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DEI Co-Director Fo Wilson » ALEXANDRA YETTER STAFF REPORTER BEFORE COMING TO Columbia six years ago, President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim said he did not think having a diverse and inclusive higher education learning environment was possible. But with the 2016 advent of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office, Columbia has made the impossible seem possible, Kim said. “This is a school that is actually asking these tough [race-related] questions,” Kim said during a March 14 DEI forum held at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. “We are trying to progress to be anti-racist. Families get excited about that. They’re hungry to hear there is some place that has the courage to actually try to get this right.” DEI has a number of initiatives to implement diversity at the college, as outlined

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by DEI Co-Directors Raquel Monroe and Fo Wilson at the first DEI public forum. One such initiative is the college’s Undoing Racism workshops, which Monroe said about 70 percent of the faculty and staff have completed. Monroe said continuing to bring in a diverse student and faculty population is a top priority. For the Spring 2019 semester, 47 percent of students identified themselves as other than white, 16 percent as first-generation immigrants, 5 percent identify as multiracial, 58 percent as women, 42 percent as men and 41 percent identify as other than heterosexual, according to statistics provided during the forum. “Our students understand this is a safe place to become educated and to learn to practice their craft,” Monroe said. “We should be really proud of these numbers.”

Faculty demographics, however, do not reflect the student body’s diversity; 78 percent of female faculty are white while 22 percent are non-white, and 82 percent of the male faculty are white while 18 percent are non-white. One of the ways DEI plans to increase diversity among faculty and staff is by hiring candidates who are diverse and produce diverse work. The school is currently looking to fill an assistant professor and chair position in the Theatre Department; an assistant professor and chair position in the Cinema and Television Arts Department; and two assistant professor positions in the Interactive Arts and Media Department. Distinguishing Columbia from other colleges, DEI plans to implement diversity learning outcomes in the core curriculum by requiring six DEI credits beginning in

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the 2019–2020 academic year. Professors will be able to have their existing courses DEI-designated through an application process, Monroe said. A new DEI Committee structure will also be enacted. It will be split between an executive committee and an advisory committee. The executive committee will be comprised of one administrator, two full-time faculty members, two part-time faculty members and two staff members with a focus on assisting with DEI initiatives. The advisory committee will be comprised of full-time faculty, part-time faculty and staff, as well as students and administrators, to develop DEI initiatives. “The work has to be done by all of us for it to be effective,” Wilson said. “We all have to pitch in and roll up our sleeves.” ayetter@columbiachronicle.com

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Investment in diverse education necessary for DEI initiatives » ARIANA PORTALATIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

s the college is praised for its current diversity and inclusion initiatives at the local and national level, those here on campus are still waiting for holes to be filled. Several Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives are outlined in the college’s Strategic Plan, including the addition of a more diverse faculty and curriculum to better represent the college and serve the community. As reported March 21 by The Chronicle, the campus community is still waiting for an Asian Studies minor to be added to the college’s curriculum more than a year after initial discussions took place during a town hall hosted by the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department. According to the article, the minor did not even make it to the proposal level, despite interest in it, due to difficulties getting the resources to create a formal proposal. Even if a proposal was able to be made, faculty discussed the complex and potentially costly approval process needed for a new program to be implemented. Columbia’s Curriculum Policy Manual states new programs must be approved at multiple stages before final approval by the provost. These stages, in order, include: the Department Curriculum Committee of the relevant department, department chair, the School Curriculum Committee, school dean, the Faculty Senate Academic and Financial Affairs committees and then the full Faculty Senate. A detailed and thorough approval process is important to ensure the new programs are adequate and will truly benefit the campus when implemented. At the same time, faculty are required to prove the financial sustainability of such programs, something that proved difficult for the HHSS Department. “Given the fiscal environment and the enrollment environment at Columbia, [it is] challenging to advance or ask for all the resources that one might want to,” said Richard King, HHSS Department chair in the article. Adequate funding is necessary, but lack of resources is also an easy excuse to fall back on when shutting a program down. Financial investment is important to support programs such as an 2 THE CHRONICLE APRIL 1, 2019

