWW.MVCCGLACIER.COM APRIL 13, 2012 VOLUME 44, ISSUE 15
Invisible Children tours for KONY 2012 By Amel Saleh Editor-in-Chief Moraine Valley’s Action Social and Political club hosted the screening of the documentary Invisible Children for the third time on April 3 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the F building. Previously when the club requested to show the screening of the film it was difficult to obtain the school’s biggest theater: the Dorothy Menker theater. This month they achieved their goal and the turnout for the event was larger than ever. The turnout is a reflective of the rapid spread of Invisible Children’s recent campaign entitled “Kony 2012” across social media sites. Their video of the same name went viral and in the wake of the publicity major news organizations have picked up the story. This has brough
added awareness of the issues as well as added scrutiny of the Invisible Children organization. According to the Invisible Children organization’s website, when Yoweri Museveni became the President of Uganda in 1986 a woman named Alice Lakwena, formed the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) in opposition. The group recruited followers and forged alliances with rebel militias with the intent of entering Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and freeing the north from government oppression. Alice Lakwena was exiled and there was no obvious person to take over leadership of the Holy Students attending the Invisible Children presentation in the Dorothy Menker Theater line up to sign the groups INVISIBLE | page 7 petition for awarenss. The group screened a film show the struggles people in Uganda face. [Mike Frederiksen]
New Student Trustee Announced Karamanski explores
Civil War in Chicago By Connor Reynolds Staff Writer
Taylor Geraghty sits in her brand new office after being elected as the new Student Trustee for Moraine Valley. She beat out two other candidates in election on March 27-28. [Mike Frederiksen] By Kent Spencer Staff Writer Monday morning, April 2, Taylor Geraghty received a
phone call while in class and was officially told that she was the newly elected Moraine Valley Student Trustee after voting complications pushed back
the announcement. The Student Trustee plays a vital role in the governing around campus, serving as the TRUSTEE | page 2
Ted Karamanski, professor of history at Loyola University, came to Moraine Valley on April 5 to give a lecture on the role of Chicago in the American Civil War. The Moraine Valley History Department hosted the presentation in the library lounge. Karamanski was selected to speak because of his expertise on Chicago’s role in the Civil War, an area of American history not frequently explored. Karamanski is the author of “Rally ‘Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War,” and is the only author in the last 30 years to write a book focusing solely on Chicago’s role in the Civil War. Chicago’s story during the Civil War has been most influenced because of the Chicago
Fire in 1871. In that fire the Chicago Historical Society’s “fireproof” vault with letters, photos and Civil War artifacts was destroyed. Because of the significant loss, historians have struggled to accurately and easily research and write about how important the Civil War was in Chicago. Karamanski put special emphasis on just how important the Civil War was to the nation by putting the death toll in perspectives with the death tolls of all the wars up until that point. He also spoke to the prevalence of Civil War memorial all over Chicago including several statues of Lincoln, as well as those of General Ulysses S. Grant and General Phillip Sheridan. Karamanski summed up the importance of the war by saying, “Everything that had ever CIVIL WAR | page 3
IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES Moraine Valley hosts a lecture on the flexitarian diet. Social page 3
ENTERTAINMENT The fourth movie in the American Pie series is released. Social page 11
SPORTS Baseball coach steps down for personal reasons. page 12