s the 10th anniver-sary of 9/11 ap-proaches, it seemsfitting that on Sept.1, the college in-

stalled a piece of steel fromthe 9/11 World Trade Centernear the auditorium inside itsnew Homeland Security Edu-cation Center.

“It’s a beam that supporteda portion of one of the floorsas there is still concrete on oneof the edges. This was a hori-zontal element that rested ontwo vertical pieces.” Projectmanager of the HEC, AleishaJaeger said. “It appears tohave fallen and a portion ofthis beam was exposed to ex-treme heat as the finish is dif-ferent on one side than theother.”

According to Jaeger, the col-lege submitted their requestto port authority for a piecefrom the World Trade Centera year ago, and received thepiece in June.

The college paid a little over$6,000 to have the ARS truck-ing company pick up thepiece, which took 4-5 days,according to Jaeger. Jaegersaid that, “the piece has beenin a shop having the supportswelded to it.”This is just one of the fea-

tures of the new building. Thebright blue, 65,000 square feetcenter’s biggest features in-clude a mock court room, aninteractive, as-real-as-it-getsstreet scene, smoke room, am-bulance simulator and practi-cal forensic and Internet crimeinvestigations labs.

The HEC is the only build-ing on campus that has land-scaping on both sides, 80 feetfrom the building, accordingto Jaeger. The HEC is alsohost to a command center thatJaeger considers as being, “onthe bleeding edge of technol-ogy,” explaining that, “Wehave things even some policedepartments don’t have.”The content in the building

was derived from the “ideasfrom the users themselves,”according to Jaeger.

She said that the coordina-tors for the programs in thebuilding formed committeesand wrote down everythingthey wanted, and thenworked with Project Manage-ment who worked it out withthe architect, Legat Architects,to make it happen.The center contains a 150

seat auditorium, named afterWilliam H. Bower who, ac-cording to American Inns ofCourt, served five years as aDuPage Country circuit courtjudge, later becoming a U.S.Attorney for the NorthernDistrict of Illinois.

The auditorium is completewith a judge’s bench, court re-porter desk, witness standand judge chambers. The firstquadrant seats of the audito-rium are moveable and can betransformed into a jury box,according to Jaeger, who alsosays the room is connectedwith audio/visual to thestreet scene.The new building is a com-

plete transformation fromwhere these programs werelocated before. DanielKrakora, EMS/Fire ScienceManager, said that the facilityin the M building was “a

basic general classroom thatwe adapted to fit our needs inteaching.”

The HEC allows for a break-through learning environ-ment for students in theCriminal Justice, Fire Sci-ence/EMS and Suburban LawEnforcement Academy pro-grams.

This is shown through thedevelopment of the “Immer-sive Street Scene.” The streetscene is a mock up town

where students are trained tohandle a variety of situationsthat can occur in their line ofwork.

The border of the scene con-tains actual classrooms with“moveable and collapsiblefurniture” that can be mor-phed into different scenarios,according to Jaeger.

The street scene also in-cludes Force on Force train-ing, a simulation that gives

Homeland Security Center staysrooted in history while launchinggroundbreaking facilityElise AndersonNews Editor

Photo by Chris JohnsonThe piece of steel from the World Trade Center now featured inthe Homeland Security Center. “The size of the piece is about9'11" long and weighs about 189 lbs if not more,” says Jaeger.

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Administration had set agoal to increase student re-tention, planning to reducestudent attrition rates, ac-cording to their Long RangeStrategic Plan for Fiscal Year2011-2013.The administration has rec-ognized that accountability isa main priority, saying in theplan, “An increased focus hasbeen, and will continue to beplaced on accountability em-phasizing retention, gradua-tion, and transfer rates forcommunity colleges.The administration catego-rizes student retention, keep-ing the students who enroll,as an internal weakness in aSWOTAnalysis featured inthe plan.The continued emphasis onincreasing retention is sup-ported by the college’s envi-ronmental analysis of“Colleges that can demon-strate accountability throughadequate retention, gradua-tion, and transfer rates aswell as on other importantstudent outcomes will have acompetitive advantage overthose who cannot.”According to a press releasefrom October 2010 by NewsBureau Coordinator, RobynJohnson, the college wasawarded $864,106 by the Illi-nois Community College

Board, through the FY 2011Student Success grant pro-gram. A portion of that grantmoney is to go towards in-creasing student retention,according to the press re-lease.“This grant will have a pro-found impact on what theCollege can do now and inthe future to promote studentsuccess and retention,”Glenda Galisath, associatevice president for AcademicAffairs said in a press release.Improving student successwas listed as a goal for thefiscal year 2011-2013. Theplan states that the collegeseeks to “implement a com-prehensive approach to im-prove student retention witha focus on at-risk and under-represented students” toachieve this goal.One way the college hopesto improve retention isthrough Blackboard’s EarlyAlert Warning System. Thecollege’s Annual Plan: Objec-tives for 2010-2011 includesthis system in a strategy forits “student retention initia-tive.”Counselor Michael Duggandescribes Early Alert as anonline communication sys-tem through which facultymembers can notify coun-selors if they are concernedwith particular students. Ac-cording to Duggan, the con-cern can range from a

student needing tutoringservices to more serious is-sues.Warnings can be gener-

ated based on grade perform-ance, late or missing work, orattendance within an onlinecourse, according to Black-board’s website. Another fea-ture of this system is thatfaculty can pull up their classroster and select a studentwithout inputting their stu-dent ID, Duggan said.Early Alert has already beenin use this term. Dugganclaims, “It’s off to a goodstart,” but believes that moretraining is needed.

Last Friday, September 2nd,the Courier sat down withStudent Leadership CouncilPresident, Justin LeMay, todiscuss SLC’s agenda for theacademic year.LeMay assures that SLC isdoing what they can to fullycommit themselves to theirrole as, what SLC refers tobeing, “the student voice”.LeMay, who was elected Stu-dent Body President inMarch, said he is enjoying hisposition.“It is exciting to see theinner workings of COD, butdaunting at the same time.”LeMay said.According to LeMay, thisyear SLC will be focusingtheir attention to the follow-ing areas: higher education;sustainability: talking to ad-ministration on how COD canbecome more sustainable;election committees: whereSLC is still unclear on whatthey will be doing; service:getting involved with serviceorganizations; and outreach:getting more students in-volved in activities.As the “student voice,”LeMay assures that SLC willbe “focusing on issues that areaffecting students.”SLC has already had agroup of issues brought totheir attention. Some of theseissues include: food service:

creation of a food meal planor food credit; e-books: a vi-able option to avoid text-books, but too expensive andCafé-Scribe doesn’t have theright textbooks, according tostudents; a lack of food op-tions for vegan students; andparking.LeMay speaks about a big-

ger issue: Illinois MAPGrants, a state grant thatgives aid to students in need.“The Illinois MonetaryAward Program Grant isavailable from the StudentAssistance Commission to Illi-nois residents, undergraduatestudents at an Illinois collegewho are enrolled in at leastthree credit hours,” accordingto COD’s Financial Aid web-site.

“They are trying to cutthem, but SLC is fighting tokeep them as they are,”LeMay said. “Our hope is toreach out to make them awareof student issues.” SLC trav-eled to Springfield last Aprilto lobby for the MAP grants.They plan to talk to Illinoisrepresentatives again.“Our main objective thisyear is to create a forum forcollaboration between studentorganizations and clubs,”LeMay said. LeMay believesthat, right now studentgroups are “scattered out.”SLC hopes that the Colle-giate Council meetings, whichrecently held its first meetingon August 30th, will solve thisissue.LeMay describes the

monthly council as an oppor-tunity “where all heads of or-ganizations on campus meetto find areas of connectivityand collaboration.”Right now, LeMay is con-

cerned with accumulating de-voted members of SLC. “Weare concerned with building acommitted base of studentswho can find their niche inSLC and go full forward withit,” LeMay said. According toLeMay, SLC got “lots of goodbuzz” at the Student Involve-ment Fair on August 31st. Thecouncil received interest from50 students, LeMay reports.When the Courier asked

about his personal hope forSLC, LeMay paused and said,“We want to be an organiza-tion COD will have forever,and truly be the ‘StudentVoice’, something I feel ismissing right now.”...”Stu-dents can expect SLC to listento their issues and find theright avenue to help solvetheir issue in a timely man-ner.”Faculty adviser ChuckSteele, who is on his thirdyear advising the organiza-tion, has high hopes for thisyear’s SLC.“We feel if we can help thestudents understand how toapply the skills and theory ofleadership into their workwith Student LeadershipCouncil, they will be able tocontinue to apply them intheir future endeavors.”

