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GOING, GOING, GONE Two presidents move on; Obama says goodbye in Chicago

By Brenden Moore Political Editor

Speaking in his hometown of Chicago, President Barack Obama urged Americans to come together to address the core issues threatening democracy as he said farewell to the nation Tuesday night.

Emotions were high at McCormick Place as thousands, sometimes teary-eyed, packed the convention hall to hear President Obama speak for the last time.

Obama focused on the state of American democracy, calling for a “new social compact” to address problems he called “corrosive” to

the system. “(O)ur democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted,” Obama said. “All of us, regardless of party, should throw ourselves into the task of rebuilding our democratic institutions.”

T he president identified economic inequa lit y, rapid demographic change and the terror threat as issues that have contributed to much of American society’s divides.

With such issues, like immigration,

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DePaul president accepts new job, will not return to university

By Emma Krupp News Editor

DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., has been appointed to a new role as Executive Vice President/ Chief Operating Officer of Ascension, a Catholic healthcare organization, according to a press release from the company.

The appointment comes after Holtschneider announced his resignation as president of DePaul in June of 2016.

He will officially step down this summer.

A representative from the university confirmed Holtschneider will not continue his tenured faculty position as a result of the new appointment.

Holtschneider previously served as chair of the Ascension’s board of directors after joining the board in 2009. As EVP/COO —a newly created position— Holtschneider will oversee the company’s Information Services and Ministry Service Center subsidiaries, along with strategy and advocacy functions. He will assume the position on July 1, 2017.

According to its website, Ascension is the largest nonprofit health system in the country and the largest Catholic health system in the world. In 2012, it merged with Alexian Brothers Health System,

a Catholic health care organization with several h o s p i t a l s based in the northwest suburbs.

Nationally, its health care division operates in 24 states with 2,500 sites of care, which includes 141 hospitals and more than 30 senior living facilities.

For some students, Holtschneider’s departure comes with a sense of deep surprise and sadness. Fabrice Lekina, a junior and Black Catholic Outreach Assistant for Campus Catholic Ministry (CCM), said the announcement left him “heartbroken.”

“I got to know him over the years, and I kind of got close to him, which a lot of students don’t get to do,” Lekina said.

“He’s been very helpful, always being there when I have questions, always saying hello and being very gracious to me. I consider him a friend, and I’ve called him that on many occasions.”

Lekina first met Holtschneider as a first year student, when a friend from CCM

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He remembers the encounter fondly, describing Holt s c h neider as

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DOJ report: Chicago police regularly use excessive force

By Rachel Hinton Managing Editor

Working against the clock, the Department of Justice released their findings from a 13-month investigation into policing practices in Chicago.

The 164-page report breaks down the problems that face community policing in Chicago, highlighting a broken system that has trampled on the Constitutional rights of Chicagoans.

The report — which was released Friday — found that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) engaged in a pattern or practice of using force, “including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,” a press release from the Department of Justice said. Along with this, the DOJ found that Chicago has a deficient accountability system which contributes to CPD’s pattern of unconstitutional conduct.

For those in the field of community policing, and who have pushed for or suggested reforms, the report’s findings are unsurprising but welcomed. Timna Axel, communications associate at the Chicago Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law (CLCCRUL), said that the overall feeling from working in minority communities that have largely been the targets of these shoddy police practices is that the steps taken are too little too late. “(The DOJ report) confirms what we know,” Axel said. “It’s going to be helpful as we look to solutions. We’d like to see Mayor Rahm Emanuel invite community stakeholders into the conversation going forward.”

The report pointed to various areas that CPD could improve policing practices and trust in the department.

“The failures we identified in our findings — that we heard about from residents and officers alike — have deeply eroded community trust,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, said during the press conference. “But today is a moment of opportunity, where we begin to move from identifying problems to developing solutions. I know our findings can lead to reform and rebuild community-police trust because we’ve seen it happen in community after community around the country over the past 20 years.”

The DOJ released a similar report on Baltimore’s police department following the death of Freddie Gray. The report on Chicago’s police department followed the death of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times by officer Jason Van Dyke.

McDonald’s death brought concerns of police misconduct to light in the city and spurred protests and meager reforms from the mayor’s office.

In April 2016, Emanuel announced that he would adopt recommendations from a police reform task force in order to start repairing trust between communities and the police department. These measures included more meetings between officers and minority communities, as well as faster investigations into potential police misconduct.

Friday’s report laid out its own set of recommendations that went steps beyond Emanuel’s April reform implementations.

The list of recommended solutions

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch (center) details findings of the U.S. Justice Department investigation on use of excessive force by the Chicago Police Department. included developing community policing as a core component of CPD’s policing strategies, tactics and training; ensuring that officers police fairly and compassionately in all neighborhoods, including in those with high rates of violent crime and in minority communities; and increasing transparency regarding CPD and IPRA/COPA activities, as well as their investigations.

The Police Accountability Collaborative, which includes CLCCRUL, American Civil Liberties Union-Illinois and other organizations in Chicago, believe that for real reforms to take place Chicago’s elected officials must “take ownership of a locally driven process to continue implementing the unfinished business of these findings and recommendations.”

“There can be no more tinkering around the edges. It is time for fundamental reform, grounded in ongoing court oversight and independent monitoring,” Karen Sheley, director of the police practices project at ACLU-Illinois, said in a statement. “To date, the city has failed to sign a consent decree with the Department of Justice. Such a decree would ensure that a federal judge would oversee the reform that the report shows is critical.”

For there to be change, Axel said, there would need to be systemic disclosure of data and a community oversight board would need to be established among other things. Though the report was unsurprising for her and those she works with, it does provide a lot to work with and potential reforms to pursue for the future.

“We feel now is the time for civil leaderships to step forward,” Axel said.

“There’s no one in the driver’s seat on this issue and now is the time for that. At the end of the day, police accountability makes us all safer.”

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Obama approves $1.1 billion CTA renovation grant

By Darrah Perryman Contributing Writer

Karyn Lacey lives beyond the brinks of the Red Line’s corridors.

Getting to the CTA isn’t a 10, 15 or even 20 minute walk from her doorstep. For Lacey, a first year graduate student studying journalism at DePaul, riding the CTA means driving to a northern stop she feels comfortable at, and then taking the CTA to her classes downtown twice a week.

So when news broke that Chicago received $1 billion in federal funding to renovate the northern half of the Red Line, Lacey felt helpless.

“If anybody needs a renovation, it’s the South Side,” Lacey said. “You can’t do one side and not the other.”

The federal money, which was secured by the city last Monday, will kick off the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Plan. In waves, the city will renovate all the Red Line stops north of Belmont.

Construction on the first phase begins in 2018, thanks to the federal grant, and will completely remake the Lawrence, Bryn Mawr, Argyle and Berwyn stops, in addition to adding a bypass that will intersect Red, Purple and Brown Line tracks.

All stops will also have an elevator, making them fully accessible for the first time ever.

Still, with a significant investment in Chicago’s North Side, some Chicagoans wonder about its ramifications, and more notably, the status of the highly anticipated extension of the Red Line to 130th street.

“The renovations are a step in the right direction for Chicago,” Lacey said. “But it’s still hard for people from the South Side to travel to Chicago.”

Inconvenience and fear of the southern Red Line stops, coupled with the violence in the South Side, cause some in Lacey’s neighborhood of Chatham, to either drive to the city or another northern stop, or simply not venture to the city at all.

“The fact that it’s taken so long to even come up with a plan for the extension of the Red Line on the South Side is a legacy of structural racism,” said DePaul associate professor Winifred Curran, who specializes in geography and urban planning. “This incredible amount of investment going to the North Side and not to the South Side is unfortunate, and doesn’t have any good social justice implications.”

The funding comes just two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and his new administration that is set to take office on Jan. 20.

The renovation of the four stops costs $2.1 billion, but the city could only seek the $1 billion federal grant if they were able to match the grant funding. So the city worked with legislators to create a tax increment financing district (TIF) — a financing method that invests the increases in tax revenues to a project or development — that is expected to generate $622 million.

The established TIF, and funds from other resources, allowed the city to match and secure the grant.

The now-established TIF will also help the city seek funding for other

CTA projects, like the Red Line Extension Plan.

“It’s very hard for the city to do this all by itself,” Curran said. “The fact that this is federal money is evidence of that. We have not always had administrative in Washington that are city or public transit-friendly, so this was absolutely a strategic time to cease upon a mayor from Chicago to get this money.”

Red Line stops north of Belmont account for 40 percent of the CTA’s riders during rush hour. Additionally, the northern tracks, which were built in 1920, are nearing their life expectancy.

Without this grant, the tracks would expire in a few years.

But the Red and Purple Modernization plan is just one part of Mayor Emanuel’s Red Ahead program — which is a series of initiatives to significantly improve the CTA. Right now, the 95th stop is under construction to improve its functionality, and is expected to be finished later this year.

“I think improving the Red Line is definitely a good thing that is needed,” DePaul junior Jaclyn Robust, who rides the Red Line to class daily, said. “However, I am curious about the construction and if it would interrupt daily commutes.”

For some, the renovations spring hope of a safer Red Line.

Robust refuses to ride the Red Line at night, especially after a violent summer in the city.

Lacey, on the other hand, will ride the Red Line at night to certain stops, but is always aware and cautious.

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“These renovations won’t help with the safety issues if they just do North Side. More people are frightened to ride the Red Line on the South Side,” Lacey said.

“It sounds bad, but once I pass the Chinatown stop, I’m not as frightened anymore.”

But if the $1 billion the city received for the CTA renovations went to the Red Line Extension Plan, it would not have been enough to complete the entire project. The plan currently costs $2.3 billion, and the city has yet to

complete a series of requirements before funding can begin.

Even with a plan to extend the Red Line, many are still waiting for a true investment in the South Side communities.

“This is a signal to these gentrified neighborhoods that public investment is going to continue in the North,” Curran said. “It’s really unfortunate that the South Side expansion was not included in this, and it should’ve been.”

Fr. Memo hosts talk on solidarity, injustice

By April Lane Contributing Writer

Fr. Guillermo Campuzano, C.M. stressed the importance of protecting the rights of human beings, the environment, diversity, children and the rights of women at his “The Challenge of Embracing the Utopia of the Common Good” event Jan. 14 “That’s the right direction, and I’m here to advocate for the right direction of humanity,” he said.

Campuzano, a Catholic Ministry representative for the United Nations, returned to DePaul on Jan. 14 and spoke to an audience of nearly 150, filled with DePaul Leadership Scholars, students, alumni, faculty and staff, empowering them to work towards correcting injustices in the world and listen to every person’s life story with dignity, rather than judgement. In doing this, one would be working toward the “common good” as well as solidarity.

Campuzano has worked at DePaul as a minister and professor for nearly eight

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Freshman Dinara Manafova recounted a similar experience. Although she’s been a DePaul student for less than a year, she said

years and currently works to serve those in marginalized communities, advocating for human rights.

The stories told to the crowd were real interactions he had with individuals throughout the globe facing hardships, and through storytelling Campuzano was able to highlight the importance of treating others with dignity, love and care.

One of the few stories mentioned was Nancy’s, a woman who was abandoned at the age of 4 in a park by her mother, who was poor, at a park in a park near “El Bronx,” a slum in the center of Bogota, Colombia known for its high rates of prostitution, gambling and drug use. She was forced to maneuver in a dangerous environment without much support, and eventually became addicted to drugs at the age of 8 or 9.

In December 2016, on the path to recovery, Nancy felt comfortable enough with sharing her story with Campuzano and a group of DePaul students on a service immersion trip. There, they found that “El Bronx” was no longer standing, and with

nowhere else to go, she remained living in the park where she was abandoned by her mother.

“She represents the entire humanity, when the entire humanity is groaning, ‘Do not leave me alone, do not abandon me,’” he explained. “The story of Nancy is the story of many, and I, myself, don’t want to be indifferent to that reality.”

