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Faculty Council considers ‘banning the box’

By Carolyn Bradley Copy Editor

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Most of SNL faculty taking buyouts

By Emma Oxnevad & Ella Lee Asst. News Editor & Focus Editor

Eligible faculty in the School for New Learning were offered buyouts in light of the school’s “restructuring” come fall. Of the 26 eligible faculty, more than half are accepting the buyout.

“All of the tenured-lined faculty in the School for New Learning — that includes tenured and tenured-track — were offered a voluntary buyout,” said Don Opitz, dean of SNL. “We also had six retirementeligible full-time staff members who were also offered an early retirement incentive.”

Of the 14 tenured-line faculty who took the SNL buyout, 11 are retiring. The six staff members Opitz referenced as eligible for an early retirement incentive program is separate from the SNL buyouts, and was laid out by President A. Gabriel Esteban in an email March 8. Three of the six staff eligible for that program volunteered to

take it.

SNL’s restructuring involves its renaming and rebranding as The School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

The school’s current system, which is designed for adult students working fulltime, offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Nearly 70 percent of undergraduate SNL students work 30 hours or more per week, and the school’s average undergraduate age is 36. The universitywide adult student average is 24 years old.

The purpose of the shift is to give the school equal footing in relation to other continuing education programs in the Chicagoland area. Opitz said he thinks of the buyout as a positive option, stating that it gave the faculty a choice regarding how to move forward.

“The decision was made to keep the school a school, so that’s one thing that I think we often lose sight of and a sustainable footing for a long-term longevity,” he

said. “The buyout is part of the school’s sustainability, so the greatest expense of any academic unit are salaries. We had a large full-time faculty and a full-time faculty that is primarily tenured faculty.

There are very limited ways in which you can reduce the size of a full-time faculty, and it was thought by the administration— at least from my perspective—that offering a voluntary buyout to the faculty was a way of moving forward that would give faculty options.”

Ludovic Comeau, an associate professor staying on for the new school, said that he was originally shocked by the option of a buyout.

“Like many of my SNL colleagues, my initial reaction was a bit emotional—a feeling of sadness that profound changes in the national adult education environment have brought the university to the point of seeking a reduction in the overall

See SNL, page 8

DePaul Faculty Council is expected to vote at its June 5 meeting on whether to remove the university’s admission application questions asking applicants if they have been responsible for a disciplinary violation and/or convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony.

Students Against Incarceration (SAI) created the proposal asking the university to remove the questions. Members will be giving a presentation at the meeting to support it.

DePaul does not necessarily deny an applicant based on these questions. While this may be the case, it can deter twothirds of individuals from continuing their applications, according to a Ban the Box report.

Shelby Klingberg, a senior at DePaul and co-president of the organization, said SAI wants to remove the question so applicants are not deterred.

The Common App, which allows applicants to send their applications to multiple schools, has removed the box, the report said.

Faculty sponsor Nila Ginger Hofman, an anthropology professor, said students approached her to sponsor the bill.

Hofman said she participates in the Inside Out program, which brings students to the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago and Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois.

Students participate in a course with incarcerated students.

“I think it would just open up more opportunities for the applicants,” Hofman said of the ban. “There are so many studies that show that education is a really good way to prevent recidivism and to get people trained, educated, employed and keeping them away from a state of incarceration.”

A statement from SAI cites information

See FACULTY COUNCIL, page 9

Students claim victory, Hill vows to continue writing

By Doug Klain Opinions Editor

On the 23rd day of Ramadan, students sat in the Schmitt Academic Center pit listening to speeches during a celebratory iftar dinner — speeches questioning how to support students that feel unsafe on campus, DePaul’s need for reform and how they felt their activism led to DePaul professor Jason Hill’s censure. But for the wider university community, it remains unclear whether Hill was officially censured and condemned by DePaul’s administration.

“It was us saying, ‘This is a really big win for us and we’re not stopping here,’” said junior Rifqa Falaneh, a board member of Students for Justice in Palestine and one of the organizers of the student coalition against Hill, which sponsored the May 28 iftar dinner.

What the group says is a win came in the form of an email statement sent to the DePaul community by Acting Provost Salma Ghanem on May 15. The statement reads in part that “professor Hill’s views are his own and do not

“I won’t be silenced. I won’t be stopped.”

Jason Hill

DePaul University professor

represent the views of the university.”

Ghanem’s email statement comes after DePaul’s Faculty Council passed a resolution May 1 condemning the contents of Hill’s article in The Federalist calling for the Israeli annexation of the Palestinian West Bank, which students and professors have called equivalent to ethnic cleansing.

“I won’t be silenced,” Hill said in a phone interview with The DePaulia. “I won’t be stopped, I will continue writing my op-ed pieces, I will continue pursuing my very ambitious scholarly works.

“So they can issue formal censures or informal censures or whatever they want to call it,” Hill said. “It will not stop me and it will not prohibit me from expressing my freedom of speech in any way or form.”

Whether the May 15 email statement from Ghanem qualifies as an official condemnation from DePaul remains a matter of confusion for members of the community.

Quinn Mulroy, a member of DePaul Socialists and an organizer with the student coalition, said, “I think that’s as close as we’re going to get to an official condemnation from the university.”

“So the president has not formally censured me,” Hill said, “but there have been two organs within the university, the provost and Faculty Council, which have made statements that feels [sic] to me very much like a formal censure.”

When asked whether Hill has been formally censured by the university, Ghanem responded in a phone interview by saying, “I don’t even know what you mean by that question.”

See CENSURE, page 4

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News. The DePaulia. June 3, 2019 | 3

Chicago population continues to decline

South side neighborhoods shrink while downtown flourishes

By Bianca Cseke Online Editor

The Chicago area saw a population decline for the fourth year in a row, according to census data, raising questions as to why people continue to leave and what the potential consequences could be down the line.

Between 2017 and 2018, the Chicago metropolitan area’s population decreased from 8,651,392 residents to 8,628,040 – a 0.3 percent decrease. The area has seen a 0.5 percent decrease since the 2010 census.

According to DePaul’s Institute for Housing Studies, population changes are important because they impact the distribution of federal dollars, school enrollment and the health of labor markets.

Kathleen Cagney, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, said the decline has been “starker” on the city’s South Side, particularly among predominantly African American neighborhoods. She said violence, school closures and job availability have all played a role.

“We have to think, ‘Are there ways to incentivize the kinds of employment that would appeal to entry-level workers?’” she said. “We have to bring jobs in.”

In 2013, then-mayor Rahm Emanuel and Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, closed 49 elementary school programs and one high school program to help deal with a $1 billion deficit. The closures were based on under-enrollment and poor performance. Most of the children who were uprooted were from lowincome, African American backgrounds, according to a study from the University of Chicago.

“Schools are an institutional structure that allows for building of a community,” Cagney said.

“ We want affordable housing, but you need some middle class housing in order to stay healthy.

Otherwise you’re in a downward spiral.”

John McCarron

DePaul professor, College of Communication Englewood, Chatham, Greater Grand Crossing and South Chicago each lost households from all levels of income, according to the DePaul Institute for Housing Studies. Each neighborhood saw a loss between 10 and 20.

Englewood, West Englewood and Austin used to have a combined 188,992 black residents in 2000. By 2015, the neighborhoods saw a 28 percent decrease to 135,851 black residents. The city overall had just over 1 million black residents at the start of the century; 15 years later, that number was at 840,188.

Meanwhile, neighborhoods surrounding the downtown core – the Loop, Near North Side, Near West Side and Near South Side – saw increases in the total number of households driven primarily by high-income households, according to the institute’s report.

“That many of these communities are primarily African American raises concerns about the disproportionate impact of these trends on Chicago’s African-American population,” the institute wrote in a report. “These neighborhoods have been challenged by decades of disinvestment, long-term population loss as well as the recent foreclosure crisis and increasing demand for housing continues to be a priority for many neighborhood organizations and agencies.”

Some residents have been getting out-priced from their neighborhoods, influencing their decisions to leave the city.

Michael Gillam and Mary Green told the Chicago Tribune last month that while they enjoyed living in Ravenswood in 2015 and 2016, they chose to move to Houston, Texas in February 2018 in search of more affordable housing and a warmer climate.

“We just wanted to move somewhere where our money would stretch further,” Gillam, 29, told the Tribune. “The housing market here is fantastic, it’s exploding. In Illinois, it seems like people are leaving.”

Cagney said that while in many cases people are getting priced out of their homes, Chicago’s housing structure is also changing. She said many buildings have been redeveloped with fewer units.

“People are out-priced for sure, but the structures also aren’t built for more people,” Cagney said.

However, John McCarron, a DePaul College of Communication professor who specializes in urban affairs, said he doesn’t think gentrification is generally part of the problem.

“Gentrification is the reason the [population decline] problem isn’t worse,” he said. “It’s bringing middle- and upper-income people back to the city.”

McCarron said that in past decades, particularly around the 1970s, the city saw “total disinvestment” in African American communities. And Chicago lost a lot of its housing stock because of the foreclosure crisis during the Great Recession. He said that those properties need to be recycled, rather than keeping them stuck in the court system.

“The problem is not one of size, but one of balance,” he said. “We want affordable housing, but you need some middle class housing in order to stay healthy. Otherwise you’re in a downward spiral.”

Brian Harger, a research associate at the center, said that Chicago’s population decline is “negligible” in a city with over 2.7 million people.

“The Chicago area actually acts as a buffer for the rest of the state,” he told the DePaulia. “Rural areas have been declining for decades, and that’s been getting worse in the last decade or so.”

He attributes the decline to the state’s slow recovery from the last recession, saying that there are fewer job opportunities for young professionals.

Harger said the population decline in the state is a concern because of congressional representation. The state could lose as many as two seats in the House of Representatives, he said.

McCarron said that in some ways, the population decline is inevitable because of more people retiring and a lower birthrate.

Chicago demographer Rob Paral told the Tribune that he doesn’t believe the population loss is a crisis in Cook County.

“There’s not some mass exodus going on,” he told the Tribune. “I think this is important, because for many years there was a worry that somehow the county was just going to have accelerated loss, but that’s not what we see.”

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Buyouts prompt tenured professors to think twice

By Brita Hunegs Contributing Writer

June 3 marks the beginning of Week 10. DePaul students are turning in the last of their work for the quarter and the heat of finals can only be outdone by the allure of the summer months filled with sunshine, just at arms’ reach.

Teachers, too, are wrapping up their work for the academic calendar, possibly preparing for summer classes or maybe even an upcoming vacation. But for some instructors, today carries more weight than just marking the winding down of the school year. For some, it’s the last day to decide if they will begin to wind down their careers and take the buyout that DePaul is offering them.

On March 8, all faculty and staff received an email from the university’s president, A. Gabriel Esteban, laying out the Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP).

“DePaul University is offering longserving faculty and staff an incentivized early retirement program once again,” the email said. “The ERIP provides the flexibility to prioritize and invest in academic programs and initiatives, enabling us to deliver on the promise of our mission going forward. This is a completely voluntary program.”

The incentive for faculty to accept is that they will be paid double their 2018 gross wage this coming July. The incentive for DePaul staff — which includes anyone in support, professional or management capacities — is a payout for full 2019 vacation accrual. Both faculty and staff would also be paid full retiree medical benefits for a specified time period.

To be eligible for the program, faculty must be tenured, at least 62 years old and have 10 years of cumulative full-time service, according to Human Resources.

The same criteria goes for staff, with the exception that instead of being tenured,

CENSURE continued from front On May 13, Ghanem and the dean of the College of Liberal Arts met with organizers from the student coalition, including Falaneh and Mulroy. According to Falaneh, the students expressed their full list of demands to the administrators, including formal censure of Hill.

“But a censure, I don’t really know what it means,” Ghanem said. “I don’t even know what they mean. I think the meeting went really well with the students. I think the students had the right to be heard. I was very impressed with the students.

“We definitely did mention it in the meeting and went over exactly what we meant by ‘censure,’” Falaneh said. “It was kind of like we had to go over that it’s not censoring, it’s censuring. She more so understood it when we put it in those terms.”

While Falaneh and Mulroy are pleased with Ghanem’s statement, they have more long-term demands of the university going forward. One of these demands is that none of Hill’s courses should be mandatory for students.

“He shouldn’t be the only option that students have,” said Falaneh.

For now, it seems like the students are finding success on this issue. According to Hill, a capstone course he was scheduled to teach in the fall has already been canceled.

“I think because students, from what I’ve heard, have been reporting that they

they must be full-time.