Steele said. “The StudentLeadership Council officersreally set their own goals forthe year. It’s my job to helpsupport and facilitate them.”SLC hosted its first general

meeting September 6th,where they voted in their newOperations Manager BrendanMcCormack, who says, “It’s areal pleasure to be able to beproductive in getting in-volved in campus.” However,the main agenda for the meet-ing, according to LeMay, wasdeveloping student commit-tees.SLC returned to their nor-mal structure of having twoco-advisers when FelipeArmas joined as co-adviser atthe beginning of this Fall se-mester. Armas, has been afull-time psychology profes-sor at the college for the pastseven years.He tells the Courier the rea-son he was interested in theposition. “I think it is a greatopportunity to continue learn-ing about the College, the stu-dents and from Chuck, and atthe same time contribute to-ward aspects of the students’education outside the class-room.”Also coming up is SpiritWeek, October 17th-21st,where LeMay says SLC willbe “collaborating with pro-gram board, and promotingother organizations to haveevents that week as well.”

SLC President Justin LeMayPhoto by Chris Johnson

Counselor Michael DugganPhoto by Chris Johnson

“We want to be anorganization CODwill have forever,and truly be the‘Student Voice’something I feel ismissing right now.”

JUSTIN LEMAY,SLC PRESIDENT

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SLC focuses on student concerns, cohesion

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the true experience of what itis like to be under fire whilein a safe training environ-ment. Jaeger said that theForce on Force experience wasvery expensive, costing over$1 million.The street scene is suppliedwith expensive high techaudio/visual to simulate mul-tiple scenarios including;blackouts, shoot outs, fire res-cues and crime scenes.There is a smoke room, withtheatrical smoke created byvegetable oil, on the secondlevel of the scene, where firescience students are trained todo search and rescue mis-sions, according to Krakora.The smoke room also hasmoveable furniture and wallpanels that allow instructorsto change the layout of aroom so trainees never get fa-miliar with the room wherethey are being tested.Inside the smoke room is“the Stair of death,” whichgot its name because it pres-ents the true feel of the poten-tial danger that studentscould be shot at from above.There is also a catwalk onthe top level above the street

scene so that students canpractice being under a sniperattack and rescuing peoplefrom second story windows.The street scene brings to lifewhat students were instructedto imagine before.Another piece inside theHEC, is the Command Center.The Command Center haseight giant picture screens,similar to a Chicago Com-mand Center, with lots ofhigh tech audio/visual, ac-cording to Jaeger.“It was designed to act as abackup command center forDuPage County,” Jaeger said.There is also an $800,000 matroom used for SLEA’s “redmen exercises! and hand tohand combat, along withFire Science training.The building hosts a foren-sics lab, where Criminal Jus-tice students practiceevidence processing, finger-printing, and blood work, ac-cording to Jaeger.Jaeger said that students can“analyze everything exceptcadavers” in the lab. There isalso an Internet Crime Inves-tigations lab, which Jaegerbelieves, is unlike the regular

computer labs on campus be-cause the computers are on aseparate server and have spe-cial IP addresses.According to Jaeger, there isa possibility that studentscould catch real criminalsthrough their work in the In-ternet Crime Lab.Despite Police Dispatch stillbeing located inside the maincampus building, Jaeger saidthat the Police DepartmentHeadquarters are now in theHEC, using radio to commu-nicate with Dispatch. Theheadquarters “have juvenileand adult detention cells anda sally port for dangerouscriminals,” Jaeger said.Jaeger recalls that the mostchallenging aspect of the HECdevelopment, was “figuringout the details of the streetscene parts andpieces”...needed to “get userstangible things they need toteach.”Jaeger believes that the newbuilding has transformed theway the programs interactwith one another and helpprovide a collaborative train-ing environment.

‘HEC’ from page 1

Fire Science speaks about HECThere is a theme when talk-ing to the coordinators of pro-grams featured in the HEC:imagination. Each coordinatorrelayed that what they can doin the new building is trulyonly limited by their imagina-tion.EMS/Fire Science Manager,

Daniel Krakora and Fire Sci-ence instructor Tim Caldwellconveyed to the Courier, thatthey can give students a real-life experience compared towhen they “could only talkabout before or show picturesof” situations. With a real-lifeambulance, donated by theCarol Stream Fire Depart-ment, they say they can “givethe students the true feel ofwhat it’s like to work in theback of an ambulance.” Theysay that they will shortly beable to push the ambulanceout onto the street scene with

all the equipment. Krakorasays that students are testedon their ability to take pa-tients in and out of the ambu-lance, one of the 82 practicalskills, Caldwell says, EMS

students are required to learnbefore going for certification.The Stair of Death” is an-

other feature the Fire Sciencehas to work with now, thatwas missing in the M build-ing. Working with staircaseswill be something that thestudents need to learn as thejob calls for rescues in secondstory buildings. The “Stair ofDeath” is located in the midstof the Tactical Smoke Room.Caldwell claims that thesmoke room makes it so “youwon’t see your hand in thefront of your face.” The streetscene, Caldwell says, gives in-structors the ability “controltheir environment” whereasbefore their plans were sub-ject to the weather.Students also receive train-

ing for repelling off a build-ing. The center provides afour story structure wherestudents can practice this

Photo by Chris Johnson

Below: Ambulance donated from Carol Stream Fire Department, Top Left:”Stair of Death” that studentsmust use to learn how to perform fire rescue in multiple story buildings, Bottom Right: Immersive StreetScene where all programs provide a real life feel of situations, giving them practical experience in differentscenarios. The border of the street is real classrooms that can be morphed into different layouts for train-ing.

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150 seat auditorium/mock court room where students can par-ticipate in court proceedings.

Photo by Chris Johnson

see ‘Fire Science’ page 5

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Associate Professor/Coordi-nator for Criminal Justice,Theodore Darden, says “Wehad a big part in planning thebuilding, we had a vision ofwhat it would do for studentinstruction.” He tells theCourier that the new buildingallows them to “bring a prac-tical aspect to theory we areteaching in class,” which Dar-den says, will improve the

student’s ability to retain in-formation. Prior to the newbuilding, instructors couldonly lecture, but now “in-structors need to adapt lec-tures to be able to create apractical experience for stu-dents.”

Darden tells the Courierabout how the new featureshave improved the CriminalJustice Program. He first talksabout the Forensics Sciencelab, that allowed for the cre-ation of the Forensics Scienceprogram, where students can

gain lab experience. Dardensays that the Mock Court isuseful to Criminal Justice,where they “can now partici-pate and show how a courtroom operates from a practi-cal experience.” He refers tothe Command Center, wherehe says students learn emer-gency planning, intelligencedevelopment, informationsharing, and homeland secu-rity, saying that, “most emer-gency personnel would love

“Prior to this facility wewere forced to find things thatsomewhat represented theurban environment we policein,” SLEA Director Bill Lawlersaid. He tells the Courierabout the difficulty they facedbefore in “trying to put thingsin the right proportions”when simulating scenarios.

Now, he says that they “willbe able to totally replicate theenvironment”, but more im-portant he claims is the move-able walls and partitions thatthey can use to redesign sotraining is unfamiliar, “keep-ing training routine fresh”. Hesays that they will getting

Criminal Justice speaks about HECInside the crime lab

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Elise AndersonNews Editor

The Forensics Science Lab, which allowed for the creation of the new Forensics Science Pro-gram, something that the college was unable to offer in the previous facility.

Photo by Chris Johnson

SLEA director feels new buildingoffers ‘life and death’ scenarios

“The forceon force gearprovides fortrue tactical

realism.”BILL LAWLERDIRECTOR OF SLEA

see ‘SLEA’ page 5

Photo by Chris JohnsonIn the Crime Investigations Lab, students are using the latesttechnology to gain practical experience in evidence processing.

see ‘Crime Lab’ page 5

something like this.” Finally,he talks about the street scene,and how it allows them to“actually use space to showstudents situations involvingpolice.”

He says that they are “onlyscratching the surface,” say-ing that “instructors will haveto maximize their lectures togive the maximum experiencefor students.” Darden says

that, “students will take awaysomething more valuablethen what we could ever tellthem.”

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‘crime lab’ from page 4

‘Fire Science’ from page 3skill, starting off repellingfrom two stories whichKrakora says helps students“build their confidence” firstbefore attempting from thetop. Krakora shows theCourier that there are holeson the ceiling for each story,to simulate falling through asewer. He explains that train-ing involves teaching stu-dents how to get down thehold with their equipment,assess the injured person atthe bottom, packaging themup in the confined space ofthe hole, ad getting them backup with all their equipment.Caldwell tells the Courier that

the college is working to-wards having everything thatis offered at the University ofIllinois, where the studentsused to travel overnight totrain in their facility. In thisfour story structure, studentsare trained how to bringhoses up a stairway, accord-ing to Caldwell, who saysthey are “giving them a facil-ity where they can practice.”

