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Volume #106 | Issue #5 | Oct. 11 2021 | depauliaonline.com
‘Dreaming big’
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DePaul athletic director DeWayne Peevy during his introductory press conference in August of 2020. Peevy is now in his second year at DePaul after coming over from Kentucky.
Peevy reflects on first year, looks to continue building DePaul’s brand By Lawrence Kreymer Editor-in-Chief
When DeWayne Peevy arrived in Chicago a year ago to take over as DePaul’s newest athletic director, the Lincoln Park campus was virtually a ghost town. Most students and faculty were at home since DePaul held a majority of online courses during the 2020-21 academic year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. So, when Peevy and his family moved to Chicago, they were among the few DePaul people on campus. “I waited till the weekend to come to the offices because I didn’t have a way to get in [inside the Sullivan Athletic Center],” Peevy said during an interview with The
DePaulia. “I was staying across the street on Belden, 20 steps from the front door, but couldn’t get in and nobody was really on campus and didn’t know who to really call to get in the building.” Peevy had his first day all pictured out: how he wanted his opening press conference to go and who he wanted to be there. But because of the pandemic, not all of those dreams were able to come to fruition. “Unfortunately, I didn’t get any of those things that I pictured because of what was just going on in the world,” he said. “It really focused me to get down to the work. I got a chance to [do] the best we could with a press conference, with my immediate family present. But when I really look back on how thankful we are, the students really
helped get me through that.” Those first couple of days on the job were just a microcosm of Peevy’s first year at DePaul, which included plenty of Zoom sessions, empty stadiums and arenas and not being able to meet all the student athletes right away. But there were still a lot of tasks that needed to be accomplished even with a mostly empty campus. “The thing I thought would be the biggest challenge was really getting integrated into the campus community, especially because school was almost out,” Peevy said. Part of the early process for Peevy was to meet with alumni, donors and people that can help grow DePaul’s brand. Throughout the first couple of months, Peevy was doing about 6-8 to Zoom meetings every day.
In addition, he had to help guide the athletic department through the pandemic, which forced traditional fall sports to move to the spring and saw the men’s basketball team face a rocky start to its season because of positive tests. The first year also forced Peevy to make some tough decisions, including firing men’s basketball head coach Dave Leitao and then hiring Tony Stubblefield to replace him. DePaul has not made the NCAA Tournament since 2004 and has only recorded one winning season since 2007. Peevy said that he isn’t putting a win threshold that the team needs to reach this upcoming season in order to call this year
See PEEVY, page 26
Chartwells negotiations drawn out, students rally support By Josephine Stratman Asst. News Editor
A two-year long effort to negotiate a new contract for DePaul dining workers has been drawn out even further. As Chartwells workers rally for campus unity, Compass Group, Chartwells’ parent company, strives to split the food service workers in two groups. Chartwells and representatives of the workers’ union, Unite Here Local 1, took to the bargaining table on Wednesday, Oct. 6, when Compass Group lawyers proposed raises on a sliding scale for workers.
DePaul dining employees are trying to establish a $19.88 minimum hourly pay for all workers and consistent insurance coverage. The Compass Group’s proposal fell short of this demand. Under the proposal, employees who receive higher pay already would not receive equal raises — a decision union shop steward Isabel Avila said may aim to divide the DePaul employees. Avila, a Lincoln Park Chartwells employee, is one of the key negotiators between Chartwells and the union, which represents 101 subcontracted DePaul dining workers.
“[The Compass Group] moved a little bit,” Avila said. “But we’re still waiting.” Unite Here Local 1 does not plan on accepting the Compass Group’s proposal when the two groups reconvene on Oct. 25. As negotiations get pushed back further, the strike is becoming increasingly real to dining workers. “They have to meet us,” Avila said, adding that she’d be willing to negotiate further with The Compass Group, but the current proposal is unacceptable. “If we have to [strike], we have to.”
See CHARTWELLS page 6
JOSEPHINE STRATMAN | THE DEPAULIA
DePaul dining employees Glynis Donaldson, 58, holds a card outlining her rights to wear her Unite Here Local 1 union pin.
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Golden Dagger and Kingston Mines are two resteraunts and venues that require proof of vaccination or a Covid-19 negative test in order to attend shows.
ZACH ELIOTT | THE DEPAULIA
Lincoln Park businesses tackle vaccine mandates for customers By Zach Elliott Contribunting Writer
For much of the last year and a half, we toiled away inside, hoping for an opportunity to see a show, grab a drink or just have dinner somewhere other than the kitchen table. Covid-19 vaccinations have made that hope a possibility, as 68.9 percent of Illinois residents have received at least one dose, according to Mayo Clinic. But anything below unanimity opens the risk of being exposed to Covid-19 at any restaurant or show one might try to enjoy. Unless you’re not allowed inside. “It was a decision I made alongside my staff that we were going to be completely vaccination only,” said Donnie Biggins, owner of Golden Dagger, a coffee bar and performance venue in Lincoln Park. Golden Dagger is one of several locations in the Lincoln Park and greater Chicago area to require proof of vaccination for customers and employees, alongside places such as Kingston Mines, Lincoln Hall and Trader Todd’s, to attend events or be a dine-in patron. Trader Todds was badly vandalized almost two weeks ago, Block Club Chicago reported. In a rampage that cost the bar thousands of dollars in repairs, an unidentified man broke several windows, defaced and wrote racist and anti-vaccination messages and destroyed equipement. The Lakeview bar requires vaccination and face masks to enter. “Mainly the reason why we’re doing that is for the safety of the musicians that are performing in our space,” Biggins said. “A lot of them are touring, a lot of them do this for a living and we need to make sure we’re doing our part to provide a safe space for this industry to perform in.” These changes appeal to patrons, too. “I don’t think that a place should have to require vaccinations, but I would prefer that they did because it makes everyone more safe,” DePaul junior Jonah Benthusen said. Ensuring the safety of performing artists and patrons is vital for the recovery of the dine-in restaurant industry, which has declined 17 percent since 2019, per Statista.
“Overall, I’m really proud of our community and industry and everyone following the rules and allowing us to be open for events and bring some joy to our community.”
Donnie Biggins
Owner of Golden Dagger in Lincoln Park Despite the new requirements, there doesn’t seem to have been any significant drop off in support. Since the implementation of their vaccine mandates, no restaurant or venue in Lincoln Park has experienced resistance from patrons that would cause them to abandon it. “The initial change was shocking to some people, but the general public has gotten with the program,” Biggins said. Vaccine mandates continue to be controversial, as evidenced by the 36.5 percent of Chicagoans who haven’t received an inoculation. From Forbes, 21 percent of individuals 18 to 29-years-old said they would never get vaccinated, according to a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Their reasoning ranges from concerns about side effects to skepticism about vaccine efficacy against Covid-19. However, businesses that have decided to institute these mandates are receiving support from high places. “I applaud those businesses and venues that are requiring vaccination proof or a negative test in order to get admittance and I think we’re gonna see more of that,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said this September in response to a letter from several aldermen urging a vaccine mandate for public indoor settings, including restaurants and performance venues, according to ABC. It remains a possibility that vaccines could become a requirement for businesses on a city-wide level, although not everyone is racing to institute them. “The responsibility for vaccination rates is squarely on the alderman and the mayor and not on small businesses,” said Roger Romanelli, coordinator of the Chicago Restaurants Coalition, in a Sep-
tember news conference, per the Chicago Sun-Times. Much of the hesitance to pass mandates expressed by Romanelli and others stems from their belief that the city would be passing on the responsibility of “handling” the pandemic to small business owners — and even larger venues — by making them enforce rules that may curtail the spread of Covid-19, but ultimately hurt their business. As with any voluntary decision that a small business makes, it all comes down to how customers are going to react, and whether this kind of change will harm more than it will help. For some, the decision to try and balance Covid-19 safety and business has been successful. “Overall, I’m really proud of our community and industry and everyone following the rules and allowing us to be open for events and bring some joy to our community,” Biggins said. In the coming months, when temperatures drop and indoor venues just become venues, it will be even more pertinent to know which businesses will need customers’ vaccination status. “I think a prudent business owner would do vaccine mandates because it makes themselves, their patrons, and staff safer,” Benthusen said. Ultimately, with or without a citywide mandate, restaurants march towards an uncertain future, only hoping that their customers will be there with them. “We’re still still fully operating, we’re doing everything,” Biggins said, “We can keep going and I feel that the community has our back.”
ZACH ELIOTT | THE DEPAULIA
Golden Dagger (top) and Lincoln Hall (bottom) have storefront signs.
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Understanding key aspects of Mayor Lightfoot’s budget proposal By Maureen dunne Contributing Writer
Budget hearings are underway at City Hall in the wake of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2022 budget proposal. Here’s what you should be aware of as the cCity Ccouncil hears public comments and aldermen submit suggestions. In her Sept. 20 address to City Council address, Mayor Lightfoot touched on issues both systemic and laid bare by the pandemic and her plan to address them through the budget process. “There is a long list, with its origins and roots traceable to systemic racism, failure to invest in people and places and none of this has happened by accident,” Lightfoot said in her address to City Hall. “They are two sides of the same coin and designed and forged to benefit some, off the backs of others,” she said. “This is intentional and must be changed.” By law, the mayor’s office is required to present its budget to the Cityto City Council by mid-October, though this year operated on an accelerated schedule due to the pandemic. City Council members then have until Dec.ember 31 to suggest changes or make additions to the budget so it goes into effect in January. Here are key components of Mayor Lightfoot’s budget proposal, from an influx of federal aid to Chicago, expanded social service funding and an increase in the Chicago Police Department budget. FEDERAL AID The lifeline of Mayor Lightfoot’s budget proposal is the American Rescue Plan, federal Covid-19OVID relief lining Chicago’s pockets with nearly $1.9 billion. The mayor plans to utilize the funds to fill in the city’s budget deficit and prop up social services despite federal regulations prohibiting paying debt with the aid. “About 40 percent% of the total funds are being used to cover last year’s revenue holes, which means repaying bonds sold in order to cover the budget last year,” Adam Schuster, senior director of budget and tax research at the Illinois Policy Institute, said. To skirt conditions on the federal money, the mayor has essentially planned to support social services with federal aid, thus freeing up local revenue to pay outstanding debts. “Instead of using the federal dollars to
pay off the borrowing, they use the federal dollars to support service spending, and then the local revenues that otherwise would have gone to that are now freed up to pay off the borrowing,” Schuster said. “It’s a financially and fiscally responsible practice,” he added.. “In the long run, repaying that borrowing will save costs for taxpayers, so I do consider it a good thing.” However, relying on federal aid to free up money to expand social services presents its own set of challenges. Schuster views much of the expansion in social services as precarious. “If you create programs with temporary revenue, you’re giving people an expectation that it’s going to be there in the long run, and then you have to take that program away,” Schuster said. “To keep that program, you’re going to have to do significant tax hikes in the future. So while these investments are welcome, unfortunately, they have not come along with a long term plan to sustain [them].” He foresees a heftier tax burden on Chicagoans in the future once federal aid runs out to maintain these services. Niketa Brar, co-founder and executive director of Chicago United for Equity, believes the city needs a more sustainable funding model for its social services. “That [funding model] is a fairly limited approach when it comes to the type of creativity and ingenuity we need in order to tackle some of these significant financial challenges,” Brar said. “While other folks have named ideas such as a public bank, other more progressive leaders have called for federal interventions ... There has not been that type of advocacy or that type of innovation proposed at the city level.” A point of pride in the Mayor’s proposal is a lack of new taxes on Chicagoans, aside from the yearly increase in property taxes in line with Consumer Price Index fluctuations. Compared to last year’s property tax increase of $534 million, that within the 2022 budget seems slight in comparison. “Don’t believe your landlord or if he says that the city’s portion of the property tax has gone up so he has to raise your rent,” John McCarron, a 27-year veteran of the Chicago Tribune’s Financial and Urban Affairs desks and DePaul University guest lecturer, said. “It really hasn’t gone up but a few pennies for apartments.”
Despite this, Schuster believes the property tax hike could have been avoided entirely due to its negative effect on recovering businesses. “Given all that federal money, the $76 million dollar property tax hike is hard to justify because you’re spending money on programs to support the recovery, and on the other hand, you’re going to be raising taxes,’’ Schuster said. “Even if it’s a modest tax increase … some of that federal money ought to be used to prevent the tax increase in my opinion.”
EXPANDED SOCIAL SERVICES “The mayor’s proposal reflects a shift in social winds in Chicago,” Brar said. “Clearly, she is responding to some of the demands that are coming from grassroots organizations, movements and communities who have been harmed so significantly by this pandemic,.” they added. Mayor Lightfoot introduced significant expansions of social services in her 2022 proposal to combat the pandemic and underlying inequities it laid bare. Among the largest social service initiatives are $400 million toward addressing root issues of crime in line with the City’s “Our City, Our Safety,” plan, $86 million to increase access to city health services, $202 million for homelessness initiatives, and $635 million to maintain and expand affordable housing, according to the Mayor’s press release. The mayor also proposed a universal basic income aspect to her budget, which would grant 5,000 Chicago families monthly payments of $500 to combat poverty. Chicago United for Equity operates People’s Budget Chicago, a community-based initiative dedicated to designing a budget with the input of the city’s traditionally under-invested neighborhood residents. Though the People’s Budget 2022 report will be released this coming Thursday, Oct.ober 7, previous years have consistently ranked mental healthcare as residents’ top priority in budget allocation. Despite the Mayor’s proposed increase in funds to the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), there is no specific allocation toward mental health services. It’s up to CDPH itself to dogear those funds. “What we have not seen is a commitment that the public health dollars will include mental health investment, which has been the most significant area of investment that
Chicagoans have called for in the people’s budget,” Brar said.
POLICE SPENDING The Chicago Police Department budget is proposed to be raised from $1.7 billion in 2021 to $1.9 billion in 2022 to account for llast month’s ratification of a new police contractast month’s ratification of a new police contract and reliance on surveillance technologies. Initiatives within CPD’s new contract include an instant pay raise for officers and retroactive checks to account for the four years in which officers worked without a contract. Built in is a mechanism for annual raises for officers of 2.5 percent. “It was heartening to me to see that the police department got a considerable increase in its budget,” McCarron said. “[And] that the city just entered into an eight year police contract that has rather generous annual increases programmed into it. Which I think is desperately needed in a situation where the veteran cops who have vested pensions are quitting in droves.” The city renewed its 3-year, $33 million contract with ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection sensor technology through August of 2023 this summer. In the wake of the killing of Adam Toledo by an officer called to his area due a ShotSpotter alert, and reports of its inefficacy from the Office of the Inspector General, Brar saw many community members rethink surveillance technology. “Frankly, communities are saying this doesn’t work ... In this particular year, when we know that a child was killed at the hands of a police officer called to a scene because of ShotSpotter, it’s bringing attention to that issue even more starkly,” Brar said. Community response has been at odds with the mayor’s proposal to increase Police Department funding, even with new reforms included in CPD’s contract. “If you spend nearly 35percent % of your budget on policing, and it’s not getting you the outcomes that you want, communities are looking at that and saying, ‘Wait a second, why would we continue to spend more money on police?,’” Brar said. “Overwhelmingly, what we’re seeing is no, there’s not support for increasing funding to the police.”
