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om Ring grew up Students left reeling: page 6 in Madison, Georgia, a rural town with a C.M., to its response to the population just under situation.

4,000. Ring, a freshman, moved to How the event lost control Chicago in part to get away from Yiannopoulos’ visit the deep south. Throughout his life, was no surprise.

College Ring said he saw members of the Ku Republicans began Klux Klan handing out flyers and soliciting donations through even had a friend of Indian heritage GoFundMe for the event in targeted by the Klan, who left stones April and soon after created and bricks in front of their house an event page on Facebook with notes of intimidation on them. for people to RSVP for And so when Ring heard the JOSH LEFF | THE DEPAULIA people to hear Yiannopoulos report of a noose found on campus, speak at the Student Center. it struck a nerve.

Protester Kayla Johnson protests Milo Yiannopoulos’ And according to Nicole He went to Facebook and posted visit to campus.

Been, president of College a message that condemned the act, Republicans, planning for the writing that the campus was unified event was months in the making. and telling whoever dropped it to “get the hell out.” The post The plan called for College Republicans member John garnered 443 likes and was shared 33 times.

Minster to interview Yiannopoulos for about 20 to 30 minutes “When I came to college, I was naive that I could escape and then open the floor for audience questions the remaining racism,” Ring said about his post. “It was definitely some level hour.

But this was not to be, as Yiannopoulos was interrupted of disappointment for DePaul, that DePaul had let me down. I by DePaul alumnus Edward Ward and other student protesters kind of realized that racism is everywhere.” inside the event.

The reports of a noose being found is just one of the many “We had three tiers of people (ready to respond) that when developments since last Tuesday when protests erupted on something would happen, first it would go to one-tier, which campus from the visit of the controversial conservative speaker was us I believe, then it would go to administrators, then it Milo Yiannopoulos, shutting would eventually go to security,” Minster said. “And the third down the Student Center tier, if it got there, would be to remove people. So, in this case, On Tuesday, controversial conservative speaker and creating a charged when we had people threatening to assault Milo, we had people Milo Yiannopoulos visited campus, erupting in atmosphere that left many stalking the stage, we had people taking the mic from me, when students feeling unsafe. protests. See page 3 But while opinions we had that type of thing happening, that breached tier three of the event are sharply immediately.”

University administrators told Been to announce that the divided, many are upset with the university’s perceived lack Chicago Police Department (CPD) had been called and that of action — ranging from Public Safety’s reaction to the tone anyone on the stage besides Minster and Yiannopoulos would of the Yiannopoulos event to an apology issued to the College Republicans from DePaul president Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, See MILO, page 4

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Controversial conservative Milo Yiannopoulos (right) speaks over protesters like alumnus Ed Ward (left) who disrupted the event Tuesday at the Student Center.

Protests erupt after controversial speaker visits campus

By Emma Krupp, Matthew Paras and Kirsten Onsgard Staff Writer, Editor-in-Chief, and Digital Managing Editor

Protesters disrupted an event that featured a controversial speaker Tuesday, causing the Student Center to be shut down and attendees to march throughout DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus afterwards.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a technology reporter for Breitbart and a self-proclaimed “internet supervillain,” visited DePaul in an event held by DePaul’s College Republicans.

The event, held in the Student Center, hit max capacity of 550 attendees, most of them supporters of Yiannopoulos’ outspoken conservative message.

But during the rally, a group of protesters stormed the stage and interrupted Yiannopoulos, riling up the crowd. One of the protesters was Ed Ward, a DePaul alum who founded Men of Vision and Empowerment, who ran up on stage about 15 minutes after Yiannopoulos began speaking.

Ward stormed the stage with a whistle and yelled “this man’s an idiot!” while members in the crowd yelled “get a job!”

Shortly after, Ward was joined onstage by DePaul student Kayla Johnson — who had climbed onstage and been removed before the event began — and the noise from the crowd and the protesters drowned out Yiannopoulos.

Meanwhile, a group of about 100 protesters stood outside the doors of the event. Many of these students had stood in solidarity with one another at a counter rally in the Quad beginning at 5 p.m., during which they voiced concerns about ongoing issues of racism on campus. Several speakers mentioned incidents such as April’s chalking and the painting found on the quad earlier Tuesday, which included the phrase “F— Mexico.”

Police were called to the Student Center and arrived soon after, but didn’t intervene, leaving Yiannopoulos upset with the lack of action taken.

“You know the funny thing is, we actually may have a shortfall. Breitbart paid $1,000 of their money for (extra security) for them to do absolutely nothing,” Yiannopoulos said.

Yiannopoulos and the crowd decided to leave the Student Center and protest the disruption. His supporters cheered and proceeded to rush out.

“We can be activists,” Yiannopoulos said.

“I suggest we walk to the president’s office.”

The crowd marched around Belden and Yiannopoulos was denied re-entrance to the Student Center, being told that the event was over and he didn’t have access to the building. In a statement from the university, the university said “after prolonged interruptions, featured speaker Milo Yiannopoulos left the venue, encouraging supporters to accompany him, thus ending the event.”

It was a vastly different scenario than what some might have expected. At the beginning of the event, Yiannopoulos was joined by freshman John Minster, a member of College Republicans, in what was supposed to be a 20-minute interview session followed by audience Q&A. Fittingly, Minster opened with a question about the opposition Yiannopoulos faces on college campuses. Yiannopoulos specifically cited Black Lives Matter as being a frequent nuisance during his tour.

“I don’t know why Black Lives Matter protests me. I really don’t. Maybe because I’m blacker than they are,” he said.

The conversation then moved to

feminism, which Yiannopoulos has previously described as being “a cancer.”

It was during this question in which Ward interrupted the event, causing chaos.

The protesters themselves faced backlash from members of the crowd. Chants of “build the wall,” “CPD” and “Blue Lives Matter” were hurled at them, and the individual protesters had insults directed to them as well. As one group of crowd members left, a man shouted “you don’t have a house!” after one of the female protesters told them to “get out of my house.”

In a video posted to Facebook early Wednesday, Ward said he had no remorse for disrupting the event.

“Let me be perfectly clear, I do not apologize for my actions on DePaul’s campus,” Ward said. “I don’t apologize for refusing to allow a racist, bigot to spew his hatred on DePaul’s campus. I don’t apologize for shutting the event down. I don’t apologize.”

As Yiannopoulos marched further down Belden Avenue and into the Quad, he tried to stop occasionally and address the crowd, but was often drowned out by the noise.

Yiannopoulos made his way to Fullerton Avenue before getting into a car that left the scene.

The scene left many students uneasy, upset with the lack of action taken beforehand.

“I didn’t expect it to be like this,” freshman and conservative student Kelly Eisaman said. “This was insane. I know DePaul is like this, a mostly liberal area. I’m not going to deny that. But I thought things hit the fan. This was ridiculous.”

Eisaman said he was disappointed in the lack of security. A spokesperson from the Chicago Police Department said that one arrest was made for criminal trespassing.

“It was a sh- show what happened,” he

said. “We were minding our own business and trying to listen to someone we wanted to hear.”

Others like former Student Government Association senator and to-be EVP of Student Affairs Andrew Willett and to-be senator Michael Lynch said the university should have stepped in beforehand.

“I personally believe the university should not continue with events that are this controversial,” Willett said. “I think they should try to stay a little more neutral. This creates a hostile environment for learning, and our students are not in the best spots right now. Student safety is first and foremost, and this is not productive” Lynch said “this was something that was brewing for months.” Lynch was also involved in the solidarity protest before Yiannopoulos’ event began.

“Everyone has asked the school to step in, and facilitate a conversation,” Lynch said. “The school wants to act like that this problem isn’t real. The school wants to send out emails and everything else, but it’s embedded in DePaul’s culture.

“That’s what happened today. It was an overflow of emotions.”

Before the event began, a member from the College Republicans read a statement from the university that said “we welcome the exchange of ideas in this program, but we also have the expectations that such exchanges will be conducted appropriately.”

Following the event, the Student Center was shut down and people were forced to leave. It reopened Wednesday.

A university spokeswoman said they believed it was the first time the Student Center had to be closed because of an event.

“The university is reviewing events to determine whether any disciplinary action is warranted,” a spokeswoman said.

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Conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos listens as he tries to figure out what to do next after his event was interrupted by protesters.

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But Been, other members of College Republicans and attendees are upset that Public Safety chose not to intervene.

“I put more fault on the university beause they easily could have prevented it,” Been said. “They knew this protest was happening.

Arrests could have easily been made and the event could have gone on, but they didn’t want to do that for whatever reason.”

Director of Public Safety Bob Wachowski said that Public Safety’s goal was the preservation of peace.

“You must have witnessed and felt the same tension we did,” Wachowski said in an email. “Our goal was not to have protesters arrested, or any others who may have been stirring things up, though we were prepared to sign complaints and have Chicago Police make arrests.

“Our goal was to preserve the peace, in other words, do all we could to prevent a melee, a riot, serious injuries or worse.

We were using our professional judgment in consultation with Student Affairs to determine our action.”

Been, in particular, said that they were upset because of a last minute quibble between her group and university officials.

Been said three or four days before the event that her group received emails from the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) that required 20 contracted security guards for the event when the two groups agreed upon nine.

After negotiating, College Republicans and the OSI agreed upon 15 security guards, but the additional cost of the extra security was $840. Yiannopoulos said that he was going to cover the cost, but Director of Facility and Operations Bob Janis said that no one had yet to be invoiced for the event.

Because the event was canceled for safety reasons, the university will pick up the cost of security, according to Gene Zdziarski, the vice president for Student Affairs. University officials also said once Yiannopoulos and his supporters chose to leave, the event officially ended and the decision to close the Student Center was made as another safety measure.

As for why police did not intervene, Wachowski said that when CPD is called, Public Safety has the authority to request if arrests are made or not. When police arrived, they entered the Student Center and the crowd chanted “CPD,” waiting for action.

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Milo Yiannopoulos and his supporters march through the Quad on Tuesday, May 24.

The police, however, remained still, further inciting the crowd.

It was Public Safety’s decision to not step in and remove protesters.

“Please understand that this was a campus event, on campus property, and the responsibility for security was under Public Safety, Facility Operations and Student Affairs. CPD was standing by to make arrests if we needed them to,” Wachowski said. “We had several strategies in place and as the scene unfolded, Public Safety and Student Affairs used professional judgement to act accordingly.”

With weeks to plan a counter response, opponents of the Yiannopoulos event petitioned the university to cancel the event.

This effort wasn’t successful despite receiving nearly 500 signatures. Because the event was permitted by the university, anti-Milo students decided to organize a demonstration in the Quad.

This peaceful demonstration would turn rowdy and chaotic, eventually leading to the scene outside the event in the Student Center and later once again in the Quad.

Protest organizer Tom Rietz said it was important to create an outlet for students to express their opinions on the event, which was attended by around 100-150 people.

“A lot of people had been telling me, ‘oh, 30 people are going to come’, ‘it’s not going to be a big thing’,” Rietz said. “But other people

were kind of wary about what was going on, especially with the events leading up to it with the petition and some of the promoting the Republicans did and their reaction to that.”

The plan called for students to assemble in a “peace circle” in the middle of the Quad.

There, Rietz said, introductions would be made, speeches would be given, posters would be built and organizers would explain why they were protesting the event.

The plan was for students to eventually march from the Quad to the Monsignor John J. Egan statue outside the Student Center, where more words would be shared and the protest would eventually disperse. Yet several protesters asked organizers to march earlier than planned in order to be in front of the Student Center when the Yiannopoulos event started. Rietz and other organizers agreed.

“I knew there was going to be a lot of different opinions on how to react and I tried to include as many as I could into the event I had planned,” Rietz said. “But, obviously, people kind of took it upon themselves to do more. And the moment where my event ended and the disorganization began was when people entered the Student Center.”

The atmosphere prior to entering the building was charged as several students were provoked by a conservative journalist from the website RebelPundit.com — who mocked “safe spaces,” among other things —

and was eventually arrested.

Contrary to Rietz’s initial plan, protesters entered the Student Center and chanted outside the doors of the event. Once Ward and others inside the event took the stage and interrupted, Yiannopoulos led his supporters outside, convening with Rietz’s group.

This, along with the sheer mass of the crowd, made it difficult to control.

“A lot more people came and a lot more people were riled up,” Rietz said.

Rietz criticized the university administration and student leaders for not promoting student discussion on the topic sooner.

“I think it’s obvious that the intentions that I had didn’t meet up with the expectation and the implications later,” Rietz said. “And I admit that and I take full responsibility for that.

“There’s so much more involved than just the organization of the protest itself that factored into this,” he said. “It’s emotions, it’s a political environment in an election year that’s very, very contentious, and I think that when you combine that on top of a student body that doesn’t feel like it’s being listened to, then you get outbursts and people acting out and it’s not a healthy campus environment in some ways.”

Where DePaul goes from here In his letter addressed to the student body on Wednesday, Holtschneider said

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Supporters of Milo Yiannopoulos storm the stage after protesters interrupted the event in the Student Center. Police were called, but no arrests were made.

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Protester Charia McDonald speaks out against hate speech in the Quad as the Yiannopoulos event began.

DePaul had some “reflecting and sorting out to do.” At the time of his email, Holtschneider was in France with members from the Board of Trustees.

“Student Affairs will be inviting the organizers of both the event and the protest — as well as any others who wish — to meet with them for this purpose,” Holtschneider said. “I’ve asked them to reflect on how future events should be staffed so that they proceed without interruption; how protests are to be more effectively assisted and enabled; and how the underlying differences around race, gender and orientation that were made evident in yesterday’s events can be explored in depth in the coming academic year.”