Krakora and Caldwell alsospeak about the incrediblelearning environment that theHEC offers students in termsof allowing them to learnfrom their mistakes. There are29 cameras dispersed in the

street scene, stairwells, andthe rooms, according toKrakora. These camerasrecord student activity duringtheir training, In dark condi-tions, there are sensors thatKrakora says are “accuratewithin 18 inches,” that trackthe movements of the track-ing chips that students carryin their pockets. After thetraining, instructors can bringstudents in the BreakoutRoom, with large screens,where they can break downthe training exercise, showingthe students what they didright and wrong.

props for the room layouts sothat the training environmentis through real living spacesin real homes. He says thatstudents “will have the besttraining environment possi-ble.”

Lawler speaks about theForce on Force training nowavailable in the street scene.“Officers can train with realweapons with blank ammo inlive action scenarios to make

life and death decisions, thiswill include the ability to re-view if the laser rounds thatwere fired hit the correct tar-gets and the roll player of-fenders can also laser fire atthe police officers. The forceon force gear provides fortrue tactical realism.”

Lawler raves about the the-atrical lighting that is used forthe street scene, saying that itis “the key to the whole deal,”

as the “ability to control light-ing is integral.” He explainsthat students must runthrough scenarios in daytime,but then also be able to runthe same scenario in the dark.The scenarios could rangefrom armed suspects to a bur-glary in progress. Lawler saysthat the scenarios are basedoff the situations thatChicagoland Police officersencounter.

‘SLEA’ from page 4

Hit and run

Unit two parked his vehiclein Fawell lot 6 around noon.When unit two returned at 2p.m. he found that his vehiclehad been in the right rearfender.

The driver of unit one statedhe was backing into the park-ing space in Fawell 6 andstruck unit two with his rightrear fender of his vehicle.

Hit and runUnit one was parked in

parking lot B. As unit one wasmaneuvering out of the park-ing space.

Unit two took a tight rightturn and struck unit two. As aresult of the incident, the rearfender of unit two was com-pletely torn off.

Damage over $1500 wasdone due to the accident.

Accident

The driver of unit one statedshe had turned right fromPrairie Road onto TallgrassRoad.

She dropped her cell phoneand while attempting to re-trieve it, she jumped the rightcurb and struck a tree. Unitone grasped the wheel, over-

compensating turning left.She attempted to brake, but

instead stepped on the gaspedal, driving across all lanesof traffic.

Consequently, unit one thenjumped the south curb andstruck another tree and cameto a stop. Unit one sustainedundercarriage damage andheavy front end damage.

Unit one’s vehicle was latertowed, with over $1500 worthof damage being done.

Collision

The driver of unit one statedthat while backing out of aparking spot, she struck the

right rear corner of unit two’sbumper.

The reporting officer ob-served small scratches on thepaint on the right bumper ofunit two.

CollisionThe driver of unit one stated

that she was making a leftturn into parking lot college 6.

Unit one didn’t see unit twowas driving down the isle andstruck the driver’s side doorwith her right front corner ofher bumper, while attemptingto turn into the lot.

Unit one said it was difficultto see the cars coming downthe isle due to all of the carsparked on the end of the

parking isle.

Collision

The driver of unit one statedthat he was making a righthand turn into Fawell lot C.

While turning right, unitone thought he was pressingthe brake, but pushed on theaccelerator and struck unittwo in the left front corner ofhis bumper.

Burglary

On Monday, August 29, re-porting officer was ap-proached and advised by

complainant that a computermonitor had been removedfrom BIC 1516 sometime be-tween 8/26/11 and 8/29/11.

The complainant went toBIC 1516 after receiving aphone call stating a monitorwas missing.

Complainant observed afrayed monitor cord, a de-tached lock and cable and asecurity screw used to anchorthe monitor pulled from theback of the monitor.

Reporting officer went toBIC 1516 and observed thecomputer desk where themonitor was housed. The offi-cer noticed everything ob-served by complainant.

The monitor was valued at$197.

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PointCounterPointhere is no questionthat there are thou-sands of Lybians suf-

fering all around the region atthis very moment.

According to the United Na-tions, thousands have mettheir end in the uprising inSyria which has yet to see theUnited Nations or NATO in-tervention let alone actions di-rectly from the United Statesgovernment. AUnited Nation’sstatistic states theconflict in Southern Sudan hasclaimed nearly 2000 lives thisyear alone, let alone the hun-dreds of thousands of dis-placed or starved to deathwith again very limited UnitedStates help.

If the United States wantedto, they could not keep the en-tire world free of human suf-fering.

There’s no cost you can puton human rights, but the real-

ity is that wars fought to se-cure these rights are paid forin the blood of the individualswho wage them.

With the economy strained,wars are fiscally unsustain-able, that to begin carrying outmilitary operations in anotherregion of the Middle Eastseems ludicrous.

The United States has a longhistory of meddling in interna-

tional matters. TheCIA supported anti-Soviet forces when the

USSR was invadingAfghanistan in the 80’s. Theseforces went on to build thequagmire that is modernAfghanistan.

The United States has nobusiness in policing the world,this is the role of the UnitedNations and NATO, who arecurrently implementing a no-fly zone over Lybia effectivelypreventing airstrikes on therebels and innocent civilians.

he United Statesshould do whatever ithas the capability to

do when humans are suffer-ing. Libya is war-torn after theprotests and massacres.

They will need help to re-build their nation and tomaintain peace during this pe-riod of time.

The United States providedaid to Haiti after the massiveearthquake shattered thecountry, as we havealways extendedour arm to help other coun-tries in turmoil due to the cir-cumstances facing them.

According to CNN, theUnited States involvement inLibya has cost $896 millionthrough July 31st, $6.6 millioneach day, and if continued, thetotal would be $1.5 billion byAugust 23, 2011.

However, when has coststopped us from savinghuman lives? According to areport by the Congressional

Research Service, of the $1.283trillion that Congress has allo-cated to war costs, the war inIraq is estimated to receive$806 billion, and the war inAfghanistan is estimated tocost $444 billion.

The United States has al-ready accumulated over $14trillion, so we arealready in huge debt. Our in-volvement in Libya is a tinyfraction compared

to the debt we!ve in-curred elsewhere.

How many more wouldhave died in the Holocaust,had the United States notstepped in?

This is the question we mustask. Despite the desire wehave to remain isolated and tofocus on the crisis in our owncountry, we cannot rule outthe idea of providing assis-tance where it is desperatelyneeded, simply because of ourdesire to not interfere in othercountries.

Should the United States be involved in the conflict in Lybia?

Yes

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Marta Brandoniseo, 33dental hygiene“I do not know who RobertBreuder is.”

Viki Kirkus, 19art major

“No, I have no ideawho Robert Breuderis.”Jesse Fitzpatrick,

19science associates“I do not know whoRobert Breuder is.”

With a new academic year un-derway, Student LeadershipCouncil has already begun mov-ing forward with their agenda tobetter unite student life and be“the student’s voice.” Nowwhat’s left is execution.

SLC President Justin LeMayhopes to create a collaborativeenvironment where studentorganizations and clubs cancommunicate in an openforum. This year’s SLCbrought back CollegiateCouncil meetings for studentleaders and representatives ofclubs and organizations tomeet and discuss service op-portunities and give updatesabout their group. It reverseda two-year trend where stu-dent leadership showed itdidn’t believe in a need forstudent club representation.

SLC also has had success inappealing to the student bodyby obtaining interest from 50students at last week’s Stu-dent Involvement Fair. Ithosted a four-hour open

house during Chaparral Daysto meet potentially interestedstudents and gather theircomplaints and issues withthe college.

In the SLC office, a whiteboard offers students amedium to write down thepressing issues affecting themaround campus. LeMay saidthat students can expect SLCto help solve their is-sues around campusin a timely fashion.It’s good to see SLC ischanging the fabric oftheir operation this year, withthe addition of the bi-weeklyCollegiate Council meetingsto promote connectivity andunity among the studentclubs and organizations.

SLC’s recent involvement incampus-wide events and studentadvocating has been refreshing.

Monthly Town Halls on theSLC calendar, and a distinctrotation between regular SLCmeetings and CollegiateCouncil meetings can be pro-

ductive, but just unifying stu-dent leaders is not enough.SLC is genuinely trying toconnect with the student bodyby generating a decentturnout at the Student In-volvement Fair and at theiropen house.However, their mission needsto improve.

SLC’s vision for the future,found on the SLCwebsite, is somethingthat needs to beadopted, not ideallytalked about. It needs

to be executed.Their vision states that SLC

will “aid in the individual andcollective development of Col-lege of DuPage students by col-laborating with the collegecommunity and by providingeducated representation, serv-ice and leadership to the Stu-dent Body.”

LeMay and the rest of SLC or-ganized a front to get studentleaders in a room talking, gener-ated student interest in SLC, and

prepared a calendar with manydiverse meetings. However, itshould also focus on setting upmeetings with President RobertBreuder and his administrators togive an additional viewpointalongside student surveys, so hecan accurately assess and addressstudent interests and needs.

SLC officers and memberswill be more successful attheir goals this year whenthey take the initiative to rep-resent students by sitting on avariety of committees, servicethe students by making suretheir concerns are heard bycollege administrators, andlead the student body to a bet-ter position where studentscan see significant change.

