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College Republicans working to bring in controversial speaker By Kyle Woosley Staff Writer
With the recent ‘chalking’ incident on campus and a national debate over political correctness as a backdrop, the DePaul College Republicans are aiming to bring the self-proclaimed “internet’s greatest supervillian” to campus later this month. Milo Yiannopolous, a conservative activist, is known for expressing his highly controversial viewpoints on college campuses across the country. He is the
tech editor for Breitbart, a conservative website, and is also known for starting a scholarship program called the Privilege Grant, which is an award only extended to straight white men. Campus Republicans started a GoFundMe account to fund the event, scheduled for May 24 in the Student Center. While the College Republicans declined to comment for this article, the description on the GoFundMe page reads: “after recent chalking incidents, DePaul students need a wake-up call” and “Universities are under attack by liberal
agendas.” As of April 29, the page had received $1,095 out of the $3,000 sought to bring Yiannopolous to DePaul. Brandon Ferllini, a sophomore computer science major, donated $35 to the cause. He hopes the event will bring more attention to free speech issues on college campuses. “I donated to support Milo’s visit to DePaul because, in my opinion, Milo advocates for people’s right to free speech whether the words are offensive or not, especially in today’s safe space and trigger warning culture,” Ferllini said.
Jack McNeil, a DePaul freshman and the vice president of the College Democrats of Illinois, said he was not at all surprised by the news of the guest speaker. “The Republican lean on campus has an advantage in terms of outside money,” McNeil said. “They are able to get funding by anyone, especially more conservative grassroots organizations. They are able to go out and get high-profile and more provocative speakers.” McNeil said this decision demonstrates
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Survey says: Chances are, you’re from Lane Tech By Brenden Moore News Editor
If DePaul’s latest marketing campaign touts its ‘world ready’ education standards, the university’s pipeline of students could be appropriately dubbed ‘locally based’. Indeed, an analysis of enrollment trends over the past decade shows that DePaul’s top feeder schools are by and large in Chicago and its suburbs. Specifically, the top 10 feeder schools include two CPS selective enrollment schools, a CPS neighborhood school and seven public high schools from the suburbs. The numbers show that while the university has increased its share of out of state students in the last decade, DePaul is still very local in nature. According to associate vice president of enrollment and marketing management Jon Boeckenstedt, proximity plays a key role in DePaul’s appeal as prospective students are pre-exposed to the university. “For a student in 2015, it’s very likely that they know several DePaul students,” Boeckenstedt said. “And we’d like to think that what they’re hearing is good stuff about what goes on here, and we’re also in the City of Chicago among the more welcoming universities for students from the Chicago Public Schools. So there is a strong record of DePaul enrolling students from local areas.” Selective enrollment high school Lane Tech was far and away the top pipeline for the university over the last decade, with nearly 550 students deciding to take their talents to Lincoln Park, just three miles from the high school’s massive campus on
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Student assaulted on ‘L’, bystanders watch By Kirsten Onsgard Digital Managing Editor
A DePaul freshman on her way home from class said she was beaten on the CTA Blue Line at 10 a.m Thursday as onlookers failed to intervene. Jessica Hughes said she was returning home from a morning class in Lincoln Park when a man and woman boarded the train near University of Illinois – Chicago at Kedzie and Homan. The man attempted to grab her iPhone, and punched and bit her hand, according to a CPD community alert. Hughes said she was left with a black eye and broken nose. After the man and woman left the
train, Hughes said the conductor found her after the doors of the car would not close. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and treated. Hughes has since returned to her Berwyn home, and said her swelling is going down and scars are beginning to heal. But what was most hurtful was that others did not intervene, she said. “When I was being attacked there were other people who did nothing,” she said. “It’s upsetting.” Her father, Richard Amador, said his daughter is in good spirits, but was outraged that others did not step in to help and at the lack of security on the CTA. “She got assaulted, and there was nobody really wanting to help her or what
needed to be done,” he said. “I’m angry, and sad, but grateful but my daughter survived this assault and grateful that she’s still with us, and that there’s no major problems. I thank God that she survived this.” Amador said police wrote up a report but said he felt like they were treating it as seriously as a “routine traffic stop.” The attackers are still at large, and witnesses have not come forward. “Nobody contacted me in the hospital, nobody contacted my daughter in the hospital from the Chicago Police Department until the news reports broke,” he said. “Now, they are starting to move on
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Student hotspots: LOGAN SQUARE
One of Chicago’s hippest spots, Logan Square has an offbeat culture for those not interested in the stereotypical college scene.
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By Emma Krupp Staff Writer
When Marly Prom and her two soon-to-be roommates arrived outside a respectable-looking building to check out an apartment listing in Lincoln Park, they immediately felt something was amiss. “We’re like, ‘there’s got to be something wrong with this,’” she said. “It wasn’t necessarily a beautiful brick house, but very nice.” Before the illusion could continue, though, her Realtor texted them to say they were at the wrong address. The actual apartment — small, cramped, overpriced — represents the realities Prom and so many other DePaul students face as they embark on the off-campus housing hunt for this summer and beyond. Chief among the list of challenges is cost. Chicago, which was ranked the seventh most expensive city in the world by UBS in 2015, is often bemoaned for its high rent prices. And with the City Council’s approval last October of a property tax hike that’s expected to go into effect later this year, those rates are only going to get steeper. According to Realtor Shay Hata, students could see shifts in rental costs as early as late August to September, which will make an already-competitive market even more overcrowded as landlords bump up rates to compensate for the higher taxes.
“It’s a challenging rental market right now for the most part, especially for the more affordable apartments,” Hata said. “In the past, oftentimes tenants could negotiate to get maybe $50 off their rent, but this year is not really happening anymore. So renters should expect to pay full price and be in competition with a lot of other students.” Predictably, that competition is steepest in Lincoln Park and other neighborhoods close to campus. Timi Ikene, who is searching for a place in Wrigleyville with three friends, said it has been difficult to pin down a listing without it getting quickly snapped up by another renter. “Even the other day (while) I was emailing back and forth with a potential listing that I found, things seemed promising until I checked the listing online and it was taken down,” Ikene said. “It had been given to someone else.” She and her roommates have a place in mind in Wrigleyville, but haven’t signed a lease yet. If for some reason it falls through and they can’t find anywhere else to go, she said that they’ve also considered looking as far north as Rogers Park — about a 25 to 30 minute commute to DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus. Charles Wurtzebach, chairman of the department of real estate for DePaul’s Institute of Housing Studies, said that compromises like a longer commute are necessities of affordable off-campus
housing. “For DePaul students, the closer you go to campus, the more demand exceeds supply,” Wurtzebach said. “Typically, for example, apartments in suburban areas are very affordable.” He added that students should keep in mind rent increases affect all tenants, including professional adults. This in turn creates more competition as students fight to keep up with older renters with steady jobs and established rental histories. In order to mitigate this problem, Hata stressed that students have a guarantor — a parent who agrees to pay rent if the student no longer can — to reassure landlords that they will be paid under all circumstances. It also doesn’t hurt for students to back up their applications with a few supplemental recommendations or references. “Having a letter of reference from your past landlord for students that have rented before in the past would help a lot, just to say that this student paid their rent on time, that they didn’t have loud parties, that they took care of the unit, that they left it in good shape and clean,” Hata said, adding that a reference from a professor also works for first-time renters. “Those kinds of things go a long way to make landlords feel like they’re going to be comfortable renting to students.” On top of that, she said, students should go to showings wearing professional and presentable clothing when meeting landlords, as well as consider signing a
more stable two-year lease. The stakes aren’t so dire in all neighborhoods, though. Hata recommended looking in areas north of campus, like Buena Park, Rogers Park and Edgewater for cheaper — if farther away and less quaint — housing options. Karolina Sileikaite, who will be living in the South Loop with friends from the Illinois Institute of Technology beginning in August, said she had virtually no problems securing an apartment in that area, which she attributes to its relatively remote location. “We didn’t pick such a great location because it’s not really student friendly,” Sileikaite said. “I mean, the Roosevelt stop is kind of dangerous, so not a lot of people want to live there.” Although the off-campus housing route is frequently challenging and always full of compromises, many students also agree that it’s a necessary part of figuring out young adulthood in the city — a way to expand beyond the insular security of dorms and campus apartments, as well as Lincoln Park itself. “I think it’s kind of that thing where you’re embracing your adulthood and going out,” Prom said. “I kind of hate being babied into things. Not to say that living on-campus in university housing next year would be babying, but I think I kind of want to spread my wings and explore different neighborhoods and different parts of the city.”
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According to Rev. Michael Pfleger, the fiery South Side priest, the only way Chicago will overcome police brutality and discrimination is not by overhauling the police department, but by solving social issues like employment and education. And the only way to provide the resources necessary to fix social issues is for America to confront its deeply ingrained culture of racism. Pfleger said this at a DePaul event of about 50 students and staff hosted by DePaul’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research. “Because if you get the root of police brutality, the root of unemployment, the root of poor schools, the root of incarceration, if you get down to the root of every single one of them, you’ll come up with the same card: race,” Pfleger said. The issue of police brutality and discrimination has been an especially important one following a string of police-involved shootings of African-Americans, such as the shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago. Pfleger has long been an
advocate for the improvement of African-American life. He was inspired to become a priest by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, and since then has ministered African-American communities across Chicago. In 1981, he became the youngest pastor in the Archdiocese of Chicago when he started to minister Saint Sabina Church in the South Side. Following the release of a video that documents the shooting of McDonald and public backlash at the city’s handling of the incident, Mayor Rahm Emanuel hired a new police superintendent, Eddie Johnson. While Pfleger said this is a good step, he also said that better leadership does not necessarily lead to better law enforcement on the streets. This is because many police officers do not respect the people who live in the communities they patrol. At the talk Pfleger recounted an incident when two police officers harassed bystanders at a crime scene, part of a common tactic to “clear the streets.” Instances such as these are typical in many neighborhoods in Chicago, Pfleger said. “So when it’s affirmed, and it’s stroked, that this kind of behavior is OK, and when that culture has become the acceptable culture in the police department and law
SPEAKER, continued from front page how the party is “messy from the top down.” “They need to find people who is spreading their message in a positive way,” he said. “This is not getting us anywhere. This is not furthering any conversation or any policies.” Mackenzie Carlson, a freshman psychology major, said she thinks Yiannopolous’ outrageous statements cross a line. “He only believes in white male privilege and, as a female, that’s very depressing,” she said. “I don’t understand how somebody could be so ignorant to the fact that there’s diversity in the world.” Carlson said Yiannopolous is trying to blur the line between free speech and hate speech. “It’s definitely hateful speech, not just free speech,” she said. “It’s exercising your right to free speech so much that it’s discriminatory and wrong.” But McNeil said that is what he and the College Republicans want. “I think that’s kind of what his goal is,” he said. “That’s why he’s being sent to college campuses. They know that he is going to upset people and that is his sole goal. He would not be making money or touring if he were not saying very offensive things. The event is meant to be chaotic and that’s the only reason why this thing exists.” The initial anger came from the use of a homophobic slur in the title of Yiannopolous’ college tour. DePaul spokesperson Carol Hughes said she did not believe the event at DePaul contained a slur, but could not confirm. “When you’re using homophobic slurs, you’re crossing a line,” McNeil said. “There’s no space for slurs or hateful rhetoric on a campus that is trying to promote a conversation. It’s very concerning. What does your party stand for then?” If the slur is included in the title, McNeil said he suspects it would play out the same way as the chalking incident. “DePaul’s a private university that has its
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Rev. Michael Pfleger speaks in the Schmitt Academic Center on April 27. The outspoken priest addressed the issue of police brutality. enforcement, all we’ve done is say is that people don’t have to be respected,” Pfleger said. Not only was the event held to shed light on police behavior, but also to give advice for students who aspire to be teachers in neighborhoods that may be plagued by violence. Jasmine Cross, a graduate student studying early childhood
own policies in place,” he said. “I’m not sure what rules DePaul has in place but if it has a problem with a slur being used in the event title, then we have a problem.” And, just like before, McNeil said it would not be about slamming conservative values. “This is a blanket rule that applies to everyone,” he said. “It (the chalking incident) was fake, they knew the outcome and they went ahead with it — and they did a very good job spinning it.” Ferllini said he does expect more liberal students to disrupt the event. “Students have the choice and right to not listen to him and not give him any attention if they please,” he said. “Milo is free to speak and students are free to protest.” McNeil said, just as Yiannopolous’ right to speak at the university is free speech, so is the students’ right to protest. “People can react as negatively as they want, and people can speak up against very hateful things because that’s also freedom of speech,” he said. “So they (College Republicans) can’t whine when people get upset when they bring in an offensive speaker.” Carlson said his ideals are too right wing for her to support, and plans to stay away from the event. “I’m embarrassed for him, and even more embarrassed for the people who want to hear him speak,” she said. Ferllini said there can be value found in hearing what the other side has to say. “Milo is exercising free speech, whether students find it hateful or not because, in my opinion, it mostly depends on how someone interprets hate speech,” he said. “But I also believe there is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that others may disagree with.” McNeil agreed, but said he does not see the value in hosting an event strictly in the name of being controversial. “College campuses should be the place to promote diverse opinions,” he said. “People will attend out of curiosity and outrage, but it’s going to move the party forward or any conservative issues forward.”
education, said this portion was helpful for her. “Especially being in education, I found it to be enlightening how he had a claim that if you don’t live in that neighborhood, don’t teach in that neighborhood,” Cross said. Latoya Winters, a graduate student who is from the West Side, said Pfleger’s account of police brutality and discrimination was on point. She said she knows many
people who have lost their lives to gun violence in the city, and will continue to because issues like poor education are not addressed. “That’s where we go wrong. In the city of Chicago and also in society we try to cover too many things up, we try to sweep things under the rug,” Winters said. “That’s why we can’t make things happen, that’s why we can’t come together.”
