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Media access obstructed at DePaul Editorial Board

story before it’s published gives someone a chance to change what they said, to go back on Media access is something that rarely their comment when seeing it in context. It’s crosses the mind of most people, unless they’re not truthful, it’s not honest. It’s not acceptable journalists, but it deeply affects everyone’s lives. for any level of journalist, from a professional When journalists don’t have proper access to to a college student. It’s not journalism. the sources they’re covering, no one gets the Time and again this past school year, The information they need and deserve.

DePaulia has been denied access for media Over the past school year, The DePaulia requests. From unthreatening features on and its reporters have had an increasingly DePaul’s O’Hare campus to a story about difficult time getting access to DePaul faculty, financial aid, to a more serious investigation on staff and administration for information. sexual assault, access has been stifled in some The university has tried to control its respect. message through a variety of methods: forcing “As I have stated to (The DePaulia) interviews to be approved through the Office previously, OPRC does not have a policy or of Public Relations and Communications practice of requiring reporters to go through (OPRC), asking for emailed questions ahead our office,” Hughes said in an email. However, of the interview (often The DePaulia has needing them at least in its possession an Colleges have always been three days in advance) email from Feb. 13 and requiring the concerned with promoting a between a reporter and interviewer to stick to staff member saying, favorable public image, but now the approved questions, “University policy is to they are utterly obsessed with it to disallowing any followvet any external media an unhealthy degree. up questions. Or, being requests (including Frank LoMonte denied for interviews the DePaulia) through Director, Student Press Law Center completely. By not DePaul Media Relations. allowing a natural, I put a draft together for unrestricted conversation between a journalist your story and submitted it to Carol Hughes in and a source, the writer can’t naturally get to Media Relations this afternoon.” know who they’re talking to. It’s not acceptable.

In many ways it’s understandable that It’s difficult if not impossible to get the real DePaul has tried to control the media’s access, information they need, often it’s just wateredthe university has a brand to protect. At a down talking points. university that’s tuition-driven, it relies on a In an email obtained by The DePaulia from positive image to continue to drive enrollment.

[Feb. 24], a staff member who was contacted But at the same time, a university that’s tuitionfor an interview deferred to Carol Hughes, driven owes something to its students and executive director of OPRC, because they greater community. It’s a cliché to say “we pay “were told to go through (OPRC) with all your salaries, we deserve answers,” but at the media requests.” When Hughes responded base of any bad cliché is the truth. to the staff member, she encouraged the staff “Colleges have always been concerned member to ask to “review (the student’s) article for accuracy and nuance.” Giving a source a See ACCESS, page 13

By Brenden Moore News Editor

DePaul Student Government Association elections began Monday and will go through Friday as students decide who will represent them in the upcoming academic year.

Despite SGA not releasing a list of candidates prior to Election Day, several candidates got their names out early through social media and inperson campaigning in and around campus.

In addition, candidates running for cabinet debated in front of the DePaulia editorial board last week.

The sessions lasted about 30 minutes each, with questions dealing with issues for the specific position as well as more holistic SGA questions and questions submitted by students.

Among those who debated were presidential candidates Vanessa Cadavillo and Luke Kula, who are facing off for an office that in recent years has not been contested.

Kula, running on the Vincentians United ticket, is running as a reform candidate seeking to make SGA more transparent and attentive to student needs.

“If you’re a voter out there, and you like the direction SGA is going in … then by all means vote for my opponent,” Kula said. “But, if you ask yourself the question of what must be done, and your answer is more, then please vote for myself and vote for Vincentians United.”

The candidates running with Kula on the VU slate based much of their campaign on increasing transparency along with striving to cater to the nontraditional student, which they say is increasingly becoming the norm.

“We still treat students like they’re able to be 100 percent students, which that’s simply not the case,” Tyler Solorio, VU’s candidate for EVP of Academic Affairs, said. “We have students who are working full time, we have students who are working multiple jobs, we have students who have children, we have students who come from dynamic backgrounds … we need to find new ways of having the faculty and the administration treat those students in regards to specific policies.”

Cadavillo, on the other hand,

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For The DePaulia’s SGA candidate endorsements, see page 5.

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Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider greets attendees in the quad at a peace vigil honoring Chicagoan, Rekia Boyd.

Remembering Rekia Boyd

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Candles illuminate photos of Rekia Boyd, killed by police three years ago.

DePaul students and community vigil for slain Chicagoan

By Emily Clement Staff Writer

A small crowd of about 20 people huddled together on DePaul’s Quad Wednesday evening. It was a cold, windy evening, unsuited for a candlelight vigil, but people continued to show up, eventually swelling the crowd to 100. They were there to honor Rekia Boyd, a Chicago woman killed by police in 2012, and her family. Soon, television crews from CBS, Telemundo and other stations arrived. Students passed out yellow candles, pictures of Rekia and “stop murder by police” signs. Yellow was Rekia’s favorite color.

Edward Ward, president of Men of Vision and Empowerment (MOVE) was waiting for Rekia’s brother, Martinez Sutton, to start the event. Ward said he did not plan on the media attention, and wanted to keep the event as a vigil, not a protest.

“We just really want to honor Rekia and her family,” Ward said.

“It is dangerous when people do this for the recognition.”

Rekia Boyd was killed by an offduty police officer just over three years ago. On April 20, the officer, Dante Servin, was found not guilty of one count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of reckless discharge of a firearm.

The judge said that the prosecution failed to prove that Servin acted recklessly.

MOVE, a DePaul student organization concerned with African American civil rights, sponsored the event to bring

awareness to the violence that black women suffer at the hands of police.

The crowd was made up of DePaul students and concerned citizens unaffiliated with DePaul, alla range of ages and races.

“It’s exhausting to understand all the black people getting hurt by police,” Caray Neal, a DePaul student, said. “It’s basically ignored

by DePaul professors, we don’t talk about it in class. It’s just frustrating.”

Sam Signorelli, another DePaul student, said he was there to honor Rekia.

“It’s important for members of the DePaul community, in line with the Vincentian mission of human dignity, to remember that all black lives matter,” Signorelli said.

As the crowd waited for the event to begin, people started lighting candles, shielding them from the wind with hands, fliers and notebooks.

Antonio Bacon, a Roosevelt University student who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, said he heard about the event through Facebook friends affiliated with Generation Progress, a youth organization focused on social and political change.

“We see it all the time in the media,” Bacon said. “Statesanctioned violence is still violence.”

Ashton Shelton came to the event with Bacon. She too grew up on the South Side.

“The police patrol my neighborhood daily, stop my neighbors,” she said. “Even if they’re on their porch. We can’t even be in the comfort of our own homes.”

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stopped,” Bacon added. “Luckily, it’s never escalated to [violence].”

Kaylah Norris, the treasurer of MOVE, gave the opening remarks.

“We are here to honor the lives of our black sisters,” she said.

“Rekia’s life matters. Our lives matter.”

After Threada Young sang the gospel hymn “His Eye is on the Sparrow,” Ward took to the podium to speak about police brutality.

“We continue to be lynched by the injustice system,” Ward said.

“We stand to remember Rekia Boyd, who not four years ago walked the streets of Chicago with a smile as bright as the sun.”

Elijah Obasanya, a DePaul junior, spoke next. Rather than anger, he spoke about his love for the black community.

“Have anger, acknowledge your fury,” he said. “But never forget that it comes from a foundation of love.”

A couple more students spoke before Rekia’s brother, Martinez Sutton, took the microphone.

Cara Anderson read her poem “Memo.” Blake Perry talked about the necessity of speaking about injustice and police brutality.

Sutton recently returned from Geneva, Switzerland, where he was part of a United Nations public hearing about the United States’ human rights record pertaining to police brutality and racism. He gave an emotional speech about Rekia and recalled the last months of her life.

“It’s hard to live every day without her, but it gives me strength

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Edward Ward, president of MOVE at DePaul, speaks at the vigil for Boyd. to do what I do,” Sutton said. “I know she would do the same for me.”

Then, Sutton began to speak about his experience with violence, police brutality and the justice system.

“I’ve been dodging bullets my whole life,” he said; the crowd responded with claps and shouts of understanding.

Sutton said he was angry that the police officer would not be charged, especially since he showed no remorse.

“He gets to go home and continue to make memories,” he said. “I’ve got to go to T-shirt shops.”

He took off his jacket to show the shirt underneath. Under a photo of Rekia it read: “They took my life, but not my voice.” The back

said, “I am Rekia Boyd.”

Sutton thanked the crowd for coming out, saying that he has been going to vigils and protests for three years, and it is the support of the community that keeps him going.

“It gives me strength to continue to fight,” he said. “It lets me know that the fight is not worthless. I am Rekia Boyd.”

The leaders then laid sunflowers in honor of Rekia. After a moment of silence, the vigil closed with Jeremy Washington, a member of R&B group. The Remedy, singing Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.”

“It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know a change gon’ come, oh yes it will,” he sang of a song that was written over 50 years ago. The message is still being heard today.

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CPS’ future uncertain as tough decisions loom

By Jackson Danbeck Contributing Writer

After a historic mayoral election when Chicago Public Schools (CPS) was the center of debates across Chicago, the school district has sparked controversy on a host of issues, which many Chicagoans find threatening to the education of students and the livelihood of their teachers.

Respondents said the biggest challenge re-elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel will face in his second term will be to reform the public school system amid a massive $1.1 billion budget deficit, controversy between public and charter schools and an expiring contract with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU).

“I believe education is the key,” Lawrence Whaley, a Chicago resident who receives disability payments, said. “If you’re in school, you don’t have to go out killing people.”

During his successful re-election campaign, Emanuel promised to improve public education by expanding prekindergarten programs and creating better neighborhood schools.

CPS currently a $1.1 billion budget deficit, much of it accumulated as the city delayed making payments to the funds dedicated to employees’ pension.

Harold London, an education professor at DePaul University, accredited the deficit to overspending.

“The reason the budget deficit exists is they have made commitments to things they didn’t have the resources for,” he said.

To curb the increasing deficit, Emanuel closed 49 public schools in 2013 that were thought to be underperforming and too expensive. The 11,000 children from these schools were sent to schools that officials said were “higher performing.”

However, the students now have to travel farther and sometimes cross dangerous gang boundary lines to get to their new schools, but their academic performance is better than before, according to a University of Chicago study.

“Chicago is not a bad place to live, it’s just certain parts that make it very difficult

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Lincoln Park High School, located just blocks away from DePaul’s campus, is one of the better performing schools in CPS. But uncertainty reigns as the system faces large pension payments and other costs that exceed revenue. to live in,” Lynn Brookins, an Englewood resident, said. Brookins said that some people, including students, had to go to safer neighborhoods to have a good time.

Most of these schools were in poor African American and Latino neighborhoods. According to the CPS website, 45.6 percent of students in Chicago’s public schools are Latino, 39 percent are African American and 9.4 percent are white.

As an alternative to public schools, Emanuel supports the expansion of charter schools. Funded by taxpayers but run by private companies, charter schools can be less expensive to run and have more flexibility in how they teach students.

Public schools, on the other hand, must comply with rigid requirements and compromise with teachers unions.

“The idea behind charter schools is to run schools like a business,” Kevin Kaufman, a DePaul graduate and history

teacher for Chicago Public Schools, said.

“If you look at the members of the school board, most of them haven’t been teachers before. They don’t know how education works, like the teaching.”

According to the CPS website, the Chicago school district currently funds 661 schools, which educate about 400,000 students. Of these schools, 522 are public and 131 are charter. The 49 schools closed in 2013 were all public schools.

“He’s closing schools,” Whaley said, referring to Emanuel. “He wants to make private schools because that’s what his backers want.”

“Emanuel’s agenda has always been to provide opportunity for people who support him,” London said. “Many of the charter school’s operators are his supporters.”

The contract between the school district, led by Emanuel, and the Chicago Teachers Union will expire in June,

pressing both sides to the negotiating table. The previous three-year contract was forged after 350,000 teachers and their supporters went on strike for seven days.

Most of the same issues remain between the two sides, such as underfunded pensions for retired teachers, long working hours and assessment exams made to weed out underperforming teachers.

While CPS teachers are often under pressure from inadequate pay and lack of classroom materials, they are “some of the most incredibly talented teachers you’ll ever come across,” Marc Wigler, an education professor at DePaul University, said.

“There are a tremendous amount of wonderful teachers that teach at all parts of the city. Devoting, hardworking, caring teachers.”

SGA, continued from front stated that her three main initiatives were education affordability, inclusivity and collaboration, and making SGA and advocate in Chicago and Illinois. Cadavillo herself is a non-traditional student being a firstgeneration college student and commuter from the suburbs.

“I love DePaul. I love the community, I love the students, I love the experiences that I’ve had,” Cadavillo said. “And I can’t say that every student has had those experiences and I recognize it. And I also recognize there are improvements to be made. I am willing to go outside my comfort zone, I am willing to challenge people from within SGA to get out of their comfort zones, to engage with students they normally wouldn’t have to and to make sure that each student has a fulfilling experience here.”

Last year, Cadavillo ran on a ticket with current SGA president Matthew von Nida that was backed by outgoing president Casey Clemmons. Many of her initiatives also mirror that of her predecessors.

Her vice presidential pick is current EVP for Academic Affairs Ric Popp.

Kula is running on a ticket with incumbent Senator for Community and Government Relations Michelle An. Other debates took place between Solorio and Kristina Pouliot, who discussed several issues facing students in the realm of academic

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SGA presidential candidates Luke Kula (L) and Vanessa Cadavillo (R) give their opening statements at the DePaulia sponsored debate Thursday. Issues included secret SGA votes, campus affinity and student involvement. Voting begins online Monday. affairs. Cara Anderson and Patrick Pfohl discussed how to increase student safety and wellness as well as bridging the gap between SGA and student organizations in the realm of student affairs.

Current Senator for First Year Students Adriana Kemper and Lindsey Salter discussed sustainability and campus life regarding

operations.

Turnout is a wild card as there is no referenda on the ballot this year after Feminist Front’s contraceptive initiative got kicked off for a lack of signatures. Last year, the divest vote drove pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli to the polls.

After the decision, Feminist Front released

a statement stating they “will be discontinuing its relationship with SGA.” “We have realized over the past year that it is not an effective method to air grievances to the campus, nor is it possible with the current policies of SGA for student needs to be truly addressed,” the statement

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION ENDORSEMENTS

For president, Cadavillo Editorial Board

In many ways, the DePaul Student Government Association (SGA) is a microcosm of DePaul University itself, which has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for the students in which the body seeks to serve.

On the positive side, SGA stands for Vincentian values, evidenced by the organization’s commitment to service in the community year-round. And on a campus that overall lacks school spirit, the organization shamelessly “bleeds blue” by heavily promoting Blue Demon pride and affinity.

Now if only the organization were as transparent about basic good government policies such as publishing meeting minutes and banning the use of secret ballot votes as they are about showcasing that Blue Demon pride. In this light, SGA mirrors the university’s worst tendencies. While a little different in nature, the idea is the

same. It creates a cloud of secrecy and reinforces the idea that student government is not open for all.

While making positive change can be difficult, it is much easier to accomplish from within rather than from the outside. This is why SGA elections are important, and this is why the DePaulia is breaking recent precedent to endorse candidates for president and cabinet-level positions.

