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UNDOCUMENTED Not having U.S. citizenship doesn’t stand in the way of a college education

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he first memory Veronica has is seeing her mom for the first time in a year and a half in a Chicago airport. The DePaul senior doesn’t remember the face of the man who posed as her father and drove her and her older sister from their home of Acapulco, Mexico to Texas.

Veronica, who requested her last name be kept private, vaguely remembers meeting with her actual father in Texas and taking a flight to Chicago with him and her sister. But everything else is a blur of images seen through her then fouryear-old eyes or bits and pieces of the story told to her by her sister.

Her life, to her best and most accurate memory, began in the United States.

Much of her family’s history before stepping on American soil remains a mystery to her. Probing questions are met with silence.

“They don’t really like sharing their stories,” Veronica said. She doesn’t know when her family’s memories began. She occasionally hears stories about crossing the border, but her relatives don’t offer up that part of their history.

For many undocumented families, silence is the safest strategy to surviving in the U.S. In reaching the promised land, parents like Veronica’s shield their children from their legal status. They hope their children’s memories will begin in the United States.

It wasn’t until undocumented students came up in national conversations about immigration rights in early 2006 that Veronica learned of her status.

“As a child, I didn’t know that we were undocumented,” Veronica said. “When I was in middle school, undocumented status came up in conversations in the news — it was a huge conversation starting about undocumented students — and I think my dad had recently told my sister

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and I that we were probably not going to be able to get our driver’s licenses.”

Today, Veronica has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an initiative designed in 2012 to temporarily suspend the deportation of young people who were brought into the United States illegally as children, giving them a Social Security number. DACA allows for undocumented students to start a path towards normalcy, and hopefully, citizenship.

FINDING HER PLACE Veronica never thought college was ever an option.

After moving from suburb to suburb, Veronica and her family settled in Aurora, Illinois. The contrast between her high school, Aurora East, and primarily white high schools like Naperville’s Neuqua Valley was stark. It created an atmosphere where she said she felt like her high school was looked down upon for being majority Latino.

Wealth disparities among high schools and a disconnect with the community made Veronica feel different from her peers. She also said there was a point in her life when she wanted to change her name so that people would think she was white.

“There’s this internalized racism,” Veronica said. “I internalized a lot of the bad things people would say about the Latino community and started believing them about myself for a while.”

Before DACA allowed for her to eventually get a driver’s license and worker’s permit, Veronica’s undocumented status became a burden she resented in high school.

Though she had undocumented friends, she began to see some of her friends and classmates embark on a coming of age tale she wished was her own.

“It was frustrating to hear people like, ‘Oh I’m getting my license’ or ‘I’m getting

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Yasmin Mitchel (pictured left) and Catrien Egbert (pictured right) interview East Garfield Park residents about their neighborhood for an oral history internship.

DePaul students capture Chicago with oral history

By Jackson Danbeck Copy Editor

During their Chicago History Museum class last fall, DePaul students Catrien Egbert and Yasmin Mitchel were especially interested in oral histories, the collection of history through interviews.

So when their professor, Peter Alter, asked for interns for an upcoming oral history project of people who have lived in the East Garfield Park neighborhood during the past 40 years, they both wanted to be a part of it. Luckily for them, they were chosen for the internship.

“I enjoy listening to stories and having conversations with people, and this project was giving voice to people who had not had their stories told before,” Mitchel, a junior and dramaturgy/criticism major said.

All three became part of “Forty Blocks: The East Garfield Park Oral History Project,” a collaboration between the Chicago History Museum and the social service provider Breakthrough Urban Ministries, which is based in the neighborhood. Both organizations helped elementary and middle school students from the area interview 23 residents for a documentary, and in doing so capture the history of East Garfield Park, a community located in the West Side of Chicago.

The project began in the spring of last year when Alter, who is also the director of the museum’s oral history projects, was approached by Breakthrough, which was trying to find resources about East Garfield Park. After searching through the museum’s archives, they found that since 1968, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the neighborhood’s history was hardly documented.

“That was really the first big lightbulb moment that, ‘Hey, we’re really on to something, that it is really significant in terms of the historical documentation of the West Side, specifically East Garfield Park,’” Alter said.

The museum and Breakthrough decided to change that by recording the stories told by residents who experienced the neighborhood during the past 40 years.

Besides adding to the documented history of the Chicago neighborhood, the project also strives to empower the people who live there.

“Forty Blocks in particular helps all participants by telling the stories of an area that often gets stereotyped, often gets overlooked and often gets misunderstood,” Egbert, a junior and history major, said. “It’s hard to talk about a lot of the issues East Garfield Park faces, but what’s interesting is that it’s not hard for the residents.”

“People really want to challenge that, and through our modest project, we were helping them provide a platform to do that,” Alter said.

By the time winter arrived, Breakthrough and the museum were hard at work to accomplish their goals. While Breakthrough found residents who wanted to share their stories, interns Egbert and Mitchel did their part to prepare the team for the upcoming interviews.

As interns, Egbert and Mitchel helped raise over $4,500 through Kickstarter to fund the project, promoted it on social media, carried out research, drafted questions and taught the students how to interview the residents.

While their Chicago History Museum class briefly touched on oral history, Egbert said most of the skills they needed for the

internship were learned by “diving straight in.”

“I was surprised by how the lack of preparation helped Yasmin and I to do better, because we had to lean on each other,” Egbert said. Alter would give them the resources and tell them to “go at it.”

“There really is no possible way that it could have happened without their work,” Alter said.

The students also seemed to be enthralled by the oral history project.

Some were interested in the filming aspect, some in interviewing and others in history, Egbert said.

“The kids were incredibly bright and dedicated individuals who had a genuine curiosity and passion for their neighborhood,” Egbert said.

Once they were prepared, the students began interviewing the residents in March at the FamilyPlex, Breakthrough’s facility in East Garfield Park. They were split up into three teams of nine students, one led by Mitchel, one by Egbert and one by Carrie Shepard of WBEZ. Each interview lasted about 30 minutes, for a total of about 12 hours of recording.

A variety of people from the community were interviewed, including long-term residents, the elderly, reverends and DePaul alumna Dorothy Gaters, who has been head coach of Marshall High School’s girls basketball team since 1976.

“Whenever we would ask them more about their experiences, they would always be like, ‘Well, how much time do you got?

No one has ever asked me this question before,’” Mitchel said.

Mitchel noticed that while the residents told their stories, they seemed to be also relive them.

“It’s still real to them. You could see the expressions on their faces while they had flashbacks,” Mitchel said. Learning about those different perspectives was one of the most enjoyable parts of the internship, Mitchel said.

Egbert noticed that the residents, in telling their experiences of East Garfield Park, often brought up issues of gentrification, race relations, housing and education.

“It’s a history that lends itself very easily to contemporary issues,” Egbert said. “So you can trace back and see issues that exist today.”

The residents also seemed to take enormous pride in their community organizations, Egbert said, such as the Gold Dome Building, where residents can partake in a variety of educational activities.

Now that the bulk of the interviews are finished, Breakthrough is putting together the 20-minute documentary, which will contain footage from the interviews and premiere in July at the Chicago History Museum.

Meanwhile, the recordings the museum now has are being transcribed and uploaded into its archives. From there, the curious can read the transcripts and listen to the recordings.

In retrospect, Egbert said oral history is one of the best ways to tell peoples’ stories from communities like East Garfield Park.

“You hear the people, you hear how they stutter, you hear how they pause, you hear how they tell the story in their own words,” Egbert said.“I think that is a very profound and a very useful way to tell history.”

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DACA, established in 2012, allows DePaul senior Veronica, to have a work permit, driver’s license and Social Security number. Her future remains unknown because of pending legisla

UNDOCUMENTED, continued from front page a car,’ ‘I’m getting my first job,’ knowing that was never going to be a traditional rite of passage for me,” she said.

Veronica grew up idolizing shows and movies about American teenagers working their first jobs and learning how to drive.

“Knowing that I wasn’t going to be part of that, I kind of resented that in a way,” she said.

Despite the barriers to her success, Veronica was inspired by the resilience and dedication of her fellow undocumented peers. During her sophomore year in high school, Veronica participated in a student-led rally in Aurora for the rights of undocumented students and for the DREAM act.

“Finding out that other people are like you, you’re kind of whispering, like ‘Oh you are? So am I,’” she said. “It’s dangerous for people to know that because they could use it against you. People would make jokes about calling immigration on people all the time.”

According to WhiteHouse.gov, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act is a legislative proposal first introduced to the Senate in 2001 for undocumented youth illegally brought to the U.S. It gives them the chance to contribute to the U.S. by joining the armed forces or pursuing a higher education. The DREAM act would allow for young people to earn their legal status after a lengthy process.

But the DREAM act was never passed.

Veronica said that her status and inability to consider luxuries like a college education reinforced her resentments.

“I thought that I wasn’t able to get a proper education because of my status. It was very defeating. It can definitely affect you in a negative way,” she said.

It wasn’t until Veronica’s junior year that the dream of potentially attending a four-year college or university began. “The career center at my high school was nonexistent,” she said. “Our graduation rate was really bad, and our graduation student rate that went to college was also even worse.”

apply to,” she said.“DePaul was basically my dream school. It was a reach because of the high tuition, but that was the school that I wanted to go to.”

Veronica applied to external and internal scholarships, and weighed her college options based off the money each institution could offer her. The process took THE COST OF A DEPAUL about four or five months.

EDUCATION DePaul became more of a reality once The application process for an Veronica received a merit scholarship and a undocumented student is long and community service scholar’s award, which tedious. Veronica covered more than half only applied to of her tuition. institutions that “I started applying “There’s kind of that didn’t require a to all the private expectation that you have Social Security scholarships and got number, limiting one for $4,000 and to be extraordinary as an her to mostly $1,000, $2,000, a bunch undocumented student to private or in-state of little ones,” Veronica be worthy of any kind of institutions. She said. Her father, who applied to one out covers her out-of-pocket scholarship.” of state university tuition costs, paid about as an exception. $6,000 for her freshman Veronica “Most private year after external and schools don’t ask internal scholarships. for Social Security But her out-ofnumbers or don’t pocket costs increase require one, but some out of state schools each year while her scholarship money — Maryland was one of them I was looking diminishes. She had to pay closer to $8,000 at — I ended up not being able to apply for her sophomore year, and $11,000 to to because I didn’t have a Social Security $12,000 for both her junior and senior number at the time,” she said. years.

Veronica began to look more towards “It becomes an issue because most of private schools because they could offer the resources are for freshmen to get you more scholarship money. She applied to in the door, I guess,” she said. “But it’s a lot Ohio State University, Northern Illinois harder to find scholarships as a junior or University, University of Illinois-Chicago senior.” and DePaul. She was accepted to all four.

Veronica said there is a lack of “Then, it was all about the money,” scholarships due to the high demand she said. Because undocumented students and competition. “There’s still that need, do not benefit from federal or state aid, but also balancing college, working part Veronica depended on scholarships to help time and homework and scholarship lessen the burden of out-of-pocket costs. applications. I missed so many deadlines “I got this packet of scholarships and for applications I wanted to do, but I also just highlighted all of the ones I wanted to wanted to do really well in my classes and I

also had to pay for rent, so it also put a lot of pressure on me,” she said.

“There’s kind of that expectation that you have to be extraordinary as an undocumented student to be worthy of any kind of scholarship,” she said.

DEPAUL’S POSITION As DREAM activism peaked across the country in 2011, the university decided they wanted to take a stance on the issue and respond to potential student concerns.

Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Elizabeth Ortiz was a member of a DePaul coalition formed to help undocumented students at DePaul.

“At the same time it was heating up around the country, the president (of DePaul) and I said, ‘We need a comprehensive effort, we need to get people around the table to find out what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and really assist our students,’” Ortiz said.

That’s when a coalition of offices formed to create the DREAM Resource Guide, a 25-page document outlining resources available to undocumented students, including financial aid, advising and other resources within DePaul and in Chicago.

The effort was a collaboration between the Office of Mission and Values, University Ministry, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Students Affairs, Croak Legal Services, the Office of the General Council, the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and Student Government Association.

Though sections for new legislation have been added, the guide has not been updated since its creation in 2011. Ortiz said changing legislation and possible legal outcomes can determine the future of undocumented students and have put updates on the guide on hold.

“Right now DACA and DAPA are

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DACA

VS.

WHAT: Deferred Acton for Childhood Arrivals is an initiative designed in 2012 to temporarily suspend the deportation of young people.

Renewable every two years.

