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MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT The day-to-day fight for inclusion and equality

By Parker Asmann Asst. Sports Editor

Buried behind a variety of books and papers that occupy the entirety of her desk, Elizabeth Ortiz, the vice president of institutional diversity and equity, is up early to continue tackling an issue very close to her heart that is growing more and more complex each day: diversity.

Within the next 50 years it is expected that the United States will be a majority non-white nation. As diversity becomes more and more prevalent, DePaul and universities around the country have the difficult task of addressing diversity and ensuring that all cultures, languages and customs are included and cared for.

An extensive report by the Pew Research Center titled, “The Next

America,” detailed the shifting demographics taking place in the United States. While the population in the United States was 85 percent white in 1960, numbers have indicated that by 2060 whites will only occupy 43 percent of the population. DePaul has taken notice of these numbers and pushed diversity to the forefront of the university’s goals.

“Diversity at DePaul is everyone’s

job, it’s not just one office,” Ortiz said.

“The way diversity occurred at DePaul came up through student affairs. As students became more diverse, the university looked at support services for diverse students. We looked at diversity through the lens of the student experience and how we could make students feel more welcomed,

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Belmont flyover project in limbo

By Danielle Harris Copy Editor

Comparing the railroad bottleneck just north of Belmont where northbound Brown Line trains cross over Red and Purple Line tracks to “a traffic signal in the middle of a busy interstate highway,” the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced plans for an elevated bypass to eliminate train delays. The Belmont flyover is a highly contested project that would cost an estimated $320 million, with construction spanning three to four years.

The flyover is part of the CTA’s RedPurple Modernization (RPM) Project, a development first announced in 2014 intended to renovate Red Line tracks from Belmont to Howard and Purple Line tracks from Belmont to Linden.

“The rail infrastructure on those lines is simply not designed to handle 21stcentury rail transit,” Brian Steele, a CTA spokesman, said.

While renovations are inevitable for the nearly 100-year-old tracks, not all Lakeview residents are convinced the Belmont flyover is a necessary project.

The CTA has stated that the average wait time for Brown Line trains to cross the Red and Purple Line tracks is just 84 seconds, and some area residents argue even that is a stretch. “I live right off the Belmont stop and I’ve honestly never had to wait more than like 30 seconds (for the Brown Line to cross),” Alyssa

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A rendering of the Belmont Red, Purple and Brown Line station showing the future flyover project.

Rehn, 20, said.

A group of Lakeview residents have banded together to protest the Belmont flyover, a project that at its highest would reach 40 to 45 feet. The Coalition to Stop the Belmont Flyover supports renovating the existing tracks, but believes the Belmont flyover is an unnecessary waste of $320 million that will destroy Central Lakeview and Clark Street. It also opposes the demolition of 16 business and residential buildings to make room for the bypass.

The coalition is not alone. A referendum placed on Nov. 4, 2014 asked residents in the 20th, 35th and 38th precincts of the 44th Ward the following question: “Has the CTA sufficiently justified the $320 million proposed Brown Line flyover project and its impact on local homes and business?” Of the 807 that cast their ballot, 72 percent voted “no.”

Ald. Tom Tunney of the 44th Ward

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For one veteran adjunct professor at DePaul, the low pay, shaky benefits and the uncertainty that come with part-time status are a far cry from the rewarding academic career she imagined while earning the highest academic degree in her field. During her undergraduate years, she looked at her professors’ lives and saw a way she could make her ambitions possible. But none of her professors warned her of the difficulties that can face professionals who teach at the college level.

“I saw my professors, and they were able to do their work and teach and have a nice life,” she said. “I wish my professors had talked to me more about this difference in the real world of teaching.”

John Culbert, the dean of the Theatre School and senior advisor for the Provost to Contingent Faculty said that having adjuncts teach is part of DePaul’s “academic quality strategy,” because adjuncts have up-to-date professional knowledge that is helpful to students.

“We are in Chicago and we have an amazing

See ADJUNCTS, page 6 For more on adjuncts and unionization, see page 4.

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Concealed carry has many faces

Rainbow dreams in the Emerald Isle

Questionable coverage part of problem

Summer movie guide

Illinois became the last state in the nation get concealed carry. Now that it is the law, not everyone agrees with how it is being implemented. See page 6.

Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize gay marriage by popular vote. See page 10.

The media is part of the problem, needs to be part of the solution to covering systemic issues that lead to police brutality. See page 12.

Check out which movies to see this summer by category.

See page 18.

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SGA needs reform, several senators say

By Brenden Moore

VANESSA CADAVILLO

News Editor

While members of DePaul’s Student Government Association praised the work they did with the organization at an end of the year banquet last Thursday, the picture was not perfect for everyone as several senators resigned at different points this year or decided not to run for re-election, many of them frustrated with the organization and its leadership.

At least 12 senators resigned before completing their terms and several senators who were eligible to run for positions next year decided against doing so. Though some left SGA to attend to other commitments, many senators cited an uneven distribution of power, a lack of willingness on the part of leadership to collaborate with senators on their initiatives and a lack of transparency in making their decisions.

In his resignation letter, former Senator for Third Year Students Tyler Solorio wrote that he “never operated with a group that applauded themselves for taking care of students, when they genuinely worked against the common good of students.”

Joseph Kerins, a former senator for intercultural awareness, echoed that sentiment in saying that leadership “led us in circles” and contributed to a “culture of silence” regarding student issues while catering to administration interests.

Both were on the Vincentians United ticket this past election, unsuccessfully challenging establishment-backed candidates for president and cabinet.

Michelle An, who was the Senator for Community and Government Relations and also the vice presidential candidate on the VU ticket, based her decision to run against the establishment due to many of these issues. “(President Matthew von Nida) was actually a pretty good leader, I’m not going to lie,” An said. “(But) I thought that his problem was that he would hear me, but he wouldn’t listen and follow through.”

Joe Arcus, the former Senator for Sustainability, who submitted his resignation once Earth Week was over due to his treacherous commute from the suburbs, also cited this as an issue with the organization this year.

“I felt like my opinion might have been taken into consideration, but it was never a factor,” Arcus said.

“So, certainly, we had discussions about these issues, but our discussions never made a difference in the end results of our votes.”

This led to a high frustration level with many in the organization as they said their initiatives would often be stifled if not in line with leadership’s.

“My committee chair Jake Boria definitely supported me in everything I did,” Arcus said. “I felt like, as a team, he and I were able to

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accomplish a lot of things this year.

However, for SGA in total, from the votes that we did hold, I felt that if it didn’t serve the purposes of cabinet, it didn’t necessarily get done.”

When asked for comment, von Nida released a statement that read, “over the last four years, SGA has become a driving force at DePaul University. We have increased our standards significantly and we have made a lot of progress because of it.

For one, we have become an official voice in the university governance structure and increased student representation to 43 university boards, committees and task forces.

While I cannot speak to each individual reason why someone may have resigned this year, I can say that being a member of SGA requires hard work and dedication to the student body.

Some may underestimate the time commitment and effort that goes into being a member of this organization, and that is completely

fine,” von Nida said. “If they choose to pursue their personal ambitions in another manner, it is entirely their choice.”

Former Senator for Second Year Students Natalie Cushman, who decided not to run due to her plans to study abroad next year, said that she agrees that the organization needs to make changes, but she did not endorse the methods of the resigning senators.

“Many dissenters were unwilling to seek compromises, and resigned from the organization simply because they were not able to advance some initiatives that were not particularly affiliated to their role,” she said. “I found these initiatives to stem from self-interest, and I do not believe that resignation was the appropriate channel to solve these issues.”

But an issue that Cushman and everyone who was interviewed for this story did agree on was that reform was needed in the

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way committees are assigned.

Currently, the president has the power to appoint members of the organization to various boards to be the official student representative.

“Executive appointments to committees validate certain senators, while leaving others on the margins,” Cushman said. “Friends of the executives were granted the most prominent committee assignments, and the rest were appointed more minor assignments (if anything). This translates into the one aspect of the organization that I think warrants change, and realistically can be implemented with the recent election of next year’s executive board.”

According to Arcus, “the president and vice president monopolized power on all those committees and chose to represent SGA in every single committee.

So, we as senators were not given the opportunity to represent SGA and the student body within the

university structure.”

Mike Papanicholas, the former Senator for the College of Business, believes that this is one of the main reasons why so many resigned.

While he finished his term, Papanicholas said he considered resigning at certain points and would not have run again even if he were not studying abroad next year.

“I think the reason so many people resigned was because they felt like their voices weren’t being heard and that power wasn’t evenly distributed. I voted for Vanessa. I really do hope she does a better job,” Papanicholas said.

Cadavillo, who handily beat VU’s Luke Kula in last month’s election, served as a committee chair this year as part of von Nida’s cabinet. In a statement, she said the “ultimate goal is to ensure that all members of SGA feel welcome in the organization.”

“I personally believe that’s determined by the type of environment formed through the summer and the beginning of the upcoming year. (Vice President) Ric (Popp) and I hope to continue to foster an inclusive and productive working environment,” she said.

While Cushman believes the organization met its overall goals this year, she was concerned by the lack of input from senators in accomplishing those goals.

“The platform initiatives set forth by the executives in the beginning of the year were fulfilled, and I think they were accomplished well,” Cushman said. “My only concern with this is that senators played a minimal role in the realization of these initiatives, giving them little sense of ownership over SGA’s organizational initiatives.”

For Nicole Been, the former Senator for the College of Education, it was the belief that she could get more done outside SGA than in the senate that led her to not run for reelection.

“I think the biggest thing that frustrated me was that we sat through these meetings and listened to Matthew go through all of his accomplishments for the week and you know, I tried to create an academic advising board, I tried to do a lot of different things, but SGA was so focused on divestment and other referendums that effect a small group of people, that your attention is distracted from your college and more towards the bigger issues,” Been said.

While she opposed many of the initiatives VU took, Been agreed that transparency issues within the organization must be reformed as well, specifically dealing with vacant senate seats.

“As an organization, especially student government, you need to be as transparent as possible,” Been said. “Even if you’re not doing anything bad, it just makes it seem like you’re doing something bad. If you have nothing to hide, then why hide it?”

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Adjuncts weigh unionization

By Julian Hayda Contributing Writer

As national trends suggest university instructors are teaching more and being paid less, many are mobilizing to address issues of benefits and salaries. In many cases, they are organizing into unions, empowering themselves to negotiate the circumstances of their employment.

Though many within DePaul, like John Culbert, senior advisor to the provost for contingent and part-time faculty, insist that DePaul is ahead of many other universities in terms of adjunct compensation and benefits, issues of instability for instructors who rely on adjunct teaching positions could still spur unionization.

Four other institutions in Chicago operate faculty unions: Columbia College, City Colleges of Chicago, Roosevelt University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Columbia, which relies mostly on part-time faculty to teach, has staged multiple walkouts over the past several years and is planning to vote on a bill of no-confidence with the college’s president and provost next week.

The issues seem to be rather universal from institution to

institution, though.

“We had a very, very low base salary, so we wanted to raise the base salary for non-tenure faculty, we wanted an assurance of multiyear contracts for non-tenure faculty, and also wanted a clear ladder of promotion available for non-tenure,” Gerry Gorman, vice president for non-tenure faculty for UIC’s United Faculty Union, said.

Their two-year saga, which succeeded at unionizing last year, included downstate court battles, walkouts, and testifying before the National Labor Relations Board in Washington. According to Gorman, UIC remains only the second research institution in the United States to successfully organize faculty into a union.

Other schools, like Loyola University Chicago, which does not operate a union, have faculty bargaining on behalf of adjunct faculty for better pay and benefits “The majority of full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty at Loyola support our efforts to form an adjunct union because they know that the increased use of adjuncts has weakened their bargaining power,” Matthew Hoffman, a sociology adjunct at Loyola University, said. He is part of a group organized by the Service Employers International

Union’s (SEIU) Adjunct Action called Faculty Forward, which is demanding an ambitious salary of $15,000 per course taught by part-time faculty. “(Salaries) have been stagnant over the last twenty years while their expectations for teaching, service, and research productivity have sky-rocketed,” said Hoffman.

“You’re seeing a very different economy for people across the spectrum, so you’re not just seeing contingent and part-time work in low-wage sectors. So you’re seeing less stability, even as educational demands go up for that contingent and part-time work,” said Kelley, who organized low-wage workers for the SEIU for ten years before coming to DePaul to head the School for New Learning’s Labor Education Center in September.

“There’s a trend toward lowerwage jobs across sectors,” she said. “We haven’t really seen wage gains for the majority of workers for the last forty years, and their purchasing power is less than what it was.”

Kelley said America’s labor landscape has shifted substantially in the last century since its rise, and the perpetuation of professional unions is being met with legal and popular hurdles.

Part of the issue, Kelley

suggests, is that adjuncts are contracted by universities, rather than permanent employees like other professors are “In some ways, it’s harder to unionize when workers are contracted because people are pulled in a bunch of different directions with a bunch of other jobs ... to be able to figure out a schedule that cobles together full-time work, and that is able to pull together some sort of stable benefits like healthcare, or retirement,” said Kelley.

Another issue is that there are few legal bodies contractual workers can go through to organize.

“If you’re a full-time employee, you fall under the National Labor Relations Board. That’s a pretty simple process. … It becomes more complicated when you’re on a contract basis, and that’s where a lot of the challenges come,” said Kelley.

To remedy this, Gorman said UIC tenured faculty, the fulltime employees of the University, organized and negotiated contracts on behalf of the adjuncts working alongside them while forming their union.

“We felt very strongly about keeping the tenure faculty and non-tenure faculty as one bargaining unit. …So, to the

credit of the tenure faculty, they made a lot of the issues affecting non-tenured faculty the drive for unionization,” said Gorman.

Kelley said that this is a common strategy to empower contract workers that could be employed by universities to bargain benefits for adjuncts.

“You’ll see in a lot of sectors that one group will organize, and is bargaining, and then uses that contract campaign to get organizing rights for additional groups of workers,” said Kelley.

Gorman notes, though, that unionization would not have been a consideration if more people would qualify for full-time employment by the universities.

“Scholarship by itself, teaching by itself, service, are not considered tenurable activities,” he said. “In the long run, I think many of us would like to see teaching be regarded as a tenurable activity, and that would only benefit the students.”

“For those of us whose primary contribution to the university is teaching, to have the university recognize that as equally valuable as [research] would be of great benefit to the students because it would put the focus back to where some of us believe it belongs, that is, on excellency in the classroom.”

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Mark Walsh (left) has been the campaign director at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence for the past eight years, helping lead the organization’s charge against concealed carry. Christopher Gerke (right), on the other hand, is the owner and firearms instructor at Streeterville Tactical, where he teaches people how to use firearms.