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‘This is our weak area’: College struggles for Asian Studies minor » JAY BERGHUIS OPINIONS EDITOR MORE THAN A year after students began advocating for an Asian Studies minor, there has been no formal proposal, no traction and no clarity on the lack of progress as it lingers in limbo. On March 28, 2018, the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department hosted a town hall meeting titled “Minors in the Making” to discuss a potential Asian Studies minor. The minor has been a passion project for HHSS Associate Professor Luying Chen for many years, and she said the town hall proved students were very interested as well. Janae Iloreta, a senior fiction major and former co-president of the Asian Student Organization, attended the meeting with other ASO board members. “As Asian Americans, it’s important to have something to know [our] history is being talked about and [we are] being acknowledged,” Iloreta said. A year later, there still has not been a formal proposal to the department. According to HHSS Department Chair and Professor

Richard King, approving a new minor is a lengthy process which requires a formal proposal to the department, the school of Liberal Arts and Sciences and then the administrators. At every stage of the process, it has to be vetted and approved. The task of getting all of the resources for a formal proposal together on her own, including bringing in professors who were knowledgeable and passionate, became a difficult and demanding task for Chen. “I just did not have enough time over the summer to find all the instructors I needed to teach the courses,” Chen said. “No matter who [in the department] supports [the minor], what can they do? They’re not in the area. No one else is teaching Asian studies, so that became overwhelming. I just couldn’t do it.” This lack of resources was echoed by King, who supports the minor and knows there is an interest among students, but who acknowledges it is a long and difficult process to advance a new program, especially at a college facing ongoing financial struggles. “Given the fiscal and enrollment environment at Columbia, [it is] challenging to ask

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» YASMEEN SHEIKAH STAFF REPORTER GRACE GOVOSTIS’ SUMMER vacation in Wisconsin will be a little different than most. Instead of a leisurely retreat in the dairy state, she will be immersed in the ruins of a zombie apocalypse. The junior interdisciplinary major has cast and finalized the script for the upcoming production of “Z is for...,” a film about a girl surviving the zombie apocalypse. Govostis said the movie is about the character Minnie, who is living alone in a cabin after the apocalypse. After losing her mother, her sole companion is a fish she tells everything to. “[Minnie] has this routine life,” Govostis said. “One day this other young woman, Miles, finds her, and she’s forced to have real human connection for the first time in a long time. That actually proves to be

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for all the resources one might want to,” King said. After potential curricula was handed out to students during the town hall, students found themselves pushing for a more diverse minor, according to ASO president and senior acting major Tina-Kim Nguyen. The proposed minor included courses on China and Japan, with only one course a greater threat to her than the zombies.” Govostis is enthusiastic about the film going from script to production, as well as playing the lead role. The location for the film is Govostis’ family cabin in Minocqua, Wisconsin. She said the cabin has been in her family for about 40 years. “I had this idea to write the film because I thought last year, ‘What would I do if there was a zombie apocalypse? Where would I go?’” she said. Cinema and Television Arts Professor Del Harvey is directing the film. Govostis originally wrote the script for his class, and he encouraged her to make it into a film. “The best words I can give to any student are to do it no matter what because that’s what people in the industry do,” Harvey said. “They set up a budget, and they assume they will get a certain amount of money. If they don’t get it, they go ahead and figure out how to make the project work.” The film will mostly be live action, w ith a one-m inute a nimation sequence. Senior animation major Lilian Bermas is the lead animator on

focused on studying all of Southeast Asia, and it was a study abroad photography class. Both Iloreta and Nguyen are concerned about a lack of representation in the proposed minor. “[It’s] not fair to have an Asian Studies minor that doesn’t encompass all of the Asian studies,” Nguyen said. Despite the ongoing roadblocks to creating an Asian Studies minor that would be sustainable in the long term, there is still a pressing need and desire for representation in Columbia’s Asian community, according to Chen. “All students need to learn about Asia. It’s such an emerging, important continent and region,” Chen said. “This is our weak area at Columbia College.” King still hopes to make this minor a reality in the future. Getting it together is a matter of combining interest, passion and resources, he said. “We’re still exploring the possibilities and thinking seriously about what sort of resources we need to make it work and to work in a way that’s both good for the students and good for [the faculty and college],” King said. jberghuis@columbiachronicle.com