Holtschneider also apologized to the College Republicans because “they deserved an opportunity to hear their speaker, and were denied it.”

While Been said she accepted Holtschneider’s apology, she said she was skeptical in the potential change that could come from Holtschneider’s letter. She and her fellow Republicans seemed surprised at the purposed meeting as well.

“We aren’t being forced into this meeting, but we never asked for it either,” Been said.

“As far as I’m concerned, Black Lives Matter isn’t a registered student organization and we are. So to say that, us, we’re going to be forced into this meeting or whatever, was just a little concerning and strange to me, making it

seem like there’s discourse and dialogue that’s going on, but there really isn’t.”

Ward said he would be open to meeting with Holtschneider with his fellow protesters in the next two weeks.

“There are lists of demands that people may have,” Ward said. “I’ll leave that at the discretion of the group.”

He said he’d be open to meeting with College Republicans as well, as long as someone from the university was there too.

“A lot of people get this confused, this is not a battle between two groups,” Ward said. “We are disappointed in the university … for allowing someone who openly bullied students on DePaul’s campus and to have a platform to speak, someone who is obviously inciting not intellectual thought, but hatred and essentially violence.”

Rietz said he felt like Holtschneider’s email didn’t address why protesters were protesting in the first place, and that there was violence on both sides.

“I’d also like to see an emphasis in the topdown sense from the university to facilitate a community dialogue, and maybe do it in a very public place where students can talk it out,” Rietz said. “It’d not only be a space for people not only to say what they’re thinking, but to be listening too. I think if the university can provide a space where students feel listened to, where their grievances are taken into account. I think that’ll be a step forward.”

Other groups on campus also criticized the university’s responses to the event. On Friday, the campus group Feminist Front called for Holtschneider’s resignation.

“You have shown us that you do not support marginalized communities and that instead of eradicating institutional violence on our campus you continue to encourage it,” a statement from the group said. “We demand that you immediately resign, apologize to the marginalized students you neglect, and admit your wrongdoings and complicity in this systemic, institutional violence.”

DePaul Democrats also hinted at a leadership change, saying that if Holtschneider fails to act that “it will become very clear that he is unable to stem the tide of hatred and bigotry that is rapidly engulfing our campus.” Groups like Black Student Union and the Women and Gender Studies program also rejected the letter.

On DePaul’s end, the university said in an email Saturday that they will “share remedies” for the upcoming week. In the meantime, Zdziarski and provost Marten denBoer said that there are additional Public Safety patrols on campus grounds and an escort service has been expanded to 24 hours for those feeling unsafe.

For senior Kiara Farmer, she said she has felt unsafe at DePaul in recent months and wishes the university would have done more in its response to pro-Trump chalkings on

campus in April.

“More needs to be done so I can feel safe and to feel as an alumni, I can encourage more people to be here,” Farmer said Tuesday. “Before I was a freshman, people told me DePaul is a safe place and that they really cared about their students. Right now, I don’t feel like DePaul is safe and that it cares about its students.”

The email also said that Student Affairs staff would be more visible and that information tables will be set up in the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

“The goal is to be actively accessible to students with questions, concerns or feedback,” the email said.

However, staff in the Student Center were told to stay quiet on the issue when working in an email sent to the student employees.

“From this point forward, there is to be no discussion or commentary about Tuesday’s Milo Yiannopoulos event while you are at work,” the email said. “This includes discussions with co-workers, others in the building, other students, reporters, etc). You are free to comment or discuss from your viewpoint as a student, on your personal time when not working, but may not discuss anything while you are at work.”

“While you are working, and wearing a DePaul Student Center polo or fleece, you represent the Student Center and DePaul University as a whole; and anything you say could be misconstrued as an ‘official’ comment from DePaul University or the Student Center,” the email said. “Controversial events like this have many viewpoints, and many people looking to propagate information; and a seemingly innocent comment that is taken in the wrong way could have unintended and possibly disastrous consequences for you, your supervisors, and the Student Centers department.”

The university said it is still investigating the “volatile” events of Tuesday, online and phone harassment of students, faculty and staff, profane leaflets found in Arts and Letters Hall and the noose found on campus.

Until an investigation is revealed, many are waiting to hear the fallout from Tuesday’s events.

“I think people are just tired and want to move past this,” Ring said. “They feel like this is an embarrassing moment for them and their school, and I feel like that too. I feel like our school could have done much better handling the situation.”

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THE AFTERMATH

Students respond to Yiannopoulus event, protests Emma Krupp Staff Writer

Milo Yiannopoulos’ now-infamous appearance on campus Tuesday night may have been shut down early, but its aftershocks are still settling throughout the DePaul community as students struggle to reconcile ideologies, anger and fear.

The rally, which was cancelled after protesters took the stage about 15 minutes into an interview session with Yiannopoulos, came after weeks of tension following this week’s oil paint incident on the Quad and the so-called “chalkening” last month. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that the student body is caught between a messy jumble of opinions.

Alex Bednar, a freshman, said he joined the protest on the Quad spontaneously after reading through Yiannopoulos’ Twitter feed. He stayed with the protest group until Yiannopoulos left campus, an experience he described as being “chaotic.”

“It was almost hard to differentiate who was on which side, who was standing for what,” Bednar said. “It turned into a lot of vulgarity on both sides, chanting very mean speeches at each other.”

He said he thinks there should have been a better dialogue between the two parties involved, especially given the timing of the event.

“I do entirely believe in the freedom of speech and the idea that people are allowed to say and express their views in any context that they want,” Bednar said.

“However, I also am a firm believer in timing and location. The example I had was that it’s kind of like how if someone wanted to make a World War II joke in a Holocaust museum, nothing is legally stopping you from saying that. But given the context of where you are, it’s probably not the best choice.”

For some, though, it’s difficult to justify shutting the event down.

Sophomore Brock Pace, who was at the rally, said he likes the way Yiannopoulos pushes the boundaries of free speech — even though he doesn’t agree with most of the content of that speech – and hoped protesters would approach Yiannopoulos during the event’s designated questionand-answer session.

“I think the Q&A probably would have been moderated in a way that would skew toward Milo, but if people were going to do the whole protest thing and try to shut down the event, maybe they could have tried instead to have an actual dialogue about what he thinks,” Pace said, adding that he wishes he could have confronted Yiannopoulos about some of his more controversial opinions. “He’s said some terrible things that I don’t agree with that I could have talked to him about.”

Freshman Joey Traverso also said that he disagrees with the way the protest inside the rally was carried out, despite his dislike of Yiannopoulos’ message and rhetoric. He felt that by forcing the event to be cancelled, the protesters were misrepresenting the bulk of students who don’t support Yiannopoulos but still wanted to let him speak.

“The idea isn’t to silence people’s voices,” Traverso said. “Ultimately I think it’s an unfair representation of people who disagree with (Yiannopoulos’) point

of views.”

Other students were upset and disappointed they didn’t get the chance to hear Yiannopoulos finish his talk.

Freshman Brendan Howard is a member of College Republicans, the organization that planned and fundraised the event.

He said he feels like DePaul was biased against his club’s conservative viewpoints, and that the school effectively “picked a side” by allowing the rally to be cancelled.

“We expected protests. I mean, there are videos of him speaking at other schools and that always happens,” Howard said. “But if that happens at other schools, security removes them.

DePaul needs to stand by that and respect that this is a private event.”

Howard added that he thinks DePaul should pay for the charges incurred for the event by both the College Republicans and Yiannopoulos, who reportedly paid an extra $1,000 in security fees.

“If we protested one of their events, we would be removed,” Howard said.

“And we would expect that. I think that’s a reasonable expectation.”

And yet for some students, Yiannopoulos’ particular rhetoric seems to go beyond the realm of free speech.

Daniella Mazzio, a junior, wasn’t at the event or the protest. She said she figured it would be similar to the March rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump at UIC – controversial, but not fully on her radar. But after watching several videos of its aftermath and hearing stories from friends and acquaintances, she said she finds it hard to dismiss Yiannoupolos’ words, as well as those of his supporters, as a mere exertion of First Amendment rights.

“It’s just really disconcerting and upsetting and kind of nauseating to hear (free speech) be the excuse or the pass to why this happened, and to fully put shame on the protesters,” Mazzio said. “I think you can make fair arguments that maybe the protest wasn’t carried out in the best way, but to completely silence them as you are saying you believe in free speech is the most appalling part of all of this.”

For others like Avery Cunningham, racially charged rhetoric has created a frightening situation. DePaul received reports of a noose found on campus Thursday.

“I was angry first. Then I was seized by a very deep fear,” Cunningham said. “I feared for my safety.

(Coming from the south) I haven’t seen anything like this before.”

In an email sent out Wednesday afternoon, DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., called for exploring “underlying differences around race, gender and orientation that were made evident in yesterday’s events.” That kind of sentiment, reflective of a desire for an open dialogue between groups on campus, was reiterated by many students as a path forward.

“I think the major solution would be communication between all parties. That would include the College Republicans and the protesters and other groups of people that may be offended by it,” Bednar said. “Not social media dialogue, but actual dialogue between person, school and person.”

At this time, no official plans have been put into place as to how to execute this dialogue.

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May 24

College Republicans report finding “Trump 2016” and “F— Mexico”painted on Quad to Public Safety.

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May 24

Public Safety apprehends 22-year-old Peter Myers, and turns him over to Chicago police who charged him with criminal

6 p.m.

May 24

Milo Yiannopoulos’ event begins in the Student Center.

Meanwhile, approximately 100 students fill the Quad in a counter-protest, “Don’t Feed the Troll.”

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May 24

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damage to property.

A few protesters rush the stage and take over the event. 100 protestors from the Quad surround the doors, accompanied by Public Safety and soon joined by the Chicago Police. Yiannopoulos led the crowd out and soon left.

The university received multiple reports of a noose found on the Lincoln Park Campus. The situation is being investigated and “those found to be responsible will be held accountable.”

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Protestors marched from the Quad to the Student Center, where Yiannopoulos spoke Tuesday.

Digital Managing Editor & News Editor

In the evening of a day already marked by controversial rhetoric, more than 100 students descended upon the quad late Tuesday afternoon to speak out against the appearance of self-proclaimed “internet supervillain” Milo Yiannopoulos at a campus event later that night.

The students ­­ — some of whom represented established activist groups and others who stood in solidarity – took to airing their grievances against the university and hate speech just hours before colliding with conservative attendees and Yiannopoulos himself on the quad after the event was disrupted.

“We are constantly talking about being inclusive and diverse,” junior Michael Lynch said. “However, when students of color, low income backgrounds and marginalized communities speak up, the response is, ‘Stop being so sensitive.’”

While many said that Yiannopoulos’ appearance at DePaul and platforms ­ — such as equating feminism to cancer — were problematic, several students voiced concerned about what they said is an ongoing problem with intolerance at the university, and its failure to enact measures to end it.

“The problem isn’t (Yiannopoulos) — he’s one of many. The problem is why this private institution in Chicago in 2016 thinks it’s okay to give a platform to hate,” he said.

Earlier Tuesday, “F— Mexico” was found painted on the Quad just feet from where the protestors spoke, which the DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider condemned as a hateful slur. The still-unknown perpetrator was caught by Public Safety and apprehended by the Chicago Police Department.

Charia McDonald, a resident assistant in University Hall, asked what the university would do to “make me feel safe in my own house.”

“I live right there, and I saw that,” she said, referring to the paintings Tuesday. “I don’t feel safe in my own home, and I pay to be here.”

Laura Springman, one of the leaders of Feminist Front, echoed the sentiment. The target of a tweet from Yiannopoulos earlier in the day, which featured a photo of her and other Feminist Front members with the message,“This is what a DePaul feminist looks like,” Springman was disappointed in the university for allowing the event to go through.

“I think that it’s unacceptable that DePaul is condoning the fact that a speaker is coming who has attacked students directly,” Springman said. “I just think that’s really

inconsiderate. I pay tuition dollars. I shouldn’t have to feel unsafe on campus.”

“I shouldn’t have to feel like the speaker that came is actively against me and my friends and stuff like that,” she said. “It’s just a really uncomfortable environment and it was not something I wanted to deal with today.”

Others like senior Kiara Farmer pointed to incidents like April’s chalking, during which College Republicans — which organized the Yiannopoulos event — wrote phrases such as “Build a Wall” and “Blue Lives Matter” on campus. The university erased the chalkings and cited its policy against political markings on campus, and College Republicans defended their actions as free speech.

Farmer, who is also an RA, said the chalking marked a definitive shift in campus climate, causing her to feel unsafe on campus.

“I’m just very hurt that DePaul didn’t do more when the chalkings occurred, because if they had, we wouldn’t have had people come back and write slurs in oil,” she said. “We’re not feeling sensitive, we’re just not okay with what’s happening.”

Yiannopoulos and several of his supporters have argued that colleges provide a coddling environment for students, shooting down the notion of a “safe space.”

At the rally, students pointed to the need for an open environment to voice concern about what they deem as hate speech.

“It is important for you to feel free to say that ‘I feel unsafe here,’” freshman Anais Donald said.

Though many at the rally voiced their agreement with free speech, they also said that there is a difference between free speech and hate speech.

“This isn’t about being a Republican or a Democrat, this is about someone saying something hateful to a group of people that is directly aimed at them, and saying we have the audacity to call them out for it,” freshman Anais Donald said. “Because I have a brown face, I am wrong for saying I am offended by your actions such as saying we should build a wall to stop immigration.”

While most attendees stood in solidarity, around five or six men holding up proDonald Trump signs stood to counter the event. The men were registered guests for the Yiannopoulos event, but not DePaul students.

Since they were non-DePaul students on university property for an event other than the one they signed up for, Public Safety asked them to leave. The men at first refused, but dispersed once told the Chicago police would be called if they persisted.