Concealed carry debate has many faces

By Teresa Garcia Alonso & Quidsiya Siddiqui Contributing Writers

Mike Parker served four years of active duty in the United States Army. After transitioning to the Army Reserves in 2013, he moved to Chicago where he was robbed twice at knifepoint in the city. In the first incident it was a teenage boy near the Montrose Blue Line station who pulled a knife on him, and the other time around it was a homeless man in the Humboldt Park area. Both made him consider his personal safety.

Parker applied for a concealed carry license in Chicago as soon as the applications were open in 2014.

“The main reason I got one is because I was worried what would happen to me if I didn’t have one,” he said.

Almost 100,000 other Chicagoans feel the same as Parker and have taken action in the past two years. Illinois was the final state in the United States to allow handguns to be carried in public when the Firearm Concealed Carry Act was passed in 2013. And, according to data released by Illinois State Police at the end of 2014, more than 91,000 concealed carry permits have been issued. Cook County contributes the most to the overall figure, with over 23,000 concealed carry licenses issued.

However, analysis of concealed carry permit data and related records reveal that the regulatory process that oversees permits and permit holders has serious flaws that may threaten citizens’ safety in different ways. According to the Illinois Department of State Police’s 2012 management audit report, over 20,000 Firearm Owners Identification holders faced revocations, out of which only 30 percent of revoked FOID cards from 2008-2010 were not returned to the state police .

Through a Freedom of Information Act request to the ISP, over 3,000 revoked FOID cards were returned to the State Police in 2014. But this number does not reflect FOID cards that

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were surrendered to local law enforcement during that year.

In the early months of 2015, the number of revoked Concealed carry licenses, has dropped over the years and the recent report shows that only 27 CCLs were revoked and the reasons were not declared.

These discrepancies in the data concern citizens like Mark Walsh, who has been working for eight years as a campaign director at Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV). The association has been practicing to prevent gun violence for more than 40 years and considers itself to be the no. 1 opponent to having concealed carry in the state.

Their main area of concern with the concealed carry act is the “enforcement mechanism” on revoked cards. According to the law stated in the management audit report from 2012, citizens who retain a revoked FOID card are able to purchase ammunition from a licensed firearm dealer and firearms from private sellers.

“It is a requirement now that if firearms are purchased from a private seller, they have to verify that,” Walsh said. “But it is just a phone call or online verification.

It is not going through a federal firearms license dealer.” And this update in the FOID law proves that the control is not being effectively exercised.

Walsh recalled a case a few years back in the western suburb of Schaumburg where a woman was killed by her boyfriend who

she had filed a restraining order against. In a situation like such, his FOID card should have been revoked, but he was still legally able to buy a gun before that and kill her. For Walsh, the state should have been proactive with cases like these and seized the firearms from the individual once the restraining order had been filed.

ICHV is proposing adjustments to the concealed carry law this year with the support of State Sen. Dan Kotowski, is a strong critic of CCL and the former executive director at ICHV. They are finding streams to fix the flaws in the state system and one such proposal is a ‘gun violence protective order,’ where if an individual feels that someone they know is a risk to themselves, they can petition to remove guns from their homes and prevent them from acquiring firearms.

State residents are required to complete 16 hours of firearm training by an ISP approved instructor to fulfill one of the requirements to obtain a concealed carry license.

Christopher Gerke is the owner and firearms instructor at Streeterville Tactical, which is tucked away in Chicago’s Loop area. He believes that 16 hours of training to use a firearm is acceptable. But in his experience he has never run a class that is less than 20 hours.

“To be able to use a firearm defensively is a mindset that goes beyond the training,” Gerke

said. Firearm training classes for CCL kickstarted last year at Streeterville Tactical and in Gerke’s experience, high-risk individuals such as people like jewelers or brokers make up the majority of residents enrolled in his classes.

With his military experience, Parker was required to credit only eight hours of training and believes that the training course was “too easy” and said, “I feel they should have made it more difficult for people to get it because not everyone should have a gun.”

Gerke obtained his firearms instructor license last year and the biggest misconception he receives is the purpose of the training.

“Many think we teach how to shoot other people,” he said. “The important thing we teach is safety with a firearm, how to avoid danger and then if all else fails, I want you to be comfortable using a firearm.”

Gerke noticed many residents who took the first few hours of classes realized they were not willing to carry a handgun. Some found it not to be a practical option to carry concealed, as they use public transit to get to work in a university or a building with a government office, and it is prohibited to carry guns in such areas.

As the nation recently debated about allowing residents to carry concealed with no permit required, Indiana is one of the few states with lenient and undefined

laws in the nation. With such potential changes taking place, Illinois is regarded as one of the top 10 states to have the strongest gun laws according to a report by the law center to prevent gun violence.

Daniela Maag, a Hyde Park resident, felt that regardless of her area not being the safest in the city, she would never apply for a CCL. “Having a gun is a big responsibility and I don’t want to have that responsibility. Owning a gun would make me more vulnerable,” she said.

She fears the thought that if everyone could carry a handgun, it would make the neighborhood less safe.

On top of ICHV’s agenda this year is to recognize the lack of inspection in the state licensing of gun dealers.

“There are over 2,000 FFLs (Federal Firearms License) in Illinois, to put things in perspective there are more licensed firearm dealers than there are McDonald’s,” Walsh said.

Data analysis supported Walsh’s claim as there are only a little over 700 McDonald’s restaurants and more than 2,000 FFL’s in Illinois, according to the gun dealers database.

“If the potential of misusing a weapon is high and so is the lethality of it, those dealerships should be licensed too,” Walsh said.

Yet public conversation on the issue has largely stalled since the law’s 2013 passage. Four licensed firearm dealerships in Illinois were contracted for comment for this story, but all of the requests were denied.

Currently there are over 100,000 active concealed carry licenses in Illinois, according to figures released by ISP. Illinois has been traditionally reluctant to allow handguns in public, however, now with the concealed carry law being implemented and applications for the CCL increasing, some flaws in the process have gone unnoticed and are treated as loopholes for many.

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ADJUNCT, continued from front page pool of talented and experienced professionals and people involved in the disciplines in all different ways in the city,” Culbert said.

Despite the difficulties adjuncts have with trying to make ends meet, they are proud of the work they are doing with their students. However, adjuncts wrestle with feelings of not being part of the fabric of the universities the same way that full-time faculty are. Many adjuncts get classes last minute, and are sometimes not able to prepare adequately or are not informed of university events.

Martin Bernstein, an adjunct at DePaul and Columbia College, agreed that being available to all his students is important, even if he isn’t getting paid for that time.

Considering the time he spends teaching, helping students during office hours and grading work, he said the amount adjuncts are paid looks even more paltry.

“Overall, the nature of adjunct faculty is very close to that of a fast food worker in terms of compensation for time spent,” Bernstein said. “Regardless of your level of education, there are adjunct faculty at this school and others with master’s and Ph.D. degrees that hardly make enough to live on.”

In response, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has recently launched their Fight for $15 campaign, which is pushing for adjuncts to be paid $15,000 per course with benefits, a needed improvement from the modest salaries that are currently paid. This move mirrors a similar struggle for labor unions and fast food workers to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Moreover, if a class is cancelled last minute because of low enrollment, DePaul is only required to pay adjuncts 20 percent of the class fee, or 10 percent if it is cancelled up to a week before the class begins. This can be devastating for those only teaching two classes per quarter.

As for raises, adjuncts have no guarantees.

“There’s no standard for increase in salary at DePaul University. If you want an increase in salary, you have to ask for it,” Bernstein said. “You may be granted that, you may be not, depending on the evaluations you’ve gotten from your students, and how the deans at the various colleges within the university interpret that.”

Some adjuncts feel that DePaul treats them fairly.

Oftentimes, these are professors who only rely on teaching to provide supplemental income to their professional work. An informal Survey Monkey poll that reached 63 DePaul students revealed that almost 80 percent preferred to have teachers with industry experience over those with terminal degrees.

Dan Daniele, an adjunct at the School of Hospitality Leadership, began teaching at DePaul after 30 years in the industry with the hope of teaching at other schools after retiring from his full time position at Baymont-Inns.

“In my experience, adjuncts

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want to give back, and they have to be good at it,” Daniele said.

“Lots of adjuncts are young and are only getting their foot in the door. I’m definitely not doing this for the money. It’s pure pleasure.

It’s all about perspective.”

DePaul’s Staff Council hasn’t yet broached the rising numbers of adjuncts, though both Robert T. Ryan and Kurtis Todd, council president and vice president respectively, have taught courses at DePaul. Todd said that “DePaul University staff who teach are probably better employees because of their teaching experience.”

Nonetheless, many students are able to notice the difference between adjunct and tenured professors, too.

“I find them to be better because they’ve been in the industry more, to the point where they can actually teach you about it,” Sreejith Nair, a film student at Columbia College Chicago, said.

At Northwestern University, a 2013 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that new students learn more when their instructors are adjuncts than when they are tenure-track professors. The study looked at what most affects student learning, and found that freshmen that entered from fall 2001 through fall 2008 and found that these students were more likely to enroll in a second course in the subject when the first course was taught by an adjunct professor.

“I am taking a class with (an adjunct) right now. I like him because I think he is teaching because he cares about what he studies,” Northwestern junior Caylor Arnold said. “(The class is) Asian American Arts. When he teaches, he is very passionate and he seems to know a lot. He is always trying to teach and expose us to new ideas and concepts we don’t know. His assignments

incorporate outside learning, like field trips to different places, instead of a standard test.”

However, if an adjunct is at two colleges, it can lead to confusion for both instructors and students.

Imani Flowers, an accounting student at DePaul, said that one of her instructors seemed to have a hard time juggling two schools.

“One day he missed class because he thought he was supposed to be at U of Chicago instead of DePaul,” Flowers said. “And sometimes some of the material would like overlap.

And by that, I mean he would be teaching the wrong stuff to the wrong class at the wrong school.”

DePaul full-time faculty on average are in the classroom about 115 fewer hours per year while adjuncts have increased their share by about 60 hours in the same span.

Despite their increasing responsibilities and importance in student’s lives, adjuncts are often the first on the chopping block when things get tough. Given that DePaul relies on tuition dollars for about 80 percent of its budget, fluctuations in enrollment have a huge impact on personnel decisions.

With graduate and law school enrollment down significantly and undergraduate enrollment down slightly, the university had to make cuts. While a hiring freeze was placed on full-time faculty, none were laid off. For contingent faculty, such declines in enrollment can be devastating since they lack the protections that come with full time employment.

Case in point, enrollment and adjunct faculty employed by the university both hit a peak during the 2011-12 academic year. But when enrollment declined 6.3 percent over a span of two years, adjunct faculty saw a 7.8 percent decline in their ranks, nearly 150 less. At the same time, full-time

professors saw modest increase in their ranks until the hiring freeze was put into place.

Adjunct professors at Columbia College Chicago, with the support of students, have unionized, seeking better pay, benefits and treatment from fulltime faculty and administration.

P-Fac, the union representing part-time faculty at Columbia College, now boasts more than 900 members.

At Loyola University parttime faculty members make up 45 percent of the overall teaching staff. Full-time professors earn about $63,000 to $124,083, whereas part-time professors earn about $2,987 per credit course. Although salaries vary across departments, adjunct professors typically make just $4,500 to $5,000 per three-credit course before taxes. According to Loyola’s provost John Pellissero, professors in the business school, for example, are likely to receive between $5,000 to $7,500 because of the higher market demand for business professors.

But Loyola sociology adjunct Matthew Hoffmann has no guarantee that he will still have a job at the end of each semester.

Hoffmann receives no benefits from the university and earns a paycheck that does not keep him financially stable.

“I believe if people with terminal degrees are good enough to be hired by major institutions and educate their students, that these teachers are also worthy of benefits,” Hoffmann said.

Hoffmann is part of Faculty Forward, a group organizing to demand a national minimum payment of $15,000 per course, including benefits, that mirrors the efforts of SEIU. As a group, Faculty Forward plans to fight for healthcare and retirement benefits that his full time or tenured counterparts do receive.

At the University of Illinois at Chicago, part-time faculty make up about a quarter of the overall workforce and the median pay, according to the Adjunct Project, is around $5,500 per course. Due to what they felt was unfair and non-transparent restructuring within the administration, both tenured and non-tenured faculty worked together to unionize.

“Scholarship by itself, teaching by itself, service, are not considered tenurable activities,” Gerry Gorman said. “In the long run, I think many of us would like to see teaching be regarded as a tenurable activity, and that would only benefit the students.”

Gorman, the vice president for non-tenure faculty at UIC said that being a public university helped them to unionize in the long run.

The situation is a little different at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern University, Chicago’s two most prestigious universities. At both universities, less than 20 percent of faculty are part time. While the University of Chicago hires relatively few adjuncts, National Adjunct Walkout Day did not go unnoticed on the Hyde Park campus.

“I spent some time talking to my two sections about some of the major shifts in higher education,” Ashton Lazarus, collegiate assistant professor in the humanities, said in a Maroon article this March. “I think many of us saw this as a great opportunity to start a conversation with our students about the direction in which the academy is heading.”

According to Glassdoor, a site where former and current employees can anonymously review companies and their experiences, full-time professors at the University of Chicago make an average of $163,705 per year.

Visiting assistant professors, as they are listed, earn an average of $13,955 per month, 184 percent above the national average.

Professionals who choose to become adjuncts certainly are interested in sharing their knowledge with students, but the time they spend doing so is still valuable to them. And, while some adjuncts teach to share knowledge and supplement their income, not every adjunct has that luxury. Certain fields simply don’t pay well professionally. Culbert insisted that DePaul’s adjuncts are compensated fairly, and that most of them are teaching out of love.

“I think that we are proud of the benefits that we offer to part time faculty from what I understand it is above what other institutions available to offer,” he said.

The DePaul adjunct who wished to remain anonymous took the position nearly two decades ago, intending to get teaching experience and then move on to a different school and a tenure track. She realized that teaching jobs in her department were so competitive that she would likely have to move to a rural school to get tenure.

She says that despite the media attention, the situation for adjuncts is not improving.

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FLYOVER continued from front page released a statement that aligns with the concerns of the coalition. “I have great concerns about the impact of this project, specifically the new structure, the viability of the parcels that remain and the effect this proposed project would have on the quality of life of our residents,” he said. “I will press hard on the CTA to ensure that they fully justify the need for this project.”

A public hearing regarding the project’s Environmental Assessment (EA) will be held June 3 in the gymnasium at 3656 N. Halsted St. The CTA will also be accepting written comments mailed to their Strategic Planning office until June 18. If the RPM project goes according to plan, design and design builders will be finalized in 2016 or 2017, with construction beginning as early as 2017.

As CTA officials look to the future, they see the Belmont flyover as a vital addition to Lakeview and the rest of Chicago. “This is not about three to four minutes,” CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said.

“This is about six to eight decades of investing in the future. This is about enough train service in the future.”

The Belmont flyover’s opposition is forward thinking as well. In an open letter to the incoming CTA President Dorval Carter, the coalition directly stated their concerns. “CTA officials have not made the case that any time savings would be significant.

