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Volume #98 | Issue #1 | September 16, 2013 | DePauliaonline.com
Ventra: a new way to pay, ride the CTA for students By Megan Deppen Staff Writer
Each year, students anticipate receiving their U-Pass, the gateway to unlimited public transportation. But this fall, DePaul students joined the millions of Chicago residents adjusting to the new Chicago Transit Authority payment system, Ventra. “I love it,” sophomore Lindsey Pellegrini said. “It’s The Starbucks on Clark at Deming is a wonderful place to watch stupid quick. It beeps and you go. And people do things. ABEL BERUMEN | THE DEPAULIA News Editor you can keep it for a longer period of time.” According to the CTA website, Chicago will be the first major U.S. city to use a system like Ventra. With the Ventra JEFF GOLDBERG | THE THEATRE SCHOOL system, boarding buses and trains will be easier and faster. The The exterior of the new Theatre School, located on the corner of Fullerton and Racine Avenues. CTA also plans to increase the number of locations available to purchase and refill value on the cards, shortening lines at vending machines. Shitao Liu, a first-year graduate student, said the tap system allows him to simply “put department and art museum are also located. going to change our opportunity for the [his] wallet on the sensor.” By Haley BeMiller Others, however, have had “It’s sort of a gateway or cornerstone of student experience going through the school.” Nation & World Editor During the design process, a wide variety difficulty scanning their cards the campus,” Culbert added. DePaul’s Theatre School is kicking off the Theatre students will have access to a of voices were heard from to ensure the through their wallets. school year in style with its brand new facility variety of resources with their new facility. facility’s success. Faculty and staff met with Laura Puzelyte, a sophomore, in Lincoln Park. Culbert said it contains acting labs, studios architects, and everyone provided input on said, “I tried using [the Ventra The striking white building is located at for design tech students, a script library and big decisions like theatre configuration. card] while it was in my wallet, the corner of Fullerton and Racine. According more. The building also houses two brand Culbert also said subgroups of faculty were but it wouldn’t work, so I had to to Dean John Culbert, DePaul’s theatre new theatres, and Culbert believes this will assigned to look at specific aspects of the take it out for it to scan.” department discussed several locations before supplement the hands-on learning that the building. For example, the head of the sound Sophomore Aqil Hussain was deciding on the current area in 2009. Culbert department already encourages. design program oversaw the development of frustrated with the scanner not said the location allows theatre students reading his card. Through trial “I like to say we’re putting the theatre the sound design lab. and faculty to be part of an arts corridor back in the theatre school,” he said. “Having “We would not have the building that we and error, he found a method that along Fullerton Avenue, where DePaul’s art those theatres as part of our world are really See THEATRE, page 3 worked well with keeping his card in his wallet. “Ever since I’ve kept a thin layer of some sort of material between the card and the reader, it works perfectly,” Hussain said. and forth for the past two years, By Courtney jacquin Sophomore Jack Kinsella deciding what we wanted to say.” Managing Editor liked the fast transaction of the After all of the collaboration Ventra cards, but as an out-ofThe lifeless white walls were between the artist and DPAM, We state student, he wishes the cards once again transformed in the Shall tells the complex stories of would work beyond the last day DePaul Art Museum, this time individuals and communities on of finals, November 24th. filled with lives, sharing their Chicago’s West Side as well as the “For people who travel stories. now-defunct Chicago housing away from Chicago for breaks, We Shall, the latest exhibition project Cabrini-Green was born, I don’t want to have to pay to by photographer Paul D’Amato, covering the first floor of the get to Union Station or O’Hare,” opened Thursday evening at the space. Kinsella said. DePaul Art Museum. The series “Paul’s work is complex, Other students tweeted about is a collection of portraits and it’s about Chicago but it’s also issues regarding their credit cards urban landscapes captured on the about the process of making a being charged by the Ventra West Side of Chicago. photograph,” said Louise Lincoln, amanda driscoll | the depaulia scanner. “I was one of Paul’s students DPAM museum director. “He Michelle Miller, who at Columbia [College Chicago] has a way of working that’s Guests mingle at the opening of “We Shall” Thursday nigth at DPAM. distributed the Ventra cards for and I thought the work Paul does collaborative rather than relationship D’Amato formed of the book that accompanied ID Services, said it is a “myth was perfect for us,” said Gregory voyeuristic.” with the subjects of this work. He the exhibit. As he mingled Harris, associate curator at At the exhibit’s opening gave all of his subjects VIP invites with friends and Columbia that the credit card gets charged.” DPAM. “We’ve been going back Thursday night, it was clear the to the show as well as a copy See VENTRA, page 4 See DPAM, page 20
And the curtain rises
New Theatre School building opens to rave reviews
Photography exhibit brings West Side to DPAM