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Dom’s Kitchen and Market storefront is located at 2730 N Halsted St. Chicago, IL, 60614 and open everyday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. They specialize in organic and specialty products.
Dom’s Kitchen and Market brings a new shopping experience to customers By Hallie long Contributing Writer
Right on the corner of Halsted and Diversey stands Dom’s Kitchen and Market, a new food shopping and in-house dining store in Lincoln Park. An idea that started on a napkin just over three years ago, according to store director Mike Binder, and withstood the test of Covid-19, opened its doors to the neighborhood in June 2021. Bob Mariano, the CEO of Mariano’s, and Don Fitzgerald, a former executive at Dominick’s, partnered on Dom’s Market to add more to the Chicagoland food scene. Though it may seem like just another grocery store added to the neighborhood, Dom’s serves a different purpose for its customers. “We felt in the Chicago marketplace there was something missing,” Binder said. “Between Whole Foods, Jewel [Osco] and Mariano’s, things were starting to become traditional again.” With a 17,800 square foot space, Binder and those working on Dom’s from the grassroots wanted a more personal feeling for customers. Somewhere that people can not
only shop for certain everyday items such as produce or milk, but a place where they can dine in or work on assignments or catch up with an old friend.
“I think some features of Dom’s that students would like are their dining area where you can hang out or do homework,” said Alec Barlow, a senior studying film at DePaul. Set up in the form of an upside-down U shape centered around their kitchen, Dom’s small store adds that sense of intimacy and direction through their different food vendors so it is impossible to miss a single place. “We took it to the next level where we went local with just about every vendor that supplies us within the store,” Binder said. “If you look at our bakery department, it’s Stan’s Donuts and Molly’s Cupcakes. Over in the meat department, we carry Meat By Linz, which is only available in the finer restaurants of the Chicagoland area.” “Dom’s is great,” said Vanessa Pezza, a former HR intern at the Kitchen and Market. “I have always loved eating healthy and Dom’s carries a lot of what I look for.” Along with their bakery and butcher, Dom’s offers freshly made food such as
salads, soups and sandwiches, rotisserie and pizza and Gohan sushi. All food vendors have vegetarian and vegan options as well. “Their sushi is definitely the best sushi sold in stores,” Pezza said. “I’m a big fan of that and the Plant Butcher, which is where you can order salads from.” Of course, no one can forget about coffee lovers, as Dom’s also houses The Brew, an allday cafe that serves coffee as well as breakfast sandwiches and cheese boards. “My favorite part about Dom’s is that I can go in and order a pour-over style coffee that exceeds the flavor of many local coffee shops,” Barlow said. “I love The Brew,” Pezza said. “The coffee is much better than Starbucks and more affordable.” Speaking of affordability, Dom’s does carry mainly organic, specialty products; therefore, pricing may be a bit steeper in comparison to a place such as Aldi or Trader Joe’s. Though, Dom’s really isn’t the place to buy your everyday grocery products like laundry detergent or Kellogg’s cereal anyway. “Dom’s is relatively cheaper than Whole Foods but more expensive than Trader Joe’s,” Pezza said. “There is a small price to pay since it carries locally sourced, fresh prod-
ucts. You are getting higher-quality food, which can be a good deal for some students.” Maybe Dom’s isn’t the place to buy everything on your grocery list, but it was never intended to fill that role to begin with. “We don’t want to be called a grocery store,” Binder said. “We don’t carry Tide or Bounty or Coke here, but we do have specially curated products that younger generations gravitate towards.” Though it may not be the first stop for grocery shopping, it’s a place you can splurge from time to time and feel special while doing it. Not to mention, DePaul students are given a 10 percent discount on their purchases. “It’s worth the trip if you want to treat yourself,” Barlow said. “I’d recommend swinging by at least once just to check it out.” Dom’s carries specialty items, but they also host events for customers to attend, such as movie nights, Thursday and Sunday night football, wine tasting events and chess club. Dom’s Kitchen and Market has been open for just over 100 days, but they already have plans to open more stores around the Chicagoland area and beyond.
Center for Students with Disabilities, alleviate attendance guidelines, create obstacles By Corey schdmit Copy Editor
For DePaul junior Kiana Ratay, this quarter has been filled with medical hardships. However, DePaul’s attendance policy and the Center for Students with Disabilities has only made things harder — despite DePaul claiming to have alleviated policies to reduce the spread of Covid-19. “Because the Delta variant is so easily transmitted, the University is asking anyone who feels at all ill to stay home and avoid infecting others,” DePaul said in a communication to faculty. “So, in face-to-face classes in particular, you can expect absences from students, and you may even need to stay home yourself.” However, this communication told faculty there is not an attendance policy they’re required to implement, only a set of suggested guidelines. “DePaul has never had a university-wide attendance policy,” Associate Provost for Student Success and Accreditation Caryn Chaden told The DePaulia in an email. “Different areas of study require different teaching methods and different classroom practices; it is up to faculty to determine the appropriate attendance policy for their class.” Leaders from DePaul’s Faculty Council, Academic Affairs and Student Affairs worked together to provide faculty with
these guidelines. These suggestions include allowing students to miss anywhere between 10 to 20 percent of all class periods, faculty meeting with individual students about their attendance and/or providing alternative assignments for students to complete if they cannot attend an in-person course. However, many professors have continued to implement attendance policies with regulations that could harm a student’s grade if they miss over a certain amount of classes. A public speaking course requires all students to be in attendance for three presentation days. If a student is not in attendance on any of these three days, the student will automatically receive a failing grade. The class meets once a week, every Monday night, so with three weeks of presentations, if a student happens to get sick that week — they fail. Chaden said DePaul intends to keep attendance policies consistent by providing FAQs and the Guidance document. Giving a frequently asked questions document credit for the implementation of DePaul’s new attendance suggestions promoting “compassion and flexibility” university-wide. DePaul’s Dean of Students Office is available to assist faculty and students better navigate absences. Through this office, students can provide documentation of their illness with the Student Absence Notification Form. Students submitting an absence
notification form for illness are required to provide a doctor’s note and their absence period cannot exceed five days. Ratay has been struggling with a longterm illness that doctors are still trying to diagnose. Her symptoms worsened this quarter, but when she filed for a different attendance policy to exceed the five days, it was denied despite a three-page paper describing her illness alongside required documentation. “The university does lack resources for students like me, who have longer-term illnesses,” Ratay said. “I reached out to the Center for Students with Disabilities, and after filling out forms for two hours they still requested more information from my doctors, and said they could not help me in my request for a different attendance policy.” Ratay has struggled to juggle the illness, classes and dealing with the Center for Students with Disabilities. “I can’t even talk to one of their disability counselors until I get approved to be in the program, which can take up to two weeks,” Ratay said. “I have to provide all this stuff — I don’t have time for that now, I mean, I’m sick. I already provided proof that I’m sick, so what else do [they] want? It’s completely unacceptable.” While the Center for Students with Disabilities and DePaul’s attendance policy have not done Ratay any favors, she said she
is “lucky [her] teachers have been so accommodating.” She said communicating with professors and working with them to create a plan for success have been extremely helpful. While Ratay’s professors are accommodating, that is not always the case. DePaul’s Center for Students with Disabilities is available to help students navigate academics alongside taking care of themselves. “Students enrolled with the CSD continue to have access to learning specialists and clinicians who can assist them with: organizational skills, time management skills, study skills and more. These services are available in-person and remotely,” Gregory Moorehead, director of DePaul’s Center for Students with Disabilities, told the DePaulia in an email. But as Ratay experienced, the assistance is not immediate, which is needed by students facing not only Covid-19, but other illnesses. “Going to the Center for Students with Disabilities is just pointless,” she said. “They say it can take up to two weeks to get accepted into the program. I’m sick now, how does this help me now? It doesn’t.”
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CAMPUS CRIME REPORT:
Sept. 29, 2021- Oct. 5, 2021
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LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
LOOP CAMPUS
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7
8
4
John T. Richardson Library
Ozanam Hall
17
15
Levan and O’Connell
McGowan North
Sheffield Square 13
McCabe Hall
14 16
6
Belden- Racine Hall
5
9
11
Sullivan Athletic Center
6
19
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS SEPT. 29 1) A Theft report was filed for items taken from the Ray Meyer Fitness Center.
OCT 01 2) An
Illegal Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor report was filed for a person outside of St. Vincent Church. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMS.
3)
A Theft report was filed for items taken from Ozanam Hall.
4)
A Battery report was filed regarding an incident at the intersection of Clifton & Fullerton.
5)
A Domestic Violence report was filed for a dispute in McCabe Hall.
6) An Illegal Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor
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Lewis Center
20
Ray Meyer Fitness Center St. Vincent Church
DePaul Center
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Assault & Theft
Drug & Alcohol
Other
report was filed for a person in Belden-Racine Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMS.
12) A Criminal Trespass Warning was issued to a person in the Richardson Library.
LOOP CAMPUS SEPT. 29 18) A Disorderly
Conduct report was filed regarding the false activation of a fire alarm pull station in the Lewis Center.
OCT 05 OCT 02 13) A Theft report was filed for items taken inside 7) A Illegal Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor the gate at Sheffield Square. 19) A Sex Offense-Fondling was reported at the report was filed in Ozanam Hall. Person was taken to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMS.
8) A Disturbance was reported in Ozanam Hall. OCT 04 9) An Assault report was filed for an incident that occurred in front of the Sullivan Athletic Center.
10) A Battery report was filed for a person hit in the face at Webster & Sheffield. (Not pictured above)
11) A Disturbance was reported at McCabe Hall.
14)
A Theft report was filed regarding fire extinguishers stolen from Levan & O’Connell
15)
A Battery report was filed regarding an incident at Fullerton and Kenmore.
16)
A Theft from Vehicle report was filed for items taken from a vehicle on the 2300 N block of Sheffield. Public Safety apprehended the person and Chicago Police took them into custody.
17) A Theft report was filed in McGowan North.
entrance of a University Center retail suite.
OCT. 04 20) A Battery
report was filed regarding an incident that took place in University Center.
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Glynis Donaldson, holds up a card emphasizing her rights to wear a union pin. Union negiotations with parent company Compass still hang in the air.
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A skeleton model promotes a pamphlet worker conditions in the Richardson Library. CHARTWELLS continued from front associates, according to Rosenberg. This coverage is managed by Unite Here Health page (separate from Unite Here Local). Two weeks ago, 92 percent of DePaul Unity and support among Chartwells Chartwells employees voted to authorize a workers and students was evident on camstrike if their demands were not met. pus this week, as both workers and students “We value our associates and want to wore union pins. give them fair and equitable raises,” said “We’re wearing our buttons,” said Glynis Compass Group representative Meredith Donaldson, who has worked at DePaul dinRosenberg, the vice president of communiing for 15 years. “We’re ready to strike.” cations and creative services in a statement Along with the pin, workers carried a to the DePaulia. card that lists their Section 7 rights under the According to Avila, the Compass Group National Labor Relations Act and their right brought an all-new set of negotiators to the to wear union buttons. bargaining table on Wednesday. Compass “We are still fighting,” Donaldson said. Group fired their lawyer this past Thursday, Students across campus have been Avila said, cancelling negotiatons scheduled joining in on the fight, as well. DePaul Comfor the following day with Northwestmunity Accountability Alliance (DPUCAA) ern University food service workers and hosted two events to support Chartwells Wednesday negotions with DePaul workers. workers at DePaul. Negotiatons were rescheduled at the last On Sept. 29, a “Support Chartwells Dinminute for DePaul. These negotiations were ing Workers’’ Zoom event educated students an abbreviated version of normal negotion the situation and a “Button Up” event on ations, which normally last a full day. This Oct. 7 buttons students could wear to show time, they only had three hours to present support for the workers were distributed. and negotiate their proposed new contracts. As negotiations still hang in the air, emCompass Group and Unite Here Local ployees still struggle to make ends meet. 1 have been in negotiations since January “[Compass doesn’t] care and we can’t 2020. live on this money,” Avila said. “I have to ask Based on the previous contract, Chartmyself: Do I pay my rent or do I buy food?” wells pays the entire healthcare and dental premium for single coverage for all full-time
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Buttons saying “I [heart] Campus Workers” were passed out to students on Oct. 6.
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The pamphlet has union workers on the front and a quote from St. Vincent DePaul.
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Faculty council discusses re-establishing administrative trust By sonal soni Nation World Editor
DePaul’s faculty council met on Oct. 6 to discuss ongoing faculty concerns and included a Q&A with Provost Salma Ghanem. Faculty council president Sonia Soltero started off the meeting with an update on the presidential search. The presidential search committee received 444 responses to their survey for DePaul community members to submit their input regarding the search. Of those, 62 percent, or 281, were faculty responses. “That response rate from faculty, the council of the whole attendance, as well as the ratification numbers [sends] a message that faculty are very much invested and involved [and] want to participate in shared governance at the highest levels of the university,” Soltero said. Soltero refers to last month’s Council of the Whole — a special type of faculty meeting where members voted on a number of motions regarding faculty concerns. According to Soltero, 622 out of 874 faculty members attended the Council of the Whole, which is an unprecedented turnout. “This time is an opportunity,” Soltero said. “We’re going to have a new president. Let’s fix what needs to be fixed and create new bridges so that we can work together.” Another topic of discussion included a resolution to defend academic freedom, which passed unanimously.
Across the United States, state legislative measures aimed at discussions of racism, sexism and related themes in American history are being implemented in schools, colleges and universities. Texas became the fifth state to enact similar legislation this week, and more than a dozen more are exploring it. This legislation aims to prohibit or restrict seemingly divisive concepts in academia, according to the resolution. The resolution is a preventative measure, where faculty council would reject any attempts to restrict or dictate DePaul’s curriculum on any matter, including those related to racial and social justice. The motion also asserts that the faculty council will oppose any encroachment on faculty authority by the legislature or the Boards of Trustees. “This is an effort that I along with a couple other faculty across the country are introducing not only in DePaul’s faculty council, but this similar motion is being voted on across the nation at colleges and universities,” DePaul political science professor Valerie Johnson said. “We see it as an all out attack on education.” Another proposed resolution called to clarify the responsibilities outlined in faculty contracts. According to the resolution, administrators have been requesting uncompensated services from faculty under 10-month contracts during the summer, including serving on committees and task forces as well as
reaching out to students. “Tenure-line faculty may not want to say no to administrator requests for service in July and August due to fear of future consequences (e.g. poor annual review or lack of support for promotion/tenure from a chair), a desire to gain favor in the eyes of that administrator, or unawareness that they, as 10-month contract faculty, are not under contract in July and August,” the resolution reads. The resolution also passed by a majority vote, outlining that the provost will annually remind all administrators that 10-month contract faculty are not required to work during July and August. Faculty council also discussed renaming the Rosati room — a room in the John T. Richardson library named after Bishop Joseph Rosati, one of the early leaders of the Vincentian community who was recently reported to have particpated in the slave trade. While no specific motions were passed at this meeting, faculty council agreed to continue ongoing discussions over renaming the room, as well as further actions to reconcile with the school’s association with slavery. The meeting also allotted a Q&A portion with provost Salma Ghanem, giving faculty a chance to engage in dialogue. The faculty council executive committee comprised a list of topics for Ghanem to cover before opening the floor for faculty questions. These topics include Ghanem’s short and long-term goals for the academic
year, how she plans to work alongside the Board of Trustees, as well as her response to the large attendance of the Council of the Whole. Ghanem’s short-term goals include continuing with the health and safety of the DePaul community amid the ongoing pandemic. Additionally, Ghanem said that DePaul’s academic affairs department is developing a mentorship program for junior faculty to offer support for those who need it. Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among academic affairs will also continue throughout the academic year. Ghanem announced that the hiring freeze has been lifted, and DePaul will once again resume hiring of faculty and staff. Long-term goals include program specific marketing to attract more incoming students. Ongoing searches for the dean of the school of business and theatre schools are also ongoing efforts this year. Ghanem stated she is committed to rebuilding trust between academic affairs and faculty. “That is my goal,” Ghanem said. “How can we work together to get things done? That is something I will continue to do. I meet with faculty when they need to meet with me. I come to faculty council not as administrative overreach, but really as a way of knowing what are the issues that faculty are looking at.”