Campuzano cited different forms of abandonment, including racism, poverty, hunger and other circumstances that leave many feeling invisible and uncared for, and mentioned the importance of listening to their stories and caring for their needs by “(overcoming) indifference and lack of memory.”

Nancy’s story opened up a larger discussion about what it means to see the humanity in others, and finding value and dignity in the plight and struggles of others as humans work together toward a common good.

“Remembering her story is honoring her life and seeing the dignity in her existence and the existence of everyone who has been

abandoned in our society,” Campuzano said. “The only thing you have heard so far in your existence is to care for yourself. I’m telling you today, care for something bigger than yourself and beyond yourself.”

Senior Joshua Delson joined Campuzano on the immersion trip to Bogota this past December, and appreciated how Campuzano’s humble beginnings shaped who he is today. “It’s really interesting to see how he’s spent so much time with so many marginalized communities from his own background in Colombia, as well as Ukraine, or prospectively Haiti, which I thought was really cool,” he said.

Junior Cree Noble also attended the December immersion trip to Bogota and was present when Nancy shared her story with the group. According to Noble, her main takeaway was to “(find) dignity in every story.”

Sophomore Jacob Reitinger was inspired to look into different service programs in other countries. “If there is something I can do, it just makes (me) want to do it more.”

meeting Holtschneider at her orientation over the summer left a memorable impact on her.

“I was so disappointed (to hear about Holtschneider’s departure),” Manafova said. “I know it’s my first year so I don’t know him that well, but when I met him at orientation he seemed like such a nice guy, very caring about the students here and just

the community in general.”

In spite of his personal disappointment, Vekina said he is looking forward to seeing what Holtschneider does next in his new role. Still, he wishes he could have accomplished one last goal before leaving DePaul for good.

“All he wanted to do was make DePaul a welcoming place for everyone, so I think

that is what he’s going to do in his next position,” Lekina said. “But the selfish part of me is always going to be like, ‘what if I got to shake Father Holtschneider’s hand when I graduate next year?’ And I won’t get to do that. Even thinking about that kind of gets me emotional.”

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SGA vetoes controversial amendment

By Sam Rivera News Editor

A proposed Student Government Association (SGA) amendment has ignited controversy within the group and brought the SGA election process under scrutiny.

During a Jan. 5 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, members held their annual constitutional review session where proposed changes to the organization’s constitution were debated and reviewed.

One of these amendments — which would disallow students not in SGA’s general body from running for president or vice president — started arguments between members, highlighting the ideological rifts that divide the organization.

According to the proposed amendment, in order to run for either position, the candidate “must have served at least one previous term within the general body of SGA.” A general body term is defined as the beginning of either a spring or fall election through the next spring election.

Previously, the language within the constitution only specified that potential presidential candidates needed to have served on SGA. The new proposal specifically excludes SGA liaisons, who are representatives from other student organizations that attend the weekly SGA meetings.

The amendment did not pass, with a final vote of 10 yeas, eight nays and one abstention.

When the amendment was first proposed, Senator for Intercultural Awareness Michael Lynch was one of the

first to speak up about his distaste in an email sent to the general body.

“Any person that has spent a year involved in SGA, and understands the role SGA plays should be eligible to run for the top leadership positions,” Lynch said.

Similarly, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Greene said he thinks limiting the voting pool to members of the general body excludes people who may have valuable qualities to offer to the presidency.

Along with limiting the voting pool, there have also been allegations of favoritism within the group mostly directed at President Ric Popp and Megan Scoville.

“There are more people outside of DePaul’s SGA that are not only qualified but (know) more about the administration and the students that attend this school, than those who sit on cabinet,” Greene said.. “(…) I say this as someone who is sitting on cabinet.,” he said.

Senator for Mission and Values Gracie Covarrubias said she sees the logic of wanting potential candidates to understand how SGA is run on a deeper level than liaisons do. Not many in the student body know what SGA does beyond their MAP grant advocacy campaign. Few know what goes on in meetings, who the senators are or that members are paid. She added that she thinks the amendment would have only created a deeper disconnect between the student population and the organization.

“I think this creates a greater divide, and that’s not something I’m for,” Covarrubias said.

Some students have echoed that sentiment, going as far to say that they

believe any DePaul student should be able to run for president. Senior Michelle Velasquez believes the limited eligibility is more of a way to diminish the students’ voices, rather than benefiting the student body.

“As a body that represents students, (SGA) must grant us the right to choose who we want when it comes to those higher positions,” Velasquez said. “If we want to choose non-board members for vice president or president, we should be able to do that.”

DePaul senior Marlynn Sandoval expressed similar thoughts.

“I think that anyone should be allowed to participate, because what if they are educated and knowledgeable and politically involved?”

Sandoval said. “I don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to run (solely because they aren’t directly involved with SGA.)” Not very many students know what exactly the work of an SGA member entails. Sandoval said she “follows (SGA) on Instagram,” but doesn’t know what they do. In reference to this idea, Covarrubias mentioned a DePaul student’s marketing research project that studied SGA’s impact on students and found the organization’s impact to be negligible.

“It’s pretty unanimous across the board that most of the student population doesn’t know what we do or doesn’t really think that we do anything,” Covarrubias said.

Limiting who can run for president might have created a further disconnect between SGA and the student body it is tasked to represent. Some within SGA, and some outside of it, felt the amendment could have prevented constructive dialogue and contributed to favoritism.

Despite the discontent expressed by members of the general body and student body at large, Executive Vice President for Operations Adriana Kemper said the amendment was not meant to promote exclusivity, but rather to clear up murky language within the constitution.

“It was not very clear (in the constitution) as to who could run (for president),” she said.

“There was this gray area, like ‘are liaisons able to run?’”

Ultimately, she said, the constitutional review board — which crafted the amendment — decided against including liaisons so as to clear up this gray area. She cited examples of previous non-general body members, such as last year’s Senator for Third Year Students Zoe Wildasin, who have decided to run for senator positions while serving as liaisons.

She also said the amendment was also meant to ensure the person running would have the dedication necessary for the position.

“I’ve been friends with presidents in the past, and it’s been something they’ve wanted to do since their freshman year,” Kemper said.

“When you do this position, you have to love the university and devote so much time and commitment to this position.”

Kemper added that since the amendment was not passed, the question of who will be able to run for president will be left to the discretion of the sitting president.

The next general body meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6 p.m. in the Lincoln Park Student Center.

Any DePaul student, involved with SGA or not, is encouraged to attend.

Emma Krupp contributed to this story.

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6| News. The DePaulia. Jan. 17, 2017 OBAMA, continued from front page trade and criminal justice, often appearing during last year’s hyper-partisan election cycle, Obama urged Americans to dig deeper to understand one another and resist the urge to “retreat into our own bubbles.”

“We have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do, that they value hard work and family like we do, that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own,” Obama said.

Speaking on race, Obama acknowledged that a post-racial America, “however wellintended, was never realistic.” Though he sought to weave together the struggles of working class minorities and working class whites, groups who are often on opposite ends of hot-button social issues, but in many cases share the same economic pain.

“After all, if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves,” Obama said.

Though Obama touted his record, such as a record-low uninsured rate and low unemployment, he did not address the prospect of his legacy items — Obamacare and various executive actions — being dismantled by his successor, President-elect Donald Trump.

With regards to a political system that became more and more partisan despite his promise to fundamentally change it, Obama evoked the spirit of the Enlightenment.

Using the example of climate change, he urged “a faith in reason.”

“Now, we can and should argue about the best approach to the problem,” Obama said. “But to simply deny the problem not only betrays future generations, it betrays the essential spirit of innovation and practical problem-solving that guided our Founders.”

Set to become a private citizen once more, Obama called on Americans to accept the responsibility of being an active citizen.

“It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy, to embrace the joyous task we’ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours,” Obama said.

The president was joined by First Lady

Michelle Obama, daughter Malia Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

The president said Mrs. Obama “made the White House a place that belongs to everybody.” Of his daughters, Obama said he was most proud to be their dad. Of Mr. Biden, Obama said he “gained a brother.”

With an electric atmosphere throughout the night, attendees were satisfied with Obama’s performance.

Illinois comptroller Susana Mendoza, who served in Springfield with Obama, said the speech was “amazing,” especially the president urging everyday people to get involved.

“It’s a moment of self reflection for all of us about whether or not we’re willing to do better than we’ve done to this point,” Mendoza said. “I think everyone of us should reflect on that and say yes, I’m going to try and make this country better, especially given the current circumstances many of us might not be thrilled about and rather than say, ‘fired up and ready to go to Canada’, let’s say we’re fired up and ready to get to work here in our own country and work hard and make this place even better.”

DePaul sophomore Mareliz Gallogo, who woke up at 2 a.m. Saturday morning to ensure she got a coveted ticket, thought Obama represented the future.

“I think he has a really good connection with the youth, more than any other president or any of the candidates who ran (in 2016),” Gallogo said. “The fact that Sasha is the first person in the White House born in the 2000s, it just shows that the future is coming.”

Ald. Michele Smith (43rd Ward) found the speech moving.

“It was a very moving account of the Obama years and a real reminder that we all should continue to attain the ideals of America.”

Ald. Tom Tunney (44th Ward) said Obama’s remarks were a “clarion call” to get involved “Get off the computer and get out on the streets and listen to people, especially people you might not necessarily agree with (…)

All politics is local,” Tunney said. “We need to take care of each other, even if we have our disagreements.”

The president returned to Washington on Air Force One late Wednesday morning.

Students Together Against Trump organize inauguration protest

By Danielle Church Copy Editor

For many, the presidential election results on Nov. 8 were a sign change would finally come to America – it would become “great again”. But for others, it signified a turn in everything President Obama worked to achieve the past eight years.

Protests erupted all over the country so people could show they didn’t approve of an America led by a man they believe to be racist, sexist and a bigot, President-elect Donald Trump. They marched throughout many major cities, including Chicago, to vocalize Trump would “not be their president.”

In preparation for his Jan. 20 inauguration date, DePaul students are trying to vocalize this same message not only throughout Chicago, but on campus as well. They’ve formed a coalition called Students Together Against Trump (STAT), which will host a full day of events on Inauguration Day called “Day of Defiance” to show their disapproval. “(We’re showing) that we’re not going to stand for this rhetoric pretty much and the things Trump is saying are unacceptable,” sophomore Leena Almasri said. “It’s not just a difference in political opinion, but pure discrimination against people who don’t deserve to be treated differently.”

As a Palestinian Muslim, Almasri was inspired to be a part of STAT because she feels Trump’s policies will directly affect her family, based on the way he has spoken about her religion in the past. America’s unforeseen future especially hit home for her during Obama’s farewell address on Jan. 10.

During his speech, Obama mentioned how Americans shouldn’t treat one another differently based on race.

“Hearts must change. It won’t change overnight,” he said. “Social attitudes oftentimes take generations to change. But if our democracy is to work in this increasingly diverse nation, then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction — Atticus Finch — who said ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view (…) until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’”

Almasri’s mother started crying when she heard him say those words.

“Seeing my mother cry about something so basic as ‘we should be treated right’ tells

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Members of Students Together Against Trump discuss protest plans for Inauguration Day at a Jan. 12 meeting. you a lot about who’s coming into office and the kind of treatment we’re going to have afterwards when (Trump’s) in office,” Almasri said.

So when she was asked to chair STAT’s second meeting on Jan. 12, Almasri couldn’t resist. During the meeting, about 60 people showed up to vote on the name for the coalition, talk about whether they want to be an organization on DePaul’s campus or remain independent and the agenda for Inauguration Day. Some were hesitant about naming the group STAT because they felt it would alienate people from joining, but when Almasri asked “Who wants to change the name?”, no hands were in the air. Shortly after the vote, the room was split up into two committees: one for media so students on campus could be aware of what’s going on during Inauguration Day, and one for the people who would be taking action on Inauguration Day. For those taking action, they will be participating in a “Murmur of Democracy” organized by Matthew Girson in the Department of Art, Media and Design from

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. At 2:30 p.m., STAT will have a speak out on either the Quad or in the Schmitt Academic Center pit, based on how the weather is that day. At 3 p.m., there will be a socialist art march at Daley Plaza.