WHO: People who were unlawfully brought to the U.S. as children and meet certain education and age requirements

SPECIFICS:

DREAM ACT

WHAT: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) is a legislative proposal first introduced to the Senate in 2001 for undocumented youth to earn their legal status after a lengthy process. As of 2016, it hasn’t passed.

WHO: Only applies to individuals who unlawfully entered the U.S. as children

Inspired by the DREAM Act Monitored by the American Immigration Council Access to renewable two-year work permits

ative decisions. being challenged in the Supreme Court and it’s supposed to be heard this spring, so in a way it’s put all this advocacy work on hold,” Ortiz said. “We are planning to meet soon to see what has changed and if there’s anything to update soon.”

Ortiz estimates the guide will be updated by the end of the academic year.

“At any moment the Supreme Court is going to review DACA and DAPA and see if it will be upheld or if it will be ruled unconstitutional, so we are waiting for that,” Ortiz said. “All of higher education are holding our collective breath. It’s pretty hard to move forward with new initiatives when in six months from now there will be a new law.” In addition to creating the guide, an alternative financial aid form was created because undocumented students need to apply for financial help from DePaul and cannot utilize FAFSA. Students do not have to disclose their legal status, but Ortiz estimates there are about 100 to 200 undocumented students at DePaul. “There’s always a real risk for a student coming out and to say ‘I’m undocumented,’ and so many cases, once they declare and it’s known, there’s a potential for deportation. We are not required as university officials to report a student, but it’s still very scary,” Ortiz said.

DePaul has been vocal about its support of undocumented students. In 2010, DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., spoke at the Justice for Immigrants National Convening, stating DePaul’s continuous support for undocumented students.

“DePaul rarely takes political stands.

This is, in fact, the first time in recent memory that we’ve ever done so, but we’ve decided to take a strong and public stand for the DREAM Act,” Holtschneider said at the time. “Regardless of party or ideology, we believe the DREAM Act is smart social policy and has a significant payoff for the

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country in the long run. We also know the young people who it will benefit and we know that they are great young people who will build this nation’s future.”

But actions speak volumes over statements and guides, Veronica said.

“They definitely need to update the undocumented student guide because I have tried to weave through that thing and it’s a mess,” Veronica said. “I think if someone is trying to get creative on how they’re going to come here, especially the tuition being so high, and not having access to FAFSA or any other government grants or funds, that should be the main resource that undocumented students should have here, it should be the go to like ‘This is what I need, these are the scholarships I’m going to apply to.’ It shouldn’t be a process in itself.”

Veronica said there have been scholarships she found on the guide that had been expired, making the process more difficult than it should be.

“Going to college for us is already a really hard process,” Veronica said. “Being pinballed around from legal services here to another legal service in Chicago for DACA application makes the process a lot longer and is just not helping.

“The university is like ‘Oh we have all these guides,’ but it hasn’t been updated in five years so, you can say all these things,’ but there’s a difference in maintaining that reputation and actually following through with the statements and things you promote for undocumented students.”

Director of DePaul’s Croak Student Legal Services Sarah Baum said legislation plays a crucial role in the story of undocumented students.

“DACA is interesting because it’s not exactly granting you legal status in the United States — it’s deferring,” Baum said.

Students protected under DACA, who undergo background checks and must have

Ability to get a driver’s license

SPECIFICS: Young people must meet several age and education requirements Pass criminal background checks and reviews

Ability to receive a Social Security number Can open a bank account Must not have criminal record to apply Information from Whitehouse.gov

Information from the American Immigration Council

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lived in the U.S. for a certain number of years, are not prioritized for deportation, she said.

“The government has basically made this declaration saying, ‘We’re not going to come after you for deportation,’” Baum said.

Veronica qualified and applied for DACA as soon as it was passed in 2012.

“My sister, cousin and I met up that early at 6 a.m. and then went downtown and the line was so long,” she said. “The line was unreal. There were thousands of people there.”

They couldn’t process their applications then, but three months later she had permission to work and a Social Security card. She was 18 years old.

Baum said the terms, “DREAMer” and DACA often get interchanged, but that legally, DACA was inspired by the DREAM act.

“I haven’t talked to that many students on this issue, which surprises me because when DACA first came about I think there was a big push here at DePaul,” Baum said.

In spite of changing legislation and DACA,

she hadn’t interacted with many students at DePaul that disclosed their status or need help filing for DACA. “In the case of immigration, it’s such a highly specialized area and constantly changing, that I tend to do mostly referrals in that area,” Baum said. She doesn’t represent students in court but gives them free legal advice and referrals to affordable attorneys around Chicago.

Veronica said an application for DACA is $465 in addition to potential lawyer fees for filing. The cost can reach more than $600.

Though Veronica is graduating within the next year, the story of an undocumented student at DePaul continues. Her younger cousin is planning to attend DePaul, and she worries about the struggles he might face.

“He thinks it’s possible for him as an undocumented student to come here, and have support and have resources and I don’t really have the heart to tell him that’s not the case for everyone,” she said. “I got really lucky here.”

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Students collect feminine products for homeless

By Megan Deppen Print Managing Editor

Two separate fundraisers organized by current and former DePaul students collected female hygiene products to donate to homeless and women’s shelters last month. Both fundraisers were small and grassroots, but they joined the nationwide movement drawing attention to taxes on women’s products and the struggle for underprivileged women to acquire them.

DePaul alumna Rima Mandwee was the leading force behind Code Red, a fundraiser in Kalamazoo, Michigan sponsored by the Junior League of Kalamazoo, a women’s organization that volunteers to empower women in the community. Mandwee organized the fundraiser that donated tampons, pads and money to two local homeless shelters that lost government funding for feminine products.

“This issue is important because it is unrecognized,” Mandwee said. “Every single woman will menstruate in her lifetime. Half of the population needs the product, yet it gets taxed as a luxury item and it is not included in budgets for homeless shelters.”

The “tampon tax” Mandwee is referring to made headlines earlier this year when California State assembly woman Cristina Garcia introduced legislation to combat a sales tax levied on women’s products, a report by the Washington Post said.

Earlier this month, Illinois legislators also advanced Senate Bill 2746 that would exempt women’s hygiene products from the state sales tax.

Currently, the state-level tax on feminine products is 6.25 percent, while in Chicago it’s 10.25 percent, according to Illinois Senator Melinda Bush’s website.

Bush introduced the bill and it has moved into the Senate and is being considered.

“Let’s face it, women already make less Abigail Durkin is the president of Law money,” Bush said in a press release. “They Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) shouldn’t be having to pay taxes like this on at DePaul and lead organizer of the onsomething that is a personal necessity.” campus fundraiser for female products, Mandwee’s fundraiser collected $565 Menstrual Madness. She said collecting and 284 boxes of tampons and pads, but a tampons and pads for women isn’t just a significant challenge was getting people to matter of economics, it’s about respecting donate. women’s dignity. Durkin is very familiar “As much as the response was great, with the “tampon tax,” but she said people’s people still didn’t donate, and we realized focus on it can distract from the bigger it’s because women’s picture. product is expensive,” “ ( T h e Mandwee said. With ‘tampon tax’) each box ranging is a huge issue, “Normally you think of food between $5 to $7, even a but it goes way or clothes. Women’s products $75 gift card donated by beyond the tax,” a local grocer was only Durkin said. are expensive over time and able to buy less than a “The cost of and hard to access. I think it’s just dozen boxes. lack of access to an area of need that’s not “A dozen boxes is these products nothing for a woman’s is a far greater normally addressed.” shelter,” Mandwee said. burden on some “That would be gone than it is on in a week. It’s just a others. Simply constant need and there put, that’s just Amanda Bogle, president of the will never be enough for not fair. Women, Loyola chapter of LSRJ these shelters.” regardless of According to the income, deserve American Pregnancy equal access to Association, a woman these products. will have about 465 periods in her life, and This fundraiser, though a small effort, on average, a period lasts three to five days. attempts to make that dream a reality.”

With the 10.25 percent tax in Chicago, DePaul’s chapter of LSRJ partnered with an 18-pack box of Tampax tampons costs DePaul OUTlaws, an LGBT law advocacy $6.38, meaning that over the course of a group, and the Loyola chapter of LSRJ. lifetime, a woman would pay on average Durkin said they collected more than 300 about $3,232 in tampons alone, not boxes of supplies and almost $600, which adjusted for inflation. The total cost for will go towards buying feminine products feminine products varies widely because in bulk for the two shelters benefitting from most women also dole out money for pads, the fundraiser. Durkin preferred to keep the pain relief pills, birth control to manage extreme periods, new underwear once old ones are stained by their period and special face wash or medication to treat acne caused by premenstrual syndrome (PMS).

names of the shelters anonymous. Amanda Bogle, president of the Loyola chapter of LSRJ, said they collected about $275 in donations and a few boxes of products.

“These products aren’t something that people normally think of that women need,” Bogle said. “Normally you think of food or clothes. Women’s products are expensive over time and hard to access.

I think it’s just an area of need that’s not normally addressed.”

Mandwee said most often in marketing the fundraiser, she had to remind people of the burden a period has on homeless women.

“I had one man ask me, ‘So, like, if you weren’t doing this and collecting product, then like, what would they do?’” Mandwee said. “ … I said, ‘Nothing. They would bleed on themselves.’ He made a face and gave me $20.”

Overall, women pay more for healthcare. According to a study by Health Services Research, women pay one third more in health care costs due to women’s longer average life span and sexspecific health care costs like childbirth and pregnancy. Women even tend to pay more for products that are used by both sexes. According to Consumer Reports Magazine, women can pay up to 50 percent more for products like body wash, razors, pain reliever and shaving cream.

“Women have been trained to feel that periods are taboo, not to be spoken of and, that it makes people uncomfortable,” Mandwee said. “But half of the population has a period and therefore aren’t uncomfortable hearing about it.”

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Students meet with new Sexual and Relationship violence specialist

By Rachel Hinton Nation & World Editor

In the Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW) office on the third floor of the student center Friday, an official unveiling of sorts was underway. Hannah Retzkin, the new sexual and relationship violence specialist, hosted a snack and talk open to DePaul’s student body as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and as a way for students to come by and meet her formally.

Retzkin took over for Rima Shah, who left DePaul late last year. Her role in the office largely centers on prevention efforts, including programs for student orientation and training faculty and staff on sexual and relationship violence prevention measures. Her goal, as well as the goal of others in HPW, is to continue creating creative and holistic approaches to engaging students on topics related to sexual health.

The event invited all members of DePaul’s community to come in, grab snacks and chat with Retzkin, who left the topic of conversation mostly open to those who attended. The event was also

part of the ongoing series of events for the month on topics relating to sexual and relationship health.

“I love presenting and talking about consent and sex positivity,” Retzkin said after the event. “I want to continue to bring those things into the conversation as I work here.”

Retzkin has a background in higher education. She worked at Loyola University for seven years, where she helped foster advocacy and support ed students in their roles as advocates. Her most recent experience at Northeastern University focused on similar work. She officially started March 1, but before the Friday event, she hosted the “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby” event April 7.

People who work with Retzkin expressed optimism about Retzkin’s role.

“We’re very excited she’s here, and we’re excited to welcome her to the DePaul community,” Shannon Suffoletto, director of HPW, said. “We jumped right in.”

HPW sponsors Sexual Assault Awareness Month, as well as other events relating to sexual health. For

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Students gathered in the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness on Friday to formally meet Hannah Retskin, the new sexual and relationship violence specialist.

Adair Tishler, a DePaul sophomore who attended the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing last year and other events during their body positivity week, the work of HPW is important to the overall environment of DePaul.

“I think that the topics that HPW cover are extremely stigmatized in our culture and when they are mentioned, the information can be incorrect, noncomprehensive and possibly harmful,” Tishler, said. “I think that Hannah is extremely open and non-judgmental, which is paramount in a sexual and relationship violence prevention person.

Personally, I think I would be comfortable

going to Hannah for any kind of advice.”

Tishler also said it’s important to keep in mind that “her role is also focused on prevention and a huge part of prevention is not only education, but having people be comfortable enough with you to go to you for education or questions.” This is a point Retzkin also talked about.

“I really want the students to know I’m here to talk about anything,” Retzkin said.

“When talking about sexual violence, it’s important to stress that inclusive approach and make sure that everyone is included in the conversation.”

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Several pro-Trump chalkings were found on DePaul’s campus early Tuesday morning, sparking outrage.

Pro-Trump ‘Chalkening’ strikes DePaul

By Kirsten Onsgard Digital Managing Editor

Phrases such as “Make DePaul great again,” “Blue Lives Matter” and “Trump Train 2016” were chalked on DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus late Monday night before being removed by the campus grounds crew sometime before mid-morning Tuesday.

