The Student Voice of John Carroll University Since 1925 Thursday, February 25, 2016 Vol. 92, No. 14 THE CARROLL NEWS Julie Hullett Staff Reporter Abrial Neely Staff Reporter AAA presents fashion show through the ages Speaker Eric Deggans explains race in media Laura Bednar Campus Editor Please see EATING, p. 2 The topic of race is one of the hardest conversations to have in today’s society. Eric Deggans, journalist and author, spoke to the John Carroll University community about how to have this conversation and the influence the media has on the American people regarding race. Deggans is the author of the book, “Race Baiter: How Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.” He spoke on Tuesday, Feb. 23 in the Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology. The presentation is a part of the cultural awareness series sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Race-baiter was defined as a term coined by the conservative media to describe a person who uses racial tension to arouse passion of certain demographics. The presentation began with Deggans laying down ground rules for the talk. “This is a difficult conversation to have,” said Deggans. The first rule was that: mistakes don’t make you a racist, they make you human. The second was: talking about race does not make you racist. Race effects many apsects of our lives and Deggans said, “It’s noticing what’s there.” Finally he said that the concepts of race could apply to many marginalized groups in America. Media messages hinge on value and the media uses values that are already in people’s brains to deliver messages to them. Deggans showed pictures of celebrities to illustrate his point. He showed a picture of Richard Sherman, cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks football team and compared it to a picture of Martha Stewart. Stewart served time in prison while Please see RACE p. 3 Photo courtesy of Brittney Seals The African American Alliance (AAA) presented the organization’s first fashion show, “Evolution of Black Fashion,” on Wednesday, Feb. 17 in the Dolan Science Center atrium. The show featured organization members as models and emphasized how black fashion evolved through the ages in America, beginning in the 20s and continuing in the present. The event is part of AAA’s more extensive Black History Month Series. “We put together the fashion show because we wanted to show people the evolution of our culture. We express ourselves through our fashion, through our music, and it’s a big part of American pop culture. We wanted to showcase that and celebrate that by showing our fashion over the years and how it evolved,” said junior Brittney Seals, the marketing chair of AAA. “We wanted to get the point across that black culture is American culture,” Seals said. “I feel like people are embracing [Black History Month] because we got a pretty good turnout for our past couple events,” Seals continued. “I don’t know, because sometimes there’s not a lot of interaction with it. We tell people about our events and it’s just like ‘Oh, okay.’ It’s not overbearingly supportive but there’s also not a lot of backlash about it.” Members of the organization found a number of challenges in introducing a brand new event. “It’s something new, people aren’t really open to new ideas. That was one of the biggest obstacles but other than that, everybody was really engaged with it,” she said. “A lot of people supported it and we got a lot of our members to A member of the AAA applies make up to a model in preparation for the fashion show depicting African American fashion from the 1920s to now. Guess who said: “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford?” Surprisingly, Cindy Crawford said it. In this quote, supermodel Crawford is stating how much the media photoshops and enhances photos to make women look as sexy and appealing as possible. For many years, the media has focused on women’s appearances. The media decides what is beautiful and broadcasts that message through all channels of communication until every girl who does not look like a model has lost all confidence and self-esteem. In her 2010 documentary, “Killing Us Softly 4” which was shown to John Carroll students and faculty on Monday, Feb. 22, Jean Kilbourne discusses the media’s role in women’s body image. “Killing us Softly 4” began by showing various advertisements that included women. In all of the ads, women’s bodies had been enhanced, sexualized and objectified. Kilbourne saw a trend in these advertisements, which led her to understand how women are portrayed in the media. Kilbourne produced her first documentary in 1979 and claims the media’s representation of women has gotten worse over 40 years. The average American is exposed to nearly 3,000 ads per day, which clearly impact Inside this issue: Find us online @TheCarrollNews Like us on Facebook Arts & Life Sports World News AP Bombings in Turkish Capitol kill 28, p. 11 AP Netflix debuts “Fuller House”, p.4 issuu.com/ thecarrollnews jcunews.com 2 4 8 10 Index Campus Business Diversions Editorial 12 15 17 18 Op/Ed Classifieds 20 Please see FASHION p. 3 Panel discusses role of media in body image The CN staff picks the Oscar winners, p. 6
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The Student Voice of John Carroll University Since 1925Thursday, February 25, 2016 Vol. 92, No. 14
THECARROLL NEWS
Julie HullettStaff Reporter
Abrial NeelyStaff Reporter
AAA presents fashion show through the ages
Speaker Eric Deggans explains race in media
Laura BednarCampus Editor
Please see EATING, p. 2
The topic of race is one of the hardest conversations to have in today’s society. Eric Deggans, journalist and author, spoke to the John Carroll University community about how to have this conversation and the influence the media has on the American people regarding race.
Deggans is the author of the book, “Race Baiter: How Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.” He spoke on Tuesday, Feb. 23 in the Donahue Auditorium of the Dolan Center for Science and Technology. The presentation is a part of the cultural awareness series sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Race-baiter was defined as a term coined by the conservative media to describe a person who uses racial tension to arouse passion of certain demographics.
The presentation began with Deggans laying down ground rules for the talk. “This is a difficult conversation to have,” said Deggans. The first rule was that: mistakes don’t make you a racist, they make you human. The second was: talking about race does not make you racist. Race effects many apsects of our lives and Deggans said, “It’s noticing what’s there.” Finally he said that the concepts of race could apply to many marginalized groups in America.
Media messages hinge on value and the media uses values that are already in people’s brains to deliver messages to them. Deggans showed pictures of celebrities to illustrate his point. He showed a picture of Richard Sherman, cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks football team and compared it to a picture of Martha Stewart. Stewart served time in prison while
Please see RACE p. 3
Photo courtesy of Brittney Seals
The African American Alliance (AAA) presented the organization’s first fashion show, “Evolution of Black Fashion,” on Wednesday, Feb. 17 in the Dolan Science Center atrium. The show featured organization members as models and emphasized how black fashion evolved through the ages in America, beginning in the 20s and continuing in the present. The event is part of AAA’s more extensive Black History Month Series.
“We put together the fashion show because we wanted to show people the evolution of our culture. We express ourselves through our fashion, through our music, and it’s a big part of American pop culture. We wanted to showcase that and celebrate that by showing our fashion over the years and how it evolved,” said junior Brittney Seals, the marketing chair of AAA.
“We wanted to get the point across that black culture is American culture,” Seals said.
“I feel like people are embracing [Black History Month] because we got a pretty good turnout for our past couple events,” Seals continued. “I don’t know, because sometimes there’s not a lot of interaction with it. We tell people about our events and it’s just like ‘Oh, okay.’ It’s not overbearingly supportive but there’s also not a lot of backlash about it.”
Members of the organization found a number of challenges in introducing a brand new event. “It’s something new, people aren’t really open to new ideas. That was one of the biggest obstacles but other than that, everybody was really engaged with it,” she said. “A lot of people supported it and we got a lot of our members to
A member of the AAA applies make up to a model in preparation for the fashion show depicting African American fashion from the 1920s to now.
Guess who said: “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford?”Surprisingly, Cindy Crawford said it.In this quote, supermodel Crawford is stating how much the media photoshops and
enhances photos to make women look as sexy and appealing as possible. For many years, the media has focused on women’s appearances. The media decides what is beautiful and broadcasts that message through all channels of communication until every girl who does not look like a model has lost all confidence and self-esteem.
In her 2010 documentary, “Killing Us Softly 4” which was shown to John Carroll students and faculty on Monday, Feb. 22, Jean Kilbourne discusses the media’s role in women’s body image. “Killing us Softly 4” began by showing various advertisements that included women.
In all of the ads, women’s bodies had been enhanced, sexualized and objectified. Kilbourne saw a trend in these advertisements, which led her to understand how women are portrayed in the media.
Kilbourne produced her first documentary in 1979 and claims the media’s representation of women has gotten worse over 40 years.
The average American is exposed to nearly 3,000 ads per day, which clearly impact
These incidents are taken from the files of Campus Safety Services, located in the lower level of the Lombardo Student Center. For more information, contact x1615.
Campus Safety Log
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Feb 21, 2016A refrigerator was reported stolen from the Dolan Science Center at 11:34 a.m.
Feb. 21, 2016A student in Murphy Hall reported excessive pounding on her door, ongoing for about 20 minutes, at 3:10 a.m.
Feb. 14, 2016Target security reported that they were holding two male shoplifters at 12:19 p.m. The duo reportedly made off with $102 worth of merchandise.
Feb. 9, 2016A Silsby road resident reported her iPhone, valued at $200, stolen.
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Incidents taken from the University Heights police blotter at Cleveland.com.
Lucrezia Culicchia Award
Forever Carroll Campaign
Nominations are currently being accepted for the Lucrezia Culicchia Award for Teaching Excellence, which recognizes a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences for outstanding teaching. The award will carry a $2,000 stipend.
Nominations need to include a letter of recommendation that includes a statement that the nominee has made a distinct difference in the teaching climate of John Carroll University, letters from at least three JCU students who have taken at least one course from the nominee, letters from two faculty colleagues and a possible letter from alumni.
Nominations are due March 10, 2016. Email [email protected] with any questions.
The Orthodox Christian Fellowship is having a service trip on March 12 to St. Herman’s Orthodox House of Hospitality.
St. Herman’s is a men’s shelter that has been serving the Cleveland area for 40 years. Students will cook and serve lunch for 120 men.
A van will leave campus at 8:30 a.m. and return around 3 p.m
University of Oregon Professor and current Shula chair of philosophy at John Carroll University Bonnie Mann delivered a speech entitled, “Sovereign Masculinity: The War on Terror, Mass Shootings, and the Trump Campaign” on Thursday, Feb. 16. She spoke to about 150 faculty and students in the Donahue Auditorium.
Mann holds a Ph.D from Stoneybrook University in the areas of feminist philosophy and modern and contemporary philosophy, specializing in gendered power. She has written two books on the subject of sovereign masculinity.
Mann began her talk by introducing three stories that have been in the news recently: the capture of two navy patrol boats of the coast of Iran, in which the ten soldiers were held for 16 hours; the mass shooting at an Oregon community college; and the rise of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Mann used these three instances throughout her talk to describe sovereign masculinity.
According to Mann, “Sovereign masculinity is composed of five key parts. It is the exceptional, the self-justifying, the rejection of human vulnerability, the shame and the redemption from shame. The redemption from shame is the moment most aspired to in order to become a masculine male,”
Sovereign masculinity describes the “need to prove ones masculinity, or manliness,” Mann said.
The first key to sovereign masculinity is the exceptional. “The exceptional is the best form of masculinity. It is what every man should aspire to. The United States operates outside the rules and creates the rules for others. It would be humiliating for the sovereign man to play by other rules, which is why we see an outrage by male presidential candidates over [the situation in] Iran,” Mann said,
The next key to sovereign masculinity is justification, which Mann describes as “the adamant stance that one is a sovereign male. A sovereign male does not apologize, because it would be seen as weakness.”