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Sr. Helen Prejean spoke to the DePaul community this week about the social and ethical repercussions of the death penalty. This is Prejean’s third visit to DePaul.
Sister Helen Prejean continues 35-year fight against death penalty By Deni Kamper Contributing Writer
Standing behind a podium in one of the meeting rooms in DePaul’s Student Center, wearing her signature purple jacket, Sister Helen Prejean begins to tell a story. The story is about a man named Richard Glossip, who is currently sitting on death row in Oklahoma for the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese, a murder Prejean believes Glossip did not commit. Prejean found lawyers to take Glossip’s case pro-bono, but also mobilized a national media effort to raise awareness about his case and his innocence. She even managed to get Pope Francis and the Papal nuns to put pressure on the state government not to execute him. “People were calling … the lines were filling up … the world was watching and people were getting it out on the social media,” Prejean said. “When things were at their height, 300 million people in the world had heard … Richard Glossip’s name.” Prejean’s efforts and a problem with the drug cocktail used for lethal injection led to a stay of execution. This was but a minor victory for Prejean and Glossip, who is still imprisoned and sitting on death row. The story of Richard Glossip is one of the many stories Prejean has to tell. This is Prejean’s third visit to DePaul since 2014. She spends most of her days traveling around the country telling the story of her experience with the death penalty and advocating for its abolition. Prejean began her work with death row inmates in 1981. After moving into the St. Thomas housing projects in one of New Orleans poorest neighborhoods, Prejean became pen pals with Patrick Sonnier, a convicted murderer waiting to be executed by the state of Louisiana. Prejean became Sonnier’s spiritual advisor before ultimately witnessing his execution. This experience awakened
Prejean to the darkest realities of the values” Mech said. death penalty and she decided to dedicate The DePaul Office of Mission her life to not only counseling inmates and Values described the Vincentian sitting on death row but also to work identity as “…above all characterized by towards abolishing the death penalty. ennobling the God-given dignity of each In 1994, Prejean wrote a book person.” While values like community, detailing her experiences called “Dead service and reflection have guided Man Walking: An Eye Witness Account Prejean’s work, she has always placed of the Death Penalty.” The book became special emphasis on dignity. a bestseller, enjoying the No. 1 spot on On her website, Prejean expresses the New York Times Bestseller List for 31 her belief “in the dignity and rights of all weeks. persons and recognize that governmentJust two years later, sanctioned killing … the book was adapted a violation of those “We have a savvier, isrights into a film, directed and a denial of by Tim Robbins and human dignity.” smarter group of young starring Sean Penn Prejean hopes people coming up…I am to raise public and Susan Sarandon, who played Prejean. very hopeful about young consciousness about Matt Cook, a the death penalty and people in this country and the impact it is having junior at DePaul, saw Prejean’s book and the how they are helping us.” on society. One group film as eye opening. that Prejean thinks is “After watching especially important and reading Dead in the fight to end Man Walking, I never capital punishment Sister Helen Prejean really realized that is the millennial the justice system generation. was so unjust and “We have a Sister Helen really savvier, smarter emphasized that in her book,” Cook said. group of young people coming up … I Prejean credits the people she met am very hopeful about young people in while living in the St. Thomas housing this country and how they are helping projects with teaching her how to write. us,” Prejean said. “I lived this privileged little white life DePaul junior Nora Melton agrees of privilege in Baton Rouge and was never with Prejean’s assessment that young in the company of people struggling with people should get involved with social poverty and racism, and they taught me, justice issues. they graciously taught me … and so I “I definitely think that youth and began to write.” millennials need to be involved in social Through her book and lectures, justice issues today,” Melton said. “I Prejean has become the face of the love that Sister Helen Prejean is really struggle against the death penalty. But including us and making us feel important for DePaul students, like junior Maggie … we have so much power even if we Mech, she is also a role model. don’t realize that we do … if we really “She’s devoted so much of her time apply ourselves to change something, we but she’s also so well-respected and so… can make a really big difference.” well-known in the world just because of As she continues to travel the country how smart she is and how much she has and the world, Prejean is hopeful that done for all different types of people. I as more people are confronted with the think she totally embodies Vincentian inhumanity of the death penalty, the
movement to abolish capital punishment will grow stronger. “It’s never going to be one man, it’s never going to be one thing. But I think of consciousness raising in the culture (like) the way a pot comes to boil,” Prejean said. “When a pot comes to boil you don’t have one great big fat bubble comes up... but you have little bitty bubbles that start in the bottom … I believe that’s the way consciousness changes.” Prejean believes that no matter what the crime, or who the victim, the death penalty does not constitute justice. “(The death penalty) is pain, it’s punishment for what you do wrong,” Prejean said. “The safety of society is another thing … I believe, and we’re beginning to see the first seeds of it to go towards more restorative justice.” A shift away from capital punishment and towards restorative justice is what Prejean has been working for her entire life. She is confident one day her vision will be achieved. “I have met the American people and what I have met is not people wedded to the death penalty, it’s just that we haven’t reflected on it very deeply at all.” Racism is a fundamental part of Prejean’s argument that the criminal justice system on a whole needs to be reformed. Not only does the current system disproportionately incarcerate African-Americans, but it is also biased against them when it comes to sentencing their killers. In her years of counseling death penalty inmates, Prejean has realized the death penalty is reserved for people who kill white people. “I don’t know what made us think that we could design a process … and that we’d be so pure that there’d be no racism in it so if you killed people of color or you killed white people,” Prejean said. “It’s the same, it’s equal.”
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Addison Street. Lane college counselor Michael Sarmiento, a DePaul alumni himself, said DePaul’s connections to the school are deep, with several teachers and administrators graduating from there. “The Blue Demons run pretty deep at Lane Tech. When students are asking ‘should I go to DePaul or this school?’ they ask teachers for this kind of advice, oftentimes, teachers are going to go with the school that they know and that they went to,” Sarmiento said. “I think oftentimes too that DePaul is seen as this school that is diverse, also a school that is nurturing and has academic, social, and emotional support for students, I think more so than other Chicago universities. So, it’s just seen as a school that holds true to its Vincentian values that I think sometimes unconsciously, students pick up on.” Sarmiento added that in any given year, around half the school’s collegebound graduates end up at either DePaul, Loyola, the University of Illinois at Chicago or the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While many Lane students are looking for engineering and STEM programs, Sarmiento said DePaul provides a solid option for student seeking a close liberal arts option. “For a number of our students, who wanted to stay close to home or wanted to live at home, whether that’s financial reasons or cultural reasons, DePaul is a great option for those students,” Sarmiento said. Freshman Steven Byers, a Lane Tech graduate, is one of those students commuting his first year of college. A resident of Chicago’s Northwest Side, the digital cinema major chose DePaul over another state or country. For instance, Columbia College and the School of the local students applying to DePaul likely Art Institute of Chicago largely due to its are only looking in the region whereas diversity and the variety of programs it applicants from out of state are casting a wider net, he said. offers. “When we’re talking to students “The list of majors is just endless,” locally, we don’t need to talk about the Byers said. “I really just appreciated that City of Chicago, for instance, because variety because what if my film career students know that and understand that,” didn’t work out or if I didn’t want to study Boeckenstedt said. “What we talk about that? I could maybe go into physics or I with local students is how the City of can go into English. I just love the diversity Chicago is an integral at this school.” part of a DePaul Byers added that his “DePaul just seemed education.” high school classmates He added, “for feel a sense of familiarity like at the time such a someone from Los with DePaul’s academic school that’s focused on Angeles or New rigor. After all, Lane York or Montana Tech is consistently academics, as well as or Florida, it’s more ranked in the top tier Lane.” about answering of schools in the entire questions about snow, state. for instance. Or how Steven Byers “DePaul just seemed what they see on like at the time such a Freshman the television about school that’s focused Chicago might not be on academics, as well the reality in Lincoln as Lane,” Byers said. Park.” “I think they were looking to challenge From 2006 to 2015, the share of themselves in a way that DePaul made it out of state students has gone up from seem that you’d be challenged for taking 18.1 percent to 23.7 percent with the these courses and that they do have largest out of state contingents coming expectations for these students.” from California, Michigan, Ohio and But Lane students were not the only Wisconsin. Californians in particular ones staying close to home. In fact, most have significantly upped their presence, of DePaul’s top feeder schools are in the with more than 100 additional freshmen city or suburbs. Between 2006 and 2015, other schools that topped 200 students coming from the Golden State than in were Adlai E. Stevenson High School 2006. Boeckenstedt said the collection of all in Lincolnshire, Maine Township South this market data by DePaul helps them in in Park Ridge, Niles Township West in their efforts to recruit pipelines as well as Skokie, Whitney M. Young Magnet High look for new markets to explore. School on the Near West Side, Glenbrook “We do research on it, we do analysis South High School in Glenview, Lincoln on it, we like to see if there are trends from Park High School, Lyons Township High one year to the next,” Boeckenstedt said. School in La Grange and New Trier High “Not so much in Illinois, but when we’re School in Winnetka. traveling out of state, we like to make sure Boeckenstedt said that the outsized that our counselors visit the schools that number of students from Chicago area are sending us students. And maybe visit institutions could be attributed to the the schools that haven’t sent us students in relatively large size of high schools in the a while.” region and the different perspective a local student may have versus someone from
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University ups outreach as union cards fly By Brenden Moore News Editor
The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has sent out union authorization cards to part-time faculty members, Provost Marten denBoer said in a letter addressed to faculty last week. The actions come as the university steps up its outreach to part-time faculty members who may be weighing unionization. DenBoer emphasized that “with signed cards from a majority of faculty members in whatever bargaining unit is eventually defined by the union, the union could demand recognition from DePaul without ever giving you the opportunity to vote in a representation election.” The university has worked overtime the past few months to prevent it from going the way of the University of Chicago and Loyola, whose part-time faculty members voted to form unions a few months ago. John Culbert, dean of The Theatre School and the administration’s point man on contingent faculty, acknowledged that
the union push has “sped up the process” of finding ways to improve the adjunct experience at DePaul. “I think that it is fair to say that the presence of union organizers has accelerated or put pressure on our efforts around adjunct faculty,” Culbert said. “But many of the initiatives that we’re doing now were in play before union organizers set foot on the campus.” The university has for months stressed the benefits DePaul provides adjuncts and has recently upped its outreach efforts. Culbert and the deans of each college have hosted or will host question and answer sessions for part-time faculty. “The goal of those is really to provide a forum for people on a college-by-college basis because adjunct faculty are based in a particular unit and they are hired by that unit and they teach there and they don’t generally engage across the university,” Culbert said. He added that the effort helped address concerns at the college level, discuss the unionization process and the provost’s plan
to increase benefits to adjuncts. While Culbert listed several positive developments for adjuncts at DePaul over the years, such as the course cancellation policy, involving adjuncts in raise pools and improved benefits, he emphasized that there’s not a one-size-fits-all approach for adjuncts. “There are many different types of parttime faculty and they have different needs,” Culbert said. “So when we think of adjunct faculty, it isn’t a homogenous group that has one set of goals and needs.” “It’s very different on one end from somebody who has full-time employment elsewhere and potentially very successful at what they do and they are teaching because they have a very particular expertise that they enjoy sharing with people,” he said. “And at the other end of the equation, you have people who are putting together a full-time living from doing adjunct faculty work, either all at DePaul or at other institutions. And then there’s every possible combination in between.” The outreach comes as the SEIU and
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) continue their efforts to organize adjunct and term faculty into bargaining units. Union organizers have mailed information to professors’ homes and greeted them outside their classrooms among other methods of getting their message across. The two unions have competing strategies, with the AFT seeking a “strength in numbers” approach of trying to get the largest bargaining unit possible, and the SEIU seeking to create smaller bargaining units at the individual college level. For an authorization vote to take place, more than 30 percent of adjuncts in a given unit need to sign a union card. In the meantime, the university continues to seek an internal solution to address adjunct concerns. The provost’s task force on adjuncts held their first meeting last month and is looking at the best way to create a permanent body for adjuncts to address their concerns in-house. The two union groups could not be reached for comment.
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT : April 20, 2016 - April 26, 2016 LOOP CAMPUS
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
Seton Hall 3
Richardson Library Clifton-Fullerton Hall 2
Sanctuary Hall
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DePaul Center
Belden-Racine Hall
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Student Center 6 10 6
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Assault & Theft
Drug & Alcohol
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LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS APRIL 20 1) A theft report was filed regarding items of
Subject took a beverage from an unlocked cooler.
clothing taken from the laundry room in BeldenRacine Hall.
7) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a
2) A drug arrest was conducted in Clifton-Fullerton
8) An illegal consumption of alcohol report
Hall.
APRIL 21 3) A possession of cannabis report was filed in Seton Hall. Chicago Police arrived on scene and issued the offender a citation.
4) A theft was reported in 990 W Fullerton.
Complainant’s purse was taken from her work area by persons unknown.
APRIL 22 5) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor
report was filed regarding an intoxicated person in the lobby of Sanctuary Hall. Subject was taken to Illinois Masonic for treatment.
6) A theft was reported in the Student Center.
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person in the Richardson Library.
APRIL 21 12) A disturbance was reported between two subjects in the DePaul Center library.
was filed regarding an intoxicated person at the intersection of Belden and Kenmore. Subject was transported to Illinois Masonic for treatment.
APRIL 22 13) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a
9) An illegal consumption of alcohol report
APRIL 23 14) A theft report was filed regarding personal
was filed in Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Subject was transported to Illinois Masonic for treatment.
APRIL 24 10) A domestic dispute was reported at the 990
Parking Lot. Chicago Police responded and cleared the scene.
APRIL 26 11) A disorderly conduct report was filed at the St.
Vincent Soup Kitchen. The two subjects involved left the scene.
person in the DePaul Center food court.
items taken in the DePaul Center library.
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$274,000
raised at DemonTHON By Kirsten Onsgard Digital Managing Editor
Friday marked junior Mikayla Rickord’s second time participating in the 24-hour DePaul dance marathon DemonTHON, but it is not the only time she works with sick children. Each week, she spends three to four hours at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, the same hospital benefitted by the hundreds of students participating in the annual fundraiser. DemonTHON raised $274,887 this year, and surpassed the $1 million mark over five years of fundraising. The money raised goes towards Children’s Miracle Network and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital for families who cannot afford treatment, and to improve the day-to-day life of sick children. Rickord, who regularly prepares crafts and other activities and dreams of working as an oral surgeon, understands that impact firsthand. “It helps the kids remember how to be kids,” she said. “They are given very adult problems, and very hard things to deal with that little kids shouldn’t have to deal with. It allows them to have fun and gives
them a safe space to do that.” Rickord watched as the first family of the day, the Bransfields, who live in Lincoln Park and have ties to DePaul, told students about their son Sean who was born with a heart defect and treated at Lurie’s. Similar stories were told each hour by families who found healing at Lurie’s. This was not the only uplifting activity; DemonTHON is a tightly-run ship. There’s the dance: a 10-minute choreographed feat backed by everything from “Hotline Bling” to the “Bill Nye the Science Guy” theme. It’s taught by coaches for the first two hours and recited each hour on the hour. Then there’s the themed hours, like a 2000’s late-night hour which includes hair crimping and other middle school throwbacks. And if that’s not enough, morale captains are on hand to ensure high spirits and energy even in the wee hours. “Going for 24 hours, you can have some dark hours,” junior and morale captain Bridget Sitko said. A transfer student, Sitko said she was inspired to join DemonTHON after her young nephew became sick and seeing what her sister went through.
“We just have to keep everyone remembering who we’re dancing for,” she said. And what keeps them dancing? “These miracle stories remind us of why we’re doing it,” she said, as the crowd cheered for the now-healthy Bransfield family. “It’s really inspiring to be doing it for a good reason.”
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Students animate for 44 hours straight By Jack Higgins & Joseph Lu Contributing Writers
“Mayday” means many different things to the students, alumni and professors participating in the Sixth Annual Mayday Animation Marathon. At its very base, the event was named Mayday due to the fact that it concluded on May 1 its first year and, coincidentally, this year. However, Mayday reminds DePaul alumnus Jaclyn Hosier of the constant pressure put on animators to finish their projects on time. To five-year Mayday veteran and alumnus Ben Canfield, Mayday “is a constant reminder that (my) dad paid $120,000 for school, and (I) have to make up for it by showing ‘hey dad, I can still animate.’” Day 1 At 6 p.m. the event began, and it was time to decide the theme that one hundred people would be animating for the next 44 hours until 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon. People shouted out “Purple rain,” “Pepe, the Frog,” “Donald Trump” and many more suggestions that portrayed the recent top search on the internet. After five rounds of voting, students selected “5,030,251,147 Deadly Sins” as the theme, referencing a joke by Roberts while compiling the votes. “It’s all about a sense of community,” said assistant professor Meghann Artes, the pioneer of the event. “This is our Super Bowl. They understand what we go through when we are working on a project. We laugh, joke and it reminds us of why we
are in it.” Artes created Mayday back in 2011 after being inspired by the Falling Lizard, an annual animation workshop held by her alma mater UCLA. She wanted to create a similar event that brings the animation community together. Mayday at DePaul has grown, yet preserved characteristics from its formation in 2011. Mayday allows student and alumni animators to work under unconventional conditions they normally do not encounter. Many students form groups with friends, and compartmentalize the project so each one can work on his or her specialty. Normally, DePaul animators work alone, and this allows for team building among the students. “I think we had about 20 people in the first Mayday,” said Ian Beckman, a six-year Mayday veteran. “The event changed none but the numbers of participants grew a lot.” Besides an outlet for reminiscing about his college years, Beckman, an animator for video games, comes back to Mayday because it allows him to just create, have fun and not to worry about taking the project seriously. Many of the first timers feel the same. At first, Joe Weiss, a freshman digital cinema student, was worried about being an outcast because he is not an animation major, yet he found the reception very welcoming. “Everyone was very inclusive and helpful when I needed help,” Weiss said. “People kept telling me that ‘you don’t have to be at good animation to be here’, and I didn’t really understand that at
first. There are so many things that go into animation that don’t have you touching or drawing anything.” Day 2 The 531 Critique Exhibition Lab on the fifth floor of the CDM building looked like a middle school sleepover; chips, candies and fast food leaned against the air mattresses and sleeping bags. The two main computer labs were littered with pillows and blankets for essential power naps when caffeine lost its effect. Like many other troopers who stayed overnight for Mayday, Hosier only slept about four hours. She brought an air mattress with her after roughing it on the stiff and unforgiving floor during her first Mayday. “It just feels like a really long day, especially when you don’t go outside,” said Hosier. “Even you do go outside, you still have no sense of time (in the CDM building). It’s bizarre.” Day two is the only day where participants have 24-hour access to the lab. Many students take advantage of this opportunity, and sleep is the last thing on their mind. They have more than just caffeine and sugar to fight off sleepiness. They have the pressure of deadline. Besides the occasional bathroom and water breaks, day two is much more focused, and most people work quietly at their stations. However, Saturday night and Sunday morning are a different beast. The sleep deprivation begins to wear on the Mayday participants and they start to let loose. The animators keep themselves awake by playing games, talking and making jokes.
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Students animate as part of the Mayday Animation Marathon. At midnight (Sunday morning), people started a dance party on the fifth floor,” said Thomas Mulka, a second year Mayday participant. “I think the first one was last year (and) . . . they’re trying to make it a yearly tradition.” Soon, as it usually does, the reality of a deadline comes to a head, and the real “creative decisions” get made around 4 a.m. Sunday morning according to Beckman. Day 3 As the final day began, the CDM building was mostly empty, save for a few red-eyed animators trying to submit their projects under the wire. After more than 30 hours of back-and-forth storyboarding, drawing, animating and editing, Mayday animators had reached the final stage — postproduction. Post-production
began with crossing your fingers and hoping that everything goes as planned. “And of course, that did not happen,” Mulka said . Animators resisted quitting every 15 minutes when problems came unexpectedly one after another. Yet, many persevered. At 2 p.m., an exclusive prescreening was held in room 527. Mayday survivors that still had the energy watched the submissions of Mayday 2016 before the final screening on May 13. “The entire point of Mayday for me is just talking to people and just hanging out,” said Adam Glowacki, a senior animation major. “The work (animating) is just a motivation to get people here, but then is the social part and team building experience that matters.”
ASSAULT, continued from front page this.” Amador said the CTA needs to increase security at platforms and publicize alerts when attacks occur. He urged college students to be aware of their surroundings. “People need to be aware of these people who are preying on innocent girls, the weak link on that train sitting by themselves,” he said. As a lifelong resident of the Chicago suburbs, Hughes said she regularly rode the CTA throughout her life. Though she will still ride the ‘L’ in the future, she plants to travel with a group. “What scared me most was that I was alone,” Hughes said. According to CBS Chicago, police are reviewing CTA camera footage for the attackers. According to a community alert, they are described as a 25- to 35-year-old black man who is 6 feet tall, and a 5-foot-6 black woman between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. Police released the footage to the public Saturday. “She has a job, she works hard, she goes to school, she volunteers at her church. She wants to be a nurse — she wants to help people,” Amador said. “This is unacceptable.”
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Photo courtesy of JESSICA HUGHES
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TOP LEFT and BOTTOM: CPD photos show the two alleged offenders who attacked the DePaul freshman and tried to grab her cell phone. TOP RIGHT: DePaul freshman Jessica Hughes was attacked on the CTA Blue Lines Thursday returning home from class.
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Nation &World
Grand old power couple
Cruz, Kasich (sort of) team up to stop Trump from getting Republican nomination By Megan Deppen Print Managing Editor
Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a coalition to win more delegates than Donald Trump last week, then downplayed the alliance after Trump swept the April 26 primaries in New England. Though destined to fail, their last ditch attempt to stop Trump adds a new layer of desperation to the May 3 and 10 primaries in a race unlike any before. “I think it will fail as quickly as it starts,” DePaul political science professor Wayne Steger said. At the time of their announcement, Trump was closest to the 1,237 delegate benchmark needed to secure the Republican nomination with 845 delegates. Though both candidates denied any alliance later in the week, they said they would focus their campaign resources in particular states like Indiana and Oregon, where they hope to increase the number of votes for the non-Trump candidate. Before they could test out the strategy however, Steger said the alliance would inevitably be ineffective. Moderate Kasich supporters would likely not vote for Cruz over Trump, and vice versa for the Evangelical Christian base supporting Cruz. “They both recognize, especially Cruz, that (they’re) not going to do well in New England,” Steger said. “Indiana is a high priority for (Cruz), with a very large and substantial Evangelical population among Midwestern states.” Oregon, on the other hand, is the target for Kasich, Steger said, where there is supposedly a large population of moderate Republican voters — though Steger also clarified the moderate perception is more of a misnomer because only three counties are more moderate while the rest of the state is conservative. Regardless, the strategies seem to have come too late. There are only two months of primaries left and 583 delegates remaining. Currently Trump holds 996 out of the 1,237 needed to secure the nomination. And beyond simply failing as a strategy, Cruz and Kasich working together against Trump only fuels Trump’s clearest platform: being the anti-mainstream candidate. “This move feeds into a narrative Trump has been emphasizing lately: that the Republican ‘establishment’ is attempting to rig the primaries to keep him from winning the nomination and, by extension, to deny the will of the voters,” DePaul political science professor Erik Tillman said. Emphasizing an alliance targeting Trump, Cruz and Kasich unintentionally fueled Trump’s media coverage. Immediately following their announcement, Trump mocked their “desperation” in a tweet that received nearly 29,000 likes and over 12,000 retweets. “This is the campaign to illustrate that campaign spending doesn’t determine the winner,” Steger said. According to the New York Times, as of February, Trump only bought $10 million worth of media coverage, while receiving almost $1.9
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Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-Texas), left, shakes hands with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the start of a Republican presidential debate in March. The two have decided to collectively target resources on specific states to stop Trump's momentum.
billion worth of free media coverage. Jeb Bush spent the most in media coverage at $82 million, but dropped out of the race Feb. 20. But the Cruz-Kasich alliance alone shows more than just a failed attempt to beat an unlikely opponent. First of all, alliances like it are a rarity in U.S. history. Most of the time, they occur in Europe. “In Europe, various forms of preelectoral alliances are fairly common in countries where the electoral rules make them necessary,” Tillman said. “The best comparison is in France, where there is a two-round system of parliamentary and regional elections. Parties will strike bargains in between the first and second round — in which each party agrees to strategically withdraw its candidate in certain districts in order to allow the other party to win, and vice versa.” The last time a notably comparable alliance was made between candidates in the U.S. was in the 1964 election, David Woodard, a history and political science professor at Concordia University, said. “Republicans tried to defeat Goldwater by getting all the candidates to skip or stay-out of the California primary and urge their supporters to vote for Nelson Rockefeller,” Woodard said. “It didn’t work and Goldwater won the nomination. He was crushed in November by Lyndon Johnson.” Steger and Woodard named 1972 and 1980 as other examples; and although political machinations occur all the time, this is the first time a deal was publicly announced, Woodard said. “In reality, these sorts of things have happened before,” Woodard said. “But
Delegates won by month (As of May 1)
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Delegate counts are not exact. Though some delegates are committed to voting for a particular candidate after a state primary, some can still change their vote going into the national convention that would nominate each party's presidential candidate. This delegate count is based on estimates by the AP. This includes committed and "non-committed," or unbound, delegates.
this is an odd year where strange things are happening — so unprecedented events are not a surprise.” But alliances often don’t work, Woodard said. The problem often comes down to political egos. “Most candidates think they have a chance, even when it is clear to all of us that they don’t,” Woodard said. “So many candidates are hesitant to step aside — even in one primary state — for the good
of an opponent. They might try to get something in return.” Woodard said this could mean a cabinet post, paying campaign debt or media access. “In this instance, did Kasich get anything in return from Cruz? We won’t know for a while.” Until then, Cruz and Kasich fight for legitimacy in a race dominated by one of the most unpredictable candidates for U.S. president.
