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Senators re-introduce bills to reduce student loan debt

by Angelica Sanchez Assistant Metro Editor

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THE RISING COST of a college educa-

tion has caused cumulative student loan debt to exceed $1 trillion in the U.S., according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

To address the situation, two pieces of legislation that failed to win passage late last year were re-introduced on Jan. 23 by five U.S. senators: Dick Durbin (D–Ill.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D–R.I.), Jack Reed (D–R.I.), Al Franken (D– Minn.) and Tom Harkin (D–Iowa).

The Know Before You Owe Private Student Loan Act and The

Fairness for Struggling Students Act, which are unchanged from last year, continue to promise to restore private loan prerequisites and bring transparency to student loans.

The Fairness for Struggling Students Act would reverse a current law prohibiting private student loan debt from being excused when filing for bankruptcy. Federal loans have not been eligible for discharge in bankruptcy in more than three decades, but private loans became included in this policy as early as 2005. All other forms of private debt are liquidated in bankruptcy. xx SEE LOANS, PG. 39

Surge in 3D printing industry may revolutionize manufacturing

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DESCRIBED BY THE Economist as

the “third industrial revolution,” 3D printing has been touted as the next big transformation in the manufacturing industry.

3D printing is being used to create a diverse range of products, from plastic figurines and jewelry to machine parts, kitchen appliances and tools. In the science industry, 3D printing is utilized to create bone grafts and replacement organs and print objects needed for space

missions out of material that could be found on the moon. Foster & Partners, a group affiliated with the European Space Agency, reported on Jan. 31 that they had designed a 3D printer that could potentially use lunar materials to print components in a possible habitable moon base.

3D printing begins with a computer file. The file is a 3D mock-up of the object being printed, most often created with computer-aided design. The design is then sent to xx SEE 3D, PG. 15

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Students react to discounted dorm rooms

by Tyler Eagle

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IN AN EFFORT to fill more dorms,

Residence Life is offering a discounted price to commuter students this semester.

As part of the deal, eligible commuters, who are students cur-

CAMPUS

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rently living off-campus and are willing to relocate to on-campus housing for the spring 2013 semester, will receive a $250 discount from the overall cost of the dorm and pay only half the regular deposit of $500. Approximately 9,000 students qualified for the discount, but only a few have applied, ac-

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cording to Liz Velez, coordinator of assignments and operations for Residence Life.

The discount, offered until Feb. 9, is only available to commuter students who were enrolled in the fall 2012 semester and did not live xx SEE DORMS, PG. 9

ARTS & CULTURE

Roller Derby girls skate on • page 22

James Foster THE CHRONICLE

Patrick Lichty, assistant professor in the Interactive Arts & Media department, is an engineer who is working to bring art and science together with his work in 3-D printing. The above bust was printed on Lichty’s Replicator 2.

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CAMPUS EVENTS

Feb. 4 Embracing the Farb, Modes of Re-enactment

9 a.m. – 5 p.m. / Glass Curtain Gallery / 1104 S. Wabash Ave., First Floor / FREE

Appreciate dorm life STUDENTS WHO CURRENTLY live or

have lived in Columbia dorms constantly complain about one thing or another, whether it’s the cost or the strict rules. During my time at the 2 E. 8th St. dorm in 2009, my gripe was that I “had more freedom in my parents’ house than in my grossly expensive dorm room.”

However, I’d never say my dorm life experience wasn’t worth it.

College students, especially the freshmen, are supposed to break free from their comfort zones. It’s a time for self-reflection, pushing boundaries and perhaps getting into a little bit of trouble. There’s no better place to do that than in a dorm, and I believe every college student should be required to live in a residence hall for a least a year (but certainly not longer). I met the majority of my “creative posse” in the dorms, and I’m still close with so many of those people today.

Of course, there are pitfalls of dorm life, particularly in the South Loop. The noisy trains that ran by my corner apartment on the 13th floor were a drastic change from

my quiet, suburban street back home, and the ruckus from the old Buddy Guy’s Legends tore me out of my sleep several times a week.

Then there are roommates, who are tough for anyone to endure, but it’s a character-building experience for everyone. Though I hadn’t shared a bedroom or had a bunk bed since I was seven, it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be when I had to do it again at 18. I only shared a room for four months with a student from India before she transferred, but we bonded for life.

Sure, when I thought of the combined $4,312 my three roommates and I paid monthly to share a then-outdated, two-bedroom apartment with filthy carpet and broken cabinets, it infuriated me a bit. But dorms are expensive at every college, and Columbia’s dorms are far more accommodating with their private bathrooms and kitchens than the pricey concrete cubes my friends at state colleges back home are required to pay for for two years.

While I can’t say I’d trade my

College students, especially the freshmen, are supposed to break free from their comfort zones.

Guitar Student Convocation

Noon / Music Center / 1014 S. Michigan Ave. / FREE

Feb. 5 Bootcamp

Noon – 1 p.m. / Fitness Studio / 731 S. Plymouth Court / FREE

Presentation and Poetry Reading with Anna Aguilar-Amat 4:30 p.m. / 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Second Floor / FREE

Feb. 6 Guitar Center Concert Series

Noon / 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Lobby / FREE

“Circumstance” Film Screening

7:30 p.m. / Hokin Hall / 623 S. Wabash Ave. / $8

Feb. 7 Bucktown abode to live in a dorm again, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today without that experience. The day I moved to Chicago, I met two of my closest friends in the dorms, one of whom I live with now.

It’s always a shame to hear students say their dorm experience wasn’t worth the cost. My roommate and I regularly reminisce about all the 2 E. 8th shenanigans we got ourselves into, and I could never put a price on those memories. Dorms are the easiest place to make friends by simply walking in the hallway or taking the elevator.

Yeah, they are expensive, but if you can’t get past the cost and lame rules, then you didn’t make the most of it.

Art in the Library Exhibit

All day / Library, Third Floor / 624 S. Michigan Ave. / FREE

Reception/Lecture: Taxonomy of a Landscape

5 p.m. / Museum of Contemporary Photography / 600 S. Michigan Ave. / FREE

Feb. 8 Tricksters, Jefferson Godard Curates Columbia

9 a.m. – 5 p.m. / C33 Gallery / 33 E. Congress Parkway / FREE

Street Defense

Noon–1:30 p.m. / Fitness Studio / 731 S. Plymouth Court / FREE

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Audience members of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s “Building Cultural Corporate Partnerships,” held Jan. 29 in the 623 S. Wabash Ave. Building, share their expectations for the council’s 2013 workshop series, which includes eight sessions.

Nonprofit managers workshop to build skills

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ulty were invited to attend “Building Cultural Corporate Partnership Workshop,” a Jan. 29 event at which arts management professionals gave tips on building connections between nonprofit organizations and corporations.

The Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department partnered with the Arts and Business Council of Chicago to host the Jan. 29 workshop in the 623 S. Wa-

bash Ave. Building, which featured arts management professionals explaining methods for nonprofit organizations and corporations to create relationships. The event was the first of eight scheduled sessions meant to provide students with the opportunity to learn from professionals.

According to the Arts and Business Council, admission cost $45 for nonprofits with a budget of less than $250,000 and $65 for nonprofits with a budget of more than $250,000. The event was free to Columbia’s faculty and students as

an opportunity to learn about the current practices in the arts and management field, according to Katie Kurcz, director of programs, board services and training for the council.

The workshops are also open to students so they can network with employers to find internships and job opportunities, said Phillipe Ravanas, AEMM chair. Ten faculty members and students were present that evening, he said.

“We cover topics such as marketing in the arts, social media, trends in the field, board basics,

fundraising and board recruitment,” Kurcz said. “You get to hear from practitioners and experts who study those areas and hear how it’s applied.”

The panel included Beth Gallagher, director of community involvement for AON Corp; Megan Smith, director of corporate relations at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Ruth Stine, development director of special projects for the Chicago Humanities Festival; and Johner Wilson, an attorney and an associate of Steppenwolf’s Auxiliary Council for

Young Professionals Board.

The panelists addressed an audience of approximately 100 representatives from local organizations and corporations, advising them to reach out to current connections, be persistent in obtaining contacts, form long-lasting relationships with corporations and show companies what their organizations can offer.

The partnership between Columbia and the Arts & Business Council began in October 2011 xx SEE WORKSHOP, PG. 10

Women’s rights inspire Columbia artists and writers

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FEMINISM IS THE driving force behind a number of adjunct and alumnae projects even though not all of the women involved embrace the word.

Kathryn Bergquist, an adjunct faculty member in the Fiction Writing Department, created “Ms. Fit,” an online magazine focused on women’s health and feminism.

Bergquist launched “Ms. Fit.” on Jan. 19 with the help of a Center for Innovation in Teaching Excellence Grant of $1,000. The publication consists of recipes, fitness work-

outs and advice for keeping the body healthy, Bergquist said.

“I wanted to think of something that was fun and a little bit edgy, but that really dealt with the realities of real life, real world women and other people who don’t feel like their lives and experiences are represented in the current mainstream culture,” Bergquist said.

Bergquist said the idea for the publication came to her as she was training for her first marathon.

While running, she said she realized that fitness media depicts an unrealistic image of fit women.

According to Bergquist, health and fitness magazines typically

feature white women with fit body types on their covers andstories on “how to tone abs in six weeks.” She said a publication like “Ms. Fit” was needed to represent a more realistic image of an average woman.

Currently, Bergquist works on the publication with three other editors and two contributing writers, but she said she wants to include Columbia undergraduate and graduate students as the publication’s web presence grows.

Germania Solorzano, an adjunct faculty member in the Fiction Writing Department and an editor for “Ms. Fit.,” said the name

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Kathryn Bergquist, an adjunct faculty member in the Fiction Writing Department, came up with the idea for “Ms. Fit,” an online magazine focused on women’s health and feminism, while training for her first marathon.

of the publication and its feminist ideals attracted her to work with Bergquist.

“I did not grow up being an athlete, or even being physically active at all, so I like this idea that I’m

not the typical [image] of fitness,” Solorzano said.

Bergquist said a feminist is a woman who has the power and xx SEE FEMINISM, PG. 10 February 4, 2013 • 3

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THE HANDMADE KIND isn’t the only

type of paper the Center for Book & Paper Arts is making. It’s also doing well with the green, folding kind.

The Center for Book & Paper Arts, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., received a $5,000 grant from the Clinton Hill/Allen Tran Foundation, an organization that supports preliminary exhibit planning for museums, for its collaborative Social Paper exhibit, which is slated to open in January 2014.

The exhibit curators, Melissa Potter, an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department, and Jessica Cochran, curator of exhibitions and programs for the Book & Paper Center, are still constructing a budget for the grant, according to Cochran.

“We’ve been working very hard as a department to step up, to really use research as the platform for everything we do in relation to exhibition programs, and we always want to engage our students,” Cochran said.

The exhibit will consist of pieces of artwork, documentatin and archival materials from seminal projects focusing on the time period of 1980s to present day, Cochran said.

Projects will include sculpture, in-

stallation, photo documentation and works on paper produced by artists with the assistance of communities from around the world, according to Cochran.

The Center’s new Papermaker’s Garden, 750 S. Wabash Ave., which grows a myriad of plants used to make handmade paper, will be part of the exhibit because the foundation was impressed with it, according to Susan Larsen, consulting curator for the Clinton Hill/Allen Tran Foundation.

When [Columbia’s] grant came in, it was so exactly what Clinton would have loved.”

– Susan Larsen Larsen said upon receiving Cochran and Potter’s written proposal and project photos, she immediately knew Columbia fit the foundation’s philosophy perfectly.

The foundation awards four $5,000 grants annually using money from the estate of paper enthusiast and artist Clinton Hill and partner Allen Tran. Hill, who died in 2003, was passionate about paper and would create paintings and

collages using different colors and types of paper.

“When [Columbia’s] grant came in, it was so exactly what Clinton would have loved,” Larsen said. “I think of all the grants we have given, that one is the closest to Clinton’s life and career. We could plainly see that an institution devoted to paper was a place we wanted to know and a place Clinton would have loved his resources to go to.”

The garden will be used to have artists with current exhibits discuss their work with the public, according to Steve Woodall, director of the Center for Book & Paper Arts.

A portion of the grant will be used to bring artists from around the world to the exhibit, Potter said.

According to Woodall, the exhibit’s purpose is to change the perception that papermaking is a dying art form.

“The book and paper arts are sometimes thrown out as just a craft practice that is archaic and anything but socially relevant for some people, but our mission is to change that,” Woodall said.

Though many grant proposals were submitted this year, few consisted of handmade papermaking art, Larsen said.

Potter said Papermaker’s Garden had a successful first season, and plans for a second season are cur-

rently in the works.

The idea to build the garden was a collaborative effort among two graduate students and Potter with a goal of creating a facility where papermaking could be executed from the ground up, Potter said.

She said students are living in a changing society, and the way people converse and exchange information is transforming thoughts and interactions, Potter said.

Paper art offers a unique form of expression and a historical background that keep this art form alive around the world, Potter said.

“For decades, paper artists have been involved in sustaining these studios, and also opening new ones,” Potter said. “Our exhibition will feature many of these studios. Paper art’s interactive, physical and collaborative nature is what makes it so conducive to social practice-based work.”

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ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) ICElab: Carla Kihlstedt and Phyllis Chen

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Liberal arts degree leads to student success over time

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WHEN KEVIN SIMS pitches his

school’s new liberal arts major to prospective students, parents typically ask him, “What is my son or daughter going to do for a career?”

The fear that their graduates will end up as nothing more than highly-credentialed baristas serving coffee is common among parents who, along with lawmakers, are demanding that colleges and universities prepare graduates for specific careers and workforce demands.

But Sims, a professor of political science at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, said exposing students to an educational menu that includes languages, literature, humanities, history, government, math, science and the arts helps prepare graduates for the world they are about to enter. “[Liberal arts] is a great major for the 21st century college student,” he said. “We are preparing people who want to learn how to critically think. Someone who knows how to think critically and write well and speak well, and knows how to relate to people, I believe strongly they will have an easier time adjusting to the changing careers in their lives.”

The merits of a liberal arts degree

have come under scrutiny as college costs continue to skyrocket and economic experts stress the need for continuing education to prepare for the jobs of the future. Recent liberal arts majors have a higher unemployment rate—9.2 percent—than graduates from technical fields, such as health care and education —5.4 percent—though a Georgetown University study states this is partly because the graduates are spread broadly across occupations and industries.

Companies today are looking for college graduates who can step into jobs with minimum on-the-job training. As more students pursue technical degrees, some liberal arts colleges have struggled to stay afloat. But there are risks for students who adhere to one specific occupation, the Georgetown study found. A downturn in the construction business, for example, left 13.9 percent of recent architecture majors unemployed.

“Having technical skills or professional skills to do something right now is a good first step, but it’s not for the long run going to be sufficient,” said David Hodge, president of Miami University, where every student must complete core liberal arts courses. “Most people are not only going to have multiple jobs, they’re going to have multiple

careers. We believe that having exposure to a broad range of topics and themes and disciplines is really important to developing a really versatile mind.”

Liberal arts colleges have to fight the fear among students and parents that a degree from the schools will lead to big debts and small career prospects.

“Liberal arts is critical to the educational experience, but the perception of liberal arts schools is suffering and enrollment has been a challenge for those institutions not only here but across the nation,” said Sean Creighton, executive director of the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education.