With a student population of more than 24,000 and on a campus as diverse and with as many competing interests as DePaul’s, the job of president is daunting. This person serves as the official student voice to the board of trustees and university administration, they sit on several university committees and they set the agenda for the SGA. As students, this is our person who has a seat at the table when important issues like tuition are discussed. It is vital the right person is at the table to speak on our

EVP for Academic Affairs

behalf.

We believe Vanessa Cadavillo, the current Executive Vice President for Student Affairs, is that person.

Being a senator her first two years before moving into an executive role this year, she knows how the institution works and how realistic change can be reached.

In addition to her three years of service on SGA, Cadavillo has served in several leadership roles within her sorority and she is an orientation leader. She is more than prepared to rub shoulders with university power players in order to benefit students. Cadavillo is endorsed over current Senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Luke Kula, who is heading the Vincentians United ticket.

Kula did not make it easy, however. His forcefulness regarding making SGA more transparent is the type of enthusiasm we wish every candidate shared. In addition, his idea of creating a student

advisory board to oversee public safety showed his ability to think outside the box.

Yet Kula’s only executive experience thus far is his service as the president of the congressional debate team. And while he had many nice things to say about getting non-traditional students such as transfers and commuters involved with campus life, Cadavillo is the definition of a non-traditional student. As a firstgeneration college student who has commuted from the suburbs for the past two years, she understands the challenges facing non-traditional students and is the best candidate

Kristina Pouliot

At a university that has had four different provosts over the past four years, and one that has not escaped the debate over the rise of contingent faculty in academia, it is imperative that whoever is elected to serve as Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs is pro-active in ensuring that student interests are not lost in translation.

Fortunately, both candidates running for the job are extremely well-qualified and well-versed on the issues.

Yet of all the candidates running for SGA office that we interviewed, Tyler Solorio, of the Vincentians United ticket, impressed us the most. He is endorsed.

Solorio, like Cadavillo, is a non-traditional student and has emphasized throughout his campaign the necessity to cater the academic structure to students who cannot devote 100 percent of their time to school. “Nontraditional is the new traditional,” as he put it.

In addition to being an army veteran, Solorio serves on the Illinois Board of Higher Education, where he leads policy discussions on how to help non-traditional students succeed. He has lobbied in Springfield on a plethora of issues and has previous student government experience serving as Vice President of Oakton Community College’s SGA and serving briefly in the DePaul SGA senate.

His ability to lead is unquestioned, and his experience outside the DePaul bubble gives him a distinct advantage over his opponent, Kristina Pouliot.

While Pouliot also has vast leadership experience in many university organizations, we are concerned with the prospect of her holding an executive level SGA position while simultaneously serving as the president of Honors Student Government. The concern is over both ethics and ability to juggle the responsibilities of two important positions.

President of Honors Student Government

to address those issues.

Still, there are some issues we have with Cadavillo, especially regarding transparency and initiatives. She was non-committal when asked about making common sense reforms such as abolishing secret votes and publishing meeting minutes. And many of her initiatives are vague and mirror those of previous administrations.

While we think she is the best candidate for the job, we encourage her to bring new ideas to the table and directly tackle the transparency issues that have plagued SGA for far too long.

EVP for Student Affairs Cara Anderson

Vice President of Act Out DePaul

Board Member, Illinois Boared of Higher Education

Senator for College of LA&S

EVP for Student Affairs

Patrick Pfohl

Tyler Solorio

Luke Kula

Vanessa Cadavillo

Freshman Transfer Student

With relations between SGA and student organizations, and relations between the student body and administration regarding student safety and wellness policies not as great as they could be, it is important for the Executive Vice President of Student Affairs to open a dialogue on the tough topics between these different groups. The best candidate to facilitate dialogue is Patrick Pfohl, who is endorsed over Cara Anderson of VU. In addition to his charismatic personality, Pfohl is the vice president of Act Out DePaul, the university’s LGBTQ organization, as well as an orientation leader. He has the ability to bring people of many different backgrounds together. He has the best opportunity to succeed in this role.Anderson is relatively new to campus. A freshman who transferred in during winter quarter, we give her credit for running and hope she stays involved in the future.

Treasurer Damian Wille

President, Alpha Pi Omega

Joseph Kerins

President of Unicef DePaul

As co-chair of the SAF-B board and chief financial officer of SGA, the treasurer has significant power both within the organization and at the university level.

Damian Wille is the most qualified candidate for the job, and is endorsed. He succeeds in the position’s most basic duty of handling budgets with his background as a finance major, but also expands upon it with his experience as the scholarship coordinator for undergraduate admission. He has a deep understanding of what the position entails and would provide clarity to student groups who have found the SAF-B process difficult to navigate. The other candidate, Joseph Kerins, offered some good ideas regarding transparency and getting students involved in the process. But at the end of the day, Wille had a clearer idea of what responsibilities of treasurer are.

EVP for Operations Adriana Kemper

Senator for First Year Students

Lindsey Salter

DCSA Coordinator for D.R.E.A.M.

EVP for Operations deals with much of the nuts and bolts of campus life at DePaul, such as initiatives to make campus more sustainable and nutrition of campus dining options. Both candidates for this position had good intentions, especially regarding sustainability. The difference here is that in her capacity as Senator for First Year Students, Adriana Kemper has already dealt with many of these issues and is familiar with them. She knows what needs to be done operationally. She is endorsed over Lindsey Salter of VU.

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Students graduating from community colleges like College of DuPage (LEFT) and Harry S. Truman College (RIGHT) save money, and many transfer to larger universities. Many DePaul transfer students count themselves as alumni of the College of DuPage, located in Chicago’s western suburbs, and Harry S. Truman College in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Graduates from Chicago Public Schools who maintained a B average in high school get free tuition at Truman.

Weighing the pros and cons of community college

By Maria Garcia Contributing Writer

In the summer of 2005, Susan Motley, 56, began her journey towards a bachelor’s degree after witnessing her son, who decided he didn’t want to go to college, graduate high school.

“I had talked so much about the importance of a college education, but the words meant nothing (to him) because I couldn’t back them up with my own degree,” Motley said.

That summer, after spending years working as an executive secretary, Motley pushed herself to enroll into Triton College. She was determined to get her first degree not just for herself, but to encourage her son to attend college also.

Now, Motley is preparing for graduation in June from DePaul’s School of New Learning with her hard-earned bachelor’s degree in applied behavioral science.

In the five years she attended Triton, there were many other life factors that made it easier for her to be a part-time student. “With my son’s eye on me, I couldn’t turn back,” Motley said.

Motley received her associate’s degree in 2010 and enrolled in DePaul’s School for New Learning accelerated degree completion program in September 2013.

Motley’s reason for finishing school is one of the many reasons returning students choose to continue school with the goal of receiving their bachelor’s degree.

A study from the Brooking’s Institute in April showed that on average, students who graduate with two-year degrees make significantly less earnings than students who graduate with fouryear degrees. At mid-career, twoyear graduates make an average of $52,252 while four-year graduates make $75,916 per year.

In light of this study, it’s worth considering whether two-year colleges are still valuable.

According to DePaul’s enrollment summary, the first-

year full-time freshman retention those degrees because work A sample of associate degree rate was 87.2 percent in the fall of experience only goes so far.” occupational salaries revealed that 2014, the highest percentage in Anguiano is a transfer student a two-year engineering technician DePaul’s history. from Moraine Valley Community graduate makes $59,300 while a Lois Bishop, director of College and is also a student in four-year engineering graduate Community College Partnerships the SNL program for Leadership make $50,000 per year, or about in the Office of Admission, said Studies. After working for many the same, depending on the type that 60 percent of DePaul’s transfer years, she decided to go back of engineer. students come from community for her bachelor’s to obtain a Popelka said it ultimately has colleges. In fact, in 2013, DePaul better paying job and/or a higher to do with what students wish to had more transfer students study and what institution than freshmen. or program matches their Bishop said that with a desired outcome. bachelor’s degree there is People who only worked or stayed “I don’t believe there’s more value to a student’s in one place and have gone to one one school or approach to education. education that is going to “In a four-year program school may not be aware that they meet every student’s need you’re going to have more can look at things or do things because every student time to spend on refining differently. You develop more is approaching college your writing, your math, flexibility in your thinking and your with different needs and your critical thinking skills. perspectives,” Popelka said.

More time is spent on way of acting making you more As for Anguiano, her looking at history and its versatile than someone who has transfer experience from impact on your major and only gone to one school. her community college to humanities and its impact DePaul provided her with in the world around you,” insight on the level of higher Lois Bishop expectation in a university Bishop said.

Director of Community College setting versus a community Statistics show a growing trend that more Partnerships, Office of Admission level. students are enrolling in “The farther you continue school and earning their education, the farther you are bachelor’s within the last pushed to adhere to a certain seven years. These statistics level of intelligence and are reflected in DePaul’s freshman position at her current employer. commitment,” Anguiano said. retention and graduation rates. In Although there is a significant Another similar debate to 2013-14, DePaul awarded 3,748 difference in earning power, there the value of community colleges bachelor’s degrees, a 13 percent is other research that shows that is the idea that transfer students increase from 2009-10. some associate degree graduates from community colleges are Rebecca Popelka, associate out-earn bachelor’s degree less likely to succeed than those director for Transfer Admission recipients in certain fields. students who start and finish at a and the Adult Enrollment Center, A study conducted by the university. confirmed the study’s findings Georgetown Center on Education “There are many reasons and said it reflects the increasing in 2011 found that about 28.2 why people choose to attend number of new transfer students percent of associate degree community college, but regardless and adults who come to DePaul graduates earn more than their of the reason, community colleges to earn their degrees. “Many bachelor’s degree counterparts. provide opportunities where they adult students who look to come Motley said she believes the might not always be available,” back say they cannot move up Brookings report inaccurately Popelka said. in their chosen field without the represents the future of two-year Bishop said it’s a general bachelor’s degree,” Popelka said. graduates. misconception and despite the DePaul student, Jamie “Today there are so many backlash, being a college transfer Anguiano, 36, said earning a medical and technical 2-year student doesn’t mean they’re less bachelor degree is important for programs that project job growth likely to succeed. students. over the next 10 years. Even Even so, Popelka said that “When you have a higher level manufacturing vocations have job college transfers also have a high of degree, employers take you growth potential and these jobs retention rate and the majority more seriously as you have taken are usually union positions with of DePaul’s transfers do get the time to educate yourself,” good pay and benefits,” Motley their bachelor’s. Their retention Anguiano said. “Jobs require said. and graduate rate is about as

equal to DePaul freshmen rates. Additionally, community college transfers retention and graduation rate is slightly higher than transfers from other fouryear universities.

“Transfer students are being successful in coming back, they’re doing comparably well,” Bishop said.

In fact, Bishop said that they might even be at a greater advantage in flexibility and finding jobs easier due to the changes within the transition process from a college to a university.

“People who only worked or stayed in one place and have gone to one school may not be aware that they can look at things or do things differently,” Bishop said.

“You develop more flexibility in your thinking and your way of acting, making you more versatile than someone who has only gone to one school.”

Motley said she gained valuable learning experiences at Triton College, which prepared her for changes in classroom settings from a college to a university.

“My college experience helped me to achieve my goal at DePaul,” Motley said. “Without both experiences I wouldn’t be the person I am today.”

Regardless of the ongoing debates involving colleges and universities and measuring success, Bishop said transfer and four-year students are going to come out at the end with a bachelor’s degree. They will be on equal footing in terms of success or mid-career earnings, but Bishop said that transfer students are more likely to come out with additional learned skills.

As for Motley, she said that it’s entirely up to students to carry on and make the most of their education whether at a community college, at a university or both. “If the person ends up not doing well, it has everything to do with self,” Motley said.

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Catholics talk healthy sexual relationships

By Maia Moore Contributing Writer

It’s 8 p.m. on DePaul’s Lincoln Park Campus and in the office of Catholic Campus Ministry an intimate discussion about healthy sexual relationships is taking place. Sex and the church have finally found one another and it’s taking place right on our campus.

Every Wednesday evening, Catholic Campus Ministries hosts an event called Catholic Community Nights. In honor of May being LGBTQ Awareness Month, the two campus groups teamed up to bring students an event aimed right at core of college life: sexual relationships.

SOS: Social, Online and Sexual, was a discussionbased event led by Dr. KariShane Davis Zimmerman.

As a professor of theology at Saint Benedict and Saint John University, Zimmerman speaks about sexuality with many college students nationwide. Dr. Zimmerman delved right into the topic of modern dating culture she sees in college students and how establishing healthy personal relationships needs to be a

priority.

“The amount of hookups that I see in these college students concerns me,” Zimmerman said.

“I want you all to care because what the media is giving you, this false portrayal of love relationships doesn’t lead to conversations you should be having. Surface-level relationships make sex seem like the end-all be-all.”

It has become quite apparent that the dating game has changed.

With technology in the palm of our hands we have left the older generation in the past and are progressive in our ability to communicate and form relationships with one another on the fly. This has created a dating culture that older generations can’t fathom, resulting in a lack of communication between teacher and pupil.

“Sex has run amok on college campuses, from campus sexual assault to hook up culture to a general lack of skills at interacting with peers who are potential partners,” Sheryl Overmyer, a Catholic studies professor and lead organizer of the event said.

“Students are on the cutting edge of new technologies.”

Overmyer wanted the event to be a signal fire that the university is doing its part to foster these discussions that need to be had in an ever-changing student body. The digital revolution has left things lost in translation and vital communication skills are necessary to begin and maintain healthy sexual relationships.

“The older generation’s inability to enter the conversation has left college students adrift,” Overmyer said. “This means that they are connecting and communicating with others through an interface that older generations don’t even know about. Students don’t rely on traditional norms for courtship and dating. Most find that they (have) to make up things as they go. On a minor scale, this default trial-and-error method leaves a trail of broken and lonely, bleeding hearts, and taken to the extreme has directly contributed to the new highs in campus sex crimes.”

Since these conversations can’t be had in every DePaul classroom, it’s promising to see these conversations being had through campus sponsors like the

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Catholic Campus Ministry and LGBTQ services hosted a discussion on sexual relationships last Wednesday.

Catholic Campus Ministries and the LGBTQ Student Services.

Sophomore Jordan Battaglia is the Catholic Community Night Coordinator for CCM and was quite satisfied with the discussion that took place between students and Zimmerman.

“There’s a difference between being around people who are different and challenge you in a positive way, encouraging you to

think differently and form your own opinions, but accepting who you are, and being around people who challenge you in a negative way, only to bring you down. In my opinion, that’s what tonight’s discussion was about: thinking about what kind of people you want to surround yourself with in any relationship i.e. friendships, intimate and working relationships.”

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Murals, Pilsen community fight gentrification

By Olivia Mohseni Contributing Writer

On a cold and gloomy morning earlier this year, Chicagoans protested the gentrification of the Pilsen neighborhood. Signs were taped to the front of the hip new coffee shop Bow Truss Coffee saying “racism & classism smells like your coffee” and “Sabes donde estas? ¡LA RAZA VIVE AQUI! GENTRIFICATION is NOT Welcome here!”

Pilsen is a predominantly Mexican neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, covering the area from the Chicago River north to 16th Street, and the Chicago River west to Damen Avenue. This neighborhood is the recent target of new building construction and refurbished service industries. Members of the surrounding community are not taking the changes well.