The project, opposed by neighbors in Lakeview, is a solution to a problem that doesn’t yet fully exist.”

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Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, and Bryn Mawr stations and tracks to be rebuilt

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel (L) has battled mayoral candidates (L-R) Willie Wilson, Bob Fioretti, and Chuy Garcia on Chicago’s policy of a mayor-appointed school board.

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University Hall 14

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Richardson Library

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Corcoran Hall 16

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Daley Building 21

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8) A theft report was filed regarding an unattended bag taken

MAY 20 1) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed

9) A smell of marijuana report was filed for a room in Clifton-

for an intoxicated person on the curb. The person was taken to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

MAY 21 2) A smell of marijuana report was filed for a room in University Hall. No drugs were found.

3) An indecent exposure report was filed regarding a person

from a hallway at Sheffield Square.

Fullerton Hall. No drugs were found.

10) A illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed

4) A theft report was filed for a bicycle taken from the rack in

12) An intoxicated person report was filed for a person in the Quad. They were released to a friend by a private ambulance company.

13) A battery report was filed for two people fighting by the

for a person intoxicated on the Quad. The person was taken to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

stage at Fest.

6) A theft report was filed regarding an unattended purse from a bench in the Quad.

was filed for a person intoxicated in the Quad. Person was transported by private ambulance to Illinois Masonic.

7) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was

15) A battery report was filed for a person who was punched

filed for an intoxicated person on Wish Field. The person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

MAY 25 17) A marijuana smell report was filed for a room in University Hall. No drugs were found.

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11) An alcohol transport report was filed for an intoxicated

person at the Student Center. The person was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

MAY 22 5) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed

themselves in a restroom in Corcoran Hall.

for a person in the alley behind Arts and Letters. The person was taken to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

who exposed himself in a restroom at the Richardson Library.

front of Seton Hall.

MAY 23 16) A public indecency report was filed for a person exposing

14) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report

during an altercation in front of 1237 W. Fullerton.

MAY 22 18) A criminal damage report was filed for damage on a bench in the plaza.

MAY 24 19) A criminal damage report was filed for a person burning clothes in the alley behind DePaul Center.

MAY 25 20) A criminal damage report was filed at the DePaul Center.

MAY 26 21) A theft report was filed for a bicycle taken from the Daley Building.

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News. June 1, 2015. The DePaulia | 9 DIVERSITY continued from front page which is extremely important.”

According to a DePaul University fact sheet, of the more than 24,000 students enrolled at DePaul last fall, 34 percent are students of color, with Latino/a students making up the majority at 14 percent. In addition, out of the nearly 1,500 full-time faculty members employed at DePaul, just over 30 percent of them are people of color.

In an effort to adapt alongside the changing demographics on campus, DePaul’s Vision 2018 was put into place with five central goals stemming off of DePaul’s Vision 2012. Among them is a university wide effort to “foster diversity and inclusion by investing university resources and employing processes to build a more diverse and globally aware university community sustained by an inclusive, supportive and just campus climate.”

“One of the recommendations in the strategic plan (from 2012) was to create a council to look at diversity issues. We created the President’s Diversity Council, which is one of three committees that reports directly to the president,” Ortiz said.

“They include a representative from each college and we really look at diversity from that 10,000 foot view from above of what’s going on, what are the issues and how do we effectuate change through policies and programs. That’s not an easy task because DePaul reflects the larger society that is also very diverse and complex.”

A black woman of color who wished to remain anonymous raised such concerns of feeling voiceless and isolated in the classroom.

“They want our perspective, but they don’t understand it and that’s what’s difficult,” she said. “It’s tiring, it’s disconcerting because you want things to get better and you can still acknowledge

the few things that are, but when you still have to go back to class and face the same struggles it’s tiring.”

Aside from DePaul’s Vision 2018, Ortiz and Charles Snelling, the Diversity Project Coordinator in the Office for Institutional Diversity and Equity, have developed many new programs to ensure that the faculty and staff at DePaul are well equipped to work with this type of diversity.

Among those projects is the BUILD Diversity Certificate Program. This program is a professional development diversity certificate available to all DePaul University faculty and staff with the intention of building multicultural competency, understanding differences and their impact on the workplace, and leveraging diversity and leadership capacities among other things.

“A lot of faculty and staff have signed up for the BUILD Diversity Certificate Program and that has helped raise diversity awareness and competency among staff and faculty to help guide them in their work and their interactions with other faculty and students,” Snelling said.

While the Office for Institutional Diversity and Equity is primarily focused on faculty and staff, the Division of Student Affairs is focused on making sure that students are also properly equipped to understand and embrace the diversity on campus.

As the Vice President for Diversity, Empowerment and Inclusion, Rico Tyler oversees the Center for Intercultural Programs as well as the Office of Multicultural Student Success. For him, diversity at DePaul is critical in producing the type of student experience that he feels is necessary in our changing society.

“At orientation our students go through a process that teaches them what it means to be a citizen of this institution and our expectations, the importance of dialogue and the dignity of each person,” Tyler said.

“That’s very purposeful for folks to discover

their own identity and understand what’s acceptable at this university.”

“We’re not only preparing our students to operate in a very complex society, but we’re also creating an environment where everyone should feel welcomed and accepted,” Tyler said.

The many perspectives and voices at DePaul are evident all around campus in a variety of different forms. Whether it be student organizations or simple flyers, the university does not shy away from students’ voices.

“We are an inviting campus community where all voices and perspectives are welcomed across the board, we want to foster communication and meaningful dialogue,” Tyler said. “There’s so many different voices on campus and that’s what I love about this place. When you think about the first floor of the student center there’s so many different flyers and banners that represent so many different identities and perspectives, and we don’t shy away from that. That’s who we are and that’s what we embrace. We may not be perfect, but we strive to at least have the conversation to be better.”

However, while the hard work and efforts of folks like Ortiz, Snelling and Tyler are overwhelmingly apparent and admirable, bridging the gap between diverse representation and student experience in the classroom is a much more difficult job with its own complexities.

“Along with getting asked pointed questions on certain topics, when we do speak up, there’s backlash and criticism,” a queer man of color and student at DePaul, who wished to remain anonymous, said.

“We have to explain further and constantly validate ourselves and our opinions. What do you do in those situations where you finally have the courage and passion to speak up, but then you’re shut down or ignored even though you’re encouraged to speak?”

While there’s no arguing that the

intentions of the individuals involved with diversity work at DePaul are good natured and aimed in all the right directions, the fact of the matter is that students of color are still feeling isolated in the classroom and around campus.

“I think it’s important to note that intent doesn’t matter in these situations, it’s about how people of color are made to feel at certain times and in certain situations where our ideas and experiences are policed or invalidated,” he said.

As for a solution, it’s important to remember that diversity work is an ongoing process that is a lifelong achievement.

Nonetheless, these students had some ideas of their own on how DePaul could better the experience for not just students of color, but all students.

“I think we have to actually define what diversity is and I think that’s the main problem,” the black woman of color and DePaul student said. “Diversity has been correlated with representation, they’re there, so everything is fine. We need to clearly define diversity and racism, these are people’s lives at the end of the day and we can’t treat these topics as something that’s just interesting.”

After all, diversity work is not for the easily discouraged, where many times a few small victories and steps forward are followed by a few steps back. Luckily for DePaul, individuals like Ortiz, Snelling and Tyler are in it for the long haul and have their eyes set on the finish line, no matter how long it takes to get there.

“We’ve made a lot of progress with diversity, but were far from being where we want to be,” Ortiz said. “Diversity work is a long-term game. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon and you have to keep the end in mind. You have to focus on the small wins, while sometimes you may slide back a bit, we have to continue to do better and do more and look to the future to see what we can continue to change and transform to someday get where we want to be.”

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Rainbow dreams on the Emerald Isle Affirmative gay marriage vote may signify larger shifts in Catholic values

By Erin Yarnall Focus Editor

With young voters mobilizing, and one of the largest voter turnouts Ireland has ever encountered, rainbow flags were seen flying over the Emerald Isle in celebration of the Republic of Ireland becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in a popular vote.

The Republic of Ireland joined 19 other countries, the first being The Netherlands in 2001, as well as 37 American states in its legalization of same-sex marriage, as 62 percent of voters helped pass the referendum making samesex marriage legal throughout Ireland.

Around 71.9 percent of the Irish population is Catholic, a religion which has been traditionally against same-sex marriage. Instead of looking at the result of the vote as a defeat for Catholicism, some are looking at it as a shift in Catholicism — one that focuses on the experiences of others.

“What we saw in the result is less a rejection of Catholicism itself, I think, and more a further piece of evidence that Irish Catholics are looking to their own experiences — in this case, with gay family members whom they love, or with gay neighbors and colleagues whom they know well and respect — and then relying on their own consciences as they make up their minds on these newer social questions,” Mary McCain, a professor of Irish history at DePaul, said.

Many Catholics are still critical of same-sex marriage, on the basis that the main purpose of marriage is to biologically create children, and while love plays a part of it, the importance of marriage is its religious vocation.

According to Catholic.com, marriage is not a private matter of emotions, and the success or failure of marriage has deep impacts on all of society.

Pope Francis, who was elected Pope in 2013, has been leading some to believe that the Catholic Church is becoming more progressive in terms of social issues. The Pope previously said “who am I to judge?” when questioned about the existence of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican.

“I think it’s true that Pope Francis is trying to change the relative weight that the Church puts on various issues,” Michael Budde, a professor of Catholic studies at DePaul, said. “I think Pope Francis is calling all Christians to a radical renewal of their faith, and to a posture that combines joy, mercy and courage; he invites non-Christians to share

Two Irish men kiss in celebration of the referendum results approving of gay marriage in their country Saturday, May 23.

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'Yes' supporters celebrate the results of the referendum in Ireland. in that from their own starting points as well. Whether or not that makes for a 'progressive' agenda, it certainly makes for a compelling vision of Christianity and the Church.”

Other Christians are also welcoming the LGBT community, and many denominations and churches have become LGBTaffirming, and do not consider being transgender or homosexual a sin. This includes denominations such as Unity Church and Reformed Anglican Catholic Church, as well as groups such as Believe Out Loud — a group that encourages Christians to fight for LGBT equality.

Despite the change that Pope Francis is bringing about within the Church, many still hold traditional beliefs, including Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the secretary of state of the Vatican, who was disappointed in the outcome of the vote in Ireland.

“I was deeply saddened by the result,” Parolin said, and later added that the result of the vote was “a defeat for humanity” in a conference in Rome on May 26, a few days after the vote.

This vote is a symbol of progression within the historically conservative country.

“Ireland has had two women presidents, and the Irish government has also implemented many policies over the years that would look pretty progressive to an American,” McCain said.

“But it’s also true that Ireland was socially conservative on issues like divorce and birth control until somewhat recently, and that abortion remains illegal there except in very limited cases.”

Although Ireland has a significantly higher population of Catholic people than the United States, the amount of people who identify as religious in both countries is dropping.

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According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, younger Americans are more likely to not be religious, as 36 percent of the younger millennial generation, born between 19901996, describe themselves as not religious, compared to 23 percent of Generation X, born between 1965-1980. Younger people in Ireland are also less likely to be religious than in previous generations, as 20 percent of college students in Ireland identify as atheist, according to a study reported by Irishcentral. com.

It was the younger generation who mobilized and voted in large numbers that contributed to the passing of the referendum. More than 68,000 new voters registered and voted, and many of them were young adults.

“The legalization of samesex marriage by popular vote is remarkable because it shows what

can be done when people come together for a cause they believe in,” Alicia Moran, a DePaul junior who is a member of the DePaul Irish Society, said. “The Republic of Ireland is historically tied to religion and this yes vote to same-sex marriage marks a true separation of religion and state.”

Others argue that the vote doesn’t signify a definitive break between the religious and nonreligious, and instead just signifies that Catholicism is evolving to be more accepting of LGBT communities.

“It’s important to remember that many, many of the people who voted ‘yes’ would selfidentify as Catholic — and some considerable number of them are, indeed, practicing Catholics at that,” McCain said. “Many probably celebrated the results on Saturday and went to Mass the next day.”

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Deep roots underlie the brutality problem

By Rachel Hinton & Kevin Gross Copy Editor, Nation & World Editor

After student protests on DePaul’s campus, around the city and in the country against police brutality, there seems to be a consensus about the need for change — not just regarding brutality, but the institutions that lead to it.

Amid the furor, even the United Nations has spoken out against the United States’ policing practices, framing the issue as a systemic human rights violation of concern to the international community. Gladice Pickering, a Namibian representative from the U.N.’s 117 nationmember Human Rights Council, appealed for US officials to “collaborate closely with marginalized communities to fix the broken justice system that continues to discriminate against them, despite recent waves of protest over racial profiling and police killings of unarmed black men."

Such scathing outcry has put U.S. officials on their backs to find new solutions.

The introduction to the 21st Century Policing commission report by President Obama’s recently appointed task force states, “Trust between law enforcement agencies and the people they protect and serve is essential in a democracy.” The task force came to be after the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, one of the many instances of police brutality that sparked protests and calls for reform from various communities.

The 109-page report made policy recommendations to the president on matters of police brutality, and can be connected to the recent announcement by Obama to limit military equipment access allowed to police departments nationwide.

However, as America has seen more deaths of unarmed black men and women, the focus should widen, taking into account not just the rampant police brutality in some police departments around the country, but the underlying roots for why it is there at all.

It’s easy to focus on police brutality given its frequency in the headlines of major and minor publications alike, but the roots of brutality in the communities it affects are just as important as the deaths in the headlines. The quality of these communities is directly related to their income, which in turn determines the resources received and the quality of life for those living there. Race and class segregation, according to Horace Hall, associate professor in the College of Education, has a visible connection to local school revenues.

“In America, as in most parts of the world, race is inextricably linked to quality education. Racial inequities entrenched in systematic policies and practices yield unequal opportunities in academic achievement,” Hall said. “Low income or high poverty youth attending racially segregated schools are not exposed to high-quality, advanced curricula, highly qualified educators, smaller class sizes, or much needed social networks as often as students in more affluent, majority white schools.”

Law enforcement agencies represent the front lines of the criminal injustice system, Hall believes. The effect of law enforcement on communities results in officers and bad police as a unit “determining who will be targeted for heightened surveillance and policing, as well as who will be fed into the prison-industrial complex.”

African Americans — and young black males in particular — comprise a higher percentage of citizens arrested or killed by police because they comprise a higher percentage of those who have negative police encounters, Hall asserts.

Structurally, this is exacerbated by policies dating back to the mortgage insurance programs led by the Federal Housing Association in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s that largely excluded AfricanAmericans, according to the Economic Policy Institute and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Those living in lower income areas, where crime may be heightened compared to other areas, may also see a larger police presence. Sandtown, Freddie Gray’s neighborhood in Baltimore, has a poverty rate of 30.9 percent, according to a PBS Newshour report, compared to the national average at 14.7 percent. The unemployment rate of the town, which stands at 21 percent, is also much greater than the national average at 5.5 percent.

