GRILLED CHEESE: Vol. # 96, Issue # 22
ON ANOTHER LEVEL
May 7, 2012
Test run
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Loop campus falls in NATO ‘Red Zone’ By LYNSEY HART Senior Writer
PHOTOS BY PAUL TALADAN | The DePaulia
Protesters and members of Occupy Chicago rallied downtown as a part of a May Day protest on May 1. Lead organizer for Occupy Chicago and the May Day Demonstration, Andy Manos (bottom right), closes out the days events with a speech.
May Day kicks off protest season before NATO By PAUL TALADAN Contributing Writer Tuesday’s rain didn’t stop more than 1,000 Occupy Chicago protestors from marching down Jackson into the Loop as part of their International Worker’s Day demonstration. Led by a red, dump truck-sized pick-up truck and a set of loudspeakers, police lined the streets as protestors wearing masks and wielding
signs linked arms and yelled in cadence; their presence resonating through the South Loop. “You say cut back? We say fight back!” “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” Once the group arrived at the Federal Plaza, Andy Manos, lead-organizer of Occupy Chicago and the May Day demonstration, stood on the pre-staged podium and opened up the day’s events. He reminded his audience of current issues within Chicago, such as how schools are being handed over to private property and the closing of six mental health clinics in the city just this week. “We ask ourselves on this May Day why we are here. But to me, it seems very simple,” Manos Said. “We make this city run. And the 1 percent, they don’t do anything. They’re unnecessary and we
don’t need them.” “Welcome to NATO,” he added. The crowd was in uproar. While people danced in circles of percussion bands and brass horns playing music in the streets, members of labor unions, health care clinics and the immigrant working force spoke on behalf of their organizations regarding issues such as wages, tax reform, military funding, and the demand for a nuclear-free world. Speaking on behalf of immigrant rights was conscious hip-hop artist Rebel Diaz, who has played a major role in raising awareness of immigrant issues within the academic community by speaking at universities across the country about the need for social change. See TEST RUN, page 7
Last week, the Federal Protective Service announced the locations of the security zones for the NATO summit. Included in the “Red Zone” are the westward boundaries of DePaul University’s Loop campus. The Red Zone also covers many federal buildings downtown, including the Kluczynski Federal Building and the Metropolitan Correctional Center. As a sector of Homeland Security, the Federal Protective Service’s mission is to “provide integrated security and law enforcement services to federally owned and leased buildings, facilities, properties and other assets,” according to their website. However, the Red Zone extends beyond the federal complex and shares boundaries with the
SAMANTHA SCHROEDER | The DePaulia
See RED ZONE, page 10
DePaul losing the style war to Northwestern and U of C
By MACKENZIE MAUS Contributing Writer
Attending a college in a booming metropolis like Chicago requires hard work, determination, an independent spirit and, of course, class. DePaul, a university with diligent and determined freethinking students, is all of those things. But it lacks in one other area: fashion. A national contest named three Chicago colleges, excluding DePaul, as having the style to back their dapper class up. Fashion insights company Stylitics in partnership with hercampus.com, an online college fashion magazine, teamed up to create a “Most Stylish Campus in America” competition. Columbia College, Northwestern and the University of
SAMANTHA SCHROEDER | The DePaulia
Chicago are currently sitting in the top 50 most stylish colleges in the country with DePaul left in the dust.
Columbia College’s Rylee Luitsky is very conscious of why her university is sitting at the top of the list.
“What can I say, we’re a DIY campus. Fashion remains a priority here, and there definitely is a high standard of how one is supposed to dress, but as an individual flair,” said Luitsky. “It’s just like, DePaul, Shmepaul. Columbia is where the style’s at.” Although DePaul is not a fine arts college, its diverse student body brings a wide array of fashion styles to the university. There is a mix of people who either dress to impress in their chic attire on the way to class, or the ones who decide to roll out of bed five minutes before lecture and call it a sweatpants kind of day. DePaul sophomore and fashionista Katrina Dion talked about her take on DePaul’s style struggles. See STYLE, page 22