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September 12, 2011
Volume 47, Issue 2
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SPRING BREAK LIVES College chooses to shorten J-Term rather than cut March vacation for students
by Darryl Holiday Associate Editor THE VERDICT is in.
Spring break is saved, but students planning on taking J-Term courses in January will need to be open to changes due to the G-8 and NATO summits being held in the Loop in May 2012. The J-Term slot has been condensed from its usual three weeks down to two weeks. J-Term classes will now be held Jan. 3–14, with the number of hours spent in class varying depending on the number of credit hours offered. Spring semester will also be shortened by two weeks, ending on May 5 rather than the original semester end date of May 15. “Based upon available information about the G-8 and NATO summits, and related activities happening near the South Loop and our campus area, it became clear that in the best interest of the entire Columbia community, we should shift the end of the 2012 school year by two weeks to avoid potential conflict with these international events,” said President Warrick L. Carter in an
email sent schoolwide on Sept. 9. As reported in The Chronicle on Sept. 6, more than 30,000 protestors are expected to gather around Columbia’s campus as global representatives and military leaders fill hotel rooms in the South Loop to attend the weeklong G-8 and NATO summits being held at McCormick Place from May 15–22. The summits will focus on global economic issues and the war in Afghanistan, respectively.
There are challenges to the college and to the students because it’s a change, but we’ll make this work.” –Mark Kelly
Ed Kang
Along with the changes to J-Term and the Spring semester, Columbia’s annual Manifest celebration will also be moved from May 18 to May 4 because the necessary permit from the city will not be issued during the summits. However, even with the schedule changes, Manifest will be “big, bad and better,” according to Mark Kelly, vice
ONICLE THE CHR
xx SEE G-8/NATO, PG. 2
‘It was so stupid to sign a confession’ Ten years later
by Greg Cappis Assistant Metro Editor TERRILL SWIFT sat alone one evening at a
Sara Mays THE CHRONICLE
Terrill Swift seeks to clear his name in connection with the rape and murder of Nina Glover that occurred in 1994. Swift, along with three other teenagers, was linked to Glover’s murder based on confessions to police, though DNA evidence does not tie him to the murder.
Campus Columbia makes gay-friendly ranking
» PG. 3
Sports & Health Chicago girls study Title IX
» PG. 13
metal desk in a windowless room. Law enforcement officials took turns emerging through a steel door and grilling him about a crime he said he knew nothing about. After sitting in the interrogation room for hours, Swift decided to confess to rape and murder. The exhausted 17-year-old was told he would be able to go home to his mother if he signed the confession, so he provided details given to him by detectives to the court reporter, he said. Swift was released on parole in spring 2010 after serving 15 years. The 33-year-old is currently living with his mother in the golf-course-lined suburb
by The Chronicle Staff
THAT FATEFUL September morning will
forever be ingrained in the fabric of America. The country changed more in a matter of three hours than in the previous 225 years. Innocence and naivete faded, and a new era of heightened security and national awareness had begun. Though Chicago, Columbia’s backyard, is more than 700 miles away from Ground Zero, the city—especially the downtown area—was altered drastically. President Warrick L. Carter and Vice President of Student Affairs Mark Kelly remain at the college today, along with several other administrators who were
xx SEE CONFESSION, PG. 42
Arts & Culture
» PG. 22
New association for bloggers
xx SEE 9/11, PG. 10
INDEX Campus 2 S&H 13 A&C 21 Commentary 36 Metro 39