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fter jointly filing for asummary court judg-ment before a judge,the college and the
Village of Glen Ellyn will hear adecision that dictates how muchthe college is required to obligevillage codes and ordinances.
The Courier asked PresidentRobert Breuder the purpose be-hind the court date. "We expect thejudge to render an opinion on the de-gree to which we have to complywith Village Glen Ellyn codes and or-dinances," Breuder said.
Glen Ellyn Village President andformer COD trustee Mark Pfeffermantells the Courier in a phone interviewthat it is an issue of “jurisdiction.”
The college essentially believes thatits development is governed by thestate and the Illinois CommunityCollege Board, Pfefferman said. Headds that the Village would acceptthis idea but that the ICCB does nothave the right staff members to en-sure regulations are met.
Both parties appear to appreciatethe importance of resolving their is-sues.
"It was the College's feeling morethan a year ago that seeking resolu-tion of this difference of opinion inthe courts was the best approach,"Breuder said.
“The intent of cooperation is there,”but cannot reach an agreement, Pfef-ferman said.
Breuder told the Courier in a recentinterview that their different perspec-tives of the law, the root of the issuesbetween them, needed to be resolvedand that “the lingering of debateserves no purpose.”
It is “not all bad” between the col-lege and the Village, according to Pf-efferman, who informs the Courierthat he had lunch with Breuder re-cently.
By Elise AndersonNews Editor
President Robert Breuder speaks about upcoming court date with GlenEllyn at Tuesday’s In-Service day.
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Judge to rule on COD-Glen Ellyn dispute Oct. 27
see ‘Court’ page 5
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INFORMSstudents
Mindview : A journey into the world of hallucinogenic drugs
See timeline on page 2 for a look at the pastyear!s events for the college!s relationshipwith Glen Ellyn.
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October
College submitsIGA draft to Village
Collegebacks out ofmediationmeeting
with Village
Oct. 29
2011
AprilNegotiations continue
College and Villageapprove IGA
Apr. 19
CollegeBoard
approvesIGA draft
Breuder threatens to de-annex if Village doesn’t
sign agreement
Apr. 28
Apr. 29
May
VillageBoard tables
IGA withcollege
May. 9
June
College answers in-spection-related ques-
tions. Village thenfiles for relief in courtto prevent the college
from occupying 4new buildings
Jun. 28
July
College delivers certificatesof compliance to Village
Jul. 20
October
College andVillage go to
court for sum-mary courtjudgement
Oct. 27
Inter-governmental agreement timeline
Village of Glen Ellyn!College of DuPage
The Village believes it canlive with any
“reasonble judgement... ”
“If the ruling is some-thing “we can’t live
with and we still thinkwe have legal standing,then we’ll pursue it inthe appellate courts
and continue to chal-lenge the ruling.”
ROBERT BREUDERCOD PRESIDENT
MARK PFEFFERMANPRESIDENT OF VILLAGE OF GLEN
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October 21, 2011 • COURIER 3NEWS
BlamingWall Street
-ck off.”This was the
response tothose who saythat protestersparticipating in
the Occupy Chicago move-ment are lazy, should stopprotesting and get a job.
The response came from astudent protesting in themovement, who sat downwith the Courier to discusstheir involvement in the Oc-
cupy Chicago protest. Thesource, who requested thatthey remain anonymous,refers to themself as “left-wing” and says their interestin politics led to them joiningOccupy Chicago. They tell theCourier that so far there is nocontradiction between thevalues of the movement andthemselves.
The source tells the Courierthat they want to see the cur-rent economic system re-placed, substituting socialismin the place of capitalism.They want to raise taxes on
the rich which would incorpo-rate repealing the Bush Ad-ministration’s tax cuts.
The Courier asked thesource if they believe thatthere are others, outside ofWall Street, that should beblamed for the economic col-lapse of the country, but thesource says that the only cul-prits are Wall Street and thegovernment, which theyclaim are “in bed together.”They tell the Courier thatthere is a lot of “overlap” be-tween the two entities.
The Courier asked Econom-
ics Professor Mitch Fisherwhether protesters were rightfor blaming Wall Street for theeconomic hardship the coun-try is facing. Fisher tells theCourier that although WallStreet is partly to blame, thatthere is, “a lot of blame to goaround,” and identifies Con-gress, Federal Reserve Sys-tem, homeowners who tookon mortgages they weren’table to afford, and the govern-ment as additional contribu-tors to the economy’sdownturn.
The source says that Occupy
Chicago has been successfulin recruiting more protesters,but says that they doubt themovement will accomplishmuch, because unlike similarallegedly leaderless protestslike Tunisia, the Occupy WallStreet movement has not pro-moted one core demand.However, they add that it isnot too late for the movementto create a clear objective.
Sociology Instructor Ed-ward Cole finds the WallStreet protests to be interest-
By Elise AndersonNews Editor
Photo by Chris Johnson
At about 1 am Sunday the police lit up the crowd with massive floodlights and started arresting anyone who didn't leave peaceably.
see ‘Protest’ page 5
Protest is “too
chaotic topredict.”
‘BEN’STUDENT & OCCUPYCHICAGO PROTESTER
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Courier sits down with Occupy Chicago protester Photo by Chris Johnson
A protester is placed under arrest at this weekend’s sit-in at Grant Park.
There is “a lot of
blame to goaround.”
MITCH FISHER,ECONOMICS PROFESSOR
Photo by Chris JohnsonA Chicago police officer looks on as anoterprotester reacts to being taken into custody along with nearly 200 protesters were placed under arrest this weekend.
Incident
Complainant was parkingher vehicle in parking lot Eand waiting behind a silvercoupe in one of the parkingaisles for a few moments.
According to the com-plainant a spot opened upright in front of her. Anothervehicle was trying to back outof its parking stall, but couldnot maneuver out of the spacebecause of the silver coupebeing in the way.
The silver coupe then pulledforward and the other vehiclewas able to navigate out of itsstall. The driver of the silvercoupe then started to wavehis arm out the window.
Complainant thought thedriver of the silver coupe waswas waving her into the spot.She pulled her car into theopen parking stall ad thedriver of the silver coupe gotvery agitated.
The complainant said thatthe driver began to flick heroff and screamed profanitiesat her. The complainant said itwas an honset mistake andwouldn’t have done it if shehad known he wanted thespot.
Complainant returned toher vehicle around 11a.m. andwent home.
The next morning herboyfriend was getting into hercar and noticed a long scratch
on the passenger side door. According to the com-
plainant her car was only fivemonths old and she had neverseen this extensive damage toher car before.
She assured that she did notknow anyone personally whowould a grudge against her.
Complainant believes thedriver of the silver coupekeyed her car after the park-ing incident.
Complainant is seeking topress charges if the COD Po-lice Department is able to findout who is responsible. Re-porting officer observed com-
plainants car and noticed alarge two foot long scratchranging from the door handleto the end of the front passen-ger side.
Reporting officer reviewedCCTV cameras in the area ofthe Homeland Security Cen-ter, but was unable to checkthe contents of them. Hit and run
The driver of unit two saidhe parked his car around11a.m. and went to class.
