As people who directly benefit by the wartime sacrifices made by the generations before us, it is our duty to keep their stories alive. This line of thought is what prompted me to dedicate this week’s Hidden History article to a regiment of the New York National Guard known as the 369th Infantry Regiment - the first African American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) during World War I (WWI).

Chicago is a diverse city with history on every block. From the Loop to the greater “Chicagoland” area, the city boasts its past and present through architecture, art, food, parks, museums, shops, music, events, and even its people. A variety of companies offer bus tours, boat tours, segway tours, and more, however, these often come at a steep price. Many Chicago residents do not realize that numerous walking tours are available for free.

Couple the series’ relative obscurity with the fact that its last numbered entry, “Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation” released all the way back in 2007, and you’d be forgiven for the fact that its newest upcoming title, “Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown” might have slipped underneath your air radar. Still, the fact still stands that “Ace Combat 7” is finally a thing and is taxiing for a release date of January 18, 2019 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (and a February 1, 2019 release date for Windows).

After the prior week contained the first senate hearing of the semester, the evening of Wednesday, September 19 hosted the first Illinois Tech Student Government Association (SGA) committee meetings of the fall 2018 semester. Traditionally, these committee meetings are designed as time for senators to meet with their individual committee heads and make progress on their various projects, as well as being structured timeslots for newcomers and volunteers to the organization to also meet with and possibly collaborate with the elected members.

Beginning the week of Monday, September 17, the Illinois Tech Office of Campus Life (OCL) began the first steps of creating a new group students known as the Illinois Tech Social Justice Ambassadors (SJAs). Although the group is still in its formative stages, having just been assembled, Combs is confident that the new group will be able to make great strides in establishing the program’s precedents and working towards a greater sense of inclusivity on the Illinois Tech campus.

How, then, does a movie where the plot is just a manufactured excuse to justify rampant bloodshed go on to become a pivotal moment in changing shooter movies forever? How does “John Wick” go from being a nobody to the new face of the action genre? The answer to this question lies in the same place as it does for the eponymous character: the execution.

  If after reading the title of this article you thought to yourself “Mauritius? That’s a country?” you’re not alone. Illinois Tech student Gaytree Dawoodarry is from Curepipe, a city found at the center of the tiny tropical island that sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

A face smiles at me from the other side of the hall, two paths colliding for just a second to exchange rushed greetings. With nine research projects and one class to teach, it is no wonder Professor Sonja Petrovic maintains such a fast pace even when walking down the halls. I managed to find a small hole in her schedule in order to kick off this column - and so, I present to you a bit on how research works in the Department of Applied Mathematics.  

First-year students, second-years, third-years, seniors, super seniors, alumnae planning to attend the career fair, calling all to attention: are you ready to attend Illinois Tech’s campus-wide career fair on Wednesday, September 26 and Thursday, September 27? 

DEAR df: I’m worried about how much a good friend of mine is drinking. They’re also a student at IIT and I’ve noticed it start to take a toll on their academic performance. I wouldn’t necessarily call them an alcoholic, but they’re up to a couple of beers a day and I’m concerned about it escalating. I’d confront them about it, but I don’t want to strain the friendship. What should I do?

---Don’t Want An Intervention Later

DEAR INTERVENTION:

From people dancing on tables to Bhangra in the middle of the dance floor, Bollywood Night was exactly as we’d hoped it would be. A congregation of all the Desis (and some non-Desis) grooving to the best Hindi music of the last 25 years all under one roof. The night started off at 10 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. as originally promised because of the phenomenon we like to call "Indian time" whereby people show up a good hour after the event starts. Nevertheless, the raw enthusiasm of everyone present there completely made up for it and by 10:30 p.m., the party was in full swing.

Peter Kilpatrick began his position as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Illinois Tech on August 1, 2018, previously the McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

"Bojack Horseman" released its fifth season last week, delivering with it some of the most compelling writing and consistent quality in the history of Netflix originals.

"Into the Breach" is the second game made by Subset games after the Steam indie classic "FTL: Faster Than Light." Given the success of the latter title, a six year development gap from 2012’s "FTL" is somewhat concerning even for a small indie studio, made even more concerning when I downloaded "Into the Breach" only to find the file size at a whopping 141 mb, meaning the download time was non-existent.

Wednesday, September 5 is when we had the first meeting for all the new Junior Hawks on campus this year to kickstart the admission process for next term. Junior Hawks is a group of Illinois Tech volunteers who are a part of the admissions process by meeting with prospective students and their families to help them make the best and most informed decision they can with regards to what college they choose to attend.

Love to Dance (LTD) has waltzed into this first semester with their first rehearsal on September 6. With performing and apprentice members alike, there were a lot of fresh new faces to be seen. Renewed enthusiasm persisted throughout the session as everyone was excited about the trip to Chinatown following the first half of the rehearsal to find a place and time to bond with fellow team members.

The first general body meeting of the brand-new Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) student chapter was on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. This chapter was launched underneath Illinois Tech’s Association for Computing Machinery – Women (ACM-W). The meeting covered what the chapter plans are for the semester and this involves a cybersecurity themed escape room and participating in the National Cyber League.

There are creepers crawling around campus. Peering into your windows at night, they lurk. Public Safety has neither a method nor any desire to track and monitor these delinquents. They are allowed to wander campus freely day and night. We have become complicit with our safety. Students, faculty, and administration are all accountable for this oversight. It’s easy to brush aside when there’s just one. One isn’t a problem on its own, but these evil creatures gather together, increasing their potential to wreak havoc on this campus exponentially. I suppose we could wait it out till winter. The cold weather reduces the chance that they will cause problems, but can we last 'til then?

Many returning students were surprised to find a major change in the voting process, which SGA described as accidental.

