Chicago Sun-Times: All posts by Suzanne McBride2021-12-24T17:00:00-06:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/suzanne-mcbride/rss2021-12-24T17:00:00-06:002021-12-23T14:22:55-06:00Holidays are ideal time to have ‘that talk’ with loved ones
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<img class="Image" alt="Nancy McBride was in hospice care the last nine weeks of her life, but her family wishes she had started sooner." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7128011/2147483647/strip/true/crop/855x480+0+232/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fli9LuRpqK3anBo0WJDiUjfafR1A%3D%2F0x66%3A855x1009%2F855x943%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28463x521%3A464x522%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F23121725%2Fthumbnail_P1060273.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4cbc179/2147483647/strip/true/crop/855x480+0+232/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fli9LuRpqK3anBo0WJDiUjfafR1A%3D%2F0x66%3A855x1009%2F855x943%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28463x521%3A464x522%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F23121725%2Fthumbnail_P1060273.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<p>“I’m afraid of being in pain.”</p><p>That was the one fear my mom, Nancy McBride, repeatedly expressed throughout her three-year battle with cancer. And that fear is why she finally decided to start hospice care.</p><p>As with so many other families whose loved ones face terminal illness, we wish Mom had begun palliative and hospice care much sooner. But none of my mom’s physicians — except one, her general practitioner — mentioned hospice, let alone encouraged us to consider it as an alternative to continuing treatment.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-930000" name="module-930000"></a>
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</div><p>Instead, my mom, in the final months of living with bile duct cancer, was offered another round of chemotherapy. After just a few weeks, treatment was halted in June after Mom was hospitalized with exhaustion, having lost so much weight and energy that she could hardly sit up or eat.</p><p>A few months later, she was hospitalized again because the chronic pain she had learned to live with was getting worse. That same month, Mom got a call from the oncologist’s office wondering if she wanted to resume treatment. Again, there was no talk of hospice until a chaplain stopped by Mom’s hospital room.</p><p>Once hospice began, we were able to better manage her pain at home. In the nine weeks before she died, she had discomfort, but the pain was kept largely under control. A nurse regularly visited to check her vitals, make sure she had the medications she needed and show us how to keep her comfortable. A music therapist visited, something my dad especially enjoyed, and a social worker kept in touch to see what any of us needed, even after Mom died.</p><h4>Training doctors, educating families</h4><p>Since her death last month, I’ve talked to many people about their loved ones’ final months, and nearly all described wanting what my mom experienced at the very end: To be at home with family and in as little pain as possible.</p><p>Unfortunately, for many people that’s not what happens. This doesn’t surprise Edo Banach, president and CEO of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.</p><p>Banach notes physicians receive little to no training in having end-of-life discussions, so he advises patients and their caregivers to take the initiative. “We have to train consumers to ask for it, and we have to train doctors to offer it,” he says.</p><p>Only half of Medicare patients who died in 2019 were receiving hospice care at the time of their death, and the median length of their stay in hospice was just 18 days, <a class="Link" href="https://www.nhpco.org/hospice-facts-figures/" target="_blank" >according to an annual report</a> Banach’s group published in October.</p><p>One medical study found that in just 5% of meetings with cancer patients did oncologists discuss end-of-life options. The doctors “responded inadequately to patient concerns about disease progression or dying, used optimistic future talk to address patient concerns or expressed concern over treatment discontinuation,” <a class="Link" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2780865?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2785790file:///Users/smcbride/Downloads/knutzen_2021_oi_210394_1622663607.3491.pdf" target="_blank" >according to the study published by JAMA</a>.</p><p>The researchers noted most end-of-life discussions occur only one month before death. Not talking about a patient’s goals for the end of their life hurts the patient, their loved ones, the health care system — and “represents a major public health problem.”</p><p>Hospice providers like Bourbonnais-based Uplifted Care frequently get referrals “very, very late in the process … (when) it’s crisis management” because the terminally ill patient is suffering, and family members are upset and don’t know what to do, says executive director Connie Lemon.</p><p>The holidays are an excellent time to discuss what each family member wants at the end of their life, Lemon says. It’s easy to find information on the internet about how to complete an advanced directive and choose a health power of attorney, she says. And palliative and hospice care should be part of that conversation.</p><p>The reality is all of us will die, but there are steps we can take now to increase the likelihood of getting compassionate care that improves our quality of life. Don’t wait for your doctor to suggest palliative or hospice care, like my family did, because most of them won’t. We have more power than we may realize to decide how we want to live our final days, weeks and months. Having those conversations now could make all the difference in the end.</p><p><i>Send letters to </i><a class="Link" href="mailto:letters@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><i>letters@suntimes.com</i></a><i>.</i><br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/24/22850912/hospice-palliative-care-death-discuss-medical-health-suzanne-mcbride-columnSuzanne McBride2021-08-28T19:25:45.669-05:002021-08-29T08:45:52-05:00West Side residents rally in D.C. for voting rights
