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Volume #103 | Issue #20 | April 8, 2019 | depauliaonline.com
Second-best of the rest
Faculty Council addresses updated diversity report, student resources By Carolyn Bradley Copy Editor
RICHARD BODEE | THE DEPAULIA
(From left) Devin Gage, Lyrik Shriener and Mick Sullivan walk dejectedly off the court as South Florida celebrate CBI title win.
DePaul falls in CBI champsionship game to South Florida By Andrew Hattersley Senior Basketball Writer
Going for a CBI Title and first 20-win season since 2006-07, DePaul fell behind by as many as 17 points midway through the first half and never recovered from losing to South Florida 77-65 in the deciding game of the CBI finals at McGrath-Phillips Arena Friday night. “It’s a bitter pill to swallow when you don’t win,” Leitao said after the game. “Particularly when the stakes are so high, and so that hurts and it should hurt if you are a competitor, so everybody in the locker room and myself really took one on the chin today and it doesn’t feel good, but that’s part of what this sport and the cruelty of it can bring to you.”
The night started with a three from USF sophomore Justin Brown, and they never relinquished the lead the rest of the evening despite DePaul closing within one point at various points in the game. With six minutes to go in the first half, the Bulls had already built a 37-20 lead. DePaul began to work its way back into the game, however, primarily due to its effort on the defensive end with a quick 14-2 run spanning the final 6:12 of the half as USF missed 12 of its last 13 shots that had a crowd of 1,876 mostly DePaul fans right back in the game as well. That first-half rally was also led by redshirt-sophomore Devin Gage, who returned from a three-game absence to finish with a team-high 19 points, 13 of which came in the first half.
“He was spry, he was excited and he played that way,” Leitao said. “He hit his first two jump shots, which had them hesitate about doing what other teams had done previous to this. He was energetic on offense and kind of moved the ball for us. We didn’t play very well in the half-court today, but it was a difficult position for a while and then coming off a concussion and then trying be in all phases defensively, offensively and just managing the team and moment, but I thought he did a much more than admirable job of doing all that for us today.” After cutting the deficit to one with back-to-back baskets by senior forward Femi Olujobi early in the second half, the Bulls quickly responded with a 9-2
See CBI, page 27
DePaul’s Faculty Council discussed its updated diversity report as well as possible changes to textbooks and tuition at its April 3 meeting. After a request for an updated faculty diversity report, Associate Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs Lawrence Hamer was able to present the report with data from 2018. The report also addressed a reflection of demographics from the School of New Learning. The 2018 data cited 909 full-time faculty members, down from 917. Faculty demographics from 2018 included 573 white faculty members and 62 African-American faculty. Ninety-four faculty are from an unknown racial demographic. Demographic discrepancies that the Faculty Council is concerned about were African-Americans, of whom there are just 62 full-time faculty for 2,072 students and the 573 white full-time faculty for 11,260 white students. The Faculty Council wants to close the gaps so that students are represented by a proportional number of faculty. The report also notes that 4.3 percent of male faculty and 3.0 percent of female faculty are undocumented, and 3.1 percent of male students and 3.0 percent of male students are undocumented, as well. Hamer said not much has changed with the inclusion of the 2018 data.
See FACULTY COUNCIL, page 6
Lightfoot becomes first African-American woman to lead Chicago By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief
Lori Lightfoot will be the first African-American woman to be the mayor of the city of Chicago, defeating political heavyweight Toni Preckwinkle in a historic landslide election. Lightfoot won the election with 73.6 percent of the vote to Preckwinkle’s 26.3 percent, the largest margin of victory in Chicago’s history. Lightfoot won all 50 wards and 99 percent of the city’s 2,069 precincts. She triumphed over Preckwinkle, the president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, by campaigning as an outsider and a reformer. “When we started this journey 11 months ago, nobody gave us a chance,” Lightfoot said in her victory speech while standing next
Take a journey through Chicago’s past iconic mayors. See Focus, Pages 14-15. Critics of Emanuel say his centrist pro-business, downtown-focused policies came at the expense of neighborhoods in need of investment. “We can and we will give our neighborhoods — all of our neighborhoods — the time and attention that we give the downtown,” she said. “And we won’t just invest in our neighborhoods. We can and we NAM Y. YUH | ASSOCIATED PRESS A stoic Lori Lightfoot at her victory rally on April 2. Lightfoot, a first-time candidate for office, won will make sure our neighborhoods against Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in a landslide. — all of our neighborhoods and all to her wife and 10-year-old daughter. taking the first step when you can’t of our neighbors — are invested in “We were up against powerful see the staircase.’” each other.” Lightfoot’s optimistic victory interests, a powerful machine and a “This is not us vs. them, or powerful mayor. But I remembered speech emphasized unity and neighborhoods vs. downtown. We something Martin Luther King said sought to contrast herself with See LIGHTFOOT, page 9 when I was very young: ‘Faith is current Mayor Rahm Emanuel.