The Chicago Reporter articles from November 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from November 2002

Bridging the gap.
November 1, 2002... For 16 months, Norman A. Ospina Q. has engaged immigrants from Colombia, Mexico and El Salvador, as well as other Latinos. He talks to them on their jobs, in their homes, in their schools and at their churches. Ospina heads Project...

Foster children clustered in few schools. (Help Wanted).
November 1, 2002... When Tyrone McGhee began missing classes at Austin Community Academy High School halfway through his junior year, few noticed. The tall, quiet young man said not one teacher or counselor called his house or tracked him down. "Some of the...

Minority faculty finish last on tenure track.
November 1, 2002... Behind binoculars, Valerie C. Johnson cried. She watched from a car across the street on a cold day last February as her students, bundled in winter coats, shouted, marched and waved banners that read "Tenure Professor Johnson" on the...

Shenoy named McCormick Fellow. (Reporter News).
November 1, 2002... Rupa Shenoy was named The Chicago Reporter's new Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority Fellow in Urban Journalism, replacing Leah Samuel. Shenoy has interned at the publication for more than a year, first assisting with the production of...

The Chicago Reporter: March 1973.
November 1, 2002... Minorities represented about 12 percent of the students enrolled at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Reporter...

Cook County offers Chinese-language ballots. (Keeping Current).
November 1, 2002... Two years ago, Tankow Kwong stepped into a voting booth to cast his first ballot as a naturalized U.S. citizen. He voted for president, but skipped over all the other offices. The 71-year-old Chinatown resident said he was stymied by the...