Erica Castillo, a student at DePaul who was born and raised in Pilsen, has noticed the growing changes.

“There was really never a coffee shop there until the changes took place. I find that funny. Now every block there is coffee,” Castillo said. ”There used to be this little store by my house. I used to go there all the time to buy candy or food. Now it is gone and the family who owned it doesn’t live in Chicago. Now it is owned by Caucasians selling coffee and herbs.”

Since 1997, when the Pilsen TIF (tax increment financing) was approved by the Daley administration, rental and property taxes increased, making it less and less affordable for the Mexican community. With the community

being pushed out, Mexican restaurants, coffee shops and stores are losing business as their customers relocate.

“Our restaurant (Cuernavaca Restaurant) was closed down nearly two years ago. The taxes skyrocketed and we couldn’t afford it anymore,” Carmen Gutierrez said. She was one of the co-owners of the restaurant that was located on W. 18th Street and closed in 2013. “It was a familyowned restaurant and we knew all of our customers.” Gutierrez’s restaurant was replaced by a Subway.

According to the 2010 Census, within the past decade more than 10,000 Mexicans have left Pilsen, while in the past two decades the number of white residents has increased by nearly 900 percent.

Pilsen is known for its vivid street vibe and is celebrated for its street art, specifically the colorful murals all over the sides of buildings. Located on 18th street and South Bishop Avenue is an anti-gentrification mural depicting a Mexican family being protected by an eagle. On the right side a man holds a poster reading “alto al desplazamiento en Pilsen,” or stop gentrification in Pilsen.

While some say the murals contribute to the problem of gentrification in having people believe it’s an art community, others disagree. Hector Duarte, a muralist and community member of Pilsen, said this form of art is a vital part of Mexican culture.

“Painting murals is a way for us to denounce what is happening,” Duarte said. “When this mural was painted on South Bishop, there was a fight against the Pilsen TIF, a

redevelopment project. The images in this mural serve to inform and bring awareness to the opposition of gentrification. Our community does not want the new constructions, the increasing rent or to have to pay $4 for a cup of coffee.”

The price for a cup of coffee is not the only thing becoming more expensive. The demographics of the neighborhood are quickly changing as increasing rent and higher taxes are driving out community members. With the pink line at 18th Street running directly through Pilsen, it’s convenience to the city’s center makes it appealing.

Castillo also said many family friends have had to leave due to increased rent.

“Before Pilsen was a Mexican community, a lot of the stores around Pilsen were little family business and the rent was not too bad. The family businesses are now gone and there are bars for college students,” Castillo said.

According to the Chicago Tribune, white students are renting many of those apartments.

“A 650 square foot loft is being rented for over $1,200 a month. No one I know can afford that. It is sad to think that I might have to move soon, especially when I don’t know where my family and I would go,” Andres Perez, a Mexican immigrant who has been living in Pilsen for 34 years, said.

Pilsen was named a hotspot for gang violence in 2002 by the Justice Information Authority, but Castillo, as well as many other Pilsen residents, never viewed gangs as a threat.

“Sure, like every place in this

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Murals in Pilsen bring neighbors together to fight the influx of outside development. Activists say the identity of the neighborhood is at stake, in addition to local businesses who are being displaced. world there were problems. There were gangs, but I never had any problems with that. I would just see them,” Castillo said.

Perez compares the future of Pilsen to Humboldt Park and Logan Square, both of which have experienced gentrification in recent years. His neighbors who once lived above him, an older Mexican couple he says, left due to increased rent and a young white couple moved in immediately.

Pilsen has always been a neighborhood for the working-class

where un-skilled laborers had jobs and affordable living.

“Pilsen was supposed to be a neighborhood for the Mexican community, but now that it is becoming a ‘better place’ and more expensive,” Castillo said. “The Mexican community is being forced to leave.”

For much of the Pilsen community, gentrification extends past increased rent and coffee shops.

This is a matter of pride of place, identity and ownership.

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Students grapple with paying taxes Daniels suggests that students save whatever money they Staff Writer receive this tax season. “I think 19 19 everyone should have a savings For DePaul junior Rita account,” she said. “Having a Lachmansingh, filing her taxes 17 separate account for that money for the first time was a complex 16 and making sure you’re putting process. Lachmansingh, who that money directly into that 14 works for Red Bull, knew little 13 savings account helps.” about taxes and even less about Though it is difficult to save the kind of return, if any, she’d money as a student, setting receive. “I just know taxes took a reachable goals and having a lot of my money,” Lachmansingh set idea for what you are saving said. “I gave my mom my W-2 for encourages students to and she helped me file, but I have put aside some cash. “Having no clue what goes into it. I only something you are saving for is got like $50 so I just bought my really important,” Daniels said. groceries.”

“There’s a lot of little things you For students who work 2 can do to help. You can name and have had income taxes your account on your online taken out of their paychecks, banking. Let’s say a student was filing their taxes may have first Under 18 18-26 26-45 35-45 45-55 55-65 65+ saving for study abroad, they seemed daunting, but according Created with Datawrapper can name that account “France,” to Natalie Daniels, Assistant Source: Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Bulletin 2011 Get the data GRAPHIC MADE WITH DATAWRAPPER and it therefore becomes Director at DePaul financial Smoliana works an average of 20- will screw up their FAFSA or will ways to save money,” Daniels harder to transfer money out fitness, filing is a quick and 25 hours per week and was a first make them not dependent on said. “For a student that is going of that account.” Daniels also simple process. time filer this tax season. “It was their parents anymore,” she said. throughout the year on a tight recommends students have at “Filing taxes as a student is really easy, definitely easier than “By not filing their taxes they’re budget they could potentially least $300 in savings to serve as generally pretty easy, you can I thought it was going to be,” she missing out on refunds because use that tax refund as one way to an emergency fund. usually use one of the free file said. “It took like 30 minutes to most students aren’t making start ramping up their savings.”

As for how to approach the programs either from the IRS do it all on TurboTax.” Smoliana enough money to really have to Many students have decided next tax season, students should or other tax servicers,” Daniels received a tax refund and put pay in.” to use their tax refunds to save file early and without fear. said. “Once you get your W-2 it towards tuition and school Student who filed this year money rather than indulge.

“I think students are very from your employer, students expenses. may be receiving tax refunds Senior Mark Wilbur decided to intimidated by the process, can really just go into an online Daniels said students should within the next couple of weeks. save most of his tax refund while for most students it’s going to system and plug in numbers not be intimidated by tax season, Though the refund may be also spending a bit of it on a trip last 10 to 15 minutes so really, from their W-2 and hit submit.” but rather hopeful of the return minimal, for many students to Nashville. “I used TurboTax,” demystifying the anxiety about it Sophomore Maryna they may now receive. “The the refunds are dollars that he said, “This was my second is all it takes,” Daniels said. “It’s Smoliana works as a part-time biggest mistake I see students they previously did not have or time filing, but before the first serious, but it’s not challenging.” office assistant at DePaul and doing is that they don’t file expected to have. “If you do get time, I didn’t understand taxes had an easy time filing her taxes. because they think them filing a refund, it is one of the easiest at all.”

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People from DePaul joined the larger Chicago community to engage in a "Train Takeover" protest on Friday, May 15, higlighting issues about African-American and civil rights.

Vincentian engagement of civil rights problems

By Rachel Hinton Copy Editor

At 5 p.m. on Friday, amid workers commuting from the Loop, a “train takeover” protest disrupted the already bumpy flow of the train ride. Among the ranks of veteran protestors, DePaul students as part of the Vincentians United (VU) faction and other social justice and activist groups joined in.

The takeover is part of an ongoing movement around Chicago for social justice, and DePaul’s students across various communities are getting as involved as possible in the city’s rallies, as well as creating their own.

“Supporting other causes is fundamental to the development and betterment of our social, political, and economic communities,” Cara Anderson, member of VU, said. “The louder a movement becomes and the more support it (receives),” she believes, “the more likely changes to the system become. Between LGBTQ, Muslims, Latinos, Environmentalists, and so many more activists, we have separate messages (but) the same foundation of recognizing the issues that are existent in the system and that they must be changed.”

Change has been a common theme and

word used in conversations. After the recent death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, as well as Natasha Mckenna’s death following multiple Taser strikes by police officers, protests continue to make headlines nationally. Here at home, protests are organized and carried out, but rarely make larger headlines or gain larger acknowledgement beyond Facebook likes and promotion.

Such smaller protests are the way communities have bridged the gap.

Vincentians United, an activist group and potential student government ticket on campus, as well as other activist groups such as Men of Vision and Empowerment (MOVE), Black Student Union (BSU), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Feminist Front work to support each other’s causes as much as they support their own.

“I wanted an opportunity to support people constantly engaged in the fight,” Tyler Solorio, SGA candidate, said. “I feel it’s important to support causes across groups and community, especially in regards to oppression, for no other reason than it being the bare minimum of what someone should do as a decent human being. I think activism is essential in changing the system of police brutality, as it is because of devoted activists across a huge spectrum of issues that things

really change.”

The devoted activists and students have garnered their own awareness of activism and its importance. These activist tactics, which include protests, petitions or vigils, lead to the various communities meeting and uniting — whether they be located on campus or on a CTA Red Line train heading north.

“Personally I never knew how crucial activism was until I participated in protests, petitions, vigils, community meetings.

When the Baltimore city state's attorney gave the decision in regards to the indictment of the officers involved with the Freddie Gray arrest and said ‘protesters we heard you loud and clear,’” Anderson said. “I saw and knew that activism is essential in enacting change, inspiring individuals to do what may seem as unimaginable or unchangeable circumstances. Without the zealous protesters, without individuals fighting police brutality, in my opinion (issues) will continue to go on ignored, swept under the carpet as if it did not exist. Activism yanks the carpet up and says ‘you will hear us, you will see this for the dirt that it is, and that it is here.’”

The train takeover will help further awareness of the issues, Anderson believes,

but to achieve it there will be many steppingstones. Not everyone has to be ready to step now, but “as long at least one person is able to hear the message and join the movement or support it, that is all that matters,” Anderson said.

Protests aren’t always the tool for change as seen in previous movements. Though the current situation does not currently have a name, its events and the anger and anguish behind the push for change are reminiscent of earlier movements. Those leading the change now on campus know that there is still much to be done, but they’re willing and ready to put in the time.

“Nothing moves without some kind of force, literally and metaphorically, and I believe that civil disobedience —like with train takeovers — is significant to reminding people who may not be impacted due to their personal privileges what other people suffer because of their differences not pertaining to the status quo,” Solorio said. “BSU and Feminist Front are the most easily identifiable leaders in discussing a variety of social issues.

I wish administrations would be willing to have a discussion of acknowledge and at least let the communities of this campus who suffer most from the problems of the status quo know that they support them.”

Buddhist violence in Myanmar highlights religious misconceptions

By Kevin Gross Nation & World Editor

A Pew Research Center polling study found that 35 percent of Americans believe that “Islam is more likely than others to encourage violence.” American popular society oft-holds binary viewpoints on religion: Islam is associated with militancy, while other traditions, such as Buddhism, get painted as a universally-peaceful alternative to mainstream religious exploitation.

8,000 miles to the East in Myanmar (formerly Burma), however, current events back a different religious reality. The Rohingya, a Muslim minority, has suffered strong violence and persecution at the hands of the nation’s Buddhist majority.

Muslims have been lynched in periodic gang-attacks, which authorities have often overlooked due to most Rohingya’s status as “non-citizens.” Similarly, the UN Refugee agency categorizes approximately 514,000 Myanmar Rohingya’s as “internally displaced,” with many thousand members of the community

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People wait for water at a refugee camp for Rohingyas, a persecuted Muslim minority group in Myanmar. undertaking perilous boat trips to refugee camps in neighboring nations such as Thailand.

“There’s no doctrinal base in Buddhism that can legitimately support mass murder crusades,” Charles Strain, a DePaul professor versed in Buddhist studies, said.

Rather, the issue highlights how, in Strain’s words, “the ideology disease can infect (all) religious and secular ideologies.”

When describing the particular mechanics of the Buddhist-driven violence in Myanmar, he said, “It is people who are recognized as spiritual leaders who are (catalyzing) the mass riots, in which Rohingya have lost lives.

The one percent can still stir up the other 99 percent of (common) religious followers. Monks are revered, and when they come out and exacerbate ethnic tensions, it can lead to mass rioting.”

Such ideological tension between religions does not necessarily arise out of religious textual encouragement. Rather, as DePaul religious studies professor Yuki Miyamoto said, “There’s always one rhetoric used in justifying (institutionalized) violence, which is ‘protecting ourselves.’ It’s not so much about interpretation or the text itself; it’s about people utilizing the sense of being threatened, of ‘having to

protect ourselves.’”

Buddhist right-wingers — many of whom are, as Strain mentioned, considered religious authority figures — have often utilized such rhetoric in attacks, for instance, while scapegoating local Rohingya’s for local crimes such as rapes without the utilization of due-process.

As Miyamoto mentioned, it highlights the importance of nuanced Western viewpoints towards institutions — whether they be religious or secular.

“Think of nation-states and war; war is often the best mechanism to heighten people’s solidarity or need to belong,”

Miaymoto said. “Japan used (rhetoric of preservation) even when they were the aggressor invading parts of Asia (in WWII), how their actions were ‘protecting Asian people from Western colonization and hegemony.’”

Such types of binary viewpoints “create these polarities,” Strain said.

“Not only don’t they do justice to the religions of the West (such as Christianity or Islam); they create a romanticized view of Buddhists.”

The opposite type of dualistic viewpoint could also occur in Southeast Asia with Buddhist directed blame, which would “ignore the examples of Buddhists worldwide that are disturbed with the Burmese violence … In no way is there a monolithic response by the Buddhist community.”

Nuanced understandings of religions, as they each believed, are necessary to understanding the actual sociological background causes behind human-rights issues, rather than dismissing them as results of “inherently violent ideologies.” Only with nuanced understandings can human rights situations be properly addressed, either abroad or at home.

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A man carries water past the wreckage in Nepal after an additional earthquake hit the nation on Tuesday, May 12. The first earthquake hit April 25.

Additional earthquake strikes Nepal

Amtrak train derails at high speed

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Nepal has been overwhelmed by its second powerful earthquake in less than three weeks, its prime minister said Thursday as he visited this normally placid foothills town, now filling up with frightened villagers desperate for government help.

Thousands of people coming from surrounding areas to seek help crowd the streets of Charikot, the administrative center of the isolated district hit hardest by Tuesday's magnitude-7.3 quake, which killed at least 110 people and injured more than 2,300. The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit April 25 killed more than 8,150 people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless.

"After the first quake, we were not prepared for a second one so big," Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told reporters after arriving in Charikot by helicopter.

With hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, he said the coming monsoon rains loomed large.

Nearly everyone is too afraid to sleep indoors and aftershocks are keeping people on edge in this town. Food has been handed out occasionally here, but nowhere near enough for the people who keep arriving.

Many simply waited at the locked gates of the army's small aid distribution center, shaking the fence angrily when their frustration got the better of them.

Ganga Karki Jungu, a social worker in Charikot, said the people were angry as "they have no roof, no food."

Jungu was among a group of social workers and political activists who met Prime Minister Koirala to press for urgent help.

"The government has to build some permanent structures to provide housing on a large scale before the monsoon rains begin, " he told the prime minister.