Unit two returned to his cararound 12:15p.m. and noticeddamage on the rear left side ofhis car.
Unit two spoke to a witnesswho was parked across theaisle from him and who saw ablack Chevy Traverse make aleft turn into the parking spotand strike unit two’s car.
He then backed out of thespot and drove away. The wit-ness referred to the driver ofunit one as a “he.”
The witness left before hecould et her name.
Driver of unit one stated hewas traveling northbound
through parking lot Fawell Daround 12:10p.m.
Unit one turned right intothe parking spot and heard aloud crunch noise.
According to unit one, hebacked out of the parkingstall and drove down the aisleto park elsewhere.
Unit one said he was scaredand didn’t know what to do.He did not leave a note or anyinformation for unit two.
Reporting officer observedpaint transfer on right frontbumper of unit one.
Between $501-1500 in dam-age was done.
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‘Court’ from page 1
Pfefferman says that bothsides will be presented incourt and that the Village be-lieves it can live with any“reasonable judgment” and ishoping the college will also. “Isee the potential for great-ness,” if we can work thingsout, he said.
Both sides’ attorneys werenotified that the judge, recog-nizing the importance of thedecision, will rule within five
days, according to Pfeffer-man.
“The village values thispartnership very much,” Pfef-ferman said.
Breuder, in a recent inter-view with the Courier, de-scribed his ideal relationshipwith the Village as “quasi-symbiotic,” where both par-ties would benefit from eachother.
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Court DateInformation:
Date: Thursday, Oct. 27
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Place: DuPage County Courthouse Court Room 2005
Address: 505 N. County Farm RoadWheaton, IL 60187
Information provided by COD attorney Ken Florey
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ing because they seem to em-body a new model of "socialmovement organization". Theprotests appear to be leader-less, lacking a hierarchy, ac-cording to Cole.
The source breaks down themovement’s participants intothirds, saying that one-thirdare for socialism, one-third forcapitalism and one-third wantto replace the current systembut are not sure what theywould want to replace it with,the source also tells that liber-tarians were also part of the
protest.The source tells the Courier
that the protesters are obvi-ously passionate, and saysthat the mood of the crowdcan be gauged by listening tothe levels of cheers. They giveexamples of the different levelof cheers a variety of speakersreceived depending on theirmessage. They also tell theCourier that the protest’smovement is “too chaotic topredict,” saying that plans areorganized usually last minuteand depend upon other fac-
tors including the police andthe timing of bankers’ meet-ings.
The source says they willparticipate with OccupyChicago “for as long as itgoes.”
It is against Courier policyto not use the source’s namein a story. However, since thesource was concerned aboutusing their name for safetyreasons, the Courier agreed tonot disclose their real name.
‘Protest’ from page 3For coverage after the court date
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PointCounterPointhe decriminalizationof drugs is a foolishand unreasonable
idea. If a person wants to injectthemselves with odd sub-stance, that is their choice asan autonomous, free humanbeing.
When a drug such as LSD orMDMA are taken by a userthey cause hallucinogenic vi-sions and introspectivethought. If the drugs aren’tharming anybodyelse, or in somecases aren’t even harming theuser, they should not be de-criminalized.
Certain drugs offer interest-ing benefits when it comes tohuman perception and cogni-tive development. Psilocybinmushrooms for example,which cause hallucinations,was found to enhance person-ality traits in users, accordingto a PsychCentral.com article.
Users of the drug were sub-jected to high doses of mush-
rooms and many of the partici-pants grew in openness, imag-ination, aesthetics andfeelings. The benefits seen in-teresting and positive, consid-ering your personality doesn’tusually change after age 30, ac-cording to the article. Many ofthe users were already older.
The drug truly had a positiveimpact on its users. However,in our current legal system,possession of these mush-
rooms alone can rackup seven years in
prison. Decriminalizing anydrug is a horrible idea, forfeit-ing any autonomy of the peo-ple who choose to use themrecreationally and beneficially.
It deviates from being aquestion of legality and turnsto a question of ethics andfreedom. People are sold daily,household items that cancause harm to themselves andothers far more than some-body taking a drug for recre-ation.
rugs are illegal.Therefore, the idea ofsimply decriminaliz-
ing the use of them and turn-ing our heads is wrong. Itmakes sense to say that indi-viduals that don’t sell drugsand just use them aren’t hurt-ing anyone, but they are. Drugtrafficking leads to crime andeach person that supports thatactivity perpetuates the conse-quences trafficking has on so-ciety.Drug traffickingleads to unsafe streets and thesenseless murder of innocentpeople. We needed to takecare of this issue a long timeago, and so far, have failed to.
Purely decriminalizing drugusers is not solving the issue.But decriminalizing drugusers while forcing them intomandatory rehabilitationwould.
Fox News recently releasedin an article that London’s Ad-visory Council on the Misuse
of Drugs, has recommendedthat personal use drugsshould be decriminalized, say-ing that, “the change wouldsave police, courts, probationand prison services the costsof dealing with drug offend-ers. It would also allow moredrug users to be assessed fortreatment rather than beinggiven criminal records.”
This policy has already beentested out through Portugal.
Five years after im-plementing the de-
criminalization of street drugswith mandatory therapy forusers caught using, the rate ofnew HIV cases dropped dras-tically from 1,400 in 2000 to400 in 2006, according to a2009 Scientific American arti-cle.
This method is more cost-ef-fective and reasonable thanthe current illegality of drugsor the sole decriminalizationof them. We should take a les-son from Portugal.
Should all drugs be decriminalized?
Yes
Researched by Elise Anderson, News Editor Researched by Nick Davison, Editor in ChiefPointCounterPoint topics are selected, researched and written by the staff of the Courier and aim to reflect differing opinions on
the same subject. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the author.
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No
The Occupy protests havespread to 900 cities interna-tionally, including Chicago.
Even though our college-age peers worldwide havebeen protesting the global fi-nancial system and cripplingstudent debt, COD studentsshow no signs of unrest.
Is this because our studentpopulation doesn’t face crip-pling education loans and ableak job market after gradua-tion? No.
Is our campus a rare oasiswhere the effects of a globalrecession don’t apply? It’squite the opposite.
In fact, between the cable-news images of crowds andsigns slamming big-name cor-porations, there are somethemes that should ringloudly true with COD stu-dents.
At COD — a place wheremost employees wearnametags and students oftenare referred to as customers—a strict corporate or “busi-ness” model rules. This modelis deficient of meaningful stu-dent input, and it stronglyparallels the Occupy theme ofa super-wealthy one percentwith unforgiving fi-nancial control overthe rest of the popu-lation.
It’s this type of corporate at-titude that sparked the globalOccupy protests. Studentsshould see this and realizetheir voice is not being heard.
Attend Board of Trusteesmeetings and address yourconcerns with student gov-ernment. Show the adminis-tration that you do care aboutyour educational well-being.
Show that you deserve to betaken seriously not only as astudent, but a taxpayer.