Income also determines where one can live. The segregation of housing led to the creation of cheaper housing projects and the creation of the larger problems seen today. Housing segregation’s connection to the quality of education students receive also influences resources for schools, which can be based on property taxes and the general quality of the area.

The quality of public education varies, of course, but until the problem of uneven resource distribution is addressed or resolved, institutions such as education and housing will continue to affect the success rates of African-Americans. The lack of change can be attributed to varying opinions on why the issue is still prevalent.

Valerie Johnson, associate professor and chair of the political science department, believes that addressing public education and its faults on a societal level is important for progress. Public awareness is key.

“People don’t want to see it as race.

America created the ghetto, it concentrated poor people together,” Valerie Johnson, chair of the Political Science department ,said. “Democracy has never treated everyone equally. You can’t marginalize people and wonder why they act differently.”

The marginalization and its impact can be seen in both Ferguson and Baltimore, where the deaths of Brown and Freddie Gray resulted in protests and riots. Blackness, Johnson feels, is still condemned in society, and it is “not a leap to think blackness is vilified.” She points to the difference in incarceration rates as evidence, asking, “How is it that blacks make up a smaller portion of arrests but (comprise) a larger portion of convictions?”

In Sandtown, the incarceration rate per 100,000 people is 3,074 people, compared to the national rate of 455, and the juvenile arrest rate per 1,000 people is 211, much higher than the nationwide average of 39.4 adolescents arrested. It is unclear whether the problem can be fixed outright, currently and in the future, but there is hope and ideas floating around.

“The answer, to me, begins at a policy level. Policy is largely responsible for getting us to where we are today,” Hall said. “We need policy responses from both class-based and race-based perspectives if underlying patterns of privilege are to be altered. This requires creative coalitions and political alliances developing strategies that disrupt reproductive institutional disparities.”

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Police stood guard in Baltimore during the protests following the death of Freddie Gray in April.

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Chicago's grassroots activists participated in a 'die in' during a police brutality protest in December.

Among the proposed policy programs includes community policing, which would involve more mutually beneficial collaboration between citizens and policemen. Susan Bennett, a public policy professor who has researched and evaluated community policing programs in the past, described the process.

“Police beats would hold meetings with community organizations and members, who would bring up problems. In one beat, a building was identified as having serious drug activity,” she said. “Residents even helped with observations — how many people come in and out, and when — and they worked with inspectors and others to make sure dangers were cleaned out and people got the help they needed.”

“I would say community policing can be successful … but they require everyone to get behind the program,” she continued.

“Many police unfortunately are not trained to view community matters as part of their duties. With the direction policing is going, militarization, I don’t think this is trending the right way.”

“Correcting the system calls for a reenvisioning of it. I think transformative change is more achievable today than ever before. The information age in which we live certainly provides the means for effectuating and expanding collaborations based on organizing, innovative advocacy, policy analysis and litigation,” Hall said.

“Shared approaches to social justice and human rights versus race, class or

gender oppression can push Americans to collectively disrupt, in some way, the existent status quo.”

This challenge to the existent status quo may be the largest problem, informing the public one of the most crucial steps forward. To Johnson, it is important to show why a change in institutions is in the interest of America and why those who are part of the status quo should do so, but she stated, “We cannot have that conversation until we have the conversation about race.”

Though the academic year may be ending, the issue is not. In fact, as the weather heats up it is a fair assumption that the nation will see more deaths. Addressing these deaths, at the hands of police officers and otherwise, will depend on the readiness of the society to have a conversation and begin making changes.

“Although organizational modifications appeal to the public, real improvements in police-minority relations demand other avenues of change, ones that focus on the structural roots of the problem and that challenge existing social arrangements,” Hall said. “ Police brutality should be understood as a social and psychological relationship between police and policed citizens. As long as poor, violent apartheid social conditions exist, tensions between police and residents is inescapable. If economic and spatial conditions are improved, then there is a greater probability of police-minority relationships also improving.”

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Opinions Questionable coverage Police brutality is only part of the problem

By Zoe Krey Opinions Editor

Police brutality has become a central piece of media coverage in the U.S. this year, and with the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Harris and Freddie Gray, it seems that police brutality is at an all time high.

In the case of Gray in Baltimore, a Baltimore grand jury handed down indictments against six police officers last week. While some say that justice is being served and that this is a step towards fighting police brutality, others say that this is not enough.

Is police brutality increasing? Or, is it just finally getting the coverage it deserves?

CNN reports that society is “seeing more mainstream media coverage of police violence” due to various reasons, one of them being the increase in citizen journalism, which has been made possible with cell phones and social media. Anyone can record a video and post it online where it will either sit in a virtual wasteland, doomed to never be seen again, or it will attract the attention of millions and grab national headlines.

Social media is shifting the agenda-setting roles of politicians and journalists to average citizens. Would the deaths of Brown or Gray have sparked as many national protests as they did had social media and citizen journalism not played a major part?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. As videos, such as a police officer putting a man in a chokehold or another officer denying a request for a medic, circulate in the virtual world they are transported into a reality that was not quite possible before.

CNN reports “black newspaper executives feel the videos lend credibility not only to black victims' versions of events in specific situations, but also to their versions of events historically. Where a victim's race could affect a story's perceived veracity, video permits no such prejudice.” The videos are shedding light on a problem that has always been there, but has rarely been believed.

While police brutality is certainly an issue that needs to be addressed, this isn’t the inherent problem at hand in all of the recent cases in the past year. After examining Brown’s death in Ferguson and Gray’s death in Baltimore it’s clear that the looting, rioting and even peaceful protests are systemic of a deeper problem than police brutality.

Ferguson and Baltimore have serious inequality problems that were barely addressed by the media. After the economic recession of 2009, “the Ferguson and St. Louis region economies were on the upswing, (but) the gains weren’t equally shared,” Fortune Magazine reported. “The unemployment rate for African-Americans … was 26 percent in 2012, according to the Census Department’s latest available stats on employment and race in the area. For white Americans, the unemployment rate was just 6.2 percent.”

Additionally, a white majority police force was patrolling an area that was largely AfricanAmerican, creating intense racial tensions.

Ferguson was crippled by economic inequality and racial tensions, and while this inequality wasn’t the direct cause of the protests, it was certainly a factor that was not addressed as much as it should have been by the media.

The Baltimore protests also lacked serious contextual explanations. Michael Fletcher, a reporter for the Washington Post, has lived in Baltimore for over 30 years and called Baltimore “a combustible mix of poverty, crime and hopelessness, uncomfortably juxtaposed against rich history, friendly people, venerable institutions and pockets of old-money affluence.”

Fletcher specifically cites Gray’s neighborhood, Sandtown, as an especially poor area, stating, “more than half of the neighborhood’s households earned less than $25,000 a year, according to a 2011 Baltimore Health Department report, and more than one in five adults were out of work — double the citywide average.”

This is not to suggest that the situations in Baltimore and Ferguson were equal, but to draw attention to the fact that both cities suffer from issues that are deeper than police brutality. The media’s lack of coverage on the overall contextual situations in these cities portrays inaccurate representations of the situation at hand.

Police brutality has become the way many in the U.S. learn about problems in cities with intense inequality. Rather than the media playing its investigative role and identifying deeper reasons for social unrest and protests, the media has run with the police brutality news frame.

Taking the easy way out will have consequences that negatively affect our population as a whole. The American people believe police brutality is the issue at hand, when in reality these torn cities’ intense inequalities lead to conditions that lend itself to protests and violence.

The media has a responsibility to not only report facts, but to investigate and analyze events. Reporting on surface issues, such as police brutality, rather than the root cause of the problem will only perpetuate the cycle of police brutality protests in cities marked with social and economic unrest. The media is essential to the functioning of democracy, and their lack of investigation is eroding our system of government.

When the next round of protests arise, which is bound to happen due to a lack of thoughtful and accurate reporting and policies thus far, the media needs to recognize their duty to democracy and the American people and play their investigative, watchdog role.

The fourth estate needs to do what it can to prevent police brutality by identifying the roots of the problem rather than sit back and wait for the next death to highlight a city of inequality. The media needs to go beyond the “if it bleeds, it leads” mindset and play their role as thoughtful reporters and journalists.

The media is essential to the functioning of democracy, and their lack of investigation is eroding our system of government.

CAROLYN DUFF | THE DEPAULIA

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An app that makes everyone a sexpert

By Nina Gaulin Contributing Writer

Some people love talking about it, while others detest its presence in conversation.

Some people giggle about it, and some find themselves scratching their heads in an attempt to understand what it means.

When it comes down to it, there are many reactions that the never-ending conversation about sex can produce — and it needs to be talked about. Does suffering through mundane health classes really benefit teenagers? Do kids get exactly what they need from perusing the murky, often inaccurate waters of Google? Or, are the daunting stories one hears from friends and siblings enough to help them make the right choices beneath the sheets?

The Internet is clearly a hit or miss source for sexual health. Of 177 sexual health websites examined in a recent study, 46 percent of those addressing contraception and 35 percent of those addressing abortion contained inaccurate information.

Recent University of Tennessee graduates have decided to put an end to these questions with the simplicity of an app. The popularity of the app market, with outlets such as Tinder and Grindr, has sparked a platform for a new type of conversation — one that everybody should have. Strategically named Hookup — most likely to attract initial attention from today’s youth — the app will provide a safe, anonymous platform for teens to ask experts questions about anything in the realm of sex and relationships.

According to the app’s website, it will also include games, how-to videos, information on nearby clinics and a discussion section where users can share personal stories about sexual experiences. The creators of this app are

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Public health officers say that the earlier you start talking to your children about the realities of sex and its consequences, the better. hoping that the anonymous nature of it will encourage users to ask the kind of questions that they may be too nervous or embarrassed to ask anybody else.

The response from DePaul students has been varied, but freshman Rose Doherty finds this app to be extremely beneficial to young people. “DePaul teaches safe drinking tips instead of just telling us not to drink. It should be the same with other issues too; the school

doesn’t really extend this openness to sex,” Doherty said. “Honestly, I think DePaul kind of needs to up their game. We have plenty of other resources from the university. Why should sex be any different?”

Many other students did not get proper sex education before college. DePaul freshman Peter Smith shared his experience regarding sex education. “Growing up in the Catholic school system, I wasn’t provided

much education when it came to sex.

Abstinence was the only rule; we had a brief class section on STDs, but when it came to birth control, they just taught us that it was immoral.”

Health classes such as these are simply not realistic. Teaching abstinence in school will not stop teenagers from having sex — it will only lead to impulsive and uneducated sexual behavior. In fact, the Society for Adolescent Medicine recently declared, “abstinence-only programs threaten fundamental human rights to health, information, and life.”

This app can also provide a platform for young people in the LGBTQ community, where beneficial information may not be provided whatsoever in their health classes.

According to an article in New Republic

by Jonathan Cohn, anti-gay rhetoric often makes its way into sexual education classes, especially in conservative states.

In Alabama, educators must emphasize that homosexuality is “not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public.” In Mississippi, they must teach students that homosexuality is illegal. And for those high schools that do in fact provide some information in health class, the sheer mass of information surrounding puberty, genitals, sex and tons of other cringe worthy words cannot be adequately covered in one class.

There’s still so much left unanswered.

Apart from the possibility of this app becoming a breeding ground for bullying and tall tales, it will most definitely have a positive effect on today’s youth. For those who can’t go to their parents and are too shy to discuss it with a doctor, Hookup will provide an anonymous, private outlet for teens with questions — and everybody has questions.

The power of a liberal arts degree

By Hannah Ward Contributing Writer

Looks of pity, concern or just plain confusion confronted me over the past four years as I told people what I was majoring in.

Have you considered majoring in engineering instead?

Your parents are OK with that?

Is there still time for you to switch majors?

What can you do with that?

As a senior pursuing a degree in English Literature, I've been asked all the annoying questions and gradually become desensitized to the rude, disheartening remarks regarding my major. The first two years of college were particularly challenging, but I learned a valuable lesson: it doesn’t matter what you major in, it matters what you’ve done.

The majority of studies, articles and reports that draw correlations between college majors and different types of success, simply add to what the general public already holds to be true.

The popular opinion seems to be that English majors do not have practical skills, they will not be as successful as other majors and they will have a harder time finding a job.

On May 7, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “College Majors Figure Big in Earnings.” The median yearly income for STEM graduates was

$25,000 more per year over their lifetimes than that of Liberal Arts graduates.

The report, like many others, leaves out important information for the sake of simplicity and generalization. It does not take into account job stability, happiness of employees or the unpredictable changes in industry needs and the number of graduates in each field.

The numbers could change drastically in just a few years as industries fall in and out of importance and the supply of certain degrees exceeds or falls below the demand in that industry.

For example, according to statistics from the National Center for Education, “the number of bachelor's degrees conferred in agriculture and natural resources rose 24 percent between 2005–06 and 2010–11.” For engineering fields the number of conferred bachelor’s degrees shows a similar variability. Engineering degrees “increased 12 percent between 2000–01 and 2005–06, and then increased a further 14 percent between 2005–06 and 2010–11.”

The Wall Street Journal article does recognize that the findings it published and other research like it is unable to predict what an individual graduate will experience. The article says, “The latest Georgetown report shows that sweeping statements about college graduates’ earnings say little about prospects for

individual graduates.”

Every student has a different experience and will attain different results. The major you earn a degree in is not nearly as important as what internships you had, which people you met, what extracurricular activities you were involved in and, at the most basic level, how hard you worked.

According to a report published on Jan. 20 and conducted on behalf of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, “employers nearly universally agree that to achieve success at their companies, a candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex programs is more important than his or her undergraduate major (91 percent totally agree).”

English majors can and do attain these skills.

English isn’t just reading.

The sheer quantity of underlined words, highlighted paragraphs and dog-eared pages you’ll find in an English major’s copy of a book shows that a lot of work and critical thinking goes into analyzing every word.

By writing hundreds of papers, participating in hours of discussion-based lectures and pouring over the writings of the most influential communicators in the world, it is an understatement to say that English majors know how to communicate.

English majors develop

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Graduates celebrate their degree at their commencement ceremony. complex problem solving skills by spending hours trying to figure out what someone who died hundreds of years ago meant by their use of repetition and why their work is still meaningful to people today.

While it is understandable to want to protect students from failure, English majors are able to build the skill set necessary to be successful, and they are aware of the challenges that come with their major. We've seen the statistics.

We've heard the warnings. What college student hasn't? Success can't be assumed with any degree.

Why don't people celebrate the accomplishment that is attending and graduating college without the preconceived judgment of which

degree is worthy of praise? It is amazing and scary how much a single comment from a stranger can impact a college student. At the vulnerable stage that is college, students in every field of study need your support more than they need your criticism.

I’ve cried over comments from complete strangers, felt inferior because of my major and questioned my decision to major in English countless times. Ultimately, I loved studying English, so I stuck with it and stayed optimistic.

