EVENTS: DONALD GLOVER, BO BURNHAM, “TWIN PEAKS” 19 COMMENTARY: THE SCHOOL BOARD AND CONDOMS
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RESTAURANT REVIEW: AMAYA BAR AND GRILL 11 FILM: “THE GREY,” “ALBERT NOBBS” 24 CROSSWORD 35
T he W ee Trio • Tia F uller • C hristine L avin • Earl Pickens and Family • K eaton • and more music , page 12
FEBRUARY 1-7, 2012 Free
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 41 No 21
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News. Music. Life.
The hat, and the rest of his clothes, didn’t stay on much longer.” MUSIC REVIEW, PAGE 13
An interview with Politico’s founder. NEWS, PAGE 6
The $22 million goodbye. NEWS, PAGE 5
Lake-level plan coming. NEWS, PAGE 5
PREVIEW: RIT/NTID Dance Company. DANCE, PAGE 18
COVER STORY | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN | PAGE 8
MCC: fight or flight? MCC’s argument that it must move from the Sibley Building to Kodak for the safety of its students is exaggerated, says John Klofas, professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology. First off, he says, a straight-up public-safety comparison of the Sibley and Kodak sites is disingenuous. Sibley is in the heart of downtown, while the Kodak property is partially vacant. So it’s hardly a surprise, Klofas says, that the area around Sibley would have more calls for police service.
Secondly, Klofas says, MCC officials are probably fooling themselves if they think the Sibley problems won’t follow them to Kodak. But it’s Klofas’s third point that is the most intriguing. Doesn’t MCC have a responsibility, he asks, to help address the problems its board and its president are complaining about? The answer to that question, Klofas says, has implications for the community as a whole: Do we work together to tackle persistent urban issues like disruptive youth and aggressive panhandling? Or do we separate ourselves if we can?