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During Welcome Week, I met a lot of people and made several friends. When we wanted to meet up and head somewhere together, we all agreed to meet in the MSV lounge that has the word “TECH” displayed in large letters on its wall, in plain visual range of anyone walking past it. To us, this location became known as the Tech Lounge. I assumed that the sheer size and splendor of the word “TECH” on the wall meant that this lounge was also known by this moniker to the rest of the student body as well. Recently, to my utmost surprise, I have come to find out that this location is actually known as the Center Lounge.

Whenever Technews covers product releases, I feel like the newspaper is marking a moment in history, and future readers and writers will go back to that issue of the newspaper randomly and realize the leap of technology that has happened since the article. This article is for you, fellow reader in the year 2024 on October 14. This week, on September 12 2018, Apple has held an event at the Steve Jobs theater in Cupertino, California. They released the new iPhones (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR) and the new Apple Watch series 4. The long awaited event left Apple fanboys with empty wallets, android users with the usual frustration, and investors happy.

On the evening of Wednesday, September 12 on the fourth floor office space at 9 W Washington St., General Assembly (an adult education organization that offers boot camps, workshops, and courses in tech-related fields, such as design, data, and the web) held an open panel titled Tech Careers for Non-Engineers.

The last weekend, which for me started September 7, 2018, was going to be a fun time, but I won’t spoil how that went for you. As it turned out, the PlayStation 3 (PS3) game system never had a major hardware upgrade since its release in 2006 as an overpriced, not small, obnoxiously and obscurely programmed PowerPC computer for the masses, except not.

There are many reasons why people go to college. Key among them being building a future career. So, what do you need to get a successful career?

On July 23, 2018, approximately a month before classes started, Michael Horan, Vice President for Finance and Administration at Illinois Institute Technology sent an email to all the Illinois Tech Students who had signed up for the commuter shuttle bus alert. You can find a screenshot of the email itself in the comments of a post on the Illinois Tech Student Community page on Facebook if you search “shuttle” in the handy Facebook ‘search this page’ box. You can also find a small sample of the healthy academic debate within the comments as well.

This week, Apple released three new iPhones, namely iPhone X-R, iPhone X-s and the iPhone X-s Max, as well as the new Apple Watch series 4. For a while now, I have been waiting on Apple’s next move since my last iPhone was the 3GS, and my current phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 that I got at the end of 2015. As anyone that was hyped for Apple’s event on September 12, I became annoying around my friends. My friend Iris Uwizeyimana, who was trying to keep her calm around me, asked me the question of “The iPhone looks just like the previous one. Has Apple really innovated since Steve Jobs died?” I tried to concoct an answer to say what I was thinking while being still affected by the hype of the event. However, I had to think with the facts.

If you are a photographer, videographer, or both, you should already know Peter McKinnon by now. McKinnon created his YouTube channel "Peter McKinnon" in February 15, 2010, and since then, he has amassed 136,234,132 views, as of the writing this article. What was his secret tip, you ask? Giving everything he had learned about photography and videography for free.

Third year Illinois Tech students Prince Hodonou and Doorvesh Santbakshsing (known around campus as Sid) hope to add to the educational resources available on college campuses through their application “SeekNow.” The app provides students with a straightforward and effective way to create study groups for a large variety of courses. It also allows you to receive notifications when groups are created for courses that you choose to follow.

Every month, the Illinois Tech Office of Campus Energy and Sustainability hosts a speaker to present at its Sustainability Forums, open to all staff, faculty, and students of the university. The first such forum was held on Friday, September 14 in the Hermann Hall ballroom and featured Jennifer Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council (IEC).

As news updates on the ongoing landfall of Hurricane Florence continue to come in, Internet forums, weather centers, and notions of common sense everywhere find themselves challenged by the poignant question “why don’t we just nuke the hurricane?”

However, Walt Disney envisioned something very different from the permanent fairground that currently sits on the original EPCOT space. The original community that Disney envisioned was to be just that - “a real city that would never cease to be a blueprint of the future.” Disney’s original EPCOT concept was to be a living, breathing company town that Disney would be satisfied leaving to his descendants and to the future of humanity.

Illinois Tech hosted Chris Wilson, Vice President and Operations Director of Environmental System Design (ESD) to give a presentation on the work he and ESD perform titled “Improving Society Through the Built Environment.”

The first senate hearing of the Fall 2018 semester was held on the evening of Wednesday, September 12 in Stuart Building room 113.

Usually when a game does a gameplay reveal at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game developers try to make sure that the game looks way better than it actually is. Do you remember a game called Watchdogs? Ubisoft, the company behind Watchdogs, made sure that the gameplay reveal for that looked extra crispy and extra smooth. The audience was left at the edge of their seats, and despite a deplorable actual game, the company managed to sell 10 million copies. Interestingly enough, CD PROJEKT RED, another game developer known for its game series The Witcher, revealed their gameplay footage at E3, and interestingly enough, it seems like they did not try hard to make the game seem interesting. They really showed what CyberPunk 2077 is at its core: a boring RPG.

Writers’ note: this article is by no means criticizing the author herself, merely the opinions expressed in her article.  

Prism IIT, the on-campus LGBTQIA+ organization, is proud to announce that, as part of Homecoming 2018, Laura Jane Grace (founder, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of punk rock band Against Me!) will be performing on campus on Saturday, September 22 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Need a new place to hang with friends? Curious about what you can see in the city of Chicago? Perhaps somewhere off campus to escape the soul-crushing stress of your college courses? Look no further! The Shedd Aquarium is here for you to drown your sorrows.

The first main topic discussed by the group was transparency of information on campus. Specifically, the group brought to the president and provost’s attention that many students are upset about the lack of notification regarding the departure of Vice Provost for Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives (SASDI) Gerald Doyle.