A “Resist Trump: Inauguration Chicago March” protest will then be led outside Trump Tower at 5 p.m., and the DePaul Drag Show will take place at 8:30 p.m. hosted by Act Out DePaul.

Act Out DePaul, No DAPL DePaul, DePaul Socialists, Amnesty DePaul, Students for Justice in Palestine, African Students Association and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy are just a few of the campus organizations that make up STAT. However it is open to anyone who would like to join. As stated on the flyer STAT posted across campus, “You don’t have to be in a group to organize with us – turn your feelings into action; join the resistance.”

Freshman Allen Davis is one of the people who saw the flyer and immediately thought he needed to be there.

“I didn’t think of (STAT) as a club, I thought of it as a forum for students to

speak about how they feel about (a Trump) administration,” Davis said. “I don’t think he embodies Republican or Democratic value. I just think he’s power hungry, I’m against that.”

After attending his first STAT meeting, Allen will continue to contribute to the group’s overall goal.

“Being here, I want to be part of a group that is able to allow a lot of people who do not know about Trump and his policies,” Allen said. “I want people to talk about something they don’t agree with because I think it’s very important as an American citizen to know what you’re up against and what you’re supporting.”

Almasri believes bringing people like Allen into STAT as well as campus organizations will help to spread the group’s message in a more meaningful way.

“Bringing these groups and making them stronger as one is better than just us trying to do things individually,” Almasri said. “So the idea is the more of us there are, the stronger we will be and we will always have each other for support.”

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CDM program expands with second Cinespace soundstage

By Emma Krupp News Editor

For DePaul film students, access to one of Chicago’s premiere production studios is as easy as enrolling in a class, thanks to the university’s partnership with Cinespace Chicago Film Studio — and prospective students are taking notice.

The university’s partnership with Cinespace, which launched in 2013, has played a part in increasing the College of Computing and Digital Media by 40 percent since 2012, making it the fastest-growing college at DePaul.

The appeal of Cinespace is evident in the numbers – the 32,000 square foot studio has over 17,500 square feet of shooting space, multiple free standing sets, professionalgrade lighting and grip equipment, a green screen, sound equipment and a scenic shop, among many other features. What’s more, students share the space with shows like Fox’s “Empire,” and NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago PD,” and “Chicago Med.” Aside from the three classes that regularly meet in the space Monday through Thursday during any given quarter, students can also reserve the space for class projects, approved independent projects and the university-funded Project Bluelight, which allows students to shoot their own films.

Because of this, students have sometimes had trouble securing a weekend time slot to work on their projects.

In order to meet increasing demand, DePaul opened a second sound stage at Cinespace at the beginning of fall quarter.

DePaul’s Cinespace director John Corba said the new addition seems to have alleviated some of the competition for extracurricular use, though it’s difficult to say for sure at this point in the academic year.

“The fall usually involves a little bit less in terms of demand, because students are starting to feel things out and getting to know their colleagues and their fellow students,” Corba said. “They’re putting together projects. It’s usually winter into spring where things get busier, because that’s when things are kind of coming together and larger projects are going into production.”

Even within DePaul, Cinespace’s presence has grown significantly since it first launched. Kate Harrington, a junior majoring in English and minoring in TV production, is taking her first production class at Cinespace this quarter. She started at DePaul as a Digital Cinema major, and although Cinespace wasn’t on her radar at first, she said she now sees it as a major draw to the school’s film program.

“As soon as we heard about it, my mom was so excited for me,” Harrington said. “She was like, ‘This will be so cool!’”

For other students, Cinespace was a huge incentive for coming to DePaul. Senior Tyler Krawczyk said he “tries to take as many classes” at the studio as he can, citing the professional skills he’s picked up as a result of spending time in the space.

“DePaul is literally sitting on an academic goldmine through exclusively working with Cinespace,” Krawczyk said. “It’s one of the main reasons why I decided to come to DePaul, and to this day I tell everyone to

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Actors on set of the “Pale Moonlight” music video at DePaul’s Cinespace Studios soundstage last May. The CDM program recently expanded to a second soundstage. choose DePaul’s Digital Cinema program over any other film schools in Chicago.”

With an increased presence comes increased opportunities for students postgraduation – all of the shows that shoot at Cinespace are potentially job sites for DePaul graduates. Corba said he gets calls from DePaul alumni in the industry asking for students to place in a variety of different positions, including costume, grip, sound, art design and other areas.

“Cinespace has been a real gamechanger, to that degree,” Corba said. “Not just in terms of how much more work has come here, but also opportunities for everybody from actors to the trade to content. There’s just a lot more opportunity here.”

Because of the abundant job opportunities, DePaul is sometimes categorized as a more production-oriented

film school — a perception Corba appreciates but would like to challenge.

“There’s also plenty of opportunity at this facility for students that are looking to produce their own content and use their equipment to do such at a much higher level,” he said. “You’re also seeing opportunity for writers, post-production and visual effects. We’re trying to leave a broader brushstroke on things, and I think that you’re seeing that.”

Ultimately, Corba said he’d like to see students moving beyond the production realm and into leadership roles.

“Next step is to have an alumnus directing these shows, and directing their own content,” he said. “That’s the end game.”

CAMPUS CRIME REPORT : Jan. 4, 2016 - Jan. 10, 2017 LOOP CAMPUS LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

Welcome Center

Sanctuary Hall

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Daley Building 3

DePaul Center

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Assault & Theft

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

JAN. 4 1) A criminal damage to property report was filed

for a flower box broken at 935 W. Fullerton.

JAN. 5 2) A possession of cannabis report was filed for

marijuana found in an e-cigarette at the Theatre School.

3) A possession of cannabis report was filed for a room in 1237 W. Fullerton.

JAN. 6 4) A theft report was filed for a person whose

wallet was taken from the Athletic Center locker room.

5) A possession of cannabis report was filed for a room in Belden-Racine Hall. Chicago police were called to the scene.

Drug & Alcohol

JAN. 7 6) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor

report was filed for a person in Seton Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs. 7) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed for a person in Sheffield Square.

Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs. 8) A possession of cannabis report was filed for a room in Sanctuary Hall. Chicago police were called to the scene.

9) A possession of cannabis report was filed for a room in Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Chicago police were called to the scene.

JAN. 8 9) A smell

of marijuana report was filed for a room in Sanctuary Hall. No drugs were found.

Other

JAN. 9 10) A criminal damage to property report was

filed for a damaged picture on the 4th floor of the Richardson Library.

11) A suspicion of marijuana report was filed for a room in Munroe Hall. No drugs were found.

LOOP CAMPUS JAN. 4 3) A graffiti report was filed for markings in a restroom in the Lewis Center.

JAN. 5 2) A criminal

trespass report was filed for a person who was not to be on DePaul Property.

Chicago police were called to the scene.

JAN. 6 2) A credit card fraud report was filed for a person

using other people’s credit cards in the DePaul Center.

JAN. 9 2) A criminal trespass report was filed for a person

bothering people outside the Jackson entrance of the DePaul Center.

2) A theft report was filed for a person whose wallet was taken from the Dunkin Donuts in the DePaul Center.

3) A criminal damage report was filed for a plaque outside of a room in the Lewis Center that was split in two. DePaul Center.

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Nation &World

Trump's picks

Four controversial cabinet nominees head to Senate hearings

By Jackson Danbeck

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Nation & World Editor

Rex Tillerson Secretary of State

Jeff Sessions Attorney General

Ben Carson Secretary of HUD

Steven Mnuchin Treasury Secretary

The former ExxonMobil executive has been chosen by President-elect Trump as his man to carry out the nation’s diplomacy abroad.

While Tillerson is noted to be an experienced international businessman, carrying out oil deals in far-flung places, he is also criticized for having no former government experience.

And what senators during last Wednesday’s hearing were especially concerned about — whose approval all cabinet positions require — is his relationship with dictators, notably Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But during the hearings, Tillerson pulled an about-face and veered from some of Trump’s benchmark ideas, such as his warm admiration for Putin. Tillerson said he would try his best to push back against Russia’s expanding influence abroad.

He also said he is determined to stop South Korea and Japan from obtaining nuclear weapons, is against a ban on Muslim immigration and even acknowledged global warming as dangerous, although lacking conclusive evidence — a long stride for an oil man.

“Tillerson's problem is not going to be with Putin, it's going to be with Trump,” said Richard Farkas, a political science professor at DePaul who focuses on Russia. “When Tillerson listens to the experts, he's going to come up with Plan A, he's going to take it to Trump and Trump's going to say 'No, that's not my plan, you need to promote Plan B.’” Tillerson worked for Exxon for more than four decades, as well as for ExxonMobil after the merger, now the world’s largest oil company. ExxonMobil operates in about 50 countries with which Tillerson has forged relationships with powerful people, people he will likely deal with again, albeit representing the United States.

One of Tillerson’s most notable achievements occurred in Russia, where he concluded a major oil deal with Rosneft, a largely state-owned energy company. For his work, he received the “Order of Friendship” medal personally from Putin.

Tillerson owns $218 million in Exxon stock, a potential conflict of interest in which Tillerson may strive to see the success of ExxonMobil abroad.

Perhaps the most controversial cabinet appointee is this Alabama lawyer, pulling in a record of staunchly conservative views and alleged racist remarks, to become the top cop in the nation. Sen. Sessions would be in charge of assigning influential positions under him, directing federal policy and enforcing federal law within the Justice department, such as with the FBI. Sessions is considered one the most conservative members of Senate and will likely aim to make changes in issues of immigration, guns, drugs, police accountability and civil rights.

One of the first senators to endorse Trump, Sessions may strive to oblige his loyalty to a president who has called for reform on many crucial issues in the nation. Sessions alone has expressed interest in a crackdown on immigration, calling for tougher policies to deport millions of undocumented migrants, among other policies.

“Under Sessions, the Department of Justice could shift more of its executive powers to pursuing allegations of voter fraud while putting less emphasis on fighting voter suppression tactics,” said Erik Tillman, a political science professor at DePaul. “This could affect low-income and minority voters significantly, if the result is more scrutiny of alleged fraud in these communities while simultaneously tolerating efforts by state governments to reduce early voting, require voter IDs, etc. — things which make it harder for low-income voters to vote.”

Growing up in Alabama, Sessions worked as an attorney until President Ronald Reagan made him the United States attorney for the southern district in 1981. During that time, Sessions allegedly called a black prosecutor “boy” and the NAACP and ACLU “unAmerican,” according to prosecutors present at the time. Those comments later marred his bid to become a federal judge, an appointment dependent on objectivity.

In the 1990s Sessions won a Senate seat and later joined the Judiciary Committee, a powerful position.

The only presidential candidate to obtain a spot in Trump’s cabinet, the retired neurosurgeon’s early endorsement of Trump has led him to clasp a position he has personal experience with, but is ostensibly unqualified for.

If approved by the Senate, Carson will lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in charge of providing rental and home-owning assistance and other benefits to over 5 million low-income families.

Like many of Trump’s cabinet nominations, Carson has no government experience, let alone in a bureaucratic department that aims to end poverty. But perhaps what made Carson the preferable pick was that he grew up in an impoverished household, led by his single mother in innercity Detroit and often aided by programs overseen by HUD. The logic is that if he can climb from rags to riches, he can help others do the same.

Carson stated during the presidential campaign that he aims to steer the department away from social handouts that encourage dependency, which he says are wasteful and anti-productive.

During his hearings with the Senate, Carson made efforts to move past his previous opinions on the peril of federal assistance programs. Instead, Carson proposed to hire private sector funding to help people get out of poverty, not make them dependent.