The third key to sovereign masculinity is also the reason why it will always fail. “The rejection of human vulnerability means that the sovereign male must never be physically vulnerable to others. Because humans will always fail in one way or another, this key is the key to sovereign masculinity’s downfall.”
Mann linked this key to the Oct. 1, 2015 mass shooting at an Oregon community college. The shooter, a young, white male who saw himself as lacking sovereign masculinity because he was a virgin at age 26, felt that the shooting would be a way to finally catapult him into visibility and fame just before he died.
“This is nothing unusual with mass shooters. They feel shamed and humiliated, which leads us to our next key, shame,” Mann said.
Sovereign masculinity teaches men that humiliation is the
Service trip
John Carroll University has received a donation amounting to $1 million from Medical Mutual of Ohio in support of the Forever Carroll Campaign.
The grant will be known as The Medical Mutual Opportunity Fund, and the money will be used to develop the pre-health professions at John Carroll.
The fund will help put students in position for greater success in current and emerging healthcare fields, as well as lead to greater chances for internships.
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Shula chair discusses masculinityBy Carly Cundiff
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worst thing that could happen to their masculinity, and should they be shamed, they must fight to show their manliness, mostly through violence, like the mass shooting.
“Sovereign masculinity involves a very particular relationship to shame,” Mann said as she showed pictures of Donald Trump on a screen.
“Donald Trump is constantly saying how rich he is and how smart he is, while simultaneously tearing other men and women down. This is the fifth and final key, redemption, because he is showing his sovereign masculinity publicly while belittling others.”
After the lecture, junior Alison Swift said, “I liked the lecture. I thought she did a good job setting it up so that people who were not familiar with philosophy or sovereign masculinity could understand what she was saying. And it makes a lot of sense.”
The Shula Chair in Philosophy is dedicated to presenting programs of interest to students and faculty of all majors.
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Author and current Shula Chair in Philosophy Bonnie Mann lectured about sovereign masculinity by using various news stories as examples.
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the film. Although most people claim that ads do not affect them, ads do influence them subconsciously. Advertisements claim the only meaningful characteristic of a women is her appearance, then go on to tell women what they should look like.
The media’s depiction of women in advertising has caused an epidemic of eating disorders, according to the film. Anorexia, a common eating disorder, has the highest fatality rate of any mental illness. Therefore, Kilbourne stated that the obsession with thinness is a public health problem. She insists that men and women from around the globe must engage in civic activism and open discussions to eliminate eating disorders caused by the media’s portrayal of women.
The movie and panel were brought to John Carroll by The Emily Program, which was founded in 1993. It’s goal is to care for adults recovering from eating disorders. It offers support groups, intensive programs, an outpatient center in Beachwood, Ohio and a residential care facility in Cleveland Heights.
The staff of The Emily Foundation are trained to deal
with people recovering from anorexia, bulimia, food and body image issues, compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder and other specified feeding or eating disorders. The residential care facility located in Cleveland Heights also offers nutritional rehabilitation, medical and psychiatric services, access to chemical dependency and trauma programming.
After the documentary, there was a panel available to answer questions about the media’s role in women’s body images and eating disorders.
Dean Malec, a counselor at The Emily Program, explained that therapy sessions differ depending on how severe the eating disorder is. If it is very serious, Malec will have a practical conversation with the patient to ensure that he or she is eating enough.
Another speaker on the panel, JCU junior Mara Esber, is optimistic for the future of women in mass media. Esber stated, “I am hopeful that through talking and through more people becoming aware of that together, we can focus more on the individual self…Advocacy for these issues is becoming more widespread-that gives me hope.”
Men and Women’s Tennis vs. Wooster College in the Bracken Tennis Courts at 6 p.m.
Immersion applications due at 5 p.m. to jcu.edu/immersionprograms/
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be involved in this,” said Seals. Seals remains confident that the event will become a greater success with time. “It
was the first time we ever did it so we didn’t know how it would turn out. But it was really organized and I feel like it could be made even better with more preparation and since we have this experience, we can build on that,” Seals said.
“When you’re planning an event, it gets really hectic right before, but then you go into it and it flows,” said Dwight Venson, president of AAA. “It’s a lot of hard work and I’m very proud of my board and my members,” he said.
“I never would have thought to do this event but my vice president, Emmanuel Brown, a freshman, came up with the idea in December and we started putting the work into it. We wanted to explore fashion throughout time. There are different roots of previous fashion in modern day style and I think it was nice that we got to explore those and educate the crowd at the same time,” said Venson.
Venson orchestrates many of the administrative details for AAA events and also oversees the organization’s progress with the rest of the campus.
Venson expressed the struggles the group faces with publicity, “I think we had a decent amount of people come to this event.” he said. “Marketing-wise, I think we did the best we could. We had the windows in the atrium, social media, flyers and everything.”
“Marketing has been a major concern. It’s an ongoing challenge I think all departments face but I think the better our events become, the word will spread and I think word of mouth is one of the strongest ways that people know about things. So, hopefully more people will know about events and we’ll see them in the future,” said Venson.
“I think we reached the height of the organization’s fame after our demands were presented to the university so our events don’t get as much resistance as they used to,” said Venson. “I think overall the University has been supportive. There hasn’t been any strong resistance but we just wish more people from our school would show,” Venson added.
Venson said that in the future, he thinks the group would like to plan further in advance to tighten up details that they view as failures. Venson said, “I think with each event of the black history month series, we get better and we get stronger. It’s just trial and error,” he said, “seeing what works and what doesn’t work.”
Photo by Brittney Seals
The African American Alliance, as a part of their Black History Month programming, produced a fashion show that highlighted the changing
scope of African American fashion over the past century.
Have a great Spring Break!
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The example of the reality television show, “Big Brother” was used to describe what Deggans describes as “BDS” or bigotry denial syndrome, which is characterized by people who claim to not be racist make racist comments. For example, a female cast member of “Big Brother” used slurs against an African American person and a gay man and later said she was not racist.
Deggans said prejudice is seductive and is easy for people to use against those they dislike. He explained that prejudice is present even among celebrities as Beyoncé leverages unapologetically black images through her career and people consider it controversial.
He then gave the audience a short quiz on race images. The first question pertained to how many poor white and black families there are in the U.S.? The answer was over 9 million black and over 18 million white.
The next question regarded the percentage of the more than 240,000 pro athletes, coaches and other staff members in America are black. The answer: 7 percent.
Deggans went on to ask several more questions, and after the audience members got fewer than half correct, he explained that the quiz was so hard because the media gives a skewed picture of people.
“It was interesting and eye-opening. He brought up topics that people aren’t aware of and are hard to talk about,” said graduate student Sarah Aronson.
There were four types of racism in the media that Deggans explained. The first was bigotry denial syndrome, which was described in the “Big Brother” example.
The second, situational racism, occurs when people use prejudice and stereotypes against selected people of color.
The third was strategic racism, when stereotypes about marginalized groups are used to achieve political or material goals. Deggans gave the example of Donald Trump us-ing leverage to gain support like aiming his campaign toward working middle class to go against the immigrant population.
The final type was white privilege. This privilege is when benefits extended to whites are excluded to other races.
These racism types are hard to talk about because, as Deggans says, “White folks get too guilty and black folks get too angry.”
Deggans then went into the differences between white and black people. People of color judge racial progress by looking to future goals and how there is still a long way to go. White people judge racial progress by a comparison to the past and how far we have already come.
Deggans ended by asking why people should care about the media’s misrepresenta-tion. He responded by saying that diversity is a journalistic value and if done right, will increase the accuracy of stories. “Much of how we think about race is implicit and the media use this for covert appeals,” said Deggans.
After his presentation, there was a questions and answer period. Junior Monica Fitzpatrick asked if white privilege and racism were the same thing. Deggans answer was, “I don’t like to use the term racism. White people may be privileged but this stuff is invisible. You have to work to dismantle privilege.”
Top: Speaker Eric Deggans gestures to his presentation on race in the media.Bottom: Deggans asks the audience questions regarding race in a quiz that the majority of the audience failed.
Photo by Carlee Duggan
Photo by Carlee Duggan
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From left to right, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Lori Loughlin and Candace Cameron Bure return as their original “Full House” roles in “Fuller House.”
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Netflix will air the pilot episode for the new spin-off series, “Fuller House” on Feb. 26, based on the original show “Full House” that aired from Sept. 22, 1987 to May 23, 1995.
“Full House” is a nostalgic, family-friendly series that aired on network television for eight seasons. Re-runs of all 192 episodes still air on basic cable today.
“Full House” told the story of single father Danny Tanner as he raises his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie and Michelle, with the help of his brother-in-law, the Elvis-loving Uncle Jesse and his college pal/comedian Joey Gladstone.
“Fuller House” picks up decades later and focuses on D.J. Tanner-Fuller, played by Can-dace Cameron Bure, a widowed mother of three sons. She seeks the help of her sister Stephanie, played by Jodie Sweetin, and childhood best friend, Kimmy Gibbler, played by Andrea Barber, when moving back into her childhood home in San Francisco.
The original series’ beloved characters, in-cluding Jesse Katsopolis, played by John Stamos; Joey Gladstone, played by Dave Coulier; Becky, played by Lori Loughlin; and Danny Tanner, played by Bob Saget will be part of the new series, but will not be the foundation of the show. These characters will make occasional appearances throughout the series.
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, who both portrayed the adorable Michelle Tanner in the original series, will not return for the Netflix series. It has been reported that the twins are now only focusing on their careers as fashion design-ers. Their absence from the new show will not be ignored. The Tanner family explains within the new series how Michelle is committed to her fashion career in New York, hence her absence.
The “Fuller House” cast did not want the show to be reinvented, but rather update it while featur-
ing the same main characters for a new generation while keeping the original series’ integrity. The audience can expect some of the same sayings like, “How rude!” and “Cut. It. Out.” and other iconic habits and catch phrases from the original series.
In an interview with the Daily News, Cameron Bure explained her feelings toward rebooting the new series. “Younger kids aren’t really used to this style of programming and this show is designed to bring a family together, which was what ‘Full House’ did almost 30 years ago. We’re hoping to bring that flavor back because a lot of us from that generation remember watching TV together as a family and I think that’s what we’re missing today. It’s the same formula that the original show has and it still works because ‘Full House’ has never gone away.”
Many fans of the original “Full House” series shared their reactions to the revamped storyline and new television series that will only be offered on Netflix.
Freshman Paige Perla commented, “I really loved the original series and grew up with it. I can’t wait to see how the old characters have changed and how the new ones work with the old.”
“I am intrigued to see how the sayings and mannerisms from the original series will fit into the new series,” said freshman Colin Sweeney. “I would use a lot of the sayings from the show when I was little. I’m particularly excited to see how Uncle Joey interacts with the girls even though they are older now.”
Senior Priscilla Flores adds, “I hope that ‘Fuller House’ keeps the same values and ideas that ‘Full House’ did but that they become their separate identity with a modern twist.”