Tuesday's quake was less powerful than the one in April and shook a smaller, less populated area. It was centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest. It hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the Himalayan foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and causing roadblocking landslides.

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A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death Friday for the Boston Marathon bombing, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a "kid" who fell under the influence of his fanatical older brother.

The decision sets the stage for what could be the nation's first execution of a terrorist in the post-9/11 era, though the case is likely to go through years of appeals. The execution would be carried out by lethal injection.

The 12-member federal jury had to be unanimous for Tsarnaev to get the death penalty. Otherwise, he would have automatically received a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Bombing victim Sydney Corcoran, who nearly bled to death and whose mother lost both legs, said: "My mother and I think that NOW he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice.

In his own words, 'an eye for an eye.'"

Tsarnaev's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, reached by phone by the Associated Press in the Russian region of Dagestan, let out a deep moan upon hearing the news and hung up.

In a statement, Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the bombing a "cowardly attack" and added: "The ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment for this horrific crime, and we hope that the completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and their families."

Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded when two pressurecooker bombs packed with shrapnel

exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013.

The former college student was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, including use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of an MIT police officer during the Tsarnaev brothers' getaway attempt.

Seventeen of those charges carried the possibility of the death penalty.

The defense argued that Dzhokhar was an impressionable 19-year-old who was led astray by his volatile and domineering 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who was portrayed as the mastermind of the plot to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries.

Prosecutors depicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an equal partner in the attack, saying he was so coldhearted he planted a bomb on the pavement behind a group of children, killing an 8-year-old boy.

The speed with which the jury reached a decision surprised some, given that the panel had to fill out a detailed, 24-page worksheet in which the jurors tallied up the factors for and against the death penalty.

The possible aggravating factors cited by the prosecution included the cruelty of the crime, the killing of a child, the amount of carnage inflicted, and lack of remorse. The possible mitigating factors included Tsarnaev's age, the possible influence of his brother and his turbulent, dysfunctional family.

The deadly Amtrak wreck has made it clear that despite the train industry's widespread use of electronic signals, sensors and warning systems, safety still sometimes comes down to the knowledge and experience of the engineer at the controls.

That's true for the curve where the New York-bound train derailed, killing eight and injuring more than 200 in the deadliest U.S. train accident in nearly six years.

Instead of high-tech signals or automatic controls, engineers on that stretch of track have to rely on their familiarity with the route and a printed timetable they carry with them, not unlike engineers a century ago.

"We're depending heavily on the human engineer to correctly obey and interpret the signals that he sees and also speed limits and other operating requirements," said David B. Clarke, a railroad expert at the University of Tennessee.

In the minute before the derailment, the train accelerated from 70 mph to more than 100 mph, even though the curve where it came off the tracks has a maximum speed of 50 mph.

Experts say the engine would have been slowed down automatically if it had hit the maximum speed allowed on the line, but older cab-signal and train-control systems do not respond to localized speed restrictions.

Preliminary checks have not found any pre-existing problems with the train, the rail line or the signals.

The wreck has raised questions about positive train control, a system that automatically brakes trains going too fast.

It is installed on the tracks where the train derailed, but it had not been turned on because further testing was needed, Amtrak President Joseph Boardman said.

The system is already operating in other parts of the Northeast Corridor, the busy stretch of tracks between Boston and Washington — including for southbound trains in the same area.

The last wrecked railcars from the deadly accident were removed Friday as Amtrak prepares to resume service on the line next week.

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Public distrust of GMOs RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

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Genetically modified organisms are present in various foods, such as this rot-resistant tomato (right) and this Monsanto corn seed (left).

By Hinalee Darbar Contributing Writer

Imagine a world without bananas.

What would you put in your smoothies?

What would mingle with the walnuts in your breakfast muffin? Race times in Mario Kart would certainly improve, but how else would we take joy from cartoon characters’ misfortunes?

With a trending emphasis on clean eating and leading sustainable lifestyles, public opinion is quick to decry genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as a part of Monsanto’s insidious plan for global domination. GMOs refer to any biological matter containing genetic material that has been altered via methods of genetic engineering or biotechnology — essentially, the manipulation of an organism’s DNA sequencing.

A common misconception is that GMOs are the relatively new brainchild of profitgreedy men in suits. However, the practice of splicing and tweaking cultures and enzymes dates back to Sumerian culture nearly 5,000 years ago. In reality, the scope of genetically-

modified organisms has a reach far greater than a single corporation’s nefarious business practices.

In fact, you are able to enjoy bananas in present day thanks to the efforts of genetic sequencing and precise cultivation practices.

During the 1950s, the most popular variant of the banana was the Gros Michel — that is, until the entire variety was wiped out by a South American fungus. Fortunately, the Gros Michel was replaced by a disease resistant banana called Cavendish.

Now, a new disease has emerged that is threatening not only the bananas we know and love, but also starchy plantains that are the staple of many diets in developing countries. Global food conditions are already troublesome — could you imagine the consequences if one of the few, basic staples for impoverished nations was eradicated?

Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a decade long project has been underway by Dr. James Dale of the Queensland University of Technology to develop a biofortified banana that also contains boosted amounts of iron and Vitamins A and E. Along with scientific endeavors to save the Cavendish, the research

behind this new genetically modified varietal would be integral towards alleviating widespread nutritional deficiencies in underdeveloped nations.

Chipotle recently drew both praise and criticism for announcing plans to remove genetically modified ingredients from its menus. While the move is a step in the right direction of mindful consumer habits, it also perpetuates the overhyped public distrust of “Frankenfood” with which GMOs have become synonymous. Not to mention the enormous effort that Chipotle’s new plan would impose: cross-contamination and the presence of GMO components in many ingredients make this a seemingly daunting task.

Extensive research and studies have shown there are not “any significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineered crops,” according to a conclusion published in the journal Critical Review of Biotechnology. A team of scientists embarked on a 12-month process to collect and evaluate 1,783 research papers, reviews and reports on the effects of GMOs published from 2002 to 2012.

The findings are supported by the

National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the European Commission, which all agree that GMO foods are safe for consumption. In the United States, rigorous testing by multiple entities (the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) occurs to determine the safety and health effects before genetically modified foods are commercially available, according to nonprofit organization the Genetic Literacy Project.

As with any heavily debated topic, GMOs are not on a cut-and-dry platform. There are certainly critical factors to take into consideration with how business practices are implemented along with the associated socioeconomic consequences, but ultimately, GMOs are not inherently deceitful. There is a wide range of benefits that genetically modified food sources can impart on impoverished countries.

Of course, the world will keep spinning even if bananas do become extinct, but your smoothie may never taste the same again.

The problem with buy one, give one

By Sharon Lavin Contributing Writer

Philanthropic involvement is now a part of many core business plans. Connecting business to a meaning of greater value can increase positive public image.

Buying a pair of Toms shoes lets customers involve themselves in their own sort of philanthropy; once a pair of shoes is bought, another is given to a child in need.

To some, this seems too good to be true. Recent criticisms of the real benefits of Tom’s shoes donations in giving back to the community have brought the company to the public’s attention for a new reason. According to Mike Montgomery, a contributor to Forbes, “many people in the philanthropy world say that donating shoes might not be the best way to help poor communities; it might even harm them.”

The criticism of the major

company has brought up the question of valid philanthropic involvement and ethical standards. Is the company just trying to raise revenue? Are they giving to an authentic cause?

In light of Toms' ninth anniversary, they conducted a social media campaign where individuals could use the hashtag #withoutshoes and post a picture of their bare feet. Doing so would result in the company making a shoe donation. While Toms has had a strategic and differentiated goal that sets them apart from other companies, it is unofficial whether their cause is truly meaningful.

Toms footwear is appropriately giving shoes to other countries. However, some think they are only doing this to gain a better public image. While it is important to gain a positive image for the public, it can be even more beneficial for societal responsibilities to connect your image to a meaning.

Karin Volo of the Huffington Post said, “knowing your bigger purpose — why you do what you do — and raising it to a purpose that is beneficial to the people and the planet is what gives meaning and significance to the business and the value it brings to the world.”

Toms has made an effort to differentiate its market from others by giving back to communities rather than only making a profit.

Toms may need to re-evaluate their original plan of only donating shoes, as recent studies have shown it could potentially do more harm than good. The overall outlook, however, is that the company is progressing in a direction of doing well. For any business to successfully prosper it takes time, failure and innovation.

Toms footwear has been a leading role model for many businesses. It shows that companies should not only focus

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Toms footwear is known for its "buy one, give one" policy. on their product, but also the outlook and positive gains that can be made to communities.

As stated on the official Toms website, “In the coming months, we'll broaden our understanding of our product and their impacts, explore additional sustainable materials and designs and deepen our conversation with our supply chain partners. As we climb the mountain in front of us,

we'll celebrate our success while eyeing that next peak in the distance.”

Toms has only advanced society’s want for philanthropic companies. They are an innovative company that has continued to expand and is consistently looking for new ways to give back. Business is now not only about profit, but also about helping others in the process.

Opinions. May 18, 2015. The DePaulia | 13 ACCESS, continued from front page with promoting a favorable public image, but now they are utterly obsessed with it to an unhealthy degree,” Frank LoMonte, director of the Student Press Law Center, said. “I think that is because of the ability for stories to have a longer life and a broader reach on the Internet … colleges are more reliant on private giving, and consequently they’re more concerned with looking bad in the eyes of the public.”

The restriction of media access at DePaul goes further than OPRC, unfortunately — the Athletic Department is a master of media restriction.

After enjoying the past few years of success, the DePaul softball team struggled this past season, finishing under .500 for the first time in 11 years. This year the coaching staff placed many restrictions on The DePaulia’s access.

Following the team’s loss in last week’s Big East tournament, head coach Eugene Lenti declined to comment to a DePaulia reporter, which was not for the first time this season. He also declined to make players available for comment, sending out assistant head coach Lindsay Chouinard as the only interview source for the article.

The reason given for Lenti’s decline to comment is that he doesn’t want to say anything to damage his players’ reputation.

The media doesn’t function to advance someone’s positive message, we cover the news — good and bad. It’s especially troublesome because even during tough losses last year, head basketball coaches Doug Bruno and Oliver Purnell were made

available.

In another instance, the pitching coach Lindsay Chouinard stipulated the interview could only contain positive questions.

“If there is a negative question at all, she’s pulling out,” a graduate assistant from the athletic department said in an email.

Sadly, this is not a unique problem to DePaul. Universities across the country have felt the effects of greater media relations control, and the issue of access is a problem journalists face at most governmental levels.

“My impression is that access is definitely getting worse,” LoMonte said.

At public institutions, universities are subject to requests for records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but this hasn’t stopped some from the censoring of information.

When Kent State University began its search for a new president in 2014, officials shredded all notes and documents from committee members during the search, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

By destroying the records the public would not be able to file a FOIA to learn valuable information on the search process, such as how much the university spent on each

The media doesn’t function to advance someone’s positive message, we cover the news — good and bad.

“There are a number of colleges that have imposed very drastic regulations requiring all media inquiries to be filtered through a single spokesperson, which often serves as a checkpoint, delaying journalists ability to get information.”

One of these institutions is California State University, Fullerton, whose student newspaper, The Daily Titan, recently published an editorial calling out their university’s public relations department for many of the same practices as DePaul’s. The editorial stated that access to administration is limited to emailing questions to the Strategic Communications office, which can take up to a month to receive the response.

candidate’s visits.

As a private university, DePaul is not subject to FOIA requests. To find out information, reporters rely on access to information from university officials, which must be gained through interviews.

At an even greater national level, media access during the Obama Administration has been said to be one of the worst in decades.

According to a Washington Post article, many government reporters now find it commonplace to have a “handler” in all interviews with any official — a press secretary who will sometimes interject to clarify a point, other times stay quiet, but

always serve as a reminder to stick to the pre-approved talking points.

“Reporters who cover other parts of official Washington, such as Capitol Hill, can usually count on encountering an official escort, turning a one-on-one interview into a one-on-two,” the July 2014 Post article said. Similarly this year, when two DePaulia reporters were interviewing Director of Public Safety Robert Wachowski and Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Specialist Rima Shah in September, Hughes sat in the room.

With a greater access to politicians’ constituencies through email and social media, the reliance on the media by government officials is no longer necessary.

A message, the “correct” message, can spread without critique and speculation from prodding reporters.

DePaul also has its specific messages it wants to share, but that isn’t successfully done by shutting out student media.

We understand the need to protect the brand of the university, we want DePaul to have a favorable image as well. In just a few weeks, some of us will be graduating with a degree from DePaul University and it will be with us for the rest of our lives. The DePaul brand is a part of our brand, and we don’t want it to falter.

But for any institution to function at its highest capacity, people must ask questions.

At a university it can come from the students, it can come from faculty and it can come from journalists.

If there’s nothing to hide, there’s no reason to hide.

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DANNY JOHNSTON | AP

Messages of false hope

By Marcus Cirone Contributing Writer

“Defeat the Washington machine!

Unleash the American dream.” This is the campaign slogan of Republican presidential candidate, and current Kentucky senator Rand Paul. Paul, a doctor turned United States senator, is the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul who was a congressman from Texas for more than two decades.

Rand Paul railed against the “Washington machine” during his speech announcing his run for President.

Paul claimed that rolling back the role of the government would make America more prosperous. He is not the only one to preach a message of hope.

The campaign websites of other declared Republican presidential candidates include slogans like Dr. Ben Carson’s “Heal, Inspire, Revive” and Mike Huckabee’s “From Hope to Higher Ground.”

There is something deeper in these slogans of hope. Republicans saw how effective President Obama’s messages of hope, change and progress were in getting through to voters, not only once but twice.

The effectiveness of these ideas is rooted in fundamental shifts occurring in

American life over the past 40 years.

The middle class is being squeezed.

Stagnant wages, regressive tax policies and the loss of manufacturing jobs because of new global economic competition have devastated many. The Republican’s talk of tax cuts, trickledown economics and big government only go so far for people in the middle class who have limited income, and the poor who rely on the government to help them if they get sick or can’t feed their children.

It seems that the Republican losses in the last two presidential elections have finally convinced them that they need to do more to address the concerns of everyday people. Republican candidates now talk about opportunity, the right to rise and the American dream in a way that may resonate better with the American people.

While many believe Republican efforts to most likely be disingenuous, it is almost refreshing to see Republican presidential candidates pretending to care about all Americans. This is a far cry from the last presidential election in 2012.

The 2012 Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, was obviously out of touch with the majority of Americans. His infamous 47 percent comment was a perfect example of this. In a secret recording he

JIM COLE | AP

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: 2016 Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul. was caught telling campaign donors that the 47 percent of Americans who do not pay taxes were not going to vote for him.

He claimed it is because they are people “who are dependent on government, who believe that they are victims.”

Senseless comments like that confirmed the suspicions of many voters that he really didn’t understand their struggles. While the 47 percent comment may not have been the whole reason he lost, it was certainly a large part of it.

Republicans seem to be upping their game this election cycle. While they have always claimed that they stand with working people, it was usually in response to legitimate questions regarding their policies’ negative effects on the middle and

lower classes.

Many Americans remember what happened the last time a Republican made it into the White House. In 2004, George W. Bush was elected to a second term.

