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The new DePaul arena will have student seating located above in the “Demon Deck,” a shift from where fans previously sat below at Allstate Arena. The building opens Fall 2017.
Student seating will be off the floor in new arena By DePaulia Investigation Following a mid-February win over Providence, members of DePaul’s men’s basketball team stormed the student section at Allstate Arena. Celebrating their biggest win of the season — upsetting the then No. 11 ranked team in the country — the Blue Demons joined students partly because there weren’t enough fans to storm the court. It was the rare moment where students could enjoy success right along with the players, with the student section faced directly behind the basket. But with the construction of DePaul’s new arena, this wouldn’t be possible. Once the arena opens in Fall 2017, the way students experience games will likely be drastically different.
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SGA executives running unopposed By Maddy Crozier Staff Writer
With Student Government Association (SGA) elections next week, 29 positions renew for elections. Only 19 students will run. Of the 19 on the ballot, 14 run uncontested. This, in almost all aspects, guarantees their positions for the upcoming school year. Candidates were introduced to a group of largely others running at a “Meet the Candidates” event Wednesday. On the joint President and Vice President ticket appear juniors Ric
Popp and Megan Scoville, respectively. Currently, Popp serves as SGA’s vice president and Scoville serves as one of the Senators for the College of Science and Health. Both look to this election as an opportunity to further cement their involvement. As in previous years, one of the duo’s initiatives continues the focus on “SGA as an advocate,” Scoville said. “We recognize that SGA serves as the official liaison between students and the administration,” she said. “We want to be taking that position as seriously as we can by hearing the voices of the students in any
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Chicago battles West Coast cities for rights to Lucas Museum By Jackson Danbeck Copy Editor
While the battle for the Lucas Museum continues to grind on, “Star Wars” founder George Lucas and his wife are now considering to relocate their museum of narrative art to another city. The couple’s threat is in reaction to a prolonged lawsuit by the preservation group Friends of the Parks, who are against the construction of the $400 million museum on 17 acres of lakefront public land between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. The non-profit argues that the Lucas Museum cannot build on land that the state of Illinois has jurisdiction over, and that the extensive building would taint the lakefront’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, Lucas and his supporters argue that the land they want to build on is currently a parking lot, and the museum — including Lucas’ $600 million art collection — would be a suitable addition to the museums already residing on the lakefront. But this may no longer be the case. “We are now seriously pursuing locations outside of Chicago,” Mellody Hobson, Lucas’ wife and a Chicago native, said in a statement on May 3. “If the museum is forced to leave, it will be because of the Friends of the Parks and that is no victory for anyone.” Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been one of the Lucas Museum’s strongest advocates, who has said that its opening would provide much-needed economic growth and is a rare, and free, opportunity to add to Chicago’s lakefront. To push the project along, on May 4 the mayor’s city attorneys requested the court of appeals to toss the lawsuit. To avoid the struggle against the Friends of the Parks, Lucas and the city are now considering a plan to demolish McCormick Place’s lakeside convention center to free up
another potential space for the museum. Yet this spot is arguably also public space, and the Friends of the Parks are expected to file another lawsuit if the museum is planned to be built there. Pressed for time, the aging Lucas, who wants to see his dream become reality, may decide to simply leave Chicago in the dust and build his museum in another city like Los Angeles or San Francisco — cities that previously rejected the museum. Euan Hague, professor and chair of DePaul’s department of geography, said that the dispute ultimately comes down to whether the lakefront property merits its designation as a public space for all to enjoy. “I think what people are concerned about is setting a precedent for new construction along the lakefront,” Hague said. “If you are going to give a private foundation that level of visibility, that access to land, how can you turn down the next private foundation who wants to build a museum?” The city has allowed private enterprises to be built on the lakefront before, most notably Soldier Field, the Field Museum, McCormick Place and Lake Point Tower, a condominium east of Lake Shore Drive. The Field Museum aroused a similar battle in its day. “It’s one of these policies that the city historically has abided by, or ignored, depending on what it wants to construct,” Hague said. The city seems to be ignoring that policy this time around, Hague said. For all the museum’s legal troubles, it is supposed to offer the city a unique experience, concentrating on narrative art through images and cinema. “When I look at the plans for the Lucas Museum, I can see a tremendous amount of value involved, in terms of bringing to Chicago a type of museum we don’t currently have, that looks at the art of storytelling,” Cheryl Bachand, lecturer in DePaul’s department of the history of arts
and architecture, said. And many points raised by opponents to the Lucas Museum are common for museums in Chicago and across the United States, Bachand said. Poor residents often cannot afford tickets, and museums are usually paid for by private institutions on land provided by local government. DePaul students seemed divided on whether the Lucas Museum should be built on Chicago’s lakefront. Charlie Hopkins, a sophomore and environmental studies major, said he supports the Lucas Museum if certain conditions are met. “As long as the state signs it over, and everything is legal about it. I mean, it’s not like he’s going to put a factory on the lakefront. He’s going to put up something that’s going to draw visitors and tourists,” Hopkins said. Samuel Re Calderon, a sophomore and political science major, said he is against the construction of the Lucas Museum, although he approves of how the museum plans to offer certain aspects of its experience free of charge. “I think it’s a waste of space,” Re Calderon said. “Even though the complex looks really cool, it’s too much of a money blow out, especially on a George Lucas exhibit.” The next step of the lawsuit is a hearing on June 15, when both sides will present their case on whether construction of the museum should begin. Patience and understanding are the names of the game, Hague said. Often people do not recognize the amount of time and energy expended in the negotiation for projects like the Lucas Museum. They simply want to experience the attraction. “These things take a long time to happen,” Hague said. “They don’t just occur in an instant, and quite often they are contentious debates.”
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Cook County Sheriff plays major role in city By Brenden Moore
I used to be a prosecutor years ago and I can tell you that sexual assaults always were very, very difficult cases. And they’re Earlier this week, The DePaulia even more so now, particularly on a college interviewed Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. campus because you have issues of consent The conversation included topics from and all that gets confused by some of the mental health to rumors of a possible 2019 administrators. So the best we can do is try mayoral run for the three-term sheriff. Here to educate folks as well as possible and be in is an edited transcript of that conversation: assistance to them. The DePaulia: When people think of a DP: There’s a lot of mistrust between law sheriff, they think of Andy Griffith. Tell me, enforcement and different communities. As what does a sheriff do in the second-largest the highest ranking law enforcement official county in America in the 21st century? in the county, what are some ways you think Tom Dart: I think the traditional view that trust can be rebuilt? of sheriff is definitely no longer what the TD: I think the one thing that needs to tides call for, but it’s also certainly no be understood about it is that it’s not going longer functional to be quite honest with to be quick. Because that’s where it is now you. It requires you to be more than just a not just because of Laquan McDonald’s law enforcement officer. If that’s all you’re shooting. There’s been years of distrust, years doing, then you did not get the memo that of concerns. You’ve had a lot of incidents we can’t arrest our way out of or incarcerate that have occurred over decades. The way away these problems. We have to be the it’s going to occur is initiating policies of folks that are (aware) of the changes not just engagement ,and true engagement. That in the criminal justice system, but also in means you go into communities and it can’t social justice. be just the facade of community policing; Side note: After answering the question, it’s got to be true community policing Dart joked that the Andy Griffith Show is where you have the community interacting one of his favorites and that he had watched in a substantive way with law enforcement a couple episodes with his children the about their needs and concerns. previous night. Ninety percent of my police department DP: Mental health is one of your top now has crisis intervention training, which issues. Talk a little about the role mental teaches you about mental illness, signs of health plays in the jails and how you’re it, ways to deescalate situations, so those trying to reform it. types of trainings go a long way to making TD: The scary reality is that we have for a more harmonious interaction on the become the mental health system for the street too. So there’s a handful of training region ... We’re the largest mental hospital things, but I think everybody needs to be in the county, in the state, and we very aware that this is going to take some time. well might be the largest mental health in It’s going to have to be substantive changes the country. And that in it of itself should and interactions with the community and be enough of a statement to say that we it’s always through that that trust can begin. be embarrassed that our society becomes DP: Have you been collaborating with so negligent that we don’t see anything other agencies like the state’s attorney’s wrong with jails and prisons being the office and the Chicago Police Department? health services for those TD: We do a lot citizens. of that now and we’ve The events that have “What I decided was that always collaborated brought people into our some way, shape if they were going to make in custody are all the logical or form with entities consequences of us not me be the largest mental such as the state’s funding mental health office. At health provider, I’m going attorney’s services for decades. The the end of the day, we crimes almost across the to be the best mental have to get them to board are not serious, approve charges for health provider.” violent crimes; they’re our cases. So there’s crimes of survival on the reactive areas we the street when you work with them on, don’t have access to any as far as cases that Tom Dart, services of support. So get made. And there’s Cook County Sheriff we’ve been trying to proactive ways, such spread the word. (And) as in sex trafficking what I decided was that cases, things along if they were going to make me be the largest those lines. With other police departments, mental health provider, I’m going to be the we interact with them all the time. So, once best mental health provider. again, it’s reactive, where they’re asking for DP: Sexual assault is a big issue on our assistance. And there’s other ones where, college campuses. Could you speak to some departments — oh God, unfortunately, too of the efforts your office is doing on that many to enumerate — where I get called in issue? to assist them in a myriad of issues, some TD: I have three people who are not as straightforward as literally taking over just experts in sexual assault, the victims their department. There are other ones and the like, but they are also experts in the where they ask me to handle the patrol part law and the requirements of universities. of their function or their detective work. So we put together a series of training And then in the City of Chicago, we just sessions for colleges and universities. We collaborated with them in districts where did an anonymous survey of colleges and there’s more violence than others. We just universities in Illinois and we had a huge try to help. We put more police officers in participation rate. those areas from the sheriff ’s department in So the issue in regards to universities, an effort to reduce some of the crime issues they’ve made it clear to them that they’re they’re experiencing. So we do collaborate a there to help. In the instances where there lot and have been collaborating more with are questions of either for advice or help the City of Chicago I’d say in the last nine in the prosecution of a case, they need our months than ever before. I’ve always been assistance. News Editor
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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart visits DePaul Tuesday, May 24. working in the city, but it’s more interactive now with their upper level folks. Before, we didn’t have much of a relationship. DP: Do you think this is because of new leadership in the police department postGarry McCarthy? TD: Yeah, that’s definitely a part of it. DP: What’s your relationship like with the mayor? TD: We don’t talk. I haven’t spoken to him in six years. DP: Wow. TD: Yeah, it’s sort of strange, but I’m outrageously busy, so I’m not going to lose a whole lot of sleep over that. It’s just strange because these other towns in the county, their mayors have me on speed dial. They call me all the time about you name it. I’m always happy to work with them and help them. So for whatever reason, he hasn’t called me. I offered to help years ago. So I can’t get in anyone’s head besides my own. So I don’t know why people do what they do. DP: Well, there have been some rumblings about you possibly running for mayor in 2019. Any truth to that? TD: I tell people this: it was something I was adamantly opposed to four or five years ago. I have a really young family that I’m really connected to and I like it that way. They’ve gotten a little bit older, but I still don’t know if the requirements of being mayor would fit with my family. And the other part of it too is that I really love my job; I enjoy what I do. I feel rather confident saying that we’re on the cutting edge of all the changes going on in law enforcement around the country. It’d be one thing if I were a state legislator or something questioning how much I’m really impacting things. But we really are; when it comes to the mentally ill in prisons and jails, we’re the leading entity in the country. When it comes to people who are incarcerated because they’re poor, which we have an abundance of, we’re leading that effort in the country too. So it will always be a factor I look at, that I feel very vital where I’m at now, I enjoy what I’m doing. I won’t rule it out categorically like I have in the past, but I am a long way from saying this is my dream come true. I could leave political office tomorrow and be a
very happy camper. A lot of these people in politics, for whatever reason, they’re defined by their job and are always trying to get to the next job. I’m always shaking my heading say ‘well, why don’t you focus on the one you have now?’ and actually have something objective that you can say that you did there before you jump to the next one. Some of these fools, honest to God, I can’t get them, I really can’t. DP: Any names? TD: Oh, take your pick. I mean, honest to God, I’m always blown away by it. I’m like ‘you gotta be kidding me!’ You haven’t even done anything in the job you have right now, and now you want to be to be mayor or governor? C’mon! But some of these people, it’s all a game of getting to the next title. What they’re going to do with it, they could care less. DP: Regardless of any mayoral speculation, do you plan to run for reelection as sheriff? TD: Barring any family issue, absolutely. DP: You’re coming to DePaul in a few weeks. What are you planning to discuss? TD: I don’t know. To be honest with you, I don’t have a particular topic. I think what I would probably focus most on would be just the need for people to find in their hearts to get involved, not just with government, but in the issues of the day. DP: What are some ways students can get involved? TD: There are loads of opportunities in my office to volunteer; not necessarily becoming a county correctional officer, I’m talking about being engaged and helping with social work. So there’s a load of different opportunity in that respect. On a local level, I encourage some of the younger folks to frankly get off their phones and to run for office, get involved on that type of level. Don’t just sit there and feel that you engaged in making this a better world because you tweeted something out. No. Put your name out there, put your time and energy out there to try to actually obtain an office where you did it for the right reasons to try and do some amazing things. Dart will appear at DePaul on May 24. The event will take place from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the Schmitt Academic Center, room 254.
