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Vol. # 94, Issue # 21

May 9, 2011

DREAM passes first hurdle

Editorial

Bin Laden’s death marks end of era, call to humanity

By NIC CABLE

cate for the DREAM Act. Downstairs on the first floor of the capitol, a mariachi band played a celebratory song to a surrounding crowd that followed by chanting, “Si se puedo!”

While awaiting the senate vote in the gallery, DREAM Act supporters received news that Governor Quinn opted Illinois out of Secure Communities, a deportation program that relies on cooperation between law enforcement agencies and operates under the management of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Illinois is the first state to opt out of the program.

Delgado, a champion of the Illinois DREAM Act, said after the vote, “The significance is that Illinois is finally listening and that

Late at night on Sunday, May 1, a text message notified me to turn on the news, if I wasn’t already watching it. So, I did. In bold type, which I assume Photo courtesy of the many will never Associated Press forget, the headOsama Bin Laden line read, “Bin Laden is Dead.”

I froze, took a double take, and then it hit me: an era was over. This era was the narrative of terrorism as symbolized through the face of Osama bin Laden throughout the past couple decades. My immediate feeling was disbelief, and then it rushed over me; the memory of my seventh grade social studies class with Ms. Goodwin watching the news with my fellows students; the memory of sitting on my neighbor’s stoop that night over a lit candle, asking the hard questions and thinking about the even more difficult answers to the days events; memories of war and death followed, hitting me in the face with blood and screams of agony; all of these memories washed over me like an ice cold shower of suppressed pain.

However, what was worse than that immediate reflection to that headline was a new memory that will haunt me even more for the rest of my life. Cheers, celebration and singing were the reactions

by Americans as the news broke of bin

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Photo by Joe Ruppel

DREAM Act supporters celebrate outside the senate chamber after the DREAM Act passed with bipartisan support, 45-11.

By JOE RUPPEL A warning from the senate gallery doorkeeper to hold applause couldn’t stop DREAM Act supporters from a rowdy gallery ovation as SB 2185 passed the Illinois Senate Wednesday. Almost 500 DREAM Act advocates travelled from Chicago to Springfield to show their support for the bill and witness the vote on May 4.

Senators who fought for the bill left their seats and hugged one another after the bill passed with bipartisan support, 45 to 11 with three no-votes. Senator William Delgado blew a kiss to the supporters in the gallery, that included DePaul students Ross Richmond and Claudia Guzman, who travelled to Springfield to advo-

Concealed carry bill shot down in Illinois House

By TIFFANY BONCAN

The Illinois House of Representatives rejected the concealed carry bill on Thursday, although a House committee passed the bill on Tuesday. It only received 65 of the 71 votes it needed to pass. Thirty-two lawmakers voted against it.

Had this bill become a law, it would have allowed Illinois residents to carry weapons on or near their person out of plain sight, provided they have secured a Concealed Carry Weapons permit and have gone through proper training.

Supporters of this bill remind the opposition that it is an American’s constitutional right to bear arms. Illinois is one of the last states to possibly grant that right, as far as it pertains to concealed carry, to its citizens. Every other state, except Wisconsin, permits its residents to carry weapons, or have may-issue policies, where applicants must go though a long process to carry a firearm.

What does this mean for DePaul students?

DePaul safety policies state students may not carry weapons on campus. But by attending university in the heart of this city, students would have been among people who may be carrying concealed weapons, had this bill passed.

Students voiced opinions both for and against concealed carry.

Graham Gilreath, a DePaul sophomore and Student Life worker, said that if this law were carried out correctly and safely, the possession of concealed weapons could add to the overall protection of the population.

Students involved in school shootings like what happened at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University have said that if they had been armed, they would have shot back, and protected themselves. They could have added to the protection of the university population.

“I think people can and will be responsible in most cases,” Laura Jo Clanton, a DePaul graduate student, said.

“But they should be tested regularly for the judgment, ability, and stability.”

She believes that everyone should be legally allowed to carry a gun, if they pass the proper licensing tests, training, and are mentally and emotionally capable of owning a weapon and using it solely for protection. Clanton also suggested it would be a good idea for owners to be retested every year.

Life-long Chicago resident and DePaul graduate student

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Rhonda Alexander wholeheartedly disagrees with the passing of this bill.

“It’s a recipe for disaster,” Alexander said.