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<img class="Image" alt="Rev Marshall Hatch Jr., executive director of Maafa Redemption Project and a pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Church in West Garfield Park, with several young men participating in Maafa who traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in a voting rights march and rally on Saturday." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e75ec13/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FpPT3CiXK-k-8-nROgVB5PzVA7_8%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22811877%2FIMG_8293.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3e4257d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FpPT3CiXK-k-8-nROgVB5PzVA7_8%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22811877%2FIMG_8293.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr., executive director of Maafa Redemption Project and a pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Church in West Garfield Park, stands with several young men participating in Maafa who traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a voting rights march and rally on Saturday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Suzanne McBride/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>WASHINGTON — Amonta Lewis said it was “mind-blowing” Saturday to participate in the national voting rights march and rally in Washington, D.C., and to be among so many other passionate people.</p><p>“You need to be involved, even if you don’t feel like your voice really matters,” the 20-year-old Austin resident said.</p><p>That’s one of the messages the Rev. Marshall Hatch Jr. hoped would resonate with Lewis and nine other young men from the West Side who drove to the nation’s capital for the day-long event.</p><p>The group is part of the Maafa Redemption Project, a faith-based residential institute in West Garfield Park for young men of color.</p><p>“This was vital for us to be here,” said Hatch, Maafa’s executive director and a pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Church. “It’s a profound way to commemorate Dr. King’s movement and continue his legacy and work.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Rev. Ira Acree, pastor of Greater St John Bible Church, made the trip because he doesn’t want progress on voting rights to be reversed.</p><p>“It’s a disgrace that we’re still fighting for voters’ rights,” said Acree, co-chairman of the Leaders Network. “If we don’t use our voices, we have a radical right-wing contingency of the Republican Party that will set us back 60 years.”</p><p>David Cherry, president of the Leaders Network and head of Chicago’s All Star Project, said although Illinois’ voting laws aren’t under attack, what happens in other states affects Chicagoans.</p><p>“You have elected officials in all of these states who are putting in voter suppression laws that make it harder for Black people and Latinx to vote. The federal government has a responsibility to step in and say, ‘We’re not going to stand for this’,” he said.</p><p>Cherry said his mom, born in Alabama, and his dad, born in South Carolina, never voted in those states because of voter suppression and intimidation. They didn’t feel safe voting until they moved to New York.</p><p>“It was just open terrorism,” he said. “But what is happening today — instead of dogs and water hoses — they’re engaging in voting suppression using a stroke of a pen.”</p><p>Acree and Cherry said it’s imperative the U.S. Senate take up the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, approved earlier this week by the U.S. House of Representatives. It would restore federal oversight of state election laws under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.</p><p>Making voting accessible to all is key if there is to be progress on other issues like health care and jobs, Acree said.</p><p>“If you don’t have voters rights, you can’t fight for police reform, you can’t fight for pay equity,” he said. “Power is at the polling place. That’s where everybody meets as equals. The vote is the great human equalizer.”<br></p>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Dave and Susie Hodgson (center) are photographed with their daughter, Emily, and son, James Leck, outside their Somonauk, Illinois, home. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Rich Hein/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>It’s hard to keep track of how many loved ones Dave and Susie Hodgson have lost to Huntington’s disease. </p><p>The Hodgsons, who live in Somoanuk, south of DeKalb, each have buried a spouse, both of their mothers-in-law, two sons from their first marriages and two siblings of Dave Hodgson’s first wife.</p><p>And the deadly legacy of Huntington’s — a brain disease with no cure that is passed from one generation to the next through a defective gene — continues. </p><p>One of Dave Hodgson’s daughters has the disease. Two others are at risk for inheriting Huntington’s. And it’s possible some of their three grandchildren, who range from 10 to 26 years old, could be diagnosed at some point.</p><p>That’s why the couple will be out on the Naperville Riverwalk Sunday morning to participate in the 17th annual two-mile Team Hope Walk. Since the Hodgsons started the walk in 2005, they’ve raised $1.2 million for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.</p><p>Dave Hodgson, 74, said that although he and Susie knew what to expect “going down this path” with their first spouses, it’s still hard having to do it again with their children.</p><p>His first wife Paula was working as a nurse when she was diagnosed in 1986. By the time she died 18 years later, she needed round-the-clock care, some of it provided by Susie, a nurse who met the couple through an online support group for Huntington families after caring nearly a decade for her husband Bud Sr., who died in 1999.</p><p>“It devastates not only the immediate family but the extended family and the community at large,” said Susie Hodgson, 68. “It will never be over for us.”</p><p>There are over 200,000 families at risk in the United States — about 1,500 in Illinois — and roughly 41,000 Americans have been diagnosed with Huntington’s. Every child of a parent with Huntington’s has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the faulty gene.</p><p>The disease causes deterioration in physical, mental and emotional abilities, with most people showing symptoms between 30 and 50 years old.</p><p>The symptoms are sometimes described as having ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s all at once. But Huntington’s is a less complicated condition, said Dr. Danny Bega, an associate professor of neurology and director of the Huntington Disease Society of America Center for Excellence at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.</p><p>“We don’t have any drugs or treatments to slow it down or stop the disease or stop people from passing it on,” Bega said. “It’s frustrating.”</p><p>Unlike other brain diseases, though, there’s a test that can easily determine whether someone has Huntington’s. Yet many people with a family history of the disease — 70% to 85% — don’t get tested, Bega said.</p><p>People worry about getting or keeping their health insurance as well as discrimination at work, though the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act offers some protections.</p><p>“We know for a fact they’ll be denied long-term care insurance,” Bega said.</p><p>One argument Bega hears against testing: “What are you going to do about it? If you’re not going to treat me, then why do I want to know?” </p><p>“Some people realize it’s better for them not to know,” he said. “You can have the test, be positive and not show symptoms for 30 or 40 years.”</p><p>Others suffer more anxiety not knowing, according to Bega, noting that the average onset is at 40. Also, the information can help some make decisions about whether or how to have a family.