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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
David Williams brings crime and punishment to campus More on page 2
INSIDE: Profile / Quotable 2 | Campus News 4 | Calendar 8 | Student Voice 9 | Police 10 | People 11 | Sports 12
With new eye procedure, seeing is believing More on page 6
Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
Fans of College of Pharmacy Dean and defending champion Jerry Bauman are out in force at the 12th annual Challenge of the Deans, a half-time shooting contest Feb. 26 at the UIC vs. Wright State game in the UIC Pavilion. Seven colleges — Applied Health Sciences, Business Administration, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Urban Planning and Public Affairs — participated in the competition, which pairs a dean (or substitute administrator) and student. This year’s winner: the College of Dentistry, with assistant dean Mark Valentino and third-year dental student Jason Harrison. Other action at the game included UI President Bob Easter’s lighting of the torch, Sparky D. Dragon jumping out of a cake to celebrate UIC’s 30th anniversary — and a Flames win. See more photos on UIC News Facebook, facebook.com/uicnews
Gina Davis brings smiles to faces around the world More on page 9
Battle for basketball bragging rights
Forget the snow: let’s play Flames baseball! More on page 12
“We’ve come close so many times, so it feels good to finally bring it home — especially in our college’s 100th anniversary year.” – Mark Valentino, College of Dentistry, winner of the 2013 Challenge of the Deans
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“It’s a female-dominated job, it’s in the service industry, and it’s caring work. Caring work is undervalued, and they’re taking for granted that you care so much you’re going to be there no matter what.”
Sharon Mastracci, associate professor of public administration, on complaints of low pay by Weight Watchers workers, Feb. 25 New York Times
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“Education remains one of the vehicles by which citizens can attain financial and social ability within America. However, it remains politically charged with an increasing potential for widening the school-class divide.”
Cassandra McKay-Jackson, assistant professor of social work, on the increased number of charter schools in Chicago, Feb. 25 Examiner.com
David Williams examines city’s most infamous crimes By Gary Wisby
Any student drawn to Chicago’s most infamous crimes — and the high-profile trials that resulted — should enroll in David Williams’ course.
And many do.“It’s full every year, and this year there’s a waiting list to
get in,” said Williams, an adjunct lecturer in the criminol-ogy, law and justice department who started teaching the course three semesters ago.
“Great Chicago Trials and Crimes” examines 11 cases, leading off with the “murder castle” of H.H. Holmes, the killer of as many as 200 people in the late 1800s as depicted in Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City.
Williams then moves on chronologically to:• the Haymarket Riot: a bombing, followed by gunfire, in
which seven police officers and at least four civilians died, 1886
• the Black Sox scandal: eight White Sox players were banned from baseball for intentionally losing games — and the 1919 World Series — to the Cincinnati Reds
• Leopold and Loeb: two privileged youths who kid-napped and murdered a young boy, 1924
• Al Capone: Chicago’s best-known criminal, he headed the city’s crime syndicate during the Roaring Twenties
• Richard Speck: the slayer of eight student nurses in a dormitory, 1966
• Chicago 7 trial: the defendants were charged with con-spiracy, inciting to riot and other charges related to protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
• Operation Greylord: an investigation of corruption in the Cook County judiciary during the 1980s
• Harry Aleman: a mob hit man, he murdered 13 men between 1971 and 1976 and died in prison in 2010
• George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich: recent Illinois gov-ernors sent to prison for their crimes.
Williams also finds time to look at “cold cases” — crimes that were never solved, including the Tylenol murders of seven people who took poisoned medicine in 1982; the 1977 disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach; and the slaying of Valerie Percy, daughter of Sen. Charles Percy, in their Ke-nilworth home in 1966.
With each case, he wants students to ask questions:“Is there a hero or a villain? Are there misunderstood
characters? Looking back, was it a success or failure for the criminal justice system? Did the right thing happen?”
His favorite case is the Leopold and Loeb story.“It’s got so many aspects at so many different levels, start-
ing with two geniuses who believed they were above the law,
trying to get away with the perfect murder,” Williams said.“Clarence Darrow is in the mix. And it was one of the
first cases that brought psychology into the courtroom. They actually tried to get Freud to testify, but he was too sick.”
The case “has got all the makings,” Williams said. “The only thing it didn’t have is an actual trial. Darrow
has them plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.”Williams’ full-time job is prosecutor for the Cook
County state’s attorney’s office, where he is deputy superin-tendent for public corruption and financial crimes and ex-ecutive director of the regional organized crime task force.
He grew up in Arlington Heights and earned his bach-elor’s degree at Urbana-Champaign.
Attending the London School of Economics, “I was in-
terested in international political economics,” he said.“Then I went to law school and quashed all other inter-
ests.” His law degree is from Boston College.After three years with the state’s attorney, Williams spent
10 years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, returning to Cook County in 2010.
He lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood with his wife, Lisa, who works for the U.S. Justice Department.
“Chicago has so many great cases that had a profound effect on the American legal system or were infamous for either the crime or who the defendant was,” he said.
“Chicago is really a tapestry. Every case is a chance to learn something about the city and what’s involved with its history.”