The chalkings — which mimicked Republican candidate Donald Trump’s rhetoric, and praised conservative values and candidate Ted Cruz — caused outrage among some students on both sides of the issue. Some took to social media to voice their concerns.

“It’s sad that even at a school as diverse and accepting as DePaul, I still feel attacked,” wrote one student in a DePaul Facebook group. “But I’m staying and am gonna thrive here anyway and maybe this organization will be held responsible for their actions.”

The chalkings were organized

by DePaul College Republicans, which posted photos on their Facebook page at 12:48 a.m.

Tuesday. College Republicans President Nicole Been voiced her concern about free speech on Twitter.

“Thanks @DePaulU for limiting the free speech of all those who disagree with your agenda. Chalk is all washed away by this morning,” she wrote.

In an email, Been wrote that College Republicans held the chalking “as a new way to promote Republican candidates and conservative ideas just as we would on our promotional tables and posters.”

“I am surprised by the assumptions people are making about our intent, and who we are as people is not reflected by what others are calling us,” she wrote.

“I can say all assumptions on the pages I’ve seen are false about timing and intent.”

The movement, known

widely as #TheChalkening, has occurred at several universities across the country — including the University of Illinois, Emory University, University of Kansas and the University of Michigan — sparking outcries from students both about freedom of speech and racism.

In a statement, the university said that campus ground crews made an independent decision to remove the chalking in part because of its content.

“After some investigation, it turns out this happened for two reasons. First, the crew regularly cleans up chalk messages on our sidewalks. This is a part of their duties.

Secondly, some among the crew considered the messages inflammatory. The crew has agreed to consult about such matters in the future.”

“The university has policies on political campaigning activities on campus, free speech and the manner in which we conduct ourselves with respect for all affected by our speech.

In the next few days, we will send a more comprehensive statement reminding the campus community of these policies in this particularly charged political time in the United States.”

Student organizations may use facilities for partisan political movements — as long as it is clear that they do not represent the views of the university — and individuals may post political flyers and slogans in their rooms, as long as it is not posted for public viewing. Chalking is allowed outside the Student Center, though university policy states that “messages may not contain profanity or may not abuse, assail, intimidate, demean, victimize or have the effect of creating a hostile environment for any person or group of people based on any of the protected characteristics in the University’s Anti-Discriminatory Harassment Policy.”

However, it remains to be seen whether or not College Republicans were in violation of any of these policies. Vice President for Student Affairs Gene Zdziarski said this issue demonstrates that there is some confusion about what political campaigning is allowed.

“We are in the process of addressing this with the student organization responsible for creating, and the staff who removed, the chalkings,” Zdziarski said. “Our next steps will be to work on closing this knowledge gap and clarifying practice soon with a campus communique. As we move through the campaign season, we ask that all members of the university community become familiar with and abide by the ‘Political Campaign Activity’ policy.”

This tension comes after a year fraught with difficult speech on campus and in DePaul Facebook groups.

“I’m disgusted but not surprised, because these things happen all the time on campus,” junior Michael Lynch said. Lynch, who also met with fraternity leaders after one of their members wrote racially loaded statements in a DePaul Facebook group, is involved with Black Student Union, Men of Vision and Empowerment (MOVE) and is a student executive board member of the Steans Center.

While he said he respects free speech and the right to support a candidate, he also said that Trump’s racist comments do not need to be included in the conversation and have no place on campus.

Moving forward, Lynch is hoping to meet with Latino student leaders, College Republicans, Young Americans for Freedom and other members of the DePaul community to end what he sees as an ongoing issue.

“I think it’s important to note that as we are in the midst

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of an intense political season, we remember that each of us has the right to our own, personal opinion,” Student Government Association (SGA) President Vanessa Cadavillo said. “However, it is times like this that remind us that as a Vincentian community we must do everything we can to respect one another and take that into consideration in the way that we deliver our beliefs.”

Cadavillo said that SGA, as part of the President’s Diversity Council, is working to collect feedback and implement initiatives to help

underrepresented groups on campus. These actions — including cultural competency training and the formation of six task forces — stemmed from a meeting between BSU and DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., earlier this year.

“What happens is that students don’t get reprimanded or disciplined for them, so it happens again, and we have to respond again,” Lynch said. “It happens again and again and again, because no one is looking at the problem as a whole.”

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Renovations to lakefront trail complete

By Maddy Crozier Staff Writer

The nearly completed Fullerton Revetment Project created 5.8 miles of new shoreline and a redesigned lakefront trail accessible from Fullerton Avenue. The City of Chicago, the Park District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers all funded the $31.5 million project, according to the mayor’s press office.

The trail features separate paths for walkers and bikers in an effort to reduce congestion in that area. A three-foot-wide soft-surface border lines the paved trail, providing a space for pedestrians.

The split trail is especially good for bikers.

“It’ll be nice for them to have their own trail, as to not worry about street traffic or pedestrians,” junior Kelsey Castellanos said.

A study from October 2014 found that Chicagoans prioritized the creation of separate paths for walking and biking on the Lakefront Trail, Streets Blog Chicago reported.

Ready to act, the Fullerton Revetment Project started that same month.

Construction also widened a green park space at the lakefront by several hundred feet.

“With the parks and the trails, it’s hard to get a bad view

of the city from the shore,” Jared Sutton, a Columbia College Chicago freshman said. “There is already so much real estate for business and industry here in Chicago that adding a little green space never hurts. The park space will be a good place to exercise and sunbathe and open up more space for people to relax, exercise, play games and escape from their busy lives.”

This project acts as the next completed step in the greater Chicago Shoreline Protection Project. The stabilized shoreline at the Fullerton Avenue Beach now uses steel and concrete revetments.

Revetments protect shoreline by absorbing the power of waves.

The original shoreline protection, built of wood and stones more than 80 years ago, started collapsing in the 1950s. The new, preferred design for revetments uses vertical steel sheet piles that replace the previous wood, as well as concrete steps and promenade replacing stones.

“We’re not only protecting the shoreline and enhancing our relationship with this land, we’re also creating more and more opportunities to use the shoreline,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said.

This project not only protects Lake Shore Drive, the Lakefront Trail and the shore itself, but structures along the lakefront

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Construction on the lakefront trail created a widened green park space at the lakefront as well as a separate path for walkers and bikers. such as the Theater on the Lake at 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive.

Built in 1920, the theater building originally served as a recuperation ward for babies plagued with tuberculosis.

Almost 30 years later, the Chicago Park District converted it into a venue for community productions. Although it has been traditionally used for summer programming, the city plans to make the Theater on the Lake a year-round destination.

Beautification of the trail will

continue into the summer with landscaping.

“When the sun is out, it can be a bit taxing to walk all the way down Fullerton,” Castellanos said.

DePaul junior Kyle Oleksy said he hopes it will allow more people to visit the lakefront during the summer.

“Students need to be outdoors more. As a CDM major, I’m inside half the time anyway.

But I make it a point to get out.”

Olesky said.

Warmer temperatures will bring even more activities for beachgoers. Free and open to the public, people can bike, exercise, play sports and sunbathe along the shore. When the beaches reopen on May 27, people will be able to swim.

And of course it helps that “it’s such a nice spot for pictures,” Oleksy said.

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Advocates for Guantanamo prisoners speak at DePaul

By Deni Kamper Contributing Writer

DePaul brought a rather unpopular human rights issue to the forefront on Wednesday, hosting a discussion called “Guantanamo Bay & the Tea Project.” The discussion, facilitated by DePaul’s Center for Public Integrity Law and University Ministry, featured three speakers who actively advocate for the rights of detainees currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

The speakers included artist Amber Ginsburg, human rights activist Aliyah Han Hussain and writer Larry Siems. All three individuals are involved with the Tea Project, an ongoing series of performances and exhibitions meant to showcase beauty in times of war and oppression.

Aaron Hughes, an Iraq War veteran, started the Tea Project in 2009. Hughes was disturbed by how people living in the U.S. had become so disconnected from the war and how the victims of war were being dehumanized. He wanted to bring people together over tea to examine the issues of war, oppression, beauty and art.

Hughes, in collaboration with Chris Arendt, a former guard at Guantanamo Bay prison, began a special type of sculpture and performance art involving porcelain Styrofoam cups. While working at Guantanamo, Arendt fell in love with the art and floral designs inmates would draw on the Styrofoam cups in which their daily tea was served.

In 2013, Hughes and Arendt invited Amber Ginsburg, who specializes in social sculpture, to help sculpt 779 uniquely designed, porcelain Styrofoam cups in recognition of every prisoner who has been held at Guantanamo since its opening in 2002. These cups now serve

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Activists protest Guantanamo Bay, the detainment camp in Cuba. President Obama announced plans to close the prison in February, but some are calling for an expedited process. as a symbol for the struggle of Guantanamo inmates who have been stripped of their rights.

Guantanamo Bay has been a controversial place for most of its 14-year existence. The prison opened in 2002 during the war in Afghanistan to detain men suspected of being terrorists or involved with terrorist groups.

The prison’s location on the island of Cuba, not on U.S. soil, allowed the U.S. to deny detainees the rights they would be granted by law if held in the U.S. Siems and Hussain have spent the past several years examining the legal and moral implications of holding prisoners indefinitely at Guantanamo.

In 2012, Siems received a

Guantanamo Bay, commonly referred to as 'Gitmo,' opens. More than 779 prisoners have been held there over the course of the prison's history.

466-page manuscript written in English by Mohammad Ould Slahi, an inmate at Guantanamo.

The pages were only declassified after a lengthy legal battle and more than 2,500 redactions were made. Siems spent two years editing the manuscript before publishing it under the title “Guantanamo Diary” in 2015, having never met the original author.

“Guantanamo was created specifically in order to allow censorship,” Siems said. “The things that we did to men in Guantanamo are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, they’re prohibited by the convention against torture, they’re prohibited

by U.S. law, so you can only do

them in secret.”

Unlike Siems, who has never been granted access to the prison, Hussain traveled to Guantanamo numerous times. As a human rights advocate with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Hussain’s work has focused on getting inmates fair trials or released to third party nations.

“Not only are there these misconceptions of who the men are in Guantanamo that persist … (there are) also people (who) might know about Guantanamo but they just don’t feel a connection to it,” Hussain said.

“What many of us are trying to do in our work is to try to get people to have a connection.”

Today, a total of 89 men are

News of guards sexually touching Muslims inmates in an attempt to break them comes out. Scrutiny of Gitmo and the lack of access to information around it grows.

being held at Guantanamo. Two men were released and resettled in Senegal on April 4, but there are still 35 men who, despite being cleared for release, are still being detained at the prison.

Lubna El-Gendi, the director of student affairs and diversity at DePaul, said it is hard not to be pessimistic about the fate of the men still being held at Guantanamo.

“Even if it closes, it’s just going to be internalized," El-Gendi said.

“I think it’s still important … to not let the public forget about it and about what’s happening and to get the stories of the detainees out.”

In February, Obama gave Congress plans to close Gitmo. He vowed to close the prison seven years ago when he first entered office.

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JASON PATINKIN | AP Displaced people walk next to a razor wire fence at the United Nations base in the capital Juba, South Sudan. A recent U.N. report described human rights abuses as a result of the ongoing civil war.

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FRANCOIS MORI | AP Anti-fraud activists chant slogans while blocking entrances at Societe Generale's Paris headquarters as part of a protest accusing the French bank of ties to the so-called "Panama Papers" in Paris.

TOM GRALISH | AP Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spar during a Democratic presidential primary debate.

Clinton, Sanders spar over qualifications

Sudanese aid crisis spotlights war

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Juba, South Sudan Aid groups have warned that South Sudan is running out of medicine and facing its largest hunger crisis.

Doctors Without Borders International President Dr. Joanne Liu said Thursday the country is suffering from a "nationwide lack of essential medicine."

Liu said the drug shortage puts thousands of lives in jeopardy and will disproportionately affect women and children.

World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization warned Tuesday of "alarming" levels of hunger. South Sudan's civil war broke out in December 2013 between forces of President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar.

The two men signed peace agreements and are slated to form a unity government this month. Aid groups say relief funds are shrinking as the country emerges from the war.

Armed South Sudanese rebels have begun taking up positions in the capital, a risky but crucial step to end two years of war.

The Associated Press and other journalists on Thursday toured one of the rebel camps where fighters dressed in green fatigues stood in semi-circle formation, chanting call-and-response war songs and waving their AK-47s in unison.

More than 900 of the rebels have set up camp in two designated sites in Juba as part of a process to secure the city for the scheduled return on April 18 of their leader, Riek Machar.