If we can learn anythingfrom the Occupy protests, it’sthat no governing bodyshould ignore, overlook ordismiss the vast majority.
In the protests, citizens whobelong to the poorer 99 per-
cent of the populationbelieve they sufferfrom financial in-equality.
But at the college, it’s the27,000 students who aren’trepresented on important is-sues and decision-making.
Within the past year, stu-dents have seen a $3-per-credit-hour increase instudent fees, a Reconceivingthe Student Experience Teamalarmingly lacking on mean-ingful student input, and a
campus where corporate fast-food coffee has pushed out asmall local vendor that waspopular with students.
COD students are by far thebiggest stakeholders in the in-stitution. But as a student,you are forfeiting your rightsunless you show the adminis-tration you demand to beheard and respected.
By listening and speaking atBoard of Trustees meetingsand holding student govern-ment responsible by pushingofficers to lobby for your con-cerns, you can occupy thehalls of COD instead of hand-ing the campus to a few indi-viduals who are disconnectedfrom a student’s lifestyle.
A diverse perspective,unique opinion and newideas can be just as powerfulas signs and crowds.
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LetterstotheEditor
Gun lawsneed to betightened
Knock backdrinking age
The ability to obtain afirearm in Illinois is not farfrom impossible for manypeople.
With thirty days and a cleanrecord you can obtain a FOIDcard from the Illinois State Po-lice which makes it easy formost people to get a gun.
Unfortunately for elevenyear old Vonnetta Bedford, ofRoseland, Chicago she was inthe wrong place at the wrongtime.
Vonnetta, who was not theintended target, was the vic-tim of a drive-by shooting.This issue is growing becauseof the large amount offirearms on the street. Makingweapons harder to get aholdof would decrease the amountof violence committed withguns.
FOID card owners who ownguns should take a yearly testto examine their mental abil-ity to handle a firearm.
More focus should be put onmaking guns only for recre-ational use rather than per-sonal use.
Recreational uses could in-clude hunting and targetshooting. Hopefully somedaypeople can come to realizethat guns don’t choose theirvictims, people do.
Nick ColellaVilla Park, IL
DearEditor,
I am writing to you todaysimply to give my opinion ona certain law in the UnitedStates.
The U.S. is one of five coun-tries whose drinking age is 21.I believe the more appropriateage would be 18.
Turning 18 means receivingthe rights and responsibilitiesof adulthood to vote, serve onjuries, get married, sign con-tracts, join the military and beprosecuted as adults.
Adults from the age of 18should therefore also betrusted to make decisionsabout alcohol consumption.
I feel that if the age is low-ered then teens will learn toconsume alcohol in portionsrather than consuming asmuch as they can handle atone time.
Also, if they change the law,chances are teens will notdrink as much because itwon’t have the thrill of beingillegal.
If so many other countriesseem to be fine with thedrinking age of 18 then I don’tsee why the U.S. continues tohave it set at 21.
Juan BecerraWestchester
Citizens should upholdtheir voting responsibility
What can you accomplish in4 years?
You can finish high school,get a college degree or even ablack belt in most martial arts.Now imagine there were afew hundred people opposingyou at every turn. Could youstill do all those things in 4years?
I have a hard time believinganyone could accomplishthose things in such a hostilesituation. And yet we expectsweeping changes from them.
We desire and demand thatpolicies that have been inplace for years be remandedor revoked, and most of allwe expect these men to leadour country with a sense ofduty and honor so that wecan represent ourselves in apositive light to the rest of theworld.
Despite our desire for thesethings, our much touted elec-toral system defeats this veryidea.
Take for example our cur-rent president. His campaignslogan revolved around oneword: hope. Hope wasshouted from the mountaintops and was the topic ofevery conversation. Wedanced in the streets for apresident that would finallyunderstand the plight of thecommon man and bring“hope” to Washington.
People had high expecta-tions of him, but four yearslater what do we have toshow for it?
One major health care bill.An anorexic shade of its for-mer self, this bill representsthe reality of our government.We can “hope” all we wantbut the truth of the matter isthat our president, republicanor democrat, faces opposition
from within his own country.A bill posing an idea as sim-
ple as “everyone should havehealthcare” took months ofrigorous debate to pass.
Not only does this representa grim reality, but it poses an-other question: is one goodidea all we can expect fromour presidents? It’s a sad no-tion to think that a man full of“hope” looks so beaten andtired after only three years ofserving his country.
Now imagine a scenario forme. Imagine a scenario whereour presidents were electednot every four years, butevery 10 years.
Imagine how much could beaccomplished when our presi-dents are given time tobreathe between election cy-cles and allowed to actuallyfight for what they believe in.
Imagine a world where wedon’t spend billions of dollarson campaigns every fewyears. Now imagine a worldwhere a majority of people ac-tually vote.
Imagine for me a countrythat can hold its head high inthe international arena anddoesn’t look like a child, con-stantly changing its mindevery few years.
Agree or disagree with ourpresident, a unified countryheaded in one clear directionbenefits the people far morethan a wishy washy populacethat hardly participates in it’sown elections.
You may say to me electionsare what let “we the people”speak our minds and makeour own choice for president.
Well I say to you it’s time tomake up our minds. It’s timeto make up our minds andlive with the decision wemade.
Haroon AtchaHanover Park
DearEditor,
Reader feelsspeedinglaws are too‘ridiculous’
Jan. 1, 2011, beginning of anew year with over 100 newlaws.
In particular, speeding hashigher consequences and po-lice are not as lenient as theyused to be. If you are caughtgoing over 30 mph of theposted speed limit, this is aClass B misdemeanor and thepenalty is a minimum sixmonths in jail and a $1,500fine.
Now if you are caught goingover 40 mph over the speedlimit it is a Class A misde-meanor, with a penalty of aminimum one year in jail and$2,500 fine.
It is understandable that thislaw is to encourage people tonot speed and obey theposted speed limits. However,this is a little ridiculous forpeople who do not use theircars full potential.
If the State of Illinois dis-courages people to speed thenthey should encourage vehi-cle producers to make carsthat only go to a certain speedlimit.
This would create cars withsmaller engines that use lessgas, that would decrease pol-lution in the environment.Also with using less gas thiswould cause a decrease inU.S. dependence of foreign oilwhich will be turned into do-mestic gasoline.
Trucks or even go-carts havea “governor” for a set speedlimit it cannot exceed. All carssold in certain states shouldhave their “governor” set tothe states particular speedlimit.
The state will have lessspeeders, there will be a de-crease in the severity of colli-sions, cars will have moreaffordable engines, and theplanet will live longer.
Everyone wins!However, Illinois would
never go for this because theyjust want everyone’s money.
It’s not about the lives theysave from aggravated drivers,it’s about Illinois trying to ripoff its people and take all theirmoney by enforcing laws thatfeel a little like entrapmentcould be easily be avoided.
The new law should bebanned, instead of being soconcerned about whosespeeding on the high ways,state police should be moreconcerned with real criminalsand crimes on the streets.