Liberal arts schools such as Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio are facing financial challenges. Wittenberg is working to address a $7 million deficit and is adding new majors to attract new students. The university also is freezing tuition, room and board costs for students in the upcoming academic year. The university hopes to add to its pool of nontraditional students with a new nursing completion program and is considering adding a criminal justice completion program, according to Chris Duncan, Wittenberg provost.

Wittenberg also recently added majors in environmental science

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Although many students are pursing technical degrees, liberal arts majors will still find work, despite misconceptions that there are few jobs available to them.

and accounting, and is considering a new sports management major.

A national campaign to promote the value of a liberal arts education and dispel myths is being led

by Ohio’s S. Georgia Nugent, president of a top liberal arts school, Kenyon College.

The initiative was announced by the Council for Independent Colleges, which last fall released a myth-busting study about student loan debt. Liberal arts graduates typically do not amass $100,000 in debt, the study found, but borrow on average $22,390, compared with $17,700 for public university graduates.

The schools boast a disproportionate number of national leaders. Though they enroll only about

2 percent of college students, they account for 12 United States presidents, according to the book, “Liberal Arts at the Brink.” Jen Waller, a librarian at Miami University, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts University in Massachusetts in 1984, said her liberal arts education background helped her navigate countless career changes from starting as a prep cook to eventually earning her master’s of library and information science degree.

“I’m really glad that I went to a liberal arts school just because I think that they tend to help you think more broadly and more creatively,” Waller said. chronicle@colum.edu

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Scrubbing off the final blacktop table in his classroom, biology teacher Mark Hamilton is ready to leave McKinley High School for the day. It is a little past four o’clock. He had sanitized all 15 tables, straightened out all 30 chairs and swept throughout the entire room. These chores are not an everyday, after–school ritual. It is dissection week and the room is reeking of death. A mixture of formaldehyde and rubber permeates the thick air and spills out into the hallway. It is a school requirement for him to rid any trace of this day’s activity.

The smell is the last thing on Mr. Hamilton’s mind, though. The entire day his nerves were on edge, his thoughts elsewhere. Something else is happening in his life. While he is at school cleaning up after his students, he had hired two boys to take care of his own dirty laundry (figuratively speaking).

With the strap of his laptop bag firmly secure on his bony shoulder, Mr. Hamilton is prepared to exit the room but a familiar noise gurgles in the front pocket of his bag. It is his cheap, lime green cell phone. He reaches for it with hesitance. Mr. Hamilton has been waiting for a call all day but is unsure if this is the call.

“Should I answer it now or wait till I get out of this damn place?” His thumb rubs against the shattered screen. Because he had dropped the phone so many times, the caller ID was replaced with a ray of broken glass. Surprises lay in store for him every time he picked up his phone. He hated surprises.

The cell phone refuses to be silenced. After four repetitious vibrations, he gives in to its pleas to be answered.

“Hello?” he quivers.

Silence.

“Hello?” he repeats.

Instead of a response on the other end, a gaggle of teen girls occupying the school hollers, in unison; after-school stragglers swarm the littered halls. Their piercing screams rattle his nerves. They pay no attention to Mr. Hamilton, despite planting themselves directly in front of his door. Slinking to the back of the room, Mr. Hamilton cautiously resumes his conversation with the mystery person on the other end of the phone.

“Hel—,” he begins, but is quickly cut off.

“It’s finished,” the voice drones.

A swell of nervousness and panic floods through his body.

“You killed her, buried her and hid the weapon?”

Mr. Hamilton slowly recites the horrendous actions.

With a hushed whisper the voice replies, “Yes, exactly where you told us to.”

Mr. Hamilton did not need to hear any more. He clicks the ‘end call’ button.

Mr. Hamilton did not think the boys could pull it off. They couldn’t even cheat on a test without being caught. There were doubts that hovered in his consciousness, but he decided to trust his life and her death in their hands. As his eyes lay on his dead wife, he mutes his doubtful thoughts about the two boys, his hired men. They followed his strict instructions to bury her in a junk car lot.

Mr. Hamilton stands above the marginally deep sand pit. His worn-in, worn-out leather shoes crunch at the dirt, loose pebbles under his feet sprinkle over Mrs. Hamilton’s body. As he drops to his knees to examine closer, a patch of dirt imprints his crisp khakis. All-day sweat stains darken the

plaid shirt under his arms. The dandruff in his thick, seal–brown hair peers out between the oily strands.

Mr. Hamilton’s naturally ashen face stoically studies the lifelessness in his wife’s body.

Mrs. Hamilton’s dead weight barely marks the ground. The ends of her loose, angelic white nightgown flicker at the hint of springtime whispers. She is completely unrecognizable. Only fragments of her appear to be the woman he used to love. Her blond hair co–mingles with the beige dirt. The longer he stares at the body, the more his mind is able to recall the time he caught her with her so-called lover.

The unknown man’s hands ran through her shiny strands. Now, the blond hair lay soiled and limp.

Her thin limbs are speckled in dry blood. Again, he thinks about the heartwrenching moment he saw her with the other man, his foreign fingers gently smoothed over her fair skin. Her face is now badly beaten, the left cheekbone hollower than before.

The cute, button nose is shifted out of the middle of her face, upturned to the heavens. Bruises cup her lips and eyes. Black and blue. Dead and gone. »visit ColumbiaChronicle.com for full work.

STUDENT BIO: Melissa Huedem describes herself with Blind Melon’s lyrics: “All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like watchin’ the puddles gather rain.” Her work has been published in Columbia’s First-Year Writing Anthology Volume 2. “Done Wrong” was inspired by a “take a place” class assignment for a fiction writing class. Huedem imagined herself in her favorite biology teacher’s classroom and what would happen if he had done something sinister. email submissions to submit@chroniclemail.com

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Faculty Center, 600 S Michigan, 8th Floor Children like to make up stories but they rarely get to share them. Fantasies, imaginary friends, and wild adventures of the mind tend to stay buried in until they are forgotten—drowned out by responsibilities, expectations and adults who never learned to value the power of imagination.

I got lucky. I had help. I learned to read from comic books and so did my friends. I started creating my own comic stories when I was eleven or so, sitting in my basement with friends who liked the idea of a world filled with idealistic heroes who could kick the butts of unambiguous villains—and never had to share their secret identities with unbelievers.

This exhibition highlights comic stories that I have written or co-written from the mid-1980s to the present, visually told by five great comic artists: Scott Beaderstadt, Norm Breyfogle, Paul Fricke, Scott Larson and the late Mike Parobeck, all collaborating with a wide range of production artists (and sometimes each other) to make my stories come alive.

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in on-campus dorms during that time, Velez said, adding that these guidelines were created to entice returning students to live on campus and fill vacant rooms.

“We have some vacancies [currently] in Residence Life for the spring semester that we’re trying to fill,” said Mary Oakes, director of Residence Life.”

New students who moved into the dorms at the beginning of the spring 2013 semester and students who moved to a differently priced room are not eligible for the discount because they are still bound by their original Residence Life contracts, Velez said.

“The $250 discount is based more off the fact that the students didn’t live here during the holiday break,” Oakes said. “Students [who did leave during the holiday break] would be released from their contracts and would be charged for the time they occupied. All credits would then be refunded.”

Approximately 150 of the 2,400 students living on campus moved out of their dorms between the end of the fall 2012 semester and the beginning of the spring 2013 semester, Velez said. Around 200 students moved in the dorms during that time and were placed in room assignments that students had vacated or that remained unoccupied, she said.

According to Oakes, it is typi-

cal for students to move out of the dorms after the fall semester because of medical, financial or personal reasons, as well as early graduation.

According to Residence Life’s website, dorm rooms cost as little as $7,500 per year for shared bedrooms in shared apartments to as much as $15,600 per year for a private semi-suite. The average student will pay $5,000–$6,000 per semester, or approximately $1,250– $1,500 per month, for on-campus housing, the website said.

The average cost to rent a onebedroom apartment in the northern area of the South Loop is approximately $1,400 per month and the average cost of a two-bedroom is $2,000, according to Jona Melendez of Lux Marketing and Sales, a Chicago real estate company.

Columbia’s rates are similar to other schools in the South Loop.

Roosevelt University’s South Loop dorms, in the new Wabash Building and the University Center, range from $8,322 a year for a two-bedroom, four-person apartment to $14,700 for a one-person premium studio single apartment, according to Roosevelt’s website.

Both DePaul and Robert Morris universities only offer student housing in the South Loop through the University Center.

According to DePaul’s website, the college offers dorm rooms for $8,322 per year for quad-semisuites to $12,192 per year for private room suites.

Robert Morris’ dorm rates are

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There are approximately 9,000 commuter students eligible for the discount, while there are approximately 2,400 students living on-campus.

$3,625 per quarter or a flat rate of $14,500 for four quarters, according to the school’s website.

Oakes said that while living on campus may not be the most costeffective option, it provides students with an invaluable experience.

“The sense of community among students living in a residence hall is priceless,” Oakes said.

Nora Wade, a senior fiction writing major and commuter student who used to live in the resident hall at 2 E. 8th, disagrees, arguing that living on campus is not worth the cost.

“I can live in Rogers Park for half the price I paid for half a semester here at Columbia, for the whole year,” Wade said. “It’s outrageous for anyone who has to live downtown. If you’re going to be offering incentives to anyone, you should be

offering it to everyone, otherwise those students won’t live on campus again next year.”

Similarly, Morgan McWhorter, a junior journalism major and commuter student who used to live in the Plymouth Court Residence Hall, said the cost of housing is a burden for students and their parents because art and media students also have to purchase unique sets of supplies and equipment.

“My parents would constantly complain about how expensive [housing] was,” McWhorter said.

“They were paying more than their house payment a month … for my dorm, which is crazy.”

Freshman audio arts and acoustics major Adam Chismark, a student who currently lives in on-campus housing at the University Center, said the discount

doesn’t noticeably help decrease dorm costs.

“It’s not fair, but in the end, it’s so much money to live here anyway it doesn’t really matter,” Chismark said.

Joe Brennan, a junior audio arts and acoustics major and commuter student, said the dorm rooms in the South Loop are adequately priced.

However, he believes the discount should be extended to all students on campus.

He added that if students don’t want to live on campus, they have options to save money and live outside the South Loop.

“I think [Residence Life] could do better than [offer a] $250 [discount],” Brennan said. “I wouldn’t say it’s fair, but it’s a good idea to get more people to live on campus.” teagle@chroniclemail.com

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After the Friday student screening, mingle with members of the Chicago Film Critics Association at the after-party at Bogart’s Bar and Grill (located on the second floor of Muvico). Cash bar and appetizer specials.

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Ticket proceeds from both the Friday night event and the Saturday Awards Show benefit the Emerging Filmmaker Scholarship Fund of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

The winner will be announced at the end of the Friday night screening and will be featured at the CFCA Awards Ceremony on Saturday, February 9th!

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after 10 years of conversations, Ravanas said.

The two groups came together when Columbia invited the council to work with the AEMM department to host arts management workshops in order to give additional training to faculty and bring professionals to Columbia students, Ravanas said.

Ravanas said the mission of the council and the AEMM Department is to train managers for their field and help them build sustainable careers in the arts.

“The Arts and Business Council is a very important entity in Chicago,” Ravanas said. “It tries to provide managerial support to arts organizations.”

Similarly, the council’s partnership with Columbia provides it with a free space to host events, Kurcz said.

“Having space donated is imperative,” Kurcz said. “We wouldn’t be able to host workshops if we didn’t have space we’re able to get for free.”

According to Kurcz, the partnership benefits Columbia’s tenuretrack faculty members, who must have volunteer experience to apply for tenure. These faculty members can volunteer through the council’s “Business Volunteers for the Arts” and “On BOARD” programs, which bring trained practitioners to the

capacity to achieve what she wants in life, and she believes these women deserve the opportunity to do so.

“Based on my experience with students, I think that feminism is very strong and prevalent on campus among young women and young men and gay, lesbian and transgender students,” Bergquist said.

Leah Pickett, film & video alumna (‘12), wrote about such gender equality in a Jan. 23 article published on WBEZ. It discussed the Sundance Film Festival, at which female directors accounted for eight of the 16 entries. She discussed Kathryn Bigelow, director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” and how male filmmakers have an advantage over females. She mentioned her time at Columbia in the Film & Video Department, where she said she was the only female in most courses.

“I felt like a minority a little bit,” Pickett said. “It was interesting to me because I went to an all-girls school in high school, and I did ballet, and I was used to being surrounded by girls all the time. Then I go to class, and it’s all guys, and I can tell they are all sizing me up.”

Another woman who is showing support for women’s rights is Kristen Hendricks, founder of the Kwagala Project.

As reported by The Chronicle on Oct. 22, 2012, the Kwagala Proj-

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council’s clients, Kurcz said.

Most of the attendees are representatives from nonprofit organizations and companies, but students and faculty are still encouraged to come to the workshops, Kurcz said.

“I think [attending the workshops is] a great opportunity for job prospecting and also opening students’ minds to what careers are out there in arts management,” Kurcz said.

Emily Krisciunas, grants manager of Marwen, a local visual arts nonprofit, said the workshop was helpful to her because she is interested in increasing corporate contacts for her organization.

“I think the advice about how long it takes, 6–9 months, to cultivate relationships, [and how] you really have to work at it and follow up is really valuable,” she said.

Ravanas said Columbia and the council will host several additional events through October 2013. According to Ravanas, this is the ninth council event that has taken place at Columbia.

“It’s a golden opportunity brought to [students’] doorsteps [to] meet people who can potentially bring them internships, advice [and] jobs,” Ravanas said. twalkmorris@chroniclemail.com

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ect is an organization that works to assist young people who have been affected by human trafficking to re-establish their sense of self-worth so they can reach their full potential.

“These are the most oppressed people on the planet, so you have women who are already considered second-class citizens,” Hendricks said. “There is such gender degradation there, and they have no sense of identity and self-worth on top of being exploited commercially.”

Last semester, Hannah Kardux, a senior fashion studies major, became involved with the project through selling jewelry crafted by the women in the program. The profits Kardux generated were equivalent to putting eight girls through a whole year of school, according to Hendricks.

Hendricks does not identify with the feminist movement because she said the word often carries a negative connotation that it is synonymous with terms like “man-hater.”

Unlike Hendricks’ feelings about the word “feminist,” Pickett said people are afraid to identify as feminists because of misconceptions about the word’s meaning.

“Just because you are a feminist does not mean that you hate men,” Pickett said. “I definitely am a feminist, I think a feminist is someone— it could be a man or a woman— [who] supports women’s rights.” mpurazrang@chroniclemail.com

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are assessing the non-cognitive abilities of prospective students, as well as test scores and grade point averages to get a more complete evaluation of applicants.

Admissions officers are recognizing that relying on traditional indicators of college success may not provide a holistic assessment of students, according to Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president for Enrollment Management at DePaul University. As a result, DePaul is one college that uses essay questions to evaluate skills like a student’s ability to lead, set goals and persevere. He said such essay questions differ from others in their precise prompts.

“On our applications, you’re asked to supply and write answers to specific questions,” Boeckenstedt said. “Whereas the college essay can frequently be something that’s open ended or a topic of your choice.”

According to Boeckenstedt, there is no agreed upon way for evaluating these non-cognitive skills, an issue that he and his col-

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leagues discussed at “Attributes That Matter: Beyond the Usual in College Admission and Success,” a conference about the future of college admissions held Jan. 16–18 in Los Angeles.

Boeckenstedt said 121 students enrolled at DePaul last fall as “test-optional” students to participating in a pilot admissions option that allowed students to submit answers to essay questions instead of submitting their test scores. The essays are graded on a 1–3 scale based on the quality of demonstrations of a targeted characteristic, Boeckenstedt said.

