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Volume #98 | Issue #2 | September 23, 2013 | DePauliaonline.com
DePaul earns high marks for veterans’ program
From dirt to dinner
Urban garden yields bounty By Nathan Weisman Asst. News Editor
By Megan Deppen Staff Writer
DePaul has joined the ranks of the 2014 Military Friendly School’s list, placing with the top 20 percent of schools nationwide that offer exemplary programs, resources, and experiences for veterans. Military Friendly, a research organization for veterans, listed DePaul alongside 95 other schools (not including branch campuses or virtual schools) in Illinois for veterans to pursue a degree. The University of Illinois at Chicago and Columbia College Chicago were also listed, while Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Chicago are not. “It was a big surprise for all of us,” said Sgt. Tyna Korcz, a junior psychology major who works as a liaison for veterans in DePaul’s Office for Veterans Affairs. Korcz also worked in the intelligence unit of the Army. Her four years of duty included stations in South Korea and Germany, as well as a tour in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. “We’re just like [other students],” she said. “We don’t want our veterans to be alienated.” This is the first year DePaul has been recognized as Military Friendly, but DePaul has had a strong connection with student veterans since the post-World War II era. It was after DePaul saw a large influx in post-9/11 veterans in the early 2000s that a veteran student group collaborated with the Office of Student Affairs to provide institutional support for veterans. Finally, in 2009, the Office of Veterans Affairs was
See MILITARY, page 4
DePaul’s Urban Garden had their second “farm stand” in the Ray Meyer fitness center Tuesday, Sept. 17. The farm stand continued to find success in the DePaul community, raising about $500 between the two events. DePaul’s Urban Garden is managed and run by DePaul’s Urban Farming Organization (UFO). The UFO is a studentrun organization that has maintained the garden since its creation in 2012. The farm stand was a long-standing ambition of the student groups and the faculty members who helped in its foundation. “We have been wanting to do something like a farm stand before we even had a farm,” said Barb Willard, a joint professor for the department of Environmental Sciences and College of Communications who has overseen the garden since its beginning. “By ‘we’ I mean the faculty members who were pushing for the garden.” “The number one goal is awareness,” UFO President Abby Lundrigan said. “The farm stand is a really simple visual demonstration that where you live can be where you get your food from.” DePaul’s Urban Garden is an example of the green revolution that is sprouting up all over Chicago. According to Chicago gardening group GreenNet’s website, there
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Michelle Hauer, a junior, clips the raspberry plants while preparing to plant new vegetables
See GARDEN, page 5 in DePaul’s urban garden.
Club football throws a ‘Hail Mary’ By Mike Bragg Contributing Writer
A blaring whistle swiftly follows the crunch of two burley men smashing together and falling to the ground in the cool autumn air on a Saturday afternoon. Fans cheer and a marching band belts that classic team spirit tune. It’s football season, just not at DePaul. One student wants to change that. Riley Halligan, DePaul senior and president of the DePaul Football Club (DFC), wants to bring full-contact, tackle football to DePaul. The DFC may be a club sport by definition, but Halligan and his teammates look to rival established Division 1 football programs at major universities. “Throw the word ‘club’ in there and people think that it’s a
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The DePaul Club Football team playing a game at Loyola last February little bit of a decreased intensity,” Halligan said. “We don’t have a varsity football team here at DePaul so we are treating our football program like a varsity program.”
DePaul students made Halligan’s dream a little more salient in recent months, bringing plenty of interested participants. With enough players to fill an NFL-sized roster, DFC is ready
to launch DePaul’s first football season since 1948. Unfortunately, it will have to wait until next fall. DFC will hold a simulated season this fall in order to gain both student and administrative support for next season. Halligan said that this “building season” was a group decision that considered both the immediate future and full potential of the program. For the time being, DFC will play without pads but it won’t be flag football. Riley intends to keep the intensity level high in both practices and exhibitions. DFC applied for funding from the Student Activity Fee Board (SAF-B) and expects to be accepted as a recognized club in the National Club Football Association (NCFA) soon, but it won’t
See FOOTBALL, page 27