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Volume #100 | Issue #1 | Sept. 14, 2015 | depauliaonline.com
Meet the Provost: new administrator settles in
Criticism mounts as university responds to Dean Koocher By Brenden Moore
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Several members of the DePaul community have joined a chorus of outsiders in criticizing the university’s response to the conclusions made in the Hoffman Report, a 543-page document that unveiled now-College of Science and Health Dean Gerald Koocher’s role in the collusion between the American Psychological Association (APA) and Department of Defense (DoD) in crafting interrogation policies that ultimately led to torture. The report, which was released in July, details the period between 2005
Last week, the DePaulia spoke with new Provost Marten denBoer. This discussion ranged from denBoer’s philosophy as a provost to the controversy surrounding Dean Gerald Koocher. Here is a condensed version of that interview. For the full interview, visit depauliaonline.com. The DePaulia: Now that it has been a few months, how has it been adjusting to first, your position, and to DePaul and the city in general? Marten denBoer: Well, you know DePaul is really a wonderful place and
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Provost Marten denBoer
Dean Gerald Koocher
My philosophy as provost is to ensure we do a good job at serving students ... preparing for the workforce and also teaching them values. Marten denBoer Provost
MEGAN DEPPEN | THE DEPAULIA
Lincoln Park residents walk by the Ray Meyer Fitness Center on Sheffield Avenue late Thursday. Community members have voiced their concern about neighborhood safety.
Community frustrated with lack of police alerts to assaults By Megan Deppen
I’ve been really impressed with both the quality and intelligence, and the sense of mission and commitment that people here at DePaul have. It’s really wonderful to work with people who are so caring and concerned with what the university is doing. And they’re nice people too, which isn’t always the case at California (laughs). It’s really been a pleasure. DP: You’re our fourth or fifth provost in the past five or six years, it’s something like that, it’s a crazy number. What is your philosophy as a provost and what do you bring to the
See PROVOST, page 6
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Kaie Raig was walking home at 3:45 a.m. Aug. 9 when she was sexually assaulted. Just blocks from DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, her initial thoughts were “DePaul is starting in a couple weeks and this is going to happen to another person.” Ten days later, it did. Two sexual assaults followed Raig’s, but in that time no community alert was issued from Chicago police or the alderman’s office. It wasn’t until the morning of Aug. 20, 11 days later, when media coverage and alerts from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and DePaul Public Safety informed
locals of the assault of a 21-year-old DePaul student. According to the Office of Public Relations at DePaul, the university did not receive an alert from CPD about any of the assaults before Aug. 20. The statement said that the university typically receives alerts when CPD sees “a threat or patterns of crime that are happening in our area.” The suspect, Isidrio Valverde, 40, of the Uptown neighborhood, was identified from the photo released by police and arrested Aug. 22. The suspect was apprehended quickly, but Lincoln Park neighbors expressed concern that public officials were reluctant to tell the community about what happened.
See COMMUNITY, page 3
I’m really unhappy with the university’s lack of response (to the Hoffman Report). A Colllege of Science and Health professor who wishes to remain annonymous and 2007 when the APA consulted with the DoD in crafting guidelines for interrogation practices at Guantanamo Bay. A task force on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS), was created to make these guidelines. Koocher, who was vice president of APA at the time, served as a board liaison for the group. Despite a liaison typically not playing an overly active role such processes, Koocher self-admittedly acted as an enforcer on for the committee and it’s email listserv to keep the committee on
See KOOCHER, page 8