Tillman, the political science professor, said Carson falls within a camp of Trump’s cabinet nominations that lack relevant experience, “who has few seeming qualifications to be Secretary of HUD. As a result, I honestly have no idea what he would do if appointed.”

Carson will have to enforce civil rights laws that make sure equal housing is upheld — a law once used against Trump in a federal lawsuit. In 1971, Trump was accused of not allowing black residents to live in his apartment buildings. While not admitting to guilt, Trump did promise to make sure his buildings followed equal housing laws.

In regard to Trump businesses and philanthropic efforts, Carson said while he will not actively seek them out, he will certainly use them if they are the best option.

The wealthy hedge fund manager and former Goldman Sachs executive put his weight behind Trump early on, and that investment has certainly paid off.

If approved by the Senate, Mnuchin will become one of the most powerful people in the White House, in charge of departments from the IRS, the U.S. Mint to Foreign Assets Control, which controls economic and trade sanctions.

He will also hold the president’s ear to influence domestic policy.

So far, the big issue surrounding the entrepreneur is conflict of interests.

According to his filed financial disclosure report, Mnuchin has assets valued to be worth at least $166 million, and likely closer to $400 million. He said he plans to divest himself from 43 companies, investment funds and hedge funds, and resign from boards.

As Treasury Secretary, he would be dealing with companies of that sort as a representative the federal government.

One company Mnuchin says he will not leave is Steven T. Mnuchin Inc., used to manage some of his investments. It is still unknown what financial interests this company has, and whether it will be a potential conflict of interest.

In the filed report Mnuchin suggested that he may take advantage of a benefit that allows some federal employees to avoid paying taxes on certain assets that they sell to avoid conflict of interest, made to encourage government service.

As Treasury Secretary, Mnuchin will have the ability to overhaul tax code, such as in the direction of trickle-down economics, and privatize state mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac — all areas Trump has advocated reform in.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been very critical of Mnuchin for his involvement in Wall Street, a position that would run against Trump’s call to “drain the swamp.”

Mnuchin’s Senate hearing has yet to be scheduled. Many have been delayed due to longer-than-anticipated scrutiny projected at the nominees by Democratic Senators.

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Mobilized youth Movements for, against Trump unsure if momentum will continue

By April Lane Contributing Writer

With President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration on Friday, many daring protesters are gearing up to show their disdain for the direction they believe America will head in under a Trump Administration.

Being at the tail-end of a widely unpredictable election, there’s an underpinning of revolution for many young, politically engaged voters across the ideological spectrum who want to turn outrage into political change.

However, questions about how millennials will remain politically engaged in the coming years have surfaced.

Political science professor Molly Andolina believes the presence of activism prevalent in the 2016 election by millennials is going to continue to expand due to the demographic’s desire to invoke change.

“I think young people are truly impassioned to make a difference in a world that they see as full of problems — internationally and domestically, socially, politically and economically,” she explained.

“In my research, we find youth are mobilized to action by a sincere desire to effect change — not because it’s cool or because they want to build their resumes.”

Andolina cites current circumstances facing millennials today as being the “driving factor” in their becoming more politically active and engaged.

They are the first generation in recent years to not expect to do better than their parents socioeconomically, and those who are lucky enough to get a college degree, are carrying more debt while others are having trouble finding a job in the marketplace, Andolina said.

“I want to make change at the local level,” Adewale Emmanuel, a 2009 graduate of DePaul, said.

Emmanuel believes whatever happens at a national level is relevant and important, but doesn’t feel affected as much. He plans on remaining active and engaged at a local level in order to make changes and “perfect” what’s going on within his community. “I see what’s going on in Chicago and I want to be part of the solution. I want to do

something.”

Looking back at 2016, there was plenty of action from various social and political groups at DePaul that did their part to increase political awareness and engagement by holding bi-partisan debates, setting up tables in the Student Center, handing out fliers and even chalking.

Sociology professor Michael Bennett recalls the shakiness that reverberated throughout his classroom on Nov. 9, the day after Donald Trump was elected President, an outcome many didn’t anticipate.

“In both my classes last quarter following the election, students were devastated,” he said. “(They) really didn’t believe that Donald Trump could be elected. Once he was, you had those who were totally depressed, and then you had those who had the resolve to get more involved.”

Bennett believes that as policies begin to roll out and certain groups within the millennial demographic feel the effects, there will be an uproar in activism.

“Let’s say, for example, whatever happens with the repeal of Affordable Care Act, which affects millennials, unless the Republicans present a plan that is equally as friendly to millennials, you’ll see more activity by millennials around issues like that,” he said.

Utilizing social media as a tool for garnering support has been a tactic used by campaigns that are seeking to keep the public up-to-date and informed on social, economic and environmental issues that aren’t as widely publicized, but call for the public to remain active, empathetic and hungry for change.

Felipe Bascuñán, a digital cinema and film major and member of DePaul Socialists, explained that the use of social media to inform the masses within a short period of time has had an impact on exposing crisis such as DAPL, but getting out, rallying and being engaged is helping make an extreme difference. “For months that had been going on and no major outlets were covering it, so the ways people got informed about it were through social media,” he said. “However, we shouldn’t

BEN ALEXANDER I FLICKR Protesters in Chicago in the weeks following Donald Trump's election. While thousands came out into the streets then, some groups wonder if the movement has run out of steam.

COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Youth representing a host of different groups protesting the Trump election in Baltimore.

overstate that, and we shouldn’t see social media as a substitute for bodies in the street. But as an organizational tool, it’s extremely helpful.”

Kati Danforth, junior mathematics major and member of DePaul College Republicans (DCRs), believes the use of both media outreach and person-toperson engagement has been especially helpful in terms of exposure for minority political groups, such as DCRs, who fight to keep conservative voices known and relevant.

“We’re being heard because we're forcing ourselves to be heard. And I think that is a good thing because if we go quiet, there’s no voice to speak for any other side on campus,” she said.

Danforth believes staying engaged and educated is necessary for those who desire political change. “With how you’re able to connect to people so easily, I think to not be involved is just a huge mistake,” she said. “Being here in America allows you to reinvent yourself on a constant basis. If you don’t like what’s happening, reinvent it in some manner, and educate yourself on what polices are going to be enacted and what’s actually going on.”

Jack McNeil, president of DePaul Democrats, believes

BEN CHUN I FLICKR Thousands in San Fransisco, California marched in the streets against Trump following the election.

staying engaged is a matter of finding issues youth can change in their local communities. "I think our focus is to work with those elected officials locally and get people involved in more professionalizing the field,” he said. “There's a lot of college kids who want to be involved in politics, but don't really know what to do in an off-season, so if we can find ways to get them

to intern at different consulting agencies and learn some skills, that will be really useful.”

The skills millennials will learn through these opportunities will be useful if they want to stay involved in politics, and want to maximize their involvement in the next election cycle, he said.

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Opinions

Out of line

Meryl Streep does not speak for marginalized communities

By Amber Colón Nuñez Contributing Writer

Without even mentioning his name, Meryl Streep turned the attention away from the glitz and glamour of the Golden Globes Award ceremony to speak out against President-elect Donald Trump’s repetitive use of abusive language and behavior.

“There was one performance this year that stunned me — it sank its hooks in my heart,” Streep said. “Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.”

Streep called to attention a specific instance during November 2015, when Trump made fun of a New York Times investigative reporter named Serge Kovaleski, who has a muscle condition called arthrogryposis.

Because Trump never misses a beat, on Monday at 3:27 a.m. the president-elect took to Twitter to call Streep “overrated” and insist that he never once mocked Kovaleski.

“I was never mocking anyone," Trump said to The New York Times the morning after the awards ceremony. "I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story.

People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter's disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing.”

Immediately, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook exploded with users critiquing Streep’s comments. Many viewers seemed to think that the Golden Globes Award ceremony was not the time or place to speak about the country’s current political climate, or even that Streep should not be making any kind of political commentary because she is an actor whose sole purpose is to entertain.

Interestingly enough, like Meryl Streep, president-elect Trump has absolutely no political experience. Prior to announcing his candidacy in June 2015, Trump was the host of popular reality series “The Celebrity Apprentice.” In addition to being a reality television host, Trump is also a businessman — he is the owner of many hotels, golf courses, casinos and more.

However, it is important that celebrities like Streep decide to use their platforms to speak out against social injustice and engage in political discourse. This, in effect, will encourage other entertainers — especially those best suited to speak about the injustice they face — to do the same.

“If celebrities don’t talk about it, then other people won’t talk about it. We need public figures to talk about these issues,” said Katia Silva, a DePaul senior majoring in Latin American and Latino Studies.

In Streep’s defense, when she is not an actor, she is also a civically engaged person.

In fact, throughout the election cycle she vocalized her support for Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, who

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Meryl Streep turned heads at the Golden Globes Jan. 8 after she dedicated her acceptance speech to Donald Trump's actions.

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suffered an emotional loss to Trump.

“I did watch the Golden Globes, and I am very happy that (Streep) said what she said,” Silva said.

“She did a good job of talking about what has been happening the last few months because of the election, postelection, now. She never mentioned his name, and I like that because the more you mention his name, the more publicity you’re giving him.”

However, Streep did step into deeply murky, problematic waters when she said that an actor’s “only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like." While it is an actor's job to tell a story, it definitely is not their job to represent and speak for marginalized communities. A disability, skin color, or gender is not something that is up for grabs in the costume department.

Near the end of Streep’s speech, she spoke about how Tommy Lee Jones approached her on the set of 2012 film

“Hope Springs," and asked, “Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?”

In fact, it is an incredibly privileged position to be an actor. Most of the country’s population is actually incredibly disconnected from Hollywood, a space that already is lacking in diversity and fails at the inclusion of women, people of color, and those who are differently abled — the least privileged groups of people in the nation.

Not far from DePaul University’s Loop campus, residents of Chicago are facing similar problems of eviction, displacement, and homelessness. South Side neighborhood Pilsen, has seen a huge push of its mostly Latino residents out of the city and into the suburbs due to heightened rent prices as a result of gentrification.

All across the country, the people who make up a large part of the U.S. are facing problems of housing inequality, racism and that celebrities like Meryl Streep and

Donald Trump will never experience.

“This dissonance between the realities of those who will truly feel the brunt of Trump’s abuse and the celebrities who proselytize on our behalf reflects that fact that this is a conversation between the privileged,” said Victoria Agunod, a DePaul senior majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and minoring in LGBTQ Studies.

“A celebrity’s platform is better used to lift up the voices of oppressed people rather than to speak on our behalf. Streep did not reach out to the reporter who acted as a main character in her speech as a victim of Trump.”

While Streep definitely started a nation wide conversation about Trump’s language, her execution failed miserably. Likely, it is because most people in positions of oppression cannot relate to Streep’s surfacelevel hurt that she feels by the Presidentelect’s language, beliefs and actions.

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DREAMers' future unknown, action must happen now

By Yazmin Dominguez Opinions Editor DePaul considers itself a follower of Vincentian values. During orientation, the very beginning of a student’s academic career, we are taught the question “what must be done?”

In the current political climate, with unpredictable President-elect Donald Trump ready to take the Oval Office by the end of the week, many students are nervous for the next four years. Many students who have been challenged by the unruly president-elect have asked themselves what can they do these next four years.

But, undocumented students present at DePaul and universities across the nation are under tension, rightly so.

In his Ten-Point Plan on Immigration, Trump threatens to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status. According to Ballotpedia, Trump declared his fifth point would "immediately terminate President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution- to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants.”

Due to Obama’s 2012 Immigration Accountability Executive Action Plan many undocumented youth who fell under certain strict restrictions were able to apply and receive the DACA status.

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, this would mean they would receive two-year protection from deportation as well as work authorization. But, with a new president-elect threatening to eradicate DACA, undocumented students who are DACA recipients, otherwise regarded as DREAMers, nation wide are asking themselves what can be done?