</p><p>The Hodgsons’ children are typical in that some have chosen to be tested, and others don’t want to know if they carry the deadly gene.</p><p>“It’s a heroic decision to make,” Dave Hodgson said. </p><p>There also can be some guilt involved. One of his adult sons tested positive, while one tested negative and was afraid to tell his brother. “Why am I the lucky one?” he wondered.</p><p>There’s also the decision about whether and when to tell the next generation. The Hodgsons recently talked with two of their grandchildren whose grandmother died of Huntington’s; their mother has the disease.</p><p>“They have a right to know what’s going on with their mom and what’s going on with their own health,” Dave Hodgson said.</p><p><i>This year’s walk begins at 9 a.m. Sunday at the Naperville Riverwalk’s Grand Pavilion, 600 W. Jackson St. in Naperville. For more information, click </i><a class="Link" href="https://illinois.hdsa.org/about/naperville-team-hope-walk" target="_blank" ><i>here</i></a><i>. You can reach the Huntington’s Disease Society of America at </i><a class="Link" href="https://hdsa.org/" target="_blank" ><i>hdsa.org</i></a><i>.</i><br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/well/2021/5/13/22430625/huntingtons-disease-brain-disease-cure-health-wellnessSuzanne McBride2020-08-28T10:00:00-05:002020-09-02T17:12:16-05:00Chicago area Catholic school students learn about investing in the stock market, financial literacy
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Charlie Bobrinskoy, vice chairman of the Big Shoulders Fund and an executive with Ariel Investments, meets with St. Philip Neri School eighth-graders during the 2019-2020 school year. Bobrinskoy, along with Big Shoulders Fund executive committee member Jim Hoeg, developed the stock market program that about 1,000 students in 64 schools participated in this past year.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<p>For many adults, investing and the stock market are all a mystery.</p><p>Not so for Cordell Brown and his classmates at St. Catherine-St. Lucy School in Oak Park. They spent months this past school year tracking stocks in a yearly competition that ended with Cordell and his eighth-grade class placing third of 64 Chicago area teams after ranking in the mid-50s halfway through the year.</p><p>They came back from Christmas break determined to improve their standing in the Big Shoulders Fund program, which provides support to Catholic schools in Chicago’s neediest neighborhoods.</p><p>In a few weeks, another round of eight-graders at Catholic schools across the Chicago area will begin the competition, now entering its 13th year, and learn about saving and investing, how the stock market works and about careers in business and finance.</p><p>One of the lessons the teams learn is the importance of making changes in their portfolios, as the St. Catherine-St. Lucy team did.</p><p>“We felt we could do way better than we were doing, so we came together and discussed what stocks we had to drop,” Cordell said.</p><p>“They were very willing and interested,” said Arnette Young, a St. Catherine-St. Lucy’s eighth-grade teacher who’s been involved with the program for four years. “They knew what they were talking about.”</p><p>Playing a key role was Paul Goodworth of Goodworth Wealth Management, one of about 150 business people who volunteered as coaches for the approximately 1,000 students, teaching them how to evaluate a stock, when to buy or sell and the importance of doing research and managing risk.</p><p>At the start of the nine-month program, Goodworth gave the students a list of about 60 stocks, and the program provided $3,000 to invest. After much research and discussion, the students decided to buy stock in Amazon, Netflix and Google.</p><p>As they debated which stocks should be in their portfolio, Goodworth encouraged them to think about the products they use every day — the mattress they sleep on, the toothbrush they use, what they watch on their cellphones.</p><p>“Those are discussions which are really priceless,” he said.</p><p>Mid-year, they rebalanced their portfolio after more discussion and research, including looking at what the top-performing schools in the competition had invested in. That’s when the St. Catherine-St. Lucy team purchased BioMarin Pharma and Trex, Goodworth said.</p><p>By the end of May, their portfolio had a valuation of $3,606.23 — well above the S&P 500, which 56 of the 64 schools bested, Goodworth said.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Eighth-graders at St. Catherine-St. Lucy placed third of 64 teams in a nine-month stock market program. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>When the coronavirus pandemic hit, coaches and students moved their classroom meetings to Zoom. The previous year, the students participated in an end-of-the-year presentation at Goodman Theatre, then went to Goodworth’s downtown office for pizza. This past year, the celebration had to happen virtually.</p><p>Still, the students learned invaluable skills, said Joshua D. Hale, president and chief executive officer of Big Shoulders Fund, who’s hoping they’ll consider careers in finance.</p><p>“There’s such an underrepresentation of minority members in any financial firm or bank,” Hale said. “Anything we can do to change that, we will.”</p><p>Learning the value of investing and of compound saving and that everything has a cost can make a difference in the students’ lives now and as they grow older, he said: “We want them to be an informed buyer, saver and investor.”</p><p>Arianna Pumphrey, a recent St. Genevieve Catholic School graduate, learned, said she used to spend money freely. Now, after completing the stock market program, she said she understands the value of saving.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cordell Brown and 17 other eighth-graders at St. Catherine-St. Lucy School placed third of 64 teams that competed in the Big Shoulders Fund’s annual stock market program. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“I was very careless when it came to spending money,” said the Belmont-Cragin resident, who will be attending Alcott College Prep this fall and hopes to be a mechanical engineer.</p><p>“This class really helped me,” she said.</p><p>She said she recently opened a savings account — something she would not have done before taking part in the stock market program.</p><p>Her eighth grade class at St. Genevieve won this year’s competition with a portfolio of Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Sony and Tesla — “really good stocks,” she said.</p><p>When the next round of eighth-graders begins picking stocks. Cordell Brown advises each group to work as a team.</p><p>“It’s all about communication,” said Cordell, a freshman at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep who hopes to become an entrepreneur. “It’s all about coming together and discussing what stock you want to invest in. Why do you think it’s a smart investment? Your research on the stock is very important, and, if you do it as a class, it’s actually pretty easy.”<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/doing-well/2020/8/28/21365580/students-stock-market-investing-competition-financial-literacySuzanne McBride2020-06-14T18:02:19-05:002020-06-14T19:07:40-05:00As CPS hosts star-studded graduation ceremony, hundreds march to demand removal of cops from schools
