{"id":2114,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/news-in-brief-october-23-2014\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:40","slug":"news-in-brief-october-23-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/news-in-brief-october-23-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief: October 23, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Chicago Shady Dealer\">Chicago Shady Dealer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Nov. 19, 2014<\/h6>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cEarns\u201d \u201cStipend\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cUniversity\u201d of \u201cChicago\u201d \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cvoted\u201d Thursday to establish a \u201cnew\u201d \u201cexecutive\u201d committee whose five \u201cmembers\u201d would be \u201cgranted\u201d $1000 \u201cstipends\u201d per quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ccommittee\u201d was \u201cestablished\u201d by an \u201cexecutive\u201d \u201corder\u201d issued by \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d President Tyler \u201cKissinger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpower\u201d to \u201cissue\u201d executive \u201corders\u201d was \u201cestablished\u201d Thursday by Kissinger \u201chimself.\u201d The \u201cstipends\u201d were \u201cjustified\u201d as \u201ccompensations\u201d for \u201ccouncil\u201d members who might \u201cotherwise\u201d work a \u201cpart-time\u201d job for \u201cequivalent\u201d pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpponents\u201d of the \u201cnew\u201d \u201ccommittee\u201d \u201cargue\u201d that \u201cmany\u201d RSOs require members to \u201cwork\u201d even more \u201chours\u201d than \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cofficers\u201d for \u201cno\u201d pay.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Dealer<\/em> sent \u201cmany\u201d \u201cemails\u201d to Kissinger, but we have yet to \u201creceive\u201d a \u201cresponse\u201d from \u201chim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCPD To Station An Officer in Every Dorm Room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Chicago Chief of Police Marlon Lynch announced Tuesday evening that the UCPD plans to station a police officer in every dorm room on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHyde Park is a dangerous place after dark,\u201d Lynch said, \u201cand dorm rooms aren\u2019t consistently well lit. We had an incident four years ago where we thought a homeless man had broken into a student\u2019s room. It was an isolated occurrence, and it turned out the perpetrator was just the guy down the hall, but nevertheless, the safety of students is of paramount importance to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Harris Dorian-Smythe said the UCPD plan made him feel safer. \u201cSince arriving on campus I\u2019ve seen a lot of people who are dressed very badly and who speak in accents or sometimes even languages that I don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said.  \u201cThe inner city is a dark place, and I think it\u2019s incumbent upon the police department to go above and beyond to protect us from the menaces that make Hyde Park the 35th most dangerous neighborhood in Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynch emphasized that the new program is not designed to monitor students. \u201cI\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again: the UCPD is not here to get you in trouble. Our only goal is to protect you from serial rapists, axe-wielding lunatics, the consequences of your actions, and the economically disadvantaged,\u201d he shouted from a squad car, barreling down the fifth-floor hallway of Max Palevsky Residential Commons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campus to Be Removed from Earth as Part of New Green Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Administrators announced yesterday that the physical campus of the University of Chicago is to be wiped from the planet. As part of the school\u2019s new \u201cGo Green!\u201d initiative, it will be replaced with a temperate deciduous forest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chicago Shady Dealer Nov. 19, 2014 \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cEarns\u201d \u201cStipend\u201d The \u201cUniversity\u201d of \u201cChicago\u201d \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cvoted\u201d Thursday to establish a \u201cnew\u201d \u201cexecutive\u201d committee whose five \u201cmembers\u201d would be \u201cgranted\u201d $1000 \u201cstipends\u201d per quarter. The \u201ccommittee\u201d was \u201cestablished\u201d by an \u201cexecutive\u201d \u201corder\u201d issued by \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d President Tyler \u201cKissinger.\u201d The \u201cpower\u201d to \u201cissue\u201d executive \u201corders\u201d was \u201cestablished\u201d Thursday by Kissinger \u201chimself.\u201d The \u201cstipends\u201d were \u201cjustified\u201d as \u201ccompensations\u201d for \u201ccouncil\u201d members who might \u201cotherwise\u201d work a \u201cpart-time\u201d job for \u201cequivalent\u201d pay. \u201cOpponents\u201d of the \u201cnew\u201d \u201ccommittee\u201d \u201cargue\u201d that \u201cmany\u201d RSOs require members to \u201cwork\u201d even more \u201chours\u201d than \u201cStudent\u201d \u201cGovernment\u201d \u201cofficers\u201d for \u201cno\u201d pay. The Dealer sent \u201cmany\u201d \u201cemails\u201d to Kissinger, but we have yet to \u201creceive\u201d a \u201cresponse\u201d from \u201chim.\u201d UCPD To Station An Officer in Every Dorm Room University of Chicago Chief of Police Marlon Lynch announced Tuesday evening that the UCPD plans to station a police officer in every dorm room on campus. \u201cHyde Park is a dangerous place after dark,\u201d Lynch said, \u201cand dorm rooms aren\u2019t consistently well lit. We had an incident four years ago where we thought a homeless man had broken into a student\u2019s room. It was an isolated occurrence, and it turned out the perpetrator was just the guy down the hall, but nevertheless, the safety of students is of paramount importance to me.\u201d Freshman Harris Dorian-Smythe said the UCPD plan made him feel safer. \u201cSince arriving on campus I\u2019ve seen a lot of people who are dressed very badly and who speak in accents or sometimes even languages that I don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said. \u201cThe inner city is a dark place, and I think it\u2019s incumbent upon the police department to go above and beyond to protect us from the menaces that make Hyde Park the 35th most dangerous neighborhood in Chicago.\u201d Lynch emphasized that the new program is not designed to monitor students. \u201cI\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again: the UCPD is not here to get you in trouble. Our only goal is to protect you from serial rapists, axe-wielding lunatics, the consequences of your actions, and the economically disadvantaged,\u201d he shouted from a squad car, barreling down the fifth-floor hallway of Max Palevsky Residential Commons. Campus to Be Removed from Earth as Part of New Green Initiative Administrators announced yesterday that the physical campus of the University of Chicago is to be wiped from the planet. As part of the school\u2019s new \u201cGo Green!\u201d initiative, it will be replaced with a temperate deciduous forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}