Art Coleman, managing partner and co-founder of EducationCounsel, a group that advises academic institutions on legal policy, said such assessments could lead to making more informed decisions and admitting students who are more likely to succeed, but the practice needs more development.

“This is obviously an arena that is not fully formed or developed,” Coleman said. “One of the challenges will be to ensure that you’ve got sufficient validity and reliability when you’re gauging these factors in something that is other than a rated test.”

Murphy Monroe, Columbia’s executive director of admissions, said Columbia looks at non-cognitive abilities of students, but such assessments are not a substitute for traditional measures.

“It’s not an either-or,” Monroe said. “We are not replacing test scores with essays, we are looking carefully at essays alongside test scores … It’s a holistic review of every aspect of the student that we know.”

Boeckenstedt said it is impossible to anticipate the success or failure of an applicant with precision.

There is, however, evidence suggesting colleges should consider a student’s non-cognitive abilities, according to Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creative Institute.

Immordino-Yang said that in real-world experiences, which are often topics prospective students write about in essay-assessments, leaders thrive when applying complicated, evolved emotions.

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might not let him play football, the commander-in-chief told The New Republic in an interview published Jan. 27.

Obama said professional players are adults who understand the risks and are compensated, but the same cannot be said of college and high school athletes.

Judging by the data in a report published by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the president may have a good point.

Last updated in September 2012, the report estimates fewer than 2 percent of NCAA senior football players will go on to play in the NFL.

I know in anything you can get hurt, but I just love the game.”

– Simon Law The underdeveloped brain may also be at higher risk than the developed brain for repeat concussions before it fully recovers from the first injury, according to a position statement about concussions by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, published in October 2012 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

“The concern is that the injured brain is going to be re-injured more than the healed brain, and I think that holds across all age groups,” said Dr. William O. Roberts, one of the eight authors of the position statement. “But there’s more concern about re-injuring it in the kids because there’s not as much space inside the skull, and the brain may swell more.”

The position statement said there are between 1.6 million and 3.8 million sports-related concussions each year in the United States, and 30 percent of all concussions in individuals between 5–19 years old

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are sports-related.

In 2012, high school football topped the list with a concussion rate of 0.64 per 1,000 athlete exposures, and in 2007, the rate at the collegiate level was estimated to be 0.37 per 1,000 athlete exposures, according to the position statement.

“If you have a thousand players playing football on a given day, roughly one will have a concussion,” Roberts said.

Dr. Paul Butler, a retired general surgeon who serves on the school board in Dover, N.H., implored his fellow school board members last October to begin the process of ending peewee and high school football in the district.

“Football’s the only game where the head is used as a weapon,” Butler said. “I think we’re risking our kids’ brains by encouraging them to play football by supporting it with public funds that should be spent on educating the kids rather than on letting their brains get risked to injury.”

Butler said he will bring the proposal to a vote next fall and needs a four-vote majority from the seven-member school board for the process to move forward.

Butler’s proposal does not have the support of Jared Volk, a junior offensive lineman for the Northern Illinois University Huskies football team, who said banning football is unnecessary.

“I don’t think football is very dangerous at all because of how much protective padding we have on our bodies while we’re playing,” Volk said. “I’d say it’s a lot more safe than other sports.”

Roberts said there is no evidence suggesting that helmets reduce the risk of concussion. Despite the amount of padding football players wear, the sport has the highest concussion rate among contact sports, according to the position statement.

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Pro sports program not practical THE IDEA OF creating an academic

major for athletes planning to go pro has been tossed around by several different proponents. Most notably, David Pargman, professor emeritus of education psychology at Florida State University, published his proposal for such a program in a November 2012 commentary for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

His proposal consists of creating a bachelor’s degree program for Division I athletes who intend play professionally. He posited that such a program would remove the hypocrisy of allowing athletes to skate through or skirt academic requirements while preparing future pros for a perfectly legitimate career in professional sports.

In theory, this seems to be a perfect solution. Pargman likens this option to those who study vocal or instrumental music in college, which is an apt comparison considering both career tracks are performance-based.

Practically, I’m not sure Pargman’s proposal scores. Creating such a program would require colleges to spend extra money on new professors, administrative time, advertising and recruitment.

According to a 2013 American Institutes for Research report, Division I Football Bowl Subdivision colleges already spend three to six times as much on student athletes than they do educating nonathletes. Spending more money on programs for student athletes hardly seems fair to students who are not athletically inclined.

In addition, the cost would only benefit the tiniest subset of athletes. According to an NCAA report last updated in September 2012, only a small fraction of athletes who participate in Division I sports go pro. The report analyzed men’s and women’s basketball, football, baseball, men’s ice hockey and men’s soccer, and found the likelihood of an athlete in any of those sports going pro is­­—in all cases except hockey—between 0.7 percent and 1.6 percent. Outside that small subset, most athletes will, as the NCAA puts it, “go pro in something other than sports.” Spending even more money than the already egregious amount allocated toward this tiny subset of an institution’s population is both irresponsible and unfair.

TheSome Columbia Chronicle will argue that the money athletes generate for the school off-

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sets these extra expenses. In fact, if one excludes football, Division I athletic budgets overwhelmingly come from student fees and institutional and government support, not sports revenues or contributions. Football may be the exception to the rule, but if we were to only include football players in this degree program, enrollment would be ridiculously lower than it would be if all professional league-bound college athletes were included.

Ultimately, the conception of a professional sports degree is well intentioned but misguided. What colleges should be focusing on is how to better appropriate funds to serve the entire student body, not just a small fraction.

For more information on Pargman’s proposal and athletes’ reactions, see Page 14. lwoods@chroniclemail.com

Solar cell design inspired by natural selection

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Northwestern University used innovative methods to create a more efficient solar cell, according to a paper published Jan. 3 in Scientific Reports, a research publication from the publishers of the scientific journal Nature.

The researchers used an algorithm to design a pattern on the scattering, or top-most, layer of a silicon solar panel that would trap light more effectively and for a longer period of time. Partners at the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering in Chicago will fabricate a prototype of the panel.

Cheng Sun, co-author of the paper and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern, who specializes in using behavior models to predict complicated structures, opted to use a unique search process called the

“genetic algorithm” to develop the best panel design. “[We] tried to design a new algorithm, sort of inspired by the process of evolution, that will find the optimum design and will give us the most efficiency to trap the solar energy,” Sun said.

Instead of altering the materials or physical makeup of the solar cell, which hasn’t been largely effective, Northwestern researchers chose to only adjust the pattern of the cell’s top layer, said Wei Chen, co-author of the paper and Wilson-Cook professor in engineering design and professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern.

Sun said researchers chose the procedure, which involves multiple steps that mimic the natural selection process, because it is difficult to predict the best pattern to absorb sunlight. The method also allowed researchers to test multiple designs at once.

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population of designs,” Chen said.

“Other processes start with one design, so they’re less efficient.”

Researchers began with a family of designs for the solar panel, then evaluated them for effectiveness and chose the most promising designs, according to Chen.

“We looked at their absorption rate, their behavior and performance rate,” she said. “From that we decided which designs we are going to carry to the next generation.”

For the next generation, Chen paired designs and randomly exchanged their traits, simulating the process of reproduction, with hopes of creating designs with even better performance.

To better imitate evolution, researchers allowed for the small probability of mutation, meaning the design would slightly differ from the “parent” design.

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known to the roller derby world as “Karmageddon,” laced up her skates in 2005, when she said the sport was still considered “underground.” From her first practice, she was hooked. She said it was the fast-paced action and team spirit of roller derby that attracted her to the sport. Now, Karma is part of the leadership of Windy City Rollers, Chicago’s roller derby league, and a member of the Double Crossers team.

The idea of a roller derby league in Chicago was conceived in 2004 when Elizabeth “Juanna Rumbel” Gomez and Kelly “Sister Sledgehammer” Simmons saw a revival of the sport in Austin, Texas. They recruited members, including Karma, and formed the all-female, flat-track derby league.

Karma said roller derby involves three positions: the jammer, blocker and pivot. The jammer skates laps ahead of the other team’s jammer, while the pivot sets the pace of her teammates and the blocker does whatever she can to knock the other team out of the way so her jammer can get ahead.

Karma spoke with The Chronicle about her roller derby experience and the extra-curricular side of roller derby.

The Chronicle: In which position would you say your strength is?

Emily Cromwell: I am usually a pivot or a blocker, so my strengths are hitting. We try to stop the jammer and the other blockers. I’ve done it all, but I’m much more useful in “the pack.”

How does roller derby differ from other sports?

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I think the biggest difference is that people don’t grow up playing the sport. Almost ev-

ery other sport are things people play when they are [younger].

Once you are an adult in your 20s or 30s, there are all these sports that people have played in at least [physical education], if nowhere else. They’ve played it in some sort of formal or informal organization as a kid so they have that basic knowledge.

There’s not that background of [roller derby].

How is the relationship among you and your teammates?

It’s awesome. They’re my sisters. We have a team that’s a little newer because we have a lot of skaters who have joined in the last year, which is really exciting, but we also have skaters who have recently retired, and yet, they’re still part of the team. So it’s not just the 20 people currently on the team—it’s bigger than that.

They’re in the trenches with me, they’re who I rely on 100 percent.

What do you do after games?

The league goes to an after-party.

We go to a bar and our fans go with us. We usually have dance parties and those are mandatory.

Then I usually go home and I’m done with my evening. It’s exhausting to play, but it’s worth it.

What do you do to get pumped for a game?

I listen to a lot of really dancy pop music like the Scissor Sisters, or some really bad ’90s rap, but I think that’s as much as I do. I like to get pumped up, but really it’s just to get focused. I’m excited up to about an hour before the game and then it’s game time, and it’s serious.

For more information on the Windy City Rollers or to purchase tickets, visit WindyCityRollers. com. Check out the roller derby photo essay on page 22. hzolkowerkutz@chroniclemail.com

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The Portfolio Center is proud to announce the 2013 Weisman Award recipients: ADEWOLE ABIOYE

KAZUKO GOLDEN

SAMUEL O’REILLY

SOPHIA ALLISON

MARY HORAN

BRENT PALMER

HANNA ANDERTON

LAUREN JACKSON Fashion Design

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AS MANY AS eight college athletes were ruled academically ineligible in January, highlighting an issue some think can be addressed by offering a sports performance major.

In November 2012, David Pargman, professor emeritus of educational psychology at Florida State University, wrote a commentary for The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he proposed that colleges and universities develop a degree that could restore integrity to the academic performance of some college athletes. Just as musicians can obtain degrees tailored to their performance-oriented craft, some are arguing athletes should be able to do the same.

“They take a phony major just to satisfy eligibility requirements, in which they’re not really interested in,” Pargman said. “So since a lot of them want to be professional athletes and move on to that level, and since the mission of a university is to prepare students for careers and for life, why not create a major that indeed prepares them to be a professional football player?”

Pargman said he envisioned an undergraduate Bachelor’s degree in sports performance being reserved

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Anthony Davis (right) of the New Orleans Hornets left college for the NBA after his freshman year.

Some think a sports performance major would inspire some athletes to stick through graduation.

for Division I athletes, though qualified performers of lower divisions would not be excluded. According to Pargman, students would take courses in finance, public speaking, anatomy, physiology and motor learning, all subjects he said are integral to professional athletic success. In addition, he said students in the program would be credited for strength and speed training, practice and game performance, simi-

lar to how music students receive credit through taking lessons with their instruments and performing during the school year. Pargman said he is not aware of any universities that offer such a program.

Thiago Ganancio, a redshirt sophomore midfielder for the DePaul University Blue Demons men’s soccer team, said a sports performance major could bring a sense of fulfillment to the academic

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“I definitely know athletes from my past, that are only focused on the sport,” Ganancio said. “If their education was focused on the sport, and they could enhance their performance by it or see the future that they could have in the sport. I think it would definitely capture their attention more.”

What that future is and, more accurately, what sort of life a sports performance major could provide someone, is not clear to Cheryl Raye-Stout, a Columbia alumna who teaches introduction to radio sportscasting at the college.

“It’s just dabbling in things, when you look at it,” Raye-Stout said.

“If you know that you are going to make it in the NFL, I think this would be great. But I just don’t see if there’s enough where you can make a life if you’re not going to play sports with this curriculum.”

Pargman likens the athlete who does not make it at the professional level to the aspiring doctor who does not get accepted into medical school. He said in both cases, the student “retools” and finds a related field to fall back on. He suggested physical therapy or athletic training for those who complete the curriculum but can’t go pro.

Anthony Kelley, a kinesiology major and senior guard for the University of Illinois at Chicago Flames’ men’s basketball team, said going through college always challenging and Pargman doesn’t account for how many athletes don’t

end up becoming professionals.

“If you think about school in itself right now, there’s so much that goes behind it as far as course load and just the structure towards graduating in that specific field,” Kelley said. “Toward the end of [Pargman’s proposal] it seemed like when you graduate, you either make it or you don’t.”

Kelley said he would stick with kinesiology if given the choice of signing up for a sports performance major but added that he would have appreciated the option after he graduated high school.

“I was undecided coming out of high school, and I think that was one of the stronger points of the proposal,” Kelley said. “You [would] actually get some direction coming out of high school, like, ‘Hey I want to do this,’ as opposed to being really undecided and being thrown into something you might not like.”

Pargman said he knows the majority of athletes do not end up going professional, but he said his aim is not to increase the number of athletes who do. Ultimately, Pargman said a program like this would engage student athletes who otherwise would not be interested in their studies.

“It does away with hypocrisy,” Pargman said. “It’s not going to have an impact on whether a kid makes it to the pros or not, but it will make the university more honest.” dpitorak@chroniclemail.com

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the 3D printer and manufactured depending on the type of printer it is.

3D printing was first introduced in 1986, according to Harris Kyriakou, a researcher and student at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies 3D printing communities. He said the technology, developed by 3D Systems, was used to create design prototypes.

When 3D printers were introduced, they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, preventing them from becoming commonplace. But in the past few years innovation has led to a surge of printers, ranging from $500 to $2,100, creating a niche 3D printing community that thrives online.

Sites like Thingiverse.com, a social community for people interested in 3D printing, provide a platform for designers to upload and share their designs and products.

The website RepRap.org provides designs for 3D printer parts, making it possible to print a 3D printer, dramatically lowering the cost.

“RepRap essentially started 3D printing as a lower-end thing,” said Neil Underwood, an administrator at RepRap. 3D printers use different methods to fabricate designs. One, called Selective Laser Sintering, operates by directing a laser at a thin layer of powdered plastic, metal or

other materials. The laser hardens the material layer by layer and follows an uploaded CAD file to create the product.

This type of 3D printing has implications for customizing the health and science industry, said Susmita Bose, a professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. Bose was involved in a project where researchers used a ceramic material to 3D print bone grafts for small-scale bone defects in humans.

“We make the synthetic bone graft so it can dissolve in the body as the bone tissue grows over the bone graft,” she said. “You can use metal for bigger load-bearing structures such as a hip implant.”

Amit Bandyopadhyay, another professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State who has studied 3D printing, said the innovation can benefit patients.

“3D printing can offer devices that can be specifically designed and manufactured for specific patients,” he said.

A technique popular with home printers uses nozzles to squeeze out a plastic or wax in layers.