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Activists demanded the removal of Chicago police officers from Chicago Public Schools as they marched from Hyde Park Academy to the CPD’s 3rd District station on Sunday, June 14, 2020.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>As Chicago Public Schools hosted a virtual graduation ceremony Sunday that boasted high-profile speakers like Oprah Winfrey and Common, some graduates chose to forgo the celebration and instead took to the streets to push for the removal of Chicago police officers posted at schools across the city.</p><p>During the hour-long virtual event, which was organized by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office and aired on local television and radio stations, some speakers hammered home that the graduating class is coming of age during an unprecedented period in American history.</p><p>While Lightfoot urged members of the graduating class to share their vision of the city’s future with her, other CPS students publicly decried the mayor’s current policing policies — and predicted her defeat in the 2023 election.</p><p>Gov. J.B. Pritzker credited the seniors for doing their part to social distance throughout the COVID-19 crisis, which ended in-person learning for the school year in mid-March. Other speakers directly invoked George Floyd, the African American man whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer set off worldwide protests for criminal and racial justice that have continued for weeks.</p><p>“At this moment of protest and dissent, whether we choose to march in the streets or not, we are each being called to reckon with our country’s past and determine a more equitable future for black and brown people, for poor and disenfranchised people,” Winfrey said. “[We are] called to insist that our nation lives up to its ideals and comes to terms with all the ways racism has been written into our laws, embedded in our institutions, imprinted on our culture.”</p><p>Winfrey called on graduates to do what they can to fight racism during a watershed moment in American history. Winfrey lauded younger Americans’ fight for change and transformation after watching Floyd’s killing in a video she noted was taken by a teenager.</p><p>“I’m hopeful because you, your generation, saw that knee on the neck and not only knew how wrong and vile it was, you took to the streets to stand up and proclaim it so,” she said.</p><p>During Lightfoot’s speech, she asked graduates how they would respond to racism and build a better society.</p><p>“Nothing about these past three months has been fair, especially not for you,” she said. “Not only has your world been turned upside down by a global pandemic, but we’ve recently experienced the pain and trauma of the murder of George Floyd, which has forced us to reckon with the inequality and injustice that very much is a part of our past and lingers in our present.”</p><p>“The question is: How do we stop it from being part of the future, our future, your future?” Lightfoot asked, urging the graduates to ponder what they hope Chicago will look like in 10 years and what role they can play in making that vision a reality.</p><p>Minutes before the star-studded graduation ceremony kicked off, Lightfoot was drawing the ire of hundreds of protesters who converged at Hyde Park Academy to push for the removal of Chicago police officers from schools in the district. Donning their caps and gowns, a handful of recent graduates from the school led the group on a peaceful march to the 3<sup>rd</sup> District police station at 7040 S. Cottage Grove Ave.</p><p>As activists continue to urge Lightfoot and other leaders to substantially cut the police budget and reinvest the money in community-based programs, the $33 million security contract CPS holds with the police force has come under increased scrutiny.</p><p>“We’re here to tell Lori Lightfoot to cancel the CPD in CPS contract,” said Lanessa Young, a recent graduate of Hyde Park Academy. “We want the police out of schools, and we want them out now.”</p><p>Calls to remove officers from schools have been amplified during the ongoing, nationwide protests that erupted in the wake of Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, which is among a handful of major American cities who have since moved to pull cops out of their public schools.</p><p>Despite that momentum, Lightfoot has recently made it clear that she doesn’t support removing officers from schools. For Young, the next mayoral election will serve as a referendum on Lightfoot’s policing policies, especially for younger Chicagoans who have recently entered adulthood.</p><p>“You ain’t going to be our mayor for very much longer,” said Young, who plans to study political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and eventually run for public office.</p><p>“We can vote now,” she added. “And I’m going to vote.”</p><p>Ana McCullom, an incoming senior at Kenwood Academy who organizes with Black Lives Matter and Assata’s Daughters, criticized the mayor’s unwillingness to address the concerns of those advocating for changes to the Police Department.</p><p>“We’re not asking anymore,” McCullom said. “We’re demanding, and we’re taking.”<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/6/14/21290962/cps-star-studded-graduation-ceremony-march-protest-remove-police-schoolsTom SchubaSuzanne McBride2020-05-24T12:21:48-05:002020-05-28T13:03:58-05:00Governor releases guidelines for more Illinois businesses to reopen in coming days
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Gov. J.B. Pritzker answers questions during his daily press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic from his office at the Illinois State Capitol, Friday, May 22, 2020, in Springfield, Ill. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, Pool</p></div></div>