SLC organized student lead-ers and are open to the stu-dent body’s concerns. Nowit’s time to execute. It shouldtake students’ ideas and bringthem to the administration.It’s time to get the ball rollingon helping students feel likethe college cares about them.

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Dan Messina, 20undecidedNo, I do not know whoRobert Breuder is.”

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I would like to start by say-ing how much I look forwardto your Friday publications. Iknow how much work you allput in! I would like to saythough, how disappointed Iwas to see such an unprofes-sional article in the Opinioncolumn last week.

I can only imagine how dif-ficult the first issue is to fillwith newsworthy topics, butthis was pathetically desper-ate.

Obviously, Mr. Shanker haspersonal issues with Dr.Breuder’s leadership, butShanker wrongly extendedhis disgust to the entire staff(excluding Cathy, of course)and the student population.To publish this in the first

issue is poor taste on yourpart.

I’m not saying to sugarcoateverything – that would de-feat the purpose of journal-ism. But I have alwaysrespected the Courier’s class(minus this incident).

Second, in Dr. Breuder’s de-fense, he has personally satdown with all my student or-ganizations and I have eveninterviewed him in his office,so maybe it’s not the fact hedoesn’t care about students’opinions, maybe he doesn’tcare for Shanker’s petty atti-tude.

Now, I would like to pointout that I do have similar dis-approving opinions. Why areour $8,000 trees dying in thefirst year? What’s with thenew, ugly carpet everywhere?

Is our $150.000 water bill re-ally necessary?

I might be the proudest Col-lege of DuPage student youwill find. If I had my way, theterm “College of Dreams”wouldn’t be a slam. Instead, itwould be sold on bumperstickers in the bookstore!

So many students would beunable to get a college degreewithout community colleges,and COD’s national accredita-tion makes us the Harvard ofcommunity colleges! I amgoing to be the most preparedfor my career in secondaryeducation thanks to the awe-some professors and studentshere.

Shanker doesn’t deserve tobe spotlighted anymore butnow I direct my final words tohim: what kind of journalist

do you aim to be? Your wordsdid not save Cathy’s job, nordid it hurt Dr. Breuder’s feel-ings or reputation, becauseany meaningful movementfor change or awareness wasovershadowed by your un-professionalism.

Your work did, however,highlight what a PulitzerPrize recipient would notwrite.

Words of advice – continu-ing with such work will morethan likely land you a gig at apublication entitled “TheCynical” than at a podium.

Wishing everyone a greatyear!

Kasie-Marie SmithCOD student

DearEditor,Former editor’s letter ‘unprofessional’

I want to start by compli-menting COD on the wonder-ful new CHC & HECbuildings. We can all beproud of the growth andbeauty of our campus.

What I continue to be con-cerned about is the lack ofquiet study space availablefor students.

One of the great charms ofthe “Old BIC” was the studynooks that were scattered oneach floor.

On my quick walk-through,

it appears they are lost in theremodeling.

When the HSC buildingopened two years ago, I wroteto The Courier and expressedmy concern for the layout ofthe tiny rooms that wereavailable for quiet study andhoped that would be consid-ered in the construction of theCHC & HEC buildings.

Unfortunately, it appearsthey have no nooks, only loudnoisy common areas.

Adding to the problem, ourlibrary closes at 10 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. and has shameful

hours Fri.-Sun. where mostsurrounding college librariesclose at midnight or laterseven days a week.

The college needs to takesteps to provide more qualityspaces for students to quietlystudy that are scatteredthroughout the campus, in-crease library hours, and ideallyprovide a 24-hour space desig-nated to quiet study only.

Harold (Corey) GrubbAssociate Degree in NursingClass of 2012

DearEditor,Campus needs more study space

COURIER • September 9, 20118

FEATURESFEATURES

New eateries sizzle at CHC

MMSSAAMMSSAA ::he Muslim Student As-sociation (MSA) tries

to create an environmentwhere their organization isgrounded on education.

“It spreads the beauty ofIslam,” said AbdulAziz Syed,MSA president.

The MSA is a club for stu-dents that offers engaging ac-tivities. “Our goal is tospread education about Islamwhether you are Muslim ornot.We try to provide serv-ices for them on campus.”

The MSA holds fellowshipevents such as a hot choco-late social and a basketballtournament because “itbonds people together,” Syedsaid.

They have also host ‘For-gotten Week,’ which is aweek devoted to all neg-lected people with disabili-ties and victims of domesticviolence.

The MSA has also heldevents for Black HistoryMonth and a week longchain of events exploring thenegative impressions held bymany toward the Islamicfaith. The event, ‘Misconcep-tions of Islam,’ spans fivedays and has a variety ofguest speakers

During the Islamic holymonth of Ramadan, the MSAthey hosts a dinner for thosewho are fasting. During theholiday, they passed outgoodie bags and held a bakesale for Pakistan.“It has been a little challeng-

ing getting active membersand having structure withinthe group,” Syed said. ”Ihope to educate the commu-nity about Islam, bond thecommunity and serve themin the best possible way.”

“We are not discriminatedagainst here at COD, it’s agood community, it alsoshows we’re not doing any-thing when we’re discrimi-nated against,” Syed said.

With a new prayer room,Syed feels that he can startworking harder on achievingall he can with the MSA.

“Student Life is working ongetting us a room for ourmeetings. The new prayerroom will give Muslins a rea-son to get together,” Syedsaid.

Syed tries to break the iceand answer any questionswhen conducting MSA meet-ings. Syed does this by wear-ing Shlwar Kamees everyFriday, a traditional Pakistanior Indian clothing.

Syed is not only presidentof MSA, but also holds a parttime job with the Records de-partment at the college in ad-dition to being a full timestudent.

Syed plans on making afew changes with the MSAby adding more structure,stability and organization.

“MSA has been a little dif-ferent this year with mespearheading it.” Syed said.“Every leader has differentgoals.”

By Noor SayouryFeatures Editor

The new $27 million Culinary andHospitality Center officially openedwith a wealth of new restaurants onthe way such as the Waterleaf, theCulinary Market, and the Wheat Café.

The Wheat Café is a student-runrestaurant where students are able tocook, wait and serve others in a realis-tic setting. The café serves regionalAmerican cuisine, where studentsmake the food as a part of their class.The wheat café opened Wednesday.

Waterleaf is meant to be a fine din-ing restaurant serving internationalcuisine every Tuesday and Wednes-day night. A dress code will be imple-mented for guests dining at Waterleaf.

There will be classic French cuisineoffered on select Wednesday nights.Even though students will work at theWaterleaf restaurant, Executive ChefJean-Louis Clerc will head the kitchenwhile the students are in class. There

will also be international and classicalcuisines on Tuesday and Wednesdaynights. Reservations are required forguests who wish to dine at Waterleafand can be made at opentable.com.

The French cuisine menu vary fromsalads to different selections of meat.

The Wheat Café is a casual diningrestaurant, with the capacity to seat 60people. It serves American cuisine.

The Culinary Market is run com-pletely by students. Students makethe food and sell it, with the menu tovarying depending on what the stu-dents are making.

Christopher Thielman, coordinatorof culinary and hospitality manage-ment, hopes that Waterleaf will hostvisiting guest chefs and the CulinaryMarket to have higher demand.

The revenue earned from theserestaurants all goes to the expensesthat are needed for the food, packag-ing and and any other expense.

‘’The students have the ability to geta real life experience,”Thielman said.

They not only have experience cook-ing meals but also have experiencemaking desserts, with the new choco-late room. With almost doubleamount of space they had from

before.” Thielman has high hopes for the

resturaunts.

Noor SayouryFeatures Editor

“Our goal isto spread education

about Islamwhether youare Muslim

or not.”ABDULAZIZ SYED,

MSA PRESIDENT

The Muslim Student Association (MSA) holds its weekly meetings Wed. from 1 to 2 p.m.in SSC 3247. For more information, visit the group’s Facebook page, “College of DuPage

Muslim Student Assocation (COD MSA).”

Photo by Chris Johnson

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MSA President AbdulAziz Syeddirects the weekly meeting heldin SSC 3247

Muslim Student Associationwelcomes new prayer room

The Waterleaf fine dining restaurant draws a crowd in it’s opening days.

September 9, 2011 • COURIER 9

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More than 120 internationalstudents from over 20 differ-ent countries are currently en-rolled at COD.

With affordable tuition anda wide variety of programs tostudy, community collegesare becoming more commonfor foreign students.

AbdulAziz Syed came tothe US in 2009 from Riyadh,Saudi Arabia for a better edu-cation.

“I came to COD because itwas cheaper and I wanted toget acquainted with the cul-ture,” Syed said.

“Life in America is morefast paced between work andschool. There is a lot more di-versity in Chicago than inRiyadh,” Syed said. ”Thereare some challenges I facedlike having multiple responsi-bilities.’’