In less than two weeks, I will graduate with a degree in English.

I start a full-time job in my field a week later.

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

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A view from a cliff in Starved Rock State Park in Oglesby, Ill. The park, which is an hour away from Chicago, hosts many visitors throughout the summer.

Find adventure and go camping this summer

By Hannah Ward Contributing Writer

As DePaul students, we take pride in our ability to be tough and make our own way in a city where it often feels like every person for himself or herself. We have no problem braving the Red Line for those later-than-expected parties, ignoring the sound of scurrying rats as we walk down an alley and are survivors of the infamous polar vortex. But when it comes to a simple camping trip, many of us would suddenly be at a loss.

The summer months are the ideal time to overcome the concerns camping presents, escape the city and experience what the Midwest has to offer.

Contrary to popular belief, Chicago is not the only place worth visiting in Illinois or the surrounding states.

Within a six-hour drive of Chicago there are waterfalls, canyons, cacti, a variety of wildlife and a slew of campgrounds.

Illinois has 350 state parks, 100 of which have campsites, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) manages more than 450,000 acres of land. According Tim Schweizer from the IDNR, Illinois state parks have 40 million visitors every year.

The big question is why would

anyone, not to mention millions of people, voluntarily sleep outside on the ground when they could sleep in a comfy bed with air conditioning and a warm shower?

“People go camping in the Midwest because it is a way to get outdoors,” Schweizer said. “You can enjoy outdoor recreation activities and stay at the same place, with the park just outside your RV door or tent flap.”

Camping, while forcing you to forgo the comfy bed, does have its perks. DePaul junior Emily Creek had a clear explanation for why she enjoys camping.

“Camping is obviously the best,” Creek said. “You’re out in nature. In Chicago, there is no real way to enjoy the outdoors, especially at night.

You will get closer with the people you go with, even if they are already your best friends. You get to enjoy the campfire and see the stars without technology getting in the way.”

Taking a break from technology and the anxieties of college are both commonly cited reasons that motivate students to pack their bags, don their hiking boots and head for the woods.

“The best part is just escaping reality for a bit and being at peace with nature,” DePaul senior Joey Lucente said. “All your anxieties go away

when you're camping.”

Not only does camping offer students the opportunity to hit pause on their day-to-day lives, but it also allows them to experience a different way of life. Students are able to both escape some parts of life while simultaneously immersing themselves in a new culture and landscape.

Although there are many reasons to go camping, it isn’t all waterfalls and s’mores. From washing dishes in the freezing cold to being scared of the noises coming from the woods, everyone has their least favorite part of camping.

Lisa Grady, a DePaul junior, has some advice for getting over the dread of camping.

“Expect everything to go wrong,” she said. “Expect food to go bad, expect it to be raining, expect it to be cold. You're at the mercy of nature so you need to adapt with it and appreciate it for what it is even if it is 30 degrees and raining sideways. That can be really sweet also.”

Even the hardiest campers have bad nights, but they keep going back for more because, at the end of the day, the pros seem to far outweigh the cons.

“Honestly, my least favorite part is having to leave,” Grady said. “Like, you can't just stay there forever. Even if it sucks I don't want to leave.”

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1. Toilet paper – Using the bathroom while camping is hardly glamorous, and by bringing toilet paper campers are able to make going to the bathroom more comfortable.

2. Cooking utensils – Cooking utensils are helpful for making and serving food while on a camping trip.

3. Can opener – Depending on what food campers bring, can openers are essentials to be able to open food.

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Safety supplies – While on an active camping trip, it’s important to bring a First Aid Kit and other safety supplies such as hand sanitizer with you in case burns, cuts or scratches happen.

5. Sunscreen/bug repellant – No matter where a person is, sunscreen is important in order to maintain health. Bug repellant also helps so campers aren’t itching throughout their entire trip.

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Headlamp – Nighttime while camping can become incredibly dark due to the lack of outdoor lighting.

Headlamps come in handy while walking around outdoors to be able to see at night.

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Matches – Chances are, most campers are unable to start fires on their own. Matches are helpful to create a fire in order to cook food and warm up.

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Swiss Army Knife – A small tool that can fit in any bag, this is an essential camping item as it contains a knife, corkscrew, saw and scissors.

Into the woods The top places for a midwestern camping trip Devil's Lake State Park Baraboo, Wisconsin

Three hours and 15 minutes from DePaul.

Features: Camping, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, snorkeling and scuba diving

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Just north of Madison, Devil's Lake offers a variety of options of outdoor activities for campers who visit.

“When we went there we said it looked like a miniNorthwest, (and had)huge hills for climbing if you're into that,” Creek said. “(The) campgrounds are beautiful, like a forest (and) you can walk around the lake and do different levels of trails. You can swim and rent non-motor boats for the lake (and) there is cliff jumping.”

Kettle Moraine State Forest

Starved Rock State Park

Kettle Moraine State Forest Kewaskum, Wisconsin

Three hours from DePaul.

Features: Camping, hiking, swimming, canoeing and kayaking, fishing and mountain biking

Turkey Run State Park

“The whole area has a bunch of small ponds dotting the land,” Joey Lucente said. “They are from the last glacier that melted to form these ponds. You see things you don't normally see in a typical popular campground in the Chicagos area. It has more spunk to it than other campsites.”

Shawnee National Forest

Starved Rock State Park Oglesby, Ilinois

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to explore. The park is home to canyons, waterfalls and unique rock formations. The campground is not located in the park, but it is very close. It is also only five minutes away from Matthiessen State Park, which is a great place to go for a hike and to see waterfalls.

“It’s like the Midwest’s version of the Grand Canyon,” DePaul sophomore Emily Walsh said. “The first time I went, I had no idea Illinois had its own set of canyons.

The history there is very rich and everything is quite beautiful. The waterfalls are my favorite part. I’ve been there at least eight times now and continue to keep visiting.”

Turkey Run State Park Marshall, Indiana

Three hours and 15 minutes from DePaul.

Features: canoeing, kayaking, swimming and a variety of hiking trails and fishing “We hiked up waterfalls and trails,” Walsh said. “It was definitely the most intense hiking I've ever done in the Midwest. Because the routes were less traveled, the hidden gems were spectacular. There were points when I was left speechless in awe.”

Shawnee National Forest Simpson, Illinois

Five hours and 30 minutes from DePaul Features: Camping, hiking, rock climbing, cycling trails, hunting, fishing and swimming Located in Southern Illinois, this area really feels like a whole different world from Chicago. It offers camping, hiking, rock climbing and swimming. While Shawnee National Forest is further than many other parks, it is the most popular park destination in Illinois. It offers breathtaking views that are not often seen in the surrounding area and has places to rock climb, swim, hike, go horseback riding, fish and boat.

The park is close to Chicago and has a variety of trails

• If you go to a popular camp- • Be aware of the wildlife in the • Most campsites do not offer ing destination, you will want area. Some of these parks do a shower. Shower before you to ensure you have a camphave black bears and snakes. go and embrace not showering spot by making a reservaIf you are in an area with ing as part of the camping extion ahead of time. You can bears, do not cook or store perience. find reservation information your food near your campon the park's website.

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Arts & Life

SUMMER OUTDOOR

MUSIC GUIDE Summer music isn’t just about expensive festivals. From street fests to free shows, here’s your guide to getting outside and seeing your favorite band this summer.

By Kirsten Onsgard & Jaycee Rockhold Arts & Life Editor, Contributing Writer

JUNE June 4

June 16

June 20-21

June 21

Millennium Park Free

Montrose Beach $65

Damen and North Avenues $5 donation In addition to celebrating ecoconsciousness (and a strict no-Styrofoam rule), Green Music Fest looks like it stole some of its headliners from Pitchfork, with acts like Mikal Cronin, Lydia Loveless and Shovels & Rope.

Millennium Park $25 lawn, $59-70 seats

The Very Best, Glass Lux

June 10

Hozier

Millennium Park $25 lawn, $50-60 seats

June 12-14

Spring Awakening Music Festival

Soldier Field $200-240 for three days Spring Awakening kicks off Chicago festival season, as bass heads and dance music fans overtake Soldier Field. Zedd, Diplo and Tiesto headline.

Mumford and Sons

June 19-21

Taste of Randolph Street

900 W. Randolph St. $10 donation Yes, technically this is a food festival, but look at that lineup.

With Dinosaur Jr., Best Coast, The Dandy Warhols, Lettuce and Emancipator, Taste of Randolph is almost like a mini North Coast or Riot Fest on a budget.

Green Music Fest

June 20-21

Chicago Pride Festival

Halsted Street and Belmont Avenue $5 suggested donation Big Freedia, The Veronicas and Debbie Gibson help to cap off LGBT Pride Month.

Damien Rice, Iron and Wine

June 25

Snarky Puppy, Third Coast Percussion Millennium Park Free

June 26

Logan Square Arts Festival

Logan Boulevard and Milwaukee Avenue $5 suggested donation Formerly the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, the Logan Square Arts Festival

will feature a music lineup including Bongripper, On an On and tons of local, near West Side bands. A portion of the proceeds will go toward restoring the neighborhood’s iconic Centennial Monument.

June 27

World’s Largest Block Party

UIC Festival Lot $40 Maybe $40 is a little steep for a block party, but this one has Young the Giant and Neon Trees. Plus the ticket price includes two drinks, and because it’s 21-and-up, there’s no mettling, snot-nosed kids to ruin it for you.

JULY July 8-10

July 11-12

Grant Park Limited Free Seating Available, $15 and up for premium seating All your teenage dreams are coming true — you can eat some tasty food and then head on over to see the likes of Weezer, Spoon, The Chieftains and Erykah Badu.

Oakwood Beach $99-$149 Mamby on the Beach, an extremely new summer festival in Chicago, focuses on indie dance and Chicago house music.

Pair this with the beach, bands like Empire of the Sun and Phantogram, the overall vibes of the summer in Chicago, and you get a sandy good time.

Taste of Chicago

July 9

Judah and the Lion Millennium Park Free

Mamby on the Beach

July 11-12

West Fest

Chicago and Damen Avenues $5 donation Nobunny and Murder City Devils play the midsummer, near West Side street fest.

July 13

Matthew Sweet, In Tall Buildings Millennium Park Free

July 20

Murder by Death Millennium Park Free

July 25-26

July 17-19

Pitchfork Music Festival

Union Park Day Passes $65 Pitchfork is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Whether your taste ranges from rock like Iceage, rap like Chance the Rapper, or whatever genre PC Music can be classified as, surely there’s something for everyone.

Wicker Park Fest

Milwaukee Avenue, from North Avenue to Paulina Street $5 suggested donation Every year Wicker Park Fest books an incredibly forward-thinking lineup, and with Blonde Redhead, Veruca Salt and Deafheaven, they’ve done it again. Who doesn’t want to hear black metal while perusing artisan goods?

AUG. - SEPT. July 31 - Aug. 2

Aug. 14

Grant Park $250-$275 for three days, sold out Lollapalooza, an internationally famous music festival that also takes place in Brazil, hosts popular artists amongst a wide span of genres in Chicago every year. This time around, Lollapalooza is hosting older artists like Paul McCartney as well as younger, more modern acts such as Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala.

Ravinia $45 tickets, $25 lawn

Lollapalooza

Umphrey’s McGee

OTHER

STREET FEST

MUSIC FEST

DOWNTOWN SOUND

Sept. 4 - 6

North Coast Music Festival

Union Park $159 for three days North Coast Music Festival, aptly described as “summer’s last stand,” closes out the season with Widespread Panic and D’Angelo.

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Shh ... Chicago’s trendiest secret spots

By Sarah Perkins Contributing Writer

There are plenty of bar hoppers in Chicago who believe standing in line for way too long in clothes way too tight will make them look cool (ahem, Studio Paris). Those in the know are slipping into the trendiest spots without blinking an eye, and the payoff is craft cocktail heaven without getting jostled by a crowd.

Where are such places? Look closely: it’s the concealed door to a staircase, the elusive entrance leading underground to an unmarked establishment. Call the 1920s: secret bars are making a comeback.

Chicago commanded center stage during the Prohibition era thanks to Scarface himself: Al Capone. The city has now romanticized the gangster’s illegal dealings by emulating the speakeasies that he conducted his well business out of. Some places have been preserved as shrines, like Uptown’s Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, which was a hideout of Capone’s enemies, or River North’s The Green Door Tavern. But the past few years have seen an influx of modern hard-to-find bars.

The inception of this trend can be traced back to almost 10 years ago when Wicker Park’s The Violet Hour opened in 2006.

Now a James Beard Foundation Award winner, the dark and sexy spot is known for its strict rules and extensive cocktail list made with the finest ingredients to create a sophisticated atmosphere.

However, it has become so popular that anyone, local or not, can find the hidden door behind the street

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The lush interior of JIMMY, a ‘70s-inspired secret lounge at The James Chicago. Though secret bars have been a Chicago institution since Prohibition, they have been making a comback in recent years. art mural, leading to a huge wait on any weekend night.

The past three years have seen secret bars pop up that are trendy but without the same hassle. Open since 2012, River North’s Untitled Supper Club, just another black door on Kinzie Street if you don’t slow down, has also perpetuated the trend. Known for its modern speakeasy style, patrons enter via long staircase to a mahogany and candlelit underground soiree, with one of the most extensive whiskey libraries imaginable. Cocktail swillers can grab a table near the stage just in time for belly dancing or burlesque.

In August 2013, The James

Chicago hotel hopped on the secret bar bandwagon with JIMMY, the “If you blink, you’ll miss it” side bar on the first floor.

Enter through a curtain of silver beads to a small lounge inspired by the ’70s instead of the ’20s, which encourages mingling and slow sipping — you’d more likely see Bianca Jagger here than any of Capone’s cronies.

Matt Hunnel, a managing mixologist at JIMMY, thinks the secret bar trend has been a long time coming in Chicago.

“I think the trend of secret bars in Chicago is kind of a step behind where New York or San Francisco are,” Hunnel said. “Recently

Chicago has picked up on the craft spirit industry and has hit the ground running with it. People have been realizing this has been trendy in other cities where the bar scene has been more craft focused for a long time.”

In addition to Chicago’s craft spirit scene, Hunnel believes it’s all about honoring the past.

“I think the history of Prohibition here makes our market a shoe-in for it,” Hunnel said.

“People love that rich history and we’re now embracing it. And some could argue we are embracing it and wearing it a lot better than the other cities that have been doing it for a little bit of time.”

In JIMMY’s case, the bar has seen a transformation over the last two years, going from a very exclusive spot to something more accessible for anyone wanting to experience high-end drinks in a secluded environment.

“When it opened they first went with a very New Yorkcentralized theme,” Hunnel said.

“They opened it to be extremely exclusive, and extremely hard to find and get into. What we’re doing now is we’ve taken away all exclusivity and we’re riding that fine line of being a hidden gem and off the beaten path, but at the same time being accessible and known about for everybody.”