Patrick Lichty, assistant professor in Columbia’s Interactive Arts & Media Department, owns a 3D printer called the Replicator 2 that uses this technique. He uses 3D printing as both an art form and to create functional parts for his

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engineering projects. Recently, he printed a case to fit the exact specifications of a small computer he constructed. He said he believes 3D printing could revolutionize how the process of manufacturing is carried out.

“I think this is really game changing,” he said. “[3D printers] are going to create radical amounts of change in the manufacturing industry.”

3D printing allows customization to become easier and less expensive, said Adam B. Levine, a 3D printing enthusiast who runs the website MindtoMatter.org. Levine said his interest in the technique stems from his experience in the packaging industry.

“I did a lot of custom stuff, and to do anything custom in packaging requires quantities in the range of 100,000 pieces to 500,000,” he said. “The reduction of the barrier of entry to do just about anything creative in manufacturing drops substantially [when using 3D printing].”

The popularization of 3D printing in both the health industry and manufacturing industry is only a few years down the line, according to Bose.

“It is exciting when we can not only address the scientific challenges but also the engineering needs,” Bose said. “This is what 3D printing does.” hzolkowerkutz@chroniclemail.com

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indignation assist essayists in decision making.

“To be a really successful person in the world, and not just a successful student in the traditional sense who then can’t transfer their knowledge outside, you need to have the kind of rich, emotional attachment to the context in which those skills are used,” said Immordino-Yang, who spoke at the conference.

According to her, the first substantial evidence of an emotional connection to decision making came when her colleague, Antonio Damasio, professor of neuroscience at USC, helped develop the Iowa Gambling Task, which showed that people with damage to the brain’s frontal lobe continued to choose from a rigged deck of cards that brought them big losses without generating important emotional cues. Healthy people registered an emotional arousal when they lost money and learned to avoid those decks, Immordino-Yang said.

Without the ability to feel these basic, embodied feelings, people cannot build higher-level emotions that will aid them in future situations, said Immordino-Yang. She said real-world experience, including project-based education, is crucial to developing more elaborate emotions, which are key to learning how to use information instead of

memorizing it.

“If you take the emotional attachment out of people’s knowledge then … it doesn’t matter how skilled you are, you don’t know where and when to apply these skills in a way that’s going to be advantageous,” Immordino-Yang said.

It’s a holistic review of every aspect of the student that we know.”

– Murphy Monroe Because these non-cognitive assessments depend on the varied life experiences of prospective students, Boeckenstedt said it’s hard to standardize, which is why DePaul still looks to grade point averages as the best indicator of potential success.

Immordino-Yang said an applicant’s particular experience is not what is evaluated in the essay.

“We care much more about the meaning that kid made about that experience,” she said. “We care much more about the complexity and maturity with which they analyzed the meaning of that experience and use [it] to think about how they should go forward with their life.” dpitorak@chroniclemail.com

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and their parents, and that the game has many benefits.

“There’s a sense of camaraderie that you get from being with the team,” Sachtleban said. “You’ve got eyes on you all the time, and even when you don’t, then it’s up to you, so it kind of just builds good habits.”

Volk added that although college athletes do not get paid a salary, sports are worth the risk of injury because they reward in other ways, such as with scholarships and the joy of playing the game.

“They’re getting paid an education,” Volk said. “That’s something that can be more valuable than money at times.”

Other sports, like basketball, soccer and hockey, also account for the millions of annual concussions that occur, according to the position statement.

Simone Law, a sophomore basketball player for the Loyola University Ramblers, said she suffered one concussion in each of her first two collegiate seasons, but she is not bothered by the injuries.

“I know in anything you can get hurt, but I just love the game,” Law said. “I try to stay cautious, but I know basketball’s a physical sport, so that’s just a risk that comes with it.”

Law said her first concussion resulted from a head-on collision with her teammate. She said the

second injury occurred when she went up for a rebound, was undercut and landed headfirst on the court.

Law said she returned from both injuries without fear of re-injury.

“I was eager to play,” Law said.

“The experiences that you have—

the friends and memories that you make while you play these sports— these are four years of your life that you won’t get back, so do the best that you can [to] make the most of your experience.” dpitorak@chroniclemail.com

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The new panel has the potential to decrease the cost and increase the efficiency of silicon solar panels, according to Sun. Darling said he is also interested in integrating solar power into a broader energy system. His group at Argonne partnered with the Illinois

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“We cannot say there aren’t equal solutions,” Chen said. “But we’re pretty confident this is the best performance we can get.”

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Darling said the development of this solar panel was conveniently timed because information about solar energy in the Midwest is scarce because research is lacking.

Chen said she is excited about the potential of this new technology.

“The scalability of this technology is quite flexible. Eventually we will want to attach it to some application,” Chen said. “There are a lot of potential applications associated with small electronics to very huge, using the solar energy.” hzolkowerkutz@chroniclemail.com

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2. Grease a 13-by-9 inch pan.

3. Mix sugar, eggs and milk in a mixing bowl. Add vanilla.

Pour mixture over cubed bread and let sit for 10 minutes.

4. To make sauce, mix sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in saucepan. Cook over medium heat and stir. Add brandy. Stir for no more than 2–3 minutes. Set aside.

5. In a separate bowl, crumble together brown sugar, butter and pecans. Sprinkle over bread mixture.

6. Bake 35–45 minutes. Let cool.

7. Pour sauce over bread pudding. Serve warm or cold.

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With a breakfast-like French toast taste and a mouthwatering final product, this treat is both impressive and easy for anyone to make, whether an avid kitchen chef or a cooking novice.

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During your 10 minutes of downtime, make the sauce, which will be drizzled over the pudding after it bakes.

Stir together sugar, butter, egg and vanilla in a saucepan and cook over medium heat. Stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved. Next, add the brandy and continue stirring for 2–3 minutes.

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IN A FILM adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s bestselling novel “Beautiful Creatures,” a story of dangerous, beautiful love is brought to life.

Alden Ehrenreich stars as Ethan, a teenager trapped in a small Southern town. When the mysterious Lena, played by Alice Englert, moves in and captures Ethan’s affection, the town suffers a supernatural awakening that threatens to tear apart the laws of morality.

Zoey Deutch is cast as Emily, a nihilistic girl yearning for Ethan’s love, perpetuating the story’s thematic topics of anger, desire and moralistic boundaries. It also stars Oscar winner Emma Thompson, Oscar nominee Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum.

The Chronicle sat down with “Beautiful Creatures” stars Ehrenreich and Deutch to discuss their growth as young actors, the importance of character development and what makes playing bad feel so good.

The Chronicle: Alden, is it true that you were actually discovered by Stephen Spielberg at a friend’s bat mitzvah?

Alden Ehrenrich: Yes, I was! My friend Johnny and I, when I was 14, used to make these very stupid little videos, and his cousin’s friend asked us to make one for her bat mitzvah. So we did, and I wasn’t at the bat mitzvah, but [Spielberg] was and saw this video, thought it was funny and had me come to

Dreamworks [Studios]. Based on their validation, I was able to start my career and get an agent when I was 14. Then I auditioned for four years and didn’t get any parts.

You’ve performed in other films with dark thematic elements, such as “Twixt,” “Stoker” and now “Beautiful Creatures.” Are these qualities that you seek when looking for a new role?

AE: No, they’re not at all. It’s interesting that has been a theme, actually. What I really look for in a part is a character that I feel like is a real person and some kind of statement in the film, that the film says something that I feel is of value to say …

Those movies, to me, have all those elements. The dark side of it, I don’t know. If all of those elements were in a very light, romantic comedy, I’d love to do that, but this is where I’ve found them and been able to get the parts.

What do you find difficult about being the supportive backbone to Alice’s [Englert] character in “Beautiful Creatures”?

AE: When I first read the [script], I knew I wanted to do it within the first three pages. I cared about the character of Ethan so much. I liked his point of view. I liked his values, and I feel like he has courage to stand up to these different forces and support and push Lena through all these struggles so that they can stay true to themselves and their relationship. xx SEE CREATURES, PG. 28

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salads will be two of the meal options available to models during New York Fashion Week Feb. 7 - 14, thanks to the Council of Fashion Designers of America who partnered with Organic Avenue, a popular Manhattan juice cleanse company.

The partnership between the 400 designers of the CFDA and the organic retailer comes after models complained about the “difficulty of finding food that is both nutritious and convenient” during previous fashion weeks.

Along with a 50 percent discount on all of the organic retailer’s products, the models will be given support and education sessions to help guide them through an intense week on the catwalk, according to a Jan. 23 announcement made

by CFDA. All of these services will continue through March 31.

Naturally, the media slurped up whatever nutrition was in this news nugget and spit out what it thinks is the nasty side-effect: Offering models juices and salads during the event is perpetuating the pressure to be thin.

The announcement also sparked

worry with Whitney Thompson, the first plus size winner of “America’s Next Top Model.”

“Sending a model to a juice cleanse place is like sending an alcoholic to a bar,” Thompson told ABC News Jan. 28. “It’s baiting them.”

Thompson, who is an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association, said during fashion week shows, it is “extremely common” to see models suffering from bulimia and anorexia.

Though eating disorders are a serious problem in the modeling industry, attacking an organic food retailer that is looking to ensure models’ health is entirely counterproductive.

It’s true that many models suffer from eating disorders, but the models at NYFW will not be sent to a “juice cleanse place.” Rather, they will be provided with healthy alternatives to replenish themselves. Isn’t it better the models are given fresh juices, salads and wraps instead of their not eating at all?

Or would it be better if they were given chicken wings and deep dish pizza backstage? I know I wouldn’t want to slip into a Zac Posen mas-

terpiece with a belly full of junk.

The ABC article went on to instill fear by citing the dangers of the Master Cleanse, which involves drinking lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup for 10 days. It’s no surprise diarrhea and delirium would ensue after that— but that crazy cleanse is not what CFDA is offering. Instead, Cheerful Chai Smoothies and Spicy Avocado Soup are just some of the items models can snack on.

CFDA is taking a healthy step in the right direction by supplying fashion week with the ammunition to educate models on proper nutrition, and it could even help fight serious eating disorders in the fashion world. scoleman@chroniclemail.com

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Samantha Hollice junior, fashion studies major

laundry frequency: “Once a month. I do it all in loads.”

Keenen Webster junior, marketing communication major laundry frequency: “Every Friday.”

Leah Hairston sophomore, arts, entertainment & media mgmt major laundry frequency: “Every two weeks.”

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Empty storefronts transform into studio spaces

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SOMETIMES THE DOOM and gloom of certain neighborhoods is enough to make recent grads relocate to more vibrant surroundings, but one local artist is trying to prevent her own migration by beautifying her community.

“I noticed that people tend to come to Chicago for school and then they move away, and that’s always bothered me,” said Gwen Zabicki, founder of South Logan Arts Coalition.

Driven to improve her living space, Zabicki, 29, purchased her first home in Logan Square in February 2012. After completing graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2012, she was inspired to improve Logan Square, which Zabicki said has a number of empty and foreclosed storefronts.

“Homeownership kind of motivates you to better your neighborhood,” Zabicki said. “And since I just got out of school, I’ve been talking to my friends and other artists, and they complain about the lack of affordable studio space … I thought, ‘Hey, let’s kill two birds with one stone.’”

To do so, Zabicki formed the South Logan Arts Coalition in December 2012 as a nonprofit organization with a mission of persuading the owners of buildings with empty

storefronts to donate their spaces to artists free of charge for one to three months.

Zabicki has been working with the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, three aldermen—Rey Colon (35), Joe Moreno (1) and Scott Waguespack (32)—and a volunteer lawyer to ensure the project is successful.

Julie Burros, director of cultural programming at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, said she met with Zabicki and was impressed by the amount of work she had already completed.

“I think it’s a fantastic project,” Burros said. “[Zabicki’s] a [visual] artist who saw a need, who showed initiative and is pulling the pieces together. [She is] talking to all the right people and actually implementing something to fix a need among her peers [by] providing space for artists and addressing a blatant condition right in her neighborhood.”

The deadline for the first portion of applications for a studio space was Feb. 1, and though the South Logan Arts Coalition hasn’t yet selected any applicants to award spaces to, Zabicki said she has been happy with the quality of the 16 artists who have applied, ranging from established artists to recent art school graduates.

“It’s great for me because it shows me how many young artists

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A building at 3060 W. Armitage Ave. was built in 2011. However, its first-floor storefront has remained empty for almost two years. there are in Chicago that I’ve never known about before,” Zabicki said.

Zabicki said she and her lawyer are in the process of negotiating with storefront owners on setting residency of one to three months, requiring a refundable security deposit on the spaces, paying for utilities and giving artists a 14-day move-out deadline once the building owner finds a buyer.

“It depends on what agreement we can reach with the building owner, but the artists aren’t going to be paying rent,” Zabicki said.

She seeks to secure at least two spaces that will be ready for use by early March.

Penelope Hearne, an interdisciplinary graduate student at Columbia, applied for a South Logan Arts Coalition studio space. She said that while Columbia has many re-

sources, the studio space is limited because it is in an urban campus.

“We do have studio spaces, but they’re very tiny,” Hearne said. I build sculptures and installation materials, so I’m really looking to find an artist space to work in so I can make larger work. Also, being a student, financially, I don’t necessarily have the resources for my own studio right now.”

However, Hearne recently learned she probably will not receive a space because she is not a Logan Square resident, and she said the program is reluctant to grant space to students at arts institutions because they have access to studio space through the college.

The biggest planning issue Zabicki has faced so far is that building owners are hesitant to donate their space because they hope to eventu-

ally secure a buyer.

The director of a similar initiative, Rae Ann Cecrle, founder and chair of Edgewater Artists in Motion, a program that decorated 28 empty storefronts with 67 artists’ work in Edgewater from 2008–2009, said the process actually improved the face of the neighborhood.

“We started in January of 2009 after the economy was really bad in November 2008, when there were a lot of storefronts that seemed to be becoming vacant,” Cecrle said. “The major goal was to fill these storefronts with art to help the existing businesses and new business and also give artists the opportunity to promote their work.” eornberg@chroniclemail.com

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couch hangs at a 45-degree angle from the wall next to a stop sign that reads “HIP HOP DON’T STOP.” A $20 bill folded to read “Tits of America” is also tacked on the wall, alongside a 4-foot-tall portrait of a woman with a skull for a face wearing a bikini standing next to a pig beneath the words “Drug King.”

This is the scene of the mixed media urban art exhibition “Has Beens & Wannabes,” which opened Jan. 18 at Bridgeport’s Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St., aiming to transform street art into gallery pieces.

As Executive Director Michael Zhou walked through the hallowed rooms of the Zhou B Art Center before the gallery opening, he pointed out various pieces from 20 of Chicago’s most celebrated graffiti artists from the 1980s, including the exhibit’s curator, Mario Gonzalez Jr., also known as “ZORE.” “A lot of these artists featured here are the founding fathers of the Chicago graff scene, so they’re original,” Zhou said.

Zhou explained that Gonzalez aims to highlight the novelty of street art hanging in a gallery by titling the exhibit “Has Beens & Wannabes.”

“He wants to poke fun with this exhibit,” Zhou said. “‘Has Beens’ meaning [these artists] were the legends, and this exhibit is their transition from graffiti to studio art.

So now, it’s like they’re ‘Wannabe’ [fine artists].”

InJung Oh, office manager at Zhou B, said the exhibit opened her eyes to graffiti art by helping to redefine what the medium means to the art world.

“These kinds of shows make graffiti artists get more exposure and more respect because a lot of people, when they think of graffiti, they think tagging on the buildings, getting into trouble,” Oh said.

“These types of shows really make it different.”