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WhatsApp shutdown sparks worldwide concern By Sonal soni
Nation & World Editor
Nicole Ahn had just moved into her new apartment in Germany when she realized WhatsApp — an app she regularly uses to communicate with her friends and family abroad — had stopped working. At first, she thought it had something to do with her wifi. After spending some time resetting the modem and deleting and reinstalling the app, she googled what the issue was. Then Ahn realized WhatsApp had shut down worldwide. DePaul alum Alexa Johnson relies on WhatsApp to communicate with their family abroad. When they found out the app wasn’t working, they grew concerned. “I couldn’t talk to my dad for a whole day and I was worried because he has severe diabetes,” Johnson said. DePaul alum Melyssa Guzman was traveling in Mexico with her family to take part in her hometown’s annual Octava Noche celebration. She noticed that WhatsApp and Instagram weren’t working, and later found out both had shut down. “I was communicating with my friends [on WhatsApp],” Guzman said. “[Afterwards] I was only able to communicate via Snapchat.” After a severe outage that lasted more than six hours on Monday, Oct. 4, WhatsApp and Instagram, which are both owned by Facebook, came back online. The shutdown may have cost the company up to $100 million in lost
“I couldn’t talk to my dad for a whole day and I was worried because he has severe diabetes,” Johnson said.”
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DePaul Alum
revenue. Facebook’s vice president of engineering and infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, wrote a blog post explaining why and how the outage happened, as well as the technological, physical and security obstacles the company experienced. “To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms,” Janardhan wrote. “We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running.” Janardhan explained that the shutdown occurred due to disruption to network traffic. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,’’ Janardhan wrote. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our ser-
vices to a halt.” The shutdown took place as Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, testified before a Senate panel regarding the company’s impact on teenage users’ mental health. Haugen said the company chooses profit over safety and provided thousands of internal documents leading to a range of revelations including that Facebook knew Instagram was worsening body image issues among teenagers. Haugen also filed a whistle-blower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing Facebook of misleading investors with public statements that did not match its internal actions. However, Janardhan noted there was no link between Haugen’s testimony and the shutdown. “We want to make clear that there was no malicious activity behind this outage — its root cause was a faulty configuration change on our end,” he wrote. While the shutdown lasted a few hours, the uncertainty of when
WhatsApp would be up and running again sparked concern around the globe. According to the Statista Research Department, as of 2021, WhatsApp is the most popular global mobile messenger app worldwide with approximately two billion monthly active users. For many users, using alternative communication methods was challenging. “As I had just arrived in Germany after living in Korea for a year, and I didn’t have my SIM card yet, I couldn’t call or text [my dad] on my mobile phone,” Ahn said. “I also attempted to re-route the conversation on Instagram, because that’s the only other platform I have contact with him, but it was also shut down. So I just gave up and went to sleep, hoping Facebook will fix the issue by the next morning.” “He gets really worried when I don’t answer his calls or texts because he thinks I’d been kidnapped or something along those lines,” Ahn added. “Knowing that I’m an Asian woman in her 20s living alone in Germany, he worries that I might be a target of hate crime or sexual assault as well.” Although the issue has been fixed, WhatsApp users like Ahn are worried about the app shutting down in the future. “I hope that doesn’t happen again,” Ahn added. “It was frustrating, and if it ever does, I hope they fix it faster than they did this time.”
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Tensions persist between legacy of Columbus, native people Chicago’s “Columbus Day” parade returns after a year By Kathleen Foodhy and Wilson Ring Associated Press
Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified by an annual tribute that ignores native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism. Spurred by national calls for racial equity, communities across the U.S. took a deeper look at Columbus’ legacy in recent years — pairing or replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day. On Friday, President Joe Biden issued the first presidential proclamation of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Columbus. But activists, including members of Native American tribes, said ending the formal holiday in Columbus’ name has been stymied by politicians and organizations focusing on Italian American heritage. “The opposition has tried to paint Columbus as a benevolent man, similar to how white supremacists have painted Robert E. Lee,” Les Begay, Diné Nation member and co-founder of the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Coalition of Illinois, said, referring to the Civil War general who led the Confederate Army. Columbus’ arrival began centuries of exploration and colonization by European nations, bringing violence, disease and other suffering to native people already living in the Western Hemisphere. “Not honoring Indigenous peoples on this day just continues to erase our history, our contributions and the fact that we were the first inhabitants of this country,” Begay said. Across the country, tension over the two holidays has been playing out since the early 1990s. Debates over monuments and statues of the Italian explorer tread similar ground, as in Philadelphia where the city placed a box over a Columbus statue last year in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. Protesters opposing racial injustice and police brutality against people of color rallied for months in summer 2020. Philadelphia lawyer George Bochetto,
who has been fighting Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration to uncover the statue, said Saturday many felt efforts to remove it were an attack on Italian-American heritage. Kenney previously signed an executive order changing the city’s annual Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day. Monday will be the first city holiday under the new name. “We have a mayor that’s doing everything he can to attack the Italian American community, including canceling its parade, removing statues, changing the Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day by fiat,” Bochetto said. Kenney spokesperson Kevin Lessard said the statue should remain boxed up “in the best interest and public safety of all Philadelphians.” In 2016, Lincoln, Nebraska, joined other cities adding Indigenous Peoples’ Day to the calendar on the same date as Columbus Day. Events on Monday will focus on the newer addition, including unveiling a statue honoring the first Native American physician, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte. Some feel a split day causes further harm. Activists plan a small protest outside the Robert V. Denney Federal Building, calling for an outright end to the holiday in Columbus’ name at all levels of government. “It’s patently absurd to honor Indigenous people and the man who tortured and murdered their ancestors,” said Jackson Meredith, an organizer. “As far as we’re concerned, we’re going to keep protesting it until Columbus Day is abolished.” In New York City, the annual Columbus Day Parade returns after one-year, as in-person absence attributed to the coronavirus pandemic. The parade is touted by some as the world’s largest Columbus Day celebration. In May, Italian American activists complained after the Board of Education erased Christopher Columbus Day from the New York City school calendar, replacing it with “Indigenous People’s Day.” Following the outcry, the schools changed the designation to: “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.” Mayor Bill de Blasio said he supported
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Protesters on the route of the Pittsburgh Columbus Day Parade Saturday, Oct. 9. the compromise. “We have to honor that day as a day to recognize the contributions of all Italian Americans, so of course the day should not have been changed arbitrarily,” de Blasio said. Chicago’s annual Columbus Day parade also returns Monday after the pandemic forced 2020’s cancellation of the event that draws 20,000 people. It’s a vivid reminder of the ongoing fight over three statues of Columbus, still warehoused by the city after protesters targeted them in summer 2020. Mayor Lori Lightfoot in July 2020 ordered the statues removed and said demonstrations were endangering protesters and police. She later created a committee to review monuments in the city, including the fate of Columbus monuments. No plans have been announced publicly, but the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans that plans the Columbus Day parade this summer sued the city’s park district, demanding that one be restored. Ron Onesti, the organization’s president, said the parade usually draws protesters and expects that on Monday too. He sees the holiday, parade and statues as a celebration of Italian Americans’ contributions to the
U.S., not just Columbus. “The outcome I’m looking for is (for) our traditions to be respected and conversations to continue,” Onesti said Saturday. “Every plaque that goes along with a statue says it recognizes the Italian community’s contributions. So people need to understand that’s why it’s there, and then let’s sit down and figure out where to go from here.” Illinois in 2017 designated the last Monday in September as Indigenous Peoples Day but kept Columbus Day on the second Monday of October. A proposal to replace Columbus Day filed this year hasn’t received any action. Chicago Public Schools in 2020 voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, provoking outrage from several alderman and Italian American groups. The city’s holiday calendar still lists Columbus Day. Begay, the Indigenous Peoples Day advocate, said the organization decided to focus on changing Columbus Day first in Cook County, hoping it would be an easier path than convincing state or Chicago officials. But so far, members of the county’s board haven’t lined up behind the proposal. “Why are 500 plus years still forgotten?” Begay said. “Why don’t we have this single day to recognize these horrible atrocities commit-
Taliban says US will provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan By Kathy Gannon Associated Press
The U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday. The statement came at the end of the first direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. on the weekend meeting. The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, “went well,” with Washington freeing up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after agreeing not to link such assistance to formal recognition of the Taliban. The United States made it clear that the talks were in no way a preamble to recognition of the Taliban, who swept into power Aug. 15 after the U.S.-allied government collapsed. Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen also told The Associated Press that the movement’s interim foreign minister assured the U.S. during the talks that the Taliban are committed to seeing that Afghan soil is not
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Afghans gather outside a recently reopened government passport office. used by extremists to launch attacks against other countries. On Saturday, however, the Taliban ruled out cooperation with Washington on containing the increasingly active Islamic State group in Afghanistan. IS, an enemy of the Taliban, has claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks, including Friday’s suicide bombing that killed 46 minority Shiite Muslims. Washington considers IS its greatest terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan.
“We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said when asked whether the Taliban would work with the U.S. to contain the Islamic State affiliate. He used an Arabic acronym for IS. Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who tracks militant groups, agreed the Taliban do not need Washington’s help to hunt down and destroy Afghanistan’s IS affiliate, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or ISKP.
The Taliban “fought 20 years to eject the U.S., and the last thing it needs is the return of the U.S. It also doesn’t need U.S. help,” said Roggio, who also produces the foundation’s Long War Journal. “The Taliban has to conduct the difficult and time-consuming task of rooting out ISKP cells and its limited infrastructure. It has all the knowledge and tools it needs to do it.” The IS affiliate doesn’t have the advantage of safe havens in Pakistan and Iran that the Taliban had in its fight against the United States, Roggio said. However, he warned that the Taliban’s longtime support for al-Qaida make them unreliable as counterterrorism partners with the United States. The Taliban gave refuge to al-Qaida before it carried out the 9/11 attacks. That prompted the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that drove the Taliban from power. “It is insane for the U.S. to think the Taliban can be a reliable counterterrorism partner, given the Taliban’s enduring support for al-Qaida,” Roggio said. During the meeting, U.S. officials were expected to press the Taliban to allow Americans and others to leave Afghanistan. In their statement, the Taliban said without elaborating that they would “facilitate principled movement of foreign nationals.”
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FREE STEVEN DONZIGER
STEVEN DONZIGER | INSTAGRAM Steven Donziger speaks at a street rally in New York City, protesting inaction by world leaders on climate change. Donziger has been on house arrest for over two years and counting.
He won a $9.5 billion settlement against the Chevron Corporation for the poisoning of indiginous Ecuadorians. Now, Chevron is keeping him as a political prisoner. By Erik Uebelacker Opinions Editor
Steven Donziger should be a household name. His experiences should prompt outrage from cable news personalities and call to question the role of corporate corruption in the American legal system. Instead, Donziger has remained on house arrest for over two years, and may soon be sent to prison in a story that has largely evaded the mainstream news landscape. Donziger is a human rights lawyer who won a landmark case against the Chevron oil corporation in 2011 for environmental damages to Ecuadorian indigenous land. The region, now known as the “Amazon Chernobyl,” faced irreversible environmental destruction following a drilling operation from the 1970s. Its water was poisoned, and its inhabitants were left with extremely high rates of birth defects and cancer. Chevron was ordered by the Ecuadorian court to pay $9.5 billion to both repair the region and pay damages to the indiginous people that had been poisoned. But after the trial, Chevron pulled its assets from Ecuador, left the country and launched a retaliation effort against the lawyer on the other side: Donziger. “Chevron had participated in every stage of the judgement down in Ecuador,” said James North, an independent journalist who has covered Donziger for over 10 years. “When they saw they were losing, they got a new strategy which was to come back to the United States and attack Donziger and his allies in a federal court here.” Donziger was tried for racketeering, with Chevron claiming that his case was
built on fraud, and that he had bribed an Ecuadorian judge before the 2011 ruling. Chevron’s star witness corroborated these claims, but later admitted to lying on the stand to aid Chevron and save himself. Despite this, Judge Lewis Kaplan, a former corporate lawyer, accepted the now-debunked testimony and ordered Donziger to turn over his laptop and cell phone to Chevron. When Donziger refused, alleging the devices contained sensitive client information, Kaplan charged him with criminal contempt. After the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute Donziger for the contempt charge, Kaplan appointed private law firm Seward & Kissel to do so. Ironically, Seward & Kissel have worked with Chevron on numerous occasions, as recently as 2018. Kaplan handpicked Judge Loretta Preska to preside over the case, who placed Donziger on house arrest and denied him bail. “What’s really the most outrageous to me is Judge Preska, who is presiding over this case, without a jury ... she claimed that he was a flight risk,” North said. “I’ve never heard anything so absurd in my life, really. The idea that he would somehow abandon his wife and teenage son and go to Ecuador is ridiculous.” Preska holds a seat on the advisory board of the New York Federalist Society, a conservative judicial lobby of which Chevron is a major donor. The conflicts of interest from Preska and the private prosecution firm could explain the questionable conduct and extreme measures taken in Donziger’s criminal contempt case. But despite the glaring bias, Donziger
has remained locked in his home with an ankle monitor for two years and counting. He was sentenced to six months in prison on Oct.1 for the criminal contempt charges, despite serving almost 800 days in home confinement already. Donziger’s treatment throughout this process is so shocking that the United Nations human rights body ruled that it violated international law, and requested that the United States government should release him “immediately” and pay him reparations. The maximum sentence for criminal contempt — a misdemeanor — is six months. This makes Donziger’s ruling particularly heinous, considering he has already been under home confinement for over four times that long. Additionally, he is the first person under U.S. law charged with a class “B” misdemeanor to be placed on house arrest prior to trial. “What’s important to point out is that Donziger has been denied a jury at every stage,” North said. “He was denied a jury in that original racketeering case, and he was denied a jury in the case just now where he’s being sentenced to six months in federal prison.” The fact that Donziger remains under house arrest for over two years and was sentenced to a six month prison sentence, without ever facing a jury, is a testament to the power of corporations like Chevron and their ties to judges like Kaplan and Preska. “Their bias has been evident throughout,” North said. “You can read it in the transcripts and you can see it in their actions.” Even DePaul University law professor
Gregory Mark, who told The DePaulia that he “is in no position to second-guess the findings” of these judges, admitted that Chevron was engaging in excessive practices to pursue Donziger. “The actions that are being taken against him by Chevron seem to be, shall we say, a little bit over the top,” Mark said. “They reacted, obviously, very badly.” However, Mark had more faith in these judicial decisions than many of the case’s critics. “I wouldn’t call an overreaction, even a huge overreaction, necessarily corrupt,” Mark said. Law students around the country have expressed different sentiments. In May, over 200 students and organizations from 55 leading U.S. law schools signed a letter to the U.S. Attorney General demanding the Department of Justice review Donziger’s prosecution. Students from at least 52 leading law schools are actively boycotting Seward & Kissel’s recruitment process for their role in the trial. The silence from the federal government and mainstream media on Donziger’s mistreatment has been deafening. Donziger is expected to report to federal prison in the next three to four weeks, should his appeals fail in a higher court. If this is the case, it would be a remarkable stain on the honor of our justice system. Worst of all, it further prohibits the indigenous Ecuadorians from receiving the $9.5 billion they are owed for the destruction of their environment and the poisoning of their families.
