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Volume #100 | Issue #3 | Sept. 28, 2015 | depauliaonline.com
New hire shows shift in DePaul’s sexual reporting process By Matthew Paras Editior-in-Chief
Since officially starting in her new role on Sept. 8, Karen Tamburro has yet to experience what she would call “a typical day.” After all, Tamburro is getting used to a position that’s been deemed so important that it’s now a full time job. Tamburro is DePaul’s new Title IX coordinator, the person responsible for complying with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in all the operations of colleges and universities. This includes tacking complaints based on cases of sexual violence, sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. In an effort to shift DePaul’s sexual assault reporting process and other dealings with gender discrimination, changes were recommended from the university’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Working Group. Their message was clear: DePaul’s Title IX coordinator should be an independent position rather than a role held by the Dean of Students. And so after a three-month search, Tamaburro, who graduated from DePaul’s Law School in 1996, was hired after 14 years as a supervisor attorney with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) where she worked with Title IX on a daily basis. Now, Tamburro is responsible for evaluating DePaul’s policies and procedures of the reporting process and the processes in place to responding to complaints of sexual assault, harassment and other gender discrimination. She has 90 days to report her findings and recommend changes. “With respect to the reporting process and the processes in place in responding to complaints of sexual assault, harassment and other gender decimation, I’m looking at the policies and procedures,” Tamburro said. “That’s part of what I’ve been doing for the last two and a half weeks. I’ve been looking at them to fully understand them, to ensure they are clear and readily available. And also to understand how they’ve been implemented. “I’m two and a half weeks in and want to get it right,” Tamburro said. Getting “it” right is something that Elizabeth Ortiz, DePaul’s Vice
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Michael Berry adds the finishing touches to his portrait of Pope Francis during the canonization Mass in Washington, D.C. outside the Basilica of the National Shrine. Thousands traveled internationally and across the country for the pope’s first visit.
Millennials see a new face to the Church By Megan Deppen Managing Print Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — His humility, his identity as an Argentine, even his insistence on driving a fuel efficient Fiat through the nation’s capital: These are some of the traits young Americans list off when explaining their infatuation with the South American pope. But there is something else that draws the least religious generation in American history to the Catholic leader of the world. “I’m not Catholic,” Eric Schneider, 29, said. Yet he listened carefully to the Papal address to Congress Thursday, “to get a sense of the gravity of all this.” Attention has orbited around Pope Francis in the U.S., particularly with millennials, who applaud his environmental concerns and emphasis on caring for the poor. The Catholic world is 1.2 billion wide, but Francis fandom, even among non-Catholics, is strong and growing. “The religious component isn’t really important to me,” Schneider said. “It’s that (Francis) is preaching a value system that is about mutual accountability, people looking out for each other and not dismissing the poor, which should be a universal issue.” Non-Catholics like Schneider were among the thousands crowded on the Capitol steps and at a rally on the National Mall. Their roars of approval could be heard from a distance down Pennsylvania Avenue. It marked the first Papal address to Congress in U.S. history, and silence hovered above the crowd as Francis’ soft voice read the passionate speech in slow, practiced English. Many label Francis as a liberal and progressive, but for Stephanie Echeveste,
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Will Buckley (right), a freshman at American University in Washington, D.C. walks with the crowd after seeing Pope Francis in a parade on the National Mall in D.C. Buckley isn’t Catholic, but he likes Francis and the way he can bring a crowd to life. 29, and her sister Valerie, 25, Francis is simply Catholic. “Catholicism as an institution has formed beliefs and interpreted the Bible and Jesus Christ in a very specific way that actually isn’t what I always agree with,” Stephanie said. With his emphasis on family and the golden rule, “it’s more like going back to the basics.” The two sisters have a strong Catholic tradition in their family and went to Catholic high school, but Francis has a presence that they say revitalized their faith on a trip to the World Youth Day in
Rio. “There is just a very renewed spirit and energy with Pope Francis. That’s what people are really catching on to,” Valerie said. “Catholic means universal. Pope John II was equally universal, but Pope Francis is totally on a different age and era.” Part of this universal appeal comes from Francis’ background, Elias Blanco, 30, said. “I think this is a historic moment in our nation’s history,” Blanco said.“This is
See MILLENNIAL, page 7