The fighters will eventually reintegrate into the army, rebel Gen. James Koang, who is overseeing the process, told the journalists.

Some rebels told AP they expect to safely reunite with the troops they've battled the last two years.

"We lost so many of our brothers, but now we have seen each other, so I'm happy we shall greet each other," said fighter Lagu Joseph. "If we meet each other, we will sit together as brothers."

The rebels here said their bigger concern is living conditions. They said they only have bedframes but no mattresses and sleep in the open.

Politicians, celebrities in spotlight over off-shore accounts Berlin, Germany The fallout from a massive leak of records on offshore accounts dragged a growing number of leaders and celebrities into the spotlight Wednesday, with a Bollywood actor, a race car driver and Ukraine's president among those denying they evaded taxes.

The reports center on millions of documents detailing how the rich and powerful use shell companies in low-tax states like Panama or the Cayman Islands, sometimes giving them fanciful names like "Goldfinger" or "SkyFall."

The suspicion that such accounts are used to skirt taxes prompted a rush of denials, statements and, in some cases, media blackouts.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was the latest high-profile politician to face scrutiny over the issue, denying he had meant to evade taxes by putting his candy company offshore.

Poroshenko had promised voters he would sell his business when he ran for office in 2014. But according to the reports, he merely moved it secretively offshore.

On Wednesday, he said he had done nothing illegal when he created the offshore holding company to put his business in a blind trust when he became president.

"This is absolutely normal procedure," Poroshenko said during a visit to Tokyo.

"If we have anything to be investigated, I am happy to do that. But this is absolutely transparent from the very beginning. No hidden account, no associated management, no nothing."

Ukrainian opposition groups maintained the move could have cost the war-torn country millions of dollars in desperately

needed tax revenues. But analysts said the Ukrainian leader does not appear to have broken the law — just suffered a blow to his image.

"You can believe the explanations of Poroshenko or not believe them, but from a formal point of view, he did not violate the law," said Volodymyr Fesenko of the Penta think-tank in Kiev.

The data leaked from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca was reported on this week by an international group of media companies with the coordination of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The leak has revived a global debate over the use of offshore accounts and companies.

When used legally, they can reduce a person or company's tax bill. A company, for example, might route its revenue from multiple countries to one low-tax base.

Critics argue that while that's not illegal, companies and people should not be allowed to do so, but instead pay taxes where they earn their money.

Because offshore accounts can obscure the identity of the owner, they are often used illegally to hide money from the taxman or launder ill-gotten gains.

In a case of life imitating art, the leaked data showed a fondness for naming shell companies after James Bond films. Mossack Fonseca reportedly incorporated companies named Goldfinger, SkyFall, GoldenEye and Moonraker and was asked to set up a firm called Octopussy.

Iceland's prime minister became the first casualty of the so-called Panama Papers case on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign fired back at her rival Bernie Sanders after the Vermont senator questioned whether she is "qualified" to be president.

In a fundraising email sent late Wednesday, Hillary for America's deputy communications director, Christina Reynolds, rebuked Sanders' accusations, saying it was "a ridiculous and irresponsible attack for someone to make — not just against the person who is almost certainly going to be the nominee of their party this November, but against someone who is one of the most qualified people to run for the presidency in the history of the United States."

Sanders told a crowd of more than 10,000 people at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday that Clinton has been saying lately that she thinks that I am quoteunquote not qualified to be president."

"I don't believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in specialinterest funds," he said.

However, on Friday he retracted those statements, saying she is obviously qualified to be president given her experience as secretary of state and a senator.

It's the latest salvo in a war of words that has gotten increasingly heated as underdog Sanders has gained ground on front-runner Clinton, capped by the Vermont senator's victory in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon responded quickly to Sanders' comment, writing on Twitter: "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now — absurdly — said it about her. This is a new low."

In a discussion of an interview with Sanders that appeared in the New York Daily News, Clinton was asked if "Bernie Sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the United States."

She responded, "Well, I think he hasn't done his homework and he's been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood, and that does raise a lot of questions."

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Opinions

AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD

WOMEN'S U.S. SOCCER TEAM PLAYERS DENOUNCE GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION

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By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

Five women who helped win the World Cup for the United States in 2015 filed a complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) April 1 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for gender wage discrimination.

These five athletes — Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn — are undeniably correct that they have been treated unfairly by the USSF. There are a few ways to look at their argument. First is the differing pay structure between the men and the women. Top players on the women’s team are paid a base salary of $72,000 per year, supplemented by a bonus of $1,350 per win. Both the men’s and women’s teams are required to play 20 friendlies (exhibition matches against other countries) per year, so the women could potentially earn up to $99,000 per year if they win all 20 matches.

The men are paid on a bonus system.

They earn $5,000 per game and an extra $3,166 per win. So while their income with U.S. Soccer is not guaranteed, they do have a much higher earning potential.

The minimum they make, if they lost all 20 games, is $100,000 per year, $1,000 more than the women would make if they won all 20 games. Based on the numbers, at the very closest margin, the men are making more than the women.

This makes little sense considering how the projected revenue for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years are expected to shake out. In 2016, a year when the men will play in the 2016 Copa America Centario, the 100th anniversary of the prestigious tournament featuring the best South American, Central American and North American teams, the women, who have no World Cup, but do have the Olympics, are expected to bring in $2.4 million more than the men. In 2017, when neither team has a World Cup or Olympics, the women are projected to bring in more than $8 million more in revenue than the men.

This isn’t written in order to set up a competition between the men and the women in the USSF. However, there will inevitably be arguments about how the men are more popular and analogies will be drawn to the NBA and WNBA salaries.

Revenue projections do show, however, that the women deserve an equal playing field.

It shouldn’t have to take revenue projections to show that, however. The USSF is the governing body of soccer in the United States. Their mission statement declares “Clear and simple: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels.” The federation cannot call for making soccer the preeminent sport and ignore the pay disparity between the men and women at the highest level.

There is one wrinkle that goes into the complaint: the collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Representatives of the women’s team negotiated a collective bargaining agreement in 2005 and, while it did expire in 2012, there was a memorandum of understanding that extended the terms of the CBA that expires at the end of this year. There have been arguments regarding whether the memorandum could be terminated at any time, which is what is being argued in court. The USSF filed a lawsuit in February against the Women’s National Team Players Association (WNTPA), the women’s team’s union, to confirm the existence of the CBA. With less than a year until the memorandum expires, U.S. Soccer should stop worrying about whether the terms of the CBA exist and instead, negotiate terms with the WNTPA. For one, the women should not have a maximum earning potential that is less than the minimum earning potential for the men.

There is too much volatility in league play for U.S. Soccer to move off of a guaranteed base salary altogether. The National Women’s Soccer League, the top league for women’s soccer in the United States, is entering its fourth season, an

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unprecedented feat for top flight women’s soccer leagues in the country. But the 10-team league does not have the stability of Major League Soccer, not to mention top flight men’s leagues around the world.

Instead, the USSF should rework the bonus system. They should increase the bonus money per win and per appearance for the women to come closer to the men’s. With the existence of a base salary, per appearance bonuses don’t have to be as much as the men’s, but there needs to be something. Bonuses per win should be equal, otherwise they’re placing more of a premium on the men’s wins versus the women’s wins.

As the governing body of soccer in the United States, the USSF should act as a paragon of fairness in regards to men’s and women’s sports. To not equally pay the women for the work they are performing — which, at the very least, is equal to the men — tells soccer fans that the governing body of soccer in this nation does not

value women as much as they do men.

This sends a horrible message to fans and to young players. There is a disincentive for young female players to strive to be a professional if they are going to be treated less than their male counterparts. If the USSF is truly committed to growing the game of soccer, for men and women, then they should rectify this inequality.

When investments are put into women’s soccer, it helps grow the game.

It brings fans to national team events and to NWSL events. Young fans can watch top women stars and top men stars and realize there is an avenue open for any young player and any fan. U.S. Soccer needs to realize that if they’re not going to treat the women equally, they are not only committing a moral wrong, but they are doing themselves a disservice.

U.S. Soccer should treat the women’s team fairly. It’s beneficial for everyone.

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CTU strike highlights broader issues of inequality

By Danielle Harris Opinions Editor

On April 1, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) held a district-wide strike in an attempt to bring greater attention to the desperate need for funding in both Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and city colleges.

Thousands marched downtown and listened to activists speak at the rally, including CTU President Karen Lewis and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“We’re not only here for the children of Chicago," Lewis said to the massive crowd gathered outside the Thompson Center.

"We’re here for the young adults of Chicago, we’re here for people who deserve and are entitled to a real future.”

CTU members and supporters alike called out Springfield for its insufficient funding for Chicago schools, with some Illinois school districts receiving an average $2,266 in pension funding per student while CPS receives an average of $31 for each student. But for some frustrated Chicago activists in attendance, the path to a better future for young Chicagoans would require more than just a well-funded school district.

Members of the Fight for $15 movement aimed at raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour marched alongside CTU protestors, as did supporters of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and other organizations calling on their elected representatives for more accountability.

Charles Preston, a senior at Chicago State University which has shortened its school year due to cuts in state funding, also spoke at the downtown rally.

Preston emphasized the unique issues African-Americans face on a daily basis.

“I am unapologetically black, because this state has shown that they expect me to apologize for my blackness, they expect me to apologize for my existence,” Preston said. “I will continue to fight. Today, we begin revolutionary change.”

That anger and general lack of faith in government institutions is widespread in Chicago, a city facing issues with education, housing and crime.

And for residents of the Windy City, these issues are failures of our state and city representatives.

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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, flanked by teachers and supporters, speaks to the media while visiting the picket line at King College Prep.

relationship with his constituents was the court-ordered release of dashboard footage showing former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times as he walked away from officers with a three-inch blade in his hand.

A Chicago Tribune poll found that nearly 75 percent of Chicago voters do not believe Emanuel’s explanation of how he learned of the details of McDonald’s death. Additionally, more than two-thirds of Chicagoans believe the mayor was unjustified in withholding the footage from the public.

The widespread mistrust of Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) was apparent at the April 1 CTU rally, but wasn’t directly addressed by a speaker until Page May of the Black Lives Matter movement took the stage. May’s speech was a celebration of the BLM and Chicago’s activist groups and a call for further radicalization and civil disobedience, but what made headlines was how she concluded her speech.

“The last thing I want to say while I have y’all’s attention is F— the police, f— CPD, f— the (Fraternal Order of Police),” May said. “F— the police and everybody f— with them.”

While some considered May’s declaration an unnecessary distraction from CTU’s objective to shine a light on CPS’s budget crisis, it is difficult to separate Chicago’s failure to fund its schools and citizens’ mistrust of the police department. The very institutions established to create a decent standard of living for all Chicago citizens are failing, and minorities are overwhelmingly the ones suffering the consequences. It should come as no surprise that half of black and Latino voters want Emanuel to

resign.

With increasing taxes, widespread violence and a failing school system, Chicago residents are understandably angry, so much so that they’re leaving the city. In 2015, the Chicago area had the greatest loss of any metropolitan area in the country with an estimated 6,263 residents packing their bags and leaving for greener pastures. According to the Chicago Tribune, CPS’ financial crisis is among the top motivating factors for those leaving the city. But the No. 1 reason residents are leaving is the lack of safety.

The state of Illinois and the City of Chicago’s inability to provide legitimate safety and education for those living in the city’s most impoverished areas is unacceptable. It’s understandable that citizens are angry, and African-Americans in Chicago are repeatedly the ones who suffer as a result of these social issues and institutional failures.

Emanuel said he understood the CTU’s frustration but condemned the strike, claiming students shouldn’t be forced to “pay a price for a political message.” Instead, the mayor said CTU should work with city officials to combat the disturbing lack of funding for CPS schools.

“If we want to change Springfield, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools and the mayor’s office together speaking with one voice about adequately funding education statewide, and specifically poor kids, is a stronger voice than saying, ‘We agree with you, but let’s attack you first,’” Emanuel said. “We’re stronger united in changing the policies in Springfield than divided.”

But for those tired of Rauner and Emanuel blaming one another, the problem is bigger

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than the insufficient funding for Chicago schools. It is an overall low standard of living for the city’s most vulnerable citizens, from safety to job opportunities to education. And black men in the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods are especially suffering. According to a report commissioned by Alternative Schools Network, nearly half of young black men in Chicago are both unemployed and not in school. Youth unemployment is highest on the city’s South and West sides, notably in East Garfield Park, Englewood, North Lawndale and Fuller Park — neighborhoods that

are all more than 90 percent black. Unsurprisingly, the lowest concentration of youth unemployment is in the city’s neighborhoods on the North and Northwest sides with mostly white residents.

