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Monday Loop classes take new form for NATO
Room raiders
By KATHERINE HALL Senior Writer
PHOTO COURTESY OF ELIZABETH MURPHY
DePaul Residence Halls were invaded on Monday, May 7 in search of stolen CTA map signs.
University searchs dorm rooms looking for stolen maps By CHERYL WAITY Sports Editor The university performed a full scale dorm room search looking for CTA maps Monday, May 7 following a story that ran in the April 23 issue of The DePaulia. The article was about students who steal CTA guides from the train cars and use them to adorn their apartments and dorms, a practice which many students say is nothing new. In a joint response from Facility Operations, Housing Services, Residential
indicating that there was a violation of the law.” In a recent statement the CTA said: “The Chicago Transit Authority appreciates the actions taken by DePaul University to collect stolen transit maps. More than 150 maps were recovered.” The CTA did not indicate that they requested this action from DePaul University. The university’s statement went on to say that the number of signs taken was not important. “What is important is that individuals had property that did not belong to them. PHOTO COURTESY OF DEPAUL’S MEME FACEBOOK It was the right thing to do to secure and return any property that belonged to the Education and the Dean of Students CTA.” Students in possession of the signs Office, the university said, “DePaul initiated the search because students volunteered information to the DePaulia See ROOM RAIDERS, page 9
2012 SGA Presidential Elections underway
among their largest concerns. in the case of vacancy, internal By ANNA STEINBRECHER The positions up for grabs SGA nominations. Contributing Writer in the “official representative According to the SGA voice of the student body” are website, all students seeking to divided between the Executive run must have a minimum GPA With the 2012 Presidential Branch (Including President, of 2.5, be an active full-time Elections well underway, Vice President, Treasurer, and student (with a few exceptions), the DePaul community is Executive Vice President of and be in compliance with the following suit with their annual Operations, Student Affairs University Code of Student Student Government Elections. and Academic Affairs) and the Conduct throughout the entire Thursday, May 10, aspiring Senate. All positions (26 in year. candidates for positions within total) except the Senator for First Seventeen candidates from the association gathered to make Year Students, Senator for the various majors and years were their voices heard and express their concerns both inside and ZOE BARKER|The DePaulia outside DePaul’s Loop and SGA Presidential candidate flyers hang in the Lincoln Park Lincoln Park campuses. The Schmitt Academic Center. event welcomed back some veteran incumbents as well as Theater School, and Senator for given the opportunity to explain some new hopefuls who stressed Transfer Students will be open their platforms in the hour-long student involvement, campus for election either by vote or, debate in the Student Center outreach, and accommodation
last week. The current students running on a ticket for President and Vice-President – senior Caroline Winsett and junior Casey Clemmons, respectively – spoke to their three concerns of 1) a lack of transparency in administration 2) access to education, including aid and textbook options, and 3) campus affinity. Campus hours and security were issues voiced by Emily Duddleston and junior and Malloree Winston (not present at the debates). Duddleston, running for EVP of Operations, a title which she currently holds, sees keeping the library open 24 See SGA, page 9
DePaul students who have Monday classes in the Loop got some interesting news when DePaul announced they would be closing that campus from Friday, May 18 to Monday, May 21 while the world comes to town for the NATO summit. The decision, originally passed down when the G8 summit was going to be held in Chicago as well, has remained the same even though G8 has since been moved to Camp David. “The NATO summit is an extraordinary event...that will attract thousands of extra visitors to downtown,” reads an official statement on the university’s webpage about NATO. Closing the Loop campus is “a precaution against potential logistical issues that may arise...and to lessen traffic
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-Occupy Chicago efforts page 3 -CTA plans , page 4 stress that might occur during the summit period.” Beyond the written statement, DePaul Communications Specialist Deborah Snow Humiston said the university had no comment on its decision to close. The Loop closure presents a conundrum for professors and students, particularly graduate students whose classes only meet once a week. All offices and classrooms, including computer labs frequently used by students to do homework, and the school bookstore Barnes and Noble, will be closed for the entire weekend. On top of that, the Monday following NATO is Memorial Day, and classes will be cancelled then as well. This effectively cuts Monday graduate classes from a 10-week quarter to an eight-week one. Professor Amber Settle, who teaches two undergraduate computer science courses, has some room to make up the lost day. Her classes have two lectures a week, as well as extra lab time, which the students usually use to get extra practice. Settle says she will likely have to See LOOP, page 4