Photo: Joshua Clark
David Williams, adjunct professor of criminology, law and justice, teaches a popular class on Chicago’s greatest trials and crimes. “Chicago has so many great cases that had a profound effect on the American legal system or were infamous,” he says.
“Children have learned when something is pink, it is only for girls.”
Barbara Risman, professor and head of sociology, on a move by toymakers to market across gender lines, Feb. 13 Wall Street Journal
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By Mike Helenthal
Public universities in Illinois will retain the authority to exempt certain skilled jobs from the civil service system after a vote by the University Civil Service Merit Board.
The 11-member board — trustees representing the state’s nine public universities — voted 8-2, with one abstention, against a proposed rule that would have given future job clas-sification exemption authority to the director of the State Uni-versities Civil Service System.
If passed, the measure would have gone before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, a state legislative over-sight and review body.
The Jan. 31 decision followed months of discussion, a pub-lic hearing in January and a public comment period at the Jan. 30 meeting.
“I’m a little disappointed,” said Tom Morelock, executive director of the State Universities Civil Service System. “I don’t know what the next step is.”
The proposal was a response to recent audits by the uni-versities civil service system that found a large percentage of employees were misclassified as “principal administrative appointments” (also called academic professionals) at every state university.
The audit indicated about 60 percent of audited academic professional jobs on the UIC campus should be reclassified as civil service. On the Urbana campus, reclassification was rec-ommended for 122 of the 200 audited positions.
Morelock had argued for returning exemption authority to his agency. That authority was taken away about 15 years ago, before his arrival, amid complaints the agency’s review process caused hiring delays.
Morelock said he supported the concept of employers making the exemptions, but the audits show the universities were not abiding by the rules.
He said the civil service system is more capable of han-dling the workload than it was a decade ago, when he became agency director.
“We’re just simply not the same civil service system as we were,” he said.
The merit board’s decision leaves the exemption and audit process seemingly at odds with one another.
Morelock established a working group earlier in January to bring the two sides together, but the group did not include members of the merit board or faculty representatives.
University officials say they never stopped following civil service system job-classification guidelines — that audit cri-teria have changed. Civil service agency officials say the audit process has not changed and universities are abusing their exemption authority at the expense of the civil service system.
Morelock said recent work at UIC had led to a more ef-ficient and fair system that should be emulated at the other universities.
Public comments at the Jan. 30 meeting included U of I officials lobbying against the rule change and union represen-tatives speaking in favor of the measure.
“We are asking for clarity,” said Maureen Parks, university director of university human resources and a member of the civil service system’s human resources advisory committee. “We’re happy to be held to a standard, we just want to know what it is we are supposed to do.”
Jeff Bigelow, regional director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said audit results show universities are trying to circumvent the civil service system.
“They’re trying to erode the numbers of people eligible for collective bargaining,” he said.
• Mike Helenthal is assistant editor of Inside Illinois, the campus newspaper for the Urbana-Champaign campus.
By Christy Levy
UIC administrators are preparing for the impact of the broad federal spending cuts known as sequestration, which took effect Friday.
“These cuts will result in significant budget cuts across fed-eral agencies which would impact both new and existing UIC federal research awards and other federally funded programs,” Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares wrote in a Feb. 28 email to the campus community.
“There is a great deal of uncertainty about what will hap-pen.”
Allen-Meares said she is working with campus leaders to “evaluate the impact of any cuts on the campus and to develop plans to address the funding issues created.”
President Obama and members of Congress failed to reach compromise last week to avoid sequestration, a reduction of $85 billion in federal spending.
“These cuts risk forfeiting our nation’s competitive ad-vantage in science and we risk losing star faculty, who could be lured away by international competitors investing in re-search,” Nancy Sullivan, director of the Office of Technology Management, said at a news conference Friday sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.
UIC could lose $24 million in federal funding this fiscal year, including $18 million in biomedical research funds from both the east and west sides of campus, said Mitra Dutta, vice chancellor for research.
“The sequestration sends a negative message to our re-searchers that our lawmakers in this country are not serious about our research and future innovation and therefore our economic development agenda,” Dutta said.
“It will have a negative impact on our future research-ers, particularly postdocs as well as those in the pipeline of graduate and undergraduate students, and perhaps even high school students.”
Funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and other federal agencies has led to many scientific breakthroughs at UIC, Sullivan said.
“Research is an economic force, and carving it out of our federal budget will be detrimental to our economy,” she said.
“Reducing funded projects could lead to fewer break-throughs in cancer, Alzheimer’s or HIV/AIDS.”
Because of the sequestration, the National Institutes of Health plans to reduce the dollar amounts of existing grants and the number of competitive grants it will issue, Sullivan said.
“For us at the university, this is a double hit,” she said. The National Science Foundation plans to issue 1,000
fewer grants nationally and reduce the dollar amounts of future awards, Sullivan said.
“These and other proposed funding reductions may not only halt the advancement of new breakthroughs in medi-cine, national security, agriculture and energy, but also will harm the career development of young researchers who will be the next generation of scientists to keep our nation glob-ally competitive,” she said.
“Cuts to research funding means jobs will be lost — not only at the University of Illinois but at research institutions, national laboratories, and the supporting industries across the country.”