Oh moved to Bridgeport in 2009 after she had completed graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She said she had never been to Bridgeport until making the move because she had heard the neighborhood wasn’t very welcoming for minorities.

“People told me that Bridgeport was actually a place that didn’t allow certain people,” Oh said. “Some of my African-American friends say even 10 years ago, [they] weren’t even allowed in Bridgeport.”

According to Ann Durkin Keating’s 2008 book “Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide,” Bridgeport stood as a “bastion of white ethnic parochialism.”

“Racial and ethnic strife has always been a part of its history,” Keating wrote. “During the Civil War, pro-Confederate rallies were held in the neighborhood. In the 20th century, Polish and Lithuanian gangs often clashed along Morgan Street.”

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Zhou B Art Center’s current urban art show “Has Beens & Wannabes,” which was co-curated by the center’s Exhibitions Director Sergio Gomez and Chicago graffiti legend Mario “ZORE” Gonzalez Jr., includes more than 20 of Chicago’s graffiti artists of the ’80s and ’90s.

Having lived in Bridgeport for more than 20 years, Zhou said he noticed the poor shape of the community a decade ago and has since witnessed a noticeably large community transformation.

“The city has come a long way,” Zhou said. “This neighborhood back then, 10, 20 years ago, was a rough neighborhood.”

The number of Mexican and Chinese residents has grown significantly because of Bridgeport’s proximity to Armour Square, a booming Chinese community, and Pilsen, the city’s largest Mexican community, according to the book.

Because of the racial divide, blacks made up less than 1 percent of the area’s population in the 1990s, Keating wrote.

“In addition, Bridgeport remains largely working-class,” Keating wrote. “[But] its proximity to the city’s expanding Loop puts it in the direct line for future investment and development.”

In line with its growing population, new housing options are continually being built, said Lelde Kalmite, a curator at Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 W. 35th St. Kalmite said although she has only worked at the art cen-

ter in Bridgeport for two years, she has already witnessed the neighborhood change.

“Bridgeport is a famous community in Chicago, notorious for a lot of racial conflict and many problems,” Kalmite said. “But that has changed, and we have seen a diverse and interesting ethnic mix, and it’s becoming a lot more open and welcoming of young professional people. [The neighborhood is] kind of on the forefront of Chicago.”

Kalmite said part of the reason Bridgeport has grown to be more welcoming is because of its thriving

It’s good to see the art is growing in this vibrant city.”

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“Artists by nature are diverse and open to other cultures,” Kalmite said. “The whole birth of modern art was European awareness of African art, Columbian art, Japanese

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1. Zhou brothers Shan Zuo and Da Huang founded The Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St. Every third Friday of the month, the Zhou B. opens two new galleries. 2. In addition to co-curating the main exhibit, Mario “ZORE”Gonzalez Jr. had his own solo gallery titled “Style Bombing” in the Zhou B Art Center’s 33 Contemporary Gallery. 3. The Bridgeport Art Center’s skyline loft hosted a gallery competition featuring both amateur and professional artists competing for a $1,000 prize. First place went to Joel Fischer’s sardine sculpture titled “Together We’re F----d.”

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prints, etc. Art has always been at the vanguard of ethnic appreciation across cultures.”

Zhou said he has seen a similar growth in art appreciation at the Zhou B Art Center, as more artists gravitate toward Bridgeport.

“When we first started 10 years ago, we had a handful of artists, and now we have over 50 artists in our building and a huge waiting list of people that want to be a part of our community,” Zhou said. “It’s good to see the art is growing in this vibrant city.”

The Zhou B Art Center was conceptualized in the early 1980s when Zhou’s father and uncle, Shan Zuo and Da Huang Zhou, immigrated to Chicago from China with only $30 in their pockets, Oh said. In 2003, they acquired their current space.

Zhou said the mission behind the Zhou B Art Center is to give back to the Bridgeport arts community.

“We want to create a platform for these artists—there’s so many talented local artists, and we felt there was really a lack of exhibition space,” Zhou said. “Bridgeport is our home away from home.”

Zhou added that the culture of Bridgeport is unlike any other Chicago neighborhood because of its connected community.

“I feel like Bridgeport is the last real neighborhood alive in Chicago,” Zhou said. “If you go up north, for example, a lot of neighborhoods are gentrifying, and you don’t know your neighbors’ names. In Bridgeport, people grow up here, and they stay here for generations.” eornberg@chroniclemail.com Visit ColumbiaChronicle.com/Multimedia for web-exclusive video content

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Makeup artist goto guy for TV gore

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HUNCHED OVER HALF a naked body, Barney Burman uses a hand rake to shave chunks of molten clay from the skull, while a co-worker scrapes air bubbles from a severed hand.

On a separate table, two men are working on the other half, sawing through the foam legs of a victim who has been cut in two for an upcoming episode of the NBC series “Grimm.”

Burman, who is an Oscar-winning, third-generation makeup effects artist, had just a few days to create the severed cadaver, which he personally delivered the week of Jan. 27 to Portland, Ore., where the supernatural series shoots.

“We get the best of both worlds,” said Burman, owner of B2FX in North Hollywood. “We get to make monsters and dead people on a weekly basis—it’s fantastic.”

Thanks to a plethora of crime dramas and supernatural shows such as “Grimm,” as well as a continued appetite for physical effects—as opposed to those created on a computer screen—makeup artists like Burman remain very much in demand in Hollywood.

They use old-school techniques and materials to fashion monsters

from clay, foam, paint and silicone.

Burman has designed and created all manner of dead bodies and creatures for “Grimm,” a popular series in its second season inspired by classic Grimm’s fairy tales, a collection of German tales originally published in 1812. “Grimm” stars David Giuntoli as a detective, descended from an elite line of criminal profilers, who faces off against various ancient evils and mythic monsters.

Although thedrama“Grimm” uses some computer-generated effects, it equally relies on Burman and his team to design and create as many as three dead bodies and four creatures per episode.

“He’s good, he’s fast ... and he makes these creatures look very real,” said David Greenwalt, creator and executive producer of “Grimm,” along with Jim Kouf.

The shelves of Burman’s studio are lined with heads of various human-monster hybrids—including a pigman and a wolfman—beside a stack of freshly painted eyeballs and an assortment of aliens.

The company employs dozens of mostly freelance artists, each of whom has specialties, such as sculpting hands or attaching hair.

Burman’s job is often a race against the clock. First, an actor sits for about an hour, as Burman and

his crew create a cast of his head and body. From the cast, the crew sculpts a clay model of the body, which is used to form a mold that is filled with a silicone compound.

“I would like to do this in three weeks,” he said of his latest cadaver, a mold of actor Quinn Franzen. “Instead, I have just seven to eight days.”

A 46-year-old Los Angeles native, Burman comes from a family of makeup artists. His grandfather, Ellis Burman, worked with the renowned makeup effects artist Jack Pierce on classic monster films, including 1941’s “The Wolf Man” with Lon Chaney.

His father, Tom Burman, joined John Chambers—the makeup effects artist depicted in the Oscarnominated movie “Argo”—in creating the groundbreaking makeup for “Planet of the Apes.”

Burman is self-taught, having learned the business as a child, visiting sets with his father, who often used him to test makeup or try out masks. He once modeled for a small alien in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

“I would test things on him. He was always game,” recalled Tom Burman. “He had a real propensity for it. I’m really proud of him.”

After flirting with a career as an actor, the younger Burman entered the family trade and opened his first studio in 2004, initially operating out of his garage in Van Nuys, Calif.

It was partly a practical decision. Acting jobs were scarce, but

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From left: Daniel Tirinnanzi, Barney Burman and Ian Von Cromer work on a sculpture for the set of “Grimm.”

Burman could make decent money as a makeup effects artist once his father got him his first job, which allowed him to join the makeup artists union.

Eventually he got work on such movies as the Jack Black comedy “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny,” for which he provided an exploding head; “Mission: Impossible III”; “Tropic Thunder”; and the J.J. Abrams reboot of “Star Trek,” for which Burman shared a Best Achievement in Makeup Oscar in 2010. Burman created Mr. Spock’s signature Vulcan ears and Scotty’s alien sidekick Keenser, played by Deep Roy. He also worked on the upcoming “Star Trek Into Darkness.”

In addition to “Grimm,” Burman has worked on several other televi-

sion shows, including “Medium,” “Chuck” and “Teen Wolf.” He recently completed an indie horror film called “Apparitional,” which is about a group of ghost hunters exploring a haunted prison with a grisly past.

With his regular work on “Grimm,” Burman said his business is flourishing. Last year, his company generated about $1 million in revenue and recently moved into a larger, 5,000-square-foot studio in North Hollywood’s arts district to accommodate additional workload.

“The more that people want to see something fantastic, the more it calls upon our skills,” Burman said.

“I’m really fortunate.” chronicle@colum.edu

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mtvU honorees, the Uptown Celebrities (The UC), are rapidly climbing the rap scene ranks.

The collective formed in the spring of 2011 when Jeremy “Jon De Pledge” Johnson and Lavell “DFlaire” Miller met Ernest “E-Man” Allgood, Victor “Vic” Morris and Deante “Tay Devito” Spencer at Columbia’s Dwight Lofts, 642 S. Clark St. Influenced by the variation of each other’s verses and flows, the chemistry between the young emcees was instantaneous, leading them to release their debut mixtape “The Variety Show” in May 2012, featuring the single “Feel Good Mu-

sic” that earned the group a nomination for mtvU’s Freshmen Video of the Week.

Since then, The UC has expanded from the original five, picking up a few more members, including Joshua “JG” Gatlin, Daniel “MacGee” McGee and Ashley “Angel Davanport” Hart.

The success of “The Variety Show” paved the way for the release of their most successful single, “Uptown Anthem,” which has garnered more than 11,000 YouTube views, as of press time.

Possessing a balance between conscious hip-hop, a more political form of the genre, and party rap, The UC has grown to become one of Chicago’s rap

groups on the rise.

The Chronicle sat down with The UC to chat about the group’s breakout moment, musical dynamics and future plans.

The Chronicle: How does The UC stand out among other hiphop collectives?

Ernest Allgood: We stand out because all we do is do us, and [we] stay in our own lane. We don’t try to mimic [any] other group or artist. We may be influenced by Jay-Z or Tupac, but we don’t try to mirror their image. We just do what we do well.

Victor Morris: Once you start putting yourself out there with

music, everybody’s going to have their own opinions about what they think about this person and that person, but at the end of the day, we do what we want to do, and we do what we feel.

EA: Let me tell you something that [Miller] always says: “We’re going to be in the United Center selling out shows.” It’s going to be like that. [We’re] going to be all over the world.

How do you find common ground in the studio with each of your unique styles?

LM: Being signed, of course, would be nice, but that’s not our focus. I want to make music that people can rock with. There’s no better feeling when you’re walking down the street and someone recognizes you or tweets your lyrics.

Lavell Miller: I think that’s where the biggest challenge comes in. Of course it’s easy when [Allgood] and [Spencer] get on a track because they have a certain chemistry with a certain taste of music that’s similar.

Jeremy Johnson: We have an ear for each others’ styles, so we’ll never be like, “Hey man, that’s my beat!” We never fight over it.

When was the group’s signature breakout moment?

All: MTV and [the] “Feel Good Music” [music video].

EA: I got a call and they were like, “We’re nominated for freshmen of the fall for mtvU” and I was like, “Stop lying.” So we did a whole,“Vote For The UC Campaign” on Facebook and Twitter.

What does The UC have planned in the near future?

LM: We’re all solo artists as well as one big group. We would love to do a new project, and it seems like that’s the direction we’re going.

[Allgood] has a new project coming out next week called “Still Getting Started,” [Johnson] had a project, “Soul’d Out” released this past fall.

I’m going to have a project, “Hope is Dope.” It’s starting to look busy for us but we still have time to come back together.

EA: As far as the next mixtape, that’s in the works. We have a name for it: “NARG: Not Another Rap Group.” You can be on the look out for that.

Photo courtesy MARQUES CLARK

LM: We were trending [on Twitter] for three days.

For more information on The UC, visit Facebook.com/UptownCelebrities.

From left: Jeremy Johnson, Deante Spencer, Lavell Miller and Ernest Allgood make up The Uptown Celebrities. The collective’s video for “Feel Good Music” was nominated for mtvU’s Best Freshmen Video of the Week in September 2012. Not Pictured: Victor Morris, Joshua Gatlin, Daniel McGee and Ashley Hart.

What is The UC’s ultimate goal?

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Zoey, your mother, Lea Thompson, is a famous actress and your dad is a director. Did your parents support your wanting to follow in their footsteps?

Zoey Deutch: It’s kind of awesome to have that support group, and [my mother] knows everything I’m going through, honestly. I don’t ever feel alone. I can ask her for anything, and she understands. I love her. My dad, too!

What was it like to act as one of the villains in the film?

ZD: Really, the struggle I had was finding a way not to judge [the film’s character] Emily, because she’s religiously extreme. She’s manipulative and closed-minded and entitled.

In order to not judge her, I had to understand where she was coming from, which is a place—in my opinion, the way I interpreted it—of hurt, a place of pain.

Zoey, what are your thoughts on transitioning from TV to film?

ZD: I’ve only been acting professionally for

like, two and a half, three years now, so I’m very fortunate to be able to do a movie this amazing at such an early point in my career. I feel very lucky and very confused [about] how that happened to me.

How is this film going to differentiate itself from other supernatural romances such as “Twilight”?

AE: I haven’t seen “Twilight,” so I don’t know how it compares exactly, but what I haven’t seen before is a movie that’s a mystical genre movie that has such real characters and a sense of humor about itself. I think you’ll be really surprised by how much of that [genre] there is in the film. If you removed all the supernatural elements, it would still be a really dynamic, character-driven piece.

[Richard LaGravenese] is such a phenomenal writer that he was able to bring these people to life in a way that makes it so much more relatable and so much more involved in that supernatural story. It’s not just a spectacle movie, it’s a movie that’s a fantastic representation of a very real experience.

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Viola Davis, Alden Enrenreich and director Richard LaGravenese in Alcon Entertainment’s supernatural love story “Beautiful Ceatures,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

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blog STFU Couples You think your relationship is horrible? Well, according to STFU Couples, there are lovers out there worse off than you. Kickoff the season of love by getting some laughs in at the expense of a few rocky relationships. The majority of the posts are from Facebook, reminding us that some things truly need to remain private.

video Ghetto Fabulous In a new promotional video for Alexander Wang’s Spring 2013 line, actress Anjelah Nicole Johnson reprises her role as the feisty, no-nonsense Bon Qui Qui. Watch as the former Mad TV startlet tackles her new job while avoiding termination. With visits from Simon Doonan, Natasha Lyonne and A$AP Rocky, will she be able to survive?

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Netflix movies that don’t suck

Pop artists to look out for in 2013

Reasons why Frank Ocean needs to have a seat

“Craigslist Joe”: This documentary chonicles Joseph Garner’s month-long adventure across the country using only Craigslist to obtain everything from transportation to food to companionship. The film shows how we can depend on the generosity of complete strangers in a disconnected world (as well as a glimpse at some of the bizarre people who actually respond to Craigslist personal ads).

Natalia Kills: Although her 2011 debut album failed to chart, Natalia Kills is back with upcoming sophomore release “Trouble.” The album’s teaser, “Controversy,” is a fearless list of society’s most unspoken taboos. “Drink the Kool-Aid, don’t drink the Kool-Aid,” she repeatedly screams, asserting herself as the Marilyn Manson of pop music.