The opinions in this section do not necessarially reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Letter to DePaul: Invest in faculty and staff
ART BY ALICIA GOLUSZKA
By Tom Mondschean Professor of Economics, Chair of Faculty Council Budget Committee
After his career was over, the great Chicago Bears halfback Gale Sayers wrote an autobiography entitled “I Am Third.” By this title, he meant that he always placed himself third behind God and his family. I believe that DePaul has put investing in faculty and staff in third place behind physical capital spending and growing the endowment. The future of DePaul University depends on a shift in long-term priorities to put the faculty and staff who directly affect student success first. In any organization, such as a university, there are three types of capital.
Physical capital consists of the buildings, equipment and software that enable us to deliver education and provide other services for our students. Financial capital consists of the endowment minus any debt. DePaul’s President and Board of Trustees understand these well. From 2004 to 2020, DePaul invested approximately $800 million in physical capital, an average of around $50 million per year. During this time, however, enrollment shrank from 25,000 at the peak to under 22,000 today. We are now locked into a physical plant that is bigger and more expensive to maintain than what we need today. Toward the end of this “building phase,” senior administrators and the Board of Trustees shifted gears, reduced
capital expenditures and adopted an austere budgetary stance in response to the enrollment decline. This resulted in operating surpluses that they used to grow the endowment and reduce the overall debt. This policy has successfully increased our “financial capital.” From 2016 to 2020, total available funds less bond debt went from approximately $350 million to $700 million, doubling in four years! However, there has been little investment in the third type of capital: “human capital.”. In fact, the University implemented two early retirement plans to reduce its human capital by replacing retiring senior faculty and staff with cheaper labor (especially term and adjunct faculty). Staff positions were also eliminated, further diminishing our human capital. During the pandemic, we observed how useless “physical capital” became as we could not use our buildings and classrooms for over a year. It was the human capital that saved the University. The faculty, many with little or no technological experience, built hundreds of online courses to continue delivering education to our students in difficult times. Staff assisted faculty in course development and provided essential services to students remotely. The faculty and staff lived the mission of St. Vincent de Paul by finding a way to serve others in the most challenging of circumstances. It was an extraordinary effort that deserved the highest praise and respect from senior administrators, the President, and the Board of Trustees. What did the Administration do in response to this real world demonstration of the value of “human capital” during
the Covid-19 pandemic? First, they cut the annual University contribution to our retirement savings in half. Second, they froze our salaries over the past 20 months at a time when the Consumer Price Index rose by 5.75 percent. The impact of these two decisions was to reduce the inflation adjusted compensation of employees by approximately 10 percent. Third, they changed the model of shared governance with respect to the budgetary and financial affairs of the University in a way that diminished the role of faculty and staff. On Sept.19, a Council of the Whole was convened that brought over 500 full and part-time faculty together in a meeting that met the rules for a quorum. We voted on five resolutions, and these resolutions have now been formally ratified by over half of the full-time faculty. So what do faculty want? We want our voices to matter in University governance. We want more tenure track faculty in the areas of the University that need them the most. We want the restoration of the University’s contribution to our pensions. We want to be protected from inflation like the employees of other firms. In short, we want the Board of Trustees to care about human capital as much as they care about physical and financial capital. We believe that this is what St. Vincent de Paul would have wanted. A first step that the University could do is to repeal permanently the “return to principal” item in the budget which would make income from our endowment available (as it is in other universities) to restore compensation and convert term faculty positions into tenure track ones.
If you became DePaul’s new president, what would be the first thing you’d do? By Isabelle Earl Contributing Writer
In June, DePaul’s student body was alerted that President Gabriel Esteban would be stepping down at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. As the university
staff and students await the selection of a new president, I asked students what they would do if they became the next DePaul president. A plethora of answers were given, however there were some definitive parallels.
“An hour and a half long classes are too long. Classes should be an hour long max. Oh--and also free books.” -Khloe K.
“Make the food better.” -Karina S. “Better food in the dining halls” -Jeremy J.
“Make entrances easier and more [wheelchair] accessible.” -Julian A.
“I’m a commuter, so I use Union Station. I think maybe helping commuters pay for [Metra] fees and travel expenses.” -Aimun A.
“Make it so the Fraternal Order of Police doesn’t have tuition discounts anymore.” -Julia T.
To Our Readers, In the Sept. 27 edition of The DePaulia, an opinion piece ran under the headline “DePaul prides itself on diversity, but invites controversial guest speaker Eric Zorn.” There were several mistakes in the copy. The column states that Zorn wrote an opinion article “that expressed racist views” and “sentiments.” The writers referred to the article Zorn wrote, not him as a person.
The column expressed views and sentiments that the writers considered racist. Opinion articles express the views of the writers, not the full DePaulia staff. It also referred to the “murder” of Adam Toledo and should have said “killing,” as murder is a legal term. Other references to murder regarding Toledo, George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse should also have said killing.
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MISSING PIECE IS FOUND
Candace Parker leads Chicago Sky to WNBA finals
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Chicago Sky’s Candace Parker, coach James Wade and teammates celebrate after defeating the Connecticut Sun 79-69 in Game 4 of a WNBA basketball semifinal series Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Chicago.
By Lawrence Kreymer Editor-in-Chief
The Chicago Sky have become accustomed to making the WNBA playoffs since they hired head coach/general manager James Wade in 2018. Prior to the 2021 season, the Sky have come just short of the finals, including falling to the Las Vegas Aces on a buzzer beater in the 2019 second round. Even with an already talented roster, the Sky felt like they were still one piece away from really reaching their potential. That’s why the organization — including its players — decided to pursue forward Candace Parker in free agency last offseason.
Parker, who grew up in Naperville, Illinois, received a creative pitch from some of Chicago’s players as to why she should come home. One day in January, Parker got back to her Los Angeles home with some of her favorite Chicago food waiting for her — food from Portillos, Garrett Popcorn and deep-dish pizza. “I just wanted to remind her what she could [have] on a daily basis,” Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot said following Chicago’s 79-69 win over Connecticut on Wednesday. The pitch from the Sky eventually worked, and Parker ended up signing with her hometown team in one of the
most signficant free agent acquisitions in WNBA history. “It’s just kind of like [a] full circle moment to look up in the stands and just see all the people that [I] have started playing basketball in front of,” Parker said after Chicago clinched a trip to the WNBA Finals on Wednesday. “This is a special group. I think the way you face adversity, it’s built our character and it’s revealed it.” “I honestly looked at this team, and after playing against them so many years, I wanted to be part of it. “I think there’s pressure in every situation. I don’t look at it that way, I look at it as an opportunity.” Parker has proven to be the missing
piece for this Sky team. In the semifinals-clinching win over the Sun on Wednesday, Parker finished the game with 17 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, two steals and two blocks. “We knew we had something special here in Chicago that we had built over time,” Vandersloot said. “We were missing one piece, and it was Candace Parker.” For years, the Sky were building for this particular moment with solid draft picks and adding in free agency with impactful players — but the addition of Parker is what took this team to the next level. “I think this is the Chicago Sky we
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1 294 90 expected in the bubble [last year],” Connecticut coach Curt Miller said. “They’re healthy right now. This is what we’ve expected for two years from them. This, player-for-player, team is just dynamic offensively. And there’s a real confidence with them right now. What’s really impressive is how hard they’re playing. And [coach] James [Wade] is pushing all the right buttons.” The path to the 2021 finals wasn’t always clear for the Sky. Chicago finished the regular season with a 16-16 record, having to play in two single-elimination playoff games in order to reach the semifinals. The team faced adversity early on in the season when Parker had to miss nearly a month with an ankle injury; guard Allie Quigley missed time with a hamstring injury; and forward Stefanie Dolson missed multiple games playing in the three-on-three tournament in the Olympics. After starting the season 2-0, the Sky lost seven straight games as Parker was returning from her injury. Once she came back, Chicago rallied off seven straight wins before finishing the season going 6-6. “It took a lot of togetherness, a lot of belief and a lot of blind faith,” Wade said. “What we have as an organization and what we have as people, sometimes you don’t see it but you know what’s there and you just have to keep putting
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one foot in front of the other. And so it took some good leadership on our veterans part as well. … So we have to work for it every day and so that’s what they do, and everybody challenges each other to be their better selves and that’s the kind of atmosphere and culture we have created here.” Following Chicago’s win on Wednesday, Parker also talked about the culture that Wade and his staff have been able to create, which is one of the main reasons why she decided to switch from the Los Angeles Sparks to the Sky. The addition of Parker doesn’t only make the Sky stronger on the court but it also gives them a stronger appeal in the Chicago market. The game on Wednesday saw Chicago athletes and politicians attend, including Scottie Pippen, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The Sky defeated the Phoenix Mercury in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Sunday, 91-77. Parker finished the game with 16 points, eight rebounds and three assists, while three other Chicago players also finished in double figures. “We’ve had rocky seasons,” Vandersloot said. “We’ve had people who wanted to be out of Chicago. A bad reputation, hard to get free agents. I’m out there texting everybody, trying to get people to come here. It’s been a lot. But when we finally got that core group players that wanted to be here, we had something special. So when I was out there and I looked up at that sign that said ‘finals bound,’ it hit me. I looked into the crowd and I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t see an empty seat in that lower bowl. It was very heartwarming.”
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2000-2004 Parker played high school basketball here for four years. At the age of 17, she won in the slam dunk contest at the McDonald’s All-American High School Game. Throughout her high school years, she was a star player, being a starter for nearly every game for her school.
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Chicago Sky’s Candace Parker (3) battles Connecticut Sun’s Alyssa Thomas, right, for a loose ball during the second half of Game 3 of a WNBA semifinal playoff basketball game Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Chicago. Chicago won 86-83.
GAME SCHEDULE
Game Two
Wednesday, Oct. 13 — 9 p.m.
Game Four
Sunday, Oct. 17 — 3 p.m.
Game Three
Friday, Oct. 15 — 9 p.m.
Game Five
Tuesday, Oct. 19 — 9 p.m.
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Chicago Sky’s Candace Parker celebrates after the Sky defeated the Connecticut Sun at the WNBA basketball playoff semfinal, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Chicago.
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Cantando con orgullo
OPINIÓN: El Mariachi Arcoíris está rompiendo barreras en la música tradicional mexicana By Bryan Matthew López Editor de Opiniones La DePaulia
Una de las mayores contribuciones de la cultura mexicana al mundo es la música de mariachi. La música de mariachi se originó en Jalisco, México y es emblemática de la cultura mexicana. Este conjunto musical incluye instrumentos como la guitarra, trompetas, violines y guitarrón. La música de mariachi se toca típicamente en eventos importantes como en cumpleaños, bautizos, bodas e incluso funerales. El Mariachi Arcoíris de Los Ángeles desafía la imagen y las expectativas de un grupo de mariachi tradicional. El Mariachi Arcoíris, como su nombre lo indica, es el primer mariachi que representa a la comunidad LGBTQ+ dando nueva vida y significado a las canciones tradicionales mexicanas. Carlos Samaniego, director y fundador de Mariachi Arcoíris, comenzó a tocar música de mariachi en una época en la que era tabú ser abiertamente gay. “Eso para los músicos de mariachi con los cuales yo trabajaba era algo tabú, como que realmente no les parecía y realmente no sabían qué hacer. Yo creo que tal vez ellos nunca se habían enfrentado a esta situación, que alguien sea abiertamente gay y que esté trabajando con ellos”, dijo Samaniego. Samaniego tuvo que enfrentar burlas y discriminación por ser abiertamente gay en mariachis tradicionales. Desafortunadamente la música de mariachi es enraizada y muy influenciada por el machismo y es por eso que el ejemplo de Mariachi Arcoíris es tan radical y especial. Samaniego formó el Mariachi Arcoíris para un evento específico. El evento fue una boda gay de mentira durante el mes del orgullo, porque en ese entonces el matrimonio gay todavía no era legal. La boda era un símbolo de resistencia. “Al organizar esta boda yo asistía a una universidad bastante latina y pues dijeron: okay tenemos que tener mariachi, en cualquier boda hay mariachi”, contó Samaniego. “A mí se me ocurrió y dije que tal si fuera un mariachi gay”. De ese evento, salieron más actuaciones para el Mariachi Arcoíris pero el grupo fue mal formado por la inexperiencia de Samaniego para dirigir un mariachi y el grupo se disolvió después de unos meses. Pero esa primera creación del grupo fue la semilla que se plantó que luego dio vida a lo que hoy en día es el Mariachi Arcoíris. “Cuando pasaba por algún mal momento que alguien se burlaba de mí o cualquier cosa, siempre pensaba ‘algún día voy a volver a formar el Mariachi Arcoíris’”, dijo Samaniego. Finalmente, a finales de 2015 algo sucedió para Samaniega. Alguien le dijo un comentario homofóbico que fue insignificante pero a la misma vez muy significante porque fue la gota que derramó el vaso y permitió que Samaniega volviera a formar el Mariachi Arcoíris después de muchos años. “La idea era crear un espacio seguro en donde uno puede venir a ensayar, podemos conseguir trabajos en donde
estamos libres de esos acosos, ese bullying, esas cosas negativas y donde podemos ser quienes somos y celebrar eso al mismo tiempo”, dijo Samaniego sobre la razón porqué se formó el Mariachi Arcoíris de nuevo. El renacimiento de Mariachi Arcoíris fue difícil para Samaniega. Él tenía que conseguir músicos que querían integrar al grupo. “Cuando uno empieza desde cero cualquier grupo, pues no tienes trabajo, es empezar pues con muy poco”, comentó Samaniego. Con el tiempo, el grupo se estableció cada vez más y más y ahora hay 13 músicos en el Mariachi Arcoíris, pero en el reinicio del grupo ese número fluctuaba entre tres y cinco miembros. El grupo ha viajado a España, la Ciudad de México y también a otros estados dentro de los Estados Unidos. El Mariachi Arcoíris no solo ha creado un espacio seguro para ellos mismos, sino incluso para su público. Muchos jóvenes ven a los miembros del Mariachi Arcoíris como ejemplos y héroes. El Mariachi Arcoíris está trayendo la cultura mexicana a una audiencia estadounidense y al mismo tiempo trayendo la representación LGBTQ+ a espacios tradicionales. “Creo que la representación es importante porque eso hace que algo se normalice”, dijo Samaniego. La representación que el Mariachi Arcoíris ofrece al mundo es sumamente importante porque ahora otros pueden tomar inspiración para ser quienes son en cualquier disciplina, no solamente en la música. El Mariachi Arcoíris cuenta con la primera mujer transgénero en la historia de la música de mariachi. Ella se llama Natalia Melendez y fue una de los miembros iniciales del grupo. Eve Estrella Stiles, una mujer mexicana transgénero del vecindario Belmont Cragin cree que la representación es importante porque ayuda iniciar cambios en nuestra sociedad. “La representación es importante porque significa cambio”, dijo Stiles. “Las mujeres trans siempre han sido las pioneras de los movimientos, no solo de la cultura queer, sino también de la cultura pop y la vida. Entonces, ver a mi hermana Natalia Marie Melendez continuar con el legado de las mujeres trans, continuar siendo pioneras en los movimientos, me hace más que orgullosa de ser trans”. Stiles cree que el Mariachi Arcoíris ha cambiado la imagen de la música de mariachi de una manera influyente. “Tener personas LGBTQ+ que cantan estas canciones nos permite entender y escuchar un tipo diferente de dolor, tristeza y resiliencia y permite que la música de mariachi ahora se conecte a muchas más audiencias”, dijo Stiles. Al fusionar la música de mariachi con la representación LGBT, el Mariachi Arcoíris está brindando la esperanza de un mejor futuro, un futuro tolerante y lleno de alegría.