Having committed three decades to DePaul, Bruce Evensen, professor and Journalism Graduate Program director, fit the bill for the offer. When he received a personalized packet in mid-March detailing how the plan would work for him, he realized it might be right for him.

He began to weigh his options as deeply as he could, given the time constraint, and ultimately decided to take the proposition.

“It was a difficult decision to leave full-time employment at DePaul University after 30 years,” Evensen said.

“The Early Retirement Program gave qualifying faculty and staff 45 days to gather information and make a decision.

It was a big decision for many of us. You don't leave something that has been a source of pride and joy across three decades without a great deal of soulsearching.”

The first university-wide ERIP was offered in Spring 2014. In his letter, Esteban explained that the ERIP was one of the recommendations brought forward from the Strategic Resource Allocation Committee “as a positive action to help the university further its Catholic, Vincentian mission and achieve our budget goals.” The SRAC is made up of nine members appointed by the president each year, and chaired by the executive vice president, who right now is Jeffrey Bethke. In 2018, Bethke was a recipient of the Chicago chapter of Financial Executives Internationals’ CFO of the year. He was lauded by the award-givers for his brokering of the partnerships that helped produce Wintrust Arena, a process that The DePaulia investigated for possible nepotism and was criticized by others for its use of TIF dollars.

A press release posted by the school on March 8, the same day Esteban’s email was sent out, reports that the SRAC unanimously recommended a budget of $583 million to the Board of Trustees, who approved it. do not want to take [my] classes,” Hill said. “One of my senior capstone classes and that class has been cancelled.”

Another demand from students is that all faculty, including Hill, be required to participate in racial sensitivity training as part of annual compliance training.

“I most certainly will not be attending a racial sensitivity training workshop,” said Hill. “Emphatically not. You can quote me on that, because I’m not a racist, and I think it’s a completely inappropriate, outrageous, almost mysterious claim.”

In Ghanem’s statement, she also mentions that “the article by Professor Hill has also brought out the other extreme and emboldened some to hide behind the cloak of social media anonymity and attack our students and faculty on the Internet.”

According to Falaneh, student organizations have been receiving threats over Twitter.

One tweet Falaneh identified to The DePaulia as a threat reads, “REAL Americans support Prof Jason Hill. We know that SJP is nothing but a racist, terrorism-supporting organization, and we look forward to new laws that put SJP in the same category as Hamas, Hezbullah, Nazis and other vermin.”

After reading Ghanem’s statement, Hill said he hadn’t heard of any harassing messages on social media towards the organizers. “I have no idea what she’s talking about,” Hill said. “I can only speak to the harassment that I have faced and the harassment that certain Jewish students have expressed to me privately.”

“[Retiring] was a big decision for many of us. You don't leave something that has been a source of pride and joy across three decades without a great deal of soul-searching."

Bruce Evensen

Journalism Graduate Program director and professor “Under the 2019-20 budget, DePaul will continue to invest in employees,” the announcement said.

Vice President of Human Resources Stephanie Smith declined to comment on how the buyouts will be paid for.

Smith said that because the number of participants won’t be finalized until June 10, it isn’t yet known how much money the university will save or which departments will be most affected.

The offer was extended to all faculty and staff, with the exception of those in the School for New Learning (SNL), which is currently restructuring and offering buyouts as well.

In his letter, Esteban wrote that in March and April, Human Resources would hold information sessions to clear up confusion surrounding the details of health benefits, the retirement plan offered to tax-exempt organizations and other financial considerations.

Evensen was pleased with how HR facilitated the ordeal.

“You can't exaggerate how amazing DePaul's Human Resources people have been during this process,” he said.

“They've answered every question with consummate professionalism.

Retirement planning was new to many of us. We had to consider what retirement would mean to healthcare and other

living expenses that DePaul has taken care of for so many years.”

Smith didn’t address inquiries regarding by whom the retiring faculty/ staff would be replaced. However, Evensen is optimistic that his department will be in good hands.

“Happily, we're in a place right now with so many highly qualified people taking on so many tasks supported by an unbelievable group of adjunct colleagues and staff that enables the journalism program to conduct a wide search and bring in the very best applicant,” Evensen said.

The human resource overview of the program states that “this voluntary incentive program will position the university to continue to focus on its mission of making an extraordinary education accessible to its students.”

Smith declined to comment on how the ERIP will help the university achieve this.

A final revocation deadline is set for June 10. After that, all participating faculty and staff will be effectively retired on June 30. Smith said that because the ERIP is a voluntary program, she cannot say how this will affect which educators will want to come to the university.

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Students watch a speech at the pit in the Schmidt Academic Center in Lincoln Park.

“I can’t speak to online harassment,” Hill said. “My physical safety was threatened on campus.”

“I think it’s very ironic what he’s saying,” Falaneh said. “He’s kind of making us, the students at DePaul, the ones who are inciting this violence, whereas he’s the one who published this article, and that whole article is inciting ethnic violence and inciting genocide.”

The same day that students staged an anti-hate rally outside Arts and Letters Hall to support students that felt unsafe, Hill appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show to discuss the protests.

“Who was made to feel unsafe here?”

Hill told The DePaulia. “The professor who wrote an article and needed [police] protection, or the students who claimed to feel unsafe but were free to roam

around campus and take over buildings with impunity?”

“Right after that interview, we got a bunch of threats on our social media outlets,” Falaneh said.

For now, Falaneh and Mulroy will continue organizing with the student coalition to pursue their long-term demands, such as mandatory racial sensitivity training for all faculty and the clear availability of student resources for reporting discrimination in the classroom.

“Let’s recognize this win and keep going,” Falaneh said.

“I think they’re missing one important fact,” Hill said. “Whatever they’re taking offense to, that’s protected by free speech.

I think this is what’s missing.”

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Justice for Israel

College Republicans and Jewish students come together to discuss Zionism

By Mackenzie Murtaugh News Editor

The DePaul College Republicans and Jewish students came together Tuesday, May 28 to dive deep into the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian debate and recent occurrences regarding it on campus. The College Republicans were represented by Nick Gricus, the organization’s current president, and John Minster, former president. They were joined by Michael Adato, a member of the Jewish fraternity AEPi, and his brother Ethan, who attends the University of Iowa. The Adatos clarified that their views do not represent those of the fraternity, as the event’s poster depicted.

The event began with the two groups defining terms like “Zionism” and “antiZionism” and how these terms relate to their political and spiritual beliefs.

Adato pressed the College Republicans, and Republicans in general, on why they support Israel in its conflict with Palestine.

“Republicans haven’t really moved much ideologically in the past 30 or 40 years,” Gricus said. “As you see with more freshman Democrats, [they] are actually starting to go more towards the anti-Zionist approach and are starting to tolerate and allow a different side [...]

I think Republicans have stood by the right for democracy in the Middle East to flourish and have stood by their Jewish brothers and sisters for that right to exist.

It’s core to the Republican party; it goes back to the days of Reagan.”

Gricus cited Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama as people who have “abandoned people

who they made promises to.”

This presents the internal debate in which many Jewish people find themselves. With many Jews having leftleaning political values, the discussion highlighted the ethical debate of Zionism becoming a right-wing topic. Michael Adato shared an anecdote of an older man explaining to him that if he wants more help for Israelis, he should vote Republican. But if he wants his social and fiscal policies to go through, he has to vote Democrat. American Zionist Jews are caught in a bind between supporting Israel or their country.

“I think that the left seems to [or] allow anti-Semitic tropes or support the Palestinians more than they have in the past,” Michael Adato said. “I don’t think that means the left can’t support Israel, — at least some version of Israel — and the same [goes for] the right.”

The discussion led to the topic of Jason Hill, the DePaul philosophy professor who was criticized after publishing a controversial pro-Zionist op-ed in The Federalist, a right-wing magazine.

“I think it's unfortunate that as far as student organizations are concerned, we haven’t been able to get together and have a discussion on it,” Gricus said in regards to the Faculty Council’s decision to condemn the contents of Hill’s article but not him specifically. “The College Republicans and our associate groups have tried multiple times to reach out to organizations, including the DePaul Socialists and DePaul Democrats, to which, no avail. As far as Jason Hill is concerned, we support his right to speak.

We pride ourselves on being a pro-free speech organization.”

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Gricus acknowledged the criticism his group has faced for their support for Hill.

“I don’t think any professor should be censured because of it or be threatened with violence,” he said. “I think that he’s got the right to write whatever he wants to in an independent magazine. At no point did he try to speak on behalf of the university or anybody else other than himself. In doing that, his rights as a professor should be maintained as well.”

Michael Adato took this time to speak on his own beliefs regarding Hill’s article.

“The controversy around him gave him what I think is a weak attentionseeker, and I think that the controversy that the coalition gave him, well I agree,” Adato said. “I think that what he said was absolutely in many ways racist, and I’m glad that DePaul distanced itself from him [...] [Those who began the protest] should not have even started because it’s so ridiculous and stupid, and talking about it, in fact, exposed his absolute

misunderstandings of anything about Jewish culture to wage war on people."

Gricius then mentioned that he invited the student groups who organized protests against Hill to their discussion, but they declined because of their celebration in his “censure” that occurred at the same time.

The discussion ended with closing remarks from both groups on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and both reminded the audience that without the support from Israelis and Palestinians alike, the debate will not stop soon.

“There’s a reason they call it the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because this is between Israelis and Palestinians,” Minster said. “No specific negotiator or moderator or whatever you want to call in whatever country it may be is going to be able to get those two sides there if they don’t want to get there themselves.”

Michael Adato responded, “America is going to set the table, but that’s about it, in my opinion.”

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School of Continuing and Professional Studies!

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APPLIED DIPLOMACY College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

THIS FALL 2019 BECOME PART OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF DIPLOMATS What would it look like if a future nation-state diplomat spent time with Chicago-based community organizers, in order to learn about the real-world intricacies of negotiation and coalition-building across boundaries of difference? Can you imagine a world in which a Chicago community organizer has the same background in international relations, international political economy and mediation as a peer in the foreign service?

DePaul’s Applied Diplomacy bachelor’s and master’s programs are dedicated to reconceptualizing the practice of diplomacy to make these interconnections possible. Uniting traditional and non-traditional approaches to the field, the programs seek to transform our understanding of both. We emphasize the critical necessity for practitioners of diplomacy to become culturally, racially, ethnically, ecologically and religiously literate, and embrace an interdisciplinary and intercultural definition of the term diplomacy.

Students interested in declaring an undergraduate major in Applied Diplomacy should contact LASProgramPlan@depaul.edu with their request.

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Visit go.depaul.edu/applieddiplomacy to learn more!

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DePaul says

"Game on" XAVIER ORTEGA | THE DEPAULIA

Students congratulate each other playing Smash Bros on the Nintendo Switch during the Gaming Party organized by the DePaul Esports Organization on Tuesday.

Esports party embraces online gaming

By Xavier Ortega Photo Editor

The DePaul Esports Organization hosted a gaming party Tuesday, giving anyone a chance to stop by and play a variety of games while offering free food, giveaways, free t-shirts and a look at the DePaul Rocket League team practice before their matches.

IPlay Games founder and CEO Kevin Fair helped set up the multiple gaming systems for students to use. Old-school mini arcade cabinets with the original Pacman, Street Fighter and Galaga were set up, with many students playing them. Stations with PS4s had newer Street Fighter games along with Mortal Kombat 11. Many students flocked to the Nintendo Switch station with Smash Bros set up. A station with a PS4 VR headset allowed students to play Beat Saber and step into the realm of VR gaming. Abraar Kazi, a senior finance major, played Beat Saber and used the VR headset for the first time in his life.

“It was a lot of fun; I have always heard my friends saying it felt realistic, but I had no idea it was that realistic,” Kazi said. “It really felt like I was in another world and made me want to try out the other games VR had to offer.”

Students were treated to free food and a chance to win some items on behalf of the esports organization. Some of the giveaways included popular EA games, a new keyboard from HyperX, gaming headphones from HyperX, and tickets to the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Chicago Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament.

Immediately following the gaming party, there was an expert panel with video game industry leaders from Microsoft,

Electronic Arts (EA), Sugargamers and other companies. An opening speech

by Bob McCormick, the vice president for information systems at DePaul, told students that the main goal of the panel was to show the importance of branding within the video game industry.

Matt Feodoroff, the senior director of global demand and partnerships at Microsoft, also spoke on branding and how the rise in popularity in the gaming industry opens new doors for companies to monetize.