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War crimes against women more common By Sarah Hamilton Contributing Writer
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 200 million women and girls today have experienced female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the practice of removing parts or altering women’s genital organs for non-medical reasons. WHO has classified FGM into four different levels based on what the circumcisers remove. Most girls have FGM procedures between infancy and 15 years old. While FGM is a global issue, it isn’t taking place in entire countries or continents. Its practice is more communitarian, mainly taking place in northeastern and western countries in Africa, as well as parts of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Public awareness in the U.S. regarding female genital mutilation has surged recently, despite the fact that FGM has actually decreased worldwide. The reason the public is so interested in this topic is because it’s sensationalized through the media, Sanjukta Mukherjee, a professor of transnational feminism, said. Dating back to the colonial era, Europeans have long viewed the nature of Africans and Middle Easterners as “exotic,” often perceiving their practices as “brutal” and “savage,” Mukherjee said. When entering the discussion of female genital mutilation, it is imperative that Westerners understand the context in which this practice takes place. In some communities, FGM is universally-accepted as normal. Mothers may choose to cut their daughters’ genitalia so they won’t grow up getting harassed or excluded from society. Some women even choose to cut themselves, a dangerous gamble, but a way of proving one’s womanhood and purity. It is argued that cutting dissuades women from seeking sex, thus keeping them pure until marriage. It is also believed that cutting increases marriage fidelity because women won’t
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Syrian refugee Samah Qteish, mother of two and pregnant, stands at the perimeter of Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Female refugees and others living in the Middle East and other regions face even harrowing conditions, including female genital mutilation.
want to seek sexual pleasure outside their husband. Oftentimesesterners blame FGM on “barbaric” religious practices. “I feel like people in Egypt try to justify it as an Islamic issue when in fact it is a tribal practice that dates way back in Africa,” Shourouk Abdalla, a DePaul student who is from Egypt, said. While some religious leaders condone the practice, many are working to eradicate FGM. Abdalla said that FGM is “100 percent not permissible” in Islam, noting that the Grand Mutfi, a Muslim legal expert who gives rulings on religious matters at Al-Azarah, a prominent Islamic university in Egypt, has ordered a ban on FGM practices. Another reason FGM is still readily practiced is due to the economic power it holds. Circumcision is a job for many people living in these communities.
Amateur circumcisers typically make $15 to $30 per session. Additionally, local authoritarian control and coercion can play a role in upholding this practice. While FGM is internationally recognized as a human rights violation, much work is still needed to enforce its eradication. UNICEF and UNFPA joined together with WHO in 1997 to counteract FGM. Since then, many organizations have joined the fight. A big push for action has come from feminists, because the practice is a pressing women’s rights issue. However, Mukherjee said that Western feminists often assume the “savior complex” when dealing with this issue. This arises from an “us versus them” notion, in which Western feminists perceive their culture and values as being radically different and even superior to foreign cultures. Western feminists often
feel the need to “save” these women from FGM without understanding the larger context. This is why transnational feminism is so important for this topic. Jerica Arents, a peace justice and conflict studies professor, defined transnational feminism as “the need to organize movements for solidarity across identity and nation-state.” In contrast to traditional feminism, transnational feminism goes “beyond dogooder white saviorism," Arents said. In this case, transnational feminists should honor the work locals are doing, rather than imposing their own beliefs on a society. WHO reinforces this notion with research proving that “if practicing communities themselves decide to abandon FGM, the practice can be eliminated very rapidly.” Additionally, Western feminist voices can often overshadow voices of women who have experienced FGM. “You want to listen to individuals' voices, rather than making assumptions about it,” Mukherjee said. Most of these voices are not exposed in mainstream media, but Hibo Wardere, a survivor of FGM, has been sharing her story in the U.K. Hibo, a Somali native, experienced “type three” mutilation, or surgically repositioning labia to narrow the vaginal opening, when she was six years old. Four years ago, Hibo shared her experience after several years of silence. Now she is an avid activist, leading workshops in communities in the U.K. On the local level, women resist FGM every day. Groups like Abandon the Knife in Kenya and Sini Sanuman in Mali work to eradicate FGM in their communities. With the support of international coalitions and transnational feminists, these organization can be even more powerful in bringing about change.
Punishments but no criminal charges in U.S. attack on hospital By Robert Burns Associated Press
A U.S. aerial gunship attack on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed 42 people occurred because of human errors, process mistakes and equipment failures, and none of the aircrew or U.S. ground troops knew the target was a hospital, a top U.S. general said Friday. "This was an extreme situation" complicated by combat fatigue among U.S. special operations forces, Gen. Joseph Votel told a Pentagon news conference. Votel headed U.S. Special Operations Command at the time of the tragic attack last fall. In March he took over U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in Afghanistan. Sixteen military members have been disciplined for their roles in the tragedy, Votel said. None face criminal charges. "The label 'war crimes' is typically reserved for intentional acts — intentional targeting (of) civilians or intentionally targeting protected objects or locations," Votel said. "Again, the investigation found that the incident resulted from a combination of unintentional human errors, process errors
and equipment failures, and that none of the personnel knew they were striking a hospital." Votel expressed "deepest condolences" to those injured and to the families of those killed. He said the intended target of the U.S. attack was a compound about a quarter-mile away from the hospital. No criminal charges have been leveled against U.S. military personnel for mistakes that resulted in the Oct. 3, 2015, attack on the civilian hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, operated by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. The group has called the attack a war crime and demanded an independent investigation. The Pentagon on Friday released a memorandum from Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordering military commanders to take a series of steps over the next four months to "mitigate the potential for similar incidents in the future." Among other things, Carter ordered that the Kunduz scenario be incorporated into pre-deployment training as an example of the kind of complicated situations that troops may face in Afghanistan or other war zones. Central Command released a redacted version of the full investigation report on Friday,
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An employee of Doctors Without Borders walks inside the charred remains of the organization's hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan. About 16 U.S. military personnel, including a two-star general, have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of the civilian hospital.
including details about what exactly led a U.S. AC-130 gunship to bomb the hospital and how those mistakes were made. "The investigation determined that all members of both the ground force and the AC-130 air crew were unaware that the aircraft was firing on a medical facility
throughout the engagement," Votel said. "The investigation ultimately concluded that this tragic incident was caused by a combination of human errors, compounded by process and equipment failures." A number of those punished are U.S. special operations
forces. Among the 16, some were given letters of reprimand and admonishment; one officer was removed from command; some were suspended from their duties and some were given extensive retraining. No one was sent to court-martial.
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North Carolina "bathroom bill" punishes state's most vulnerable citizens By Danielle Harris Opinions Editor
At the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee displayed his gross misunderstanding of civil rights ordinances meant to protect transgender men and women from discrimination and their importance in protecting some of society’s most vulnerable people. “(These) ordinances (say) if your 7-year-old daughter — if she goes into the restroom — cannot be offended and you cannot be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man,” Huckabee said. “Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in P.E. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’” This widespread, false idea that sexual predators will pose as transgender to attack victims in public restrooms led legislators in North Carolina to pass House Bill 2 (HB2), more commonly known as the “bathroom bill,” last month. HB2 requires people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex, consequently banning transgender men and women from using the restroom for the gender with which they identify. A similar ordinance was passed this week in Oxford, Alabama. Transgender people in Oxford who do not use the bathroom that matches their biological sex can now face up to six months in jail or a $500 fine.
“The Council further asserts that single sex public facilities are places of increased vulnerability and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation and assault and battery,” the ordinance claims. What these bathrooms bills and their advocates fail to understand is that transgender people — the only individuals whose lives will be directly affected by this type of legislation — are disproportionately at risk of being a victim of sexual violence. According to a study by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), transgender women are nearly twice as likely to experience sexual violence compared to other survivors. These women are also “more likely to experience police violence, discrimination, harassment, threats and intimidation.” Even more disturbing, that same study found that 72 percent of hate violence homicide victims in 2013 were transgender women. The rampant injustice and danger transgender people face do not stop there. According to the National Center for Transgender Equality’s report “Injustice at Every Turn,” trans people face an unemployment rate double that of the general population, are four times more likely to live in poverty and still cannot serve in the U.S. military. Additionally, 41 percent of respondents reported attempting suicide. That fact that discrimination against transgender people dramatically impacts their safety and quality of life is undeniable, and legislation such as these bathroomsbills only furthers the stigma against trans men and women. In response to HB2,
LGBTQ allies voiced their outrage. Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas all canceled their scheduled performances in North Carolina. Others such as Jimmy Buffett and The Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman did not cancel their concerts, but still publicly voiced their disapproval of the ordinance and solidarity with the LGBTQ community. Corporations are also using their influence to denounce the anti-trans law. PayPal announced they would no longer be opening a 400-person office in Charlotte, and a number of other companies including IBM, Google and Apple have taken a public stand against the ordinance. The NCAA even indicated in a public statement that they might move tournament games scheduled in North Carolina in 2017 and 2018. Of all the companies taking a stand in the bathroom bill debate, Target is at the forefront. On April 19, Target took a stand against bills such as HB2 in an announcement posted on the company's official website. “In our stores, we demonstrate our commitment to an inclusive experience in many ways,” the post said. “Most relevant for the conversations currently underway, we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has stood by the bathroom bill in the face of this backlash, but residents of the state are already facing significant consequences. A spokesman for the Greensboro Coliseum said cancelations from Springsteen and other artists have cost the venue nearly
$200,000 in ticket sales. According to the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Coliseum will lose an estimated $3.5 million due to the four conferences that have canceled or scaled back involvement in North Carolina following the announcement of HB2. Arena employees are also suffering from the sudden loss in shifts. The financial cost of this discriminatory ordinance have already proven abundant and clear, but transgender men and women in North Carolina are facing much greater consequences. The transgender community faces an uphill battle not only to reach equality, but also to achieve authenticity in the eyes of their opponents. “(Transgender rights are) an issue that goes beyond Republican or Democrat because it's a human rights issue, and trans people have the right to express their identities and pursue happiness,” DePaul senior Felicia Darnell said. “It's unfortunate that lawmakers who are in favor of the legislation are so resigned to oppress that they don't consider the rights of the people who live in their state and their districts. Trans people are a part of every community, and should be given the same rights and resources as anyone else; including using the bathroom safely.” If legislators supporting these bathroom bills truly want to decrease sexual violence, they should not be attacking their transgender constituents and furthering the stigma against trans men and women. Publicly denying the authenticity of these individuals' indentities only increases the likelihood that they will fall victim to hatred, bigotry and violence.
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Letter: Title IX coordinator addresses safe dorms By Karen Tamburro
Title IX Coordinator, Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
I read the companion articles addressing sexual assault in last week’s DePaulia with great interest (“Frats, other groups say sexual assault prevention is on ‘all of us;’” and “Take Back the Night Rally calls for safe housing and end to rape culture”). Both articles speak to the need to provide a safe campus community and emphasize education and prevention efforts to address this serious issue. The call for a safe and responsive campus community, including safe housing, is feedback my university partners and I take seriously. Please understand that I cannot discuss the specifics of any individual case. The Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) requires us to protect the privacy of student records, mandating the details of incidents as well as the particulars of how they are handled to remain confidential. That also means the university is prohibited by federal law from implementing the specific proposal offered by Feminist Front — namely, to disclose to potential roommates the nature and extent of disciplinary charges levied against any member of the university community.
I understand that this legal requirement may provide an unsatisfactory response to Feminist Front. This is why the Dean of Students and I have offered to meet with them to further discuss this issue and brainstorm other solutions. We have not yet heard from the organization, but remain hopeful they will accept the invitation. More broadly, I can assure the university community that when issues of sexual violence are reported, the university takes prompt action to respond to the survivor’s report. In doing so, the university attends to the concerns and needs of the survivor as well as to larger concerns of fundamental fairness for all students and the broad responsibility of campus safety. Each situation requires institutional judgment and can take various forms, including the immediate removal of an accused individual from the campus until a hearing is held through the student conduct process. In other circumstances, the accused individual may remain on campus. In those instances, we ensure that a safety and monitoring plan is in place so that the survivor does not come in contact with the accused individual, as well as to help keep the campus community safe. Such a plan may require a move in housing, a change in academic scheduling and a plan of movement and access to common
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Feminist Front members protest down Sheffield Avenue on April 21.
areas. The plan can also include multiple touch points for monitoring, including checks with Residential Directors, Public Safety, Academic Advisors, the Dean of Students and myself. All of this can take place prior to the outcome of any student conduct hearing. I am grateful for the attention to this very important issue and I welcome
feedback from the student community. Your input is valuable in assessing the effectiveness of our response. I will also continue to work with the Dean of Students, Director of Housing Services, Public Safety and Residential Education to review protocols regarding ensuring campus safety while accommodating the needs of survivors.