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<p>Gov. J.B. Pritzker released guidelines Sunday for retailers, manufacturers, barbershops, salons, health and fitness centers, and other businesses that will be allowed to reopen in coming days as the state enters the next phase of its “Restore Illinois” plan. </p><p>In announcing the guidelines for the third of the state’s five-phase plan, Pritzker said his administration had consulted with over 200 people representing small businesses, major companies, local park districts, hospitals, elected officials and labor leaders, among others.</p><p>The governor stressed that as more businesses reopen, the No. 1 priority will continue to be the health and safety of Illinois residents and workers, and he urged Illinois residents to continue to take precautions.</p><p>“You can’t build a strong economy if people aren’t comfortable being a part of it,” Pritzker said, adding that wearing a mask “is likely the most important thing we can do for our public health.”</p><p>“I want to be very clear: The virus is still out there, and the vast majority of people are not immune.” </p><p>Among the representatives from the state’s business community joining the governor at his Sunday morning press conference was Rob Karr, president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association.<br>Karr said his 23,000 members are eager to get back to work and hope that local public health departments will use common sense when enforcing the guidelines.</p><p>The governor noted the new state budget lawmakers approved early Sunday morning includes more than $900 million to expand the state’s contact tracing efforts and $800 million in “stability payments” to nursing homes, federally qualified health care centers and others on the frontlines of treating people with COVID-19.</p><p>“This funding will help them keep their businesses running on the other side of this pandemic,” Pritzker said.</p><p>The state’s new $41 billion budget, which takes effect July 1, also includes about $500 million for rental and mortgage assistance that Pritzker said will target areas of Illinois that have been disproportionately hurt by COVID-19. </p><p>The governor also noted that small businesses will receive $636 million in grants, with $260 million of that funding going to childcare providers. </p><p>“These are just our first steps forward in what will be a long and difficult journey,” Pritzker said just hours after the Illinois General Assembly approved the budget during a special four-day session.</p><p>“Unfortunately more hard choices … remain to be made. And those choices will have to be made along the way.”</p><p>Guidelines for Phase 3 as well as toolkits for businesses can be found <a class="Link" href="https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/pages/restoreILP3.aspx" target="_blank" >on the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity website.</a> The governor’s office estimates about 700,000 Illinois residents will be able to return to work in Phase 3.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/5/24/21269037/governor-releases-guidelines-more-illinois-businesses-reopen-coming-daysSuzanne McBride2020-05-13T16:27:02-05:002020-05-13T16:25:53-05:00‘I don’t get followed when I walk through a grocery store. My nephew does’
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Demonstrators on May 8 protest the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sean Rayford/Getty</p></div></div>
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<p>It was a beautiful morning for a run in Columbus Park on Chicago’s West Side.</p><p>But before I — a middle-age white woman — set off with state Rep. La Shawn Ford — a middle-age black man — he turned to me and casually remarked it would be a safer run for him than usual, with me 6 feet beside him.</p><p>He didn’t have to explain. On that same day, last Thursday, two men were <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/7/21251474/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-murder-charges" target="_blank" >arrested and charged</a> with the murder in Brunswick, Georgia, of Ahmaud Arbery. The 25-year-old African American went for a run near his home on a Sunday afternoon in February and never returned. A white man and his adult son saw Arbery running in their neighborhood, chased him down in their pickup truck and shot him dead in the street.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-820000" name="module-820000"></a>
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</div><p>Arbery’s killing has been on the mind of my nephew Tyrone Palmer, a Chicago Public Schools social worker who recently posted this on Facebook:</p><p>“Safety doesn’t exist in a country that views your mere existence as a threat. Every Black person, myself included, has a myriad of things we do to make ourselves appear ‘safe’ to white people. We also all know that most of it is meaningless and won’t help us.”</p><p>Those “safe things,” Tyrone later told me, include crossing the street, especially at night, rather than risk unnerving a white woman he’s walking behind. And it means being constantly aware of his facial expressions, so as not to alarm any white people he may encounter.</p><p>“One of the things I learned when I was 10 or 11 was that people respond differently to me when I’m smiling,” Tyrone said. “It’s something I do all the time. When I’m walking and see someone who is white approaching me, I make sure I smile.”</p><p>That’s a problem now in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic: With a mask covering his mouth, no one can see his smile. “One of my defense mechanisms,” he said, “is gone.”</p><p>Tyrone, who has a master’s degree in social work and a bachelor’s degree in math, is always aware of where he is and where everyone else is. His height — he’s 6 feet 5 inches — doesn’t help.</p><p>“For me,” he said, “it’s trying to not appear threatening, which is hard sometimes.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>While my nephew is taking pains each day to present himself in the “safest” way possible, others — me included — don’t have to think about any of this. How often do we white people as the majority race in America benefit from privilege without realizing it?</p><p>I don’t get followed when I walk through a grocery store; my nephew does. I don’t get repeatedly pulled over by police for driving while black; my black friends and colleagues do.</p><p>When I am hired for a position, people don’t assume I got the job because of affirmative action rather than competence or maybe connections. When I fail at something, it won’t make it harder the next time for another white person who tries the same thing.</p><p>Every time Rep. Ford goes into a public restroom, rides a bus or eats at a restaurant he’s reminded of another time when those were very different experiences for his relatives.</p><p>“I may have not lived through the civil rights movement,” he said, “but my emotions and heart are impacted every day … even though I know I have a right to be there.”</p><p>What can we white people do? What should we do?</p><p>“What’s most important is that people treat each other with respect,” Ford said, adding that everyone — regardless of skin color — is guilty of prejudice to some degree. “It’s not just whites who have racism and prejudice in their hearts,” he said. “But it is overwhelmingly deadly for blacks.”</p><p>When friends, family or colleagues make a racist remark, Ford said, turn that into one of those teachable moments. Say something like, “That’s not right.”</p><p>“A big thing is listening,” Tyrone said. When a black or brown person shares a racist experience, don’t respond by saying, “Oh, it can’t be that bad.” Don’t discount their experience or question its impact.</p><p>Be aware of the privilege of not having to think about how others perceive you based on nothing but your skin color. “One of the privileges is that white people get to live in a bubble where race isn’t a factor, it isn’t significant,” Tyrone said.</p><p>Make the effort to learn how to be anti-racist, Tyrone added, and move away “from this binary view of racism. It’s a spectrum.”</p><p>Don’t expect black people to come up with the solutions to alleviate racism. And care about the problem every day, not just when something especially horrible happens — like a young black man being gunned down while out for a run.</p><p>“One thing I just wish: That people, white people especially, care about this all the time,” Tyrone said. “For a lot of black people, it stays with us. And a week later, it feels like the news has moved on, it just fades away.”</p><p><i>Suzanne McBride is chair of the Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago and an editor at the Sun-Times.</i></p><p><i>Send letters to </i><a class="Link" href="mailto:letters@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><i>letters@suntimes.com</i></a><i>.</i></p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/5/13/21257605/ahmaud-arbery-la-shawn-ford-racism-white-privilege-suzanne-mcbrideSuzanne McBride2020-05-03T11:17:29-05:002020-05-03T11:16:47-05:00Highland Park teen, mom teach Zumba, connecting people across the country amid pandemic