“A few things have happened since those 12 years or so I’ve been at Microsoft: the games themselves have dramatically improved over that time period, so the content is amazing and then the competitive aspect of it just naturally evolved from there as well," Feodoroff said. "The talent has just exploded as this passion has kind of evolved over the years."

“The talent is so great, the access to the content is there as well, and from a commercial standpoint brands have started to take aware of it," Feodoroff said.

"Brands are starting to pump money into it, which is helping everything I pretty much said before as far as games being developed, teams coming together, the amplification of their content, platforms used to watch the content, and it’s really been exciting to watch over the past 12 or so years.”

The panelists discussed how companies can benefit from sponsoring esports, how students can turn their passion for gaming into a career and where the money comes from with esports and various teams and tournaments.

The gaming center is located in the DePaul Center Concourse Level C101 and is open Monday through Friday 11:30 am to 9:30pm.

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Abraar Kazi, a senior finance major, plays Beat Saber on the PS4 VR that was set up by IPlay Games. Kazi, with other students, played games for an Esports Gaming Party and Discussion Panel.

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CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: May 22, 2019- May 28, 2019 LOOP CAMPUS

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS Seton Hall 5

Sanctuary Hall 1

3

Wish Field 2 6

DePaul Center 7

4

2

8 7

Assault & Theft

Drug & Alcohol

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS MAY 22 1) A posession of marijuana report was filed for a room in Sanctuary Hall. Chicago Police were called and a citation was issued.

2)

A motor vehicle theft report was filed for a vehicle parked on Belden near Wish Field

MAY 24 3) A criminal sexual abuse report was filed for a

Other

LOOP CAMPUS

Montana & Sheffield. A safety alert was issued to the campus community regarding the incident.

4)

A battery report was filed for a student being physically assaulted at Webster and Halsted.

5)

An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed in Seton Hall. Person was transferred to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.

MAY 22 6) A strong arm robbery was filed for a robbery

the planters in front of the DePaul Center.

at the Jackson Red Line stop. A safety alert was issued to the campus community regarding the incident.

MAY 23 7) A theft report was filed for a bathroom key taken from the DePaul Center Barnes and Noble.

8) A theft report was filed for flowers taken from

person being a victim of unwanted touching near

SNL continued from front number of SNL full-time faculty and staff members,” Comeau said.

Opitz said that reducing the number of SNL faculty was not the goal of the buyout.

“It wasn’t intended to be part of a process with the final outcome being termination of the faculty, but it was really providing faculty an option to leave if they want to or retire if they wanted to,” he said.

Opitz added that he declined to take a buyout due to his optimism about the school’s future.

“What prompted that strategy was a sense that there needed to be change in the school and the change was part of a broad set of strategies,” he said. “One is to refocus the emphasis on the programs of the school so that they would align more closely with programs that are more popular in the market. [Another change is] to do more in the space of continuing education, so we’re talking certificates, stackable credentials, non-credit based offerings.”

Others in SNL are optimistic about the changes, believing them to be a gradual progression.

“To be true, the change train at SNL has been going on for two or three years,” Comeau said. “The School of Continuing and Professional Studies is the outcome of a process of curricular innovations that has unfolded throughout that period.”

SNL enrolled 722 adult undergraduate students in Fall 2018, which is fewer than the 901 undergraduate students who enrolled in Fall 2018. The school’s enrollment has been declining since 2009, which follows in trend with the rest

GRAPH COURTESY OF DON OPITZ

This graph shows the enrollment of students of the age 24 and older. The red is the university as a whole, and green and purple are SNL enrollment only. The enrollment for both the university and SNL as a whole has been on a steady decline since 2011. of the university’s adult student enrollment statistics.

Though Opitz said he believes the buyout will move SNL in a positive new direction, the futures of other staff are less clear.

“I have not been told yes or no either way,” said Jim Caffey, an adjunct professor based in Missouri, in regard to what his position will be in the new SNL. “My future is unknown.”

While attempting to get in contact

with the staff and faculty members of SNL, a source from the school told The DePaulia that staff members were warned about being potentially interviewed and cautioned about speaking with The DePaulia.

But Opitz said he holds the school’s adjunct faculty in high regard and believes them to be essential to the school’s continued success.

“One other thing to bear in mind is that the school’s success over the

last 47 years has relied upon not just a community of full-time staff and a full-time faculty, but totally dependent upon the contributions of the part-time adjunct faculty,” Opitz said. “[...] I’m not worried about the fact that we have fewer full-time faculty; I would get really worried if we had fewer adjunct faculty.”

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XAVIER ORTEGA | THE DEPAULIA

Students shout in agreement with many of the speakers on Wednesday that were talking about how reproductive justice is a human right and how many women are being hurt and damaged from the recent abortion bans.

Reproductive justice rally educates students

By Xavier Ortega & Mackenzie Murtaugh Photo Editor & News Editor

DePaul student organizations took to the Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) pit on Wednesday, May 29 to show their support for reproductive rights.

The event was in response to the recent and national abortion debate sparked by controversial and restrictive abortion laws in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and 6 other states. The laws began a national conversation on reproductive rights, sexual justice and Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1978 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal nationally.

The event was organized by Women’s March DePaul, DePaul Socialists, Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention and Students for Reproductive Justice. Riley Reed, president of Women’s March DePaul, opened up the event by criticizing the abortion ban and other abortion and reproductive restrictions in other states.

She also criticized DePaul’s lack of resources for contraceptives and other information and options for reproductive health on campus.

“We would hope to inform people on things they didn’t know before and give them resources of places to reach out to and find access to different things,”

FACULTY COUNCIL continued from front from the Journal of Correctional Education, which said recidivism — tendency to offend more than once — decreases by 87.5 percent when students with convictions receive an associate’s or a bachelor’s degree.

Hofman said DePaul misses out when prospective students do not continue their applications.

Klingberg said she knows people are concerned about applicants convicted of sexual offenses. She said schools have implemented policies in which students convicted of violent offenses are not allowed certain internships or jobs and are not allowed to have on-campus housing.

“But we don’t want [a conviction] to affect that educational opportunity that an individual has a right to,” Klingberg said.

Reed said. “A lot of organizations that we have listed on our pamphlet, like Chicago Abortion Fund, not only provides funds for abortions to people that can afford them. It speaks to reproductive justice and just makes it more accessible for people. We also want people to know what DePaul stands for. They have not helped students at all in terms of reproductive justice and access to different reproductive needs.”

Some students attended the rally in opposition to the organizers and supporters. Alexander Duerst, a freshman environmental studies major, wanted to open up the discourse to both sides of the abortion debate.

“DePaul is not Planned Parenthood,” Duerst said.

“They should not be offering free birth control. I feel that it’s great if someone hands out condoms. Condoms is where it should start [...] The focus should be on education here. You’re in a city. There are so many resources available to you.”

The organizers of the rally provided resources for women and trans reproductive outlets that provide both the health care and information that students and community members might need. In terms of on-campus resources, Reed ended the rally with the reassurance that the DePaul Women’s Center provides resources and help for students in need. She reinforced the point that reproductive justice is aligned with

Annie Scoltock, a sophomore and president of DePaul’s chapter of the public policy organization the Roosevelt Institute, partners with SAI and is on SAI’s executive board.

Scoltock said the institute did research on higher education being cost-effective and efficient in reducing recidivism. When people have access to higher education and employment and are housing-secure, they are much less likely to reoffend, according to Scoltock.

Scoltock said no one from the Inside Out program has been released or continued their education, so eliminating the questions would increase accessibility for them.

Recidivism impacts communities of color disproportionately, according to prisonscholars.org. The website said recidivism can result in intergenerational poverty and economic mobility, and it impacts the community.

If the motion doesn’t pass, Hofman

XAVIER ORTEGA | THE DEPAULIA

Riley Reed (left), the president of Women's March DePaul, chants with Aviva Goldman (right), a freshman women gender studies major, at the rally. healthcare and human rights, and DePaul should allow access to different health care options in regard to sexual health.

"I think it would just open up more opportunities for the applicants. There are so many studies that show that education is a really good way to prevent recidivism and to get people trained, educated and keeping them away from incarceration."

Nila Ginger Hoffman

Anthropology professor and faculty sponsor said the council could tweak the language.

It is ultimately up to the administration to make the change.

Klingberg said everyone has a right to education and the ability to pursue job opportunities.

“Not only is this helping someone who is gonna face many barriers after their release because of the society that we’re in […] it can also help chances of falling back into the system,” Klingberg said.

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Nation &World

Tensions rise between leaders in Tehran, Washington

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER VIA AP; MARKUS SCHREIBER | AP; GAGE SKIDMORE | FLICKR CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei talks to students in Tehran on Wednesday, May 22, 2019; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 31, 2019; current National Security Adviser John Bolton speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

By Bianca Cseke Online Editor

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to rise as the White House announced that it will send an additional 1,500 troops to the Middle East, and President Donald Trump tweeted about “the official end of Iran” if the two countries were to go to war.

The Trump administration has said — though it hasn’t yet presented any hard proof — that Iran poses a threat because the country is getting ready for an attack of some sort against American forces and because of mysterious attacks earlier this month on four oil tankers belonging to U.S. allies — two Saudi Arabian, one Emirati and one Norwegian.

A missile was also fired at the American embassy in Baghdad earlier this month, with the U.S. suspecting Iranian-backed militias.

In response, the U.S. sent the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and additional forces to the Persian Gulf.

Former President Barack Obama negotiated a deal with Iran in 2015 that lifted economic sanctions in exchange for Iran agreeing not to build any nuclear weapons. Last year, Trump not only withdrew from that deal, but also added additional restrictions, such as penalties for countries that continue to trade with Iran.

Trump is typically considered more of an isolationist with regard to foreign policy, and he recently told reporters during a visit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his goal is not regime change. However, his national security adviser, John Bolton, has been pushing for regime change in the Middle East and beyond for decades.

In a 2015 op-ed in the New York Times entitled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran,” for example, Bolton wrote: “The inconvenient truth is that only military action like Israel’s 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed

and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.”

Bolton announced Thursday that he may present evidence of Iranian involvement in the Gulf attacks to the UN Security Council next week.

According to DePaul political science professor Scott Hibbard, who specializes in American foreign policy, Bolton “never saw a war he didn’t like.”

“If you look at their words, at their actions, one can only conclude that the goal here is regime change,” Hibbard said.

The caveat, he said, is that different people within the Trump administration have been saying conflicting things regarding Iran.

On Thursday, May 30, Bolton told reporters in London that he doesn’t think the threat from Iran is over, but that he does think the U.S.’s “quick response and deployment and other steps that we took did serve as a deterrent.”

On the other hand, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Switzerland and Germany last week, countries which both have friendly relationships with Iran and that have expressed interest in staying within the terms of the nuclear deal. There has been speculation that he might pursue back-channel communications with Iran.

Trump, meanwhile, has told reporters that he hopes the U.S. isn’t on a path to war, even as he has tweeted about the U.S.’s ability to defeat Iran.

Iranian leaders have said there will be no negotiations with the U.S. One reason for this, according to Saeid Golkar, nonresident senior fellow on Iran policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, is partly because of a cultural difference between Iran and the U.S. Iran, he said, wants to preserve its honor by having private negotiations to avoid being perceived as weak. Golkar also said he doesn’t think Trump wants regime change, but rather wants new negotiations with Iran “just for show.”

“President Trump, because of his character, wants open negotiations [in

order] to strengthen his 2020 campaign,” he told the DePaulia.

As long as a new agreement isn’t reached, the Trump administration seems intent on imposing economic sanctions on Iran.

These sanctions have been devastating, particularly on working people, because the country is having an increasingly hard time selling its oil, Hibbard said.

Iran had already been facing economic issues before the Trump administration’s sanctions. More than 3 million people, or about 12 percent of the population, are unemployed.

“You’re taking a middle-income country with a serious unemployment problem and making it worse,” said David Faris, a professor of political science at Roosevelt University.

Golkar thinks Iran is waiting until the 2020 U.S. presidential election to see if new negotiations are needed or even possible.

He said most Democratic presidential candidates support some sort of nuclear deal with the country, but negotiations may still end up being more difficult than they were for the Obama administration.

Oil exports and national income are dropping, inflation is rising and economic hardships are mounting, and the Iranian rial lost more than 60 percent of its value in the last year.

Some commentators have suggested the Trump administration wants Iran’s economic situation to grow so dire that the Iranian people demand a change in government.

Faris doesn’t believe this would work.

“The regime seems immune from the presence of popular protests,” he said.