For many Chicagoans, but especially African-Americans on the city’s South and West sides, the anger is real. It is urgent.

Living in a largely unemployed, unsafe areas with a crumbling school system has been proven a recipe for rampant violence.

Until Rauner and Emanuel address the legitimate crises at hand, these protests will continue.

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

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Focus

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By Jaycee Rockhold Focus Editor

Every student has stopped along the sidewalk to pet a puppy belonging to a Lincoln Park couple, or has gazed longingly inside the pet shop windows dotting various spots on the North Side. One of the downsides to living in a dorm or in the city is that it doesn’t allow much room to interact with furry companions.

Campus housing doesn’t allow animals other than fish, and many apartments either restrict owners from having pets in the building or require a fee to be paid to have one. However, one of the benefits from living in the city is that there’s plenty of free or low-cost options to play with some furry friends without having to own one.

One of the most popular attractions in Chicago, the Lincoln Park Zoo, is one of the few remaining free zoos in the United States. Since it’s walking distance from the Lincoln Park campus, the zoo is a popular choice among students. More than 3 million people attend each year, browsing different exhibits featuring over 200 different species.

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The zoo, which boasts over a thousand animals, prides itself on hosting a collection of many rare and endangered animals. For sophomore Rachael Johnson, the zoo is a fun outlet to take a break from school and to show friends not from DePaul around.

“I think of it as a place to take visitors because it’s free and easily accessible,” Johnson said. “I haven’t gone sophomore year, so it was mostly a freshmen year thing. But I would love to go back when the weather gets nice.”

Even though patrons can’t physically touch any of the animals, the zoo is still a great way to observe and learn about them.

From time to time, special exhibitions are offered, like the Kovler Lion House, which showcases lions from multiple continents.

“My favorite exhibit is probably the tiger exhibit,” Johnson said. “I remember last time I went, the tiger was right up against the glass, looking at the people, which was really cool.”

Another place to satisfy the lack of pets is Happy Play Café, a small business that recently opened on Clark Street and is owned by two sisters. A walk-able distance from the Lincoln Park Campus, Happy Play Café offers a unique way to physically interact with animals. For only $7, an adult can go into a room of over 100 vibrantly colored, friendly parakeets. Happy Play Café allows the birds to fly freely around the room instead of being cooped up in small cages. Not only can this be a therapeutic and relaxing time for the participant, but it also ensures that the parakeets are getting some playtime as well. The parakeets often find a perch on people walking around in the room, eating seeds from a feeding stick that each person gets.

“Even people who didn’t seem like

they were into the idea before coming are surprised by how great and therapeutic it is,” Amelia Wilton, manager of Happy Play Café and DePaul alumna, said. “You can go to a petting zoo, but this is different and something that people may not get to experience.”

At first glance, Happy Play Café appears that it is designed only for children. There’s a toddler playroom in the back and homemade ceiling lights that look like clouds and a giant toy train track with which kids can entertain themselves.

Happy Play Café, though, is designed for all ages.

“We want everyone to know that they are most definitely welcome to come in.

You don’t need kids,” Milton said. “You don’t need to feel like you're coming to a kids only center.”

Additionally, Happy Play Café also acts as a pet store and an adoption agency. For those interested and who are lucky enough to be able to have pets in their home, Happy Play Café offers the chance to take home one of the parakeets or rabbits for a fee. One of the benefits of Happy Play Café is that a person can become comfortable with the animal before adopting it. It also makes the animals more accustomed to people because of the daily interaction, which assures that the animals are ready for adoption.

PAWS, founded in 1997 after a mother and her teenage daughter advocated a no kill adoption agency, is a way to volunteer and play with animals simultaneously.

According to its website, PAWS began after Paula and Alexis Fasseas rescued Pippen, a dog who was supposed to be euthanized.

From there, the pair visited multiple pounds who put down dogs who showed

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r fix even miniscule symptoms of being sick.

Listed on their website, PAWS has also contributed to the decline of the killing of animals, with a 75 percent drop since it was founded in 1997. Rebecca Guthrie, a junior at DePaul, occasionally volunteers with the group.

“I decided to start volunteering at PAWS because my sister had just decided to begin volunteering herself,” Guthrie said.

“I thought it would be really nice to get to spend time with animals at leisure, because I cannot have pets at my apartment due to

a roommate’s allergy. I ended up picking to volunteer in Kitty City, as opposed to Dog Town.”

There are multiple places across the city that are always looking for volunteers, like the Pippen Fasseas Adoption Center, which is a branch of PAWS. Volunteers can be involved in almost every aspect of the adoption agency, whether it be opening the building in the morning or training the animals.

“The tasks at hand each time I volunteer vary according to whether I work an

opening shift, closing shift or sometime in between," Guthrie said. "Usually though, I take care of the cats and kittens by giving them food and water, playing with them and brushing them."

In most circumstances, PAWS doesn’t require a person to sign up for a certain amount of hours to volunteer. Instead, students, even the ones with busy class schedules or those who have time consuming jobs, can sign up for shifts whenever they’re free. This way, PAWS can not only give more people the opportunity

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Besides getting the experience of taking care of animals and the enjoyment of playing with them, volunteers also get the satisfaction of seeing a pet catch an adopter’s eye.

“One of the most rewarding parts about working at PAWS is aiding in adoptions,” Guthrie said. “It is so nice to see cats and kittens meet loving families and get to go to their forever homes.”

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Arts & Life

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Students resort to devious methods in order to attend sold-out concerts

By Donyae Lewis Contributing Writer

DePaul junior Danny Hacker said finding concert tickets takes a great degree of skill, practice and patience.

“Buying tickets and getting good seats to concerts is an art.

There’s a tactic to it,” Hacker said. “When I first started buying tickets, I got greedy and pressed refresh too many times, and got booted to the nose-bleed seats.

You have to know your gut feeling. It takes a lot of practice.”

Hacker, who has bought tickets to at least 10 shows while in class, stops at no means to clamp down on ticket sales.

“There was a show I really wanted to go to and I was taking a Cold War class,” Hacker said.

“It was in the middle of class, we were taking notes. I had to get good seats. I got second row to one of the greatest shows I’ve ever been to. When I checked after class, (it was) sold out.”

The chance to see a wide variety of genres and some of the biggest names in music can all be snatched away with just two words: “sold out.” Unfortunately, this was the fate for many individuals who attempted to purchase passes for Chicago’s most anticipated event of the summer: Lollapalooza.

While some may have given up, others have developed their own strategies to breaking the system when it comes to these music concerts.

“If this is going to be the highlight of your summer it’s worth it to miss a couple of notes (in class),” Hacker said.

While some students are concerned about tickets to these venues and festivals, others have

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Lollapalooza is the largest music festival in Chicago, and for its 25th anniversary this year, the festival is expanding to four days. Tickets for the festival were difficult to get for some and sold out within a few hours. different tricks up their sleeves.

Freshman Nick Grammatico said that your one-way ticket into having a good time at these summer festivals is befriending the enemy: security. However, he warns that you might have to get your hands dirty in the process.

“Me and my friend were going to see a band called Breaking Benjamin. We ended up talking to one of the security guards,” Grammatico said. “Into the first opening act, a fight broke out.

He hopped over immediately.

Me and my friend were trying to pull people back. Just because we helped him break up the fight and we were super cool with him, he swung us two VIP meet and greets. Be nice to the security guards — they hold power.”

Sophomore Adriana Kemper claims to be another firm believer

that festivals are all about who you know. If you get lucky, she said that you might receive more than you bargained for.

“My senior year in high school I snuck into Summer Camp in Chillicothe, Illinois,” Kemper said.

“My friend was in a small band that played one morning and he gave me his artist’s wristband and VIP pass. After work one night, I just walked in and they gave me free beer for being a VIP artist.”

One has to be brave and a little risqué to participate in these hijinks. Grammatico, having attended 42 concerts by the age of 19, offers an alternative method that will guarantee a great experience with your favorite artists.

“When I went to go see Godsmack with my mom, I was flipping through my Instagram,”

Grammatico said. “I found that they had taken a picture, had the whole band sign it, put it in an envelope and hid it in the venue.

I tweeted at the lead singer and I found the autographed picture.

Keep an eye, going up to the venue, on all their social media.

You never know what happens.”

To the naked eye, these antics might seem outrageous for a simple summer festival. Kemper, however, emphasized the sense of community that draws concertgoers like herself to these events every year.

“You meet so many free spirits at these events,” Kemper said. “You go in and emerge yourself into this different culture.

Although there are people that put that bad stereotype to music festivals, there are people that genuinely love the music and love

going. You feel like you know these people within the first five seconds. It’s beautiful.”

As you frantically click away at Stubhub, know that there are several tricks to making your way to the 25th anniversary of Lollapalooza, happening July 28-31. If you find yourself discouraged by the words “soldout,” Grammatico provides some motivating insight he learned from his brother.

“My brother Dave said it best,” Grammatico said. “When you see ‘sold-out,’ it’s not the end of the road — it’s just a fence there.

You can either stop at the fence, or figure out how you’re going to climb over it.”

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Get the picture Photo courtesy of MEGAN STRINGER

DePaul freshman Megan Stringer took this photo of Flounder, a band from Lake Zurich, Illinois, at the Bottom Lounge. Stringer photographs local bands to help build her portfolio.

DePaul students talk about the struggles and joys of being concert photographers

By Erin Roux Contributing Writer

Concert photography seems like the ideal job: free music, good seats at popular shows, the possibility of compensation for something that most people do as just a hobby. But between the music, excitement and killer photos, there is a secret, stressful side that doesn’t show up in the photographs.

Freshmen photographers Megan Stringer, Katherine Wilburn and Deanna Williams each had pretty similar starts when they were in high school with a knack for photography and a point-andshoot camera.

Wilburn was taking a photography class when a friend starting an online magazine asked her to cover some shows in Chicago. From there, she became a networking and marketing mogul and the Chicago editor for MAT Magazine.

Williams was a senior in high school when she decided to shoot for the band The Chainsmokers, so she emailed their manager and shot for them for three months as they rose in fame. She now works as a paid freelancer and for the music blog Unseasoned Sound as a contributing photographer.

Stringer has transformed her work from “blurry, awkwardly zoomed photos” to capturing work for free for the sake of her portfolio and the advancement of local artists and bands.

Both Stringer and Williams use variations of Nikon camera models, and Wilburn uses a Canon.

“It’s about whatever brand you’re comfortable with,” Wilburn said. “It’s about what’s behind the camera, definitely not just the camera.”

Unless photographers are friends with smaller bands, like Stringer, depending on the show and the venue they will most likely need a press pass. In order to get a press pass, photographers have to be in contact with the artist’s public relations (PR) company, where networking comes into play.

“It’s all about contacts and numbers,” Wilburn said. “First off, you need to tell them the unique monthly viewers and monthly views to your publication so they know exactly what they’re getting. Some press contacts will even ask for proof of this. Second, you need to know who to contact, and when. If you’re emailing Pitch Perfect PR about a Mac Demarco show in

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DePaul freshman Deanna Williams takes photos for the music blog Unseasoned Sound, and took this photo of the EDM artist Brillz at Concord Music Hall last month.

L.A. two days before the show they might as well block your email.”

The process for a festival pass is a lot more tedious.

“They require a large amount of information, and you have to be working for some sort of media outlet,” Williams said. The photographer’s ability to brand themselves, their company and their work is vital as well, so the PR manager can tell if their work is the right fit for their artist.

After all, photography is about capturing an image.

After contacting press managers and getting into the show, the hardest part of the gig is taking a great shot. The lighting is almost never ideal, and it is not always possible to get every artist into a shot, especially when trying to capture a drummer playing behind three guitarists and a singer.

“The most difficult part about working a gig is having to deal with the lighting and the concertgoers,” Williams said. “Lighting is always changing, and sometimes there isn’t a lot of light at all.”

Along with this, concertgoers also cause problems when photographers are

trying to get the perfect shot.

“They’re just having fun, and sometimes, that really gets in the way of your workflow,” Williams said. “One time I was shooting a show, and right when I was about to take a picture of the artist, a concertgoer puked on me, so I had to leave the shoot early. However, working a gig is very rewarding and that’s why I deal the problems that I have to deal with.”

Wilburn agrees that the lighting at shows is “just awful.” Though you can adjust your camera, a lot of venues can leave photographers feeling hopeless, so it is up to the photographer to essentially create the best shot, and to “have the right settings at the right time.”