When he left office four years later, his legacy included two unfinished wars in the Middle East and an economic meltdown caused by deregulated financial markets.

It is going to take some brilliant messaging and Democratic missteps for this appeal to Americans to work — and that’s assuming the eventual Republican presidential nominee can make it through the Republican primary without saying something that makes them unelectable in a general election.

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

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Focus Blowing the lid off Mason jars

You don’t always need the jar to have a cute little meal: you just need the lid. Desserts made in Mason jar lids are a growing trend, and despite their small size, they’re not hard to make.

Check out this recipe for easy Mason jar lid cheesecakes, originally found on It All Started With Paint’s website.

GLASS Lantern

Ingredients: - 3 8-ounce packages of cream cheese - 3 eggs - ½ cup sugar and 2 tbsp. sugar (separate) - 1 cup sour cream - 2 tsp. vanilla extract Graham Cracker Crust: - 2 tbsp. sugar - 4 tbsp. softened butter - 1 package of graham crackers

What you'll need: • • •

Summer is coming up, and what better way is there to spend a warm, beautiful night in Chicago than outdoors?

A Mason jar lantern gives just enough mood lighting for any outdoor occasion, and it’s really simple to make yourself. You can buy flat-backed marbles (usually used for floral arrangements) in any color at a craft store. Glue them onto the jar in a row formation using a hot glue gun, then stick a small LED tea light inside and close the lid. Don’t fall for the pre-made Mason jar lids with LED lanterns built in -- they require a lot of solar charging, and they don’t always work. LED tea lights are inexpensive and much more reliable.

Instructions: 1) Preheat oven to 325°F. 2) Crumble graham crackers in a plastic bag, then mix in the sugar and butter with your hands. Press into the Mason jar lids (grease them beforehand) and bake for 5-10 minutes to let the crust set.

3) In a mixer, combine softened cream cheese and ½ cup sugar. Mix in the eggs one at a time. Spoon the mixture into Mason jar lids and bake 15-20 more minutes.

4) In a mixer, combine sour cream, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and vanilla extract. Pour on top of cheesecakes and bake 8-10 additional minutes.

5) Once they’ve cooled, store them in the refrigerator and add any toppings you like.

Another treat to whip up in a lid is a Chocolate Caramel Mason Jar Lid Tart, with a recipe originally found on Dessert For Two's blog.

Ingredients: - 4 graham cracker sheets, broken into pieces - 2 tsp. granulated sugar - 2½ tbsp. unsalted butter, melted - 2 cups of milk chocolate chips - 1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream

Flat-backed marbles Glue gun LED tea light

Lemonade What you'll need: • • •

Straw 1/2 cup of sugar Juice from 6 lemons

Mason jars make for great drinking glasses at parties or at home. If you plan to use your Mason jars for drinking, do not paint them or seal them — with repeated use, you’ll be drinking more paint than anything else. However, many companies sell colored jars if you’re looking for more than a simple clear jar. Also available in stores are pre-made drinking lids. The lids fit most standard Mason jars, and come pre-cut with a hole for a straw. Don’t feel like spending money on a pre-made lid? Carefully use an X-Acto Knife or a Swiss Army Knife and cut a small hole in the lid of the Mason jar. Make sure it’s the right size for a straw and you’re good to go.

Instructions: 1) Preheat oven to 350°F. 2) In a food processor, combine the graham crackers and sugar. Pulse for about 30 seconds, or until finely ground. Pour in the melted butter and continue to pulse.

3) Divide the graham cracker crumbs between the Mason jar lids. Use a shot glass to pack in the crumbs and push them up the sides of the ring. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool completely on a cooling rack.

4) Now we’re going to melt the chocolate. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil in a small saucepan. Make sure you have a glass bowl that fits over the pan without touching the water. Place the chocolate chips and cream in the glass bowl, and have it ready next to the stove. Once the water boils, turn off the heat and place the bowl of chocolate and cream over the pan. Stir until the chocolate melts.

5) Pour the melted chocolate into the tart shells.

Tap the lids gently to get rid of any air bubbles.

Let sit for 10 minutes.

Piggy bank What you'll need: • •

Swiss Army Knife Coins

Got a lot of pennies, nickels or dimes floating around the house that you don’t want to use? Stick them in a Mason jar. Craft stores carry pre-cut bank lids that you can paint or color any way you choose. You can also cut a coin slot in the lid that came with your jar using a Swiss Army Knife or an X-Acto knife, so long as you’re careful because the edges of the slot will likely be sharp. Get creative with what you do with the coins when the jar is full — donate them to charity, or maybe turn them into bills and see what you can buy at the grocery story for dinner one night. The jar will fill up faster than you think.

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S ACT Salad

What you'll need: • • • •

Lettuce Cubed grilled chicken Edamame Carrots

• • •

Bean Sprouts Won-ton chips Sesame ginger dressing

One of the more popular uses of Mason jars today is for salads. It’s easy to throw almost any ingredient and some dressing in, shake it up and carry it to work or school. Try an Asian chicken salad, with lettuce, cubed grilled chicken, edamame, carrots, bean sprouts, won-ton chips and sesame ginger dressing are all you need. You’ll want to make sure your dressing is on the bottom of the jar as nobody likes soggy salad. On the sweeter side, Mason jars make perfect containers for fruit salad, too. Just add your favorite fruits and berries and twist on the lid.

Vases

What you'll need: • Black multi-purpose chalkboard paint • Chalk dust • Acrylic paint • Nail file While a clear Mason jar makes a nice vase, there are so many ways to color and decorate jars to use as vases. If you want a shiny, colorful jar, a colored glass paint and a sealant such as Mod Podge are all you need. This jar is a bit different. The base coat is black multi-purpose chalkboard paint, done in two coats. Make sure to let each coat of chalkboard paint dry at least one hour before moving on, or it might chip and pull away from the glass. After drying, a layer of chalk dust was rubbed over the paint to give the proper texture. The blue layer is a regular acrylic paint, and only one coat was applied. The top coat will chip and crack naturally, which gives the vase a vintage look.

After the top coat is dry, lightly sanding over the jar’s raised letters and over the grooves at the top of the jar reveals the black and the glass. You don’t need sandpaper, a nail file works, too.

Yogurt parfait What you'll need: • • •

Greek yogurt Honey Raspberries

Looking to take your oatmeal or yogurt with you in the morning? You can make it the night before, store it overnight in a jar, and grab it on your way out the door. Overnight oats, chia, berry parfaits and granola all work well in Mason jars.

Try mixing layers of Greek yogurt, honey, and raspberries for a delicious breakfast. Want something crunchy? Replace the berries and honey with your favorite cereal. Just make sure to add it in the morning, instead of overnight — it will soak up the yogurt and lose its crunch after hours in the refrigerator.

Don’t forget the spoon.

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Mason jars aren't just for grandma anymore

By Lindsay Goldstein

C

Contributing Writer

hances are you’ve encountered a Mason jar lately. Whether it’s in stores being marketed as a centerpiece or vase, in a photo being used to hold foods or in someone’s home as a drinking glass, Mason jars aren’t just for making homemade jam or preserving food anymore — bloggers and crafters everywhere have repopularized the Mason jar as a whole new trend “Growing up in Texas, we used to use Mason jars for all sorts of things,” Lindzi Shanks, blogger for The Trendy Sparrow, said. “Of course, that was back when you actually ate your grandmother's homemade jam out of a Mason jar first, instead of running to your local craft store to buy a pack. Today, people are using Mason jars for a number of things and are really testing the creative bounds of what a Mason jar can do.”

For bloggers, that often includes recipes, party planning tips and photographs that utilize the numerous uses of the Mason jar. But they certainly weren’t invented to be used as picturesque props.

John Landis Mason, a tinsmith and inventor from New York City, invented Mason jars in 1858. Canning as a method of preserving food had been popular for over 50 years by then, and his Mason jar used carefully cut thread, as well as a rubber ring in the lid to create an airtight seal. Mason quickly sold his idea to a number of companies, which were able to manufacture the jars and sell them at low prices, causing many home canning and preserving projects across the United States in preparation for the summer. Today, some of those same companies that started making Mason jars in the late 1800s, including Ball and Kerr, are still some of the most popular choices in Mason jars.

Canning became less popular in the 1950s, when refrigerators were introduced as household items.

Foods no longer needed to be preserved in jars, but they re-emerged in the late 2000s, with the help of Pinterest. The site, which became popular for sharing DIY projects, revived the Mason jar’s popularity as more than just a jam container, with instructions for how to use them as table centerpieces, soap containers, home storage and so much more.

Pinterest isn’t the only site or publication that has jumped on the Mason jar bandwagon. Martha Stewart has lots of recipes on her blog that use Mason jars, and Amanda Rey of Austin, Texas, has started a popular company that sells meals and desserts in Mason jars delivered straight to your door. Another subscription delivery company called Darby Smart, which sends its members materials for DIY projects as well as alreadymade artisanal crafts, has a number of DIY projects and ready-made gifts involving Mason jars available for order. “It’s one of the most popular types of items we sell,” a representative for Darby Smart said. “People love Mason jars.”

Barbara Menn, a native of the Chicago suburbs, saw Mason jars used as a centerpiece at a bridal shower and decided they’d be perfect for the shower she was planning for her niece. “I thought they were very cute,” she said. “They’re very, very popular.” Her Mason jar centerpieces will be oversized, with pink roses in each jar and a bridal garter around the mouth of the jar for decoration.

Using Mason jars as wedding décor is another huge trend. Whether they’re used as bridesmaid gifts, table centerpieces or lanterns to light up a dance floor, they give a rustic and homey feel to any wedding. And since the jars come in various sizes, almost any gift can be wrapped and presented in a Mason jar.

"People are using Mason jars as flower vases, candle holders, wine glasses, craft supply storage, and more," Shanks said. "Just search 'Mason jar' on Pinterest- it's a craft overload."

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Arts & Life

‘Wrights’ of passage Annual festival at The Theatre School celebrates work of young playwrights

By Emma Rubenstein Senior Writer

The electric and innovative Wrights of Spring Festival takes place over two weeks every year, during which student scripts are explored in various forms.

During this festival, one student production is also chosen for DePaul’s New Playwright Series, and is then transformed into a main stage production the following year. The festival is a time to commend student work, enjoy new never-before-seen productions, and bridge the gap between the world of theater in school and the world of theater beyond.

This year, “Video Galaxy”, written by Jared Hecht was selected for the New Playwright Series.

“The camaraderie of young playwrights during this time is wonderful,” Hecht said. “It’s not everyday you get to see the work of your peers in such a joyous setting. It’s a celebration. In my opinion, there’s nothing more culturally significant than plays.

They showcase what’s going on in the world. They’re reactionary to the times and that type of poignance isn’t always attainable in TV or movies.”

Witnessing your work come to life in front of a live audience is a singular experience that has not been lost on Hecht. This time has evoked a mixture of feelings.

“Watching the play has been excruciatingly blissful,” he said. “It’s exciting and draining.

Watching your work shows you it’s successes and failures and then it becomes a process of rewriting.”

While the New Playwright Series represents cornerstone within the WOS festival, a wide array of DePaul Theatre School community members come together to create art during this time. The work of various studentplaywrights is read or performed, and WOS engages others facets of the Theatre School, too.

“We’ve built an energized community of young theatre artists around new work,” said Carlos Murillo, who is one of the playwriting faculty who leads Wrights of Spring each year.

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Above: The Theatre School students Shea Corpora, Kaysie Bekkela and Emily Witt work together during a playwrighting class taught by Dean Corrin. Below: Drew Beyer collaborates with Jeremy Martens.

Wrights of Spring Festival May 19 Opening night The festival opens with short new works by playwrighting students performed without rehearsal and cast right on the spot.

May 22 “Video Galaxy,” The play by BFA student Jared Hecht opens, and runs through May 30.

Saturdays and Sundays New play marathon days Head to the fourth floor of The Theatre School to watch up to a dozen new works, and workshop performances of plays being considered for fullproduction.

“The festival engages students across disciplines in a unique way. While the playwright’s work is central, they are very much indebted to the work of actors, directors, managers, dramaturgs,

designers — there’s a thrilling energy that emerges from the collaborations, especially since the festival is largely student driven and not driven by the curriculum.”

Wrights of Spring represents a time in which individuality is probed, independence is explored, and innovative art emerges.

The Murillo, who has produced an impressive body of

work, supports students every step of the way. Playwrighting is no easy feat, and Murillo said he draws upon his own experiences to help students harness their creativity.

“My job is to identify and to coax out each writer’s individual voice, while trying to inspire them to think more deeply about their plays, and to approach the writing process with rigor and excitement,” he said.

The audience also plays an intregal role as they watch these brand new works. Because many of the works by first and second year students are in various stages of completion, the festival brings a whole new level of viewer interaction.

“The audience is an active collaborator in the creation of a play,” said Dean Corrin, another member of the playwrighting faculty who leads Wrights of Spring. “When playwrights see a new work in front of an audience, they see if through fresh eyes.

The audience can remind a playwright about what’s important in their production, or if certain aspects are confusing, or unclear. It lets the playwrights flesh out their work and learn from their mistakes.

“A playwright can’t finish a play until they have a chance to revise it after the audience takes it on a test drive,” Corrin said.

Murillo said this makes it a raw, collabortive experience for both playwrights and theater fans alike. Even still, Wrights of Spring is still a time to celebrate the work of young and energetic creatives at an exciting time in their emerging careers.

“I think folks who come to the festival really experience and participate in the joyous, hyper-creative, collaborative environment we’ve created,” Murillo said. “It’s an opportunity to catch a young writer at the very beginning of their journey, hear fresh voices and ideas, and participate in an end-ofyear school wide celebration of the creative spark that drives our playwrights and every other student that works in this building.”

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‘Glowing Wavelengths’ opens at DePaul Art Museum

By Jordan Sarti Staff Writer

Sonja Thomsen’s solo show at the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), “Glowing Wavelengths in Between,” invites viewers to have temporal experiences with light.

The show features photographs, sculpture and installations that playfully explore the physical experience of seeing. Thomsen draws from a range of influences, including Sir Isaac Newton, Buckminster Fuller and Bauhaus sensibilities. She filters light through prisms of her experience as both a biologist and dancer, evident in the sense of playful and physical experimentation.

The show fills DPAM’s sunny second floor. The staircase’s walls are covered in a silvery geometric pattern designed

by Thomsen, reminiscent of Bauhaus principles of integrated design.

Photographs of light effects and pages of books collaged with holographic panels line the walls. Bits of text are legible despite the paneling; the words often reference scientific phenomena.

One photo, “Demarcate (2013),” depicts a plane of light on a child’s hand.

A geometric mobile of glittering metallic shapes hang in the CTA-facing window.

These pieces often reference the same themes from different angles; they work best in conjunction with one another, intricately linked.

Notably, the exhibition space lacks extensive captioning. Instead, viewers are given a small booklet containing information about Thomsen’s inspiration and a short interview. This allows viewers to have a more spontaneous and unmediated relationship to the pieces, led through the space by light refractions.

Her training as a dancer is evident, as she appears interested in a sort of bodily knowledge. In this sense, Thomsen draws on the modernist tradition by using

discreet art objects to create a heightened awareness of the gallery space.