At DePaul, there have been a lot of conversations surrounding undocumented students on campus. DePaul University is in a unique position with being a Catholic university. The steps DePaul will take to regulate the right's of its undocumented students will speak a lot of what values DePaul's as a Catholic university truly follows.

“I think in the next four years, undocumented students will face many obstacles. The spaces in predominantly white institutions, such as DePaul, may get toxic and it may lead them to question the sense of ‘home’ many have developed here,” Michelle Ramírez, senior and double major in Latin American and Latinx studies and sociology said. “However, it is this time that is so crucial for everyone in which we will see those that really see the humanity in each other.”

Undocumented students were not the only ones asking the direct question of

what immediate action need to take place.

DePaul professors Maria Ferrera, Francesca Royster, Bernadette Sanchez and Laura Kina responded to the social concern of DREAMers’ unknown future by creating petitions requesting university action.

The petition called for DePaul to become a sanctuary campus. As the petition stated: "These actions would fall in line with Emanuel’s declaration yesterday that the city of Chicago will remain a sanctuary city. We are also extremely concerned about the mental health and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff. Since the election, suicide hotline requests have doubled in Illinois and nationally.

Counseling centers are overwhelmed with the volume of people seeking help.”

The petition released by the Critical Ethnic Studies Department garnered 2,200 signatures out of the 20,255 Facebook users reached. Keeping in close contact with DePaul administration prior to the petition's release, a statement by president Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M. stated he would follow behind Mayor Rahm Emanuel and take action to protect undocumented immigrants, but he did not declare DePaul as sanctuary campus.

Not declaring DePaul a place of sanctuary for its undocumented student did not appear to be a sufficient response because of DePaul’s strong emphasis on Vincentian values. DREAMers are a part of DePaul's community who face more challenges, either financially and academically. With the incoming Trump administration, they will face more. Not declaring DePaul's campus a sanctuary will add more unneeded tension to their academic career.

Professor Kathleen Arnold drafted a second petition to declare DePaul a sanctuary campus, to use the St. Vincent de Paul Church as an on-campus shelter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and to prevent Public Safety from cooperating with ICE. DePaul not declaring itself a sanctuary campus, this can entail the possible repercussions of DREAMers being detained and potentially deported to a country they are not familiar with. Their education and future in this country, a country that DACA recipients have called home since a young age, are at risk. They will be living in fear and anxiety of what their life will become without DACA. This reveals the unfortunate reality of the extra hurdles and maneuvers undocumented students face, actions most young Americans take for granted. Actions, such as attaining a diploma, a chance pursuing professional passions for now, simply attending class without the fear of not arriving home because of potential ICE raids during these next four years.

Due to DePaul’s Catholic-led, Vincentian values the university could have the potential to be on the forefront of the undocumented student movement in Chicago. But, according to Ballotpedia, Trump's fourth point in his Ten-Point Immigration Plan will “block funding for sanctuary cities." Since DePaul is a private institution, risking getting federal funds cut would be detrimental to the population of students who rely on federal loans.

"There is a very real fear that federal funding might be taken away in retaliation by the new administration. Our university is already at risk because we do not have a large endowment to fall back on should federal funding be taken away,” Kina said. “We are a primarily tuition driven institution. Our students are everything to us but these events have shown us that we need our alumni and donors to support us too by helping DePaul build a larger safety net for our students.”

If becoming a sanctuary campus can entail potentially losing federal funding two groups of students at DePaul, undocumented and those who rely on federal loans, fall under jeopardy. And while DePaul has not declared itself a sanctuary campus there are many other methods DePaul, can do for its undocumented students.

Jesse Mumm, professor in the college of liberal arts and social sciences and organizer of Sanctuaries in Practice, an event dedicated to answering questions arising around the word ‘sanctuary,’ says DePaul can do much more for its undocumented students.

“There is a wide range of things that we can be doing differently to recruitment access, retention, specifically the role and

responsibility of the institution not just undocumented folks but when any of these (marginalized) groups are targeted. How do we protect students from members of our own community who would marginalize or attack them,” Mumm said. “That’s a discussion that's already been had this past year. It’s not at all a settled question(...)We can create safer and safer spaces even if we can’t create perfectly safe spaces, but that’s not a reason not to try.”

It is a difficult position for DePaul, a Vincentian university, to be in. Although, Holtschneider has declared DePaul is working on comprehensive immigration reform rather than creating symbolic act, both, are still equally important.

“Our undocumented peers are much more than ‘dreamers’ they don’t just dream, they achieve,” Ramírez said. “They persevere and they will overcome these systems and individuals whose success is founded on the oppression of others. It will be a journey that as a challenging and overwhelming as it can be will further their passion, self awareness, and the fire in their resistance.”

Students need to know where exactly their university stands on such a demanding social issue such as the unknown future of their fellow DREAMer classmates. The immigration reform DePaul is completing is reflective of how the university will possibly handle future controversies under a Trump administration.

The current struggle DREAMers are facing sheds light on just the beginning of the many injustices that are to come these next four years.

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

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Focus

A reflection of the Obama legacy, as we look t

By Brenden Moore Political Editor

When Barack Obama celebrated his victory in the 2008 presidential race, he told a war-weary and economically shake nation that “change has come to America.”

As he leaves office, it is clear that "change" was more than a bumper sticker. Whether transforming the American healthcare system, refocusing American military commitments overseas or simply being the man he is, the Obama legacy is, for better or worse, is far-reaching and consequential.

Let’s start with the obvious: Obama is the first African American elected president. While not something he had any control over, it was a monumental moment in American history and will always be tied to his legacy.

“I think obviously he will be remembered as the first black president, perhaps more than any other thing, as a groundbreaking figure, as someone who broke barriers, but also symbolized an evolution of the country that perhaps no other single person has in terms of race," DePaul political science professor Ben Epstein said.

Along with that came lofty expectations to cure more than 400 years of racial strife and bring about a ‘post-racial’ America. As Obama himself admitted in his farewell address, this was never a realistic prospect.

The country is in better shape now than when Obama first took office. Unemployment is now below five percent and more than 11 million jobs

have been created.

But, a changing world has left many feeling left behind. In hollowed out communities from coal country to the industrial heartland, some see Obama’s support for trade deals and regulations against the coal industry as hurting their livelihoods.

John Minster, of the conservative group DePaul Young Americans for Freedom, said many Obama voters in his home state of Michigan were left disappointed, which led them to vote Trump.

“There was a lot of poor, mostly white, culturally Christian counties that voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, but instead of helping them get better, he's only lectured them and created policies that haven't helped those people,” Minster said. “So I think in Trump, they saw somebody who I think spoke to them to at least some extent.”

The Obama years have been a time of great change in the American economy. While much of this was out of his control, many feel left behind as income inequality continues to rise and manufacturing jobs that employed whole towns bolt for other countries.

If former President George W. Bush is judged for foreign policy actions he took, Obama will arguably be judged for what he did not do. This inverse relationship between the two is not a coincidence.

Obama, inheriting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, saw it necessary to draw back on U.S. military commitments, an idea called ‘retrenchment’.

“When somebody invokes the Obama Doctrine, basically what I think of is an effort to act multilaterally as opposed to unilaterally, and a conscious effort to minimize U.S. military commitments overseas,” Scott Hibbard said.

“There's a selective engagement approach, not a disengagement approach and certainly not a retreat from the world, but selective engagements.”

This has led to both successes and challenges for Obama. The last U.S. troops left Iraq in 2011, a limited amount remain in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden is dead. Plus, the U.S., acting multilaterally, has entered into agreements to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon and to combat climate change.

However, many have criticized this approach as naive, with the most sobering example being Syria, where the bloody civil war there has killed hundreds of thousands and led to an unprecedented refugee crisis.

“I don't really know how you can look at that and just not see that as the great failing of the Obama Administration,” Hibbard said. “And I think people within the Obama Administration would probably agree with that.”

Others have criticized Obama’s approach as dangerous, with most citing the Iran deal, which was opposed by several key allies in the region and fiercely opposed by Republicans at home. But Hibbard believes that Obama’s long-term approach with Iran will pay off in the end.

On domestic policy, Obama’s most significant accomplishment is easily the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.

In spite of being an imperfect law, it is momentous that for the first time, the U.S. government recognized it had a responsibility to provide affordable health coverage for all Americans. Like Vice President Joe Biden told Obama upon the president’s signing of

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on, “this is a big f***ing deal.” the first major overhaul to healthcare and many, many administrations have led and the Obama Administration was this done,” Epstein said. “It's affecting d millions and millions of people in a e way.” premiums have increased as healthy out and insurance companies pull out anges, the law has helped more than people directly get access to healthcare the lowest uninsured rate in American

are was the one that was going to be ossible to get through. And even if you h, you're going to use up all the political going to be almost impossible to do se,” said DePaul Democrats President . “And he said, well, if I'm governing for ings, what's the point? I'm doing this to es that will help the American people.” s remaining political capital dried up sage of the Affordable Care Act and his quently getting shellacked in the 2010 ctions, a remarkable period of legislative e to a close. nt achievements during this time timulus bill, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street bailout of the U.S. auto industry, the he Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the n’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which had prevented e from serving openly in the military. he history books are written, Barack get more than just a mention. If I had

to guess, he will be revered by many in the way Republicans still fondly recall Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

“In the long run, I think historians are going to be more generous to him than the current electorate was if we take the 2016 vote to be a referendum on the last eight years as opposed to just a choice between the two candidates who were running,” said political science professor Larry Bennett.

However, he will also go down as the product of extremely polarized times. Despite what some would say was unreasonable opposition from Republicans in Congress, Obama failed to change Washington D.C., in the way he sought out to do. We are more divided than ever in our politics, and for that, he will share some of the blame.

But in spite of such fierce polarization, Obama managed to accomplish a lot of major objectives.

Domestically, he transformed healthcare, reformed Wall Street9 and perhaps saved the economy from the brink of collapse. In foreign affairs, the jury is still out given the unpredictability of the incoming administration.

Perhaps the best way to sum up Obama, a famous Chicagoan, is to quote another famous Chicagoan, Daniel Burnham, who said “Make no little plans,” for “they have no magic to stir men`s blood.”

Like all presidents, Obama had his successes and his shortcomings, but no one can say he did not think big.

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Arts & Life GUESSING THE GOLD A look at some of this year’s biggest Oscar contenders

LA LA LAND Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Liam Neeson portray traveling Jesuits in the new religious epic “Silence,” based on the Japanese novel of the same name. Director Martin Scorsese manages to capture the cold, dark and unpredictable nature of the Tokugawa period in Japan, thanks to the use of gorgeous lighting, 35-millimeter film and a soundtrack that is dominated mostly by atmospheric effects more so than original music.

Garfield’s character is a Catholic priest, whose faith is put to the test by the overwhelming odds of traveling to 17th century Japan; a nation that does not want Catholicism to spread, and

is constantly struggling to justify the things he sees and the sinners he meets.

Scorsese manages to also deliver on some of his signature brand of dark and violent humor. Despite how bleak and overwhelming the events of the plot may be, there manages to be an effective amount of jokes and unexpected sequences, with Yōsuke Kubozuka and Adam Driver having scenes that make the more intense sequences feel less anxious to watch.

While it was released too late to be nominated for any Golden Globes, it’ll certainly be up for some Academy Awards.

— Griffin Jordan

Photo courtesy of SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

By Matt Koske, Emily Rutherford & Griffin Jordan Staff Writer & Contributing Writers

With the Golden Globes now a thing of the past and BAFTA (British Academy Film Awards) nominations announced last week, we are now inching closer to the Academy Awards (Feb. 26), the closing of the overlong film award season. As award buzz continues to circulate in the next two months, the indication of who will take home the big, golden award will become more apparent.

In the meantime, the winter season is one of the best times to scurry to a heated theater and watch a great film. Here are some of this year’s biggest award season contenders.