the film and will also be covering the visual effects . “Being able to animate an alternative horror flick is very cool,” Bermas said. “Horror isn’t generally explored that often in terms of animation, so I am pretty excited about that.” Junior filmmaking major Shelby Easum is the social media coordinator for the film. “The Facebook page is really my biggest job on the film,” she said. “Telling more women’s stories is, of course, important, especially in the horror genre. [It shows] women can survive and will survive.” The April 6 lauch party from 9 p.m. to midnight, will be at Wicker Park speakeasy Bru Chicago, 1562 N. Milwaukee Ave. The party is a fundraiser for the film and there is a $10 fee at the door. “It’s a very cool, underground, creepy location to launch our film at, which I’m really excited about,” Govostis said. “It’s open to anybody and everybody. If you feel like maybe you should come, then you should come.” ysheikah@columbiachronicle.com

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to honor Michael Jackson had mixed feelings following the “Leaving Neverland” documentary, which alleged Jackson had sexually abused children. Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience tribute band performed March 14 at House of Blues Chicago, 329 N. Dearborn St. The documentary, released by HBO in January, focused on Wade Robson and James Safechuck and their alleged sexual abuse by the pop star. Michael Jackson was accused of sexual molestation of a 13-year-old in 1993, which ended with an out-of-court settlement of $23 million given to the family of the child, according to a Jan. 31 New York Times article. Other accusations have since cropped up, and people have debated their veracity. Some of the event’s attendees, such as Lynwood resident Marvin Jackson,

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continue to believe Michael Jackson was not guilty of abusing children, two months after the documentary was released. “People are still emulating him from an artistic standpoint,” Marvin Jackson said. “The documentary is nothing but a money grab.” However, not everyone felt the same way. Patrick Shelton watched “Leaving Neverland” after buying his tickets to the event. He felt conflicted after learning about Robson’s and Safechuck’s allegations, saying Michael Jackson “made great music but [was] also a monster.” Shelton also believes society has been evolving over the last few years. According to him, the Me Too movement has created more room for the truth, giving women and children a voice. “The guys on the documentary could actually say what they had to say, and people would actually take them seriously,” Shelton said. icalderon@columbiachronicle.com

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IN A RECENT study done by FuzzBeed, college students in Chicago say they would much rather commute two hours a day to school than live conveniently close to campus. The study was sent to anyone currently enrolled in a college or university in the South Loop, and the results were from an overwhelming four students. The study had students answer questions as to why they would choose commuting to and from the city every day. All of the students said the same thing. “Commuting is the best part of my day,” a DePaul University student said. Students said commuting was their preferred lifestyle and there is nothing better than the day-to-day travel. The study also revealed that students love having to walk 10 minutes to the train, make it to the platform as soon as the train leaves the station, wait 10–15 more minutes for the next train, ride the train for 45–60 minutes, wait another

10–15 minutes for the bus and then ride that bus for another 10 minutes until they have reached their destination. “I don’t understand why people hate it so much,” a Columbia student said. Students said commuting is the only way they are able to socialize. The study showed that trains and buses are where people talk the most throughout their day and revealed that most met several of their best friends while on public transportation. “Public transportation is a pool for human interaction,” a Roosevelt University student said. Students also said they love when people interact with them, especially by shouting. A student from Robert Morris University said his fondest memory of commuting was when he was verbally harassed by a stranger. He said he wishes it would happen more often. FuzzBeed found that Spotify podcasts would ultimately fail without commuters subscribing to them. If Chicago students did not commute almost two hours each day, they said they would never have the

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AFTER A LONG, relaxing week off, President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim met with the Student Government Association and the college community to catch up with everyone and compare spring break escapades. Kim decided to have the event to connect with students and let them know he is “just like them.” SGA hosted the last chat in November 2018 to discuss advising, open labs and future plans for Columbia. This semester, Kim said he wanted to spice things up. The discussion, held at Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave., kicked off with Kim, clad in a Hawaiian shirt and sipping a margarita, playing a rendition of “Spring Break Anthem” by The Lonely