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Kelli Marshall (left) of DePaul’s College of Communication is being sued by the widow of actor Gene Kelly (right) for copyright violations in Marshall’s new biography on Kelly.
Professor sued for copyright of star’s interviews Print Managing Editor
DePaul media studies professor Kelli Marshall is a die-hard Gene Kelly fan. She has authored seven articles dedicated to the classic American actor and she built a fansite to share anything and everything Kelly-related. But her latest academic work published by a university press was just put on hold by none other than Gene Kelly’s widow, who is suing over copyright. Gene Kelly, the lovable actor who sang in the rain and fell in love as an American in Paris, is a symbol of the golden era of musical television. After his death in 1996, his third wife, Patricia Ward Kelly, was named executrix of his estate and has “devoted her adult life and career to promoting and protecting all aspects of Gene Kelly’s legacy by writing, directing and performing works.” But according to Marshall, Kelly isn’t the only one dedicated to preserving the actor’s legacy. Marshall started a website in 2010 to collect all things Gene Kelly and in February wrote, “Initially my goal was to gather together all of the Gene Kelly-related news, videos, commentary, photographs, GIFs, tweets, and tributes... eventually my scholarly project evolved into a fully functioning fan site with multiple (unpaid) contributors, recurring series, lengthy essays, and accompanying social-media accounts.” The site reached hundreds of thousands of fans and has a significant following on social media. Marshall said her academic fandom “contributes positively” to her writing and her course about Kelly at the Facets Film School in Chicago. “What’s not exciting about visiting with people who literally hold in their hands the clothes of a classical Hollywood star? Or who visited his Beverly Hills home? Curating a Gene Kelly fan site is not at all a bad way to spend one’s free time outside of the classroom,” Marshall wrote. But for Marshall and the University Press of Mississippi (UPM), rights to everything Gene Kelly said or sang now has to be fought over in court. Kelly filed the lawsuit April 29 after receiving a series of Facebook messages from Marshall on March 29, 2016, asking for permission to use interviews between Gene Kelly and the BBC for a volume
published by UPM titled “Gene Kelly: Interviews, part of “Conversations with Filmmakers.” The same day, Kelly responded that all interviews belonged to her and that Marshall must obtain permission. After receiving more messages from Marshall, Kelly sent an official cease and desist letter to Marshall and UPM March 31 demanding the book be discontinued. That day UPM responded they would go ahead with the book. “The University Press of Mississippi’s interviews and conversations titles are a long-running series of books that highlight filmmakers, writers, comics artists, and other notable public figures,” Clint Kimberling, publicity and advertising manager for UPM said in an email. “These books routinely make use of previously published, nonfiction works and provide an accessible volume of nonfiction research for both scholars and general readers alike. “UPM and its volume editors secure all rights for the content contained within these titles from third-party rights holders for the purpose of creating a new nonfiction work.” Marshall said she could not comment in detail on the case as it was still in litigation, but “in accordance with the University of Mississippi Press guidelines, I have been seeking all permissions necessary to reproduce copyrighted material that is the property of others, and I will rigorously defend myself and my book-in-progress on Gene Kelly.” DePaul law professor Michael Grynberg said issues of copyright fall under intellectual property law, which can make it difficult to define when something belongs to someone, especially when that something isn’t tangible like land or personal property. “Copyright is a protection over original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” Grynberg said. “But basically it’s protection for expressive works of authorship like a song or a novel or a movie. The beholder of the copyright has the ability to stop other people from, in certain circumstances, from making reproductions of that work.” In the case between Marshall, UPM and Kelly, it comes down to who has the right to use the interviews conducted by BBC. “With an interview there can be a question of whether the interviewee could
be seen as the author of the resulting interview,” Grynberg said. The other case scenario, in which Marshall and UPM would benefit, is that the BBC has the right to give permission because of how the interview conducted, such as if it was filmed or recorded. These are just some of the variables involved in determining the rights to these
interviews, but what Grynberg knows for sure is that litigation “can go on forever.” In the meantime, Kelly claims that by using her husband’s interviews, the book, due to be published in 2017 according to Marshall’s website, will “cause great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money.”
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Milo Yiannopoulos (above) will speak at DePaul May 24. Yiannopoulos, a conservative journalist, attracted much controversy for his statements on various topics, some calling it “hate speech.”
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Petitions have been signed and protests planned in the wake of controversial conservative personality Milo Yiannopoulos’ arrival at DePaul later this month. After a ‘chalking’ incident where the DePaul College Republicans wrote endorsements for Republican presidential candidates near the Lincoln Park Student Center, the group started a GoFundMe page to raise money to bring Yiannopoulos to DePaul. According to the GoFundMe page, the College Republicans hope the event will “Make DePaul Great Again,” and that the university is in “serious need of a wake-up call.” The fundraising efforts raised $1,170 out of the $3,000 requested to bring Yiannopoulos to DePaul, but according to the event’s Facebook page, it was enough to make it official. Activists against the event soon after started a Change.org petition, requesting the university cancel Yiannopoulos’ appearance. “The problematic and xenophobic statements and ideologies promoted by Milo Yiannopoulos are outraging,” the petition reads. “He perpetuates the dangerous systems of oppression that exist in our world and, as a result, on our campus.” This petition currently has 376 out of the 500 signatures requested to present to DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., who, according to the page, refused a personal request to cancel the event because he did not “share the same level of concern as you for the well-being of our students if they are exposed to this spectacle.” But Ryan Ballow, member of the DePaul College Republicans, said he does not think the petition will make any difference. “I don’t think online petitions do a whole lot these days in general,” he said. “Before you had to go door-to-door to gain
support and actually put in hard work to show that you really believe in something.” In response to the petition, a counter-petition was created asking DePaul to provide students with “pacifiers and/or milk and cookies,” and has received 39 out of 100 requested signatures. “The one petition calling for pacifiers for the protesters is obviously a joke, and there was already protests expected, so I don’t think the petitions have much effect other than publicizing the event,” Ballow said. The petition calling for the event to be cancelled states that Yiannopoulos is promoting “hate speech.” But Ari Cohn, attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), said this speech still falls within the rights of the First Amendment. “Legally speaking there is no difference between hate speech and free speech,” he said. “Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment the same as any other speech. Just because he might say things that are very offensive to some, it’s no reason to bar his appearance.” Ballow said the confusion between hate speech and free speech is part of why Yiannopoulos’ visit is important to DePaul students. “The fact that people call this hate speech is a joke,” he said. “If it was so-called hate speech, he wouldn’t be allowed to speak at DePaul in the first place. Milo has facts that back up his arguments and people are being offended by those facts. Simple as that.” In response to the event, a protest, called “Don’t Feed the Trolls,” has also been planned. Cohn said he is familiar with Yiannopoulos and said this is usually expected when he speaks on a college campus. “Part of the intellectual development of being in college is confronting ideas with free speech, more speech and using your own ideas to make a
A petition to seeking the cancelation of Yiannopoulos’ visit has garnered nearly 400 signatures.
difference,” he said. “A lot of students, when they’re opposing Yiannopoulos’ visits, they say the things he says in these speeches are deeply offensive to their beliefs and even their identity. That may well be true, but being offensive is not reason to cut off the debate and cut off speech.” Cohn said it’s important to have your ideas challenged on a college campus, as this has led to advocacy like the Civil Rights Movement and the LGBT Rights Movement. “I think that a college campus of all places has to be the place that we can express and explore and even fight about controversial issues,” he said. “If we cut off that dialogue and say that some speech is not okay we miss a great opportunity to start developing those things. We miss ideas we might have not have otherwise found. That’s the danger of restricting speech on the basis of what’s offensive.” Ballow said the College Republicans created the event to give some real-world lessons to those too used to a politically
correct society. “After the overreaction of the chalking by students and faculty, we realized we need to show people that the real world isn’t PC (politically correct), and things that they have heard from PCridden places are lies,” he said.
Yiannopoulos is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, in the DePaul Student Center Rooms 120 A and B. The protest is scheduled for 5 p.m. the same day at the Father Egan statue.
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Registration fee cut, other fees add up By Danielle Harris Opinions Editor
Compared to DePaul’s tuition prices, a $25 athletic fee can seem insignificant. But the five main general fees for undergraduate students — the new student orientation fee, transfer student orientation fee, student activity fee, athletic fee and registration fee — contribute major funding to resources and events ranging from Blue Demon Week to providing food during orientations. Alyssa Maffia Kupka, the senior associate vice president of academic fiscal administration, gave The DePaulia a fee-by-fee breakdown of exactly where student dollars are going. Every year, the provost assembles a Tuition Pricing
Committee (TPC) comprised of members from Student Government Association (SGA), Faculty Council, Staff Council and the university administration. This group is responsible for reviewing and recommending changes in general fees to the provost. Since 2010, general fees for DePaul undergraduates have remained stagnant. The upcoming academic year, however, will bring in a few slight changes. New and transfer students will face pricier orientation fees. Kupka said the cost of housing, feeding and transporting students during orientation has increased over the years, causing this increase in fees. Under TPC’s recommendation, the registration
fee will be discontinued next year. “The rationale being that registration is simply a fundamental process to an academic (or) university experience and students should not be expected to pay extra to simply register for courses,” Kupka said. DePaul’s athletic fee of $25 has remained the same since its inception and pales in comparison to other universities in the Big East. According to the DePaul University Student Financial Accounts, students at other Big East schools pay $120 to $400 for the same privileges. For returning DePaul students, the 2016-2017 academic year will see a decrease in general fees paid each quarter. MICHELLE KRICHEVSKAYA | THE DEPAULIA
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT : May 4, 2016 - May 10, 2016 LOOP CAMPUS
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
Clifton-Fullerton Hall 3
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Sanctuary Hall
University Hall 1
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Lewis Center DePaul Center
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13 14
Munroe Hall
15 19
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20 18 22 21
Student Center
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Assault & Theft
Drug & Alcohol
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS MAY 4 1) An assault was reported in University Hall.
MAY 5 2) A possession of cannabis report was filed in
Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Person was taken into custody by Chicago Police.
MAY 6 3) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor
report was filed for a person in Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.
4) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a person in the Ray Meyer Fitness Center.
MAY 7 5) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed in University Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.
6) A theft report was filed for DePaul property
taken from an unlocked room in Cortelyou Commons.
MAY 8 7) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor
report was filed for a person at the Student Center.
MAY 9 8) A domestic battery report was filed for two nonDePaul affiliated individuals fighting in the street on Fullerton. Chicago Police responded to the scene.
9) A harassment by text message report was
filed for a person in Levan receiving unwanted text messages.
MAY 10 10) A smell of marijuana report was filed in Sanctuary Hall. No drugs were found.
11) A deceptive practices report was filed in
Munroe Hall.
Other
12) A criminal damage to property report
18) A theft report was filed for a person whose items were taken in the library of the DePaul Center.
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19) A criminal trespass report was filed for a person causing a disturbance in the men’s restroom of the DePaul Center.
was filed for graffiti in the 1st floor restroom at McGowan South.
MAY 4 13) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a
person in the DePaul Center.
14) A criminal trespass warning was issued to
a person sleeping on the 6th floor of the DePaul Center.
15) A disturbance report was filed for a person
sleeping in the library of the DePaul Center.
16) A burglary report was filed for university
property taken from the 7th floor of the Lewis Center.
MAY 5 17) A criminal damage report was filed for a
cabinet that was damaged in the Lewis Center.
MAY 6 20) A criminal trespass report was filed for a
person in the DePaul Center who was previously asked to leave the building. Chicago Police took the person into custody.
21) A disturbance report was filed for a person refusing to leave Barnes and Noble in the DePaul Center. Chicago Police arrived and escorted him out of the building. MAY 9 22) A harassment report was filed for a person
being harassed in the Dunkin Donuts in the DePaul Center.
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Ric Popp
Megan Scoville
Michael Greene
Andrew Willett
Omar Escamilla
Adriana Kemper
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Vice President
Treasurer
Academic Affairs
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These five candidates are running for a cabinet position for Student Government Association. They are running unopposed.