Jessie HoeksDowners Grove
DearEditor,
I have an abiding respect forthe legislative experience of Illi-nois House Speaker MichaelMadigan, however I disagreewith his recent decision to blockGov. Pat Quinn's amendatoryveto of my legislation banningthe General Assembly from dol-ing out legislative scholarshipsto relatives.
I'm on record as being forelimination of the much ma-ligned tuition waiver programwhich time after time has beenmisused by lawmakers. It'stime to stop this costly perk.
As a former top aide for twogovernors I believe I have a
firm grasp of this issue.The governor's veto of HB
1353 amends the VERY sec-tion dealing with General As-sembly scholarships and it iswell within the governor'slegal and constitutional au-thority to make specific rec-ommendations for change.
The governor basicallyrewrote the bill so that it elimi-nates the scholarships alto-gether instead of banninglawmakers from awarding thescholarships to family members.
If Speaker Madigan wantsto oppose Gov. Quinn’schanges to this controversialprogram he should just say sobut I strongly disagree withthe legislative methodology
he is employing here, as he issimply using trumped up par-liamentary procedures.
Though it's not often I'm onthe same page with Gov. Quinnon matters of public policy, theGeneral Assembly should begiven the opportunity to voteup or down on whether law-makers should be able to pro-vide the oft abused legislativescholarships, when clearly theprogram has been used to re-ward friends, campaign donorsand other cronies.
It's time to end the legisla-tive scholarship perk onceand for all!
Kirk W. DillardIllinois State Senator, Hinsdale
U.S. Senator opposes legislative scholarshipsDearEditor,
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FEATURES
Last Tuesday, the collegehosted its annual College Fair,in which universities acrossthe country came to encour-age students to transfer totheir school.
Students throughout thecommunity paced up anddown the aisles of the fair,looking for a college thatcatches their eye. However,most of them flocked to thecollege tables that had thebiggest names and the bestreputations in the country.
High school students AllyGibbons and Haley Corcoranreferred to Illinois State Uni-versity as being their firstchoice, citing it’s close prox-imity and campus life as theirmain reasons.
Students Adam Greer andJacqueline Pastuovic heldsimilar standards for theschool of their choice.
“I definitely want a biggerschool, one that has a Big Tenfeel,” Greer said. “Yeah,something like Illinois or
Iowa,” added Pastuovic. These colleges’ main goal is
to attract all of the studentsthat they possibly can to at-tend their institution, andthey do so by standing out.
President Robert Breuderwas quoted recently about thenew facilities opening oncampus.
“It would be difficult to finda two-year or four-year insti-tution in this country that sur-passes College of DuPage inits offerings for both studentsand community members”Breuder said.
However, as this college fairproved, no two colleges arethe same in what they canprovide its students.
From local colleges like Au-rora University and RooseveltUniversity, to those fromaround the country like Ari-zona State University andSyracuse University, all couldagree that living on campuslifestyle is one of the biggestreasons for students.
“There are tons of studentsthat pick a college based onhow life in town fits them,”
Jonah Brown, Assistant Direc-tor for Multicultural Recruit-ment for TransylvaniaUniversity, said. “In our case,students like a smaller liberalarts school that is still in alarger city [Lexington, Ken-tucky].”
Students also base their de-cision on what kinds of pro-grams a college offers.
On this list of schools withunique programs is LewisUniversity as it offers and avi-ation program that no otherschool in the country does.
Also included is TexasChristian University, whichprovides students the oppor-tunity to major in ranch man-agement.
There are also colleges thatoffer a completely differentexperience from any otherschool in the country. The Ma-harishi University of Manage-ment is a school basedentirely on the notion of Tran-scendental Meditation.
“Other colleges might havebetter facilities than we do,but we have a proven technol-ogy, through our use of tran-
scendental meditation, thatincreases education and noother college can say that,”Director of Recruiting for theMaharishi University of Man-agement, W. Jay Christophersaid.
One thing that just aboutevery school in the countrycannot say is that they offerfree education. However, thisis exactly what the UnitedStates Merchant Marine Acad-emy provides its students.“Not only do we offer free ed-ucation, but unlike any otherservice academy, we do notrequire mandatory militaryservice,” Admissions FieldRepresentative Charles Nel-son said.
Every college offers differ-ent chances for students andone may find it to be difficultto choose what college is rightfor him or her.
But it could be beneficial forany undecided students toheed the advice of St. Am-brose University AdmissionsCounselor Alyse Schmidt andjust “find the place that fitsyou best.”
By Austin SlottFeatures Editor
College fair enlightens students
Students from all over the COD community came to the College Fair to explore what colleges across the nation have to offer.
St. Ambrose representative Alyse Schmidt meets with a studentHistory professor Helen Feng chats with a couple of students
Photos by Chris Johnson
One of Syracuse’s most fa-mous alumni, Mike Tirico, canbe seen every week announc-ing Monday Night Footballgames
Aside from its unique aviationprograms, Lewis Universityalso has agreement with CODfor the 3+1 program
Northern Illinois University isone of the most popularschools in the country forCOD transfer students
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Friday Oct. 14 and SaturdayOct. 15, professor BruceSewick gave a two-day pres-entation, introducing hisnewly approved class startingnext summer, PsychedelicMind view.
According to Sewick, theclass will detail, “How alteredstates can be useful” and ex-plore the anthropological, reli-gious, cultural andtherapeutic uses of psyche-delic substances throughouthistory.
Sewick had been teaching aPsychedelic Mind view classon the weekends for the pastsix years, but it was not untilrecently when curiosity grewfor the class.
“Interest sparked andenough students demandedit, so we got it approved fornext summer,” Sewick said.
Aside from being an adjunctprofessor at COD and WrightCollege, Sewick also works asthe Clinical Supervisor of thecrisis department and resi-dential program at a commu-nity mental health center.Sewick plans integrate someof his experiences working atthe health center into classdiscussion.
“Every time I visit psychwards, I always feel psychoticafter talking to the patients. Ialways need to call my wife inorder to feel sane again,”Sewick said.
Sewick’s presentation fo-cused on the medical uses ofpsychedelic drugs, MDMA(Ecstasy) and Psilocybin.Compared to other traditionalcounseling methods, Sewickbelieves that psychedelic sub-stances produce medical re-sults that are “accelerated”and “profound.”
The medical uses thatSewick refers to include theuse of Psilocybin to treat clus-ter headaches and depression.He also argues that psyche-delics are currently in thewrong “schedule.”
“No addicts ever say thatthey are addicted to psyche-delics,” Sewick said, “Psyche-delics put life in perspectiveand they do have medicaluses.”
All drugs are classified intofive different schedules; psy-chedelics are classified inSchedule 1; the strictestschedule. All drugs in this cat-egory are labeled as having ahigh potential for abuse, nomedical use and as being dan-gerous.
“You have more of a chanceof overdosing on nutmeg thanyou do on psychedelic sub-stances,” Sewick said. Sewick
states political reasons ratherthan scientific for psyche-delics being stamped with thestatus of an illegal drug.
