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Three blocks away from DePaul’s College of Law, years of disagreement spilled over into a federal courthouse on Friday.

Professor Terry Smith, an African-American labor law and voting rights scholar, is seeking $3 million in damages in a civil rights lawsuit filed against the law dean Jennifer Rosato Perea, former DePaul president Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider and the university in February 2018.

Smith’s lawyer argued before a federal judge that the university should discontinue its ongoing attempt to terminate Smith for what it describes as a pattern of bullying and harassment until the suit is resolved. Eric Rumbaugh, who is representing DePaul in the case, argued that the school should not have to wait to move forward with firing Smith because his continuing “incivility” is an “existential threat” to the law school.

Smith, who began teaching at DePaul in 2010, said he suffered “significant abuses” in retaliation for his advocacy for racial diversity within the law school and his outspokenness on what he sees as racial issues. He has been critical of the lack of diversity within the College of Law (COL); in a recent incoming class of more than 230 students, only nine were black, according to the complaint.

Smith, currently one of only two tenured black male professors at the law school, the other being the law librarian, holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor of Law. He taught at Fordham University for 16 years and also worked at Kirkland & Ellis, the highestgrossing law firm in the country.

“The university will continue to vigorously defend itself, Dean Rosato Perea and former President Holtschneider against the lawsuit filed by Professor Smith,” a spokesperson

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“We continue to be disappointed that we have to resort to litigation to address DePaul’s retaliation against my client,” said Smith’s attorney, Jerry Bramwell.

Smith’s complaint alleges he has been frozen out of the law school’s power structure. In June 2010, he sought a position on the University Board on Promotion and Tenure, but thendean of the law school John Roberts told the Faculty Council Committee on Committees, which he chaired, that no one from the law school was interested in serving on the board, according to the complaint.

In March 2014, Smith said he tried to get on the law school’s Dean Search Committee, which consisted of law faculty, alumni and other community members. According to the complaint, he was nominated to sit on the committee by law professor Sumi Cho, a colleague and frequent ally of Smith’s on racial issues who Rosato and other law faculty have framed as a coconspirator.

When a list of nominees for the committee were forwarded to the acting provost, Patricia O’Donoghue, the two white professors who compiled the list, Susan Thrower and Steven Resnicoff, “arbitrarily exclude[d]” Smith and Cho from the list, according to the complaint.

Thrower and Resnicoff forwarded a list of 10 names to the provost that included two junior black faculty who had been at the college for less than three years and eight white faculty, according to the complaint.

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African-American law professor fights termination amidst ongoing civil rights lawsuit against DePaul

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Tenured profs. to be offered buyouts ahead of SNL restructuring

By Carina Smith News Editor

The School of New Learning (SNL) will be facing reorganization in the next year, getting rid of many unique aspects of the school in favor of creating a new model for its adult learners.

In a post published on Sept. 7 by DePaul’s communications newsletter Newsline, Provost Marten denBoer said that SNL would undergo a “reorganization, renaming, and rebranding.” In the article, denBoer said that starting on July 1, 2019 the school will be renamed School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) and that a new faculty and staff model would be developed in order to provide more “flexibility” to the new SPCS model.

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In order to create the new model, denBoer said the university would be offering voluntary buyouts to the tenured faculty members and retirement incentives to staff who were eligible.

The announcement of the buyouts comes just months after DePaul’s sixyear plan said they would take steps toward expanding the number of tenured professors.

The announcement also comes after years of continuing changes to SNL. DePaul closed down its O’Hare satellite campus this summer, where SNL had taught a number of classes for years. A new interim dean, Don Opitz, began in July of this year, and enrollment numbers for new students decreased. According to their 2016 enrollment summary report, SNL’s total enrollment was only at 994 students,

which is a 44 percent decrease from their enrollment numbers in 2013.

Faculty members have remained skeptical of the reasoning for the change in SNL’s current layout, especially as the college has received recognition across the country for its unique approach to adult learning through their competencybased program, which allowed for adult

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Reusable straws in the dining halls are just one of many new sustainability initiatives implemented by Chartwells and the Student Government Association for the new school year.

SGA and Chartwells team up on new sustainability efforts

By Emma Oxnevad Assistant News Editor

DePaul Dining Services have employed a number of new sustainable options for the school year.

According to a document sent out

by DePaul Facility Operations before the start of the quarter, styrofoam will no longer be used in the dining halls, and both compostable cups and biodegradable straws will be distributed at The Bean.

“Chartwells has had a long-standing commitment to protect the environment,” said James Lee, the Resident District Manager of Compass Group North America, which operates Chartwells.

“Through a variety of innovative programs and policies, we work closely with the communities of which we are a part of to reduce the impact our operations have on the world around us.”

DePaul’s Student Government Association worked extensively with Chartwells to implement the sustainability initiatives.

“We find in our surveys and feedback that sustainability is important to today’s students and it is important to us,” Lee said. “We have increased our sustainability efforts every year due in large part to the feedback we have received from DePaul students.”

SGA has described the new sustainabilty enhancements as a victory on behalf of the organization, as well as a postive additon to DePaul as a whole.

“The sustainability initiatives for this year are focused on making DePaul more competitive with other universities in

Chicago and becoming an even greater source of good in the world,” said Sophia Modzelewski, the Vice President of Executive Operations for SGA. “Some of our goals include limiting our dependency on single-use products such as straws and other harmful plastics on campus.”

Representatives from SGA have described creating a more sustainable campus as a primary goal for the new year.

“We follow in previous SGA’s footsteps by making sustainability an ongoing priority alongside our academic and student-centric initiatives,” said SGA Vice President Emily Hoey. “We are thankful for the socially aware and caring staff at DePaul for hearing the concerns of the student body and responding positively, effectively, and efficently.”

SGA went on to describe campus-wide sustainability as being representative of DePaul’s Vincentian values.

“Not only does sustainability benefit our own campus community, but it also supports what it means to be a Vincentian and the values that are so important to the university’s mission of doing good in the world,” Modzelewski said. “We are committed first and foremost to DePaul’s students and making their college experience the best it can be, but we are also focused on how the university can reduce its carbon footprint and become an even bigger force of good in the world.”

Much of the dialogue between SGA and Chartwells was spearheaded by the newly-appointed SGA Senator for Sustainability Kaitlyn Pike.

“As the Senator for Sustainability, I help to advise the executive board of

the Student Government Association as well as the facilities operations on sustainability initiatives,” Pike said.

“While I am newly elected, having only served since the end of the last academic quarter, I look forward to being a voice for my fellow DePaul students, as well as a facilitator among the many amazing environmental and social justice organizations that we have here on campus.”

Pike’s role has been described as essential to SGA’s goals of introducing campus-wide sustainability, as well as creating a dialouge with DePaul’s administration.

“I feel this role is central to the work of SGA which is to provide a platform for student voices and, as is continually proven by our activism and push towards justice, DePaul has a vocal and motivated student body,” Hoey said. “[Pike] is in a wonderful position as a catalyst for student goals as she will work closely with members of the DePaul community advocating for sustainable efforts.”

SGA and Chartwells have other sustainability-related enhancements and events scheduled for this year in addition to the existing policies.

According to Lee, some of these events include the distribution and selling of metal reusable straws, the launching of a Stop Food Waste campaign and a celebration of Stop Food Waste Day in April.

“We have many exciting initiatives planned for this upcoming year, one of which is decreasing our dependence on single-use plastic products, while encouraging students to utilize their own reusable containers,” Pike said.

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“Additionally, we are looking forward to the continued installation of more rooftop solar panels throughout campus, which will further aid DePaul in minimizing our ecological footprint.”

Representatives from SGA want to emphasize the importance of sustainabilty on campus and hope that the new efforts towards campus-wide sustainability will inspire a positive change in DePaul’s larger community.

“In terms of why I believe sustainability is critical within universities; because I believe that we, as a higher education institution, are at the forefront of science, health, technology and public policy, and as such, are required to be leaders within our communities and beyond,” Pike said.

“This responsibility allows us to not only strengthen our own voices and visions in how we’d like to see the world, but it strengthens those in our communities as well.”

4| News. The DePaulia. Sept. 17, 2018 LAW SCHOOL continued from front Smith believed he was excluded from the list because of his history of speaking out on issues within the COL, so he filed a complaint with the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity (OIDE), court records show.

An internal investigator found in 2014 that the stated reasons Thrower and Resnicoff left Smith’s name off the list were a “pretext for retaliation based on Professor Smith’s advocacy for diversity and against discrimination in the Law School and within the broader University community,” according to the complaint.

Three months after he had been excluded from the Dean Search Committee, Smith was unanimously nominated by the Faculty Council for a seat on the upcoming Provost Search PHOTO COURTESEY OF DEPAUL UNIVERISTY Committee, according to the complaint.

The previous provost, Donald Pope- Professor Terry Smith Davis, the first African-American to hold the position in recent memory, resigned law school. Smith maintains he opposed after only six months on the job. their promotion because he harbored A list of nominees was sent to serious doubts about their qualifications, Holtschneider, the then-president of but Lawton and Morales said he only the university. He approved all of the opposed them because they didn’t share nominations, with the exception of his views on racial politics within the Smith and one white faculty member, COL, court records show. which Smith believes was just to justify Nevertheless, eight faculty members the dismissal voted in favor of himself. of Lawton’s Holtschneider promotion to seated a white full professor faculty member and seven voted on the committee against it. Three in Smith’s place, other faculty according to the besides Smith complaint. also voted against “When, as her application here, so many for tenure. individuals Three voted graciously offer against Morales’ to serve, we application for simply must do tenure and another the best we can to abstained. strike a balance Smith is between broad seeking damages representation and for “the multiple manageable size,” and redundant Holtschneider b a d - f a i t h wrote in an email investigations by to Smith after he DePaul’s [OIDE].” inquired as to In 2017, DePaul why he was left ordered three off the committee. investigations into According to Smith. the complaint, The university Holtschneider was hired Nigel Telman Former DePaul president, given only as many of the prestigious justifying his exclusion of law firm Proskauer names as there were open seats.

Smith from the Dean Search Rose LLP in DePaul sought Committee March 2017 to to dismiss the suit conduct the first in March 2018. investigation of The university’s the year into the lawyers dispute Smith’s version of events Lawton-Morales tenure controversy. surrounding the Dean Search Committee Telman cleared Smith “of engaging in any controversy. They argue that an act of racial discrimination or harassment” investigator found Thrower and Resnicoff in the course of his opposition to their “had not retaliated or discriminated promotions, though the report did find against [Smith]” by not selecting him he had acted aggressively toward other for the Dean Search Committee. They faculty. also say the investigation was done by an At a March 5, 2015 faculty meeting, independent investigator, contradicting Smith allegedly attacked and ridiculed Smith’s claim that it was done internally. other members of the law school. He Smith said that Arlette Johnson, the accused Lawton of “disbelieving the internal investigator who determined concept of institutional racism,” and she he was left off the list as retaliation for asked him, for the second time, to leave his advocacy, took administrative leave her alone. before completing her report, so DePaul According to Lawton’s statement, he enlisted an outside lawyer, Rachel Yarch, replied by saying, “I don’t give a fuck to complete the report, according to court what you want! Who the hell are you to documents. Yarch had recently defended tell me that I can’t criticize you!” the university in employment litigation, In her statement, Lawton said Smith according to the documents. and Cho had attempted to characterize One of the central controversies them as “a racial token pandering to the of the suit surrounds the tenure white establishment.” applications of Julie Lawton and Daniel One month later, in April 2017 came Morales, two professors of color in the an investigation that is of central intrigue

“When, as here, so many individuals graciously offer to serve, we simply must do the best we can to strike a balance between broad representation and manageable size.”