Women's sports face unique struggles By Zachary Holden Staff Writer
Elena Delle Donne of the Chicago Sky in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) said last month she was in favor of lowering the rim in women’s basketball. It was met with backlash, but the most shocking response to it, came from a WNBA player — the Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi. “Might as well put us in skirts and back in the kitchen,” Taurasi told ESPNW’s Kate Fagan. The comment wouldn’t come as much of a surprise had it been from someone randomly on Twitter or Facebook looking to troll Delle Donne and the women’s game as a whole. But the fact it came from a three-time WNBA Champion, three-time NCAA champion with Connecticut and a three-time Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, is appalling. While Taurasi may appear to be belittling women’s sports, her comments, along with Delle Donne’s, brought women’s basketball back into national spotlight for something other than Connecticut dominating the college game. It also brought to light the bigger issue at hand — the lack of relevancy of women’s sports in America. Currently, there are only three professional women’s sports leagues in the United States: the WNBA, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) for softball. All three are viewed as secondary leagues and often garner little to no attention, despite showcasing some of the best athletes in the world.
Even the NWSL, which boasts several United States Women’s National Team members who have won Olympic and World Cup titles, struggles to attract the fan base it should. It’s no secret women’s soccer is dramatically more successful than men’s when it comes to winning on the international level, yet when it comes to supporting the game for more than just a few months in the summer every two years — nothing. “I feel like (women’s soccer) is almost equal, in terms of support, at the national team level," DePaul women’s soccer coach Erin Chastain said. "I don’t know why (the NWSL and women’s sports) are viewed as secondary.” In golf, the women tee off from a closer tee box than the men. Why? Because the average woman doesn’t drive the ball as far as her male counterpart does; not because she’s weaker than him by any means, just because that’s how we’re built as males and females. Sure there are some women who can outdrive a guy on the golf course easily, but that gives them a unique advantage over their female counterparts in tournaments. “Nobody that I’ve ever heard of argued about the golf tee,” Melissa Isaacson, columnist for ESPNW, said. In volleyball, women play on a shorter net. Why? Because — for the same reason women should play with a lower rim in basketball — women, on average, are shorter than men. In softball, the field is smaller and the ball is bigger. For tennis the women play three sets in Grand Slam tournaments while the men play five. Basketball has a
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closer 3-point line and a smaller ball because women naturally have smaller hands than men, thus allowing them to better handle the ball. “You don’t hear as many arguments in other sports,” Isaacson said. Another issue with women and the connection to the sports world is how they are overly sexualized. The female equivalent of the National Football League (NFL) is the Legends Football League (LFL), formerly known as the Lingerie Football League. Women play with minimal shoulder padding, a helmet and a sports bra and booty shorts as their “uniform.” Aside from the LFL, when most people think of women and
football, cheerleading comes to mind. While cheerleading in its truest sense is highly competitive and requires elite athleticism, the cheerleading we see in the mainstream is scantily clad women waving pom poms for the crowd’s enjoyment. Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that sports were designed by men and for men several decades ago when women weren’t thought of as being athletically capable. Because of this, men’s sports are viewed as being superior to women’s, thus the support beginning at a young age isn’t there. “I wish more dads brought their daughters to go support female athletes and I wish that men liked watching women more,” Chastain said. “Even
women, women might prefer to go watch men’s (sports).” It also doesn’t help that the media neglects to treat women’s sports the same way they treat men’s sports. “The media plays a huge role in building and sustaining audiences for sport and they do it very well for men’s sports and they do it horribly for women’s sports,” Cheryl Cooky, professor of women’s studies at Purdue, told The Atlantic. If the media were to view women’s sports as even remotely equivalent to its male counterparts, viewership and fanhood would dramatically increase. Until then, women’s sports will continue to be the tortoise in the race for relevancy in America.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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There are already dozens of holidays to remember, whether it's Mother's Day (coming up on May 8) or Valentine's Day. Other days, like National Siblings Day, seems to be celebrated nearly every week in homes all over the world. Turns out, there are actually hundreds of more days to be celebrated (and to accidentally forget) that the general population might be unaware of. These holidays, known as "National Days" range anywhere from something as simple as National Pancake Day to something as obscure as National Kitchen Klutzes of America day. “It’s not that these days suddenly just appeared; they’ve been around for a long time,” DePaul marketing professor Jim Mourey said. “We just now have the different media that can portray these more easily.” The recent awareness of these days has also led to companies using these days as free advertisement for their products through the use of social media. The appearance of National Days has also helped social media outlets like Facebook receive more attention because people love to talk about their favorite National Days over the internet, whether it’s by posting a status about it or posting a quick photo on Instagram. “(National Days) help social networks by giving them a carrot to bait the users with,” Mourey said. “It gives them a conversation starter, whereas when a lot of people get on social media they don’t have anything interesting to say or insightful to talk about, maybe a cat picture to post. The new media allows these days to become more apparent and more salient than years ago.” Cheesie’s, a local Chicago restaurant that offers specialty grilled cheese, is one example of a business banking on National Days. Cheesie’s has been using National Days to attract more customers to their restaurants by offering discounts on their original grilled cheese sandwich on April 12, National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day. According to their Facebook page, this is the third year that Cheesie’s has offered their special deal. “I was working in the kitchen (on National Grilled Cheese) Day,” Spencer Evans, an employee of Cheesie’s on Belmont said. “We were slightly busier than usual and I noticed more people ordered the original than usual.” National Days aren’t making a huge impact in marketing, probably because they are still relatively new. Much of the
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National Religious Freedom Day
Jan. 16 Whether you’re Jewish, Catholic, Scientologist or you believe the universe is a lifeless void with no higher power, be happy for your freedom and express those beliefs. Religious freedom is not found in every country in the world. Wars have been started over the issue, and many become martyrs of their religions for their perseverance in the face of adversity. Take time on Jan. 16 to thank your god, or lackthereof, for your good fortune.
National Talk In An Elevator Day
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March 28 What? They have this not but not— oh, wait. Regular weeds. It sure was fun picking dandelions as a kid. Weeds have been widely panned by most gardeners, but some weeds are actually helpful. They have been used historically as a source of food and nutrients. Look for the good in weeds on March 28.
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May 2 Life insurance has helped families grieve the loss of their loved ones for over 200 years. Today we must remember the great things life insurance has to offer. If you were to die today, you would leave your family with an abyss of grief, but your family can rest assured that you won’t be leaving their wallets lighter because of that college debt. Thanks, life insurance!
National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
June 13 Some people just can’t figure out how to make delicious food like the celebrity chefs do without wearing the food rather than eating it. On June 13 remember to cover the blender with a lid and to use a hot pad when taking a burnt pizza out of the oven.
July 29 “Which floor are you going to? Eight? Okay. So, read any good books lately?” Take out your headphones for once on July 29 and have a conversation with someone. This day is designed to break that awkward silence on the way back up to your apartment or on the way to class.
Aug. 3 No, it's not what you're thinking. Grab Some Nuts Day has a much more innocent connotation. Make a trail mix of your favorite kind of nuts on Aug. 3, and get some protein.
National One-Hit Wonder Day
Sept. 25 This is the day to remember all the great songs that jettisoned artists’ careers, only to crash land when no follow up came. Break out some Vanilla Ice, Chumbawamba and the Baha Men and rock out to their classic tune.
National Get Smart About Credit Day
Oct. 20 Remember, a credit limit is not $2,000 extra that must be spent every month. Make sure to limit what is paid for with credit. College kids already have enough debt as is without the added pressure of credit card debt. Figure it out.
National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day
Nov. 12 “Hey you want to get a pizza with the works?” “Yeah, sure. That sounds good. WAIT, NO ANCHOVIES!” On Nov. 12 remember to eat a pizza with the works but without anchovies.
National DingA-Ling Day
Dec. 12 Got the holiday blues? Thinking of that special boy or girl you haven’t talked to in a while? On Dec. 12 call them up and reconnect like so many others do with the people they miss on Ding-A-Ling Day.
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Beyoncé’s latest album is deserving of more than just Jay-Z memes and “who is Becky” witch-hunt By Erin Yarnall Arts & Life Editor
A seconds-long clip and the word “Lemonade” posted on Beyoncé’s Instagram on April 16 was all it took to get her fans excited about a potential new album. Their hopes were met April 23 when “Lemonade,” a visual album that premiered on HBO. “To be honest, I had no idea what ‘Lemonade’ was,” DePaul junior Bella Fioretto said. “I thought it was just a video, but it’s so much more than that.” Throughout the hour-long video, Beyoncé premiered her newest album “Lemonade,” which was released later that night on Tidal and iTunes later in the week. The album famously touches on alleged marital troubles between Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z, which set the internet ablaze with memes mocking the rapper, and attempting to find “Becky with the good hair,” — a woman Beyoncé references in the song “Sorry,” who Jay-Z allegedly cheated on her with. But, the album touches on many more issues beyond the ones that the internet chose to discuss. “She’s using this idea of romantic betrayal as a framework of talking about all these other things,” Francesca Royster, a professor at DePaul and chair of the English department said. A major aspect of the album is Beyoncé paying tribute to her identity as a black woman — something that was noticed as soon as the video for “Formation,” the first single of the album, was released in February. Black culture is a major part of the visual album, especially as it features cameos from actresses Zendaya and Quvenzhané Wallis and athlete Serena Williams, among others — all of whom have been criticized for their blackness, including Wallis’ name being mocked when she was nominated for an Oscar, Giuliana
Rancic saying Zendaya’s hair probably smelled of patchouli oil when she wore it in dreads and a consistent onslaught of negative comments about William’s body throughout her career. “That sequence (with Serena Williams) was in the segment that was really about calling on this resistant spirit in the company of other black women,” Royster said. “The way that Serena was there, I think she was wearing a leotard and really showing off the power of her body, and her musculature and was really unapologetic. I thought that was really cool and then it was just given this double resonance, thinking about these two powerful black women celebrities who are working in solidarity and not cutting each other apart which happens so often.” The mothers of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, who were shot and killed in 2014 and 2012 respectively were also featured in the visual album in a segment where a Malcolm X quote plays, in which he says, “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman.” “This album was specifically for black women, so to see them have their experience portrayed through art by the biggest pop star on the planet is mind boggling, and I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it,” DePaul junior Michael Lynch said. “This moment was for black women, and as a black man, I’m happy that it happened. The timing, message and format was perfect.” All of this is not to say “Lemonade” isn’t a personal album. It’s perhaps Beyoncé’s most personal — she goes in depth about her own feelings about her marriage, family and her experience with motherhood. “The personal is always there, but for me, it wasn’t the key to understanding it,” Royster said. “It was more thinking about it as a larger conversation about identity, culture and history.”
Part of the culture and history that Beyoncé explores in “Lemonade” are her Southern roots, especially in a country-inspired song, “Daddy Lessons,” which surprised fans because the singer’s music is normally more R&B or hiphop inspired. “I knew that she’s been engaging her Southern roots more explicitly, and thinking about the way that Southern culture is a part of African-American culture generally,” Royster said. “There are things that people marginalize or try to erase because it’s not respectable or seen as sophisticated, like having hot sauce in your bag (in reference to ‘Formation’ lyrics).” Her ability to utilize multiple genres, from the country “Daddy Lessons” to rock in “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” which features Jack White, proves why Beyoncé is one of the most respected artists in the music business. Although much has been made over Jay-Z’s alleged infidelity, the album is about so much more than that — especially in regards to their own relationship. The album focuses on how Beyoncé was, of course, angry, but through the strength of her love for her husband she overcame it, and also shows the singer’s most raw and emotional sides. Yes, Beyoncé is allegedly addressing infidelities, but throughout the course of the album “True love breathes salvation back into me / With every tear came redemption / And my torturer became a remedy.” Ultimately, the album has inspired some of the greatest Jay-Z memes of all time, an all-out witch-hunt to find “Becky with the good hair” and probably a boost in sales at Red Lobster, but overall it proved the strength and power of Beyoncé — something that she’s sure to prove over and over again throughout her career. “Just when you think she has done it all, she always surprises you,” Fioretto said.
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Picture perfect DePaul student sneaks into buildings to get the best shot as an urban photographer
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After moving to Chicago to attend DePaul, freshman Kyler “Ky” Lotte began sneaking through the city to take pictures after becoming inspired by a street photography Instagram page. Lotte is a digital cinema student and has been taking photos since 2013.