Though it’s possible that Iranians would demand a change in leadership because of economic issues, it’s also possible that they would simply blame Trump, and subsequently the U.S., for their hardships, he wrote in his article.

In a May 23 article on the website The Conversation, University of Notre Dame peace studies professor David Cortright wrote, “[This idea] reflects the

long-discredited theory that sanctioned populations will direct their frustrations and anger at national leaders and demand a change in policy or the regime. Sanctions have never worked for this purpose.”

As far as a possible war with Iran, many experts agree that it wouldn’t make sense for the U.S., particularly because there is no imminent threat to America’s national security. It would also likely be deadly.

“Going to war with Iran doesn’t make a lot of sense from an American foreign policy perspective,” Hibbard said. “It does from a hardline Saudi Arabian or Israeli perspective.”

Those countries are staunch U.S. allies who have both been vocal in their opposition to the 2015 nuclear deal. Both are concerned about Iran becoming a stronger power in the region, and the Trump administration’s Middle East foreign policy has largely followed their lead with moves such as recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and air support for the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen civil war.

“In many respects, this was a very good deal — it avoided a nuclear-armed Iran,” Hibbard said. “What it didn’t do was put Iran back in its cage.”

Yet Iran doesn’t appear to be a strong threat to the U.S. in the short term, experts said.

“I’m not sure what the threat from Iran is right now,” Faris said. “I’d be hardpressed to tell you why one group of people is a threat to U.S. national security.”

Hibbard said it’s possible that Trump’s perception of a threat comes from Bolton and Pompeo, who have had a hawkish stance toward Iran since their time in the Bush administration.

Obama’s approach also sought to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, but it had another intent as well.

“What Obama wanted to do was engage Iranian society and bring them back to the community of nations,” Hibbard said.

“I don’t think Trump has any view toward foreign policy,” Golkar said. “What he says is based on who he talked to last.

He’s a very moody man.”

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Illinois governor set to sign bill removing abortion restrictions

States that have recently passed laws restricting abortion

By Mari Oliver Contributing Writer

A controversial abortion bill, which removes abortion restrictions in Illinois and criminal penalties for physicians who perform abortions, passed in the state Senate on Saturday along party lines with a 34-20 vote.

The bill, which previously passed in the House on Tuesday, comes as a number of states enact some of the toughest antiabortion legislation seen in decades, including Ohio, Alabama and Missouri.

The laws are widely believed to be written with the aim of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that protects women’s right to abortion in the U.S. The Reproductive Health Act, or HB2495, was introduced by Democratic Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy in February and repeals the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act as well as the Illinois Abortion Act of 1975. It lifts restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy and expands insurance coverage for abortions as well as contraceptives.

Proponents of the legislation argued that with the passage of abortion restrictions, pressure was put on the state to pass the Reproductive Health Act in Illinois before the spring legislative session on May 31. The session was extended over the weekend, where the bill easily passed in the Senate and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

It drew an emotional floor debate in the House last week as Republican Rep. Avery Bourne, who is visibly pregnant, called the bill a “massive expansion that will impact viable babies, and that is wrong.”

The strictest legislation passed in Alabama, which was signed into law three weeks ago by Gov. Kay Ivey and won’t go into effect until November. It bans abortion even in instances of rape or incest and would punish anyone performing an abortion with up to 99 years or life in prison.

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth released a statement ahead of the bill’s passage stating it “will begin a long overdue effort to

MARLEE CHLYSTEK | THE DEPAULIA Illinois' move to expand abortion protections comes as a number of states including Missouri, Ohio and Alabama pass bills restricting abortion.

directly challenge Roe v. Wade.” The bill was introduced by State Rep. Terri Collins, who also said the bill was designed to “have Roe vs. Wade turned over.”

According to the Alabama Center for Health Statistics, 6,768 Alabama residents reported induced pregnancy termination at a facility or hospital in 2017. Alabama’s abortion rates are some of the lowest in the nation.

In Illinois, 32,832 residents reported induced pregnancy termination in 2017, according to the state’s Department of Public Health.

Protests have taken place in the states with the strictest legislation. And at DePaul, there was a protest at the Schmitt Academic Center on Wednesday.

The rally was organized by oncampus groups Women’s March DePaul, DePaul Socialists, DePaul Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention and Students for Reproductive Justice from Loyola University.

Riley Reed, a freshman and the president of Women’s March DePaul, said the protest was meant to “bring light to reproductive justice in general” and also to raise awareness about what her group says is a lack of reproductive health resources at DePaul.

“We’re also kind of bringing light to DePaul and their lack of resources and lack of help to abortion,” she said. “They don’t even give out birth control.”

Reed said when she began Women’s March DePaul in 2018, she met with the coordinator for student groups and was told she wasn't allowed to distribute birth control, condoms or any information about abortion.

DePaul’s official policy, enacted in 2005, says that the university “reserves the right to restrict the distribution of medical or health supplies/devices [or] items on university premises that it deems to be inappropriate from the perspective of the institution’s mission and values.”

The policy explicitly forbids the distribution “of birth control devices, of any kind ... on university premises.”

Reed said the university has been supportive of other events organized by her group, including marches to the polls and support for local women’s shelters, but when it comes to reproductive issues the school is unmoved.

“When it comes to something that could happen because of sexual assault, like an unwanted pregnancy, no, they don’t allow that at all,” she said. “It’s very interesting. It’s very under — I don’t want

to say under the rug, but it’s very discreet with birth control options.”

Freshman Grace Bracken of DePaul Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention acknowledged that DePaul’s stance as a Catholic university may prevent them from directly providing contraceptive options.

But, she said, “at the very least they need to do more to give out information about places in the city where you can get access to contraception and reproductive health care.”

On Friday, representatives of Planned Parenthood warned that the Missouri state health department was attempting to block services at the state’s last remaining health center that provides abortion. Hours before the center’s license was set to expire, a judge issued an order allowing it to stay open. And on Thursday, Dr. Leana Wen, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood warned that “this is not a drill,” calling the efforts a public health crisis.

“This is the world that the Trump administration and Republican public officials across the country have been pushing for — a world where abortion care is illegal and inaccessible in this country,” she said.

Poor countries take on debt with China's Belt and Road Initiative

By Cole Bursch Contributing Writer

Since China introduced its plans to rebuild ancient trading routes in Eurasia in 2013, there have been billions of dollars poured into investments in Africa and Western Asia, with signed Memorandums of Understanding in a number of European countries like Italy. But while Chinese officials have touted the estimated $1.2 trillion initiative as a positive booster for the global economy, many critics have called the initiative a potential debt trap for poor and developing countries.

Functionally, the Belt and Road Initiative works in different ways, depending on the terms of its agreements with specific countries. But broadly, it is a series of ports, bridges, transit lines, power plants and other infrastructure developments built around the world by the Chinese government. Also known as the “New Silk Road” project, one of its key aims is to increase cultural and economic exchange between China and its western

neighbors, similar to the ancient trade route of the same name that connected China with countries in other parts of Asia and Europe.

“The goal is not profit, at least directly, though improved infrastructure will be of some benefit for Chinese firms,” Animesh Ghosal, professor emeritus of economics at DePaul said via email. “The Belt and Road Initiative is better viewed as a combination of aid, development loans and foreign policy (to enhance China’s influence).”

Chinese immigrant and second-year economics student at the University of Minnesota, Andy Columbus, said he doesn’t think China is “saddling” countries with debt. “'Saddling' is using poor countries through cooperation but with harmful intentions in mind,” he said. “That cannot be fully true here in the [Belt and Road] Initiative.”

Columbus cited China’s infrastructure deal with Pakistan, which has mostly been touted by the leaders of both countries as a prosperous one. China has loaned

billions of dollars to Pakistan, including for the massive China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Columbus said the relationship between the two countries is a mutually advantageous one.

“This would be beneficial to China because India is in the palm of the West, and Pakistan is a route around India via trade,” he said. “At the same time, Pakistan would be getting roads and schools that they need; this kind of bargaining is common throughout all the dealings of the initiative.”

But China is not without its critics, some of whom argue that in addition to taking advantage of poor countries, Belt and Road is also creating more economic problems for China in the future.

“There have been some questions raised in China about whether the government should be spending so much — the estimated expenditure is $1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years — abroad when there are pressing needs at home,” Ghosal said. “In addition, economists at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have

expressed concern that many of the Belt and Road projects are too risky, and that China should seek other co-lenders.”

In response to such criticism, Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the public at the annual Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation last month with pledges to increase transparency, reduce corruption and strengthen existing partnerships between China and recipients of Belt and Road projects.

Li Jin, director of the university’s Chinese studies program, said she doesn’t believe China’s goal is to trap countries in debt. Still, she said, there are aspects of the initiative that could be implemented better.

“I think this initiative is not wellorganized due to the huge number of projects, people and organizations involved in it as well as its ad-hoc nature as a multinational initiative; I predict it will be full of success stories as well as failures,” she said. “But if the majority of the projects are fruitful, the global perception of China will absolutely improve.”

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Opinions

The ePaulia staff looks back

Editor's Note: Every year, The DePaulia's Opinions section is a place for members of the DePaul community to come together and engage with ideas worth sharing. In our final issue of the 2018-2019 academic year, we're dedicating a part of that space to the reflections and experiences of our editorial staff. What we've learned, what we've loved, what we need to improve on. sexual assault at DePaul’s “Take Back the Night,” event on April 15.

Managing Editor The photo was powerful, moving Good intentions can be a curious even, and would have been selected by thing. They seem foolproof at first — as almost any photographer or editor at any long as your intentions are pure, nobody professional or collegiate newspaper to can fault you, right? But that’s not always run with the story. Our intention was the case, as we learned at The DePaulia to replicate those emotions as close as this year. possible to the real event.

By nature, journalists generally keep Not long after our newspapers hit the their intentions at the front of their newsstands the Monday following that mind. And that is what The DePaulia event, The DePaulia found itself under was doing when we published a photo fire from the subject of the photo for of a brave woman fighting back tears at exploiting her experience to drive clicks a microphone as she shared her story of to our website and social media. When of the work I do and how important it

By Ella Lee is to lift up the voices of those that are Focus Editor oftentimes diminished by those in high Some of the best “real-life” journalism positions. experience have been acquired during my In the same issue, we published a time working for The DePaulia. piece I wrote about a campus event, This year, I was given the opportunity Take Back the Night. The reaction was to write about our university’s Title vastly different. When an image the IX department. The article’s topic was editors chose to accompany the article sensitive, and oftentimes, painful to was deemed insensitive by the subject, discuss with sources, staff members and the social media and real-life backlash my co-writer, Emma Oxnevad, alike. was vast. While the photo wasn’t my The sources I spoke with shared with me choice, much of the online hate was their most personal stories, and in turn, directed toward my article because of its they put their trust in me to share those association with the image. Again, the stories, to hold accountable the people gravity of journalism and its impact — who had wronged them or made them intentional or not — was revealed to me, feel uncomfortable at their own school. but in a very different way.

For me, this story emphasized the gravity

By Shane Rene

By Emma Oxnevad Assistant News Editor

When I was hired as Assistant News Editor at the end of my freshman year, I didn’t really know what to expect. I had no experience working as an editor and was unsure of how I would fit in the role.

While it's uncertain if and when I’ll ever truly get a hold of InDesign, it has been a great year working for The DePaulia.

My favorite story that I worked on this year has to be my story with Ella on the issues with DePaul’s Title IX department.

I have absolutely no formal education in investigative reporting, and it was a great lesson in teaching oneself and learning from experience. While working on the story, I became very attached to the issue and I want to give thanks to everyone who

By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief

I became the editor-in-chief amid something of a downturn for our paper at the end of last year’s school year. It was a time when simply being able to put out 28 pages of news, opinions, arts & entertainment and sports stories every week seemed heroic.

We had to figure out some staffing issues and plant our feet. We slowly but surely got everything under control, and set to work on doing what we do.

Since the beginning of this academic year, we put out 812 pages of news. That’s like a full Harry Potter book, but with better stories. The staff has done this with such grace that it no longer feels heroic. They set a new standard.

spoke to us on their experiences with the department. It was incredibly rewarding to publish the story after being up to our eyeballs in information, and I hope to see some legitimate change come from the reporting.

My first year at The DePaulia has been such a stressful, educational, and rewarding time. Given my lack of experience when I first started, I was very intimidated by the staff and felt unqualified to be on board with older students who had a lot more experience than me. It didn’t take long for me to feel comfortable with the staff, and they’re all great people to be around in addition to being talented journalists. Thanks for a great year, and I’m looking forward to more fun next year!