For more information, visit the Office of the Vice Chan-cellor for Research website, http://bit.ly/XSs6K0
Campus leaders prepare for impact of federal budget cuts
Universities keep authority to exempt jobs from civil service
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Prepped for the promDonate prom dresses or money for a tuxedo rental to help
UIC College Prep students attend prom this year. The UIC College Prep Parent Advisory Committee is col-
lecting new or gently used prom or bridesmaid dresses that are one to two years old, plus money for tuxedo rentals.
Dresses and donations will be collected through March 13 in C300 hospital pharmacy.
Email [email protected] or call 312-996-2254 for more in-formation.
Like to bike?Meet fellow bike enthusiasts and learn about events across
the city at the Chicago Bike Swap Saturday. The event, sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, in-
cludes bike exhibits and sales, event registration and more. More than 75 businesses, nonprofits, organizations and teams are expected to attend the event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Physical Education Building.
Admission is $5 with i-card; others are $10.
Research on displayThe College of Dentistry will hold its annual Clinic and
Research Day Thursday.The program showcases the work of fellows and pre-doc-
toral, graduate and postgraduate students.James Melvin, clinical director of the National Institute of
Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health, is the scheduled keynote speaker.
The event runs from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the College of Dentistry.
For more information, visit http://go.uic.edu/CRDay
Alumni talkNancy Cartwright, the second person to receive a Ph.D. in
philosophy from UIC, will return to campus Monday to de-liver the Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture.
Cartwright, professor at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, will present a lecture on “Moving on the evidence-based policy: experiments versus the modeling of society.”
See yourself as another race at exhibitBy Matt O’Connor
Have you ever wondered what you would look like if you were a different race?
At the Race Experience Kiosk, coming to the Student Center East first floor concourse March 9 through 17, par-ticipants can view themselves in an entirely different skin.
Sitting in front of an integrated high-definition camera, users can change their race to black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Indian. They can even share their new self in a picture via email.
The kiosk uses a face detection and morphing algorithm to create skin and facial structure modification.
The free museum-quality exhibit travels to college cam-puses around the country, seeking to promote discussions of race as well as biases and misconceptions.
As one of the most diverse campuses in the nation, UIC is a perfect fit for such an exhibit, organizers say.
Her talk, sponsored by the philosophy department, takes place at 3:30 p.m. in the Institute for the Humanities, lower level, Stevenson Hall.
For more information, call 312-996-2480.
War and peaceA public health forum March 16 examines the health con-
sequences of war and peace.Keynote speaker is Martin Donohoe, adjunct associate
professor of community health at Portland State University and member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility’s social justice committee.
The event takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 158 College of Nursing. Admission is free and lunch is provided.
The event is co-sponsored by the UIC Social Justice Initia-tive, Global Health Student Interest Group and the Public Health Student Association.
For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/WarAnd PeaceUIC
Updating your résumé? Learn tips for boosting your résumé at a workshop
Thursday.Laurie Schellenberger, human capital development co-
ordinator, presents the Academic Professionals Advisory Committee writing workshop from noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 4013 Education, Performing Arts and Social Work Building.
Participants should bring their résumés.Register at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5471335
Have fun, help outNetwork with young professionals while raising money
for charity Friday.The MBA Association hosts the Moving Business 2 Act
Fundraiser for the Night Ministry, a nonprofit that offers housing, health care and human connection to people in Chicago struggling with poverty or homelessness.
The event will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Estate Ultra Bar, 1177 N. Elston Ave.
Tickets are $25 in advance for MBA Association mem-bers, $30 in advance for the general public and $40 at the door. Tickets include appetizers and open bar. Participants must be at least 21.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit ti-nyurl.com/mb2a2013
Latest newsThe February issue of APAC News is online at http://uic
apac.blogspot.com/Stories this month focus on job classifications, upcom-
ing Academic Professional Advisory Committee elections, a webinar for employees who have disabilities, and more.
Emergency preparednessA new UIC Ready website provides resources on how
the campus can best prepare for and minimize disruptions in case of emergency.
The site, www.ready.uic.edu, includes UIC’s Emergency Operations Plan, an interactive emergency guide, informa-tion about training and exercises and more.
For more information, email [email protected]
“While we are all diverse and have unique experiences, my hope is that this will be a bonding experience for stu-dents,” said Carrie Grogan, associate director of Campus Programs.
RecycleMania program gets boost from grantsBy Gary Wisby
UIC hopes to take recycling to a new level with two new state grants to expand collection on campus and begin food scrap collections in the two student centers.
A $71,000 grant from the De-partment of Commerce and Eco-nomic Opportunity is going to the RecycleMania program in 10 resi-dence halls, five College of Medi-cine buildings and 11 laboratories.
“We did a waste audit two years ago and found out that the recycling program is really developed in our office buildings,” said Joe Iosbaker of the Office of Sustainability.
“The challenge is in buildings with a large traffic flow of students — the student centers and residence halls. So the challenge is to engage our students with the recycling program.”
University Hall, for example, has a 70 percent recycling rate, compared with an overall campus rate of 47 percent, he said.