This year’s most recent secret bar comes at the newest hotel in town: the Virgin Hotels Chicago.

With the 26th floor rooftop bar, Cerise, just opening last month, you would think the hotel would be set for bars with the second floor Commons Club. However, if you look to the left as you step down to the 25th floor restrooms, there is a side patio considered the hotel’s secret bar. Behind a plain metal door lies a quiet space to relax on a couch or rocking chair as the trendy crowd mingles above.

The bar is so secret it’s not even open at all times. Delaney Lux,of Lincoln Park, tried to enter on Memorial Day but found it locked.

“The fact that’s it’s not popular in the general population makes people want to come here, because they want to experience the craft cocktails and atmosphere you’re not going to find at a regular sports bar around the city,” Lux said. “I think that will always entice people to come to these bars: the notion that it’s somewhat forbidden.”

Nando’s opens first Chicago location

By Erin Yarnall & Carolyn Duff Focus Editor and Asst. Design Editor

As any student who has studied abroad in the United Kingdom or South Africa can tell you, Nando’s is incredible. The South African-based restaurant is an interesting take on casual dining, with a Mozambican/ Portuguese themed dishes of peri-peri chicken.

The restaurant was first established in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa in 1987, and over time spread to 35 different countries. Although the chain was created in South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom boast the most restaurant locations, each being home to more than 200 Nando’s locations.

Nando’s spread to the United States, but all over their locations have been in the Baltimore-Washington DC metro area.

On May 20, the first-ever Chicago location opened at 953 W. Randolph St. in the West Loop.

The new location is artfully decorated and in a large space so customers never feel like they’re too close to one another. The restaurant also features comfortable chairs and outdoor seating, which make for an enjoyable dining experience.

The restaurant is famous for its brand of peri-peri chicken, which is marinated for 24 hours before being grilled and basted.

After that, customers are able to choose the heat level of their sauce.

Beyond chicken, Nando’s also offers burgers, salads and a variety of sides which include fries, hummus and flame-grilled corn on the cob.

Chicken: I ordered the Flame Grilled Chicken Breast with Mango Lime peri peri sauce. The chicken was delicious — rich with flavor and cooked perfectly. Despite how good it was, I had a hard time eating the chicken because it was so spicy. The mango lime sauce was described as having “a mere hint of heat” but was far from mild. I have no tolerance for spicy food so I had to drink three glasses of water to get through the meal. Overall, I was happy with the chicken. I can see how it would be really good on their chicken sandwiches.

— Carolyn Duff Veggie burger: For vegetarians, going to a chicken restaurant is hardly appealing.

Thankfully, Nando’s offers numerous vegetarian options, including the veggie burger. I don’t know what it’s made of, but whatever it is, it works. The burger is delicious, especially with the medium sauce, which doesn’t overwhelm it. It comes with a tomato and lettuce, and combined with a wild herb peri a peri sauce on the side, it leaves both a sweet and spicy taste, and altogether incredibly enjoyable.

— Erin Yarnall Mashed potatoes: Only the highly coveted mashed potatoes that I wait for all day on Thanksgiving could compare to the mashed potato experience I had at Nandos. Not only were they made with my favorite kind of potato (red-skinned),

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Nando’s is famous for chicken and barbecue, but their veggie burger with wild herb peri a peri sauce makes for a sweet and spicy twist on the vegetarian classic. they were mashed to perfection. No lumps whatsoever. They had a noticeable butter flavor, but it was not too overwhelming.

Nando’s genuinely serves some of the best mashed potatoes and they are recommended to everyone who goes to the restaurant. — Erin Yarnall Rice: I thought the rice would be a good choice because it’s a Portuguese themed restaurant, so ordering the Portuguese

rice seemed like a no brainer. The rice was pretty good, but nothing to write home about. It had a really nice flavor, without being overwhelmingly spicy which was a pleasant surprise. I enjoyed the rice, but I probably would have prefered the mashed potatoes, peri chips, flame grilled corn on the cob, or garlic bread. Basically I would have been happier having ordered any other side. — Carolyn Duff

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Your summer movie match

By Pat Mullane Staff Writer

Though DePaul students are practically the only people not on summer break by now, it does give us a lot to look forward to. If you’re in need of a break from the beach and Cubs games, here are five movies to catch this summer. But before you see any of these films, make sure you’ve seen “Mad Max: Fury Road” — all right, carry on.

Here’s the best movie to see if you love ...

“Inside Out” June 19

“Dope” June 19

July 17

Pixar animations

Indie flicks

There’s no denying Pixar films are one of the greatest aspects of anyone’s life, therefore I believe we should be seeing “Inside Out” this summer. Taking place in the mind of a young girl, Riley Anderson, the film follows her five emotions—Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness— in their attempt to guide her through her life. The plot enough is a reason to go see the film, although with a cast containing Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling, I think seeing this film should be a given.

Straight out of the Sundance Film Festival, this coming-of-age comedy tells the story of Malcolm, a high school geek struggling to get through his senior year by avoiding the drugs and gangs in his school. It isn’t until he’s hit with an invite to California’s biggest underground party that Malcolm determines to rid himself of his geek status and become dope. It should also be noted that A$AP Rocky makes his acting debut in this, which is dope in itself, given that latest album.

“Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” July 31

“Antman”

“The End of the Tour” July 31

Marvel heroes It’s funny to think that someone would actually finance a film about the superhero Ant-Man, but I actually think this film could work. While most of Marvel films have very cookie-cutter plots, they happen to be enjoyable because of the actors, and you can’t deny that seeing Paul Rudd as a shrinking superhero riding an ant doesn’t seem enjoyable. The same doubts also surrounded last summer’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” but “Guardians” was able to bring something fresh to Marvel’s universe.

“Sinister” Aug. 21

Action movies

Award winners

Horror films

This is probably the one sequel film coming out this summer that I’m OK with. As much as you want to see dinosaurs and terminators, I’m telling you: Tom Cruise strapped to the side of an airplane is worth it even more.

Like the Fast & Furious films, this franchise has spawned over 15 years and gets crazier each film. And I mean crazy in a good way, not crazy in a Tom Cruise way.

Based on true events of a four day Rolling Stones interview with the acclaimed author, David Foster Wallace. Mostly taking place on the road as Wallace promotes his new book, “Infinite Jest,” the film falls under both a comedy and drama. Jason Segal captures the entity and depth behind David Foster Wallace, a more than interesting character in the film and real life. Jesse Eisenberg plays David Lipsky — the Rolling Stones writer — in a very subtle performance, yet as equal to Segal’s performance. So go see this film. Please.

While the sequel to Sinister has an overwhelming lack of Ethan Hawke, it still looks pretty damn good compared to the other horror films out this summer.

The evil spirit form the first film, Buhguul, finds himself terrorizing another family with his sinister behavior (get it?). The film mostly has a cast of unknowns, but for a horror film you don’t need big stars, you just need good ole’ Buhguul. And if “Sinister 2” seems too far away in August, there’s always “Insidious 3” out in the beginning of June.

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Designer craft beer glasses now on tap

By Kathryn Eardley Multimedia Editor

Late afternoon light streamed through huge storefront windows of the otherwise dimly lit Hopleaf Bar, bouncing from dozens of multicolored tap heads lined up like international trophies along the bar. At the back of the Belgian-inspired establishment, the glow reflects softly from the bartender’s clear, round glasses as he pulls a glass from the steaming dishwasher.

He goes by the name Mighty Slim but his beer knowledge is anything but slight.

He’s been pouring microbrews behind this bar long before the craft brew concept skyrocketed to popularity in the last decade.

With more people swapping cheap cans of American lager for more complex microbrews, breweries, bars and liquor stores are capitalizing from glassware as a way to market and complement various beers.

Beer mugs still sell, but now so do tulips, Pilsner glasses and goblets.

He’s learned to differentiate over the years but with new breweries opening every day, it’s now a little harder to keep up. With more than 3,000 breweries now operating in the U.S., more than any other time since the 1870s, American beer drinkers have more variety than ever, and they want it in a proper glass “There’s so much going on,” he said, his curly white beard cascading to his flannel collar. “It’s sometimes hard to keep a finger on all of the pulses.”

Brewers design or suggest the size, shape and weight of a glass depending on the flavors, effervescence, aroma, color, desired temperature and alcohol by volume (ABV) of a particular beer. Stems concentrate body heat from the holder, wide rims release aroma and tall glasses keep a beer bubbling.

A squat, footed tulip glass, for example, is used to pour a smaller serving of a hoppy,

PILSNER GLASS

TULIP GLASS

As the craft beer industry booms, bars strive to serve their brews in glassware suited for each style. Tulip glasses are suited for IPAs, and pilsner glasses for lagers. highly alcoholic IPA. The general design also provides a short stem to avoid heating the beer with warm hands.

“Gone are the days of “lawnmower beer’ or ‘t-shirt beer,’” DePaul professor Michael Lynch, who teaches a hospitality class on alcoholic beverages, said. “Beer has gotten to be as sophisticated, interesting and intriguing as wine.”

According to Hopleaf ’s owner, Michael Roper, a bright red Kriek Lambic looks best in a narrow tall fluted glass that allows plenty of light to pass through, complementing the color. Other beers, like the Belgian strong pale ale Duvel, are very frothy and need to be tamed. They are often served in a "hurricane" style goblet that tapers in and then out to avoid overflow every time the glass is tipped.

Across town, Pat Brophy, buyer for Binny’s Beverage Depot, watched specially designed glasses “grow up with beer” during the early 2000s. Brophy, a homebrewer and lover of all things beer, has seen increased sales in craft beer and glasswares during his six years at the business.

Fascinated by the sudden popularity of craft beers, he believes the shift in taste sprung from the economic downturn in the early 2000s.

“Part of it, I think, is just people being wiser about how they spend their dollars,” Brophy said. “People are demanding more flavor and more complexity in all things in life.”

Part of that complexity is creative presentation. Just like a restaurant wouldn’t serve a gourmet meal on a paper plate, brewers and consumers are demanding glassware to elevate the beer drinking experience.

“Craft beer kind of took from clues from the wine industry and people looking for a quality, polished presentation,” Brophy said.

He’s seen more glassware producers dissect the drinking experience “at a microscopic level,” mirroring the language and concepts of fine wine tasting. How a beer flows over the rim of a glass to reach a targeted part of the tongue and the physics involved in creating a perfect pour are a

main consideration.

The slow start of craft brewing gave glass manufacturers time to prepare for these specialized designs. Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams emerged in the early ’80s and continued to grow through a huge wave of mediocre, unsuccessful brewers in the ’90s but until the early 2000s, many emerging microbreweries fell flat.

“At the turn of the century, we got it,” Brophy said. “It just clicked.”

Goose Island and other brewers now suggest specific glass styles on their packaging and produce unique, branded glassware to accompany a variety of brews.

Many restaurants and bars take care to use the correct glass, attract a growing population impressed by the details.

He stresses always drinking from a glass, never a bottle or can, and says the beer is not finished until it is poured with a frothy head and exposed to air.

Alexia Besbekos has been coming to the bar for a few years, not long enough to consider herself a hardcore regular but long enough that she knows Slim and the weekly specials.

She sips an Allagash White from a pint glass and says she rarely orders beers with a unique glass, but owns a tulip glass when she enjoys beer at home.

“A thinner glass improves the taste of some beers,” she said. “They seem to have a more crisp flavor.”

Many beer aficionados speak of the industry being in a growth bubble ready to burst, but Brophy can rather see it “slowly deflating” as competitive market consolidates.

“It’s going to be a battlefield,” he said, “(until) each neighborhood has their brewery and they have enough for their neighborhood.”

Besbekos had her choice of neighborhood bars with many boasting an array of craft beers, but she returned to her cozy, yet sophisticated go-to. If a beer war is brewing, she has put her money on this local watering hole, carefully selected glass

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Composing the future The journeys of three DePaul musicians as they prepare for graduation

By Kirsten Onsgard Arts & Life Editor

This is the last article in a three-part series following three seniors in the School of Music.

Too often, college is about looking forward. There’s the meticulously planning of classes for next quarter, studying for finals next week, gathering friends for a Friday get-together and applying for summer internships.

Then rinse, repeat and recycle the process a few times. Shake up the friends, apply a little extra pressure and blink — and suddenly, it’s graduation. And a lot has changed, both personally and professionally.

“When you get into college, you’re not thinking, ‘okay, what am I going to be like, and who is the person I’m going to be in four years?’” jazz percussionist Zach Yanez said. “It just happens.”

For Yanez, along with vocalist Christine Roberts and violinist Katherine Baloff, college has been both long and short, tangled with occasional growth spurts and pains. Though their May senior recital is a culmination and celebration of their work at DePaul, the climax of their musical careers is yet to come.

With his father and instructor seated in the back, Yanez lurched behind his kit, his lines of drum claps mingling with noodling lines created by a bassist, guitarist, pianist and horn player. They’re now his friends, colleagues and allies — fellow School of Music students often are asked to perform during one another’s recitals — and it won’t be easy to say goodbye as they all forge paths across the country. Yanez is likely headed back to his hometown in Austin, Texas mid-summer.

“I’m trying to absorb as much as I can — with my friends and the city — and just be around people I love as much as possible because we’re all going to split,” he said.

“Which is cool that I have those connections forever and ever and ever, but I’ll miss them. Because it is personal — it’s a really personal experience.”

A month ago, Roberts thought she wasn’t going to be leaving Chicago, but a scholarship offer has since shifted her plans: a promising scholarship offer means she’ll be following her current instructor, Jane Bunnell to Michigan State.

In her four years, she’s been bogged and beaten down with rejections and harsh critiques. In a stereotypically frazzled freshman fashion, she would misplace her ID and credit card. Sophomore year, she considered dropping out (“well, I only wanted to drop out for about an hour,” she laughed) but channeled it into working harder. It’s payed off in both her music and overall confidence.

“It’s easy to forget why you’re doing it because it’s so stressful,” she said. “(But) I like doing this -

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Zach Yanez warms up for his senior recital May 24. He was joined by pianist Joey Skoch, bassist Emma Dayhuff, guitarist Zac Nunnery and saxophone player Tom Caminito. “That’s kind of what we do,” Yanez said, referring to his fellow musicians. “We’re there for people.”

Advice for incoming School of Music freshmen “Never forget that you’re doing it because you love it. You’re doing performance for a reason, and it’s still there.”

— Christine Roberts “Don’t give up. One person’s opinion isn’t the opinion of everyone.”

— Christine Roberts

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“Work as hard as you can. This is the time in your life when you’re going to have the most time to practice, make mistakes and take chances, musically.”

— Zach Yanez “Come in with an open mind, and always be a team player.”

— Katherine Baloff “Accept as many gigs as you can, within reason.

Accepting gigs is great, but don’t overbook yourself, leave time for breathing.”

