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Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons perform live outside of the Highdive on the first stage during Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013. See more photos from the event on page 5.
Opinions on the government shutdown
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Cobra softball begins fall season
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Dessa sings on the second stage outside of the Highdive during Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
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Sun Stereo performs at the Cowboy Monkey during Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
Pygmalion debuts Lit and Made Fests
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The Made Fest, a one-day festival featuring handmade and vintage goods located in downtown Champaign, welcomed all ages to come out and browse over 20 booths on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
The mask worn in Halloween is of Jack the Ripper. (Find the answer on page 5)
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Pygmalion 2013 highlights Ted Setterlund Staff Writer After three days of music, arts, and literature at the Pygmalion Music Festival, this year’s festival could easily be considered one of the best lesser known music festivals in the country. The lineup this year was very diverse compared to previous years, with an even larger focus on folk rock bands like Murder by Death and The Head and the Heart, and dance acts like Major Lazer and Booty Trap. Pygmalion also had several unfortunate mishaps prior to the weekend, with artists and bands such as Foxygen and Chance the Rapper cancelling prior to their appearances due to various circumstances, but were still able to put together a weekend full of fun and community. In a notice about the artist lineup, Pygmalion Founder and Creative Director Seth Fein had this to say about their reasoning behind it. “Booking and producing a festival of this magnitude is difficult work. We take a lot of care into how we craft our programming, and we work with a number of fine agencies and people to put together the best possible festival each year. Being that we’re in a C Market, organizing and convincing artists of (a large) size to commit to a weekend in ChampaignUrbana is a Herculean task,” Fein said. Thursday and Friday had the festival located in various venues around the Urbana and the University of Illinois, including the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and the Canopy Club, both located a block away from each other. Seattle-based artist Damien Jurado started off the festival at the Krannert Center, opening for the bands Daughter and The Head and the Heart. Local band The Dirty Feathers were opposite at The Canopy Club, opening for Pygmalion favorites Murder by Death. New local band Bone Jugs N Harmony also played that night with a free show at the nearby Krannert Art Museum, and like the other bands they had a really great time performing their self proclaimed “Novelty Dance Music.” Friday had much of the concerts held around Downtown Urbana, although The Canopy Club was still being used that night. The Breeders were one of the headliners that night, and they did a great job by playing the entirety of their critically acclaimed 1993 album, Last Splash, along with some of their other songs. Other performances include local band Common Loon, who opened for The Breeders, as well as Dawes and Kurt Vile and the Violators, who
both played in Downtown Urbana on Water Street. Saturday had the majority of the concert at their usual location, The Highdive in downtown Champaign, with other performances located at Exile on Main St. The day started off with well known local bands Elsinore, Moonwish, Take Care, etc. Margret Wander, known by her stage name Dessa, had one of the bigger crowds there, even though her set was cut short to 30 minutes due to a power outage on one of the stages. With many highlights such as Dessa throwing a cup of beer into the crowd, and by both harmonizing and rapping with her backing band with her memorable lyrics, she was absolutely one of the performers that no one should have missed. Trevor Powers, AKA Youth Lagoon, was the opener for Major Lazer, again set at a different time due to earlier conflicts with the stage. His performance was very subtle and inducing, as he continuously plays one song after another, with very intriguing lyrics throughout such as “You’ll Never Die.” His performance was equally great compared to Dessa’s performance, despite Dessa having a shorter time. One of the highlights of the festival would be Major Lazer’s performance at the end of Saturday night. In a rare move for Pygmalion to have a dance group as a headlining act, the set featured one of the largest crowds at the festival, all waiting to pump their fists to “Pon De Floor” and to shake it to the tune of “Bubble Butt.” But even after all that, the DJs were surprisingly able to keep the crowd under control during much of their set. The fest was not over even after Major Lazer ended. Throughout the night, several bars and clubs around downtown Champaign held several other performances. Cowboy Monkey held local favorites Coco Butter Kids, That’s No Moon and Sun Stereo. Mike and Molly’s also had DCTV, Stagnant Pools and Saturday Looks Good To Me, the latter of which was recently signed to the Champaign-based Polyvinyl Records from their old label K Records. The Withershins played opposite Sun Stereo at the nearby Memphis on Main, and despite their late start at 1:15 AM, they were excited to play at the festival anyway. “This is the one time a year where we really feel like musicians, so we do try to bring our A game and have a good time with this. It’s awesome,” Withershins bassist Neil Yeager said. Although this year’s Pygmalion might be a little weak on big name acts compared to previous years, it still does what the festival is known for doing, which is providing music that pleases everybody who loves music.
