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WEDNESDAY

January 20, 2016 Volume 10, Number 2

News | Art

Lifestyle | School Nutrition

Politics | Clinton vs. Sanders

Entertainment | Oscars Boycott

Evening art classes start in February. See examples from Parkland’s metalworking classes! Page 2

First lady, GOP Congress head towards truce on school lunches. Page 3

Facing primary fight from Sanders, Clinton embraces Obama.

Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees.

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Parkland hosts

15th annual

MLK Jr.

Countywide Celebration Sierra Benson Staff Writer

off a formerly public hallway that included restrooms, converting them into private facilities for the force. Colbrook says the change is more important than one might first think. “If you’ve never been a policeman, you don’t understand the critical nature of having our own bathroom,” Colbrook said. “If nature calls, we cannot simply just lay our gun down anywhere we want…we have to have a private space.” Yet another issue with X109 was a lack of spaces specialized for police work, such as a dedicated room for interviewing or questioning. The old office’s conference room inadequately served the many functions of a meeting space, break room, radio room, mail room, and dining hall, in addition to being the force’s makeshift interview room. The new office now has its own interview room and other spaces that take the load off the encumbered conference room. While X109 had separate rooms public safety used for evidence and armaments storage respectively, the new office provides storage spaces that are concrete brick-lined and contain armored, fireproof safes. In the event of an explosion or fire, any evidence collected by the force would be

Last Friday, Parkland offered to host the annual countywide celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time. While people gathered to take their seats a local music group by the name of Mo’ Betta Music played songs by jazz musician Sonny Rollins. There was mention of Dr. King’s principals, awards given to local activists in the community, and also keynote speaker Kathryn Harris impersonating Harriet Tubman. For the past 14 years, the event took place at the Hilton Garden Inn. This is specifically a countywide celebration and therefore a collaboration between the city of Urbana, the city of Champaign, Champaign County, the U of I, and Parkland. “It’s been hosted by UIUC for several years, Parkland’s always been involved, but we haven’t been able to host… I think that it’s very important to branch out from the larger university and come to a space that is much more diverse than the university and a much more accessible location in our community as well,” said sociology professor Evelyn Reynolds. Barbara Kessel who started Books for Prisoners received the James R. Burgess Jr. Award; Rohn Koester an active volunteer for Champaign County received the Doris Hoskins Prestigious Community Service Award; and Melany Jackson received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Outstanding Achievement Award for her help with the homeless. Reynolds came out to support the activists who had fought for general members of society. That is, to say, members who were not particularly wealthy or part of the dominant group, “I feel like most people view him as one of the most amazing public figures that we’ve had in our history. As far as the way this country celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. I do take issue. Every black history month, or every January there’s always a big focus on Martin Luther King.

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Photo courtesy of the Fine & Applied Arts Department | Parkland College Above is an example of work completed in Parkland’s Art 185 and 186 metalworking classes. See the full story on page 2.

New oﬃce for public safety

improves functionality, accessibility Matt Moss Staff Writer

Parkland’s police has a new home in the A Wing, which Chief of Police William Colbrook says allows the force to better serve the college community. The new office is located on the first floor of the A Wing, a major thoroughfare between the college center and the Student Union. This strategic placement increases public safety’s visibility and accessibility to those who may need their services. “Perhaps back in the day, X109 was at a good location,” Colbrook said. “Being here, we’re actually more accessible to the students, faculty, and staff than we were at X109.” X109 refers to the force’s old office space, on the first floor of the X Wing. It was once across from the bookstore, but following the move of the bookstore and other student-oriented services to the Student Union, the main stretch of the X Wing has become a less-travelled area. Colbrook repeatedly stressed the size of the new space, saying it is a welcome change from the cramped, inefficient X109. “Literally, everybody was on top of each other,” he said. “We’ve over doubled our floor space, which gives us a lot more functionality in what we do. As a department in

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Photo by Matt Moss | The Prospectus Parkland’s Chief of Police William Colbrook stands proudly in front of the new public safety oﬃce he helped to design. Parkland College…we’ve got very unique challenges for us to do our job effectively.” The plans for a new office had been in the works for several years. Colbrook himself worked with the architect to draw up the space to accommodate his department as best as possible. The purpose-built design is a marked departure from X109, which was an already-existing space which public safety was moved into. “That space…it was, ‘here you go, Public Safety, here is where you’re now going to be,’” Colbrook said of the move to X109 from the force’s office from time immemorial on the second floor of the X Wing. “This space was actually designed by myself and the architect…and we laid out the floor plan specific

for our function.” A wheelchair turned out to be one of the force’s greatest Achilles heels in navigating X109. With everyone already practically on top of each other and available space being a resource in short supply, they had nowhere to put the wheelchair they use for public assistance, forcing them to place it more or less as a centerpiece to their room. Now, the wheelchair has a spacious, cozy home in the office’s medical room. The specialized, made-toorder room gives public safety better capability in performing the key function of being first responders to medical emergencies on campus. When designing the office, the architect was able to wall

