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POLICE PIZZA PARTY

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A group of uniformed Chicago Police officers and some civilians gathered in a DePaul Center Concourse classroom on Sunday, Sept. 6, unmasked and not social distancing behind closed doors.

CPD throws maskless gathering in classroom

By Lacey Latch, Ella Lee & Emma Oxnevad EIC, Print & Online Managing Editors

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ith six boxes of Giordano’s pizza in tow, Chicago Police Department personnel filed into the DePaul Center Concourse on Sunday, Sept. 6 for what shaped up to be a surprise party.

At first, The DePaulia staff saw small groups of uniformed officers coming down the stairs, mostly unmasked and heading into a recently disinfected classroom set aside for the start of the school year three days later. Soon, another officer carrying two large bags of ice joined them, followed then by even more officers chatting happily as they walked toward their coworkers.

Entering the building earlier that day, Public Safety officers warned DePaulia staff “not to be surprised” if reporters encountered cops while working downstairs. They didn’t specify that there would be more than 10 individuals in a cramped room across the hall from The DePaulia’s office.

A few civilians and their children soon joined them, bringing red star-shaped balloons to accompany the pizza and soft drinks. Before long, a loud “Surprise!” rang out from the classroom as DePaulia staff sat across the hall putting the week’s newspaper together.

The gathering was not illegal. But each aspect of the event explicitly broke the rules DePaul has set forth for its students, faculty and staff to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Nearly two hours after police first started trickling in, the party ended and everyone involved headed back outside, leaving only piles of ice in the men’s restroom sinks.

The building was officially closed for Labor Day weekend. The DePaulia was required to submit a list of its staffers that would be in its concourse-level office, or staff would not have been allowed in the

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Partygoers brought balloons and food to the room, previously disinfected for students’ return.

building. The officers were not required to abide by those rules.

Kristin Mathews, a spokesperson for DePaul, told The DePaulia that the university has a longstanding practice of allowing on-duty police officer patrols to access the lower level of the DePaul Center to “get out of the heat, cold and inclement weather.”

“We have done this as a courtesy and have asked the officers to check in with DePaul Public Safety when they arrive,” Mathews said. “With regards to COVID precautions, we have asked the officers to wear masks, to maintain appropriate social distancing and we supplement our regular cleaning protocols as necessary to ensure that all spaces that are used are rigorously cleaned.”

DePaul’s Health and Safety plan for students’ return requires face coverings be worn at all times on campus and mandates

proper social distancing — which was not observed by CPD on the day of the incident. Across campus, blue signs litter the walls in nearly every direction reminding everyone to follow the proper protocols, including at least six in the direct path from the entrance on State Street to the classroom they were occupying — one of which is directly above the hand sanitizer station outside the door of the classroom.

All members of the university community are also required to complete a 20-minute online training session about the guidelines, whether they intend to return to campus or not.

“We understand everyone’s desire to be with people again, but if we want to have some sense of normalcy we have to be committed to this,” said Donna Voight, assistant director of Loop facility operations, previously told The DePaulia.

Mathews added that officers are given access to rooms where no classes are scheduled for the day. The event in question occurred on a Sunday.

Both the university’s public relations team and Public Safety declined to comment further on a number of questions asked by The DePaulia, including whether the university was aware the room would be used for a party breaking city and campus guidelines and if CPD paid to occupy the space. Mathews also declined to comment on whether that classroom was used for social-distance learning the following week, when classes started.

The DePaulia requested comment from Chicago Police spokespeople, who said to refer to the university’s administration. But CPD rules found in the Chicago Police Department’s directives system may indicate the police were breaking their own rules, too.

According to an official directive published by the Chicago Police Department, effective March 11, officers are not to wear official or identifiable police garments while off duty.

“Members will not wear the prescribed star, identification card, cap shield, or any identifiable uniform garment while off duty unless authorized by the Superintendent of Police,” it reads.

In a statement made to WBEZ on June 5, a spokesperson for CPD confirmed that “all on-duty personnel are required to wear Department issued surgical masks and gloves except for when members are inside of a police facility or department vehicle.”

According to the statement, the mandate went into effect May 1 beginning at midnight.

James Esparza is the director of the Chicago Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 hotline. When speaking to The DePaulia about the incident, he specified that those in attendance would have to abide by guidelines set by the university.

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DARTY continued from front “[DePaul] might have created a policy that says, you know, you can have 10 people in a setting without masks,” he said. “That could be something they could have created on their own. And we wouldn’t be able to sort of comment on that.”

Esparza elaborated on general guidelines for the city in regards to gathering.

“If they are [in] a setting where there’s more, you know, a lot of people there, they should be wearing masks,” he said. “They should be, you know, trying to avoid any actual contact with people who are six feet apart as much as possible, which, you

know, those are general, basic public health guidelines for coronavirus.”

He later clarified that precautions established by the city’s Department of Public Health function more as guidelines rather than mandated rules. Still, the university says it requires stricter rules than the city for those utilizing its facilities — presumably including police invited to take breaks on campus.

“If everybody behaves and takes responsibility for themselves and cares about the next person with them, hopefully we stay as healthy a campus as we can,” Voight told The DePaulia for a previous story.

“We have done this as a courtesy and have asked the officers to check in with DePaul Public Safety when they arrive. With regards to COVID precautions, we have asked the officers to wear masks, to maintain appropriate social distancing and we supplement our regular cleaning protocols as necessary to ensure that all spaces that are used are rigorously cleaned.”

Kristin Mathews

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DePaul floats new Title IX policy amid federal changes

ALICIA GOLUSZKA

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rolled out new Title IX regulations on May 6, which bolstered the rights of the accused. DePaul released its updated policy on Aug. 28.

By Ella Lee & Emma Oxnevad Print & Online Managing Editors

Major Title IX changes went into effect in August, forcing universities across the country to rethink how the new rules could be turned into policy fit for each school. DePaul released its updated policy Aug. 28.

The DePaulia analyzed the new policy. Here’s a summary of our findings.

The new federal Title IX rules state the university is not responsible for handling sexual harassment “occuring off-campus, in a private setting, and outside of the univerisity’s education programs or activities.”

Prohibited university conduct includes sexual harassment, — including both quid pro quo sexual harasssment and hostile environemtn seual harassment— seuxal assault (rape, sodomy, sexual assault with an object, fondiling, incest, statutory rape),domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

Other forms of sexual miscondiuct or sex-based discrimination that occurs

outside of the university’s scope still could potentially violate other existing policies. These policies include the Sexual & Relationship Violence Precention Response policy or the Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedure. These instances should still be reported to the Title IX office, the report says.

The default adjudication process for formal complaints made to the Title IX Office is a hearing. In this process, DePaul will determine hearing officers, which may constitute a panel of three members or a single decision maker. All hearing officers will be provided with a copy of the investigation report and a copy of all evidence.

The university may also request a pre-hearing meeting to address any matters that need to be resolved prior to the hearing.

DePaul may request that parties provide information in advance of the hearing, including a list of any witnesses the party plans to ask to submit to questioning and any argument that evidence

should be “categorically excluded from consideration at the hearing” The report specifies that these hearings are not “a formal judicial proceeding and strict rules of evidence do not apply.”

A live hearing won’t be required if both parties choose to resolve the complaint with an informal resolution, facilitated by an administrative adjudication. In that situation, an administrative officer will be appointed to a case and provided with relevant information. The officer will meet with each party separately, so that each can make any “oral argument or commentary,” and evaluate the evidence at hand. The officer will then prepare a written decision, which will serve as the resolution.

At any point throughout an administrative adjudication, either party may withdraw from the process and request a live hearing.

In all cases, differing facts will be resolved using a preponderance of evidence, meaning “more likely than not” one version is true versus another.

The report contains conflicting information as to the role a complainant’s sexual history plays in the process as a whole.

In discussing the Title IX Investigator’s ability to limit witnesses, it is written that testimonies in reference to the complainant’s sexual history are “categorically inadmissible.”

However, there are two broad instances in which the sexual history of the complainant could come into play.

The first is if the complainant’s prior sexual behavior can prove that someone other than the accused person committed the conduct alleged. The second is if posed questions or evidence concern “specific incidents of the complainant’s prior sexual behavior with respect to the Respondent and are offered to prove consent.”

After a verdict is determined, each party will have the option to file an appeal. The appeal must be filed within 7 days of the date each party receives a notice of dismissal or determination. All records may be destroyed after 7 years.

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Teach-in Tuesday Professor hosts day of discussions surrounding racism for DePaul community

By Nadia Hernandez Asst. News Editor

Led by DePaul professor Matthew Girson, the DePaul community took a step towards opening up discourse surrounding racism in a Racism Teach In on Sept. 8.

Girson was compelled to start a conversation from the national Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and events in Kenosha.

“Academia gets siloed, and sort of like the painters are over here, the political science people over there, musicians are over there, the edge of education professors are over there. So this was an opportunity to talk across things and break down the silos,” Girson said.

Faculty from five different colleges and schools volunteered to present at the teach in. Presentations discussed multiple topics regarding abolition, economic disparity and race representation.

“My presentation was geared to help participants understand what we mean when we say abolition. In particular, I wanted to discuss abolition as both a call to get rid of places where people are segregated from the community (ex. Prisons),” Professor Traci Schlesinger said. “And also a call to build things (ex. housing ) to reinvest in resource-deprived communities in order to create a world in which harms are less and less likely to occur.”

Presenters were motivated by several factors including a sense of urgency, the Vincentian message and personal respon-

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The Sept. 8 Racism Teach-In featured various presentations from faculty members via Zoom.

sibility. “[The motivation] came from my sense of responsibility that I always feel that when I’m called to participate in something like this. It’s really an opportunity for me to share what I have learned,” professor Bibiana Suraez said. “We are in a really, really, really hard time. So, if I could just put my little seat there to help the people that are in the audience to gain a sense of clarity about some of these features, and also point refer-

that we are responding to the moment in which we live and operate and teach.”

The Vincentian message highly motivated Schlesinger because the message also applies to social justice.

“We all need to do our best to fulfill the Vincentian mission of DePaul and teach for social justice. As white supremacy is a generative force in every aspect of life, people teaching in any discipline can, and, I argue, should work with their students to

“We need to do our best to fulfill the Vincentian mission and teach for social justice. ”

Traci Schlesinger DePaul professor

ences where they can look at. Ah, I’m gonna run with it.”

Girson believes that during critical moments in history like this, the public should respond urgently.

“History and all these other traditions and previous protests and teachings and things, but urgency demands urgent action.

And so, you know, the urgency of our moment that has to do with racism and all this violence, demands a surge in action,” Girson said. “I think as faculty, I always hope

explore how white supremacy, or resistance to it, fits in with the topics of their teaching or research,” Schlesinger said.

Not only was the teach in a space to discuss these issues, it was an opportunity to feel vulnerable and uncomfortable when confronting these issues.

“If we’re going to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, and we have to trust the community in which we operate. We have to trust the people that we’re working with to trust the people who are across the table

from us, or standing in line with us,” Girson said. “So much of that trust has been eroded. In order to allow ourselves to participate and be willing to feel vulnerable, we have to have a lot of trust, and that takes a lot of work. Trust doesn’t happen in the short term, you know, like we need something to take time to cultivate and to build.”

There are multiple factors on how a conversation about racism can be productive.

“We need to come out with a good understanding of the issues, or some kind of consensus of the issue,” Suarez said. “A productive conversation about racism will have to first have representation from the group that we’re focusing on. And then they have to be a good moderator, that is prepared and knowledgeable, that can, you know, steer in a conversation or even if it goes into the negative chart to bring it back to the focus of the conversation.”

Schlesinger encourages these conversations should not be isolated in special forums, but extend to the classrooms as well.

“It is our hope that by starting the quarter in this way, we will move easily into continuing these conversations in our classrooms and with our colleagues. By continuing to have these conversations, we not only learn more about these topics but also develop our skills at communication and civic engagement,” Schlesinger said.

Girson learned to reevaluate his own models when the world changes because his models may not be relevant.

Lawsuits against DePaul extend past summer

By Ella Lee Print Managing Editor

1) Eugene Lenti lawsuit Former DePaul softball coach Eugene Lenti is the subject of a lawsuit filed against the university in April which alleges verbal and physical abuse of players and assistant coaches by Lenti. The lawsuit — made by Dr. Jenny Conviser, a sports psychologist — alleges DePaul ignored the allegations against Lenti, which violates Title IX. Since the news first broke, the case moved out of the Cook County Circuit Court and to federal court at the behest of DePaul.

As Conviser and DePaul’s legal teams have gone back and forth in court, four former softball players, all on the team or coaching at the time of the alleged incident, have refuted the claims Conviser makes in the suit. Morgan Maize, who played under Lenti from 2012-16 and was a coach on the team from 2017-18,

told The DePaulia that the “entire team begged” to have their voices heard when the first lawsuit was filed in April, but they were denied by the lawyers on the “opposite end.” Conviser’s legal team says they “stand by their facts.”

2) Jason Hill lawsuit Philosophy professor Jason Hill sued the university in April, alleging it launched a “campaign of intimidation and demonization” after Hill published an op-ed in The Federalist which sparked outrage on campus by both students and faculty. “As an African-American they expect him to adhere to the opinion that African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves must view the Palestinians as an enslaved race and the Israeli government as a slave regime,” the suit reads.

Both Interim Provost Salma Ghanem and Faculty Council President Scott Paeth were named in the suit. Since then, DePaul filed a motion to dismiss and both Hill and DePail filed amendments and ad-

ditional or amended pleadings. The case was assigned to a Zoom hearing which will take place on Oct. 27.

3) Student tuition lawsuits When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, DePaul confirmed that while it would be freezing a planned tuition hike, it also would not be reimbursing students any tuition, despite the abrupt switch to online learning. In response, two lawsuits were filed by students, on behalf of themselves and any similarly situated students.

The first lawsuit was filed in May by students Emma Sheikh and Enrique Chavez.

The two didn’t know each other, but filed jointly. They claim students are receiving a “lesser” education with online classes and are demanding a partial reimbursement of tuition.

The second student tuition lawsuit was filed in June by recent graduate Alhix Oyoque, who claimed students “lost the benefit of the education for which they paid.” Oyoque also sued on behalf

of students similarly situated, seeking a prorated portion of tuition and fees, “pro proportionate to the amount of time that remained in the Spring 2020 Term when classes moved online and campus services ceased being provided.”

4) Lisa Calvente lawsuit Former communications professor Lisa Calvente sued the university on the grounds of racial discrimination, retaliation and breach of contract in June.