Williams will continue her work with talented artists showcase it on social media. Wilburn continues to shoot for MAT Magazine at places like Coachella, FYF and SXSW music festivals to build her portfolio and impressive social network.

Stringer is really aiming to give something special back to the artists.

“When artists see photos they like of themselves on stage, there’s nothing to replace the look they give you,” Stringer

said. “They’re up on stage doing what they love, and you were able to catch that memory and hold onto it — musicians and artists really appreciate that. You get to provide something for someone that they’re going to look back on and feel good about.”

Though everyone can try concert photography, it is not something that everyone can do.

“As someone who has shot at concerts, but has also gone to concerts for fun, I can seriously say that it’s a completely different feeling,” Williams said. “When you’re at a show, you’re there to see the artist, and you have a lot of fun while doing it. There’s a lot of adrenaline, there’s a lot of turning up and there are a lot of things going on all around you. However, when you’re shooting, you’re there to work. You’re not there to have fun, you’re there to specifically do your job.”

Not everyone can combine their passion with their job, but when it works, it’s almost picture perfect.

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‘The Misanthrope’ to open at The Theatre School

By Nina Gaulin Staff Writer

Next week, The Theatre School will set French playwright and author Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” — directed by DePaul MFA student Brian Balcom — in the modern world to explore society and human nature through an insightful and fresh perspective.

First performed in 1666 Paris, the play originally satirizes French aristocratic society and its hypocrisies. Although it has been 350 years, the themes and characters Moliere created have survived through time, making it his most prominent work today.

There have been many adaptations of the play, but DePaul’s production will use the original translation by Richard Wilbur to bring this story to our own society.

Brian Healy takes on the lead role of Alceste, who he describes as a “true misanthrope in every way” with a “vast distaste for human nature and society, as well as a redeeming quality of overwhelming passion for what he believes in.” He discussed the benefits of performing Moliere’s complex ideas and speculations in comparison to more contemporary roles he’s been in.

“Each character in this play is there for a reason, and that’s to provide insight to the way people behave,” Healy said. “It may sound contradictory, but because everything in the world of this play is so heightened and passionate, I find it almost easier than more subtle roles. The text informs the way the characters should act in a way that, in my opinion, many contemporary scripts do not. If I just stay

true to the text and trust in the rhetoric of the language, the ‘acting’ part comes easy.”

Healy finds watching all aspects of this large production come together — the set, costumes, lights, sound and acting — to be the most fascinating part of the experience.

He also enjoys his role of Alceste due to the character’s important place in the story.

“It has been great because I don’t get a whole lot of downtime to think about how I should be playing the role,” Healy said.

“Since I’m on stage almost the entire play, I just have to trust my impulses and ride the wave of the show.”

In her third year at The Theatre School, Chloe Baldwin plays Celimene, who she described as a “colorful, sexy and complicated” woman with whom Alceste falls in love.

“Moliere writes with an incredibly insightful perspective on the difficult tension that women have to navigate between slut and prude,” Baldwin said. “He paints Celimene as a woman who decides to use her sexual power for status, and shows us the consequences.”

Baldwin described being involved in a satirical performance as a challenging balance of truth and ridiculousness, stating that much like ours, the society in this play is outrageous in very similar ways.

She also said that the only actual change made to the text is setting it in modern day, preserving its language along with the original characters’ names.

“We had a fantastic dramaturgy team who did research for the show about the baroque time period, which really informed our interpretation of what it means to have a modern, Gold-Coast-like world for this show that also has a court of

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“The Misanthrope” opens April 15 at The Theatre School. The play is a modern adaptation of the French playwright Moliere’s 1666 play. the king,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin also talked about other similarities in the modern retelling, which include the timeless ways of humanity, and Moliere’s keen insight.

“I think it so clearly highlights how much Moliere’s society mirrors our own,” Baldwin said. “Regardless of the times, society has the power to corrupt and twist people, and I think the insecurity paired

with vanity of something that we see today even more poignantly in social media. It’s a love/hate relationship that has persisted for hundreds of years.”

The Misanthrope will open April 15 and run until April 24 at DePaul’s Fullerton Theatre. Tickets can be purchased on the Theatre School’s website.

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The Force is with ‘Outer Rim’ expansion pack

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Within today’s overcrowded market of first-person shooters, very few games are able to provide online multiplayer action that match the excitement of “Star Wars: Battlefront.” In many ways the game’s developer, DICE, provides the most authentic experience of the massive battles that are expected from the “Star Wars” universe.

This week, the game’s first downloadable content, “Outer Rim,” was made available to the public after a two-week period of exclusive play for season pass owners.

However, despite the frustrating period that many players spent waiting, the new content offered within this expansion pack is sure to delight fans with enough unique experiences to revitalize interest in the scifi shooter.

As expected, the central features of this expansion are the four new maps that transport players to two new facilities on the volcanic planet Sullust, as well as two more locations inside the palace of Jabba the Hutt. Even though both Tatooine and Sullust are planets that players have visited within the regular game, the new maps offer a fresh twist to gameplay with plenty of cramped corridors that open into tense medium-range engagements.

Additionally, each of these mediumsized maps work well alongside the new game mode, “Extraction.” Within this mode, members of the Rebel team guard an automated shipment of cargo as it travels through the map toward its extraction location. At the same time, Imperial soldiers fight to stop the cargo from being delivered to the Rebel spaceship.

Unfortunately, this mode does not feel entirely new, as it plays like a mix of previous game types. Specifically, it echoes Walker Assault’s moving objectives and Supremacy’s frenzied action. However, it still offers a welcomed change of pace that breathes new life into the game’s action.

Another new feature is the addition of Hutt Contracts. Accessing this option in the loadout tab will bring players to a menu of brand-new weapons complete with a face-to-face interaction with the slug-shaped mob boss Jabba the Hutt, known infamously for his appearance in “Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.” This menu allows players to purchase challenges for in-game credits from Jabba that upon completion unlock new weapons that can be used in multiplayer matches.

Additionally, three new Star Cards are available to unlock through these challenges. One card is the Scattershot, that allows players to wield a doublebarreled laser shotgun that can penetrate personal shields and do massive damage at close range. Another is the Dioxis Grenade, a poison grenade that damages enemies in its immediate vicinity. Finally, the last new Star Card is the Adrenaline Stim, that regenerates a player’s health upon activation, making it a must have for players that frequently rush into action.

The final addition that “Outer Rim” offers to players is the inclusion of Greedo and Nien Nunb as two new playable hero characters. Greedo is a formidable force with his confidence meter that increases the strength of his precision shot and grenades upon each kill. Nien Nunb also holds his own with his surprisingly stacked set of skills that include an automated turret, a Rapid Pulse Cannon (long-ranged rifle)

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“Outer Rim” is the first downloadable content (DLC) available for “Star Wars: Battlefront.” The expansion pack features strange, but fun characters and new planets. and the ability to summon Orbit Strikes that decimate an area of the battlefield.

Even though these characters are incredibly fun to play, they are both a strange choice considering the many other iconic characters within the “Star Wars” universe. In fact, Nien Nunb seems particularly out of place as more prominent characters like Ben Kenobi and Chewbacca have yet to be included into the game. However, considering that DICE has scheduled three additional expansion packs, the chance that these characters will

make an appearance is high.

“Star Wars: Battlefront’s” first expansion, “Outer Rim,” is a step in the right direction in many ways. The highly anticipated new content does not disappoint and revitalizes the sense of excitement that was present at the game’s initial release. Moreover, the numerous new weapons, maps, abilities and heroes all provide a fresh experience that is more than enough to pull players back into the iconic struggle between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire.

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Umai or may not want to go to new restaurant

By Ben Savage Asst. Sports Editor

“Yeah, cool. Sounds good. See u there!”

Your slightly sweaty hands scurry across your iPhone screen, spelling out the letters “D-O-P-E.” Then, you press “send.”

You just got your bad self a date. A real, proper, dinner date.

Just as the endorphins start to rush to your brain, you realize that you sent that response WAY too quickly. Now, she knows that you were literally staring at your phone in anticipation of her response. Maybe you just blew it. Maybe you need to get back on Tinder because you’re just too damn needy and clingy for OkCupid. Maybe you should text Colette.

“Haha its gonna be lit.”

Maybe this is going to be an awesome date.

You take your date to “Umai,” or “The New Duck Walk.” It’s got the “Hot and New” tag on Yelp, so there’s no way this could go wrong. You’re suave and sophisticated.

You open the door for your date and walk in after her. The hostess asks you “How many?” You don’t hear it. You’re fixated on the collection of transistor radios on the wall. Why the hell are there transistor radios in a Japanese restaurant?

After one too many moments spent pondering the merits of a transistor radio collection in a Japanese restaurant, you snap back to reality with a pathetic utterance of “toom.” Your date lets out an awkward laugh to try to cover for you. The hostess sits you down and you’re quick to bring the conversation back in order to prevent any and all awkward silences.

“So what I was really trying to get at is that you can’t possibly look at Taylor Swift’s career and not see Kanye West as a catalyst in her rise to mega stardom.”

Umai, a new restaurant in Lincoln Park taking the place of Duck Walk, is distractingly decorated with radios.

She innocently shrugs her head and looks at the menu and you see her eyes light up. You glance down at the menu and feel a wave of stress crash over you. Why the hell are there 11 categories of entree to chose from? The menu variety is nothing short of Cheesecake-Factory-esque.

There’s a silence.

Then, you break the silence by suggesting “Hey do you wanna just like, share everything?” Big mistake.

She begrudgingly agrees to go along with your painfully forced two-person culinary paint palette. So you take your big ol’ brush and paint a diverse landscape of asparagus beef rolls, lollipop chicken,

winter ramen, sea scallop sashimi and barbecued pork shoulder.

“Don’t you love this pork shoulder thingy? It’s so hard to get that charred flavor without burning the meat to a crisp but man this pork is so tasty,” I said. “You gotta try that roasted garlic aioli with it, too. Oo yeah those are really good, but I’m not vibing as much on the lollipop chicken.

It’s super dry but, like what do you expect?

And the ramen’s good, do you like the ramen? It’s so orange though, it freaks me out. It’s like super orange.”

You think you’re killing it, or at the very least, crushing it; but all the woman wanted was a damn dragon roll. All the

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time you spent fumbling around with your alternative chopstick method and Food Network buzzwords was a huge waste. You missed the point, like Umai itself.

In your polite attempt to try to do everything: you literally ordered the wrong food for your date. You were suckered into the trap of Umai’s expansive yet hit-or-miss menu. Good thing you at least paid at the end.

After your sixth viewing of her snapchat story two days later, she responds to your text from that morning.

“Haha yeah I’m pretty busy but hope to see you soon!”

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Check back each week for the scoop on bands you can't miss at Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, North Coast and Riot Fest this year.

By Maddy Crozier Staff Writer

Savages The post-rock band hails from London, England and is comprised of lead singer Jehnny Beth, guitarist Gemma Thompson, bassist Ayşe Hassan and drummer Fay Milton. The band has racked up over 21,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 130,000 likes on Facebook since forming in 2011.

Savages, having recently played a show at the Metro, is currently on their “Adore Life” tour promoting their latest album of the same name. The rock band’s manifesto is “to create a sound, indestructible, musically solid, written for the stage and designed with enough nuances to provide a wide range of emotions.” With their vulnerable lyrics and edgy tone, the band caters to all the human emotions.

Their electrifying sound in “The Answer” and swooshing guitar performance in “Shut Up” are sure to energize festival-goers.

Having played Coachella in 2013, Savages is set to perform Saturday at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.

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Fleetwood Mac-inspired pop-rock trio HAIM will be bringing their San Fernando Valley vibes to festivals across North America and Europe this summer.

Sisters Danielle, Este and Alana Haim may be better known for opening up for Taylor Swift’s “1989” tour as well as for their work with Calvin Harris on the song “Pray to God,” but the trio can stand on their own as well.

Influenced by the sounds of Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Santana and the sounds of Motown, HAIM landed a record deal with Polydor Records in the U.K. and began crafting their 2012 EP “Forever.”

Their mixture of ‘80s pop and ‘90s R&B launched the trio to popularity, leading them to produce their first album “Days Are Gone” with bass-heavy tracks like “The Wire” and “Don’t Save Me.” Although their album hints at a pop-influenced style, the group really packs on the rock sound in their live performances.

Playing Sunday, July 31, the last day of Lollapalooza, these girls are definitely worth a watch. Catch Danielle shredding it on guitar and Este’s famous “bass face.”

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Melanie Martinez Taking on a “Cry Baby” persona, 20-year-old Melanie Martinez aims to tell the story of a character who gradually becomes more comfortable with herself through her music.