January and February are two of the most important months in Hollywood as award show season kicks off. With the Golden Globes now behind us, the Screen Actors Guild awards, People’s Choice, Grammys and Oscars are next up on our DVRs. This year’s Golden Globes held many memorable, and at times, surprising moments from Meryl Streep’s speech to host Jimmy Fallon’s “mixed review” performance to “La La Land” dominating the show.

“Whiplash” director Damien Chazelle brought us this 2016 musical film that critics raved and Hollywood adored. It landed them a record breaking seven wins at the Globes, the most ever won by a movie.

Essentially, “La La Land” is a movie about Hollywood, for

Hollywood, full of self appraisal and contentment.

The film stars two of Hollywood’s favorites, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and holds a striking musical appeal, which got them Best Original Score for their “City of Stars.” Their stardom can only do so much, however, as it fails to override the weak character development and story depth, such as the process of Stone’s character’s one woman play that simply is talked about, happens and then flops.

Will “La La Land’s” quirky musical style continue dominating the award show scene?

Collecting over $90 million at the box office so far, time will tell at the end of February.

— Emily Rutherford

SILENCE

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MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Photo courtesy of AMAZON STUDIOS

In the emotionally overwhelming “Manchester by the Sea,” Casey Affleck’s haunting and Golden Globe winning performance forces him to take in his apprehensive, teenage nephew after his father dies from heart failure.

Lee Chandler (Affleck) is an aloof janitor/handyman residing in a Boston one-room-fits-all apartment. His persistence is drastically maintained when his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler)

dies of a heart attack, and upon receiving the news, shovels one last load of snow over his shoulder and surrenders to Manchesterby-the-Sea, Massachusetts to deal with the “What’s next?”

Lonergan’s painfully real script meshes past with present fluently in a way that pinpoints the defining moments of family history. The first half of the 135-minute runtime just barely grazes Lee’s past.

— Matt Koske

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DePaul alumnus releases feature film

By Pat Mullane Arts & Life Editor

When DePaul graduate Brent Kado laid eyes on the final cut of his first microfeature film, he realized that the months of long shoots and late nights had finally paid off. Written and directed by Kado, the 53-minute “A Short History of Drugs in the Valley” chronicles the American Dream within the lives of three gangsters that survive day-to-day in a life of drugs, alcohol, and guns.

Made on a budget of around $10,000, the neo-noir comedy not only tells a familiar story in an original way but accomplishes everything within its grasp in the sense of acting, writing, and overall direction. While the film’s cast is short of recognizable faces, it’s ultimately a fortunate factor as it makes the outlandish and bozo characters that much more believable and real because the viewer has never seen them outside the screen. And while the acting was undoubtedly a large aspect of this film’s success, a great deal is owed to the writing behind it all.

For Kado, the story of the film was both a revisiting and reimagining of the PHOTO COURTESY OF BRENT KADO small town life he was raised in.

In his first feature film, Brent Kado (right), a DePaul alumnus, directs actor Ed Ernstes (left) in “A Short History of Drugs in the “The idea came from growing up in a small town and the stories that you hear or are told growing up,” Kado said.

“People love to idealize how peaceful and joyous small town life is, but often it’s as unpredictable a place as anywhere else.

I wrote the film. It was a combination of two scripts I had. I decided to combine and refine the two stories, which is a total independent film thing to do.”

Filming near where he grew up, the area was not only familiar to Kado but was full of a community of people willing to help him on his film.

“It was filmed in areas in and around Goshen and Warsaw, Indiana, near where my wife and I grew up. We’ve filmed a few other projects there as well as commercials. So we know the community well, have people who love to help and there’s a great support system,” said Kado.

“We got the cars (and other unique props) just by knowing various people in the area or family. That is a really nice thing about shooting in an area you are familiar with, just ask and someone knows someone that PHOTO COURTESY OF BRENT KADO is willing to help. We then brought in other Kado (center) speaks with assistant director Will Kioultzpoulos (right), as they film a scene inside a local bar. actors and crew from Chicago and LA.” And while the film served as a taught me the value of collaboration and hometown type of project, it was also a working hard on what you believe in. In family one, as Kado’s wife served as both a the classroom, my professor at DePaul producer of the film and played a small role did a great job of making sure you instill as well — a collaboration common between quality in the work you do and not taking the two of them. shortcuts in any aspect of a project.”

“My wife and I collaborate on most It was these [no shortcuts] and great of our projects and we had decided to do quality of work that certainly paid off in the another feature — this is now my fourth eyes of Brent Kado when he watched the — after she had just completed a personal final cut of “A Short History of Drugs in the short film that I produced,” said Kado. “So Valley.” we agreed to do this film that I had wanted And for the viewers of the film, the to do. She produced it and also has a small quality and consistency in direction is role.” quite clear and rewarding while watching Leading a film on a rather low budget, it, reminiscent of both new and veteran Kado found it rather easy to maintain filmmakers that a low budget movie does direction on cast and crew of 50 people, not convey a low quality film. noting that the collaboration between “It’s fun to see a DIY project come everyone on set was what guided the film together and have the final product be so smoothly to a finish. But Kado also drew something you are really proud of. So much of his collaboration skills from his getting to that final cut and deciding that experience as a graduate student at DePaul. this is the version you are going with is “We have experience in our other extremely gratifying,” said Kado. “On set, films leading a crew, so it’s not terribly it’s also special to see it all come together. difficult to lead the production overall, Watching your vision in progress is often just troubleshooting and dealing with surreal. Having Amazon releasing the film unforeseen issues. Which is half of indie is truly special for a project of this scope.” filmmaking,” said Kado. “When I was in “A Short History of Drugs in the Valley” jesuitvocations.org Grad School at DePaul I worked at both is available on Amazon Prime.

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DePaul Art Museum explores HIV/AIDS

By Taylor Ashmore Staff Writer

The DePaul Art Museum will unveil its newest exhibition: an innovative look at the HIV/AIDs crisis told through the eyes of children, entitled “One day this kid will get larger” on Jan. 26.

The exhibition was curated by Danny Ordenorff, a curator, writer, teacher and activist who creates work about the “histories of grassroots socialjustice activism and theories of gender and sexuality,” according to his website.

Orendorff is currently working as interim manager of Public and Community programs for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, though he traces his roots back to the southern suburbs of Chicago.

“I developed the theme and concept, selected all of the artists and artworks, and wrote the texts,” Orendorff said, explaining his role as curator. “I wanted to do a show that looked at the current state of HIV/AIDS in North America and that emphasized the experiences of a younger generation that often do not get highlighted in exhibitions more concerned with artwork produced during the height of the AIDS crisis in America in the ‘80s.”

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that damages white blood cells, resulting in people having a difficult time fighting off diseases or infections.

AIDS develops later on, once a person has already contracted HIV. There are 25,500 people living in Chicago with HIV, according to WGN, and 1,100 new cases are diagnosed each year in Chicago alone. African Americans and gay

and bisexual men make up the two largest groups of HIV diagnoses each year.

“This is an exhibition that explores the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis through the experiences of young people or that the artists featured in the exhibition, primarily born in the ‘70s and ‘80s, had while learning about HIV/AIDS as young people,” Orendorff said. “It looks at those experiences through the sub-themes of Childhoods, Educations and Nightlifes/ Pop Cultures.”

“The inspiration came in the form of an invitation from DePaul Art Museum’s director and curator, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, to curate an exhibition in response to the Alphawood Foundation’s presentation of ArtAIDSAmerica,” Orendorff said.

ArtAIDSAmerica is currently being shown at the Alphawood Gallery, just down the street from the DePaul Art Museum.

This exhibition is similar to “One day this kid will get older,” showing images of HIV in art. The exhibition is currently open and will remain so until April 2.

This exhibition also focuses on diversity and inclusion, a common topic found within the DePaul Art Museum.

“I am lucky to be connected to queer, feminist, anti-racist and activist artists and organizations all over the country based on my own political and social commitments,” Orendorff said. “Many of the artists in this show work as social workers, photojournalists, educators and community organizers beyond their work as artists.”

In this exhibition, one gallery will feature media and audio regarding HIV/ AIDS. This shows another side of the crisis,

expanding on the artwork featured in the first gallery.

“I think it’s important to hear the voices of the actual subjects of a portrait or photojournalistic series, so some of the audio accounts more for an individual relationship to the themes under consideration,” Orendorff said.

“Additionally, HIV/AIDS influences media-making on many different levels, so it was important to me to bring in music in particular, as music and nightclubs have historically been a place for LGBTQ to find community.

Nightclubs have indeed been seen as a community for LGBTQ members. Just over six months ago, a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL. was attacked.

This shooting was the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in U.S. history, drawing more awareness to the community.

This artwork, both visual and audio, also draws attention to the need for better education regarding the HIV/AIDS crisis.

“I think artwork allows for greater complexity and calls for greater empathy from a viewer than more straightforward types of media,” Orendorff said. “I think artwork also provides a social and political record of how artists and activists were thinking or feeling during any given time.”

Visitors entering the exhibition will first be met by “Growing Concerns,” a photograph by Shan Kelley. “(It) features an image of the artists’ infant children crawling in a crib under a colorful wall hanging that reads ‘What will you teach your children about AIDS?’” Ordenorff said. “I think that’s a question any and all of us raising or working with

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“Growing Concern” by Shan Kelley is one of many pieces of art on display at DPAM’s latest exhibit. young people today need to be asking.”

Admission to the DePaul Art Museum, located east of the Fullerton ‘L’ stop, is free.

The exhibition will run Jan. 26 through April 2 and includes local artists such as Aay Preston-Myint, Oil Rodriguez, Angela Davis Fegan and Jackie Carmen Guerrero.

“It is important that young people are still making work about HIV/AIDS because it is still a crisis in this county,” Orendorff said.

“HIV/AIDS is not over.”

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Let's grab a bite:

Your guide to great restaurants near campus

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By Brian Pearlman Contributing Writer

U.B. Dogs

185 N. Franklin St. Since 2010, U.B. Dogs has been serving up American classics like hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches.

The staples are rock solid, as they should be — it’s hard to mess up a Chicago dog when you’re using a Vienna Beef wiener and you’ve got all the right items. Where U.B. excels though is in the subtle twists it puts on old favorites.

The Joey Dog in particular (presumably named after owner/operator Joe Plonka, who greets patrons at the register with the kind of smiling enthusiasm that you just don’t see enough of these days) adds a savory spicy garlic wasabi aioli to the traditional meat and bun pairing, along with a drizzle of Tabasco and a sprinkling of salty, fresh-cut french fries. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

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Mixed Greens

5411 Empanadas

175 N. Franklin St Without a doubt the busiest of the three locations during the lunchtime rush, Mixed Greens has gained a reputation as the place to go for fresh, custom salads. Choose your greens (baby spinach, romaine, or mixed greens), your dressing (there’s over 15 different kinds) and go to town on toppings like raw mushrooms, edamame, mapleglazed pecans, and grilled salmon.

175 N Franklin St Sure it’s a chain, with locations in Miami and Houston as well as Chicago (they’re also in Lakeview), but this unassuming spot, just steps away from U.B. Dogs, 5411 Empanadas has left its mark in the city. Run by friendly folks who serve up wondrously soft pockets of Argentine goodness, with flavors like Malbec beef; mushroom, thyme and blue cheese; and spinach and cheese — this place is one of the best food spots in the Loop.

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‘Night Runner’ to open at The Theatre School

By Matt Koske Staff Writer

The Theatre School at DePaul begins their 2017 production cycle with playwright Ike Holter’s — recipient of the Chicagoan of the Year for Theater in 2014 — play “Night Runner.”

“Night Runner” will run at the Merle Reskin theatre, primarily a location for younger audiences. Recommended for ages nine and up comes the story of Cora, a young 12-year-old whose brother Marcus is taken by a slave owner. Now on the run, Cora is guided by a dark, mythical creature — the legendary Night Runner — that enlightens her to discoveries of freedom, inner strength and hope.