The lawsuit was filed after Calvente sent a mass email to students on May 29 explaining that she would not be returning to DePaul after her tenure was denied. She wrote in the email that since 2015, her colleagues in the College of Communication have admonished her for challenging her students in her classroom, particularly regarding her teachings on race. She also indicated that she experienced multiple discriminatory aggressions from her senior colleagues in the College.

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Welcome Week goes virtual

Office of Student Involvement says combination of virtual, in-person events successful

By Theodora Koulouvaris Staff Writer

Bingo, trivia, real life recess, and a virtual photo booth — these are just some of the events DePaul students participated in during this year’s virtual Welcome Week.

This multi-week series of events allowed new students to learn about DePaul and meet others through 165 virtual and four on-campus events and activities.

Director of Student Involvement Courtney James said the Office of Student Involvement strove to ensure that students could participate in Welcome Week in the ways that best suited them.

“This year, we worked to create an experience that allowed students to experience DePaul’s Welcome Week in the way that works for them,” James said.“We had a number of streamed events, online community building events, and a small number of in-person events.”

While most events were conducted virtually, the Office of Student Involvement held a t-shirt drop on campus. The event, called Blue Thursday Spirit Shirts, took place in St. Vincent’s Circle with about 80 students coming to campus to receive a Welcome Week shirt. For students that could not come to campus, James said students had the ability to request shirts online which resulted in about 320 requests for shirts “in an hour of the form being open.”

“Shirts went quickly, so it was a popular event and reason for students to come to campus,” James said. “We hope to do additional shirt drops throughout the year with how well this event went.”

James said the Office of Student Involvement is happy with the results of this year’s virtual Welcome Week. She added that students have expressed appreciation for the efforts made by staff.

“Generally, we have received a lot of

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Students receive their free T-Shirt by St. Vincent’s Circle as part of one of the few inperson events for Welcome a Week at DePaul University.

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DePaul students hold up their free t-shirts received at one of the few in-person welcome week events on campus. notes of appreciation from students for two chance to connect with their classmates. main reasons,” James said. “First, for our Second, from our returning student leaders, new students, they are appreciative for the we’ve gotten messages that they are thankful chance to learn about DePaul and for the that we are trying new and different things

to keep them engaged.”

In the future, James said another virtual Welcome Week depends on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic but explained that the Office of Student Involvement will continue to provide virtual events and activities.

“I think no matter what, we will always have some online offerings moving forward because students are utilizing them,” James said. “I imagine for the future, we will lean into the technology we’ve learned to use to continue to provide high quality events and experiences for our students.”

KALAHI, DePaul’s Filipino Student Association, is one of the student organizations attending this year’s virtual fair.

Sophia Paige, KALAHI’s social chair, said the organization plans to create a presentation for students interested in KALAHI to introduce them to some of the club members and to help them get acclimated to another quarter of online learning.

“We’re planning on making a presentation and having people do their part and record a simple video for people that are interested in our club to see the people on the E-Board and know that we’re available to answer any questions, or to talk to about getting comfortable with this online situation and with DePaul in general,” Paige said.

Paige said KALAHI is holding its meetings on Zoom in light of COVID-19 and discussed some of the events the organization is planning.

“We started last year and we’re having meetings on Zoom, having movie night, possibly like study session Zoom calls for people to just join in and relax and have people to talk to,” Paige said.

As this year’s Welcome Week ends, students can look forward to exploring ways to get involved on campus through the Involvement Fair. The Involvement Fair will take place Friday, Sept. 18 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on DeHUB.

Faculty Council declines to make Election Day university holiday

By Holly Jenvey Staff Writer

In their first meeting of the new school year, DePaul Faculty Council discussed a variety of motions, including the passing of Election Day as a university-wide holiday Wednesday afternoon.

President Scott Paeth summarized the actions of Faculty Council and Faculty Council Executive Committee over the summer and allotted time for Q&A for library operations and the software FAC 180.

Election day debate Part of the meeting’s agenda was to settle on the motion to have Election Day, Nov. 3, as a university wide holiday. This is contradictory to an earlier statement from Gov. J.B. Pritzker , making Election Day a state-wide holiday for Illinois in June.

There were mixed reactions from the council on whether to pass this motion.

Some members like Jose Soltero, from DePaul’s Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Department felt the holiday is important because he said most “young” people are not inclined to vote.

Others professors, like Jalene LaMontagne, an associate professor of Ecology said she has already worked the

holiday into her curriculum.

“I already gave this [the holiday] consideration into the class schedule,” LaMontagne said.

Even though DePaul is not a part of the universities who are exempt from voting —as it’s not governed by the State Universities Civil Service Act— members in the council said making Election Day a university-wide holiday would interfere with the scheduled curriculum.

Interim Provost Salma Ghanem added making this a holiday would disturb accreditation and the amount of hours students need to get with their professors. Ghanem suggested switching another holiday to substitute.

“If we replace one hour with another, that would be easier to do,” Ghanem said.

However, given Pritzker’s earlier announcement, some professors already considered that in their curriculum.

Others argued that it is easier to vote this year due to the amount of asynchronous classes and more voting by mail.

After a close decision, the motion failed with 16 opposed 11 in favor and five abstained. However, Paeth said in the Zoom chat that the holiday can be taken into consideration for the future.

Service work over the summer Soltero, who sponsored the motion,

explained that he passed the motion due to more requests for work over the summer from deans of colleges and chairs of departments for more service, excluding expected planning, to be done. However, this work isn’t necessarily reflected in how much they end up getting paid.

“It’s always very difficult to say no [to these supervisors] because you’re afraid of the implications,” Soltero said.

Yet, members of the council were confused by the wording of the motion as it is inevitable for teachers to be doing work over the summer as they have to prepare for the fall.

“We all do preparatory work to teach,” said Kelly Kessler, secretary of faculty council.

Kessler and other members resolved to change the wording of the motion to have it refer to only service and not work and to add the clarification of the faculty’s 12-month contract.

After being reworded, the motion was passed.

Posthumous degree proposal “We weren’t in line with other institutions,” said Kristina Fluty, who sponsored this motion and the motion for Election Day as a holiday.

“We don’t award a lot of post humonous degrees,” said Michael Wright.

However, Fluty and Wright proposed that if a deceased student completes 75 percent of their coursework, that they should be eligible for a degree. If not, they should still gain a certificate. The motion was passed.

Yet, a motion regarding the fulfillment of vacant positions, was pushed back to a future meeting as it needs to clarify implications for different types of positions.

Phased library reopening Robert Karpinski and staff from the library explained their reopening plan, where it is currently in the second phase.

John T. Richardson Library reopened Aug. 24, as phase two of their plan began. Here, current remote services are continuing, book drops are open, document delivery and digitization of DVDs and full scanning services and course reserves have resumed. Its hours of operation are on Wednesdays from 10 a.m- 2 p.m and Thursdays from 2 p.m to 6 p.m.

Phase three will take place on Sept.

21, with the Loop’s library opening its doors from 12-4 p.m on Mondays and Wednesdays, only for pickup service.

More information is available on DePaul’s COVID-19 and DePaul Library Services Homepage.

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DePaul Abolitionist Educators form virtual book club

By Jessica Nalupta Contributing Writer

As the nation reckons with civil unrest and protests against social injustice where young people are taking charge, three students followed suit and started a book club to help keep the momentum going.

The DePaul Abolitionist Educators Book Club was founded by junior Olivia Hamer and seniors Erin O’Connor and Juan Sandoval.

It officially launched over the summer with members meeting every Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. on Zoom since its inception.

“During the uprisings led by youth this summer and continuing into the school year, it became pretty clear to us that young people are leading the revolution,” O’Connor said. “If we want to sustain movements (as) future educators, we need to have a space where we can learn to be co-conspirators.”

She added she personally takes inspiration from Noname, a 28-year old Chicago native, rapper and poet who launched her book club in the summer of 2019.

Similar to Noname, “we have committed to reading works that center liberation and encourage revolutions of values, ideas and practices,” she said.

Hamer addressed that English curricula are riddled with some of the “most colonizing” practices and she refuses to reinforce these in the classroom and beyond.

“I want to build up a space that’s full of literature and art that counters the narratives students often internalize from the media,” Hamer said. “I’d like to be

“I want to build up a space that’s full of literature and art that counters the narratives students often internalize from the media.”

Olivia Hamer

DePaul junior, co-founder Abolitionist Educators Book Club part of a shift towards histories that do right by the millions of people and events that many other educators have chosen to make invisible.”

Hamer added she wants her future students to recognize their classroom as an accurate representation of their varying needs and experiences.

“It would be my hope that a truly abolitionist classroom might remind students that it is entirely within their right to hold their teachers or classmates (and themselves) accountable for continuing oppressive practices and norms,” Hamer said.

Like Hamer, O’Connor and Sandoval are also studying secondary education with a concentration in English. By taking classes together, they have become aware of each other’s shared interest in creating a club with an abolitionist framework.

“We felt like there wasn’t enough space in the College of Ed for students to interrogate the ways that our school system perpetuates oppression in our communities,” O’Connor said.

To change that and spark conversa-

tion, the founders select a book every month and post it on their Instagram account.

“We eventually want to implement a more democratic system once we have more members,” Sandoval said.

They then divide the readings into four parts for their weekly virtual meetings.

“The books are always chosen to respond to what we feel like the moment requires,” Sandoval said. “[However] they are always subject to change, [like] if the book no longer meets the moment or provides imaginations that are focused on the dismantling of schooling, then we will replace it.”

For instance, in early August, when Black-youth-led protests decrying police brutality were widespread, the founders replaced their initial reading of Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” to bell hooks’ “Teaching to Transgress.”

Club member and DePaul senior Erin Hughes discussed her takeaways from the August reading. “‘Teaching to Transgress’ opened my

eyes to the idea of transcending boundaries that inhibit students and teachers from imagining alternative frameworks to our conventional education and criminal justice systems in the U.S.,” Hughes said.

While Hughes is not an education major, she has interest in abolition and experience working with young students.

She started to attend meetings when her friends, now founders, invited her, and she has been involved ever since.

O’Connor said the club is not exclusive to education majors.

“While the organizers of this group are students from the College of Ed, we would love to hear from and work with any group or individual who is working towards liberation,” O’Connor said.

Although the club’s primary event is hosting discussions to reflect on the readings, it also supports campaigns such as the removal of SROs in CPS and demanding health and safety protections for DePaul’s Chartwells workers.

Sandoval said that he wants the club to continue supporting youth-led organizations that are already doing the work that their chosen writers are advocating for.

“Working in support of organizations that already have foundations and are in the midst of working to achieve goals… is much more pragmatic than attempting to take up and hijack those spaces that are already filled,” he added. “As long as you are supporting these movements in some capacity, then it doesn’t matter what form your advocacy takes, as long as it is contributing to a collective direct action.”

University announces collaboration with Sinai Health Systems

By Cailey Gleeson News Editor

DePaul University and Sinai Health Systems have announced a collaboration between researchers to address social and health inequities in the city, and eventually create a community-based research institute, per a Sept. 1 Newsline release.

“Sinai and DePaul both share more than a century of commitment to serving Chicago,” Karen Teitelbaum, president and CEO of Sinai Health System said in the announcement. “We have already been working together with DePaul to train the next generation of health providers.

This collaboration is an extension of our shared mission to understand the needs of our communities and develop people and programs that will offer real solutions to address inequity and move the needle for social justice.”

This collaboration furthers the relationship established by the inaugural Sinai Urban Health Institute-DePaul Research Fellows program that began in April.

SUHI President Helen Margellos-Anast said the initial memorandum of understanding signed by the institution was for a five-year period, but she hopes the collaboration will last “well beyond” that time.

SUHI’s Senior Research Fellow Dr. Maureen Benjamins will be leading the partnership alongside Margellos-Anast.

Several other researchers from SUHI will also be participating, and a joint advisory committee of members from each will be developed to oversee the institution.

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The Sinai Urban Health Institute-DePaul University Research Fellows meet remotely.

Donna Badowski, associate director of the RN to MS program in the School of Nursing; Elissa Foster, graduate program director of health communication in the College of Communication; and John Mazzeo, director of the master’s of public health program, will be the three faculty members representing DePaul on the committee.

Researchers participating in the collaboration will use “solutions-focused” research in order to address such inequities.

Margellos-Anast said “true partnership” is needed “in co-developing solu-

tions that are most likely to have an impact.”

“Our intent goes beyond documenting that there are disparities, to digging in to better understand the underlying factors (i.e., the root causes) of health inequities, and then, to develop, implement and assess the impact of new interventions and/ or policies to address those inequities,” Margellos-Anast said.

According to Newsline, both institutions will “share applicable public health data and online resources, as well as technical expertise.” Students will also have an

opportunity to participate in the collaboration. Joint research and grant applications will be pursued in addition to the collaborative research opportunities.

Margellos-Anast said that while current funding comes from each institution, they plan to seek out further funding.

“As we move forward, our goal is to secure additional philanthropic funding in the coming months that will allow us to support the structure of the Center, and to also begin pursuing research funding that aligns with our goals,” she said.

“This is envisioned as a long-term collaboration between the two institutions that will spearhead new curriculum, research, and innovation opportunities across multiple disciplines,” said Daniela Stan Raicu, DePaul associate provost for research. “Both partner institutions are bringing existing resources to the collaboration and seeking opportunities for additional funding.”

Margellos-Anast said a collaboration with an academic institution will further Sinai’s ability to integrate solutions with information from “expertise in specific disciplines” provided by DePaul.

“By working with DePaul, we will have the ability to quickly leverage that sort of expertise to build the sorts of solutions that are likely to have a real and lasting impact,” Margellos-Anast said. “We are also interested in the teaching side, and [in] enhancing opportunities for faculty and students, to learn from the real experts, the community members, and to be involved in participatory action research efforts.”

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Union representatives, DePaul workers, and student supporters gather outside of the Student Center before delivering Chartwells petition for new worker demands.

Chartwells responds to employee petition delivery

By Corey Schmidt Staff Writer

Chartwells employee — and father of three — Marcus Grant is concerned about his health insurance being removed after Aug. 31.

“It would be devastating for a lot of us because a lot of us have small children,” Grant said. “We depend on our health insurance to keep working, kids get hurt all the time… we don’t wanna have to get a bill in the mail that says we owe x amount of thousands of dollars for something that our company is supposed to be paying for.”

Grant said Chartwells employees are a representation of Chartwells and DePaul University.

“I think the university should step up and put some pressure on their company, if not, take some of that responsibility themselves,” said Grant. “We represent the company but we’re also there for the students that go to the school.”