“Fuller House” will bring back nostalgic memories to the “Full House” fan base and hopes to gain new followers who are being introduced to the storyline for the first time.
Editor’s Note: Information from NYDaily-news.com, Variety and USA Today was used in this report.
What are your Spring Break plans?
“I’m going to Italy for an
immersion trip.”- Sean Hennigan,
Junior
Netflix welcomes a “Fuller House” to television original series
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“I play in a band called ‘Who Hit
Me’ so I’ll be practicing with
them during break.”
- John Gonzalez, Sophomore
“I am going on a golf trip to South Carolina with my
friends.”- Greg Olenick,
Senior
“I’m going on a trip with friends
to Naples, Flor.”
- Amelia Brendo, Junior
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2016 Oscar Award Nominee LineupCompiled by Grace DeMarco
The Carroll News
Nominees for Best Picture
• “The Big Short” • “Bridge of Spies” • “Brooklyn” • “Mad Max: Fury Road” • “The Martian” • “The Revenant” • “Room” • “Spotlight”
Nominees for Directing
• “The Big Short” - Adam McKay • “Mad Max: Fury Road” - George Miller • “The Revenant” - Alejandro G. Iñárritu • “Room” - Lenny Abrahamson • “Spotlight” - Tom McCarthy
Nominees for Costume Design
• “Carol” • “Cinderella” • “The Danish Girl” • “Mad Max: Fury Road” • “The Revenant”
Nominees for Actor in a Leading Role
• Bryan Cranston - “Trumbo” • Matt Damon - “The Martian” • Leonardo DiCaprio - “The Revenant” • Michael Fassbender - “Steve Jobs” • Eddie Redmayne - “The Danish Girl”
Nominees for Actress in a Leading Role
• Cate Blanchett - “Carol” • Brie Larson - “Room” • Jennifer Lawrence - “Joy” • Charlotte Rampling - “45 Years” • Saoirse Ronan - “Brooklyn”
Nominees for Actor in a Supporting Role
• Christian Bale - “The Big Short” • Tom Hardy - “The Revenant” • Mark Ruffalo - “Spotlight” • Mark Rylance - “Bridge of Spies” • Sylvester Stallone - “Creed”
Nominees for Actress in a Supporting Role
• Jennifer Jason Leigh - “The Hateful Eight” • Rooney Mara - “Carol” • Rachel McAdams - “Spotlight” • Alicia Vikander - “The Danish Girl” • Kate Winslet - “Steve Jobs”
Nominees for Foreign Language Film
• “Embrace of the Serpent” • “Mustang” • “Son of Saul” • “Theeb” • “A War”
Nominees for Cinematography
• “Carol” • “The Hateful Eight” • “Mad Max: Fury Road” • “The Revenant” • “Sicario”
Nominees for Animated Feature Film
• “Anomalisa” • “Boy and the World” • “Inside Out” • “Shaun the Sheep Movie” • “When Marnie Was There”
Editor’s Note: The 88th annual Academy Awards will air Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. Information from Oscar.go.com was used.
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Dane Horvath, an artist, designer and blogger from Pittsburgh, created her blog in 2010 based on Pittsburgh’s history, architecture and art scene entitled “Steeltown Anthem.” Horvath, who is pri-marily an artist, showcases her work by way of her blog.
Horvath recently moved to Cleveland and aims to focus her posts on both Cleveland and Pittsburgh inspirations. In addition to her blog, Horvath owns Re/Dress, a plus-size, vintage and modern shop in Lakewood, Ohio.
According to Cleveland.com, Horvath mentions that she thought the blog would be an interesting way for her to reach out to her friends and family once she moved away from Pittsburgh. Reflecting on her experiences so far in her new home of Cleveland, Horvath says one of her favorite places in the city is the Cleveland Museum of Art.
“I kind of just drive around a lot and get lost on my own,” said Horvath in her Cleveland.com interview. Horvath states that Cleveland is similar to Pittsburgh because everyone is friendly.
Horvath features her artwork primarily through her blog, which demonstrates her unique artistic spin on well-known landmarks in the city. Her most recent illustration is of Cleveland’s West Side Market.
When asked about what style of architecture she normally likes to illustrate, Horvath says that she likes structures that are simple and modern. However, Horvath has taken an interest toward more ornate and Gothic buildings lately. What piqued Horvath’s interest in illustrating West Side Market is that it’s a prominent landmark in Cleveland that triggers a feeling of envy, because Pittsburgh doesn’t have something like it.
Horvath enjoys taking elements of a structure and aspects of architecture, then playing them up with colors.
According to Cleveland.com, Horvath explains that she pre-dominantly uses orange in her West Side Market artwork because Clevelanders are Browns’ fans.
Horvath refers to Cleveland as the “city of underdogs.” “I think that people don’t give Cleveland enough credit and I
was guilty of that because I didn’t know what was here. It’s more raw here,” says Horvath. “There are artists in these old beat up warehouses. You guys are more focused on taking these ware-houses and converting them to mixed spaces. The one thing that I did not like about Pittsburgh was that it became totally condo-driven and started to get really overpriced with rent because we have Google and other places moving in. Whereas Cleveland is a couple years behind and I’m really enjoying that aspect of it. I’m still trying to figure out your art scene and a lot of the artists get nice grants here. It’s more diverse in my opinion.”
Fans of Horvath’s artwork are asking her to create a piece de-picting the Terminal Tower in Cleveland next. However, Horvath has some reservations about this idea, mentioning that the tower’s angles are a little weird to her to showcase in her artwork.
Editor’s Note: Information from Cleveland.com and Steeltown-anthem.com was used in this report.
Yinzer turned Clevelander illustrates West Side Market
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Pittsburgh native Dane Horvath recently moved to Cleveland, illustrating artwork influenced by Cleveland
landmarks, such as West Side Market (above).
CN’s 2016 Oscar winner picks Compiled by Morgan Osheka
Arts & Life Editor
Ryan BrownWorld News Editor
Best Picture: “The Revenant”
Best Actor:Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress:Brie Larson
Carly CundiffCampus EditorBest Picture: “The Martian”
Best Actor:Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress:Brie Larson
Katie DeBaunEditor-in-ChiefBest Picture:
“Spotlight”Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprioBest Actress:Saoirse Ronan
Ben GebhardtEditorial & Op/Ed Editor
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Senior Simon Kucharewicz rises up for a dunk during the second half of JCU’s regular season finale victory over
Muskingum University on Saturday, Feb. 20.
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A frustrating late season 3-game losing streak nearly spoiled 21 straight wins for the John Carroll University men’s basketball team.
Then, senior Simon Kuchare-wicz took control.
Guided by a double-double by the Midpark High School graduate, the Blue Streaks ended the regular season with a 99-76 victory over Muskingum University on Satur-day, Feb. 20 at the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center.
Kucharewicz placed a big excla-mation point on the regular season with 20 points, 13 rebounds and several monstrous dunks. The per-formance marked Kucharewicz’s sixth double-double of the season.
From the opening tip, JCU looked determined to regain its
Blue Streaks handle Fighting Muskies, rally past Crusadersmojo. The Blue Streaks outscored the Fighting Muskies, 10-2, to start the game, as Kucharewicz scored the first eight points for the Blue and Gold.
Joshua Keyes and Fighting Muskies kept fighting back in the first half, making the challenge slightly more difficult for JCU. Muskingum narrowed the deficit to just three at the 15:24 mark of the first half before the Blue Streaks responded in force.
Utilizing a deeper bench, the Blue Streaks used fresh legs to open up a double-digit lead over the course of the next eight minutes.
The lead grew to a 15 points with five minutes remaining in the first, as senior Danny Wallack nailed a 3-pointer for the Blue and Gold. JCU swelled the advantage to 17 with 2:44 remaining thanks to work in the post by the squad’s big men.
However, Muskingum did not allow JCU to end its season easily. The visitors buried a trio of 3-point-ers in the final 2:30 of the half, nar-rowing the deficit to 49-40 heading into halftime.
Coming out of halftime, the Blue Streaks returned to form. Senior Will Starks hit a jumper and Kucharewicz hit a layup in the first 15 seconds of the half before Wal-lack buried a trey to up the lead to 16 with 18:56 remaining.
The first minute of the second stanza proved to be an accurate indicator of the rest of the half.
The Blue Streaks capitalized on Muskingum mistakes and turnovers, never allowing the lead to sink to single-digits again. JCU’s bench
upped the lead to 20 at the 11:17 mark of the half. Sophomore John Cirillo enjoyed a big day in the paint, scoring 15 points and bringing down 8 rebounds.
Two technical fouls and scrappy play marked the rest of the game, but the result was never in question in the second half. Easing off the gas pedal in the final minutes, the Blue Streaks walked away with a 99-76 victory at home on Senior Day.
The Blue Streaks followed up that victory with a 83-71 win over Capital University in the first round of the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament. JCU takes the court next on Thursday, Feb. 25 as they continue their push towards an NCAA Tournament berth.
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Sophomore Sarah Cairnie goes up for a layup in the first half during JCU’s 67-57 loss at the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center on Monday, Feb. 22 in the first round of the OAC tournament.
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On Saturday, Feb. 20, the John Carroll University women’s basket-ball team was on a high after beating Muskingum University in the final seconds on a jumper by sophomore Shmoo Pryor.
With the win over Muskingum in the squad’s final regular season game, JCU earned the right to host a first round game in the Ohio Ath-letic Conference Tournament as the No. 6 seed.
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the Blue
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Streaks welcomed Wilmington Col-lege to the Tony DeCarlo Varsity Center in University Heights, Ohio for the opening night of the OAC Tournament.
After defeating Wilmington twice in the regular season, JCU looked primed to make it three in a row, but the cold offense that haunted the Blue and Gold for much of the second half of the season returned.
The Blue Streaks opened the game scoring just six points in the opening quarter and shooting just 27 percent from the field in the first
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half. Yet, despite the poor shooting, the JCU defense was stout, holding Wilmington to just 31 percent, in-cluding 0-of-4 from behind the arc.
The second half didn’t get much better for JCU, though, as Wilm-ington took control in the third quarter, outscoring the Blue Streaks by seven points in the frame. The Quakers were led by freshman Mackenzie Campbell, who netted in a game-high 25 points on the night on 10-of-15 shooting.
JCU looked to try and mount a comeback in the fourth quarter, but the cold shooting continued, with the Blue Streaks only making 33 percent of their shots overall in the second half. Wilmington, on the other hand, shot 46 percent over the same period of time.
I know the NBA and NHL are headed down the final stretch, and trust me, I’m excited as could be, but I’ve got my eyes set on the MLS.
The Major League Soccer sea-son kicks off on March 6 with a replay of the MLS Cup last season. The Columbus Crew will face off against the Portland Timbers, and I cannot wait to watch.
The Timbers, along with New York City FC, are my two favorites teams. When I first started follow-ing the MLS, I chose the Timbers as my team simply because we had a Timbers scarf at my house. I didn’t know much about the team aside from the fact that they have amazing fans. Because of that, I wanted them to be successful, but never jumped into full-fandom.