I’m graduating, so I’m passing the torch to the next crop of DePaulia editors and writers, many of whom I have come to know well and am blessed to count as colleagues, but also as friends. In the early days of my tenure as the editor, I offered reporting and editing advice to them. But lately, they’ve begun offering advice to me.

Next year’s staff will certainly achieve great things. They have already shown themselves to be fearless reporters, beautiful writers and expert page designers. The DePaul community will owe them a debt of gratitude for the service that they will provide — for free, mind you — to our 28,000-strong slice of Chicago.

Emma Oxnevad and Ella Lee have proven to be a dogged investigation duo, holding power to account and breaking

DePaulia staffers heard the news, many were heartbroken. There is nothing worse than hearing that a real life victim has been harmed by your work. Hearing people say that The DePaulia doesn’t care about survivors of sexual assault was hard to swallow and couldn’t be further from the truth — if it was, we would have never covered the event in the first place.

We stood by our decision to publish that photo, and still do, but elected to take it down because we didn’t want to cause any more undue harm. We can’t argue with someone claiming to be hurt by our reporting. Then we got hit from the otherside, with well-qualified journalism professors saying that we set a dangerous precedent by allowing a subject of a story to impact what we do and do not publish.

And they were right, too. Good intentions, it turns out, are only half the battle.

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

This was my second year as the Arts & Life editor and I've had some tremendous opportunities presented to me through this position. And while meeting celebrities is always as cool as you'd expect, most of my favorite experiences took place in the DePaulia office as we spent every Friday and Sunday putting together a 28-page paper that we can be proud of. The DePaulia staff are some of the hardest-working people I've had the pleasure to meet and it's a privilege to work with them week after week, reporting on the things that matter to us and our fellow DePaul students.

A personal reporting highlight for me was the week I spent with DePaul's ROTC students, joining them in class and during training to share their story. Ultimately, the story ran as a two-page Focus spread including my feature and my photos of them. This would not have been possible without the Military Science department accepting me with open arms and agreeing to let me in on their routine. For me, this reaffirmed the important role of relationships with the community when it comes to effective reporting. To this day, it remains the story of which I am proudest. big stories. Mackenzie Murtaugh has established herself as a delightful writer who tells human stories with care and compassion. Lacey Latch, next year’s managing editor — well, don’t piss her off.

Next year’s editor-in-chief, Shane Rene, asked me at the end of last year who I thought the best writer on staff was. At the time, the staff was a little thin.

I, rather arrogantly, replied that I thought I was (for the record, he agreed).

That is no longer the case. Shane surpassed me in writing ability this year. I knew it when I copy edited his review of the third season of “High Maintenance.”

So don’t be surprised when The DePaulia you knew this year is unrecognizable in September. I know I won’t be.

By Mackenzie Murtaugh News Editor

This year, The DePaulia took on topics and criticisms we had yet to discover and learn from. From the administration to ethical debates to personal accounts of adversity, we tackled them with integrity and, at times, discomfort.

I spent the last year-and-a-half at the Opinions desk, crafting criticisms on politics, culture and the university. I developed my critical and editorial skills, but I knew that I wanted to do something more with my time on the paper.

After stepping into the News section as the section editor this past quarter, we wanted to ensure the DePaul community would constantly come back to the paper for the information least talked about on campus. My proudest moment was when I spoke to a formerly homeless student who lives in a house affiliated with DePaul for housing insecure students. He reflected on his past with pride and passion, unable to allow his adversity to overshadow his future. By letting me highlight the issues of housing insecure on college campuses, more students can reflect on their own privilege and recognize that the student body is much more diverse, and hurt, than it seems.

Looking into the future, our readers can expect the same unbiased and fair reporting we have strove to achieve this year. We will continue to highlight underrepresented issues on campus and in the city, and we hope our readers enjoy reading them as much as we appreciate reporting on them.

By Bianca Cseke Online Editor

I had no idea what to expect from my experience at The DePaulia. That sounds strange coming from someone who had almost four years of student media experience under their belt from their undergrad school’s paper. Yet all I knew coming into DePaul for grad school was that I wanted somewhere I could keep writing news and grow from a decent writer to a great one, and that I couldn’t imagine giving up student media since it had literally shaped me into the person I am today.

So becoming online editor, particularly before the academic year was even finished, wasn’t something I would’ve predicted, but it’s given me a job to look forward to, talented colleagues to be around and a way to feel more connected to DePaul, and that’s something I can only be grateful for. I can say I’m proud of the paper’s improved online presence.

There’s so much more I want to do to make it even better next year, like more multimedia content on a weekly basis, daily original content, a more userfriendly website, an email newsletter and better engagement of our audience on social media. I’m glad I’m lucky enough to have another shot at it at The DePaulia.

The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.

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Eight weeks later: how the student coalition to #CensureHill won

By Rifqa Falaneh Contributing Writer

This quarter at DePaul has been an absolute mess, to say the least. At the same time, however, it has also been one of immense growth and community.

Earlier this quarter, a coalition of student organizations released a statement condemning Professor Jason D. Hill for his pattern of racist, anti-Palestinian, xenophobic, sexist and Islamophobic statements.

Hill has called Middle Eastern and Muslim people “uncivilized,” “barbaric” and “primitive” in his tweets. He has also attacked the Black Lives Matter movement, and in an article for The Federalist, openly called for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. So, as you can see, he’s an overall problematic dude caught while holding a position of power.

Don’t believe me? Just scroll through his Twitter to see for yourself.

From the start, this campaign has caught widespread attention not only from DePaul’s campus, but also from local, national and international media as well. Moreover, it has garnered support through a petition of more than 3,400 signatures and the coalition hosted a rally of over 200 students, faculty and others to pressure DePaul’s administration to censure Hill and have him commit to racial sensitivity training.

Many have tried to misconstrue this message under the guise of academic freedom and the whole free speech debate, and it’s simply ridiculous. The overall message from students is simple:

Condemn hate speech and create a safe environment on campus. As a DePaul student myself, I am constantly reminded of the Vincentian mission, but with this situation, DePaul was hesitant in upholding their Vincentian values. As students maintained the pressure and continued to mobilize and organize for their demands, the administration had no choice but to confront this issue.

This resulted in a meeting between Acting Provost Salma Ghanem, LAS Dean Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco and leaders of the coalition. The meeting was productive overall and two days following it, Ghanem released a statement condemning Hill. This was a big win for students and, to celebrate, the coalition, with the co-sponsorship from multiple COURTESY OF RIFQA FALANEH departments, held a celebratory dinner/ Rifqa Falaneh (second from the left) speaks with other student coalition organizers iftar in the SAC Pit. against Professor Jason Hill on her Radio DePaul show "Fresh Eyes."

Although Hill was censured, this is just the first step. The coalition is continuing strong and will not stop until their long-term demands are met. This is to ensure that another “Milo incident” doesn’t happen and that DePaul addresses racism and other issues appropriately.

Hate speech today is very different than hate speech historically and should be treated as a serious offense. In the age of social media, words travel and negatively impact the lives of many. Hate speech is an alarm we cannot afford to snooze or ignore. We must wake up and actively work against it.

Rifqa Falaneh is a junior majoring in International Studies. As a Students for Justice in Palestine board member, she COURTESY OF RIFQA FALANEH is one of the leading organizers for the Signs hanging on the stairwell of Arts and Letters Hall during an April 23 "Dump Hill" protest. student coalition for #CensureHill.

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Focus

The Reality o

From “An American Family” to “The Bachelo

By Ella Lee Focus Editor

In the UK, 70 percent of the population admit to watching reality TV on a regular basis, according to a survey by JobMonkey.com

Since the airing of “An American Family,” the first-ever reality TV show, different shows have garnered headlines in tabloid papers and magazines nearly year-round in what many describe as a cultural phenomenon.

Lately, it’s been hard to avoid the influx of tweets from season 15 of “The Bachelorette,” which inundate the Twitter timeline come “Bachelor Mondays.”

“I think that the idea of people competing for love—it’s incredibly universal,” said Jose Soto, an assistant professor in DePaul’s School of Cinematic Arts. “The struggle is people trying to or kidding themselves into love. I mean, it’s enjoyable to watch.”

With shows like “The Bachelor,” it may seem challenging to keep crowds engaged, given the similar content every season. But the repetitiveness may be what makes the show appealing.

“I don’t think enjoyment or pleasure necessarily requires novelty,” said Alexander Thimons, an adjunct media and cinema studies professor at DePaul. “One reason why people seek out repetitive TV shows may be because the repetition is itself relaxing or comforting, especially if viewers’ own lives are hectic or tumultuous.”

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TV] is that it’s entertaining and based on the lives of other people and perspectives,” said Jess Schmidt, an undergraduate student at UIC. “But it’s hard to determine what actually is reality and what’s staged.”

Despite the fact that reality TV show phenomenons like “Survivor” and “The Bachelor” are accompanied each season by fandoms and months-long build-ups, it’s unlikely the viewership is as high as it may seem in the social media echo chamber.

“There are shows that have nearly as many viewers as ‘cultural phenomenon’ shows, but that aren’t discussed as phenomenons because the audience may be mostly a demographic that is undesirable to advertisers and whose cultural tastes are not discussed in the press, such as the elderly,” Thimons said.

He added that even the most popular shows on television today don’t come close to matching the viewership of popular shows during the network era, like “M*A*S*H” or “All in the Family,” largely due to the introduction of cable and streaming.

Though the way people watch television is changing, it’s unlikely these shows will ever disappear.

“Probably the one thing that draws people out the most to this thing is the illusion that these people might be just like you,” Soto said. “It’s just not actors pretending to be like you. This is really people like you trying to achieve something. They can pick anybody on the street and then that person becomes a superstar. That is the ultimate dream that a lot of people have.”

In a JobMonkey.com survey, it was found that for US girls between the ages of 12 and 17, three of their four favorite shows were reality TV.

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Arts & Life

Current exhibitions highlight trends through local lens

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Eric J. Garcia's "The Bald Eagle's Toupee" on display at The DePaul Art Museum. Garcia is a veteran and an artist whose work serves as a critique of widespread violence.

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

The DePaul Art Museum rests cozily tucked next to the Fullerton ‘L’ stop, its exhibits promoted on the track-facing facade next to the stop that services thousands of commuters each day. This spring, it is highlighting New Age influences and military veterans perspectives in two different exhibitions throughout the building. All exhibits take about a year to plan before they are ready for display, and these two are now up and free of cost until Aug. 11.

The decision-making process of what exhibitions make it into the museum is complex and largely guided by its connection to DePaul, said Julie Rodrigues Widholm, the museum’s director and chief curator who ultimately chooses each exhibit.

"I'm really thinking about the mission of the university in general and how we can amplify and bring visibility specifically to diversity and inclusion in museums,” she said. “We're really trying to expand the canon.”

The “New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival” exhibit takes a look at the New Age Movement of the 1960s and 70s that arose out of social unrest and took alternative approaches to Western civilization. For many, this took the form of environmentalism, mysticism and spirituality, among other things. In

Examples of the work from the "New Age, New Age" exhibition. this exhibition, work from 27 artists is “There’s a real critique in his work presented that interact with New Age that I really found fascinating,” Rodrigues concepts in some way, whether it be to Widholm said of Garcia’s exhibition. embrace, challenge or disavow them His work at DPAM is one part of the nearly 50 years after they first entered the inaugural National Veterans Art Museum mainstream discourse.

Triennial and Veteran Art Summit in The most eye-catching element, which veterans explore the complexities though, is an installation in Eric J. Garcia’s of war and survival as well as challenging “The Bald Eagle’s Toupee” titled “War the perception that war is off-limits and Nest.” It was originally on display in the incomprehensible for civilians through National Veterans Art Museum in 2016 their art. The DePaul Art Museum is part and currently resides on DPAM’s second of the triennial alongside the Chicago floor, along with new projected animations Cultural Center and the Veterans Art to supplement it. Originally from New Museum, where installations, exhibits, Mexico, Garcia honed his craft in Chicago panels and workshops took place in early while attending the School of the Art May. Institute of Chicago for his master’s degree.

"I've been an arts professional for 20

years and I was really rarely seeing the experience of soldiers and veterans as artists represented in museums,” Rodrigues Widholm said. “So for me, I'm also the daughter of an Army officer, I was really passionate about bringing those voices into the dialogue around contemporary art."

In the month since the exhibitions opened to the public, Rodrigues Widholm said the reception has been positive overall.