Dennis Holtschneider

to both parties. They hired William C. Powers, the former dean of the University of Texas School of Law, who resigned in 2015 after an investigation found he had intervened to help admit certain wellconnected applicants, some of whom had insufficient academic credentials.

DePaul successfully fought to get the Powers report sealed, claiming it contained confidential personnel information. Smith’s lawyers protested the sealing of the Powers report. The DePaulia is unable to determine the contents of the Powers report, though one thing is clear from the court records: the university wants to keep it out of the public record and Smith doesn’t.

“One of the many differences in the manner in which the parties comport is that Professor Smith has sought sunshine at every stage of the proceedings, while DePaul has sought to keep information hidden from the academic community through protective orders and filings under seal,” Bramwell said.

Smith does say he supplied Powers and Provost Marten denBoer with a list of witnesses who would “corroborate his complaints about the atmosphere at [the COL],” according to court records, but none of them were interviewed.

On Aug. 31, 2017, Rosato opened and authored her own investigation into the tenure controversy, despite the Telman report already clearing Smith of any wrongdoing five months earlier. She released the report in November 2017.

The report concluded that Smith, “acting in concert with Professor Sumi Cho, proceeded to carry out an

orchestrated campaign to derail the Lawton and Morales tenure candidacies,” and that he engaged in “a pattern of bullying that rises to the level of extreme intimidation and aggression.”

Speaking specifically about Rosato’s investigation, a university spokesperson said, “the investigation was conducted fairly and objectively, according to the university’s established disciplinary process. It was motivated only by the desire to get to the bottom of the complaints about bullying, discord and toxic behavior, and to address those complaints in a way that protects the community and enables the law school to move forward together.”

Other law faculty, notably Maggie Livingston, the chair of the Tenure and Promotion Committee, claim Smith frequently used profanity and acted inappropriately and unprofessionally in the lead-up to the tenure votes.

Livingston said in the report that Smith told her that “he had no use for any of [the candidates]” and called them “motherfuckers.”

Smith rebutted Rosato’s investigation.

He said Rosato singled out himself and Cho for scrutiny, which he claimed she did not do for white professors who also voted against Lawton and Morales.

Smith is seeking a jury trial in the case, which both parties agree could not happen for months. Judge Andrea Wood, who is presiding over the case, will issue a decision on whether or not the court will stop DePaul from continuing with their attempt to terminate Smith on Oct. 12.

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DePaul students create crowdfunding portal for investors

By Evan Sully Staff Writer

Two DePaul students have founded VestLo, a FinTech company that operates as Illinois’ first intrastate equity crowdfunding portal.

VestLo gives local investors a costfriendly way to invest in Illinois startups by offering low investment minimums.

Investment minimums for VestLo can go as low as $5 for equity offerings while debt or preferred stock offerings have a $50 minimum investment. Illinois startups and small businesses may use the platform to raise up to $4 million in capital.

“There’s really not much of a reason to have high investment minimums,” said Dan Gordon, one of VestLo’s co-founders and a computer science graduate student at DePaul. VestLo’s other co-founder is Nick Ricciardella, an honors finance student. Equity crowdfunding, also known to some investors as investment crowdfunding or crowd equity, is part of the capital markets due to the fact that it is the online offering of private company securities to investors for investment.

Chicago’s growth in technology, small business and real estate sectors provides a larger playing field for investors using VestLo. Two of VestLo’s real estate properties are the Chicago City Soccer Club and a residential property in Chicago’s Near North Side community area.

In 2017, Chicago had 234,740 small businesses operating within its city limits, as reported by the American City Business Journals, putting it at the third most in the country behind New York and Los Angeles. Per an annual study conducted by Biz2Credit, an online credit resource that offers direct loans to small

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businesses, Chicago ranked No. 12 in the study’s top 25 cities for small businesses in 2018. This is up from No. 19 in 2017 and ranks ahead of cities such as Seattle, Houston and Atlanta, meaning that entrepreneurship is pouring into the city and entrepreneurs are sometimes able to utilize equity crowdfunding platforms such as VestLo. “There’s more activity in Illinois in the start-up scene than there ever has been. And it’s not just like tech startups and stuff like that, but it’s also real estate,” Ricciardella said. “The market’s hot for real estate and you know Chicago also has all of these tech incubators you know like mHUB, 1871, UI Labs. They just keep popping up.”

Given that real estate has a high tangible asset value, investors flock to trending real estate markets to take

advantage of them and VestLo seeks to capitalize on this trend. The median home value in Chicago went up to $225,600 this year, according to data from online real estate database company Zillow. Zillow forecasts that Chicago home values will rise 6.1 percent over the next year, indicating that Chicago’s real estate market is on the rise. The investment opportunities wouldn’t be possible without a change in the legal process behind equity crowdfunding.

Anthony Zeoli, who was the primary drafter of the Illinois Crowdfunding Law that was built into the Illinois Securities Act in 2016, mentioned that nowadays, Illinois investors do not necessarily need to be venture capitalists or private equity employees to break into investing.

“Prior to the introduction of the Illinois crowdfunding laws, private investment

in most companies, particularly in start-up and emerging companies, was reserved for high net worth and highly connected investors,” Zeoli said. “The new Illinois crowdfunding laws, which I have worked hard to get put into place and which VestLo is founded on, were created to specifically allow Illinois residents, regardless of personal wealth, to invest directly into Illinois companies, keeping investor funds here in Illinois while simultaneously helping to build and grow local business.”

Bridging the gap for investors is another thing that VestLo prides themselves on. “[VestLo] kind of gives everyone access to that kind of investment opportunity to kind of help bridge that income inequality gap,” Ricciardella said.

“You look at all the same documents […] it’s just the barrier is way lower. You’re talking about $25, $50 compared to 20 percent down payment for an investment property.”

Though VestLo’s co-founders believe that their portal will positively impact investing opportunities for investors that might be well beyond their collegiate years, they hope that VestLo’s presence in the statewide investing scene will also encourage DePaul students and entrepreneurs on campus to begin their investing careers.

“We want to be in touch with the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center and bring on DePaul entrepreneurs who you know have business ideas that they want to raise money for,” Ricciardella said. “The nice thing about it would be that you could have DePaul alums and DePaul students investing in DePaul start-ups […] so it’s kind of just like the community supporting itself in a way.”

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School of Music building opens up for Autumn Quarter XAVIER ORTEGA | THE DEPAULIA

TOP: The new building is named after former president of the university, Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider.

RIGHT: There are a total of four different concert spaces within the Holtschneider Performance Center. The concert halls all differ in stage size and the number of seats, and they have all been built with sound quality and acoustics in mind.

BELOW: The new school has a number of rehearsal spaces for the students, ranging from small rooms for a single musician to practice spaces that can fit an entire orchestra. The largest practice room is the same size as the main stage so performers can play the same way they would on stage.

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TOP: To offer a space for their sound recording technology students, the School of Music included a sound recording studio. Before, students had to go off-campus in order to practice.

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LEFT: The Holtschneider Performance Center also has a number of classrooms that are set up for typical lectures. The classrooms are primarly located on the third floor.

8| News. The DePaulia. Sept. 17, 2018 SNL continued from front learners to earn their degrees by showing “[Ending the competency-based competency through coursework, program] has effectively slammed the independent studies and transfer courses. door on all those former students who Adjunct professor Rebecca Armstrong were always welcome to return to the said she feels the rebranding and college and pick up where they left off,” reorganization the staff member of SNL is a said. way for the In the Newsline administration post, denBoer said to get rid of the that the school department as a would be changing whole. the competency“The way to based program to get around the instead adopt a rules is to first “credit-hour based, change titles, market-responsive then demolish the professional studies department and degrees and stackable finally go after the credentials.” The idea faculty salaries,” behind stackable Armstrong said. credentials is that a One staff student could take member, who courses and then asked to stay later return and use anonymous, those credits towards said that the the next degree or school was not certificate, which able to bring in can be best applied as many new to adult learners who students, so the are looking to further DePaul professor their education. administration told them that Part-time faculty keeping SNL member Hartwig running the way Stein sees the it had been was “too costly to continue” new program as a way to get rid of the with enrollment numbers dropping 44 liberal arts-minded education that was percent in only five years. According prevalent in SNL classes, such as Stein’s to the staff member, the administration own courses such as Leisure for Well decided to discontinue their unique Being, to instead move toward more of a competency-based program. business approach to teaching.

“When I joined [SNL], it was all about the students and making sure our students could obtain their degrees in a realistic way This new model, I fear, is just a business transaction.”

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“When I joined [SNL], it was all about the students and making sure our students could obtain their degrees in a realistic way,” Stein said. “This new model, I fear, is just a business transaction. It no longer focuses on the students and their prior skills.”

At a Faculty Council meeting on Sept. 12, two faculty members asked both President A. Gabriel Esteban what would happen to the tenured professors who chose not to take the voluntary buyout, to which Esteban directed to denBoer, who said they did not have the answers as it would depend on how many faculty members chose to accept the buyout.

Many faculty and staff members spoke about the uncertainty they have for their jobs following the reorganization of the school.

“Now, it appears that some staff are

being offered a high stakes gamble,” the staff member said. “Either take a pay out and leave the career you have devoted your life to or hang on and pray that that you won’t be cut in the new reorganization of the college. And for those not in a position to take a buyout, the message is clear. Find a new job now to spare the university the burden and inconvenience of having to let you go in June.”

For some who work in SNL, they do not see a bright future for either their jobs or for the school as a whole. “[SNL] will close,” Stein said. “This is just the beginning of the end. I see the writing on the wall already, and this is just the administration’s way of pushing [SNL] out of way so they can continue to grow as a business, not a university.”

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DePaul and Loyola respond to sexual abuse coverup

SUSAN WALSH| AP Catholic Bishop Oscar A. Solis waits in an anteroom prior to leading the Mass on the third Sunday of Lent in Salt Lake City. Prompted by the recent scandal surrounding sexual abuse by Catholic priests across Pennsylvania, the bishop of the Salt Lake City diocese is publicly disclosing Utah's own history of "credible allegations" going back nearly 60 years.

Chicago’s Catholic universities act in light of priests sexually abusing children

By Marin Scott Editor, Nation and World

It has been a month since the grand jury report was released, revealing that the Catholic Church has covered up the systemic sexual abuse of children by priests over 70 years in Pennsylvania. This revelation has sent parishioners and members of the Catholic community questioning their safety in churches, their relationships with their priests and their faith in God. For university students, the concern is much greater.

Students already face increasing rates of sexual assault and rape on campus, with sexual violence being the most common crime on campuses across the U.S., according to a study done by RAINN, an organization working to bring awareness to this issue.