In support of Grant and other struggling Chartwells employees, approximately 25 students gathered outside the Lincoln Park Student Center Wednesday to deliver a petition requesting an extension to COVID-19 health and safety protections for dining hall workers.

The petition was 34 pages long with a total of 1,568 signatures on it, according to Carson-Nelson.

The petition called for the continuation of contributions for health insurance for laid-off workers, quarantine pay, voluntary layoff and more. Chartwells employees have been fighting for benefits through the COVID-19 pandemic since April when they asked through their union, UNITE HERE Local 1, for layoff pay.

SGA Executive Vice President of Operations Wesley Janicki joined Grant to deliver the petition. The goal was to get it to DePaul Student Center’s Assistant Director of Operations Joe Skibicki, in the hopes of it reaching Bob Janis, executive vice president of operations.

Grant tried to enter the building with Janicki accompanying him but was denied access. Initially, it was due to him being unable to get a “Good to Go!” status on the #CampusClear app because he does not have DePaul University login credentials.

“DePaul brought down two higher-level student centers and housing folks to man the security desk, instead of the student who had been,” said Janicki. “And even when we entered the first time with Marcus, Rick seemingly stood in a manner to block entry and strongarm us.”

After the main entrance attempt at the corner of Belden and Kenmore avenues, the employee working at the desk instructed Grant to enter through the dock. Grant and the students then went to the dock in an effort to deliver the petition.

Upon entrance to the dock, the group was immediately greeted by Chartwells Resident District Manager Mark Little and Moreci. Little was there before the group entered the dock, apparently aware of the group’s intent to enter the building. Due to Grant’s status of being furloughed, he was unable to enter.

Little continued to decline Grant access to the building, despite Grant’s declaration that he was acting on behalf of the union.

In place of Grant, SGA Treasurer Camila Barrientos joined Janicki.

At 3:38 p.m., Janicki and Barrientos went to find Skibicki to deliver the petition but were told he had left for the day by student center staff.

Janicki and Barrientos then went to deliver the petition to the administration office on the third floor to find that the door was locked. After two attempts, Janicki and Barrientos delivered the petition to Moreci.

A copy of the petition was peacefully delivered to Little by Chartwells employees earlier in the day, according to UNITE

HERE Local 1 representative Noah Carson-Nelson.

In response to the petition delivery, Chartwells sent a statement to The DePaulia stating both concerns for Chartwells employees and students.

“Chartwells places the highest priority on the health and safety of our associates, guests and the students we serve,” said Chartwells Senior Director of Brand Voice Meredith Rosenberg Chartwells continued to call on the union officials for their petition delivery process.

“Representatives of UNITE HERE Local 1 put the safety and health of DePaul students and workers at risk, bypassing a university security system to enter to the Lincoln Park Student Center,” said Rosenberg.

Rosenberg said they are following the terms outlined in the contract that was negotiated with UNITE HERE Local 1.

Current negotiations are going on between UNITE HERE Local 1 and Chartwells.

“We believe the negotiating should be done at the bargaining table, not through PR students that put workers and students at risk,” Rosenberg said.

Carson-Nelson declined to comment further on contract negotiations.

Remaining CARES Act funds distributed to students

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Politics

Potential vaccine raises political concerns

Nurse preparing a shot as as study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, NY.

HANS PENNINK | AP

By Nika Schoonover Politics Editor In recent weeks, President Trump has repeatedly insisted that a vaccine will be ready for distribution by late fall, raising concerns that production and distribution may be rushed due to political motivations.

After making a similar statement at a press conference in Washington D.C. on Sept. 4, Trump again promised that a vaccine will be available to the public by Nov. 1.

“Before the end of the year, we will have a safe and effective vaccine and we will defeat the China virus,” Trump said at a rally in Freeland, Michigan on Thursday.

Despite these continued promises, there seems to be uncertainty that a safe and effective vaccine will be available by Election Day. Sen. Kamala Harris said on a CNN broadcast that Trump is using the vaccine as political leverage.

“He’s looking at an election coming up in less than 60 days and he’s grasping for whatever he can get to pretend he can be a leader on this issue when he’s not,” Harris said.

Allan Louden, department chair and professor of communications at Wake Forest University said he believes there are political motivations behind President Trump’s push for a quick vaccine.

“Trump has tried to create immunization out of magic and good wishes, in a position that is also dismissive of science,” Louden said.

Trump strongly rejects this statement and claims that the Democratic Party is not doing enough to shield Americans from COVID-19. The president particularly condemns “Democrat-run cities” for their encouragement of protesting while insisting on social distancing measures.

“Biden and his party tried to lock law-abiding Americans into their homes while they encourage rioters and vandals rampaging through, in all cases, Democrat-run cities,” Trump said at the rally in Michigan.

While President Trump has admitted that the White House is working to expedite the vaccine development process, the White House denies allegations that there are political motivations behind these measures.

The process of developing a vaccine Dr. Craig Klugman, a health sciences professor at DePaul University, said that the process to develop a coronavirus vaccine is a long and bureaucratic process.

“It’s a bureaucratic process to do — it is a scientific process to design them well. And it takes time,” Klugman said. “And this push, this rush to get it out means

“And this push, this rush to get it out means that we are shorting the science.”

Dr. Craig Klugman

DePaul University, Health Sciences professor

that we are shorting the science.”

According to the World Health Organization, there are currently 35 vaccines in clinical evaluation and 145 candidates that have yet to be approved for clinical trials. Klugman described the four-phase process of vaccine development once a vaccine has been approved for a clinical trial.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, clinical trials for a vaccine are divided into three phases.

The first phase tests healthy people to see if the cause of death is attributed to COVID-19 or the vaccine itself. The second phase tests if the vaccine is effective. This phase tests the side effects of the vaccine and how the volunteers’ immune system reacts to it.

The final phase of clinical trials determines the most common side effects, safety concerns and the effectiveness of the vaccine.

Klugman specified phase four of vaccine development as an ongoing process after a vaccine has received approval for distribution. The vaccine continues to be tracked to determine long-term effects.

Second-generation vaccines Paulo Verardi, pathologist and associate professor at the University of Connecticut, is working to develop a vaccine that has not yet been approved for clinical trials.

Vaccines that have advanced through the stages of clinical trials can be characterized as “first-generation” vaccines because they are created in the first round of successful vaccine development. First-generation vaccines will most likely reduce the risk of someone contracting the disease or reduce the severity of symptoms, but not eliminate the risk of infection altogether.

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“Second-generation” vaccines hope to eradicate the infection completely.

Verardi and his team are working on developing a “second-generation” vaccine. Verardi reports that those naturally infected by COVID-19 do not seem to be developing a long-lasting immunity.

“But what we have been noticing is that the level of immunity seems to be waning a little bit quicker than we expected,” Verardi said.

Verardi hopes that vaccine developers will be transparent with their data so that consumers are aware of long-lasting effects and, eventually, a vaccine will be able to assist with creating a lasting immunity.

“My hope is that some of the clinical trials are going to come out that the companies are going to be very transparent with the data so that people can really, you know, be satisfied with what they see,” Verardi said. “It is possible that natural infection gives you a shorter type of immunity, but it is possible that immunization with a vaccine will give you longer, or long-term immunity.”

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The Political Legacy of 9/11 A timeline of the impacted policies

By Lacey Latch Editor-in-Chief

Oct. 7, 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom begins, starting a 19-year war in the Middle East.

Nov. 19, 2001: The Transportation Security Administration is formed and there is an overhaul of all airport security protocols.

Nov. 25, 2002: President George Bush signs The Homeland Security Act creating the Department of Homeland Security.

March 1, 2003: The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service are consolidated to form U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jan. 2, 2011: President Barack Obama signs the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to ensure health monitoring and financial compensation to first responders, volunteers and survivors of the attacks.

Sept. 11, 2001: Planes strike the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon as well as an open field in Western Pennsylvania. 2,996 people died.

Oct. 26, 2001: The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law, which significantly increased the ability for law enforcement to surveil individuals and encouraged interagency communication in counterterrorism efforts.

Jan. 2002: Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established in Cuba.

Nov. 27, 2002: The National Commission on Terrorist attacks upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission, is formed to investigate the lead up to the terror attacks.

March 20, 2003: The U.S. invades Iraq to begin Operation Iraqi Freedom.

May 2, 2011: Seal Team Six kills Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Sept. 11, 2001: The 9/11 Memorial and Museum opens at Ground Zero.

July 29, 2019: President Donald Trump authorizes funding support for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2090.

June, 2013: Former CIA employee and government contractor Edward Snowden leaks classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA), exposing widespread surveillance of the phone records of U.S. citizens put in place after the 9/11 attacks.

Sept. 2, 2020: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Cicuit concludes that the NSA surveillance of Americans’ phone records was unlawful.

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Nation &World

The West is burning Experts say climate change plays a role

NOAH BERGER | AP

Embers from the Bear Fire light up a hillside beind the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

By Nicole Shih Staff Writer

Wildfires have now burned over 3.2 million acres since the beginning of this year in California, according to a public statement from California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Twenty people have died in the wildfires and over 4,700 structures have been damaged. This year is the most severe year for wildfires in California in the past decade.

Experts said that climate change has played a role in the wildfires.

While a gender reveal party was the cause of the El Dorado Fire in Southern California, the majority of fires in Northern California, like the Creek Fire, were caused by other long-term factors, according to Dale Lockwood, global environmental sustainability professor at Colorado State University. He also said that many of the recent fires in Northern California were caused by lightning strikes.

“Land management strategies, climate change, population growth and other factors are likely contributors to the rapid spread and intensity of the fires in the western states,” Lockwood said. “Climate change is linked to the long-term drought that has left much of the west exceptionally dry. As the mean temperatures increase, the fuels in the forests and grasslands dry out more rapidly and with changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change, the land is more vulnerable to fire.”

Lockwood added that the wildfires in California this year are partially driven by climate change, which in turn has led to a more severe fire season.

The red flag warning is still active in some small portions of California due to gusty winds and low humidity, according to the state forestry department.

Climate change is making the western U.S. warmer and drier, which are conditions that increase the risk of more and

larger fires, Lockwood said. Wildfires this year have broken out from the West Coast to the Rocky Mountains in west Colorado.

The Cameron Peak Fire has burned over 96,000 acres in the mountains west of Fort Collins, according to the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center.

Lockwood said the smoke and ash along the Colorado Front Range comes from California and some local fires. The air quality has fluctuated over the last three weeks.

“In Fort Collins, we have seen several days where local sensors showed 2.5pm pollution at the unhealthy level,” Lockwood said. “This past weekend, northern Colorado was blanketed with severe smoke and ashfall from the Cameron Peak Fire that exploded in size over three days.”

Lockwood added that the Cameron Peak Fire is Larimer County’s largest wildfire ever recorded.

Jill Hopke, environmental communication expert and assistant professor of journalism at DePaul, said the connection between wildfires and climate change is a little indirect, as we can only know climate change makes the conditions of wildfires happen more frequently. She highlighted the importance for media outlets to explain more explicitly the connection between climate change and the wildfires.

“I think journalists and media outlets play a really important role in promoting public understanding of the connections between extreme weather and climate change, so this is a point where [it’s] particularly important for [them] to do a better job at making those connections explicit and explaining the science of how climate change influences weather patterns,” Hopke said.

With tens of thousands of people being evacuated from the wildfires this year, California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says people should be prepared now in case wildfires strike

This year’s wildfires are the most destructive in a decade.

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Record-breaking fires have harmed the air quality in the western U.S.

their area. Emergency kit preparation guides and prevention checklists can be

AIRNOW | EPA.GOV

found on the department’s website and their official Twitter account.

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Philippines deports US Marine in transgender killing

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a Filipino transgender woman was deported Sunday after a presidential pardon cut short his detention in a case that renewed outrage over a pact governing American military presence in the Philippines.

Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton said in a farewell message that he was “extremely grateful” to President Rodrigo Duterte for pardoning him and expressed his “most sincere sympathy” to the family of Jennifer Laude, who he was convicted of killing in 2014 in a motel northwest of Manila after finding out that she was transgender.

In his nearly six years of confinement, Pemberton said he spent “much time contemplating the many errors” he committed the night Laude died. “He wishes he had the words to express the depth of his sorrow and regret,” according to Pemberton’s message, which was issued by his lawyer, Rowena Garcia-Flores.

Virginia Suarez, the Laude family’s lawyer, said in a statement that she wishes Pemberton “peace of mind,” and hopes that he has learned “the value of life and dignity regardless of gender and nationality.”

Philippine immigration officers and American personnel escorted the 25-yearold Pemberton, who was in handcuffs and wearing a face mask, from his cell in the main military camp in Manila to the airport, where he boarded a military aircraft. He was put on an immigration blacklist and will be banned from returning to the country, said immigration spokesperson Dana Sandoval.

The U.S. Embassy said that “all legal proceedings in the case took place under Philippine jurisdiction and law,” and that “Pemberton fulfilled his sentence as ordered by Philippine courts.”

On Monday, Duterte granted an “absolute and unconditional pardon” to Pemberton in a move that caught many by surprise. The Philippine leader has long been a vocal critic of U.S. security policies while reaching out to China and Russia.

Duterte’s pardon was condemned by left-wing and LGBTQ groups.

Debate has brewed over whether the

AARON FAVILA | AP A protester holds a slogan with a photo of the killed transgender Filipino woman Jennifer Laude during a rally in Quezon city, Philippines, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The Philippine president recently pardoned Pemberton in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of Laude that sparked anger in the former American colony.

Marine, whose detention was arranged under the treaty allies’ Visiting Forces Agreement, or VFA, can be covered by a Philippine law that grants shorter jail terms to ordinary prisoners for good conduct.

The Regional Trial Court in Olongapo city, which handled Pemberton’s case, ruled that the law covers Pemberton and ordered authorities on Sept. 1 to release him early for good conduct. But Laude’s family and the Department of Justice separately appealed, blocking his early release from a maximum prison term of up to 10 years.

Duterte said he granted the pardon because Pemberton was not treated fairly after his early release, which he said the Marine may have deserved, was blocked.

The court order rekindled perceptions that American military personnel who run afoul of Philippine laws can get special

treatment under the VFA, which provides the legal terms for temporary visits by U.S. forces to the country for large-scale combat exercises.

Pemberton, an anti-tank missile operator from New Bedford, Massachusetts, was one of thousands of American and Philippine military personnel who participated in joint exercises in the Philippines in 2014.

He and a few other Marines were on leave after the exercises and met Laude and her friends at a bar in Olongapo, a city known for its nightlife outside Subic Bay, a former U.S. Navy base.