“We are working together with the housing administra-tion to really involve the students,” Iosbaker said.
“New posters we developed are being put up in all the residence halls, and there are new labels on the bins in the hallways.”
Some 500 campuses are registered in the national RecycleMania competition spon-sored by the National Recycling Coalition. UIC ranked ninth two years ago and eighth last year.
“We’re shooting to move up,” Iosbaker said.
“I embrace any kind of sustainability proj-ect,” said Susan Teggatz, director of campus housing. “We’re encouraging staff and stu-
dents to participate.”The second grant, also from the Department of Com-
merce and Economic Opportunity, is for $90,000 to support the food scrap collection in student center kitchens.
Orange peels, trimmings from meat and vegetables and similar leftovers will be taken to a composting facility by the Resource Center, an outside vendor.
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Photo: Lance Long
Thomas Marrinan, EVL research assistant and computer science Ph.D. candidate, takes a tour group through CAVE2 at a recent open house. There will be two more showings next month.
Step into a virtual worldBy Matt O’Connor
“We love science fiction, and we just want to live in the science fiction world,” said com-puter scientist Jason Leigh.
And inside the Electronic Visualization Lab’s CAVE2, anyone can enter a virtual world.
The EVL’s virtual reality environment in the College of Engineering lets people navigate through the human brain or roam through the holodeck of the Star Trek Enter-prise with the help of 3D glasses.
This imposing virtual world stands 8 feet tall and 24 feet in diameter. The environment wraps 320 degrees around the user, offering a dream-like sense of infinite space that is never physically there. The system rivals 20/20 vi-sion, consisting of 72 near-seamless passive stereo off-axis optimized 3D LCD panels that display information at 37 megapixels in 3D, or 74 megapixels in 2D.
Students and employees toured the space at an open house Feb. 20. More open houses are set from 3 to 6 p.m. April 3 and 24 in the En-gineering Research Facility. Space is limited; register at http://tinyurl.com/c3jutwe
After three years spent searching for fund-ing, then another year of research, the time was right for the new virtual-reality environ-ment to come to life this fall, said Leigh, EVL director and associate professor of computer science.
The EVL developed the first CAVE virtual
reality system in 1992 and the OptIPortal scalable-resolution display wall in 2004.
In 2010 researchers started building CAVE2, the second-generation virtual reality environment, with a grant from the National Science Foundation.
“We waited, and we did some more re-search, and finally, there was this sweet spot in time where the technology was just good enough to do it,” Leigh said. “And that’s when we decided we had to build this new CAVE.”
There are many uses for the new technol-ogy. Astronomy classes at UIC are scheduled to visit the CAVE2 this fall to use the envi-ronment as a planetarium. There are plans to take a model of Chicago, then map data such as crime rates and police station locations over the city.
“What good is collecting the data if you’re not going to make sense of it?” Leigh said. “So this is a really good opportunity to do this, by using the CAVE. If you pool more of your resources here, what might be the impact on crime down the road?”
Leigh, co-creator of CAVE2, said the proj-ect was a true campus collaboration.
“Every nut and bolt that was screwed on here was actually put together by under-graduates and graduate students, so a whole lot is owed to their effort,” Leigh said. “It’s not like some commercial company came in and screwed it all in. Every box, for all 36 com-puters that came from the loading dock, was lifted by students and faculty.
“That’s what I’m really proud of.”Arthur Nishimoto, a graduate student in
computer science, has proven that it’s not all business in the lab. He created the ultimate science-fiction world, a 1:1 scale model of the Star Trek Enterprise holodeck.
The model allows you to view the entire ship, fly beneath the bridge and explore the engine room — a dream realized for Star Trek and science-fiction fans alike.
“In my lifetime I will never experience this, but with the CAVE you can,” Leigh said.
CAVE2 open house3-6 p.m. April 3 and 24
http://tinyurl.com/c3jutwe
With the use of a small, handheld con-troller called a “wand” and 3D glasses with motion-sensor tracking, data is visualized at your fingertips.
“It turned out better than we had even imagined,” Leigh said.
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By Jeanne Galatzer-Levy
When Cecilia Apiedu got a call from her ophthalmologist at UI Health, offering her the chance to be the first patient in Chicago to try a new treatment for an eye condition that was threatening her vision, she “was dancing up and down.”
“I realized I was really having trouble with my vision two years ago when I went back to school and needed to do a lot of reading,” said Apiedu, now a certified nurs-ing assistant.
Then, about a year ago, the Glenwood woman’s vision began to decline dramati-cally. She saw halos and after-images that persisted when she closed her eyes, progress-ing to double-vision.
“I was always experimenting to find a way to manage,” she said, like perching the TV on her lap when she watched.
Apiedu had vitreomacular adhesion, or VMA. With this condition, the vitreous — the clear jelly-like substance filling the center of the eye — shrinks with age and pulls the retina inward. Vision becomes distorted, and if the retina tears, serious vision loss or blindness can result.
UI Health is the first center in Chicago to offer a new, nonsurgical treatment for the disease, which affects half a million people in the U.S.
“Ms. Apiedu is in many ways a typical VMA patient,” said Jennifer Lim, director of
retina services and the physician who treated Apiedu.