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Los miembros del Mariachi Arcoíris de Los Angeles posan en sus trajes tradicionales, representando la comunidad LGBTQ.
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Carlos Samaniego, director del Mariachi Arcoíris de Los Angeles, es el primer LGBTQ+ mariachi.
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Los usuarios de Instagram y WhatApp tuvieron dificultades para acceder a la aplicación debido a una desconexión del sistema.
La desconexión de WhatsApp genera preocupación en el mundo “Esta interrupción del tráfico de la red tuvo un efecto en la forma en que se comunican Editore de Nación y Mundo, The DePaulia & Gerente Editorial, La DePaulia nuestros centros de datos, lo que paralizó nuestros servicios”. Nicole Ahn se acababa de mudar a su de Snapchat”. El cierre ocurrió cuando Frances Haugen, nuevo apartamento en Alemania cuando se Después de una interrupción que duró una ex-empleada de Facebook, testificó ante dio cuenta de que WhatsApp, una aplicación más de seis horas el lunes 4 de octubre, un panel del Senado sobre el impacto de la que usa regularmente para comunicarse con WhatsApp e Instagram, ambos propiedad de compañía en la salud mental de los usuarios sus amigos y familiares en el extranjero, había Facebook, volvieron a estar en línea. El cierre adolescentes. dejado de funcionar. puede haberle costado a la empresa hasta Haugen dijo que la compañía elige las Al principio, pensó que tenía algo que $100 millones en ingresos perdidos. ganancias sobre la seguridad y proporcionó ver con su wifi. Después de pasar un tiempo El vicepresidente de ingeniería e miles de documentos internos que llevaron borrando y reinstalando la aplicación, buscó infraestructura de Facebook, Santosh a una variedad de revelaciones, incluido en Google cuál era el problema. Entonces Janardhan, escribió una publicación de que Facebook sabía que Instagram estaba Ahn se dio cuenta de que WhatsApp se había blog explicando por qué y cómo ocurrió la empeorando los problemas de imagen cerrado en todo el mundo. interrupción. Y los obstáculos tecnológicos, corporal entre los adolescentes. Haugen Alexa Johnson, una ex-alumna de físicos y de seguridad que experimentaron las también presentó una denuncia ante la la Universidad DePaul, depende de empresas. Comisión de Bolsa y Valores, acusando a WhatsApp para comunicarse con su “A todas las personas y empresas de Facebook de engañar a los inversores con familia en el extranjero. Cuando ella y su todo el mundo que dependen de nosotros, declaraciones públicas que no coincidían con familia descubrieron que la aplicación no lamentamos los inconvenientes causados sus acciones internas. funcionaba, se preocuparon. por la interrupción de hoy en nuestras Sin embargo, Janardhan señaló que no “No pude hablar con mi papá durante plataformas”, escribió Janardhan. “Hemos había ningún vínculo entre el testimonio de todo un día y estaba preocupado porque él trabajado duro para restaurar el acceso, y Haugen y la desconexión . tiene diabetes grave”, dijo Johnson. nuestros sistemas ahora están funcionando “Queremos dejar en claro que no Melyssa Guzman, una ex-alumna de la nuevamente”. hubo actividad maliciosa detrás de esta Universidad DePaul, viajaba a México con Janardhan explicó que el cierre se interrupción; su causa principal fue un su familia para participar en la celebración produjo debido a una interrupción del tráfico cambio de configuración defectuoso por anual Octava Noche de su ciudad natal. Se de la red. nuestra parte”, escribió. dio cuenta de que WhatsApp e Instagram no “Nuestros equipos de ingeniería han Aunque la desconexión duró unas funcionaban y luego descubrió que ambos se aprendido que los cambios de configuración horas, la incertidumbre de cuándo volvería habían desconectados. en los enrutadores que coordinan el tráfico a funcionar WhatsApp generó preocupación “Me estaba comunicando con mis de red entre nuestros centros de datos en todo el mundo. amigos [en WhatsApp]”, dijo Guzmán. causaron problemas que interrumpieron Según el Departamento de Investigación “[Después] solo pude comunicarme a través esta comunicación”, escribió Janardhan. de Statista, a partir de 2021, WhatsApp
By Sonal Soni & Erika Pérez
es la aplicación de mensajería móvil global más popular en todo el mundo con aproximadamente dos mil millones de usuarios activos mensuales. Para muchos usuarios, el uso de métodos de comunicación alternativos fue un desafío. “Como acababa de llegar a Alemania después de vivir en Corea durante un año, y aún no tenía mi tarjeta SIM, no podía llamar o enviar un mensaje de texto a [mi papá] en mi teléfono móvil”, dijo Ahn. “También intenté desviar la conversación en Instagram, porque esa es la única otra plataforma con la que tengo contacto, pero también se cerró. Así que me di por vencido y me fui a dormir, con la esperanza de que Facebook solucionara el problema a la mañana siguiente “. “Se preocupa mucho cuando no contesto sus llamadas o mensajes de texto porque cree que me han secuestrado o algo por el estilo”, agregó Ahn. “Sabiendo que soy una mujer asiática de unos 20 años que vive sola en Alemania, le preocupa que yo también pueda ser objeto de delitos de odio o agresión sexual”. Aunque el problema se ha solucionado, a los usuarios de WhatsApp como Ahn les preocupa que la aplicación se cierre en el futuro. “Espero que eso no vuelva a suceder”, agregó Ahn. “Fue frustrante, y si alguna vez lo hace, espero que lo solucionen más rápido que esta vez”.
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Willow takes over The Vic By Caroline Zeeman Contributing Writer
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Willow basks in purple, green, and yellow lighting while singing into the microphone and holding her guitar. Willow wears an oversized t-shirt with a cheetah on it.
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Willow holds the microphone out to the crowd as people put both their phones and hands in the air.
There aren’t many artists that are known by only their first name, and at only 20 years old, Willow is already one of them. While many of us were first introduced to Willow Smith with “Whip My Hair” in 2010, she is now known under the moniker Willow and is taking over the new pop-punk scene and proving that rock is far from dead. Already an icon among her generation, Willow released “lately I feel EVERYTHING” earlier this summer through MSFTSMusic — a label she created with her brother Jaden — and Roc Nation. An earlier press release cited Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance and Paramore as some of the album’s primary influences. The widespread praise for the record is a testament to not only Willow’s musical strengths, but to the revival of pop-punk and rock music as a whole. Willow is a leader in this movement, especially given her recent releases and the environment she has created throughout her tour. Originally set to play Thalia Hall for “lifE Tour” in support of her album “lately I feel EVERYTHING,” the Chicago show was moved to a bigger venue to accommodate the growing demand to see her. While in a larger venue than originally planned, the energy felt impossible to contain as the crowd chanted for Willow three times prior to her starting her set. Opening with poppunk hit “Transparentsoul,” Willow had the crowd jumping and screaming from the getgo; a bra was thrown on stage one minute into the song. Willow continued with the energy, controlling the room with every step she took. Thrilled to be in Chicago, she expressed
her gratitude and appreciation for everyone making the effort to come out tonight. Before continuing, Willow encouraged the crowd to join her in an affirmation, “I am love, I am life.” This mantra reinforced a message of love and acceptance for yourself and others. Her encouragement of acceptance, joy, and gratefulness for the privilege to be in the room together was electric and left the venue with a warm and light that seems to follow Willow wherever she goes. At times she moved from corner to corner of the stage at a rapid pace with songs like “Gaslight.” Yet at others she slowed it down with “Lipstick,” which added a nuance and special stillness to the night. Willow played through a variety of her discography throughout the night, ranging from her self-titled album with “Female Energy, Part 2,” standout hit “Time Machine” and “Overthinking IT.” Fans from the front row to the back of the balcony screamed every word; for many of them, this was their first live show since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Well into the night, Willow took the energy to a new level, bringing out Tyler Cole to perform “Meet Me At Our Spot,” a song off their joint album “THE ANXIETY.” The crowd erupted, yelling every word of the now-viral hit. Closing the night with “Wait a Minute!” Willow was bouncing off the walls. Impressively performing with vocals near exact to their recorded versions while holding the stamina of a true athlete, Willow did not falter all night. From collecting gifts from the crowd and creating a pile, to reading a poem of a fan in the crowd and encouraging them to turn it into a song, Willow made the night one to remember and impossible to replicate.
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Willow sings into the microphone while holding someone’s hand from the crowd. Plenty of people in the crowd hold their phones, presumably recording.
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How DePaul students listen to their favorite music
Let me plan your date By Amber Stoutenborough Staff Writer
Pasta Bowl + Kingston Mines Second dates are hard. You already both talked about your embarrassing freshman year stories and all about your cringey family history, so what else is there to do but plan a night out that has less to do with talking and more with eating and dancing? This date will include dinner and show and is highly recommended to do on a Thursday for the free tickets at Kingston Mines for students.
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While on campus at DePaul, you can see many people walking around with headphones listening to music. Music seems to be a huge part of the college experience as students tend to be looking for the next best thing. A common way that some students listen to music is by organizing songs into playlists. Some of these playlists are specified by the time of year, mood or just by language. People tend to curate playlists to help them get into certain moods, to help them study or serve as the background noise at their next party. DePaul senior Nathalie Hoste said that she has multiple playlists. She has one for work, for sleep and even one for Halloween and another for Christmas. She tends to stick to a theme for the sake of organization. Hoste explained that what she’s listening to at any given moment isn’t limited to one genre. Going through her saved songs, it ranges from punk rock to classical to country, but she tends to gravitate towards the oldies from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. “I also have seasonal playlists that are based on songs that remind [me] of that season,” said Sadie Fisher, another senior at DePaul. “And others are just a collection of songs I like.” Fisher tends to listen to songs based on how they make her feel along with
the vibes they give her. She loves music that has nice lyrics with a nice story, but she also enjoys music with a nice melody. She does love a good upbeat song, but she also loves listening to music that calms her down. Galen Deats, a senior at DePaul, tends to curate their playlists called “Discover 20XX,” for any given year. These playlists are a collection of songs they’ve discovered throughout a given year. “It’s fun listening to a playlist from a few years back and hearing what I was listening to at the time,” Deats said. “The others are just miscellaneous — my favorite heavy songs, the playlist from my mom and dad’s mixtape.” Deats said they gravitate towards metal and rock music. Part of that comes from the fact that Deats plays the guitar. All three have their favorite song of the moment that they can listen to on repeat. “Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne is Deats’ favorite right now due to its rock and metal style. For Fisher, it’s “Orpheus” by Sara Bareilles while it’s “Plot Line” by Emylyn for Hoste. Music has a special place in people’s hearts and there tends to be a special meaning. People tend to have attached memories to the songs they listen to, so those songs tend to remind them of a specific memory. Hoste enjoys the oldies from previous decades, including The Beatles and Queen, because she grew up listening to them during her childhood. Plus, she
also grew up listening to French music. These kinds of music remind Hoste of her family. Another aspect of discussion regarding music would-be musicians who are underrated. There’s always the discourse within music about musicians who aren’t as recognized as they should be. “[Alec Benjamin is] becoming more popular,” said Hoste. “but his music just makes him seem relatable and it all has a good beat.” Benjamin released his breakout hit “Let Me Down Slowly,” in 2018 and it was a collaboration with Alessia Cara. The song peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and it stayed on the charts for nine weeks. Fisher believes that Sara Bareilles should be more known. Anytime she brings up Bareilles, people tend to hardly know her. Bareilles is known for her 2007 hit, “Love Song,” “King of Anything” in 2010, and “Brave” in 2013. Nick Johnston is a guitarist that Deats feels doesn’t get the proper recognition. Deats explains that Johnston has a very distinct style that isn’t widely spoken about. According to Guitar World, Johnston’s album, “Wide Eyes in the Dark,” featured a compositional version of the guitarist. Music has been an integral part of the college experience for students. While students enjoy their music in specifically themed playlists, they also enjoy music that has special meaning.
Pasta Bowl Starting the night off with one of my favorite Italian restaurants, the Pasta Bowl on North Clark Street. Open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. giving you more than enough time to plan for the second event of the night. Not only is the food here amazing, the environment itself creates a cozy and welcoming atmosphere. The food cost ranges around $13 to $17 per pasta but is definitely worth it with their $4 beer special on Thursdays. My go-to is conchiglie gorgonzola but a fan favorite is farfalle pollo. Kingston Mines One of the oldest blues clubs in Chicago is just steps away from DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus and on Thursday nights students get free admission. So drop the thirsty Thursday at McGees and enjoy live music that’s not off-pitch karaoke. Kingston Mines is a quick 13-minute walk from Pasta Bowl, giving you enough time to walk off the full plate of rigatoni you just ate. They are open from 7:30 p.m. to 4 a.m., but you should make sure you show up promptly to avoid the wait time. Be sure to have your student ID as well as your actual ID because this club is for 21 and older with a wide selection of cocktails, my favorite being the Blues Juice Sangria. After you both grab your drink of choice, find a spot in the crowd and get ready for some of Chicago’s best blues music. You may have to yell to talk to your date, but there should be more dancing than talking anyways.