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On and On plays a set on the first stage outside of the Highdive during Pygmalion Music Festival on on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
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Quick breakfasts to fuel your day Rosemarie Driscoll Student Health 101 Almost half of the respondents to a recent Student Health 101 survey said they make the effort to eat breakfast every day. And according to the old adage, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” these students are on the right track. But do you know why breakfast is so important? Read on to learn the reasons and how to make the most of your first meal of the day. Your Brain on Breakfast Everything can feel a little fuzzy and difficult if you haven’t eaten breakfast. Dr. Denise Gormley, executive director of the graduate program at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing in Ohio, says, “Students who eat breakfast function better in the classroom. They have overall better performance, improved concentration, and more energy.” A 2006 study at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington, gave a series of short-term memory quizzes to two groups of students: some who had eaten breakfast and some who hadn’t. The students were asked to memorize a word list, three sets of faces, and one set of random objects. The students who hadn’t eaten scored far lower than those who had—that is, until the non-eaters consumed food and their scores dramatically improved. As the study states, “Deprivation of a meal leads to dysfunctional states of the mind and physical self, such as loss of short-term memory
Illustration by Alcott/The Dallas Morning News/MCT and delayed reaction times.” Why is this true? Your brain needs calories in order to function. Kelly O’Connor, a registered dietitian and the director of diabetes education at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, is familiar with the impact of nutrition on capabilities. As she explains, “Breakfast provides your body with the energy, [in the form of] glucose, that it needs to function. All processes in your body depend on energy to fuel them. Not providing
your body with any fuel [can] cause processes like concentration and focus to be less than efficient.” Eat Breakfast, Prevent Stress In a recent study looking at students’ breakfasteating habits, stress levels, and ability to handle problems, San Francisco State University researchers found that students who skipped breakfast felt less capable of problem solving than students who had eaten soon after starting their days.
“Stress levels were related to breakfast consumption patterns over time,” the researchers noted. Make Breakfast Happen! In the rush of the morning, it might seem like breakfast takes too long to make or is awkward to eat on the go. Breakfast doesn’t have to be an enormous time commitment. In fact, most students spend between 5 and 10 minutes preparing breakfast for themselves. Some study, review their agenda for the day, or even
work while they eat. Food at Home You only need a few basic ingredients to put together a healthy morning meal, and breakfast foods are often simple to keep on hand. Dr. Gormley says, “Students should have some ready-to-go foods available that are high in fiber and carbohydrates and low in sugar. Good options are granola bars, dried and fresh fruit, and cereal.” O’Connor agrees. “A combination of complex carbohydrates and lean
protein are what we generally recommend for all meals, especially breakfast,” she says, continuing, “Think of the carbohydrates as the energy part of the meal and the protein as the part that allows it to last longer in your body. Together, they help you feel alert, energetic, and able to complete your tasks.” Eating on the Go What about if you’re eating at work, in your car, or elsewhere on the go? Maybe you feel like healthy options aren’t available, so you skip breakfast altogether. If you look carefully, though, you’re likely to find some good foods. “A few really great and convenient breakfasts on the go are things like Greek yogurt, low-fat cottage cheese and fruit packs, breakfast wraps with wholewheat tortillas, egg whites with turkey sausage, and sandwiches on whole-grain bread with things like peanut butter, turkey breast, or grilled chicken,” O’Connor says. You can find Greek yogurt and cottage cheese in most convenience stores. Many restaurants now carry egg white wraps, so explore the menu to get the most nutritional bang for your buck. So whether you’re eating at home or on the go, take a few minutes for breakfast. Your brain and body will thank you by working their best. Students can access the Parkland College Student Health 101 magazine online at http://readsh101.com/ parkland.html. Copyright 2013 Student Health 101
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The government of the most powerful nation in the world came to a standstill at midnight because Congress refused to fund its operations. A right-wing faction of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives insists on defunding the Affordable Care Act in exchange for keeping the government open. Herewith, the Top 10 reasons this is wrong: 10: Law of the land. Opponents tried every which way to kill health-care reform in Congress, but they failed. The bill was signed into law by President Obama in March of 2010. Then critics went the judicial route, saying it would never withstand judicial scrutiny. Wrong. Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative hero, wrote the key opinion upholding the law. 9: It actually helps people. The law’s main objective was to assist 30 million Americans shut out of health-care insurance because of cost, pre-existing conditions, and a variety of other reasons. This is an undeniable advancement in terms of accessibility and fairness for all Americans. 8: Defunding not popular. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in August, more Americans have an unfavorable view of the law than those who favor it, by a 42-37 percent margin. But a majority of 57 percent say they disapprove of the idea of cutting off funding as a way to keep the law from being implemented. 7. Hurts the economy. Some 780,000 federal workers will be furloughed indefinitely. Critical government services will cease. It costs more money to shut the government and open it again than to keep it open. Stock markets decline, personal spending dwindles, faith in the future is clouded. 6. Waste of time. The Republican majority in the House can’t impose its will on the government because Democrats