SGA, continued from front page new and creative ways we can find.” “We want to make this campus as great as we can, not just for everyone around us, but also the greater Chicago community,” Popp said. The cabinet of the organization seems decided, as well. The only candidates are a team of Andrew Willett as EVP for Student Affairs, Michael Greene as EVP for Academic Affairs, Adriana Kemper as EVP for Operations and Omar Escamilla as Treasurer. Each of the cabinet members has SGA experience. Currently, Willett serves as the Senator for First Year Students, Greene as the Senator for the College of Computing and Digital Media, Kemper as the EVP for Operations and Escamilla as the Senator for Transfer Students. “I want to work on increasing our school affinity and creating that DePaul community. I’m sure you know the history of our school, that our nickname used to be ‘that little school under the ‘El,’’ but now within the last 20 to 30 years, we’ve grown to this really large school of 24,000 students. But something we lack is tradition, campus rituals and that culture,” Willett, a freshman said. “I want to reach even more people. There are so many events here at DePaul and people don’t know about them,” Greene, a freshman, said. “I want to learn from what I’ve done this year and build upon it for next year,” Kemper, a junior, said. “I see myself being capable in this position,” Escamilla, a junior, said. Only two other students who hold positions in SGA will run uncontested this quarter. Mandy Cervantes, Senator for Second Year Students, wants to become the Senator for Third Year Students. Jesse Bruer aims to keep his position as Senator for the School of Music. The following seats also run uncontested: Sarah Nolimal, Senator for Sustainability; Marina Lozano, Senator for Commuter Students; Michael Lynch, Senator for Intercultural Awareness; Jamie Thimmesh Rachie, Senator for the Driehaus College of Business; and Marty
Hasler, Senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, along with Amy Obendorf, Senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. “I have felt that, specifically, minority groups are marginalized student communities,” Lynch said, who has been outspoken during incidents including the campus chalking in April. “This is my time to give back to the community that’s given me so much,” junior Thimmesh Rachie said. “I just want to help as many people as I can. This is a different avenue where I can help people,” Hasler said. Only two senator positions face opposition. Katy Bozich and Diamaris Martino face each other for the Senator for the College of Communication seat. Grace Covarrubias, Ben Gartland and Michael Mulligan all compete for Senator for Mission and Values. Mulligan currently sits as Senator for Mission and Values, so he runs for reelection. “To go into communities and stand in solidarity, telling our stories together,” Covarrubias said. “That’s what’s truly powerful about the Vincentian mission. I’m really passionate about creating a network … and bringing this to DePaul students. We all love the idea of being socially responsible leaders.” This time around, no students are running to serve as senators for: Second Year Students, Fourth and Fifth Year Students, Graduate Students, Transfer Students, Community and Government Relations, The Theatre School, the College of Education, the School of New Learning, the College of Law, College for Computing and Digital Media (up to two Senators) or the College of Science and Health (up to two Senators). SGA would also allow a second Senator for the Driehaus College of Business. All of these positions will remain vacant at the start of fall quarter. However, SGA usually holds more elections in the fall. This allows students who had other factors impeding their decisions to run. Some of the vacant positions might be filled at that time, along with a Senator for First Year Students, should an incoming freshman
seize the opportunity. “We want to get everyone involved in the election in a positive way,” Scoville said.
For the full interview with SGA candidates check out depauliaonline.com. Voting opens on May 16 at 9 am and closes May 20 at 12 pm.
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Reconstruction to Fullerton Avenue would add more bike lanes and renovate existing side walks. Construction is set to be completed by November 2016.
Fullerton Avenue to get face lift By Jack Higgins Contributing Writer
Fullerton Avenue is being resurfaced and beautified between its intersections with Ashland and Racine Avenues from the end of April until November as a part of Chicago’s Complete Streets project. DePaul students commuting to class in the Lincoln Park campus should expect to experience delays during the construction as well as a lack of parking space on the stretch. The crews will work
on one side of the street at a time, and existing bike lanes and parking spots will be used as a makeshift lane for the redirected traffic. The plan, which was confirmed two years ago by the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) is to update Fullerton Avenues’ streetscape. This means the construction will not be limited to just the street, but will also include resurfacing the sidewalks, which will be beneficial to pedestrians. “We want to make it more pedestrian
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friendly and more aesthetically pleasing,” CDOT officials said in a statement. “We will also be adding a few bike lanes where there weren’t any before.” One of the main concerns of the project is pedestrian safety. Upon completion in November, the street will be smaller in width than before resurfacing began. The driving lanes will be reduced from 12 feet, and a half inches to 11 feet and the parking lane will be reduced from eight feet to seven feet. “I think (downsizing the lanes) is a great idea,” said Eric Holst of Facets Cinematheque, located at the first point of construction on Fullerton Avenue between Ashland and Greenview avenues. “People have a tendency to make a two-lane street into a four-lane street (by driving in the bike and parking lanes) which is a safety hazard. I’ve seen quite a few side mirrors taken out as ‘casualties’”. The excess two and a half feet will be used to extend the sidewalk to 10 feet, and “bump-outs” will be added at all the crosswalks to help improve safety. The new sidewalk will also be receiving new energy-efficient streetlights, trees and updated accommodations for disabled Chicagoans. The Fullerton Avenue construction has been met with mixed reviews from local businesses operating on the stretch. Many owners believe the construction will hurt business due to lack of parking space and a cramped sidewalk. “It’s backwards in a sense,” Kyle Charmelo, bar manager at The Arrogant Frog Bar said. “I’ve in this area my entire life, and (the street and sidewalk) have always been bad. They just announced more construction on Lincoln Avenue, and now backed-up traffic on Fullerton heading east will run into traffic on Lincoln. I just don’t understand why they chose now to do this.” The construction on Fullerton Avenue coincides with the demolition
of the Children’s Memorial Hospital building in Lincoln Park as well as the construction of the Lincoln Centre south of the Lincoln and Fullerton avenues intersection. Those two projects coupled with DePaul’s construction of the new School of Music building could lead to major traffic jams at the already trafficheavy intersection of Lincoln, Fullerton and Halsted avenues. Local businesses are also concerned that the construction could negatively impact business profits. “It’s deterring,” Charmelo said. “I’ve seen businesses with the wooden board walkway to the door, and I know I don’t want to walk on that. I mean understand the seasonal constraints and that it’s necessary.” The construction on the street began last Friday when crews began to redirect traffic and cut into the street on the south side of Fullerton Avenue near Ashland Avenue. The crews will then work their way east to Racine Avenue and then work their way back west on the north side of Fullerton Avenue. “It will hurt business for sure,” said Lissette Munoz, employee at The Warehouse Bar & Pizzeria Chicago. “Yesterday we would’ve had (the garage door) open, but we couldn’t because of the dust of the construction.” However, all businesses interviewed agreed the project was a necessity and they eagerly awaited the completion. They believe the improved look and safety will eventauly draw more customers to their establishments. “The sidewalks were dangerous before the construction began,” Nick Lightning, bartender at The Warehouse said. “I’ve seen people slip and fall into street in the winter.” “I’m okay with sacrificing for the greater good,” Imran Nasir of Strings Attached Sporting Goods said. “It’s like they did with North Avenue, in the end it’s better for everybody.”
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DePaul group raises money to help students in India By Rachel Hinton Nation & World Editor
While many DePaul students were tucking into Chartwellcatered dinners, nearly 7,000 miles away children in India toiled away, malnourished and not in school. One DePaul group aims to put the two groups on more equal playing fields. Food for Education, or Akshaya Patra USA, is a nongovernmental organization focused on eradicating hunger in India. The mission of the group is to implement a mid-day meal program in Indian schools. The meals are seen as an incentive for children to stay in school instead of working. The meal provides them with the possibility to focus and enhance their academic efforts and nutrition. DePaul’s chapter brings awareness to the issue through quarterly events. This quarter the group organized an awareness dinner where people could come in and donate in exchange for food from an Indian food buffet in room 220 of the Student Center. To feed a child costs $31 (USD), and the dinner is one way the group tries to reach DePaul students and help othersaround the world. “Our hope is that if they go to school and get a good education they won’t have to do menial jobs,” Vivek Thakkar, president
of DePaul’s chapter, said. “It incentivizes them to go to school.” Though the group and its chapters largely focus on donating to Indian schools, there are other groups under a similar name and mission that aim to help countries like Bangladesh and Kenya, among others. India is home to nearly 40 percent of the world’s malnourished population. Of the nearly 1.3 billion people in the country, 8.1 million children are out of school and working in order to afford food for themselves and their families, according to the group's website. Through the work of Food for Education, as well as the collective work of other chapters, the organization has served nearly 11,000 schools. The DePaul chapter was founded six years ago. They establish an annual goal of how many children they want to feed and set up events to cover the costs. The minimum number of students is 100, but they are currently feeding 193 children with hopes of feeding more. The goal of this quarter’s event was to bring in donations, but also spread awareness of food insecurity and ways students can get involved with the group. “A lot of people don’t realize the impact this can have on communities,” Carly Klingberg, DePaul student and director of membership, said. “A lot of
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Young children work on their letters and numbers in a class at Dr. Subbarao Polineni's school in Martur, India. India has a high rate of malnourished children and Food for Education aims to get children back into schools. people have the privilege of not increase the number of children promote the message and spread worrying about when they will fed by their efforts, Alicia Patel, it to others,” Patel said. “It’s a lot get food, and this event will who has been involved with the more diverse now. There are a lot hopefully bring awareness of that group since her freshman year, of students from other cultures said the group has achieved many getting involved. We want that to and help us get more members.” continue.” Though the group wants to goals. “We want to continue to grow its number of members and
Selective service program to include women By Shelley Mesch Contributing Writer
In December 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced all military positions, including combat positions, would be opened to women in the armed services. Now, a bill passed through the House Armed Services Committee that would require women to register for the selective service draft. Men ages 18 to 26 are currently required to register for the draft, and the bill would require women of the same age to register as well. The committee’s vote of 32-30 in favor of the Draft America's Daughters Act opened discussion nationwide and at DePaul of whether women should be drafted into the armed services. Senior Kim Ortiz opposes any war and believes no war can be called “just.” Despite this, she would register for the draft. “If (a draft) has to happen, I don't think women should be excluded,” Ortiz said. Some see this as a step forward in equality. Although she would be hesitant to join the military, freshman Justine Michals does not see why the draft should be closed to any gender. “In a way, it's a positive thing because it's showing that women are just as strong (as men) where they should be required to do something like this,” Michals said.
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Adm. John M. Richardson speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. Last week, the Pentagon announced that it would start requiring women to register for selective service.
When Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California) introduced the bill, he did not intend to spark this conversation on gender equality. In fact, he never intended for the bill to make it past committee. The conversation Hunter intended to start was whether the Secretary of Defense in the Executive Branch should have the power to open front-line combat to women. He believes those decisions should be made in Congress. “It’s unfortunate that a bill like this even
needs to be introduced,” Hunter said, as quoted from a press release from his office. “And it’s legislation that I might very well vote against should it be considered during the annual defense authorization process.” As a Marine Corps veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Hunter said the American people should have made the decision to send their “daughters and sisters” into the front lines. DePaul lecturer and 2nd Lt. in the Army National Guard Elliot Callighan has
reservations regarding women in combat positions. “There's a ton of value for women in these positions,” Callighan said. “But there is a difference in reaction to a woman coming under fire than a man.” Callighan said that when a woman comes under fire, a man might go out and risk his life in a way that he wouldn't for another male soldier. Even though he can see possible risks with women serving in combat positions, Callighan doesn't think gender should determine one's service in the military. “As long as you're meeting the standard, a person of any gender should be able to serve,” Callighan said. The last draft in the United States ended over four decades ago, and the likelihood of another draft is considerably low. Requiring men, and possibly women, to register for the draft is part of a contingency plan, but the armed forces are regularly recruiting new volunteers to fill vacant positions. This made Callighan question the intent of this legislation. “I wonder how much of this is politics versus pure pragmatism,” Callighan said. According to Hunter's position on his own proposed bill, it is all politics. The Draft America's Daughters Act passed without Hunter's vote.
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Displaced people walk next to a razor wire fence at the United Nations base in the capital Juba, South Sudan. A recent U.N. report described human rights abuses as a result of the ongoing civil war.
The Trans Student Alliance at the University of South Carolina holds rallies at the state capitol in April to protest a bill that would bar transgender students from using the locker room of their identified gender. President Obama recently weighed in on the issue.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, shakes hands with President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge. A shell company is increasingly emerging at the heart of what French prosecutors believe was an organized web of corruption in sports, with their suspicions now extending to Tokyo’s winning bid for the 2020 Olympics.