Leaving the quad amid chants of “Racists, sexists, anti-gays, right wing bigots, go away,” the group marched toward the Father Egan

statue outside the Student Center, where several faced heated arguments from a cameraman from a conservative outlet who recorded them. Public Safety and several DePaul administrators warned him to remain on public ground. He was later ejected from inside the Student Center by Chicago police.

Contrary to their original plan, the group then entered the Student Center, chanting outside the first floor conference room where Yiannopoulos was speaking. While several tried to enter, increased security prevented them from doing so. After a few began banging on the doors of the event, several other students urged protesters to remain calm.

After two protesters inside the event interrupted it, Yiannopoulos, attendees and protesters spilled outside, erupting into a chaotic mass. Protesters barred entry into DePaul buildings and urged conservative supporters to leave, chain linking arms in front of the Schmitt Academic Center and west side of the Student Center.

Once Yiannopoulos left in a car, splinter groups from both sides faced off in heated discourse for more than an hour across campus and in front of the Student Center.

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Sheriff Dart talks criminal justice Brenden Moore News Editor

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart discussed everything from his efforts on mental health reform to rumors of a possible 2019 mayoral run during an appearance on campus Tuesday evening.

The event, sponsored by the DePaul College Democrats, provided an oasis of calm discussion amid the chaotic scene across the university brought on by Milo Yiannopoulos’ concurrent event and the student protests it generated.

Dart, who was elected to a third term as sheriff in 2014, spoke for around 20 minutes and then took questions from the audience of about 50 for about another hour. Much of the discussion focused on mental health and criminal justice reform, issues Dart has championed as he challenges the traditional role of what a sheriff’s job is.

“85 percent of the people who enter our jail go right out the door back out to the community,” Dart said. “So the majority, the largest funnel, is coming out of jails. Yet, the people who operate jails traditionally have thought they’re not the ones to try and fix the broken toys because that’s going to be done somewhere else.”

Dart spoke of the proactive efforts his office has taken in response, such as treating inmates for mental health, giving them proper therapy and providing them with a plan to succeed upon release from the jail. As he has done often in the past, Dart mentioned how the Cook County Jail is probably the largest

mental health provider in the country.

“I told folks, if they’re going to make me the largest mental health provider in the country, I’m going to be the best one,” Dart said.

The sheriff said the challenge is often getting people to recognize that the problem exists.

“I think it’s because most of us don’t interact with large segments of our society,” Dart said. “And as result of that, it’s very easy to push them off to the margins and not think of them. Not because you’re a bad person, but because you do don’t work with them, you don’t deal with them, you don’t see them.”

Speaking on criminal justice, Dart said upset and anger in many communities when it comes to the criminal justice system is understandable because “it has never worked for them. Objectively, it hasn’t.”

Dart acknowledged that these problems were years in the making and will not be fixed overnight, but challenged the students in attendance to get involved.

“So, how did we get to this trainwreck and what do we do about it? Collectively, these things have been allowed to go on and collectively, because it’s out of sight and out of mind, it hasn’t been on people’s radar screens,” Dart said. “But the solutions to them I really do feel are doable. And it’s going to be really incumbent upon a lot of you folks, people in your generation, to really take the lead on that and to care.”

The room erupted in loud applause when a student suggested to Dart that he run for mayor in 2019. The sheriff, who’s been coy

BRENDEN MOORE | THE DEPAULIA

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart speaks at an event sponsored by the DePaul Democrats last Tuesday. He spoke about mental health and criminal justice reform. about his interest, jokingly told the room, “I haven’t figured out what I want to do when I grow up yet.”

“Honest to God, I really, really love what I’m doing,” Dart said. “I know we’re literally at the forefront of incredible change in an area I know that needs it, I’m pretty good at it, so it’s tough for me to do that. But I told people I’d look at it this time.”

At the end of the Q&A, Dart mingled with students, taking photo and sharing stories.

While those who attended were happy to hear from the sheriff, the actions taking place outside the event, which was hosted in the Schmitt Academic Center, was not far from mind. Many students spoke of the contrast between the event and the College Republicans’.

“We decided to bring someone who wanted to come and talk about the issues and not bash certain groups of people,” said Nassir

Faulkner, president of the DePaul Democrats.

“So I think that says a lot. Other groups on campus may have created more of a stir, but I think the students in this room got more out of what Sheriff Dart was talking about rather than some guy who goes around to college campuses and speaks to people about what happens to be very offensive rhetoric.”

For junior and DePaul Democrats executive board member Kyla Patterson, the event was refreshing.

“It was refreshing to see an actual, constructive political conversation go on on campus,” Patterson said. “Tom Dart is leading the nation when it comes to criminal justice reform, and as somebody who’s been impacted by mental illness in my life and have seen the negative impacts that the criminal justice system has on people who suffer from mental illnesses, seeing someone who’s at the forefront of reform, it’s great.”

Workers to be paid

By Kirsten Onsgard Digital Managing Editor

Freshman Gautam Bhoyrul just wanted dinner Tuesday night. But upon returning from filming a separate campus event, he found the Student Center closed following Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech and the ensuing campus protests. With The Ray overflowing with students facing a similar dilemma, he ordered food and called it a night.

But the next day, he saw a bigger problem: what about the Student Center workers who left work early?

“Initially I heard they weren’t going to get paid,” he said. “They’re normal, nice people, and they’ve helped us out. I mean, I’m a freshman, I’ve been eating in the Stu almost every day.”

According to Operations Director Bob Janis, all Student Center workers – both DePaul students and those employed by the university’s food service provider, Chartwells — will be paid for their promised hours Tuesday. But as word circulated Wednesday morning, Bhoyrul launched a GoFundMe page to support the employees who serve him and other students each day.

In 24 hours, the crowdfunding effort raised more than $300, most of which Bhoyrul said came from fellow students or anonymous funders. After learning they would be paid for their work, Bhoyrul said he was relieved and would reimburse the donors.

“The fact that they are getting paid is all that matters,” he said.

Amid the tense campus atmosphere, Bhoyrul said he saw this effort as a means to bring people together — regardless of their opinion of what occurred Tuesday.

Controversial conservative Breitbart

journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ speaking event at the Student Center was abruptly interrupted by protesters Tuesday night, causing a chaotic scene as the more than 500 attendees and at least 100 demonstrators outside spilled across campus.

After Yiannopoulos led supporters outside, the Student Center was closed around 7:45 p.m. for safety reasons according to the university, and employees were sent home.

Bhoyrul said he reached out to Yiannopoulos after launching the fundraiser to see if he would donate, as well. While he said he sees both sides of the issue — that Yiannopoulos should have been allowed to speak and that much of his rhetoric can be divisive — some of what he saw and the response to his fundraiser have been encouraging.

“I saw videos of people on the quad having discussions about our country and current issues instead of getting into fistfights,” he said. “They were still hearing other points of views, and I thought that was really interesting: that we are having actually civil debates across campus. I thought it was going to be all-out brawls.

The fact that that’s not being focused on as much is a big deal.”

For now, he’s focused on another fundraiser called “Give Me Money for Cheesecake Factory” (sic), which began as a joke after discovering GoFundMe. He said the funds raised will go towards buying a meal and supplies for the homeless near the Lincoln Park campus sometime next week. This fundraiser’s scale is smaller: including the payment he received for filming Sheriff Tom Dart — who spoke at the same time as Yiannopoulos — ­ he has raised a little more than $30.

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Zachary Holden Staff Writer

On May 20 the DePaul School of Hospitality Leadership announced it would be receiving a $1.8 million grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation to create a career preparation and leadership development center for its students.

The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Center for Student Development and Engagement will be located in the School of Hospitality Leadership on the Loop Campus and is set to provide students with everything from individual mentoring and career guidance to various forms of training and networking with both alumni and industry professionals to go alongside with what they are taught in classes.

“We have the classroom time, which is really great, but we also have these ancillary support mechanisms that exist,” Nicholas Thomas, assistant professor and director of the Center for Hospitality Research and Education, said. “One of those great ones

we have here is the Career Center and most students at DePaul will take advantage of that. What the center is really going to do is be one of those ancillary things. We’re not going to compete with the career center; we’re really here to complement it.”

Nestled in downtown Chicago, the DePaul School of Hospitality Leadership — though only seven years old ­— already gives students an advantage over most other similar programs in the country due to the fact the city is such a bustling hub for the hospitality industry.

“It’s a huge advantage,” Thomas said.

“A lot of our students are very engaged with the industry, whether it’s working a part-time or full-time job in restaurants or hotels, whether it’s doing one of the two internships they have, whether it’s (being part of) the student clubs … that really gets them out in the industry – that gives them a significant edge.”

Freshman Kenzie Mocogni had similar thoughts when she was choosing what college to go to after finishing up high school and said DePaul’s location is what

sold her on it.

“That was a big factor in my decision to come here and I feel like being right downtown, we’re already at such a competitive advantage with our location and our faculty who have such great connections to great hotels and industry professionals in the area,” Mocogni said.

With the center set to open in the fall, Mocogni will be able to use it to her full advantage for the next three years, or more if she decides to do the combined bachelor’s and master’s program.

“It’ll help me develop professionally with the help of all of the industry professionals that we already have that work with our school,” Mocogni said. “Having them come in and spend the couple hours a week here and be able to help us and mentor us is really going to be great.”

For senior Emily Greenbaum, she won’t be able to have quite as much time to utilize the center as Mocogni will, but since she’s going to be pursuing her master’s at DePaul, she’s going to make sure she gets the most out of it while she can.

“I was really excited about it because it gives students a lot more opportunities that makes their experience at DePaul unique, more so than at a different hospitality program,” Greenbaum said. “It’s going to be great for students in general.”

Greenbaum has a friend in the hospitality program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and said the differences are night and day here at DePaul and it gives her so much of a competitive advantage.

“Being able to go to work and go to class throughout the day is so different,” Greenbaum said. “I know she has told me that they have to travel an hour to get to Boston to work and going both ways (is tedious), and you need a car. There’s no public transit.

“Location alone is a huge competitive advantage and just the fact that in Chicago, the hotel industry (and) tourism industry that’s going on right now is booming … it makes me feel like we’re on the cutting edge almost because we’re surrounded by it.”

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University Hall 5 The Quad 11

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Student Center

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LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS MAY 18 1) A criminal damage to property report was filed for graffiti at McGowan South.

2) A criminal trespass to real property report

was filed for a person soliciting for donations.

3) A battery report was filed for a person who

was inappropriately touched walking down Fullerton Ave.

4) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed in the Clifton parking garage.

Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.

MAY 20 5) A criminal trespass arrest was conducted in University Hall. Person was taken into custody

by Chicago Police.

MAY 21 6) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor

report was filed in the Student Center. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.

7) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a

10) An armed robbery report was filed for a robbery at Belden Avenue and Bissell Street.

With the help of DePaul Public Safety, Chicago Police took one offender into custody MAY 24 11) A criminal damage report was filed for

15) A battery report was filed regarding an incident outside the Student Center.

LOOP CAMPUS MAY 18 16) A criminal defacement report was filed for

minor report was filed in S.A.C. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.

graffiti in the Quad. A Chicago Police report was filed for the incident.

markings on a poster in DePaul Center.

8) A burglary from motor vehicle report was

12) A criminal defacement of property report

MAY 23 17) A theft report was filed for an unattended

filed for a person parked on Fullerton Avenue near the red line. A computer and other items were taken from the vehicle.

MAY 22 9) A criminal defacement of property report was filed for graffiti on the Sheffield parking garage.

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was filed for graffiti in Arts and Letters.

13) A sexual harassment report was filed for a person at the Rosalind Franklin campus.

14) A disturbance and criminal trespass report was filed for a person in the Student Center lobby. Chicago Police took the person into custody.

bag taken from a table outside of Sbarro in the DePaul Center food court.

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Resetting the social network

DePaul research helps former addicts return to communities

By Rachel Hinton Nation & World Editor

Leon Venable, owner and chief operating officer of the Kalimba House Corporation, didn’t really know about the Oxford House program until he needed it most.

While he was recovering from his addiction, he lived in one of the organization's houses — the first in Illinois — for three years as he found his bearings and moved back into the community, finding jobs and a support system, as well as founding Kalimba, which provides training and education under the Oxford House Model, one that emphasizes a community approach to addiction treatment and creating an independent, supportive and sober living environment.

For Venable, DePaul professor Leonard Jason and his team of students in the community psychology program have helped him along the way as he too begins to spread the model of Oxford Houses around the country.

Jason and his students do research on the Oxford Houses and how they help former addicts get back on their feet. The research they've done have helped the organization, but also former addicts as the nation moves to address substance abuse.

“Our relationship grew into one of mutual respect,” Venable said. “(Jason has) taught me many things over the years and helped me understand. It’s been a great journey and I had no clue until we started.”

Since then, Venable said, Jason and those who do research showing the effectiveness of the Oxford House model have turned the movement for reassessing halfway houses and addiction treatment into a national one. Jason has worked for over 25 years doing research on how the organization helps the people who call the houses home.

Statistically, one in 10 adults will have drug or alcohol problems in their lives, Andrew Pucher, president and CEO of the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD), said.

“Addiction causes a lot of grief,” Pucher said. “If you think of the economic impact — the cost of health care and the impact on the criminal justice system — it’s very expensive to society, both emotionally and financially.”

The election cycle has brought the drug and alcohol epidemic to the forefront of national conversation, but drug abuse and subsequent treatment of people with addictions barely entered the discussion until this year. Nightly broadcasts about new medicine to help people who are overdosing, or about addiction in general, are in abundance, but there is little talk of what comes after an overdose or life after addiction.

