“Chicago is in my opinion one of the best African-American arts communities in the country,” says Jackie Taylor, artistic director of the Black Ensemble Theater, in the January issue of the Joyce Foundation’s “Work in Progress.” “We’ve been very free to create and explore here, because we don’t have the kind of expense or critic involvement they have in New York. So we’ve been able to take risks, and our theater survives and thrives.”
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And just how did you say this research was conducted? Fraternity athletes consume 16 drinks a week, fraternity members who aren’t athletes average 13, non-Greek athletes 8, and students in none of these groups 5–that’s the short version of an article published by Southern Illinois University faculty and others in the January issue of the Journal of American College Health.
“The city and the [police] department had three years to prove that [Chicago’s controversial anti-loitering] ordinance worked,” writes Warren Friedman in “Neighborhoods” (Fall), newsletter of the Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety. “They made over 40,000 arrests and dispersed another 40,000 people. During this time, gang-related crime went down and then up. In 1997 (latest figures), gang-related violence was lower than when the loitering ordinance was enforced. Their own figures show the ordinance didn’t work.”
The last word on the House impeachment proceedings, from the New York investor newsletter “The DRP Authority” (Winter): “They might as well be aliens…”