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Evening art classes start in February Peter Floess Staff Writer

Art 185: Metalwork and Jewelry I and Art 186: Metalwork and Jewelry II is being offered in two separate sections. One is offered in the evening on Mondays and Wednesday from 5:30-8:45 p.m. starting on Feb. 1. This section is taught by Lisa Costello. The other section is in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11:45 a.m. This section started on Jan. 12 and is taught by Denise Seif. According to Seif, for students to take Art 185, they did not need any prior knowledge of metalworking. She says Art 185 and 186 is an artistic metalworking class, but she thinks anyone interested in metalworking should take the class. The material learned in the class can be applied as a jeweler but also in fields such as fashion, industrial design, museum studies, product design, wearable design, or in other fields. When Seif took metalwork and jewelry at the University of Illinois as an art history major, it changed her career choice. According to Costello, “The class is structured so that you do not need any previous experience before taking the Beginning Metals Class. Once you have taken the beginning class then you graduate to the Metalworking and Jewelry II class. So you learn skills, develop those skills and apply them to the work. So each assignment incorporates new techniques and builds on existing ones that have already been learned.” Costello says students learn how to work with non-ferrous metals, which is metal that doesn’t contain iron. The traditional materials that are used are copper, brass, and nickel. Sometimes students work in silver, but that is once they get a feel for working with the tools and understand more of the various processes. Students learn to fabricate in metals using silver soldering techniques. They learn to sat, pierce, anneal, form, solder, rivet, patinas, set cabochon stones, and texture metal. According to Ruta Rauber, a metalworking and jewelry student, a patina is a way “of adding color to metal using chemicals, heat, oils, and other methods.” Seif, said in the newly renovated studio of Room C187, there are many more techniques being offered to the students and more students can take the class. Students can do their work at their desk. There is a

Photos courtesy of the Fine & Applied Arts Department | Parkland College Shown are examples of work completed in Parkland’s Art 185 and 186 metalworking classes.

workbench for soldering. There is a room for advanced techniques such as annealing, patinas, and riveting. Students also learn nonmetal working skills. Seif says students often learn patience and problem solving from metalworking. One of Costello’s favorite projects in the course is called the Architectural Bracelet. This project teaches students to do research by going to the library, taking photos, or somehow developing a better understanding of architecture. A specific time period, architect, or type of architecture can influence this. “It can even be organic, say something like a wasp nest or DNA,” Seif said. Seif says many students find it “fascinating” to see how much they can manipulate metal. She adds, many students find the way you make metal into a fluidlike form intriguing. Seif says that many students enjoy the project where they emboss the metal with any item from paper to baby hair. To many students, the process of casting the metal seems almost “magical.” Seif herself finds it fascinating how students take the techniques learned in the class and make something unique. “You really have to think about the design and

construction of the piece [of metal] and how you’re going to get to the final step. It’s about you and a stiff piece of metal and how you are going to get it to do what you want it to do. You begin to have a dialogue with the metal and over time, you slowly get it to bend to your will. There are failures and setbacks, but in the end, you come out of the course with truly unique pieces,” Rauber said. A current and past metalwork and jewelry student named Joan Gary says her favorite projects have involved setting stones “ “I have made pendants, pins, and even serving spoons containing orthoceras, a stone made of stone, or some other non-faceted stone. My most unusual piece would have to be the small Inuit figure I made over the course of many semesters,” Gary said. Rauber says her favorite project was when she made three brooches. “It took a year from the time I sketched my pieces and learned how to curl, bend and undulate the metal to finishing the final brooch. There were times when it was frustrating. Now that the brooches are done, there is a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. I’m looking forward to wearing my metal creations,” Rauber said.

Parkland scholarship opportunities extended Debbie Skinner Staff Writer

There are many scholarship opportunities currently offered for Parkland College students. While the Parkland Foundation scholarships have a deadline of Jan. 25, which is an extended deadline from their original Nov. 15 deadline, the majority of the upcoming scholarship applications available this spring semester are due April 15. Scholarship descriptions and applications are available by logging into the My Parkland College portal, clicking on Student Services, and then clicking on Scholarship Search where the scholarships are arranged alphabetically by name. Under the title of each scholarship there is a brief description, a title of the scholarship, the amount