On the other hand, I was all-in on NYCFC from day one. When MLS announced that NYCFC and Orlando City SC were going to join the league, I knew I wanted to jump on one of the bandwagons and choose one of those teams as my MLS team.
It was a tough decision, but I eventually chose NYCFC because they had signed David Villa and Frank Lampard, while Orlando City only had Kaká as their big signing. I love all three players, but I chose NYCFC because they had more names I recognized.
Since then, the league has signed plenty of other big names. Sebastian Giovinco signed with Toronto FC, Steven Gerrard and Nigel de Jong all signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Didier Drogba signed with Montreal Impact. NYCFC also added Andre Pirlo halfway through last season as well.
This season is setting up to be the best yet. Along with all those big names, there are plenty of lesser names that are as fun to watch as the likes of Drogba and Giovinco.
Kei Kamara was an MVP can-didate last season for Columbus, Darlington Nagbe on Portland and Bradley Wright-Phillips on New York Red Bulls are just a few of the other exciting players who will be playing in the MLS this season.
I’m not going to lie, it’s not on the level of the English Premier League, I know that. Still, the level of our domestic league is getting better and better and that’s huge for the growth of soccer in our country.
Over the next few years, Min-nesota, Atlanta and Los Angeles will all be adding new teams to the league. It’s a growing product with a ton of interest from star players around the globe. So much so that the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimović and Cristiano Ronaldo have both mentioned about the possibility of playing in the MLS in the future. It may not be likely, but they’re talk-ing about it.
Bottom line, this is going to be the best MLS season yet. You won’t want to miss it.
at the end of the game, but the Quak-ers were money from the line, hit-ting 15-of-17 shots from the charity stripe in the second half, ultimately, defeating JCU, 67-57.
Juniors Katlyn Spahar was the star of the night for the Blue Streaks in the loss, posting a team-high 16 points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Pryor also added 16 points in the losing effort.
Sophomore Sarah Cairnie also contributed in the box score, scor-ing five points and collecting 10 rebounds in the season finale.
With the loss, JCU finishes the season 13-13 overall and 8-10 in the OAC.
The Blue Streaks have no seniors on the roster and should return next season with much of the team still intact.
Kucharewicz led the way for the Blue Streaks in the squad’s 99-76 victory over Muskingum on Saturday, Feb. 20. The senior followed that performance up with 10 points in JCU’s 83-71 win over Capital on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Whitty’s three-goal per-formance against Concor-dia University Wisconsin in the season opener for JCU on Saturday, Feb. 20 helped the Blue Streaks earn their first win of the sea-son, beating the Falcons 6-5.
The senior led the Blue Streaks in all three major statistical categories in JCU’s final game of the season on Monday, Feb. 22. Spahar tallied 16 points, 10 re-bounds and four assists in the 67-57 loss to Wilmington.
The senior put together an amazing three days at the OAC Championships from Feb. 18-20. Fano earned points for JCU in the 400 Medley Relay, 200 Medley Relay, the 200 Breaststroke and the 100 Breaststroke.
Pacak broke two school records on at the OAC Cham-pionships. The freshman is now the school record holder in the 500 Freestyle, as well as the 200 Free. Pacak also picked up points for JCU in the 400 Medley Relay.
The three-day Ohio Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships produced a third place overall finish for the John Carroll University men’s swimming and diving team.
The University of Akron’s Onacek Na-tatorium was the venue for the 2016 OAC Championships that featured seven different programs from around the conference.
On Thursday, Feb. 18, JCU pushed for a championship in record-setting fashion in the finals of multiple events. Freshman Tom Pacak finished first in the 500 Free with a finishing time of 4:38.16. Pacak’s time shat-tered the previous school record of 4:41.74, set during the 2012 season. Later, freshmen Jack Garrow, David Kirtek, sophomore Brian Hulseman and Pacak combined for a second place finish in the 400 Medley Relay, finishing with a time of 3:27.51. Not only did this time earn the team All-OAC honors, but it also obliterated one of the longest standing school records in program history.
Record-setting performances carried over into JCU’s events on Friday, Feb. 19. Pacak picked up right where he left off, breaking another OAC record and earning
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All-OAC honors with a first place finish in the 200 Free with a time of 1:40.23. Garrow put together a strong second day as well, claiming meaningful points for the Blue Streaks with a first place finish in the 100 Back stroke, touch-ing the wall at an impressive 51.11.
Saturday, Feb. 20, was the final oppor-tunity for a championship push for the Blue Streaks. Garrow continued his winning week-end with another victory, this time in the 200 Back (1:52.36). He also earned a second place finish with the 400 Medley Relay team. The team of Pacak, Kirtek, Garrow and Hulseman combined for a 3:08.45 finishing time, good enough for All-OAC honors.
After the weekend, Garrow spoke about how exciting the weekend was and how much this team has to look forward to.
“It was an amazing atmosphere, the whole team did a fantastic job, and I can’t wait to see what we can accomplish in the upcoming years,” said Garrow.
The third place finish for the Blue Streaks shows major improvement from last season, as JCU claimed fourth place at the OAC Championships in 2015.
Ohio Northern University won the three-day weekend with 843 points and the Univer-sity of Mount Union claimed second place with 657 points.
The John Carroll University women’s swimming and diving team traveled to Akron, Ohio to compete for three days at the Ohio Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships last weekend. A second place finish for the team and a first place recognition as the OAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year for head coach Mark Fino and company had JCU leaving Akron with nothing but good news.
Seven programs converged on the Univer-sity of Akron’s Onacek Natatorium for the OAC Championships hosted by John Carroll University, with The University of Mount Union winning the conference championship at 792 points. The Blue Streaks finished just behind Mount Union with a three-day score of 766 points.
The opening night of the championships, Thursday, Feb. 18, featured solid finishes across the board for the Blue Streaks, high-lighted by the 400 Medley Relay team consist-ing of senior Lindsey Fano, junior Amanda Casamatta and sophomores Anne Crowley and Carly Adams. The quartet capped off the night with a first place finish and a new school record of 3:53.96.
At the conclusion of Thursday night, JCU trailed only Ohio Northern University in overall points, 188-186, with Mount Union also close behind.
Record breaking performances carried over into the second installment of the week-end.
Adams, Fano, Casamatta and junior Mar-gret Zagrobelny combined for a record set-ting performance. In the 200 Medley Relay, the team of Blue Streaks placed first with a finishing time of 1:46.32 for a new OAC record. Adams would go on to add a major victory in the 400 IM, after finishing with a time of 4:34.91, good enough for a new OAC record as well.
Fano would also add a first place finish in the 100 Breaststroke, touching the wall at 1:05.76.
The final round of events on Saturday, Feb. 20, stood as the deciding night for Mount Union, JCU and ONU in each team’s race for an OAC title.
Despite another first place finish from Fano, the Blue Streaks could not catch Mount Union in the standings. JCU ultimately finished in second place, followed by ONU with 713 points in third place and Baldwin Wallace University rounding out the top four with 349 points.
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Freshman Egan Paul races toward the wall in the 200 Breaststroke during JCU’s third place finish at the OAC Championships in Akron, Ohio on Saturday, Feb. 20.
Senior Lindsey Fano takes a moment to rest after she earned All-OAC honors for winning the 200 Breaststroke with a time of 2:23.31 at the OAC
Championships at the Onacek Natatorium on Saturday, Feb. 20.
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As details emerge about the night authorities say Jason Dalton has admitted gunning down six randomly chosen victims in and around Kalamazoo - attacks apparently carried out over hours during which he also ferried passengers around town as an Uber driver - any hint as to why remains stubbornly elusive.
A prosecutor said Monday that Dalton picked up fares for the ride-hailing service after the first shooting Saturday that left a woman seriously wounded and probably got more riders after the two subsequent shootings that proved fatal. Uber officials acknowledged the company received complaints about Dalton’s erratic driving that day, and said that company policy is to contact the driver when alerted to unsafe driving. But they would not say whether anyone at the company spoke to Dalton.
Dalton, meanwhile, appeared briefly in court by video link and was charged with six counts of murder, which carry a mandatory life sentence. A judge denied bail for the 45-year-old former insurance adjuster, who Kalamazoo police Det. Cory Ghiringhelli told the court had admitted to investigators “that he took people’s lives.”
The admission seemed only to deepen the mystery of what was behind the killings of six people with no apparent connection to the
gunman. Police and prosecutors acknowledge a motive may never be fully known.
“This is a terrible moment in the community. We face violence like any other community does but nothing on this scale,” said Kalamazoo County prosecutor Jeff Getting. “We’ve lost six people, we have a 14-year-old girl clinging to life, we have another victim who is recovering, thankfully, ... we have a high school that’s lost a classmate.”
An Uber passenger said he called police to
report that Dalton was driving erratically more than an hour before the shootings began.
Matt Mellen told Kalamazoo television station WWMT that he hailed a ride around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He said Dalton introduced himself as “Me-Me” and had a dog in the backseat.
Mellen sat in front. About a mile into the trip, Dalton got a phone call, and when he hung up, he began driving recklessly, blowing through stop signs and sideswiping cars,
Mellen said.“We were driving through medians, driving
through the lawn, speeding along, and when we came to a stop, I jumped out of the car and ran away,” Mellen said. He said he called police and that when he got to his friend’s house, his fiancée posted a warning to friends on Facebook.
Saturday’s attacks began outside the Meadows apartment complex on the eastern edge of Kalamazoo County, where 25-year-old Tiana Carruthers was shot multiple times but survived. Fuller said Carruthers sensed trouble when Dalton pulled up outside her apartment and put herself between his car and several children for whom she was caring, telling them to run to their nearby home.
Getting, the prosecutor, dismissed the idea that Dalton was seeking a particular person at the complex. He said Dalton called Carruthers by a different name only “to get her attention” before opening fire.
A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and his 17-year-old son were fatally shot while looking at cars at a car dealership.
Fifteen minutes after that, five people were gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Four of them died. Initial reports indicated that 14-year-old Abigail Kopf also was among the dead after being shot once in the head, but then she squeezed her mother’s hand. She remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday night.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were named the winners in the respective Democratic Nevada caucus and Republican South Carolina primary on Saturday, Feb. 20.
Trump and Clinton won the popular vote in the respective states that night. Clinton won 52.6 percent of the Democratic vote, whereas Trump won 32.5 percent, of the Republican vote, according to The Associated Press.
These two elections, the first of the season that are in different states, come at the the beginning of the race. However, these early races help narrow down the field.
A candidate becomes the party’s nominee when they receive the most delegates of all the candidates in that party.
For Democrats, these also include “superdelegates,” which are unelected officials that vote for whomever they desire at the party’s national convention.
Leading into Super Tuesday, the day in which the most states are holding their primary elections, Clinton and Trump are
leading in the total number of delegates. This year, Super Tuesday takes place on March 1.
