Vol. # 97, Issue # 20
| April 15, 2013
Facebook profiles seeing red By MEGAN DEPPEN Staff Writer
Students on spring break typically update their profile photo with photos from a Florida beach, but not this year. Instead, Facebook news feeds were flooded with a sea of red. The first day of Supreme Court hearings for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on March 26 inspired a Facebook movement in support of marriage equality. The first day of arguments questioned the constitutionality of the California Marriage Protection Act (Prop 8),
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SGA vice president Casey Clemmons directs students with Illinois lobbyist Peter Coffey as they protest cuts to the MAP grant.
“There’s never enough money” Students visit Springfield to fight for state financial aid
By KEVIN GROSS Staff Writer followed by the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on March 27. Participants chose to change their Facebook profile photos to a pink equal sign on a red background in support of the acts. Overnight, many Facebook users changed their profile photos to the equal sign, many adding their own twist to the sign. Popular online characters such as Grumpy Cat were incorporated into many photos, called logo memes. Unicorns, bacon, corgis, kittens, beer cans, tacos, and hearts were also some of the images substituted for the equal signs on a red background. According to the Supreme Court of the United States Blog, the issue at stake in Prop. 8 is whether a clause in an amendment of the Constitution prohibits the State of California from defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman. The other case questions whether DOMA violates the See EQUAL, page 14
For more on marriage equality... See Opinions, page 12
DePaul’s Student Government Association (SGA) brought a group of about 40 students to
the State Capitol in Springfield April 10 to lobby against the potential cut to the Monetary Award Program (MAP) Grant. As of now, there are two budget possibilities in the Illinois legislature. One is a plan devised by Gov. Pat Quinn that would
prevent further cuts to the MAP grant. The other is a to-bespecified plan that would most likely involve multiple cuts to be devised by the general assembly. In order to persuade lawmakers to support Quinn’s budget, students went door to
door to leave parcels at the office of each state legislator and senator. Each parcel contained a letter and resolution from the SGA that highlighted the longterm economic importance of See MAP, page 7
Cinema program goes Hollywood with new studio By GRANT MYATT Design Editor While touring Cinespace Chicago last March, DePaul professor Matthew Irvine marveled at the facilities. A stage was the final piece to complete his vision of a fully functioning film and television studio. Fast-forward through a year of negotiations and the deal is signed. DePaul University’s School of Cinema and Interactive Media announced a partnership with Cinespace Chicago April 8, providing an exclusive cinema production space offering hands-on learning opportunities for students. “There’s no other film program like this,”
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Matthew Irvine (above) secured DePaul’s partnership with Cinespace Chicago. The studio space is located at 2621 W. 15th Place in the North Lawndale neighborhood. said Irvine, director of the School of Cinema and Interactive Media. “It’s going to be a oneof-a-kind opportunity for students to work shoulder-to-shoulder with industry professionals who are working on current productions.” NBC’s “Chicago Fire” currently films at Cinespace just doors down from DePaul’s
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stage. Located in North Lawndale, the facility will span 1.5 million square feet when completed, projecting it as the largest studio in the U.S. outside of Hollywood. Irvine said he hopes this partnership will See CINESPACE, page 6
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