That’s where the Oxford Houses and the work of Jason and his students in DePaul’s community psychology program come in.

They do research on the effectiveness of the houses — are people finding jobs, how long is the average stay in an Oxford House and, most importantly, are people remaining sober.

Rather than focusing solely on the individual level, the community psychology program focuses on the community and the environment people are in. Jason and his students, who are entrenched in the field of community psychology, used the discipline to understand what people in recovery needed from their communities and themselves in order to be successful.

They didn’t wait for people to come to them, but rather went to communities to create a more public health approach to head off addictive behaviors.

“In a sense it’s the fit of the individual and the social context that we want to study, rather than just the individual,” Jason said. “(Through this) we can see how individuals and communities support health, coping and adaptation.”

In terms of their work with the Oxford House organization, Jason and his team thought it was a good idea for people to come up with solutions to their own problems. The first house in the U.S. in 1975 was started by then Sen. Paul Molloy who sought treatment for his alcoholism at a halfway house that would later close due to financial difficulties. Molloy and others took over the lease and renamed it Oxford House after the Oxford Group, the religious organization that influenced the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Today there are nearly 2,000 Oxford Houses around the country.

The purpose of the houses are to ensure people have the tools and support systems to help themselves overcome drug abuse and addiction. The government doesn’t keep track of the number of people who die every year due to drug or alcohol addiction, but the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that in 2014 the number of people who overdosed on prescription drugs was just over 25,000, while the number of people who overdosed on heroin was around 11,000.

Jason and those who have worked with him through the program provide empirical data, showing why the houses are important and whether or not they are effective. A lot of people end up in jail or in prison, Jason said, but by broadening the reach of the program and expanding who receives help the hope is to lower the rate of people behind bars.

Research that he and others conducted found that nearly 70 percent of people who went to Oxford Houses were sober two years later, but, if they didn’t go to an Oxford House only 35 percent were. This data helped the Oxford Houses become an empirically validated program, which has helped the organization spread its message and build more houses.

“We try to empower them to get the resources and skills they need to be more successful so we can broaden our reach,” Jason said. “When people come out of jail and prison, the two things they ask for are shelter and a job. Those are the two things our society doesn’t provide them. Oxford House can provide them these things in an inexpensive way because it’s self-run.”

Those who live in Oxford Houses find

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The number of people ages 12 to 49 who have in the past year used heroin, have a heroin dependence or initiated using heroin has grown over the past nine years. The work of Leonard Jason and his students addresses this and works with the Oxford House organization to help formerly addicted people get jobs and stay sober.

jobs and do chores around the house to help them begin to move back into the community. In the last year alone, Jason said, 25,000 people have lived in Oxford Houses making it the largest self-help recovery program in the U.S. Everyone works and puts money and time into their home, making them a step higher than a regular halfway house. This helps people make friends and rebuild their networks, filling them with people who support sobriety and who understands the struggle with sobriety. It’s about changing the social ecology, he said.

The networks aren’t the only facet that must change, Jason said. Old policies, ones that enforce mandatory minimums and don’t allow for progress or inhibit the ability of addicted people to get jobs and get out of their old communities should also be addressed and rectified.

In March, the Obama administration announced actions his administration would take to address opioid abuse and the heroin epidemic. The speech, as well as other actions taken by the president this year, may be connected to the detrimental impact the War on Drugs, the 1971 initiative started by President Nixon, had on largely minority and blighted communities.

In a speech given to the National

Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, the president proposed an increase in patient limits for physicians, more funding for clinics and hospitals who handle patients with addictions and more funding to a select group of states to enhance their medicalassisted treatment programs.

Illinois, among other states, eased its drug policies from 2009 to 2013, but with the current budget stalemate money that might go to recovery programs is frozen. The Oxford Houses, which are selfsustaining, are not immune from the crisis.

Venable, who has been active with the Oxford House community for the past 20 years, hopes it continues and hopes money and other means continues to trickle to the organization so they can continue their work.

“Oxford House works on the premise of family. There are many members who return to the community and get jobs and go on with their lives,” he said. “It helped them — and me get a fresh start after addiction. It’s saved thousands of lives in Illinois alone. That’s the beauty of it.”

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Chicago school leaders and students, parents and community members from around the state rally for fair education funding in the rotunda at the state capital on Thursday. The Democratic-led Illinois House passed a budget for next year that includes money for public schools, so a full veto would jeopardize their ability to open this fall.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday.

Illinois budget negotiations continue

Obama, Abe heed politics of contrition on Hiroshima visit

Springfield, Illinois A day after Republicans booed and yelled at Illinois House Democrats for passing their own budget without GOP input, leaders from both parties and the governor resumed talks Thursday on how to end an 11-month budget stalemate.

But negotiations remain tenuous and lawmakers conclude their spring session Tuesday.

"The Democrat leaders now share our sense of urgency of bringing this impasse to a close," Republican House Leader Jim Durkin said after the meeting in Gov. Bruce Rauner's office.

Their comments came less than a day after House Democrats approved a nearly $40 billion budget within hours of its introduction Wednesday evening.

The Republican governor has already threatened to veto it if it passes the Senate.

The spending plan House Democrats proposed includes money for schools in one single bill, unlike last year when it was separated from the rest of the budget. Schools were then largely spared the consequences of the budget impasse because Rauner approved their funding.

Now there's anxiety from public schools that they might not get the funding needed to open this fall.

"It's all getting very concerning. And as a citizen and a taxpayer, I would expect that the legislative bodies would've done something not in the eleventh hour to solve this," said Jan McDermit, 48, who has two children at Chicago's Hamilton Elementary and took part in a large rally at the Capitol Thursday urging lawmakers to pass a plan funding schools.

Illinois is the last state in the country still without a budget for the current fiscal year.

After lawmakers adjourn, they can still pass a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 but it will be more difficult because it will require support from three-fifths of each chamber instead of a simple majority.

Steve Brown, a spokesman for Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan gave a more lukewarm assessment of the meeting. He said Madigan is "continuing to urge the governor and aides to be more persuasive on their efforts to pass the personal agenda" and that they should "avoid the temptation to hold Illinois hostage as a tool."

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Schoolgirls offer prayers at the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.

President Obama will visit the city Friday.

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Trump surpasses delegate threshold, begins new attacks Bismarck, North Dakota Triumphantly armed with a majority of his party's delegates, Republican Donald Trump unleashed a broadside attack Thursday on Hillary Clinton's prescriptions for energy, guns, the economy and international affairs, shifting abruptly toward the general election with his likely Democratic opponent locked in a divisive primary contest.

The New York billionaire shrugged off signs of discord in his party hours after sewing up the number of delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination, a feat that completed an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.

"Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal," Trump crowed during an appearance in North Dakota.

"We've had tremendous support from almost everybody."

Trump's good news was tempered by ongoing internal problems. Those include the sudden departure of his political director and continuing resistance by many Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, to declaring their support for his outsider candidacy.

At the same time, Clinton faced fresh questions about her use of a private email server while secretary of state, even as she fought to pivot toward Trump, who she warned would take the country "backward on every issue and value we care about."

The State Department's inspector general released a report a day earlier concluding that Clinton did not seek legal approval for her private email server, guaranteeing the issue will continue nagging her campaign for a second summer. She insisted Thursday

that she had done nothing wrong.

"It was allowed. And the rules have been clarified since I left about the practice. Having said that, I have said many times, it was a mistake. And, if I could go back, I would do it differently," Clinton said, according to an interview transcript provided by ABC News.

Campaigning before union workers in Las Vegas, she decried Trump's anti-union comments and his proposal to deport millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. She said he is an "unqualified loose cannon" who should never be president.

Complicating her election challenge, Clinton's Democratic rival Bernie Sanders embraced the possibility of a one-on-one debate with Trump. The Republican said he'd "love to debate Bernie," but would want the debate to raise at least $10 million for charity.

"The problem with debating Bernie," Trump noted, "he's going to lose."

Just 75 delegates short of her own delegate majority, Clinton remains on a path to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, according to an Associated Press count. But Trump got there first.

The New York businessman sealed the majority by claiming a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July. Among them was Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard.

"I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is," Pollard said. "I have no problem supporting Mr. Trump."

Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama on Friday became the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima.

Here, at this place of so much suffering, where U.S. forces dropped the atomic bomb that gave birth to the nuclear age, Obama paid tribute to the 140,000 people who died from the attack seven decades ago.

He did not apologize. He also did not second-guess President Harry Truman's decision to unleash the awful power of nuclear weapons. He did not dissect Japanese aggression in World War II. Rather, Obama aimed to offer a simple reflection, acknowledging the devastating toll of war and coupling it with a message that the world can — and must — do better.

He looked back, placing a wreath at the centopath, an arched monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park honoring those killed by the bomb that U.S. forces dropped on Aug. 6, 1945.

A second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000 more.

Obama looked forward.

Hiroshima is much more than "a reminder of the terrible toll in World War II and the death of innocents across the continents," Obama said Thursday.

It is a place, he said, "to remind ourselves that the job's not done in reducing conflict, building institutions of peace and reducing the prospect of nuclear war in the future."

Those who come to ground zero at Hiroshima speak of its emotional impact, of the searing imagery of the exposed steel beams on the iconic A-bomb dome.

The skeletal remains of the exhibition hall have become an international symbol of peace and a place for prayer.

The president was accompanied on his visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — a demonstration of the friendship that exists between the only nation ever to use an atomic bomb and the only nation ever to have suffered from one.

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Make dialogue healthy again Students shouldn't have to fight to have voices heard Editorial Board A week has passed, yet the DePaul community is still reeling in the aftermath of conservative journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ stop through its Vincentian doors. College Republicans were wrongfully denied an opportunity to hear their speaker, no matter the poor intentions they had in hosting him. But, more importantly, minority groups had to deal with multiple racial incidents that have brought DePaul’s status as a diverse and inclusive place into question.

Yiannopoulos came to DePaul under the facade of standing up for free speech and challenging the opinions traditionally held by liberal college students. And, predictably, there was backlash.

But, what was exposed was not a campus full of liberals intolerant of other viewpoints, but a student body yearning to be heard.

While the actions of these protesters, whether banging on the doors outside the event or disrupting it inside, were wrong, their grievances are legitimate and cannot be dismissed out of hand.

Tuesday did not happen inside of a vacuum. The heated rhetoric of a nasty presidential campaign has seeped into many aspects of life, especially on college campuses. And in the age of Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump, it is not surprising to see a clash of cultures, especially as the country becomes more diverse and existing power structures are challenged.

This clash played out both before and after Yiannopoulos’ visit to campus.

Tuesday morning, an oiling sketched on the Quad featured an anti-Mexican slur. This came a month after College Republicans drew chalkings in front of the Student Center that included phrases like “build the wall.”

And of course, a noose was reportedly found on campus on Thursday. This was after people of color in the university community, whether protesters or

academics, received racist messages on social media, some including death threats.

What’s clear is Milo Yiannopoulos himself did not cause the backlash (though he probably will take credit for it); he was merely the tipping point.

In a letter to the community in February, Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M. outlined some of the lesser-visible concerns students had about race, from overtly racist posts on social media to microaggressions in the classroom and much more in between.

And in an email sent out on Saturday, the university announced steps it is taking in wake of the recent incidents. They include: • Additional Public Safety patrols on campus grounds.

• The escort service at Lincoln Park expanded to 24-hour operation within the campus boundaries.

• Student Affairs staff will be increasingly visible this week.

Information tables have been set up at the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses to answer student questions and address concerns. These will be staffed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4-6 p.m.

While these steps are certainly welcome, they are temporary solutions to a long-term problem. While not unique to DePaul, students from marginalized communities do not feel their voices are heard. And even if they were, proper outlets have not been made available for students of differing opinions to have a rational dialogue.

This must change.

Protesters should not have to feel they must shut down a campus event to assert their voice. By the same token, College Republicans should not have to feel they must invite a troll to assert theirs.

Universities are where ideas get exchanged and rational debate is supposed to occur. It is incumbent upon university administration to be proactive in protecting the rights of everyone to share

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Freshman Anais Donald stares out from a line of students blocking the entrance of the SAC during protests of Milo Yiannopoulos' event Tuesday.

their thoughts and express their emotions while on campus grounds. This could look something like a university-sponsored forum where students can have this

dialogue in a safe and constructive way.

DePaul’s diversity is one of its many strengths, but it must be protected.

"Why I protested:" Ed Ward shares his story

By Ed Ward DePaul Alum

When I look into the deepest parts of antiquity, I see that protesting is not a new idea and many people protest for various reasons. I protest because I see a pattern of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, ablism, classism and pure hatred towards specific groups of people. This hatred allows people to produce rhetoric that’s vitriolic to say the least.

I believe the criticism of the protests capture the zeitgeist of the 21st century. I protest because it brings attention to

issues that often go unnoticed.

Contrary to unpopular beliefs, micro-aggressions create an atmosphere conducive for hate to prevail under the guise of free speech. To protest hate speech is to recognize that no one has the unencumbered rights to free speech. If that free speech is hateful, those who protest it are covered by the same constitution which allows free and hateful speech.

I protest because it shakes things up. I protest because my existence is not wanted in this country, because people like me, because in the LGBTQIA community, women, Muslims,

undocumented citizens, poor people, people with disabilities and other people who are marginalized, are targeted by society. I protest not for the approval of a system or of people, I protest to serve notice to said systems and people that we hear you; and we see you. I want to remind them that the whole world is watching and the poor and marginalized are rising up, we refuse to take this hatred lying down, we are not asking for the permission of an oppressor, we are shutting down anything that proves toxic to our communities.

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DePaul alum Ed Ward stares at a member of the College Republicans May 24 during the disruption of the Milo Yiannopoulos event in the Student Center.