Third year dramaturgy and criticism major Rachel Perzynski discussed her role on the opening production of “Night Runner.” During her time at the DePaul Theatre School, she has worked as the dramaturg — dealing with mostly research and development — for the production of “Contractions” which ran in the spring of 2016 and also “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” which ran in the fall of 2015.

“As a dramaturg, my work on a show begins before the very first production team meeting. I analyze the script inside and out, breaking down its structure and themes,” Perzynski said. “I also do a lot of

outside research and readings. Because the the Goodman Theatre. Portes overlooks playwright Ike Holter described the play as her DePaul student production of “Night ‘the Underground Railroad meets Marvel,’ Runner.”

I read a lot of comics to get a sense of the “The fact that ‘Night Runner’ is style and attempted meant for younger to become a selfaudiences largely made expert “The fact that ‘Night Runner’ is impacts the lens in antebellum through which slavery and the meant for younger audiences I read and view U n d e r g r o u n d largely impacts the lens through the play. When I Railroad.” have attended runThe play which I read and view the play.’” throughs of past features themes productions, part of that can seem my job was to view overwhelming for Rachel Perzynski, dramaturg of the show as if I were children. Knowing an audience member this, Perzynski ‘Night Runner.’ seeing it for the first altered her research time,” Perzynski for the production said. “That way, I to accommodate can let the director a younger audience and a smaller space, or playwright know what confuses me. given “Night Runner” is running at the As a dramaturg on a children’s play, I get Merle Reskin Theater in the South Loop. to attempt to view the run-through as if I Perzynski worked closely with the director were ten years old. Sometimes the notes I to work out any confusing problems. give sound something like, ‘If I were a ten Director Lisa Portes, the head of year old, I wouldn’t understand what is MFA Directing program at DePaul and implied here.’ artistic director of Chicago Playworks, Thematically, the play offers a plot line resume ranges from associate director for that revolves around slavery. After Cora’s the Tony Award-winning musical, “The brother Marcus is snatched by a slave owner, Who’s Tommy” which ran in Canada, U.K. the play speaks on heroism and bravery in and Germany to local Chicago theatre the face of racism in a contemporary light. credits at Steppenwolf, Northlight, and The Merle Reskin Theatre actively

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seeks out younger audiences for their productions. School field trips, camps and other young groups gather at the Merle Reskin Theatre for attending and interacting in DePaul’s productions.

“I got to help create the interactive study guide that classes often complete before coming to see the show on a field trip. It was challenging to write about slavery in a way that a child could grasp without minimizing its gravity,” Perzynski said. “We also wanted the study guide to reflect how the play defies the ill-conceived notion that enslaved people were passive to the cruelties of slavery.”

But in the end, what “Night Runner” represents is a look into the past that’s necessary in order to understand our present. “‘Night Runner,’ based on Harriet Tubman, embodies the superhuman-like strength it took to not only successfully escape enslavement, but to return again and again to help others to freedom,” Perzynski said. “Harriet Tubman’s heroic example influenced our decision to focus on the historical heroes and abolitionists who fought against slavery in the study guide.”

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FIVE TV SHOWS TO SEE THIS WINTER From sequels to spinoffs, here are some of the best shows to tune into

By Pat Mullane Arts & Life Editor

1.“The Mick” Jan. 1

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” actress Kaitlin Olson stars in this upcoming Fox series “The Mick,” where she plays lavish partier Mackenzie “Mickey” Murphy. When her wealthy, estranged sister and husband flee the country to avoid a federal indictment, Mickey becomes the parental guardian for her niece and nephews. While the plot of an unexpected parental job bestowed on an irresponsible guardian is rather overused, the show does look both situationally funny and touching. Whether Kaitlin Olson can transfer from the outlandish and wild “It’s Always Sunny” to a different toned series so smoothly is unknown yet, but her comedic chops are undeniable. Watch “The Mick” at 8 p.m. every Tuesday on FOX.

2.“Powerless” Feb. 2

The first sitcom series set within the world of the DC Universe, “Powerless” follows the employees of Wayne Security (hint: owned by Bruce Wayne) as they create various safety products for humans to survive during battles between superheroes and supervillains. With hit television stars Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical”), Danny Pudi (“Community”), and Alan Tudyk (“Firefly”), the show certainly has some promise in succeeding with this rather strange premise. Whether it can compete with the likes of Marvel’s “Daredevil” (Netflix) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC) is unknown but at least the DC Universe series does offer a fresh story to the superhero genre. Watch “Powerless” at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday on NBC.

4.“Big Little Lies” Feb. 19

Possibly the most star studded casted series on the list, “Big Little Lies” follows three mothers (Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Shailene Woodley) whose lives and drama begin to unwrap in front of each other. While there isn’t much known about the plot, the limited series is based on the book of the same name by Liane Moriarty, and while it’s fairly common for HBO to adapt a book into a television series, it is fairly uncommon for that series to be unsuccessful. “Big Little Lies” is easily one of the most anticipated television series of the season. Watch “Big Little Lies” every Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO.

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In a list full of spinoffs, sequels and adaptations, why not just add a prequel to the mix with NBC’s “Taken” — a show that explores how Bryan Mills (played by Liam Neeson in the films) got his special agent status and “very particular set of skills.” In the same logic as “24: Legacy,” the show could be promising as long as it respects the original material and tries to add to it instead of merely copying or replicating. While the premise of the show is interesting, the graphic violence will certainly be held back on Fox compared to shown in the films. Watch “Taken” at 9 p.m. every Monday on NBC.

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3. “24: Legacy” Feb. 5

The new Fox television series, “24: Legacy,” a spinoff to the once widely successful series “24,” premieres next month to find out if it can still carry the original show’s thrill without Kiefer Sutherland’s popular character Jack Bauer. Comprised of 12 episodes, compared to the original’s 24-episode length seasons, the show follows war hero Eric Carter (played by “Straight Outta Compton” star Corey Hawkins) as he investigates why a number of Army Rangers is being assassinated. If the first episodes seem promising and in sense to the original’s tone, Fox may have found its winter hit drama series. Watch “24:Legacy” at 7 p.m. every Monday on FOX.

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As Chicagoans wait patiently for the Lollapalooza lineup announcement, DePaul students can look forward to another festival in the meantime, FEST. While the headliner of the DePaul spring festival has not been announced yet, there are a few clues behind who it could be.

From Mac Miller to Joey Bada$$ to MisterWives, the possibilities are quite endless, but from the look of the FEST 2017 survey, we can look at who some of the top choices are.

1. “Like Me” - Joey Bada$$ (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid) Noted as a possible headliner in DePaul’s FEST fall survey, the Brooklyn rapper has found himself as one of today’s most promising young hip-hop artists.

No stranger to Chicago, Joey Bada$$ has toured in local venues over the past couple years and is a frequent collaborator with BJ the Chicago Kid — their song “Like Me” is a good place to start with both artists.

2.. “Doe-Active” - A$AP Ferg Another New York native, A$AP Ferg may be one of the most popular hip-hop artists on

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the FEST survey. Performing at last summer’s Lollapalooza festival, the Harlem rapper had his crowd under a spell as he gave a rapturous and longer than expected performance. There’s no doubt that Ferg’s performance at FEST would be on par with 2014’s Childish Gambino or 2015’s Big Sean. One of the best songs performed at Lollapalooza and hopefully now FEST, was “Doe-Active.” If I had to choose one artist on this list that I would most like to see at FEST, it would easily be A$AP Ferg.

3. “Donald Trump” - Mac Miller Fellow 2016 Lollapalooza

Across 1. Warning shouts in golf 6. Mark down drastically 11. PC brain 14. Kind of cabinet 15. Yukon garment 16. Acorn’s source 17. Regardless of the consequences 19. Bird of the past 20. Like finger-paint 21. Rods’ partners 23. Division into factions 26. Oft-stubbed item 27. Plays the killjoy 28. Bad luck 30. Caravan number 31. Code name?

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performer Mac Miller has made a sort of comeback within the last couple years with the release of “GO:OD AM” and “The Divine Feminine.” If Miller’s possible FEST performance matched his set at Lollapalooza, it would certainly be one the best headliners in the past couple years. Easily the most relevant of Miller’s song, “Donald Trump” not only put the rapper on the map but also added him to the long list of people sued by the president-elect.

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American indie pop band from — yet again — New York. The band opened up for a number of artists and bands, from Twenty One Pilots to American Authors, and Bleachers to Walk the Moon, MisterWives has easily proven itself as a promising band for FEST. With only one album, “Our Own House,” the band’s discography wouldn’t be too hard to get to know before DePaul’s music festival kicks off. One of their most recent hits, “Not Your Way,” would be a solid jam to start to get to know the them.

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34. Galileo’s birthplace 36. The four in a quart 37. Watch the bar or goal 39. Short synopses 40. Dr. Scholl’s product 42. “___ got an idea!”

43. Send overseas 44. Gadhafi ruled it, once 45. “The Waste Land” poet T.S. 46. Moved like a coward 48. Boss on a shield 49. Within earshot 52. Leftover tidbit 53. Kind of limit 54. Capture, as a burglar 55. IRS calculator?

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Men's basketball crushed at Marquette

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Freshman guard Devin Gage (left) chases a ball in DePaul's 83-58 loss to Marquette on Saturday. The Blue Demons fell to 1-4 in the Big East with the defeat.

By Adam Chalifoux Contributing Writer

MILWAUKEE — The Blue Demons traveled to Milwaukee for a 1 p.m. matinee game to square off against the conference rival Marquette Golden Eagles. While the Eagles have not made the tournament since 2013, they are a dangerous young team on the rise.

DePaul learned this quickly as they fell 83-58 to the Golden Eagles on Saturday.

The Golden Eagles are most dangerous from beyond the threepoint arch; coming into Saturday’s game with the best 3-point field goal percentage in Big East play and the 11th best 3-point percentage in the NCAA. Through the Golden Eagles first four games, the team shot an

outlandish 69 percent from three.

Led by sharp shooters from the perimeter and senior center Luke Fischer in the post, the Blue Demons work was cut out for them: close out on three point shots and rebound the basketball.

Early on, the Blue Demons did just that. A pair of Derrick Wood free throws put them on top 2220 with just under nine minutes left in the first half but an Andrew Rowsey jumper tied the game at 22 and another Rowsey three gave Marquette a lead that they would hold onto for the rest of the game. Rowsey’s 5-0 run sparked a Marquette three-point barrage that burnt the Blue Demons' perimeter defense.

Marquette closed the half with six straight threes to jump out to

a 52-31 advantage going into half time, shooting 60 percent from 3 in the 1st.

While the Blue Demons held their rival of the north to just 1-7 from three in the second half, the damage was done as the Blue Demons were decimated on the boards and unable to find offense of their own in the second half, shooting just 34.6 percent from the field and just 1 of 5 from beyond the arch.

Marquette cruised to victory behind outstanding performances from Andrew Rowsey with 24 points, going 6-7 from three and 19 from Katin Reinhardt and who 3-5 from downtown.

The Blue Demons will get their next chance to face the Marquette at 1 p.m. on Feb. 4.

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DePaul freshman guard Brandon Cyrus (4) has his shot blocked.

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Senior forward Ana Greik played four years for DePaul women's soccer.

one of the girls on the team a couple times but when I had to try out I was so scared because I had no time to practice.”

Greik showed enough potential that Lenti decided to bring her onto the team.

“For someone who hadn’t played in a while or practicing in a while we definitely saw that there was potential there,” he said.

“I was asking her to do different things like pull the ball, hit the ball the other way, hit the ball the other way, bunt the ball...”

Greik used the winter break to prepare for the upcoming season and now gets to work out and do skill drills as a member of the team.