Island on his piano. Once the crowd settled in, Kim asked what everyone did during spring break. When a student started to respond, Kim cut her off with his own answer. Kim said he unwound by playing some tunes on his piano. After Chief of Staff Laurent Pernot finished cleaning the baby grand piano, Kim used his skills on the keys to conduct a spring break piano workshop for any students who remained on campus during the week. During the three-day workshop, Kim taught participants covers of his favorite songs, which included the entire discography of the band Phish. “It was awesome,” Pernot said. Multiple students said Kim was spotted on the Red Line over the course of the week. He went

back and forth from campus to his home on the Near North Side during the break. “I saw President Kim asking strangers for money for the school’s budget,” said a freshman Columbia student. When he was not giving students piano lessons, Kim used his time off to visit hot destinations in the downtown area. “Who knew Chicago had a big bean statue?” Kim asked. Although spring break was an opportunity for Kim to take some time off, he used it to strengthen his public speaking skills and practice his dialogue for the Let’s Chat with Dr. Kim event. Kim said he worked on the speech daily for two hours. He also bought a large quantities of mirrors to hang in his home so that no matter where he turned, his reflection would gauge his readiness for the performance. “Kim is a natural performer,” Pernot said.

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» KACI WATT STAFF REPORTER FRESH OFF A plane from India, the Jonas Brothers headed to the studio for the first time in six years following Nick Jonas’ lavish wedding to Actress and Pageant Queen Priyanka Chopra. What has been dubbed Hollywood’s Royal Wedding resulted in the bankruptcy of the beloved JoBros. But their bankruptcy means payday for the fangirls. “You can all thank me,” Chopra said. “Without my 100 outfit changes, we would not be bopping to ‘Sucker’ right now.” The wedding festivities took place in three cities in India—Mumbai, Jodhpur and Delhi—beginning Nov. 29 and concluding Dec. 3, 2018. “Priyanka is friends with Meghan Markle, and after she sat through that wedding, I kind of had to step up my game,” Nick Jonas said. “I spent every night leading up to the wedding weeping over the state of my bank account.”

If the reception was not lush enough, the actual ceremony took place in a palace. The Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur is also a hotel in which guests stayed. “I’d never stayed in a palace before,” said Danielle Jonas, wife of Kevin Jonas. “I should have waited a few more years to marry Kevin, and maybe I could’ve walked down the aisle in a palace, too.” Upon arrival, guests received an “Oh Sh*t Kit” to help get them through anything from mishaps to hangovers. “They really should have handed out ‘Oh Sh*t we’re broke now’ collection bins,” said Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas’ fiancee and “Game of Thrones” starlet. “My wedding is next, so Joe better step up his sponsorships and record sales because I’m expecting a palace, too.” The Chronicle caught up with the youngest Jonas of all, Frankie, to hear his feelings on the band’s reunion. “You know, I never got to be in the band, and I really thought with this comeback, it would be my time to shine,” Frankie Jonas said. “But all they did was take the

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little savings I had from my ‘Camp Rock’ cameo and spend it on studio time.” The release of “Sucker” has led to rumors of an entire album on the way. Popular JoBro Twitter stan account @jonas4lyfe99 is even speculating Kevin Jonas may sing on this one. But Kevin Jonas himself told The Chronicle otherwise.

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printing press on display at the Harold Washington Library Center. Rumor has it that all the paper once available in the printing lab has been made into wallpaper at the Dwight, which is a much better arrangement for everyone. Reducing funding for the Renegades The Renegades’ funding has been cut over the years. If students aren’t able to afford the fees associated with joining an athletic team, well, they shouldn’t have come to an arts college in the first place, right? Being a well-rounded student with a variety of interests should be about who has the most money, after all. Cutting student employment Let’s be as clear as possible here: Art students don’t need jobs. It’s that simple. Student jobs have nearly vanished or had hours reduced, as reported Oct. 23 by The Chronicle, but that only means students can spend more time on what matters: opening an Etsy store for their “found art,” starting a YouTube channel to vlog about

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he college has been cutting resources left and right for years, much to the chagrin of most students at the college. But here at The Chronicle, we see the upside of these ... adjustments. Here is our list of the most valuable budget decisions Columbia has made to date. Ending Early Childhood Education The college will no longer offer an Early Childhood Education program, as reported Feb. 15 by The Chronicle. However, as reported Oct. 29, 2018, 44 percent of faculty are dissatisfied with Columbia’s parental leave policy anyway, so they can simply bring their young children into the classroom for any students who would like to learn about early childhood education. Making free printing inaccessible Now that free printing is much more difficult for creative writing students, as reported Oct. 23, 2017, writing students have the valuable opportunity to explore more creative ways of turning in assignments, such as using the antique