These responsibilities in-clude being a full-time stu-dent, club organizer, workingpart time at the Records officeand helping out at home

Schools were vastly differ-ent in Saudi Arabia, accord-ing to Syed teachers did nothave as much credentials but

tried their best to teach asbest as they could.’’ Syedsaid. ‘’Students were alsoseen very differently. Theywere seen as someone whocould achieve more if theyput in the effort.”

“I hoped to educate myselfabout Islam more and answerthe accusations that werethrown on it,” Syed said. ”Myother goal was to educatepeople about the importanceof having a sound family fora sound society.”

Ayah Ramahi arrived in theUS last October fromAmman, a city in Jordan.

Even though Ramahi grewup in Jordan, she graduatedhigh school in the US.Ramahi has hopes of becom-ing a dentist and is studyingat the college to achieve hereducational and career pur-suits.

Ramahi came to America toget a better education andgraduate from an Americanuniversity.

“I had some difficultiesadapting to the school andcommunity in general,”Ramahi said. “Findingfriends wasn’t that hard be-cause I am a social person.”

According to Rahami, the

educational system variesquite a bit in Jordan, whereteachers come to the school,give lectures and then leave.

Rahami feels that in herhome country there is a lackof interactive learning.Ramahi hopes to strengthenher English and learn how tobetter interact with Ameri-cans while studying here.

People are more seriousabout school here, people inJordan don’t respect workand schools,” Ramahi said,”People are treated unequally

in Jordan.”Rahami believes that COD

is better than most of the pri-vate schools in Jordan andthat studying in America is agreat honor.

Neveen Manasra went tohigh school in Jordan, andhad a different experiencefrom people who lived theretheir whole life.

She came back in Septemberof 2010 and went to a publicschool for the first time in herlife.

”I had to try to adjust to

everything in public schooland it was my senior year.’’The education system isBritish and it was very diffi-cult,” Manasra said.

Noor SayouryFeatures Editor

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Little steps to a DB

rom criminal justice majors tothose with dreams of being

dolphin trainers, a wide arrayof students took part in the Stu-

dents For Animal Defense open houselast Thursday.

With party music playing in thebackground, fun snacks and decora-tions that make the room look like thesea, the president of SFAD, Jenna Ho-lakovsky, had participants take part inicebreakers and introductory com-ments.

SFAD has history of fundraising anddonating to animal shelters, workingwith many organizations such asMercy For Animals, Chicago’s Coali-tion For Animal Rights and The PrideAlliance. ”We just want to get information outthere,” Holakovsky said.

They try their best to reach out topeople and grow their numbers.

SFAD have been fundraising year-round and not only fight for animalsrights but learn everything they canabout them.

”We just want people to know whatlittle things they do can make a bigdifference. “We plan on doing that byinteracting and socializing with peo-ple,’’ Holakovsky said.

SFAD takes part in handing outpamphlets in the city to raise animalawareness. They also go to other cam-puses and hand out samples of veganfood. They also hold donations for petsupplies.

“Animals aren’t the only ones beingtreated badly, so are the workers,”Holakovsky said.

In addition SFAD plan on participat-ing in Chicago’s largest fur protestthat will be held on Black Friday.

“We are not anarchists, we’re justvegan hippies,” Holakovsky said.

“We have had people laugh at us andbring meat to our tables. This is an in-justice against animals’’ says ho-lakovsky.

SFAD not only benefits animals butbenefits students as well. “There arestudents who come and don’t talk atall but they start making friends,” Ho-lakovsky said.

Holakovsky also believes that peo-ple with disabilities are also drawn toanimals and SFAD. The club is opento anyone interested in protecting ani-mals and making friends.‘’ We have become like a little fam-

ily,” Marissa Bhatt, a veterinary medi-cine major, said. “I have become soclose with everyone, this is a greatclub for anyone who loves animals.”Mike Honn, a philosophy major, saysthat ‘’revolution begins at learning.”That is the main goal of Students ForAnimal Defense.

Kelsey Sparrow believes that SFADhas given her a better way to let peo-ple know how food gets on theirplates.

Holakovsky said that she hopes allthe members of SFAD will developand have confidence to say animalabuse is wrong.

Holakovsky thinks that animal cru-elty is such a big issue because peoplejust want to make money. ”It is themost efficient way to make a profit,”Holakovsky said.”

With a strong outlook on animaland human rights, SFAD enters thenew year with high hopes. Planning avariety of activities and watching in-formative documentaries to stayabreast of the pressing issues impact-ing their club.

Noor SayouryFeatures Editor

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3. 1.Kelsey Sparrow, Students For Animal Defense (SFAD)member, dresses as a mermaid for the group’s open house,“Under The Sea.”2. Alex Macfarlane of SFAD takes part inan icebreaking activity. “Under The Sea” acted as an infor-mal introduction to SFAD.3. Students mingled to tropical music, partook in fruit snacks,and talked about how animals were important to them.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTMultimedia Services moves into a new home

Fifteen years ago, NickolausPacione was just another stu-dent at COD. Planning tomajor in philosophy and dou-ble minor in creative writingand journalism and living outhis daily life the way mostcollege students do.

Until the day he got in anunfortunate car accident forc-ing him to drop out of col-lege. However, Pacione isn’tsomeone who just calls itquits. He simply began hiscareer early.

Pacione, now 35, com-pletely embraced writing fulltime shortly following the ac-cident. He began selling hisworks through his website,writingsfromthegrave.com,as well as on lulu.com andamazon.com, but didn’t hit itbig until this summer whenhe sent a copy of his book,“Nickolaus Albert PacioneDelivers: A Library Of Un-known Horrors”, to theEdgar Allan Poe Museum inRichmond, VA, hoping tohave the gift shop sell hisbook there.

Instead, the curator of themuseum decided to addPacione’s book to the mu-seum’s library, one that ac-cepts very few anthologies.

Author of four books andeditor of eight, Pacioneclaims H.P. Lovecraft as amajor influence in his writ-ing. He also credits Richard

Matheson’s writing with as-sisting him with better char-acter growth throughout hisnovels.

He currently has eight an-thologies under his belt andis in the middle of a ninth.Pacione has also put out amemoir titled: “An Eye InShadows.”

With such a frantic life Pa-cione still finds time to be anaccomplished photographer.Some of his photos even be-come titles in his small presscatalog.

“I am not only a writer buta micro-press publisher whooperates on a broke collegekid’s income to edit andpublish books,” Pacione said.

Pacione will soon be mak-ing an appearance at the PoeMuseum to speak about hisanthology.

He is also getting publishedin an anthology called Ema-nations that he plans to pro-mote. Pacione hopes to getpublished with either WeirdTales or Cemetery Dancewhich according the Pacione,“are two very hard marketsto crack”.

Pacione also plans on do-nating his book to the collegelibrary. Pacione’s books areavailable to be purchased onamazon.com and lulu.com.

Like many of the new reno-vations to the college thisyear, the multimedia centerreceived a face-lift as well.

Now located in the newCulinary and HospitalityCenter, the multimedia centerhas a brand new studio andthe staff received new pris-tine offices. After years intemporary buildings withpoor conditions and trying tofind a new building thatwould suit their needs best,the multimedia departmentfinally has a new home.

David Gorski, MultimediaServices Manager, said, “95%of the technology is old tech-nology we’ve brought overfrom the previous location.”

The only new technologyreceived during the movewas new processing gear andcontrol gear. In fact, they’vebeen so thrifty, they delayedreceiving new equipmentduring the 2010 and 2011 fis-cal year to help contribute tothe move.

Although there are noclasses offered in the newcenter, there are currentlythree student jobs filled andthe staff is interested in re-

cruiting more students. Their student staff is sent

out with cameras and micro-phones to shoot a story that isbrought back to the produc-tion team to be edited.

Some big name news chan-nels have used studentfootage in the past. So the ex-perience received from work-ing there definitely pays off.The center also has internshipprograms available for stu-dents seeking future job op-portunities.

For the past 28 years, thecenter has been producingImages, a monthly newsshow that informs the publicof events at the college, jobopportunities and even theoccasional movie. Images canbe viewed on your town’scommunity channel or on themultimedia website atwww.cod.edu/multimedia.

The multimedia center isalso responsible for produc-tion of “That Beepin’ Show”,staring the college’s very ownChris Miller, a speech profes-sor and adviser for the Foren-sics speech team.

The center is also in chargeof producing and editing pro-motional marketing videos.WDCB radio did not move tothe CHC with the rest of the

multimedia department. In-stead, they are located in theStudent Resource Centeraway from the multimediadepartment.

With new state-of-the-art fa-cilities, the multimedia pro-duction team is sure to feel athome with the rest of thenewly refurbished campus.

By Matt MertesA&E Editor

By Matt MertesA&E Editor

The multimedia center

opened in the Culinary and

Hospitality Center with state

of the art facilities.

Photos by Chris Johnson

Photo provided by Nickolaus Pacione

Former student makes mark in horror writing

“I am not onlya writer but a

micro-publisherwho operates

on a broke college kid’s

income .”