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Instead of starting college last year in the fall like many of his friends did, DePaul incoming freshman Jonathan Oppenheimer traveled to Israel and took what is known by many as a “gap year.”

“I actually was mostly compelled to do a gap year based on some advice my sister gave me before I graduated high school,” Oppenheimer said. “She told me that the next few years of my life will be some of the best and freest years of my life, and that I should try to extend them as long as I can.”

Oppenheimer decided to go overseas to Israel because growing up in a small Jewish community in Massachusetts, the term “gap year” was almost always associated with traveling to Israel. He wanted his gap year program to include living in that specific country.

He decided on a program called Kivunim. Oppenheimer got to live in Israel while also having the opportunity to travel around the world and study different cultures and Jewish history.

“It's been an incredible experience overall,” Oppenheimer said. “I feel like I've been able to greatly expand my worldview.

It's been really humbling overall to see a multitude of cultures from around the world that have all existed and developed separately from each other for hundreds to thousands of years.”

Like Oppenheimer, an increasing number of U.S. students — including President Obama's daughter, Malia Obama — are taking a year off between the end of high school and the beginning of college. There has been an increasing interest in the gap year in the U.S. The amount of young people taking a gap year has grown 23 percent in the U.S. between 2014 and 2015, according to the American

Gap Association (AGA), an association that provides resources to students interested in taking a gap year.

Enrollment in programs also increased 27 percent from 2012 and 2013. According to a study by the Council on International Education Exchange, colleges like Harvard have seen a 33 percent increase in the number of students taking a gap year and MIT saw the number of gap year students double from 2009 to 2010.

This gap year can either occur internationally or domestically, but must involve personal growth for the individual taking part in it, according to AGA. Some might think taking a year off before starting school is not a good idea, as students may not return to school, but 90 percent of students who take a gap year actually go to college.

The gap year is popular across the world, including in Australia and Europe, but has become increasingly popular in the U.S. over the years, and there is a good reason why.

Some students are not sure what field to study in college, they might not be as mature as they hope to be or they might just want to volunteer their time before not having the time in college.

High school counselors like Brandi Rojas do not think all students should take a gap year.

“The gap year is not for everyone and if not planned correctly can lead to unwanted results,” Rojas said. “I understand that it’s a growing trend that more and more students are contemplating. Professionally, I feel that the gap year can be beneficial to the student who has a structured plan of what they are going to do within that one year between graduating high school and postponing their freshman year of

college.”

“Having a gap year gives them (students) a sense of freedom, independence and becoming an adult,” Rojas said.

According to an AGA study, 92 percent of students who took a gap year cited their reasons as wanting to gain life experiences as well as personal growth.

Eighty-five percent wanted to travel the world and experience different cultures and 81 percent wanted to break from the traditional college track.

A separate study by the organization found that a higher proportion of students who take a gap year have parents who make more than $200,000 a year. These students usually participate in international programs and other programs accredited by the association.

Programs available through Gap Year, Camps International, Carpe Diem Education and World Race provide an outlook on just how much students would pay for a month or few months abroad during their gap year.

A whole year’s travel package can be valued anywhere between $10,000 and more than $20,000, which to some students can be about the same amount as a year’s college tuition. Programs are pricey and there is some debate on whether it is only an opportunity for the wealthy.

The wealthy will be able to take a more luxurious gap year, but there are affordable programs available that are just as enriching if not more.

Programs such as the Peace Corps provide students the opportunity to live and volunteer in another country for 27 months and are great programs for students interested in volunteering without the high costs. There is also AmeriCorps’ City Year for students

interested in teaching. They get paid for doing it, too.

There are programs out there available for students of all financial circumstances — expensive and inexpensive. If students really want to travel around the world but are on a budget, looking for scholarships is key and so is looking for programs with little to no cost.

In 2015, a combined total of close to $2.8 million in scholarships and needbased grants were given to students taking a gap year, according to a survey done by the American Gap Association. There are scholarships out there including “Back a Gapper,” “Fund for Education Abroad” and “Foundation for Global Scholars,” which are all great for students in need of aid to go abroad.

In the end, it is up to the students and parents who are financially aiding the gap year. Planning is also very important because students will not have the luck incoming DePaul freshman Annabeth Thoresen had if they pack up and go without a plan. Looking for all possible options will only make a student’s gap year that much smoother.

“I highly recommend taking (a) gap year, I also highly recommend planning it way further in advance than I did,” Thoresen said. “I just kind of winged it, which is not necessarily the most responsible thing to do — I winged it and got lucky.”

Students graduating high school and college often feel pressured to know their career and life goals and start moving towards them as quickly as possible, but that isn’t always a realistic expectation.

The gap year is a great way of taking time to reflect, breathe and discover one’s ambitions in life.

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

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Freewheelin

Local shops offer different types of bikes for each need

By Joseph Lu Contributing Writer

Bicycles are no longer just a means of getting somewhere but can be used for making a fashion statement, recreational use, exercise and competition. Although a two-wheeled machine seems pretty simple, there are actually different types of bicycles designed for different purposes. Choosing the right one can be a bit confusing.

The four most recognized categories of bicycles are recreational, road, mountain and performance. There are many subcategories of bikes under each one and some of them cross over between categories, depending on the function.

Each category of bike is designed to fit specific needs of the riders.

Charlie Didrickson, who has been working on bikes for about 25 years and is currently working at Green Machine Cycle at the corner of Montrose Avenue and Paulina Street, suggested beginners go to their local bike shop for their first bike.

“The local bike shop will assess what your need is,” Didrickson said. “Some people just want a bike for a Saturday afternoon ride on the (Chicago Lakefront Trail). Some people want a bike for work commuting and some want it for racing or touring.”

A recreational bike, like a cruiser or town bike, will fit the riders who are seeking a leisurely Saturday afternoon ride.

It can also be used for commuting, but it will take longer to get to the destination than a road bike because of its heavier frame and upright position.

“The first thing I always recommend is a single speed steel frame road bike,” Ryan Marcotte, DePaul student and bike courier for Snap Courier, said. A single speed steel frame road bike is a good choice for beginners who want to ride in Chicago because of the simplicity of a single speed’s design and steel frame’s durability.

The material of the bike frame is another thing to consider when purchasing a bike.

The four major materials used for frame building are steel, aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber. Titanium and carbon fiber are normally used for high-end professional racing bikes; steel and aluminum are the materials used in majority of bikes because they are cost efficient.

With the condition of Chicago streets, steel is the preferred material for bikes due to the flexibility steel provides.

“Aluminum frames vibrate a lot whereas steel frames vibrate less,” said Peter John Cavoto Jr., a DePaul alumnus said. He is an advisor for DePaul Cycling and an employee of Roll, a bike shop at 2163 N. Clybourn Ave. However, that doesn’t mean a steel frame is the best.

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“There is no such thing as the best material,” Didrickson said. “Just the material itself doesn’t decide the ride quality of the bike. The material, the geometry and the wheels can change the ride characteristics a lot.”

Not only can the combination of material, geometry of the frame and wheels change the quality of your ride, but so can the frame materials. Often times an aluminum frame can be paired with a carbon fork to decrease the vibration.

On the other hand, just because it has an aluminum frame doesn’t mean it is

lighter than a steel frame. The weight can change depending on the type of aluminum or steel and the gears of the bike.

"Single speed bikes can be very useful in the city of Chicago because it’s very flat here, so you don’t have to deal with gearing for climbing hills,” Didrickson said. “But we do have wind to contend with.”

Didrickson also added that single speed bikes tend to be very durable because they have very few moving parts. Riders are able to commute on a single bike all-year long because the drive chain doesn’t get abused like a multiple gear bike can.

“Bikes are one of the things that you get what you pay for, up to a point. Generally, $500 to $2,000 will get you a decent quality bike from a local bike shops,” Didrickson said.

The process of choosing a bike doesn’t stop here. There is some additional gear that is necessary before a rider begins a ride.

“Ninety two percent of cycling deaths are due to helmet head trauma, so a helmet will literally save your life,” Cavoto said.

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“People wear them just over the back of their head instead of level and covering the whole head,” Marcotte said. While it might be more comfortable and less restrained, the helmet can easily fly off and fail to provide the protection that riders needswhen they land on their head.

“You can really make yourself a happy rider if you buy the gear that you need,” Victoria Parrilli, captain of the DePaul Cycling Club, said. Besides the right helmet, gear like gloves and lights are also essential for safe biking on the streets.

Though it might seem easier to buy the bike online for the price and convenience, there are services that local bike shops can offer that online stores can’t.

“People often mistakenly buy the wrong size bike when they buy online. Buying in person also allows you to test drive and find out the ride quality,” Didrickson said. Local bike shops also offer useful information and tips on Chicago streets and traffic and how to be a safe rider.

“It’s a common conversation that I often have with adult customers that haven’t owned a bike in 20 years,” Cavoto said.

“Putting themselves out in the city with cars and trucks can be pretty intimidating.

But the reality is that the closer we are to the downtown area, the safer it is because motor vehicles are going slower and there are designated bike lanes.”

Parrilli said it is better in the long term to start out at a local bike shop. “I think it's great to choose a bike shop that you know you can have a further relationship with,” Parrilli said. “Not only for the bikes and equipment, you are also integrated into the biking community.”

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Arts & Life

MAKE THE BEST OF YOUR FEST A guide to surviving Chicago’s music festivals

By Erin Yarnall & Kirsten Onsgard Arts & Life Editor & Digital Managing Editor

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Los Angeles punk band FIDLAR at Riot Fest in September. Riot Fest is one of the most popular music festivals in the city.

Bag essentials

Pitchfork Music Festival July 15-17, Union Park

Toilet paper: There are few things

Lollapalooza July 28-31, Grant Park

Hand sanitizer: People are gross,

A music festival organized by Pitchfork media that also features a record fair.

This year’s headliners include Brian Wilson and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Chicago’s largest festival is four days long and features a variety of genres.

This year’s headliners include Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem.

Riot Fest Sept. 16-18, Douglas Park

A punk festival that is also home to a carnival and rides. This year’s headliners include Death Cab for Cutie and Misfits.

General tips Bathrooms: Bathrooms at festivals are normally

disgusting and inconveniently placed, so use them as infrequently as possible (without putting your health at risk).

Safety: Locating first aid stations at a festival might feel

like following along with the safety instructions on an airplane.

But go to enough festivals and odds are you will need first aid at least once — even if you are sober and safe — for anything from cuts to lathering up extra sunscreen.

Drinking: First, the healthy kind: make it a priority to drink more water than you think you need. Make sure you regularly refill your water bottle. With alcohol, don’t pregame, count your drinks and use moderation.

Scheduling: Unfortunately, you can’t see every band that plays. Pick out your favorites and must-sees, and make a schedule with friends that allows for some flexibility.

Resting: Walking across the park, dancing and moshing

adds up to a whole lot of activity; I have logged 10 miles per day at Lollapalooza. Combine that with the hot sun, minimal sleep and subpar nourishment and your body will be aching for some downtime. Pen in some rest in the shade between sets or during a slower band to rejuvenate before a must-see set.

Budgeting: It already costs enough just to enter festivals, let alone the temptation that food and merchandise brings with it — making budgeting a top priority.

worse than spending 20 minutes in line for a steamy Port O Potty only to find out there is no toilet paper left. Bring your own TP instead.

and odds are you will be too after a few hours in the sun rubbing elbows with thousands of people. Hopefully this will make you slightly less disgusting.

Sunscreen: If you are prone to burning, spending a day sans sunscreen is not a great way to get your base tan on — it’s a great way to ensure you will be burned and peely all weekend. You might feel like an overprotective mom at the beach, but lather up and repeat.

Poncho: You know how it works: the one

day you forget your poncho, it is guaranteed to pour.

Water bottle/CamelBak: Are

hydration packs ugly? Yes. Are they useful?

Definitely. If you are attending a few fests this summer, investing in an inexpensive hydration pack is a worthwhile way to ensure you drink enough water. Otherwise, grab your favorite reusable water bottle to refill around the park.

Snacks: If the festival allows for it,

snacks are crucial. Food at festivals, while delicious and fun to try, is ridiculously expensive, and also usually short on portion sizes. When attending a festival, you’re not going to get your three meals a day, but help yourself out and bring something to eat in between the trips to overpriced, but delicious vendors.

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In love (wit a T-Pain)

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T-Pain performed at DePaul’s annual concert, FEST on May 27. While the Florida-based rapper was not the headlining performer, many students were most excited for his performance.

Annual FEST concert features The Neighbourhood and T-Pain

By Danielle Church Contributing Writer

FEST coordinator Betsy Lugo and her team of 13 assistants had been waiting for this day all year.

They finally got to see all of their hard work come to life on May 27 for DePaul’s annual concert FEST. “It’s very strange, because you’re putting in all of this work for a year plus, but you don’t see anything develop,” Lugo said.

“You kind of just know that you have a photo booth coming and this artist coming, but I think that until the day of, you don’t see all of the hard work that you’ve put in.”

Lugo and her team couldn’t have been more proud of everything they had accomplished for this year’s FEST, which featured artists Karmin, T-Pain and the Neighbourhood.

The artists usually perform on DePaul’s Quad but due to rain, the event was moved inside the McGrath-Phillips Arena.

One of Lugo’s assistants, DePaul senior Brittany Kurt, said that the set up for the big day wasn’t as crazy as she expected it to be. “(Moving FEST inside) was definitely something we had to be flexible about, but it wasn’t really crazy at all,” Kurt said. “We had a really great team so it all came together clean and nicely.”

This was Kurt’s third year in a row working at FEST, and said one thing always makes her job worthwhile: students’ faces as they first walk through the doors. She loves when they come in because of how excited students get by just being in the environment.