control the Senate and the White House. The shutdown tactic amounts to a pointless tantrum, a fight for the sake of having a fight. The key elements of the Affordable Care Act take effect on Oct. 1 no matter what Congress does. 5. Dereliction of duty. Government has an obligation to pay its bills. Shutting it down represents an abject failure to perform a fundamental task by the branch that controls the purse strings. Lawmakers have a duty to try to improve government programs they failed to stop in the legislative process. By taking an all-or-nothing stance on the Affordable Care Act - demanding its elimination and refusing to negotiate on improvements critics have defaulted on a basic obligation. 4. No alternative. The ACA is not perfect, as President Obama himself has acknowledged. But what’s the alternative? Republicans never made a sincere effort to come up with their own version. That’s one big reason ACA is now the law of the land. 3. Wrong procedure. The appropriate way to stop a law is to not pass it in the first place, or to repeal it. Using the budget process is not the way government should work - and not the way government has worked in the past. 2. Distraction. The fight over funding healthcare reform has taken valuable time and attention that Congress needs to focus on other pressing issues, like immigration reform and finding a sensible way to reduce the budget deficit and national debt to grow the economy. 1. Elections have consequences. Sen. Obama was elected in 2008 after campaigning for healthcare reform. Congress approved it in 2010. President Obama championed the controversial law when he ran for reelection in 2012. He won. Elections have consequences. --(c)2013 The Miami Herald
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Overpopulation: Why ingenuity alone won’t save us Alan Weisman Los Angeles Times It’s easy to grasp that in a national park, balance must be maintained between predators and prey, lest the ecosystem crash. But when we’re talking about our own species, it gets harder. The notion that there are limits to how much humanity this parkland called Earth can bear doesn’t sit easy with us. The “nature” part of human nature includes making more copies of ourselves, to ensure our genetic and cultural survival. As that instinct comes in handy for building mighty nations and dominant religions, we’ve set about filling the Earth, rarely worrying that it might one day overfill. Even after population quadrupled in the 20th century, placing unprecedented stress on the planet, it’s hard for some to accept that there might be too many of us for our own good. A recent essay in the New York Times by University of Maryland geographer Erle C. Ellis, argued that population growth is actually the mother of invention, that it inspires new technologies to sustain ever more humans and to coax more from the land. And as Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” “On this Earth there is room for everyone ... through hard work and creativity.” In 2011, I visited the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy
of Sciences, which had warned in 1994 that it was “unthinkable to sustain indefinitely a birthrate beyond 2.3 children per couple.... The contrary demographic consequences would be unsustainable to the point of absurdity.” Nevertheless, the church still encouraged population growth. With a billion humans already malnourished, I asked the academy’s director where would we get food for nearly 10 billion by midcentury? Clearing more forests for farming would be disastrous. Beset by floods and erosion, China alone has been spending $40 billion to put trees back. And force-feeding crops with chemistry has backfired on us, with nitrogen runoff that fouls rivers, deadens New Jerseysized chunks of the oceans and emits large quantities of two greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. The answer, I was told, would be through increased yields using new genetically modified crops from the centers of the Green Revolution: the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Texcoco, Mexico, and the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. The Green Revolution’s high-yield, genetically selected strains more than doubled grain harvests during the 1960s. It is often cited as having triumphed over dire predictions of famines caused
bypopulationgrowthoutpacing food production, which were famously made by economist Thomas Robert Malthus in “An Essay on the Principle of Population” and echoed by his latter-day analogues, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who wrote “The Population Bomb.” However, when I went to the maize center in Texcoco and to the rice institute in the Philippines, I found no food scientists who agreed with that triumphalist scenario. Instead, I learned, Green Revolution founder Norman Borlaug had warned in his 1970 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that his work essentially had only bought the world time to resolve overpopulation. “There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort,” Borlaug said. So what are we facing now? In June 2013, the United Nations revised an earlier estimate that population would level off at 9.2 billion by midcentury; it now says our numbers will keep growing, hitting nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, with no sure peak in sight. “In the next 50 years,” a worried Hans-Joachim Braun, Borlaug’s successor at the maize and wheat center, told me, “we will need to produce as much food as has been