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest pantsuit or recording a podcast on their iPhone live from the apartment they share with five roommates. This will definitely prepare them for the post-graduation hustle. Making it harder to get counseling Columbia’s Counseling Services office is a difficult resource to make use of, according to a Jan. 22 Chronicle article. But, like babies, it’s important for art

EDITORIAL students to learn how to self-soothe. The whole point of creating art is working through the debilitating circumstances in life, so doing next to nothing to help struggling students is actually a way of helping them become better artists. Petting two dogs in an over-crowded library every semester is plenty for us.

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SATIRE: U.S. Senate empty as senators run for president “Someone has to hold down the fort,” King said with a shrug in a March 15 speech outside Sweetgreen, 221 Pennsylvania Ave. “I FORTY-SIX DEMOCRATS were noticeably drew the short straw, I guess. I don’t really absent from the U.S. Senate this week, mind, though. It means I get first choice from but rather than hitting Daytona Beach for the bagel tray and the pizza box.” spring break, they each hit the campaign As the lone wolf in the Senate, King was trail to announce their bid for president. unable to convince Republican senators With a wide-open field of only about 50 to reject Trump’s national emergency candidates vying for the Democratic pres- declaration. He tried to with a three-hour idential nomination for the 2020 election, filibuster speech. Republicans moved formany senators felt they could bring some- ward with plans to build the U.S.-Mexico thing unique to the Oval Office. border wall March 20, selecting a contrac“I will fight for the right of a woman to tor—Proseghin, which has one five-star choose what to do with her own body; I will review on Yelp—and choosing a paint color, fight for stricter gun reform laws; and I will Pantone’s Excalibur. fight for dreamers whose parents came to this country in search of a better life,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) during her March 14 exploratory committee announcement amid the 70 mph winds and tornado sirens in Chicago. “No other Democrat will fight for these rights like I will.” Meanwhile, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) CH was the only Democratic-leaning senator RO NI CL left in Washington, D.C. E » ALEXANDRA YETTER STAFF REPORTER

According to senior White House officials, President Donald Trump is unfazed by potentially staunch competition from the other side. When asked in a March 14 press briefing whom he would most like to face off against on the final November 2020 ballot, he pointed to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). “Anyone whom Hillary Clinton can beat, I can too,” Trump said. “I’m not concerned about it.” Many Democratic candidates are choosing to pour campaign funds into Facebook ads rather than the traditional televised ones, a move inspired by Trump’s success with Facebook in 2016. Some have also been seeking donations from Russian officials.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social media company will be closing down all Russian users’ accounts until the 2020 election has passed so he does not have to sit through another Congressional hearing on an uncomfortable booster seat. Clinton confirmed she will not be running again because she is still on a five-year meditation retreat in upstate New York trying to comprehend her 2016 defeat by Trump. She advised Democratic candidates to be careful with their emails. She added not to pander to young voters on the trail because they do not vote anyway. In the meantime, senators said they were not worried about not being present on the Senate floor. “We’ll stop in to oppose whatever the Republicans do, don’t worry about that,” said Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who announced her bid on the Las Vegas strip March 11. “This is about the American people and their right to have a president who is going to work to represent them on all fronts.”

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reforestation, changes to the agriculture industry and individual contributions. These students may be young, but their commitment to making real and long-lasting change should not be taken lightly. Climate change is an issue that is already affecting every person on earth, and the effects will only compound with time unless drastic solutions are taken. If students as young as fifth grade can see the importance of fighting for the environment’s future, there are no reasons but greed and apathy to prevent adults with power from listening to them. As college students, we need to recognize that we have the ability to make substantial changes. It is so easy to become apathetic about the environment when we are busy with day-to-day