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Julia Kerpel, 15, is a certified Zumba instructor. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Brian Rich /Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p> When Illinois schools started to shut down in mid-March because of COVID-19, Highland Park High School freshman Julia Kerpel didn’t want to stop teaching Zumba.</p><p>So with the help of her mom and fellow instructor Melissa Kerpel, the 15-year-old turned their unfinished basement into a fitness studio and has kept offering classes twice a week thanks to a laptop and the internet.</p><p>“We’ve had our old familiar faces and some new people from all around the country who have joined us,” said Julia, who’s believed to be one of the youngest instructors in the country licensed to teach Zumba.</p><p>Before the pandemic hit, Julia and her mom taught at Highland Park High School and the Lutz Family Center, with many participants coming from Working Together, a non-profit that supports low-income families in Highwood and Highland Park.</p><p>Just a few days after their last face-to-face class, the mother-daughter duo decided to give online teaching a try. The class went off without a hitch; participants receive instructions on how to join the class via Zoom.</p><p>“Everyone loved it,” Julia said. “We got some positive messages, and we thought, ‘Let’s keep doing it.’”</p><p>There have been a few challenges.</p><p>Not everyone taking their classes is computer savvy, and some have limited access to the internet. One participant does not have a smart phone, and her only access to a computer is at the public library, which is closed. So the Kerpels gave her a portable DVD player and some Zumba DVDs so she can keep dancing during the stay-at-home order.</p><p>Julia is a third-generation Zumba instructor, with both her mom and grandmother, Inez Garber, teaching the Latin-inspired, cardio-dance workout, though Garber isn’t co-teaching with her daughter and granddaughter at the moment because she’s sheltering in place apart from the family.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>“I love everything about it. Everyone can do it, no matter their dance experience or background,” says 15-year-old Julia Kerpel about Zumba. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Brian Rich /Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p> Julia’s love of Zumba started when she was 3 or 4; that’s when her mom started taking Zumba classes. “She loved it so much that she got certified and would bring me to her classes. I just fell in love with it ... the fun and party atmosphere,” Julia said.</p><p>“I love everything about it. Everyone can do it, no matter their dance experience or background. They show up and they have such a great time.” </p><p>Julia and her mom have had to dispel some misconceptions about Zumba: “People who are my age think it’s only for their moms and grandmas, which is completely untrue,” Julia said. “And the older generation thinks because they’ve never had any dance experience, they can’t do it.”</p><p>After years of doing Zumba — as well as ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance — Julia last year at the age of 14 was certified as a Zumba instructor.</p><p>“It’s not super common, but even just this (past) week we had a 17-year-old instructor in the D.C. area who’s been teaching virtual courses,” said Rebecca Dorfman, director of public relations and branded content for the Miami-based Zumba Fitness LLC.</p><p>“We do license people who are around her age as long as they have parental consent” and the parent is present while the teen is teaching, Dorfman said.</p><p>Kerpel said her daughter teaches under her supervision primarily for insurance purposes. Julia will be able to teach on her own when she turns 18 and plans to teach on her own when she goes to college.</p><p>While she declined to say how many licensed instructors are teaching Zumba, Dorfman said thousands of classes are now being offered virtually and more than 1 million people are participating. “Before this, there was no virtual component to Zumba.”</p><p>At a time like this, when so many people are under stress, Dorfman said any kind of movement is “super important.”</p><p>Deerfield resident Lisa Rosenberg agrees: “The fact that Zumba moved online is an absolute godsend for sanity, for health, for connection.”</p><p>Rosenberg, who takes classes from the Kerpels several times a week, said every hour of instruction flies by. And she’s even persuaded her husband to give Zumba a try because he doesn’t have to leave the house. Julia and her mom are “really easy to follow, so upbeat — which is important especially now.”</p><p>“She’s such a joy to watch. She always has a big smile on her face,” Rosenberg said of the teen instructor, who she jokes is helping Rosenberg keep off “the COVID 19” stay-at-home pounds, a reference to the “freshman 15” weight gain many college students experience during their first year away from home.</p><p>“Everyone morning I get up with them and I do the workout. And it helps me,” Rosenberg said.</p><p>Though they plan to keep offering some virtual classes once in-person instruction can resume, the mother-daughter duo looks forward to being back in the same room with their participants, who range in age from young children to grandmas.</p><p>“We miss being with each other and the joy and energy we create when we are dancing together,” Melissa Kerpel said.</p><p><i>To sign up for Julia’s classes, go to </i><a class="Link" href="https://www.zumba.com/en-US/profile/Julia_Kerpel/1786633" target="_blank" ><i>https://www.zumba.com/en-US/profile/Julia_Kerpel/1786633</i></a><i>, or find her name on </i><a class="Link" href="http://zumba.com/" target="_blank" ><i>zumba.com</i></a><i>.</i></p><p></p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/3/21239610/teen-zumba-instructor-virtual-class-exercise-highland-park-coronavirus-health-danceSuzanne McBride2020-02-21T11:24:26-06:002020-02-23T11:19:07-06:00Chicago ‘The Biggest Loser’ contestant gets serious about health, fitness