French prosecutors probe $2 million tied to 2020 Tokyo Games
Suspended Brazil leader blasts critics
Paris, France
Brasilia, Brazil Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff vowed Thursday to use "all legal means" to fight her permanent ouster in an impeachment trial, raising the specter of continued political turmoil as acting leader Michel Temer tries to rescue a sinking economy. Hours later, Temer called for unity, promising to improve the economy and support a big corruption probe at state oil company Petrobras. Speaking in the morning after the Senate voted to impeach her, in what might prove her last official event within the presidential palace, the nation's first female president blasted the process as "fraudulent" and said it was an injustice more painful than the torture she endured under a past military dictatorship. She again rejected critics' accusations that she used illegal accounting tricks in managing the federal budget. "I may have committed errors but I never committed crimes," Rousseff said during a 14-minute address, flanked by dozens of top officials and brass from her left-leaning Workers' Party. The Senate's vote came after a monthslong battle that laid bare Brazil's fury over corruption and economic decay just months before it hosts the Summer Olympics. Speaking to several thousand supporters as she left the Planalto presidential palace, Rousseff said the allegations against her are nothing more than a red herring, part of a "coup" orchestrated by power-hungry foes. "I am the victim of a great injustice," she said, adding, "I fought my whole life and I'm going to keep fighting." Temer, a 75-year-old career politician who many call the "butler" for his subdued manner, struck a conciliatory note in his first words to the nation Thursday afternoon. "Now is not a moment for celebrations, but rather for profound reflection," he said, adding that reducing unemployment was a top government priority. Temer also mentioned the upcoming Olympics, slated for August in Rio de Janeiro. "We won't again soon have another opportunity like his one," he said, adding that it was a chance to showcase Brazil as a "serious country."
U.S. gives directive to schools on transgender bathroom access Washington, DC Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity, according to an Obama administration directive issued amid a court fight between the federal government and North Carolina. The guidance from leaders at the departments of Education and Justice says public schools are obligated to treat transgender students in a way that matches their gender identity, even if their education records or identity documents indicate a different sex. "There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement accompanying the directive, which is being sent to school districts Friday. In issuing the guidance, the Obama administration is wading anew into a socially divisive debate it has bluntly cast in terms of civil rights. The Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina over a bathroom access law that it said violates the rights of transgender people, a measure that Lynch likened to policies of racial segregation and efforts to deny gay couples the right to marry. The guidance does not impose any new legal requirements. But officials say it's meant to clarify expectations of school districts that receive funding from the federal government. Educators have been seeking guidance on how to comply with Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding, Education Secretary John B. King said in a statement.
"We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence," King said. Under the guidance, schools are told that they must treat transgender students according to their chosen gender identity as soon as a parent or guardian notifies the district that that identity "differs from previous representations or records." In response to the president's remarks, Texas' lieutenant governor Dan Patrick says the state is prepared to forfeit billions of dollars in federal funding for public schools following an Obama administration directive over bathroom access for transgender students. Patrick said Friday that Texas "will not yield to blackmail" and urged superintendents to defy the new federal guidance. The directive says public schools are obligated to treat transgender students in a way matching their gender identity. The guidance doesn't impose new legal requirements, but rather clarifies expectations for districts receiving federal funds. Patrick said Texas receives roughly $10 billion in federal education dollars. He didn't say how that money might be replaced. Patrick's remarks came only moments after more than half the state's 1,200 school districts lost a major lawsuit claiming that Texas unconstitutionally underfunds public schools.
A shell company in Singapore is increasingly emerging at the heart of what French prosecutors believe was an organized web of corruption in sports, with their suspicions now extending to Tokyo's winning bid for the 2020 Olympics. In the months immediately before and after the 2013 Olympic vote, 2.8 million Singapore dollars ($2 million) are thought to have been transferred in two segments from a bank in Japan to the account in Singapore of a company called Black Tidings, French prosecutors said Thursday. The transactions were marked "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid." Black Tidings is quickly earning a dubious reputation. Its account also was used to transfer funds in the coverup of a Russian doping case, according to a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation. And the sports marketing consultant identified by WADA as the account holder has been closely tied to the family that ruled track and field for 16 years via the now-disgraced Lamine Diack. As president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and member of the International Olympic Committee, Diack was one of the most influential men in sports. He is under investigation in France for suspected corruption, barred from leaving the country while the magistrates' probe continues. His son, former IAAF marketing consultant Papa Massata Diack, is also wanted in France on bribery, money laundering and corruption charges, but is thought to be living in his native Senegal, out of reach of French magistrates. International police organization Interpol has put him on its "Red Notice" list of internationally wanted suspected criminals. The widening of the probe to the 2020 Olympic bidding process will put heavy pressure on Tokyo organizers and the IOC, which has sought to distance itself from the corruption scandals at FIFA and the IAAF and insisted that it had cleaned up since a bid scandal more than 15 years ago over the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
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Opinions
Broadened horizons
Despite security concerns, students should study abroad
Most popular study abroad destinations for American students
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GERMANY: 3.4%
two regions, sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East & North Africa, showed a drop (-1.1 percent and -1 percent) from the 2012-2013 academic year to the 2013-2014 academic eyar. According to Hayashi, the United Kingdom and Hungary are the two most popular destinations for the long-term programs for DePaul students. Nationwide, about 53 percent of study abroad destinations are in Europe, while Latin America with 16.2 percent is second and Asia with 11.9 percent is third. “The reality is that obviously that (the Paris and Brussels attacks) were in Western Europe, but I think people still have a general sense of safety in terms of going to Western Europe,“ Makagon, who is co-leading a rerun Spain program this summer, said. “If anything happens to the State Department warning, that will change how we move.” Mukahirn’s main concerns were not about safety but rather traveling alone and getting lost. She soon overcame those fears when she met a friend who helped her to break out that comfort zone. Now, she looks to travel more on her own in the U.S. Mukahirn said that what she learned and gained out of her traveling definitely outweighs the concern of a terrorist attack. Media also plays a strong role in affecting students’ decisions. “A program that I used to co-lead went to Mexico City,” Makagon said. “It was certainly harder to get students to look past the general discourse about violence, even though Mexico City, general speaking, is an extremely safe city, safer than many U.S. cities. But the media discourse is that ‘hey, there is violence there.’ I think it’s important to educate people.” Cities and countries across the world can be dangerous. Protecting one’s safety comes down to education and awareness, which is the ultimate goal for study abroad programs, to provide a unique experience and engaging experience. “The security situation, there is a reason for it,” Hayashi said. “There are a lot of things going on this world that you might not hear in the regular media. Just hearing we might react, but if you learn more about it and understand it better, your response would be different.” The truth is that anywhere can be dangerous. It all comes down to education and awareness. Studying abroad not only provides an environment for learning a new language, but it also contributes to students’ personal growth through being uncomfortable and exposed to new ideas and culture.
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FRANCE: 5.8%
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SPAIN: 8.9%
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ITALY: 10.2%
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UNITED KINGDOM: 12.6%
When DePaul junior Charlotte Mukahirn was planning to study abroad in Germany for Fall 2015, she recalled her family’s major concerns about the decision due to the recent terrorist attacks and the refugee crisis. They would rather have her avoiding a trip to Europe, as many people have. Andrew Lobbenberg, head of European transport equity research at HSBC, told CNBC that November’s Paris attack dampened the travel volumes for two months. Though the warning and alerts exist, it doesn’t seem to discourage the students’ desire to go abroad. “I still felt pretty safe in Germany. It was just kind of frightening that it’s so close,” Mukahirn said. “Both universities (Bonn and DePaul) had
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CHINA: 4.5%
contacted us (to make sure we are safe) and asked us if anyone else is outside of country or in Paris at the moment.” Daniel Makagon, an associate professor of the College of Communication, said communications students are still energetic about the opportunity to study abroad in Europe despite recent events. “For the College of Communication, a lot of students are still studying abroad and they are excited about studying abroad,” Makagon said. “I had students contact me about projects that they are working on and hope to study in a variety of locations.” According to Nobi Hayashi, the Director of Study Abroad at DePaul, there are systems in place to best ensure the safety of study abroad students. “We have a comprehensive emergency response plan that we do enact,” Hayashi said. “We also work with an insurance agency, which specializes in abroad situations. A lot of measures are being taken to ensure students’ safety and respond to any situations that may arise.” Mukahirn visited Brussels when the country had just backed down to level three security clearance from level four, which is the maximum. “We had taken a trip to Belgium to visit NATO,” Mukahirn said. “We had to have a group meeting with the administrators and the teachers to decide whether or not we should still go on the trip. Some students backed out because they didn’t feel safe. There were lots of soldiers and tanks. It was kind of scary but also reassuring that they are aware of this.” According to Institute of International Education (IIE), there has been a five percent increase in the number of U.S. students that studied abroad in year 2013-2014, despite the terrorist attacks that have been happening. While all the regions saw positive growth, only
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Combating sexism: Women and the military draft
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By Danielle Harris Opinions Editor
Just months after the Defense Department lifted all genderbased restrictions on front-line combat units, a new debate over women’s role in the United States military has reared its head. The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee approved a defense policy bill that would require American women ages 18 to 26 to register for the military draft. However, there is likely to be great debate on the proposal, as it closely passed 32-30 without the approval of its sponsor Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican and Iraq War veteran. Requiring women to register for the military draft is more of a symbolic issue than anything because the U.S. is unlikely to restore selective service in the near future. The military draft was last used in 1973 for the Vietnam War, and Congress would have to pass a law to reinstate the draft before it could be implemented. The Defense Department has voiced approval on requiring women to register for the draft, but leaders have also made clear that a revival of selective service is unlikely. Two top military officials, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert
Neller, supported the move to add women to the draft during a Capital Hill hearing Feb. 2. “It’s my personal view in light of integration that every American physically qualified should register for the draft,” Neller said. Milley followed suit and said that “all eligible men and women” should be required by law to register for selective service. At a February campaign event in New Hampshire, former presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz made clear he does not agree with Milley and Neller. “We have had enough with political correctness, especially in the military,” Cruz said. “The idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think, is wrong. It is immoral.” Perhaps this claim would hold more merit if the word “daughters” were replaced with “citizens.” The notion of sending involuntary citizens to war is morally questionable, but for as long as the United States maintains the legality of the military draft women should be required to register just as men are. James Bailey, 21, is currently serving the United States Marine Corps. He’s had significant tactile training, leading a fire team of
three other Marines and working with a variety of weapons systems. Bailey disagrees with Cruz’s stance that drafting women into the military is immoral. “My opinion on women in the infantry is if she can carry me 75 yards and can stay next to me on a hike with a 90-pound pack on, by all means let (her) in,” Bailey said. While Bailey admits it does not occur often, his only concern would be the possibility of women getting pregnant during combat deployment. “In the infantry you have a fire team of four marines and three fire teams make a squad,” Bailey said. “That’s the way the entire infantry works and they train together their entire time at that unit which is usually a little over two years. If you take one marine out of that squad with (with a) female getting pregnant, you could throw off the balance and unit cohesion of the entire squad.” Bailey’s concern does have merit. According to a 2008 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), women serving in the military are 50 percent more likely to have an unplanned pregnancy than the general population. However, this is a problem that can be fixed easily. Tricare, the military healthcare
program for service members, veterans and their families does cover birth control methods such as the pill, patches and IUDs, but military clinics are not required to stock them all. This is a legitimate issue as a 2010 study by NCBI found that one-third of service women were unable to access their birth control of choice for deployment, 59 percent did not speak with a military provider about birth control prior to their deployment and 41 percent of women who needed refills for their medication found them difficult to obtain. Women already make up a significant amount of the United States Armed Forces, with 15 percent of active troops and 23 percent of new military officers being women. In order to ensure they can fulfill their duties, the military must make providing their birth control of choice a priority. Regardless the risk of an unplanned pregnancy, women have proven to be just as capable of serving in the United States military as men. Servicewomen have fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the claim that women should not be required to register for the military draft due to some outdated idea of the role women serve in society is an insult to the servicewomen serving our country.