For those who turn to their faith for safety and support, these actions have shaken their faith.

“The students who are most impacted by this are ones that are active in their Catholic faith, and they’re trying to make sense of how they really do feel betrayed by the bishops,” said Lisa Writer, the Director of Campus Ministry at Loyola University. “I could see a student saying, the church is not credible. And why should I align myself to you to be a member and a participant?”

“The cover up and the denial and the re-assigning [of priests] that’s… the word that I have used

to describe it is evil, and we must name that evil.”

Write refers to the priest who began raping a child at the age of 18 months. She is referring to another priest in Scranton that raped and impregnated a girl at his church, and then demanded that she get an abortion. She is also referring to a priest in Greensburg that used teachings from the Bible to coerce middle school students into performing oral sex. All of these men were defended by their Diocese and kept in the community.

While parishioners are shocked by these accounts, it is clear now that the church has a system through which it spared the 300 priests from facing any legal consequences.

By using vague wording, swayed psychiatric “evaluations” and refusing to contact law enforcement were all ways that the clergy continued keep these perpetrators out of prison.

The effects of this abuse are not stagnant 70 years after the first victim was forced into silence. Those who had been touched, objectified and violated by these priests suffer daily with the trauma of what happened to them. Some took their own lives rather than cope with the pain.

Others turn to drugs and alcohol to self-medicate.

“Research suggests that childhood abuse, including sexual abuse is associated with higher rates of suicidal ideation,” said Jeffrey Lanfear, the director of DePaul University’s Counseling

Services. Lanfear explained that students that they come first. while there is an increased risk Making Loyola’s campus of self-harm due to childhood church as transparent as possible trauma, he does not have specific is one of the many steps towards data on this topic. changing the way the Catholic After news broke of this church handles sexual abuse, institutionalized abuse, the especially in universities. attention turned to Pope Francis “We are constantly monitoring and their local Archdiocese for ourselves so that we can be answers. Meanwhile, Catholic transparent,” said Writer when university professors across the discussing the programming United States have condoned that all volunteers and priests the church go through to for refusing ensure the safety to address of their students. the matter.

“All of our Eventually offices are glass, the Pope so our offices h i m s e l f are physically condoned safe spaces. In does the the chapel, we’re pr i e st’s clear about what actions and are the spaces those of the and that there church, yet are windows Writer felt into the that nothing confessionals.” would really w e v e r, Lisa Writer theseH oinitiatives c h a n g e .

For her the not being Director of Campus are system needs widely seen Ministry at Loyola by the entire to change, University student body. and Loyola Un i v e r s it y For this reason, is a good Writer and starting point.

Loyola University have put “It’s one thing for us to concrete plans in place if a similar condemn the clergy sexual abuse crime were to occur on campus. crisis but is it just one more letter “If we had a priest where a that says that,” Writer said when student brought forward a claim discussing Loyola’s pending of sexual assault or misconduct, response on the matter. Writer that would be filed through our and her team have been working Title IX office and it would be to take this tragedy and make it investigated,” said Writer. into an opportunity to remind “In the aftermath of the

“...the word that I have used to describe it is evil, and we must name that evil."

Pennsylvania Grand Jury report in which there were revelations of widespread sexual abuse of children within six dioceses of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, and the systemic cover up by senior Church officials, we join with many on campus and Catholics around the world to pray for all survivors of abuse and their families,” DePaul University’s Office of the President said in a statement.

The DePaul Office of Ministry and Mission did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

“Students at DePaul are invited to come and talk with Catholic Campus Ministry staff, which are here to support and participate in the renewal and transformation of the Church.”

Both Loyola and DePaul open their campus counseling offices to those who want to further discuss the matter. “We’re continuing to ask … how need to care for our students through all this.

What we’re looking at is trying to provide some kind of open forum,” said Writer.

Through this dialogue, they hope to better the relationship between campus churches and students. Writer also said that these forums are being created with counselors on campus to reduce triggering language for sexual abuse survivors.

For further information and input on the matter, Loyola University will be sponsoring “Integrity and Accountability in the Catholic Church” on Oct. 11 from 7 p.m.

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GERRY BROOME| AP A man peers from his flooded home in Lumberton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

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MAHMOUD ILLEAN| AP SUSAN WALSH| AP Israeli police investigates at the scene of an stabbing In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump attack in the West Bank settlement of Gush Etzion Sunday, speaks during a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Sept. 15, 2018. The Israeli military says a Palestinian attacker has stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli man in front of a mall.

Palestinian stabs American-Israeli man to death

Florence death toll swells to 14 as rivers rise

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New Bern, N.C. As the death toll from Florence grew and hundreds of people were pulled from flooded homes, North Carolina braced for catastrophic, widespread river flooding that could be the next stage of a mounting disaster.

Weakened to a tropical depression early Sunday after blowing ashore as a hurricane with 90 mph winds on Friday.

The storm’s death toll climbed to 14 when a man drowned after a pickup truck flipped into a drainage ditch along a flooded road in South Carolina.

About 740,000 homes and businesses remained without power in the Carolinas, and utilities said some could be out for weeks.

Radar showed parts of the sprawling storm over six states, but North and South Carolina were in the bull’s-eye.

Already, more than 2 feet of rain has fallen in places, and forecasters are saying there could be an additional 1½ feet before Sunday is out.

Authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of up to 7,500 people living within a mile of a stretch of the Cape Fear River and the Little River.

The evacuation zone included part of the city of Fayetteville, population 200,000.

The Defense Department said about 13,500 military personnel were assigned to help relief efforts, which could be massive since river forecasts showed major flooding was likely in towns as far as 250 miles inland.

The head of Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said officials were still focused on finding and rescuing people.

“We’ll get through this. It’ll be ugly, but we’ll get through it,” Long told NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

Authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of up to 7,500 people living within a mile of a stretch of the Cape Fear River and the Little River.

The evacuation zone included part of the city of Fayetteville, population 200,000.

Grim warnings for White House, Republicans ahead of election Washington In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told senior staff that the determining factor in the election would be how voters feel about Trump. And the majority of the electorate, including a sizeable percentage of Republican-leaning voters, doesn't feel good about the president, according to a presentation from pollster Neil Newhouse that spanned dozens of pages.

Party leaders were already worried that a surge in enthusiasm among Democrats and disdain for Trump by moderate Republicans would put the House out of reach. But some Republicans now fear their Senate majority is also in peril.

"For Republican candidates to win in swing states, they need all of the voters who support President Trump, plus a chunk of those who do not," said Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster. "That is threading a very narrow strategic needle."

Operatives in both parties say Republicans still have the edge in the fight for control of the Senate. But GOP officials are increasingly worried that nominees in conservative-leaning states like Missouri and Indiana are under-performing, while races in Tennessee and Texas that should be slam-dunks for Republicans are close.

Many moderate Republican voters "don't believe there is anything at stake in this election," according to the documents Newhouse presented to White House officials. He attributed that belief in part to a disregard for public polling, given that most surveys showed Democrat Hillary Clinton defeating Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

Newhouse and the White House would not comment on the early September meeting. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Newhouse's presentation, and two

Republicans with knowledge of the briefing discussed the details on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the matter publicly.

At the White House, anxiety over the midterms has been on the rise for months as polls increasingly show a challenging environment for the GOP. The sheer number of competitive races in both the House and Senate is stretching cash reserves, and there are growing fears that the coalition of voters that delivered Trump to the White House will not come out for midterms.

White House aides say Trump is getting regular briefings on the political landscape and is aware of the increasingly grim polling, even though he's predicted a "red wave" for Republicans on Twitter and at campaign rallies. Aides say Trump's sober briefings from GOP officials are sometimes offset by the frequent conversations he has with a cadre of outside advisers who paint a sunnier picture of the electoral landscape and remind the president of his upset victory in 2016.

Karl Rove, who served as chief political strategist to President George W. Bush, said that if Republicans cast their Democratic rivals as soft on immigration or in favor of high-dollar government spending on health care, "that's a toxic mix to the soft Republicans and Republican-leaning independents."

In his most recent campaign appearances, Trump soft-peddled his predictions for a Republican wave and warned supporters that a Democratic congressional majority would have consequences.

"If it does happen, it's your fault, because you didn't go out to vote," Trump said of the prospect of getting impeached. "You didn't go out to vote — that's the only way it could happen."

A Palestinian assailant on Sunday fatally stabbed an Israeli settler outside a busy mall in the West Bank.

The victim was identified as Ari Fuld, a U.S.-born activist who was well-known in the local settler community and an outspoken Israel advocate on social media platforms.

The military said the attacker arrived at the mall near a major junction in the southern West Bank, close to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, and stabbed the Fuld before fleeing.

Video footage showed Fuld giving chase and firing at his assailant before collapsing. Other civilians shot the attacker, whom Israeli media identified as a 17-year-old from a nearby Palestinian village. He was reportedly in moderate condition.

Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four who lived in the nearby settlement of Efrat, was evacuated to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Fuld was a well-known Englishlanguage internet commenter on current affairs and the weekly Torah lesson. He was known for his hard-line nationalist ideology and strong support for the Israeli military.

Settler spokesman Josh Hasten, who said he had known Fuld for about a decade, said his friend traveled widely to showcase "the beauty and reality of life" in the country.

Fuld also was known for an outspoken manner that included verbal clashes with Palestinians and critics of Israel that could land him in trouble. At times, his Facebook account was suspended.

"He did not hold back on his opinions," Hasten said. "If that meant 30 days of Facebook jail, so be it."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded Fuld on Facebook for fighting his attacker "heroically" and remembered him as "an advocate for Israel who fought to spread the truth."

Since 2015, Palestinians have killed over 50 Israelis, two visiting Americans and a British tourist in stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks.

Israeli forces killed over 260 Palestinians in that period, of which Israel says most were attackers.

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Opinions

Elon Musk’s marijuana use doesn’t matter But how we talk about it does

By Daniel Schirmer Contributing Writer

On September 6, comedian Joe Rogan conducted a live interview with business magnate and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. The conversation lasted approximately two and a half hours, and the two discussed a wide variety of topics—the dangers of artificial intelligence, the future of the fossil fuel industry, underground highways, flamethrowers, and more. The interview provided a remarkably personal glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s most ambitious inventors and entrepreneurs.

However, one segment of the interview has sparked (no pun intended) some controversy. Shortly after the interview’s two-hour mark, Rogan lights a blunt filled with tobacco and marijuana.

He passes it to Musk, who asks, “It’s legal, right?” before reluctantly taking a puff.

The interview was conducted in California, where marijuana is just as legal as the whiskey the two sipped throughout the interview.

Musk admits in the interview that he is “not a regular smoker of weed” because he “doesn’t find it’s very good for productivity.” Although the marijuana seemed to have little-to-no effect on his behavior, Musk’s decision resulted in some significant blowback.

The next day, Tesla’s stock dropped 6.3 percent, and both the company’s chief accounting officer and head of human resources announced they would be resigning because of Musk’s behavior.

Various media outlets—Fox News, CNBC, Inc., Bloomberg—published articles criticizing Musk’s marijuana use and making far-fetched allegations that his actions may have violated Tesla’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

The most extreme accounts suggest that Musk would be wise to resign from Tesla immediately.