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Chicagoan Delores Tomorrow (left) and Kim Davis are pictured in an episode of this season’s “The Biggest Loser.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>John Britt/USA Network</p></div></div>
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<p>It had not occurred to Chicagoan Delores Tomorrow to audition for a reality television show — until one of Tomorrow’s clients who was hoping to be chosen as one of the trainers on “The Biggest Loser” suggested she apply.</p><p>Tomorrow, a 34-year-old event planner who runs the nonprofit iGlow Mentoring, told her client she wasn’t big enough to be on the show. Her client responded that Tomorrow — who weighed 280 pounds, the heaviest in her life — certainly was.</p><p>The next day, Tomorrow talked with representatives from the show, and a month later, she was in New Mexico along with 11 other competitors to see who could lose the most weight and be crowned the biggest loser. Divided into two groups, the 12 worked out and competed in team challenges, then participated in a weigh-in that eliminated someone each week until just one winner remained.</p><p>Tomorrow made it to the fourth week before being sent home. At that point, she had lost a total of 23 pounds and learned some things about herself.</p><p>“One of the hardest pieces for me was the emotional piece,” Tomorrow said this past week, a day before the episode in which she’s sent home aired Feb. 18 on USA Network. “I never realized how much emotions impacted this. I never really knew how stress would stop me from losing weight even if I was doing the right things.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Micah Collum (left) and Delores Tomorrow and the rest of the Blue Team meet with their team trainer/coach Steve Cook (far left) during an episode of “The Biggest Loser.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>John Britt/USA Network</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Being a part of the show was hard, Tomorrow said, starting with the first team challenge: running one mile. “I don’t run,” she said during the first episode. In fact, she had never run even one block before that day. She was the last person to cross the finish line for her team. “However, I did it. That felt great.”</p><p>What didn’t feel great was having no contact with friends, family and co-workers. “You’re literally in a bubble, not able to talk to anyone besides the people you’re living with.” Phones and computers are confiscated, and none of the competitors can leave the site. The focus is on working out, eating healthy and losing weight.</p><p>“When you’re pushed in that bubble and you remove the things you have been coping with — like food — it forces you to just deal with you. It forces you to deal with things that you’ve been blinded to,” she said.</p><p>Everything Tomorrow did during the month she was on the show was hard. “But the real work started the day I left the campus. … I was not in a controlled environment.”</p><p>It was challenging to integrate what she had learned into her everyday life running a nonprofit, which prepares young women of color for college and beyond. She’s on the road a lot, staying in hotels and not getting enough sleep. “What we did on the show is not realistic for everyday life. … The idea of me working out five to seven hours a day is just not feasible.” (One day, the competitors worked out nine hours, though not all at once.)</p><p>Tomorrow is proud she’s not gained any weight since returning home last fall; she can’t say more because she’s not allowed to disclose her weight until the show finishes airing later this spring. She’s especially pleased about maintaining her weight despite taking 21 girls from her nonprofit on a trip to London and Paris earlier this year.</p><p>Some of the changes she’s made include regularly ordering from the children’s menu, and at the airport, instead of working on her laptop, she walks the terminal, sometimes up to 90 minutes to get in those steps.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Delores Tomorrow </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Richie Knapp/USA Network</p></div></div>
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</div><p>She looks for practical things that can be adopted for a lifetime, like “finding those opportunities to move” and replacing the juice and soda she used to drink with water.</p><p>“I never want to go back, and to not go back, I have to adopt things that are going to work for me.”</p><p>She also wants to help others, especially the 3,000 girls who participate in iGlow Mentoring, to make changes. Tomorrow called two of the nonprofit’s participants when she and the rest of the competitors were allowed to make their first call home.</p><p>During that video chat, she tearfully tells the girls: “I felt like I was not a great example to you all. … I have just neglected myself and my health for so long, so this was pretty drastic for me to do. I felt like I had to do it too because I needed to be an example, not just to you all but to all the girls.”</p><p>Since returning home, she’s made changes at home and work. Before competing on “The Biggest Loser,” it had not occurred to Tomorrow to incorporate health and wellness into her nonprofit’s curriculum. That’s being added, and they’re also more mindful of food that’s served at events.</p><p>Being sent home after Week 4 was a surprise because “that was the week I just knew I just killed it,” said Tomorrow, who also worked on the advance team for former First Lady Michelle Obama from 2009 to 2016.</p><p>“How do you incorporate this into everyday life? I’m still trying to figure it out.”</p><p><i>“The Biggest Loser” airs at 8 p.m. Tuesdays on USA Network. Suzanne McBride chairs the Communication Department at Columbia College and contributes as an editor and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times.</i><br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/well/2020/2/21/21146626/biggest-loser-chicago-contestant-delores-tomorrow-health-fitnessSuzanne McBride2019-08-08T07:00:00-05:002019-08-07T15:39:08-05:00College students expect lots of healthy options when eating on campus
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>College students at Illinois Tech’s Commons dining facility are able to choose from a variety of healthy dining options that fit any lifestyle. </p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Bonnie Robinson/Courtesy of Illinois Tech</p></div></div>