VMA is most common in women over 50, said Lim, who holds the Marion H. Schenk Esq. chair in ophthalmology for research of the aging eye in the College of Medicine.
In Apiedu’s case, Lim could see a hole developing, an indication that she would need surgery.
The surgery — which Lim has done suc-cessfully many times — is difficult for the patient. The ophthalmologist removes the vitreous from the center of the eye, peeling it away from the retina, then inserts a bubble into the eye to help the macular hole heal.
After surgery, the patient must lie face down for two weeks.
Instead, Apiedu sat comfortably in an exam room in the UI Health retina clinic Feb. 13 and received an injection in her left eye of ocriplasmin, a drug just approved by the FDA in November and marketed in the U.S. as Jetrea.
The procedure took less than 10 minutes. An hour later, photos of her eye showed im-provement.
Jetrea, an enzyme, quickly dissolves the
New treatment improves eye condition without surgery
natural glue that fastens the vitreous to the retina.
The treatment is a major advance because VMA patients can avoid surgery, said Rohit Varma, professor and chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
Varma, an expert on quality-of-life assess-ment in eye disorders and treatment, testified at the drug’s FDA approval hearing.
Apiedu said that, except for a brief feeling of pressure, the injection was painless.
For the first few minutes after the injec-tion, she saw a “kaleidoscope” view of the world, but 24 hours after surgery, her vision was significantly improved.
Lim said imaging studies of the eye showed the vitreous was no longer pulling on the macula.
Apiedu was enthusiastic.“I want for other people to benefit from
this,” she [email protected]
Photo: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin
Cecilia Apiedu (center), after surgery with physicians Jennifer Lim and Senad Osmanovic, is the first patient to receive a nonsurgical treatment for an eye condition that threatened her vision.
“Seeing is believing”View video at youtube.com/uicmedia
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For more UIC events, visit www.events.uic.edu
HIGHLIGHT MARCH
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“Moving on the Evidence-Based Policy:Experiments Versus the Modeling of Society”
March 11March 6, 1820:
President James Mon-roe signs the Missouri Compromise, which aimed to make equal the number of states where slavery was allowed and prohibited.
The law allowed Mis-souri into the Union as a slave state and Maine was incorporated as a free state.
Exhibits
Through March 9
“Observer Effect”Exhibit examines how artwork incorporates processes akin tothe scientific method to examine phenomena. Curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Lorelei Stewart. Exhibit hours, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat. Gallery 400, ADH. 312-996-6114
Through March 15
“Gregor Johann Mendel: Science, Beliefs and Politics”Curated by the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University and spon-sored by the Consulate General of Czech Republic in Chicago. Daley Library, 1st floor. 312-413-0394
Through May 31
“Commerce in Human Souls: The Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade”Exhibit includes 18th and 19th century documents from the UIC Library’s special collections including letters, government reports, diaries and slave ship drawings. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Tues. and Thurs.-Fri., and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wed. Third floor, Daley Library. 312-996-2742
Through August 31
“Unfinished Business: 21st Century Home Economics”Interactive exhibition that demonstrates Jane Addams’ legacy for domestic life and public health. Public workshops, perfor-mances, conversations and hands-on activities. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. 312-413-5353
LECtUREs/sEMiNARs/ CONFERENCEs
March 12
“Shattering Families: How Mass Incarceration Harms Parents and Children” Gail Smith, senior policy director, Chicago Legal Advocacy forIncarcerated Mothers. Maternal and Child Health seminar. Noon-1 p.m. 1001 SPHPI.
March 13
“Fuerza Latina: A Paradox of Success and Hardship” Sylvia Puente, executive director, Latino Policy Forum. Phillip J. Bowman Lecture, hosted by the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. 3 p.m. talk followed by reception. Cardinal Room, SCE. 312-413-7940
March 19
“Presenting Yourself Well on a Web Interview”Webinar sponsored by the Alumni Career Center. 12:30-1 p.m. Alumni, free; others, $45. Register at http://bit.ly/VRf2te
sPECiAL EVENts
March 6
Education Job FairSponsored by the Office of Career Services. 1-5 p.m. Illinois Room, SCE. Free for U of I alumni; $10 for others. 312-996-2300
Music Master ClassBlair McMillen, piano. 3 p.m. L060 EPASW
March 7
Clinic and Research DayCollege of Dentistry students, postgrads and research staff to present research achievements. Keynote speaker, James Melvin of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fourth and fifth floors, Dentistry. http://bit.ly/ViAh5F
UIC Spring Diversity Career FairOpen to all majors. Sponsored by the Office of Career Services. 10 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. Illinois Room, SCE. Free for U of I alumni; $10 for others. 312-996-2300
March 9
Chicago Bike SwapBike exhibit and sale, bike event registration and more. Admis-sion, $5 with i-card; others, $10. Sponsored by the Office of Sus-tainability. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. PEB. http://chicagobikeswap.org/
March 12
“Tuesdays-at-One”UIC Jazz Ensemble. 1 p.m. L060 EPASW
March 19
“Tuesdays-at-One”Composer Marc Mellits. 1 p.m. L060 EPASW
WORkshOPs
March 11
“Library 101 for Nurses”Online library workshop. Noon-1 p.m. Register at http://library.uic.edu
MARCH 6 IN HISTORY
Missouri Compromise signed
Nancy Cartwright, UIC alumna and professor at Durham University and University of California, San Diego. Thalberg Memorial Lecture, spon-sored by the philosophy department. 3:30 p.m. Institute for the Humani-ties, lower level, SHNancy Cartwright
Steve Roden’s “Striations” is showcased in “Observer Effect.”