“We have been giving a lot of tours to middle school and high school groups, and they responded to both exhibitions in a really interesting way,” she said. “I find there's something in the museum that everyone can relate to in one way or another."

These exhibits also function as part of The DePaul Art Museum’s overarching mission as an institution. Built in just 2011, the young museum is in the unique position to have complete control over what it will become, what it will represent and who it will serve “We're really thinking broadly about what issues, what stories are not being shown or represented in other museums and how can we provide a place for those stories and experiences that we're not seeing elsewhere,” Rodrigues Widholm said. “And in that way, we really want to be a leader. We're a small museum, but we have big ambitions to really be a leader in the field, especially contemporary museums, to really rethink, ‘What is an art museum for the 21st century?’”

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An antidote to ignorance Profs & Pints democritizes access to education

By Shane Rene Managing Editor

From climate science deniers to anti-vaxxers to flat-earthers, refusing to trust the world’s leading scientists and scholars is more popular than ever before. And if you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that this way of thinking has become a political necessity for some of the most powerful people in the world.

According to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker database, President Donald Trump has made 10,111 false or misleading claims through 828 days in office — many of which he continues to repeat. And his base couldn’t be happier, as Gallup Polls show a Republican job approval rating of around 90 percent. That number among Democrats is just nine percent.

John Donoghue, a professor of early American and Atlantic world history at Loyola University, offers what may be an explanation of this phenomenon: a widespread loss of respect for the nation’s scholars, intellectuals and experts.

“We're seeing a lessening respect for experts in whatever field that might be — the humanities, the sciences and so forth,” Donoghue said. “We're seeing almost a celebration of populist ignorance as a badge of, you know, the ‘real people.’

“When we throw away the professionalization of knowledge and what that adds to our society and civic culture we're going down a dangerous dangerous path. We're a republic; our citizenry, the vitality of the republic, depends on an informed citizenry.”

As experts seem to be losing their reverence in American society, some champions of academia are finding new ways to provide access to collegelevel lectures for all, without the stuffy, elite classroom environment. Among those champions is Peter Schmidt, the founder and CEO of Profs and Pints, a public lecture circuit that brings a wide

range of scholars to local bars and eateries to educate and entertain new audiences.

Schmidt spent a long career as an education journalist for the Chronicle of Higher Education before getting laid off in 2017, when the Chronicle hacked off 15 percent of its staff. At 53, Schmidt was less than enthused about contending with an insecure labor market, so he decided to take a chance on what he thought might be a fresh idea.

Schmidt approached the manager at a popular Washington, D.C bar and comedy club called the Bier Baron Tavern, with an idea to hand over the stage to accomplished scholars to lecture on everything from the behavior of urban racoons, to deep dives on historical figures like British Naval Captain Henry Morgan. The idea sold in the room.

“The Bier Baron Tavern is a comedy club, so people don't generally want to go out and be drinking heavily and seeing a comedian on Monday or Tuesday night, you know — it's a ticket to being unproductive the next day,” Schmidt said. “So the idea of having something that could be taking place during happy hour, people can come over after work and have some nachos or, you know, a couple beers or whatever and feel like they're learning something.”

For just $12 online or $15 at the door (minus a $2 student discount with a school ID), any member of the public can kick their feet up at a local pub and learn from a bonafide expert without the soaring costs of a college course.

“The key mission of the company is democratizing access to higher learning,” Schmidt said. “Another key prong is providing scholars with new audiences and, especially in the case of the adjuncts out there, a new income source. And my goal here has been to alleviate and not exploit the poverty of adjuncts, because I feel like the

goodwill of people involved in this is really helping this company spread and wins customers. It helps me get talent and all that.”

Adjunct faculty are often marginalized in their profession, with many highly qualified scholars and professors struggling to get by. The average adjunct faculty at DePaul makes around $3,000 per class, per term, which doesn’t always pay the bills with a full year of work. "[Adjuncts] might teach 20 students paying full freight of $3,200 a course, and the adjunct is making maybe $5,000-6,000 to have the school secure $64,000 in revenue," Chair of DePaul’s Workplace Environment Committee Nathan DeWitt said. He said adjuncts often feel like secondclass citizens among university faculty.

Schmidt is all too familiar with that struggle from his time covering higher education.

“We were writing about adjuncts who are living out of their cars, on food stamps, dying from lack of proper medical care ... And, you know, there's so much wrong,” Schmidt said.

“It's actually a stupid way for society to treat scholars because people who are poor and uneducated have a hard time defending themselves and you start oppressing your society's smartest members, you’re gonna get a revolution on your hand.”

Profs and Pints, while small and still growing, fights back against this culture of contempt for our scholars — Schmidt calls it a return to a more socratic style of education, where the community gathers around a scholar to learn for the sake of learning.

If you wish to attend a Profs and Pints event, you can visit their facebook page to see upcoming dates in select metropolitan areas around the country.

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Deadwood: The Movie

IMAGE COURTESY OF WARRICK PAGE/HBO

Ian McShane as Al Swearengen in "Deadwood: The Movie," a return to the fan-favorite HBO series over a decade after its abrupt cancellation in 2006.

A good western and a great finale

By Brian Pearlman Nation & World Editor

“Deadwood,” creator/writer David Milch’s abrasive yet finely-wrought HBO Western series set in late-1800s South Dakota, is back. The show was nominated for 28 Emmys and won eight over the course of its roughly two-and-a-half years on air.

Now, over a decade later, fans of the show have the proper send-off they’ve long demanded after a terse season three finale, and the uninitiated have a splendidlyproduced two-hour Western to enjoy.

The main plot trappings here will be familiar to anyone who’s seen a Hollywood Western in the last several years or played the popular “Red Dead Redemption” video games: It’s the tail end of the 19th century, and modernity is approaching the oncewild American frontiers. In Deadwood, South Dakota, a hardscrabble workingclass town of miners, brothels and saloons, the devious Sen. George Hearst (based on real-life magnate William Randolph Hearst’s father and played with delicious venom by Gerald McRaney) has returned from California with his sights set not on mining, but on telephones. He wants to to install phone lines on land he hopes to acquire from Charlie Utter (Dayton Callie), and when Charlie refuses to sell, it kicks off a series of standoffs between Hearst and a crew of regulars from the show — among them the morals-tested Marshal Seth Bullock (“Justified’s” Timothy Olyphant), former prostitute and new mother Trixie (“Ray Donovan’s” Paula Malcomson) and dying saloon/brothel proprietor Al Swearengen (British actor Ian MacShane in a towering performance).

“Hearst doesn’t deserve your land, Charlie,” Bullock tells his friend early in the movie. “Nor ought I either fail to bring to mind the bastard’s disposition to foul play.”

As was true in the TV series, the movie, penned by Milch himself, has a uniquely rich style of dialogue through which characters argue and discuss dealings, desires and sometimes even the

nature of reality itself. It’s metaphorical and music-like; hearing it for the first time is akin to hearing actors perform lines of Shakespeare after only having read “Hamlet” in high school. Swearing was an art form on “Deadwood” and it’s abundant here; while 19th-century prospectors probably weren’t dropping f-bombs with any regularity, perhaps it makes more sense to use today’s cuss words rather than period-accurate terms that would be lost on modern viewers. Plus, it grounds the characters’ often elegant soliloquies in the harsh reality of their environs.

While the story features an ensemble cast, Swearengen is unavoidably the standout and, crucially to the plot, he is dying of cirrhosis of the liver due to a life of drinking. He’s still a hard man, respected and feared in Deadwood, but he’s losing vitality and his work is becoming burdensome. In a scene exemplifying this, the once-proud womanizer tells prostitute Caroline (Jade Pettyjohn) upon her propositioning him that, “I am out, as I told you, of sorts — [of] commission, activity.

And more and more forgetful what the whole sordid f- - -ing business is to signify.”

The scene ends with the two holding each other as they fall asleep, as the normally gruff Swearengen sheds an uncharacteristic tear after uttering a final, terrifying notion: “Christ, I do have feelings.”

There’s no need to have seen the previous 36 episodes to appreciate the weight of this line, but the filmmakers have helpfully included a few discreet flashbacks to catch viewers up on key events. While some are still a bit confusing, in most cases it’s clear what you’re being shown from and why.

That doesn’t change the fact that some character interactions and shared histories will carry a lot more meaning for viewers who’ve seen the show: Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert)’s relationship with former madam Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens), for example, and even a bit of the will-theywon’t-they between the married Bullock and businesswoman Alma Ellsworth

(Molly Parker).

“Deadwood: The Movie” is an entertaining two hours of frontier grit and ear-tickling dialogue that should

please anyone who loves good dialogue and period pieces that don’t pull punches.

It also happens to a rock-solid characterdriven Western on its own.

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Left: Alexis Fletcher has more than 15 tattoos and plans on getting more. Right: Angelina Mcadory’s heart tattoo on her wrist, dedicated to her grandmother.

By Keira Wingate Contributing Writer

Fashion is who someone is – their spirit, personality, vibe. Accessorizing that spirit can change a look to fit any situation, no matter what the occasion calls for. Tattoos are one accessory that add to any look and can go with you everywhere.

Tattoos have been around for thousands of years. These permanent designs stand for plain or elaborate things, love, personal things – they stain your skin with memories.

Going back to about 2000 B.C, tattoos have been a part of life. While there is no exact date on when ink began needling its way into skin, it’s been around long enough and made its way into something even more mainstream today.

It doesn’t matter whether you have one, none or many. There’s something about a tattoo peeking out of a long sleeve shirt on the wrist or the flip of someone’s hair revealing a shoulder tattoo of flowers, with the perfect amount of shading to give that rose a three-dimensional effect. They are a form of art and an accessory that you never have to worry about losing.

“When it comes to accessorizing, I am a bit of a minimalist,” said Angelina Mcadory, a freshman at DePaul. “I like dainty, thin, simple and neutral-colored accessories.

Same with tattoos. So, I feel like they add to my aesthetic rather than making a statement.”

They can be meaningful, or they can

just simply be a rad piece of art that would look too incredible on a forearm to pass up – even if it doesn’t mean something personal. Tattoos are expressive, creative and permanent. Permanent accessories that will add an element to any casual, white Fruit of the Loom T-shirt or that pink, glittery crop top picked up from Forever 21.

“Getting tattoos has made my confidence in my body soar,” said Alexis Fletcher, a freshman at DePaul. “Why hide my arms when they’re covered with great tattoos? I use every excuse now to wear tank tops so I can show my tattoos off. I feel like I look better in any outfit I put on now that I have tattoos.”

Clothes are sewn, buttoned, zipped and dyed. It can take hours and hours to put a piece together that really grabs someone’s attention. Tattoos do the same thing. They are designed for a specific person and a specific area. Just how that specific striped shirt brings out confidence in someone, that tattoo on the back of a calf brings out confidence in someone else.

“I want more tattoos because I’m not done expressing myself,” Fletcher said. “I have so many ideas; I’ll keep getting tattoos until those ideas run out. My body is my canvas, and I choose to keep decorating that canvas with beautiful tattoos.”

As everyone has heard, beauty is pain.

Embrace the beauty behind the ink that’ll forever bring meaning and memories to life.

Tiondra Turton, a freshman at DePaul, has two tattoos. One of them is a fake heart transforming into a real one. Her tattoo symbolizes love and is also dedicated to her mother who had the same heart condition as her, known as Marfan Syndrome.

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IGOR

The break-up album that proves Tyler, the Creator belongs in a category all his own

By John Cotter Contributing Writer

Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Bon Iver. Break-up albums have been a staple in the music landscape, with these 21st century auteurs having some of the most soul-drenching of personal stories that reach something deeply humanistic: the loss of a loved one. This loss, whether through death or separation, is one that Tyler, the Creator has clearly been dealing with lately, which he chronicles sonically in his new album, “IGOR.” Tyler, the Creator recently has been quietly slithering his way into the mainstream, with his previous album, “Flower Boy,” garnering him critical acclaim and fanfare, with a deserved Grammy nomination to follow. So, where do you go after that?

For Tyler, you go in every direction musically while sticking to the basics lyrically. This gives Tyler a jungle gym of styles, sounds and inspirations to work with, as the bass-heavy percussions contrast the lo-fi, funk melodies to suggest that Tyler is as emotionally diffused as all of us. The tonal consistency of abrasively inconsistent feelings of loving someone, wanting to forget all about them and then just wanting to be “friends” is something that Tyler knows is a common theme, but the ways he goes about telling his story is anything but conventional.