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<p>Growing up in Pakistan, Nosheen Iqbal ate mostly organic and natural foods, so that’s what she hoped to find in the dining hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology.</p><p>“But it was mostly fries and burgers,” says Iqbal, a junior studying mechanical engineering. “There weren’t enough options for international students. … We eat a lot more spices and flavors, and that was lacking.”</p><p>Two years later, Iqbal says dining at IIT has changed for the better. More fresh food options are available, and after the school chose a new vendor – with input from Iqbal and other students – there have been new food stations featuring Indian, Mexican and Japanese food. The new provider, Chartwells, also pays close attention to food allergies; peanut butter is no longer out in the open, and shrimp is rarely served, Iqbal said.</p><p>Like many other Chicago colleges and universities, IIT also caters to students following a vegan or vegetarian as well as those needing to be gluten free, and there’s a halal station, where food is prepared as prescribed by Muslim law.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A fresh fruit bar is among the options for students dining at Illinois Tech.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Bonnie Robinson/Courtesy of Illinois Tech</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Over the 18 years Katherine Stetz has worked at IIT, she has seen students become more health conscious. They want a variety of fresh foods, they favor organic and want made-to-order meals whenever possible, says Stetz, IIT’s vice provost of student affairs and dean of students.</p><p>But students still crave fried and junk food. When she walks into the dining hall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Stetz notes, “the grill always has a line.”</p><p>That’s where you’ll find IIT sophomore Derek Rhea about half the time. The physics major usually checks out the special first – one day it might be pasta, the next day omelets – and if there’s nothing he likes, then he’ll head over to the grill.</p><p>“As a college kid, we focus on getting as many carbs as we can,” Rhea says. “The biggest thing college students are looking for is a meal that resembles what they would get at home.”</p><p>Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, he remembers always being served a meat, a carb and a vegetable at dinner. So he tries to do that at school.</p><p>A different type of meal is being served at some universities, mainly on the East and West coasts. Maureen Timmons, director of dining services at Northeastern University in Boston, says her school is part of the “menus of change” university research collaborative, which was co-founded by Stanford University and The Culinary Institute of America. A primary aim is to increase the number of people, especially college students, eating more healthy and sustainable foods.</p><p>“It’s just a great framework,” Timmons says. The emphasis is on more fresh produce and whole grains, fewer sugary beverages – and moving legumes to the center of the plate, she says. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Illinois Tech students enjoy an uptick in fresh and healthy dining options on their Bronzeville campus.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Bonnie Robinson/Courtesy of Illinois Tech</p></div></div>
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</div><p>In mid-July, the Boston university served a planetary plate in some of its dining halls – half of it was vegetables, with meat served as a garnish. “Vegetables are the center of the plate. … It’s flipping the plate. People didn’t know what half of it was, but they thought it was delicious.”</p><p>Students still have their old standbys – like chicken fingers and fries – but these favorite dishes are more like treats, Timmons says. Some schools are working on a blended burger using mushrooms, beans or lentils. The trick is trying to find the right taste. “It can be healthy and good for the environment, but if it doesn’t taste good, they won’t eat it.”</p><p>At the University of Notre Dame, also a member of the menus of change university research collaborative, students can try food like jackfruit at special tastings. The university also serves a planetary plate; “it’s the idea that dairy and meat don’t have to be a central part of your plate,” says Chris Abayasinghe, senior director of campus dining at Notre Dame.</p><p>At the school’s two traditional dining halls, 23 percent of the main entrees served are vegetarian, while 18 percent are vegan, a big change from years ago when Abayasinghe was in college. Back then, if a student was a vegetarian, they could eat at the salad bar or maybe pick up French fries at the grill. “But that was it.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Many students are looking for healthy food options while they’re away at college. Schools are adjusting their cafeteria and dining hall menus to accommodate the uptick in healthier eating habits.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>stock.adobe.com</p></div></div>
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</div><p>An increasing number of students are eating a flexitarian diet, which is mostly vegetarian but includes meat, fish or poultry. That’s a trend that will continue to gain speed, says Mark Little, who works at DePaul University as a district manager for Chartwells.</p><p>Starting this fall, DePaul will expand its vegan and vegetarian options to include hot specials every day. Students will be able to “go right to that station, and it’s always going to be something different,” Little says.</p><p>Students are more aware of and asking for different ingredients from across the globe. “They’re super informed,” he says.</p><p>And students expect a diversity of choices – from vegan, vegetarian and halal to gluten and allergy-free.</p><p>“The general (student) population is shifting toward a more balanced lifestyle … they’re taking more interest in what they’re putting in their body,” says Loyola University dietician Lindsey Harrigan.</p><p>Harrigan meets with students who need an accommodation, like allergy-free food; those struggling with an eating disorder; and others who don’t know how to make a healthy plate, are overwhelmed by their choices or just want more information about eating better.</p><p>“People are at different stages of change,” Harrigan says.</p><p>She and others in dining services view their role as more than providing healthy meals. It’s also educating students about their health, teaching them habits that will last a lifetime.</p><p>“What they learn in college is going to follow them the rest of their lives,” Notre Dame’s Abayasinghe says. “The food you eat can be the most powerful form of medicine, or it can be a slow form of poison.” </p><p>One of the next trends, DePaul’s Little says, will be personalized nutrition. How someone processes food can differ from another person, and that could lead to still more changes in food offerings on college campuses.</p><p>One unlikely change? Students’ demand for the not-so-healthy food.</p><p>At IIT, they love their chicken strips and and cheese, Stetz says. And at DePaul, Little says, “the two biggest purchases are still hamburgers and chicken nuggets.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Even though school menus are including healthier options when it comes to the food choices, hamburgers, pizza, chicken nuggets and mac and cheese are still available for students who prefer their favorite comfort foods.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>stock.adobe.com</p></div></div>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/8/8/20727950/college-students-healthy-options-campus-eating-vegan-gluten-halalSuzanne McBride