However, not all coverage of the incident has been negative. Forbes published an article positing that Musk’s marijuana use merely brought to light the general public’s need to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the drug.

“Let the man get high if he wants to

get high,” said famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in an interview with TMZ. “He’s the best thing we’ve had since Thomas Edison.”

Gwynne Shotwell, president of Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, recently said at a satellite industry conference in Paris that “Elon is a brilliant man,” and that he “is as lucid and capable as he has ever been. I wish people would not focus on triviality.”

Though Musk has previously been criticized for exhibiting seemingly impulsive behavior on Twitter, the significance of his contributions to the automotive industry and the fields of alternative energy and space exploration far outweigh his few questionable tweets.

Moreover, the exaggeratory attacks on Musk’s character and his decision to

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smoke marijuana represent a glaring double standard between marijuana and alcohol.

It is only natural that Musk, as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is held to high standards of behavior by his peers. However, assuming that someone is unstable or morally compromised for taking one puff of a blunt is simply unreasonable (after all, 14 percent of all American adults admit to using marijuana regularly, according to a recent Yahoo News/Marist Poll).

Nobody would think to pin similar accusations against someone who takes a swig of alcohol, which has been repeatedly proven to be a deadlier substance than marijuana. In fact, The Lancet, a medical journal funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently published a

study on global alcohol use. It found that in 2016 alcohol was the leading health risk factor among people aged 15-49, with 3.8 percent of female deaths and 12.2 percent of male deaths attributable to alcohol use.

Though marijuana can and often should be considered a health risk, its potential to damage one’s health is significantly less than that of alcohol.

Not only has there never been a documented death linked to an overdose of marijuana, but marijuana is increasingly prescribed as treatment for many medical conditions such as Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease and various forms of cancer. As for the potential health benefits of alcohol, the researchers who conducted the study in The Lancet wrote that “the level of consumption that minimizes health loss is zero.”

In accepting Rogan’s offer to smoke marijuana, perhaps Musk wanted to deliver a jolt to the public perception of marijuana by attempting to steer the drug away from its persistent status as taboo. Regardless, Musk was likely aware of the level to which the interview would be scrutinized by the media. Why, then, would he take the risk of smoking if he suspected it might result in negative press?

“If Musk had done any research about Joe Rogan’s podcast beforehand, he probably knew that there was a possibility he would be offered weed,” said DePaul senior Ollie Kahveci. “I think his decision to smoke it was spontaneous but also an attempt to appeal to a younger audience.

It will definitely make a lot of people reconsider their perception of people who smoke weed when they see one of the most influential and financially successful people in the world smoking it.”

Whether Musk calculated his decision is unimportant, as it will likely make for an inconsequential moment in his career.

Where it may prove significant, however, is in the public discourse surrounding marijuana. Musk managed to turn the stoner stereotype on its head with a single puff, and the whole world watched. This moment shouldn’t change our opinions of Musk. It should challenge those of us who harbor negative, uninformed assumptions about marijuana and those who use it.

Meme of the week

Here, we do what we must for our student body. Each week, we will print the most compelling DePaul meme of the week. This week, a slightly irrelevant blast from the past. This meme was created by Colin J. Safley.

The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.

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Defunding public libraries doesn’t check out Libraries create spaces to cultivate knowledge, safety and discourse

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Fewer readers are found in many libraries, including Harold Washington, because of many reasons, one of them being the easier transfer of information due to cell phones.

By Noor Hasan Contributing Writer

Public libraries have long existed as community spaces where individuals can study, check out books, use internet and research services, participate in group activities and so much more, all at an incredibly small cost to taxpayers.

Public libraries have protected the sanctity of community knowledge, and communities in general, since their inception in the mid-1800s.

In times of great American turmoil, libraries stood resilient, staying open during the Great Depression, remaining steadfast on providing banned media during the rise of McCarthyism, and refusing to identify individuals to the FBI that had checked out subversive media during the Cold War. Public libraries have always been defenders of the rights of citizens, and as an increasing number of institutions in society begin to function as class gateways, the need for spaces where all folks can reliably access and utilize services that are necessary for school, work and community-building becomes imperative. Public libraries protect “the right to know” of all people, regardless of their income and defend against the commodification of knowledge. As Huffington Post contributor Kevin O’Kelly puts it, “The public library is one of the few places where people are still treated as citizens rather than consumers.”

Public libraries serve as a type of social safety net, creating a collective community and providing a return on taxpayer investment directly to the communities where they exist, and yet the argument for defunding public libraries still persists.

Part of this argument stems from the perspective that these seemingly “free” services are at a cost to the taxpayer, even if the taxpayer is not utilizing the services of the public library. Not only does this argument dismiss the core purpose of taxation, generating revenue that would ideally

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Inside Harold Washington Library, those who frequent will see appealing views.

benefit the greater good in return, but it implies that there is not a direct, long-term economic benefit to funding public libraries, which there is. As the 2009 Return on Investment (ROI) Report from the Library Research Service shows, for every dollar spent by taxpayers on public libraries, at minimum $5 is returned on that investment to the community.

In some cases, the ROI can be as high as $9 for every dollar invested, benefitting taxpayers who choose not to utilize library services. This ROI manifests in non-monetary ways as well and is most clearly seen in cities like Chicago.

At the height of the economic recession in the late 2000s, library usage was at an all-time high in Chicago. As individuals struggled to afford books, find access to the internet, conduct research, and pay for access to after school programming, they found themselves at the library. Chicago Public Libraries served over 12 million people per year on average during that time period and provided millions of hours of free internet workshops in 2009.

The importance of the public library system is best described by Mary A. Dempsey, the former head

of the Chicago Public Library System.

She reminds defund-advocates that, “Some 60 percent of the individuals who use public computers a Chicago’s libraries are searching for and applying for jobs.” She also points out that, “Chicago’s schools offer the shortest school day in the nation. As schools slash their budgets for school libraries and shorten their classroom teaching time, thousands of children flock to Chicago’s public libraries every day after school, in the evening and on weekends for homework assistance from our librarians and certified teachers hired by the public library.”

This same sentiment is echoed in a discussion with former youth services librarian and head of customer service Sarah Ehlers.

She explains that if it was not for the space of the library simply being there and offering activities, “some of [her] longtime patrons would never have met” and formed community bonds with one another.

She elaborates, explaining that a wide variety of patrons rely on the library for programming. She states that “seniors, parents with young children, and even homeless individuals,” can find safety and a sense of belonging in the programs created by the library.

This type of structure is especially important in communities like Chicago where the alternatives for sanctioned programming, particularly youth programming, are limited and often dangerous, even illegal.

Even librarians who work at other types of libraries recognize the necessity of their public counterparts.

Scott Walter, a university librarian at DePaul’s privately funded but open to the public—academic library says that, “No amount of funding for academic libraries of any type could allow us to play the role in the community that is played by public libraries.” When asked about his stance on defunding public libraries he said it “is similar to asking if additional funding for DePaul might suggest that we do not need Chicago Public Schools. As an academic librarian, I recognize that our libraries are part of an essential network of educational and cultural heritage organizations across our community that promote lifelong learning and engaged citizenship, and that we need all libraries—public, school and academic—to be fully funded if we are all to work together to meet that shared mission.”

Junior Anna Scudder touches upon this when recalling her reliance upon both DePaul’s library and the Chicago Public Library System.

When Scudder wants a place near campus to study, she favors the “quiet space to focus,” provided by DePaul’s library. But when looking for outside programming or books that DePaul may not carry, public libraries “have what [she is] looking for.”

A public library is an essential pillar in the foundation of communities. Not only is a public library a refuge for those seeking knowledge, it is a place where community development is fostered across social lines. It would be a disservice to society to defund one of the primary institutions responsible for holding it together.

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ave you ever been sitting on the freshly mowed grass of the Quad, maybe you have been ordering a mediocre cup of coffee from The Bean while simultaneously running late for your 9:40 lecture in the SAC, and you wonder, what celebrities have passed through this harrowed halls on their way to stardom. With Depaul being a scandal-ridden school in Chicago, there has to have been at least one notable alumni. In fact, there has been a plethora of celebrities who can call DePaul their home away from home. Now, next time you need bragging rights about DePaul, just mention that the man who created RumChata once sat in our Student Center.

Joe Keery (Actor, ‘14)

Alexander (Actor, ‘1

Richard J. Daley (38th Chicago Mayor, ‘33)

George Miken (NBA, Top 50 Players, ‘46)

Mary Alice McWhinnie (Scientist in Antartica, ‘46)

Tom Bosley (Actor, ‘47)

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Sarah Gorden (Soccer ‘15)

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Gillian Anderson (Actress, ‘90)

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Dorothy A. Brown (Clerk for Cook County, ‘81)

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Judy Greer (Actress, ‘97)

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Although there are some people on this list that could be put onto DePaul’s Timeline of Flame, they have a rightful place on this page. Whether one became famous from their advance basketball skills like George Milken, who graduated in 1946, or because they blew open the Russia-US investigation back in 2017, (George Papadopoulos), they belong on this timeline. Now, go brag about all the famous people that might have once sat in the SAC Pit, just like you.

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Arts & Life

Kevin Hart on education and redemption

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Kevin Hart stars in "Night School," a film he also wrote and produced, about a group of people who return to school to earn their GED's.

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

Kevin Hart believes in second chances.

After benefiting from a great deal of second chances in her personal life, Hart is taking what he’s learned to the big screen. In the new ensemble comedy “Night School,” set to hit theaters Sept. 28, he plays a hustling high school drop-out that returns to school to get his GED. Hart, who wrote, produced and starred in the film, wanted to emphasize that you can always try again and get it right the next time, especially when it comes to education.

“What I’ve learned is that sometimes you’re not going to get it right the first time, but just because you don’t doesn't mean that that’s a moment that should be frowned upon,” Hart said. “It doesn't mean that that’s a thing that should set you back in life.”

Hart’s character Teddy accidentally blows up the store he works at and realizes that in order to get another job, he’ll have to graduate high school. Returning to his alma mater, he meets Carrie, an unorthodox, no-nonsense teacher played

by Tiffany Haddish, and a group of other students determined to make the most of their second chance. The ensemble led by Hart and Haddish is expertly cast, creating a diverse and cohesive group of misfits. Rob Riggle, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anne Winters, Romany Malco, Al Madrigal and Joseph Cartagena (better known as the rapper Fat Joe) make up the night class, all with their own reasons for starting over.

“Each person gets to do what they do very well. That’s one of the things the script allows those actors to play into their skillset,” said producer Will Packer. “The best ensemble comedies do that: allow people to do what they do individually

Tiffany Haddish, the break out star of "Girls Trip," stars as Carrie, an overworked but dedicated teacher. well.”

Leading the pack is Haddish, as the dedicated and overworked teacher that cares deeply about her students but also expects the best out of them. Haddish is one of the few stars today that could not only hold her own during the quick backand-forth that Hart is known for, but repeatedly steal the scenes altogether. With Hart and Haddish, they each seem to have met their comedic match, making their interactions integral to the film.

“Night School” is consistently laughout-loud funny with an important message at its core. As a writer, Hart captured the journey of the characters in order to place a focus on the importance of education.