The excitement was not distributed evenly throughout the event, though.

While there were students

screaming and cheering for Karmin and the Neighborhood as they each performed, they couldn’t keep as many students on the floor as T-Pain could. Shortly after Karmin’s performance, students started chanting “T-Pain” as Lugo’s team was setting up the stage for the rapper.

He then opened with one of his top singles “Booty Wurk (One Cheek at a Time),” causing many students to dance along and flail their arms from left to right when the song instructed them to go a certain way.

As soon as T-Pain walked off stage, so did many students, despite the Neighbourhood still waiting to perform.

DePaul junior Jesse Renteria said he has always known of T-Pain, and it’s part of the reason he felt he had to see him perform at FEST this year, as opposed to any of the other artists.

“I just remember hearing his name a lot when I was younger and I was like, ‘if I have the chance to go, why the heck not?’”

Renteria said. “I didn’t know every word, but it was a good vibe, especially for (FEST) not being outdoors this year.”

Because students only wanted to see certain people such as T-Pain, Lugo said sometimes she would overhear comments about the artists she and her team worked hard to bring to campus during the days leading up to FEST. However, she relied on her team to cheer her up and remind her about what’s really important.

“I kind of want to turn around and be like ‘we do so much,’” Lugo said. “I just hope the word gets around that students work so long and hard for this. This is my everything, this is their everything and you know, it’s easy to just brush those comments

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Karmin, a pop duo, also played at this year’s FEST. While the concert is normally performed on the Quad, it took place in McGrath-Phillips Arena this year. off when you have a team like I do because I come back to them saying ‘oh my gosh, I can’t believe I heard this’ and they’ll be like ‘do you see everything that we’re doing? We’re doing such a great job. Why would you listen to anything negative that is said?’ and it is so true.”

It’s not just the hard work that her team puts into FEST, but it’s also because FEST is 100 percent student-run, she said. Lugo and her team only want to make other students proud of their peers at

the end of the day.

“I just hope that everyone enjoys all of the hard work people have put into this,” Lugo said.

“I’ve put in a significant amount of work but (my team) are the heart and soul of everything and I really hope we give (other students) something to be proud of.”

With the recent protests on campus following journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ visit to DePaul, the Mexican slur painted on the Quad and reports of a noose on

the sidewalk that divided many students, Renteria said that FEST could be a good starting point in helping students feel more proud of one another and united once again.

“I think FEST is helping (the campus) come back together, but I still feel like it’s a little divided right now,” Renteria said. “I think small steps like FEST will bring our campus back together, but we’ll just have to wait and see what kind of impact it’ll have in the future.”

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Leaving the spotlight DePaul students realize dreams in fields outside of entertainment

By Megan Deppen Print Managing Editor

A funny story became the chance of a lifetime, and in the end, DePaul sophomore James Novack walked away. It wasn’t an easy decision, but he knew it was right.

He isn’t alone. Novack, a talented musician, is like many college students who leave their performing days behind them in high school — something to save for the yearbook. Under pressure to choose a career path, would-be artists choose majors to find “real jobs” that will offer better job prospects and salaries.

But as Novack settled into his new life at DePaul, he was given another shot.

It was a “you wouldn’t believe…” kind of story. Novack met the manager of Bronzeville gospel rapper Sir the Baptist in a Chicago Bagel Authority, and agreed to interview the fledgling artist on his show at Radio DePaul. That was during the winter term.

Sir the Baptist, or 27-year-old William James Stokes, was signed to Atlantic Records the following spring, hit it big and Novack called for another interview.

On May 10, Stokes came on the show. He was playing at Columbia College Chicago’s ManiFest festival that weekend and then touring to New York to play on Late Night with Seth Meyers the following week.

He wanted Novack to come with him.

“He came on the show and said, ‘I need you to sing backup,’” Novack said. “He told me on air. I almost fainted. My co-host was sitting there in awe. I’m still in shock because this all happened in one week.”

During the interview in December, Novack and Stokes were talking music, and Novack ended up showing off one of his demos. “He loved it,” Novack said.

The offer came as a shock to Novack and his family, but in the end, no one was surprised. “(They said), ‘We were waiting for this to happen to you,’” Novack said. “Everyone still thinks I want music. It was such a big part of my life until two years ago. My mom was telling everybody and their mother and I had to keep things under wraps for awhile until I could announce it.”

It was after playing the show at ManiFest that weekend that Novack realized he had to turn down the offer to tour.

“Not many people get to experience something like this, and people’s lives change overnight,” Novack said. He would have to miss finals to perform in New York, putting him behind in his major in neuroscience. He already has to do a fifth year to go to medical school. “I was weighing options and came to the realization — I think I’m on the right track already.”

His mom asked if he was sure. He said, “when you think of things like this, you have to separate your head from your heart. My head said do it. My heart said, ‘your talents are called elsewhere.’”

Getting another taste of performing made the decision difficult.

“I got on stage and I’m like, ‘this is really exciting and exhilarating’ and I loved it,” Novack said. “I think the one experience was enough for me. But at the same time, I want more. I’m still torn.”

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DePaul sophomore James Novack with rapper Sir the Baptist. Sir the Baptist offered Novack a chance to tour with him, which Novack eventually turned down.

Coming into college, Novack made the decision not to pursue music. He was accepted into the music school, but felt such a strong vibe of competition and

judgment that he decided wasn’t for him.

His story reads something like Paolo Mazza’s, a transfer student who vacated his spot in the Theatre School for a career in

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Both were accepted into competitive conservatories, both had cautious but firm support from their parents, but both said no.

“Compared to some of my other friends who were dead set on it —I knew I was good — but I wasn’t competitive enough,” Mazza said. He knew there was uncertainty in getting a career in theater and it would be tough just to afford four years at DePaul’s Theatre School. So he went to community college instead until he could transfer.

“I knew my parents wanted me to get a job that was stable and not as uncertain as a job in theater,” Mazza said. “They didn’t necessarily say it, that they were unsupportive, but I knew they were looking for something more professional, in the sense financial-wise.”

When he told them his decision to move on from theater, they were relieved.

For Mazza, his parents, and even Novack, hesitation to enter the entertainment industry is understandable.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were just over 460,000 jobs as actors, music directors, composers, producers, directors, musicians, singers, dancers and choreographers in 2014. Expected job growth for the arts and entertainment industry, including sports and media, is only 4.1 percent over the next 10 years.

In 2014, one third of all actors worked part-time, and at least 20 percent of other arts professionals were self-employed. Pay rates were harder to define. Median actor rates were reported as $18.80 an hour, while a producer or director could reach a median salary of $68,000 a year.

Levels of education also vary. In all industries, generally speaking, having at least a bachelor’s degree correlates with higher salary. The median salary for those with just a high school diploma was $36,000. Then salaries jumped from $50,000 and $70,000 with an associate’s and bachelor’s degree respectively.

But education and experience for careers in the arts ranged from having no credentialed education with no experience to having a bachelor’s degree and years of experience.

Facing all these odds, Dexter Bullard is an example of those who made it. With a comfortable office in the new Theatre School, Bullard is the head of graduate acting and artistic director of the Theatre School Showcase. His credentials are impressive, varied and he’s won awards for his work.

Looking back at his 18-yearold self, fresh out of a small town in Pennsylvania, auditioning for shows at Northwestern University was intimidating, to say the least.

“Coming into Northwestern, I was a much smaller fish,” Bullard said. “I was the lead in my high school (play), and all of a sudden I wasn’t well cast.”

Bullard wasn’t cast for much of anything, and doubts about his talent and looks dampened his confidence. By his sophomore

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The arts and entertainment industry has an estimated job growth rate of 4.1 percent over the next 10 years, as compared to healthcare support jobs, which have an estimated 23 percent growth rate. year, he was running out of encouragement.

He kept pushing forward, and by his junior and senior years, he received the feedback that motivated him to improve his skills. By graduation he knew he wanted to direct, and through his connections landed gigs until finally directing a hit at Next Theatre in Chicago when he was 24.

From there he took risks, stayed in touch with influential friends and continued learning.

There was a period where he waited tables and sold cell phones, but this was all part of his journey, he said. It takes time to build a reputation in the arts.

“I guess I had an actor’s bone in me. And then I continued to pursue it,” Bullard said. His parents were supportive, but not completely. “They said, ‘you won’t make a living. You need to fall back on things,’” Bullard said.

“Now they know they didn’t need to be as nervous as they were.”

But as an academic and mentor to college kids, he understands the doubt.

“I encounter 32 18-year-olds (a year) who are starting their journey in conservatory training,” Bullard said. “They have all the stories possible. (Some have) been doing it since the day they were born — age four, already been in commercials, lots of experience.

Or their parents are in the theater or movies, or whatever. Or you have some that, literally in their

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Sophomore James Novack (second from right) sings in choir in high school. He took voice lessons and composed music for years before coming to DePaul, originally as a music major, but now in neuroscience. sophomore year of high school, fell in love with being in a play and turned a corner.”

“But all of them have that argument to make when they go back for Thanksgiving, and I help them with that,” Bullard said. “Everyone says, ‘you’ll be a waiter,’ or ‘you won’t be making money.’ You think you want to be someone else.”

Part of convincing the family is convincing yourself, Bullard said. Even those like Mazza, who don’t pursue the arts right away,

aren’t disowned from the industry.

“I definitely think where you go and what you study and what your degree is in is an example of your experience, but not who you are,” Bullard said.

For all students, choosing a career path in high school brings mixed results. In 2015, 332 freshmen enrolled as undeclared majors at DePaul, almost double the number of freshmen enrolled in any other major. This doesn’t account for students who change majors during the rest of college.

For many, choosing a major is like turning a page. For Novack, his future lies in neuroscience. Or, so he says.

“I have these amazing opportunities that come my way and I have to choose what I want to do,” Novack said. “Right now it’s hard because I know these opportunities are going to keep coming.”

For now, he’s sticking to the plan.

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Metallic clothes are new look for warmer seasons

By Kayla Alvarado Contributing Writer

Spring brings not only crisp air and sunny days, but also pastel clothing and floral print handbags. Department stores like Macy’s and T.J. Maxx have racks stocked with cotton candy-colored blouses, flowy sundresses and handbags as bright as the sun.

But this classic feminine style of pastel designs and garments has been replaced this season with edgy metallic tones and embellishments. From metallic nails, lips and footwear, clothing store racks are shining with silver, gold and bronze.

American Apparel employee Lewis Rawlinson has seen more shimmery pieces entering the store, and sales, for those pieces are doing well.

“More shoppers are buying shiny tops, hair accessories and jewelry like ear cuffs this spring season,” he said. “I think it’s a fun way to add some pop to a basic outfit.”

The futuristic trend sweeping clothing stores and make-up boutiques this season may be influenced by the looks seen at New York Fashion Week and the Met Gala.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring 2016 exhibition, presented in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing, explores how fashion designers are balancing the handmade and the machinemade in the creation of “haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear,” according to the Met Museum site. This year’s Gala theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.”

“Manus x Machina” featured more than

170 examples of “haute couture and wearing a full-length gold avant-garde ready-to-wear,” going gown, the silhouette should be back from the early 1900s to the classic and accessories should present. The exhibition addresses the be simple.” founding of the haute couture in the Metallic can be worn 19th century, when the sewing year round but has its machine was invented, challenges, according and the emergence of a to Barke. distinction between the “They’re sort of hand (manus) and the like neutrals, but machine (machina) wearing them during at the beginning of the day is definitely industrialization and mass trickier. Try a metallic production. bag or dressing Supermodel Gigi Hadid down a shimmery top and “Vogue” editor-in-chief with boyfriend jeans and Anna Wintour participated sneakers,” she said. in the futuristic atmosphere Public relations and with their metallic-accented advertising student Angelina ensembles, igniting positive Korniyenko said that metallic responses on social media. shimmer is very eye catching and The glamorous gowns and stylish year round, making “one’s sparkly make-up looks worn at look even more interesting and such events prove that metallic unique.” fashion pieces are once again a “As much as those accessories closet staple. and clothes will make you stand So think twice before out from the crowd, they also ditching the shimmery eye are very hard to work with,” shadow or parting ways Korniyenko said. “If you choose with that silver bomber the wrong clothes, or combine jacket. pieces incorrectly, your outfit Business management will automatically look cheap and major Allie Barke is one Photo courtesy of DOUG PETERS | AP funny.” of many who are following With the popularity Demi Lovato at the 2016 the metallic trend. of sparkle eyeliner and Kylie “I love metallic as long Met Gala.

Jenner’s metallic lip kit, students as the look isn’t overdone,” Barke said. like Barke and Martinez have alternative “I’m all about balance so I think if you’re ways to incorporate a shimmery look into

their style.

“I like metallic make-up, especially when I’m going out on the weekend or having a night out with my friends,” Martinez said.

“I think gold or bronze make-up can be really pretty, but silver is much harder to wear. I like gold eye shadow in the summer for a sun-kissed, glowy look,” Barke said.

As attractive as it is to have a “sunkissed” glow and to paint one’s nails silver, it’s possible to go overboard.

“Makeup is also one of those things you have to be careful about,” Korniyenko said.

“What’s popular today is naturalness in the day time with the ability to experiment and add some sparkle in the evening,” she said.

Tote bags, over-sized sunglasses, and even metallic tattoos are some ways to carry the metallic trend into summer.

“Metallic tattoos are just so eyecatchy and give off the feeling of summer,” Korniyenko said.

With metallic-accented sandals and bikinis emerging for the summer, the metallic trend only seems to be getting more popular each season.

“Silver bomber jackets and bangle bracelets have a summer festival feel, so I think the trend will continue on,” Rawlinson said.