You confronted Chris Brown first: Last weekend, Frank Ocean and Chris Brown were involved in a scuffle outside of a Los Angeles studio. According to TMZ, Ocean stepped to Brown first and said, “This is my studio, this is my parking spot.” Umm, yeah … can I have a copy of that lease please?

“Submarine”: Oliver Tate is a 15-year-old on a mission with two goals—one being to save his parents’ mundane relationship through carefully plotted scheming and the other to use his V-card before he turns 16. “Submarine” is beautifully filmed, and who doesn’t love a cynically hilarious and quirky British comedy-drama?

Vanbot: Since Swedish competitors Lykke Li and Robyn are away working on new projects, Vanbot is reemerging on the music scene at the perfect time. Her latest single,“Hold This Moment,” brilliantly fuses hardhitting, industrial undertones with the overlying quality of an ‘80s power-pop anthem.

“Helvetica”: It’s on traffic signs, billboards and the McDonalds logo, but where did it come from?

This documentary tells the riveting story behind the world’s most influential and widely-used font: Helvetica. A must for all font-fanatics like me.

Brooke Candy: While you may already know her as the pink-haired video vixen in Grimes’ film “Genesis,” this Los Angeles rapper is proving to be hip-hop’s saving grace and Nicki Minaj’s worst enemy. Prepare yourself before watching Dazed & Confused-produced “Everybody Does” because it is equal parts stunning and horribly offensive.

“Stones in Exile”: Packed full of unseen film footage from the 1970s, “Stones in Exile” takes us on an incredible trip to the south of France with mopheads The Rolling Stones as they shirtlessly create their most celebrated album “Exile on Main St.” in the basement of Keith Richard’s mansion.

Jenn D: Arguably, pop doesn’t need another blonde, but it is undeniable that some dethroning is long overdue—Britney is an industry robot, Gaga has disappeared and Christina can’t write a hit. Jenn D is snatching their crowns with her bubble-gum single “You Keep Giving Me Love.”

“The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans”: When all else fails, nothing fixes a horrible day better than some ice cream and a British man soothingly narrating captivating episodes of a docu-series about the ocean’s remarkable creatures.

DENA: Her lo-fi single “Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools,” reflects the simplicity of her Berlin hometown both sonically and lyrically. Though she has been compared to M.I.A., DENA is so musically off-trend she sounds completely cutting-edge.

Police report: According to TMZ, when Brown attempted to reach out and shake Ocean’s hand, a member of his entourage attacked Ocean. The only reason Ocean is “the victim” is because he stayed and talked to the police when they arrived.

Nobody knows who actually threw the first punch.

The first cut is the deepest: Afterward, Ocean complained on Twitter that he cut his finger, so now “he can’t play with two hands at the Grammys?” Last time I checked, each hand has five fingers. I’m pretty sure he will be okay by Feb. 10.

What’s beef?: While it’s true that this isn’t the first time Ocean exchanged “words” with Brown, according to a brief Twitter beef this summer, it seems like Chris was trying to give Frank a compliment by comparing him to both James Fauntleroy and Kevin Cossom. The latter of the two is a Grammy Award-nominated songwriter.

Sound familiar?

Ego-tripping: Though Brown attacked Ocean with one of his Twitter rants after Ocean compared him to Sisqo and Ike Turner, it’s pretty obvious Ocean has really been on an ego trip for quite some time. Yes, both artists are successful in their own right, but neither one is better than the other.

‘Bullet to the Head,’ has lots of action, no plot

by Sam Flancher Film Critic ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

AGING ACTION heros are back with

a vengance. “The Expendables” franchise brought a host of seemingly retired film stars back to the silver screen in an eruption of violent glory, and Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have all marked 2013 as the year of their collective return to the gun-slinging world of the Hollywood action film.

“Bullet to the Head,” Stallone’s chosen renaissance project, takes its cues from the Hollywood action films of the 1980s. It’s full of the hyper-violent sequences and exaggerated one-liners typical of such films, but, unfortunately, director Walter Hill does little to connect these sequences with any coherence. The result is a film that only occasionally entertains.

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James Bonomo (Stallone) performing his typical “tough-guy” shtick.

His voice-over explains that he makes his living as a hitman–a gunfor-hire governed by a hackneyed conception of personal morality.

After killing a man on assignment, Bonomo and his partner are ambushed at the orders of his employer. His partner is killed, and the rest of the film chronicles Bonomo’s quest for revenge. Along the way, Bonomo meets police officer Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), who helps him uncover a farreaching political scandal complete with senatorial payoffs and rampant bureaucratic corruption.

Unfortunately, the story is revealed mostly through blatant, jarring exposition. Whether through cheap voice-over or obvious dialogue, the characters explain the story instead of experiencing it. It seems as though Hill and Stallone crafted the film’s action sequences

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Sylvester Stallone plays James Bonomo, a hitman for hire, in “Bullet to the Head,” in theaters now.

and later thinly connected them by tacking on a loosely structured story. The film’s aim—to dazzle with stylish action—is clear from the outset, but the absence of a strong narrative makes the film feel like a disjointed patchwork of action sequences rather than a coherent whole. The film’s defenders may point to narrative’s relative lack of importance in the action film genre,

but Hill does so little to string his story together that any well-executed scenes get lost in the fray.

The film falters in other respects as well. The acting is hollow to the point of hilarity, and most of Stallone’s dialogue is either racially offensive or bluntly over-the-top.

Kwon is frequently the butt of Bonomo’s culturally insensitive jokes that play on well-worn Asian

stereotypes. One scene is constructed entirely around a series of jokes about Kang’s assumed inability to drive. The entire sequence is abrasive rather than humorous.

Visually, the film relies on cliched camera tricks and unnecessary flashbacks, making the entire experience feel like one sustained opening credit sequence.

If the success of “The Expendables” is an indicator, “Bullet to the Head” will flourish as a cult hit.

The film’s one saving grace is its self-awareness. Stallone and Hill make no attempt to craft anything of deeper substance or meaning.

Their aim is to entertain with large explosions, gratuitous violence and campy action sequences. Car chases, gun fights, bar-stabbings and even an axe fight convey a certain hokey charm, but can’t make up for the weak narrative. sflancher@chroniclemail.com

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THIS IS GOLD. Nicccccceeee.

Tolerable.

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“Silver Linings Playbook” Love isn’t perfect and neither are people. A man recently released from a mental hospital is determined to get his life back together. During the course of his recovery, he meets an equally complicated woman. The laughter, honesty and pain the leading actors delivered is rare in today’s films.—A. Sanchez

“30 Rock: A Goon’s Deed in a Weary World” I have watched all seven seasons of “30 Rock” and can say that although I’m sad to see it go, it’s time to say goodbye. In the second-to-last episode, everyone wraps up sweetly, but the jokes are only funny because I love the characters so much.—L. Earl

“The Point” Take a trip to 1971 with Oblio and his dog Arrow as they venture to the Pointless Forest to prove everything has a purpose in Harry Nilsson’s “The Point.” Despite its poor animation and narration

by Ringo Starr, the psychedelic fable (and Nilsson’s sixth album) is surprisingly relevant. —K. Fowler

“The Office: Customer Loyalty” When the fourth wall was broken and the camera man comforted Pam, I lost it. It was a love or hate moment, but it was undoubtedly emotional. Anyone who works and is in a relationship can relate to that, and the broken wall was a perfect mirror to the broken “perfect” relationship between Pam and Jim. —L. Woods

GQ magazine Although the year’s first GQ started on a great note chronicling the 100 sexiest women of the century, it’s the wonderful features that made me a proud subscriber. A former NFL player being tried on murder charges and a father-son bonding trip to Burning Man. Please, GQ, don’t go changing on us. —K. Rich

Billboard magazine Featuring a sleek, brand-new layout and a quirky yet telling interview with my main Minnesota homie, Prince—who (thankfully) calls out Maroon 5 and Madonna—the Jan. 22 issue of Billboard is the best surprise to show up in my mailbox since my birthday check from Grandma.—E. Ornberg

“Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness” In this true story, Susannah Cahalan, the author and a reporter for The New York Post, tells of misdiagnoses, seizures, appetite loss, psychosis and hospitalization.

Though she remembered nothing during that period of her life, this book served as a tool to retrace the steps of the month that she can never get back. —S. Coleman

Filter magazine Good music will prevail, and this Los Angeles-based publication will make that happen. Whether it is the hippest pop splooge or an electronic ’80s funky jam, Filter has something to say about it. The February issue covers everyone from Macklemore to Björk without skipping anyone in between. —M. Fischer

“Unorthodox” by Joey Bada$$ Joey Bada$$, New York’s newest ’90s representative, lays gritty rhymes over DJ Premier’s scratches to create a track for subway riders and stoop shoe-scuffers. The tandem works in near-perfect harmony on their first collaboration to reproduce a boom-bap vibe best listened to while rocking a fade and SB Dunks. —W. Hager

“Coins” by Le1f With the lyrical arrogance of Kanye West and a spitting style from the depths of Gomorrah, New York rapper Le1f solidifies a place in the rap game with his new single “Coins.” Play this inimitable track at a shameless volume wearing very little clothing for a proper listen. —J. Moran

“Hummingbird” by Local Natives The Los Angeles quartet Local Natives returns with the same psychedelic sound as their 2010 release “Gorilla Manor,” but this time on a much lower note. With more sorrowful moments and a noticeably more mature sound, this album is what I imagine Grizzly Bear sounds like coming off an acid trip. —H. Unkefer

“One Way Trigger” by The Strokes What the hell is this? I thought I was listening to The Strokes, not Mika. The new single’s synthy melody and breathy vocalization are enough to put a Tibetan monk on edge. I forgave you when you didn’t play “12:51” at Lollapalooza and for “Angles” being a half-assed piece of s---t, but I will not forgive you for this.—H. Schröering

The syllabus As important as it is, we’ve all heard the academic integrity policy enough times. We can read that part on our own. In fact, we can take our own time to read the whole syllabus. If you’re a cool instructor, at least you’ll put cartoons on it that pertain to class.

—T. Davis

“Clear” iPhone application “Clear” is a 99-cent app that itemizes your to-do list in a super sleek and attractive way. It’s really easy to add or delete items, and you can pick from one of five color palettes. Judging by how crazy this semester is already, I’m going to need it. —M. Nuccio

Tea infusers You are relaxing in your comfy chair, enjoying a nice, big cup of tea. Not only that, there is a cute rubber duck swimming in your cup! People are coming up with clever and unique tea infusers, and I really do enjoy them. Why not have fun with your tea? —C. Sanchez

Graph paper Graph paper should really be called awesome paper.

Not only did it make math a breeze in grade school, but it’s really easy to draw four-sided figures of any size (granted it fits on the paper). Not only that, it can also keep your writing nice, neat and in line.

—D. Valera

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Keep guns off campus

CAMPUS EDITORIAL

IN RESPONSE TO recent school

shootings, including one Jan. 22 at Lone Star College in Houston, legislators in Texas and Arkansas have introduced bills that would allow people to carry concealed firearms on college campuses, according to a Jan. 18 CampusReform.org article.

Columbia has a very strict policy against all weapons on campus, including guns and weapons like knives and nunchucks. The Student Code of Conduct even states that students who are legally allowed to carry guns, including students who are police officers, are not allowed to carry their weapons on campus.

The presence of guns on a campus has little to do with preventing shootings. There was an armed guard on duty at Columbine High School when the shooting occurred April 20, 1999. There’s no guarantee that having guns on campus creates safety.

Although a shooting could happen on any college campus, Co-

lumbia is in a safe part of the city, and the Office of Campus Safety & Security is involved with the Chicago Police Department. Columbia’s campus is safer without guns than it would be with them, thanks to the college’s security and the local police. But not every campus is gun free.

Legislation to force colleges to allow guns on campus has been introduced in at least 18 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures’ website.

The University of Colorado allows guns on campus as the result of a March 2012 State Supreme Court ruling prohibiting it from superseding the state’s concealed carry laws, according to a Sep. 22, 2012 New York Times article, leading some teachers to feel that class discussions have been stifled by the fear of guns in the classroom.

In Utah, public higher education institutions are required to allow guns on campus, and in Wisconsin, colleges must allow guns on college property but they can be banned

Improve public education in the Loop

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Board Members: Tyler Davis Commentary Editor Tyler Eagle Assistant Campus Editor Michael Scott Fischer Graphic Designer Emily Ornberg Arts & Culture Editor Doug Pitorak Assistant Sports & Health Editor

Kyle Rich Social Media Editor Carolina Sanchez Photo Editor Heather Schröering Editor-in-Chief Corey Stolzenbach Copy Editor Dennis Valera Multimedia Editor

Did you catch a mistake, think we could have covered a story better or believe strongly about an issue that faces all of us here at Columbia?

Why not write a letter to the editor? At the bottom of page 2, you’ll find a set of guidelines on how to do this. Let us hear from you.

— The Columbia Chronicle Editorial Board

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MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL announced on Jan. 22 that Jones College Prep High School, a selective enrollment public high school near Columbia’s campus, would make use of its old building in addition to its new building, which is nearing completion next door. This move would nearly double the school’s current enrollment, instead of repurposing the structure as a South Loop neighborhood high school.

Neighborhood organizations like the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance and the Greater South Loop Association have been heavily involved in asking Chicago Public Schools to repurpose the old building as a neighborhood public high school that would be open to anyone who lives nearby, and residents of the South Loop created ReuseJones.org to raise awareness about their cause.

The South Loop is within the attendance boundaries of Wendell Phillips Academy in Bronzeville, two miles south of the southern border of the South Loop, according to CPS’s website. The school is rated by CPS in “Low Academic Standing” and is currently on probation. This is the only high school South Loop students can attend

without testing in.

The Greater South Loop Association analyzed census data and concluded that there are more than 10,000 school-age children in the Loop with no high school to attend other than Wendell Phillips Academy. However, the area of land construed as the “Loop” in the analysis extends as far north as North Avenue in Old Town, The Chronicle learned from GSLA Education Chair Blagica Bottigliero, who conducted the census analysis. That’s a lot of children, but North Avenue is a bit of a stretch to set as the northern boundary of what they call the “Greater Loop Area.” A stricter definition of the South Loop, from Harrison Street to Cermak Road, contains around 3,000 children under the age of 18, according to the U.S. Census, which puts a different perspective on the issue.

Emanuel said during a Jan. 22 press conference that Chicagoans are demanding more seats in selective enrollment schools. Currently, there are 18,000 active applications for selective enrollment schools in Chicago, 9,000 of which mention interest in Jones College Prep, according to Emanuel.

from buildings if proper signage is posted, according to NCSL. In Mississippi, gun owners can carry on campus if they have taken a safety class.

The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus has gathered the support of more than 355 colleges for instituting a resolution against guns on college campuses.

In almost all cases of guns being allowed on campus, the decision to allow guns isn’t made by the college, but by state legislatures or courts. College is an environment that brings together a very diverse crowd, and some people—57 percent, according to a January Pew Poll—oppose allowing civilians to carry guns on campus.

Only 25 colleges in the country currently allow guns on campus, according to ArmedCampuses. org. There’s no guarantee that the presence of guns makes campuses safer, and it could actually cause more danger. Colleges should not be forced by state legislatures to allow guns on their campuses.

CITY EDITORIAL

Currently, Jones has a 900-student capacity, but that number will grow to 1,700 when the new building is complete. Emanuel mentioned in his announcement that some parents relocate to the suburbs when their children aren’t accepted to one of the city’s selective enrollment schools, and that keeping those families in city limits is good for the city. The city has promised that 300 seats in the school will be reserved for students in the Loop area who are able to test in, although this may not be enough to keep South Loop parents in the area.