“It’s great to do a comedy but when you can do a comedy and have an underlying message within it, and also track the stories of the characters you’ve created, it makes your comedy stronger,” Hart said. “It makes it relatable.”

Although Hart personally enjoyed his time in school, life experience has proven to him the impact that education can have on one’s life. Navigating his career through trial and error, Hart has begun to truly understand that knowledge is paramount.

“Knowing what I know now, if I had taken [school] more serious, the knowledge that I had to go backwards to get I would have already had,” he said.

“But going backwards to get it made me

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appreciate what it is even more. I’m able to get that message to the younger generation at a very high level now.”

As Hart travels the country promoting the movie in real high schools, like DRW College Prep on the West Side where he surprised students on Thursday, Sept. 13, he wants to emphasize that their time as students is integral to who they are now as well as who they will become. “‘Night School’ is a movie but there’s a real message in it,” he said. “Take that message and apply it to your life, and ultimately become the best version of yourself.”

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Blue Man Group briefly lights up Wintrust

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

The Blue Man Group performed at Wintrust Arena on Thursday Sept. 13 as part of a continuation of Welcome Week.

The show was heavily advertised throughout both campuses with people handing out flyers at other Welcome Week events and outside DePaul buildings during class changes, when foot-traffic reaches its peak.

Despite the expansive advertising, the crowd turnout was abysmal with the huge arena noticeably empty.

For the few people in the audience, the show was disappointing lasting barely 10 minutes.

A group notorious for their high energy shows, the Blue Man Group was a surprising let down for many. To make matters worse, after their short set they were quickly replaced by the Men's and Women's basketball teams singing karaoke, far from what most students came to see.

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NYFW exhibit touches on body modification

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The show by Simon Huck serves as both commentary on the touchy nature of body modifications today and the external focus and force of the fashion industry.

By Josh Tikka Contributing Writer

Fashion Instagram and Twitter were abuzz this past week for New York Fashion Week. While Nicki Minaj and Cardi B’s not-really-fight took center stage, Simon Huck’s “A. Human” was the trending surprise that captured audience fantasy and imagination.

“A. Human” is part performance, immersive exhibit, and part social media ploy. It is designed like a museum exhibit, and features unique body modifications and bizarre depictions of humans, such as persons growing out of soil (think Tyler the Creator in Kali Uchis’ “After the Storm” music video, if it had been directed

by Guillermo del Torro), several body parts are depicted, such as webbed hands (presumably already trademarked by Michael Phelps), and a high-heel surgically morphed with a foot. Huck’s piece gained popularity following several high-profile fashion celebrities posting images and short videos of their temporary body modifications and implants.

Kim Kardashian showcased a corallike, flesh-colored, pseudo implanted choker necklace with LED lights embedded beneath even more makeup than usual.

Tan France, of the binge-fame Netflix series “Queer Eye,” donned a Tudor neck ruffle “implant” draped across his nape, that looked part flesh-colored octopus tentacle, and part crystal chandelier— quite the airplane neck pillow. Twitter troller-of-the-trolls Chrissy Teigen showed off implanted wings on her chest that looked as if she took a shower with an awful Afflicted t-shirt on, only to learn it was a massive temporary tattoo this whole time. The purpose of front-facing wings is not revealed, and it seems Chrissy would have no line-of-sight if they worked.

Several other celebrities signed on to this “futuristic” fashion experience.

The “A. Human” exhibit exemplified the frivolity of the week (perhaps to a lesser degree than Nicki versus Bardi’s shoe), as well as the field of high fashion in and of itself. I was entertained at the thought of Kim’s LED necklace being a mood ring (does blue mean “help me, Kanye is Kanye-ing again!”) and admittedly I found the body modifications fascinating and

perversely alluring.

With the appreciation of frivolity in fashion in mind, I question Huck projecting this piece as representative of future potential in fashion. The idea of surgical body modifications has its place on the runway, and these wild departures from normalcy are a welcome departure from bland make-up design. And while frivolity can be fun and pleasurable, there are many people who use body modifications and implants as more than just their fashion, but also as an integral part of their identity. Room ought to be made for transgender individuals who face regular harassment and violence for their bold, brave and beautiful body alterations.

The wealthy, cis-normative body modifications of “A. Human” is not representative of worthwhile imaginative future for the many people who have or need gender affirmation surgeries, such as male-to-female breast augmentations, female-to-male chest reconstruction surgery, or vaginoplasty. While Marco Marco’s runway show this year used only trans models, which opens the doors of countless important conversations on trans identity and was a tremendous and sexy celebration of representation for a distinctly marginalized group of people, it did not focus on the specific differences and modifications that trans people often have. Perhaps instead of LED neck lights, tech-fashion designers could consider the beauty of puberty blockers, and PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS other hormone therapies that increase A display as part of an immersive art show by Simon Huck. testosterone or estrogen. I recognize in saying all this that the Kardashian rendered meaningless considering the lack history and headlines for only working fashion-dynasty is in conversation with of fashionable projects for genuinely useful with trans-models. As fashion companies trans-visibility thanks to Caitlyn Jenner, technological innovations, such as hearing and designers continue to explore the although her particular contribution to aids, or other assistive technologies. future of fashion, body modifications the trans community seems to be more Can these devices be runway-dazzling, and cyborgian implants, an important focused on Republican acceptance of her depicting a future of wild imagination, and historic vanguard should be reached individually, as opposed to relevant issues beautiful abnormality, and radical out to. Transgender and disabled peoples like access to health care, bathrooms and inclusion? Teigen’s apocryphal front-facing have led the way in these forms of public wings seem uninspired in comparison to dressing and personal beautification for basic human rights…

“A. Human’s” depiction of body the all-terrain wheelchair, gait trainers, generations. People with lived experiences augmentation as a revelatory imaginative or back brace. Could we imagine a future of pushing forward our understandings of future is not only disrupted in the history where accessibility is angelic, and tools of personhood, what bodies could be, and and present state of transgender fashion movement are regarded as the marvels that what technologies can enhance our lives are necessary for conceiving the useful and and body presentation/representation, they are?

In 2017 Moscow Fashion Week, frivolous potential future of fashion, tech but also should be read in conversation a runway show featured a group of and abstraction. with disability visibility. The glowing wheelchair models, and as stated earlier, LED highlight of Kardashian’s neckline is this year Marco Marco’s runway show made

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'A Simple Favor' A brilliant thriller that surprises to the end

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Anne Kendrick and Blake Liveley star as Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson in the new mystery thriller "A SimpleFavor" directed by PaulFeig.

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

In the most recent thriller to hit theaters, a mystery surrounds the sudden disappearance of Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) and the amateur investigation that ensues as her best friend Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) searches for the truth. Like almost all of the movies in this genre everything is not what it seems, but with the characters in “A Simple Favor” everything is really not what it seems.

Directed by Paul Feig, perhaps best known for directing hits like “Bridesmaids and “The Heat,” this thriller takes the audience through a multitude of twists and turns that are rarely predictable. Infused with some of the comedic elements Feig is known for, the film manages to perfect the balance between crafting an interesting mystery while the tone remains relatively light, resisting the temptation to follow in the footsteps of past thrillers. With stylish design and wardrobe along with a powerhouse cast acting to a soundtrack comprised mainly of French music, the film strikes gold by being both aesthetically intriguing as well as narratively.

Emily Nelson, an enigmatic and hard-drinking public relations executive, disappears seemingly as soon as she arrives.

Emily is effortlessly high-class. Exclusively dressed in impressive clothes and with a house that belongs on an HGTV top ten list, her blonde hair and natural beauty are quickly revealed to just be surface-level attributes to the character.

Underneath, her crass language and dark side-comments are all the more jarring when coming from Lively. Case in point when Stephanie compliments her parenting and she responds dryly, “The best thing I could do for Nicky is blow my

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In "A Simple Favor" Lively is often wearing incredibly high-end suits further establishing the iconic look of Emily Nelson. brains out.”

Anna Kendrick playing opposite Lively, deftly navigates her own character’s complexities quickly switching from involved mother, mommy blogger, amateur sleuth and a woman with her own secrets to hide. Kendrick, an actress who has become known for her endearing and quirky personality was expertly cast in the role because it’s hard to see anything dark about her. Emily’s husband comes in the form of Henry Golding, the breakout star of this summer’s biggest hit “Crazy Rich

Asians,” further enhancing the sheer star power on screen.

The mystery surrounding Emily’s disappearance is unraveled slowly and intentionally with each new discovery clearing up one question while simultaneously creating even more. Due to the nature of the story, trailers and previews are a tricky thing to create. Revealing enough about a story to entice movie-goers without spoiling the mystery is a tightwire act often resulting in a lackluster preview to the film.

In “A Simple Favor’s” case, the trailer told you very little aside from Emily’s disappearance but you’ll be glad not a single thing was given away. The winding narrative goes to unexpected places time and time again throughout the movie’s two-hour run with an unpredictability that is rarely achieved. So, without giving anything away, “A Simple Favor” is one of the best mysteries to come out in recent years and a movie well worth your time, and multiple viewings.

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'Predator' mixes humor with gore

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Shane Black directs this reivention of the classic 'Predator' franchise. The film gives a more humorous look at the battle to save the human race.

By Garret Neal Staff Writer

“The Predator” comes to us from 21st Century Fox (So is this a Disney movie now?) and is the first entry in the franchise since 2007. Fear not though, no prior knowledge of the predecessors is required for viewing. Although a watch of “Predator” wouldn’t hurt.

Now I would love to jump into a quick plot-teaser for the film right now, but they didn’t exactly make it easy for me. The basic idea is elite sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) has a ragtag team of veterans that are trying to chase down a giant Predator to prevent it from creating more havoc. That’s a basic, basic run down.

There’s also a government team that’s trying to stop the Predator but doesn’t want McKenna to do it. The Predators also are trying to exterminate life on Earth so they can move in, but one Predator has gone rogue to try and help humans, but he’s still killing humans. Each member of McKenna’s team has a tragic backstory that hardly added to anything. Predators have dogs and one of them follows McKenna around for an hour of the movie and then spends the final act locked in a truck. There’s this totally-out-of-nowhere environmental message. This all leading to my biggest frustration with the film. These plot threads that felt like they sprung from nowhere made it difficult to get invested into the story. At all.

But okay, this is a blockbuster action movie, it doesn’t really need a good story, right? The original had the same “military group out to stop Predator’’ story and it worked because it had interesting characters. So, did I find any of the characters in THE “Predator” interesting?

Nah. For most of the film, McKenna felt like a standard loose cannon military guy. By the end, I found it hard to root for him. He has several actions that added it up to this, but the cherry on top was an interaction with his son, Rory, who has Asperger’s.

“I’m sorry I didn’t grow up the way you wanted me to, dad,” Rory said with tears in

his eyes.

“Let me tell you something, I didn’t grow up the way I wanted,” Quinn responded.

Like, what the heck, man? Is that supposed to be comforting? Is that supposed to make your son feel validated as a person? I just didn’t get that at all.

The rest of McKenna’s crew were seemingly just defined by a quirk. There was the religious one, the jokester (played

by Keegan-Michael Key), the smart one and the one with Tourette’s. Calling to mind my second big problem with this movie, the humor.