Laude was later found dead, her head slumped in a toilet bowl in a motel room, where witnesses said she and Pemberton had checked in. A witness told investigators that Pemberton said he choked Laude after discovering she was transgender.

In December 2015, a judge convicted Pemberton of homicide, not the more serious charge of murder that Philippine prosecutors sought. The judge said at the time that factors such as cruelty and treachery had not been proven.

The VFA could have been abrogated last month if Duterte had not delayed an earlier decision to terminate the pact after President Donald Trump expressed readiness to help the Philippines deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Philippine leader has said his country can survive without America.

If the VFA had been scrapped, it would have removed a legal basis for Pemberton’s detention in the military camp and created pressure for him to be moved to one of the country’s notoriously overcrowded and high-risk prisons.

Sally set to become hurricane and threaten US Gulf Coast

By Tamara Lush Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Sally slowed down Sunday as it churned northward toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, increasing the risk of heavy rain and dangerous storm surge before an expected strike as a Category 2 hurricane in southern Louisiana.

“I know for a lot of people this storm seemed to come out of nowhere,” said Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. “We need everybody to pay attention to this storm. Let’s take this one seriously.”

Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sally is expected to become a hurricane on Monday and reach shore by early Tuesday, bringing dangerous weather conditions, including risk of flooding, to a region stretching from Morgan City, Louisiana, to Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Edwards urged people to prepare for the storm immediately. He also said there are still many from southwestern Louisiana who evacuated from Hurricane

Laura into New Orleans — exactly the area that could be hit by Sally, which is a slow moving storm.

“Based on all of the available information, we have every reason to believe this storm represents a significant threat,” he said, adding that the coronavirus adds a layer of complexity to storm preparations.

There are still some 5,400 members of the state’s National Guard mobilized from Laura, and they will assist with Sally.

The system was moving westnorthwest at 13 mph (20 kph) early Sunday. It was centered 140 miles (230 kilometers) west of Apalachicola, Florida, and 240 miles (385 kilometers) eastsoutheast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. On Sunday, Florida’s Gulf Coast was battered with windy, wet weather.

Pensacola, on Florida’s Panhandle, was bracing for 10 to 15 inches (25 to 38 centimeters) of rain.

Sally could produce rain totals up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) by the middle of the week, forecasters said. Its maximum sustained winds Sunday afternoon were

60 mph (95 kph).

“That system is forecast to bring not only damaging winds but a dangerous storm surge,” said Daniel Brown of the Hurricane Center. ”Because it’s slowing down it could produce a tremendous amount of rainfall over the coming days.”

This isn’t the only storm in the Atlantic basin. Paulette gained hurricane status late Saturday and was expected to bring storm surge, coastal flooding and high winds to Bermuda, according to a U.S. National Hurricane Center advisory. Once a tropical storm, Rene was forecast to become a remnant low Monday. Tropical Depression Twenty was expected to strengthen this week and become a tropical storm by Tuesday, forecasters said.

“This week is essentially the peak of the hurricane season,” said Brown. “It is quite active across the tropics today.”

A mandatory evacuation has already been issued in Grand Isle, Louisiana, ahead of the storm. On Saturday, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a mandatory evacuation order for Orleans

Parish residents living outside of the parish’s levee protection system.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards was scheduled to give a news conference on the storm Sunday. He declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Morgan City, Louisiana, to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A Hurricane Watch is in effect for east of Ocean Springs to the Alabama/Florida border.

All northern Gulf Coast states are urging residents to prepare. “”It is likely that this storm system will be impacting Alabama’s Gulf Coast.

While it is currently not being predicted as a direct hit to our coastal areas, we know well that we should not take the threat lightly,” said Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. She urged residents to prepare and stay informed of the storm’s path in the coming days. ____________ AP Radio’s Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York.

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Opinions

KEIRA WINGATE | THE DEPAULIA A traditional welcome week activity is going to nearby campus bars like McGee’s in Lincoln Park

Universities to blame for COVID-19 spikes in college towns

By Nadia Hernandez

C

Asst. News Editor

ollege students must accept the fact that their year will have limitations on how they can socialize. The traditional welcome weeks and orientations will be reimagined to adhere to guidelines.

Dorm residents are encouraged to stay in their dorms and limit their interactions as much as possible. After being in quarantine for six months, many are eager to connect with others, not wanting to stay away. The temptation of being in a condensed space with other socially starved students may be too overwhelming.

DePaul launched “Take Care DePaul” to encourage individual safety practices that contribute to community safety.

“DePaul takes COVID compliance very seriously and we encourage students to ‘take care DePaul, together,’” said DePaul media contact Russell Dorn. “It is critical that we all do our part being in an ethical and caring community and to commit to the pledge to ensure everyone’s health and safety as best we can.”

In order to fulfill these social needs, students have turned to partying. Despite the obvious health risk, students are overcome with the urge to socialize. As much as students need to be more conscious of their actions, being on campus with other eager students is going to be too tempting.

Their actions do have consequences as we see more campuses being shut down.

However, was it a wise choice to bring thousands of socially desperate students in one condensed space in the first place?

Universities may have had other motives in mind when bringing students back to campus. As we continue to evaluate

how COVID-19 cases rise in colleges, we need to shift our blame from students to universities.

In the DePaul residence halls, social distancing is being strongly enforced with the consequence that a student can be removed for not adhering to guidelines.

“Housing and Residential Education still have a staff of Resident Advisors and Facilities Assistants who will check up on the floors periodically to ensure that residential students are following the guidelines in the common areas of the buildings as well as in rooms if they have any reason to believe social distancing is not occurring,” said Rick Moreci, director of housing, dining and student centers. “If residents choose not to follow these guidelines and this comes to the attention of our housing team, there will be consequences for those actions, up to possible removal from student housing.”

If a student were to test positive, they would self isolate in their own rooms.

“For fall quarter, each student has been assigned their own private room with their own private bathroom,” Moreci said.

“This allows students to adhere to all of the guidelines to include social distancing and being able to easily quarantine if exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID.” “If one of the residents were to test positive for COVID, they would need to self-isolate per the guidelines which they can easily do since they have their own room and bathroom,” he added.

This is the same situation for many students nationwide. The University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill shut down its campus after two weeks.

“All the summer planning for this fall,

and [UNC] couldn’t come up with a plan that would get us past two weeks, but if you’re going to cut it off that early, why did you even have us on campus in the first place?” said UNC freshman Susie Webb.

UNC was one of the first universities to open campuses for the 2020-21 school year. Students like Webb were motivated to come to campus to meet new people.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea for any universities to be in person because it’s bringing together a group of socially starved teenagers all together in one place, and there’s no way to make sure that you can safely do that,” Webb said. “I am one of those socially starved teenagers, so you’re going to give me the decision to go on campus, even though I know it’s stupid and I probably shouldn’t be going. I’m going to want to go.”

COVID-19 cases started to rise at UNC the weekend after moving in. Students were celebrating the school year by partying in off-campus housing such as in fraternity houses. UNC claimed that they couldn’t control these students due to not being in campus jurisdiction.

“UNC said that there was no way to control them, but why couldn’t they have police monitor them? Gatherings of ten people or less indoors was breaking state law,” Webb said.

Before UNC closed, they announced that they would move all classes online on August 17, which was also the same day tuition was due.

“I mean, all universities are motivated by finances and money and everything,” Webb said. “And there’s no way to, like, say that it’s not. It was really frustrating because they actually made the call to move to online classes that Monday, Aug. 17, I

believe, which was the same day tuition was due. It came out like literally an hour before your tuition hadn’t been paid, so that was a little dirty.”

The guidelines and protocols set limitations on how students could gather.

However, Webb was still able to connect with others through safe measures. After forming a bond in those two weeks, it had to come to a halt as students were forced out.

“You do get that social interaction which is really nice. It really sucked finally making these friends and then you have to leave all of a sudden,” Webb said.

“Which just really sucks and like we’re still zooming and stuff, but of course it’s not the same. It’s like going from eating every meal together almost to like just doing once a week.”

As we continue to see a rise in COVID cases at college campuses, we must reevaluate why thousands of students are risking their lives.

The crushing feeling of loneliness can lead us to make stupid decisions. However, we have to understand that universities knew there was never a plausible plan to 100 percent stop the spread of COVID-19 among students and faculty.

Bringing together thousands of students with the temptation of socialization was too overwhelming. DePaul closed down in March at less than 1,000 cases nationally, and now we think it’s “safe” to reopen at more than 100,000 cases. If universities truly had students’ safety as the first priority, they would have gone remote in the beginning. Looking forward to 2021, we need to be remote until there is enough clearance to safely go back on campus.

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Letter to the Editor:

No Election Day holiday is un-Vincentian

By Kierstin Cole Contributing Writer

Burn, baby, burn

ALICIA GOLUSZKA

The gender binary should go up in flames

By Sonal Soni Staff Writer

Gender reveal parties are no recent phenomenon. Expecting parents throw parties in which the primary goal is to reveal the sex of their baby — a boy or girl. The first party of its kind consisted of a cake when cut into, was pink inside, indicating a girl. Since then, some reveals have become more intricate, including a gender reveal party in California where a smoking device ignited a massive wildfire.

While intended as a wholesome celebration of life, gender reveals are actually transphobic because they reinforce the gender binary.

According to Dr. Karen Blaire, “the gender binary refers to the notion that gender comes in two distinct flavors: men and women.” She also explains how our society is structured around these two gender roles.

“Much of the world around us is based upon this binary understanding of sex and gender, such as the clothing we buy, barber shops vs. salons, and men’s rooms vs. women’s rooms.”

For much of my life, I also thought that gender was binary. I was told I was born a woman, and while growing up this notion was reinforced in various ways including the clothes I wore and the toys I played with. In fact, if I ever ventured outside of my traditional female role, someone was always be quick to criticize me.

I had always questioned my own identity and began to research why I felt the way I did. I soon realized that gender is a spectrum, and I had to redefine what I thought I knew about sex and gender.

First, I dismantled a misconception

and understood that sex and gender are not synonymous. According to Dr. Liza Brusman, “sex is our biology — what chromosomes, hormones, genes, sex organs and secondary sex characteristics we have — while gender is how we think of our identity in the context of how norms function in our culture.”

Brusman explains that like gender, sex is also a spectrum.

“Many people’s bodies possess a combination of physical characteristics typically thought of as ‘male’ or ‘female,’” she said.

In school, I was taught that humans inherit XX or XY chromosomes — having XX chromosomes indicates a female and XY indicates a male. But, scientific discoveries prove that the idea of only two sexes is simplistic.

In fact, a person’s anatomical sex may not align with their chromosomes, indicative of intersex traits. Additionally, there are many variations in sex development beyond intersex traits that are indecipherable to the human eye.

Gender reveal parties categorize newborns as either male or female when in reality, sex and gender are not limited to or based on a person’s genitalia. Abiding by the gender binary is harmful because it perpetuates that anyone who identifies as anything besides male or female is different, abnormal and exacerbates discrimination.

The social stigma concerning sex and gender also reinforces the sex binary in the medical field, at times making it more difficult for intersex, nonbinary or trans folks to receive health care. This stigma also carries into discriminatory policymaking which excludes non-cis people from basic rights and privileges.

Society must dismantle the gender binary by recognizing that sex and gender are spectrums with unlimited options. Once I confronted my preconceived ideas about my own gender, I realized that despite my chromosomes, I’m not a woman, I am neither male nor female, I am nonbinary.

Since coming to this realization, I now view gender as something more open and fluid than simply being a man or woman. Dismantling what I thought I knew about my own gender has allowed me to accept my qualities that never fell in my assigned gender role. I no longer view my characteristics as female or not female — I am simply allowed to experience the fluidity of my identity.

At its core, gender reveal parties categorize humans based on their genitalia and as people grow up, they conform to stereotypical masculine or feminine roles. If they veer outside their assigned gender roles, or as gender non conforming, society tends to view them in a negative light because they’re different. But, being gender non conforming isn’t abnormal, upholding the gender binary is.

Humans constantly dictate their actions according to their assigned gender roles because society rewards people who align their behavior as assigned at birth, and those who don’t are conversely punished.

Ultimately, gender reveal parties are harmful because they reinforce the faulty notion that there are only two genders. The recent California party that ignited a wildfire is the perfect metaphor for why society should abolish the gender binary — while well intended, it inadvertently causes disastrous conditions.

I have worked three elections — the 2018 primary, the 2018 general, and the 2020 primary — as an election judge in my hometown. I worked the blue wave of 2018 and I got to know the system that elects our leaders.

I did it because I had heard that hundreds of poll workers were calling off around the state and I felt a sort of responsibility to work.

Our civic system is built off an unwavering reliance on retirees volunteering to work the long election day, regardless of what else is going on in the world. That doesn’t work amid a pandemic that affects the elderly more than anyone else. Right now, we are staring down the barrel of a devastating shortage of poll workers right before the most important election in modern history. The few primaries held during the pandemic are proof of it. On March 17, entire polling places were shuttered in Chicago because of poll workers calling off.

It’s going to be much worse in November.

A month ago, I started getting emails and letters from my election authority about working in November, including specific information about poll consolidation, poll watchers, and how to deal with people who voted by mail but want to vote in person as well. My concern about the security of the November election has nothing to do with mail-in voting and everything to do with the security and legitimacy of in-person voting.

I supported the petition to make election day a university holiday. For one, it would make it easier for staff and students to vote.

It would also set a precedent. It would be a statement that DePaul University values civic engagement and supports its community’s right to vote. Instead, the faculty council chose to value convenience over all else. I get it — this quarter is hard. However, refusing this proposal limits civic engagement and prevents thousands of students from potentially becoming more involved in the political process.

This decision limits the number of students who could work as poll workers, given the chance.

I laid this out a month ago. If we don’t have enough election judges, the circumstances around this election and the actions undertaken by those with a personal interest in the result are going to cause mass voter suppression and disenfranchisement, potentially decimating civic engagement for an entire generation or more. This is going to end in consolidated polling places, making it more difficult for those living in poverty to make it to their polling places due to lack of transportation.

This is going to end in disruptive, partisan poll watchers potentially preventing thousands of voters from casting their ballots.

In my eyes, taking any action contrary to promoting civic engagement in every form is contrary to DePaul’s stated mission. Limiting a person’s right to engage with the political system that is supposed to represent us and make law in our interest is tantamount to stripping that person of their dignity and promoting exclusivity in our culture — something that is supposed to be antithetical to the mission that DePaul purports to instill in its students.