consumed over our entire human history.” Geneticists there and at the rice institute showed me experiments testing how to hot-rod photosynthesis, in hopes of increasing plant productivity up to 50 percent more than previous Green Revolution yields, and possibly to give grains enough energy to fix their own nitrogen, which could minimize artificial fertilizer needs. But, everyone acknowledged, even if it can be done, commercially viable enhanced-photosynthesizing crops are at least 25 years away. And by then, there will be billions more of us. Moreover, food technologists face another growing problem spawned by growing populations: As ever more of us expel carbon, our overloaded atmosphere overheats the planet. Grains have temperature thresholds; for every 1 degree centigrade of warming, the National Academy of Science reports, harvests drop 10 percent. With our world now headed beyond a 2-degree centigrade increase at present emission rates, population will be up, food production down, irrigation water scarcer - and coastal dikes may have to protect much of the world’s rice production from encroaching sea water. All in all, an expensive scenario. Rosy predictions that northern Canada and Siberia will be breadbaskets in a warmer world neglect that
their conifer-covered, acidic soils will take millenniums to adapt to the needs of crops. The late economist Julian Simon, who believed that human ingenuity ensured that resources would never run out, won a 1980 bet with Paul Ehrlich that prices of five commodity metals wouldn’t rise due to growing scarcity over the coming decade. (As the Economist and others later reported, in subsequent decades Ehrlich would have won, yet their bet is still often cited to discredit his warnings.) In 1994, Simon, ever the cornucopian, declared, “We now have the technology to feed, clothe and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next 7 billion years.” With world population then growing by 1.4% annually, Paul and Anne Ehrlich checked Simon’s math and responded that this was unlikely: Within 6,000 years, the mass of human population would equal the mass of the universe. Today, we’re growing at a slightly slower rate, but the U.N. still projects more than 3 billion more of us this century. With nearly 20,000 children now dying of hunger daily, and with temperatures rising, we’re running out of tricks to squeeze more out of a planet already bursting its seams. To argue that even though the Earth can’t grow, we still can, is dreaming. --(c)2013 Los Angeles Times
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Festival coverage continued
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The Made Fest featured over 20 handmade and vintage sellers and buyers to the event during Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
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Jessie Wang browses the clothing rack at the booth “Coast to Coast” during the Made Fest in downtown Champaign on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
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Kelsey Langson, Jenica Rosen and Sarah Weintraub try on hats at a booth during the Made Fest.
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Kishi Bashi plays violin outside of the Highdive on the second stage during Pygmalion Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2013.
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Cobra softball begins fall season Alex Wallner Sports Writer For Parkland’s softball team the season is beginning with the Fall League games. The Fall League is a season that runs from September to the first part of October and consists of 15 games. These include matchups against Division One opponents, Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville and the University of Illinois. This is a great test for Parkland’s softball team, as they get ready for the grit and grind of the spring season that will hopefully bring a positive outcome. Thus far, the season for the Cobras has been up and down, but the women remain positive that they will continue to improve and hopefully see more wins later on. “We have a lot to work on, our hitting is really weak so we have a lot to work on with hitting, but we have the potential to be good, we just aren’t really showing it right now,” Accounting major Abbey McElwee stated. Although the softball team began with a rough start, it is only the fall portion of the season, which is meant to improve players and strengthen their weaknesses. They are able to learn from their mistakes and look forward to improving their skills on the field. “I’m looking forward to playing every day and putting everything we learned in fall
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Pitcher Jordan Wheeler works on her technique during a practice on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2013. ball and practices together in a game,” Accounting major Jordan Wheeler said. The fall season is designed to improve every player, which is exactly what the women on Parkland’s softball team plan
to do. “I’m really trying to work on my defensive game. I want to give my pitchers a good back up and my team confidence in me as their teammate,” general studies student Erin
Hettinger said. Defense is something that many players forget to work on, even though it is one of the most important aspects of the game. For the fall season, there are
usually certain freshmen that stand out the most. Some of these new players are counted on to be leaders as well. “Kristine Herdegen has hit three bombs over center field and she’s solid behind the
plate, she’s just a solid player,” McElwee explained. Not only is one player standing out, but the whole team is contributing as they move from two totally different scenes, high school to college. “I think they’re taking it pretty well, they don’t really act scared or nervous, they’re doing their job well,” McElwee said. It is beneficial to the team that freshmen are not acting timid at the plate, which could happen as they face tougher competition, but overall it really shows what this team is capable of if they all act as one. Struggles will happen here and there, but with the amount of talent that they bring in every season and the coaches they have, they should be able to improve their playing and come out with a good season. Parkland is determined to go to Nationals every year and it all starts in the fall. The next step for this Cobra team is to minimize the negatives and turn them into positives. What makes this team stand out from past teams is their work ethic and determination. Especially in softball, players need the will to win in order to be successful; otherwise they won’t have the drive to work hard and earn their victories. For more information on the Parkland’s softball team, visit http://www.parkland.edu/ athletics/softball.
