Posted on 01/07/2017 8:40:48 AM PST by Hube
The University of Chicago’s admissions office is offering an incentive to its student tour guides: Come up with “a creative way to dispel the negative perception'” that the city is unsafe.
The Chicago Maroon obtained a copy of the email Assistant Director of Admissions Colleen Belak had sent out to the guides. The student who provided the message asked to remain anonymous due to a “confidentiality policy.”
In her email, Belak manages to toss in the name of the president-elect:
“If you’ve paid attention to the national news (or Donald Trump’s tweets) over the last few months, you’ll notice that the city of Chicago is often painted with a broad brush as an ‘unsafe’ or ‘scary’ place to reside,” Belak wrote to the campus tour guide listhost.
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They are runnign a contest for best slogans? they will likely come up with crap like
“Chicago isn’t violent- we help people by relieving them of the burden of life- people should be thankful that we are innovative enough to deal with the ‘overcrowding’, not resentful- Chicago is just misunderstood”
I suggest encouraging formation of a secession movement, kinda like what California but in reverse. Have the good parts give independence to the problem neighborhoods, and incorporate them into a new city called "Obamatown".
(I worked in Chicago for 5 years and my daughter earned her MS there. But I think the city is so dysfunctional that it is pretty much hopeless. The only question is the slope of the decline. Since they have decided on one-party-rule, even the Obamatown solution is only a temporary one.)
I’m not arty, myself, but any of my teenagers could do this in a few hours with our currently-available software.
Dangerous gun law in Ill., are part of the problem; disrespect for Police is another; gangs rule certain areas....the Mayor another problem.
My entry: Just say all violence is located in the black inner city (southside) and if you don’t go into it, you won’t get slaughtered.
$500, please.
Marry first,then have baby. Raise baby with husband and wife married. Rinse and repeat. Teach sons to respect women as children of God. Obtain manhood by being taught you have what it takes by dad’s approval and God’s,their true father.
Then, reject government handouts which enslave.
Rinse and repeat each generation.
Give me my $500.
a creative way to dispel the negative perception’” that the city is unsafe. NOW THATS FUNNY!
Don’t cover it up. Use it. The military already uses Chicago to train medics on battlefield wounds. Turn it into an asset for the rest of the country:
They can also start training embedded reporters to cover wars without interfering.
They can use it to show the country what refugees and illegal immigrants and coming from and what many of them are bringing more of. Before sponsoring a few refugees it should be required to live in south Chicago and “sponsor” a family for a few weeks. Before an organization takes $100 million from the government to sponsor 100s of refugees or a city accepts 100s of refugees, they should practice by taking care of an entire Chicago neighborhood for 1/2 year.
When liberals (or anyone) has a “good idea” for police reforms, let them fine-tune their idea by cleaning up a single block (or many) in south Chicago. When liberals want to let violent criminals out of prison early, let them be released to the same neighborhoods and see how the police reform “works”.
Many other things can be experimented with here. Needle exchange. Paying teachers more. Drug legalization. Guaranteed basic income or higher minimum wages. Prostitution reform, .... I’m against most of these (at least as liberals propose) but show how they work here and I may change my mind. There will often be a $$ cost but at least it’s isolated to a small part of the country until proven (e.g. show us that guaranteed basic income is actually used to buy food, medicine, and education supplies and has no fraud and we can talk).
Or commercialize the violence:
Many people like “themed vacations” even when it’s not fun/safe/easy - they like the “experience”. Create a new category of “war zone vacation” and make Chicago the “go-to spot” for those without the money to fly to the mid-east.
Sell it to hollywood as a cheap location for realistic scenes in a variety of types of movies. war movies. crime movies. republican-suck movies. alien movies.
I’m sure Elon Musk can find a way to make lots of money to do “something” here. The key is to get him to do it without most of the money coming from the government and I don’t know if he has any other business plan. But the main thing for Chicago is to embrace the violence and incentivize businessmen/women to use it.
Reduce the actual violence.
It’s very creative in that Democrat politicians never ever actually do anything about a problem except make themselves rich off of it.
I’ll take my $500 now.
Bring back public hangings after a 2 day trial that begins almost immediately after the arrest. Televise it on every channel in Chicago. New hangings every day until violence subsides.
Send the $500 to FreeRepublic.com with my compliments and gratitude.
For tourists you picture them holding books and the locals seeing the books and running away in fear. The locals hate books like vampires hate the Cross, So tourist and Chicago can use that IMO to encourage people to risk safely traveling through President Obama’s people in Chicago.
“U. Chicago offers $500 for ‘creative ways’ to fight city’s ‘perception of violence’”
If it works they can try the same for Islam.
All the parts that are inside of a chalk outline are unsafe.
All the parts outside of a chalk outline are safe.
That's the problem in a nutshell. PC prevents them from even accurately describing the problem. If they can't state the problem, they can never fix it.
I just threw away 2 old issues of the maroon (circa 1969). I didn’t go to school there but worked at the U of C hospital for a couple of years - 70-72, lived in Hyde Park and got around by bike. Didn’t feel safe even back then.
I don’t think they won’t describe the problem; they’re just acknowledging they’re no going to address it (instead addressing related fallout from the “perception”).
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