“I’m sure it won’t even stop in the warmer months, since winter is also a popular season to wear shimmery sweaters and scarves,” he said.

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Bleached Bringing some California warmth to the notriously rainy Riot Fest lineup, Bleached, a punk band from Los Angeles, is set to play the punk rock festival. The band is comprised of drummer Nick Pillot, bassist Micayla Grace and former Mika Miko members and sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin.

The band recently released their second studio album “Welcome the Worms” and toured for it across the country with fellow Los Angeles band No Parents.

“Welcome the Worms” was released on Dead Oceans, a record label based jointly out of Bloomington, Indiana and Austin, Texas that they also released their first album, “Ride Your Heart” on.

The band has notably exciting and frenetic live performances, and will fit in well with the punk rock energy of Riot Fest.

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Big D and the Kids Table Big D and the Kids Table

One of the few ska bands to be playing Riot Fest, Boston’s Big D and the Kids Table has a lot of material to work with. The band has been around since 1995, and in that time has released eight studio albums.

Throughout their tenure as a band, their sound has evolved from their earlier ska punk songs, including “LAX,” which calls out Los Angeles pretentiousness, to more of a dub sound, evident on their 2009 album “Fluent in Stroll.”

Between their numerous members (10 at the most recent count) who play a variety of instruments from trombone to melodica to bass guitar, and their fun and engaging music that varies between being easy to dance to and easy to run around in a mosh pit to, their set is guaranteed to be a fun burst of energy at the punk festival.

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Tigers Jaw Proving that there’s more to Scranton, Pennsylvania than “The Office,” Tigers Jaw, comprised of Scranton natives, is taking the stage at Riot Fest this year. The band, which formed in 2006, has released four studio albums, including 2014’s “Charmer.”

In 2013, the band announced that a majority of their members no longer wished to be a part of Tigers Jaw, and for the past two years the band has been comprised of guitarist and vocalist Ben Walsh and keyboardist and vocalist Brianna Collins, with the addition of touring musicians.

Although many fans interpreted their announcement that most of the members were leaving the band as a break-up announcement, the band has done anything but that as they’ve continuously toured and released new music since the announcement, including a European tour earlier this year before their stop at Riot Fest.

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The Strokes “Future Present Past” June 3 The days of reminiscing for the years during which The Strokes released new music are over. With a new EP “Future Present Past” released (which shocked many fans), people can now listen to the best music The Strokes have released since “First Impressions Of Earth.” Even though the band has been around for over a decade,The Strokes still know how to keep it fresh, mixing their fuzzy garage rock sound with electronic beats on “OBLIVIUS” and keeping their classic New York indie rock charm on “Threat of Joy”.

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Me Before You Warner Bros. Pictures June 3 While “Me Before You” may look like the latest Nicholas Sparks tearjerker in the trailers, readers of the hit novel it’s based on and those who see the touching movie know that it has more depth. Part of this depth is the realism of not only the two main characters Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke) and Will Traynor (Sam Claflin) — who perfectly captured the whimsy and anger both characters feel from the beloved novel, but also the supporting cast. From Matthew Lewis, who played Patrick, Louisa’s jealous boyfriend who watched as his girlfriend slowly slipped away from him, to Janet McTeer, as Will’s mother who convincingly displayed the heartbreak of dealing with her son as he desperately wants to end his life, all the characters engaged the audience.

Despite dealing with a touchy subject — assisted suicide and disability — the film is able to stay cute, charming and successfully pulls at the heartstrings without pandering too much for an emotional response. “Me Before You” feels like a real story, in a genre where so many films are overthe-top and poorly done.

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By DePaulia Staff After numerous years, and thousands upon thousands of dollars, some of us are finally graduating.

As this is an end to a major chapter of some of our lives, it’s only normal that we’d start to get nostalgic about our college years.

Here are the songs that graduating DePaulia editors will look back on and think of their time here.

1. “I Must Be Going Now” — Poosa During my first year on The DePaulia’s staff, I stayed absurdly late at night when we

were putting the paper together.

Our Design Editor, Carolyn Duff and I stayed until midnight one night, and ended up rifling through Radio DePaul’s trash.

You know the saying, what’s one campus journalism outlet’s trash is another campus journalism outlet’s treasure, because I found “Ocean Songs” by Poosa — a very strange album released by an equally strange band from Minneapolis.

As the year went on, I played Poosa non-stop in The DePaulia office and tried to put money together to get them to play at The DePaulia’s 100-year celebration in October.

I’ll never be able to hear their fantastic song “I Must Be Going Now” without thinking of my

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—Erin Yarnall, Arts & Life Editor 2. “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars The great thing about this job is that I’ve been able to cover a lot of basketball games in my five years at DePaul. There’s a lot from it that I’ve enjoyed, but there’s absolutely one thing that I cannot stand — the repeated playing of “Uptown Funk” This song has been played so many times at DePaul’s basketball games that it’s been ruined for me. I’m convinced I’ve heard this song more than DePaul’s spirit theme, even though it probably isn’t true. I’ll always think of DePaul when I hear it, but if I do, I’m rushing to change it as fast as

Across 1. Hairdos 6. Led off 11. Gridlock component 14. Alternative to bottled 15. Arctic dwelling 16. Feel regret over 17. Sellers of illegal alcohol 19. Hard to explain 20. Emulate a bunny 21. Snacked 22. “Dear” mister 23. Living in water 27. Grandeur 29. It’s certainly not a show dog 30. “Happy” mollusk 32. Kind of food or mate 33. Vicksburg combatant, briefly 34. Old rail riders, stereotypically 36. Animal variety 39. It was Persia 41. Black-clad teens, often

possible. If you don’t believe me, just watch.

—Matthew Paras, Editor-inChief 3. “Countdown” — Beyoncé While I’m not a die-hard Beyoncé fan compared to many (*cough — Arts & Life Editor Erin Yarnall*), this song will always remind me of my time at DePaul.

Not only was my sophomore year as an RA literally Beyoncéthemed, I also developed an obsession during my two years as Design Editor at the DePaulia for the YouTube video where a kid re-created Beyoncé’s music video for this song wearing a snuggie.

This was the comic relief I needed to get through long days of work

43. Folklore monstrosity 44. 100,000 make a newton 46. Back-up sounds 48. Shoot the breeze 49. “Able to ___ tall buildings” 51. Edible tuber of Polynesia 52. Superlative suffix 53. Christmas tree sheddings 56. False fronts 58. Special-interest grp.

60. Barely defeat 61. Compass reading, sometimes 62. In a disgraceful way?

68. A, in Berlin 69. Not just “no!”

70. Auto contract, sometimes 71. Knight or Nugent 72. Garbo of “Ninotchka” 73. “___ of Iwo Jima”

in the dungeon we call an office.

The creator of that video exemplifies my college experience; he demonstrated great commitment to his art and had a lot of fun along the way.

—Carolyn Duff, Design Editor 4. “Welcome Home” — Radical Face I heard this song for the first time on a dorm room floor in University Hall. Hearing it always brings me back to Fall quarter 2012 when everyone and everything was so new. It’s also a great walking song — perfect when you’re hustling somewhere downtown.

—Megan Deppen, Print Managing Editor

Down 1. Picnic discard, sometimes 2. Lady associated with the Beatles 3. “Am ___ believe?”

4. Jazzy Earl Hines’ nickname 5. Large irregular spot 6. Above average in size 7. Coop ovoid 8. Faint flicker 9. Main arteries 10. Rhinoplasty 11. How Buddha sits 12. Attend a class for no credits 13. Remove more moisture from 18. Concluding speech (var.)

23. Bitter-tasting 24. Ask 25. Bit of modern folklore 26. One spelling for a meal on a skewer 28. 100 cents,

somewhere 31. Short choral composition 35. Bundle of grain 37. Delete, as messages 38. Mortgages, e.g.

40. “No ___ to apologize” 42. Pounced 45. Preserving, as pork 47. Tea parties, e.g.

50. Author 53. Group of nine 54. A Muppet 55. Martin of comedies 57. Breathing problem for heavy sleepers 63. Allow 64. The-lower-thebetter pitching stat 65. Thing acquired on a beach 66. “Acid” drug 67. “All right!”

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The DePaul arena, which is located in the South Loop, will open in time for the 2017-18 basketball season and will serve as the primary home for men's basketball.

The DePaulia's basketball experts weigh in on who should be the first opponent when the new arena opens NORTHWESTERN

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The opening of the new DePaul arena for the start of the 2017-18 season will be a momentous event in DePaul history.

Back when they played in Alumni Hall on campus, they were the pride of Chicago, and too big for a small on-campus arena.

Unfortunately, the move to Rosemont and Allstate Arena has coincided with a drop in team quality and the team seems far removed from Chicago.

The first game should be a statement game for DePaul: not only that they are ready to win, but that they are Chicago’s team. For this scenario, I believe Northwestern to be the best opponent.

Northwestern and DePaul are the two most highprofile collegiate sports teams in Chicago, representing the Big 10 and the Big East respectively. Both teams have claims to be the top collegiate team in Chicago.

Northwestern already has an advantage with their football team, but if DePaul basketball is easily accessible to cityliving basketball fans and is a fun team to watch, then Chicago winters will become really fun watching the Blue Demons downtown.

It all starts with opening night, however. This game would be a statement game and it would surely draw a very large and excited crowd. Other big-name opponents, such as Notre Dame, Connecticut or Illinois would do this as well, but that also runs the risk of there being a divided crowd.

The first game should be 10,000 DePaul fans ready for a new era, ready to see their team return to the formal glory of DePaul men’s basketball. Northwestern provides a bigname appeal and a local rivalry while still allowing DePaul to control the fan flow and make it 10,000 screaming Blue Demons instead of a neutral court atmosphere

It's been 21,358 days since the Blue Demons and the University of Illinois last played each other in a men's basketball game. The two teams met on Dec. 7, 1957 and the Illini won 75-70.

There's no better way to kickoff the new arena than having these two teams finally meet once again.

In 2014, it was announced that the Big East and the Big Ten, the conference Illinois plays in, would meet in an annual eight-game schedule near the start of the season. This gave the hope to both fanbases that Illinois and DePaul would meet.

So far, that has proved to be hopeful thinking as DePaul opened the series last season with Penn State (boring) and for this upcoming year will play Rutgers (seriously?).

Illinois, meanwhile, faced Providence and their upcoming Big East opponent has yet to be announced.

However, what better time for DePaul and Illinois to face off than with DePaul's new arena? DePaul wants to show off its brand new facility and there needs to be significant intrigue on why people should come. There needs to be a marquee name besides DePaul to draw people in.

With Illinois, DePaul will be getting a whole another fanbase to see its arena. Illinois, though, doesn't have the fanbase that could necessarily drown out the DePaul faithful, which is why Notre Dame is ruled out in this scenario.

And if all goes to plan for both universities, Illinois and DePaul should be a great matchup. By the start of the 2016-17 season is ideally when both teams will have momentum to turn their programs around.

When you think of college basketball in Illinois, it's usually between the Illini or the Blue Demons. It's time to settle which team is better. Let's do it on opening night.

DePaul is rebuilding. They have a new coach, new faces of the team, new stadium and a new image. DePaul only gets one first game, one first impression: so they have to make it count.

Many consider “winning” to be an important part of growing a collegiate fanbase. Lack of sustained success in the past decade has depleted the Blue Demon fanbase, causing many to forget that DePaul was once a basketball powerhouse.

That needs to change, and it starts with a win.

DePaul needs to crush its first opponent.

The University of Illinois at Chicago would be the perfect team to obliterate on opening night. Even with DePaul’s enigmatic play, they are leagues better than the Flames. UIC plays in the Horizon League, also featuring notable programs such as Cleveland State, Northern Kentucky and Youngstown State. DePaul might be near the bottom of the Big East, but that’s still demonstrably better than being the worst team in the Horizon League.

Despite the weaker competition level, the Flames still managed to get destroyed. In an average game, UIC got outscored by 11 points. They also only had one player who averaged more than 10 points per game. Also, in their one match-up against each other last year, DePaul walloped UIC 82-55. It would be a statement game for the Blue Demons and set up their confidence heading into the season.

This is the opening game DePaul needs. Next season will most likely come and go without a return to prominence in the Big East, but the team will be better.

In this first game, we need to give the DePaul fans the experience and impression of excellence. That’s what going to make fans come back.

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Women's soccer poised for success in 2016

By Zachary Holden Staff Writer

After wrapping up spring games on May 7, the DePaul women’s soccer team is already eager to take the pitch again in August in preparation for the 2016-17 season.

“I think as the season has come to a close, obviously we’re tired,” sophomore midfielder Lucy Edwards said. “I think we’re just more focused on training for the summer and getting in shape starting now so we don’t have to work as hard when we’re not on campus.”

The women will not be together the whole time during the summer, so a productive spring season was vital to setting them up for success once the fall comes.

“Going forward, I think we’re focusing on individually what we need to do to make the team whole when we come back in August,” junior forward Abby Reed said. “It’s just everyone focusing on themselves right now.”

The Blue Demons had some difficult opposition in the spring games, but the Mexico U-20 Women’s National Team who were preparing for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea this winter, were without a doubt their toughest opponent.

DePaul pulled off a draw against El Tri with a last-gasp goal by freshman Franny Cerny.

“It was really different because they’re (an) international (team) and they’re just very technical and have been playing together for a very long time,” Reed said. “In the first half we struggled and in the second half we really pulled together and scored our goal with 30 seconds left and it was just great combination play. It just showed that we never gave up throughout the game and just kept the pressure on them.”

As Reed said, the team pulling together late against Mexico was crucial to their success and she feels this is one area they’re improved the most in the spring season.