“It’s been a bit more relaxed because it’s just skills just now, which I’m enjoying because it’s an easier way to ease into it,” she said. “I don’t really know what to expect on Monday but it helps that all the girls are actually welcoming me.”

She said that the atmospheres of the two teams are different but she likes them both.

“It’s exciting to be with a new, fun group of girls,” Greik said. “The soccer team was really fun and I expect the same out of softball. I’ve known some of them since I was a freshman so that made the

transition easier.

Greik isn’t the only DePaul studentathlete moving to a new sport. Graduate senior Morgan Maize, who played four years for softball will be a member of the track and field team this spring. Lenti says that, while multi-sport collegiate athletes are increasingly rare, DePaul typically allows student-athletes to play different sports when their eligibility is up.

“I think it’s a willingness of the coaches to help the athletes fulfill their potential,” Lenti said. “A lot of schools won’t allow student-athletes to have those opportunities.”

Lenti is also happy that, even though Greik will be a collegiate softball rookie, she’ll bring four-years of sports experience.

“Ana is a great kid, she represented soccer extremely well over her four years,” he said. “We expect her to be a positive presence from a clubhouse point of view, to be a leader, even though she’s a ‘rookie.’”

Official practice started on Monday, so Greik will have more adjustments to make with the full training, but she says she’s ready for the season coming up.

“I feel like you don’t forgot how to throw a ball or hit a ball once you’ve done it before,” she said.”

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Unintelligent design On Thursday, the newly relocated Los Angeles Chargers released their new logo, and the DePaulia design team had some thoughts about it.

Here's asst. design editor Leah Davis' critiques of some bad sports logos.

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New Orleans Pelicans

New England Revolution

The Los Angeles Chargers football team, shortly after moving from San Diego to LA, announced their new logo a few days ago and from a designer’s perspective – it’s garbage. This design looks like a bulky, Arial-esque font was italicized and a slightly offset triangle was placed to make it look like a lightning bolt.

It’s too reminiscent of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team’s logo, which is a simple lightning bolt within a circle.

The team’s Twitter account posted a tweet after the logo was released commenting on how similar the two looked using comedy, “*checks mentions*, *squints*, *clears throat*, for the record, us and @dodgers are just friends.” The only writing on here is the city, is this the Dodgers or Chargers?

A fellow graphic designer, Lauren Johnson, observed something while looking at the logo, "It looks like the Zenith logo off my grandma’s old TV from the '80s,” she said.

Looking at this logo for the first time, I have no idea what to think.

I don’t typically follow hockey but I would have no earthly idea which sport this team was from simply because it gives no context in its design. I would probably guess NASCAR racing if I’m being honest purely based on the flames.

“It looks like a hot sauce logo more than a hockey team logo, and I knew what the logo was,” Johnson said.

This is the logo for the Calgary Flames hockey team.

I was disappointed to find out this was a hockey logo and not in fact, one for NASCAR racing.

Who hears hockey team based in Canada and automatically thinks ‘I’ve got it, let’s do flames!’? Maybe they carve up the ice to the point where it melts?

Who knows.

The colors are reminiscent of flames, which is fitting to their name. “’Eww’ is all I have to say. They should have chosen a different font,” Jacquelin Lin said.

I had no idea the Miami Marlin’s baseball team updated their logo until I just Googled it five minutes ago.

I could’ve sworn this was the Maroon 5 “Moves Like Jagger” single release album cover (Trust me, look it up.

You’ll see how similar it is).

As far as the design goes, it’s not terrible.

The Marlin coming out of the “M” is extremely geometric and doesn’t look much like a Marlin at all except for its long bill on the front of its face that’s clearly visible.

In my opinion, that yellow part of the “M” should have been white and not yellow so it could have matched the Marlin coming out of it.

Also, Miami got rid of its well-known teal color for its logo and opted for a darker blue color along with red.

“I preferred the old logo. It just looked better in my opinion. It actually made sense with the team,” Johnson said.

The New Orleans Pelicans basketball team has a slightly less awful logo. Upon looking at this the first time, the colors all blended together nicely, the font chosen was appropriate for “New Orleans” and the logo itself is well put together.

Then I got to the Pelican.

Is this pelican carrying a basketball in its beak? Or is the basketball its body? Am I looking at a rare basketball pelican? Now that I’ve seen the basketball beneath the pelican’s head and outspread wings as its body, I can’t unsee it. The “Pelicans” circle beneath the logo throws it off balance and it doesn’t need to be there. It’s too heavily red and the font used on the name. "Pelicans” isn’t even the same font they used for “New Orleans”. It should be removed altogether as the drawn pelican makes the team name very clear.

“It’s just really ugly. The colors aren’t nice and the logo looks more like it belongs outside a bar rather than representing a sports team,” Johnson said.

This logo I actually kind of like. It’s different than most sports logos, however, like some American teams it screams “America” with its flag pattern and colors.

That circle that makes up the blue starry part of the flag is indeed round however it doesn’t look like a soccer ball at all.

The kerning on “New England” is a little intense but at least it’s equally spaced.

It should reach the edges of “Revolution” but those are nitpicky things my designer mind sees. “The stripes kind of look like blood,” Lauren Johnson said.

I agree, they remind me a lot of when someone cleats someone else’s leg and they’re bleeding. “I’m not really a fan of the texture,” Lin said.

The stripes also look like what you would see if you could visibly see the air movement around a ball flying through the air.

Overall, the logo isn’t that bad and out of this group of five it’s probably one of the better ones.

BUTLER, continued from back page field-goal percentage and converted just over 45 percent of their shots from threepoint range. The team also racked-up a total of 19 assists in a brilliant display of quick and effective ball movement that helped the Demons continue to expand their lead into the 4th quarter.

Defensively, DePaul put the pressure on early with a full court press that kept the Bulldog’s offense out of rhythm for much of the game. Butler managed a respectable 41 percent field goal percentage, but an inefficient 26 percent from three-point range made for a slow scoring night.

Managing Butler’s star sophomore forward Tori Schickel – who is averaging a double-double on the season – was a priority for Bruno and the Demons’ game plan. “Butler is really good when [Tori] Schickel has a good game,” Bruno said.

DePaul executed in that regard, limiting Butler’s top scorer/rebounder to eight points and eight rebounds.

The Demons’ defense managed to collect five blocks, seven steals and 35 rebounds to complement an electric offensive performance. Butler’s offense

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Senior forward Jacqui Grant goes for a rebound in Friday's game against Butler. DePaul won 100-69 over the Bulldogs. tallied 13 turnovers on the night.

Amarah Coleman, who was benched the second half of the teams January 4th contest with Creighton due to poor

defensive play, walked away with five steals to her name. “[I need] to focus on the little things,” Coleman said referencing her growth as a defender, “I have to defend as

much as I want to score.”

“We are really proud of [Amarah Coleman’s] maturation over the last few games.” Bruno said.

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DePaul’s only struggles came from three-point-range, where they only managed to convert on six of 29 attempts.

However, their inefficiency shooting as a team was overcome by a sheer volume of shot attempts, managing to fire off 19 more shots than Xavier.

With just over four minutes left to play, Bruno pulled his starters and sent his bench out to close the game with a comfortable 27-point lead. Xavier proceeded to score 11 unanswered points, cutting DePaul’s lead to 16. There was no dramatic finish, but Xavier’s final push concerned Doug Bruno enough to re-enter his starting line-up.

“I have a deep affection for human beings that make effort,” Bruno said, “I have just as much distain for individuals or groups of individuals that don’t play hard… there is only so long that I can watch it."

"At DePaul, there is no such thing as garbage time.” Bruno said, “I don’t care what the score is, if you’re earning a scholarship… you play to win that possession.”

35 seconds after the starters returned to the floor, DePaul scored on a jump shot from Amarah Coleman.

“We have some possessions that are really, really good, we have some possessions that are absolutely not and we are still getting that cleaned up,” Bruno said, “In the big picture, I’m just proud of our readiness to play.”

With Sunday’s win, DePaul remains undefeated in conference play (8-0) and strengthened their hold on the Big East.

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Senior guard Brooke Schulte put in 28 points in DePaul's win over Xavier. DePaul improved to 8-0 in the Big East with the win.

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Trading places: Greik transitions from soccer to softball

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Junior guard Amarah Coleman put in a combined 35 points over the weekend as DePaul won their tenth straight game.

Women’s basketball wins 10th in a row

100-69

By Shane Rene Asst. Sports Editor

With 21 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s game against Butler (5-12), DePaul (15-4) freshman forward Chante Stonewall knocked down a three-point jump-shot to eclipse 100 points and close out a 100-69 conference win at home.

“I thought we came out with a good energy and live energy tonight,” coach Doug Bruno said after the game. “I just thought the players all did a good job of competing.”

Butler struck first, but the Bulldog’s small lead would only last a mere nine seconds before DePaul stormed out to a commanding 14-point lead through the first quarter and never looked back.

Sophomore point-guard Michelle Weaver was the only Butler starter to score in the first quarter of Friday’s game.

However, after scoring 12 points

in the first quarter, Weaver failed to score again until well into the second half. She ended the night with 17 points.

DePaul’s offense was surging on all fronts, led by the game’s top scorer Brooke Schulte with 24 points.

“I’ve become a little bit more aggressive.” Schulte said, “I owe that to my teammates [and coach].” Schulte also lead DePaul with five assists.

“This is the Brooke Schulte we recruited,” Bruno said of his star guard after the game, “This is what we wanted [Brooke] to do and I’m just thrilled she’s doing it.”

Junior guard Amarah Coleman posted 20 points of her own, joining Schulte as one of five DePaul players to score doubledigit points in the game. Senior forward Jacqui Grant scored 17 points and added a team-high six rebounds.

DePaul boasted a 55 percent

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By Shane Rene Asst. Sports Editor

Standout performances from Brooke Schulte and Jacqui Grant steered No. 21 DePaul (15-4) to an 85-69 victory against Xavier (10-8) on Sunday afternoon to give the Demon’s their eighth consecutive conference win.

“I was really proud of our team’s readiness to play,” head coach Doug Bruno said after the game. “That’s so important because every one of these Big East teams has the talent to beat everyone else.”

Senior guard Brooke Schulte put on a show in the first half, dropping 20 points to go along with a dominant nine rebounds and three steals.

“I can’t thank my teammates enough for getting me the ball when I’m open,” Schulte said postgame.

Schulte would tac on eight more points and two more rebounds by the final buzzer,

locking down her first doubledouble since DePaul’s December 28th meeting with Georgetown.

DePaul’s Jacqui Grant posted her seventh double-double of the season, finishing with 17 points and 13 rebounds.

“We all really take pride in that anyone can really step-up,” Grant said.

Xavier’s efforts were led by sophomore guard Raeshaun Gaffney and senior forward Maddison Blackwell scoring 22 and 14 points respectively.

Gaffney, the team’s leading scorer on the season, was held to 38 percent shooting on 18 attempts.

Rebounding was a point of concern for Xavier from the start, especially on the offensive end of the floor. Through four quarters, the Musketeers only managed to rein in six offensive rebounds and ceded 19 offensive rebounds to DePaul.

Xavier’s struggles on the glass

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Ana Greik played forward for four years as a women’s soccer player.

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

Ana Greik had all kinds of pressure on Nov. 7.

The women’s soccer team was waiting to hear if their season was over or not with the NCAA tournament field being announced that afternoon. Greik didn’t know if her soccer career was over yet or not, but she was busy practicing.

Practicing for softball.

Greik will transition to being on the Blue Demons’ softball team after her four years playing soccer.

“I think we found out from some of the girls on the team that she was thinking of trying out,” head softball coach Eugene Lenti said.

“Then I went on her bio and read that she was a three-time all-state shortstop in high school, so she was definitely worth a look.”

Greik approached Lenti asking to try out for the team and was given an opportunity.

That opportunity came on the same day that the women’s soccer team would find out they weren’t selected for the NCAA tournament. Greik, then, was able to focus on softball and trying to adjust

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