— Katherine Baloff “Don’t wait until the last minute to buy a recital dress. Especially if your recital is after prom season … and you can never have enough black dresses. “ — Katherine Baloff

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Christine Roberts performs a self-selected body of work during her senior recital May 30. The hour-long performance included pieces

by Brahms, Bach, Sibelius and one of her favorites, “Le Travail du Peintre” by Francis Poulec, inspired by various painters. it brings me joy.”

As Bunnell watched, Roberts’ vibrato tones purred through selections by Brahms and Bach.

In less than a year, she’ll sing in Chinese for a spring abroad tour

with her Michigan State ensemble.

For Baloff, less has changed; she’s still arranging a move to Lynn University on a full scholarship next academic year. But last week, she had a little help from

her family in organizing a senior recital, cooking chili with her father and performing alongside her brother, who studies viola.

Likewise, she sees the changes she’s made personally and professionally during college as almost one in the same.

“I think both (music and personal life) go hand in hand,”

she said. “What I learn in music applies to the real world.”

Though their time at DePaul is almost over, it’s just the beginning.

“It feels like something is ending, but I know nothing really is because it’s just school,” Yanez said. “Music is going to go on for the rest of my life.”

Editor’s note: Baloff ’s recital took place May 31 after deadline.

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DPAM exhibit sees Chicago through a new lens

By Lindsay Goldstein Contributing Writer

Last October, artists Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke and Richard Nielsen brought a giant shipping container to Chicago.

That shipping container had been fashioned into a giant photography device, called a liminal camera, and the three artists drove it around the city in coordination with the annual Chicago Humanities Festival — quite literally exploring art ­ through a new lens.

Almost seven months later, the culmination of Bon, Duke and Nielsen’s work is on display at the DePaul Art Museum. “Liminal Infrastructure,” a photography series depicting the city of Chicago as seen through the liminal camera, opened on May 14. The three rooms of the exhibit are designed to tell a story about Chicago’s history, infrastructure and recreation all in relevance to the water systems that have shaped the city over time.

The large banner-sized photos are mostly in black and white, and the subjects are all very recognizable to Chicago natives, from the Union Stock Yard Gate to the sandy beaches of Lake Michigan and so much more.

The exhibit is a collaboration between the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Metabolic Studio in Los Angeles and the team at the DePaul Art Museum.

The Metabolic Studio, home of the liminal camera project and many other artistic endeavors, was founded in 2005 by artist Lauren Bon, and the studio’s optics division and sonic division

Photo courtesy of METABOLIC STUDIOS

This photo of the Chicago skyline called “Jardine Water Treatment Plant” was taken on Oct. 24, 2014 as part of “Liminal Infrastructure.” worked cooperatively to tell a geographical tale of the American West.

“I found myself particularly interested in how our city emerged and what our city’s relationship to the rest of the country was,” Bon said during a Chicago Humanities Festival discussion last October.

This interest of hers sparked the larger liminal camera project, which aims to tell the story of various parts of America through its waterways and infrastructure.

Corrina Lesser, the Director of Programming and Planning for the Chicago Humanities Festival, first reached out to Greg Harris, the DePaul Art Museum exhibit’s curator, to discuss the potential for a residency and an exhibit over a year ago. Harris excitedly agreed.

“It sounded like a really interesting opportunity to join forces with the Humanities Festival, but also the work is really

impressive and amazing work, and we’d never commissioned any new work before,” said Harris.

During the Chicago Humanities Festival in October 2014, Bon, Duke and Nielsen not only took the photographs on display, but they also allowed guests to come inside the camera and see what the photographing and developing processes were like for such a big device, and the negatives developed during that time were hung in the museum’s second-floor gallery for the public to observe.

“It is totally wild to be inside an enormous camera and to hear how the image is captured,” said Lesser via email. “The fact that the image is so huge — 12 feet by 8 feet — you don't see prints that big very often.”

Harris emphasized that the photos selected displayed “Chicago as a hub of transportation, communication

Photo courtesy of METABOLIC STUDIOS

This photo of a stormy Chicago skyline called “Storm from Northerly Island (Nick's Shot)” was taken on Oct. 31, 2014 and is part of the upcoming exhibition, “Liminal Infrastructure” at DePaul Art Museum. and trade, as that relates to the bodies of water around the city.”

The artists, and the liminal camera, returned to Chicago for the May 14 opening of the exhibit, and once again, the 250 guests present were given the opportunity to tour the camera.

But this time, they got to see the final product: the banner-sized images displayed all around the first floor gallery of the DePaul

Art Museum.

“It’s a really interesting approach to making photographs,” said Harris. “In a sense, it’s very basic and rudimentary in how they approach photography — they’re using the most basic technology that you can get your hands on and build yourself, but the scale is really impressive.”

“Liminal Infrastructure” runs through Aug. 9.

Director Gomez-Rejon reflects on ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’

By Alondra Valle Contributing Writer

When Alfonso Gomez-Rejon first read the script for “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” he couldn’t help but feel like it was meant for him to direct.

“I had gone through a very personal loss in my life and felt very much like Greg,” Gomez-Rejon said. “So by making a movie out of it I was able to best express myself because it was hard to find a way, certainly with words, to deal with it.”

The film revolves around three teens, one just diagnosed with cancer. Greg (Thomas Mann) is forced by his mom to hang out with “the dying girl” Rachel (Olivia Cooke). With the help of his so called “co-worker” Earl (RJ Cyler), Greg helps Rachel travel through the ups and downs of her illness by keeping her spirits up using his and Earl’s bad remakes of classic films. Greg, who at the beginning of the film finds himself without any real friends or connections, ends up understanding and appreciating the beauty of friendship, regardless of the hassle it may bring.

But making the story of a young girl with cancer come to life needed the talent and commitment of the cast. Olivia Cooke was picked to play the role of Rachel, a teen well past her years battling Leukemia. The role was nothing like anything Cooke had done before, so preparing for it required intensive research and creating charts of how Rachel’s illness progressed and how it

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Olivia Cooke as Rachel, Thomas Mann as Greg and RJ Cyler as Earl in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.” would be reflected in Cooke’s performance.

“I went to visit the Mattel wing at UCLA and met a girl named Katie and met the doctors that were treating her and she had the same Leukemia as Rachel in the film,” Cooke said. “Just seeing her, being so still on the bed, and she had One Direction posters on the walls … it really helped. I just wanted to make (the movie) as honest as possible … because if someone watching my performance or the movie had gone through that and kind of felt like it wasn’t an accurate representation then it would crush me.”

Alongside Cooke were Mann and Cyler,

each with different levels of experience. But director Gomez-Rejon pushed the actors into allowing themselves to be vulnerable on screen from day one. For Cyler this was his first big-screen project.

“I’m not really emotional, like at all, in life in general. So I mean, Alfonso, he would show me little like ways and tidbits of just letting myself go there,” Cyler said. “(The cast) just made me comfortable to the point where I was like ‘I could cry for 16 hours with them’ you know because they just made me comfortable.”

Mann had to portray vulnerability from a different angle.

“Greg has a fear of being vulnerable and so it’s about him letting go of that and learning to share himself and let people in,” Mann said. “So really it was just kind of trusting that I was the right person for the job and that it was going to be okay.”

Trust played a major part in filming this film, especially for Cooke who two weeks before pre-production decided to shave her head for the film.

“We decided to shoot the shaving of the head as our characters because it was going to be maybe a part of the film … these guys were cutting little pig tails off, having the best time ever,” said Cooke. “I was just rubbing my scalp for the first time ever and I was trying not to cry because the whole point was taking control of the cancer before the cancer took control of Rachel, but I couldn’t help it and I let out this weird scream cry noise that has never been emitted from my body before.”

The actors and director agree that that scene raised the bar for the production.

“All of a sudden you see all of her hair on the ground and I look at Olivia and she’s like tearing up and you realize this is real, like yeah she’s playing a character but that is her real hair on the ground,” Mann said.

But despite the difficult topic, GomezRejon believes the film is about much more than just cancer.

“It’s about living, it’s about discovery, and it’s about creating,” he said.

“Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” is in theatres June 12.

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Sun Kil Moon “Universal Themes”

Florence and the Machine “How Big How Blue How Beautiful”

June 2

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Florence and the Machine’s follow up to 2011’s “Ceremonials” deals with living in reality, rather than escaping it.

June 1 San Fermin Millennium Park Free June 8 Purity Ring Riviera Theatre 4750 N. Broadway, $27.50

“Universal Themes” is singersongwriter (and hater of the band The War on Drugs) Mark Kozelek’s follow up to 2014’s widely-acclaimed “Benji.”

LIVE

June 4-5 Will Butler Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., $10 June 6 Unknown Mortal Orchestra, J Fernandez June 6 2424 N. Lincoln Ave, $15

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“Far from the Madding Crowd” Out now Though a barrage of action-packed summer blockbusters lies just around the corner, a quieter tale is winding its way around the hearts of audiences. “Far from the Madding Crowd,” directed by Thomas Vinterberg, presents a masterful adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s beloved novel. The film chronicles the tale of the resilient Bathsheba, who attracts numerous suitors. After she gains control of her uncle’s farm, she wrestles with whether love and commitment can exist in conjunction with autonomy. The film’s quiet and steady force is backed by an incredible cast lead by Carey Mulligan. The actress’ portrayal of Bathsheba is impeccable. She captures the protagonist’s vulnerability and strength while retaining the literary brilliance that brought Hardy’s novel to fame. “Far from the Madding Crowd” contains stunning visuals, a captivating narrative and talent both behind and in front of the camera. It provides a world that is easy to jump into but nearly impossible to forget.

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Across 1. Major airline 6. Major broadcaster 9. An encourgaing 14. Type of manual 15. Fon du ___, Wisc.

16. Downy duck 17. Supernatural life forces 18. Opposite of hence 19. Cathedral topper 20. Method of pairing off for safety 23. Lennon’s wife 24. “... __ he drove out of sight” 25. Locks 27. Make a connection with 32. Splashy party 33. Make public 34. Impressionist’s specialty 36. Easy wins 39. It’s in the eye of the beholder 41. “When I Need You” singer Leo 43. Ballpoint pen inventor

44. Swarms, as with life 46. “I’ll ___ a good word for you” 49. Musician’s jotting 51. Gag order?

53. Chess sequence 56. Female on the farm 57. They are not positive 58. Person on a political ticket 64. Dislike, and then some 66. Elephant’s weight, maybe 67. Hearing-based 68. “Crazy” singer Patsy 69. Boundary 70. Cable cars on high 71. Used a keyboard 72. “Winnie-thePooh” baby 73. Lauder of cosmetics Down 1. Asinine

2. Biblical birthright sellser 3. Advance 4. Business person 5. Nineveh was its capital 6. Kind of court 7. Grocery store staples 8. Patton portrayer 9. Sully 10. Tear violently 11. “Goodbye, friend” 12. “From the Earth to the Moon” author Jules 13. Cookies nearly 2 inches in diameter 21. Oozes 22. .0000001 joule 26. Messy drawer 27. Angler’s supply 28. Leprechaun’s land 29. Amity 30. It’s a tide 31. Become free of moisture 35. Abominable snowman 37. Figurehead’s place

38. Sometime today 40. L.A. or Houston problem 42. Become ready to pick 45. Asterisked 47. Nortorious London prison 50. Australian bird 52. Takes exception to 53. Legislate 54 . In a high-minded way 55. “Come in!”

59. Off-limits thing 60. ____-European 61. “I smell ___!”(Something’s fishy here) 62. Not wild at all 63. “Will there be anything ___?”

65. “___ moment, please”

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

By DePaulia Staff As the end of the school year approches, The DePaulia’s graduating staff members are quickly getting all of the feels. To reminisce on their time in college, the graduates chose songs that reminded them of their freshman year.

1. Kanye West — “Homecoming” I remember the first thought I had after moving into my dorm freshman year, after my parents left, was walking outside and realizing that for the first time in my life I was on my own. It was a relieving, freeing feeling. I never thought I would get homesick.

Of course by November, I was missing my hometown of St. Louis and my friends and family something fierce. I bumped this song on the Megabus back home and nearly cried. Yeezy taught me to love coming home.

— Andrew Morrel, Multimedia Editor 2. Drake — “The Motto” Embarrassingly, freshman year wouldn’t have been what it was without the YOLO motto the former Degrassi actor-turnedrapper preached. Almost every social gathering I went to at 18 years of age blasted this on repeat.

Even if I wanted to resist the power of YOLO, I couldn’t then (and still can’t now, honestly).

Thanks, Drake, for popularizing the millennial spin on “carpe diem.”

— Summer Concepcion, Online Editor

3. Noah & The Whale — “5 Years Time” While still trying to adapt to life as a transfer student and reacquainting my bones with miserable Chicago winters, this song kept my sights focused on the spring and summer months.

Looking back on it now this song brings back some meaningful memories of new friends, new experiences and good times at DePaul.

Aside from all the uncertainty and unanswered questions that await me in just a couple of weeks, Noah & The Whale has me focused on the good vibes because, “Oh well in five years time we could be walking around a zoo with the sun shining down over me and you.”

— Parker Asmann, Assistant Sports Editor 4. Little Dragon — “Feather” I like to pretend that I am a cold-hearted person. For those who truly know me, this is clearly not the case, as evidenced by the amount of times I have told my friends in a group chat that I have cried to songs, music videos, television, movies, when eating pizza, when eating cookies or candy, when walking to class, etc. Essentially, I cry a lot and this song may or may not be responsible for my tears. Two of my friends had a radio show my freshman yearand one night they played this song and the rest is history. I have listened to it at least once every day for the last four years, and every time I hear it I’m reminded of how fortunate I am to have known all of the people I have known and how much I’m going to miss

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being a student. I’m rarely a soft and squishy person in public but these last few weeks at DePaul have really made me sappy and I’m just really emotional right now but I really love this song.

— Max Kleiner, Design Editor 5. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros — “Home” Freshman year was a sad time. I went through a dumb breakup that made me feel dumb things and I missed home a lot (which eventually led me to transferring to DePaul from NYU, becoming the Arts & Life editor and co-creating DeJamz, so you’re welome everyone).

So, naturally I just listened to “Home” all the time and it made me feel worse about myself, the natural thing you do when you’re already sad. Evidently this song is a happy one for most other people, which is weird for me, but I can’t hear it without thinking of those sad times in my dorm room on fall nights.

— Courtney Jacquin, Editor-inChief 6. Death Cab for Cutie — “Marching Bands of Manhattan” At my freshman orientation, Managing Editor Matt Paras made fun of me for saying “Plans” was my favorite Death Cab album. This set the tone for the rest of my freshman year, which I spent crying over having no friends and being homesick.

Four years later, I have friends and have gotten my revenge on Matt, but this song will always remind me of the saddest year of my life.

— Erin Yarnall, Focus Editor

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Lenti Ponsetto proud of continued academic success DePaul APR Report Card Editor's note: This year's Academic Progress Rate. 1000 is a perfect score.