The album’s tracklist act as anecdotal

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The rule-breaking formula that Tyler follows on this project reminds me of potential inspirations all across the board. From Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” to Kanye West’s “Yeezus,” it’s always hard to predict where the album’s tonal essence will go. The swaying variety of the instrumentals determine this tone alongside Tyler’s fluctuating intonation, making for a truly unique emotionallydriven experience.

I stress the word “experience” because that is the kind of journey that Tyler takes us on: one of blissful highs and depressing lows. In Tyler’s lovelife though, these highs and lows seem to be spliced with feelings of hatred, embrace and cognitive dissonance that can make the sanest of individuals lose grasp of their sanity. Everything feels complete and intentional, yet messy and discombobulated. It reflects the feeling of loss and mysticism when a relationship, or the semblance of one, subtly fades away, no matter how close we want to hold them or how far we want them to be. The album leaves us shaken, stirred and mixed-up with so many styles and influences that make something wholly unique. We feel lost but on the right path, a path curated and rightfully designated by Tyler, the Creator, a stage name that feels equally as deserved, with his style finally being as great as his resonating substance.

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Plants bring health, life to interior design

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Jessica Roberts has over 20 plants just on her window sillls alone. North-facing windows allow for consistent sunlight making it easy for growth and care.

By Keira Wingate Contributing Writer

Plants add a bright and earthy feeling to any space – welcoming a relaxed sense of breath and awakening. Imagine coming home to a place that has a crisp smell that makes every nose hair stand up and greenery so subtle yet eye-catching, it’ll bring a smirk to even the grumpiest face.

Adding plants into any design space adds more than just style – they add health benefits to life. Studies show that indoor plants improve concentration and productivity by 15 percent. NASA has also done research that reveals houseplants can remove up to 87 percent of air toxins in just 24 hours. With plants being able to reduce stress levels and boost your mood – they are perfect for your home and office space, too.

Creating the perfect green haven will bring the sun into your life in more ways than one. Fill up window sills with a bunch of succulents, and drape vibrant ivy down curtain rails with a shimmering white curtain to go along with it. A side table in

the living room styled with the perfect cup of hot coffee – with two scoops of sugar – and a snake plant add warmth to a dull morning.

Whether it be fake or real plants, adding a splash of green to any setting is bound to attract attention. It can also hide the worst imperfections in a space or simply enhance the already-loved space. Take it from me – currently hiding a massive hole in the wall with a fake plant that was too cheap at Ross Dress For Less to not shove in my cart.

“My favorite part of actual plants is the nurturing aspect, so I obviously prefer watching my real ones grow,” said Krista Plemmens, a 26-year-old who has propagated 10 plants so far. Propagating plants is an easy and inexpensive way to create new plants from other plants – even stems and leaves could work.

“But, I actually have this one fake plant I bought as a joke years ago tucked into the corner of my room,” Plemmens said. “One of my roommates recently complimented it, saying it was her favorite plant of mine. I died [laughing] right then and there.”

Instead of decorating an entertainment center with everything Target has to offer in the home section, think of getting a radiant succulent that doesn’t need much care, but will give off oxygen and beauty all in the same day. Plants can also be cheap and can be displayed in any type of pot or container that catches the eye. Think of a glowing gold pot with specks of white and black next to the TV – inside is a mix of greenery that makes watching the news a tad bit more uplifting.

“I use [plants] for pleasure and purpose,” said Jessica Roberts, a 28-yearold who owns 32 plants, not including the multiple propagations she has done.

“I normally get a new plant for pleasure and then find a purpose in my design. But, ultimately, the plants rule the design since I only have two windows and they all need light.”

Plants aren’t going to be incredibly easy to take care of right away, but don’t let that discourage the desire to add more into any setting. I personally only have eight fake plants and even those are probably dying.

There are a lot of easier plants to start off with, such as succulents, a spider plant or a snake plant that can handle a lot of neglect – and I mean a lot. Plants such as those don’t require tons of sun or water.

If I happen to forget to water one for 12 days, it’ll still be there waiting for the love I should be giving it, but instead is going to my cat. “I personally get a lot of pride and ownership from keeping something alive,” Roberts said. “It grounds me, in a way, to use my hands to pot something. To watch the miracle of growth, happen in my propagations, especially in water when you can see all the roots and to be aware that nature knows so much more than I do.”

Even if you don’t have a green thumb – which I do not – the benefits to adding plants into any setting are incredible in both appearance and health. Start small and make it up to the big plants that’ll tower over even the tallest of lamps. Eventually, the little jungle that gets created will ease everyday life in style and comfort. Just beware: My cat confuses plants with a litter box sometimes. Just some food for thought.

Left: Plemmens currently has 32 plants, which are all in her small bedroom. Right: Roberts uses plants to help hide things in her apartment that she would rather not have shown.

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what’s FRESH on Netflix

Always Be My Maybe

When They See Us

Netflix has made a bit of name for themselves in the romantic comedy department. Mega hits like “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” “When We First Met” and “Set it Up” put the streaming service firmly on the map for releasing light, fluffy and endlessly re-watchable rom-coms with wildly entertaining turns from an array of up-and-coming and A-list talents. The latest rom-com from Netflix is Nahnatchka Khan’s “Always Be My Maybe,” starring “Fresh off The Boat”’s Randall Park, comedian Ali Wong and featuring a show-stopping bit role from none other than Keanu Reeves.

Ava DuVernay’s follow-up to her staggeringly disappointing “A Wrinkle in Time” is a fresh and masterful reminder as to why she is one of the most invigorating and gifted talents in the film industry today. The four-part mini series chronicles the harrowing and angering story of the Central Park Five: Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise and Raymond Santana, who were wrongly fully convicted of a brutal assault and rape in 1989 and then later cleared of their charges in 2014.

“Always Be My Maybe” follows Sasha and Marcus, two childhood friends that everyone except themselves always thought would end up together.

Things become complicated when the two reconnect with one another in their adulthood, where they realize they have totally fallen for one another.

On the surface, it may hit as formulaic, but Khan has crafted a film that is not only a total delight to watch, but one that also serves as a heartfelt look at contemporary middle-class Asian America. The laughs hit hard (especially from Reeves) and the film handedly won me over in the end.

The perfect breezy streaming film for summertime.

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In theaters & upcoming films May 31 “Rocketman" An imaginative look at Elton John's meteoric rise throughout the years.

Stars: Richard Madden, Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard June 7 “Late Night" A prominent late-night host suspects she is on the brink of losing her talk-show.

Stars: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling June 7 “Dark Phoenix" The X-Men must decide between one of their own and the rest of the population as Jean Grey becomes the Dark phoenix.

Stars: Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy

DuVernay directs each episode with a uniquely distinct impression of sensitivity and intensity that elicits equal parts empathy and rage as to what is taking place in front of us on the screen. Not only this, but she is working with a powerhouse all-star cast full of amazing performances. It’s a big, ambitious ensemble piece that asks a lot of really difficult questions in regard to the brokenness of the U.S. justice system. No punches are pulled, but DuVernay adds a very necessary layer of humanity that makes the viewing experience of “When They See Us” very rewarding.

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By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

These past two years at the helm of the Arts & Life section has been both a pleasure and a privilege. At the same time, the task of coming up with a theme for DeJamz every week was a consistent thorn in my side — trust me, it’s harder than it seems.

For one, I simply don’t listen to that much music, and when I do it’s usually the same 10 songs on repeat. This section forced me to change that and in the process, the dedicated DeJammerz who have kept track of my recommendations have seen a wide range of genres and artists that I love. As my final hoorah, here are four of my favorite songs that represent a part of my music preferences.

1. “End of the Road" Machine Gun Kelly (feat. blackbear) As I mentioned, I have a tendency to stick with a small number of songs to play on a loop until I make myself sick of the tune. Most recently I’ve stumbled into a Machine Gun Kelly phase and “End of the Road” has been the highlight. From his 2012 album “Lace Up,” the song comes from a time when both MGK and blackbear were still working their way to the spotlight. Now, they’re both successful artists.

Blackbear’s hook is endlessly catchy interwoven with MGK’s lyrically complex verses. He breaks down the adversity he faced while following his dream and how he silenced his doubts to make it to the top.

2. “On the Road Again" Willie Nelson Another tidbit of information about me — I grew up living with my grandparents and their taste in music greatly influenced mine.

To this day, “On the Road Again” remains one of my favorite songs both because Willie Nelson provides easy-listening for any occasion and some of my fondest memories are tied to this tune.

As my grandmother and I, two best friends with 50 years between them, drove around New Jersey in our golden, dentridden minivan, we sang this at the top of our lungs. We danced, we laughed and we cemented our lifelong connection with a single song, and I can thank Nelson for that.

3. “Night Shift" - Jon Pardi I’m from South Jersey (read: farms and cows) and as such I am legally required at birth to like country music and being the lawabiding citizen I am, I really do.

Look, I understand that country music isn’t for everyone but boy does it make me want to just roll down a grassy hill into some sunflowers. Jon Pardi is a safe place to start for those who don’t like to say “I listen to anything but country.” His songs are catchy with infectious tempos that could successfully convert even the most staunch country-haters. It helped me win the aux cord in a car full of Eminem stans so really anything is possible with Pardi on your side.

4. “Enchanted" - Taylor Swift I am not ashamed to admit that there was a period in my life when I was a huge Taylor Swift fan. I’m talking buy her album immediately upon release, wear shirts with her face on it and vehemently defend her at all costs level fan. My first concert was to see her Red tour in Philadelphia and I have videos and pictures from that night saved on my phone to this day. I have since relaxed my fandom as she moved further from country but her first three albums have stood the test of time for me. Specifically, “Enchanted” off of 2010’s “Speak Now” is almost always plays on long car rides with my best friend Kim, and it will likely stay that way for the foreseeable future.

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3. Set off, in a way 4. Swimmer's assignment 5. Happening 6. Scandinavian coins 7. Long time, to a geologist 8. Holography need 9. "Too bad!"

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Volleyball looks to rebound from disappointing season

By Joshua Gurevich Asst. Sports Editor

The Blue Demons volleyball team has had a rough go of things in the last decade.

Last season, they finished 5-24 overall and 3-15 in conference.

DePaul went a lamentable 1-17 in threeset matches.

The last time they finished with a winning record was in 2015, when they were one game over .500.

DePaul’s best record in conference play since joining the Big East was in 2016, when they achieved a 7-11 record.

The Blue Demons are optimistic coming into the next year because Brittany Maxwell will return after missing the past season, and multiple recruits filled with offensive potential will be joining the team as well.

Coach Marie Zidek spoke about the importance of both the new student-athletes coming in and how Maxwell will impact the team this year on the court.

“They bring tremendous length, which helps in volleyball where the sport is played above the net, and they also bring tremendous terminating capability,” Zidek said. “Those recruits bring tremendous offensive potential, which was our biggest gap last year.”

Maxwell spoke on her experience being invited to the Team USA volleyball camp in February for the second year running and how having Zidek there helped her immensely.

“It’s really helpful to have her there because she is able to tell me what they look for, and she was someone I could talk to,” Maxwell said. “I was the only person from DePaul and I didn’t really know anyone, so it was nice to have one familiar face there, and she would tell me how I was doing so I had the upper hand— someone else that I respect telling me what I needed to work on while I was there.”

Junior outside hitter Claire Anderson also spoke on the loss of Maxwell and how the team will be strong with her for the new year.

“We were a little bummed when we first found out that she would be redshirting because she is such a big part of our team and we are really excited for what we are going to be able to do,” Anderson said. “We took a step back and looked at the bigger picture of things and that this coming season we are going to be a lot better of a unit and we will know our systems better.”

Zidek, as well as Maxwell and Anderson, touched on how important it will be for those new recruits to develop quickly and form relationships with their teammates.

“The first step is reaching out before they get here; we are going to have a lot of team events and it’s really important for them to feel comfortable with the team over the summer,” Anderson said. “As seniors, I always try to teach them the ropes. I try to give them tips. Getting them in the gym with us is really important so we can teach what is expected of them.”

Maxwell agreed that it is essential to speak with the recruits coming in before they are even at DePaul.

“Just helping them learn their systems and just getting to know them as people really helps to integrate them into our team culture easily,” Maxwell said. “We are really excited for all the freshmen just to have a lot of breadth on our team. We are ready to have them come in and bring something new to the team.”

Maxwell missed the whole season, and the team missed her presence as an influential player and team leader.

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The DePaul volleyball team huddles up during one of their match's at the DePaul Invitational, that took place from Sep. 7-8.