By Joseph Lu Contributing Writer
For freshman Kyler “Ky” Lotte, a digital cinema student at DePaul, it simply started with a hashtag. As he snuck past a security guard in a parking garage near Adams Street, Lotte bolted for the 12th floor. With him was his Canon T3i around his neck and a bag full of camera filters. Sure he was trespassing, but it’s the thrill that urban photographers like Lotte strive for. Lotte was hooked in February. He noticed an Instagram page called #UrbanAisle that features street photography from all over the world. He started to use the tag. Jason Shields, the founder of
Urban Aisle, noticed his work and invited him to join. “He steps aside and observes,” Shield said. “He captures what is going on behind the lenses. Unlike most who I had worked with, he doesn’t rush to the front and look for his or her picture to be taken.” Before his interest in urban photography that often inspired hide and seek with security guards, Lotte became a photographer in 2013 and specialized in macrophotography. It presented a new set of eyes to look at familiar environments, even if it was in his backyard in Boulder, Colorado. It could be the bug on the flower petal or the small pebble beside.
“He is very much about capturing the beauty. He is always ready to look good for pictures himself and the same thing can be said about his shot composition,” Connor Brown, a classmate of his, said. “That’s why his work is always aesthetically pleasing.” Then there is capturing the movement. He was 11 when he watched his older brother and neighbor dance and do street shows. It was first tutting (an urban dance style), then breakdancing and then choreographed hip-hop. “He looks like he should be singing, but he is dancing. His dance is fluid and passionate. He is one funky dude from Colorado,” said Patrick Sarmiento, his roommate for next year.
Lotte saw an opportunity to redefine himself in Chicago, to push himself forward in each of his passions. “Back home, they know me so well. I can see their progress versus my progress,” Lotte said. “Here, not everyone knows my flaws yet, and I can put up that false barrier a little bit and make a new name for myself.” A new environment may be intimidating, but home can sometimes be even more terrifying. Sometimes he feels like he is spread so thin and it’s hard to focus on just himself. “This might sound funny but I have to create an understanding with each aspect of my life,” Lotte said. “I will be writing a paper for
hours and hours and I will have a conversation with myself. Say, ‘Hey, you need to go dance,’ I will use photography and dance as a therapy.” “He has both the artistic and technical proficiency. Usually people only have one or another,” Marc Menet, an adjunct professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media, said. Menet said that in class, he always showed high energy and willingness to go out of his way to help other students. “Rather than using existing works of others, he chose to have himself filmed while dancing and through edits, he created this abstract work that was really memorable,” Menet said.
Despite popular releases, Tidal fails to connect By Jack Ladd Contributing Writer
Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” has brought her husband’s music streaming service, Tidal, to the forefront of the fight for ownership of American culture, again. The release of the highly anticipated “Formation” album on Saturday has led to debate over the exclusivity of Jay-Z’s musicstreaming service. Tidal’s declaration at the Jay-Z relaunch, signed by Madonna, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jay-Z himself and other music powerhouses, detailed the service’s mission “to re-establish the value of music and protect the sustainability of the music industry rooted in creativity and expression.” “Jay-Z is one of the largest equity shareholders in Tidal, so I bought ‘Lemonade’ on iTunes to support Beyoncé,” senior Alex Hushak said, referring to JayZ’s alleged infidelity discussed throughout the album. “I’m supporting Beyoncé by buying her album on iTunes. Tidal does not have a monopoly on supporting artists and sustaining the music industry.” The artists’ majority-owned company attracts subscribers with its Lossless sound
quality and exclusive artist editorial and video. According to Tidal’s “Lossless Explained” video on their website, MP3 files are condensed and often leave out sounds to take up less space. Tidal’s Lossless quality runs at 1411 kilobits per second (Kbps), compared to Spotify’s Vorbis at 320 Kbps, and iTunes’ AAC 256 Kbps, leaving room for the sound the artist intended the listener to enjoy. The streaming Lossless high fidelity sound quality is the rationale behind charging $20 a month for the service’s HiFi plan. “I signed up for a 30-day free trial of Tidal so I could listen to ‘Lemonade’ by Beyoncé,” junior Bryn Vaydik said. “I didn’t know how long it would be before it was released on iTunes or Spotify, so I needed to sign up.” “I think it was important for me to listen to the album because of everything that’s happened with Beyoncé in the past couple of months. After the Super Bowl, after the ‘Formation’ video, after the tour was announced, I knew that she was planning something big, so I knew I had to listen to it. I couldn’t be behind.” Like Spotify, Tidal offers a student discount of 50 percent, priced at $5 for a
premium subscription (with no Lossless sound quality) or $10 for Tidal HiFi. The streaming service has been the site of controversy regarding its exclusivity (or lack thereof). Gizmodo’s Alex Cranz, who compiled the search interest in Tidal for February 2016 in her article “Not Even Kanye Can Save Tidal,” found that Tidal is only popular on the web for 24 to 48 hours after an album is released exclusively on the streaming service. “In the case of ‘Anti’ the drop off was sharp — likely due to the album’s exclusivity lasting only 24 hours,” Cranz said. “The drop was less dramatic after the release of ‘Formation,’ and one could make the broad assumption that this was because Beyoncé has made no plans to release the single through other services. As for Kanye? It took him nearly three years to perfect ‘The Life of Pablo’ and only two days post announcement for interest to wane in its exclusive platform.” “I signed up for Tidal originally so that I could listen to Rihanna’s new album when it came out,” Bianca Burns, a DePaul student and self-described Beyoncé super fan said. “I’m satisfied at the moment because Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ was released
via Tidal and I can watch it whenever I want. Tidal is only worth it if you care about exclusivity and being ahead of certain music trends.” The exclusivity of the content is debated however, because new albums are usually put on iTunes for sale after a few days. Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ went live for purchase on iTunes on Monday, April 25, and it’s been at the top of the charts since its release. The next three albums belong to Prince. Burns pays for Tidal because of the genres of music offered on the service. “It’s very hip-hop, rap, R&B, funk, soul musiccentered so it appeals to me because that’s what I listen to. However, if those genres don’t appeal to you, it’s not something you want to invest in.” “Tidal might be worth it when it’s exclusive, but once anyone else has it, it doesn’t matter,” Vaydik said. “If iTunes didn’t have Lemonade, then yes, maybe it would be worth it to pay for Tidal. Since it’s on iTunes, it doesn’t matter that it’s on Tidal.” Bryn does not plan on paying for Tidal once her 30-day free trial is finished.
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Key and Peele on ‘Keanu,’ their love-letter to film By Matt Koske Staff Writer
Cute little kittens purr as they doze on their cat furniture and scratching posts. Tight cages align the walls encapsulating the homeless kittens that desire a new home. Attendants roam the shelter, feeding and giving care to the loving cats that motionlessly stare with round, crystal eyes. In the middle of all of this, though, is a round table with six chairs positioned around. On top of the table lies a tablecloth featuring animated cats scattered on it. This is the press interview location for the upcoming movie, “Keanu,” the new project from comedic masterminds Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key. Peele, 37, and Key, 45, visited the Chicago Bucktown Tree House Humane Society for a Q&A on behalf of their new film, “Keanu,” along with Jason Mitchell, 29 (“Straight Outta Compton”), another star of the film. The film opened in theaters April 28. “Keanu” is Key and Peele’s first feature film following the conclusion of their successful Comedy Central TV show, “Key and Peele,” which ran for five seasons accumulating 55 episodes and sketches. Many of these sketches made their way to YouTube, where audiences have
viewed their sketch “Continental Breakfast” over 11 million times. The DePaulia: What do you guys find different about doing a movie compared to your TV show? Keegan-Michael Key: Big difference is that it’s longer. Jordan Peele: Might be the biggest difference. Key: You can’t have another experience like that. There’s nothing like looking at an 80foot screen, and that’s why we have movie stars. They’re in the firmament. We’re looking at them — we go to the temple to watch them, and that’s never going to go away. The biggest thing is that it’s finding a thread you can take a moment in a sketch and you can go boop-boop-boop really fast. You have to build fast to be in and out in three to four minutes. But here there has to be a thread. You can do just about anything you want in a sketch, but in a movie you’ve got to keep this consistency in character. DePaulia: Jordan, you mentioned in the book “Sick in the Head” by Judd Apatow that you guys like to act like a mirror of what’s going on in society. How did that come into play when you were writing the script and in production? Peele: This movie is our love letter to film. It relates to the question of masculinity, what it
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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, primarily known for their Comedy Central TV show “Key and Peele,” released their first film, “Keanu,” in which they track down their stolen cat. means to be African-American, what the types of films that have been made with a predominantly African-American cast and the types that haven’t been made. Ultimately, this is a chance for Keegan and I to be protagonists of a film. I’ve never seen a movie that centers around guys quite like us and there are a lot of dudes like us. I think most people in the country are like us, we’re nerds. We love content, we love watching
movies and we’re also softies. I think there’s this idea that masculinity, being a man means you have to be some kind of tough guy. That’s just not us, and that’s not a lot of people, but we will get tough for our dog, for our cat, for our family, for everyday life. Jason Mitchell: It’s cool that you all make this world though, in which the average person can be the hero. It’s what’s special about it, because like regular people
with regular feelings. Most people don’t get involved with gang violence and all this other stuff. It might seem like a huge world for those people who are caught in it, but in the real world, it’s like no. I’m not living my life like this, and it’s special that two regular guys can create this world in which this regular guy can be a hero.
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The motherload of really terrible gift ideas By Emily Eller Contributing Writer
Mothers have gone through hell. Most have given birth, changed dirty diapers, fed their children and turned them into the responsible, caring, intelligent people
that they have become, and they get one day of the year to be appreciated for all of this. How should they be repaid? With presents of course. A piece of jewelry, some pretty flowers, home decor, anything homemade — all of these are bound to be reciprocated with a
big smile (and possibly some happy tears). But there are some massive mistakes that can be made when getting gifts for mothers. Purchasing any of these items may result in severe eye rolling, a slap on the arm, a frown of disapproval, or, in extreme
cases, disownment. Without further ado, here are some of the top four gifts not to buy your mom this Mother’s Day.
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The Yodeling Pickle is exactly what it sounds like: a plastic pickle that emits loud yodeling noises at the push of a button. It’s perfect for, well, absolutely nothing. There are two major problems with this product (along with millions of minor ones); the first is that it disrespects the beauty of a perfectly salt-brined cucumber and taints its appeal with obnoxious screeches that will make your ears bleed. The second is that she may end up actually liking it, finding some sort of mom-esque humor in such a mind-numbingly useless toy, resulting in the extreme discomfort for literally everyone around her.
It’s pretty easy to see why this is a horrendous gift idea. The last thing any mom wants to hear is that she is a bad mother. Many moms pride themselves solely on the success of their children, and receiving this book from their child (even as a joke) would break her heart. If it was a joke, she would likely feel as though it was a subtle jab at her parenting skills. If not, she would be heartbroken and devastated. In short, stay away from anything that denotes her parenting skills or blatantly says “hey, you’re a bad mom.”
Pizza Hut-scented perfume
Unfortunately, Pizza Hut-scented perfume is 100 percent real. Not only is this super gross, because who wants to smell like obscenely-greasy pizza and middle-aged delivery drivers? But it’s flatout pointless. All it will do is attract Pizza Hut-aholics to your mother out in public, causing an uncomfortable situation for all parties involved. The only scenario in which it is acceptable to buy this for your mother is if you pair it with Burger King breath mints and KFC antiperspirant, so she can finally fulfill her dream of smelling like a crusty strip-mall food court.
An I.O.U. Perhaps the worst gift idea of all, an I.O.U. makes it seem like you didn’t even try to think of a good gift to give her. Basically, it’s the lazy way out of buying your mom a gift. A piece of paper that says you owe your mom a present will result in one of two things: your mom will roll her eyes, throw it away and feel disappointed by your lack of effort and affection, or she will bug you about the gift you owe her. An I.O.U. is a lose-lose situation, so just get your mom a gift. After all, it’s Mother’s Day — the perfect opportunity to show your mom how much you love and appreciate her.
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As summer approaches, DePaul students get excited for their favorite ice cream By Madison Gardner Contributing Writer
The countdown has begun for summer and as temperatures start rising, DePaul students and faculty start getting a taste for something cold and delicious. Although Chicago is typically known for its mouthwatering deep-dish pizza, ice-cream during the summer may rival the famous Midwest pizzerias. One potential place to chow down on ice cream this summer is Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, which is located in the Southport Corridor. The ice cream restaurant is a hands-down winner for DePaul senior Paige Calace, who has made many trips to Jeni’s, and said the brown butter almond brittle in a homemade waffle cone is a must-try for anyone who loves a unique and refreshing treat. DePaul sophomore Kira Latoszewski agreed that Jeni’s offers a great variety of delicious flavors. “My favorite flavor is the salted peanut butter with chocolate flecks,” Latoszewski
said. “I also appreciate the fact that Jeni’s stays away from using synthetic flavors or dyes when making their ice cream.” Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams opened its Southport location in September 2013. Founded by professional ice-cream pioneer Jeni Britton Bauer, she has made it her mission for nearly two decades to create the perfect recipe. Amy Merrick, a journalism instructor at DePaul, said her all-time favorite ice cream spot would have to be Bobtail Ice Cream Company. She loves Bobtail because of their witty names like the “Daley addiction,” a fudgeswirl ice-cream that melts in your mouth. The atmosphere of Bobtail Ice Cream Company is another perk for Merrick “It has a very cheerful atmosphere and I always leave in a good mood,” Merrick said. Bobtail, the quirky, vintage-styled, ‘50s inspired ice-cream shop located in Lakeview is named after the handle on an old-fashioned soda machine. The iconic business has been a staple in the Lakeview neighborhood for nearly 11 years. The
shop is unique because of the wide array of signature sodas and beverages they offer as a flagship store. “My favorite flavor would have to be the signature sunrise — a creamy merlot base with dark chocolate chips sprinkled throughout,” Ryan Ouellette, a manager at Bobtail Ice Cream Company, said. The ice cream shop offers weekly promotions that includes dollar-off shakes and malts on Tuesdays and Thursdays. DePaul seniors Rachael Mayhew and Anthony Lewis, on the other hand, constantly crave Scooter’s Frozen Custard. Mayhew said it is her favorite place because they offer the banana cream pie ice-cream flavor, which is hard to find. “They not only have flavors that you can’t find anywhere else in the city, but it’s also homemade,” Mayhew said about why she enjoys Scooter’s. Besides the unique flavors, Lewis enjoys the fact that it is family owned and that they offer freshly made Wisconsin custard, which typically isn’t offered anymore. The 13-year-old business, Scooter’s Frozen Custard, is located in Lakeview, and has close ties to DePaul. Employing six DePaul students currently, owner Denny Moore explained that because of the store’s popularity among DePaul and other college students, they have only had to spend $242 on advertising over the last 13 years of business. Branching out from one’s preferences is an essential part of the college years and growing up. There is something to be said about trying new things and straying away from the ordinary. It is important to learn not to play it safe in this world. Try a different ice-cream shop or a new flavor. Life is too short to stick to the basic vanilla or chocolate lifestyle.