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Trouble in paradise: What went wrong on BIP? By Lily Lowndes Staff Writer
Spoilers ahead! There are no rules to love, but there are rules to “Bachelor in Paradise.” I would know because it seems like every possible rule got broken during the recently-wrapped seventh season of the reality TV hit. The premise of “Paradise” is simple. Contestants from previous seasons of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” come together on a beach in Mexico to find love. A couple of times a week, there is a rose ceremony where couples commit to pursuing each other by giving their partner a rose. At the end of the ceremony, the contestants without roses are sent home. Unlike “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” new contestants are brought in every week, causing existing couples to break up and new couples to form. “Bachelor in Paradise” is my guilty-pleasure show. This time around, however, my viewing experience was a lot more guilty than usual. Instead of bringing out the fun and goofy drama the show is known for, the drama on this season was painful to watch. While there were some bright moments, like the cheesy intro, two bros finding true friendship and Bachelor Nation’s first Black couple to get engaged, this season of “Bachelor in Paradise” was riddled with scenes that were too hard to watch. People who signed up for a fun Mexico vacation and a chance to find love were manipulated, lied to and led on by their fellow contestants All’s fair in love and war but certain things are off-limits in “Paradise.” Contestants must be open to finding
new romantic connections, they must be respectful to the other contestants and they (weirdly enough) must stay in their hotel rooms after they are done filming for the day. Every single one of these very basic rules was broken over the eight weeks of filming. Several cast members came onto the beach in an already-established couple, stringing other contestants along week-to-week until their romantic partner arrived on the beach. Contestants said cruel things about other contestants while attempting to cover up their mics to hide what they were saying from production. One “Paradise” member even snuck out of their hotel room to hook up with another contestant that hadn’t even arrived on the beach yet. Anyone familiar with “The Bachelor” franchise knows that everyone always talks about “trusting the process” because “it really works.” But how can contestants “trust the process” when they don’t follow the process themselves? On one hand, the contestants were messy and broke the rules. On the other hand, it is very possible that they were egged on and manipulated by production into acting out of character. In all honesty, it was probably a mix of both. Moments like a contestant just PHOTO FROM IMDB happening to see secret informa- The official poster for “Bachelor in Paradise,” which premiered in 2014. tion on a producer’s phone or a contestant’s ex showing up before their show is a lost cause. It just needs to dial Cast fun people who are open to proposal seemed too convenient to be itself back. love, not people who have pre-estabnon-produced. It’s a given that people will contin- lished connections with other contesOther moments including horri- ue to be dramatic on reality TV. The tants. This season would have been so ble break-ups, cheating and laughing foundation of “Bachelor in Paradise” is much better if there weren’t already at other contestants’ pain were all on in the casting. Producers need to rec- committed couples who signed up for the cast themselves. No one else was to ognize that drama will naturally occur; the show just to get a free vacation. blame. they shouldn’t overplay their hands by That said,producers could have preWhile this season of “Bachelor in trying to force big moments to happen vented the trouble in “Paradise.” They Paradise” was sloppy, I don’t think the every day. just chose not to.
Lamb review: a sleepy Icelandic folktale turned nightmare By Lily Coates Contributing Writer
One of the last few distributors with a strong sense of identity, A24 has cemented its reputation in the film industry as the goto studio for disorienting, expertly-crafted dramas and horror films that walk genre lines and leave audiences scratching their heads. Their latest film, “Lamb,” is no exception — walking the line between surrealist horror, romantic drama and slice-of-life. The Icelandic tale of nature versus nurture is a mesmerizing modern fable that, though sometimes tedious, is anchored by sharp direction and dreamlike cinematography. “Lamb” follows Icelandic couple Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason), who live a quiet, secluded life in the mountains tending to their flock of sheep. Though they are content with their peaceful lifestyle, they yearn for a child to fill the void left by past miscarriages, and they get their wish in an unorthodox manner — the titular lamb. As Maria and Ingvar cherish their new life with their ‘daughter’ Ada, things are thrown off-balance by the arrival of Ingvar’s free-spirited brother Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson), who questions their strange new family unit — and mysterious omens from the scenic countryside spread unease among the happy family. A24 is certainly no stranger to featuring the bizarre and disorienting (at this point,
it’s practically their calling card), but “Lamb” stretches the boundaries of that identity perhaps further than they ever have before, and does so within the ethereal confines of the picturesque Icelandic mountains. It’s perhaps a cliche to say that a film’s setting is a character in and of itself, but when a film has so little narrative structure or action as “Lamb,” every lingering landscape shot begins to feel like writer-director Valdimar Jóhannsson’s way of filling the void otherwise left by dialogue. Where similarly slowly-paced borderline horror films like “The VVitch” have used landscapes to create an eeriness and impending sense of dread, the beauty of the mountains in “Lamb” does nearly the opposite, lulling both its characters and the audience into a peaceful state of contentment, getting us ready and willing to accept the jarring new “child” as a miracle of nature and something to be cherished, not the unsettling amalgamation outsider Pétur initially views her as. Also crucial in helping develop empathy for Ada and the bizarre family unit she helps create is Rapace’s commanding yet paradoxically demure turn as Maria — a mesmerizing performance that both sets the tone for the film and anchors the often otherwise aimless narrative. Though not particularly outspoken, Maria is a fascinatingly written character — content to live a quiet, humble life but utterly fierce in her devotion to her
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The official poster for “Lamb” (2021). “daughter” and willing to take extreme measures to preserve the sanctity of her family. Though “Lamb” has a tertiary antagonist, Maria also functions as an often ambiguous central figure — and Rapace’s layered performance brings all the ferocity one would expect of a mother desperate to protect her child, while simultaneously revealing the insecurity and refusal to face
reality that comes with having devoted so much time to telling oneself the same lie. She’s a strangely tragic figure, even in her most startingly reprehensible moments, and a testament to both Rapace’s understanding of her craft and Jóhannsson’s brilliance as a writer-director. Helping to further bring depth to Rapace’s Maria are brothers Ingvar and Pétur who nearly unknowingly duel for her affection; their diametrically opposed personalities make for both fascinating foils and compelling characters in their own right. Pétur in particular makes for a clever audience stand-in — initially balking, just as I did, at the absurdity of the life that Maria and Ingvar have built for themselves with Ada. “Lamb” boasts a unique structure, willingness to rely on atmospheric visuals, and incorporation of mythic, grandiose concepts instead of more traditionally plot-driven conventionalities. Such a singular combination creates a viewing experience that, though at times tiresome, entirely envelops the viewer and delivers a powerful, unsettling, melancholy film that tells a remarkably simple story. Though painfully misadvertised as a borderline horror film, its thoughtful, delicate framing and folklore-inspired narrative make it a lavish journey of a film well worth trekking to the Icelandic mountains for.
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Collapsed in Sunbeams with Arlo Parks
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Arlo Parks sings into the microphone while she’s basked in a bright red light. The musician’s silohouette sees her in a large oversized t-shirt as well as finger and wrist jewelry.
By Caroline Zeeman Staff Writer
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho is known as Arlo Parks, a singer-songwriter and poet that has had a meteoric few years, most of which have been spent in her childhood bedroom due to Covid-19. Undeterred by the pandemic, Parks has grown a fanbase and a loving community, many of whom she has gotten to meet for the first time this year while on tour. She released her debut album, “Collapsed in Sunbeams,” earlier this year, which was named the best British album of the year over records by Sault, Nubya Garcia and Wolf Alice. The LP was described as “a series of vignettes describing friends and their problems tied together by a calm, wistful energy,” by the Recording Academy. At only 21 years old, she is set to open for Billie Eilish on her sold-out U.K. tour alongside girl in red, Jessie Reyez and Jungle. She will open up for Eilish in London at the O2 Arena in what will be a hometown show for Parks. In response to this announcement, she tweeted “You are an artist, a shapeshifter n a sweetheart!! Thank you for the opportunity to share your stage in front of 20,000 people – I cannot wait to be RIPPING IT UP WITH YOU.” Recently,Arlo performed ather own sold-out U.S. tour which stopped in Chicago at Lincoln Hall on Oct 3. As queued lines filed into the hall, Radiohead and HAIM was the soundtrack that greeted anticipating fans. New York indie-pop collective MICHELLE soon took the stage, building the energy in the room and creating a safe space to dance. The friendliness engrained in the group’s persona was evident throughout their performance of songs off the 2018 album “Heatwave,” as well as more recent
singles. Often shouting out relatives and their excitement for being in Chicago, MICHELLE got the crowd dancing and ready for the rest of the night. Parks is a sight for sore eyes, gracing the stage and anywhere she moves with a calming warmth. The poet is incredibly in touch with her emotions. This strength lends itself to her songwriting; layering painfully honest lyrics with melodic guitar-driven R&B. As genre continues to become a less important distinction to youth driving the music market, Arlo bends and mixes her influences into a new sound. Much of her new album lives between lofi pop, indie and R&B. Her sound lives in the inbetween, which allows her to create a whole new world. The painfully honest lyricism clearly resonates with her fanbase, as well as the music industry as a whole. Opening with “Hurt,” a sad yet danceable tune, the Chicago crowd welcomed Parks with open arms. As the night went on, stand out songs “Green Eyes” and “Cola” were sung back to Parks near the same volume as the speakers played the band. All that said, it felt that the night was building up to the performance of “Caroline.” Parks let the crowd in on a running competition that she had been holding throughout the tour; which city could shout the chorus the loudest. For the first chorus, Arlo split the crowd into three sections, pitting them against each other. For the second chorus, the room became one and screamed the lyrics back at the top of their lungs — making them the winners of the contest so far, according to Parks. Following “Caroline,” Parks took a moment to deliver a spoken-word poem that shares the title of her album, “Collapsed in Sunbeams.” The room that was screaming in joy just moments ago fell silent as all eyes were fixed on Parks underneath a soft
spotlight. While the show was full of highlights, a moment prior to “Black Dog” felt particularly special. Parks candidly conversed with the community she had created that now stood in front of her. She spoke on the struggles of poor mental health and the heaviness that it carries; “I think all of us either know someone, or are someone who has been in that dark of a place — it is hard to come out of.” “Black Dog” reaches into the soul, especially so in a live performance, aching to take the pain away for just a moment. Parks is a true artist of our generation, openly advocating for more accessible mental health support, and shamelessly discussing queer love in her music. “Eugene” has become a safe song for countless LGBTQ+ youth, a love song that community has been waiting for. The performance of the song was a physical representation of the reach both “Eugene” and Parks have. Accompanied by the yellow sunlight beams lighting the stage, the warmth and love inside Lincoln Hall was palpable. Parks ended the night with a song that, despite its darker lyricism, felt like the only song to close with. “Hope” is a jazz R&B track that outlines a feeling of isolation that resonates with so many after the past two years. Throughout the chorus, both Parks and the crowd were in unison, reminding each other that “you’re not alone like you think you are.” Combined with the countless thanks and moments of appreciation for the ability to be in a room together once again, the night felt like a long time coming yet nostalgic at the same time. Bound to make a return to the U.S. soon enough, it is hard to feel alone when in a room with Arlo Parks, who is destined to headline some of Chicago’s great venues in the years to come.
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Chicago makes noise for Jamila Woods at Northalsted’s PrideFest By Maureen dune Contributing Writer
To me, southside native Jamila Woods’ voice is for windows down on Lake Shore Drive, summertime streaming through your hair, a jump in the lake from the 57th St. Beach or Montrose Ledge, comfort on a winter day when your backpack feels a little too heavy waiting for the bus to school. It’s introspection, it’s self-love, it’s power and independence. Last Sunday, it sounded like a crowd full of glittery, rain-damp Chicago PrideFest attendees singing along on Halsted and Addison. Woods and her backing band of keyboardist AMI and two singers, delivered an energetic and ethereal 45-minute long set on the T-Mobile Stage Sunday, Oct. 3 for Northalsted’s rainy yet sparkly Chicago PrideFest. “Make some noise if you’re from Chicago, Chicago, no Naperville shit,” Woods said. The crowd went up in cheers and screams. “No shade,” she added with a smile. Woods, a Beverly native, embodies Chicago music in her own right and as a chronic collaborator with Noname, Chance the Rapper, Saba and Nico Segal. Sunday Candy, her collaboration with Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, topped out at number 21 on the Billboard charts in 2016. She grew up attending After School Matters, an organization granting schoolage kids stipends to explore the arts, and works with Chicago area students with Young Chicago Authors. In a 2015 Chicago Reader interview, she credits those programs including the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia program with her evolution into both a poet and musician. Drawing from her two most recent albums, 2017’s HEAVN and 2019’s LEG-
ACY! LEGACY!, Woods sang of Chicago, her idols and navigating the world as a queer, Black woman. Drifting across the stage in waist-length black and white braids and a fishnet shirt, she connected with the crowd throughout her set, from the fans against the barrier to those in the back, mouthing along. She sang childhood nostalgia of chicken wings, mild sauce and playing ball in the alley on Emerald Street featuring west side rapper Saba off of her 2017 album HEAVN. Her backup singers weaved an intricate backing to her riff off of the Mr. Rogers theme song, “won’t you be my neighbor?” in the hook. In LSD, an ode to Lake Michigan and Lakeshore Drive she credits Chicago as making her into who she is. Woods grappled with this theme of oppression, identity and police brutality throughout her set. A recording of Lucille Clifton’s won’t you celebrate with me drifted between the vines and disco balls onstage. “I had no model. Born in babylon, both nonwhite and woman, what did I see to be except myself,” the recording echoed. Countering white narratives surrounding Chicago and Black communities stood BALDWIN, about reclaiming narratives about Chicago. “If I say ‘I can’t breathe,’ will I become a chalk line,” she sang in VRY BLK off of her 2017 album HEAVN. Her lyrics seemed to ricochet off of the rainbow-painted police cars at each entrance. Though coming off of a tour with prior stops at the Hollywood Bowl and Riot Fest, the energy welcoming her home was electric. “This isn’t the first show, but it feels like the first show,” Woods said.
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Remi Wolf Sells Out Lincoln Hall By Caroline Zeeman Staff Writer
Just named MTV’s newest breakout Push artist, Remi Wolf has been carving out a new lane for herself ever since her 2014 American Idol appearance. The 25-year-old is a California native, moving from the suburbs to Los Angeles to study at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, which has undoubtedly influenced her sound. The singer-songwriter is breaking down barriers as she wears, says, and makes whatever her heart desires. Wolf describes her rainbow-hued synesthetic music as “funk soul pop,” yet is bounding herself less and less to genres — a trend observed throughout this new generation of artists. She pulls inspiration from all aspects of her life -- from failed relationships and substance abuse to mental illness, The Doodlebops, and photo ID’s. For some, Wolf ’s rise might appear sudden, but there is clear strategy and thoughtfulness in her collaborations. Following a remix of “OK” with Wallos, a remix of her hit song “Photo ID” with the iconic Dominic Fike boosted her to a new level. With fans in Nile Rodgers and Beck, it seems Wolf is doing something right with her kaleidoscopic funk littered with wit. Down the street from DePaul’s School of Music, Lincoln Hall was the place to be on Oct. 3. A rainbow mural on the side of the building served as a preface for the colorful night about to take place inside the staple Chicago venue. Per the policy of Lincoln Hall and their joint venue Schubas, vaccination cards were verified with photo identification at the door. Many are attending their first concert in the coming
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Remi Wolf sings to the crowd while wearing a zebra print cowboy hat. months following the pause of live music due to the pandemic, yet there was a nostalgia within the excitement and anticipation in the room. Throughout Lincoln Hall, bodies were pressed up against each other from front to back — if you wanted to move closer, or even to the bar on the right to get a drink, good luck. With a bubble letter name logo projected onto a curtain, Wolf slid onto the stage in her bright pink ugg boots ready to get the crowd bouncing.