of funds awarded, and other details, along with a link to an application. The application link contains a more specific description of the scholarship, providing eligibility criteria that need to be met in order to apply. The currently available Parkland College Foundation scholarships will be awarded toward the Spring 2016 semester and students should be notified about the status of whether or not they have won the scholarship within approximately a month of the deadline. The Parkland College Foundation is a non-profit corporation that strives to broaden the educational opportunities for students. The foundation coordinator of the Parkland College Foundation, Susan Goldenstein, mentioned that the foundation works to gather and prepare scholarships,

which are then submitted to the Parkland College Office of Financial Aid and Veteran Services. Haiti Eastin, advisor and scholarship coordinator at the Parkland College Office of Financial Aid and Veteran Services, described the various types of scholarships available for Parkland College students. The scholarships may include Parkland Foundation Scholarships, which will be available between March 15 and April 15. There also may be scholarships offered by reputable organizations within the local community. Eastin recommended applying for as many scholarships as students meet the eligibility criteria for. While it does take time to compile the necessary documents for a scholarship application, there is no penalty for not being selected

as a recipient of a scholarship, and the time spent preparing the application may result in a substantial reward. Eastin advised students to not be intimidated by the scholarship application process. The Writing Lab in the Center for Academic Success is available to help students with the essay process. The Center for Academic Success is located in D120 and can be contacted at (217) 353-2005. Eastin also recommended to “read [each] application carefully…[since] they look very similar, but the criteria may be very different” for each scholarship. Some scholarships may require one letter of reference, while others may require multiple, while others may or may not require an essay. While the majority of the scholarships posted on the My Parkland Scholarship Search

throughout the academic year have an April 15 or November 15 deadline, Eastin advised that students should be on the lookout for other various scholarships posted to the Scholarship Search page that are not dispersed through the Parkland Foundation which may have other deadlines. Completed Parkland College Foundation scholarship applications may be submitted in person by dropping them off in the Office of Financial Aid and Veteran Services, located in U286, or through emailing completed applications to finaid@parkland.edu. If students have questions about scholarships, the Parkland College Office of Financial Aid and Veteran Services can be reached by calling (217) 351-2222 or through email at finaid@ parkland.edu.

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First lady, GOP Congress

head toward truce on school lunches

Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP Photo In this Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, First lady Michelle Obama has lunch with school children at Parklawn elementary school in Alexandria, Va. A bipartisan Senate bill released Monday would revise healthier meal standards put into place over the last few years to give schools more ﬂexibility in what they serve the nation’s schoolchildren, easing requirements on whole grains and delaying an upcoming deadline to cut sodium levels on the lunch line. Mary Clare Jalonick

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) First lady Michelle Obama and congressional Republicans may be headed toward a truce on meals served to the nation’s schoolchildren, but at least one GOP presidential candidate is signaling the political battle isn’t over. A bipartisan Senate agreement would revise healthier meal standards put into place over the last few years to give schools more flexibility, easing requirements on whole grains and delaying an upcoming deadline to cut sodium levels on the lunch line. While legislation released by the Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday would placate some schools that have complained the rules are burdensome, it is greatly scaled back from an unsuccessful 2014 House Republican effort to allow some schools to opt out of the rules entirely. The panel is scheduled to vote on the

measure Wednesday. After more than two years of public quarreling, the bill signals a possible armistice between school lunch directors, congressional Republicans and first lady Michelle Obama, who has highlighted the standards as part of her campaign against childhood obesity. At the same time, GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie made it clear that not everyone is willing to compromise on the issue. The New Jersey governor, who in his struggle with his weight underwent lap-band surgery in February 2013, told an Iowa town hall Monday that the first lady “has no business” being involved in the school lunch debate. “I think that this intervention into our school system is just another example of how the Obamas believe that they’ve got a better answer for everything than you do,” Christie said. The rules phased in since 2012 set fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits on

foods in the lunch line and beyond. They also require more whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Schools have long been required to follow government nutrition rules if they accept federal reimbursements for free and reduced-price meals for lowincome students, but the new standards are stricter and some schools have said they are unworkable. The School Nutrition Association, which represents school nutrition directors and companies that sell food to schools, has led the fight to scale back the Obama administration’s requirements. The group said it is supportive of the agreement negotiated by Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. “In the absence of increased funding, this agreement eases operational challenges and provides school meal programs critical flexibility to help them plan healthy

school meals that appeal to students,” the association’s president, Jean Ronnei, said. The White House has yet to weigh in on the compromise, but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack backed the legislation in a statement. “The Senate’s bill ensures progress will continue improving our children’s diets, and it promises to end partisan battles about the future of our kids,” Vilsack said. The five-year Senate legislation would direct the Agriculture Department to revise the whole grain and sodium standards within 90 days of the bill’s enactment, meaning the new rules could be in place by next school year if Congress acts quickly. Under the agreement between those negotiating the bill, the new rules would scale back the whole grain standards to require that 80 percent of grains on the lunch line must be whole grain rich, or more than half whole grain. Currently, all grains are required to be whole grain