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By Matt O’Connor
UIC’s dining halls are now a little greener. In January, UIC Dining Services switched to 100 percent
cage-free eggs, a move toward making the campus more sus-tainable.
UIC’s Dining Services wanted to make the switch for some time, but lacked the student-led support EcoCampus and the Humane League were able to generate. EcoCampus reached out to students and student groups around campus and collected enough support through petitions and letters to encourage making the switch.
“We wanted to make sure the decisions we’re making are important to our students, our customers,” said Heather
Payne, marketing director for UIC Dining Services. “Really, we just needed to recognize that there was that
interest in the movement.”In addition to more humane treatment of animals, cage-
free eggs provide other benefits related to health and sustain-ability.
There is less of a chance of salmonella poisoning because of the decrease in hormonal stress for the chicken. The waste in the air and on the ground is greatly reduced as well, result-ing in improved working conditions.
There’s even a positive mark left on the environment. Farmers usually take waste from chickens raised in cages and either dump it in rivers or burn it. With cage-free eggs, farmers use the chicken waste as fertilizer on farm fields, said
David Klawitter, president of EcoCampus.“It’s actually integrated into a farm system instead of
being factory produced,” he said. “It’s a good example of showing the university, ‘Hey, there
are sustainable things that are realistic, that have good ben-efits and are easily done.’”
These same cage-free eggs are being used in Au Bon Pain, a bistro-style restaurant which opened in late February in the Behavioral Sciences Building, replacing Skinner’s Grill.
“As soon as we came on campus we started working on getting a different platform in there, and Au Bon Pain was the first one we wanted to put in there,” Payne said. “I think the students will be happy.”
Campus dining options make switch to sustainable eggs
By Rana Khatib
Gina Davis found the inspiration to start a student orga-nization from her own life experience.
Born with a cleft lip and palate, she had 10 surgeries be-fore she was a year old and another five surgeries between seventh and 12th grades. Because she looked different from her peers, she suffered from bullying and teasing in elemen-tary school.
“I know from personal experience, from having surgeries, that looking more ‘normal’ makes a big difference in your life,” said Davis, a senior in sociology/pre-med.
Living in the U.S., Davis had access to health care re-sources to have the surgeries on her cleft lip and palate, but for children in some other countries, it’s not that simple.
So she founded Operation Smile Club at UIC, which rais-es money for Operation Smile, a nonprofit that provides free
surgeries to children who are born with cleft lip and palate, a congenital birth defect that affects the upper lip and roof of the mouth.
As many as one in 10 babies in developing coun-tries who are born with a cleft lip and palate die before turning 1 year old, according to Operation Smile.
Without surgery, ba-bies born with cleft lip
and palate cannot properly swallow food or water. Children face other difficulties, such as not being able to go to school because it is considered a distraction to other students. Some parents abandon their babies because of the birth defect.
There are also lifelong issues associated with lack of treat-ment, like speech and hearing problems and chronic ear infections.
“A lot of what people don’t realize is that it’s not only an issue of physical appearance — it’s a functional issue. Babies can’t eat or drink,” Davis said.
Operation Smile is a worldwide organization started by doctors 30 years ago.
Since then, more than 3.5 million consultations and about 200,000 surgeries have been conducted in more than 50 countries. Operation Smile provides care centers where pa-tients who received surgeries can visit for a follow-up. They
Bringing smiles to kids’ faces around the world
also train the local medical professionals in cleft lip and palate repair to be self-sustainable.
Davis found out about Operation Smile at her doctor’s office and decided to start a campus group that sends its pro-ceeds to the main organization.
“My biggest concern is spreading awareness about the issue,” Davis said.
The group held a ribbon sale last week, “to promote aware-ness about the actual defect itself because people in the U.S. don’t know what it is,” Davis said. Other planned events in-clude visiting children in the hospital and participating in the
Chicago Color Run 5K race to raise awareness. “We are really interested in partnering up with some other
UIC student organizations to plan larger events in the near future,” Davis said.
She hopes the group can raise enough money by the end of the semester to fund three surgeries — about $720.
Students interested in joining the group can attend general meetings at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Student Center East. For more information, email Davis at [email protected]
[email protected]• Rana Khatib is a senior in English.
Photo: Rana Khatib
Senior Gina Davis, who has had 15 surgeries to repair her cleft lip and palate, is the founder of Operation Smile Club, which raises money for children who are born with cleft lip and palate. “It’s not only a physical appearance thing — it’s a functional thing,” she says.
“I know from personal experience, from having surgeries, that looking more ‘normal’ makes a big difference in your life.”