I consistently find myself questioning the university’s dedication to this mission, this being just one of the latest examples. If the university is unwilling or unable to listen to students’ desires to be involved in the most important functionality of democracy and inclusivity in that system, I have to wonder whether or not their non-support is a political statement in and of itself.

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Accompish Anything?

By Jenicel Carmona Contributing Writer

#CardiBIsOverParty, #JKRowlingIsOverParty, #JimmyFallonIsOverParty, and #EllenIsOverParty are only a few of the hashtags that have been trending on Twitter in 2020. Despite the masses taking to social media to express disaffection and attempting to shun or “cancel” these individuals, Cardi B has gained another number-one single, JK Rowling has a new book coming out, Fallon still hosts “The Tonight Show” and Ellen is set to return on the air.

Even after social media users declared various people “canceled,” many high-profile individuals have continued with their careers and come back out on top with only minor scrapes and bruises. This leads to the question of whether or not “cancel culture” actually accomplishes anything.

What is the goal of canceling someone anyway? Professor Paul Booth, who teaches in DePaul’s College of Communication, believes that there seems to be more than aim. At its surface, canceling someone is the reigning method of holding others accountable or seeking retribution online. Add an audience of millions and offensive acts that occur frequently enough, and the issue of Cancel Culture becomes more complex.

“First, it’s to bring attention to a particular issue such as racism, sexism, etc. in our society via pointing to people that practice that issue,” he explained.

“Second, it’s to show solidarity with other people who feel similarly. Hence, the culture. Third, it’s to ‘shut up’ those who demonstrated offensive words, deeds, or actions.”

For some, the first thing that comes to mind when the name “Jimmy Fallon” is uttered is not his use of blackface during an SNL skit, which was the grounds for his canceling (Fallon has since apologized for his actions). DePaul alum Jorge Iniguez, who has had his own experiences with being outspoken about issues on social media, believes that “cancel culture” might not be effective with even putting names or faces to various offenses.

2020 has not been the only year in which many celebrities have gotten canceled. Johnny Depp, Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kayne West were only some of the high profile people who were chastised on social media going as far back as 2016, for example.

“Canceling someone, at best, keeps their name in the minds of hundreds of thousands to millions of people, but I can’t even remember what I ate yesterday,” he said. “How am I supposed to internalize a list of names and faces and know for the rest of my life what they did? You just can’t.”

Many participants have used a move to cancel someone as a way to hold them accountable for an alleged or perceived wrongdoing. “At the beginning,” DePaul freshman Lily Baird said, “cancel culture was a way to hold people accountable for past actions that have been swept under the rug and not discussed in the public eye, but more recently I think it has gone too far.”

Many participants have used a move to cancel someone as a way to hold them accountable for an alleged or perceived wrongdoing. “At the beginning,” DePaul freshman Lily Baird said, “cancel culture was a way to hold people accountable for past actions that have been swept under the rug and not discussed in the public eye, but more recently I think it has gone too far.”

Iniguez does not necessarily agree that cancelation can be a form of accountability. “In terms of holding people accountable and canceling them, I think it’s different,” he said.

To Iniguez, the difference lies in the number of decrying people and the gravity of an offense. “Being canceled is a very public thing, by definition, it has to be. It’s a ‘culture.’ I can hold my boy accountable for running a red, but I’m not gonna cancel him for it… it’s more like ‘Hey, maybe rethink that one again bro.’”

As for creating solidarity with those who feel similarly, Booth mentioned that the ability of social media interactions and attention to “reach millions of people very quickly” has the potential to “build a community” among those who feel the same about the issue at large. “But,” he continued, “[cancelation] also can alienate people who don’t feel the same way.”

Even after social media users declared their disapproval and vowed disengagement, it is very obvious that Cardi B and JK Rowling have not been totally “shut up” either; both the rapper and the writer continue to put out new work and achieve success. After being canceled, many celebrities have had the luck of getting a reboot, in a sense. “There will be some things that people are more likely to forgive than others,” Booth said. “Partly, I think it depends on the severity of the perceived offense.”

Despite not being completely effective in its efforts, “cancel culture” still has many willing participants. “I think as long as there are people who feel strongly about social justice issues and equality in culture, there will be some form of cancel culture,” Booth said.

Perhaps some of the power driving the movement to cancel someone is derived from the protection offered by a screen. “As long as kids have that anonymity online and others are still ignorant online, people are still going to get canceled and people will still be called out,” Iniguez said.

“It’s the nature of having a voice, but no face to point at. I can accuse almost anyone on earth online and have close to zero consequences on myself.”

Is there another way to effectively achieve some sort of accountability without resorting to “cancel culture”? Baird thinks that another path lies in getting people to thoroughly understand the errors in their ways instead of simply expressing anger and giving a cold shoulder.

“People should always have second chances to do good in the world and ‘canceling’ them wouldn’t allow that to happen,” she said. She also suggested that “having discussions with them, whether it be allowing them to issue apologies or in having conversations in comments sections” could potentially change problematic behavior.

Iniguez doubts that the experience of being canceled can actually reform a person’s problematic behavior, which brings into question the legitimacy of the average user’s authority to cancel. “People do something terrible and a lot of people’s first thought is ‘let me post about it’ like that would incite change,” he said. “Go to someone that can actually incite that change, spend your energy there, not just on internet points.”

Evidently, “cancel culture” is not always effective in accomplishing its goals, at least when celebrities are involved.

Issues and the people who perpetrate them might continue to be overlooked. Everyone might not feel the same way about canceling someone. Those that have been ostracized online might undeservingly find their way back into the public eye.

Whether or not society can find a better way of holding others accountable for recurring offenses, specifically on social media, is yet to be discerned. “As long as artists do or say dumb things, people will continue to cancel,” Booth said.

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Still Woozy releases new single “BS”

Museum of Science and Industry Artist talks quarantine, love and his music-making process. announces free

By Charlie Bevins resident days, Staff Writer Sven Gamsky, known on stage and by new exhibtion his music as Still Woozy, sat with his head leaned back against a pillow while fielding options questions over a Zoom press conference, an activity that has become all too familiar for artists in 2020.

On his chest is his tiny dog, BMO, appropriately named after the tiny, anthropomorphic video game console from Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time.” He wears a long-sleeved purple shirt, a common feature of his wardrobe that works its way into what he wears in his music videos as well as the hue of the scenes.

Still Woozy released his latest single on Thursday, titled “BS,” a continuation of the musical growth he’s undertaken over much of the last decade as a solo artist. The cover art is an abstract amalgamation of a turquoise creature set to a neon backdrop.

The brightly-colored creation was done by Gamsky’s fiancé, Amiya Kahn-Tietz, the usual artist behind his cover art of bright colors and distorted shapes.

“It’s just inspiring to see,” Gamsky said over Zoom. “Like, she got so good at making these fancy things like out of nowhere.

Or like when she dresses, she just puts all this detail… I don’t know, there’s just so many, she just kind of makes her whole life into the art and I feel like it just, has kinda just has inspired me more than anything else.”

Still Woozy often talks about relationships and intimacy in his music, and “BS” does much of the same with the low-fi, relaxed beat that fans are familiar with. The second single he’s released in 2020, it’s a song about bringing one’s best self to the people they love. His music has been described by the San Antonio Current as “psychedelic funk,” and he incorporates random little beats that seem out of place but still fit in the picture.

“I’d describe his music as indie, electronic vibe music,” said Carlie Jacobsen, a sophomore at DePaul. “That’s a super weird description but I feel like it’s fitting.”

Gamsky says he loves beats and the process of finding new rhythms to play with.

The way that he describes making them as fun is layered with the same enthusiasm as a kid would describe playing outside. He compares the process of building beats off one another to building outward from a skeleton, adding muscle until the song fully takes shape. “It kind of always blows my mind a little bit,” he says.

“I liked his style of music,” said Jacobsen, “and when I first discovered him I found out he was all self-produced and recorded and I thought that was super cool.”

Gamsky says he’s spent time during the COVID-19 pandemic listening to Dominic Fike’s album, an artist to whom he’s compared to by Brady Merkl, a senior at the University of Oregon.

“I discovered Still Woozy through artists like Dominic Fike, Forrest. and Surfaces,” Gamsky said. “They all share a similar groove in their songs that force the body to move and/or feel something, which I really seek out in music.”

A self-described perfectionist, Gamsky has long produced his own music. After years of doing it and after years of curating his tastes, he’s made his own sound to the point that he says if someone else produced

By Nate Burleyson Arts and Life Editor

There is still plenty to safely do in Chicago despite current lockdowns. Museums, for example, have found a plan to reopen in a safer manner, with frequent cleanings, limited capacity and mask mandates.

Some of these museums are doing deals as well. Including the Museum of Science and Industry.

Illinois Resident Free Days are returning to the Museum of Science and Industry this month. This last Thursday was the first day, but there are plenty of other options moving forward. The museum is open 9:30-4 on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and open 11:30-6 on Thursdays.

MSI is taking advantage of not having any field trips to open some of its programs to the public. The Crime Lab and Engineering Design labs are open each day and are capacity controlled.

There are over a dozen exhibits there, with the Giant Dome Theater showing films about heroic dogs, an all-white Spirit Bear and the world’s most remote caves.

Advance ticket purchases are needed, tickets can be found at msichicago.org/ tickets. All visitors must wear a face-covering during their entire visit.

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Sven Gamsky, known as Still Woozy, has amassed over 4 million monthly listeners. it, it’d be noticeable that it wasn’t his.

“You know there’s certain sounds that just resonate with you,” Gamsky said. “And that’s, I feel like, the beautiful part about self-producing, is that you just, you’re just curating all these sounds for people. And it kind of, maybe that’s why it feels like a more unified whole is because… this is like my particular lens.”

His beats and sound make a listener want to pop on a pair of headphones, lay down in bed and stare at the ceiling. Mellow beats are a staple to Still Woozy’s music, a result of the tastes he’s developed in his music, though he tries not to limit himself to just one genre, as is the case of many artists today. Attaching genre can be a way an artist boxes themselves in, but Gamsky sees it as more of a guide for listeners to discover music, saying, “It’s more like it’s a tool for people to navigate music.” Because of this, he tries to ignore categories.

“I don’t want to ever get stuck in a genre,” Gamsky said. I don’t want to be limited to just one thing, cause that just, you know, I have too many ideas to be stuck in one place. And I don’t want people to get

used to one thing either.”

Also like many artists, Still Woozy has been unable to tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite planning to. How much he enjoys performing seemed to clearly come through while he spoke on Zoom, explaining his most memorable tour moment as him crowd surfing on a rubber ducky in Los Angeles. He’s built a following to the point of over 4 million monthly users on Spotify, bringing his obsession with beats and sound textures to people who want to listen.

And while the touring part of the job is on pause, as it is for so much of the music world, “BS” is a creation done in spite of the mess that will be remembered as 2020.

Whereas he used to often create music and upload music on the same day, as someone now on a label, it takes time for projects to be released, a sign of his growth in stature.

He said that listening to Dominic Fike’s recent album made him excited to put one out himself, adding that he has “a lot of stuff,” so more Still Woozy may be on the horizon.

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Disney is remaking the wrong movies They should look to the ‘50s, not the ‘90s

By Lauren Coates Staff Writer

Last week saw the slightly controversial release of another live-action remake of an animated Disney movie: “Mulan.”

Once destined to make millions in global box office revenue, the film was initially pushed back and then eventually slated for a $30 pay-to-watch release on Disney+ due to worldwide theatre closures. Although many will stay away from the film entirely until it’s free to stream on Disney+ in December, there are still a lot of fans who’ve seen the film, and have said it isn’t worth shelling out the 30 bucks.

Although Rotten Tomatoes is hardly the end-all-be-all when it comes to whether or not a film is good, the film currently sits at a 53% audience score — which is considered “rotten.”

However, “Mulan” isn’t the only live-action Disney remake with a “rotten” score on the website. “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” and “Lady and the Tramp” are just a few of the once-beloved Disney titles that have received poor critical (and fan) reviews after being remade into live-action. Even those that weren’t slammed, like “Beauty and the Beast,” weren’t certified fresh, meaning that in the eyes of the critics, they’re ‘so-so’ films. But why?

Every title listed above is a remake of a classic that is almost universally beloved, so shouldn’t remaking a film people already adore be a recipe for instant success? Disney certainly seems to think so, if a look at their upcoming slate (which includes a remake of 1989’s “The Little Mermaid” among many others) is any indication — but fan reception and critical acclaim tells a different story.

Time and time again, release after release, remakes of Disney renaissance films, which describes their films made from 1989-1999, are slammed by either critics, fans, or both, for being little more than a hollow corporate cash grab intent on milking fans’ nostalgia for all it’s worth. What boggles my mind, though, is that Disney has produced live-action remakes that are well-received across the board, but hasn’t continued more remakes along that route, and is instead attempting to remake every

last animated film it produced in the ‘90s.

Though I mentioned the poor Rotten Tomatoes scores of Disney renaissance remakes, let’s take a look at those that scored on the higher end. The top three highest rated live action remakes are “The Jungle Book,” “Pete’s Dragon,” and “Cinderella.”

What do those three films have in common? The original film they’re based on was released far before the Disney renaissance.

According to Statista.com, the age group that most frequently attends movies is the 25-39 age bracket (by a wide margin) and some quick math will tell you that’s the exact age range that would’ve been children when the aforementioned “Disney renaissance” films were first released. On paper, it would make sense for Disney to be churning out remakes of films that were popular during the biggest movie audience’s childhood years, but my crackpot theory is that this plan is backfiring.

Sure, remaking renaissance films is getting audiences in seats, but fans of the originals who are hoping to relive the joy of their childhoods are leaving disappointed, because no live-action remake could ever

live up to the films they immortalized in their minds as children. When you know every little detail of Paige O’Hara’s vocal performance as Belle because you listened to it on a loop as a child, watching Emma Watson and her auto-tune trying to stumble through “Something There” makes your ears bleed. By remaking films that moviegoers already know by heart, Disney are setting themselves up for failure.

The solution? Stop remaking movies from that era — or even better, stop remaking popular Disney films. Of course, it sounds counterintuitive — the less popular a film was, the less audiences are going to want to see it — but bear with me here. While everyone knows the story of “Cinderella,” there isn’t that same protective, nostalgic childhood attachment.

Where everyone knows Robin William’s performance as Genie in “Aladdin,” people weren’t up in arms about Ilene Woods’ legacy being tarnished or replaced when the live-action “Cinderella” was announced.