“Pharmacies feel threatenedby psychedelic drugs becausethey are not something youtake over and over again.Some say that once is enoughto cure them,” Sewick said.
One such case of this is thatof Pamela Sakuda. A videowas shown at the presenta-tion on Sakuda, a cancer pa-tient from Hawaii whovolunteered for an experi-mental depression treatmentinvolving the consumption ofa Psilocybin pill. According tothe video, Sakuda’s depres-sion was alleviated, and al-though her cancer was not
cured, she felt joyous in thelast few months before herdeath.
Although Sewick advocatesthe medical uses of psyche-delic drugs, he does not en-courage the recreational useof these drugs.
“I am not encouraging youtake psychedelics for recre-ational reasons,” Sewick said,“After all, they are illegal.”Despite this, Sewick believesthat times are going to bechanging over the next fewyears.
“The bad trip of the 70’s areover and the mistakes havebeen corrected,” Sewick said,“In the next ten years, treatingpatients with psilocybin andMDMA will be legalized.”
By Austin SlottFeatures Editor
Professor Sewick describes the different schedules in whichdrugs are classified into
Photo by Chris Johnson
Psychedelic MINDVIEW:A journey into the world of hallucinogenic drugs
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Every minute, 51 thousandfarm animals are killed forfood. This is just one of thesurprising statistics presentedat last Thursday’s Animals’Rights Speech. The Studentsfor Animal Defense club in-vited members of the CODcommunity to listen in onKenny Torrella as he spokeabout the animal cruelty thatfarm animals experience.
Torrella serves as a Cam-paign Coordinator for theChicago branch of Mercy ForAnimals (MFA). The MFA is anon-profit organization that iscommitted to ending crueltyagainst farm animals and toencourage vegan or “compas-sionate” food choices.
The MFA is known for theiroperations to go undercoverand film the conditions offarms and slaughterhousesand how they treat their live-stock.
“One of our most successfulcampaigns was one where weexposed a veal farm in Ohioas being linked to Costco,”Torrella said, “which causedthe buyer to switch its sup-plier.”
Torrella’s main argumentwas for effective advocacy. Hebelieves that farm animalsshould be treated with asmuch compassion as house-hold pets are. “Farm animals
can feel emotions just like ourpets and should be treated aswell as our cats and dogs,”said Torrella.
To support his argument,Torrella played one of MFA’sundercover videos of whatgrotesque actions occur at aslaughterhouse. He warnedthe audience of its graphic na-ture and people were shockedto see the conditions in whichfarm animals live, and die, in.
The video contained theway in which farm animals
are treated and killed in theseslaughterhouses. Peoplecringed as they saw a pigbeing strung up by its feetand having its throat slit andmany turned away as they
watched a conveyer belt fullof live male chicks beingdumped into a large grinder.
“It’s important to under-stand that not only are theseinhumane acts standard for afarm, but they are completelylegal,” said Torrella.
There are solutions to theproblem that Torrella and theMFA suggest, but some maybe harder to accomplish thanothers.
“The best action to stop thecruelty is veganism. But this
might be too much so justmake little adjustments toyour diet, like not eating meaton Monday’s,” said Torrella.
Torrella also mentionedother methods that people cando to help the cause, includ-ing Pay-Per-View events. Pay-Per-Views are events wherepeople are given $1 to watchan animal cruelty video, as away to spread the knowledgeabout the brutality.
“We see that many studentshave a strong reaction to these[Pay-Per-View] events,” saidTorrella.
The Students for AnimalDefense and the MFA will beteaming up to host one ofthese Paid-Per-View events onMonday, October 24.
Torrella believes that whenpeople eat, they choose either“the way of compassion orthe way of cruelty” and he en-courages everyone, beforethey bite into their next ham-burger, to reconsider theirfood choice.
Slaughterhouse of horrorAnimal rights activist shares horror stories from farms By Austin SlottFeatures Editor
“It’s important to understand thatnot only are these inhumane actsstandard for a farm but they are
completely legal.”
KENNY TORRELLA,MERCY FOR ANIMALS ACTIVIST
ForYourInformationLaps With the Chaps 5KRun/WalkSaturday, October 22, 2011starting at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Laps With the Chaps 5KRun/Walk. Race begins at theCollege’s football field andtraverses the Glen Ellyn cam-pus. Registration required.Fee: $30 before Oct. 1; $35until Oct. 21; $40 on race day.For more information, visit:www.cod.edu/5k.
College Music - Chamber Or-chestraMonday, October 24, 2011 start-ing at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM College Music - Chamber Or-chestra. McAninch Arts Cen-ter, Lobby. Open to studentsthrough adult, regardless ofdegree, performing Classicalrepertoire. Free. For more information, call theMAC Ticket Office, (630) 942-4000.
Paralegal Club Free Presenta-tion: "Employment Law"Tuesday, October 25, 2011 start-ing at 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM Attorney and COD instructorRoss Molho presents, "Em-ployment Law." Hosted bythe COD Paralegal Club, thisprogram is free and open tothe public.For more information, contactPatricia Myers, [email protected].
For more informationcontact Students for
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October 21, 2011 • COURIER 11
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTARTS
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Travel teacher explores creative medium
“Beyond the Edges,” thenew exhibit at the GahlbergGallery opened for nature andlandscape photographerJoseph Jachna on Thursday,Oct. 13. Jachna describes hiswork as “going beyond thesubject matter.” He was bornand raised in the south side ofChicago and worked as a pa-perboy during his teenageyears. Through delivering pa-pers, he heard about a schol-arship opportunity throughthe Illinois Institute of Tech-nology and received his bach-elor degree in art educationfrom there. He began teachingat the University of Illinois in1969 as a photography profes-sor and retired 10 years ago in2001.
“I’m attracted to simplethings…the words ‘beautiful’and ‘pretty’ are garbagewords to me,” said Jachna ashe opened his lecture on Mon-day afternoon at the McAn-inch Art Center in Studio 2.He explains that he likesthings in their natural state
and doesn’t need somethinglike additional lighting to goget the shot he wants. Jachnadisplayed a slideshow with acompilation of various photoshe’s taken that began with histhesis project from when hewas in college. The project’stopic was water, still water forthat matter. “I really had noidea what I was doing,” saidJachna, though each photo-graph caught the audience’sattention and left themscratching their heads as ifsearching for their own inter-pretation of each picture.Jachna said that a formermentor of his taught him tonever show the whole land-scape and to eliminate thehorizon so you can focus onexactly what you want. “Iwant the environment andmy lens will get it for me.”
Other slides included a vari-ety of wilderness shots, a col-lection of photos of familymembers feet, snow angels,unique rocks from when hetraveled to England and ani-
malistic leaves that Jachna de-scribed as birds flying right athim. Not one to photographpeople, Jachna said he feelsguilty for “being in the dia-logue of the photo” as hecatches his shadow in a fewshots. Jachna said while over-seas the thing he enjoyedmost is getting a “virgin viewof the country” where there isno evidence of people. To conclude his lecture,
Jachna opened the floor toanyone looking to do a ques-tion and answer session. Sev-eral audience membersstepped forward but whatwas most impressive was thegood handful of patrons whoare former students ofJachna’s that came out to seetheir former mentor. His for-mer students told storiesabout their experience in classwith Jachna and thanked himfor a wonderful learning ex-perience.