NICKOLAUS PACIONE,FORMER STUDENT

MAC UpdateThe MAC Courtyard is one of a two-part landscape

improvement project on campus with a bid at $3,181,135.70.

(Top) Blue print of the new amphitheater. (Bottom)Construc-

tion that has taken place at the site of the amphitheater so far.

Blueprint courtesy of Stephen Cummins. Photo by Chris Johnson

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Blues & Barbecue Birthday BashSaturday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., $25The MAC turns 25 years old this fall, so we decided to throw ourselves a little party.

We called venerable Chicago bluesman and Delmark recording artist Dave Specter

and asked him to call a few friends. Then we called our friends at Sweet Baby Ray’s,

Two Brothers Brewing Company and I Have a Bean and told them we were having

a street party. Now we are calling you, our friends, to join us for an evening of

Blues, Brews, and Barbecue all celebrating 25 years of making great art happen

in the Western Suburbs.

featured event …

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble

Shining Cityby Conor McPherson

Sept. 22 to Oct. 9

$33/$23 COD students

Henson AlternativeStuffed and UnstrungFeaturing the Miskreant PuppetsSaturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.$38/28 COD students

New Philharmonic

Beethoven’s NinthFriday and Saturday,

Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 8 p.m.

$38/28 COD students

The Miles Davis ExperienceA Collaboration with Blue Note Records

Sunday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m.

$38/28 COD students

College Theater

Recent Tragic EventsBy Craig Wright

Oct. 6 to 23, $10/9 COD students

Rosanne Cash with Jon LeventhalThe ListFriday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m.$46 adult/36 COD students

Gypsy FireCompania Flamenca Jose Porcel

Sunday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m.

$46/36 COD students

College Music

Student Music ConcertThursday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., $4

Gahlberg Gallery

Volker SaulAug. 25 to Oct. 8, Free

Gypsy Fire

TheMiles DavisExperience

Stuffed and Unstrung

RosanneCash

How would you describe your art?

I think it is very unique. Its not cookiecutter art.

Where do you find inspiration?

In everyday life.

What do you love about your art?

That its mine. I’m proud to look at it andsay I did that.

What do you hate about your art?

I’m a perfectionist so I’m constantlythrowing out work that I feel isn’t right.Even if its just a tiny mistake.

How did you get your start?

Back in preschool. They say kids who

draw stick figures with fingers and toesand human features are usually theartistic ones. I was one of the kids thatdid so and it has just stuck with mesince.

People you admire?

Señor Dali

Plans after COD?

I plan to transfer to the Institute ofArt in Chicago and finish up mymajor there.

What are some of your other hobbies?

When I’m not working at AMC Show-place 16, I do a lot of drawing andsketches. I also do ballroom dance, pho-tography and I like to play around withphotoshop as well.

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StarvingArtist

Global Flicks; An Overview

If you’re amongst the groupof people who want to travelthe globe and experience a va-riety of cultures, then GlobalFlicks is just for you.

Global Flicks showcase in-ternational films in their na-tive language with Englishsubtitles. The films are alwaysshown at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. inthe McAninch Arts Centerand unlike expensive airfare,admission is free.

This past Tuesday, Septem-ber 6th, Sita Sings The Blues,an American film, was pre-sented at the MAC. The storyparallels the lives of Sita, anIndian goddess separatedfrom her husband Rama, andNina, an animator whose hus-band moves to India to pur-sue a career opportunity andeventually leaves her viaemail.

The film is narrated by threebickering, comical shadowpuppets in this graphicallyappealing animated interpre-tation of the Indian epic Ra-mayana.

Directed by Nina Paley, thisfilm is in English running ateighty-two minutes long.

Tuesday, October 4th, theFrench film Hadewijch will beshown at the MAC.

Hadewijch, a young womaninfatuated with blind faith, issent away from the conventafter shocking the mother su-perior.

Resuming the identity ofCeline, she encounters antag-onists Yassine and Nassirwhom send her down atreacherous path with onlyher passionate, extreme faithfor her God. Directed byBruno Dumont, this film runsfor one-hundred-five minutes.

The year is 1994 and Anita,a young woman with Downsyndrome, is currently livinga happy, content, routine lifestyle in Buenos Aires whilebeing carefully cared for byher mother. However, Anita’sworld is turned upside downwhen she is left unattendedduring the bombing of thenearby Argentine IsraeliteMutual Association.

Puzzled and in a daze, Anitais left roaming the city touch-ing the lives of those aroundher and learning to care forherself. The Spanish film,Anita, airs Tuesday, Novem-ber 22nd and runs for one-hundred-four minutes.

Additional information canbe found on the MAC web-site, www.cod.edu/atthemac,for more upcoming globalflicks.

Photos courtesy of MAC WebsiteFrom Left to Right: “Sita Sings The Blues,” “Hadewijch,” “Anita.”

By Matt MertesA&E Editor

COURIER • September 9, 201114 ARTS

smART DatesSept. 176 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Parking LotBlues & Barbeque Birthday BashJoin the MAC in celebrating its 25th anniversary with a night of blues andbarbeque. For more information contact the MACticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $25 for all ages

Sept. 22 8 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Theatre 2Buffalo Theatre Ensamble “Shining City”The 2006 Tony-nominated tale of John, a recent wid-ower haunted by the death of his beloved Marimore than figuratively. Runs through Oct. 9. Formore information contact the MAC ticket office at(630) 942-4000TICKETS: $25 adult and youth/$23 senior

Sept. 248 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Main Stage“Stuffed and Unstrung - Henson PuppetsBehaving Badly”“80 Henson puppets, 6 comedians, 100% uncensored. A live improv show for adults only, fea-turing a cast of wild characters from Jim HensonStudios.” - MAC website. For more information con-tact the MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $38 adult/$ 36 senior/$28 youth

Sept. 30 & Oct. 18 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Main StageNew Philharmonic - Joy! Beethoven200 musicians gather to perform Beethoven’s lastand most influential symphony. For more informa-tion contact the MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $38 adult/$36 senior/$28 youth

Oct. 27 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Main StageThe Miles Davis Experience - 1949 - 1959This concert recaptures the sound and history of oneof the most influential and innovative jazz artists inAmerican History, Miles Davis. For more informa-tion contact the MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $38 adults/$36 senior/$28 youth

Oct. 68 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Studio TheatreCollege Theater - “Recent Tragic Events”In this comedy Andrew and Waverly, set up on ablind date by a mutual acquaintace, realize theyseem to be connected by a series of strange coinci-dences. Runs through Oct. 23. For more informationcontact the MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $8 all ages

Oct. 78 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Studio TheatreRoseanne Cash with Jon Leventhal: The ListGrammy winning singer, songwriter and artist,Roseanne Cash, takes the stage at the MAC withGrammy-winning producer and husband, Jon Lev-enthal. For more information contact the MACticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $46 adult/$44 senior/$36 youth

Oct. 97 p.m. McAninch Arts Center Studio TheatreGypsy Fire: Jose PorcelCompania Flamenca Jose Porcel, one of the premierdance troupes to perform the ancient, cultural danceof Flamenco, a dance said to have been“born in theSpanish sunshine radiating joy, vitality and pas-sion” -MAC website. For more information contactthe MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $46 adult/$44 senior/$36 youth

Oct. 137:30 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Studio TheatreCollege Music - Student Music Concert“Join us as the college music ensembles present anevening of mixed repertoire performances” - MACwebsite. For more information contact the MACticket office at (630) 942-400TICKETS: $4 all ages

Oct. 13 8 p.m.McAninch Arts Center Theatre 2WDCB Jazz Cafe at the MAC! - Paulinho GarciaCome experience true Chicago talent as the best jazzguitarists around will be showcased right here atthe MAC. This concert will be recorded and broad-casted at a later date on 90.9 fm. For more informa-tion contact the MAC ticket office at (630) 942-4000TICKETS: $18 adult/$16 senior/$8 youth

“Sita Sings The Blues” wassupposed to be a comicaltwist of the Indian epic Ra-mayana. If anything, it hadme singing the blues.

With all respect towards theculture, the movie itself wasmediocre. The graphics dif-fered amongst cut outshadow puppets banteringwith thick accents, shaky Dil-bert-like characters that couldhave been sketched by a five-year-old, vivid Disney-likecharacters who sung

constantly, and stiff pop-upbook like animation thathopped around everywhere.

The humor that the narra-tors provided sounded like itwas straight out of a comedyclub on amateur night.

As far as paralleling twowomen and their struggleswith their significant others,it hardly gave the Americancouple a story, just a fewthirty-second clips of poorgraphics and minimal dia-logue.

I was confused as to whySita had to jump betweenbeing a lively cartoon

character who sang with a bluesy 1920’s feel and a pop-up book like character.

I feel the more cartoon-like characters would have madethe film a little more fun ifbetter comedy was thrown in.On a scale from one to five,I’d rate Sita Sings The Blueswith a one and a half.

