University of Chicago to offer financial breaks to Chicago high school students
University of Chicago to offer financial breaks to Chicago high school students
Source: Chicagobusiness.com
It looks like the University of Chicago has decided that there's no place like home.
The school that traditionally sets its sights on the nation and the world is announcing an initiative designed
to attract more students from its home town by making it more affordable for them to attend U of C.
Under plans being unveiled this afternoon with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the university will allow any student
in a Chicago high school — public, private or parochial — to apply for free without paying the usual
$75 application fee. And, if they're admitted and get financial aid, it will be in the form of grants and not loans
that have to be repaid, meaning that Junior may be able to avoid tens of thousands of post- graduation debt.
"The University of Chicago has a long-standing commitment to improving urban education through research,
innovative ideas and practices. That commitment begins here in our city," said U of C President Robert J. Zimmer,
in a statement. "While the average debt for students at the university has been shrinking . . . (this program)
represents an important new step in driving down debt for our students from Chicago — while also answering
a call from Mayor Rahm Emanuel to help improve college opportunities for the city's students."
Mr. Emanuel — whom I suspect wasn't at all shy about asking for this favor — said the new step "will help
many young Chicagoans achieve their goals and graduate without a financial burden. Chicago is committed to
ensuring that every child has access to a high-quality education, from our preschools to our world-renowned universities."
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
in case you missed it!
If you missed the October 9th deadline to register to vote in the upcoming General Election, you can still register during the current grace period. You must register in person and then immediately vote during that same visit. You will need to present two forms of identification, at least one of which shows your current address. You can do so until November 3rd at 69 W. Washington St, 6th Floor, Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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If you are already registered, you can vote early from Monday, October 22nd to Saturday, November 3rd at various locations across Chicago, regardless of where you live in the city.
Because population density is low due to demolition of nearby housing, the Chicago Bee Library @ 3647 S. State Street, provides no wait early voting regardless of where you live in the city.
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Early Voting for the November 6, 2012 General Election will be offered from Mon., Oct. 22 through Sat., Nov. 3.
Voters registered in the City of Chicago may use any Early Voting site in the city, regardless of where the voters live.
Voters don't need reasons or excuses to use Early Voting -- but voters do need to present government-issued photo identification to use Early Voting.
Ballots cast in Early Voting are final. After casting ballots in Early Voting, voters may not return to amend, change or undo ballots for any reasons. It is a felony to vote more than once -- or to attempt to vote more than once -- in the same election.
All 51 locations will be open Monday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Three locations (the Board's offices at 69 W. Washington, Welles Park and Mount Greenwood Park)also will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays in addition to being open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Early Voting Locations Chicago
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/In-the-Museum-The-Unrecognized-First.
The Unrecognized First
Emory Malick, the first African-American pilot, wasn't known to historians until recently.
- By Rebecca Maksel
- Air & Space magazine, March 2011
Mary Groce's detective work confirmed Emory Malick, her great-uncle, to be the first known African-American aviator. Emory's 1912 student photo.
Courtesy Malick Family Collection
Groce handed the letterhead to her cousin, asking: “Have you ever seen this photo of our great-uncle Emory?” She recalls her cousin’s surprise: “Aileen looked at the paper and replied, ‘Oh my God. He’s black.’ ”
Since that day, Groce has been researching her great-uncle’s story, and is now writing a book about him, which she hopes to publish next year. “I was never told about Emory or my mixed heritage,” says Groce, “although this explains my brother’s blond afro.”
Her family’s secrecy may also explain, in part, why Malick’s historical significance has been lost. Emory Conrad Malick, who studied at the Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, San Diego, received his pilot’s license in March 1912, when he was 31 years old, making him not only the first known African-American pilot, but also the first black person to get a pilot’s license in the United States—some 14 years before aviator James Herman Banning, who was long thought to be the first. Once Groce has finished her book, she hopes to donate Malick’s papers to the National Air and Space Museum. In the meantime, she has given the Museum copies of various items.
“We don’t often collect copies of material,” says Patti Williams, the Museum’s supervisory and acquisition archivist. “We like originals, but this story is really intriguing. We love to collect anything on early minority pilots because there were just so few of them.”
Of the information Groce has given the Museum, Williams says, “It changes our entire perception. Was Malick the anomaly? Or were there other minority pilots that we just don’t know about?”
There’s still a lot about Malick that isn’t known, but Groce has discovered that before 1910, he built and flew his own gliders near the Susquehanna River. By 1914, reports Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Times, Malick had purchased a biplane, which he flew over the town “to the wonderment of all…. [F]actories temporarily shut down to witness the novelty.”
Malick later moved to Philadelphia, where he did aerial photography for the Aero Service Corporation and Dallin Aerial Surveys, and worked for the Flying Dutchman Air Service, which offered flight instruction, aerial photography, and passenger flights. Some of the family’s papers indicate that Malick helped establish Flying Dutchman with Ernest Buehl, something Groce is hoping to confirm.
On a brisk March day in 1928 at a Camden, New Jersey airshow, Malick took two passengers for a quick hop in his Waco three-seater. They were barely aloft when the engine died. Malick banked to the left to avoid spectators; unfortunately, the wind caught the aircraft, and the Waco crashed. “The entire plane seemed to crumple as if it had been smitten by the fist of a giant,” reported theSunbury (Pennsylvania) Daily Item. The two passengers were injured.
Later that year, Malick crashed again—the cause isn’t known—this time injuring himself and killing his passenger. He never flew again. He remained interested in aviation; at a flying club banquet, Malick displayed the 60-horsepower engine that powered his 1914 flight over the town. But the aviator refused all opportunities to go flying. Documents at the Snyder County Historical Society say that in the 1930s, when local pilots offered to take Malick flying, he would reply, “I had my fun, and now I’m done.”
In December 1958, when he was 77 years old, Malick slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk in Philadelphia. He died in the hospital. With no identification on him, his body lay unclaimed in the morgue for more than a month, until his identity could be established.
Malick’s sister—Groce’s grandmother—was put up for adoption when she was two, and family history got a bit blurred. Now Groce is trying to recover information that was lost for two generations. When she does, we hope to learn more about this pilot.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
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