The show’s centerpiece is “Trace of Possibility (2013),” a large plexiglass reflective sculpture that viewers can stand beneath, the mirrored surfaces throwing patterns of light across the white museum walls. In conversation with DPAM’s Gregory J. Harris, Thomsen said she dreamed this structure during a residency in Iceland before creating it. The rest of the exhibition was created in response to this work.

Thomsen did studio-based experimentation with light in order to produce the various effects pictures in photographs. The viewer is challenged by the coexistence of photographic representation of light effects and actual light patterns being thrown from the reflective sculptures.

Thomsen calls her interest in science, math, cosmology and phenomenology that of a “dilettante,” yet rather than being a point of weakness, this playfulness gives the works a sense of life. Thomsen also tackles philosophical debates about objectivity and science’s authority.

“Scientific knowledge is always in a state of becoming,” Thomsen said, “In that it appears to be based in logic, reason and proof, yet ideas are often disproven since the disciplines are always evolving and the limits of understanding are constantly changing.”

At the show’s reception on Thursday, a very pregnant Thomsen chatted with guests in the crowded gallery.

“I think it’s interesting how she manipulates light to create a certain atmosphere,” Erin Clancy, a 23-year-old DePaul graduate in attendance, said. “It’s very dreamy and minimalist and cool.”

Thomsen’s show is, in many ways, an exercise in dreaming: her Icelandic vision and those of the viewers.

Photo courtesy of DEPAUL ART MUSEUM

Sonja Thomsen poses with “Trace of Possibility” at the DePaul Art Museum May 14.

“I am creating a space to experience wonder,” Thomsen said to attendees. “If I can make you, even for a split second, get lost and find yourself in a new space, then that’s really exciting.”

She transforms the gallery space into a

sort of heterotopia by harnessing the power of science and natural light. Viewers can explore their relationship to the works and light. “Glowing Wavelengths In Between” runs at DPAM through August 9.

MCA exhibition engages with all shapes, sizes

By Tiffany Freeman Contributing Writer

Size does matter, according to the recent exhibition, “S, M, L, XL,” at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). The exhibit held four works in varying sizes, spanning five decades with Robert Morris’ two works from the early 1960s.

Constructed to be interactive, the sculptures achieved what each artist had sought to accomplish: a heightened experience through physical presence.

“Blue” by Franz West consisted of a swirled walkway with a small, isolated room. Made of paper mâché, the work invited the viewer to walk along its faint blue interior ultimately leading to a blue stump seat. Once seated, the viewer is directly underneath a hanging series of blue light bulbs tied together. Despite its paper mâché production, the entirety of the sculpture replicated the plaster walls in old-school buildings. The piece was designed to be observed as if it were a room in itself; it demonstrates art as life and encourages the viewer to engage with the work.

Expanding from the size of “Blue,” “Passageway” by Robert Morris welcomed the viewer to explore another walkway, or as the title proclaims, a passageway. Viewers are warned

Photo courtesy of Robert Wedemeyer

Kris Martin, “T. Y. F. F. S.H.,” 2011. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange. © 2011 Kris Martin. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy of the artist and MARC FOXX, Los Angeles. before entering the obscure hall of its potential to produce claustrophobia. Even looking into the entrance of the passageway generates feelings of uncertainty in the viewer. After entering the work, the walls begin to close in on the viewer until there is little to no room to continue.

As the hall becomes narrower,

the viewer’s physical presence intertwines with inward thought.

Morris intended for some viewers to experience aggression upon entering the tunnel-like structure, which supports his desire to engage the audience through interaction with his art.

“Portal” was another narrow work by Robert Morris, but

instead of another walkway, it was a simple post-and-lintel structure acting as an entrance to nothing. Viewers were given the option of walking through the work, which caused most to pause midway through and observe the sculpture. The sculpture stood almost intimidatingly at viewers who barely reached half of its

measure. Its structure created a dynamic experience for anyone who walked through depending on the size of the individual.

“T.Y.F.F.S.H.” by Kris Martin acted as another entrance, stretching massively with its own unseen room. The work was a hot air balloon being consistently blown up to create an interior room of the balloon for the viewers to walk around. The vast space allowed for multiple viewers to interact with the work at once. While inside the interior room, the viewers appeared to be comfortable. Whether it was intimate conversations or leaving a camera on the floor to engage with children, upon entering the balloon viewers shifted into a surreal atmosphere. Martin desired to convey a stranded or crashed hot air balloon landing into the museum, yet the work was able to produce feelings of security in most viewers, rather than isolation or fear.

Each work was able to take the viewer outside of any physical surroundings and reflect introspectively, which accomplished its purpose of engaging the viewer. Interaction with art, specifically minimalist sculptures, was a necessary choice for the artists in this exhibit to produce an enhanced experience with the art.

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INSIDE THE MIND OF

‘INSIDE OUT’

Photo courtesy of WALT DISNEY PICTURES

“Inside Out” takes place in the mind of 11-year-old Riley Anderson and follows her five emotions: Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness.

By Pat Mullane Staff Writer

To talk about a film that takes place inside one’s mind, it is only fitting to begin in the mind of its creator, a man whose imagination has spawned worlds so unlike ours, they’ve become an escape for children and adults everywhere.

Whether it’s a toy cowboy and his spaceman partner, or a corporation of monsters playing tricks behind our doors, or even the unthinkable duo of an old widower and an adventurous Boy Scout — Oscar winner Pete Docter has become a sort of Renaissance man in the artistry and storytelling behind some of Pixar’s most classic films.

And his next feature, “Inside Out,” could be his most daring.

Taking place in the mind of 11-year-old Riley Anderson, the film follows her five emotions — Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness — in their attempt to guide her through her adolescent life.

In a phone interview, writer and director of the film Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera described the five-year process of creating “Inside Out,” which they described as similar to raising a child. A rather fitting comparison, given its inception.

“The concept kind of came from watching my kid grow up,” Docter said while giggling in the background to Rivera. “She was very energetic and jumping around, just happy all the time.

And then when she turned 11 she got a little more quiet and reclusive. And I was telling these guys about it and we were like what's going in inside her head, you know?”

A question, Docter quickly molded into an idea.

“It was this idea of really featuring emotions as characters,”

Photo courtesy of WALT DISNEY PICTURES

Director Pete Docter said he came up with the concept behind the film after watching his own 11-year-old daughter grow up.

“Inside Out” Opens: June 19 Director: Pete Docter Producer: Jonas Rivera

Docter said. “This was our chance to kind of personify them.”

From here, the latest Disney animated film drew influence from the first, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Just as Docter took inspiration from seven unlikely heroes, he created his own five.

Through months of research with psychologists and psychiatrists across the globe, Docter developed and handpicked five emotions to become a new line of characters for his next film.

“Some people told us there were three (emotions), some said there were 27,” Docter said.

“So we thought we chose

Starring: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling and Phyllis Smith

wisely,” Rivera chimed in.

And from that development Pixar had greenlit its next film, jumpstarting its next step of casting the emotions.

“I think in the very initial pitch for the movie Pete mentioned Louis Black as Anger,” Rivera said.

“Obviously it was such a fit, and Louis teased us about that later when we actually casted him. He said, ‘what a brave choice to cast me.’”

“Clever guy,” Docter said.

Rivera explained having to watch dozens of films, searching for the perfect fit for each emotion, each character. The hardest of the five to cast was Joy.

“A lot of people said, I really don't like Joy as a character, which is a problem because she's our main character,” Docter said, comparing the early development of Joy to that one friend who is “always happy, but you kind of want to strangle them.”

With luck, Docter and Rivera finally found their perfect fit for Joy: SNL veteran Amy Poehler.

And since the last of the five was finally cast, the actors began recording.

Following the footsteps of Disney’s earliest animation films,like “Dumbo” and “Cinderella,” the cast recorded their lines first, before being animated over so “that way the actor has a chance to play around with the lines,” Docter said. He explained that other animators, like Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, go the other route to get complete control of the performances.

“In our case we had such amazing ad-libbed and improv actors that a lot of the stuff was just them acting on the fly, coming up with stuff and we'd end up using that.”

With the lines dubbed, the last and arguably hardest step of the film was next: the animation itself. And it’s in the end here — in this colorful canvas of animation — where Docter advocates that this medium is not just a place for children. It’s much more than this dismissive subcategory set aside at the “kids table.”

Animation is an escape.

It’s more than bright lights glimmering on a theater screen; it’s a world of wonder and imagination. And in that imagination is an idea from its very creator.

“We often get asked, ‘whom are you writing for?’” Docter said.

“And the answer is, and always has been, ourselves.”

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Riot Fest risks losing Humboldt Park home

By Erin Yarnall Focus Editor

The Humboldt Park-based music festival, Riot Fest, was recently named the best music festival according to readers of USA Today and 10Best. The festival, which took place in September, hosted over 100 bands spanning three days, as crowds gathered in rain and shine, and even more rain.

But all of the rain, mosh pits and large crowds created a devastating impact on the park, leaving it in bad condition with patches of grass still missing throughout the park.

Despite the music festival calling Humboldt Park its home since 2012, Ald. Roberto Maldonado, of the 26th ward, along with other community members have been attempting to get the festival out of the park.

A community organization, Remove Riot Fest from Humboldt Park, have created a petition to ban the yearly festival, and currently have over 1,200 signatures on Change.org. The petition cited that Riot Fest has caused unrepaired damage and has denied the community access to the park, which is central to their neighborhood.

“Not only were residents, sports groups and local park vendors denied access to the entire park, the set-up and breakdown of the festival caused major disruption of traditional events and access for residents for almost three weeks,” a statement on the petition page said.

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Riot Fest attendees enjoy The Dandy Warhols during the 2014 festival. Many Humboldt Park residents and Ald. Roberto Maldonado want to ban the festival from returning.

In a press statement, Riot Fest founder Mike Petryshyn wrote about the support the festival has been receiving to keep it in Humboldt Park, and described it as “overwhelming.”

Throughout the press release, Petryshyn noted the support of Ald. Joe Moreno of the first ward and the popularity of the ‘Residents for Riot Fest’ Facebook page.

Petryshyn also mentions the popularity of a petition, created on Change.org, to support the music festival in its attempt to keep Humboldt Park its home. The petition was started by Riot Fest, and has over 7,000 signatures.

The park hasn’t always been

the home of the punk festival, though. For seven years, the festival spanned multiple venues throughout the city such as the Metro, Double Door, Congress Theater and the Subterranean, and fans would buy tickets to one or multiple concerts throughout the week, as opposed to a weekend pass. Riot Fest moved to Humboldt Park in 2012.

While the state the park was left in after last year’s fest was a major complaint of Ald. Maldonado and the residents of Humboldt Park, they also complained about the way they were treated by attendees of Riot Fest.

“The people weren’t friendly coming into our neighborhood,”

Elizabeth DeJesus, a Humboldt Park resident, said. “There were too many people, and not enough police. It was just too much.”

DeJesus also complained about the length of the festival, stating three days is far too long for Riot Fest to take over Humboldt Park.

“One day is way too long,” DeJesus said, sarcastically.

She also echoed the sentiments of Ald. Maldonado by agreeing that the festival left the park in poor condition and created a huge mess.

Elizabeth Cheong, a senior at DePaul, has interned for Riot Fest and thinks that the festival has positively contributed to the neighborhood.

“Riot Fest definitely took the park and the entire neighborhood into consideration when planning the festival,” Cheong said. “I saw them put a lot of work into the Puerto Rican community by being present at the festivals and offering help to the children there.”

One of the positive aspects of Riot Fest being located in Humboldt Park is the fact that it exposes people who wouldn’t normally venture to the West Side neighborhood.

“Before the festival I had never been to Humboldt Park,” Vince De Lio, a DePaul senior, said. “I had heard from it, because of its rich Puerto Rican culture.”

“It’s really hard to say they’ve done any harm to the neighborhood when you see all of these amazing efforts into bringing more traffic and money into the area,” Cheong said. “Working with (Riot Fest) got me to venture to neighborhoods like Humboldt Park and appreciate them more.”

Riot Fest has invested heavily in both the park that gave the neighborhood its name, as well as the neighborhood. According to the press release, they hire 400 community members each year to work at the festival and have donated $249,000 to charities in Humboldt Park, including the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, among many other contributions to the neighborhood.

“I would be devastated if they banned Riot Fest (from the park),” De Lio said. “It’s one of the true music festivals I look forward to.”

SGA candidates design campaigns for voters

By Kirsten Onsgard Arts & Life Editor

Political candidates are often criticized for their slick presence and skilled avoidance as they slither around tough questions.

But besides the words they say and the promises they keep — or don’t — there’s the symbolism plastered across posters, websites, social media and advertisements.

For President Obama, this was the sun rising in the distance signaling the hope and change to come. For former president Ronald Reagan, it meant standing in front of an American flag to showcase his patriotic platform. For DePaul student and Student Government Association vice presidential candidate Ric Popp, it’s just a warm shade of blue.

“Being Blue Demons is very important to us, and campus affinity is one of our major initiatives for the upcoming school year,” Popp, who is running alongside Vanessa Cadavillo, said. “So we really wanted to incorporate that blue into a major portion of our graphic.”

SGA candidates certainly do not have the time or money to hire a professional designer or campaign team to ruminate over logos or posters. But these design elements and the symbolism they carry still play a major role in communicating platforms to student voters passing by posters in campus hallways.

Campaign designs, in a way, are much like the branding any organization or corporation creates, DePaul marketing professor Bruce Newman said.

“They play a very important role in portraying what a candidate represents,” he

Photo courtesy of WILLE, POULIOT, KEMPER, PFOHL

Photo courtesy of VINCENTIANS UNITED

Both SGA factions used various design techniques to communicate their platforms. said. “They encapsulate the meaning that people attach to whatever it is.”

An effective design or logo quickly communicates a wordless and distinctive meaning to a wide audience. A Nike “swoosh” signifies sleek athleticism; McDonald’s yellow and red are bright, fun and warm. A brand logo — and likewise, a campaign design — needs to stand out and evoke a quick, emotional and rational response, he said.

“It’s important that there be an ability to have a visual representation in people’s minds,” Newman said.

This year’s Student Government Association pegs two tickets against one another: Popp and Cadavillo are running on a ticket with Damian Wille, Patrick Pfohl, Kristina Pouliot and Adriana Kemper.

The second goes by the name Vincentians United, and includes presidential candidate Luke Kula with vice presidential candidate Michelle An, and a cabinet of Tyler Solorio,

Lindsey Salter, Cara Anderson and Joseph Kerins.

Because both tickets view improving DePaul affinity as a priority, saturating their posters and materials in blue was a conscious decision.

“I knew I was going with a blue hue; DePaul is known for its blue,” Dana Brandle, a School of the Art Institute alum and graphic designer responsible for Vincentians United’s campaign, said. “But I didn’t want such a deep blue for VU. I needed something lighter, modern and lively.”

Brandle said she was given free reign for the assignment, with VU members trusting in her vision. The result is clean and cool. Posters with thick white borders feature photos of a buttoned-up VU, their names and positions in the crisp sans-serif font Gotham below. The “VU” logo is in Valkyrie, an elegantly curving serif font that Brandle said she’s used in the past for logos.

Similarly, Popp said his goal was to create

a readable and distinct look, but wanted to take a warmer approach, pulling hues from one of Cadavillo’s dresses in a photo.