Drawing her musical inspiration from childlike themes with a haunting twist, Martinez ties in her current happenings as a young woman embracing the idea of imperfection.

After her stint on the third season of “The Voice,” Melanie began working on original material and released her debut single “Dollhouse,” which tells the story of a family attempting to live a picture-perfect life as they mask their dark secrets.

Martinez later signed with Atlantic Records, marking the beginning of her thriving career.

Her song “Carousel,” which showcases a dark, hip-hop sound, was featured in a preview for the FX television show “American Horror Story: Freak Show.”

Her debut album “Cry Baby” is “a collection of pop songs that draw inspiration from singer-songwriter folk and hip-hop,” according to the singer.

The lead single of said album, “Pity Party,” plays a dark twist on Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party.”

Martinez is set to bring her vintage doll persona to Lollapalooza on July 28.

Melanie Martinez

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in MUSIC Frankie Cosmos “Next Thing” April 1 Frankie Cosmos returns on her second full-length album with a brief but polished project that is enough to delight old fans while appealing to a larger group of listeners. Frontwoman Greta Kline continues to masterfully transform moments of the ordinary into whimsical songs that each average around two minutes in length.

In “Next Thing,” airy guitar tones take the center stage while David Maine’s bass lines back innovative melodies and glossy synths maintain the carefully-crafted balance of each song. Frankie Cosmos’ “Next Thing” is a must-listen that successfully repackages indie-pop into poetry.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Universal Pictures March 25 “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” captured our hearts back in 2002 with the film’s relatable characters, unique comedic writing and honest commentary about what it means to be part of a family. The news that a sequel would be created 14 years later was completely unexpected and well received. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2” captures the humor and spirit of the original film while presenting new family struggles that anyone can relate to and enjoy.

The movie stars the original cast from the first film. Seeing these actors on the big screen once again honestly felt like being part of a family reunion.

Beyond the perfect chemistry of the Portokalos family, eternally sexy John Stamos graces viewers with his presence. There doesn’t seem to be much of a purpose for his inclusion other than to make audiences swoon, which is a goal that more movies should aim to achieve.

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April 15 Spiritual Rez Beat Kitchen 2100 W. Belmont Ave., $10

April 14 Father John Misty Riviera Theatre 4746 N. Racine Ave., $35

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By Erin Yarnall Arts & Life Editor

This month, Weezer, the iconic alternative band that emerged in the ‘90s, blessed the world with their tenth, and one of their best albums, “The White Album.” Although Weezer is one of my favorite bands, and I am fully aware of their relevancy, others might not be as much due to their lengthy tenure as a band.

Here are some choices for bands that formed decades ago and are still relevant, touring and making music, despite popular belief.

1. Weezer — “Thank God for Girls” “Thank God for Girls” is

one of the earliest singles off of “The White Album,” and is one of their best recent songs. The band has released 10 albums in their 24-year-long career, with half of them being released since 2009. Despite critics of the band saying their best work was in the ‘90s, Weezer is still thriving, and regularly touring (just ask me — I’ve seen them 11 times since 2008).

2. Pixies — “Women of War” So, just because a band is still relevant doesn’t mean they’re still good. Actually, I don’t know if the Pixies are still good or not.

I’m one of those annoying purists who stopped listening after Kim Deal left the band, but still, there’s no way they’ve produced

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anything as good as “Doolittle” since their reunion. Either way, the Pixies are still touring and churning out new music, most recently with their 2014 album “Indie Cindy.”

3. Green Day — “21 Guns” Green Day formed in the late ‘80s, but hit it big in the ‘90s with their album “Dookie,” and a few years later, “Nimrod,” featuring the song “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” which was played on the last episode of “Seinfeld,” and probably at every school dance and graduation for years after its release. The band is currently working on their 12th studio album.

Across 1. Confront 5. Happy or content 9. Dinner prayer 14. It may let off a little steam 15. Be footloose 16. Plane device, back and forth 17. High school bookworm 18. Biblical victim 19. Squirrel’s snack 20. Modern test subject 21. Limerick’s land 23. Muslim greeting 25. Certain pronouns 26. Canny 29. Sales-kit item 33. Mortise mate 35. Spacious window 37. Use a knife and fork 38. Home’s opposite 39. Codgers 40. Juan’s abode 41. Albanian coin 42. Like a rock 43. Buenos ___,

4. Paul McCartney — “New” Rock music legend Paul McCartney has had a six-decade long career playing in The Beatles and Wings in addition to solo work that he’s still releasing, including “New,” his latest album that he released in 2013. McCartney headlined Lollapalooza last year and is playing Summerfest in Milwaukee this July.

5. AC/DC — “Rock or Bust” This is a band that should have had one practice and then broken up because they’re terrible, but somehow, over four decades after forming in Australia, AC/ DC is still touring and releasing new music. After singer Brian Johnson left the band last month due to health issues, it’s rumored

Argentina 44. Like noisy floorboards 46. Shark’s back fin 48. Tucks’ partners 50. Floodgateopening sound 53. Rolling Stones classic 58. “Aye” canceler 59. Allocate 60. Like some bar signage 61. Four times around a common track 62. Making no sense 63. Uttered 64. Unexpected windfall 65. Some other time 66. Still-active volcano 67. Tolstoy’s Karenina Down 1. Locates 2. Pro hoops locale 3. Brightly banded slitherer

that Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses will take his place.

6. Guns N’ Roses — “Chinese Democracy” Just because Axl is rumored to join AC/DC doesn’t mean Guns N’ Roses is over. The band is recently reunited and planning a summer tour including a headlining spot at Coachella Music Festival. Although the band has released music within the past decade (“Chinese Democracy” in 2008), this year original guitarist Slash and original bassist Duff McKagan have rejoined the band for their upcoming tour that includes a stop in Chicago.

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rodent 40. “So long!”

42. Move along jumpily 43. Pallid 45. “I don’t care who” 47. Landlocked African nation 49. Sight or hearing 51. Where to make waves?

52. Laughing canine 53. Bannister 54. Bone connected to the triceps 55. Utter like a sheep 56. Good thing to have on a train 57. Kill 61. CEO’s degree, often

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Uniform faux pas: Examining DePaul jerseys

By Pat Mullane Contributing Writer

In the intense weeks and cutthroat journey to the NCAA championship, the colleges are not only given the opportunity to prove their talent of the sport, but the fans themselves are given the chance to prove their loyalty and support to their team.

From face paint to digging out their college basketball jersey from the closet, fans show their support by blasting the colors of the jerseys their college team represents.

It’s these colors that ultimately separate each team from one another — besides their respected college name. The color of the stich on their jerseys means just as much as what the stich spells as well.

Dark blue and gold holds no other bounds than to Notre Dame. The same could be said in of the dark green and white of Michigan State, or the blue and Carolina white behind North Carolina’s kit.

So where do the colors of DePaul’s men’s basketball’s jerseys stand with students and fans alike? For DePaul student, Billy Fezzuoglio, the DePaul basketball jerseys are some of his favorite in the sport.

“I think the jerseys are dope. I mean I don’t think our colors are anything special.

Red, blue, and white are pretty common colors you see nowadays on teams, but I still think they’re better than other colleges,” Fezzuglio said, who noted that he attends the games at Allstate Arena quite regularly.

“I’d say my favorite would be the white jerseys, they’re the only ones I really see — being that they are the home jerseys.”

“But I do wish I got to see their away and alternate jerseys more because those are pretty unique in a way, I guess.”

Whether the away and alternate jerseys are unique or not is a matter of opinion, but there is one undeniable fact, a lot of students have a lot of opinions and critiques on each jersey. From the white and blue

home jerseys to the different blue and black away jerseys, and on the rare occasion, even the red alternate jerseys — after viewing pictures of each jersey, students have been quite vocal about which ones they favorite and which ones they dislike.

“I think the most unique jersey of them all would be the blue ones, with the black lettering and all — though I would definitely argue it’s hard to read the names and numbering from far away, given the dark color coordination of the black vs. the blue,” Fezzuglio said.

Other students and fans have voiced similar concerns, as well.

“I mean I’m not going to say it’s the biggest problem concerning our men’s basketball team, but I see where people are coming from,” DePaul alumnus Ryan Yester said. “The black lettering just doesn’t mesh together well with the blue jersey, the only thing that stands out is the white Nike symbol — why not just make the lettering white.”

Even DePaul men’s basketball forward, Peter Ryckbosch agrees the black lettering on the blue away jersey could be somewhat better.

“It makes sense. I’ve never been told by someone that they can’t read it but I understand that it could look a little strange from far away,” Ryckbosch said.

“My favorite have to be the black away jerseys, they’re definitely the coolest.”

“But I do wish we played with the red ones more often, we rarely wear those at games.”

Though in the cloud of different opinions — from favorable to distasteful — regarding DePaul’s jerseys, one aspect ringed true with most students. They’re far from the ugliest in the NCAA. “I like our jerseys a lot, our colors mesh really well together—I think the black with the red outline is awesome,” DePaul student Peter Eugenis said. “My least favorite is Baylor when they wear that highlighter yellow, I hate that jersey.”

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Quick take: The home jerseys are DePaul's best. Their clean, simple and a great color scheme.

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Quick take: Not bad. The blue is a little hard to read, but the black is swift.

Definitely the best away option.

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Quick take: These are absolutely horrendous. The black font is unreadable.

They need to change it to white ASAP.

Quick take: Red's not really my thing, but these are still nice. The blue stripes down mesh well with the jersey.

Ryckbosch had his own distaste for some jersey of the teams he plays.

“You know we really don’t play any really ugly looking teams, it’s pretty tasteful,” Ryckbosch said. “I don’t like Notre Dames’ color though. It's that poop

brown and tan jersey.”

“I remember we played them two years ago in a tournament, and all I was thinking was, ‘Yikes what are you guys wearing?’”

Men's tennis dispatches of Xavier

By Melanie Schumilas Staff Writer

The DePaul men’s tennis team remained undefeated in Big East conference play with a 4-3 win over Xavier University on Friday evening at Lakeshore Sport and Fitness Club. It was the team’s sixth consecutive win against its conference rival.

“The guys got the double point today, which was vital,” head coach Matt Brothers said.

“The momentum of that first point typically proves to be key.

We got off on the right foot today.”

The Blue Demons won the first doubles match, thanks to the No. 3 doubles pair, Alex Galoustian and Jan-Willem Feilzer, who made quick work of their opponents 6-3. After Paul John and Conor O’Meara narrowly dropped the No. 1 doubles match 6-4, it was up to the upperclassmen, Sten Leusink and Nathan de Veer to clinch the doubles point at No. 2. The Dutch

tandem took a commanding 3-1 lead after an early break and didn’t waver as they went on to clinch the point with a 6-4 win.

After capturing the critical doubles point to put DePaul ahead, the squad carried the momentum into singles play.

“Winning the doubles point was really important for us. The energy was really good,” John said. “The energy from doubles helped us get off onto a good start in singles.”

DePaul quickly jumped out to a 2-0 lead after de Veer’s efficient 6-1, 6-2 win over Xavier’s Gabriel Chaves Araujo.

The Demons got their third team point from Leusink, who’s been battling sickness and various injuries all season. The Lijnden, Holland native snapped a sixmatch losing streak with a win over the reigning Big East Player of the Year Zach Mueck.

“I’ve played him before, so I knew how to play him. I started off with a game plan that wasn’t how I suppose to play," Leusink said in regards to starting the

match down 1-3. “He started off well, but I broke him back with my new game plan and then I had him under control for the rest of the match.”

Xavier wasn’t quite ready to give up the fight, as they rebounded with two commanding, straight-set singles wins at No. 3 and No. 4. It was up to seniors Kyle Johnson and John to clinch the match, as they battled it out at No. 2 and No. 6 singles respectively.

After a breezy 6-2 first set win, it seemed John would take the match uncontestedly. However, his opponent Jack Dykena elevated his game in the second set and pushed the Canadian to the brink. Ultimately, John’s experience helped him overcome his feisty opponent in the tiebreak and clinch the match at 4-2.

Johnson was the last Demon to finish. He had a good fight at No. 2, ultimately losing two tight tiebreak sets 7-6, (6), 7-4 (4).

DePaul’s win over Xavier is only its seventh win of the season, but the team still remains

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Senior Paul John won a crucial singles point, helping DePaul win. undefeated in conference play.

The remainder of its season will be conference matches played at home, which Brothers referred to as “conference season.”

Brothers said that Friday’s win was huge for the team, especially considering the squad’s myriad of health struggles this season.

“I have a lot of confidence in these guys if we’re a complete team and everyone physically is ready to go,” Brothers said.