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Pygmalion debuts Lit and Made Fests Mace Mackiewicz Staff Writer
It was also very interesting to see the authors interact with each other during and in between Pygmalion Music Festival took readings. place from Thursday, Sept. 26 to Author Matt Bell explains his Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, and hosted role in the festival. two new festivals to take place “I read from my novel ‘In the during the musical performances. House upon the Dirt between the The Made Fest, an arts and crafts Lake and the Woods.’ The reading sales area outside of the Highdive, was well attended and had lots of took place on Saturday, Sept. 28, energy, I liked the venue a lot 2013. Pygmalion Lit Fest took place and my reading seemed really from Friday, Sept. 27 to Saturday, well received by the audience,” Sept. 28, 2013 and involved various Bell said authors reading from their books at Author Amelia Gray explains local bars. what brought her to perform at There were several vendors the festival. outside of the Highdive selling “Caleb told me if I read for the handmade items. One of the rows of festival he’d pay me 500 dollars tents also included the book labels and buy me Whiskey. I like and authors that were involved in making human connections with Pygmalion Lit Fest. local people at these readings, The creator of The Made Fest, especially college students,” Justine Bursoni, explains the origin Gray said. of the idea for the new festival. Another author Bayo Ojikutu “When I attended the first spoke about the nostalgia of Pitchfork Music Festival, and at being back in Champaign during that time it was called Intonation his performance. Photo by JoJo Rhinehart/Prospectus News Music Festival, there were arts “I’m amazed at the growth of and craft vendors on site selling Author Bayo Ojikutu reads from his book during the this area, I attended the U of I Pygmalion Lit Fest at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s on Saturday, about 20 years ago and this part handmade goods. I envisioned this being a part of Pygmalion at some Sept. 29, 2013. of town was dead. It’s amazing point in time,” Bursoni said. to see this part of town has This festival took place right outside “The Pygmalion Literary Festival is grown and now holds music and literary of the main stages of Saturday’s lineup of a two day literary festival, featuring festivals,” Ojikutu said. the music festival and seemed to draw in emerging and established authors from Jodee Stanley, Co-Creator and the quite a bit of people. Concert attendees the Midwest and beyond. Basically, we director of creative writing at the U of had somewhere to go and wind down for booked a bunch of really exciting and I, also explained what she envisioned for a while if they got tired in the music area. diverse authors to read from their work at Pygmalion Lit Fest. In future years Bursoni envisions the various bars around town,” Curtiss said. “Since we already had the music festival extending its run and possibly Venues that hosted “Pygmalion Lit festival we thought it would be a good idea becoming even bigger. Fest” include Mike and Molly’s, Memphis to expand its horizons and working in the “We were talking about how it would on Main, Cafeteria and Co, and Buvon’s creative writing department I wanted to be amazing to have The Made Fest be on Wine Bar. expand its audience in the Champaignthe Friday and Saturday instead of just The setting of the readings seemed Urbana area,” Stanley said. Saturday. There has already been plenty very intimate with the audience sitting “I think the festival will be a huge of interest this year and I could easily down, usually with a drink in hand, while success and will become a staple in the see it growing even bigger in the future,” the authors were on stage reading their music festival for many years to come,” Bursoni explained. books or short stories. It was a very Stanley continued The other festival that occurred personal way to read to an audience. For more information on The Made during Pygmalion Music Festival was the One interesting part of the festival was Fest, visit themadefest.com Pygmalion Lit Fest. how the authors from one reading showed For additional information on The Lit Creative director of Pygmalion Lit Fest up at various other ones during the rest of Fest as well as links to find out more about Caleb Curtiss explains what the festival the festival. They sat among the audience the authors go to pygmalionlitfest.com is all about. and were very easy to talk to.
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