The relative distance of these films from audience’s minds means that there’s less of an expectation to live up to — “Cinderella” and “Jungle Book” are still well-known

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enough to have name recognition, but taking the nostalgia factor out of the equation allows the filmmakers to move with more creative freedom, and not have to worry about replacing or remaking a film that’s vividly remembered by so many as “perfect.” Even Beyoncé herself couldn’t save “The Lion King” from getting slammed, but nobody is getting their pitchforks ready because Guillermo del Toro is making a live-action “Pinocchio.”

The less beloved a Disney film is, the more room filmmakers have to play around and take creative risks — which is why we got “Maleficent,” a creatively ambitious film with a high audience score, instead of a beat-for-beat remake of “Sleeping Beauty.”

So, instead of trying to capture the lightingin-a-bottle magic of a film like “The Little Mermaid” or “Hercules,” Disney might consider opening up the vault and reinventing titles like “Bambi” and “Snow White.” Such classics have all the name recognition of the renaissance films, but none of the pesky nostalgia factors come with them, making them the perfect source material for critical, fan, and box office success.

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Having the roommate COVID conversation

By Rebecca Meluch Opinions Editor

Living with roommates can sometimes be the worst. Whether you’re sharing a dorm or at an apartment with separate bedrooms — there is probably going to be a time where you’re laying in bed pretending to be asleep thinking to yourself, “Wow, I wished I lived alone.”

Just a few months ago, we never thought too much about where our roommates were going, who they were with, or who they brought over — unless you’re that roommate, of course. The typical outlook is “Because I pay rent, you pay rent, live however you please as long as it doesn’t affect my well-being.”

Well, that was pre-pandemic. Times have changed.

This virus doesn’t care if you pay rent or tuition to live where you are living. It doesn’t just stop at the front door and turn around because you’re in a home and that’s “safe.”

Universities have put us in a position to come back to campus, whether that be having your classes online or in person. Most campuses are somewhat more open and accessible than they were during the last half of the academic season. And as the typical college situation usually goes, it’s likely that most students returning back to campuses are also returning to having roommates.

Madeline Fleming, a senior at the University of Dayton, lives in a house with four other roommates. She shares the experience and her concerns she had initially while she was living again with her roommates involving COVID-19.

“We really didn’t have any conversation about it since right when we got here, one of my roommates got COVID-19,” she said. “We haven’t really gone to any parties because of that. We all quarantined once we found out she had it, and our school is pretty strict about COVID-19 in general, so we haven’t been doing much but hanging out with each other on our porch. My only concern with my roommates would be if they got COVID-19 and purposely went out, because I just think that’s completely unfair to other people.”

Not everybody, though, is currently living in on-campus housing and has strict rules set in place by their universities. Without any sort of campus protocol in your off-campus home, it’s important to set your own rules in your living situation.

When you’re living with someone else, it’s hard to know where they have been, who they have been around, or even who they have at your house when you’re gone — and if you’re asking them a lot, it might seem like you’re stepping over some boundaries and trying to control them. But

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there’s nothing wrong with playing it too safe right now.

While nobody wants to be that roommate, I think it’s ok for the time being.

Sabrina Barghouty is a senior at Ohio State University and is currently living off campus with one roommate. She believes that setting some boundaries and guidelines with your roommate(s) isn’t controlling or unrealistic.

“I believe these conversations are really important to have and so I wouldn’t consider them too controlling,” she said. “This is just a very uncertain time and any precautions we can take should be taken, even if that means sacrificing a night of going out.”

In a normal situation, it might feel a little extreme to be worried about where your roommate is going, who they see and who they bring over, but it isn’t a normal situation right now. It’s the “new normal” to have that kind of conversation with the people you live with — especially if you haven’t already and you’re worried about yourself or anyone else getting sick.

Fleming shares that she believes a solution is to sit down and have a conversation with your roommates about boundaries while living together during a pandemic.

“I think it’s really necessary and realistic to have these types of conversations because this is a serious issue and people can be seriously affected,” Fleming said. “It’s extremely selfish to go against your roommates’ wishes and in a time like this there needs to be some type of agreement.”

The key part of having this type of con-

versation is to make sure it’s relaxed and collaborative. Don’t go spitting off rules and orders, turning the entire thing into a soliloquy and ruining the relationships you have with your roommates. Set boundaries for each other and compile a list of wishes and expectations you all have for each other while you’re living together during this time. Then close your agreement with an at home wine night or a shot!

But remember — you cannot of course control your roommate and demand their whereabouts, you can only express your concerns and hope they respect them, as well as reciprocate.

Barghouty explains the type of conversation she had with her roommate during this time.

“In regards to the COVID-19 situation, we have to come to an understanding about who we socialize with,” Barghouty said.

“We try not to see people outside of our social circle and we generally don’t have people over, especially in larger groups.”

I’m not sure who you’re living with, but maybe your roommate (or roommates) doesn’t care about getting sick from this virus or even getting you sick from it — maybe they’re just selfish. But if you’re hitting a brick wall trying to come up with any solutions for living together during this time, then just steal their keys when they’re in the bathroom or something.

Just kidding, don’t do that.

First, if you’re living with someone who doesn’t care about their personal health or others personal health, they probably should not have a roommate in the first

place. But when you repeatedly try to break the walls with your roommate, and they still don’t have any regard for your well-being, keep trying to come up with some sort of middle ground.

It’s entirely okay to ask them to limit the amount of people they bring into the home, or create a shared list of people that can come over, express your concern about them going to parties or being in large groups. If you’re comfortable enough and it’s accessible to you, maybe suggest getting COVID tests together when one of you has concerns after a risky situation.

“If my roommate did make me feel uncomfortable I would sit down and have a conversation with her and suggest getting another COVID test before we make any other plans,” Barghouty said.

It’s expected that college students and young adults want to see their friends, go out for a night and have a good time and party — but it’s not entirely worth it right now when you can be putting yourself, your friends, family and your roommates at risk.

It may seem awkward and uncomfortable to express these types of concerns with the person you’re living with, but it’s essential for everybody’s health. You can’t control your roommates’ actions during this time, but you can establish boundaries and guidelines for your living situation just like you would have before the pandemic — they may just look a little different.

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Firyal asked, “How do we make friends through Zoom?

Would emailing them be weird?”

By Quinn White Social Media Editor

Annie asked, “Do you have any advice for freshmen?”

Hey Annie! Well, my advice for freshmen is going to take a different route due to the pandemic. My usual answer would be something along the lines of, “Put yourself out there! Go out and meet plenty of fellow freshmen and find your people on campus.” However, with social distancing regulations that doesn’t seem like the most safe advice.

What I will say is this: don’t let the pandemic ruin your freshman year because you’re only a freshman in college once. Get involved with organizations on campus and start moving the wheels toward leadership positions early on. Be open to making friends virtually through classes or social media – find your fellow DePaul 2024 peeps. Really work on building relationships with your professors and go above and beyond in your classes to stand out and make your mark on campus. Trust me, professors will notice your hard work.

Community building is so key to an enriching college experience and the earlier you start, the better. Thanks for the question Annie and best of luck to you!

Tyler asked, “Would you recommend living in 1237 West Fullerton?”

Hey Tyler! As a Chicagoan myself, I think living in 1237 West Fullerton is a total convenience move. Chicago is home to so many incredibly diverse and culturally rich neighborhoods that I find

living in 1237 to be limiting. Explore! I mean, they do love to say here at DePaul, “The city is your campus.”

Also, the price of living in 1237 is ridiculous compared to the affordable rent prices you can find across the city.

If it were me, I’d say pass. However, if you can afford it in placement of dorms freshman year I’m in full support because the only thing the dorms were good for was meeting new people — which you can do in 1237 anyway. Best of luck to you!

Hey Firyal!

This is such a relevant question and a concern I’m sure many students currently have. A great way I’ve made friends through Zoom is seeing which people in my classes catch my attention or seem like someone I’d click with. Then, I would send them a private message commenting on what’s being talked about, my thoughts on the professor, or a funny first message to get the conversation rolling (humor is always my go-to move). This is a great way to make the remote friendship building process less, as you put it, “weird.”

Breakout rooms are another wonderful opportunity to make friends — just you and your fellow classmates! And if you want to send an email out to get to know someone, why not?

Anyone that would deem your email weird and shut you out isn’t anyone you’d want to be friends with anyway girl. Best of luck, Firyal!

“Goodfellas” still a classic at the age of 30

By Nate Burleyson Arts and Life Editor

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” The opening line of narration from Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Martin Scorcese’s “GoodFellas” is still as iconic as ever 30 years later. The gangster film is one of the most beloved films of the modern era, with the screenplay, cinematography and acting regarded as some of the best in any Scorcese movie.

The movie released on Sept. 17, 1990 to critical affair. The movie racked up six Academy Award nominations that included a win for Joe Pesci. It was vulgar, stylish and entertaining as hell. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel called it the best film of the year, and for a good reason.

The two hour, 28 minute runtime goes by like nothing when you watch it. Just about everything about the film is magnificent. There is the various one-shots that have been replayed for ages in film school classrooms, the music that remains iconic and the 200 f-bombs that puts the film in the top 20 of most f-bombs in a movie.

What makes Goodfellas great is more

than just elements of design. The story is a wonderful one of rags to riches, love and how people can trust one another in a criminal organization.

The movie oozes a coolness, all while commentating on the life of gangsters, and how they look back on a life of crime. What Scorcesse accomplishes here is much like what he accomplished in 2019’s “The Irishman.” A movie similar in it’s structure of reflection and contemplation.

Scorcese also comments on family, with the idea of literal and metaphorical families pulling individuals in completely different ways. How would we make decisions if we were in a tight spot, would we rat out our friends to save our skin?

“Goodfellas” remains a classic movie, with influences that have pushed their way into many contemporary works. It will always be a career-defining film for one of the best directors to ever get behind the camera.

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The Goodfellas cast (left to right) Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci remain one of the most iconic casts of any Martin Scorcese movie.

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Chicago Pizza history more than just deep dish

By Nate Burleyson Arts and Life Editor

Chicago’s food history is as deep and rich as any other city in the United States.

Call it the City of Big Appetites if you will, although it sounds kinda corny. Nonetheless, it may just be the truth. There is a deep history of people trying new things in Chicago, people pushing their perceptions of what good or “correct” food can be.

Yet it seems like no matter what when people think of Chicago food, they think of deep-dish pizza. The cover girl of Chicago food, for better or for worse, is the pie to beat all pies. It’s often more famous for the scrutiny it draws from New Yorkers, who are often intent on calling their pizza the true pizza.

Yep, people like Jon Stewart, who, like New York-style pizza itself, have over the years been replaced by something newer, more lovable and better. That’s what makes deep-dish good: it is taboo and different.

Yet the pizza history of Chicago covers a much much wider array than just deepdish.

There are over 100 years worth of pizza history in Chicago. The second wave of Italian immigrants came to the city in the late 1880s, and with them came food. In 1909, Pompei restaurant was founded by Luigi Davino and they began selling thincrust pizza on where else but Taylor Street, the heart of Chicago’s Little Italy.

Pompei has been family-run ever since and sits at 1531 W Taylor St. still serving all sorts of food. But the first official pizzeria in the city was Granato’s, also on Taylor Street. Instead of sheet-pan pizza that had been popular at Italian bakeries, Granato’s used wood-fired ovens and circular dough baked to perfection.

Post-World War II, soldiers came back from war and businesses began to boom.

Bars around the city began serving smaller square slices of pizza as snacks, birthing Tavern-style pizza that is unique to Chicago. This is when pizza actually became popular in Chicago, long after it had initially made waves in New York City. After the end of prohibition and the end of the second World War, pizza had a unique foot-

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A Large cheese pizza baked in a pan from Pequod’s Pizza, located at 2207 N Clybourn in Lincoln Park. Otherwise known as something Jon Stewart would call an abomination. hold in Chicago.

Taverns didn’t have plates and silverware, so pizza was served on napkins as a way to get people to drink more. This also means that unlike New York City, pizza in Chicago was popularized by people who didn’t specialize in baking, and didn’t have deep roots in Italy. Cheese also mattered more to Chicagoans, in contrast with New Yorkers who were sauce-obsessed.

One of these bars was run by Vincent and Mary Grittani, who began serving pizza at what became Home Run Inn. Through the ‘50s, over a hundred pizzerias were registered in the Chicago phone books.

Little Italy and specifically Taylor Street was the location of a lot of famous pizzerias, including Granato’s. But big change

came to the area west of the loop, with huge construction projects including the controversial building of the University of Illinois at Chicago Campus. UIC was built and forced Granato’s to close down, as much of that area was demolished to make room for the campus in the early 1960s.

This idea of making pizza more of a meal than snack probably led to deep-dish pizza. The true originator of deep-dish pizza is disputed, but many believe Pizzeria Uno was the birthplace. It came after Tavern-style pizza, which is the true leader of Chicago cuisine.

My personal favorite deep-dish pizza, Lou Malnati’s, first opened in 1971. The butter crust there is undefeated, and even as they have grown bigger and stretched

much further than Chicago, their pizza is always a hit. Also, reheat it in the oven the next day and it’s better than any other kind of reheated pizza.

Pequod’s Pizza is a close second for me.

Their pizza is a softer crust for a deep-dish, and hits every time. Their sauce is better than Lou Malnati’s for me as well. Shoot, if deep-dish is good enough for Homer Simpson to choose it over New York pizza, then that’s all I need to hear.

Pandemic perplexes patrons as restaurateurs look for protection

By Hank Mitchell Contributing Writer

Things we used to do without a second thought, like eating at a restaurant, have taken on risk-reward calculations that may change the way we look at them forever. The ongoing pandemic has made many people feel unsafe while in public, but what is worth risking exposure?

Some servers like Ally Carter, who works at a pizzeria in the suburbs of Chicago, feel that it’s unsafe to go out to eat right now.

“I know that we are doing everything that we can to be safe,” Carter said. “But [if] people can’t wear masks at their tables, there’s just no way that I am completely protected. If I can’t be [protected], I can’t imagine that everyone else is doing much better.”

Some regular patrons to restaurants are also having to reevaluate what it means to eat out right now. Danny Forrest, 26, lives in Irving Park, and he said going out to eat and drink was a significant part of

his life before the coronavirus hit. Still, he sees some silver linings coming out of the changes he’s had to make.

“I used to go out to restaurants and bars all the time,” t he said.“[But] since the shutdown happened, I haven’t even sat inside of one. I miss the social part of going out, but I guess I’ve been saving money and I am finally learning to cook.”

With the way that eating out has changed, working in a restaurant or bar has inevitably changed as well. For some, just having a job feels like a blessing. Steven Holdt, a bartender at a restaurant in Avondale, said he’s decided to risk his health instead of risking his employment.