rich, though some schools have applied for waivers. The nutrition directors say that kids don’t like some of the whole grain pastas, biscuits, grits and tortillas. In addition, the agreement would delay stricter standards on sodium that are scheduled for the 2017 school year. They would now be delayed two years, and a study would measure the benefits of those reductions. The legislation would also require the government to figure out ways to reduce waste of fruits and vegetables and put more resources into summer feeding programs. The compromise seemed impossible just a year and a half ago, when the School Nutrition Association backed the House GOP effort to allow schools to opt out of the standards. The first lady held an event at the White House to lobby for the rules, calling out the School Nutrition Association by name. She said she would fight “until the bitter end” to keep the rules intact.

Obama administration seeks Pell grant expansion Jennifer C. Kerr Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration wants to expand the federal Pell grant program to help more students graduate from college by providing them with money to attend classes year-round and reward them for taking more credits. Two new proposals, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, would expand the $29 billion

program by $2 billion in the new fiscal year. They’ll be part of President Barack Obama’s budget proposal next month. One proposal, called the Pell for Accelerated Completion, would help low-income students earn Pell money for a third semester in an academic year letting them take classes over the summer. Many fulltime students exhaust their annual eligibility after two semesters. The other, dubbed the On-Track Pell Bonus, would give a $300 reward to

students taking at least 15 credits per semester in an academic year. “These two new Pell proposals will help students stay on track to finish college on time or faster by allowing students to access additional Pell aid,” said Acting Secretary John King in a press call with reporters. King, who took the helm at the department this month after the retirement of Arne Duncan, said college completion is his priority this

year. Eighty-percent of the wealthiest high school graduates continue into higher education, said King, while just over half of the lowest-income students do. He said hopes the two new proposals will change that. Pell grants are for lowincome people and they do not have to be repaid. The department says the Pell proposal aimed at another semester could help nearly 700,000 students next

year with another $1,900, on average, for college. The bonus for taking at least 15 credits a semester would help an estimated 2.3 million students, according to the department. The government awarded $28.7 billion in Pell grants to almost 8.3 million students in the 2015 fiscal year. The average Pell grant was about $3,600. The maximum Pell award for the 2015-2016 school year is $5,775.

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Clinton embraces Obama while facing primary fight from Sanders

Ken Thomas

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Facing fresh campaign anxieties, Hillary Clinton is attaching herself to President Barack Obama, hoping to overcome liberal enthusiasm for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a full-throated embrace of her one-time rival and boss. Central to that strategy: shoring up her standing with African-American voters who helped make Obama the first black president and who could determine her fate if she falters in the first-to-vote contests of Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton, Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the steps of the South Carolina statehouse which, for the first time, was celebrated with no Confederate flag flying overhead. The event was replete with Obama’s influence: As Clinton’s two main challengers marched to the capitol; hundreds of faithful chanted the president’s campaign mantra, “Fired Up. Ready to Go!” “(King) was counting on all of us to keep going after he was gone, to be a part of what President Obama calls the ‘Joshua Generation,’ carrying forward the holy work the heroes of the civil rights movement began,” Clinton said. Clinton’s alignment with Obama, who remains popular with Democrats, was on full display at Sunday night’s final debate before the Iowa caucuses. Presenting herself as his heir apparent, Clinton warned that Sanders’ universal health care plan threatened to reopen a contentious debate with Republicans that could undermine the so-called “Obamacare” law. “To start over again with a whole new debate is something that I think would set us back. The Republicans just voted last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and thank goodness, President Obama vetoed it and saved Obamacare for the American people,” Clinton said. She repeated that argument during a town hall meeting in Toledo, Iowa, Monday night, adding that her plans to improve health care access include requiring insurance companies to give members three free sick visits that would not count toward their

Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt | AP Photo Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during the King Day at the Dome event celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. annual deductible. In South Carolina, Sanders countered that his “Medicare for all” proposal was the natural evolution to the health care law, reminding Clinton that he played a role in its passage. “I’m on the committee that wrote the Affordable Care Act,” he said. When Sanders noted bluntly that he hadn’t taken campaign contributions from Wall Street banks or lucrative speaking fees from Goldman Sachs unlike Clinton the former secretary of state tried to turn it into an attack on Obama. And she resurrected comments Sanders had made about Obama before his re-election, suggesting the president would have benefited from a primary challenge. “He’s criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street and President Obama has led our country out of the great recession,” Clinton said. “Senator Sanders called him weak, disappointing. He even, in 2011, publicly sought someone to run in a primary against President Obama.”