I’m always interested inlearning something new, es-pecially from new cultures, sothe folktale was interesting,but with a variation of poorgraphics and lousy comedy,this film was just not for me.

Editor critiques ‘Sita Sings the Blues’By Matt MertesA&E Editor

The Miles Davis Experience

New Philharmonic

“Stuffed and Unstrung” Roseanne Cash

Photo courtesy of MAC Website

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Screenshot from “Sita Sings The Blues” with

Disney-like Sita and Monkey.

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Andre Taylor runs hand off drills as the Chapparals prepare forSaturday’s game against Iowa Central.

Coach Callahan looks on as the team runs scrimmage at Tuesday’spractice.

New head Coach Thomas surveys the field as players stretchand prepare to run drills.

Players Quentin Mcnew and Clifford Frazier practice kicking field goals in preparation for their game Saturday.

Photos by Chris JohnsonPhoto Editor

For more Football coverage see page 17

Coming off their first bowl winsince 1995, Chaps hit the roadwith two victories

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NJCAAHall of Famer,Men’s Soccer head coach JimKelly has reached yet anothermilestone in his career thatvery few have ever accom-plished.24 years ago, on Sept. 2,

1987, Kelly joined COD andwon his first ever gameagainst Kishwaukee Commu-nity College with a final scoreof 5-2.Coincidently, 24 years later

on Sept. 7, Kelly amassed winnumber 400, leading CODover Kishwaukee with thefinal score of 2-0 and rackedup his 401st win last Wednes-day against the HarperHawks with a dominatingteam performance blankingthe Hawks 8-0.

The Chaps pressured theHarper defense all game long,equaling into 33 shots on goalcompared to Harpers merefive shots against the Chaps.Although the Chaps had

many missed opportunities inthe first half, their first goal fi-nally came 32 minutes intothe game as Midfielder AngelEscobedo kicked a perfectcross to Forward Greg Efiom

who blasted the ball pastHarper’s keeper.From that point on every-

thing took off as the Chapsearned two more goals withintwenty seconds going into

halftime up 3-0.Kelly preached his usual

halftime philosophy of nevergiving up and giving an allout effort. which resulted infive more goals with the finalscore of 8-0.“We had many missed op-

portunities in the first half,but we corrected our mistakesand were able to shut themout big,” Kelly said. “As longas they give their best effortwith the ability they’re capa-ble of, we’ll be fine.”

Kelly has been the headcoach of COD men’s soccersince 1987. Since then the soc-cer program has been consid-ered one of the best in thenation.

With less than a week to ad-just to taking the horns of thefootball program, new foot-ball head coach Gary Thomasproudly accepted the posi-tion.After winning its first ever

bowl game in last season’sGraphic Edge Bowl against,COD’s football program wasconsidered one of thestrongest ever.The Chaps had amazing

chemistry with last year’shead coach Fred Fimbres andachieved much success. How-ever, COD’s success on thefield didn’t guarantee Fim-bre’s stay.“Fred Fimbers was offered

an opportunity to move andcoach in California, and hejumped at it,” Athletic Direc-tor Paul Zakowski said.“There were no hard feelings,he just left us at a rough time.Thankfully, he had a greatsupporting coaching staff thatstayed with us.”

Fimbres departed fromCOD at the end of June, oneof the most crucial times ofthe year for the Football pro-gram. The beginning of Julymarked the start of footballregistration and camp.With no coach to lead the

players, the college was in arush to find a replacement.They went to then offensivecoordinator Thomas, whogladly agreed to replace Fim-bres.“It was a very quick process.

We had 200 guys coming heresigning up to play some foot-ball, and suddenly they hadno coach.” Thomas said. “Iwas happy to step in and takethe role of interim coach of agreat football program.”Thomas believes that the

transition was smooth.Thomas has the support ofsome of the same coachingstaff as last year.“My job is to help lead these

men out there and help themto achieve their goals. I’mhere to help them get to thenext level of college football,

that’s my job. I hope to coachthem to great success this sea-son,” Thomas said.Stepping into the biggest

position of the football teammay present problems for theteam because this is Thomas’first year taking the reins ashead coach, but so far they’vewon their first two games.In his first ever game as

head coach, Thomas had tolead the Chaps to their far-thest road game of the year, atwelve hour road trip to Buf-falo, NY to play Erie Commu-

nity College.“You never want to have

your first game on the road,especially the longest trip ofthe season,” Thomas said.

“Here I am all of a sudden inmy first ever game as headcoach, with 18 and 19 year old

September 9, 2011 • COURIER 17

SPORTSSPORTS

Photo by Chris Johnson

New head football coach leads team to success on road

Football Head Coach Gary Thomas paces between his team lines during practice. Thomas hopes to continue coaching this program to tremendous success.

see ‘football’ page 18

By Josh TolentinoSports Editor

Winning:

Photo by Chris Johnson

Photo by Chris Johnson

Head Coach Gary Thomas instructs some of his players.

Head Coach Gary Thomas

Photo by Chris Johnson

Defender Oscar Barraza tackles a Harper defender. The Chaps defense was stingy all game.

By Josh TolentinoSports Editor

see ‘history’ page 19

KKeellllyy aammaasssseess 440000 wwiinnss

Chaps shutout Harper Hawks 8-0, CoachKelly achieves landmark 400th victory

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Q: What is your favorite thing about soccer?

A: Getting out on the fieldand help lead my team.

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Q: How do you prepare foryour soccer games?

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kids, and we’re at a hotel,twelve hours away from thecollege on the road. That’snever a situation, anyonewould ever want to step in,but we got out of it okay.”

Thomas coached the Chapsto an impressive 48-21 roadwin against Erie in their firstweek Saturday, Aug. 27.

“Our guys dominated theball offensively, we had a lotof big play offensive posses-sions and that’s how wesealed off the win,” Thomassaid. “You never want to relyon big plays, but that’s whathelped us against Erie, andwe’ll take it for now.”

The Chaps continued to beroad warriors and pulled outa 20-14 road victory at Mar-ian, IN last Saturday.

This season, the Chaps havea whopping six road games,and just three home games.

“That’s the way the sched-ule fell this year. Every otheryear we alternate on howmany road and home gameswe have,” Zakowski said.“Next year, we’ll have fivehome games compared to thisyears three. We just ask thatour fans continue to be sup-portive and come out to thethree home games we do havehere this season.”

“We’re going to take it gameby game, week by week.We’re going to analyze eachof our opponents and focuson getting the win one weekat a time,” Thomas said.“We’re not a long term goaltype of team. We’re taking it

game by game and hopefullythat’ll get us back to anotherbowl game this year.”

Currently the Chaps havestarted with an impressive 2-0winning streak, both wins

coming off the road. Thomashopes to continue the impres-sive streak as he leads theChaps back on the road asthey travel to Iowa Central Saturday.

Photo by Chris Johnson

Thomas sets up drills with the special teams during practice.

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The college is beginning anew annual tradition startingOct. 22 at 2p.m.

The inaugural Laps with theChaps 5K Run/Walk is opento all students, staff and com-munity members. The collegewill provide winners of allage groups various prizes forboth male and female win-ners.

The movement not onlypromotes physical fitness butalso helps the college providescholarships to students.

The cost to register is $30through Oct. 1, $35 from Oct.2 through Oct. 20, and $40 onrace day. The college offers a$5 discount for current CODstudents or CARA members.All costs and net proceedswill benefit College of Du-Page scholarships.

With a registration payment,each participant is given aLaps with the Chaps promo-tional t-shirt, and three freetickets to the last home foot-

ball game of the season thatnight against the Joliet JuniorCollege Wolves.

The 5K route will journeythrough the college’s sceniccampus, highlighting the newbuildings, while ending at thefootball stadium where theawards ceremony will takeplace.

In preparation for the 5Krace, the college is currentlyoffering two weekly classesthat will train participant’spersonal fitness and helpthem accomplish their goalsof winning the race. Studentswill learn what to wear, whatto eat, and how to properlytrain for a 5k race.