A recent graduate from Army Basic Combat Training, 18-yearold Taylor Dein is unsure of whether or not she supports selective service. She does, however, believe that in order for women to be considered true equals in the military, it's only logical to require women who are physically qualified to register for the draft. “In the past year or so, (the military has) been opening up a lot of (jobs) for women to choose that we haven’t been allowed to do in the past,” Dein said. “Mainly like artillery and jobs in those categories where all the men hold their tough-man pride. Women are also just recently allowed to go to Ranger school too. I’m pretty sure there are now three female Rangers so far. So I think that if the military is trying so hard to enforce equal opportunity all across the board now, then they might as well have all women register for the draft like men have to.” If those like Cruz truly believe forcing “daughters” to join the military is immoral, sending American sons to war should be viewed as just the same. As long as the military draft exists in the United States, American men and women must carry equal responsibility for protecting and serving their country.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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People peer pressured into loving o By Danielle Church Contributing Writer
Not long after singer and songwriter Zayn Malik left the pop band One Direction, he released his first single “PILLOWTALK.” The day it came out, DePaul junior Kristin Stahlke tweeted about how she didn’t like the song. Within a six-hour time frame, her tweet was retweeted multiple times, which led to her being cyber bullied. She was called many profane names and had to delete the tweet to make it stop. “It was horrifying. People were threatening me,” Stahlke said. “I used to like One Direction in high school. It wasn’t like I was just being petty. I just said I didn’t like it.” Stahlke’s situation proves that in today’s society, some things in pop culture are so mainstream that when people hate something everyone loves,
or vice versa, they tend to be ridiculed for having the unpopular opinion. To have the unpopular opinion, people have to understand the difference between which things in pop culture are the “best” and “worst.” According to DePaul junior Danny Hacker, that can be almost impossible to do, especially when it comes to music. “Everyone has their own opinion, so you can’t say the ‘best’ because that’s always such an opinionated question,” Hacker said. “I could say that my favorite band is Fleetwood Mac and then I could ask you what your favorite band is and the answer could be completely different. So your version of best and my best is different.” DePaul media and cinema studies professor Daniel Bashara agrees with Hacker. His students participate in an icebreaker game on their first day in class to highlight this idea of “good” versus “bad.” People list their favorite artist, television show or movie and then something they feel they’re supposed to like, but that they actually hate, and a guilty pleasure. “It clears the way to talk about media in every other possible way because we’ve dispensed the idea that we can only talk about what’s good,” Bashara said. “I think it kind of levels the playing field in terms of the idea of so-called ‘good art’ because there’s no such thing. There can be good art, but the question has to be ‘good for whom?’” Bashara's students also participate in the icebreaker because they won’t feel as embarrassed. That’s part of the reason he believes people who have the unpopular opinion never state their beliefs in the first
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place. “Well it’s embarrassing, right?” Bashara said. “If I admit I like Alanis Morrisette, which is my guilty pleasure, it reveals a lot about me that I wish people didn’t know. You get that idea of good doesn’t matter.” Bashara also said part of the reason he believes a huge part of the population tends to like and dislike the same things in pop culture is because people feel alienated when they don’t agree. “I think people are attached to these ideas of quality because to be attached to them means you’re smart and we all kind of inherited that idea. But I don’t think it’s true,” Bashara said. “You can be smart and like terrible things for your own reason, like ‘Bad Girl’s Club.’” If someone does have the unpopular opinion, Hacker said people like Stahlke get negative reactions because people set the bar so high for the things they do love. “I think that people sometimes hold the things they love at such a high pedestal, so when someone says they don’t like it, it just doesn’t make sense,” Hacker said. “But you have to remember that everyone has their own opinion, whether it’s music, TV shows or people.” DePaul freshman Paige Bennett understands this every time someone talks about Adele. Bennett doesn’t like Adele, so when people find out she isn’t a fan, they always give her the same reaction. “They’re shocked like, ‘oh my God. Why don’t you love her?’ I just don’t like her. Her music is slow and I like upbeat music better,” Bennett said. Paige also gets a particular reaction when she and her sister, Loyola University
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The man is a sports legend. He played for our beloved Chicago Bulls and starred in one of our favorite movies, “Space Jam.”
LeBron James
The Bulls haven’t won against him in the playoffs when he was with the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Miami Heat. He also is extremely cocky on the court.
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Fans from all over the world love the movies, attending comic conventions and dressing up as characters.
This band has been popular for a long time and their popularity will not go away anytime soon. Songs like “Yellow Submarine,” “Come Together” and “Hey Jude” will always be just a few of their classics.
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Whether it's because he played a cheating husband in "Gone Girl" or a very unconvincing superhero in Batman v. Superman, it seems like people have had a little too much of Affleck recently.
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Vampires that sparkle just don’t seem to be cool, or any movies that star Kristin Stewart.
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DePaul senior Robert Gardner didn’t even know he was offending people with his beliefs until later on. He tends to be very quiet about most of his opinions but he does like and comment on certain political posts on Facebook. When some people saw the things he liked, they would tell him how much they were getting annoyed by it. Gardner checked later on and a few people had removed him as a friend on Facebook because of his opinions. He wasn’t really upset by it though because he believes everyone is entitled to their own views and said he would even do the same. “I’m kind of on a teeter totter about it because on the one hand it’s like okay, everyone is entitled to their own opinion,” Gardner said. “I wish they would at least respect it and see my view but at the same time, if they constantly are getting spammed with a different political view, then I can see how they might be annoyed.” Although Gardner can see things from more than one point of view, the same can’t be said for society as a whole. Hacker said one of the main reasons everyone gives each other a hard time is because they forget one major component. “Everyone is allowed to have his or her own opinion,” Hacker said. “I just think sometimes society makes you forget that.”
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of Chicago junior Ashley Bennett, tell people they’ve been to every one of Miley Cyrus’ concerts in Chicago. One time Ashley told her coworker that she was obsessed with Cyrus and her coworker’s face expressed a mix of surprise and disgust. “(Paige and I) get a lot of shade for loving Miley,” Ashley said. “That’s typical though. The outside opinion will always get bashed. But at the same time, I don’t really care. If I love her, I love her.” Hacker has been in similar situations as Paige and Ashley every time someone talks about rap or electronic dance music (EDM). People always tell him it's okay not to like EDM but they ask what’s wrong with him every time he says he doesn’t like rap. “It’s definitely an interesting phenomena when you say something like ‘I dislike rap or EDM,’ and I’ll say that to people,” Hacker said. “When I say that about EDM, people are like ‘oh yeah, that’s not everybody’s taste of music,’ but rap and hip-hop, people are like ‘what? You’re not a fan? What’s wrong with you? Are you kidding me?’” He said he thinks this topic needs to be addressed because everyone is allowed to have their own opinion and shouldn’t have to make excuses for it. “I personally think it’s a topic that needs to be addressed,” Hacker said. “You have an opinion but yet you have to back pedal and you feel bad for it because the way that our society is. And this is about everything. You say something and then you’re like 'wait, I don’t want to offend any of the fans out there.'”
There's plenty of reasons to like Emma Stone. Not only has she starred in successful comedies like Easy A and Superbad, but she's also played parts on SNL.
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Arts & Life NOT A MATTER Graphic by CAROLYN DUFF | THE DEPAULIA
DePaul students serious about pursuing comedy after graduation
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DePaul alumnus Cole Hersch has gained comedic success through the social media app Vine. Hersch enrolled at DePaul to be a part of Chicago’s comedy scene.
By Megan Stringer Contributing Writer
Between iO, The Second City and numerous other theaters throughout the city, Chicago is the home of good improv. Whether it’s your friend’s improv team, your mom’s improv team or that cute boy or girl who sits across from you in your standup comedy class, everyone seems to know someone performing comedy on the weekends. For some of these performers, it’s more than just a fun college gig — it’s a career. There are many DePaul students who want to jump right into this creative career, with a knack for spreading smiles. Katie O’Reilly, a freshman, hopes to make a career out of her funny-business. She is planning to major in English with a focus on creative writing, and does standup around the city from time to time. Her main focus is comedic writing — having written for DePaul’s chapter of “The Black Sheep,” a satirical magazine, in the past — but now is taking a break to focus her skillset elsewhere. “It just always seemed like common sense to pursue comedic writing because it was the only thing I had the motivation to push myself to keep getting better at,” O’Reilly said. “To be honest, it still hasn’t totally hit me yet that it’s what I am doing. I still see my ‘career’ as something off in the far future that I’ll get around to eventually, when in reality I’m starting the work for it now.” Preparing for a career in comedy can be
difficult. There are varying opinions about what major is best, but in the end, a comedy career is dependent upon experience and practicing at places like The Playground, Annoyance Theaters, iO, MCL theaters and even to The Second City. O’Reilly landed an internship at the iO Theater this summer, hoping to gain some experience in the comedy field outside of simply writing and performing. Before jumping into the big city atmosphere, it can help students to have a smaller place to practice their skills. “If you’re interested in doing stand up, then first check out the comedy scene, by going to different shows and getting a feel for it,” professor Kevin Bozeman, who teaches a course on standup hoping to provide that space for students, said. “Second, decide what kind of comedian you want to be,” he said. “You may not be able to answer that question, but that’s okay.” Bozeman has been a nationally touring standup comedian for 17 years. He has been seen on Comedy Central, CBS, Fox and most recently NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” While having larger venues and media outlets can certainly jump start a career in comedy, comedians don’t have to be big to make it where they want to be. DePaul graduate Cole Hersch has shown this through his success on the social media app, Vine. Hersch graduated DePaul in June 2015 with a degree in English and a concentration in creative writing, just as O’Reilly plans to do. He came to school in
Chicago specifically to get involved in the comedy scene, immediately signing up for classes at The Second City. Hersch’s success on Vine has helped catapult him to where he wants to go, as comedy slowly becomes a career for him. However, he said that succeeding in comedy online isn’t the only hurdle to jump over in this field. “What’s most important for me is not only finding a unique voice, but finding something unique that hasn’t been said before,” Hersch said. “Additionally, I think if you are going to post stuff online that you think is funny, you need to spend some time performing on a stage,” he said. “Both are two completely separate beasts of the comedy world, and if you want to be considered a comedian, I see it only fair that you experience both. You need a genuine, real-time reaction from a room of people to know if the stuff you’re saying is funny.” There may not be one single, great way to prepare for a future in the comedy industry. But O’Reilly, Bozeman and Hersch, although all different in their experience and preferred medium of comedy, can all agree on one thing: practice and confidence will get you where you want to go, in any field. Comedy is no different from this. “Write, write and write, and then perform, perform and perform, and then write some more and then perform some more,” Bozeman said.
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RAGS TO
RICHES Investing in stocks is a good option for students looking to make money By Jack Higgins Contributing Writer
College students get a lot of experience spending money and building up debt while they learn and plan for their future. However, except for perhaps finance and accounting majors, many students aren’t taught how to manage their money. Saving and investing is an important skill to learn, especially when private college tuition costs have become three times more expensive than they were in 1971. When hearing the term investment, many tend to think of individual stocks, but there are numerous ways for students to begin investing and saving. “Investing in your early 20s is important because starting investing early makes a huge difference in the growth of your money over the long run,” Keith Gamble, a finance professor, said. “Also, habits are enduring, so establishing a habit of saving a little of each paycheck can grow into a sizeable sum over time.” Gamble teaches Finance 330 at DePaul, which covers investment. He also stresses the importance for graduates to invest in a retirement plan, if available, once they are at their first careeroriented positions. “You should contribute to the retirement plan, particularly if (your employer) has any type of match,” Gamble said. “It’s literally free money, and you should immediately sign up.” When an employer offers
a match, they will contribute a certain percentage of income into the employee’s retirement account, called a 401k, every time the employee contributes a certain percentage of their own income. So, a one-to-one match where the employee contributes five percent, will become 10 percent once the employer matches the contribution.” Contributing to a 401k account is a relatively safe way to invest money for the future, but investing in individual stocks are a more “exciting” way to invest because they can merit much greater short-term yields. Juniors Phil Lullo and Brian Moy are students enrolled in DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business and have invested in different kinds of stocks for years that have made money as well as failed. “I started investing as a senior in high school,” Lullo said. “My parents gave me $500 to invest with and I ended up tripling my money.” Lullo said he never buys stock in a market he doesn’t understand. Before buying a stock, he recommends researching and picking a stock from a market of personal expertise. Once he finds a stock he believes has an upside, he buys it. “This might sound weird, but I also go with my gut,” Lullo said. “One of my most profitable stocks was Nvidia, who make semiconductors and GPUs. The only competitor they have is AMD, and anyone (in the PC gaming field) knows that Nvidia
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Professor Keith Gamble gives a lecture to his Finance 330 students in DePaul’s Finance Lab. Gamble teaches about investments and encourages students to invest early. is the way to go. So, I thought that the stock was completely undervalued at $18 (per share). Sure enough, I bought it, and it ended up going to $35.” Although Lullo used his gut, he never invested in a stock without a plan. When he invested in Nvidia, he made a plan to sell when the stock hit $25. When it did hit his target, he sold half and sold the rest along the way up to $35. However, investing in stocks is still somewhat of a gamble even backed by research. “My biggest loss was when I invested in penny stocks,” Lullo said. “I had to sell them all for a loss, (but) I’m still up in total investments.” Penny stocks are stocks valued at less than one dollar, so investors bank on the hope that the company will take off, yielding early investors a high payoff. Lullo began investing in individual stocks because he wanted to dip his feet into the world of investing so he could better understand the market before he began his career. While Lullo mostly dealt in more dangerous individual stocks, Moy began to put together a diverse portfolio with accounts for both
day trading, like Lullo, as well as long-term investments. “The best advice I can give an investor is stay diverse and do your analysis,” Moy said. “Days of continued research is crucially important before investing in any stock. These days, leaving your money in a bank account for small interest return doesn’t come close to meeting today’s inflation rate.” Moy said he has invested in penny stocks, ETF funds, commodities and blue chip stocks. Still another way to invest is by using mutual funds. They are one of the best ways to invest for the long term. Investors using mutual funds give their money to invest in a diverse combination of stocks, bonds and other securities. Mutual funds are a more secure solution than individual stocks because if one of the securities has a loss, it does not make as large of an impact because of the diversification of the fund. “When you start investing, really pay attention to fees, especially when you have a small amount of money like a lot of students probably would,” Gamble said. “There are certain
brokers that are going to charge you monthly fees unless you are over a certain amount (of money). It doesn’t make sense for a student investor that will get charged a $10 trade fee because it would swamp any returns that they could make.” The internet has made investment fees drop immensely. In the 1980s, investing was usually done only by the rich because broker fees were at their highest. Now, with sites like E-Trade that reduced trading fees to minimal fees, and up-and-coming apps like Robinhood, which allows users to trade stocks for free, high fees are mostly a thing of the past. When investing, make sure it is not done on a whim. Keen investing will help secure financial stability for the future. “Historically, investing in well-diversified stocks or a mutual fund over a long period of time has outperformed all other types of investments,” Gamble said. “Usually, people get too caught up in which mutual fund to invest with. The smartest things you can do is diversify and sign up for a retirement plan.”