Wolf kept her set dynamic, moving from soulful R&B grooves to smoky rock anthems. With each song Wolf showcased a new side to her voice — a tone reminiscent of a young Brittany Howard with her sheer power, range and character. That tone could still be heard through an electro-fuzz distortion she had going over “Liquor Store.” A true ball of energy, Wolf let no moment escape her. She opened a mosh pit to embody the more punk side of her discog-
raphy with “Quiet on Set.” Yet as the night went on it was clear she still had more tricks and skills up her sleeve — characteristics that truly make Remi Wolf who she is. Her rapping abilities thrived over “Monte Carlo,” after a roar erupted demanding the song. Lulling into the middle of the set, following Wolf taking over the drum kit for a few minutes, she took the crowd on a trip during a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” The cover turned into a sing-along that erupted into cheers as Wolf showcased her rasp and vocal strength. As with many shows, there are often the partners brought along by loved ones. Wolf made sure to call them out and ask for their feedback, but the moment was taken over by a wholesome interaction with a fan in the front row — a high schooler who had come down on a school night to see Wolf after years of support. That led to a perfect segue, a moment to pause and remember a moment in time where being in a packed room together was but a dream. The appreciation of Wolf, her band, the audience and the crew, to be back with live music was palpable. Wolf ’s energy could not be contained; with a sold out show and the room so packed that people were standing outside the doors to get a peek. She is bound to grow into larger Chicago venues in the future ‚— in fact, she already has. On Oct. 5, Wolf announced a full North American tour starting January of 2021, with tickets already selling quickly. If you missed Wolf this time around, be sure to plan ahead for her stop at the Metro on Feb. 4, 2022.
‘Spagett’: a regional cocktail good in all seasons
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By Nikki Ramos Contributing Writer
To let loose in America means just about one thing: to grab a cocktail or a cold one and get “crunk” (as the middle-aged folk say). Following a week of conference calls, classes or cleaning tables for the next customer, everyone’s aching to get to that Friday evening happy hour. But it seems like drink prices over the years mimic a pile of foam atop an IPA draft: that is, they grow unpleasantly and uncontrollably while all we can do is slouch in our stools and watch from across the bar. And signing the bill at the close of our tabs is often enough to take the “happy” out of happy hour. Enter the Spagett. A cocktail rarely takes hold of the food scene, and yet this one offers everything consumers love about drinking: it’s delicious, it’s cheap and it’s a fresh take on cocktail composition. Better yet, its simple three-ingredient construction makes it easy to build at home. Best yet, you don’t even need a glass to do so. What makes this cocktail unique is its
composition, which is unlike any cocktail out there. Part lemon juice, part Aperol (an Italian bitters with hints of orange, vanilla and herbs), part Miller High Life and served in that famous “Champagne of Beers” bottle, it’s one of the only drinks on the scene that fuses beer — especially a beer considered more low-brow — with typical cocktail ingredients. The Spagett originated at Wet City Brewery in Baltimore, Maryland and was created by bartender Reed Cahill. Despite the Spagett’s ingredients being strange enough to raise an eyebrow or two, PJ Sullivan, the brains behind Wet City Brewery, recalls that Cahill definitely created the drink on purpose. “We named it Spagett because it’s a bastardized Aperol Spritz, which is an elegant Italian cocktail. And the character in the ‘Tim & Eric’ skit is a weirdo eating spaghetti,” Sullivan said, noting that an Aperol Spritz is typically built with actual champagne instead of The Champagne of Beers. “[It] seemed to characterize the cocktail and idea of the cocktail perfectly.”
Emily Ahrens had been a bartender for eight years at Lincoln Station in Lincoln Park when she first heard of the Spagett. “Someone ordered it as a ‘poor man’s spritz,’ which I found hilarious,” Ahrens said, recalling the occasion. The nickname may sound unappealing or down-putting, but it’s actually a precise encapsulation of Spagett’s main goal. For a cocktail to be sought-out for its low price is a feat in and of itself — but the Spagett is also unconventional and tasty. “I think people like it so much because Aperol and lemon are super refreshing together, so then the High Life kind of mellows it out nicely,” Ahrens said. Wet City Brewery believes in the happiness of happy hours, but it takes that concept a step further, applying the atmosphere to the general, day-to-day tone of the business. While many restaurants go the haughty, exorbitant route when creating their menus and aesthetics, Wet City is more in touch with the working class’s inclination towards a humble, innovative space to take the edge off a week of challenges. “We try to keep the same spirit in our food, drinks and beer,” Sullivan said. “High quality while not taking ourselves too seriously. We want our offering to be fun.” Bonnie Parille, a DePaul student who prefers to drink on a budget, enjoys the ease and affordability of the Spagett. Since cocktail ingredients can be so expensive, she found it difficult to justify drinking anything other than beer . However, when she found the Spagett on a restaurant menu, she realized that making cocktails doesn’t have to be expensive or difficult. “I already buy High Life, so I just needed to add lemon juice and Aperol to my list,” Parille said. “I like that I don’t have to drink just beer or cheap wine anymore. It’s more impressive.”
To anyone who loves it, the Spagett is a testament to innovation and accessibility. Gone are the days when the best drink also happens to be the most expensive. And in their place rises an era of crossing traditional ingredient castes in the name of flavor. Who’s to say something beautiful can’t come from absurdity? “We did think the idea was a bit ridiculous at conception, but the outcome was amazing, so the rest is history,” Sullivan said. “It was on our cocktail menu from day one. We’ve been open for five years.” Try the original Spagett at Wet City Brewery in Baltimore, Maryland, or ask your local bartender to give it a go next time you visit a happy hour. Find Wet City Brewery on Instagram: @Wet_City.
How To Make A Spagett 1. Pour 2 oz. of Miller High Life out of the bottle 2. Pour 1 oz. of lemon juice into the Miller High Life Bottle 3. Pour 1 oz. of Aperol into the Miller High Life bottle Bottoms up!
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“Spinning fresh beats since 1581” By Chinyere ibeh Arts & Life Editor
Spotify’s end of the year round up tends to excite all of its subscribers. Among the roundup, Spotify compiles the songs you listened to the most each year. Here’s a list of some of my favorite, most listened to songs of 2020. “The Gunner” by Machine Gun Kelly This song came from Machine Gun Kelly’s 2017 album, “bloom.” This was a time when he was still rapping and it was three years before he released his pop punk album, “Tickets to My Downfall.” “The Gunner” has the rapper going on about his former struggles to get his career off the ground. The second half of the song features him speaking about his current successes. The song has him bragging about himself in various ways, including his rapping skills and personal style. “Woman Like Me” by Little Mix ft. Nicki Minaj Released in 2018, “Woman Like Me” has the British girl group singing about their various uniqueness as well as their troubles. The hook has the girl group asking their boy of interest if he could handle them. Nicki Minaj’s verse came in bragging about her career and her overreaching influence on the industry. “Crop Top” by Famous Ocean & KungFu
“Crop Top” was released in the heat of the pandemic in April 2020. This came about eight months after their hit, “Savage,” which made its rounds on TikTok. Famous Ocean & KungFu are a rap duo who had their start in a group called Hollywood Dollz. With “Crop Top,” the duo raps about the beef they have with someone — it’s essentially a diss track to their haters. “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles The song was originally released in 2019 as a promotional single from Harry Styles’ second studio album, “Fine Line.” I didn’t listen to it until 2020 when it was re-released as the album’s fourth single. Styles also revealed during a live concert that the true meaning behind the song was the female orgasm. It’s funny because when listening to the song, one could easily know that it’s quite sexual. The sexual undertones were quite overbearing, so the revelation wasn’t as surprising — it’s nice to have that confirmation, though. “Icon” by Jaden This 2017 single came from Jaden Smith. You know, the son of Jada Pinkett and Will Smith and the brother of Willow Smith. Anyways, this song goes into Jaden’s various successes that he’s had in his young life. The short hook has Jaden hyping himself up for starting up a record label, MSFTS, and how they’re so “hot in the business.” This song car-
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ries a whole different weight as I’ve essentially seen him grow up from his feature on Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never” to now. “Legend Has It” by Run The Jewels This song first came out in 2016 and it was used as part of the Black Panther trailer that was released in 2017, which was the first time I heard the song. Run The Jewels is made up of rapper and producer El-P and Atlanta-based rapper Killer Mike. The rap duo essentially embarks on what can be described as Jaden Smith, during the opening night of rapathon on the three-minute run of “Legend Web Summit 2019. Has It.” Even though it had been about four years since I initially heard the song, the song still plays in my playlist. “Fall in Line” by Christina Aguilera ft. Demi Lovato “Fall in Line” came as a surprise as it popped up in a Pandora curated playlist I was listening to. These two powerhouses belted out about not falling into societal pressures surrounding women. Aguilera begins by warning girls about not owing the world their body or their soul. Lovato follows suit in their verse by referring to outdated ways of chivalry. The song immediately gave me goosebumps when I listened to it for the first time. Machine Gun Kelly at the 2019 All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game in Cleveland at Progressive Field. IMAGES FROM WIKI
ACROSS 1. Smidge 4. Shade of blue 8. Do a sailor’s job 12. Wrath 13. Sneaking suspicion 14. Fine 15. Dowel 16. Fringe benefit 17. Michigan college 18. Scratches 20. Cooking utensil 21. Kind of history 23. Home of the brave 25. Bull-riding show 27. Headlight setting 28. Hunter’s quarry 31. Rubicon crosser 33. Large-headed sea bird 35. Recipe instruction 36. Biblical no-no 38. Winchester, e.g. 39. Army doc 41. Invoice info 42. Acts the couch potato 45. Trig. function 47. Old flames? 48. Fall through the cracks? 49. Stipulations 52. Quartet voice 53. Run for it 54. Born in France 55. University V.I.P. 56. Watch 57. Go right
DOWN 1. Start to fall 2. “The best things in life ___ free” 3. Demoted 4. Chills 5. Skilled 6. Accomplished 7. Tie up the line? 8. Booby trap 9. Cunning 10. Meridian 11. Tolerate 19. Porters 20. Leg part 21. Boat in “Jaws” 22. Highway 24. “Great Expectations” boy 26. They might be spring-loaded? 28. Obliterating 29. Bounce 30. Kind of pad 32. Purged 34. Bona ____ 37. Designer Miller 39. Quark-plus-antiquark particle 40. Swindle 42. Show the way 43. Wagon rod 44. Fraternity letter 46. Lentil, e.g. 48. Many a time 50. Service charge 51. Figure out
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Women’s soccer defeats UConn for third-straight win By Joshua M. Hicks Asst. Sports Editor
DePaul women’s soccer got their first win against the University of Connecticut with a 1-0 victory at Wish Field on Sunday. The win now gives the Blue Demons a three-game win streak in conference play after defeating Villanova at home and Seton Hall on the road. DePaul was tired throughout the game, struggling at times to keep up with the Huskies’ pace. Although the energy struggled, it did not impact their defensive efforts. Both teams’ defensive intensities set the tone in the beginning. The Blue Demons had five shots and one corner kick compared to the Huskies’ four shots and four corner shots, with none leading to score, providing a scoreless first half. Coach Michelle O’Brien elaborated the energy issues, emphasizing the importance of maintaining the same energy for an entire 90-minute game. “I think we had a rough road trip to Seton Hall and it catches up with you, especially on a Sunday,” O’Brien said. “We tried to rotate players as much as possible and trying to keep our players with fresh legs. For us, we continue to talk when you are fatigued to be super focused in the moment, determined in every play. It’s about the final focus and letting the ball do the work.” The tables turned in the second half. Though the team started off slow, senior midfielder Ellie Mink gave a spark to bring the team back to life with a goal assisted by Megan Malecha in the 33-minute mark. From that moment on, the Blue Demons energy picked up and they controlled the duration of the game. Mink scored the first goal of her collegiate career today. She emphasized her excitement in scoring her first goal to give the team a lead in the second half. “I’m really pumped because it is my senior year and I have hit the crossbar so many times and I knew it was coming,” Mink said. “I was really excited. We practiced the plays for the set pieces so
PEEVY, continued from front page a success, but he wants to see the program make progress in the right direction. “Everybody can see development; I see the direction [the program] is going,” Peevy said. “I want to help DePaul get there. How do you help us build this foundation where you know you are part of creating this into a success?” One of the major parts of growing the entire DePaul brand is getting the men’s basketball program on the right track where it’s competing to make the NCAA Tournament every season — and Peevy understands how important that is to DePaul’s overall success. If Peevy is able to help turnaround the men’s basketball program, then that not only helps one team but it will help generate more revenue for the entire athletic department — which, in turn, will be beneficial to every other sport at DePaul. In the meantime, however, Peevy is also looking to provide support for the nonrevenue generating sports as well. “The first resource we have been able to add this year has been challenge replay,” volleyball head coach Marie Zidek said. “And [Peevy] helped me secure the
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DePaul defender Megan Malecha clearing the soccer ball in their 1-0 win over UConn. many times and I’m happy that I can be the one to finish it this time.” Coach O’Brien was ecstatic to see Mink score her first goal, giving her praise for Mink in being an unsung hero for the team. “I’m so happy for Ellie,” O’Brien said. She deserves every minute of it. She is such a veteran player in our program, a captain in the midfield and kind of an unsung hero so for her to get on the scoreboard and get the game winner, it is huge.” Malecha, who assisted on the goal, highlighted the importance of the goal due to tons of practice on the headshot. “I take set pieces for the team and we have been so close on so many occasions,” Malecha said. “Ellie has been heading them and hitting the crossbar. I set it today and said this is it and once I hit Ellie was there to put it in. It was an unreal feeling.” According to DePaul Athletics, Morgan
resources and finances to make challenge replay happen this season, and that’s, for us, has been huge.” Now with students back on campus and DePaul allowing fans back into stadiums, the athletic department is looking to build more support for its team — including getting more students out to Wintrust Arena. In the past, student attendance for basketball games has been an issue for DePaul. But Peevy is looking to make that a more concerted effort this year by making it easier and safer for students to attend games more often. “I think he works very hard on the issue of engagement is paramount because that helps with the retention of students, with the persistence of students and so on,” DePaul Provost Salma Ghanem said. “One of the initiatives [that Peevy is working on] is to build that bridge [between DePaul athletics and its students].” Peevy has a long-term vision for the athletic department, which includes eventually building a basketball facility in Lincoln Park and continuing to renovate the Sullivan Athletic Center. Something that isn’t yet part of that long-term vision, but might come into play later down the road, is getting DePaul its own football program.