Clinton has also questioned the practicality of Sanders’ policy proposals. Without naming him Monday, she said: “I don’t want to overpromise, I don’t want to come out with theories and concepts that may or may not be possible. ... What we need is a sensible, achievable agenda.” Clinton aides said Sanders, a self-identified democratic socialist who casts himself as above politics as usual, was undermining Obama’s achievements by questioning the effectiveness of his party. “The fact that he keeps saying that Democrats can’t do things is just wrong,” said Clinton campaign strategist Joel Benenson. “Democrats have gotten things done and they’ve done it under a Democratic president who happens to be named Barack Obama.” The rhetoric was a notable shift from several months ago, when Clinton frequently stressed that she was not running for Obama’s third term. Republicans are taking careful note of the new strategy and hope to use Clinton’s ties to Obama to

undercut her with skeptical independents in the general election, should she win the nomination. Sanders’ team says there’s little daylight between the senator and Obama and note one major difference. “There’s only one candidate on that stage who ran against Barack Obama for president and it wasn’t Bernie Sanders,” said Tad Devine, a top Sanders adviser. Sanders’ strategy aims to capitalize on strong finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire to propel him in the two remaining contests in February: Nevada and South Carolina. Polls show Clinton with a big lead in South Carolina, helped by black voters, but the state’s electorate has shifted in the past based on the outcome in the early voting. Black voters make up more than half of the electorate in South Carolina’s Feb. 27 primary and the question remains if Sanders, a 74-yearold white Vermont senator, can find new support within a black community against Clinton, whose husband was commonly referred to as the

nation’s first black president before Obama’s rise. Sanders took his campaign to Alabama on Monday night, addressing a crowd of more than 5,000 at an auditorium in Birmingham. Alabama holds its primary March 1. Obama has no plans to endorse a candidate in the Democratic primary. But Clinton has the backing of most of Obama’s close-knit political operation, as well as many senior administration officials, offering the clearest indication of the president’s own views. Obama and most of his advisers long ago put aside the animosity of the 2008 primary, though they still marvel at Clinton’s occasional political tone deafness, including the email controversy that consumed her campaign last summer. Still, they gained respect for her during her tenure as secretary of state and see her as the Democrat most likely to protect Obama’s domestic and foreign policy legacy. The president has far less of a personal relationship with Sanders, though the two have met privately.

Millennials drive rise of Hispanic voters in 2016 Sergio Bustos

Associated Press NASHUA, N.H. (AP) Despite a growing pool of potential Hispanic voters in the United States, driven largely by young people, Latinos are likely to be underrepresented at the polls in 2016, a study released Tuesday has found. The Pew Research Center found that a record number of Hispanic voters could head to the polls in November, topping the 11.2 million who voted in 2012, but that Hispanic millennials who are driving growth in the population of Hispanic eligible voters will keep turnout low. A majority of Hispanics, 52 percent, are too young to vote or are not U.S. citizens. The findings come from an analysis of Census Bureau data reviewed by the respected Pew Research Center.

Only 48 percent of eligible Hispanic voters cast a ballot in 2012, compared to 64 percent of white voters and 67 percent of black eligible voters. That figure was even less for eligible Hispanic millennial voters, with only 38 percent casting a ballot in 2012, the report found. Mark Lopez, Pew’s director of Hispanic research, said the low turnout is largely driven by geography. He said more than half of the nation’s eligible Hispanic voters, about 52 percent, are in California, Texas and New York none of which are battleground states that can sway an election. “Hispanic voters in these states won’t get as much attention, won’t see as many campaign ads, as those in the battleground states of Florida, Nevada and Colorado,” said Lopez, who noted that Hispanics comprise 14 percent of all voters in each

of those states. In other potential competitive states in the presidential race, including Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Hispanic voters make up less than five percent of all voters. That’s also true in the early voting and influential states of Iowa (2.9 percent) and New Hampshire (2.1 percent), where Hispanic voters represent less than three percent of all voters. In its focus on young voters, the report found that Hispanic millennials register to vote at lower rates than other millennials. It noted that 50 percent of Hispanic millennial eligible voters said they were registered to vote in 2012, compared with 61 percent among white millennials and 64 percent among black millennials. The low turnout, said Lopez, could represent an opportunity for a group or candidate who can

target these voters with a registration drive. Many candidates recognize this potential and have seized on it. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s campaign released an ad on YouTube Tuesday directed at all millennials. The ad features several young people talking about their support for the 44-year-old Florida senator, who speaks often about the need for “a new generation of leadership in Washington.” Voter turnout among all Hispanics has been historically low. In 2012, a record 11.2 million Hispanics voted, but 12.1 million did not vote. Still,votereligibilityisonthe rise among Hispanics overall, especially those born in 1981 or later. Pew researchers say this group could be the main force driving growth among Hispanic voters for the next two decades. More

than 800,000 Latinos become eligible to vote each year, an overwhelming majority of whom are U.S.-born. Millennials account for nearly half, or 44 percent, of this year’s record 27 million eligible Hispanic voters “a share greater than any other racial or ethnic group of voters,” Pew said. “The large footprint of Latino millennial voters reflects the oversized importance of youth in the U.S.-born Latino population,” says the report. Pew researchers predict Hispanic voters as a percentage of all voters will grow to nearly 12 percent this year, pulling almost even with black voters, who comprise about 12.4 percent of all voters nationwide. ___ AP News Survey Specialist Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report.