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Daughter When your legs are tired of jumping up and down and your voice is sore from screaming amid all the exciting performances at Lollapalooza, give yourself a break and head over to see Daughter. The indie-folk band of three is guaranteed to make you feel more connected to music than you ever have before in your life. Lead singer Elena Tonra will captivate you with her soft, alluring voice for the entirety of the performance. The honest emotion expressed through Tonra’s vocals will serenade you. Hits such as “Youth” and “Medicine” will be sure to give you an outlet of relaxation and serenity throughout the chaos of Lolla. And as if it couldn’t get any better, Tonra has the most pleasant British accent you will ever hear.
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St. Lucia St. Lucia’s lead singer Jean-Phillip Grobler successfully combines his South African and Brooklyn roots to exemplify a unique sound that will make you feel as though you’ve traveled a hundred years into the future. Regularly compared to bands such as Passion Pit, M83 and CHVRCHES, St. Lucia successfully combines today’s electric feels with classic ‘80s vibes. St. Lucia’s endless radiation of good vibes will leave you moving and grooving up until the very last moment of their performance. The shimmer of Grobler’s vocals coinciding with the glistening energy of synthesizers will leave St. Lucia’s melody playing on repeat in your head for the entirety of the music festival.
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Panama Wedding With a history of touring with bands such as Smallpools, RAC and Magic Man, Panama Wedding is slowly making its way to the center of the indie spectrum. The synth-pop band from New York City maintains a much lighter sound through a limitation of synthesizing. Their tropical melodies provide the ultimate swaying soundtrack. Lead singer Peter Kirk will captivate you with his soft, alluring vocals. What makes Panama Wedding unique is their ability to combine a laid-back and electronic melody. To get a taste of this, listen to “All of the People,” a combination of a lush and gentle tune. Throughout the unbearable heat, humidity and claustrophobia that comes along with Lolla, Panama Wedding is guaranteed to provide soothing relief to your mind and body.
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in MUSIC Beyoncé “Lemonade” April 23 Just when you think Beyoncé is as good as she can get, she goes and tops herself again. The queen of the secret album release surprised fans, yet again, when she released “Lemonade,” her sixth studio album on April 23. The album was released at the same time as a one-hour visual album on HBO. The album captures Beyoncé at her rawest and most vulnerable, as she sings about her husband’s alleged infidelities and her experience as a Southern, black woman in the United States. “Lemonade” is the best thing Beyoncé has ever released, but knowing her, I’ll be saying that for albums to come.
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2342 N. Clark St. Sorry Insomnia, but cookie heaven has been officially relocated. By The Park, a new cookie and coffee shop, has easily snagged the crown for best cookies in Lincoln Park. Not only are the cookies soft and scrumptious, but they are uniquely catered towards Chicago. Seriously, who needs Insomnia’s snickerdoodle when you can have the Lincoln Park, a cinnamon bun flavored cookie with homemade cinnamon and white chocolate chips? Cue the drooling. Stepping into By The Park last Tuesday afternoon was a treat, and not just because of their free samples, the cheap cup of Stumptown coffee or the friendly faces behind the counter. It was the fact that I finally found a place far from the 1237 Starbucks where I can’t help but always run into someone I know. Oh, and a bonus? This cookie shop is kid-friendly with the cutest playing area in the back of the shop. So If you desire a study place that serves amazing coffee, divine cookies and all the baby-watching you could dream of, By The Park is your next stop this week. KIERSTEN SINKO | THE DEPAULIA
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Find this and all our DeJamz playlists on depauliaonline.com and on our spotify account By Erin Yarnall Arts & Life Editor
The world was blessed on April 23 as Beyoncé released a visual album on HBO and simultaneously released her sixth studio album, “Lemonade.” The album contains some of the best material she has released throughout her decades-long career, which is saying a lot because everything that she has ever been a part of (well, besides “The Pink Panther”) has been phenomenal. While it’s nearly impossible to pick only a few favorites in her massive discography filled with amazing music, here are six of the singer’s best.
1. “Survivor” — Destiny’s Child Because of her impressive solo career, I feel that Beyoncé’s work in Destiny’s Child, the R&B girl group in which she got her start, is overlooked at times, which it absolutely never should be because their music was always phenomenal. While some people found feminism through Betty Friedan or Gloria Steinem, I found it through Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle when they released this masterpiece of an album, which champions female independence and the ability to survive without men. 2. “Irreplacable” I was so obsessed with this song when it came out
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that I learned it in Spanish. I didn’t know Spanish, and don’t understand why I felt the need to learn it in Spanish, but I will never forget that any man who messes with Beyoncé needs to move “a la izquierda.” 3. “Halo” In 2013 I was lucky enough to get tickets to see Beyoncé in concert, and when she played this I kneeled on the ground, screamed the lyrics and sobbed the whole time. Don’t ask me why I had this reaction, I’ll never understand it, but every time I hear “Halo” I think about the time I experienced more emotion than I ever had before in my life. There’s a reason this is one of the singer’s most popular songs,
Across 1. Mariner’s “Halt!” 6. Swipe, slangily 10. Big blowout 14. Match starter 15. “King of the road” 16. Certain vocal range 17. Duvall’s “The Godfather” role 18. Fermi’s study 19. Nasty remark 20. Where Cockney is spoken 23. Rowlands of “Gloria” 24. All wired up 25. Ides of March word 28. House of Henry VIII 31. Like Lucifer 32. Trouble for Pauline 33. Tampa gridder, for short 36. House paint option 40. Kitchen amt. 41. Dreads sporter
because it’s a beautiful, powerful and emotional ballad that pulls at the heart strings over and over. 4. “Countdown” This was my freshman roommate’s alarm clock song, and as annoying as it was to be woken up at 6 every morning, it was better because I woke up to Beyoncé. 5. “***Flawless” In 2013 Beyoncé released her self-titled album, which was a total masterpiece, and one of the best songs on it was “Flawless.” In the song Beyoncé proclaims herself as more than simply JayZ’s wife, features a quote from Chimanda Ngozi Adichie’s TedxEuston speech “We Should
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All Be Feminists” and teaches a generation about feminism — Beyoncé style, in which women are flawless. 6. “Hold Up” Every song on “Lemonade,” Beyoncé’s sixth studio album, is perfect. I’m not exaggerating. In the dozens of times I’ve listened to the album in the week since its release, there hasn’t been a song I’ve skipped, but there has been a song that I’ve repeated numerous times, and that’s “Hold Up.” The lyrics were partly written by Ezra Koenig and inspired by “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the music is among some of the most fun that Beyoncé has produced throughout her career.
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honestly need him, to play some good minutes for us.” “(Cook’s) got really good hands, has a high basketball IQ and uses his body really well so once we get him into our rhythm of our system and how we want to play and get his body to ready to play college basketball I think he’s going to be really good for us.” Leitao also said that Cook is the type of player they try to recruit: talented guys who also have a high character. “Levi falls into what we wanted to do with everyone, which is bring in guys with high character,” Leitao said. “From a basketball standpoint we wanted to and needed to get some size up front.“ Leitao had similar thoughts about Strus, who committed to DePaul last week. “Very happy to have Max come into our program,” he said. “As a transfer he has to sit out next year which I think is really good for him and really good for us because it gets him the year to get better. Not that he’s not already good but that he can get acclimated to the school and the system.” Strus will have two years of eligibility beginning in the 2017-18 season. Leitao said that the Strus addition, beating out other schools who were interested in him such as Xavier and Butler, shows that minds are starting to change from a recruiting perspective about DePaul. “I think coming in here understanding where the program is at and trying to change people’s mindsets about who we are, but also who we’re going to be, is a difficult process,” he said. “To go out in our first year and get top-25 talent was something that we knew wasn’t going to happen. But we wanted to make sure we got top-25 people.” DePaul found their 13th and final scholarship recipient of the 2016-17 season over the weekend when they received a verbal commitment from junior college forward Tre'Darius McCallum. The Blue Demons' coaching staff can now set their sights on recruting Class of 2017 players and beyond. “I think we’ve done a good job this year of getting character people who have talent too,” Leitao said. “Now it’s just about building on that.”
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DePaul guard Billy Garrett Jr. will enter his senior year with at least six new teammates.
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Men's basketball gets verbal commit from transfer forward By Ben Gartland Sports Editor
DePaul men's basketball took another step forward to finishing their 2016-17 roster on Saturday when they received a verbal commitment from Tre'Darius McCallum. McCallum was on his official visit to DePaul when he gave his verbal commitment. McCallum is a sophomore transfer forward from Indian Hills junior college in Iowa, where he finished his sophomore campaign in 2015-16. The 6-foot7, 215 pound forward averaged
11.8 points per game and 6.3 rebounds. He has the ability to play power forward or small forward and, since the graduation of Myke Henry will have left DePaul with a dearth at small forward going into the 2016-17 season, McCalllum adds stability to the position. McCallum will have two years of eligibility to play for DePaul and becomes the sixth new face of the 2016-17 roster. He joins Devin Gage, Brandon Cyrus, Al Eichelberger, Chris Harrison-Docks and Levi Cook next season.
Harvey-Carr and Liebenberg to transfer By Ben Gartland Sports Editor
DePaul announced on Friday that redshirt junior Brandi Harvey-Carr and redshirt freshman Elri Liebenberg have been granted their transfer release and will no longer be with the program. “We would like to thank Brandi and Elri for their time at DePaul. We wish them the best on and off the court,” head coach Doug Bruno said in a TIMOTHY D. EASLEY| AP press release. Brandi Harvey-Carr goes up for a shot against James Madison. Harvey-Carr is set to graduate in June and will be 3.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in redshirt year in 2014-15 and immediately eligible wherever an average of 9.2 minutes. appeared in four games in 2015she transfers for her final year Liebenberg drew interest 16. of eligibility. She was an option with her 6-foot-5 frame on a These roster changes leave off the bench at the forward DePaul team that had a lack of DePaul with 10 confirmed position for DePaul for her size the past couple of seasons players on the roster, however career, appearing in 102 games but could never find a way on according to Scout.com, DePaul with five starts. She averaged to the court. She came off her has four incoming recruits.
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Show it again: NCAA approves instant replay in soccer When replay review can be used • To determine whether a goal has been scored • To identify players for disciplinary matters • To determine whether a fight broke out and to identify all participants
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The new NCAA replay review rules will go into effect during the 2016 season.