Turner is currently fourth all-time in scoring with 31 goals. When she scores a goal, the team is 17-1-1. Turner did not score a goal in this game, but she harped on the importance of teamwork and expressed her excitement for Mink to get in the scoring category. “Soccer is a team sport and different players need to step up on different days,” Turner said. “Today, Ellie’s goal was phenomenal and we needed to win. It was awesome to see her score and play so well.” Coach O’Brien agrees with Turner’s sentiment. “You have to have other people that put the ball in the back of the net to take some of that pressure off of Morgan,” O’Brien said. “Of course, teams are going to be scouting her and have more numbers around her. Maybe it’s a good thing so it can free up for someone else to have a clean look at goals.”
The team continues with conference play against Xavier this week. For Mink, being from Cincinnati, OH, this game is personal. “Cincinnati is my hometown,” Mink said. “I know people on the team and we have a great history with them. We battle hard and I know it is going to be a grind.” Coach O’Brien is looking forward to their conference matchup, but wants to make sure the team stays focused and plays their game on the field. “Xavier is a great team,” O’Brien said. “They are at the top of the table right now, they are a solid team. The program has changed a lot over the last four years or so. For us, it’s important to play our game and be disciplined to work hard and with us being at home we have a slight advantage so hopefully we get to capitalize on that.”
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DeWayne Peevy chatting at the women’s soccer game on Sunday.
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St. Thomas putting the puck past DePaul club hockey goaltender AJ Grzbek and into the back of the net in the Blue Demons’ 2-1 loss on Friday night.
DePaul club hockey falls to St. Thomas in weekend losses By Nate Burleyson & Darcy Waskiewicz Online Managing Editor & Sports Editor
DePaul club hockey faced off against St. Thomas University at home last weekend, but fell 2-1 in back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s game started off with a classic smashmouth affair, with both teams garnering penalties early in the first period. DePaul got the worse end of the stick though, when a hit by defender Michael Helf led to a five-minute major and Helf ’s ejection from the game. Although St. Thomas retaliated, leading to some 4-on-4 play, the visitors eventually got on the strong side again, and found the back of the net at the end of the five-minute penalty for the lone goal of the first period. DePaul and St. Thomas spent a lot of time with a player in the box throughout the early portions of the game, taking some rhythm out of the game. The referees took control of the game with strict calls early on. “We need to stay away from the box,” DePaul goaltender AJ Grzbek said. “I think we’re best 5-on-5. We just gotta keep it even and get pucks to the net.” The game settled down in the second period. Both teams were able to run their set offense and send the puck around trying to find quality shots. DePaul demonstrated some great movement in the middle of the ice and on transition from defense to offense. Grzbek faced a good amount of shots, but was able to corral just about every one. Faced with a lot of scrums in front of the net, he stayed composed and stopped chance after chance before they came to light. DePaul saw improvements in the second period, but couldn’t produce a goal. The penalty kill got some work, shutting down two consecutive opportunities halfway through the second period. “I thought the penalty kill went really well, power play needs some work [though],” Grzbek said. The third period was hotly contested from the start. Momentum started to shift towards DePaul at the end of the second,
and they carried it right into the final third. Forward Danny Mannarino scored for the Blue Demons a minute into the third to tie things at 1-1. It may have seemed like a winning opportunity for DePaul, but plans were thwarted less than a minute later when St. Thomas scored just a few passes after the faceoff. The go-ahead goal was so sudden and the teams went back to the tug-of-war that had preceded the period. DePaul saw a good amount of chances, but were held in check by St. Thomas. The visitors got more shots over the last 10 minutes, and even hit the bar at one point. Brzek stayed focused on goal, but the Blue Demons were forced into a corner. The game ended with a score of 2-1. The game was the first of the weekend and the first home game for DePaul since before the Covid-19 pandemic. Fans returned to Johnny’s IceHouse West, boosting the team just a little bit. “My parents and my brother were in the stands, so it was awesome playing in front of them, putting on a little show for them, [I was] just happy,” Grzbek said. The team returned to the ice to take on St. Thomas again the next day but fell 2-1 in a tight game that was scoreless until the final five minutes. The game was chippy from the very beginning, with both teams flying on the ice from the first puck drop. Both teams had power plays in the first period, with St. Thomas going on the man-advantage first. However, DePaul was able to kill off the penalty, while St. Thomas did the same to DePaul a little while later. The second period was much the same, with the Blue Demons spending a chunk of time in the penalty box. DePaul started off the period on the powerplay but committed their own penalty, and both teams were down to four players on the ice each. However, the Blue Demons got sent to the box again only seconds later, which put the team at a 4-on-3 disadvantage and forced the penalty kill to work overtime. And they did, killing off the 4-on-3, as well as another penalty they took later in the period. “The penalty kill has been one of our strongest, they have bailed us out a lot,”
head coach Dan Wood said. “We’ve taken too many penalties.” The third period was the most action-packed. It began with a DePaul penalty, but nothing amounted from it, and the score remained at zero. However, with a little under five minutes left in the game, St. Thomas was able to get the puck past DePaul goaltender Asher Motew and landed on the board first. DePaul did not let that deter them and bounced back minutes later with a goal from Helf, who took the puck all the way from his end of the ice and past multiple St. Thomas defenders before putting it into the back of the net. The tie did not last for long though, as St. Thomas regained the lead seconds after Helf ’s goal with only a few minutes left in the game. The Blue Demons were not able to recover and even took a penalty defending a St. Thomas attack, which left them
shorthanded for the rest of the game. While the penalty kill held up like it had all game, and the Blue Demons even had a shorthanded breakaway in St. Thomas’ zone, they were not able to bounce back before time ran out. Despite the loss, the penalty kill proved that it can hold up to a strong offensive opponent like St. Thomas, especially since St. Thomas had many chances on the powerplay. Along with the penalty kill, Motew had a strong game. He stood tall in goal, stopping many of the hard shots that St. Thomas threw his way. “I thought we improved a lot from the last game, way better than yesterday,” Helf said. “Still got a lot of work, but we’ll get there.” The Blue Demons travel to play Marian University next Friday before returning home to take on Marian again on Saturday.
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DePaul defenseman Michael Helf passing the puck to his teammate on Saturday.
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The Chicago Marathon runs again after a year off By Elizabeth Hernandez Contributing Writer
After not running last year due to the pandemic, The Bank of America Chicago Marathon returned for its much anticipated 43rd edition of the race through the city on Sunday, Oct. 10. From Millenium Park to Uptown, through the Loop and Bronzeville, approximately 35,000 participants ran their way through 29 Chicago neighborhoods. “Just having all those people lining the streets again ... just as much as I remember in 2019. People really come out for this event,” Emma Bates, second woman overall and first American to cross the line, said in a post-race press conference. Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya won the women’s elite race in two hours, twenty-two minutes and thirty-one seconds. Bates crossed the finish line at 2:24:20. On the men’s elite side, Ethiopia’s Seifu Tura Abdiwak won with a time of 2:06:12 and the American Galen Rupp finished second (2:06:35). The wheelchair race kicked off the day’s events with 41 competitors. Americans Daniel Romanchuk and Tatyanna McFadden crossed the line first among men and women, respectively. Weather was a major concern going into the weekend. At 7:20 a.m., right when the wheelchair races began, the temperature reached 71 degrees. It only got warmer throughout the morning as the participants lined up. According to the National Weather Service, unseasonably high temperatures continued with a high of mid-80s. To address the warm conditions, Chicago Marathon Medical Director Dr. George Chiampas said via the marathon’s official Instagram page that the medical team added more ice, water and sponges across the course’s aid stations. “The weather was a little erotic. I had not prepared for warmer weather, but there was a breeze,” Abdiwak said after the race. Marathons are unique in that worldclass athletes line up with casual runners and walkers alike. Kaitlin Ross, a third-year student studying exercise science at DePaul University, returned for her second Chicago Marathon and felt the adverse weather conditions. Ross felt ill around mile five and stopped at an aid station near mile nine
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Runners navigate North Franklin Street as they approach the 13-mile mark in the Chicago Marathon. “It was definitely the heat,” Ross said. She was shuttled back to Grant Park and was able to cool off and rehydrate under the care of medical officials. “I am disappointed, but I’m glad that I stopped,” Ross said. “I know what a heat illness feels like.” Spectators along the course motivated Chad Rosenburg, of West Town, to the finish. “This is my second Chicago [Marathon],” Rosenburg said. “The weather wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, but the wind was a little insane.” According to Megan Richards Martin, a marathon spokesperson, an estimated 1.7 million spectators lined the streets of Chicago on Sunday. “That’s unreal. That’s actually super cool,” Rosenburg said. “I got chills coming
down the last mile and a half because everyone is like, ‘Don’t stop.’” Participants from all over the country and world descended on Chicago for the marathon. “Four years ago, I ran this marathon with no experience mentally, physically [and I] came back with vengeance,” Jerry Francois of Brooklyn, New York said. “I ran about 20 minutes faster than my previous Chicago personal best, but not the time that I wanted. Overall, [I’m] happy to be in the city and (with) how the city embraces me” This year, Francois was joined by Sashah Handal, his fellow GoldFinger Track Club member. “This was my first marathon ever, and it was quite the experience,” Handal said. “I saw lots of people collapse. I literally could
Updates from the weekend Men’s tennis at Redbird Invite Day One (Friday) -Jona Gitschel, Matteo Iaquinto, Lars Peder Minsaas and Phasu Sirinit claimed singles victories -Leon Huck/Minsaas and Iaquinto/ Gitschel won in doubles competition
Day Two (Saturday) -Huck, Iaquinto, Sven Moser and Sirinit won in singles -Minsaas/Huck and Moser/Sirinit claimed doubles victories
Men’s soccer -Tied with Providence 1-1 after double overtime on Saturday. Providence was ranked No. 25. -Michael Anderson scored the DePaul goal for his first of the season
Women’s tennis at Husky Invitational
Day One (Friday)
-Yuliya Kizelbasheva and Lenka Antonijevic claimed a doubles victory
Day Two (Saturday)
-Eleanor Nobbs won a singles victory
Volleyball -Fell to Creighton 3-0 on Friday -Outside hitter Jill Pressly had 9 kills -Libero Rachel Krasowski had 16 digs, while Pressly had 16 -Won 3-0 over Providence on Sunday -Pressly had 14 kills -Outside hitter Hanna Karl had 12 kills. -Krasowski had 16 digs.
not have done it without my friends or my music or all the hydration stations.” Handal qualified in her age group for the Boston Marathon “I’m still alive to talk, smile and laugh – and walk to get some pancakes, so I guess there could be another [marathon] in the future.” In 2019, Chicagoans did not realize it would be 728 days until the next marathon. The 2020 Chicago Marathon was canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We had a great event in 2019. We had so [much] momentum. So many benchmarks were hit – participation, Brigid Kosgei’s magnificent world record,” Executive Race Director Carey Pinkowski said in a press conference on Friday. “We were on an upward trajectory and then to pause it, it’s tough and it’s great to be back.”
Upcoming Events Men’s soccer: -Oct. 13 vs. Seton Hall, 1 p.m. -Oct. 16 at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Women’s soccer: -Oct. 14 vs. Xavier, 3 p.m. -Oct. 17 at Butler, 12 p.m.
Volleyball: -Oct. 15 vs. Seton Hall, 7 p.m. -Oct. 16 vs. St. John’s, 7 p.m.
Men’s Tennis: -Oct. 15-17 at Louisville Invitational
Cross Country: -Oct. 15 at Bradley Pink Classic
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DePaul club hockey goaltender Rudy Hodgson standing guard in front of the goal for Team Colombia hockey, which he will be competing with this week at the LATAM Cup.
Rudy Hodgson is growing the game of hockey with Team Colombia By Darcy Waskiewicz Sports Editor
Playing for your home country is always a special honor. Senior hockey player Rudy Hodgson knows this all too well. A dual citizen for Colombia and the United States, Hodgson played hockey for Team USA when he was younger. And in the past few years, he has been able to play for Team Colombia as well. This week he gets the chance to do that again. On Oct. 10, Hodgson left to play with Team Colombia in the LATAM Cup, which is hosted by the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League and takes place from Oct. 14-17 at Panthers IceDen in Coral Springs, Fla. The tournament includes teams from all over Latin America and the Caribbean that come to battle each other for a spot at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) tournament, which takes place in Germany next year. Hodgson first got involved with Team Colombia a few years ago through a family member, but his hockey-playing days began long before that. Hodgson began playing hockey at the age of four and never looked back. A Los Angeles native, he grew up an LA Kings fan and played for their junior’s team, as well as in high school. All those things led him to where he is now — a goaltender for DePaul’s club team. “I can’t really imagine a time in my life when I wasn’t ice skating or playing hockey,” Hodgson said. “So, I got involved through there, played high school, played club for the Kings and was fortunate enough to play not only
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Rudy Hodgson scanning the ice while in goal during a DePaul club hockey game. for Colombia, but for Team USA for a couple years, so I’ve been really lucky to have a successful career so far.” Growing up a Kings fan, Hodgson looked up to Jonathan Quick, the main goaltender for the team since 2008 who helped the team win two Stanley Cups in 2012 and 2014. While playing for the King’s junior team, Hodgson was able to practice with Quick at times and learn from him as a fellow goaltender. As a goaltender, Hodgson is the last line of defense on the team before the puck crosses the goal line into the net, but that was not the position he planned to play while growing up.
Hodgson became a goaltender around the age of seven or eight when his team’s goaltender didn’t show up. He was thrown into the position by his coach and picked up the position quickly. While he never intended to play the position, it has worked out for him in the end. “Hockey’s taken me around the world,” Hodgson said. “So, it was a happy accident that I just kind of ran with and tried to make the most of it for sure.” Now as a senior on the DePaul club hockey team, Hodgson serves as one of the unofficial leaders on the team. “Whenever he speaks up or has
something to say, people listen,” AJ Grzbek, Hodgson’s DePaul teammate and fellow goaltender, said. “He’s always been there for me, he’s there for everybody. Everybody loves him. He’s a great teammate, and for Team Colombia to have him, that’s just perfect, it works great.” With the hope of continuing to play hockey after he graduates, Hodgson works hard on and off the ice to develop his game as much as he can, but he still tries to have fun and enjoy his senior year. “He’s always the guy that wants to do extra stuff and learn extra things,” head coach Dan Wood said. “And there’s no surprise that he’s able to make this team, and I’m sure he’ll do great when he gets out there.” When Hodgson first began playing with Team Colombia a few years ago, the team was not federalized by the government or considered a national team by the IIHF. That changed when Colombia joined the IIHF in 2019 and were able to play against other national teams. Now, hockey is progressing in Colombia, but there’s still more room for growth. Hodgson is excited to be a part of that and help the game grow even more by playing with Team Colombia next weekend. “At the end of the day, I’m there to win,” Hodgson said. “But I think the biggest thing that I would want to take away from this tournament is knowing that I helped contribute to the growth of hockey in Colombia and continue to do so with my style of play and hopefully with a little bit of success in there too.”