“I know so many people from the industry that are just out of work,” Holdt said. “I know that I’m supposed to be worried about getting sick, but honestly I can’t afford to risk losing my job.”

Holdt said he’s seen such an intense need for jobs in the industry that any rare openings will be hard-fought and tough to come by in the first place.

“We have so many limitations right

now on how many employees we need since capacity is limited, I worry that if I left my spot would get filled,” Holdt said.

The pandemic has forced many former restaurant workers out of their jobs.

From just the beginning of March to the end of April, the National Restaurant Association estimates that at least eight million employees were either laid off or furloughed. In addition, nearly 16,000 restaurants around the country have closed permanently as well, according to Yelp statistical reports — meaning service industry workers will have less opportunities to find work.

The idea that this may be the new normal might be scary, and the question remains: how much risk is a meal worth?

“Not my life,” Forrest said. “I don’t think anyone can make the argument that a meal is worth more than a life, or even a job. If someone has to die for someone else to be able to work, something has gone seriously wrong.”

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The Chicago French Market sits at the Oglivlie Metra station.

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St.Vincent’s

D e JAMZ “Spinning fresh beats since 1581”

By Cailey Gleeson News Editor

2. I’m Not Okay (I Promise) - If we’re being honest, this may be the song I’m most excited for out of their entire set My Chemical Romance

For the first time in 26 years, Riot Fest won’t be taking over Chicago — but don’t fret. An extra day has been added to next year’s already-stacked edition to make up for it. For now, turn on these tunes, close your eyes and imagine you’re moshing with your friends in Douglas Park.

1. Bloody Valentine - Machine Gun Kelly

This has been my song of the summer, and quite possibly song of the year. It has all the makings of an early 2000’s pop punk song, and I’m so here for it. There are layers to why this song is so good, but Travis Barker’s insane drum solo is a big contributor. Machine Gun Kelly is single handedly bringing pop punk back into the mainstream — and I hope that warrants a slot on one of the next waves of lineup announcements.

Perhaps the saddest part of Riot Fest’s cancellation was the fact that My Chemical Romance just made their comeback — with a headlining slot. “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” describes my feelings towards the whole situation while also allowing me to have mini reunion concerts in my room.

It’s one of the most classic songs out of their discography and never gets old.

3. What’s New Scooby Doo Simple Plan

Okay, hear me out on this one. Simple Plan has a ton of classics in their discography — “I’m Just A Kid” and “Perfect” to name a few — but their rendition of “What’s New Scooby Doo” is top tier. It combines the childhood nostalgia of watching Scooby Doo with that of early 2000’s music, and just makes me want to open up a pit.

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4. Anirak - Beach Goons

Surf-punk can be hit or miss for me, but Beach Goons have mastered the niche genre despite being relatively new to the scene. Their EP “Boisad” has no skips, but “Anirak” is undoubtedly my favorite track.

They also put on quite the show. Last year I saw them at Concord — as an opening act for an abuse apologist band that will not be named — and their set was arguably the best. If you’re looking to hold onto the summer as fall grips the city, then this is the band for you.

5. Jamie All Over - Mayday Parade

It’s been 13 years since it dropped, but “Jamie All Over” still hits hard. It’s May-

ACROSS 1. Elmer, to Bugs 4. Millinery 8. Almanac tidbit 12. Combustion product 13. Alternative to a mouse 14. Cartoon bulb 15. Milk, in a way 16. Boy, to his madre 17. Heist haul 18. College entrance exams 20. Dedicated lines 22. Ernie and Bert, usually 23. Matura diamond, actually 27. Cry of accomplishment 29. Crown twinkler 30. ___ polloi 31. Perfect 32. Steno’s need 33. Criticizes 34. Oktoberfest drink 35. Infant fare 36. Physicist Bruno 37. Pie slices 39. Bog composition 40. Colony member 41. Grandparents, e.g.

44. Takes steps 47. It parallels a radius 49. “___ bad!”

50. Anything but that?

51. Like some romance novels 52. Capt.’s announcement 53. Street for the wealthy?

54. Divorcees 55. Flatfish

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day’s most well-known song, and perhaps their best. If you haven’t heard it before, all you really need to know is at the last Mayday show I went to, someone passed out in the pit from moshing too hard. Make of that what you will.

DOWN 1. Slap on 2. ___ buco 3. Belittled 4. Dagger part 5. Out of whack 6. Summer shade 7. Drifted off 8. Secretary, at times 9. Goings-on 10. Firm head 11. Tit for ___ 19. Exceptional 21. Not brilliant 24. Took to task 25. Error message?

26. Pending, as a legal decree 27. Ease, as hostilities 28. Argument’s weakness 29. Generational divide 32. Stock holder?

33. Way to go 35. Signature piece?

36. Track events 38. Like a windbag 39. Dickensian denomination 42. Staff roster 43. Stick with a toothpick 44. Polished off 45. Chinese brew 46. “Deck the Halls” contraction 48. Calif. airportw

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Café en la cultura latina

By Izabella Grimaldo Editora de Opiniones, La DePaulia

El café es un amor universal que muchos latinos comparten. Es una bebida que nos une en la mesa tempranito en la mañana y platicamos sobre que nos espera en el día, o en la noche después de una fiesta o reunión familiar cuando un familiar nos va preguntando “¿alguien va a querer su cafecito con pan?” para empezar el chisme.

Desde que empezó la cuarentena,

todos estaban obsesionados con tratar el famoso Dalgona coffee que nos ofreció la plataforma de Tik Tok, y varios ya le estaban poniendo su propio toque personal.

Dependiendo de tu región o tradiciones, cada familia latina comparte su forma única de tomarse su café. Estas tradiciones pueden venir desde nuestros antepasados que nos entregaron esta forma, casi ritual, de tomar el café y más que nada compartir esa experiencia con un ser o seres queridos a tu lado.

Perú

En la cultura peruana, se aprecia la antigüedad y tradición de sus costumbres. Aquí se prepara el café pasado y es una variación del café de goteo, a esta bebida se le puede agregar leche y azúcar al gusto. Lo más importante es el ritual y tradición que viene con prepararlo. Mercedes Parreño le comenta a perfect daily grind, que su amor al café empezó con el amor a su abuela.

“Mi abuela solía preparar una jarra llena de café pasado”, dijo. “Cuando llegaba a casa, podía sentir el aroma del café que se estaba preparando en la cocina solo para mí. Eso es amor”.

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Columbia

En Colombia, el café es más conocido como tinto, y un tinto no tiene un estilo especial al prepararse, pero si tiene un sabor suave acompañado con espuma y aroma a limón y al pasarlo te deja una acidez e intensidad. Al igual que eso, muchos no toman el café para recibir energía, pero si no para compartir un momento y estar en calma con un amigo a tu lado.

México

La forma más popular de tomar el café en México es el tradicional café de olla. Fue algo que se introdujo en la revolución mexicana de 1910, donde las soldaderas, también reconocidas como adelitas apoyaban a los revolucionarios al cocinar y limpiar. El café de olla consiste de canela, piloncillo, clavo, café y chocolate tostados en cazuela de barro. Con este café no solamente se aprecia la vitalidad que te da la bebida si no también sirve como recordatorio de la historia revolucionaria y el rol de las adelitas como mujeres revolucionarias al crear esta forma de hacer el café.

Cuba

El café cubano es considerado una joya en la cultura cubana, tiene influencia española pero a la vez adopta el estilo de la cultura afrolatina de la isla, hasta convertirlo en una bebida sin igual. Puede haber cuatro formas de tomarse un café cubano y apreciar esta bebida. Primero el típico café con leche, luego se conoce el expresso cubano que se endulza con azúcar morena. Después está el reconocido cortadito, que también se le agrega leche para “cortar” la bebida, pero se le añade leche condensada o un bombón para endulzar, con un poco de crema para terminar. Finalmente está el café con ron que es café con leche que se le agrega un poco de ron y se toma frío, para esos días que se ocupa refrescarse.

No cabe duda que el café se puede tomar de variaciones infinitas, pero hay ciertos elementos que todos en Latinoamérica nunca faltan de incluir. El amor, la compañía y la tradición. El café siempre añade un poco de cariño con ese azúcar, siempre se comparte con un ser querido a tu lado y siempre se convierte en una tradición que pasa de generación en generación, convirtiéndolo en un amor universal.

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OPINIÓN: Los latinos merecen una representación auténtica

By Daryana Garza Reportera

La comunidad latina está marginalizada, y en cierto sentido, invisible en la industria del cine.

“En los 1950s, los latinos constituían 2.8% de la población de los EE.UU. y 1.7% de los papeles principales,” reportó el Centro para el Estudio de la Etnica y la Raza de la Universidad de Columbia.

Hoy, los latinos constituyen 18% de la población de los EE.UU, pero, según un estudio de la Iniciativa de Inclusión Annenberg de la Universidad del Sur de California, “Sólo el 4.5% de los 47,268 personajes que hablan o que son nombrados de los pasados 12 años eran latinos, al igual que un mero 3% son actores principales o coprotagonistas”.

La representación en nuestra comunidad es empoderadora, edificante, e inspiradora, y eso es lo que más necesita nuestra sociedad.

Actores como Eugenio Derbez, Sofia Vergara, y Rita Moreno han abogado por la representación de los latinos tanto a través de sus programas de televisión como a través de su plataforma.

En la experiencia de Rita Moreno, más conocida por su papel de Anita en la película de 1961 West Side Story, ella usó su estatus recién adquirido en Hollywood para llamar la atención sobre la lamentable disparidad.

“Francamente, los roles de los Latinos no han cambiado lo suficiente en Hollywood.

Estamos muy subrepresentados”, destacó Moreno.

A raíz de estos esfuerzos, hoy en día hemos visto logros significativos

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en nuestra comunidad como Melissa Villaseñor -siendo el primer miembro del elenco latina de “Saturday Night Live,” Sofia Vergara- siendo la primera actriz Colombiana incluida en el elenco de un importante programa de televisión de ABC en su papel de Gloria DelgadoPritchett en “Modern Family,” y Laurie Hernandez- olimpica campeona siendo la primera latina en ganar “Dancing With The Stars”.

Desafiando las normas y revolucionando la forma en que los latinos y los no latinos, ven la televisión, estamos allanando el camino para lo que está por venir. Todo lo que necesitamos es una oportunidad.

Necesitamos ver a la comunidad latina de una manera auténtica y correcta en todos los medios. En cadenas hispanohablantes, los latinos

aparecen en roles de todas facetas, en comparación de cadenas anglófonos donde los hombres usualmente tienen el rol de pobre, criminal o pandillero y las mujeres aparecen como la sirvienta o son hipersexualizadas.

Los ejecutivos de programas de televisión ahora están luchando por una representación equitativa, con esperanzas de poder combatir los estereotipos.

La representación de los latinos como directores, productores, y escritores es imperativa porque ellos son los que tienen el poder e influencia para crear papeles que verdaderamente representan a la comunidad y para elegir las personas adecuadas para esos papeles principales.

Sobre todo, ellos les dan una plataforma a los actores para que ellos, en cambio, puedan transmitir el mensaje a través de su trabajo.

“Creo que tenemos que contar más de nuestras historias...tenemos el poder de cambiar nuestras propias realidades”, destacó Jennifer Lopez.

La representación es más que mirar en la pantalla a personas que se parecen a nosotros, se trata de identificarnos con aquellos que vemos. Ellos tienen que contar las historias desde su perspectiva como latinos.

El éxito de un miembro de la comunidad latino es un éxito para todos de la comunidad, no importa si no los conocemos personalmente. Estos logros son significativos porque vivimos en un mundo donde somos una minoría que no siempre es considerada, valorada, o escuchada. Existimos, importamos, y merecemos ser representados.

La belleza y complejidad del acento latino

By Bryan Matthew Lopez Reportero

El español es un idioma increíblemente complicado con dialectos regionales. Para muchos el español suena como un solo idioma y la importancia de su origen es lo que menos tienen en cuenta. Aunque como hispanohablantes, entendemos que la forma de hablar español de cada país es tan distinta que no podemos entender por qué alguien creería que todos sonamos iguales.

Dado que el español es uno de los idiomas más diversos del mundo, nosotros como hispanohablantes nos definimos por nuestro país de origen. Alguien de Venezuela habla español de manera muy diferente que alguien de Puerto Rico. Este mismo concepto se aplica incluso a personas del mismo país. En Colombia, un acento caleño suena diferente al acento costeño. Todos los países de Latinoamérica tienen esta característica y las personas generalmente pueden notar la diferencia en los acentos regionales de su propio país.

Los acentos hacen mucho más que dejar que otros identifiquen de dónde somos. Nuestros acentos llevan ricas historias, culturas y tradiciones. Nuestros acentos son tan individuales y personales para nosotros, como una huella dactilar – cuentan nuestras historias de inmigración, familia y tradiciones.

Manuel Rodríguez, un estudiante de ingeniería aeronáutica de Querétaro, México, cree que los acentos nos hacen quienes somos. Él cree que su acento cuenta la historia de su familia y la historia de su país.

“Los acentos permiten que las personas se identifiquen como parte de una comunidad. Representa no solo de dónde somos, sino también nuestra tradición y cultura como resultado de nuestra historia nacional”, dijo Rodríguez. “Mi acento no solo representa quién soy ahora, también representa una cultura milenaria que ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años ”.

Aparte de la belleza, el acento latino ha sido sexualizado y exagerado en la cultura popular estadounidense. Algunas personas en los Estados Unidos también ven el acento latino como algo exótico, porque ha sido romantizado por las industrias del cine y la televisión.

Muchas películas y programas de televisión todavía

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operan con estereotipos malos de latinos, lo que incluye que los actores tengan que exagerar sus acentos para adaptarse a un papel específico. Esto contribuye a estereotipos dañinos como el del “Amante Latino” y la “Latina Loca”.

Daniel Méndez, un joven del vecindario de Portage Park, está de acuerdo con el hecho de que la industria de entretenimiento se beneficia al aprovecharse de los acentos latinos.

“Soy cubano, nuestro acento se usa muy popularmente para los villanos en las telenovelas y películas latinas. Como cubanos, tendemos a tener una voz más profunda cuando hablamos en español y no [somos] tanto romantizados como [somos] sexualizados en la cultura pop ”, dijo Méndez.

Tener un acento cuando hablas inglés en los Estados Unidos a veces puede verse como una maldición. Ese acento puede poner a la gente en situaciones inseguras y hacer que los latinos sean un objetivo de burla y xenofobia. Esto puede hacer que las personas se sientan condenadas al ostracismo simplemente por ser quienes

son.