Ultimately, the delegate counts for each candidate matter more than a candidate winning one specific state or another. For example, despite Bernie Sander’s massive victory in the New Hampshire primary and close losses in the Iowa and Nevada
caucuses, he still faces a challenge in beating his opponent, according to The New York Times.
The future Democratic nominee will need 2,382 delegates to win. Currently, including announced superdelegates, Clinton has 502 delegates, and Bernie Sanders has 70, according to The Associated Press.
It is likely this large discrepancy will
continue to grow, especially with the upcoming primary in South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday. Partially due to high African American population in that state, a Clinton win seems likely.
Furthermore, many of the states holding elections on Super Tuesday have high Hispanic and African-American populations, which will also advantage Clinton, according to The New York Times.
Prior to the GOP Nevada caucus, RealClearPolitics noted that Trump was leading in the polls regarding the caucus with a 39 percent majority. Cruz trailed him with 23 percent, Rubio had 19 percent, Kasich had nine percent and Carson had five percent.
In regard to the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, prior to the Nevada caucus, a RealClearPolitics poll placed Trump in the lead with 33.6 percent, while Cruz followed behind with 20.4 percent. In the same poll, Rubio received 16.4 percent, Kasich received 9.8 percent and Carson received 7.4 percent.
Editor’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, The Associated Press, RealClearPolitics and The New York Times was used in this report.
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No matter what your political leanings are, we can all agree that this election has been unique. Some of us are bursting with excitement with some of the candidates in the running, while others are scared at the prospect of a particular candidate becoming the next president of the United States. No matter what your feelings are about the election, we live in a country that gives us the freedom to act on them.
Not all students at John Carroll are lucky enough to go on a fun spring break trip this year. Might I suggest an alternative to just sitting at home and watching Netflix? As good as that sounds right now, there are better and more important ways to spend our time.
One of the best ways to spend that time is to go out and volunteer with a presidential campaign.
I’ll say it again: no matter what your political leanings or feelings toward this years election there is something you can do to better our country. Let’s go through a few examples.
If you are a Bernie Sanders supporter and you cannot wait to live in a democratic socialist country, enjoy your tax refund this year, because chances are, you won’t get much back if he’s president. Then you can go out and volunteer for his campaign.
If you are a liberal, but really do not want to go live in a democratic socialist country, then go out and volunteer for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
If you are part of the silent majority and the vision of Donald Trump sitting in the White House, which I’m assuming he’ll change to gold, fires you up, then please reconsider, I am begging you. If you still want to see the White House painted gold then go out and volunteer for his campaign.
If you are a conservative and the fact that Trump is leading every poll, and is most likely to be the nominee, scares you because you think he would cause irreversible damage to the Republican Party, then go out and volunteer for Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich.
If you are a fan of Ben Carson and want to help him to continue his book tour, I guess you could go help him out as well.
The point I’m trying to get across is that there is more to the political process than just casting your vote. Voting is an important right that we all need to use come Election Day, but we can all do more than that.
The Ohio and Illinois primaries are March 15; Michigan’s is March 8 and Pennsylvania’s is April 26. There is plenty of time from now until then to make a difference in this year’s election. And when Election Day does come you can walk out of your voting booth with your head held high, knowing that you did all you could to make a difference.
Now for all you people going south for spring break, have fun and try not to be jealous of us knocking on doors up here in the cold.
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President Obama is poised to become the first sitting United States president to visit Cuba since 1928. After Obama announced the trip on Twitter, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes posted details about the trip on his Medium.com profile. It says Obama will be in Cuba on March 21 and 22 to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, Cuban civilians and “people from different walks of life.”
However, it is unlikely that Obama will see Cuba’s former president, Fidel Castro, according to Reuters.
Former President Calvin Coolidge was the last, and so far only other, United States president to visit Cuba. Coolidge arrived in the country on the USS Texas battleship for the sixth annual International Conference of American States in Havana, according to ABC News. When Coolidge was President, the U.S. practically governed Cuba in exchange for withdrawing military forces from the island, The Atlantic reports. This visit paved the way for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor Policy” of non-intervention in Latin America.
Obama is making the trip to enhance social and economic progress for Cuban civilians. Rhodes stated, “Even as we pursue normalization, we’ve made clear that we will continue to have serious differences with the Cuban government — particularly on human rights.”
He also said that Cuba currently does not allow freedom of speech or assembly. Josefina Vidal, director of U.S. affairs for the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said the Cuban government is willing to talk with the
United States about its concerns, according to Reuters.
It is a risk for President Obama to try and change Cuba by aggressively engaging the country rather than remaining isolationist, according to The New York Times.
Re-opening relations with Cuba will be one of Obama’s major foreign policy accomplishments in the past year. ABC News reported that the relations started with Obama’s promise to start diplomatic talks with Raul Castro after the release of U.S. contractor Alan Gross in December 2014.
Months later, Obama announced that the U.S. and Iran had agreed to a deal to limit Iran’s capabilities to build nuclear missiles in exchange for lifting economic sanctions on Iran. Iran finished its part of the deal in January, CNN reported.
Republican senators and presidential
candidates Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), both of Cuban descent, disagreed with Obama’s decision to visit Cuba. At the CNN Town Hall on Feb. 17, when asked about whether he would visit Cuba as president, Rubio said “Not if it’s not a free Cuba. They’re a repressive regime. There’s no elections. No choice in Cuba.” According to NBC News, Cruz said he was “saddened” when he heard Obama would make a trip to Cuba and he vowed “never to visit the country as long as Castro is in power.’”
First Lady Michelle Obama will join her husband on the trip, according to ABC News. They will then go on to Argentina for two days after leaving Cuba.
Editor’s Note: Information from NBC News, CNN, Medium, ABC News, Reuters and The Atlantic was used in this report.
A car bomb was detonated in the city center of Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Wednesday Feb. 17, during rush hour. According to The New York Times, 28 people were killed and roughly 60 were injured in the attack. The attack targeted a military convoy as they passed through the city’s administrative district, which is close to government buildings, Turkey’s parliament and Turkish military headquarters. The bomb blast and ensuing smoke and fire caused panic among the residents all over the city, The Guardian reported.
The deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Numan Kurtulmus, issued a statement condemning the attacks as an act of terrorism against the Turkish military, the Turkish state and her people because of the targeting of a military convoy and the innocent people injured in the attack, The Guardian reported. The Turkish government made it clear that the attack only steeled their resolve against insurgencies. Turkey has had problems with terror attacks in the past, and is fighting both the Islamic State and several Kurdish militant groups, according to The New York Times.
The Turkish government has struggled with this militia groups in the past. Two of these groups, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, and a Syrian-based group, the YPG, support one another against the Turkish government. The Turkish government has blamed the PKK for the car bomb in Ankara.
According to the BBC, the Turkish government made 14 reported arrests of suspects in the attacks. They have also named a suspect of the crime, a Turkish
national with ties to the PKK and YPG. These two groups, both classified as terrorist organizations by the Turks, deny any involvement.
While Turkey’s western allies support its conflicts with the Islamic State, the United States supports the YPG against the Islamic State and does not support Turkey’s actions against Kurdish forces. The Kurdish forces have been fighting the Turkish government for independence, as well as the Islamic State for sovereignty in the region. The BBC notes that this year saw an end to Turkish-Kurdish ceasefires and an uptick in terror activity by Kurds and subsequent reprisals by the Turks.
Another Kurdish terror organization, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), claimed responsibility for the attacks and that the Turkish national Abdulbaki Sonmez was the perpetrator. The TAK
is an offshoot of the PKK. the TAK has vowed more attacks after referencing the Kurdish situation in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, according to the BBC. Turkey insists that the TAK was acting with the support of the YPG, though the United States has contended this claim.
The United States and the YPG deny any involvement with the PKK, and deny the unsubstantiated claims of the Turks that the YPG smuggled US supplied weapons to the PKK and TAK, the BBC reported, though the United States has admitted to supplying the YPG to fight the Islamic State. The BBC reported that a State Department official reiterated that continued American support for Syrian Kurds is damaging U.S.-Turkish relations.
Editor’s Note: Information from The Guardian, The New York Times and BBC News was used in this report.
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The third largest wireless provider in the United States, T-Mobile, has posted stellar number in the fourth quarter of 2015 according to Bloomberg.
T-Mobile’s accomplishments in 2015 were quite remarkable in a market that is overfull with wireless provider compa-nies. Its fourth quarter earnings, released Wednesday, Feb 17, beat initial projec-tions.
In the fourth quarter, net income was $297 million, compared to $101 million in the same quarter last year.
Fourth quarter revenue rose to 8.25 bil-lion, beating the projections of 8.2 billion. The fourth quarter was the icing on top of the cake for a fantastic 2015, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Net income was $733 million, and revenue was up 8.4 percent from 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Investors are impressed with a fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.34 almost double the $0.18 predicted by Wall Street. EPS for the year was $0.82.
Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile added 2.1 million new customers in the fourth quarter, giving the wireless carrier 63 million total added to its customer base in 2015.
In comparison, Verizon added a million customers in its fourth quarter, making T-Mobiles numbers even more impressive.
T-Mobile can attribute much of its success in attracting new customers to its new services and marketing.
Data rollover plans, which allow cus-tomers to roll over their data from one
month to the next, are a huge attraction for consumers.
Another promotion is “Binge On,” which allows users to watch videos from certain providers that does not count against their monthly data.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere is very excit-ed about the Binge On service. He told The New York Times that he told his investors, “I maintain that Binge On will be one of the biggest things we’ve ever done as a company.”
Free music streaming, with the Music Freedom service, has also helped to expand T-Mobile’s customer base.
T-Mobiles Equipment Installment Plan allows customers to pay for phones with a small monthly fee, making expensive phones seem more affordable.
“Jump,” another T-Mobile initiative, allows users to upgrade to the latest smart-phone model up to three times a year.
T-Mobile prides itself on listening to what consumers want and they have at-tempted to address many issues with these new promotions. Consumers have responded well.
J.D. Power recognized T-Mobile for its customer care with the highest rating among full service providers, according to The New York Times.
T-Mobile plans to continue to their pro-motions that help to separate them from the competition.
T-Mobile expects to add between 2.4 and 3.4 million new customers in the upcoming year, and if this momentum continues that addition is within reach.
Editor’s Note: Information from The New York Times, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal was used in this report.
Tax time is nearly upon us again, and 2016 will bring some tax changes you need to know about before you complete the required tax forms this year.
By learning about them before the new year is already a quarter of the way done, and before making a payment, it would be wise to learn the steps for this year and the coming years.
Here are the 7 biggest tax changes you should know about going into 2016 that will be in effect on the first tax day.
The first tax day of 2016 is April 18: the Washington, D.C., holiday of Eman-cipation Day is on Friday, April 15, 2016. Under federal law, the tax deadline gets extended when it falls on a holiday or weekend, and so the tax deadline for most
taxpayers will be the following Monday, April 18.
For those states in New England that celebrate Patriot’s Day, an even later April 19 deadline will apply.