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protected from damage and their ammunition stores would not go off. Again focusing on the improved functionality the new office provides, Colbrook pointed out that each officer now has their own designated computer space in a large room. Command staff, namely the force’s sergeants and directors, have their own private offices. This was not the case in X109. “Oncoming shifts…would have to stand around until the other officer got off the computer,” Colbrook said. Most noticeable to passerbys is the large pane of glass separating the dispatcher from the hallway, a feature the old office lacked. The bullet-resistant glass is meant to protect the unarmed, civilian dispatcher from a potential shooter. Colbrook does not view the glass as putting up a barrier between the police force and the law-abiding public or being detrimental to their accessibility. “In no way, shape, or form are we trying to separate ourselves,” he said. Colbrook placed emphasis on his view that Public Safety is more capable of performing their services in their new office. “We serve our clientele better in this space,” Colbrook said.

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MLK I mean he’s wonderful, we should focus on him, but we do neglect so many other figures. Noticeably Malcom X,” Reynolds said. Parkland’s HR Director Kathleen McAndrews explains why the committee decided to spotlight another historical figure much older than King, “We thought we would do something different this year, so this is our 15th one that we’ve done, and in the past we’ve typically had a speaker come and just talk about things related to Dr. King’s life. I think a past committee member had attended one of the

presentations that Harriet Tubman [re-enacted by Kathryn Harris] had done in the library at Springfield,” McAndrews said. Both Reynolds and McAndrews agree there has been significant progress to diversify society; however, there is still more work to be done. When asked if life has gotten any better after King’s passing McAndrews had this to say. “I think so. You know it doesn’t ever end, it doesn’t stop, so you’re always trying to do better and improve because if you don’t you might start going backwards… You just can’t be complacent.” Reynolds said, “I definitely won’t say that we haven’t made progress, there’s been progress. We’ve literally

desegregated public spaces, and that’s very important, but unfortunately a lot of those day to day stereotypes, misconceptions, the stratification of people, all those things are still happening.” McAndrews thinks what people should do to expand their outlook is volunteer. “There’s Books for Prisoners, at Parkland we have the food pantry. I would say volunteering is huge! Volunteer opportunities where you get to engage with people from the community. From those opportunities you might learn what other needs there might be.” Reynolds on the other hand sees the way to improvement as not only changing structurally, but by also changing preconceived

notions, “I think anyone interested in activism and making the world a better place, has to address both structural systemic issues and also the subtle things that happen with our interaction or our communication. There’s a lot of structural reform but not a lot of reform in our perceptions of racism,” Reynolds said. Reynolds also proposes having a more holistic discussion of King, “Martin Luther King presented a lot of radical perspectives. He was very against American imperialism, he was definitely a proponent of low wage workers, we don’t hear those things about him as much,” Reynolds said.

Johnson, and appeared in the film “Jerry McGuire,” directed by Cameron Crowe, who had befriended him after he interviewed the Eagles for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s. Frey’s “The Heat Is On” was a hit from the “Beverly Hills Cop” soundtrack, and his “Smuggler’s Blues” inspired a “Miami Vice” episode. Frey, known for his oversized jaw, big grin and wavy dark hair, loved music, girls and the rock ‘n’ roll life. He was playing in bands as a teenager, with fellow Detroit musician Bob Seger among his early friends, and would meet up with Henley, Meisner and Leadon while all were trying to catch on in the Los Angeles music scene. For a time the four backed Linda Ronstadt.