“Our team chemistry overall (improved),” Reed said. “In the fall, that’s something that we lacked and I think that as a team we’ve just come together a lot more in the spring, and I think everyone has taken a huge part in that and that’s just something we really needed to focus on that we really hammered down.”

“You can tell by our possession now and our passing and our movement that we have more team chemistry,” Edwards said. “We just know what each other is going to do — it’s just easier.”

Edwards, as the dominant force in the midfield, wants to see herself grow on the field and get on the scoreboard more, be it though assists or goals. But her main goal of growth can’t

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Sophomore midfielder Alexa Ben will enter her third year at DePaul as a focal point of the Blue Demons' attack.

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Sophomore defender Elizabeth Endy will play a big role in the defense as the Blue Demons reload their back line. be measured statistically. “(I want) to be more of a leader on the team and just have a presence on the field that I didn’t have this past fall,” Edwards said.

As for Reed, she just wants to score more and play better than she did last season. She felt her game was somewhat off last season and wants to return to “being a pain for the defense on the other team.”

The team goal is simple: reach the Big East tournament.

“Looking back to two years ago going undefeated and doing everything, it’s just hard to compare to,” Reed said. “I think if we just start slow and just try to make the Big East tournament and go from there … (we won’t) get ahead of ourselves.”

Having to replace the program’s leading goal scorer Elise Wyatt, current professional soccer player for the Chicago Red Stars Sarah

Gorden, defender Brianna Ryce and goalkeeper Alex Godinez won’t be easy, but luckily for the Blue Demons they have loads of young talent.

“Our group focused on establishing our identity and just coming together as a new team,” Chastain told DePaul Athletics. “Anytime you lose seniors, you become a different team and new people have to step up and lead. We just really focused on the chemistry of the new group.”

Cerny, Reed and last year’s transfer Kelli Hubly can combine to replace Wyatt’s goals, Lauren Frasca will likely replace Godinez in goal and we might see current right back Taylor Schissler moved central and paired with freshman Abigail Callahan to take Gorden and Ryce’s spots at center back.

If this new group can maintain the form they had in the spring games and replace the

four starters departing, DePaul could be in a good position to

replicate its 2014 season.

Sports. May 31, 2016. The DePaulia | 27 QUIGLEY, continued from back page largely attributed to her career overseas. Like many other players, for each season she’s played in the WNBA, Quigley has spent her offseason in Europe, playing for different teams in Turkey, Poland and Hungary, where she has dual-citizenship. She quickly developed a reputation for one of the strongest American players to play in Europe.

This worked for Quigley in two ways. For one, it helped her to stay in shape year round.

“It’s tough being away, but it helps to just always be in shape — always being in basketball shape,” Quigley said. “You play 12 months out of the year, sometimes it gets tiring, but you come over here and you’re ready.”

But playing in Turkey gave Chatman, a former coach of Moscow Spartak women’s basketball, a chance to see what Quigley was capable of in a league perhaps less intimidating but just as competitive as the WNBA. “Pokey got to see firsthand what Allie was doing overseas,” Bruno said. “So then when she picks her up with the Sky, the confidence still comes with Allie, but the opportunity has come from the coach. Pokey showed confidence and provided her with the opportunity and Allie responded.”

In addition to the opportunity came risk. When Istanbul’s tourist district was subject to a suicide bomb attack earlier this year, which killed 10 people and wounded 15,

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Quigley goes up for a shot against Connecticut Sun guard Jasmine Thomas in a game at Allstate Arena.

Quigley was just two blocks away.

“It just shook you out of your seat. I never heard anything like that. I literally, like, jumped. You could just feel it in your chest, it was so loud,” she told the Chicago Tribune, adding that the close call sort of spoiled her experience overseas, and noting that she doesn’t know if she’ll play there again next year.

It’s in this instance that the close, almost maternal relationship that Chatman has with her players, including Quigley, is apparent.

Chatman talked to the Tribune about the worry she felt when she woke up to a news report of the attack, immediately texting the

WALLACE, continued from back page heralded as a top prospect attending Robert B.Glenn High School in North Carolina.

Wallace joined the DePaul basketball team for the 2009-10 season after transferring from Ohio State. He started in 19 games and played in 24 games total as a guard and forward before exiting the season with a fractured tibia and fibula.

After missing the 2010-11 season because of the injury, Wallace was granted a release from DePaul and concluded his college basketball career at Seattle University.

After being touted as one of the top recruits, many would have thought Wallace’s athletic career was finished in Seattle. However, soon Wallace was well on his way down under to try out in the AFL combine.

“I was enticed by the idea of making history in an relatively unknown sport, relative to mainstream U.S. sports that is,” Wallace said. “There had yet to be an American to play in their professional league, and the league wanted to tap into the extreme athleticism and size that the U.S. has avaliable in its departing collegiate athletes.”

After competing for a spot in tryouts, Wallace accomplished his goal and became the first American athlete to make the lateral move from basketball to Australian football after the North Melbourne Kangaroos picked him up as a rookie. He spent three years in the league, making a name for himself as “Beast” as well as making “great friendships."

An Australian Rules football game looks most like a rugby game in the United States, yet it also incorporates elements from soccer, American football and basketball. The field is egg-shaped and is both wider and longer than an American football field, and like American football, players are allowed to complete forward passes but must either kick or hit the ball with a fist to a teammate.

The players also tackle each other to stop

three players who were in Turkey at the time, but not hearing back from Quigley as soon as she would have wished.

“So when I get that text message back 20 minutes later that felt like several hours, I’m expecting to read, ‘oh, yeah, no big deal,’ but then to read her words, I’m like, I just sat down, like holy —,” Chatman told the Tribune. “So it gave me pause.

I sat down. I sipped my coffee. Of course, she was OK.” This caring dynamic isn’t anything new to Quigley, who spent four years with a coach who’s known for his close-knit connection to his players.

“We always had a good, strong

the opposing team; however they do not use pads. Like basketball, play begins with a center bounce much like a jump ball, and players must dribble every 16 yards they carry the ball. Like soccer, goals are scored with kicks. At each end of the field, four uprights mark the goal. The inner uprights are worth six points while hitting the post or outer uprights is worth one point. The league plays from March to August and finals usually start around September.

Wallace played the position of ruckman in Aussie rules, where he utilized his imposing 6-foot-7 inch, 225 pound physique and basketball past to grab throw-ins where the ball is thrown vertically in the air and catch balls offensively. The ruckman is typically the largest player on the field because of the height and strength needed to battle the ball away from the other team’s ruckman.

“North Melbourne Football Club showed me how to be a professional athlete,” Wallace said. “The learning curve was extremely steep, (but) I learned how to adapt quickly and became a formidable Aussie rules footballer in the short time I was abroad.”

While in Australia, Wallace learned how to train and diet like a professional athlete and credits his intense study of great Australian footballers as his recipe for success in the foreign sport. Since returning to the U.S. this December, he has been training similarly through “emulation of the greats.”

Before returning, Wallace weighed his options after being offered overseas basketball opportunities and a continued opportunity in the AFL, but ultimately decided to commit to American football after discussing options with friends and his dad.

After four months of training, Wallace received a message from ex-DePaul coach David Booth, who now works as a scout for the New Orleans Pelicans. He mentioned the Saints were always looking for athletic talent, especially after the success of former Saint and college basketball player Jimmy Graham.

positive relationship,” Bruno said.

“It was like I strive it to be with all of my players, which is a love-hate relationship in a positive way. I think I try to let my players know that I genuinely care about them, but I also let them know that I won’t be afraid to administer tough love when necessary. And that’s where the hate comes in.”

Also nothing new to Quigley was an offense-intense squad.

Though it was six years after her DePaul career, Quigley found her rhythm in a team that leads the league in scoring, perhaps due to her background with a team known for its quick tempo offense.

“They’re both ­— I mean our

focus this year is defense — but last year we had the best offense in the league and Bruno’s pretty much known for offense and an uptempo system,” Quigley said.

Today, Bruno has largely stayed up to date with Quigley’s game. He works closely with the Sky during his annual basketball camps, and notes Quigley characteristics that are still present in her game.

“She’s deceivingly quick and athletic,” Bruno said. “Her body type might look frail, but it’s a really strong wire-y body that’s long and athletic. People think she’s just a three point shooter, but she’s quick and athletic with the ball.”

Quigley said that it’s too late in her career to have a goal of making enough money to not have to play in her offseason.

“I’m older. It’s probably not going to happen in my career, but it’d be nice for the future players,” she said. “Maybe if we got paid more, maybe if the season flipflopped like the NBA — play for eight months and then get the summer off.”

But while she offers the suggestion of aligning the WNBA more with the NBA, Quigley seems less outspoken than some of her teammates — notably Elena Delle Donne — about an increase in female athletes’ salaries.

“I think that we’re still really lucky to even have a league and it’s still pretty good money,” she said.

“I think that we get caught up in wanting more and wanting more, and at the same time we’re really lucky to be where we are."

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Wallace only got one full season with the Blue Demons in 2010-2011.

“To be an elite athlete like (Wallace) is, you have to have drive,” DePaul men’s basketball assistant coach Billy Garrett said. “There are probably four or five tight ends in the NFL right now that didn’t play college football . . . (and) when you train as a Division 1 elite athlete for four years (and) you can catch a ball, you have a chance.”

Garrett joined the DePaul coaching staff in May 2009, and helped coach Wallace during his one season at DePaul before Wallace’s midseason injury that put him out for the remainder of his time at DePaul. “(After returning home), I began working with Zach Frazier of D1 Sports Winston-Salem,” Wallace said. “Over the course of 2 to 3 months I was learning the basics of football namely: route running, ball skills, football stance, et cetera. I would also YouTube a number of premier tight ends in the league like Jason Witten, Antonio Gates, and Jimmy Graham.”

Wallace is also committed to striving

for greatness outside of his athletic life as well. He is the founder of his own brand, Polymathic Ambitions, which he said is still in its “grassroots” stage.

“A polymath (is) a treasured individual, a jack of all trades, a Renaissance Man, a multidimensional being,” Wallace said. “(A polymath must) look to experience a multitude of professions, careers, skill sets, hobbies, et cetera. Not only as an athlete, but as a person.”

His dedication to his brand was part of what brought Wallace to the Saints training camp. He strives to achieve in many different enterprises including, but not limited to, athletics. After the AFL, the NFL was a natural next step for Wallace.

“I want my life to reflect my polymathic ambitions,” Wallace said. “From collegiate basketball, to professional basketball, to Australian Rules Football, to potential NFL. This is just the beginning.”

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Allie Quigley at Allstate Arena where she plays for the Chicago Sky. She graduated from DePaul in 2008 and has played in the WNBA and overseas in her career.

The is not the limit DePaul alum Allie Quigley is an integral part of the Chicago Sky

By Mariah Woelfel Multimedia Editor

After graduating from DePaul among the rank of just four other players to score more than 2,000 points in their career here, Allie Quigley was bounced around in the WNBA for five straight years.

She was drafted by Seattle and waived, signed by Phoenix, traded to Indiana, shared seasons with the San Antonio Stars and signed by the Storm to a seven-day contract before finding her home a year later in a city painted blue and yellow by the Chicago Sky. And for the past two years, Quigley’s been known not by the number she wears on her shirt (14), but by the number six, for her 2014 and 2015 accolades as the WNBA Sixth

Woman of the Year.

Her success as a supplemental player to lead guard Courtney Vandersloot makes sense when Quigley’s overall character is described by her former coach Doug Bruno.

“Allie had this innate, quiet, caring about other people,” Bruno said. “Allie was a great sharer of the ball as well as a great scorer. As a teammate, (she had) this innate sincerity and innate care for other people. She’s got it in her nature and her background.”

Quigley ended her last full season with the Sky with 53 assists; 65 in the season before that. But she can also handle the ball and execute her own drives as well.

“To run the point for a crucial stretch, just that switch in her head from shooting guard to point guard ­­­— that’s invaluable,” Sky head

coach Pokey Chatman said when the Sky resigned Quigley for the 2016 season. “She can space the floor, she’s smart, she knows how to move the basketball.”

It was Chatman who really gave Quigley the chance to develop her career in the WNBA and it was Bruno who gave Quigley the opportunity to solidify the fundamentals that make her the versatile player that she is there.

“I just think Coach Bruno — his philosophy — paying attention to detail, and the little things — he was big on the little things, the fundamentals — that foundation really helped me once I got here,” Quigley said.

While she led in points per game as a senior at DePaul, it wouldn’t be until six years

later in 2014 that she would have her breakout season, when her averages, including minutes per game, skyrocketed. She set multiple career highs with the Sky and was named the WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week after scoring 17 plus points off of the bench.

Before then, Quigley would play two minutes here, three minutes there with the aforementioned teams. She went her 2010 season with the Indiana Fever only having played 18 minutes. In her first season with the Sky (2013), she played 318 minutes; her second season, 842; third season, 720. And the Sixth-Woman isn’t always second-string last year she started seven out of 32 games.

The shift in her game can be

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From the court to the gridiron

By Jack Higgins Contributing Writer

Former DePaul player Eric Wallace dunks a ball in 2009.

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Former DePaul basketball player Eric Wallace has always been passionate about sports, even to go as far as to move across the globe to Australia to pursue an opportunity to play in the Australian Football League. Now 27, Wallace moved

back to the U.S. and tried out for tight end on the New Orleans Saints after four months of rigorous training and dedication. Results are pending.

“My training for the NFL began before the decision to commit to football,” Wallace said. “I spoke with a number of my friends who play or have played in the NFL, and

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they expressed their support in the endeavor. I also tossed it back and forth with my father, and it seemed the right decision.”

Wallace previously played football until he was 14 years old, when he decided to focus his efforts solely on basketball. His focus was rewarded with praise when he was

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