2013 OSCAR NOMINATION ROUND-UP
Arts and Life, page 16
Vol. # 97, Issue # 10
| January 14, 2013
Arena, conference plans unfold By MIKE CHAMERNIK Senior Writer
To think, DePaul was once known as “the little school under the L.” Now, the university is planning on switching athletic conferences and building a state-of-the-art arena. As reported for the last month, DePaul and six other Big East schools will split off to form their own conference in the very near future. The new conference, right now being dubbed
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“We’re also looking for a building that will have DePaul’s name on it and be approximate for students to be able to get to.”
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With Chicago experiencing a rise in flu-related illnesses, DePaul is encouraging students to alert the school and visit a doctor immediately if infected. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that while the vaccine this year is 62 percent effective, there are also many other ways to stay healthy.
Got the fever
By CASSAUNDRA SAMPSON Contributing Writer
Influenza has officially reached epidemic levels in the U.S., making this winter unsettlingly atypical. There have been 121 influenza hospitalizations in Chicago between Sept. 30 and Jan. 5, according to a report from the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDHP), almost twice as much as last year. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported that an influenza-like illness (IFL) has swept aggressively through Illinois
causing 150 ICU hospitalizations and six flu-related deaths from October through December. The high level of flu-related illnesses has caused an increase in patients in ER rooms, resulting in hospitals rerouting patients to other hospitals and advising only severe respiratory illness for the emergency department, IDPH Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck said in a press release. Rocio Isaac, a senior studying public relations at DePaul, recently recovered from her two-week bout of the flu. “I had a really bad cold, fever and loss of appetite,” she said. “I think my nephew passed it to me,
and I got it, and then it went through my whole family.” While Isaac’s family exhibited symptoms of the flu within the same week, it does not always have a quick domino effect. Flu-like symptoms may not occur for up to a week after being infected. It can transfer through something as simple as an elevator button or a public computer, according to Kim Amer, an associate professor of nursing at DePaul. To prevent becoming infected, the CDPH encourages everyone
JEAN LENTI-PONSETTO, DePaul athletic director the “Catholic Seven,” will not be focused on football, which has been the big money sport in collegiate athletics. “It will be comprised of institutions that are likeminded,” said DePaul athletic director Jean Lenti-Ponsetto. “[That] doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll all be Catholic institutions, but it means they’ll all be institutions whose probably primary revenue-driven sport will be men’s and women’s basketball.” During the monthly forum at the Sullivan Athletic Center in front of Blue Demon
See FLU, page 7
Tenure policy changes await approval By DYLAN MCHUGH News Editor DePaul’s Faculty Council will vote on proposed changes to the tenure and appeals chapter of the faculty handbook this Wednesday, after about a year of writing and developing the revisions. An up-down majority
vote will decide if the entirety of Chapter 3 -- and all the amendments added in the process -- will either advance to a full faculty vote or be discarded. Following a successful full faculty vote, the chapter is up to President Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.’s approval. If it is approved, the Faculty Handbook Revision Task Force (FHRTF) will continue revising the handbook,
and after revisions are complete the entire handbook will be again put up for a faculty vote and Holtschneider’s approval. Major changes include a standing appeals board to replace the current “ad-hoc” board; giving the final tenure decision to the provost and the appeals decision to the president, when previously the president oversaw both; and making the University
Board of Promotion and Tenure’s (UBPT) written report on the tenure candidate available to the candidate before it goes to the provost. Jacqueline Taylor, dean of the College of Communication and a co-chair on the FHRTF, said work on the changes started last year and that See HANDBOOK, page 5
DENNIS GEORGES| The DePaulia
DePaul is one of seven schools leaving the Big East to form a new athletic conference, with schools whose primary revenue is derived from their basketball programs. See BIG EAST, page 27