As a Shane Black film, I knew this was going to have a more humorous touch than previous Predator films. There were a lot of jokes in this one and some of them did make me laugh, but some I found unfunny or outright wrong. Like making one character just a giant Tourette’s joke. Or how one group member goes by the name “Nebraska” because his actual last name is Gaylord. Hahaha? That stuff won’t bother everyone, but it was just off putting for me.

Finally rounding out the characters is scientist Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn), who didn’t affect the story in any way. This movie probably fails the Sexy Lamp Test.

But there were some things I did genuinely enjoy. Any time a Predator showed up and started killing people I loved it. They got creative with the deaths.

I was able to enjoy some decapitations, de-limbing, throwing folks around or just the old-fashioned stab someone five times.

And they didn’t hold back on the blood.

That stuff was thicker than molasses in winter and redder than a bullfighter's cape.

These small action pieces where not enough for me to overall enjoy the film.

However, I can’t outright say “don’t see this in theaters.” This was the type of bad film that could be enjoyed. Where in a film like “The Expendables,” the constant sense that the actors are in on the joke takes away from some of the experience. Here, I felt the movie wanted me to take many of these plot twists and turns seriously and that’s what makes it fun. So hey, if you have some friends and want to laugh at a movie

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An enthralling, ultraviolent revival of Nicolas Cage’s career

By Daniel Shirmer Contributing Writer

Director Panos Cosmatos’s new action-horror film “Mandy” can be simply described as an LSD-fueled nightmare featuring a Manson-esque cult, motorcycleriding demons, chainsaw fights and a whole lot of blood. In other words, it’s a horror fan’s dream.

The film is set in the year 1983 and follows Red (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), a loving couple living an idyllic life in the wilderness of the fictional Shadow Mountains. Their lives are suddenly thrown into chaos when a psychotic religious cult, led by the charismatic but insecure Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), calls upon a mysterious band of demons to kidnap the two of them.

After a series of harrowing events, Red finds himself hell-bent on delivering murderous justice to the ones who wreaked havoc on the life he and Mandy built together.

Though wildly original and unconventional, “Mandy” clearly stems from a tremendous appreciation for ‘80s horror films and the grindhouse era. Its vivid, neon color scheme and vibrant art direction are reminiscent of films like “Evil Dead,” giving it the appearance of a tantalizing graphic novel brought to life.

In addition to eye-popping visuals, the film contains a very distinctive lore, which is revealed at a steady and deliberate pace as the film progresses. The potential for an expanded universe is certainly present.

The film’s score, which was the final work of Icelandic composer Jóhan Jóhannsson, plays like a psychedelic requiem. It is an unorthodox combination of orchestra, vaporwave and heavy metal.

This sounds like quite the mixed bag of

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Perhaps the biggest selling point of “Mandy,” though, is its remarkable cast of eccentric characters. Roache shines as the deranged, sociopathic lead villain, who can be characterized as a mixture of Charles Manson and Buffalo Bill from “The Silence of the Lambs.” He plays Jeremiah with a subdued and unpredictable volatility, leaving the viewer in fearful anticipation of the moment he unleashes his next fit of rage and mayhem.

Riseborough’s touching performance as the sympathetic title character keeps the film’s relentless brutality from

overwhelming the viewer. The layer of emotional weight she brings forth complements the surprising, show-stealing performance by Cage.

Cage, who was once considered one of Hollywood’s most renowned actors, has had a rollercoaster of a career. In 1995 he won an Academy Award for his performance in the film “Leaving Las Vegas” and has since starred in numerous critically and financially successful films such as “The Rock,” “Adaptation,” and “Kick-Ass.” Unfortunately, Cage’s career has also been marred by a handful of critical failures like “Season of the Witch” and “Left Behind.” His most infamously cringe-worthy performance, though, was in the 2006 film “The Wicker Man,” which

has been lambasted in internet memes ever since its release.

But Cage’s performance as Red is at once heartbreaking, hilarious and absolutely bonkers. This is Cage at his most vulnerable, and he immerses himself into the role so deeply that we forget we ever doubted him in the first place. One notable scene, which involves Red downing a bottle of vodka, is arguably Cage’s best work in decades. With explosive passion, he carries the viewer through the whirlwind of sorrow and agony his character is experiencing. His performance is the indisputable highlight of the film, and it will likely revitalize his career for years to come.

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Stronger

Crime + Punishment

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this inspiring film based on the true story of Jeff Bauman, a man who became a worldwide beacon of hope after surviving the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Based on Bauman’s book of the same name, the film follows Jeff adjusting to life after losing both of his legs in the attack. Tatiana Maslany stars as his girlfriend, whom he was waiting for at the finish line when the bombs went off.

“Crime + Punishment” is a powerful documentary following the so-called NYPD12, a group of current and retired police officers that have spoken out about the NYPD’s policy requiring a set number of arrests, or quotas, despite them being outlawed years ago.

In addition to struggling with the physical repercussions of that day, he also finds newfound fame as the face of Boston’s resiliency. Critics praised Gyllenhaal’s portrayal of Bauman and lauded the film for its handling of such sensitive material.

The film tackles relentless determination and hope as well as PTSD and expertly navigates Baumen's personal journey. Although it didn’t quite make a mark during its original time in theaters, “Stronger” still tells an important and moving story that is well worth your time.

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These required quotas are strictly enforced, with subordination often resulting in termination and promotions only given to those that do as they’re told. Perhaps most troubling is that these quotas most often only affect people of color, furthering the disproportionate amount of black men in the system.

In a society where the relationship between police and communities of color is becoming more tense, it highlights how quickly police can stray from their mission of good and become a negative force.

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In theaters & upcoming films Sept. 7 "Peppermint" A young mother seeks revenge on those that ruined her life and is determined to make things even.

Stars: Jennifer Garner

Sept. 21 "The House with a Clock in Its Wall" An orphan joins his magical uncle asthey locate a magical clock that can bring about the end of the world.

Stars: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett

Sept. 14 “A Simple Favor” After her best friend's sudden disappearance, a mommy blogger seeks to uncover the truth.

Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively

Sept. 21 “Life Itself” The unexpected twists in the lives of a young couple causes ripples across the world.

Stars: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening

Sept. 14 “The Predator” A crew of ex-soldiers battle the universe's most lethal hunters to prevent the end of the human race.

Sept. 28 “Night School” A man goes to night school and must overcome unforseen obstacles to get his GED.

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By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

Campus is once again abuzz with students and you know what they say, “new year, new you.” Fittingly, the DePaulia has compiled some brand new songs to kick off a new year of new music. The long rides on the CTA can now be accompanied by some fresh tunes, alleviating the weight of the inevitable awkward eye contact with the person sitting across from you.

Spanning a handful of genres, there’s something for everyone (unless you don’t like these artists). In that case, come back next week.

1. “Homesick" - Kane Brown One of the freshest faces on the country scene, Kane Brown has delivered yet another catchy hit with “Homesick.” Marking a new addition to Brown’s long list of love songs, “Homesick” sings about a girl back home in a small town, left behind as Brown’s career takes him elsewhere. With a sound similar to “Heaven,” arguably his biggest hit, Brown is taking the logical next step leading up the release of his new album. The song is slow and calming with acoustic guitar taking center stage, second only to Brown’s vocals.

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2. “The Flute Song” - Russ In the lead song on his newest album “ZOO,” Russ does what he does best and often: brag about being the best. Over the course of his career, Russ has proven to be one of the hardest working artists in hip-hop. With two studio albums, 11 albums released under his own label and over 30 individual singles under his belt, Russ’ portfolio is constantly growing. Additionally, his songs “What They Want” and “Losin’ Control” recently went platinum.

In short, Russ has earned the right to brag and he clearly knows it.

Across 1. Pressly of “My Name Is Earl” 6. Successful, in Variety 11. Puppy’s tail movement 14. City near Salt Lake 15. Less available 16. “___ the ramparts...”

17. Attractive 19. Miner’s profit 20. Cologne water 21. Collection of sayings 22. Do alternative 23. Small racing vehicles 27. Extended a subscription 29. Foreman striker?

30. It’s between black and white 32. Stretch auto 33. “___ in Black” (1997 film) 34. Consumer 36. Ringlets

3. “Jefe (ft. Meek Mill)” - T.I. Following his heavily publicized release from prison earlier this year, Philadelphia native Meek Mill has re-entered hip-hop without missing a beat.

In an impressive performance alongside Atlanta rap legend T.I., the latin-infused “Jefe” serves as a powerful reintroduction of both artists. While bragging about status in hip-hop is far from rare, Mill and T.I. areas convincing as they come. After signing to Epic Records, “Jefe” is one of the first songs T.I. has dropped leading up to the release of his highly anticipated next album.

39. Where peat is found 41. Referring to birth 43. Distort, as data 44. Jellied garnish 46. Battery type 48. Suffix with “direct” or “detect” 49. Yodeler’s feedback 51. Like deserts 52. Flanders of cartoons 53. Anglers’ weights 56. Asylum seeker 58. U.S. lang.

59. Computer “brain” 60. John’s “Blues Brothers” co-star 61. Sigma successor 62. The hereafter 68. Hangman request?

69. Cause of many yawns 70. “The King” of music 71. Decimal-system base 72. Horse instructors 73. Apportioned, as

4. “Nina Cried Power (ft.

Mavis Staples” - Hozier After a four year hiatus, Hozier has triumphantly returned with a four-track EP, led by a powerful protest song with iconic gospel singer Mavis Staples. The song serves as a tribute to Nina Simone and mentions other revolutionary artists including Marvin Gaye and B.B. King. In an interview with Rolling Stone Hozier said, “[The song is] a suggestion that the battle for equality these artists championed remains an ongoing and necessary one.”

cards Down 1. One way to run 2. In the past 3. “Don’t mind if ___” 4. Jason’s wife, in myth 5. Get bigger 6. Bart, to Maggie, slangily 7. Mighty hardwood 8. Tuck, for one 9. Aromatic herb 10. All-natural 11. Carpentry 12. Eaglet nursery 13. Midas’ undoing 18. Defeated, in a way 23. Viola da ___ 24. Toast spreads 25. Creature near the Antarctic Circle 26. Evil angel 28. Grounded Australians 31. “Bigfoot” relatives 35. Car built for speed 37. River’s border,

sometimes 38. One from Malmo 40. Word with “bay” or “pay” 42. Rio Grande city 45. One of two that makes a king?

47. Slung mud at 50. Live-forever plant 53. ___ ease (relieve one’s mind) 54. Pointlessly silly 55. Islam branch 57. Brother of your father 63. Beretta, for one 64. “Prove” prefix 65. Macrogametes 66. Cool number?

67. NYC winter clock setting

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Women's basketball takes memorable trip abroad

By Andrew Hattersley Sports Editor

After many hours in the classroom, the DePaul women’s basketball team set off for an 11-day this past summer trip through France and Italy to learn about the life and works of St. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac.

The trip was led by DePaul’s Secretary and Vice President for Mission and Ministry Father Ed Udovic and Assistant Director of Athletics Academic Advising Terri Sullivan, who assisted with the classroom portion of the course.