The 2016 Cubs led the league with a 3.15 Earned Run Average. Having a solid pitching performance led to success in the regular season and postseason. Jon Lester, Kyle Hendricks and Aroldis Chapman were the driving forces toward the 2016 title. The biggest roster changes during the past two seasons happened within the pitching department. The Cubs signed Yu Darvish in February 2018 and acquired Cole Hamels from the Texas Rangers last July. The Cubs signed Darvish to a $126 million six-year contract, but ended up wasting » ZACK JACKSON $25 million when CREATIVE DIRECTOR he was forced to sit out the rest of fter a stellar 2016 the season due » GR season, the Cubs to a May injury. ACE SEN IOR have seen a steady decline Hamels re-signed /C H R ON ICL in pitching performance, the very for $20 million. E skill that clinched their first World These expenses limited the organizaSeries win in more than a century. tion’s ability to make critical moves

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n March 15, students worldwide walked out of their schools to protest their governments’ failure to address climate change. There were more than 2,000 events in over 100 countries, and these events were arranged by elementary, middle and high school students. Student activists said they were inspired by the Parkland, Florida, teens’ reaction to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last year. Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her work. According to the Youth Climate Strike website, the student activists’ core demands are passing the Green New Deal, pushing for all legislation to be supported by science, keeping water and lands clean, enacting climate education and creating a fair transition into an eco-friendly world for communities reliant on fossil fuels. They offer comprehensive solutions including

life and when the changes are happening slowly enough to ignore. It is easy to feel disenfranchised when so much of our lives are still dictated by others. We convince ourselves that we are doing enough by turning off the faucet when brushing our teeth and making sure to unplug our electronics when we leave the house. But there is so much more we can do, and that fight starts with empowerment at every level. College students have more agency in the world than

EDITORIAL younger student activists by virtue of our age, so we have the ability to do more. We can bridge the gap between the generation that is coming up on our heels and the one that still holds power in our colleges, communities and courts. We can put pressure on our colleges to invest in green energy, composting and recycling. We can call our legislators and push for business regulations and the Green New Deal. We can go into communities and fight for access to clean water, renewable energy and sustainable food practices. And if the only way to be heard by those in power is to leave our classrooms and workplaces to shout in the streets, then we will do that, too. In the end, stopping climate change isn’t about saving the planet. Long after we have cannibalized ourselves, the earth will continue to exist and other forms of life will find ways to thrive. The planet will outlast us, but ending climate change is about us. Our city, country and world are being handed over to a new generation. We will meet the challenge head-on and use our heads, our hearts and our voices to save ourselves. chronicle@colum.edu

during the 2018–2019 offseason. There were many high-caliber players—such as Dallas Keuchel and Patrick Corbin—on the market during the offseason that the Cubs had to pass on because of their high payroll. This restriction forced the Cubs to stray away from signing any other players, including positions outside of the pitching staff. If the current staff doesn’t live up to expectations, it could set the whole team back. In early 2018, the Cubs had some of the hottest bats in the league, ultimately helping them finish in the top 10 for batting. Toward the end of the 2018 season, the Cubs’ batting strengths came to an abrupt halt, making them lean on the already-weak pitching rotation. The rotation came together at the last minute to put the Cubs in the playoffs. Relief pitching is a staple to any great season, and has always played a major part in the Cubs’ success, from Chapman’s legendary 2016 postseason performance

COMMENTARY to Wade Davis’ 97 percent save percentage in 2017 that took the Cubs back to the National League Championship Series. It is essential to teams’ success to have all-star closers. Free agent Craig Kimbrel, who was unsigned at press time, has served as a World Series champion closer. The Cubs currently have Brandon Morrow, who is coming back from an injury and won’t be ready for the start of the season. Cubs pitchers have the talent and ability to be one of the best rotations in the league, but last year four of the five 2019 opening day starters had ERAs above their career averages. In order for the Cubs to have a successful 2019 season, they will have to capitalize on the big pitching free agents and other pitching talent already on the roster. Cubs pitching has led the team to a World Series once, and with this 2019 team, they have the capability to do so again. zjackson@columbiachronicle.com

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Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle debated political endorsements, police reform policies, public school education and ethics during a March 21 mayoral forum on Chicago Tonight ahead of the April 2 runoff election.