Jachna’s exhibit will be ondisplay until Nov. 26 at theGahlberg Gallery.
Joanne Giampa, travel pro-fessor, has a niche for repro-ducing artwork. She realizedher talent as a child who justenjoyed drawing. Althoughnever taking a formal art classuntil college, she was still ca-pable of duplicating almostany piece that came her way.
After taking a break fromher artistic career, years laterher talent is still with her asshe now markets her art on-line.
Giampa has reproduceddrawings of shorelines,French scenery, including theEiffel Tower and most re-cently science fiction pieceslike Darth Vader.
Primarily, she uses oils andpencil to create her art.
“Some say that what I doisn’t art since I’m only repro-ducing a final product,” saidGiampa said, “but I knowwhat I’m doing is art.”
GiampaShe is inspired todraw classic pieces that sheadmires. She favors pieces de-picting landscapes and natureso that is the prime subjectmatter for her artwork.
The price of her work is de-termined by how much timeshe puts into a piece. Herfriend advised her that forevery hour of work she dedi-cates tso a certain piece, thepiece should cost the numberof hours multiplied by ten.
Giampa plans to make aprofit off of her work whenshe retires in 2013
By Matt MertesA&E Editor
By Matt MertesA&E Editor
Joanne Giampa’s artwork she has pro-duced throughout the years (counter-clockwise) American Gothic, ElephantFamily, Waterfall and Darth Vader.
Photos courtesy of joanneofart.imagekind.com
Joseph Jachna, photographer and former University of Illinoisteacher, spoke about his work Monday, Oct. 17 at the MAC
Photos by Chris Johnson
NatureNatureNature photographer’s exhibit on display at Gahlberg
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TICKETS:
(630) 942-4000www.AtTheMAC.orgMcAninch Arts Centerat College of DuPageFawell and Park blvds., Glen Ellyn
AT T E N T I O N COD STUDENTS!HOT TIXBring your student ID to the MACticket office between 10 a.m. and5 p.m.the Friday before the eventto receive HALF-PRICE TICKETS.Subject to availability.
The CapitolSteps
YamatoThe Drummers of JapanFriday, Oct. 21, 8 p.m.$38 adult/28 COD students
Garrison KeillorSunday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m.$75/65 COD students
College MusicChamber OrchestraMonday, Oct. 24, 5 p.m.Free
College Lecture SeriesMichel ChikwanineWednesday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.$10/6 COD students
Dailey & VincentSunday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.$36/26 COD students
College MusicDuPage CommunityJazz Ensemble Halloween DanceSunday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m., $6
New PhilharmonicBarber & BernsteinCorey Cerovsek, violinFriday and Saturday,Nov. 4 and 5, 8 p.m.$38/28 COD students
College TheaterThe Dining RoomBy A.R. GurneyNov. 11 to 20$12/11 COD students
Gahlberg GalleryJoseph JachnaOct. 13 to Nov. 26 Free
Garrison Keillor
Daily & Vincent
Corey Cerovsek
Yamato
MichelChikwanine
featured event …
Neil Berg’s 100 Years of BroadwayOct. 28, 8 p.m.
$42/$32 COD students
The celebration of the Great White Way showcases hits from some of the greatest lyricists like Cohan, Porter, Hammerstein and Loesserfrom shows like Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, West Side Story,
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Oct. 218 p.m. McAninch Arts CenterMain StageYamato - The Drummersof JapanWitness this Japaneesedrumming sensationwith the art of Yamato.For more informationcontact the MAC ticketoffice at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $38 adult/36senior/28 youthOct. 237 p.m.McAninch Arts CenterMain Stage Garrison KeilorThe man in the red shoesmakes an appearance atthe MAC to celebratelife’s precious momentsthroughout his novels.For more informationconatact the MAC ticketoffice at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $75 adult/73senior/65 youth
Oct. 24 5 p.m.McAninch Arts CenterLobbyCollege Music - Chamber OrchestraCome enjoy the college’sChamber Orchestra as they perform selected classical piecesTICKETS: FREE
Oct. 267:30 p.m.McAninch Arts CenterMain StageMichell ChikwanineLectureHumanitarian and former child soldier fromCongo, Michel Chikwanine will speakabout his extraordinarylife experiences. Formore information con-tact the MAC ticket of-fice at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $10 all ages
Oct. 288 p.m.McAninch Arts CenterMain Stage100 Years of BroadwayExperience composerand lyricist Neil Berg ashe performs alongsidefive Broadway vocalists.For more informationcontact the MAC ticketoffice at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $42 adult/40senior/32 youthOct. 307 p.m.McAninch Arts CenterMain StageDailey & VincentEnjoy three-time Interna-tional Bluegrass MusicAward recipients JamieDailey and Darrin Vincent peforming modern American bluegrass. For more in-formation contact theMAC ticket office at(630) 942-4000TICKETS: $36 adult/34senior/26 youth
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Swingin’ the night awayStepping outside the classroom
WDCB Jazz at the MACkicked off its season onThursday, Oct. 13 withPaulinho Garcia at the McAn-inch Art Center’s Theater 2.
The performance was thefirst of several that will beheld this year under the coop-eration of the MAC andWDCB Radio. The set wasrecorded and, according toRoland Raffel, Marketing Co-ordinator for the MAC, willbe broadcasted off of WDCBRadio’s station (90.9 FM) inroughly six months to a year.
The lighting was dim andthe theatre was decoratedwith Chinese lanterns. Raffelexplained that the theatre isset up so that there is a moreintimate feel between the au-dience and the musician assome patrons had the privi-lege to sit just feet away fromthe stage.
Stephen Cummins, Directorof the MAC, took the stage towelcome and thank the audi-ence for coming out. Cum-mins introduced Garcia asthe, “Ambassador of BrazilianMusic” as the sharply dressedmusician emerged from be-hind the curtain with guitar inhand.
Garcia, who has traveled theworld and taught in variousIvy League schools, is a self-taught musician who is influ-enced by other jazz artists likeHerbie Hancock and LouieArmstrong.
He moved to Chicago in1979 with his wife, Maria An-gelina Seta Garcia and theirfive-year-old son, Paulo Gar-cia Junior.
“When I say I love Chicagoit is an understatement,” Gar-cia said. “Chicago has pro-duced some of the greatest
musicians in the world.”Garcia said he never likes
using a set list, it gives him achallenge and freedom to dowhat he wants. He sponta-neously played some of hisown material and some of hisfavorite songs throughout thenight.
According to Garcia, he isdrawn to jazz music for theromance and relaxation.
“The hardest thing to dowhile listening to Brazilianmusic is to sit down” Garciasaid.
Garcia finished his set in thecozy coffee house like settingand thanked the audience for,“truly making Chicago myhome.”