“It was frustrating at first because I have been used to always helping out on the court physically, but this year, sitting out made me evaluate other ways that I could be of help,” Maxwell said. “I had to do a lot of introspection and working on developing myself as a player and as a person because I really did not have anything else to do so I might as well just work on it.”

Zidek spoke on how tough it was for Maxwell to be off the court, but also of how the team came together and she was able to influence them from the sidelines.

“The biggest obstacle was that the team had to learn to win by committee,” Zidek said. “We like to have multiple people and multiple weapons – that’s my philosophy.

The team had come from just relying on her as their main weapon, so that was our biggest learning curve last year. Other people had to step into that point-scoring role.”

Anderson emphasized what Maxwell meant to the team and how she had to take on a bigger role because of the absence of her teammate.

“She’s a really big leader on the court with her play; she leads by example,” Anderson said. “I had to step up. I battled some injuries, but it was on me and a couple of the other upperclassmen to lead. It was definitely a little bit of a different role because we were out there without her.”

Anderson is looking forward to the upcoming season and said she thinks the team’s results can improve.

“I am excited for the possibilities in conference that we have and the team as a unit worked really hard in the winter and

spring and we are all really hungry to play and implement everything we have been working on,” Anderson said. “We want to be on the court. I think it is a really great environment and we have some really great freshmen coming in. I think we are going to be a really great group and really push each other and succeed in those games that we did not last year.”

Maxwell said she cannot wait to get back to game action with her teammates this upcoming season and wants to soak it all in.

“We have the potential to be really good, so I am excited to put words to action and see

what we can do after a year of training really hard and working on our system,” Maxwell said. “Next season, one of our biggest goals is to make the Big East Tournament because we have not been able to do that the past couple of years, so I am hoping that is where we will end up.”

The Blue Demons will look to turn things around in the upcoming season led by gritty veterans and eager newcomers.

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DePaul, Special Olympics Chicago host "All-Sports Day"

By Gianfranco Ocampo Contributing Writer

For the second year in a row, DePaul’s athletic department partnered with Special Olympics Chicago (SOC) to host a sporting event with both Special Olympic athletes and DePaul athletes, known as “All-Sports Day,” at Wish Field on May 23. Repeated satisfaction by student athletes and staff for the event has encouraged organizers like Maggie Strus to increase turnout and frequency of the event next year.

Strus, assistant director of NCAA Compliance, had done volunteer work with the SOC since she was a child. Last year, alongside men’s soccer head coach Mark Plotkin, she was responsible for helping organize the first “All-Sports Day.” She believes that the partnership between DePaul and the SOC and is beneficial to DePaul’s students and their athletes as it’s to the Special Olympic athletes.

“Volunteering for Special Olympics Chicago made me happy overall as a person,” Strus said. “I thought that the student athletes will be able to benefit from the interactions as well. It’s not something readily available to other people. And with the athletic department being so diverse, where people are from, different age groups and different life experiences that a lot of people would not have been exposed to something like this.”

Junior athlete of the women’s track team Rutendo Chimbaku was an example of this goal from the athletic department.

From Zimbabwe, she expressed that she sought to volunteer to have a better grasp of the Special Olympic athletes, due to some views she saw as unfavorable from Zimbabwe.

“I come from Zimbabwe and the culture there is not very receptive to children with special needs,” she said.

“Because I was never exposed to it, I saw it as a chance to expand my knowledge and see them do different sporting events. Because of the stigma back home, I wanted to see how these are kids who just want to play sports like what other people get the chance to do. It helped me realize that sports unite people. It doesn’t matter what it’s that you have going on.”

As a learning experience, not only was the diversity of the department highlighted, but Marie Zidek, DePaul head volleyball coach, stressed the importance for DePaul athletes to be aware of privilege and the lack of opportunities for others.

“We get gear, we get training,” Zidek said. “It’s important for our studentathletes to see that everyone can play sports, and everyone has a right in this country to fitness, wellness, movement and fun. Sometimes the Special Olympics groups, those athletes are underserved.

It’s important for us to get out there and make sure we provide opportunities for the underserved population in our country. One of the major messages we tell our players is life is not just about you. It’s about what you can do to the person next to you to lift them up. In that regard, we had a chance to play sports with people who don’t necessarily always get the opportunity.”

“All-Sports Day” brought in 120 high school Special Olympians from Sullivan, Al Raby and Northside Learning Center because of the partnership between the athletic department and SOC. A total of 79 student athletes and staff turned out to volunteer for the event. Strus intends to

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DePaul partnered with special olympics Chicago to host a sporting event known as "All-Sports day" at Wish Field on May 23. involve more students from the academic side of the university and to encourage more involvement from Alpha Sigma Alpha.

“We have a lot of the student managers that work in the athletic departments are in sororities and fraternities,” she said.

“I’ve reached to a few of them to try and learn what the philanthropy of what a lot of the organizations are. Alpha Sigma Alpha was able to come on board pretty last-minute, but their willingness to want to do it next year is what's going to carry it through.”

Strus is confident and trusts the volunteers from DePaul’s student body in carrying out larger and more frequent “All-Sports Day” events, crediting the trust to the Vincentian values instilled by the university.

“I think a lot of the student-athletes here at DePaul are world class people and respectful people,” Strus said. “The commonality of the day and event itself is sports and that’s obviously something one thing our student athletes know the best.

Their ability to gain an understanding of the people around them and the through process it takes to realize your environment is what is instilled in a lot of them. There was never a worry on how things will be handled.”

Originally held in the gymnasium last spring with middle school Special Olympic athletes and described by Strus as slightly cramped, the event at Wish Field took advantage of the turf and bases on the baseball field. Four activities were held for the high schoolers to rotate, including kickball, soccer, relay races and shot-put throws with bean bags.

“You hand them the bean bag and you cheer them on so they throw it as far as they can, encouraging them and making sure everyone was having a good time,” Chimbaku said. “We had kids throwing them over the fence. Everyone was jumping up and down. I recommend turning out for it. It’s a good time and you're hanging out and meeting different people.”

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and eventually win the game.

After getting two runs to cut the lead to 9-5, senior Morgan Greenwood stepped up to the plate with two players on base and blasted a three-run home run and getting DePaul within one run of Villanova.

“When I came up to bat, I looked at the scoreboard and was like, 'Wow, one swing could put us just one run away,'” Greenwood said. “I was thinking just to pass the bat to my teammates and find a way to just get on base. I was just so excited and it’s amazing to energize your team and find a way to get back and get this win.”

The Blue Demons went on to add another six runs in the inning, taking an 11-9 lead into the last inning. Villanova did get one run back in the seventh inning, but the Blue Demons prevailed in the end, winning their third-straight Big East Tournament title.

3: Men’s basketball forces game three in CBI championship series After losing the game in one of the CBI championship series against USF, the Blue Demons came back to Lincoln Park needing to win game two in order to stay alive in the finals. That’s exactly what they did, winning 100-96 in overtime with senior Eli Cain and sophomore Jaylen Butz getting injured during the game.

After being held to 17 points in game one on April 1, DePaul senior guard Max Strus eclipsed that by halftime with 20 first-half points, while going 6-of-8 from the 3-point line. The senior finished with 32 points.

The Blue Demons were forced to play the majority of the night without senior guard

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DePaul senior guard Max Strus drives around St. John's defender Shamorie Ponds on March 3 at Wintrust Arena. Strus finished with a career-high 43 points on senior day.

Eli Cain, who was forced to leave the game with 7:07 left in the first half after landing awkwardly after a foul by USF forward Michael Durr. Cain would not return and ended up missing game three of the series.

After watching Cain depart, Strus said the team rallied around the injury and were motivated to win for their injured teammate.

“Plain and simple, we won that for Eli,” Strus said. “We lost one of our brothers in the middle of the game. We all love him and we had to do whatever it took to get that win out and we all came together and got it done.”

The Blue Demons got great contributions

from redshirt freshman Flynn Cameron and junior Lyrik Shreiner, who combined to score eight of the team’s 18 points in overtime and helped propel the team to victory. DePaul did, however, lose game three of the CBI championship series two days later, 77-65.

4: Max Strus scores career-high 43 points on Senior Day. On senior day, the Blue Demons rode the backs of two of their seniors, Max Strus and Femi Olujobi, en route to a 92-83 win against the St. John’s Red Storm at Wintrust Arena.

The win snapped a four-game losing streak and completed a Blue Demon season sweep

of the Red Storm for the first time ever.

But the main contribution came from Strus who poured in a career-high 43 points on 14-for-22 shooting, 6-for-10 from the 3-point line and hit all nine free throws.

“We won, that’s really all that matters,” Strus said after the game. “I made a couple of baskets; we won the game. We’re back on a winning streak now. It was getting rough here for a little bit, but we’re going to turn things around and that’s a first step to do it.”

Strus’ impact was felt over the court on March 3, not just on offense. After draining a three with 1:51 left in the second half to give his team an 84-77 lead, Strus rushed down the court to get set on defense and took a charge, which helped seal the win for DePaul.

5: DePaul dominate Georgetown on March 6, winning 101-69.

After senior Max Strus had a career day March 3, scoring 43 points and helping the Blue Demons defeat St. John’s for the second time this season, the Blue Demons followed that solo performance up by dominating Georgetown three days later at Wintrust Arena.

Everything that could have went well for the Blue Demons against the Hoyas did go well.

The Blue Demons went into the break up by 23 points, but Georgetown was able to put together a run at the start of the second half and got within 14 points of the home team.

DePaul, however, quickly brushed aside that run by exploding for 19-straight points and taking their largest lead of the night.

Strus scored 10 of his game-high 30 points during that stretch, including his seventh and eighth triples of the game.

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DePaul freshmen Lexi Held and junior Chante Stonewall celebrate after Stonewall scored a crucial basket for the Blue Demons in the Big Tournament title game on March 13.

Five best moments for DePaul athletics from the 2018-2019 season

By Lawrence Kreymer Sports Editor

A year that has been filled with multiple Big East Tournament champions, massive comebacks in championship games, multiple teams making the NCAA Tournament, freshmen bursting out onto the scene and seniors making their final contributions at DePaul: The DePaulia revisit the five best moments from this past season in DePaul athletics.

1: Women’s basketball wins Big East Tournament.

Just like they have many times before, DePaul and Marquette produced an instant classic in the Big East Tournament championship game that will go down as one of the more memorable games played in this long and storied rivalry. With the game hanging in the balance in the final few seconds, DePaul junior forward Chante Stonewall converted on a 3-point play with five seconds left to give the Blue Demons the 74-73 win over the Golden Eagles and send them back to the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday night at Wintrust Arena.

“Well, the plan was to get me back to the pinch post and operate there and get to the basket if I could, and if not, to kick it out for Ashton.”

Chante Stonewall

DePaul junior forward “Well, the plan was to get me back to the pinch post and operate there and get to the basket if I could, and if not, to kick it out for Ashton,” DePaul junior guard Chante Stonewall said about her 3-point play at the end of the game. “And then after it went in, of course we were all excited, but I knew I had been struggling with free throws lately, so I knew I had to just hit that free throw, knock it down, but then also get another stop.”

Immediately after knocking down the free throw to give DePaul the one-point lead, Stonewall turned her attention to guarding

the Big East Player of the Year, Natisha Hiedeman. With only five seconds left on the clock, and no timeouts remaining for Marquette, Hiedeman got the ball off the inbound, drove down the court and was forced left into a tough mid-range shot that was contested by the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player: Stonewall.

As soon as the shot fell short, DePaul players and fans rushed the court to celebrate its second-consecutive Big East Tournament championship. Stonewall finished with a game high 28 points on 11-for-17 shooting

and 3-for-5 from the 3-point line.

With the result, DePaul won its secondstraight Big East Tournament title and went on to play in their 17th-straight NCAA Tournament a week later.

2: Softball wins Big East Tournament.

Just like the women’s basketball team, which had to come back from a large deficit in the second half, the softball team also completed a massive comeback in the Big East Tournament championship game against Villanova.

DePaul had to use every bit of magic they had in order to beat Villanova, and under first-year head coach Tracie Adix-Zins, the Blue Demons came back from trailing 9-3 to win 11-10 and capture their third-straight Big East Tournament title on May 11 in Rosemont, Illinois.

DePaul entered the bottom of the sixth inning getting outplayed through the first five innings and were six outs away from losing the Big East Tournament title game. Instead, the Blue Demons’ offense came to life and put up eight runs in the inning to take the lead

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