If you’re reading this, it’s not too late to be a Drake fan By Donyae Lewis Contributing Writer
With Drake’s latest album “Views” selling just over 1 million copies, the champagne papi, as he’s known on Instagram, is proving he’s come a long way from his days of playing Jimmy on the Canadian TV show “Degrassi.” Drake’s success is further hyped after scoring his first No. 1 single “One Dance,” the release of his OVO x Air Jordan 6 “Hot 100s” shoes and anticipation for his Summer Sixteen tour with Future. Even though Drake might now be the hottest name in popular music, he owes his success to his devoted fans. Whether his message is the importance of good relationships, or proving the haters wrong, the fan base the rapper has built over the years is impressive. Diana Gutierrez, a DePaul senior, has been following Drake for eight years now. Gutierrez was able to acknowledge the rapper’s potential from the start of his career, and has maintained her loyalty because of the artist’s relatable lyrics and the message behind his words. “The album that did it for me was ‘So
Far Gone,’ because it was so early in his career and he was already doing great things,” Gutierrez said. “He was connecting on a whole level that I had no idea existed. He says what I can’t say. He explains things as a story. He breaks down problems that people are having, either in a relationship, career or social life, and then he says ‘It’s okay, don’t forget why I’m here.’ It calms me.” In honor of the rapper, Joe’s on Weed Street in Wicker Park hosted a house party dedicated exclusively to Drake fans. Gutierrez was unable to attend the event, but said that if Drizzy is in the building, she will do anything to be in attendance. “I haven’t missed a Drake concert since he started touring around Chicago,” Gutierrez said. “I’ll be in Mexico for Chicago’s tour (date this year). Instead of flying back to Chicago, I’m willing to go to Toronto. I’ve never missed, and this year is not going to be the year.” While some fans like Gutierrez have a dedication for Drake, others including freshman Alex Bednar said that if you haven’t heard Drake’s music, it’s still not too late.
“I got into him this year. Listening to ‘Take Care’ for the first time blew me away,” Bednar said. “I had these pre-established ideas of what rap was. What Drake brings to the table is he’s not afraid to delve into his personal emotions.” Drake’s personal touch has led many to criticize the rapper for being too soft, especially by fellow rapper Meek Mill. Bednar said he thinks the freshness Drake offers may be offsetting, but doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a negative characteristic. “Whenever anything new comes into the music scene, it’s commonly criticized just for it being different,” Bednar said. “With it being new, it’s opening the doors to this new generation of upcoming rap artists. What it means to be a fan of Drake is to have that excitement and flare over hip-hop, and also realizing how being open about emotions can fuel this combination fo R&B and rap together.” Sophomore Cree Noble, who frequently mentions Drake on her popular culture Radio DePaul show ChiCiTea, said she appreciates the artist not only for his vulnerability but also his soothing words
during difficult times. “I love to see a rapper show emotion; I find it more authentic,” Noble said. “Drake isn’t afraid to show his intimate and emotional side. Drake helped me with my current relationship. His song ‘From Time’ was really our anthem.” As much as Noble credits Drake for his emotional music, she doesn’t hesitate to remind the rapper not to forget where he started. “If it was not for ‘Degrassi,’ there would be no Drake,” Noble said. “Drake needs to return to his roots and act, because when he got shot in the back (in his role on ‘Degrassi’), I felt that this boy would one day win an Oscar.” With “Views” still pulling in recordbreaking numbers, and rumors spreading of a new album in the making, Gutierrez wonders what the hip-hop artist will do next. “People are starting to see him more than just a rapper and singer,” Gutierrez said. “That’s frightening to say ‘what’s the next step,’ but I think that’ll keep all the Drake fans on their toes.”
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Music to Chicago’s ears Pop artists and rock bands make up the can’t-miss concerts hitting the city this summer
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Beyoncé May 27 & 28 Soldier Field Earlier this year, Beyoncé amazed her fans with the unannounced release of her hit single “Formation” and her showstealing Super Bowl half-time performance. But that wasn’t B’s only surprise as she then announced her Formation World Tour. This summer, see the Queen live as she makes her return to Chicago for a two-night spectacle at Soldier Field. Expect nothing less than an electrifying performance of her hits spanning her discography from her Destiny’s Child days to her latest tracks on “Lemonade” that will make you jump out of your seat and embrace your inner Sasha Fierce.
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Florence and the Machine
June 12 Hollywood Casino Amphitheater Two Lollapalooza 2015 headliners are making a majestic return this summer at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Tinley Park. Get ready to “Shake It Out” as the English indie rock band, Florence and The Machine performs tracks from their album “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” as well as their greatest hits from the past, including their 2008 single “Dog Days Are Over.” If you missed lead singer Florence Welch rocking out on the main stage last year at Lollapalooza, here’s your chance to see her live. Joining them are the indie folk-pop band, Of Monsters and Men.
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Adele
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June 10-13 United Center
July 23 & 24 Soldier Field
After going on a hiatus, Adele has made a triumphant return with her new album “25” selling over 5 million copies, that has broken record after record. The English singing sensation will cross the sea to tour in the U.S. this summer. It has been almost five years since Adele performed in Chicago in 2011 at the Riviera Theatre. This summer, Adele will be finally returning to Chicago and performing three sold out shows at the United Center. Lucky concertgoers are guaranteed to get their money’s worth with a night to remember, leaving them with chills as Adele’s beautiful voice echoes through the United Center night after night.
The British rock band is set to embark on their Head Full of Dreams Tour this summer. Be prepared to go on an adventure of a lifetime as Coldplay takes over Soldier Field on July 23 and 24. At the end of 2015, Coldplay released their latest album “A Head Full of Dreams,” which shows a different side with a new unfamiliar exuberance. Lead vocalist Chris Martin also hinted that the band could be breaking up after their tour, so seize this opportunity and do not miss a once in a life time weekend with a truly great band.
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Left Coast proves West Coast food is best By Kiersten Sinko Contributing Writer
Calling all lovers of avocado, with a side affair of kale, acai berries and sunflower seeds. I have found your safehaven; and no, it doesn’t require a plane ticket to California. Left Coast Food + Juice, located at 2878 N. Lincoln Ave., opened two weeks ago in Lakeview and it’s your new place to be. With a menu range of salads, wraps, grain bowls, smoothies, cold pressed juices and even breakfast featuring perfectly poached 7 minute eggs served all day, you can officially get your healthy foodie on. Holla. But now let’s talk about those prices. Stepping into Left Coast felt like a paradise on a rainy Thursday morning, especially since I knew I was in for a health-happy meal. The prices, however, made my stomach churn. I ordered The Chronic (a wrap made with steak, eggs, carrots, red onion, avocado, spinach and chimichurri in a whole wheat wrap), and my meal came to total of $15.48. Ouch. Worth it? Yes, but maybe only on pay days. Left Coast was founded by chef Paul Kahan, who told Crain’s Chicago in January that he wanted a joint in Chicago that would make clean-eating “be convenient and taste good.” It took over the space that used to be Muskie’s, the char-boiled burgers and malts joint that shut down in September 2014. Now with a 55-seat dining room and full bar, Kahan hopes that this eatery will be the first of many in Chicago. Originally it was created to be a healthy yet also a fast-casual restaurant for people to stop in and just eat good, organic and sustainable meals. It never promised to be cheap, which makes sense being located
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Left Coast Food + Juice opened in Lakeview and features Californian fare including salads, wraps and smoothies. Despite the great food, the prices are hard to endure. far enough from campus to not promise a cheap meal for college students. But it did promise to be good tasting food, so in that case Left Coast succeeded. The atmosphere is especially appealing, with clean white walls and festive greenery. The new spot even has outdoor seating, which I have a feeling will make the California avocado-loving foodies flock during summertime. Their drink selection stays clear from typical Coke or Pepsi and instead serves smoothies, juices, coffee (such as La Columbe coffee — good choice Left Coast), tea and even a selection of alcohol including beer, wine and seasonal cocktails. Can’t afford anything but water with your meal? Me too, which is why I was thrilled to find a citrus-infused water dispenser located near the coffee bar for those cheap students like me. So here’s all the reasons to why the prices of Left Coast shouldn’t scare you, because frankly, the flavors packed into the Chronic wrap or even the Acai Smoothie Bowl is worth forking over the dollars. If that isn’t enough, then get this. Every
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The Chronic wrap featuring steak, eggs, carrots, red onion, avocado, spinach and chimichurri is one of the healthy and delicious options at Left Coast Food + Juice. meal put together by Left Coast Food + Juice is made with the mantra “no butter, ever,” and all the ingredients are freerange, sustainable and organically grown. Plus, the food quality far exceeds its chain
competitors including Protein Bar and Freshii. Just go and take a bite into that delicious The Chronic wrap with all of its chimichurri goodness; you’ll understand.
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ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF From checkered to striped to fuzzy, colorful socks a must-have By Jeramie L. Bizzle Contributing Writer
Socks are like modern day mood rings that tell people about your character. People who wear the basic white and black socks play by the rules, and are reserved. Bright colors mean you’re focused and ready to handle business. Stripes mean flirty, and patterns such as novelty socks or checkered mean you want to stand out and be noticed. Like a mood ring, the pair you wear can help build confidence when you’re with people, or can make you lazy like staying at home. Recently, more people are breaking away from their habits of wearing black and white socks — and becoming more expressive. Whether it’s a pair that are rainbow colored, warm and fuzzy, or have characters and symbols, socks have become a must-have for any outfit. Stores in Chicago are capitalizing on the trend by selling different eye-catching designs. Kim Castle, owner of The Sock Shoppe at 4010 W. 63rd St., said customers prefer the ones that are not only comfortable, but fun. “I have some that look like Converse shoes. Those are my favorites, but I also have some with different designs and I love my striped ones a lot. Anything that is different is fun, so we carry something for everyone,” Castle said. Chicago resident Partee Wesley said that
people judge you by the smallest things, so your socks have to be on point all the time. “You can’t wear mismatched socks. Guys who are trying to impress the girls will make sure they’re matching. A single guy would probably spend more on socks than he should compared to a married guy,” Wesley said. What makes socks popular is because socks allow people to make a statement without verbally expressing their views. Customer Kathy Becker said her granddaughter has socks that support breast cancer awareness and peace, but also said that it takes more than just socks to express your true self. “She wears stuff that shows her personality. I also like my USA socks because they are comfortable, but it’s really about the clothes. Socks can’t do all of that unless that’s all you’re wearing,” Becker said. According to The Atlantic, the sock industry makes $200 billion in the apparel market. The reason is because socks take away the focus from simple fashion such as a white shirt and jeans, and instead add color and even art to the outfit. For some, they’re considered male lingerie. The sock industry has an uncertain future, but it is helping more people, especially men, break out of their shell. “I get a lot of men changing from the traditional socks to something with more character,” Castle said “It is just a good time for socks now.”
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We did the homework so you don't have to. Check back each week for the scoop on bands you can't miss at Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, North Coast and Riot Fest this year.
By Emily Eller Contributing Writer
Towkio Preston Oshita, better known by his stage name Towkio, is a Chicago-native rapper full of talent and ambition. He first hit the hip-hop scene in 2012 with his debut EP “Community Service,” and followed it up with his sophomore EP “Hot Chips n Chop Stix” in 2014. His big break came in 2015 when he released his first mix tape entitled “.Wav Theory,” which features appearances by Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet and Vic Mensa. One of the tracks from the mix tape, “Heaven Only Knows,” was named song of the week in 2015 by Stereogum. In that same year, online hip-hop news and criticism magazine “HipHopDX” named Towkio one of their top eight rising stars of 2015.
