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October 17, 2011
Volume 47, Issue 7
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From Left: Kelynn Smith, DJ Howard, Tim Desrochers and Jess Davis meet at Barnes & Noble to discuss how to get Columbia students involved in the Occupy Chicago protest. According to student protesters, many Columbia students do not know about the protests or are unsure of the issues.
by Heather Schröering Campus Editor THOUSANDS CONGREGATED outside of
the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave., on Oct. 10, chanting about democracy and demanding change. Among the thousands was a handful of Columbia students
who are making it their occupation to Occupy Chicago. The movement has sprung from the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that started in July. Occupy Chicago has brought together thousands since Sept. 23 to peacefully protest corporate power and greed. “It started out with just corporate greed,
and it’s grown into a lot of [things] people would want because, since this is happening, it’s giving a lot of people a chance to speak their voice with other things they don’t like about the illusion of democracy that we have,” said Alicia Walker, sophomore photography major. She has been with the movement for two weeks. Walker said she camped out with her friend, DJ Howard, a sophomore fiction writing major, outside of the Federal Reserve Bank at LaSalle and Jackson streets, the demonstration’s deemed headquarters. The movement’s slogan is “We are the 99 percent,” referring to the portion of the population who feel they are oppressed by the one percent of the population’s corpo-
rate business owners in power, according to OccupyChi.org. Though the protests are physically close to home for Columbia, many students are completely unaware of the issue. Louis Silverstein, distinguished professor in the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department who teaches “Education, Culture and Society” and “Peace Studies,” said that out of his three sections, approximately 90 percent don’t have a clue that the movement exists, and those who had heard of Occupy Chicago did not know what the issues are. “[Students] don’t see the link between what those folks are demanding and their xx SEE STUDENTS, PG. 8
Checkmates & knockouts in Chicago by Lindsey Woods Assistant Sports & Health Editor CHICAGO WILL soon be the new home to the
second U.S.-based chessboxing club—a club meant to recruit and train athletes in both chess and boxing—in order to compete in the European-born sport. George Krasnopolskiy, the founder of the up-and-coming club, discovered the sport when he read an article about chessboxing clubs in Europe. It inspired him to bring the sport to an American audience with a club of his own. “You know, the U.S. is a pretty great place, and I like the competitive nature of it, and I feel like representing your own
Arts & Culture Talking with the dead
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country in a sport such as this would be pretty cool,” Krasnopolskiy said. Chessboxing originated in Berlin in 2003, when an idea from the graphic novel “Froid Équateur” (French for “Cold Equator”) was adapted into real play. In the novel, characters held an 11-round boxing match and a four-hour chess match simultaneously. The sport gained popularity in Europe and currently has international clubs in London, Berlin, France and Siberia, with the World Chessboxing Organisation arranging fights and events. The game has been adapted from the 11-round, four-hour graphic novel concept
Dmitriy Piserev, co-founder of the Chicago chessboxing club, was inspired by the European-based sport.
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Mosque protests reveal modern bigotry
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Swift justice in sight
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INDEX Campus 2 S&H 13 A&C 19 Commentary 36 Metro 39