The trip had three priorities the team set out to achieve, the first of which was first education that not only focused on the Vincentian mission, but also included a trip to Normandy, the site of the D-Day invasion, and a trip to the Vatican in the latter part of the trip.

“The education level piece doesn't just include St Vincent,” DePaul head coach Doug Bruno said. “It also includes the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the team having to study and learn about the concept that the people who were sacrificing their lives that day on June 6, 1944 were the same age that they were.”

Bruno added that for his players to have the opportunity to walk the beaches, sit in the pillboxes and understand the soldiers sacrifice was a major part of the education aspect. Sophomore guard Jolene Daninger called the experience “breath-taking” as the players, coaches and family on the trip toured Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach.

“It is hard to put into perspective exactly what these young men and women went through,” Daninger said. “But amazing to learn.”

The players also spent time studying the history of Rome, the Roman Empire, and the Vatican. While student-athletes don’t always have the opportunity to study abroad, Bruno credited DePaul athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto with developing the idea to not only send players abroad, but also incorporate the Vincentian element.

“This is something I've very thankful to Jean Lenti Ponsetto for because the St. Vincent study connection is all Jeanne's,” Bruno said. “She came up with this 10 to

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DePaul's 11-day trip featured stops around Italy and France with an emphasis on learning more about St. Vince de Paul.

12 years ago that if we're going to send our teams to Europe let's have a constructive education piece about St Vincent and Louise de Marillac. So that piece is all Jeanne's, Father Ed Udovic I can't thank him enough.

Jeanne, Father and the Study Abroad Program…”

Bruno also thanked donors and other contributors for helping student-athletes to have the opportunity to take the week-anda-half-trip, while regular students may be able to take a semester or full year to study abroad.

With five new freshman, the trip also served as an opportunity for the players to bond. On the final day of the trip, senior forward Mart’e Grays reflected in a diary entry, filed by each player at the end each day, that the trip served as a tremendous opportunity for the team to come together.

“This has been a magnificent experience for my team, and for myself, this was once in a lifetime,” Grays said. “We are all very appreciative and grateful for the opportunity to come to Europe. Our trip has truly brought us together in so many ways---with the touring, the three games that we won, the countless amounts of UNO tournaments, the shopping and all the food we shared

together. It has been quite the adventure.”

Amidst all the travel, the team also played and won three games against opponents Bruno said were comparable to a Division 1 opponent.

“To be able to get the players on the floor and see how the freshman are going to assimilate to get this done in August and not November,” Bruno said. “[And] to get the 10 practices that the NCAA lets you have before you go over to Europe, these are all the benefits of the trip.”

Bruno said the trip was especially beneficial for the five freshmen who had the opportunity to use a little bit of trial-anderror to see what would work at this higher level.

“The biggest benefits for the freshmen are there certain things you can't do as a college player without experience, and it gave experience,” Bruno said. They got to get on the floor against a higher-level athlete than they're used to playing in high school, they got to test out their own games.

Even the best freshmen may have to tiptoe, putting their foot in the water and does the stuff that worked in high school, work now at the higher level.”

Bruno was also thrilled to see Daninger

and Dahlman back on the court, as well as, junior Dee Bekelja who started all three games.

“For Rebekah to get back on the floor,” Bruno said. “Get her more comfortable with how we play here at DePaul I think that was huge and Jolene it was great to see Jolene Daninger back on the floor because we recruited Jolene to play basketball and she had a very tough freshman year, was not physically able to play, so it was great to see her play.”

Although she did not miss last season due to injuries, Bruno was proud of the way Dee Bekelja performed starting all three games and scoring 29 points on the trip.

“She was a sophomore that didn't get a lot of minutes last year,” Bruno said. “But she stayed the course here and has worked very hard and there is a reason she was preseason freshman of the year last year even though she didn't get a lot of minutes on our last year’s team.”

After a week and half off back at home, the Blue Demons returned to work as they get get ready to open their season Nov. 9 against UW-Green Bay.

BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN MEN'S BASKETBALL This past week the DePaul men's basketball team announced its Big East conference schedule featuring game times and television assignments.

The Blue Demons begin conference play at Wintrust Arena against the Big East Regular Season Champion Xavier on Saturday December 29.

Every regular season game will be televised this season including 18 games on FS1. The Blue Demons can also be seen on other networks throughout the season.

After hosting Xavier for the opener, DePaul travels on January 2 to take on the National Champions the Villanova Wildcats. After taking on the Wildcats, DePaul returns home on January 6 to host Seaton Hall. On January 12 against St. John's, DePaul opens a strech on the road in four of five games with a home game in between that strech against Butler.

In February DePaul will play six Big East games with three at home and three on the road. DePaul will conclude conference play at Creighton on March 16 before beginning the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden from March 13-16

WOMEN'S SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

Before beginning conference play DePaul (4-2-2) traveled to Ohio to take on Bowling Green (1-3-2). In a well fought game both teams settled for a 1-1 draw.

During the first 77 minutes of the game there was nothing that seperated either team, until Falcons redshirt senior midfielder Erica Hubert put her team ahead with 12 minutes left in the match.

With less then three minutes left in the game DePaul were able to find an equalizer thanks to freshman midfielder Mary Tiereny, who headed the ball past goalkeeper's hands off the cross from sophomore forward Jade Eriksen-Russo sending the game into overtime.

While DePaul couldn't find a second goal in the overtime, it doesn't go without saying they were knocking on the door all game long. The Blue Demons outshot the Falcons 21-18 and shot on goals by margian of 14-5.

The Blue Demons then dropped their final nonconference game against Alabama Sunday afternoon after Alabama forward Emma Thomson put the Crimson Tide on top with just 13 minutes to play.

Both the men's and women's cross country teams comepeted in the 40th annual National Catholic Invitational on Friday afternoon. The men's team placed eight with a score 179, improving their score by 20 points from last season. On the women's side they finished ninth with a score of 222.

In an extremely competitive meet with 10 Division one institutions, including Notre Dame, Xavier and Creighton, senior Caroline Kurdej led the Blue Demons with a time of 18:44.88. Junior Courtney Pickering beat out St. Mary's Ellen Burbank for 48th place with a time of 19:47.15.

Newcomers freshman Maret Elgren, Emma Stephens and Erika Burgess finished with points of 46, 56 and 62.

With 228 other student-athletes from across the country, sophomore Charlie Mclyntrye finished with a time of 26:25.20.

Both the men's and women's team will have a week off before resuming action in the 41st Loyola Lakefront invite

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DePaul drops non-conference finale to UIC

By Cristhian Plasencia Staff Writer

In their last rehearsal before beginning conference play, the Blue Demons (3-3) fell to UIC 2-0, on Tuesday afternoon at Wish Field.

DePaul earned six corner kicks but couldn’t convert on their set pieces. After falling behind 1-0, Harry Hilling took back-to-back corners but three minutes after that senior forward Max Todd scored the Flames first goal.

“Going into the game, we knew UIC was really good on the transition,” Hilling said. “Unfortunately they caught us on a transition moment for the first goal.”

With two minutes left in the first half, UIC midfielder Jesus Perez positioned a corner kick towards the near post, finding fellow midfielder Peter Becht for header doubling the Flames’ lead.

The first half got physical with neither team having a sharp shape in their formation. DePaul committed eight fouls, while UIC committed five fouls. Brayden Callipari received a yellow card, nearly a minute shy from halftime. Hilling was proud of his teams efforted, but lamented their inability to find a goal.

“We took it to them in the second half, we came out and responded,” Hilling said.

“It was just unfortunate we couldn’t get the ball in the back of the net, but taking from it, the guys are learning to work hard.”

DePaul had a chance to pull within

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In their last rehearsal before beginning conference play, the Blue Demons (3-3) fell to UIC 2-0, on Tuesday afternoon at Wish Field. a goal 11 minutes into the second half, Jackman. He created another chance in the Hilling had a dangerous header on 70th minute when he crossed a corner kick goal saved by senior goalkeeper Sawyer to sophomore midfielder Istvan Wilhelms,

all three points, but it helped break a long winless streak against Providence and in Big East openers. In their seven During the first 15 minutes of double prior meetings, DePaul has never beaten overtime neither team created any goal Providence before Friday. They have had scoring opportunities as both teams some close calls with a couple of games struggled to keep possession of the ball. going to double overtime multiple times, However, with less than five minutes but it was Providence who had the Blue left, freshman midfielder Jake Fuderer Demons number up until Friday. Also, hooved a long ball onto to the running the win helped break a long winless freshman midfielder Jack Richards who drought streak in Big East openers. The headed the ball down to the sliding last time DePaul won a Big East opener Wilhelms. was in 2014.

The rest is “It’s so hard to history. get points in this “I can’t conference and describe how when you can get excited I am right three points against now, I feel like a a really good team champion right it gives us a lot of now,” Wilhelms confidence heading said. “Throughout forward,” Plotkin the entire overtime said.

I was thinking DePaul will have I just need one a non-conference chance that’s all I matchup against need. When the its inner-city rivals chance came I Loyola-Chicago rushed towards at Wish Field on the ball and was Tuesday 3 p.m. able to tap it in and When these two sometimes that’s rivals met last all you need to season at Loyola score.” they ended up Prior to drawing 2-2. Loyola DePaul Blue Demon took the lead in the b e g i n n i n g midfielder first half, but DePaul conference play, DePaul responded with two was predicted goals in the second to finish dead last in the conference half to take the lead with 15 minutes left in the preseason coaches’ poll, while to play. However, as the game continued Providence was predicted to finish tied to dwindle down the Ramblers found an for fourth in the Big East. equalizer with three minutes left in the “A big motivator for us was being game. picked to finish last in the Big East, DePaul will finish the week by everyone knew that in the back of their resuming conference play on Friday mind and we had something to say about when they travel to the nation's capital that today,” Hilling said. to take on Georgetown at 2 p.m.

Not only did this win give DePaul

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“I feel like a champion right now.

Throughout the entire overtime I was thinking I just need one chance that's all I need."

Istvan Wilhelms

but got his shot blocked.

UIC had a chance to make it 3-0 late in the game, but Drew Nuelle made an extended penalty kick save from Jesus Perez with a minute left.

DePaul kept stretching the Flames’ defense by playing overlaps on the left wing, pinning UIC’s fullbacks on their own half, but dominating possession early on made the Blue Demons vulnerable on defending counter attacks.

“I thought portions of the game we possessed the ball pretty well and created some good chances,” head coach Mark Plotkin said. “When you play a really good team, and you make a couple of mistakes: one off a set piece where they countered perfectly, and another defending on a corner kick, they are going capitalize on those mistakes.”

Besides seniors Hilling and Michael Mojarro, the Blue Demons have youth in their starting lineup, two freshmen starting alongside four sophomores. The Blue Demons finished 3-3 in non conference play, but Plotkin said after this defeat, his team will be motivated for their next match.

“For us, it’s just focusing on those little details, those moments of execution,” Plotkin said. “It shows that the whole 89 minutes can be good but if you make a couple mistakes in one minute, as we did today, you can lose a game.”

DePaul has now lost two straight meetings with UIC, after losing 3-2 in double overtime last season.