By Zachary Holden Staff Writer
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced April 12 that the NCAA Playing Rules and Oversight Panel approved the use of video review in college soccer for the 2016 season. Both men and women’s soccer will have access to video replay for goal disputes, identifying players for disciplinary matters and identifying participants involved in a fight if one was to break out. “I think technology is having a say in sports more and more. I think now we just need to get the
idea of the correct policy in place to be able to manage all of these things,” DePaul men’s soccer coach Craig Blazer said. “That takes time and quality people managing these things so you can get consistency throughout the process. At the end of the day, it’s meant to make our game better, we just all need to make sure we’re in a timely manner managing all of the challenges along the way.” Both head coaches need to agree to the use of video replay before the game kicks off in order for it to go into effect. DePaul women’s soccer coach Erin Chastain said it’s a step in the
RITUALS continued from back page games before breaking the winning streak against Butler, losing 10-1. However, the next day DePaul played Butler again and Kuchta gave Lenti another piece of gum to start over. This time DePaul defeated Butler, 5-1. According to softball graduate assistant Allie Braden, the winning streak had nothing to do with the piece of gum but everything with the way her foot was wrapped. “We lost one, but that’s because the wrap was on the wrong foot. So now we put it in the correct spot and we win.” Softball graduate assistant Allie Braden The DePaul softball team’s first home game was when athletic trainer Natalie Cerda wrapped Braden’s right foot in prewrap just to mess around. Then the team won and because of their superstition, Cerda continued to wrap Braden’s right foot for every game. When DePaul lost against Butler for the first time, Braden blamed it on the way her foot was wrapped. “We lost one, but that’s because the wrap was on the wrong foot,” Braden said. “So now we put it in the correct spot and we win.” The players have plenty of their own rituals, too. One of the most significant rituals the softball team has before each game is their high-five to Jesus. It starts
right direction for college soccer, but is skeptical at first due to the varying levels of technology from school to school. “In the Premier League where they use it, or in hockey or other sports … they have the technology to do it and it’s obviously a high level of technology,” Chastain said. “I think it will be interesting to see because at different facilities there are different video capabilities, so certainly at some it’s probably going to be great and then at others, is it going to be clear evidence? I just don’t know.” For this reason, Chastain said her decision to agree with the use
with Dylan Christensen who looks right at the pitcher’s mound and gives an air high-five to Jesus, with Morgan Maize and the rest of the team following. “He’s here in spirit,” Maize said. “During pre-game introductions, you just got to high five Jesus.” “Always,” Christensen said. In addition to high-fiving Jesus, the team has certain chants for players at bat. They always bat in the same order and after someone does go up to bat, they go to the bathroom to fix their jerseys. “Look good, play good,” Christensen said. The team also always gets into a giant circle before games to do the same stretches, dance, spit and then go run. The list goes on and on. According to Christensen, because softball has so many rituals, it has helped the team dynamic tremendously. “Everyone is on the same page. It releases tension and we’re altogether and just trying to have fun,” Christensen said. The most important thing about rituals is their ability to take away the fear of the unknown. Rituals have prepared Christensen and other athletes to play without expecting any surprises. “Doing things the same way just makes it feel like another day,” Christensen said. “It makes it feel like there’s not a lot of pressure because everything is still going the same way you expect it to go.”
of video replay in a game will be circumstantial depending on the institution’s equipment for each specific match. She admitted she doesn’t think the Big East will adopt it because there’s “not consistent technology across the league.” Chastain said the use of it to identify players for disciplinary matters is going to be beneficial, but it’s the use of it in goalscoring opportunities where she’s hesitant. “You’re going to a camera and it’s subjective, just like it is during the game,” Chastain said. “Certainly you’d want it to be cut and dry, if you go to a camera, you can tell it’s over the goal line.” Junior men’s soccer midfielder Kevin Beyer looks forward to the prospect of using replay to make sure calls are correct, especially when it comes down to scoring a goal. “On the field you always want to get the call right; we would never want a situation where we believed we scored and it is
disallowed wrongly,” Beyer said. “Something like this is a good thing going forward.” “It can be a good thing, but I think it’s going to take time to correctly implement the whole procedure,” Blazer said. Chastain said the most important thing for the NCAA to focus on now is making sure the technology is consistent throughout college soccer initially before it can be a success. Regardless of how long it takes to perfect in the college game, she knows it’s going to change the game to some extent. “I think it’s certainly something we haven’t been used to. In basketball they have instant replay and other things that slow the game down … and soccer is just not like that,” Chastain said. “I just think it’s going to be interesting. It’s great that they want to be in line with what they do at the highest level, but they’re going to have to give all of the institutions (standards to adhere to) so that it’s consistent across the board.”
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Sophomore Austin Harrell's ritual is to eat a sausage and egg sandwich.
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SCOUTING REPORT What exactly are NFL draft analysts saying? Choose your own buzzword adventure ARE YOU: OFFENSE DEFENSE
QB
ARE YOU A:
RB
ARE YOU A: LINEBACKER D-LINE D-BACK
WR
ARE YOU A
ARE YOU A
ARE YOU A(n)
ARE YOU A
ARE YOU A
ARE YOU A
CANNON
MAULER BRICK WALL BIG MAN
ATHLETIC FREAK PROJECT CONCERN
JACK OF ALL TRADES BIG HITTER COVERAGE GUY
QB ASSASSIN BLOCK EATER RUN STUFFER
TRASH TALKER LOCKDOWN CB BALLHAWK
ATHLETIC FREAK
JACK OF ALL TRADES
GAME MANAGER MOBILE QB CANNON
AARON RODGERS You take press coverage as a challenge. Sometimes you don't throw to the open guy in the middle because you know the X-reciever is running a comeback on the outside.
MAULER
TYRON SMITH You were probably a really mean older brother. This title is a reward for all the times you were able to get your way on the playground because other kids were just too darned scared of you. Congratulions! People fear you.
GAME MANAGER
TRENT DILFER You didn't lose the game. There's sure to be a lineman or poor clock management to blame for that, but since you only throw to tight ends, you escape the blame and, with any luck, the defense might win you a Super Bowl.
MOBILE QB
ROBERT GRIFFIN III Why throw the ball when you can run it? You're what's known as a "dualthreat" quarterback, even if sometimes it means you can't really throw and your legs will give out from under you by age 27, but don't let getting cut from training camp early in your career discourage you, you can always run away from your troubles.
BRICK WALL
JOE THOMAS You were taught at a young age to never let anyone touch the quarterback. You never have. This manifests itself in some other, awkward ways as a side effect. When reporters try to talk to your QB after the game, you often interrupt to defend his honor. Well-intentioned you might be, singular goaloriented you always are.
BIG MAN
KING DUNLAP Do you ever feel like nobody gets you? Do you think your friends hang out without you? Do people ever just ... stare at you? If you thought to yourself "that's me!" for any of these questions, then you're probably a "Big Man." Don't worry, just because you're nearly 400 pounds and can't move doesn't mean that life is meaningless. If an NFL career doesn't work out, you can always head to LA to pursue an acting career as the next "Mountain."
DEZ BRYANT The sad truth of the matter is that there's something wrong with you. Maybe you accepted some money from your coaches, maybe you stole crusteaceans from a supermarket, maybe you refer to yourself as "Tha Greatness." That's the only explanation as to how you're not a top-3 pick. Once you fix that, your incredible athletic ability will carry you all the way to Canton.
DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT
PAXTON LYNCH You're like a cinnamon roll. Right now, you smell amazing, like the world's most perfect combination of sucrose and gluten. Your smell blankets the room with your delicious potential, but you're still in the oven. In order to truly enjoy the buttery crisp of your talent, you're going to have a wait a while until your done cooking. Sorry, undercooked pastries are tempting, but you risk salmonella.
CHARACTER CONCERNS
PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE
Ok, so, you just tweeted an incriminating photo of yourself and Justin Bieber. Listen, just remain calm. Although you will be stricken from most teams' draft boards for your immature behavior, it only takes one team to believe in you to get drafted. There's always the Niners, Raiders and Bengals!
LUKE KUECHLY Aside from consistently catching the ball, there is nothing you can't do. You can stop the run, cover in man defense and zone coverage, and blitz the quarterback into early retirement. If you're lucky, you have a name with an "ooo" sound to it. That way, every time you make one of your 16 tackles a game, the whole stadium erupts into a symphony of "ooo!"
BIG HITTER
RAY LEWIS You're a heat-seeking missile. You launch yourself through the diaphragm of the ball-carrier with complete disregard for all the mothers watching at home. You might miss an extra tackle or two because of the intensity of your effort, but as Mike Ditka used to say, "nothing changes a game like a big hit."
COVERAGE
JAIME COLLINS You're what they refer to as a "tasty mismatch." When the mobile tight ends like Travis Kelce, Julius Thomas and Gronk get matched up with you, it's not going to end well for your team. But you bite the bullet and cover the tight ends, because sometimes you get to play tip drill and you may be the defensive hero.
Shaq Lawson holds his new Buffalo Bills jersey after being drafted by the Bills on Thursday.
QUARTERBACK ASSASSIN
JJ WATT You live in a hut, with no time for hobbies or friends. The only hobby you have is game film, and throwing darts at pictures of quarterbacks. You are more beast than man.
BLOCK EATER
DONTARI POE Truth be told, blocks aren't the only thing you eat. But your advanced girth has earned you a shot at the NFL, and your massive frame brings more offensive lineman to your attention, allowing non-buses to get free and attack the quarterback.
RUN STUFFER
MARCELL DAREUS You are the reason the NFL has become a passing league, at least that's what you tell yourself when you get an opportunity to catch a running back at the line of scrimmage. You aren't the most well known player, but you know deep down you're the most important.
TRASH TALKER
RICHARD SHERMAN You are ESPN's favorite defensive player. The NFL loves to mic you up and receivers love to beat you to just to shut you up. You might be the best player on the defensive team, but nobody cares about your abilities. You're more like Donald Trump. What in the world will you say next?
LOCKDOWN CORNER
JOSH NORMAN You're the guy that goes up against the DeAndre Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jrs. of the league. You can't really do anything because you'll get called for a penalty, but you still have a reputation of knocking receivers down and shutting down passing lanes.
BALLHAWK
AQIB TALIB You're like a bird of prey, surveying the field for rodents and other things to eat, including footballs. You don't need interceptions to win the game, you literally need them for sustinence. Every passer can beware, because they may see their precious ball headed the other way.
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Leitao: “We wanted to make sure we got top-25 people.”
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Roster turnover has played a large part in DePaul men’s basketball’s offseason. With eight players leaving, five graduating seniors and three transfers, the Blue Demons had the duty of not only filling holes with talent but also with enough players to fill the roster. After adding three players in the fall, Devin Gage, Brandon Cyrus and Al Eichelberger, the Blue Demons brought in transfer guard Chris HarrisonDocks in the winter, then added 3-star forward Levi Cook and transfer guard Max Strus in the spring signing period. Especially with the roster turning over with so many players, head coach Dave Leitao has put a high emphasis on recruiting players based on their potential. “You have to try and predict where a guy can be as opposed to where he’s at,” Leitao said. “Everybody’s got to get
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Dylan Christensen’s ritual is high-fiving Jesus before a game.
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Sophomore Caleb Pothast puts his shoes on in a certian order.
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Goalkeeper Quentin Low has a similar ritual to sophomore Caleb Pothast where his shoes have to go on in a certain order.
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Dave Leitao addresses the media. better and guys do get better but to get better to the degree that they become significant members in your program is based on who they are. If they come into a college system and they understand why they’re doing what they’re doing then they have a much better chance at getting better quicker.” Leitao said the Cook addition was especially important because of DePaul’s lack of size going into the 2016-17 season. They lost senior Rashaun Stimage to graduation, then three freshmen forwards transferred away from the program, leaving a dearth of young big men. “Mentally I think Cook’s ready and his skillset is ready and so now it’s to get him as acclimated to college as quickly as we can so he can gain valuable experience,” he said. “So that when it comes fall he’s ready to step on the floor because we expect him and,
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Inside athletes’ pre-game rituals, from eating to Jesus By Danielle Church Contributing Writer
Left sock first, then right sock. Left shoe first, then right shoe. This is DePaul men’s soccer player Caleb Pothast’s ritual before every practice and game. “It always has to be on the left side first or else it’s not going to feel right,” Pothast said. “If you change things up, you’re all out of whack, but if you have this habit of going ahead and doing certain things first, you’re ready to go and zoned in on the game.” Pothast is not the first athlete at DePaul to perform certain rituals before a game. Many other athletes and coaches have felt the same, participating in certain rituals because it simply makes them feel more comfortable or because they are superstitious. In fact, men’s soccer goalie Quentin Low has the same ritual as Pothast. From his socks to his cleats to his wrist tape, everything has to be put on the left side of his body first. “It gets you in a specific mindset and
lets your body know you mean business,” Low said. He also touches the crossbar in the net every time he enters and the team scores as a way to show he will protect the goal. Teammate Austin Harrell doesn’t participate in either of the rituals Low and Pothast do, but he does have one of his own. Before Harrell came to DePaul, he used to get a McDonald’s Sausage McGriddle, a breakfast sandwich made up of sausage, egg and cheese between two small pancakes, before every game. When he got to DePaul, he went to Brownstone’s Café in the Student Center and ordered a southern tradition, a breakfast sandwich with sausage, egg and cheese on a plain bagel, before his first game. When they won, he couldn’t break the ritual. At away games, Harrell cannot get a southern tradition, so some sausage and eggs suffice. According to men’s soccer head coach Craig Blazer, his players participate in certain rituals before games because soccer is such an open-ended sport, and they
want to be more in control. Blazer and the other coaches can train their players and guide them as much as they want, but when it comes down to the actual game, everything is up to the players to ultimately determine the outcome. “As coaches, we do all of our work prior and then during the game, we leave it up to the guys,” Blazer said. “We will make substitutions and things like that but it’s really all up to them.” While Blazer does not have any of his own rituals before games, women’s softball head coach Eugene Lenti does. Every time he sees a penny on game day, he has to pick it up because he’s ‘a lucky penny’ guy. This year, he even did something new. Softball had a game in Providence on April 9. At the game one of Lenti’s players, Sabrina Kuchta, offered him a piece of gum. The team won and ever since then, he has continued to grab a piece of gum from Kuchta for good luck. The team went on to win five more
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