Wille, Pfohl, Kemper and Pouliot’s designs, created by DePaul graphic design student Anam Merchant, also springboarded from photography, a centerpiece in their materials. Many of the elements used were intentionally symbolic.

“One thing that was really intentional is that we wore … (shirts) that represent different part of the university that we’re from,” Wille said. “So it all represents different parts of the university that we’re involved in, but we all come together with those sorts of perspectives to create this unified group of people.”

There’s also the logistical issues. Dark blue doesn’t translate well to a print background and drowns out text, and DePaul’s printing does not allow bleeding to the edges, so a white boarder is necessary.

Candidates and designers are pressed for time during a whirlwind campaign.

But the litmus test for campaign designs is whether they communicate messages to a target demographic, Newman said. Wille, Pfohl, Kemper and Pouliot wore T-shirts and used vibrant hues to demonstrate approachability. Brandle’s work sought to forward VU’s change.

“I hope it conveys a breaking from the old; a time for change and new thoughts,” Brandle said. “I think VU is very much about bringing new ideas to DePaul, and really pushing for growth and progress.”

Though a different shade of blue hanging on a bulletin board might not change voters’ minds, it might spur them to listen to the promises candidates make.

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By Kevin Quin Focus Editor

Banks While some artists tend to overshare by updating fans on every mundane detail of their daily lives, Banks adds an element of mystery to her character by remaining inactive on social media. It was her reclusive nature that led reputable indie music blogs and Tumblr teens to flock to her music, eventually giving her enough clout to become indispensable in the ever-evolving realm of alternative R&B. Not everything about the California native is hidden, though. She let the world listen to the most private moments of her life on her debut album “Goddess,” an hour-long journey into the gloomy mind of a hopeless romantic with a twisted edge. “Brain” shows Banks at her most explosive, as she starts the song with softer vocals, coating the misty bassline before erupting into echoing screams that crackle over light synths. “F*ck Em Only We Know” allows room for nuance, as she mumbles cheeky romantic metaphors to listeners as a result of being hypnotized by her charming lover. “Drowning,” one of Hype Machine’s most blogged songs of 2014, is her most powerful song to date with its plummeting drum pattern, spooky vocal effects and buried sensual whispers.

Since then, the coy songstress has become a bit less bashful online, as she’s recently been teasing new album snippets on Instagram. Hopefully she’ll debut some of those tracks at Lollapalooza, if she’s not too shy.

Banks

Lollapalooza Photo courtesy of BANKS

FKA Twigs

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Similar to Banks, the idea of less being more when it comes to crafting an image holds true for FKA Twigs. She first slithered onto the underground music scene by strategically releasing visuals from her first extended play “EP1” almost three years ago. “Hide,” a warm, bluesy hymn saturated with ticking effects and airy vocals, racked up millions of views on YouTube, prompting the interest of music lovers around the globe.

“EP2” was released a year later in 2013. The four-track record was twigs’ imprint on the independent music scene for months to come, as critics continued to rave about her innovative production and complicated visuals. “LP1” found twigs at an early peak as the enthralling debut landed on just about every music publication’s top albums of 2014 lists and even received a Grammy nomination. Alongside the music was an overwhelmingly powerful aesthetic as twigs capitalized on her most visually stunning parts: her bulging eyes and gapped teeth, prominently displayed on her album artwork.

The world found those parts of her beautiful, and so did Robert Pattinson.

The two announced their engagement early this year, exposing her to mainstream audiences while embarking on an international tour. “EP3,” her upcoming project with “BEYONCÉ” producer Boots, is rumored to release this fall, which could signal that she’ll perform it for the first time at Lollapalooza.

Photo courtesy of FKA TWIGS

Charli XCX

Former mixtape queen Charli XCX has gone from being a hushed indie-pop project only available on the depths of the Internet to a household name backed by big brands like Pepsi and Samsung. Her popularity could be felt tenfold as she was featured on last year’s inescapable summer anthem “Fancy” with Iggy Azalea, another name that has become familiar with teenagers and suburban moms alike.

Just a year prior, she yelled about crashing cars into bridges on “I Love It” with Swedish DJ duo Icona Pop. With a slew of pop hits under her belt, it was time for Charli to pave her own way to mainstream success.

Her first attempt at that was her sophomore album “Sucker,” a brash but sweet sounding record that aims at fusing punk rock and bubblegum pop. “Boom Clap,” Charli’s first solo hit, pulled on the heartstrings of fans, whether on the radio or the big screen with “The Fault in Our Stars.” Beyond “Doing It,” where she teamed up with Rita Ora for a shimmering electro-pop tune, the album failed to spawn any other hits.

With no new album scheduled for release, it’s expected that Charli will perform her existing hits at Lollapalooza this summer.

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ONLINE OVERLOAD Too much screen and social media time may call for a detox

By Lily Rose Contributing Writer

Some quiver at the thought of spending an entire hour without checking social media or using your phone to send calls and texts.

No snaps would be sent, Instagram pictures would go “unliked” and tweets would never be retweeted. Your phone would not ping with various notifications and your mom would not be able to call and question you about your grades and those errant charges on the credit card bill.

For one hour you would be clueless to the lives and activities of your friends and favorite celebrities. For 60 minutes you would be unable to make known what you were doing and where you were. You could spend an hour doing whatever you want to do without shame or pressure to broadcast the activity. Now imagine doing this for an entire day. If this sounds like your idea of paradise, then you may want to try a technology detox.

Michelle Duff, a 22-year-old senior at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has eliminated the use of personal social media from her daily life. She still uses her cell phone to communicate with friends and family and her computer for schoolwork, but she finds that abstaining from social media has saved her headspace from the anxiety of the media social contract of constant check-ins and outdoing one another in photographed activities.

“I was getting cluster headaches,” Duff said. “I was always on my phone looking at what other people were doing. It was to the point where I would take an hour to choose an Instagram filter. Ridiculous.”

Duff quit social media cold turkey by deleting all the apps on her phone and blocking Facebook on her computer with an online blocking app.

“It was really hard but it was worth it,” she said. “A week in I was like wow … I felt so much calmer. I had more time for myself.

I was actually getting stuff done on time.

It’s actually so great. I’m trying to get all my friends to let go of all that stuff. It’s so toxic.”

DePaul senior Henri LeMeur, 22, felt

Apps to reduce social media use:

When you should consider a detox:

Moment: Tracks phone use and what apps are most used plus time spent on apps.

— You make eye contact with your phone’s screen more than you do other people.

Offtime: Tracks how much you use your device and what apps are most time consuming.

Allows you to choose how long you want to stay unable to access certain apps. Lists events missed during the block, so when Rihanna sends out a tweet, you won’t miss out.

Checky: The most basic app.

Will tell you how often you check and use your phone.

Won’t block any apps.

30/30: Allows you to create 30 minute tasks that won’t allow you to use your phone for anything else. You can set up those 30 minutes as phone breaks or as being only able to check your email. deleting his Facebook for a short amount of time relieved him from the stress of seeing constant life updates from friends of friends, acquaintances and people that he had maybe met years ago at a bar once but wasn’t quite sure about.

“It was hard at first, but at the same time it got really easy” LeMeur said. “I deleted (Facebook) for three months. It was nice actually to break the ties from someone you didn’t really know or care about’s life updates.”

If deleting all of your social media apps and blocking Facebook on your computer seems extreme, consider the more nuanced approach taken by Rachel Strum.

Strum, a senior at Lincoln Park High School, found that deleting the Facebook

— You Snapchat in class more than you take notes.

— You develop carpal tunnel from texting too many emojis.

— Your eye twitches after extended periods of time on a laptop or phone.

— You have reached the 2009 era of any one of your friend’s photos.

— You have spent the past two hours watching BuzzFeed videos and or taking BuzzFeed quizzes.

app from her phone and turning her phone off two hours before bed gave her a healthier attitude in the morning.

“I would check my phone before I went to sleep and the lights would be off but I would be scrolling through my newsfeed so I would stay up later,” she said.

Strum said turning off her phone two hours before bed gives her time to text friends after school but also gives her the opportunity to power down for the night before going to sleep. Strum described social media as being “addictive, like a drug.”

“When I’m with my friends, there is always that moment when we stop talking and all check our phones. I don’t do that anymore. I think it’s so rude. I call my friends

out on it all the time. If we are together, I want everyone to want to be there.”

In 2010, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran a national survey regarding children, teens and their time spent using smartphones and the Internet. In their findings they reported that within that age group, roughly two full days were spent devoted to technology.

The report stated that, “Today, 8-to 18-year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking,’, they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media content in to that time.”

But how much is too much time spent on your phone? Luckily, there’s an app for that.

Although it may seem a bit counterintuitive to spend time on your phone to monitor how often you use it, there are now apps for Android and iPhone that send users endless push notifications when an acceptable amount of time spent on the device has been surpassed. Apps like Moment and Break Free are made to help alleviate smart nphone addiction by tracking the time you waste on social media, texting and email.

If you cannot bear to be without your device for extended periods of time, try exercising. Yoga instructor Jenny Lester believes spending time away from your phone during a workout to move your body, focus your mind and center yourself can be just as beneficial as spending hours away from your device.

“You can’t be mindful of what is going on in your body if you’re distracting yourself with the phone,” Lester said. “Taking the time to focus and meditate may make you not want to use your phone; it may help you realize other things that you can do” Consider putting the phone away and not using apps for an hour, a day or even a week if you can stand it. The benefits of waking up refreshed, accomplishing tasks on time and feeling focused definitely outweigh liking a status.

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Review: Tame Impala at the Riviera Theatre Just a year or two ago, Kevin Parker, with his eyes closed and head thrown back, appeared lost in his own daydreams onstage. Their sound was tight, wellchoreographed and slick. Today, weeks before a third album and overflowing one of the city’s larger venues, Tame Impala is becoming a new band. They wasted no time delving into new material with opener “Let it Happen,” a groovy, smooth track that sounds like it was pulled straight from Toro Y Moi. It was the first of the “Currents” singles — three of which were sprinkled throughout the set — and easily the catchiest. Slow-riding “Cause I’m a Man” and bouncing pop of “Eventually” didn’t have the same punch alongside Tame Impala’s heavier early material, but are still very promising looks to a soulinfused record.

Hot Chip “Why Make Sense”

Total Babes “Heydays”

The electro-pop group follows up a series of fantastic, fun and occassionally quirky albums with their first new release since 2012.

Total Babes includes members of Cloud Nothings, minus leadman Dylan Baldi, who make similarly high-energy pop punk.

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LIVE May 18 Jenny Lewis Vic Theatre 3145 N Sheffield Ave., $25

May 23 Palma Violets Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., $15

May 20 Metz, Oozing Wound Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., $15

May 23 Thundercat Thalia Hall 1227 W. 18th St., $3 with RSVP

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“Spinning fresh beats since 1581”

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Find this and all our DeJamz playlists on depauliaonline.com and on our spotify account

By Max Kleiner Design Editor

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to commemorate the upcoming death of Max Kleiner.

He will finally ascend to our Lord and Savior, Guy Fieri, on the night of June 8, 2015. Cause of death: Graduation. The creeping uncertainty of the rest of his life and the sheer amount of pizza and candy he has consumed will ultimately be his demise. In his last will and testament, he has requested that these six songs be played on infinite loop until the sun explodes and causes the earth to be torn apart, setting the human race adrift through the vast emptiness of

space for the rest of eternity. Please enjoy, as these gnarly tunes make sweet love to your temporal lobes from now until we all turn to space dust.

1. Prince — “I Would Die 4 U” I present to you an excerpt from the future departed’s personal journal: “Dear diary, have you heard of Prince? He’s like David Bowie, but swap the pretense and intellectual themes with just sex.

Sex and guitars and metaphors. In one song, he shatters the gender binary, calls himself Jesus and then also calls himself a dove. If you’re not into that you’re not into anything, and I despise you for it.

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2. Kate Bush — “Running Up That Hill” As a creative, Max cited his main source of inspiration as none other than Queen B. The B stands for Bush because if Kate Bush weren’t around none of these solo lady acts would be. Look her up.

The music video for “Running Up That Hill” is so far beyond campy it’s a serious spectacle of human creativity that not only demands celebration, but veneration. The future departed has included in his will a petition to canonize Kate Bush on the event of her death.

3. Depeche Mode — “Enjoy the Silence” This song is intended to represent the silence in everyone’s heart after the future departed has

Across 1. It may be rigged 5. Like some humor 10. Three of a kind 14. “May I get you anything __?”

15. Slow tempo 16. Chicken part 17. Roll the dice 20. Napkin’s place 21. Aces, sometimes 22. Follow on the heels of 23. “Idylls of the King” character 24. Wall Street news items 26. Entangling quagmire 29. Confronts 30. Andy’s radio partner of old 31. Even if, briefly 32. Vientiane citizen 35. What gamblers hope for 39. Before-time link 40. Carry away, in a way 41. Length x width,

made his final departure to roll into flavor town with our bleached redeemer, Guy Fieri. There is nothing more to say about this song, besides the fact that the music video features a king carrying a lawn chair through the countryside.

4. The Smiths — “How Soon is Now?” Zooey Deschanel is a goddess.

If you all remember the television program titled “Hey Arnold,” you may recall one of the characters had a soap-carving shrine to the titular character. Max has tried on several occasions to sue the writers for stealing his intellectual property because Max did that thing first, but it was a hemp-soap carving of Zooey. Anyway, Zooey was in a movie and she talked about The

for a rectangle 42. Sports figures 43. Inexpensive diner 45. Fingernail polish remover 48. It’s behind the alter 49. Harbor structure 50. Much 51. What a wife is called 54. It could be a lifesaver 58. Employs 59. Blood-loving worm 60. Biblical birthright seller 61. Microscope component 62. Aquarium structures 63. Chinese secret society Down 1. Unload, as stock 2. “Guilty” e.g.

3. “... and make it fast!”

Smiths like twice, so that’s why this song is on here.

5. New Order — “Your Silent Face” Get it? He’s going to be dead, so his face will be so silent. The most silent, really. Max also liked this song because it sounded like a loading screen for a really old video game, and that really spoke to Max’s aesthetic on tumblr.

6. Pet Shop Boys — “West End Girls” The departed wrote in his will that he intended to include a home video of himself “totally slaaayyyying this song” in a lipsync against his own reflection but we seem to have misplaced the tape. We are deeply sorry for this inconvenience.

4. Clerical nickname 5. Some pancakes 6. Judged, as a film 7. Food scraps 8. In times past 9. Grumpy’s comrade 10. Jew’s-harp sounds 11. Shampoo bottles’ final dictum 12. Acquire, as expenses 13. S-Shaped moldings 18. Millions of years 19. “... upon reciept __” 23. One way to go 24. Photo choice 25. It has the last word 26. Sudanese Republic, now 27. Don’t keep in 28. Decomposes 29. Imitates Tinker Bell 31. Decrease in intensity 32. Finishing bait 33. Slam-bang tennis

server 34. “I’ll go along with that” 36. Acquit 37. Enthusiastic flair 38. When repeated, like some shows 42. Kind of fracture 43. Particular periods of history 44. ___ Spumante 45. More than bad 46. Persue wild geese 47. Consumed 48. Smart ___ (wise guy) 50. Words before “of thieves” 51. Japanese soup 52. Horse color 53. Like a bug in a rug 55. Final (abbr.)