“It’s just been an anomaly of a year where we’ve only had a few matches where all of our top guys

are (completely healthy).”

Despite the ailing team, the players are still keen to finish out the season strongly.

“I’m trying to get myself playing well, especially after my sickness for a couple of weeks,” Leusink said. “I’m trying to get the others guys going as well. I tell the guys… we have four more weeks, so let’s just give it our all and try to win the Big East.”

The Blue Demons are back on their home court at the Lakeshore Sport and Fitness Club on April 16 against Creighton University.

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Men's soccer happy to be outside

By Zachary Holden Staff Writer

After being cooped up indoors training since their season ended in early November, the men’s soccer team is back at Wish Field.

The first weekend of April they traveled to South Bend, Indiana to play a pair of games back-to-back against Notre Dame and Valparaiso. They fell 1-0 to the Fighting Irish in the first match and bounced back to draw the second against the Crusaders 2-2 with Kevin Beyer and John Freitag scoring the goals.

“It’s nice to get out on the field finally after the winter when you’re in the gym a lot or the indoor facilities,” Beyer said.

Goalkeeper Quentin Low, taking over for the graduating Mack Robinson, had his first couple of games as the official No. 1 for the team and chalked up the loss and draw to minor mistakes the team can easily work on for the future.

“After our first two results, conceding goals off set pieces, that’s something we weren’t sharp on,” Low said. “That’s something we worked on this week to prevent from happening again.”

Though the results don’t appear favorable for the Blue Demons on paper, losing 1-0 to Notre Dame on their home field is impressive considering the Fighting Irish finished last season with an 11-5-6 record and lost 2-1 to Maryland in the NCAA Championship Round of 16. Valparaiso beat three ranked opponents last season, two on

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Sophomore midfielder Philipp Koenigstein chases a ball in a 2015 match. the road, so a draw against the Crusaders is positive, too.

The results show optimism for a DePaul team that has progressed slowly over the past few seasons.

Having lost Robinson and Jalen Harvey to graduation, the Blue Demons retain the core squad that was gradually improving as the season went on.

“We’re really excited," Beyer said. "The team chemistry is awesome and everyone is definitely getting along really well because it’s the same team basically,”

CLUB TENNIS, continued from back page competed at the 2011 Badger Classic.

Mulvey said there is no other team in the country who consistently posts YouTube videos and that some of the club players have been recognized by other competitors across the country for their video appearances.

After an initial rocky relationship with the USTA, Mulvey’s hard work and drastic changes on and off the court were aptly recognized by the USTA Midwest Tennis on Campus Committee, as the club was awarded USTA Midwest Tennis on Campus Club of the Year in 2013. Mulvey said that winning this award a short two years after he took over was “the single best moment” he’s had in five years.

“Winning Midwest Club of the Year in 2013 was a huge accomplishment for us, considering the previous school year we had finally gotten ourselves to become a serious club and started playing matches and tournaments that really mattered,” Praveen Kopparapu, a DePaul alumnus and former club vice-president who joined the team in 2011 with Mulvey, said.

Mulvey’s dedication to the club has also been recognized by Mark Ardizzone, head coach of DePaul’s women’s tennis team. Ardizzone has been the head coach for more than 20 years, and said the club’s disastrous reputation led him to initially brushing off Mulvey’s interest to improve

“We’re excited to get the new guys in this summer and make sure we get all of them acclimated to DePaul and get ready for next year.”

The incoming crop of seven freshmen will add depth to all positions on the team. The big signing came after the initial recruiting class was announced when the Blue Demons snagged 6-foot-5, 200-pound defender Max de Bruijne from AFC Amsterdam, where he captained the team and led the league in scoring the last three seasons.

the club team.

I’ve had a couple people over the years tell me that they’re going to do something with the club team and I’ve said: ‘yeah… sure’,” Ardizzone said. “But I could see after talking to (Mulvey) a couple of times that his determination was different than everyone else … He had a real passion for tennis.”

After seeing the extensive improvements Mulvey had implemented within the club team, Ardizzone suggested a joint-team practice in the fall of 2013.

Initially, he thought only a handful of people would come out, but was shocked to see more than 50 club members make an appearance. For the past three years, at least 40 players have showed up each fall for the two-hour practice.

In a USTA Midwest Leader of the Year nomination video, Ardizzone said he hopes these joint practices will continue, despite Mulvey stepping down as president in the fall of 2016. Freshman Alexandra Gorodiski will have large shoes to fill once she takes over, but said she hopes to expand upon the club’s social media presence in order to create more funding opportunities.

It’s the perfect time for Mulvey to step down, as five years of endless dedication awarded him USTA Midwest Leader of the Year in 2016. His ability to so quickly turn the team around from its humble beginnings to a nationallyrespected competitive force granted him the club’s highest accolade yet, the

“(The freshmen are) going to add enthusiasm and excitement and their soccer abilities are good,” head coach Craig Blazer said. “We’re in need of bodies and we welcome them and they bring a different skillset that we’re looking for in positions that we need.”

The team plays Northwestern in Rockford, Illinois on April 9, a team to be announced at Northwestern on April 23 and the University of Chicago at their home field on May 8 in what is dubbed the Chicago Cup. Blazer

2016 USTA/NIRSA Tennis Ace Award.

This award recognizes one club team in the entire nation for its “outstanding accomplishments in tennis participation.”

Mulvey said it feels natural for him to bow out with seniors Andrea Kinnerk and Andrew Weitzer, who have been with the team since 2013, when it received its first bid to nationals after winning the Midwest Club of the Year award.

“Of course I’m just as excited as I was my freshman year,” Kinnerk said.

“But since we actually qualified due to our results at sectionals, it makes it more special for me. It’s my last year so I couldn’t have hoped for a better way to finish my tennis club career at DePaul.”

Mulvey said the team had about a 1-in100 chance of qualifying at sectionals, considering it never previously made it past the round of 16. In dramatic fashion, the team pulled through the first knock-out round by one point over a tough Notre Dame team. After losing to eventual Midwest runners-up Wisconsin in the next round, the team rebounded with an uncontested win over Butler for sixth place, which automatically qualified them for nationals. The team will compete in Cary, North Carolina from April 14-16.

“I want all eyes to be on us all the time.

It’s a chance for us to further legitimize ourselves as an organization,” Mulvey said in regards to his expectations for the team at nationals. “All of the work I have done in the past five years has set us up for this amazing run we’ve had this year.”

and the team seem optimistic about next season already and some positive results in the Chicago Cup will only help.

“We’ve got an exciting group and we’re developing all of the components that brought these guys some momentum and some positive results from the Big East season, so it’s really encouraging,” Blazer said. “I think these guys feel like we’re heading in the right direction and us coaches feel the same.

“I think it’s going to lead to a successful fall.”

Club Tennis Accolades Increased membership from 5 to over 100 in the past five years.

Won "Midwestern Club of the Year" in 2013.

Jon Mulvey chosen as 2015 USTA Midwestern Leader of the Year.

Winners of the 2016 USTA/NIRSA Tennis Ace Award Qualified for Nationals after sixth place finish at Sectionals.

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Hindsight is 9-22 A year ago, DePaul had just hired Dave Leitao as men's basketball coach.

Here's a look at how he and other rumored contenders did in 2015-16.

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Will begin second year of DePaul tenure in 2016-17

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In & Out

Who's coming in and who's leaving DePaul in 2016-17

Chris HarrisonDocks

Develle Phillips

Senior transfer guardWestern Kentucky

Freshman forward transfer Destination unknown

Levi Cook Forward recruit Huntington Prep, West Virginia

Devin Gage Guard recruit Curie High School, Chicago

Brandon Cyrus Guard recruit La Lumiere School, Indiana

Al Eichelberger Forward recruit Saginaw High School, Michigan

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Levi Cook will be the fifth incoming member of DePaul's 2016-17 squad.

Freshman forward transfer Destination unknown

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Five graduating seniors.

took his visit in February.

“I just felt really comfortable while I was (at DePaul),” he said. “I found that (the coaches) already have a lot of faith in me.”

Cook is a center and self-describes his game as primarily inside the post, but also said he has some other strengths.

"I'm a low-post scorer," he said. "I feel

like, for a big man, I have a soft touch. I have a great IQ for the game and I have great leadership skills."

Cook will join DePaul in need of forward depth. Heading into the season, the Blue Demons are led by junior Tommy Hamilton, one of the starters carried over from last season. The other starting spot in the low-post, however, is up for grabs, with senior Peter Ryckbosch, sophomore Joe Hanel, and freshman Eichelberger, all contenders.

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Club tennis surges to nationals

By Melanie Schumilas Staff Writer

In 2011, the state of DePaul Club Tennis was bleak.

It only had five members and was technically on probation. The sparse group would struggle to meet on a consistent weekly basis due to lack of organization, leadership and facilities.

Fast forward five years later, DePaul Club Tennis now boasts more than 100 members and has racked up an impressive amount of awards for its leadership on and off the court. The “A” travel team also earned a bid to the United States Tennis Association (UTSA) Tennis on Campus Nationals after a stellar run at Midwest Sectionals.

The success that the team enjoys today certainly did not magically occur overnight.

It’s solely due to its president, Jon Mulvey, who said he’s spent 20-30 hours every week for the past five years trying to create the best club tennis team in the nation.

Mulvey, who studies sports management at DePaul’s School for New Learning, joined the makeshift “team” in fall 2011. Immediately, he took it upon himself to lead the team in a better direction.

“There is so much love for tennis on this campus,” Mulvey said. “I saw an opportunity to develop (the club) from the ground floor. I love being part of the process of growing something into a giant community.”

The first step Mulvey took to improve the desolate club was getting it off probation so they could travel and practice. Once off probation, he formed weekly practices and organized the club’s first indoor practice at Midtown Athletic Club. Once the basics were covered, Mulvey focused on building a professional brand for the club.

“If you set a professional and organized

Photo courtesy of JON MULVEY

DePaul Club Tennis will attend the UTSA on Campus Nationals this weekend after earning a bid at the Midwest Sectionals. tone for something, people will respond positively to that,” Mulvey said. “If they think it’s a legitimate [club] they’re going to take it way more seriously than something that looks like it’s thrown together overnight.”

In order to attract more members and

further legitimize the club, Mulvey set out on creating a powerful social media presence. Along with a brand-new website, he created Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts for the club, which he updates regularly. The DePaul Club Tennis Facebook page has an impressive

355 likes and continues to grow.

Although the club has a popular Facebook page, Mulvey is proudest of the YouTube channel, which he has been posting videos on since the team first

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Men’s basketball gets big

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

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Levi Cook (right) defends at the Little General Scott Brown Classic

Levi Cook saw an opportunity at DePaul.

He made his verbal commitment on Twitter on Wednesday, the week after it came out that three freshmen forwards, Develle Phillips, Fred Scott and Oumar Barry, would transfer away from the program. This combined with the graduation of senior forward Rashaun Stimage and only one other big man recruit, Al Eichelberger, coming in, Cook saw an opportunity to get substantial playing time.

“I didn’t want to go anywhere to sit on the bench,” Cook said.

“Being able to come in as a freshman and get major minutes is a big upside.”

Cook is a big man, who once weighed in at 6’10,” 305 punds.

He’s down to 280 punds. now, a result of dieting during an injury

recovery. He tore his ACL in March 2015, before a tournament that Huntington Prep, his high school, was about to participate in a national tournament.

“It felt like a damn shotgun went off in my leg,” he said. “It was really irritating to tear my ACL when the (Dick’s Sporting Goods) National Tournament was right around the corner. But since then I’ve lost 50 pounds and it’s really helped me mentally.”

The decision to lose weight and become a leaner player came when we was still recovering from the ACL and decided to drop some pounds.

“I was at about 330 when I tore my ACL and I decided I didn’t want to be a fat ass anymore,” he said. “ Cook has had a long journey with his recruitment. He originally committed to West Virginia, close to home. He played high school ball at Huntington Prep in West Virginia. His commitment

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came in 2012, when he was a freshman. He de-committed from the Mountaineers two years later and became a sought-after forward. He then tore his ACL, scaring some schools off of him.

Two years later and he has his home. He made his commitment to DePaul as their first signing of the 2016 spring recruiting season. He joins four other incoming players who made their commitments in the fall.

Guard Brandon Cyrus and his teammate, forward Brandon Cyrus, joined Chicago-native point guard Devin Gage in the fall recruiting season. Senior guard Chris Harrison-Docks announced he would transfer to DePaul from Western Kentucky in February.

The decision, Cook said, came down to how he was perceived at DePaul and how he felt when he

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