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Volume #98 | Issue #25 | May 12, 2014 | depauliaonline.com
Childish Gambino, Local Natives headline FEST By Stephanie Wade Contributing Writer
It’s almost that time of year again. The sun is finally out and (hopefully) here to stay, as the DePaul Activities Board (DAB) throws one of the most anticipated events at DePaul. Ending spring quarter with a bang, FEST will take place Friday, May 23 on the Quad. DAB announced the FEST lineup Wednesday at the 2014 FEST Reveal as students crowded around the Student Center Atrium. The highly awaited headliner will be Childish Gambino. The performer began as an actor, starring in the NBC comedy “Community,” but in 2013, he decided to focus on his music career and pick up where he left off — making mix tapes. Students were very excited that Childish Gambino was chosen, as the crowded Student Center Atrium erupted when he was announced as the headliner. “I’ve always been a fan of Childish Gambino,” Kate Ursu, sophomore, said. “I know he was just at the Ohio State University, and my friends said they had a great time.” One of DePaul’s Battle of the Bands winners, Bill, The Pony, will kick off the event at
By Grant Myatt News Editor
Photo courtesy of CREATIVE COMMONS
Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) along with Local Natives and Washed Out will perform at this year’s FEST May 23. 5 p.m. He shared the win with Overdo$e, who will open before Adventure Club performs at After Hours. The Battle of the Bands winners were chosen based on fan votes the night of the event, FEST coordinator Carisa Marconet said. “Allowing DePaul artists and bands to open for FEST gives
students a great opportunity,” Marconet said. “We want to show that DAB supports our DePaul musicians.” American singer/songwriter Washed Out will take the stage after Bill, The Pony as the next opener. Washed Out’s style of music has been described as “chillwave,” a take on indie electronic/rock.
“I was really excited to see Washed Out on the lineup this year,” Julia Hogikyan, a sophomore who plans to pursue a career in the music business, said. “I missed him when he came to Chicago last fall, so I’m glad I get to see him now.” Local Natives will be the
See FEST, page 17
Fr. Holtschneider: lobbying for MAP funds By Nathan Weisman Asst. News Editor
DePaul President Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., sat down across the desk from then-Senator Barack Obama. The two men were each settling into their new positions. Having just recently come to DePaul, Holtschneider and Obama had spent about the same amount of time in office. The two had never met before, and Obama, despite living in Chicago, knew very little about DePaul. “He looked at me and just started firing questions,” Holtschneider said last week. “He wanted to know why higher education cost what it did and why the cost was going up faster than inflation and why some people in some states get to go to college and why others in other states don’t get to go to college and what’s the single thing holding people back, and it was 15 minutes of a grilling like I had never had in my life.”
New Sexual assault policy in the works
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Fr. Holtschneider testifying before the Congressional Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Jan. 28. Holtschneider says the meeting was one of the hardest he has ever been in. He was meeting with Obama as part of his now-regular efforts to lobby both state and federal government on behalf of DePaul University and its students. This year, that means lobbying state legislators in
order to impress upon them the importance of the Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant, which helps low-income students in Illinois pay for higher education. It also means traveling to Washington to talk to elected officials as they start to write the language for the reauthorization of the Higher
Education Act, which covers all of the federal programs that support higher education, including the Pell Grant and the TRIO Programs. As part of this process, Holtschneider traveled to Washington in January to testify in front of Congress about the TRIO Programs. The Trio Programs, originally named because there were three of them, are specialized programs to help underrepresented populations succeed in higher education. The federal government uses the Higher Education Act and the funding it provides to regulate higher education. Because many schools rely on the money they receive from the government in order operate, universities from across the country spend time talking to elected officials about how the bill affects their schools and students.
See LOBBYING, page 4
Faculty Council shot down a new proposed policy for Sexual and Relationship Violence Wednesday, May 7 at their monthly meeting. New mandates in the Campus SaVE Act require all universities to rework their policies. DePaul’s previous policy has predominantly been in the student code of responsibility, but with the new regulations, it needs to be a university-wide policy. It was written by a cross-functional work group including representatives from academic affairs, student affairs, public safety and more. The policy was presented by Cindy Summers, interim vice president for student affairs, Marla Morgen, senior associate general counsel, and Bob Wachowski, public safety director. According to Summers at the Faculty Council meeting, the major changes in the policy include expanding the definition to add dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, which used to be in a different policy, expanded programming and training, and other procedural changes. However, since the Campus SaVE act went into effect March 7 of this year, DePaul is “technically
See POLICY, page 7
More course evals go public By Nathan Weisman Asst. News Editor
Two colleges have approved to make data from course evaluation surveys public and available to students on Campus Connect when registering for classes. The choice reflects the efforts of SGA over the past two years to convince colleges at the university to make the data public. The colleges that will be the first to make the evaluation data public on campus connect are the College of Science and Health and the School of New Learning. “Student accessible course evaluation data is good for faculty, good for students, and has already existed in other colleges at DePaul, including the College of Computing and Digital Media and the College of Law, for many years,” SGA President
See EVALS, page 7