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policeUIC Police emergency: 312-355-5555Nonemergency: 312-996-2830
Feb. 25-March 3
Crimes reported to UIC PoliceTheft: 5Battery: 3Criminal trespass: 1Warrant: 3Disorderly conduct: 8
Arrests by UIC PoliceFeb. 25: A man was arrested for disorderly
conduct at 6:04 a.m. in the Single Student Resi-dence.
Feb. 28: A man was arrested for criminal tres-pass at 5:25 a.m. in the Science and Engineering Laboratory East.
A man was arrested on a warrant at 12:37 p.m. at the UIC Police Station.
A man was arrested for assault at 1:13 p.m. at 16783 Torrence Ave.
A man was arrested for violation of an order of protection at 7:49 p.m. in Student Center East.
March 1: A man was arrested on a war-rant at 6:59 p.m. at 1911 W. 13th St.
A man was arrested on a warrant at 8:26 p.m. at 2140 W. Roosevelt Road.
A woman was arrested at 11:59 a.m. for stalking at 815 N. Cicero Ave., closing a case from Feb. 7.
For more information on police activ-ity, visit the UIC Police crime map, www.uic.edu/depts/police, and the Chicago Police CLEAR Map, http://gis.chicagopolice.org
Cure Violence method showsresults in Brooklyn neighborhoodBy Sherri McGinnis González
A new report from the research center of the New York court system says the Cure Violence approach to eradicating gunfire on the streets has reduced the average monthly shootings in the Crown Heights neighbor-hood of Brooklyn by 6 percent — at a time when shooting rates increased by up to 28 percent in surrounding neighborhoods.
The Brooklyn anti-violence project, Save Our Streets in Crown Heights, replicates the Cure Violence model (formerly known as Ceasefire Chicago), developed by Gary Slut-kin, professor of epidemiology and interna-tional health in the School of Public Health.
The report, “Testing a Public Health Ap-proach to Gun Violence,” from the Center for Court Innovation, estimates that gun violence in Crown Heights was 20 percent lower than it would have been without Save Our Streets, from the program’s start in January 2010 through May 2012.
Cure Violence takes a public-health ap-proach to reducing violence by treating it like an infectious disease and working to reverse the epidemic.
The model has three main strategies: de-
tect and interrupt potentially violent events, identify individuals involved in transmission, and change the social norms of the communi-ties in which violence occurs. It relies on col-laboration among community leaders, clergy, private citizens and law enforcement.
The key to the approach are “violence in-terrupters” — community members who are known on the streets. They work to identify individuals at the highest risk for violence, interrupt the violent encounter, and direct the disputants to a range of services including employment, job training and education.
The Cure Violence approach is used in more than a dozen U.S. cities and a growing number of countries.
Gary Slutkin developed the Cure Violence approach.
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Honoring faculty innovatorLorraine Owles, wife of the late Philip Wagreich, and his son,
Ian Wagreich, accept an honorary Innovator of the Year Award on his behalf from the Office of Technology Management at a recog-nition ceremony for outstanding researchers Feb. 20.
Wagreich, professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics and computer science, co-founded the Teaching Integrated Mathe-matics and Science Project, a company that developed the Math Trailblazers K-5 curriculum, one of UIC’s top royalty-generating patents. Former director of the UIC Institute for Mathematics and Science Education, he died Jan. 1 at age 71.
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APPOiNtMENts
Mitch King was appointed interim regional dean of the College of Medicine at Rockford, effective March 8.
He succeeds Martin Lipsky, who is retiring after nearly 10 years as regional dean. King, professor of family and commu-nity medicine, has been associate dean for academic affairs in the college since 2005.
AWARds
Lisa Lee, director of the School of Art and Art History and former director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, will receive the Illinois Humanities Council’s Public Humanities Award at the council’s annual benefit luncheon May 21 at the Palmer House Hilton.
Timothy Shanahan, distinguished professor of curriculum and instruction and director of the Center for Literacy in the College of Education, received the William S. Gray Citation of Merit from the International Reading Association.
The award is the association’s highest honor, given for out-standing contributions to the field of reading.
hONORs
Victoria Chou, dean of the College of Education, was named a fellow of the American Educational Research Associa-tion.
The fellows program recognizes the research and scholar-ship of educators.
Jo Dorsch, professor and regional head librarian at the Library of the Health Sciences at the College of Medicine at Peoria, was named a fellow of the Medical Library Associa-tion. She will be honored at an awards event in Boston in May.
Dorsch is an expert on the teaching of evidence-based practice and an advocate of services for rural health profes-sionals.
Lee Jameson, clinical professor of restorative den-tistry, was named president of the American College of Prosthodontists at its annual session in Baltimore, Md. The educational and scientific organization works to increase awareness and interest in the field.
Dentistry student Marc Manos won second place at Dentsply International’s 53rd Annual American Dental Association Dentsply Student Clinician Research Award Program.
His winning project was honored in the clinical research/public health category.
PREsENtAtiONs
Beth Richie, director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, delivered the Raven Lecture on Ac-cess to Justice at Berkeley Law, University of California, Feb. 28. Richie spoke on her recent book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation.
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For more Flames sports, visit www.uicflames.comsports
By Mike Laninga
The baseball team (3-6) forced No. 2 Vanderbilt (12-1) into extra innings, but the Commodores scored a walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to cement a 3-1 series finale loss for the Flames.