September 9, 2011 • COURIER 19SPORTS

AUGUSTSat., 27 at Erie (NY) W 48-21SEPTEMBERSat., 3 at Marian University JV (IN) W 20-14Sat., 10 at Iowa Central 1:00pmSat. 17 IOWA WESTERN 1:00pmMon., 24 at North Dakota Sciecnce 1:00pm OCTOBERSat., 1 ELLSWORTH (IA) 1:00pmSat., 9 at Wisconsin-Whitewater JV 1:00pmSat., 15 at Harper 1:00pmSat., 22 JOLIET 1:00pmSat., 29 at Grand Rapids (MI) 1:00pmNOVEMBERSat., 5 MFC (EAST) PLAYOFF tbd

AUGUSTFri.,26 at Elgin L 0-7Wed.,31 JOLIET W 3-1SEPTEMBERWed.,7 at Harper W 3-1Fri., 9 MATC-MILWAUKEE 4:00pmMon., 12 PRARIE STATE 4:00pmTue., 13 DALEY 4:30pmSat., 17 vs. Mid-Michigan tba

@ Jackson, MISun., 18 vs. Owens/Jackson tba

@ Jackson, MIWed., 21 TRITON 6:15pmFri.,23 at Joliet 4:00pmSun.,25 OAKTON 12:00pmWed.,28 at MATC-Milwaukee 2:00pmOCTOBERSat.,1 ROCHESTER (MN) 12:00pmWed.,5 at South Suburban 3:30pmFri.,7 HARPER 4:00pmMon.,10 PARKLAND 4:00pmWed., 12 at Triton 4:00pmSat., 15 MORTON 4:00pmTue.,18 HEARTLAND 5:00pmFri.,21 TRINITY CHRISTIAN JV 3:30pmTue., 25 REGION IV PLAYOFF 3:00pmSat., 29 REGION IV CHAMPIONSHIP 12:00pmNOVEMBERThu., 3- NJCAA NATIONALS tbdSun., 6 @ Tompkins Cortland CC

Dryden, NY]

AUGUSTSat., 27 MORAINE VALLEY W 4-0Wed., 31 at Joliet W 6-0SEPTEMBERFri., 2 DALEY W 6-0Tue., 6 at Moraine Valley W 2-0

@ Sycamore HSWed., 7 HARPER W 8-0

Sat., 10 2010 Loggers Invitational 12:00pm@ Lincoln Landvs Lincoln Land

Sun., 11 2010 Loggers Invitational 12:00pm@ Lincoln Landvs Illinois Central

Wed., 14 MADISON 4:00pmFri.,16 PRARIE STATE 4:00pmTue.,20 at Kankakeee 4:00pmWed., 21 TRITON 4:00pmSat., 24 OAKTON 2:00pmWed., 28 at MATC-Milwaukee 4:00pmThu. 29 SOUTH SUBURBAN 3:30pmOCTOBERSun., 2 MORTON 12:00pmThu., 6 at Elgin 3:30pmTue., 11 MALCOM X 4:00pmSat., 15 TRUMAN 4:00pmWed., 19 REGION IV PLAYOFF 3:00pmSat., 22 REGION IV PLAYOFF 12:00pmWed., 26 REGION IV PLAYOFF 3:00pmSat., 29 REGION IV FINAL 12:00pmNOVEMBERSat., 5 GREAT LAKES DISTRICT 12:00pm

FINAL at Region XIThu., 17- NJCAA NATIONALS tbdSun., 20 @ Paradise Valley CC

Phoenix, AZ

AUGUSTFri., 26 Highland “36” 8:00am

Freeport, IL- Park Hills G CSat., 27 Conference Meet #1 12:00pm

Elliot G.C.SEPTEMBERFri., 9 Duane Chanay Inv. 1:30pm

Byron Hills G.CSat., 10 Conference Meet #2 12:00pm

Blackstone G.C.Tues., 13 St. Francis Fall Invite 10:00am

Wedgewood G.C.Fri., 16 Illinois Valley Classic 12:00pm

Senica Ridge G.C.Sat., 17 Illinois Valley Classic 8:00am

Senica Ridge G.C.Fri., 23 Skyhawk Classic 1:30pm

Emerald HillsSat., 24 Conference Meet #3 12:00pm

Bridges G.C.Fri., 30 PrairieView Classic 1:30pm

PrairieView G.C.OCTOBERSat., 1 Conference Meet #4 12:30pm

Cantigny GolfThu., 6 REGION IV TOURNAMENT 11:00am

PrairieView G.C.

Fri., 7 REGION IV TOURNAMENT 10:00amPrairieView G.C.

Sat., 8 REGION IV TOURNAMENT 10:00amPrairieView G.C.

AUGUSTSat., 20 JAMBOREE at Elgin tbaFri., 27 16th ANNUAL

DuPAGE CLASSIC L 12-25,VINCENESS (IN) 5-25

Tue., 30 ROCK VALLEY L 12-25,10-25, 10-25

SEPTEMBERThu., 1 at MATC-Milwaukee W 25-11,

25-18, 25-15Sat., 3 at Oakton Quad

Harper L 12-25,19-25, 10-25

Lincoln L 12-25,10-25, 17-25

Qakton L 17-25,14-25, 20-25

Tue., 6 at Joliet 6:00pmFri., 9 at Lincoln Tournament tbaSat., 10 at Lincoln Tournament tbaTue., 13 HARPER 6:00pmThu., 15 at Madison 6:00pmTue., 21 MATC-MILWAUKEE 6:00pmThu., 24 at Harper Invitational 3:30pmSat., 25 at Harper Invitational 9:00amTue., 28 TRITON 6:00pmThu., 30 at Madison 6:00pmOCTOBERTue., 4 JOLIET 6:00pmTue., 11 at Harper 6:00pmThu., 13 MADISON 6:00pmTue., 18 at Elgin 6:00pmThu., 20 at Triton 6:00pmWed., 26 Region IV Playoff 6:00pm

@ tbaSat., 29 Region IV Semi-Finals 10:00am

and FINALS 12:00pm@ Harper

NOVEMBERFri., 11 Division III NATIONALS tba

@ Rochester, MinnesotaSat., 12 Division III NATIONALS tba

@ Rochester, Minnesota

SEPTEMBERThu.,1 at Waubonsee 3:00pmSat., 3 at Sauk Valley 2:00pmThu., 8 at Carthage 3:00pm

Mon., 12 at Moraine Valley 2:45pm

Fri., 16 at Rock Valley 3:30pmSat., 17 LAKE COUNTY 12:00pmMon., 19 OAKTON 3:00pmThu., 22 McHENRY 2:45pmFri., 23- COD/USTA tbaSun.,25 TOURNAMENTThu., 29 ELGIN 3:00pmOCTOBERSat., 1 at Illinois Valley 2:00pmThu., 6- REGION IV tbaSat., 8 TOURNAMENT

SEPTEMBERFri., 2 Early Bird Invitational 5:00pm

@ Elmhurst CollegeElmhust, Illinois

Fri., 9 Spartan Invitational 5:00pm@ Aurora UniversityAurora, Illinois

Fri., 16 Illinois Intercollegiate 5:00pmChampionships@ Illinois State UniversityBloomington, Illinois

Sat., 24 Wheaton Invitational tba@ Wheaton CollegeWheaton, Illinois

Fri., 30 North Central Invitational 4:30pm@ North Central CollegeNaperville, Illinois

OCTOBERSat., 21 North Central Open

@ North Central College 4:30pmNaperville, Illinois

Sat., 29 Region IV Tournament tba@ tba

NOVEMBERSat., 12 NJCAA Division I Nationals tba

@ New Mexico Junior CollegeHobbs, NM

Fall 2011 Sports Schedule

WOMENʼS SOCCER

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TENNIS CONT.

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Under Kelly’s leadership,COD student athletes’ havebeen led countless times toprominent success and vic-tory.

Kelly has been named Re-gion IV Coach of the Yeareleven times, while beingnamed NJCAA NationalCoach of the Year three times.In 1993, Kelly coached thebest team in the country to aNational Championship.

With many awards andunder his belt, Kelly’s focus isnow on his athlete’s hopesand goals.

“The best coaches aren’tthose with the most trophiesor titles on their wall. The bestcoaches are the ones who pro-duce the best quality playerson the field, and that’s what Iwant to be remembered as.”Kelly said.

Kelly believes that the CODMen’s Soccer team has beenthe “top team” in the Mid-west for several years.

“Teams nowadays alwayscompare themselves to us,and that makes it more diffi-cult for us but that gives us abetter challenge, they pushus ,” Kelly said.

Several players agree withKelly’s statements.

“Teams always come hard atus because we’re COD,” For-ward Greg Efiom said. “Thecollege has a great historyunder Coach Kelly and ouropponents always want tobeat us.”

“Ever since I got here, he’shelped me everyday, makingme a better and better player.”Forward Sergio Realegenosaid. “We have amazing team

chemistry because of coach(Kelly).”

Kelly is currently in his 25thseason as head coach. He hasgone through many teams,some having many differenttalents and abilities.

Through Kelly’s coaching,he has been able to coach now25 different teams to continu-ous success and a total of 401wins and counting.

Kelly has joined just fiveother coaches in NJCAA his-tory to reach the impressive400-win plateau.

Being considered one of thebest coaches in the nation,Kelly hopes to continue work-ing with his players and rackup the victory count, as theChaps go into the Lincol-nwood Tournament thisweekend facing two of thebest teams in the country.

“The best coachesare the ones whoproduce the bestquality players

on the field,that’s what Iwant to be re-membered as.”JIM KELLY,SOCCER HEAD COACH

Photo by Nick Davison

Coach Jim Kelly reaches the

400-Win plateau.

Photo by Chris Johnson

Coach Kelly directs his team

after a game.

Graphic by Shawn Mukherji

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