Tax penalties related to Obamacare are going up again: the Affordable Care Act imposed penalties for those not having qualifying health care coverage.
According to Bloomberg, those penal-ties started at $95 per adult, or 1 percent of income above the filing threshold in 2014, but they rose to $285 per adult, or 2 percent of income above the filing limit in 2015.
For 2016, penalties will rise again, hitting $695 per adult, or 2.5 percent of income.
A family maximum will apply to the per-person amount, but the $2,085 amount will be substantially higher than the $975 in 2015, and the $285 in 2014 reported Bloomberg.
Tax brackets are rising slightly: most of
the tax brackets that govern different classes of taxpayers are adjusted for inflation. For 2016, these bracket amounts are rising by roughly 0.4 percent.
Standard deductions are going up for head-of-household filers. The current low inflation rate kept standard deductions for most taxpayers steady in 2016 from 2015 levels, including the single, married filing jointly, and married filing separately statuses.
For those who qualify as heads of house-hold, the standard deduction will rise $50 to $9,300 in 2016 reported Bloomberg.
Personal exemptions are rising: the per-sonal exemption that taxpayers are entitled to take on their tax returns will go up by $50 in 2016. That will give everyone an exemption amount of $4,050.
Contribution limits on health savings ac-counts are going up: Health savings accounts let people with high-deductible health plans set money aside on a pretax basis to cover the
costs of their health care. For 2016, the contribution limit for
individual policies will remain at $3,350, but the maximum contribution for family policies will rise by $100 to $6,750.
In addition, a catch-up contribution of $1,000 for those 55 or older will continue to apply.
The Earned Income Credit is rising: the maximum allowable Earned Income Credit will go up modestly in 2016 com-pared to the past five years.
For those with three or more qualifying children, the maximum credit will rise to $6,269, up $27.
Bloomberg also reported that those with two children will get a maximum $5,572, which is up $24 from 2015, while one-child families can get up to $3,373, $14 more than last year. Those without children get just a $3 bump and can claim up to $506 for 2016.
Ticket-sell ing service Fandango, owned by cable giant Comcast Corpo-rations, is diversifying its online movie offerings agreeing to acquire the digital movie businesses Flixster and Rotten To-matoes from Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Entertainment.
This agreement will be bringing two Hollywood studios together online. Comcast bought Fandango in 2007, while Warner Bros. acquired Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes in 2011.
Rotten Tomatoes, whose “Tomatom-eter” has garnered the website a loyal following of over 20 million monthly visitors, aggregates movie reviews and valid review scores immediately after the movies premiere, according to The Wall Street Journal. Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes’ relation’s website, allows users to share and discover new TV shows and movies, as well as rent or buy digital movies.
On the other hand, Warner Bros. Enter-tainment, the film studio owned by Time Warner, will remain a strategic partner. They will receive a minority stake in Fan-dango, the companies said on Wednesday Feb. 17 according to Bloomberg.
The terms of the deal, however, were not fully disclosed or official until Feb 18. The Wall Street Journal reported that both Warner Bros. and Fandango have been negotiating agreements about this equity deal since December 2015.
“From learning about new movies to getting to the movies to the home enter-tainment experience, this gives us the chance to create a consistent, one-stop shop, high quality experience for the entire movie cycle,” Fandango President Paul Yanover reported to USA Today.
In addition, USA Today reported that Fandango President Yanover that it makes since for Fandango to acquire Rotten Tomatoes because of how complimentary
both their businesses are. Besides this most recent purchase of
Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango purchased the streaming service M-Go in January 2016 and plans to re-brand it later this year as part of its digital network, accord-ing to Bloomberg.
Fandango’s acquisition doesn’t include Flixster’s video streaming service. How-ever, Flixster plans to switch its users over to Fandango’s video service later this year and shut down its own service by the end of this year.
Flixster provides for Fandango a simi-lar proposition to content already offered by Fandango around movie information and show times, but for a largely different audience. Flixster will allow Fandango and loyal followers to connect easier and find more ticket options reported Bloomberg.
Fandango President Yanover told USA Today that this recent deal will lead to new services, including “super tickets” for major film franchises like “The Avengers” or the “Fast and Furious” movies.
Another new feature that will be intro-duced will be a bundling option, allowing viewers to buy a bundle that includes a movie ticket, a previous movie from the franchise, and a pre-purchase copy for the home entertainment version of the movie.
Fandango reached 40.3 million peo-ple in the U.S. in January, according to Bloomberg, while Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes together have 19.4 million visitors.
Combined, the three online companies would be a close second online company to Amazon.com Inc.’s IMDb, which has 73.8 million unique visitors last month. Flixster and Fandango together have more than 100 million mobile app downloads, according to the Bloomberg.
Editor ’s Note: Information from Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today was used in this report.
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In August, 2015, China’s yuan lost some serious value. This has caused many people to doubt the overall strength of the Chinese economy.
While this is very alarming to people living in China, it is also alarming to the rest of the world. China has the second largest grossing economy behind that of the United States. When an economy that large goes into a recession, it causes a ripple effect. Countries like the United States who trade commodities heavily with China, will feel the repercussions of their slowdown.
The news of China’s slowdown is not very surprising. Signs of a slowdown were evident back in the third quarter of 2015 at least, and perhaps even earlier. When the Chinese yuan took a dive in August, its economy did as well.
Some forecasters saw this coming back then, and are now saying that their losses haven’t hit their low yet. These same forecasters are predicting that it won’t just be China experiencing a slow-ing growth pattern.
Raoul Paul, publisher of The Global Macro Investor, said, “The risk of a very bad outcome in 2016 and 2017 remains the highest probability.”
In my opinion, he’s right. The ef-fects of China’s slowdown won’t be felt immediately. There is already talk of an imminent recession in the United States. With the largest and second larg-est economies in the world experiences economic disturbances it seems that we can only be headed down the drain.
Of course there are the optimists that will look at the successful growth that the United States saw in 2015 and insist that all skies are blue regardless of China’s success or failure.
However, when you look at our past experiences with recessions and balanc-ing the fluctuations in the market, I am more inclined to think that the future is not so rosy.
While China saw a slight rebound at the beginning of February for its New Year celebration, it is hard to ignore the evidence that showing their distress.
Chinese commodities are trading at the lowest price ever in 15 years. The oil crisis isn’t doing Chinese suppliers any good, and Chinese manufacturing and services have fallen to new lows.
To make matters worse, Chinese trad-ing indexes are slipping. The Minxin manufacturing index reports numbers in the 30-45 range. Any number below 50 implies slowing market conditions.
Now is a critical time to take action in both Chinese and American economies. The new year not only ushered in a wave of new economic woes, but also a new wave of anxiety for policy makers as they decide what steps to take in order to keep the markets from going under.
Marielle BuffamonteBusiness & Finance Editor
Chinese New Year brings new woes
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On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Google officially passed its driver’s test.
Google has been working toward launching its driverless car line since 2010, and now, they are one step closer to achieving their goal.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) officially rec-ognized Google’s artificial intelligence robotic driving system as a legal equiva-lent to a real diver.
This recognition is a huge victory for Google, and other companies trying to develop a driverless car system. It brings them one step closer to putting their self-driving cars on the road.
According to The Washington Post, Google has previously inserted its driving technology into pre-existing cars.
Now, they have their very own two-seater.
This car not only lacks a steering wheel, it is also missing an accelerator and brake pad.
While this may be alarming to some people, Google claims that the sensors on the outside of this car can sense things as far away as “two football fields.”
According to The Washington Post, Google aims to have at least 100 of its self-driving cars on the road by this time next year.
However, it will most likely not be able to release a mass number of its vehicles for another five years.
The big question for many is, who will be to blame if two driverless cars get into
an accident? Several companies that are developing
self-driving cars, including Google and Volvo, have already claimed responsibil-ity for such accidents, according to BBC News.
There have already been several reports of autonomous cars getting into accidents, but none of the cars were found at fault.
Google states their cars could elimi-nate a large portion of the 1.2 million deaths that occur every year from traffic accidents.
Approximately 94 percent of all traffic accidents can be attributed to human error, a problem that will not be a factor with self-driving vehicles.
A lack of human error on the road could potentially make any commute safer.
Although many people are still weary with their trust in in the autonomous driving, this new software could benefit many people.
Google uses the classic example of a blind man who needs to prearrange a ride every time he wants to go somewhere. This could also benefit people with other kinds of disabilities that prevent them from driving.
While Google and other car companies developing these self-driving cars are still a long way from selling their cars to the general public, their small victory with the NHSTA has helped to pave the way for the future of driving.
Editor’s Note: Information from The Washington Post, Recode and BBC News was used in this report.
Marielle BuffamonteBusiness & Finance Editor
Apple’s response to FBI demands after San Bernardino shooting
On Dec. 2, 2015, a married couple opened fire on their coworker’s holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino California.
In this attack 14 individuals lost their lives and upwards of 20 others were wounded. The attackers were cornered by the authorities and died in a gun battle.
This event was widely seen as an act of terrorism. Many believe that this case should be investigated from every possible angle in order to prevent attacks like this from ever occurring in the future.
Recently, Apple CEO Tim Cook has drawn the line. In response to the shooting, the FBI approached Cook and Apple in the hopes that the tech cooperation would aid in unlocking the San Bernardino shooters’ iPhone in order to glean more information regarding the attacker’s connections and radicalization, according to CBS News.
The FBI received a judge’s order, allow-ing them to demand Apple make the passcode available to them.
Apple has refused to comply with the order, stating on the company’s website in a customer letter, that “When the FBI has requested data that’s in our possession, we have provided it. Apple complies with valid subpoenas and search warrants, as we have in the San Bernardino case. We have also made Apple engineers available to advise the FBI, and we’ve offered our best ideas on a number of investigative options at their disposal.”
However Apple, through the mouthpiece of an open letter by Cook, goes on to state that completely unlocking the phone will establish a dangerous precedent that would infringe upon the privacy of all iPhone users, and tech users in general according to The New York Daily News.
Apple stated that unlocking this phone would not be as simple as looking up the pass-code and handing it over to the FBI.
To unlock this phone, Cook wrote to the FBI, a “backdoor” would need to be created to allow IOS encryption to be bypassed, according to Apple customer letter.
This would require Apple to create a com-pletely new version of IOS that zooms past all privacy safeguards.
Apple argues that the creation of this soft-ware would endanger the private information of all its users, as the technology will exist for their privacy to be compromised reported by Apple’s website.
Cook also argued that, while these acts of terror are inexcusable and all avenues of inves-tigation should be explored, Apple unlocking this iPhone would create a nasty precedent in future cases.
While in a handful of previous cases Apple has unlocked earlier versions of the IPhone that did not possess this encryption for law enforcement, Apple has officially established
their stance and protocol on this issue. Along side Apple, both Google and Yahoo announced on Friday Feb. 19 that they are on Apple’s side concerning this issue according to The New York Daily News.
They defend this decision, stating that, “The implications of the government’s demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data” reported by CBS News.