MULTI-YEAR Men's Basketball

952

961

Men's CrossCountry

1000

1000

Men's Golf

1000

1000

Men's Soccer

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DePaul Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponesetto praised the student-athletes for their academic success.

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

DePaul scored highly once again in the reveal of the 20132014 Academic Progress Rates (APR) with five sports reaching perfect scores and 12 out of the 15 reached past the NCAA average of 978.

The athletic department also had six sports recognized by the NCAA with the Public Recognition Award for posting multi-year APRs in the top ten percentile of each sport.

“I think for me and the team we’ve assembled in the athletic department, we really believe in the model that success starts on the academic side,” DePaul ath-

letic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto said. “The work habits they have in the classroom really are transformative and are pretty much the same habits you see when it comes to athletic progress.”

Student-athletes earn one point for staying in school and then another for staying academically eligible. A team’s total points are then divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team’s APR. Schools can lose scholarships or face sanction, including loss of postseason play, if they dip below a certain threshold.

Women’s basketball, men’s cross country, golf, softball and women’s tennis all scored 1000 for the 2013-2014 year, which is

one more sport recording a perfect total than the previous year.

One of the sports that decreased was men’s basketball due to the transfer of DeJaun Marrero and the dismissal of Charles McKinney from the team in August.

They went down from a score of 960 to 952.

Ponsetto credits the studentathletes with doing the heavy lifting with regards to balancing schoolwork and athletics, but also the coaching staff who she says encourages students to pursue any academic endeavor.

“I appreciate that when our coaches go out and recruit, they don’t tell them that they can’t major in this or they can’t major in that,” she said. “In fact, they

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encourage them to pursue what they have the strongest interest in academically.”

She also said that “winning” at academics is a large reward because of the purpose of academic institutions.

“People in athletics are criticized because they don’t win enough,” she said. “For me, the real evaluation is on the academic side because that’s what we do, it’s what academic institutions are supposed to do.”

She said that the success is particularly impressive due to the constraints imposed, not only due to student-athletes having hectic schedules with school and athletics, but also the burdens of facility restraints impacting schedules during the school year.

“We don’t have lighted outdoor fields, for example, and many sports have to work around a variety of other schedules to make practice work,” she said.

“We’ve always made their academic coursework a high priority and have had to schedule from there.”

The success will come, Ponsetto said, in either field with the hard work she said the department revolves their philosophy around.

“On the academic side, you can win 100 percent of the time,” she said. “If you have the right work ethic, the intellectual capacity and are willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work, you can be really successful at DePaul.”

BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN

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Senior Matt Babicz threw a personal best of 19.52 meters to qualify for nationals.

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Five DePaul track and field athletes competed at the NCAA national Prelims at the University of Texas May 29-30. Three Blue Demons, Jackie Kasal, MaShayla Kirksy and Blake Thompson, each had their season end on the first day of prelim competition, while Bailey Dell advanced to the second day and competed Sunday night in the Javelin throw.

Senior Matt Babicz was the only Blue Demon to advance to the national tournament at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The senior threw his personal best of 19.52 meters to place fourth and qualify for the national tournament.

DePaul men’s soccer added five recruits for the 2015 season, including several that were ranked across their state.

John Freitag, a defender, has been playing U.S. Academy Soccer with Sockers FC since he was 16 and goalkeeper Spencer Ward comes into DePaul with a ranking in the top 25 in Michigan by StudentSportSoccer.com. Anton Sell, a defender from Hamburg, Germany, joins two other German players on DePaul while Francesco Sinopoli from Vaughn, Ontario, should also provide defensive depth. Jake Scheper, forward from Cincinatti, rounds out the class as the only attacker.

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Freshman Allesandro Thomas (left) made in impact in his year at DePaul.

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The team poses before their first match of the 2015 season, their first in the Great Lakes Premier League May 10. They won in a 4-0 drubbing in their first new league match.

RWB ADRIA, continued from back page point of pride for the club.

“It was huge for us to watch our country become a country,” he said. “For any child who grew up in America with Croatian parents, there was no Yugoslavia.”

The team has started to shift away from when the players and fans were all heavily Croatian and, in the spirit of the “melting pot” description of America, the team has become a place for any nationality who loves soccer.

“We have everyone from Croatian, American, Mexican, Polish you name it,” he said. “We’re like the United Nations, we have every nationality.”

One of those players is former DePaul midfielder Antonio Aguilar, who has been with the team since 2012.

“I’ve always been close with the Adria guys since they’re all local buddies so after college they contacted me to come play with them,” he said. “It was a comfortable switch because I grew up with all of them.”

He’s a certified public accountant with a full-time job, which makes it hard sometimes to balance work and soccer.

“When I was at DePaul, all we did was practice and train but now it’s tough because you have to balance work and soccer,” he said. “Last year in the U.S. Open Cup I got off work at 3:00 p.m., drove two hours and got to Lansing about an hour before the game started.”

RWB Adria won that game in their run in the 2014 U.S. Open Cup. The tournament, which enters its 102nd year of existence in 2015, featured 80 teams stretch-

ing from Major League Soccer to semi-professional teams like RWB Adria. They were one overtime loss away from advancing to the fourth round, where they would have played the Chicago Fire.

In 2015, Adria fell in the first round on penalty kicks to Detroit City FC. However, their success continued in other areas. They made the switch to the Great Lakes Premier League for the 2015 season for more competition and more opportunities for fans to see high-level soccer. They started the season off with two wins and are on top of the standings, just as they had in previous leagues in tournaments.

Just like the Croatian heritage, colors and themes running throughout the club, some things just don’t change.

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Former DePaul player Antonio Aguilar (right) defends against a Croatian Eagles player on May 10.

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Junior Chanise Jenkins drives in the lane in a January contest against Creighton.

Jenkins, who averaged 12.4 points per game and 4.5 assists this past season, is the second Blue Demon to ever make the roster. In 2011, Keisha Hampton made the team. Recently, Jenkins’ teammate Brittany Hrynko tried out for the team in 2013, but failed to make it.

The trials were a three-day try-out in which the group did skill-based drills and also learned the plays they’d be running if they were to make it. Jenkins said it was about 20 minutes of drills while the rest were scrimmages.

“It was a very competitive weekend,” Jenkins said. “You were there with some of the best players in the world right now.

To be able to compete and even build friendships, it was exciting.

“I just tried my best to be the best me — be a vocal leader and uplift my teammates all around me.”

Jenkins making the roster will alter her normal plans of focusing on getting better over the summer. Usually, Jenkins returns to her old high school, Whitney Young, to practice with some of the kids on the team as well as other players from

college. Jenkins said she spends all summer working out to focus on improving her weaknesses.

But this experience, obviously, will play a large role in helping shape her final DePaul season next year.

“You go and play some of the best competition in the country,” Jenkins said.

“You come back and still have a pretty amazing team at DePaul. To be able to lead them there and then lead them here, I don’t think there will be that much of a difference. But I think that it will help my own confidence level to a higher place.”

The world stage should also help others notice Jenkins, who DePaul head coach Doug Bruno repeatedly calls one of the most underrated players in the country.

“Chanise’s abilities to lead, to manage a game and to just do whatever it takes is what makes her so special,” Bruno said in a press release. “… All she ever cares about is winning.

She is about the guts, not the glory, which is why her selection is such a well-deserved honor.”

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DePaul freshman Jeremy Lozano (No. 541) runs in a pack with his DePaul teammates. Lozano shaved 15 seconds off of his mile time last summer.

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No summer ‘break’ for DePaul runners

By Maia Moore Contributing Writer

Picture this: Summer has arrived, school is out and while you’re running along the Lake Michigan trail one for your fellow running mates is a member of DePaul’s Track & Field and Cross Country Team. Just like other students, they’re trying to relax and stay active.

As DePaul classes finish up and the school year comes to a close, that doesn’t mean the work of the school’s athletes fades away.

Summer for them means a couple months to have a change of pace before the fall approaches. The members of the Track & Field and Cross Country team find themselves away from the tight regimen of practice and back to embracing the freedom of what they love most: running.

“The running taking place over the summer isn’t necessarily easy but more relaxed,” freshman Jeremy Lozano, who is a member of both the Track & Field and Cross Country team, said. “Where as during the season, which was fall to a couple weeks it was practices a couple times a week which can be tough on the body. But summer gives time to meet up with other track team members and go run at forest preserves. One my favorite is Waterfall Glen it’s got nice flat gravel and hills which you should take advantage of.”

Lozano has high standards for himself this upcoming Fall season.

During the track and cross country seasons Lozano runs the 1500 meter and 8000 meter distances He wants to utilize the summer and it’s at ease pace as an opportunity to prepare for his sophomore season in a healthy state. In just one year he was able to shave 15 seconds off of his mile time.With such an achievement under his belt, it’s promising to see what a summer of refining skill could mean for the fall.

The freedom of the summer brings the space and opportunity

Training like an athlete Tips from personal trainers at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center Train in the morning or evening to avoid overheating if you choose to train outside.

Training with a partner helps hold you accountable to your workouts and makes it more fun and enjoyable.

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DePaul sophomore Lauren Sharp competes at a Track & Field event this season. Sharp misses the motivation her teammates give her when she’s training alone in the summer. to nurture the body and refine skill for some athletes. Sophomores Scott Arsenault and Lauren Sharp, who also run both track and cross country, will be using the summer to prep for their leadership roles they hope to fall into in the coming season.

“I’m looking forward to trying to get to regionals next year,” Arsenault said when thinking about his goals after a summer away from campus. “I can’t wait to just throw on a pair of split shorts and get out and run outside in the woods, it’s more enjoyable.” Arsenault looks to the summer to re-center himself for the upcoming year. The team bringing an indoor and outdoor gold medal would be great for the entire team.

Arsenault wants to break records in 4x800 race in his upcoming junior year. Tohim it would mean alot, right up there with taking down Bradley and Marquette University.

As for Lauren Sharp, going

home over summer has it’s perks and downsides. Being surrounded by her team gives her motivation and the feeling that her running state of mind is understood.

“I’m gonna miss practicing with my teammates over the summer.

While it’s going to be great to be back in Iowa, having those running partners for motivation will be missed,” Sharp said. “I sometimes will have to make friends or family ride a bike alongside of me while I run a 5k, because not everyone is trying to do that. It can get lonely, but after this summer I know for sure my nerves will be gone because we have a big freshman class coming in and since it’s my third year it’ll be a great leadership opportunity. I’ve always been the one to look up to people, so it’s going to be having to drop some knowledge. But it’s nice having the summer away from all that because it’s just building miles and being relaxed.”

It seems camaraderie of being surrounded by teammates makes the copious amounts of running bearable for the track and cross country athletes during the school year. However, it’s undeniable that the summer allows them to flourish so that they come back better than ever to potentially bring home the gold next year.

If non-athletes want to train like a DePaul track and cross country athlete this summer, the city offers plenty of ways. The eightmile stretch from Montrose Beach and Navy Pier is frequented by both teams for practice. Arsenault recommends the Bullfrog Lake trails for those looking to get away from the typical lakefront trail. So take the opportunity the summer provides to buckle down and run away the stress of the year, students and athletes alike.

Be patient with yourself and realize that true fitness is a lifelong process, not an overnight quick fix.

Get adequate hours of sleep every night. Sleep is just as important as nutrition and exercise.

Nutrition is vital to improving overall fitness.

Don’t let food become the enemy, instead of going on a diet, think like an athlete -- Imagine food as fuel. Your body is a machine, if you put junk into it, it won’t run properly. You must refuel with nutritious foods that will enable you to perform and workout to your best ability.

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Founded in 1959 as a identity for Croatian soccer fans in Chicago, RWB Adria continues to honor tradition while the game of soccer continues to grow in the United States.

Croatian soccer legacy lives on in RWB Adria

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

On a spring day in 1959, a group of people began discussions on a soccer team in Chicago with a Croatian identity. Croatia was not even an independent nation at this point, conglomerated with other countries in Yugoslavia. Still, the language and culture existed at home and abroad, and Chicago Croatians took an interest in the formation of the team.

46 years later, and RWB Adria still features the colors, flag and name of the original Croatian identity. The majority of their board of directors are Croatian, and on their jerseys the Croatian flag is prominently displayed

on the crest next to the American flag. Some things just don’t change over the years, and RWB Adria playing soccer in Chicago is one of them.

Ante Loncar is the director of operations for the club. Working for a real estate investment firm, Loncar is similar to the players where the team is a hobby outside of work. He’s been with the team since he was a water boy in 1977 and now will do anything from scouting players and paying bills to washing the uniforms.

“I just do whatever needs to be done,” he said. “Every year I get more and more responsibilities.”

Loncar has seen the team evolve throughout the years, becoming a success in both winning trophies nd also building a fan

base.

“Back in the ’70s and ’80s there was a huge fan base influx of Croatians coming to America and they had to cling on to s omet hing C ro at i a n ,” he said.

“Whether it was the Croatian church, the Croatian soccer team or the Croatian folk lore group, they wanted to be with their own.”

The name of the club is from different parts of the club’s Croa-

tian identity. “RWB” stands for red, white, blue in reference to the colors of the Croatian flag and “Adria” came to mind because of the Adriatic sea, a landmark of the country.

When Croatia itself was still waiting for independence from Yu g o s l av i a , Ante Loncar the team embodied some of the nationalistic pride that native Croatians were deprived of until the ’90s.

“We played a tour in Croatia in 1990 and people treated us like

Whether it was the Croatian church, the Croatian soccer team or the Croatian folk lore group, they wanted to be with their own.

rock stars, which is funny because we’re not,” he said. “We’re just guys playing soccer because we love it.”

The team, covered in Croatian symbols and colors on their jerseys, was a welcome sight to a country who was still a year away from full independence following the breakup of Yugoslavia.

“We played six games with six sets of uniforms and we did not come home with any sets of uniforms,” he said. “We handed everything to the fans there.”

Watching the country return to a full, independent state as a representation of the country in the United States was another

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Jenkins excited for Team USA basketball experience

By Matthew Paras Managing Editor

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Junior Chanise Jenkins lines up a shot in an early season game versus Robert Morris.

“It’s not about the talent that you bring, it’s about the people person skills that you can bring, and being a good teammate.”

DePaul redshirt junior Chanise Jenkins heard this mantra during her time at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 14-17.

Competing for a roster spot for the USA Basketball World University Games Team, USA coaches stressed to the 54 colligate players they needed to be vocal leaders and the necessary skills to compete abroad.

As it turned out, Jenkins proved to have both.

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Jenkins will represent USA basketball as one of 12 players on the roster. Starting June 18, Jenkins will head back to Colorado Springs for training camp before competing with the team July 5-13 in Gwangju City, South Korea.

Jenkins will compete in the Women’s World University Games and the Pan American Games.

“It just feels amazing,” Jenkins said. “Of course, everyone dreams of representing their country. And just having the USA across my chest and I’m representing my country, it’s just so much bigger than myself. I’m just really excited to have this opportunity.”

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