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Tahj Chandler was born and raised in Chicago and into a long line of musical talent. He got his musical start at the age of seven when his father taught him how to play the piano. Since then, he has adopted the stage name Saba and has made a huge splash in the hip-hop scene. He released his first mix tape in 2012, titled “GETCOMFORTable,” which featured production from DJ Such n Such, who has worked closely with Chance the Rapper and Young 99. In 2013, Saba landed a feature verse alongside fellow Windy City talent Chance the Rapper and BJ the Chicago Kid on the critically acclaimed song “Everybody’s Something” by Acid Rap. The following year he released his sophomore mix tape “Comfort Zone.” DJ Booth named Saba’s “Burnout” as the song with the best hook of the year, and months later Billboard went on record and said, “Saba is up next.”
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Skepta The most veteran of these artists is Joseph Adenuga Jr., more popularly known as Skepta. A British-born rapper and producer, Skepta has been in the business since 2003 when he began producing tracks for some of his friends. When his group “Meridian Crew” split in 2005, Skepta realized that he aspired to be a rapper as well as a producer. He dropped his debut album “Greatest Hits” in 2007. His first two singles off of the album reached the Hot 100 on the UK Singles Chart. Since then, Skepta has released three more studio albums and five mix tapes, while earning himself two songs in the UK Top 40. In 2014, he landed a feature verse alongside worldwide phenomenon Drake on a song titled “Ojuelegba” by WizKid. In the same year, he appeared a few times as an opening act for none other than Kanye West, and was named one of GQ’s bestdressed Englishmen.
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what’sFRESH in MUSIC Modern Baseball “Holy Ghost” May 13
Radiohead “A Moon Shaped Pool” May 8
On first listen, it’s sometimes hard to tell that Modern Baseball has two singers. Jake Ewald and Brendan Lukens, the vocalists of the fourpiece emo band from Philadelphia, usually complement each other so well that it made their individual tracks interchangeable. But on “Holy Ghost” — the band’s third release, out Friday — Ewald and Lukens split up the singing duties, each having a different half of the record to take lead on. While the sound is largely familiar, the two sides create an album that’s albeit uneven, but still solid.
After a week of teasing by deleting their online presence and dropping a pair of new music videos, indie rock legends Radiohead have released their ninth studio album, “A Moon Shaped Pool.” The band mixes drum machines and electronic instrumentation with orchestras and choirs, filling each song with the sense of anxiety and paranoia that is present throughout their catalog. Many songs, great in their own right, have been performed live before this album process, but one that stands out in particular is the closing track “True Love Waits,” a heartbreaking love song Thom Yorke has been singing for over 20 years.
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Twin Peaks “Down in Heaven” May 13 Chicago’s own Twin Peaks’ third album “Down in Heaven” pays homage to classic garage rock bands in the best way. From guitarist and vocalist Clay Frankel’s frantic vocals on “Butterfly” to the masterful instrumental work throughout the album, the fantastic album transports listeners back to the genre’s heydey, the ‘60s, and makes me feel guilty for owning a digital copy of “Down in Heaven,” rather than a physical one. ERIN YARNALL | THE DEPAULIA
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Find this and all our DeJamz playlists on depauliaonline.com and on our spotify account By Erin Yarnall Arts & Life Editor
It’s starting to dawn on me that after five years of attending DePaul, I’m down to my final few weeks — which is truly frightening and very exciting at the same time, and is leading to a lot of nostalgic reminiscing about the past five years. Throughout my time at DePaul I’ve transformed from an incredibly awkward and nervous teenager, to a slightly less awkward but severely more nervous adult, and have made memories that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Here are five songs that remind me of each of my five years at DePaul.
1. “Tennessee” — P.S. Eliot The week I moved into my dorm room in Clifton-Fullerton Hall, P.S. Eliot played a house show somewhere off of one of the last stops of the Pink Line. My new friend that I had met on a DePaul Facebook group traversed the terrifying ‘L’ train with me, and we made it to the show to learn our first lesson of Chicago living: always arrive to a house show about two hours after it’s supposed to start. We sat in some random man’s house for two hours doing homework before anyone else arrived. 2. “Die Young” — Kesha By the time my sophomore year rolled around, I was sick of all the sadness in my life due to
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only listening to indie and emo bands, and I really began to embrace pop music. My favorite pop artist of the bunch by far was Kesha. Not only is Kesha a great artist to listen to in order to escape the depression of the Chicago emo scene, but “Die Young” also captures the spirit of being young that I desperately needed after my dismal freshman year. 3. “On An Evening in Roma” — Dean Martin I studied abroad in Rome the summer after my junior year, and spent the last half of that year listening to songs about Italy and thinking I was incredibly cultured for listening to something that wasn’t pop
Across 1. Luxurious health retreats 5. Rubber tube 9. City near Great Salt Lake 14. Walesa of Poland 15. Great Lake 16. 66, for one 17. Geometry calculation 18. 100 dinars 19. Athletic shoe department 20. Stuffed things 23. Head out to sea 24. Line up the crosshairs 25. Abscam investigator 28. Well-chilled 31. Banned bug-killer 34. Permitted by law 36. “___ for the money ...” 37. Callas number 38. Stuffed things 42. Insect feeler 43. “Are we there __?” 44. Brown shade
punk. “On An Evening in Roma” not only captures the beauty and romanticized view of Rome that I have held in my heart since my study abroad trip there, but it’s also on the soundtrack to the “Lizzie McGuire Movie” — quite possibly the best film to capture the spirit of Rome since “La Dolce Vita.” 4. “Barenaked” — Jennifer Love Hewitt My senior year of college I joined the staff of The DePaulia where I met the best friends I made throughout my years at DePaul. Thankfully, these new friends were similar to me, in that they enjoyed listening to and making fun of really bizarre
45. Crafty, like a fox 46. Become extinct 49. How-__ (indstructional books) 50. Cafeteria dispenser 51. “If all ___ fails” 53. Stuffed things 61. Lacking human warmth 62. Early bird’s breakfast 63. Pesky insect 64. European ermine 65. Garden with a snake 66. Volcanic discharge 67. Wrongful acts, in law 68. Hindu outfit 69. Picture pitcher Down 1. Noisy closing 2. Andean land 3. “Bullets,” to a poker player 4. Persian pooh-bahs 5. Medal-worthy
songs, including creepy sexual songs performed by a too-young Jennifer Love Hewitt. 5. “40 oz. on Repeat” — FIDLAR I’ve listened to and loved FIDLAR for a few years now, and their release “Too” this past year solidified the massive amount of love I already had for the Los Angeles punk band. My favorite song off of their latest release is “40 oz. on Repeat,” in which vocalist and guitarist Zac Carper laments about being alone, being broke and being sad. As a graduate student starting to look for jobs and think about entering the real world, nothing speaks more to my soul than this song.
6. Baltimore pro 7. “The King and I” kingdom 8. Sea wrigglers 9. Prom dress ornament, often 10. Robot of Jewish folklore 11. Hamilton vs. Burr, for one 12. And others, for short 13. Shows a profit of 21. Indian yogurt dish 22. City of witch hunts 25. Pilots let them down 26. Twofold 27. Without compassion 29. Terra-___ (fired clay) 30. Lennon’s wife 31. French right 32. San ___, Calif. 33. Uses a stun gun on 35. Sitter’s handful 37. Donned the
feedbag 39. Flunking a polygraph 40. “Amazing Grace” verse ender 41. Deep gulf 46. Pub servings 47. One donning something 48. Homecoming game attendee 50. Subsurface war vessel 52. Apollo 11 moon lander 53. It protects a break 54. Choir voice 55. Ill-mannered lout 56. Mother sheep 57. Bar mixer 58. Work on a bone, dog-style 59. Roofer’s repair site 60. Five-pointed figure
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Softball falls in Big East semifinals Softball award winners • Morgan Maize- Big East player of the year, All Big East first team • DePaul- Big East coaching staff of the year • Naomi Tellez- All Big East first team • Dylan Chirstensen- All Big East first team • Megan Leyva- All Big East second team
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DePaul jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the fourth, but a 7-run fifth inning by Butler doomed the Blue Demons.
By Ben Savage Asst. Sports Editor
It seemed unlikely after a poor nonconference season that DePaul would even be contending for an NCAA tournament spot in 2016. They were 11-22 heading into Big East play, but then they went on a tear, going 16-3 in conference play and earned the No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament. But on one Friday afternoon at the Ballpark at Rosemont, their season came to a sudden end, falling 10-6 to Butler in the Big East semifinals. “We were playing with house money,” head coach Eugene Lenti said. “The fact that we won 27 games and won the Big East (regular season), it’s the closest thing that’s ever happened to a miracle for DePaul softball.” A seven-run fifth inning by Butler mitigated a grand slam in the fourth inning by DePaul and would eventually be their downfall. DePaul was dominant this conference season, despite only returning four wins from last year’s pitching rotation. They led the Big East in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs, runs batted in, home runs and total bases. “Round bat, round ball,” Lenti said. “I think I even saw the Cubs lose twice in one day.” The game began like each of DePaul’s victories this season. The team was dancing, before and during the game. The players were having fun, while still driving hits. Although, even though DePaul came out swinging, the team couldn’t find a rhythm. Neither team could put together a multiple-run inning until the bottom of the fourth when DePaul’s Naomi Tellez hit a grand slam. Things got really weird in the fifth inning. A double, walk, and ground-out put two in scoring position for Butler. Then the Bulldogs scored on another error, and loaded the bases with the next batter. Catcher Riley
Carter then unloaded the bases with a double off the wall, tying the game at six. Another walk, a single, and a strikeout loaded the bases once again for Butler. Once again, they unloaded them, courtesy of a triple from right fielder Sarah Dixon. A 6-2 lead became a 9-6 deficit. Lenti never considered removing Maize during the inning. “It was Morgan’s game, win or lose,” he said. “She earned that right all through the course of the year. She was our number one and we’re either gonna go up-or-down with our number one,” Butler is a defensive team. The scoring outburst was a statistical anomaly. Since March 11, they have scored seven runs in a game only thrice. It was the most runs they scored in a single inning all year. Butler homered in the top of the sixth, extending their lead. DePaul’s last gasp came by way of a deep shot from Tellez with two on-base. It was caught at the warning track. The seventh inning came and went with six batters. Just like that, the Blue Demons’ season ended. “We just didn’t pitch well and defend well today and that’s what it comes down to,” Lenti said. “When you get to championship level of play, you have to pitch well and defend well.” It was Maize’s season. After not pitching for two years, she took the circle and led DePaul by example as their number one pitcher. She led the Big East in home-runs, slugging percentage, and innings pitched. Her efforts earned her the title of Big East Player of the year. That didn't matter Friday. “It starts with the mound,” Lenti said. “Morgan knows she didn’t pitch well.” But the bigger story for DePaul this season will be their return to prominence in the softball world. The Blue Demons cut their RPI (or ranking) in half, ending the season with twice the national legitimacy as they began. “We put this program back on the map,” Tellez said. “Next year all the underclassmen have to keep it going.”
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The Demon Deck is featured in this small-scale rendition in the left side of the model. It will have an open concourse for student events such as pre-game community gatherings.