56. Somewhat vast grassy area 57. Collector’s collection

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Sports

Bruno reflects on 29 years, looks to future

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

Whether it was the administration, his numerous assistant coaches, players, alumni or boosters, DePaul women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno did as he always does: give the praise to someone else.

At the DePaul basketball fan forum Thursday, Bruno was the first session for fans to ask questions; led by Fox Chicago sports anchor Lou Canellis. He asked Bruno about some of the successes he has had in his 29 years as a head coach at DePaul, including having the court at McGrath-Phillips Arena named after him.

“It’s a humbling honor, I try not to think about it too much,” Bruno said. “The blood and guts that people put into this court is so much more than my name on the court.”

Bruno then turned it around and used a “shameless promotion” as he called it to thank the boosters who donate for the amenities that the women’s basketball team utilizes.

The fan response was sparse as there was only one question asked from a fan, regarding the team’s non-conference schedule and how the program planned to play old rivals such as Connecticut and Notre Dame.

“We’re working very hard to keep the schools that didn’t have the wisdom to stay in the Big East on our schedule,” Bruno

said in response. “If you look at the Big East teams we play right now, we look forward to leading the beast that is the current Big East.”

Bruno then went on to confirm that DePaul would play defending national champions Connecticut Dec. 2 at McGrath-Phillips Arena. DePaul played at Connecticut in 2014-15. He also said that the Blue Demons would go to Notre Dame after hosting them in 2014-15. DePaul’s season also came to an end at Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The full non-conference schedule is expected to be released in the next couple of months.

With the Blue Demons coming off a second consecutive Big East tournament title, as well as a second consecutive Big East regular season title, Canellis asked about the pressures that such high standards and previous successes bring.

“It’s all about the players,” Bruno said.

“It’s all about their strength up the middle: their heads, their hearts, their guts.”

He also talked about continuously working for the next season and how the players know that, despite the returning strengths, they need to continue to strive to make themselves better.

“They understand that nobody can take last year from you but tomorrow is not guaranteed,” he said. “These players are working very hard for DePaul women’s basketball next season.”

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Doug Bruno will begin his 30th year as women’s basketball head coach in the 2015-16 season.

COMING FALL 2015 CERTIFICATES IN MODERN LANGUAGES

DePaul’s Department of Modern Languages will offer certificates in Intermediate, and Advanced Languages.

For more information, visit: http://las.depaul.edu/departments/modernlanguages/undergraduate/pages/certificates.aspx Ms. Corban Sanchez at csanch12@depaul.edu

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The Sports Economy School program components provide the cornerstone for the aims of the curriculum they are trying to implement targeted towards inner-city children.

SES, continued from back page basketball.”’

Alongside Bill Cartwright, former NBA player and head coach of the Chicago Bulls, Emmanuel assisted in opening the Chicago Basketball Academy (CBA). CBA was established in 2013 as a co-educational boarding school offering a traditional core curriculum with sport-related science, technology and business electives.

Yet, Emmanuel envisioned something focused more on sports academia and creating a correlation between the two fields.

“We are focused on intellectual expressions in sports,” he said.

SES is committed to transforming the lives of underprivileged youth in Chicago every year through need and merit based full tuition scholarships, ideally enrolling 20 to 30 percent of its students from inner city neighborhoods.

Idealistically constructed as an international, 7th to 12th grade college-preparatory boarding school, SES has established a unifying framework invented to organize knowledge in sports via five pillars consisting of media, science, technology, management and athletics. The curriculum is in partnership with the Global Citizenship Lab School (GCE).

“I want to unlock innovation in the minds of young people, who don’t know that athletics is just one of many thing you can do in sports,” Emmanuel said.

Sports media, for example, would include subcategories such as arts, writing, literature and communications.

These traditional subjects would be taught using sports as the guideline: for instance, studying communication through ESPN. Behind the curriculum of the Sports Economy School lies

their commitment to a threefold mission: Instruction, Research and Service.

Implementing sports as a methodical basis of education is something that has begun to emerge on a national level.

A recent Fox News report by journalist Jonathan Serrie showed Atlanta’s Woodward Elementary school teaching math using college sports scoring to convert raw data into fractions and percentages. According to Serrie, 95 percent of students originate from non-English speaking families at Woodward Elementary, applying both colleges and sports familiarizes and intrigues the student.

In the case of Woodward, using a math problem revolving around soccer or basketball is most recognizable to a foreign student as sports are an international source of entertainment. Yet, the idea of learning via sports makes the surrounding learning environment attractively fun, giving children just another reason to attend class. Antoinette Taylor, chairwoman of the Truancy in Chicago Public Schools Task Force, recently reported Chicago Public Schools yields a truancy rate of 16.4 percent.

“We’re using this bug of knowledge to teach kids and doing it in a way so they can learn through what they already love,” he said.

While Emmanuel does not limit the demographics of the Sports Economy School to inner city children, he realizes the growing importance to keep these children in school.

“I grew up in the inner city here in Chicago,” he said. “This is a community project and we are trying to change a culture.”

Emmanuel and his team now look to turn idea into reality as the education based social enterprise just last week launched

Photo courtesy of SPORTS ECONOMY SCHOOL

SES looks at chronic absent rates as a basis for their mission for alternative learning curriculums. a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to retain teachers, complete the curriculum and construct the brick and mortar planned to be located within the Illinois Medical District in Pilsen. To assist in funding, the We Are Champions: A Celebration of History, Discoveries, and Innovations from Sports is in the midst of planning a music festival at Navy Pier this coming summer.

The Sports Economy School, in partnership with GCE, has constructed a digital curriculum while arranging financing

with Cushman and Wakefield Incorporated. The online courses offer prospective students with a dynamic and interactive education.

“Sports provide a simplistic opportunity for students to take something safe and familiar and draw those similarities to the real world,” lawyer and DePaul sports law professor Philip Meyers said, As a professor of sports law, member of Chicago’s sports media and NBA scout, Meyers acknowledges the relevance of sports as a source of employment.

“Sports function in correlation with America’s economy-encapsulating finance (player and team salaries), marketing (logos, t-shirt, and jersey sales), accounting (salary caps and luxury taxes).” he said. “We are building this curriculum for the next hundred years,” Emmanuel and his team have made a call to action in building a well-funded Indiegogo campaign, acquiring interns and furthering a growing fellowship of students and educators at Chicago schools beyond DePaul.

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Club cycling takes road to success Collegiate cycling racing categories Criterium Races take place on a short, road route, usually less than a mile.

The many corners in this type of race pose a significant challenge

Road Race

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DePaul Cycling Club after the team time trial at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky. From left to right: Tori Parrilli, Adam Saban, Anthony Ott, Ian Kresnak, Chris Haslam. Not pictured Mark Zalewski

By Hannah Ward Contributing Writer

After a weekend of the most competitive road racing at the collegiate cycling level, DePaul senior Ian Kresnak didn’t rest for long. He competed in the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships last weekend in Asheville, North Carolina, and three days later woke up for a 6 a.m., 50-mile ride with his teammate, Adam Saban.

Kresnak is the second member of the DePaul Cycling Club to make it to collegiate road nationals in the nine years that the club has existed. Although cycling is an individual sport, sending an athlete to nationals is a team effort.

There are four categories of skill level in collegiate cycling. Cyclists complete a certain number of races at each level and move to the next level based on a point system. To qualify for nationals, a cyclist must compete in at least three category-A races, the most advanced category, and score enough points at those races to qualify.

Kresnak never raced a bike before joining the DePaul Cycling Club his freshman year. He bought a bike with money he saved from a winter intercession job, and as he said, “I just fell in love with racing.”

From there, he worked his way up through the levels of track and road racing until the big payoff senior year.

Nationals started off May 8 with a 73.5mile road race.

“The race went alright. I got 39th overall,” Kresnak said. “It wasn’t a great result, but I was happy with it given the circumstances and the quality of competition.”

Kresnak competed against 47 other cyclists during that race. Without the advantage of having teammates in the race to help him, larger teams had the advantage.

After taking Saturday off, Kresnak competed in the 18.6-mile time trial race on Sunday.

“The time trial is called the race of truth,” Kresnak said, “It’s just you against the clock. No teammates. No one to help you. You just do a set distance as fast as you can. You don’t have the wind barrier of other people racing in front of you, so it’s just about how fast you are.”

Kresnak finished in 26th out of 35 cyclists in the time trial, and while not thrilled with the result, still enjoyed the weekend.

“It’s a lot of fun and a great experience,” Kresnak said. “One of the cool things about collegiate cycling over other NCAA sports is you can get anyone from people like me to people who have been cycling all their lives. It’s cool to compete against people who you might see on TV one day.”

Due to graduation, Kresnak and two other members of the DePaul Cycling Club have completed their collegiate racing careers, but they are still training hard and planning on competing in regular road races all summer and into post-grad life.

Saban, a graduate student, competed in his first race just last year, and like the other members of the club, cycling really clicked with him.

“It totally transformed my life,” Saban said. “I started training and got to know the guys and became part of the team. I fell in love, and my life has just been cycling ever since.”

The DePaul Cycling Club has six dedicated members. Saban said, the size of the team is one of the main obstacles facing the athletes. The club has experienced problems finding opportunities to train as a group and practice team racing tactics.

“We are pretty competitive, and we fare pretty well in our fields,” Saban said. “It’s super hard to send someone to nationals and compete well when your team is so small. For Ian to fare as well as he did is really impressive considering there were some really big teams out there.”

Another obstacle is location. Chicago is not the ideal place to train considering the weather, traffic, air quality and geography.

Saban aims to put in around 150 miles a week on his bike, which means he spends a lot of time on his indoor trainer or has to bike out of the city.

The flat Chicago geography is another obstacle. To improve their performance on courses with hills, club president Anthony Ott explained that the team rides to the northern suburbs and go up and down the steep boat ramps to simulate the steep hills on the racecourses.

Chicago might not be the best place for competitive cyclists, but the club does have support from DePaul and the Chicago community. DePaul covers the cost of transportation and sleeping accommodations, but there are many other costs involved with building a competitive cycling team.

The club’s main sponsors are Heritage Bicycles, which handles the bike repairs; Pactimo, which helps design the jerseys and Trainology Fitness, which facilitates locations for the club to train.

“Without the sponsors it’s really hard to do what we do,” Kresnak said. “To be successful in cycling you need to have a lot of support, and the more support the better.”

The team is planning a variety of events from now through the fall to recruit new members, and they are also hoping to add cyclocross races to their schedule next year.

“DePaul seems to be one school that doesn’t necessary attract cyclists,” Saban said. “But it ends up attracting people who are interested in cycling and then transitioning them into competitive cycling from there.”

Kresnak is evidence of that transition from novice to nationals, and the next collegiate cycling national competitor could be one of the novice riders who shows up in the fall just out of curiosity and interest in the sport.

Races are long, between 50 and 100 miles, and usually take the racers through scenic landscapes.

Time Trial A type of road race in which the cyclists race against the clock alone, with cyclists starting one after the other, or in teams.

Track Race Races take place in a Velodrome, an oval track with banked sides. There are many different distances and types of track races.

Cyclocross Races take place on small grass or dirt courses and contain many obstacles such as sand pits, steep hills, sharp turns and small hurdles.

Mountain Biking Split up into gravity and endurance races, these take place on dirt trails and have significant changes in elevation.

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Sports Economy School seeks alternative form for college prepatory learning

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Courtesy of SPORTS ECONOMY SCHOOL

The Sports Economy School is attempting to offer a new curriculum in an effort to rebrand education.

By JohnFranco Joyce Contributing Writer

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The new assistants answer questions; DIBS entertains the crowd; Dave Leitao answers fan’s question.

Basketball coaches introduced to fans

By Matthew Paras Managing Editor

When DePaul assistant Rick Carter visited the campus of the University of Missouri for a potential assistant headcoaching role in 2012, he wanted to impress Dave Leitao. Leitao, an assistant at the time, was the only member of the Tigers’ coaching staff that Carter hadn’t been able to impress during the first day of his visit.

So as a gesture, Carter invited Leitao out to breakfast the following morning.

Leitao agreed.

“He said ‘yeah, that would be great.

I’ll pick you up at 6 a.m.,” Carter said. “I thought this was going to be terrible. But he picked me up and we had breakfast at Panera. From that point on, I realized what a great person he was. He knew what he was looking for in people, and I realized that I wanted to be around that guy.”

Leitao had impressed Carter with his ability to listen and personality. It was that personality that was on full display Thursday at McGrath-Phillips Arena as DePaul Athletics hosted a fan forum for Leitao and his new coaching staff to

introduce them to the DePaul community once again.

Leitao, who previously served as DePaul’s head coach from 2002 to 2004, was asked questions by Fox 32’s Lou Canellis and fans at the event as well. Leitao and his staff did their best to drum up interest for what they hope is a new DePaul era.

“There’s something called the business of basketball, and what I always say, is DePaul is a business of people,” Leitao said.

“Being back and being part of that, and missing it, it’s created a bunch of emotions for me. As a result, I couldn’t be more excited. It’s surreal.”

The event featured three different Q&A forums with women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno, assistants Patrick Sellars, Billy Garrett Sr. and Carter, and Leitao for last.

It was clear that the men’s team tried to stress that next year’s team would emphasize defense and effort. In a more comedic moment, walk-on freshman David Molinari asked the assistants if they had ever heard of a drink called water.

Carter, however, said the reason for pushing his new players in workouts is to see their resolve. Carter and Sellars were

both responsible for scouting DePaul as assistants at Xavier and Creighton respectively, and wanted to challenge preconceived notions they had about the players.

“We’ve put them in very adverse situations the last three weeks as far as workouts go,” Carter said. “We got as them tired as humanly possibly. We wanted them to fight their fatigue as group and a unit to care about one another.

“They’ve risen to that challenge, and have been really, really good. It’s been refreshing to see the kids do that, especially considering the lack of success they’ve had in the last couple of years.”

Leitao, who is the last DePaul coach to bring the Blue Demons to the NCAA tournament, said he has been “extremely impressed” with what he’s seen in workouts.

“What we’ve tried to instill in them week-by-week is that, first and foremost, we’re going to talk defense all the time,” Leitao said. “Then we’re going to redirect ourselves to understand the value of hard work. From that point, we need to understand how important it is for your teammates to have success.”

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Adewale Emmanuel, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, set out to implement a new way of teaching directed towards not only inner city children but kids of all socioeconomic backgrounds by using sports as the main mechanism of learning.

A vastly expanding technologydriven economy has paved the way for new ways to educate. Yet, for a large majority of inner city students attending underfunded public schools, these modern privileges are not included. This form of alternative schooling will further the Alternative Schools Network of Chicago’s effort to expand the already established 178 openings for alternative education within the city.

“For any curriculum there must be substantial preparation and ongoing assessment to ensure that the students are developing the core competencies. Integrating sports into learning across the curriculum is an engaging approach,” DePaul professor and Director of the Center for Urban Education Barbara Radner said, The Sports Economy School (SES) is attempting to be created in order to teach through theories, principles and analogies of sports while staying within the boundaries of the traditional education curriculum. The School has invented a new philosophy on education with an intent to rebrand education and get kids to school, using sports scores, business and statistics to teach the curriculum.

Emmanuel, the Chief Creative Officer behind the project, stated, “We are teaching traditional subjects; for example, you can apply geometry to

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