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Third time around, grad transfer lands at DePaul

By Lawrence Kreymer Asst. Sports Editor

Last week the DePaul men’s basketball team announced that graduate transfer Lyrik Shreiner will be joining the 20182019 roster. Shreiner will be eligible for two seasons after previously playing at TCU and Cal State Northridge.

“I thought this would be a great place to get better and to be apart of something special,” Shreiner said. “Lately DePaul hasn’t had too many successful seasons, but we are trying to right the ship and get better this season.”

Last season at Cal State Northridge Shreiner averaged 9.0 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.0 assists while playing all 30 games for the Matadors. Throughout his career he has mostly played as either a point guard or shooting guard. Shreiner joins an already jam-packed backcourt with nine other guards listed on the roster.

Shreiner has become accustomed to moving and getting adjusted to a new city and a new school. Prior to coming to Chicago Shreiner grew up in Virginia and Arizona where he went to two different high schools.

“Basketball is basketball,” Shreiner said.

“There isn’t much to adjust in terms of that and I’ve lived in different cities, so I have the experience with that also.”

The Phoenix native started garnering attention from colleges and scouts when he broke the Arizona high school state scoring record with 65 points. In college Shreiner has continued to show off the scoring prowess that made him well-known in Arizona. Last season in the Big West Conference play he tallied three doubledoubles and in the final game he scored 20 points with six rebounds and four assists.

The 6-foot-3-inch guard began to take basketball seriously once he began high school and received a pep talk from his AAU coach about making a life out of the sport if he worked hard.

“He [saw] me hooping,” Shreiner said. “[He] said this is what it takes to go to college and since then I have just been

FLYNN CAMERON, continued from back page enough to score the ball into double digits,” Cain said. “When we saw the triple-double, we were proud of him, but we weren’t really shocked because we know what he can do.

He shows it every time he plays with us.”

Cameron arrived on campus on Jan. 9, 2018. With 15 games remaining in the season, there were compelling arguments from both the crowd that wanted to redshirt him and from those who wanted him to play last season.

At that point, DePaul was 1-3 in the Big East with a .500 overall record and at least on paper still had a chance at a postseason tournament berth. Starting point guard Devin Gage had sustained a season-ending Achilles injury forcing Cain to play out of position to fill that void.

There was a need for a true point guard.

However, jumping in midseason on a new team at the position that commandeers the offense would have been a tall task for anybody. Plus, it would have been risky using Cameron for 15 games in a season where the Blue Demons didn’t seriously contend in the Big East or make a postseason tournament.

But another factor was ultimately most important when Cameron and head coach Dave Leitao made the decision to preserve

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Cal-State Northridge grad transfer Lyrik Shreiner arrived on campus for autumn quarter and has two years of eligibility remamining. trying to get better as much as I can.”

When Shreiner steps on the court this upcoming season, it will not be the first time he has played in a major conference.

Even though he saw limited playing time, Shreiner said his time at TCU in the Big 12 will help him adjust.

“I’ve been in those big time situations at Kansas where you can’t even talk to the guy next to you in the bench because it’s so loud in the stadium,” Shreiner said. “Being in those environments that will help me this season in the big games in the Big East.”

Not only is Shreiner excited to be at DePaul this season, but his new teammate Eli Cain is also thrilled with the addition of Shreiner. Cain believes Shreiner can help improve the team and make them stronger as a whole.

“Shreiner brings a lot of energy to the team,” Cain said. “He’s athletic and competitive, guard multiple positions and he’s very fast in transition. I think he will be

a lot of help this season.”

Cain also believes that with Shreiner being so experienced and has been around for awhile now that there won’t be any problem fitting Shreiner into the team. Also, Cain feels that Shreiner will help the team grow in multiple aspects, not just scoring, and will bring the necessary leadership to a young and developing squad.

“He’s not just a scorer,” Cain said. “Yes he can put the ball in the hole, but he’s also ’s a very versatile player who can play multiple positions. Having another veteran player who knows right from wrong and knows what to do in tough situations will be a great asset for us.”

Just like any other player, Shreiner believes he can still improve his game in certain areas and raise his numbers from the previous season. Being such an explosive scorer in high school and college, Shreiner wants to improve in other areas as well and thinks DePaul can help him do

“[Cameron] came in the middle of last season, and we just kind of threw him into practice on the scout team and just kind of got lost a little bit in his own game.

Max Strus

DePaul Blue Demon guard his eligibility and take the redshirt last season.

“I was thinking I was going to play, but when I came here it came sort of a to be determined decision,” Cameron said.

“It was whether I was confident. Really I wasn’t that confident in myself when I got here because I had so much going on with moving into my classes, getting a feeling for the school, and [acclimating to] the basketball team. So really the redshirt was my best option.”

His teammates agree with the diagnosis.

“I think he’s got his confidence back,” Cameron’s teammate Max Strus said. “He came in the middle of last season, and we

just kind of threw him into practice on the scout team and he just kind of got lost a little bit in his own game. I think going back home really helped him out, going to play where he is comfortable, and just gaining his confidence back playing his own game.

He’s been really good just playing point guard and getting everybody involved, scoring at his own pace, and playing at his own pace. He’s been very good since he came back [from FIBA].”

Billed as a pass first point guard with quick hands on the defensive end of the floor coming into DePaul, the redshirt year allowed Cameron to further develop the skillset he showcased in his box-score

that.

“I want to become a more consistent shooter, right now I’m a little bit streaky in that department so I want to become more consistent there,” Shreiner said. “Also, I want to be a more efficient player, shoot better from the free throw line and just raise my overall numbers this season.”

Head coach Dave Leitao was unavailable for comment this week due to being away for travel. However, last week he had this to say regarding the transfer of Shreiner.

“We are really happy to add Lyrik to our team at this stage of the preseason," Leitao said. “He has experience playing college basketball over his two seasons at TCU and Cal State Northridge and provides us added depth in our backcourt. Lyrik is a highlevel player in the offensive end of the floor and possesses a high basketball IQ that can help every day in practice and during the season when we open our schedule.”

stuffing performances at the FIBA U18 Asian Championships. As he mentioned, it also allowed him to develop enough selfconfidence to compete at the Division I level.

Sharing a position with the veteran Devin Gage has also helped Cameron add new skills to his toolbox, particularly the skill of playing in the relatively fast offense that coach Leitao prefers to run (Blue Demons were 89th out of 351 teams in adjusted tempo per KenPom.com).

“What I’ve learned from him is pace,” Cameron said about Gage. “He sets the tone at trainings [practices]. He sets the tone when we play open gym. I feel like if I can guard him coming down on the fast break, I can guard anyone. He said he was going to teach me a couple more tricks he has up his sleeve, so I look forward to that.”

Cameron wouldn’t spill whether he or Gage would start for Leitao at point guard next season. Although he’d like to start, it wouldn’t be the end of the world for Cameron if he didn’t if it helped the team reach the one goal that stands above his development into a complete point guard in terms of importance.

“I want to win. I think we’re going to. How many games do we play in conference?”

Um 18. Wait 16, yeah 16....no it’s 18 (18 is the correct number).

“I want to go 18-0.”

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Wilhelms to the

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DePaul midfielder Istvan Wilhelms battles Providence defender Malcolm Duncan during DePaul’s 2-1 overtime win over Providence.

DePauls opens conference with double OT victory

By Lawrence Kreymer Asst. Sports Editor

In the 35th edition of Big East soccer, DePaul kicked of conference play with a dramatic 2-1 win over Providence in double overtime.

For the second straight season these conference rivals met in the Big East opener and just like last season double overtime was needed to find a winner. However, unlike last season when both teams settled for a draw, the Blue Demons were able to find a winner this time around.

“It was an awesome performance by the players,” first-year head coach Mark

Plotkin said. “Scoring early on set the tone for the rest of the game, I thought we kind of dropped off a little bit in the game trying to hold on to the lead to much. But [Providence] is an awesome team and for our guys to put one away in overtime is great and I couldn’t be anymore happier for the guys.”

DePaul didn’t create many scoring opportunities after going up 1-0 less than five minutes into the game, but they relied on the scoring services of sophomore midfielder Istvan Wilhelms who bagged his first brace of the season.

Wilhelms gave DePaul the lead early on after senior captain Harry Hilling played

in a through ball to Wilhelms, the Fryers goalie came out to get the ball, but he couldn’t hold onto the ball and that allowed Wilhelms in for an easy finish.

“Getting the result at home against a great Providence team is exciting and we are looking forward to our next Big East game,” Hilling said. “This win is a great stepping stone for us, we still have a lot to work on but this give us confidence going into the next game.”

After Wilhelms gave DePaul the early lead, Providence responded by keeping most of the possession throughout the first half, but never generated any shots on goal in the first half. In fact, even though they

outshout DePaul 13-8, the Fryers had five less shots on goal than DePaul (6-1).

Providence was able to find the back of the net with their one shot on goal in the 51st minute when Providence junior midfielder Tiago Mendonca put away a rebound in the bottom corner. DePaul had a couple of chances to score in the second half, but were never able to create anything too dangerous.

“We had to take it play-by-play, stepby-step and wait to get our opportunities, but once we got that one chance we were able to put it away,” Wilhelms said.

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Cameron returns with new sense of confidence

By Paul Steeno Senior Basketball Writer

DePaul redshirt freshman basketball player Flynn Cameron wants to become a complete point guard.

Via an 11.3 point, 6.0 rebound, and 5.6 assist per game effort at the FIBA U18 Championships Aug. 5 to Aug. 11 in Thailand that included a 19 point, 12 assist, 10 rebound triple-double in a semifinal game against China, Cameron showed that that goal is realistic.

But there’s still one facet of his game that sticks out as a weakness.

“The first couple of trainings [practices] my shot was good, but there was one little weakness to it,” the 6-foot-3-inch, lefty point guard said in an interview Friday.

“Because I shoot from the right side of my body and shoot it across my body, defenders would just sit on the right side and it just became an easy scout. As soon as they came to my right side, I couldn’t shoot. That was just an option taken away from me. I just worked probably since March on that. A lot of work has gone into

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In the semi finals of the FIBA U18 Championships, Cameron had a triple double against China with 19 points, 12 assist and 10 rebounds. my jump shot. There’s still adjustments to be made, but I think I’ve become a much better shooter.”

At the FIBA U18 Championships, Cameron showed why his jump shot is

still a work in progress, shooting 27.3 percent from behind the 3-point line and 44 percent overall. The good news? At least in international competition, his 3-point shooting has incrementally improved. He

shot 18.2 percent from 3-point land at the 2016 FIBA U18 Oceania Championships and 12.5 percent at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup. All the hours spent in the gym have finally begun to pay dividends.

“He wasn’t the best shooter and he knew that so everyday he’d be in the gym putting up shots,” senior teammate Eli Cain said about his redshirt freshman teammate.

“He knew what his weakness was and he’s always getting better. I feel like how well he played at FIBA was a testament to his hard work and everything he does when nobody else is watching. So it wasn’t a surprise to most of us.”

DePaul fans hope that his box-score stuffing magic at FIBA was a preview of what will happen when Cameron dons the Blue Demon red and blue for the first time next season. If that’s what ends up happening, it won’t surprise his teammates.

“He’s going to go after every rebound, he’s going to play as hard as he can, we know he can pass the ball, and he’s talented

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