The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveil-lance software to intercept your messages, ac-cess your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s mi-crophone or camera without your knowledge.” Regardless of who is morally “right” in this case the president has now been established by Apple in favor of privacy over security.
Editor’s Note: Information from CBS News, The New York Daily News and Apple was used in this report.
Jackie WitwickiThe Carroll News
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Google’s driverless cars become a reality
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recognizes Google’s driverless car as a real and liable driver in an address on Tuesday, Feb. 2.
APGoogle CEO, Tim Cook, fights for the privacy of Apple users as he objects
the court-ordered unlocking of one of the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone.
Dear Hribar,The third floor of the library is a silent zone, which means that even heavy breathing will get you in trouble. It is there, in the silent oppression, where I see her. I have never seen her outside of this quiet chrysalis. There is no way to speak; we can only smile and glance. I’m not sure how to press forward when there is practically duct tape on my mouth. Hribar, how do I handle this silent love?-Among the Silence
Dear Among the Silence,Well if you can’t speak, then maybe write your number on a piece of paper? If you think that’s too forward, give her your email and ask her out for coffee in the basement of the library where there’s a more lax discussion area. I’m not quite familiar with the third floor of the library, but I’m sure a few whispered words would be acceptable.
Dear Hribar,My boyfriend and I have had a very passive-aggressive relationship these days. For instance, a couple of days ago, my boyfriend complained about my choice of dinner, which happened to be Chipolte. He verbally accosted me and kept rolling his eyes while I tried to defend myself. I dealt with it for a long time, but then I snapped at him. I don’t feel fully bad about my result; we were both being unreasonable. Regardless, the situation has been dicey lately. I don’t know how to fix this problem and I’m wor-
ried that it’s going to continue. What happens if this con-tinues?-Passive Penny
Dear Penny,A good question to ask yourself is: “what is causing this passive-aggres-sion behavior?” Did something occur previously in the relationship that triggered this
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THIRD FLOOR LIBRARY CRUSH & OFF THE RAILS!behavior? Or perhaps, this has been hap-pening for the entire time and now you are noticing the passive aggression. Either way, you have two options: to either address the behavior, or settle. It seems like the be-havior is continuing and escalating which makes this seem like something to address. If you address it, be careful and don’t blame your boyfriend. Talk about situations briefly and construct an open atmosphere. That can improve your conversations in the future to avoid eye-rolling and intensive arguments.
Dear Hribar,I’m worried that the lines are blurring be-tween myself and a friend. I’m not inter-ested in being anything more than friends, but there have been conversations between us that imply that something is happening. I don’t think my friend wants to be in a re-lationship, it just seems like we are a train that’s been slightly derailed. What should I do?-Off The Rails
Dear Off The Rails,This sounds more foggy than a forest thick with mist. Sometimes the lines can be blurred, and in this situation it doesn’t seem like either of you want a relationship. What’s different is that it’s leaving the friend area. Since I don’t know the specifics (and seems like you don’t either), I think you need to think about what is directly causing this. What’s been said and how is it being implicated? Perhaps you’re becoming bet-ter friends and that feels weird. If this con-tinues, you may get over your feeling that your relationship is entering a weird stage and it might naturally work itself out. At the same time, if it continues, it could get more blurred, or even push itself toward a rela-tionship. Think about it, and continue with open eyes.
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On Thursday, Feb. 16, John Carroll University brought in Bonnie
Mann, a professor from the University of Oregon, to give a guest
lecture on the philosophical phenomenon she calls, “Sovereign
Masculinity.” She describes this as “the need to prove one’s mas-
culinity, or manliness.” The presentation, “Sovereign Masculinity:
The War on Terror, Mass Shootings and the Trump Campaign,”
brought in over 150 students, staff and administrators.
The Carroll News recognizes the success of the event and the
interesting take on political and social affairs that the speaker
brought to campus. There is no doubting the value of such a pre-
sentation, and it surely left the audience with an enriched stance on
socialized masculinity. Regardless of its success, the presentation
was remarkably partisan.
Mann was clearly left-leaning. When she wanted to make a point
about a negative societal phenomenon, she never once alluded to the
actions of a Democratic politician and instead relied on the faults
of only the Republican party. Mann was quite clear she does not
give much merit to Donald Trump as a legitimate political actor.
Mann emphasized her belief that sovereign masculinity causes cur-
rent events, including The War on Terror and the Trump campaign.
The Carroll News does not see any problem with the presenta-
tion that took place last week. However, it seems only fair that the
University can accordingly present the student body with a speaker
that takes a more conservative stance on the modern political arena
in order to encourage balance.
John Carroll, a university openly urging students to be open-
minded in classrooms, should condone understanding both sides
of government conversation in order to develop a well-understood
view of current political events. In the interest of fairness, it would
be only appropriate the school to offer a moderate or right-leaning
speaker that could provide a counterstand.
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As the sun sifted through the church’s stained glass window, the rays refused to comfort my shoulders with warmth.
It was reconciliation day at school, and as I shifted in my chair as the priest looked upon me with disappointed eyes, all I could was cry.
Between tears, I attempted to explain the root of my confusion. As I had gotten older, I had been told time and time again that the beliefs I held in my heart weren’t welcome.It should come at no surprise to readers now that poli-tics is an inseperable part of my life. The older I became, the more I realized that my belief system I
I’ve always been a bit ad-dicted to the news. I’ve been watching Meet the Press for as long as I can remember, and ear ly Sunday mornings as a small child were always spent sitting on my dad’s lap reading the newspaper with him and stealing sips of his bitter black coffee.
I l ove po l i t i c a l cove rage and constantly try my hardest to stay up to date with the here and now.
Tha t sa id , I don’t expec t everyone to be quite that into it. But I’m not sure if there’s anything that grinds my gears quite like someone who hasn’t got the faintest idea of what’s going on in the world. And get-ting your news from entertain-ers like Trevor Noah and John Oliver does not count.
S u r e , p e o p l e k n o w t h a t Kanye West is supposedly $53 million in debt and that Rihanna and Drake are in a music video together, but I wonder if some people have any idea who’s run-ning for president, that Apple is refusing to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino shooter or that Harper Lee, author of To Kil l a Mockingbird, died last week?
Many seem more concerned with the apparent budding feud between Demi Lovato and Tay-lor Swift than with the current presidential race.
The closest many people our age get to news is watching funny videos like the Game of Thrones/Donald Trump mash-up that’s going viral (although, I watched i t and got a good chuckle out of it).
Now, I’m in no way trying to be a “news snob” of sorts. I too spend a little more time
perusing Buzzfeed than I ought to. I’ve gotten several good laughs from Chrissy Teigen’s tweets. And yes, I have watched Adele’s Grammy performance about a half dozen times.
Realist ically, though, how much bearing does any of this have on our lives?
None. It has none. I understand that i t might
not be fun and exciting to pick up a newspaper or l i s ten to the morning news. But it’s so incredibly important.
I f you a r e ex t r eme ly i l l -informed about the 2016 presi-dential race, chances are that you either don’t intend to vote, or you’re going to vote blindly, probably for whoever your par-ents or friends are voting.
Stop. Please. Don’t. Spend a solid ten minutes on the In-ternet figuring out which can-didate aligns with your beliefs.
If you are at the point where you don’t have any beliefs, I am deeply concerned for you.
Here’s the thing—whoever gets elected will likely be our president for the next four to e igh t yea r s , un l e s s t hey do something heinous enough to be impeached. Now, you might be t h ink ing , “ t he p r e s iden t has never had any effect on my life.” However, if you’re a member of Generation Y like myself, that’s probably because you have yet to reach full in-dependence. Believe me—this e l ec t ion , r ega rd le s s o f who becomes president, will affect your l i fe , p la in and s imple . Educate yourself and go vote for someone you believe in.
But the importance of stay-ing informed extends beyond the presidential race. Why live with your head in the sand? Take a couple minutes out of each day to check out the cur-rent events. Pull up Google’s n e w s p a g e . I n s t a l l a n e w s app on your phone. Have the Skimm’s newsletter delivered to your inbox. Stay informed.
had developed in terms of repro-ductive rights, marriage equality and the like were in opposition to what leaders of my church told me to think. After being told the fig-ures I idolized were baby-killers and that my thoughts would land me in Hell (if I started to shut up, purgatory, if I was lucky), I figured I would give up a way of life that consistently made me feel unworthy. Because religious adults in authority validated my peers’ criticism, I assumed that my beliefs were inherently at odds, and that I would never find a place in religion.
Every time I went to confes-sion, I was hoping to get the reas-surance in my belief that religion is so much more than manmade dogma and political pettiness. My admittance of the month that day was that I believed my best friend of 15 years, whom I loved more than life and happened to be gay, should be able to get married like the rest of us. As the young priest’s brow furrowed, he asked “Let me put it this way. Would you
still be friends with a murderer or thief, too?” In my embarrassment, I straightened my plaid-skirt, choked back a sob, and ran to my locker as quickly as my saddle shoes could take me. I wish I was making this up, but I’m not.
In a time in my life when I was so desperately trying to find myself, the Church that formerly validated all of my harmless child-hood speculations now made me feel like an unwanted visitor. In my 21 years of living, I haven’t known a worse feeling yet.
As I moved away from people in my past who saw Catholicism in such a limited way and real-ized that their thoughts were not representative of the very diverse body of thought that comprises the Catholic Church, I’ve come to a really comfortable place in my personal spirituality (thank you, Jesuits).
But as things usually go, just as I’ve gotten comfortable, little reminders of toxic-youth-groups-past make their way into my daily life. For example, a student in one
of my classes said this week, “If you’re Christian, you’re voting [insert political party here]. To be fair, the political party to which the student was alluding has made some interesting claims as of late. Donald Trump said recently, “I will be the best representative Christians have had in a long time.” The most recent scuffle between Cruz and Rubio stemmed from a fake video released by Cruz making Rubio seem unlearned on the Old Testament. Even Kasich has said that he wants to “export and ‘push’ America’s Judeo-Christian belief system across the world.” All I can think of when I hear these things is “please get over yourselves.”
American culture has always favored exceptionalist mindsets in a multitude of arenas, whether it is nationalism, racial privilege, gender roles or theocentrism. Since we have been ladled the kool aid of being a Christian nation founded by white men, we have consequently coddled and pro-tected that facet of the population
in disproportionate ways. When other groups make small
steps of progress, “christian” politicians push back. Women have legal control of their bodies? That’s anti-Christian. The right to legal marriage being extended to all people? Anti-Christian. When undocumented immigrants are treated inhumanely, as young black children are killed inno-cently and the poor continue to get poorer and people of other faiths are disrespected, these same politicians remain comfortable and callous in their position of privilege.
I realized that the only explana-tion to people using their religion to explain otherwise illogical matters of politics or law, is fear. For what seems like the first time, people our age are beginning to question the phenomenon of paristan prayerfulness. It is time for our nation to stop validating religious exceptionalism, it is only
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Lately, I have been thinking about my life. What I want to do when I graduate college, where I would like to end up and who I would like to have with me through it all. Time after time, I feel as if I have been bombarded with questions of intrigue, only to realize I’m not quite sure what the answers are.