Anyone around them at the time knew they were determined to make it and make it big. The Eagles’ personnel, sound and direction would change often in the ‘70s as they adapted to the changes of the decade itself. “Take it Easy,” released in 1972, defined their early image as mellow, country-influenced musicians, but they soon desired a harder, more straightforward rock sound. They added Felder, whose work was featured on “Already Gone” and other uptempo songs. When a frustrated Leadon, a bluegrass picker, quit in 1975, they brought in Walsh, one of music’s wildest and loudest performers. “Hotel California” was their creative peak, the title song a long and intricate rocker that captured the decadence of mid-’70s Los Angeles as unforgettably as “Take it Easy” stood for a

more laid-back time. It was the ultimate collaboration between Henley and Frey, with Henley singing lead and sketching the story of the hotel where “you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave” and Frey filling such conversational touches as “livin’ it up at the Hotel California.” Frey sang lead on “New Kid in Town” and picked up on an expression, uttered by his drug dealer, that became an Eagles song and popular catchphrase, “Life in the Fast Lane.” The bandmates harmonized memorably on stage and on record but fought often otherwise. Felder would remember first playing with them and wondering even then if they would break up. Leadon and Meisner departed after run-ins with Frey. The band’s initial breakup in 1980 happened after Felder and Frey nearly came to

blows after a concert in Long Beach, California. They would ruefully call the show “Long Night at Wrong Beach.” Frey and Henley also became estranged for years, their breach a key reason the band stayed apart in the 1980s. Henley had vowed the Eagles would reunite only when “hell freezes over,” which became the name of the 1994 album they had never imagined making. “The bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken, even during the 14 years that the Eagles were dissolved,” Henley said Monday. “Glenn was the one who started it all. He was the spark plug, the man with the plan. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and a work ethic that wouldn’t quit. He was funny, bullheaded, mercurial, generous, deeply talented and driven.”

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Settlement reached in MLB TV dispute Larry Neumeister Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) Just as a trial was to begin, Major League Baseball and its fans reached agreement Tuesday to expand the menu of online packages for televised games. The deal came weeks after baseball’s lawyers told a judge that for the first time the league was going to let fans buy single-team online TV packages. In the past, viewers who didn’t live in their favored teams’ home markets had to buy access to every single televised MLB game. According to lawyers for fans who filed the classaction lawsuit in 2012, MLB will offer unbundled Internet packages for the next five

years, including single-team packages for $84.99 next season. They said that’s a 23 percent drop from the cheapest version previously available. “We believe this settlement brings significant change to the sports broadcasting landscape,” said one of the plaintiff lawyers, Ned Diver. “It is a big win for baseball fans.” In a statement, Major League Baseball confirmed the settlement but said it could not comment further because “the process remains ongoing.” A lawyer for the league did not immediately comment. The trial had been scheduled to start Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, though officials indicated last

week that it was unlikely to take place as both sides and the judge ceased filing papers associated with the case. MLB’s lawyers also said recently they were planning to make the same changes to their television packages as the National Hockey League made when it settled its side of the lawsuit last year. The NHL also agreed to let fans buy single-team packages. In 2013, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that baseball could not use its antitrust exemption as a defense. The lawsuits had claimed that the leagues’ clubs and some television broadcast entities collude to eliminate competition in the airing of games on the Internet

and on television. Baseball had defended a decades-old system of regional television contracts designed to protect each baseball team’s area from competitors. More recently, baseball has multiplied options for fans so that they can get games on various electronic devices. “Make no mistake, this mission is not altruistic,” baseball’s lawyers said in court papers last month. “Baseball faces fierce competition, including from other sports offerings and an increasing slate of non-sports entertainment and leisure options.” Diver had argued in court papers that dividing the country into geographic territories for each team had strengthened baseball’s

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Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees Jake Coyle

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) Amid calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over its allwhite acting nominees and Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith both announcing they would sit out this year’s ceremony, the academy’s president said it was time for major changes and soon. AcademyofMotionPictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs issued a statement promising more diversity, and quickly, after both Lee and Pinkett spoke out Monday. In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards said he was fed up: “Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all,” he wrote. “We can’t act?!” In a video message on Facebook, Pinkett Smith also said she wouldn’t attend or watch the Oscars in February. Pinkett Smith, whose husband Will Smith wasn’t nominated for his performance in the NFL head trauma drama “Concussion,” said it was time for people of color to disregard the Academy Awards. “Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power,” she said. “And we are a dignified people and we are powerful.” She added: “Let’s let the academy do them, with all grace and love. And let’s do us differently.” The video had amassed 4.5 million by midMonday afternoon. Last year’s all-white acting nominees also drew calls for a boycott, though not from such prominent individuals as Lee and Pinkett Smith. Whether it had any impact or not, the audience for the broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was down 16 percent from the

Photo by Andres Kudacki | AP Photo In this Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 photo, Comedian Chris Rock, center right, shakes hands with singer and social activist Harry Belafonte, center left, during an event celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Riverside Church in New York. Rock, who is scheduled to host the Oscars Feb. 28, has unveiled a new promotion for the broadcast, calling the ceremony “The White BET Awards.” year prior, a six-year low. Isaacs has made a point of presenting a more inclusive show this year. The Feb. 28 broadcast will be hosted by Chris Rock and produced by “Django Unchained” producer Reginald Hudlin and David Hill. On Saturday, Rock, unveiling a new promotion for the broadcast, called the ceremony “The White BET Awards.” When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Isaacs acknowledged she was “disappointed” that all 20 acting nominees were again white and promised to “continue the conversation” ondiversity.Isaacshasworked to diversify membership for the academy, which a 2012 study by the Los Angeles Times found is overwhelming white and male.