It’s easy to dismiss this as an example of racial and class conflict.

The student body at Wendell Phillips Academy is 97 percent black and 94.8 percent low-income, while the majority of South Loop residents are white, according to the census. But parents don’t want to send their children to a school that performs poorly, regardless of its location or racial makeup.

It is unfortunate that the neighborhood school for the South Loop performs poorly, but with the fate of the old Jones Prep building decided, perhaps neighborhood organizations and parents should instead demand improvements to Wendell Phillips Academy.

Read more about the controversy surrounding Jones College Prep on pg. 35.

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Internet musician not ‘Glee’-ful about television show

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A HUMOROUS COVER of Sir MixA-Lot’s ode to big butts, “Baby Got Back,” was featured on the Jan. 24 episode of “Glee,” complete with acoustic guitar and soothing vocals. There was only one problem:

The producers lifted the rendition, note for note, from Internet-famous musician Jonathan Coulton.

On Jan. 18, Coulton posted a link to his blog of a recording found on a “Glee” fansite that sounded almost identical to his cover, claiming it to be a song that would appear on the show. Once the episode aired, the controversy surrounding the cover blew up, with coverage on Wired. com and CNN.com. Coulton is currently trying to determine whether his actual recording was used, which could allow him to take legal action against the show, according to a Jan. 25 update to his original blog post.

This isn’t the first time “Glee” has been charged with lifting someone’s unique take on a song.

Greg Laswell originally arranged the slow, mellow version of Cyndi

If media companies want to steal people’s content, they shouldn’t be so strict with their own.

Lauper’s “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” performed by the cast of “Glee,” according to a 2011 Hollywood Reporter article. Fox, the network that airs “Glee,” is now ironically in the same situation as mashup artists like Girl Talk, who is at risk of being sued for making music using other people’s recordings. The only difference is that Girl Talk offers many of his albums for free, while Fox is making plenty of money selling its copycat covers on iTunes.

Regardless of whether “Glee” producers violated copyright law, there are still issues surrounding their appropriation of the song.

First, they didn’t ask Coulton for permission, or even notify him that they would be performing what is obviously an exact cover of his unique arrangement of the original rap song. Coulton is very progressive when it comes to sharing his intellectual property, a stance that has been described as “copyleft.” He licenses all his work through Creative Commons, a legal framework created to allow content creators to easily share their protected work. Much of his music

is available for free on his website, and he encourages people to share his music and use it for noncommercial purposes. “Glee” stole from a man who loves sharing.

“I give away music because I want to make music, and I can’t make music unless I make money, and I won’t make any money unless I get heard, and I won’t get heard unless I give away music,” Coulton wrote on his website. “This is all part of the experiment.”

The ensuing controversy is significant because media companies like Fox are so adamant about their own intellectual property rights.

There is inherent hypocrisy in a big network like Fox sampling without permission while being part of the lobby for tighter copyright restrictions. 20th Century Fox Film Corp., which owns the Fox Network, is one of the six member companies of the Motion Picture Association of America, a trade organization that lobbied in favor of the heavyhanded Stop Online Piracy Act. Fox has also filed numerous lawsuits regarding copyright infringement, including a 2003 case against comedian Al Franken

for his use of “fair and balanced,” Fox News’ slogan, in the title of one of his books. This incident with Coulton further verifies that Fox’s efforts have little to do with protecting the rights of content creators in general and more to do with restricting and dominating the content marketplace.

When Coulton contacted Fox, the network said it didn’t violate any copyright laws and that Coulton should be happy they used his song—even though they didn’t credit him. When it’s their intellectual property at stake, companies like Fox take copyright very seriously, but when it involves taking from someone who lacks the legal resources to fight back, it’s open season.

In good spirit, Coulton has released a cover of “Glee’s” cover of his cover on iTunes. According to his website, he will donate the proceeds from now until the end of February to two charitable organizations: the VH1 Save the Music Foundation and the It Gets Better Project. tdavis@chroniclemail.com

Would you feel safer if students could carry guns on campus? How about security guards carrying guns?

STUDENT POLL

It would be the opposite of safe if students were allowed to carry guns. Armed security, though, would make it a little better.

Absolutely not. I think that would be very horrible because guns are designed to kill or hurt people. I don’t think it is smart for people to be carrying guns.

I don’t see security guards having guns as an issue. They are always behind their desk so if they had that just for a little extra security, that would be all right.

Roaa Aldaw senior art & design major

Danny Agmama senior film & video major

Amy Barger junior photography major

Bulls pose stronger threat with D. Rose

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CHICAGO BULLS HEAD Coach Tom

Thibodeau knows how to coach his team to perform without its star player. Last season, the Bulls played 40 percent of their games

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Points per game: 98.08 Shooting percentage: 46.1% Information from NBA.com

without guard Derrick Rose and still achieved the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Still, this is a new season with a handful of new faces on the roster, but Thibodeau has found a way to coach his team to a 28–18 record, as of press time.

The Bulls are defying many professionals’ predictions, including retired Bulls player Scottie Pippen’s pre-season projection of a less than .500 season record.

Despite this success, the Bulls still need a healthy Rose to compete in the playoffs against teams like the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder.

Last season, the Bulls won 18 of 27 games without their top athlete during the regular season.

But competing in the playoffs is a different, more ruthless animal.

2011–2012 SEASON (without D. Rose)

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Points per game: 93.85 Shooting percentage: 43.8%

Hearts dropped, tears were shed and hopes and dreams were put on hold for Bulls fans and players after Rose tore his ACL during Game 1 of the first round of the 2012 playoffs.

Though the Bulls would proceed to win that game, they lost the next four of five games, postponing the team’s championship aspirations.

But the team is filled with quality players, two of whom have been named 2013 All-Stars: small forward Luol Deng and center Joakim Noah. Not to mention Carlos Boozer is having his best season as a Bull, not because of his averages, but because of the leadership he exhibited this season during big games against great teams. Everyone who witnessed it will remember Boozer’s Jan. 4 performance against Miami. On a night when

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Deng struggled offensively with only 6 points, Boozer had a teamhigh 27 points and 12 rebounds en route to a 96–89 victory.

In addition, second-year small forward Jimmy Butler has seen extended playing time because of Deng’s hamstring injury that limited his time on the court since Jan. 9. Butler is averaging a career-high 20 minutes per game, 12 minutes more than one season ago. During a Jan. 21 game against the Los Angeles Lakers, when he was assigned to guard Kobe Bryant, Butler held him to 7 of 22 shooting from the field on the way to a 95–83 win.

But without Rose, beating the best teams in a seven-game playoff series will be nearly impossible.

Bulls General Manager Gar Forman has stated over the last several weeks that Rose’s return could come following the All Star break, but the decision is all on the team’s star point guard.

Chicago should be cautious about deciding when to allow Rose to return, but not too careful. After he regains stamina and proves his health is near 100 percent, he

needs to play nearly 30 minutes per game because he is the team’s closer. Several times this season, the Bulls have lost to less talented teams because there was no one on the court who could create scoring opportunities the same way Rose can. Losses to the Milwaukee Bucks and New Orleans Hornets are disappointing, but during an 82-game season, letdowns become part of the game.

Still, losses like those can creep up on the Bulls. As of press time, they are only 2 1/2 games behind the top-seeded Heat in the Eastern Conference and sit in third place.

But they are only 3 1/2 games ahead of the seventh-seeded Bucks.

The Bulls can compete with any team without the 2010–11 MVP, but Rose’s return would eliminate losses of that nature and give the team a chance to surpass the Heat for a home court advantage during playoffs. And having the most valuable player during the playoffs should instill fear in any opponent the Bulls face later this year. nihmoud@chroniclemail.com February 4, 2013 • 33

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2013 PAULA F. PFEFFER & CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM

Above: last year’s winning entry from Ariadne Humpal (BFA ’13) ATTENTION STUDENTS:

Are you an illustrator? Do you have your pulse on-and something to say about-the historical, cultural, and political issues taking place in the world?

Submit an original political cartoon for the 2013 Paula F. Pfeffer & Cheryl Johnson-Odim Political Cartoon Contest for your chance to win a cash prize. A panel of judges from various academic departments will select five cartoons from the pool of submissions, and then award cash prizes to the students who created them. The First Place winner will receive $550, Second Place will receive $450, Third Place will receive $350, and two Honorable Mention winners will each receive $250.

In addition to cash prizes, all winners receive a certificate and will be honored at a reception on Tuesday, April 30, at the Columbia College Chicago Library.

SUBMISSIONS:

Both single-panel and multi-panel cartoons are acceptable for this contest. Submitted cartoons must be drawn or printed on 8.5x11 white paper. Please include your full name, address, phone number, student ID number, and email address on the back of the entry. You can submit up to five cartoons, and you can win more than one prize if you submit more than one cartoon.

HAND-DELIVER OR MAIL YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO:

Oscar Valdez Re: Political Cartoon Contest Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences 624 S. Michigan Ave. 10th floor, Suite 1000

For more information, visit colum.edu/PCC or contact Dr. Teresa Prados-Torreira, tprados-torreira@colum.edu or 312-369-7567.

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT CARTOONS IS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

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Lakeview Walmart stirs conflict

Local business owners concerned about competition

by Elizabeth Earl Assistant Metro Editor

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A NEW LAKEVIEW Walmart store

has local businesses and residents concerned about the impact it could have on existing area businesses.

The store, which opened at 2844 N. Broadway Ave. on Jan. 16, is a downsized version of the international chain, retailing only groceries and household items.

The 10-block radius surrounding the building also supports several other supermarkets, such as locally-owned grocers Milk & More, 702 W. Diversey Parkway, and Marketplace Foodstore, 521 W. Diversey Parkway.

“It’s nothing short of devastating for [my business],” said Mike Proce, a manager at Market Place Foodstore. “Because the company is so huge, they can sell goods at less than our costs. There is such a thing as fair competition, and then there’s such a thing as unfair competition.”

Proce said at a neighborhood meeting with Alderman Tunney

(44th Ward) there was almost unanimous opposition to the Walmart from business owners and residents.

“Before [Walmart came], people only had two options–Trader Joe’s and us,” said Elissa Wish, a Milk & More employee. “Walmart does carry a lot of products that we carry.”

When Trader Joe’s, 667 W. Diversey Parkway, opened across the street from Milk & More in 2011, it did not pose a threat because it attracted more foot traffic to the area, Wish said. However, Walmart is too far away for Milk & More to benefit from the extra traffic, she added.

Tunney has fielded criticism from community members for allowing Walmart into the neighborhood, according to Erin Duffy, director of communications and community outreach for the 44th Ward.

“Walmart has set up an advisory committee with neighbors in the area to make sure that the neighborhood is represented,” Duffy said.

“They have reached out to local businesses and are carrying some of their products inside Walmart, which I know many of the businesses were excited about.”

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Duffy said Walmart will bring more people into the neighborhood who will frequent local businesses.

Wish said she has not heard of any advisory committee or had communications with Walmart regarding products.

“What we tried to do when Trad-

er Joe’s opened up was that we started carrying things that they don’t have,” Wish said. “We have a deli selection, beer, liquor, wine, spices, a lot of things like that.

[People] will usually do a lot of their shopping at Trader Joe’s and come here for everything else that they need.”

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DESPITE RECENT LEGISLATION that ostensibly was to help Chicago’s developing food truck industry, truck operators are still struggling to earn a living as they adjust to the new legislation.

Since the City Council passed a law in July 2012 allowing food truck operators to prepare food onboard, only one of the 109 applications that have been filed with the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection has met the appropriate standards. The one truck, The Salsa Truck of the West Loop, was granted its license on Jan. 31.

“When the city updated the law in July, we went back to the drawing board, upgraded the equipment in our truck, and we presented that to the city,” said Dan Salls, owner of

The Salsa Truck. “It was a back and forth up until [Jan. 31].”

Salls said because his truck is a remodeled ice cream truck, he was able to meet the city’s equipment standards for less than $50,000.

There were some standards the city was stringent on, such as generator requirements, but Salls said he knew that it was going to be a difficult process from the beginning.

He originally applied last November and has been waiting to open his food truck until he received the license. He plans to start selling food immediately.

“The process of getting approved is pretty arduous,” said Amy Le, founder of the Illinois Food Truck Association and co-owner of the DuckNRoll food truck. “There is really no blueprint for what a food truck should look like.”

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South Loop ‘preps’ for new school

Food trucks fight recent regulations

As lawsuit continues, operators struggle to make ends meet

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The Empanadas food truck serves a customer lunch on Oct. 31. Since new regulations were enacted in July 2012 to allow trucks to prepare food inside the vehicle, only one of 109 applications have met requirements and have been approved to prepare food.

AFTER THE JAN. 22 announcement to further enlarge the campus of Jones College Prep High School, 606 S. State St., many South Loop residents were left wondering about the future of public education in the area.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced in a Jan. 22 press release, in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, that the new Jones Prep building, which is slated to open in fall 2013, will also retain to Jones’ existing facility, more than doubling its enrollment from 900 to 1,700 students by 2016.

Although Jones Prep operates under Chicago Public Schools, its enrollment is selective, which means admission is dependent on a 900-point scale determined by seventh-grade

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City trying to hail more taxi drivers

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CITY OFFICIALS ARE seeking to recruit 2,000 taxi drivers, despite already having more than 12,000 cab drivers on the streets, according to Jennifer Lipford, spokeswoman for the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.

As a part of the initiative, City Colleges of Chicago will host Taxi Driver Recruitment Day on Feb. 7 at Olive-Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave., in conjunction with the City’s Office of New Americans and Hailo Cab. Two hour-long workshops will be held to inform participants about the process of becoming a taxi driver.

well as free lunch for the first 200 participants to attend.

Lipford said the event was sparked by a demand for more cabs on the road.

“Because it’s such a flexible job, we see [part-time employment] as a trend for some drivers,” Lipford said. “They’ll work for six months, and then they’ll leave for six months. We’re listening to the [taxi] affiliations and people saying, ‘We’ve got cabs sitting here.’”

Chicago has approximately 7,000 licensed taxis and 12,000 drivers, some of whom drive 12-hour shifts, according to Lipford. She said the recruitment day is a good opportunity for prospective drivers to learn about the taxicab business.

The workshops are meant to

signed to prepare drivers for the licensing examination administered by the BACP, according to a Jan. 22 Olive-Harvey press release.

“The drivers who have a business plan and approach it like a career, not something they’re doing temporarily, those guys are doing quite well,” Lipford said.

The city’s push for more drivers stems from a July 1, 2012 ordinance, which tightened taxi regulations and cleared the road of repeat violators, according to Jong Lee, general manager

of Sun Taxi.

“I think the city is feeling a lot of pressure from the [taxi] industry as far as the shortage of drivers right now because of the heavier enforcement of the rules and regulations with the drivers,” Lee said.

The ordinance limits drivers to one 12-hour shift a day and drivers with more than three moving violations in a year will be denied renewal of their chauffeur’s license, as reported by The Chronicle on Jan. 17, 2012.

Thaddeus Budzynski, who has

been a Chicago taxi driver for 25 years, said putting additional taxis on the streets causes tension among drivers.

“You have to have more [passengers] than cabs because if there are too many cabs and not enough people, the drivers are going to be down each other’s throats,” Budzynski said. “The cab stands are going to be crowded, and then we’re going to be demanding fare increases because we’re not making enough money.” whager@chroniclemail.com

The drivers who have a business plan and approach it like a career, not something they’re doing temporarily, those guys are doing quite well.”