“Creo que las personas con acentos diferentes son tratadas como inferiores en especial cuando tienen su acento muy marcado mientras que cuando tienes un ‘buen acento’ te cuestionan cómo lo logras”, dijo Jessica Camacho Rivera, una joven ecuatoriana y estudiante de la Universidad DePaul.

Aparte de las críticas que recibimos como latinos por nuestro acento, podemos encontrar consuelo en aquellos con acento similar al nuestro. Somos capaces de construir una comunidad con aquellos cuyas voces transmiten experiencias con las que podemos identificarnos. Encontrar a alguien con un acento similar es emocionante y te hace sentir parte de una comunidad.

“Hablé en español hasta que vine a DePaul donde al inicio me sentí muy insegura de mi acento… pero ahora me enorgullezco de mi acento”, dijo Camacho Rivera.

“Nuestros acentos son mágicos y logran conectarnos con desconocidos aunque estemos a miles de kilómetros de casa”.

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Chicago White Sox taking a free swing at 2020 season

By Ernesto Hernandez Asst. Sports Editor

The Chicago White Sox entered the 2020 Major League Baseball season in their fourth year of a rebuild but fully aware that their window of contention was upon them. That their young core as well as free agent signings could, at the very least, battle it out for a wild card spot.

With more than half the season over, the White Sox find themselves battling it out for first place in the American League Central alongside the Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians.

With a shortened season and the change in playoff format that meant eight teams from each league would make the postseason, the White Sox had every reason to believe they could compete this season and even make a deep run in the playoffs.

But did anyone expect the team to be where they are right now?

“Multiple projection systems (PECOTA, ZiPS) had the White Sox as a 83 to 85 win team in 2020. In a shortened 60-game season, that’s 31 to 32 wins. For a franchise that had seven straight losing seasons, it was a much welcomed projections as there would be multiple new faces joining the team,” said Josh Nelson, writer and host of the Sox Machine podcast. “They have been exceeding expectations in 2020 in large part to a deep lineup, a solid bullpen and the duo of Lucas Giolito and Dallas Keuchel leading the rotation.”

Keuchel, alongside catcher Yasmani Grandal, were the two marquee free agent signings for the Sox. Their veteran presence has provided a good mix to the young core especially during the early part of the season where the team was struggling.

It was during a stretch where the Sox had lost four out of five games and the former Astros pitcher called out the team saying some of the players were “going through the motions.” To their credit, the team took heed of his words one can point to that as a turning point.

A key for the Sox’s success so far has been their offense. They rank in the top three in multiple offensive categories including topping the American League in slugging, home runs, and on-base plus slugging. They rank third in on-base percentage and second in runs. They are getting contributions up and down the line-up especially with rookie sensation Luis Robert.

“Many wondered if he [Robert] would struggle facing major league caliber pitching for the first time, but Robert is making it look easy,” said Nelson. “Not only should he be considered to be the American League Rookie of the Year, but should also be a serious MVP candidate. In a full 162-game season, the ebbs and flows would be more frequent for Robert. But there aren’t enough games in 2020 for him to experience a lengthy slump.

That’s a good thing, and could be helping build confidence for a player who has an incredibly high ceiling.”

Relying on prospects can be a gamble.

Regardless of how high they were drafted or their potential, a prospect is equally as likely to fail or succeed. But the White Sox have amassed many high-quality prospects and it is now paying dividends. Having a deep roster is important especially in a shortened season where every game matters.

“One major benefit is the amount of depth the organization has across its 60-man player pool, which has helped the team battle through a plethora of injuries,” said Mike Rankin, editor-in-chief of the blog Future Sox. Some of the injuries the Sox have had to deal with were with starting pitchers

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White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu celebrates with his teammates after they defeated the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.

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Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Reynaldo Lopez (40) pitches against the Detroit Tigers during the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020 in Chicago.

Carlos Rodon and Aaron Bummer as well as Yoan Moncada who was diagnosed with COVID-19. The team is likely to pay special attention to his situation because despite being back with the team, Moncada has stated that his body hasn’t been the same since recovering and that it’s a “daily battle to try to find that energy to go through the day.”

The trading deadline came and went with the White Sox standing pat. The only move they made was prior to the deadline when they acquired Jarrod Dyson from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“I was very happy to see the White Sox stand pat at the deadline. The higher cost names such as Lance Lynn, Brandon Woodruff and Mike Clevinger were too rich for the Sox liking because it’s unwise, in my opinion, to trade a [Andrew] Vaughn, [MIchael] Kopech or [Dane] Dunning at this point in the organization’s development,” said Rankin.

“There’s too much risk of compromising upcoming years of expected contention by trading away top prospects as a result of this year’s deadline.”

General manager Rick Hahn said that

one of the reasons they decided not to make a move was because they did not want to do anything that was going to compromise what they are excited about.

If there was an area the Sox could have used help in was in starting pitching. Lucas Giolito, who threw a no-hitter against the Pirates, and Keuchel are clearly the two best starters. After them they had Gio Gonzalez penciled in but he’s out injured, Reynaldo Lopez has struggled,was sent down to Schaumburg, though was since brought back and Dylan Cease is still a work-in-progress.

The good news is that the one-two punch of Giolito and Keuchel may be enough in the early rounds of the postseason.

If there is anything that can rain on the White Sox parade is that their fans cannot be there at Guaranteed Rate Field. Even some of them did not anticipate the team being this good this season.

“On paper they were good but that usually never translates to wins, especially with young players,” said White Sox fan Francisco Zamudio. “I thought they’d be good but not first place good.”

What makes this season that much more special is the fact that the team is doing so well with homegrown players. It is a reward for all those years of losing baseball.

“There is a sense of accomplishment that this is happening with the team and farm system,” said Zamudio. Those tough seasons seem to be paying off. It doesn’t feel cheap like a Yankees team with the highest salary would.”

There is plenty to like from this Sox team.

The young guys like Tim Anderson and the emerging Eloy Jimenez bring a certain swagger to this team where they feel like they can beat anyone or come back in any game.

Couple that with a Jose Abreu who is the elder statesman and a decent bullpen, the Sox have a shot at the pennant.

Every team in the majors could use more starting pitching. The White Sox have one of the best one-two punch in baseball. They have more than offense to bail out any of their pitchers.

With only a handful of games left in the season, the team currently sits alone in first place. It’s a tight race in the AL Central but barring a collapse, there will be postseason baseball on the south side of Chicago.

Sports. Sept 14, 2020. The DePaulia | 27 QUIGLEY, continued from back page er players have achieved at DePaul.

“Allie Quigley was born a scorer,” DePaul women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno said. “She scored and drove in runs playing baseball against the boys growing up. She scored playing volleyball as an All-American outside hitter at Joliet Catholic. She scored the ball playing hoops against boys in grammar school. She scored the ball playing hoops here at DePaul.”

But Quigley’s most recent accomplishment set her name in the Sky’s record books forever. On Sept. 2, against the Minnesota Lynx, Quigley became the Sky’s all-time leading scorer — passing Sylvia Fowles with 3,036 points and counting.

“Right after I found out that I did it, we had lost, so it wasn’t a huge, happy moment in the locker room,” Quigley said. “But after getting text messages from friends and family, just seeing the support, I had a moment to think about it and realize it’s a pretty cool thing just that there are 12 [teams] in the WNBA. Quigley’s numbers continue to grow and she is among the Sky’s leaders in points and near the top in field goal and 3-point percentage. This season, she is averaging 15.4 points per game on 44.8 percent shooting from the field and 34.6 percent from behind the arc.

“It’s been a lot of hard work, a lot of extra practice, staying positive because there’s been a lot of tough moments,” Quigley said. “But just never giving up and always trying to work to figure out the reason things were so tough. How

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Allie Quigley looks for a pass in the first half against the Minnesota Lynx on Sept. 2.

Quigley finished the game 23 points on 9-of-18 shooting, but the Sky lost 86-83. can I get better? Learning from different coaches, different players and just trying to improve every single day.”

Quigley’s record-setting night against the Lynx came a game later after her teammate, and wife, Courtney Vander-

sloot set the record for most assists in a game — with 18 against the Indiana Fever. But Vandersloot’s 18th assist was even more special because it came off a made basket from Quigley.

“It was definitely a special week for us,

her getting the 18th assist,” Quigley said.

“It’s just unreal — it’s a record you never think will be broken. I hope she has it for a long time, enjoys it and she deserves it. She works harder than anyone else.”

In Quigley’s first four years with the Sky, she only started a combined eight games. But in 2017, while starting all 31 games, she averaged a career-best 16.4 points per game on 43 percent shooting from the 3-point line.

“It does not surprise me that Allie would become the Chicago Sky’s all-time leading scorer,” Bruno said. “Earning her way into the WNBA after getting cut multiple times and becoming a three-time WNBA All-Star is Allie Quigley’s biggest score of all.”

The 2020 WNBA season has been unprecedented with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the league to postpone in May. But the league got their season underway in July in one location in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. The Sky finished the shortened season at 12-10, which is good enough to place them at the sixthseed for the playoffs.

The Sky will open up the playoffs against the Connecticut Sun (10-12) on Tuesday in a first-round, single-elimination game.

“Just for the league, for the players to pull this season off, I’m grateful we are able to have jobs right now,” Quigley said. “A lot of people don’t have [jobs right now] and we are grateful. They did so much work to make this bubble safe. Just feel really lucky that we are able to be apart of this, and will definitely be a special experience to look back on.”

SMITH, continued from back page tini playing Lake Park and evaluating Darrione Rogers. But you are also noticing how Caprice is handling herself on the bench. How she is supporting the head coach. How she is relating to her athletes when they come off the floor.

This community of coaching doesn’t take place in a vacuum. You are noticing all these things, and noticing how engaged Caprice was.”

Smith isn’t the first former player that Bruno has brought back to be on the coaching staff. Grant, who held Smith’s current position, played for the Blue Demons from 2015-17.

But Bruno talks about the loyalty aspect when bringing back former players because they have an understanding of how DePaul operates and can relate to the players.

“Most coaches when you ask them what’s the first ingredient you want in an assistant, they usually say loyalty,” Bruno said. “I believe the only way you get loyalty is to give loyalty. By offering jobs to your former players, you are showing them loyalty.

“But they are also familiar with your program, they have lived through the eyes of the athletes. They’ve had the tough days where they had four papers due the next day, and then a game against Rutgers coming up the next day… Caprice has been through it, she understands the ups and downs, the ins and outs.”

Speaking of Rutgers, Smith remembers the game against the Scarlet Knights in 2006 when the Blue Demons won 8773. Rutgers would then go on to make the NCAA Tournament championship game before losing to Tennessee, 59-46.

“I remember our first Big East Tournament, beating Rutgers the year they went to the national championship,” Smith said. “There’s so many great memories here.”

Smith’s coaching time at DePaul only began a month ago, but everyone has

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Caprice Smith (left) talks to one of her former players at Montini high school. Smith coached at Montini for the past 10 years. had to adjust to a new normal with the COVID-19 pandemic. DePaul has only recently started to practice, but Smith says everyone is handling the current situation very well.

Smith is responsbile for getting to-

gether footage of practices. She also helps the team prepare for games by finding and providing the coaching staff with footage of the opponent.

“I didn’t know what to expect with the COVID situation, but nothing really

stands out, except for how well everyone at DePaul is handling it,” Smith said. “All the precautions that have taken place, I think they are doing an amazing job.”

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Allie Quigley drives to the basket against the Minnesota Lynx on Sept. 2. Quigley became the Sky’s all-time leading scorer after passing the 3,000-point mark against the Lynx.

Quigley cements Sky legacy with points record

By Lawrence Kreymer Sports Editor

Everyone has their own basketball journey. And everyone has their own path that they take to reach the professional level.

For Allie Quigley, her journey has taken her to five different WNBA teams,

Phoenix Mercury, Indiana Fever, San Antonio Silver Stars and Chicago Sky, and three different European teams — Mersin BSB, Fenerbahce Istanbul and Galatasray.

But the start of Quigley’s career was filled with multiple teams cutting her, forcing her to go to Europe in order to better her game for the WNBA. The team that eventually took a

chance on Quigley was the Sky in 2013.

The following seven years have gone just about as well as anyone could have imagined for both sides.

The past six seasons has seen Quigley win the WNBA’s Sixth Woman of the Year twice and make the all-star team three times. She has also been one of the league’s best 3-point shooters in recent

years, with the Chicago native leading the league in 3-point makes in 2019.

Being an efficient scorer is nothing new to Quigley. At DePaul, from 2004-08, Quigley was a consistent top scorer for the Blue Demons and finished her career with over 2,000 points — a record only four oth-

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Caprice Smith begins college coaching career at DePaul

By Lawrence Kreymer Sports Editor

Caprice Smith has had an aspiration to coach at DePaul for multiple years. But when she reached out to women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno a couple of years ago to inquire about an opening, the spot was already filled.

A couple of years later, however, another possible opening appeared in Bruno’s staff, and Smith didn’t waste any time in trying to fill that position.

When former video coordinator Jacqui Grant left DePaul to take an assistant coach position at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Bruno reached out to Smith to see if she was interested in the position.

Not only was Smith excited about the prospect of coaching at DePaul, but it only took her a couple of seconds to accept the job.

“I believe it was three or four years ago that I reached out to Doug about an opening in his staff, when coach Bart Brooks left, and he had already filled the position,” Smith said. “But I had just given him an inkling that I was interested in college coaching.

Smith played at DePaul from 200408, playing in 129 games and averaging

5.5 rebounds per game. Her time with the women’s basketball program was just the beginning of DePaul’s 18-year consecutive run to the NCAA Tournament.

Now, 12 years later, Smith is returning to DePaul, but this time looking to use her knowledge of the game to help the current Blue Demon players.

“I feel excited to be back at the school,” Smith said. “I kinda feel like this is home. It’s like I’m coming home for the first time in awhile. Coaching with Doug, he’s been instrumental with my coaching career. It feels like being home. Everyone is familiar.”

Smith began her coaching career in 2009, but at the high school level. She was the assistant girl’s basketball coach at Montini high school in Lombard, Illinois. In 10 years with the school, Smith was instrumental in the basketball team winning four state championships in nine state finals appearances.

Bruno made sure to watch Smith from afar when DePaul was recruiting or watching players from Montini.

“Every interaction you have as a human is an interview,” Bruno said. “We are there watching Montini playing Benet, and evaluating Kendall Holmes or Mon-

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Former DePaul player Caprice Smith drives to the basket against Northwestern. Smith recently returned to DePaul as a video coordiantor on Doug Bruno’s coaching staff.