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Vol. # 97, Issue # 18
| March 11, 2013
‘Grate’ expectations for McGaw
Doors close on old campus building to make room for music school By HANNAH BENDER Staff Writer
After Thanksgiving 2013, DePaul University students will finally say goodbye to their favorite “Cheese Grater.” McGaw Hall, which houses the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse (WRD) and Modern Languages departments, as well as the University Center of WritingBased Learning (UCWbL), will begin moving classes out of the building at the end of Fall Quarter in the 2013-2014 academic year at the earliest, according to DePaul Vice President of Facility Operations Robert Janis. McGaw will then be demolished as a part of the 2009 Lincoln Park Master Plan, in order to make way for a School of Music facility. The plan for a new School of Music is currently under design, however, and there is no set time frame to begin the project. Although there is no confirmed demolition date, DePaul University is making pre-construction preparations for the academic departments currently located in the building. Janis said that the move will not
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affect students this year, and that plans for moving have been “pretty wildly known internally … especially within the impacted departments who have been exposed to the detail about the move and planning by their respective department chairs.” Sometime after Thanksgiving, the
UCWbL will move to the second floor of the Arthur J. Schmitt Academic Center. The Modern Languages and Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse departments will relocate to the 3rd and 4th floors of SAC, in the space vacated by the College of Education. “We’re really sad to be losing the floor-to-ceiling windows in McGaw
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Junior Brandon Young in a Big East match-up against St. John’s Jan. 19.
BIG EAST FINAL FAREWELL By JULIEN ZENG Sports Editor The seven Catholic basketball schools called the “Catholic 7” are set to depart from the Big East conference earlier than expected and also retain the Big East name, the two
conferences announced Friday. Originally scheduled to depart in after the 2015 season, the newly formed conference has negotiated its exit starting as soon as July 1. The seven schools – DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John’s, and Villanova – will get to keep the name of the Big East, while the former conference will search for a new name.
classrooms and many of our faculty offices, but excited to be moving closer to our colleagues in other LAS departments and the classrooms in which most of us teach,” said DePaul WRD Professor Peter
In exchange for separation, the conference formerly known as the Big East will receive almost $110 million dollars to be divided between its football schools. The nameless conference could also be renamed as the “America 12.” “I am pleased that this agreement has been reached,” said Big East commissioner Mike Aresco in a statement. “With the long-term well-being of our outstanding institutions and their student-athletes of paramount importance, each group worked through a number of complex issues in an orderly, comprehensive and amicable manner marked by mutual respect. We part ways as friends and colleagues and look forward to the success of both conferences.” However even with the announcement, the Catholic 7/Big East has been busy behind the scenes to form specific details regarding the new conference. Responsibilities for the conference include securing a television deal, recruiting new teams, and technical details such as drafting league bylaws and finding a commissioner. Many of those details have now surfaced based on reports from multiple outlets. Two additional teams, Xavier and Butler, are expected to join the seven other teams. Their additions were rumored from the start, but sources told ESPN that they will be joining the conference. Creighton could also join the See BIG EAST, page 25
See MCGAW, page 3
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Students featured in typography exhibit. Arts & Life, page 21
Anchors away Titanic replica scheduled to set sail in 2016. Opinions, page 12