Senior Joey Begel had an impressive outing, holding Vanderbilt to three hits and one run over 7.1 innings. Begel struck out a career-high six batters and gave up just one walk.
The Flames kept Vanderbilt off balance, limiting the Com-modores to just five hits and three runs, both season lows.
“We did everything we were supposed to do but win,” head coach Mike Dee said.
“Our pitching was outstanding; we did a great job at the plate and our defense continues to play really well. There are certainly a lot more positives than negatives coming out of the weekend.”
The Flames equaled Vanderbilt’s six runs over the last 18 innings of the series and held the Commodores scoreless in 17 frames over the weekend.
UIC restricted Vanderbilt to a batting average of .241 and didn’t allow any stolen bases.
Flames fight No. 2 team to extra innings
By Laura White
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams closed out the Horizon League Championships Saturday at the Flames Natatorium with third- and fourth-place finishes, re-spectively.
Melanie Waszak won the title of Swimmer of the Meet, Whitney Johnson was named Diver of the Meet and Veronica Gibson came away with the Newcomer of the Year award.
Head coach Paul Moniak and diving coach Susan Brom-berg both received Women’s Coach of the Year awards.
The men’s team finished the tournament with two school records from Brian Sivak and Christian Grobe, and two first-place finishes from Joel Demuth and the 400 free relay team.
In the 200 back prelims, Sivak produced a time of 1:50.20
The No. 5 seeded men’s basketball team challenged No. 8 Cleveland State in the first round of the Horizon League Tournament Tuesday night at the UIC Pavilion.
Find out game results in UIC News online at news.uic.edu/uicnews and on the Flames website, uicflames.com
Cleveland State dropped an 87-60 decision at Loyola Saturday in the regular season finale, earning the No. 8 seed in the Horizon League Tourney. The Vikings have defeated UIC 12 straight times, dating back to the 2007-08 season.
“We’ve worked all season long to get a home game in the Horizon League Tournament,” head coach Howard Moore said. “Now we need to take advantage of that. We’ve got a really quick turnaround, and we’ve got to get ourselves prepared for the postseason.”
The Flames dropped a 79-67 decision versus Detroit in the regular season finale for both teams at the Pavilion Saturday afternoon.
On Senior Day, Daniel Barnes and Anthony Kelley combined to score 43 points.
With the loss, the Flames dropped to 16-14 on the season, with a 7-9 finish in Horizon League play. Detroit improved to 20-11 and 12-4.
Barnes scored a game-high 28 points, bolstered by a career-best eight three-point field goals, the most in a Horizon League game this season.
Kelley, starting his 10th game of the season, con-tributed a career-high 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting. Detroit’s Doug Anderson poured in 22 points, pacing a threesome of Titans in double figures. UDM outscored the Flames 44-16 in the paint.
“We got off to a tough start in the first half, and a 14-point hole against a team like Detroit is tough to get out of,” Moore said.
“If we had played in the first half like we did in the second half, it may have been a different game. Unfortu-nately, our team defense wasn’t there tonight, and our 19 turnovers were too many to overcome.”
Men’s basketball preps for league tournament
UIC has played six nationally ranked opponents in its first nine games of the season.
The Flames tallied the first run in the eighth inning, as Alex Grunenwald smacked a single to left field. He advanced to second off a sac bunt by Alex Jurich and made his way to third off a wild pitch. The next batter, Joe Betcher, reached on a throwing error by the Vanderbilt shortstop and Grunenwald crossed home plate.
The Commodores answered with a lone run in the bottom of the eighth. Neither team scored in the ninth, which sent the contest into extra innings.
In the 10th, Grunenwald reached third base off two hit batsmen and a fly out to right field by Harry Kammholz. But Vanderbilt’s Brian Miller came up big with a strikeout against Betcher to retire the Flames.
Vanderbilt’s Rhett Wiseman scored a home run in the bot-tom of the 10th for the win.
UIC will begin its home games next week, hosting reign-ing Big Ten champ Purdue in a three-game series starting on Friday.
“We’re excited about starting up home play and I think March could be a big month for us,” Dee said.
Photo: Steve Woltmann
Daniel Barnes scored 28 points Saturday versus Detroit.
Photo: Steve Woltmann
Joey Begel winds up against Vanderbilt Saturday. “Our pitching was outstanding; we did a great job at the plate,” says head coach Mike Dee.
for a school record. He finished sixth in the final with 1:50.75. In the 200 breast, Grobe paced the Flames for a third-
place finish, while breaking a school record with a time of 2:00.82.
Waszak’s Horizon League honors were bestowed after she took first in all of her individual events, through prelims and finals, and was a member of three winning relay teams. She set school records in the 500 free, 200 free and 200 fly, and broke her own Horizon League and championships record in the 200 free with an NCAA B qualifying time.
Johnson scored a 299.00 in the 3-meter board for first place before setting a Horizon League Championships record with her score of 296.95 on the 1-meter board.
Gibson was named Newcomer of the Year after capturing first place 15 times during the regular season.
Swimmers compete in league championships