ARENA, continued from front page At Allstate Arena, DePaul offers season tickets for $144 in the sections opposite along the baseline in the area reserved for students. Single game tickets in advance of purchase cost $30 while single game tickets the day of game cost $33. The Demon Deck, Lenti Ponsetto said, will be able to hold slightly under 1,500 students. At Allstate Arena, DePaul has the capacity for reserving seats for up to 3,500 students, although Lenti Ponsetto said that DePaul hasn’t chosen to do that. DePaul’s seating chart on its website shows that DePaul reserves five sections for students, two on the lower level and three on the second. Lenti Ponsetto said that student seating could be also reserved for downstairs, floating out the possibility of a “seniors only” section as well. “There is a possibility that we could use both the lower level below the Demon Deck for some students and then use the upper level,” Lenti Ponsetto said. “I think it will really depend on what demand looks like. “It’s finalized that it will be a student section. It’s whether the section below it will have some students sit in that area.” Lenti Ponsetto said that the Demon Deck was designed with the idea to give students a way to interact pre-game, at halftime and post-game and create more of a “community atmosphere.” She said that separating them between levels “doesn’t always lend itself to the ability to do that.” But for students, some are less enthusiastic about the Demon Deck, especially considering the lack of recent success for the Blue Demons. “I think it’s a bad idea because the high energy of students in the front set the mood for all of the adults and children sitting behind them,” Sean Cooper, a freshman, said in a Facebook post related to the Demon Deck. “But with students so out of sight, the energy will be lost.” It’s that energy that could be
a concern with students being farther from the court. Although DePaul isn’t known for intensity from its student section, fans at places like Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke or the Breslin Center at Michigan State certainly add to the rowdy atmosphere. DePaul three-star recruit Devin Gage said the energy from the crowd often makes him play harder. “You may be down 20 points, but if you hear the crowd cheering you on, that can keep you going,” Gage said. While Gage said he doesn’t notice the student section specifically, he said he doesn’t think it should be a problem because there will be more fans than Allstate. But does he think that students should be closer to the court? “I think (they) should, that’s just me,” Gage said. In the last five years, 12 new men’s college basketball arenas have been built around the country. But, only three out of those 12 arenas can fit larger capacities than DePaul’s new proposed arena. All three of those buildings have student section seating that is either on the baseline or near center court. The most recently built arena is the Pavilion at Ole Miss for the University of Mississippi. Ole Miss has a similar capacity to DePaul’s new arena of 10,000. A projected study estimated that attendance in the new arena would average about 9,500 people per game for the 10,000 seat arena. However, as The DePaulia has previously reported, both paid attendance and turnstile attendance — those who actually show up to the games — are far off from the 9,500 number. Paid attendance last season was 5,514 while turnstile attendance, or those who show up, was 2,395. In March, Lenti Ponsetto said that “anytime you move into a new building, there’s always going to an uptick in attendance. People want to see what the shiny new and bright thing is.” For Ole Miss, the university’s arena opened this season during conference play and the Rebels
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The DePaul student section at Allstate Arena in a March game against St. John's. drew an average of 8,842 fans, up only 10 percent from the previous year’s conference play. DePaul would need a 40 percent increase in attendance to meet its projections. The University of Mississippi also had a much stronger attendance than DePaul before the completion of its new arena. Other arenas like the University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena saw an increase of 12 percent when it opened in 2011, from 7,122 to 8,018. However, the Ducks have struggled to reach that mark since with attendance being 7,360 over the last five years, even though the Ducks have turned around their basketball program from a 16 win team in 2010 to a 31 win team in 2016. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln saw the biggest jump in attendance with a 51 percent increase when they moved into Pinnacle Bank Stadium in 2013. The school’s attendance has remained steady in the first three years since with an average of 15,551 fans since. DePaul is banking on a move back to the city will help attendance, making the move from Rosemont to near McCormick Place. The new arena will be seven miles from
campus compared to 13 miles from Allstate, but is much more accessible via public transit. “The reason we are making this move is to enhance and improve attendance to a venue that is a lot more accessible to more of our alumni and certainly more accessible to our students,” Lenti Ponsetto said. “The whole initiative is about improving attendance.” The Demon Deck factors into a larger discussion of how DePaul will fill the new arena, set to open in Fall 2017. DePaul’s $82.5 million portion of the arena is due by June 1, and the university will recoup its money from four main sources of revenue: naming rights, corporate sponsorships, fundraising and attendance. Students play a factor in attendance as well. An average of six games occur during the season that are affected by finals and winter break. During this period, the average turnstile attendance has decreased by about 22 percent since 2007. Students do not have to pay when they reserve tickets to games, but the cost is built into tuition. The university charges a $25 “athletic fee” per quarter, which funds the purchasing of reserved student seats and the
ability to host pep rallies and other pre-game activities. Lenti Ponsetto said this fee would not change when the stadium opens. But what is changing is that most students will now be sitting upstairs in the Demon Deck. Lenti Ponsetto said there was consultation for the Demon Deck before approving the final design plans. Besides input from the AECOM, a consultant on the design of the building, Lenti Ponsetto said student groups — like the athletic department’s Blue Crew and the Student Government Association — were asked for input as well. Members from Blue Crew and SGA president Vanessa Cadavillo said former SGA members sat with the architects, and those former members didn't return requests for comment. “I hope we’re in an even better situation where we extend the seating section for our students,” Lenti Ponsetto said. “That’s what really for me, and I think for our coaches and our students, more than anything else, creates the atmosphere.” Bea Aldrich, Maxwell Newsome, Alicya Dennison, Adam Garlewicz , Gurnik Singh, Samanatha Rivera and Matthew Paras contributed to this report.
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Behind the mask: how DIBS gets to be the mascot By Jospeh Lu Contributing Writer
Timeout is called. Players walk towards their bench. All action appears to have stopped. The energy evaporates from the building. A raucous, up-and-down game nearly comes to a screeching halt, but gets heroically saved by “DIBS,” a blue furry creature in a DePaul jersey running along the sidelines. The Demon in a blue suit swings his arms up and down as he passes the DePaul fan sections, with only one goal in mind: to bring the energy back. The timeout ends. DIBS makes his way back to his den but still tries to egg-on the audience to keep everyone entertained. Once DIBS is away from the crowd, DIBS looks around to make sure that no one is around before unmasking for a drink of water and wiping away the sweat with a towel. “The heat, I get super sweaty,” DIBS said . “Not just on the hot days outside, but no matter what I do, I am always sweating in that suit. Gallons of water are always waiting for me in the resting room. The suit itself is no heavier than 5-pounds but the ventilation of the suit is just horrible for DIBS’ extraneous physical activity.” DIBS isn’t a single person but a collective of students, who have chosen to remain anonymous for this article. All of them share the same mission but they all have their own method to complete their mission. The person playing DIBS decides what kind of personality they want to create. They could be pulling gymnastic moves or flipping up and down to create excitement.
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DIBS. which stands for Demon in a Blue Suit, performs at a Jan. 29 women's basketball game. They could also be just dancing and messing around with the audience to make everyone feel included. “We usually have two to four students per year that suit up. We have had over 30 since I started supervising in 2002,” Karen Loiacono, director of Marketing and Licensing of the Athletic Department, said. “One of our mascots even went pro. He is now the mascot for Detroit Pistons (Hooper) ” People look for the mascot to lead cheers. DIBS is more noticeable than the cheerleaders at a sporting event because he is a big blue figure. However, it is the collection of the cheerleaders, the dancers and DIBS
RIGHTS, continued from back page roots in Chicago. But DePaul athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto did not rule out the possibility of a national company with a significant Chicago presence. Smith said fans can expect to see a prominent brand I.D. for the company that purchases the naming rights both inside and on the exterior of the arena. However, Legends has made it a priority to maintain the aesthetic of the building. The principal sign will appear on the southeast face of the new arena. “The goal is not to place logos and signs on every square inch of the building.” The price tag on those logos and signs is $24 million, according to a projection provided in the Legends agreement with DePaul, a consulting company hired by McPier. Although Smith was unable to confirm the asking price, he said the goal is to secure a long-term naming rights partner who would pay DePaul an annual rate over 20 years. “Legends in particular did not do the projections on those numbers. I couldn’t comment on the financials are far as what we’re asking on an annual basis,” Smith said. Concerns have been raised over the accuracy of the $24 million projection and what it will mean for the financial health of the school if the deal comes up short. Tony Krautmann, a professor at DePaul and a sports economist, did not know the specifics of the deal but was not surprised by the concern over DePaul’s financial investment.
who make up the spirit squad. If one of them is missing, the team morale goes down. DIBS isn’t allowed to talk. If it weren’t for the cheerleaders, DIBS would lose his voice. “It’s a different atmosphere. If you think about it, if he wasn’t there, it would be bland. We would just be watching the game. DIBS is putting on a show. It’s like entertainment with basketball in the background,” freshman Andy Duric said. Not everyone can be DIBS. There are auditions and certain characteristics that the Athletic Department looks for in their candidates. “You have to be good at communicating without speaking. You
“Every time something happens, any new building they want to make, it’s always controversial. There are always many people that are concerned, is this going to cause financial hardships, and they don’t want DePaul to get buried under a lot of debts,” Krautmann said. However, Krautmann does not believe DePaul would make such a large investment without careful consideration. “I would hope that our finance guys are that smart … but I’m sure they have done their homework on it, I would think, I would hope so.” Smith said there are a variety of factors that go into valuing naming rights for an arena including the market, the teams playing, and the number of events expected to be held at arena. “The goal is to put something that is a fair market value price based on other collegiate arenas, other arenas in similar size cities,” Smith says. However, finding comparable arenas to use when assessing the value of the naming rights has been a challenge for Legends. Most college athletic teams do not play in markets as large as Chicago and of the last 30 Division I basketball arenas constructed, only three of them are off campus. “The goal with this particular venue is for it to be, you know, a much more active, busy venue than you may typically see where colleges or universities play,” Smith said. One of the closest comparisons to DePaul’s new arena is the KFC Yum! Center, home to the Louisville Cardinals. The $238 million arena opened in 2010. Yum! Brands signed a 10-year, $13.5 million deal to acquire the naming rights.
have to have a lot of expressiveness with your body movement. You have to have a bit of comedy. You have to be in pretty good physical shape and you can’t be claustrophobic,” Loiacono said. “Because of the mask.” Demon In a Blue Suit originated in 1900, when the monogram “D” was selected for DePaul athletics’ uniform. People started to nickname the DePaul athletes the “D-Men.” The nickname eventually evolved into “Demon,” and then mixed with the school color, blue, the Blue Demon was born. DIBS isn’t an extra piece of the game, but rather something that completes the game. Lucas
Lafuente, a freshman, feels that having a mascot is an essential part of experiencing collegiate sports. While many state schools have their football and basketball teams to provide school spirit, DePaul incorporates their mascot in basketball, which Lafuente thinks is a really good idea. During the Big East women’s basketball tournament, there was a mascot dance competition and DIBS won it by combining moves across different dance styles. “I did a 'six steps' and ended in a baby freeze (breakdance moves),” DIBS said. “I really wanted to win that for DePaul, to show the school spirit.” “I get to portray a lot of my personalities without getting the judgments from others,” DIBS said. “It’s basically like singing in the showers or dancing in the bedroom by yourself. The people don’t know who I am; they just see DIBS.” To be DIBS, the person has the opportunity to do something that they don’t do in their regular day to day routine, like giving high fives to everyone in the student center or tapping on a stranger's shoulder and running away. College is a place for students to be open to new experiences. Being a mascot is certainly a unique job that few would think of when looking for a career. However, it is a role that students will consider important when school spirit and sports events are talked about. “Even when my energy is low or I am just not feeling the greatest, but when I put on the mask, it puts me in the zone and energizes me,” DIBS said. “It has been a great experience and I will most likely do it for all four years here.”
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The arena is in progress and is on pace to be completed by Fall 2017. Outside of the major naming rights partners, Legends is also working to secure other corporate sponsors for the arena. Smith said Legends plans to announce those corporate sponsorships within the next 60 to 90 days. In addition to naming and sponsorship deals, Legends is responsible for selling 22 private suites designed to accommodate either 12 or 16 people. They are also tasked with selling 479 club seats that will be court side in the new arena. Smith said headway is being made on selling these seats to a mixture of corporations and private individuals, although the price of these premium seats has not been made public. Despite concerns, DePaul has insisted the plan will ultimately prove lucrative for the school. In addition to naming rights revenue, DePaul will profit from all ticket sales, which they hope will be boosted due to higher attendance rates.
“You typically get what you call the honeymoon effect, you get … probably three to five years where regardless of how your team is, you’re going to have a boost in attendance,” Krautmann said. He believes the new arena will have a positive effect on DePaul’s basketball program, but also on the city as a whole. “DePaul has a presence in Chicago that matters. When you look at the top 10 universities in Chicago, and DePaul is in that, Chicago sees itself as a center for higher education, so there is an externality that goes from helping DePaul to helping Chicago.” The biggest mystery remains the name of the company willing to shell out tens of millions of dollars to see its name prominently displayed on DePaul’s new arena. Deni Kamper, Agathe Muller, Vanessa Navarrete, Khari Thornton and Brenden Welper contributed to this report.
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Senior Morgan Maize sits in the dugout following DePauls 10-6 loss to Butler in the Big East semifinals. She was the starting pitcher for the Blue Demons.
DePaul arena still searching for a name DePaulia Investigation As the future home of the DePaul Blue Demons begins to take shape, a new chapter in this program’s storied history is about to written. But that chapter, or in this case arena, doesn’t have a title. DePaul broke ground on the new basketball arena more than six months ago, but fans are still waiting to find out who will write a check to put their name on the building. Projections have that check being worth $24 million. In the contract signed by DePaul, the city of Chicago and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, or McPier, it was agreed upon that DePaul would collect all of the revenue from the sale of the naming rights for the arena. Some three years later, the price has been set but the name of the arena and the company willing to write a big check for naming
rights remain a mystery. Ryan Smith, the general manager of global sales at Legends Marketing who is handling the sponsorship and naming rights deal for the arena, said the firm has not yet reached a deal with a naming rights partner, but there is a timeline. “I would say we’d publicly announce it when a partnership is official. Our goal is within the next 12 months to have a naming rights partner secure,” Smith said. Smith could not disclose what companies or organizations are currently bidding for the naming rights because Legends has not yet made a public announcement. He did confirm that Legends is taking DePaul’s status as an academic institution into account when vetting potential naming rights partners. Smith also indicated that the naming rights
See RIGHTS, page 27 The goal is to have a naming rights sponsor in the next 12 months.
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