But on Monday, Isaacs was more explicit and promised an examination of the academy and a more intense drive to diversify. “This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes,” she said in a statement released Monday night. “The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about muchneeded diversity in our 2016 class and beyond.” Many awards handicappers expected nominations for Idris Elba of “Beasts of No Nation” and Benicio Del Toro for “Sicario.” The N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” also failed to earn

a best picture nomination, despite some predictions it would. Ryan Coogler’s acclaimed Rocky sequel “Creed” scored a nomination only for Sylvester Stallone. (Lee’s own movie, the Chicago gang violence hip-hop musical “Chi-Raq” celebrated by some and scorned by others also went unnoticed.) The hashtag “OscarsSoWhite,” created last year, was quickly resurrected online following the nominations. The Rev. Al Sharpton who last year met with former Sony head Amy Pascal following leaked emails that some viewed as racist on Friday lambasted the academy. “Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher up you get the whiter it gets and this year’s Academy

Awards will be yet another Rocky Mountain Oscar,” said Sharpton. In his post, Lee made it clear the Academy Awards is only part of the problem in an industry with deeprooted diversity issues. In his Governors Awards speech, Lee said, “It’s easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than be the head of a studio.” “The Academy Awards is not where the ‘real’ battle is,” wrote Lee. “It’s in the executive office of the Hollywood studios and TV and cable networks. This is where the gate keepers decide what gets made and what gets jettisoned to ‘turnaround’ or scrap heap. This is what’s important. The gate keepers. Those with ‘the green light’ vote.”

Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who sang ‘Take It Easy,’ dies Hillel Italie

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Frey, a rock ‘n’ roll rebel from Detroit who journeyed West, co-founded the Eagles and with Don Henley formed one of history’s most successful songwriting teams with such hits as “Hotel California” and “Life in the Fast Lane,” has died. Frey, 67, died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia, the band said on its website. He died Monday in New York. He had fought the ailments for the past several weeks, the band said. “Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide,” a statement on the band’s website said. Frey’s health problems, including diverticulitis, dated to the 1980s. He would blame in part his years of “burgers and beer and blow and broads” and later became a fitness advocate. Guitarist Frey and drummer Henley formed the Eagles in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, along with guitarist Bernie Leadon and bassist Randy Meisner. They embodied for many

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision | AP Photo In this Nov. 8, 2013, file photo, musicians Glenn Frey, left, and Don Henley, of the Eagles, perform at Madison Square Garden in New York. Frey, who co-founded the Eagles and with Henley became one of history’s most successful songwriting teams with such hits as “Hotel California” and “Life in the Fast Lane,” has died at age 67. He died Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in New York. listeners the melodic Los Angeles sound despite having no native Californians in the group. Critics often dismissed them as slick and unadventurous, but their blend of mellow ballads and macho rockers, and of pop and folk and country, gave them broad appeal. An Eagles greatesthits collection and “Hotel California,” both released

in the 1970s, have sold more than 20 million copies each and are among the bestselling albums of modern times. The band’s total album sales top 100 million copies. The Eagles’ many hit singles include “The Best of My Love,” ‘’Desperado,” ‘’One of These Nights” and “The Long Run.” The impulsive Frey and the more cerebral Henley shared

songwriting and singing duties, with Frey’s drawling tenor featured on “Heartache Tonight,” ‘’Already Gone” and the group’s breakthrough hit, “Take it Easy.” Henley said crossing paths with Frey in 1970 “changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet.” Their popularity well

outlasted their breakup in 1980 and the 14-year hiatus that followed. Their records remained consistent sellers, and they were a top touring act over the last 20 years even though Frey and Henley were the only remaining original members. They were joined on stage by guitarist Joe Walsh, who replaced Leadon in the mid-1970s, and bassist Timothy B. Schmit, who stepped in after Meisner quit in 1977. Guitarist Don Felder was added in 1974 but was fired in 2001 amid disputes over money. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and was supposed to have been honored at the Kennedy Center last month, but the appearance was postponed because of Frey’s health. Its six Grammys include Record of the Year for “Hotel California” and best country performance by a vocal duo or group for “How Long,” from the 2007 album “Long Road Out of Eden,” another No. 1 seller. Frey had success as a solo artist, with songs including “The One You Love” and “You Belong to the City,” and careers in movies and television. He appeared on episodes of “Miami Vice” and “Nash Bridges,” both featuring his friend Don SEE EAGLES PAGE 5