However, I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. We may be unsure of what is in store for us, but if there is one thing that is abso-lutely concrete in life, it’s that change is inevitable.
This past weekend, I took my new Polaroid Instax out with me to a few get-togethers, figuring it would be fun to capture some memories in such an “instant”
Snapshots on the wallway. As I gathered close to a group of my friends counting down “3…2…1” the flash went off, and that moment was forever captured in time. Shaking the polaroid in the air, I thought how wonderful it would be to hang up with the collection of others on my wall. Being the overly sentimental person I am, glanc-ing over to these warm memories frozen in time always gives me a feeling of home.
Our lives are reflective of these polaroids. Each memory we make, minuscule or life chang-ing, is a snapshot in time blazed into our minds the moment the flash goes off. Of course, I have these glorious little snapshots in my head about what I would like my life to look like. The visions I create during the occasional day-dreams in class tend to cloud my head with the picture perfect life I imagine for myself. However, I have to bring myself back down to reality and realize that not everything will turn out exactly how I have imagined it would. There will be roadblocks set in my way, leaving me to question what I was really even trying
to accomplish in the first place. However, there will also be de-tours around those roadblocks, opening new paths I did not know even existed.
When I start to become anx-ious about what I will make of myself one day, I have to sit back and remind myself, I am here for a reason. I may not have it all fig-ured out now, and quite honestly I might not have it completely figured out in two years. But I now realize that each moment in my life has led up to this very second, as I sit here writing this to you.
These snapshots hold such special meaning to me. They bring back memories of the beau-tiful twinkle in a friend’s eye, the gentle tinny sound of a laugh; as the saying goes, a picture truly is with a thousand words. Although I am not quite sure what I would like to do with my life come graduation from John Carroll, when I look back I want to be happy with the snapshots I see hanging on the wall.
Looking back, I’m sure we can all remember a time or two when we argued about the “per-fect temperature.” Throughout my grade school years, I pro-posed arguments against the chilly winter and boiling summer months. The perfect tempera-ture in my book was always 68 degrees, because at 68 degrees the shorts come out and the sun doesn’t just feel warm. The sun feels new.
Over the weekend I s lept without boundaries. Saturday morning – no alarm, no wakeup calls, nothing. Around 10:00 a.m. I found myself stretching, arms reaching toward the light steeping through the windows and the grayish curtain gap. I pulled out my phone and opened the weather app. “High of the day” – 68 degrees.
As much as I love having all four seasons, warm weather truly brings something new to the table. An energy rises from within and guilt consumes our bedridden bodies.
I woke up with the intent of having an “anything can happen Saturday,” which, I assumed, meant Netflix and naps until I had to babysit later in the eve-ning. To my surprise, though, I could not even force myself to stay in bed on such a beautiful day.
Unconvinced by the weather app, I made my way over to the front door and stepped out onto the Warrensville porch.
Perfect.This week, the week lead-
ing up to spring break, has the reputation of being totally over-whelming. For many, midterm exams are lined up and study breaks are seldom. Suddenly, those classes you had zero work in and looking at the syllabus wasn’t exactly necessary, turn
into an overwhelming agenda of papers and tests. This may also have something to do with indi-vidual procrastination, but aside from that point, nobody wants that kind of build up all at once.
This week is unavoidable, though.
Students and staff alike have to get through the days leading up to spring break with chins up, remembering vacation is just around the corner. Having a day like Saturday thrown into the mix is both moderately and extremely beneficial.
My Saturday consisted of a long run outside, ending at the Don Shula Stadium. Boys were tossing around a football, two girls were running on the field and I set up post at the far end, nearest to the flagpole, with a medicine ball and a band for stretching. It was the perfect scenario for “me time.”
I did not take my phone with me to workout–something very rare–and it was entirely sooth-ing. In our day and age with RTA buses, trains and countless amounts of motor vehicles on the road, there are very few times to sit back and listen to the earthly part of the world.
While sitting and stretching I heard the boys catch and drop the football. The smack of a hand and ball hitting the turf made the tosser yell out with disappoint-ment. “How did you not catch that?” He said.
I turned and watched for a minute, pretending to look at my watch and rotate into my next position when they saw me look-ing. It was hard not to do. I was so floored by the beautiful day and how at peace I was. I simply wanted to see how the world was reacting around me.
Down the way the girls ran perpendicular to the goal posts. They laughed and panted as one of them beat the other. I was happy to be completely alone in this moment, but it did make me excited to go home and sit on the front lawn of my neighbors’ yard and wave at honking cars with my friends.
Saturday was a day to play catch-up. It was meant to take a step back and breath in the world we often forget is right in front of us. For the first time in months, I felt the wind on my face and I appreciated it. Saturday, for me, was an escape from the stresses of school and work. It was sim-ply a special day of appreciation for the sunshine, and I stand by my argument–there’s something special about 68 degrees.
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As I was in the newsroom this week, I looked over what the Campus section had written, as usual, and I saw the article that talked about the on-campus lecture called “Sovereign Mas-culinity: The War on Terror, Mass Shootings, and the Trump Campaign.”
Now, if you read my column on a somewhat regular basis, you would know that I love guest lectures—I wrote about how valuable I think that they are a week or two ago—and I was really bummed when I couldn’t show up to this one. I make it a point to try and listen to as many guest speakers as I can, especially when they are even somewhat related to polit-ical science or current affairs.
But I had to go to Miami University for a Model Arab League competition (we won first place, by the way—con-grats to the team) and missed it, though I am told it was well at-tended and entertaining. People who were there told me that the speaker, Bonnie Mann, took a philosophical approach to ex-plain the rise of Donald Trump
and, more broadly, certain as-pects of the modern political climate in the United States.
Again, I wasn’t there, so I cannot really comment on how the talk went myself—I read about it after the fact and was told about it, but simply from that I cannot determine whether I agree or disagree with Ms. Mann’s approach. But the entire event did make me ask myself, “why don’t we have more of these?”
Not more guest lectures—John Carroll does a great job, especially for a small school, a t br inging in dis t inguished visitors.
What I mean to say is, why don’t we have more social sci-entists speak about the modern poli t ical cl imate in America from the point of view of their respective disciplines?
The 2016 election has the potential to be, arguably, the most intriguing in American history—there is a very good chance that come November, Americans could be forced to select either an authoritarian-like right-winger or a “demo-crat ic socia l is t” to lead the world’s most powerful nation. The world of American politics is remarkably polarized and we all, as an electorate, have a great many foreign policy decisions looming on the horizon that will redefine our role in the interna-tional political arena.
That’s a lot to think about. Accordingly, I think it would
be great for the University to sponsor a lecture series that offers interpretations of today’s political climate from a variety of social-scientific standpoints. It wouldn’t have to be guest lecturers, either—JCU is filled with brilliant professors in the College of Arts & Sciences that could present some great s tand-points.
Naturally, the political sci-ence department has and will continue to make much ado about the upcoming elections. But it would be very benefi-cial for the student body of John Carroll to be offered explanations of their political culture from a philosophi-cal, sociological, economic, h is tor ica l , psychologica l , and perhaps even theological vantage point.
Compared to other demo-graphics, we are not very po-litically active. Our age group is notorious for sporting a shamefully low voter turnout for each election.
Pe rhaps under s t and ing our unique political culture from a number of diverse, academic standpoints would help the JCU community not only show up to the polls, but also understand our compli-cated political environment and make a well-educated decision in November.
As the Presidential race intensifies, candidates are jostling for their party’s nomination. One of those candidates is Ohio’s own, Gov. John Kasich. Last week, Kasich was in the news because of a bill that was presented to him that would deny Planned Parenthood $1.3 million in grant funding. Another article that The Carroll News published sever-al weeks ago focused on the March for Life. The bill’s potential to positively impact the pro-life movement caused me to reflect on my journey home from the March for Life.
We are one of the few people who can say that they danced, sang, and celebrated Mass on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Unfortunately, this came at the cost of sitting in the same seat on the same bus at the same mile marker with the same people for nearly a day. We had attended the March for Life before, but we had never experienced anything like this. For the last 43 years, pro-life activists from all over the country have travelled to Washington, D.C. to attend the march. The journey takes place on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
As marchers returned home this year, two feet of snow buried the east coast, creating treacherous driving con-ditions. At 7:00 p.m. on Friday, our bus of 40 John Carroll University students came to a halt at mile marker 132.8 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. There had been an accident. We remained in that spot for the rest of the night, near the front of a long line of March for Life buses that extended for miles. The
snow continued to fall relentlessly, and I anticipated news stories finally featur-ing the March for Life. The popular media covered the predicament of the travelers, but no emphasis was placed on why we travelled. I hope to provide that emphasis.
We remember a distinct moment in which I felt belittled by the vastness of the snow. We had been sitting for 15 hours on the Pennsylvania turnpike and my body ached from being in the same position. We got off the bus to stretch our legs, and for the first time we realized how severe the situation had become. Snow was up to our knees. Semi-trucks that had always seemed so large now appeared defeated. The snow trapped them and patches of ice formed around their wheels. We were in a bus that had a gas tank which held 125 gallons. It required one gallon for every hour that it sat idling on the highway. I was cold, but it could have been far worse. Some people around us were in cars which ran out of gas during the night. The snow was dangerous; it terrified us.
But morning came, and something beautiful happened. The very snow which brought us into this mess created an altar for our very first (and probably last) snow Mass. Hundreds of people gathered on the shoulder of what had been a busy highway. That day, the roads were extraordinarily silent as the snow fell. The anticipation built among the crowd of pro-lifers as we waited for Mass to begin. Some marchers sang well-known hymns. We peered over those in front of me, and saw a man holding an umbrella to the right of the altar. The umbrella created a makeshift
tabernacle that announced that Jesus was present. Somehow, the snow which had terrified us only moments before, brought us peace in the pres-ence of God. We had a moment of realization: somewhere between the inhumane rhetoric that our nation has adopted to justify abortion and the seemingly fruitless marches year after year, I had lost hope.
But the most beautiful move-ments have moments of hopeless-ness in which some paradoxical mindset revitalizes the staunchness of its supporters. Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned when he wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” perhaps one of the greatest pieces of protest literature to date. Mahatma Gandhi served his time in the solitude of a jail cell as well, time that he used to reflect on the movement he was leading, to pray for guidance, and to read many religious and philosophi-cal texts. Reflective time, whether from a jail cell or a coach bus, does not go to waste. The trip turned into a retreat, and the retreat turned into an offensive.
Someone got their hands on a shovel and others utilized Pro-Life signs as makeshift shovels (who knew, right?) to begin excavating our bus and other vehicles in our vicinity. After almost 24 hours of being stuck in the same place, our group loaded onto the bus, and we departed from mile marker 132.8 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Written by Anthony Shoplik, ‘18 and Rachel Schratz, ‘18
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