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to continue delivering progressive change to Chicagoans, if elected mayor in the April 2 runoff. Preckwinkle said she pushed to revamp ailing communites during her 28 years in civic positions, including 4th Ward alderman from 1991–2010 and Cook County Board of Commissioners president since 2010. “I worked to change communities and I know how hard that transformative work is,” Preckwinkle said during a March 21 debate. “It takes patience and courage. My opponent has suggested that transformative work is easy.” Preckwinkle, who worked as a teacher in Illinois for 10 years, was backed by the Chicago Teachers Union in December. “[Preckwinkle] has a clear track record [of] civic service and a clear set of platform planks on issues related to education ... that align with the mission of this union,” said Director of Communications for CTU Chris Geovanis. The CTU is currently bargaining for a new contract with Chicago Public Schools and a separate contract with 13 charter schools. A strike is possible in the fall, Geovanis said. Preckwinkle is committed to expanding bargaining rights changed in the 1995 Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act, which gave Mayor Richard M. Daley complete control over CPS changes, Geovanis said. TONI PRECK WINKLE WANTS

The political agenda of the next mayor will dictate the outcome of CPS negotiations, Geovanis added. Former mayoral candidate Willie Wilson said that South and West Side community members have expressed distrust of Preckwinkle. He said they are concerned about the soda tax she sponsored, which was repealed in October 2017, and her ties to embattled Ald. Ed Burke (14th Ward). Community members also voiced disapproval of Preckwinkle representing the interests of the “Chicago Political Machine,” Wilson said. Chance the Rapper announced his endorsement of Preckwinkle March 21, which could boost her voter turnout. “It is important to have the support of someone like Chance,” Preckwinkle said. “Not only is he a great artist, but he has a great sense of the importance of civic engagement.” Voter turnout was low in the Feb. 26 general election among those aged 25-44, as reported March 7 by The Chronicle. Yet, Preckwinkle said young people share a sense of civic engagement with Chance, who has been active in local politics. “As a teacher, I know the energy and enthusiasm of young people,” Preckwinkle said. “I am very grateful for [Chance’s] support, particularly since he called out some of the issues, [including] educational equity and criminal justice reform.” kkeranen@columbiachronicle.com

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IN AN ELECTION that pits experience against the need for change, Chicagoans will elect the first black woman mayor on April 2. Former Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot will face off against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff election to replace Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The candidates received the most votes among the initial 14 candidates in the Feb. 26 general election, with Lightfoot earning 17.5 percent and Preckwinkle earning 16 percent of the total votes. “[What] is most important is the endorsement of the voters,” Lightfoot said during a March 21 debate on Chicago Tonight. In the weeks following the general election, Lightfoot has received endorsements from some of the former mayoral candidates, including Willie Wilson, Gery Chico and Paul Vallas. “Lori will be stronger on ethics reforms, and those are necessary right now, given some of the things you’re seeing emerge from the [City] Council,” Chico told the Chicago Sun-Times in a March 14 article. Preckwinkle has not received an endorsement from any of her former competitors, which is largely unprecedented, according to University of Illinois at Chicago Political Science Professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson (44th Ward), who has endorsed Lightfoot as well. Simpson said Preckwinkle is not receiving endorsements because she “alienated” the other candidates and was “arrogant” in some debates.

The deciding factor among voters may be whether they want to see change in Chicago and an end to corruption, Simpson said. Throughout the campaign, Lightfoot has accused Preckwinkle of being part of the “political machine,” Simpson said. Preckwinkle tried to paint her long history in Chicago politics as useful experience, but her ties to Ald. Ed Burke (14th Ward)— who is facing federal attempted extortion charges—gave opponents an opening to attach her to Chicago machine politics. “We have been failed by the status quo,” Lightfoot said in the March 21 debate. “We have been failed by the broken and corrupt political machine. What people are rallying to is this opportunity to really break from that terrible past and move forward in a positive way.” As the recipient of so-called “dark money,” Lightfoot is not unscathed from political criticisms. WBEZ reported a $40,000 donation from the recently-founded organization Change Chicago, whose donors are not known. Barring any political twists, Simpson estimates that Lightfoot will win with 58 percent of the vote. Anti-gay flyers aimed at Lightfoot popped up around a handful of South Side churches the weekend of March 16, falsely claiming Lightfoot would enforce the nonexistent Gay Equality Act. The flyer also stated that all jobs under Lightfoot would be given exclusively to gay people. Both Lightfoot and Preckwinkle condemned these flyers. ayetter@columbiachronicle.com

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