The next WDCB Jazz at theMAC performance will be onFriday, Nov. 18 featuring theSmithsonian Jazz Master-works Orchestra.
Ever wonder what yourteachers do outside of theclassroom? For students ofAlexander Djordjevic,Michael Fritsch, Barbara Geis,Svetlana Krasnova, CarolynMay and Karol Sue Redding-ton that question was an-swered Oct. 19, as the sixfaculty members stepped ontothe McAninch Art Center’sMain Stage to showcase theirtalents.
Each professor is a pianistexcept for May who is an ex-pert flautist. The evening con-sisted of each individualperforming a solo and twoduets, one that featured a pi-anist and flautist, the otherwith two pianists.
Selections from “A JubilantOverture,” “El Camino Real,”“American Dances I,” “TheHounds of Spring” and“Russian Christmas Music”were chosen by the staff andpresented to MAC patrons.
Faculty concerts occur onceevery semester and allow pro-fessors at the college to show-case their musical talents theydon’t normally get to displayin the classroom. The next fac-ulty recital will occur in thespring semester on March 21.
By Matt MertesA&E Editor
By Matt MertesA&E Editor
Photos courtesy of wdcb.org and paulinhogarcia.com
College of DuPage faculty perfom and during the first FacultyRecital of the year. The second will be held on March 21.
Photos by Chris Johnson
Logo for WDCB Radio (left). Brazilian jazz musician Paulinho Garcia (right).
College staffshowcase musicaltalents at the MAC
Brazilian musician jazzes up the MAC
COURIER • October 21, 201114 ARTS
A top college.It’s official: Elmhurst College is among the best in the Midwest. Check out “America’s Best Colleges,” the influential study by U.S. News & World Report. Elmhurst College ranks among the top colleges in the Midwest and is also one of the best values in the region, according to the survey. Elmhurst also appears in the Princeton Review’s most recent list of top colleges in the Midwest, earning especially high marks for financial aid offerings, faculty and quality of life.
Small college, huge opportunities. In our Deicke Center for Nursing Education, the student-faculty ratio is 8:1. Each member of the nursing faculty has a clinical specialty and a master’s degree or doctorate. With a deep commitment to the profession they love, they teach the cutting-edge developments in a fast-moving field.
What’s more, they’ll work with you to determine your areas of academic and professional interest—then design a program that will enable you to achieve your goals.
Get real. You’ll enjoy plenty of opportunities for clinical work in a range of professional specialties, including pediatrics; maternity, oncology, mental health and coronary care units; public schools; and community health centers. As a junior and senior, you’ll spend two days a week working side by side with your future colleagues at prestigious hospitals and other health-care facilities.
The fast track to a great career. Our graduates have an outstanding success rate with the national licensure examination. Recent alumni are earning advanced degrees at Rush University, the University of Illinois, and other leading schools. Others began
their careers immediately at highly respected medical centers. Over the course of your career, your Elmhurst experience will provide you with the capacity to move readily among nursing specialties and disciplines—including some that have yet to emerge.
For students 24 and up. A number of our nursing majors are adult learners, who come to class already well equipped with skills, knowledge, and experi-ence. Elmhurst gives credit where credit is due. You can earn up to 32 semester hours in elective credit for significant learning beyond the classroom. And you’ll work with an academic advisor to plan the most efficient way to earn your degree. Adult students may qualify for transfer scholarships of up to $18,000 per year; Phi Theta Kappa members may be eligible for an additional $2,000.
Elmhurst is coming to COD!Tuesday, October 25, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; outside the SRC 2800 (Student Resource Center)
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190 Prospect AvenueElmhurst, Illinois 60126
Major inNursing at ElmhurstYou’ll find the complete package. We o!er a personal, powerful education designed for tomorrow’s nurse—at one of the best liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. You’ll work side-by-side with professors who are not only great teachers but also scientists, healers, managers, and compassionate commu-nicators. You’ll gain exceptional clinical experience—along with the depth and breadth of a great liberal education. And on your first day on the job, you’ll be ready for outstanding service in an indispensable profession.
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A crowd filled the atrium ofthe Student Resource Center(SRC) on Wednesday and inthe middle of it all, over 25plain clothed dancers werelying in wait for their cue. At1:00pm, the space suddenlyfilled with the sounds ofdance music and whatseemed to be a random collec-tion of everyday people tookposition in front of the SRCand performed a synchro-nized dance routine. As themusic resonated down thehallways, students and fac-ulty lined the balconies over-looking campus central andflocked around the servicedesk to catch a glimpse of theaction. With a boisterous ap-plause from the crowd, thedancers quickly disappearedback into the hustle and bus-tle of the student body. TheSpirit Team, COD’s cheersquad took the floor and per-formed three short routinesfor their audience.
The event was put togethertwo weeks ago, according toDance Leader KatherineSkleba, when Student BodyVice President Kathleen Vega
approached the dancers withthe idea of putting together aflash mob-style performancein honor of Spirit Week.Headed by the college’s ownSpirit Team, participants putthe choreography together ina short amount of time withonly three practices beforeshow time.
Pyschology major/danceminor Dee Paye found outabout the flash mob throughher Jazz I class. Captain of herhigh school’s Step Team, Payejumped at the opportunity tobe a part of the performance.Even with the little time topractice, Paye said “The SpiritTeam and the Dance Team re-ally came together to makethis happen!”
Dance Central: Flash mob takes over Campus Central
By Chris JohnsonPhoto Editor
Above: DeePaye standsfront and cen-ter in thecrowd ofdancers.
Left: TheSpirit Teamand the flash-mob displaytheir skills inthe StudentResourceCenter.
Below: Theflashmob fin-ishes up theirperformanceto a standingovation
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October 21, 2011 • COURIER 17
SPORTS
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District tourney begins
Team Record Team RecordMen’s Soccer Women’s Soccer
Region IV Standings
he Region IV tournamentdetermines which teams ad-vance to nationals. Oaktonand Morton both pose a
threat for both of our men’s team duetheir high ranking and constant successin the regular season.
The Chaps enter regionals with a 10-9-1 record for the men’s team, and 10-5-0 record for the women’s team.
The Chaps need to keep a steadypace, play up to their tempo and focuson scoring effectively while holding atight defense in order to be successful inregionals. The Lady Chaps need tofocus on controlling the amount ofgoals scored and holding a stronger de-fense to have success in regionals.
The Chaps play their first regionalgame Sat. 22, and the Lady Chaps playtheir next regional game Tues. 25.
Region IV standings collected asof Oct. 20
T
he men’s soccerteam swept over theTruman College Fal-cons last Saturday in
a tale of two halves. TheChaps shutdown the Falcons,sealing the deal with fiveunanswered points in the sec-ond half.
Chaps keeper Adrian Por-cayo commanded the teamfrom the goal, barking out or-ders and plays to spark mo-mentum in a slow first half.Both teams struggled to capi-talize on offense as the re-mainder of the first half wentback and forth.