– Jennifer Lipford

The workshops will detail the requirements for becoming a licensed driver and feature a presentation by a taxi veteran, as

encourage participants to enroll in Olive-Harvey College’s Public Chauffeur Training Program, which lasts two weeks and is de-

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Chicago’s shortage of cab drivers spurred the city to partner with City Colleges of Chicago to enroll more cabbies through a Feb. 7 workshop, to be held at Olive-Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave.

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OWNERS OF A metal manufacturing facility linked to dangerous levels of lead in Pilsen will spend $3 million on new equipment to curb emissions of the toxic metal.

In a legal settlement announced Jan. 31 by federal and state officials, H. Kramer and Co. also agreed to limit its production of certain lead alloys until new pollution controls are installed at the smelter, which has been recycling scrap metal at 21st and Throop streets since the 1920s and remains one of the biggest industrial sources of braindamaging lead in the Chicago area.

The settlement, filed in U.S. District Court, marks the second time in less than a decade that complaints from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan forced Kramer to take steps to reduce the smelter’s pollution.

Kramer installed new ductwork and other equipment in 2006 to resolve the earlier complaint. But a pollution monitor at nearby Perez Elementary School, 1241 W. 14th St., detected high levels of lead in the air throughout 2010, prompting officials to designate Pilsen as one of only two communities in Illinois

where people breathe unhealthy amounts of the toxic metal.

Average lead levels at the school were at or above federal limits during three three-month periods that year, and on one day in December 2010 spiked to more than 10 times higher than the federal limit, according to monitoring data reported by the Chicago Tribune on Nov. 23, 2012.

No other monitor in the Chicago area has recorded similar problems in recent years. The other Illinois community with chronically high lead pollution surrounds a steel mill in Granite City, Ill., across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

Lead pollution from factories, combined with decades of exhaust from vehicles that were fueled by leaded gasoline until the mid1980s, can build up in the top few inches of soil and linger for years.

A growing number of studies show that even tiny amounts of lead ingested or inhaled can damage the brains of young children and trigger learning disabilities, aggression and criminal behavior later in life.

Most scientists say there is no safe level of exposure.

“This settlement will protect Pilsen residents from lead emissions from the H. Kramer foundry and prevent future violations of

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Chicago’s Pilsen residents breathe highly lead-polluted air, caused by a local lead manufacturing facility. Emission restriction will help reduce the pollution.

the Clean Air Act,” Susan Hedman, the EPA’s regional administrator, said in a statement. An attorney for Kramer did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

The move to crack down on Kramer is related to a broader investigation in Pilsen, where federal and state officials are responding to “environmental justice” complaints that the predominantly Latino, low-income neighborhood is disproportionately affected by toxic air pollution.

Recent data from the Perez monitor show that lead levels have dropped sharply since the EPA and

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To comply with a court order issued a few days later, Kramer repaired holes in the roof of one of its foundry buildings, installed new doors to prevent other leaks and began spreading dust suppressants on its gravel lots. The new pollution controls are intended to keep emissions low.

“If that goal can be accomplished, then this will be a significant victory for the community and a message to other polluters in Chicago and elsewhere that they must follow the law,” said Dorian Breuer,

an activist with the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, a neighborhood group that pressured the EPA and Madigan to take action.

Like other EPA settlements, Kramer is allowed to contest responsibility for the lead problems. But in addition to spending money on new pollution controls at its smelter, the company will pay a $35,000 fine and contribute $40,000 to overhaul school buses in the neighborhood to reduce harmful diesel emissions. chronicle@colum.edu

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because private loans account for only 15 percent of current student loan debt.

“The majority of [current student loan debt] is federal loan debt, not private student loan debt,” Lanza said. “While this would be a solution for a small number of borrowers, it’s not speaking to the majority.”

Tim Bauhs, associate vice president of Business Affairs at Columbia, said educating a student before he or she takes out a loan is the first step to making sure the student has exhausted all other payment resources before applying for loans.

“The most important thing is to know what it is you’re borrowing or what other types of financial tools you’re using to pay for

your educational costs,” Bauhs said, adding that it is always up to the student to decide how he or she will finance school.

Jazmyne Walker, a former Columbia student, has more than $20,000 in debt and left the college when her financial resources ran out. She is currently attempting to straighten out her student loan options to finish her Journalism degree. She credits the Student Financial Services office for helping her. Walker said legislation that educates students on loans is necessary in school.

“If I would have known then what I know now [about debt], it would have made a big difference,” she said.

The Know Before You Owe Act is a push for schools to counsel students before they take on substantial debt by advising them about other forms of federal aid that may help them pay for college.

The CFPB conducts annual reports regarding the student loan crisis. Last year Rohit Chopra, CFPB’s student loan ombudsman, appeared before the senate committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to speak regarding the rising debt. In regards to whether the legislation will help students, Chopra said a policy requiring schools to sign off on private loans before they asanchez@chroniclemail.com are dispersed should be in place because it would Total U.S. debt help students avoid $58,000,000,000,000 ($58 trillion) National debt unnecessary debt. $16,500,000,000,000 According to Alessandra ($16.5 trillion) Lanza, director of corporate Mortgage debt public relations for American $13,500,000,000,000 Student Assistance, a nonprofit ($13 trillion) company specializing in student Student loan debt loan solutions, The Know Before $1,000,000,000,000 You Owe bill is important because ($1 trillion) educating students about loans can help them understand debt before Credit card debt accepting loans with varying inter$864,000,000,000 est rates. Lanza said the Fairness ($8.64 trillion) for Struggling Students Act is also a significant step, but it does not Information from USDebtClock.org Marcus Nuccio THE CHRONICLE extend to a very large demographic

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that focuses on food deserts, neighborhoods without stores that sell fresh food, the effects of a Walmart Superstore opening on Chicago’s West Side were more positive than negative. The summary reported “the impact of Walmart on business failures is absent in both the raw data and in the regression results with a reasonable set of controls.”

The study references a business effect called “agglomeration,” which is the tendency of businesses to open in large, clustered numbers in certain locations. When Walmart opened its Austin store, other businesses gathered around it, and the area’s annual revenue rose, according to the report. Despite a small decrease in the number of business licenses taken out in the first seven months Walmart operated, more were taken out in that vicinity in the following 18 months than before the 2006 opening.

The study also concluded that Walmart, through direct job gain as well as the number of businesses attracted to the neighborhood by agglomeration, created 428 additional jobs. This number was calculated by subtracting the number of jobs lost from closing businesses from the total number of jobs that Walmart provides.

Walmart operates eight locations

in Chicago, three of which opened in 2013. The first Walmart in Chicago, located at 4650 W. North Ave., opened in the Austin neighborhood in 2006.

“We think our [newest] Lakeview store can make a positive contribution to the community and be part of the solution for residents who need a job or want more affordable grocery shopping options close to home,” said Walmart Senior Director of Communications Steven Restivo in an email. “We’re finding that the more people learn facts about the company, the more they see the value in bringing a Walmart store to their community.”

Several groups across the U.S. actively oppose Walmart for its economic actions and employee treatment.

One group, Making Change at Walmart, cites a study from Loyola University Chicago claiming small businesses located near Walmart stores have a 25 percent chance of closing within the first year of Walmart’s presence. The group seeks regulation of Walmart’s prices, business practices and employee conditions.

“Trader Joe’s was OK because it brought a lot of traffic to the corner,” Wish said. “Now, I’m afraid that [Walmart] will take away our business and more people will do their shopping over there.” eearl@chroniclemail.com

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to renovating their equipment for efficiency.

The process, which cost Salls nearly $50,000, forced him to reconsider how to cut costs, he said. Le said the city should have more specific requirements to speed up the process.

“They’re trying to make it super expensive for people cooking onboard when they’re trying to be a small business,” said Anna Caterinicchia, operator of the Getta Polpetta food truck.

Currently, food trucks have six designated downtown parking spaces where they can sell food for a maximum of two hours. The minimum fine for violations is $200.

In response, two food trucks filed a joint lawsuit challenging these restrictions in November, reported by The Chronicle Nov. 26, 2012. The Schnitzel King and Cupcakes for Courage food trucks sought to repeal the rules requiring food trucks to be equipped with a GPS tracking device and forbidding parking within 200 feet of a restaurant.

“[The future regulation] will depend on where the lawsuit goes as to what sort of remedy is sought if the city happens to lose,” said Roderick Drew, director of communications for the city’s law department, adding that although the city appealed to dismiss the case on Jan. 30, nothing has changed from the original filing.

Food trucks in other cities do not have the same restrictions as Chicago operators, according to Edith Murnane, director of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives. Boston food trucks cannot park within 100 feet of a restaurant with a similar menu, but there are no other parking restrictions, Murnane said.

The license standards are clearly stated, and Murnane said the time it takes to grant licensure depends on the truck and the modifications that need to be made.

Currently, Boston has approximately 45 food trucks, with 11 more scheduled to open in April, Murnane said. According to Caterinicchia, there are currently 66 trucks in Chicago. eearl@chroniclemail.com

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standardized tests and academic scores and an entrance exam.

The selectivity prompted some community members to push for the existing school to be converted into a public neighborhood high school to accommodate a growing number of families in the South and West Loop, according to Jeanette Johnson, vice president of the Greater South Loop Association.

Prior to the announcement, South Loop initiatives like ReuseJones.org, created by a coalition of community groups such as the South Loop Neighbors, also advocated converting the building into a neighborhood school.

Johnson said the community is greatly disadvantaged without a central neighborhood public high school.

“We need to be able to build a community,” Johnson said. “Right now, children are either going to schools outside of the area, going to private schools or the option is to move and leave the area.”

During an Aug. 22 Board of Education meeting, Blagica Bottigliero, education liaison to GSLA and a neighborhood parent, emphasized 2010 U.S. Census data to illustrate the area’s need for a public school. She presented the data from the census that showed that 10,000 children younger than age 17 and 4,288 children younger than age 5 live within the Greater Loop Area, which extends beyond the South Loop. When examining the area from Harrison Street to Cermak Road, a narrower definition of the neighborhood, there are around 3,000 people under the age of 18, according to census data.

Bottigliero said she does not understand Emanuel’s and CPS’ rationale for making the school selective.

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moving to Chicago in 1998 that I’ve considered leaving the city.”

The 2010 census indicates a trend of families leaving the area, something Bottigliero attributes to a lack of education options in the area. She said CPS has not made an effort to gather the community’s input on the issue.

Joseph Powers, principal of Jones Prep, said the expansion would help ease the demand for enrollment.

Jones Prep received 49 applications per freshman seat during the 2011–12 school year, according to the press release.

“I think most people see this as a great opportunity for us to provide what we can do for more kids,” Powers said. “Certainly the demand for selective enrollment seats has far outstretched the supply.”

Brenda Darrell, a parent on the Local School Council, said the Jones Prep community had different reactions to the announcement.

“I think it is good for the school to increase the number of spots for children within the city to get a quality public school education,” Darrell said. “Some people within Jones are a little bit disappointed because one of the reasons they liked it so much was because it was smaller. Now, it’s going to be a larger school, and that might dilute some of the individuality and feeling of camaraderie that exists at the school.”

Both buildings are scheduled to open in time for the 2013–14 school year.

“Jones was a building that was available at pretty much no cost in a great location that would’ve been, as a neighborhood high school, probably one of the best neighborhood high schools in the CPS system from the day it opened,” Jacoby, vice president of the Prairie District Neighborhood Association said. “It’s difficult to know where we go from here.”

To read the Editorial Board’s opinion on what should be done with the Jones College Prep building, turn to Page 32. whager@chroniclemail.com

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits the Harold Washington Library Winter Garden, 400 S. State St., on Jan. 30 to discuss her new book, “My Beloved World,” which recounts her journey from living in a Bronx, N.Y. housing project to becoming a Supreme Court Justice. “I wanted everyone to walk away understanding that there are so many differences between us, but what’s important is our commonality,” Sotomayor said.

IN OTHER NEWS

Rave raid

Pooch panic

Poster child

Urine Trouble

Police responded to a noise complaint from a vacant warehouse at Jan. 28 on the 2300 block of N. Seeley Ave, according to DNAinfo. com. When they arrived, more than 100 people were found partying. Four adults and one juvenile were taken into police custody. The warehouse had been vacant for six months and has had five previous cease and desist orders issued for the location.

Riley, a 2-year-old German Shepherd, was reunited with his family hours after he ran away on Jan. 30, according to DNAInfo.com.

The dog ran away when the family’s Rogers Park home caught fire. Family and friends spent hours searching the area for the dog until a neighbor found him taking shelter from the rain under a nearby porch. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences received a gift of vintage movie posters from Dwight Cleveland, a local collector, according to ChicagoTribune.com. Cleveland donated 1,088 posters featuring pre-1945 films, an era known for “B” movies. Cleveland said the donation was a tax deductible. The Acedemy said B-films are an important part of american culture and film history.

A man in a police interrogation didn’t realize the cameras were taping him after beingquestioned for murder on Jan. 31, according to DNAinfo.com. He began urinating on his hands in order to rid himself of gun residue. prosecuters said. He did it shortly after being informed gun shot residue tests would be performed. He’s charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder.

Compiled by The Chronicle staff with information provided by the Chicago Police Department.

Target Spotted A woman told police her wallet was stolen Jan. 30, and $1,485 in unauthorized purchases were made. Security officers at Target, 1154 S. Clark St., have footage of two women using her card, no arrests have been made.

Long walk home A 20-year-old woman was walking home from class on Jan. 29 when a man pushed her against a wall on the of 500 block of south State street. The man stole her wallet and ran off. Police advised the victim to contact her bank.

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Torral Tiff A woman told police that she and her partner had a disagreement over music, which resulted in a physical altercation Jan. 30 on the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue. She was taken to the hospital and later released.

Expensive night out A woman told police her wallet was stolen on at Gino’s East Sports Bar, 521 S. Dearborn St. She reported unauthorized charges to her credit cards includeing $157 at Target.

She cancelled her credit cards. The assailant remains at large.

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GEMINI (May 21—June 21) Your car may or may not break down.

CANCER (June 22—July 22) Beware Cancer, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is coming for you.

LEO (July 23—Aug. 22) Saturn urges you to load the damn dishwasher.

VIRGO (Aug. 23—Sept. 22) Don’t dwell in the past. Keep moving forward. But really, that was stupid. Seriously, why did you do that?

LIBRA (Sept. 23—Oct. 23) You call yourself an adult, but your underwear selection makes you seem more like a senior citizen.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23—Dec. 21) Follow in the wise words of Mahatora Gandhi, “Beer before liquor, and you’ll never be sicker.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22—Jan. 20) Rid yourself of more distractions to boost productivity.

There, you read a sentence. Now, reward yourself with Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21—Feb. 19) You will sprain your ankle in your sleep. On the bright side, your tiny nipples will finally become useful this week.

PISCES (Feb. 20—March 20) This Thursday, Mercury is going to make you fart in class.

Don’t try to mimic the sound to cover yourself. It’s not going to work.

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» A South Dakota resident received four speeding tickets in less than three hours in southern Minnesota, the Huffington Post reported Jan. 31. Police clocked the woman driving as fast as 112 mph.

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» In the midst of a scandal concerning the content of its food sold in United Kingdom and Ireland locations, Burger King admitted that DNA test results from an Irish plant showed traces of horsemeat, The Guardian reported Jan. 31.The plant has since severed all ties with the supplier.