After a scoreless 45 minutes,the Chaps came back to thefield strong, upping thetempo and intensity of thegame. Nearly 20 minutes intothe second half, Chaps for-ward Sergio Realegeno wasable to blast the ball over thethreshold of the goal to putthe Chaps ahead 1-0.
Shortly after, Realegenostruck again by leaping overthe Falcons goalie who wassliding through the grass at-tempting to save the ball.Realegeno was able to pop theball in increasing the Chapslead, 2-0.
During the second half ofthe game, the Chaps broughtthe pressure up, especiallywith Realegeno topping off
his hat trick with a thirdstraight goal. Not even fiveminutes after Realegenoadded to the Chaps scoringdrive, Robby Gundersonpounded the ball to the backof the net after being set up bymidfielder Alex Safford.
Strikers Greg Effiom andJosh Bennett tag teamed theFalcons keeper as Effiom setup a cross-net kick to Bennett,who proceeded to boot theball in to cap off the Chapsfive unanswered points.
The Chaps dominated thesecond half of the game, win-ning 5-0 as they head into Re-gionals. This was also the firstgame with head coach JimKelly on the bench. Kelly hasbeen absent for over a monthdue to a serious illness.
Kelly left with five minutesleft in the game, and was es-corted to the parking lot.
“We came out strong an wewere patient, even when weweren’t scoring. In the end wegot the result we were lookingfor,” midfielder Adolfo Penasaid.
Patience was demonstratedthroughout the first half asboth the Chaps and the Fal-cons were not able to makeanything happen, leading to ascoreless beginning.
“I thought we played wellunder the situation, under theconditions. We’ll do every-thing we can to get preparedfor regional’s,” assistant coachWilliam Fajkus said.
The Chaps will play the Re-gion IV quarter final at homeon Saturday at 12p.m. endingthe regular season with a 16-2-0 record and a 9-1-0 RegionIV record.
By Nick DavisonEditor in Chief
T
Photo by Chris JohnsonChaps forward Robert Gunderson moves the ball down field.
Photo by Chris JohnsonForward Greg Effiom sneeks one past the Falcons goal keeper for a goal at Saturday’s game.
Lady Chapscrushed byHeartland
The Lady Chaps were unable tomake anything happen last Tuesdayagainst the Heartland CommunityCollege Hawks, as they were shutout5-0.
The Hawks constantly pressured theChaps, dominating the field with atotal of 14 shots on goal.
A Hawk broke away from defenderswith the goal in sight, beating Chapsgoalie but missed by kicking too far tothe right side of the goal.
Plenty of the first half was played inthe Lady Chaps defensive zone, put-ting more heat on Chaps keeperKatherine McEvoy, who made manyquick and important saves. With
Shutout:
By Nick DavisonEditor in Chief
Chaps soartowardsRegionals with 5-0 win
see ‘soccer’ page 19
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Q: How long have youbeen playing soccer?
A: This is my third year.
Q: What is the most chal-lenging thing about soc-cer?
A: For me, one on onesbecause I’m a goalie.
Q: How do you preparefor a game?
A: Basic warmup. Lapsand stretching.
Q: Who inspires you?
A: My uncle, he was a fire-man and my high schoolcoach.
Q: What are your plansafter COD?
A: I plan on attendingLoyola for their paramedicprogram.
Q: What do you do in yourfree time?
A: Sleep a lot. Hang outwith freinds. I like to cookand draw.
Q: Who’s your favorite proathlete?
A: Brian Urlacher. DerekRose. Hope Solo.
Q: What is your least fa-vorite part of soccer?
A: Probably running. I’mnot really a running per-son.
Photo by Chris Johnson
Name: Katherine McEvoySport: SoccerMajor: Fire ScienceYear: SophomoreAge: 18Position: Goalie
SportsBriefsLaps with the Chaps -5k Run/WalkSaturday Oct. 22 at 2p.m.All are welcome to participate in the first annual laps with thechaps.
All funds raised willgo towards scholarships for CODstudents. $40 entry fee.
The event will beheld rain or shine.
FootballOct. 22 at 6 p.m.Come cheer on theChaps as we take onthe Joliet Wolves athome.
Men’s SoccerOct. 22 at 12 p.m.Support the Chaps inthe fight for regionalsat home
Women’s SoccerOct. 22 at 3:30 p.m.Root for the LadyChaps as the battleTrinity Christian JV athome
Women’s SoccerOct. 25 at 3 pmBack up our Women’sSoccer team as wecompete for regionalsat home.
October 21, 2011 • COURIER 19SPORTS
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plenty of speed and footworkfrom Hawk defender Macken-zie Olson, McEvoy had trou-ble keeping up. Olson poppedthe ball in the air, toward thegoal when McEvoy leapt intothe air just barley tapping theball away with her fingertips.
Hawk forward Rachel Mur-rill was able to put Heartlandahead 1-0. Murrill strode upthe field, evading Chap de-fenders and McEvoy to tapthe ball into an open net.Olson attacked soon aftersquaring off with McEvoy.
Olson pounded the ball twotimes, all stuffed by McEvoy,but the third time was thecharm as Olson was bootedover the top left corner and infor a goal.
Quickly enough, Heartlandwas 3-0 after Hawk forwardAlexis Fahlbeck broke awayfrom Chaps midfielders tosprint downfield.
Fahlbeck marched past de-fenders to take on McEvoy,blasting the ball in.
Fahlbeck struck againshortly after, receiving a passfrom midfielder Alecia Man-tei, again beating the McEvoyputting the Hawks up 4-0.The Hawks demonstratedplenty of communication be-tween teammates to help fa-cilitate a game plan.
Within the first five minutesof the second half, the Hawkscapped off their lead with afinal goal increasing their leadto 5-0. Throughout the half,the Hawks kept the game at ahigh tempo.
“Heartland’s a good team.The girls have definitely beenworking hard and are up tothe challenge,” head coachWilliam Fajkus said in regardsto the upcoming Region IVplayoff games.
In a truly heated game, ten-sions spilled over to after thegame had ended. A fighterupted during the handshak-ing by both teams where al-legedly a Hawk playerbumped into or pushed aLady Chap.
The bitterness was high dueto the Hawks relentless attackon the Lady Chaps, who hadno subs at the game playingdown two players the entirematch. Some of the Chaps feltHeartland exploited that.
The men’s football teambegan strutting out to thefield waiting for the game tobe over to begin their practice.
As the fight ensued, thefootball team roared in ap-proval and they hugged thesideline in excitement.
“It was a good game. Weplayed hard,” Chaps forwardAshley Honore said. Honorealso said that teammate andmidfielder Kierstyn Harring-ton punched Olson in the faceafter the game.
“Credit to me for getting thefirst punch,” Harrington said.
The Lady Chaps play theirfirst Regional game againstthe Triton College Trojans,who they have already beatentwice in the regular season, asthey face off again this Tues-day at 3 p.m.
The Lady Chaps are endingthe regular season with a loss,but also with a 10-5-0 record.
‘soccer’ from page 17
Midfielder Mar-lene Nevarezsquares off witha Heartland defender in anattempt to movethe ball downfield.
Photo by Chris Johnson
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