She explained that the news is so filled with reports of violence resulting in serious injury, stemming from trivial

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The Lincoln Park quad was lined with flags in honor of Holocaust Rememberance Day on Sunday, May 1. The different colored flags were used to represent groups of Holocaust victims.

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Man killed near Loop campus

By RYAN HAGGERTY and LIAM FORD Chicago Tribune A man was shot to death during an apparent robbery in a convenience store he ran at Wabash Avenue and Jackson Street for more than 20 years, police and relatives said.

A co-worker found Edward Jernagin, 57, in a back office of Wabash Food and Liquors in the 200 block of South Wabash Avenue at about 8 a.m., according to relatives and police.

Jernagin was shot in the back of the head, police said. A source said the store safe was open and at least one casing was found on the scene.

The store's front door was locked when the co-worker arrived this morning, according to Lt. Denis Walsh, an Area 3 homicide detective.

"We're at the infancy of this investigation," he said.

Walsh said the store usually opens around 7 or 8 a.m. and usually closes around 9 p.m. He said a security guard is usually in the store while it is open.

"He was the best," the victim's brother, George Miles, said through tears just minutes after Jernagin's body was removed from the store on a stretcher. "He loved everybody."

Miles said his brother never encountered serious trouble at the store.

"He did not deserve this," Miles said. "He gave with his heart. He gave to everybody. He didn't have a hating bone in his body."

Clarence Shearer said he was in a nearby Starbucks when he heard sirens and came outside, where he saw police outside the store.

Shearer, 42, said he had been in the store a handful of times.

"I thought maybe it was just a robbery until I got out here and started hearing stories, and, you know, it just doesn't look very good at this point," he said.

Photo by Elizabeth Schuetz

On Friday morning, Chicago Police found a man shot to death at Wabash Food and Liquors, 234 S. Wabash Ave. Clusters of people have gathered along Wabash since police arrived, speculating about what happened and watching forensics investigators come and go from the store.

Brian Hecht, 36, an attorney who works down the street from the store, said the store serves a mix of DePaul students, people who work in the area and homeless people.

Hecht said the employee he usually saw in the store is a "real nice guy, a real low-key guy."

"He seemed to treat everybody the same," said Hecht, who did not know if the employee he was describing was the person who was found dead.

Several people said a security guard was usually inside the store when it was open.

can be a microcosm for the rest of really, really proud that we were the country.” able to show up, show our voice “In Illinois we’re trying to show and put pressure on the senators leadership and make sure the to make the right decision. It was DREAM Act becomes a federal an incredible effort between the reality, but it has to start local,” coalition of organizers and the Delgado said. champions of the bill in the senThe bill will now move onto the ate.” Richmond helped assemble Illinois House, where a vote could nearly fifty DePaul students for happen in the next four weeks. an ICIRR organized DREAM Act Before the vote, Stephen Smith, rally Saturday April 30. director of organizing for the IlliGuzman channeled the thoughts nois Coalition for Immigrant and of many supporters, saying, “I’m Refugee Rights said the bill is happy the bill passed, but I ac“about whether the Illinois State knowledge that it’s a small step. government is going to recognize It’s a small victory and its not these kids as human beings.” over yet,” Guzman said. Guz“For many of our students, two man says the DREAM Act would things keeping them out of educabe a great financial benefit to two tion are bad information and no friends she has who are in colmoney and the bill solves both,” lege, are undocumented and have Smith said. lived in the U.S. since they were Photo by Joe Ruppel children.

The Illinois DREAM Act would create private scholarships and Illinois Senator William Delgado, a champion of the DREAM Act, shakes hands “This is the first step in the right open up other financial opportudirection. There’s a real long way with supporters after the bill passed the senate. The bill will move onto the nities for undocumented students to go, but its very exciting,” Alaa and encourage high school coun- House and will possibly be voted on in three to four weeks.

Mukahhal, an organizer of the selors to be trained in educationImmigrant Youth Justice League, elled to Springfield, the day began with an voted on Wednesday, but was pushed back. al opportunities for immigrant said. youth. Enabling undocumented students IRICC organized rally inside the capitol. As of press deadline, the Smart Enforce“At this point, yes it is incremental and to obtain drivers’ licenses was included in Smith started the rally by laying out the ment Act had not been voted on. people are going to criticize it, and let us be Throughout the day, supporters, including very clear, we are incremental. We don’t the bill, but negotiations in the senate re- objectives of the IRICC One Nation One Dream campaign. The components of the students from DePaul, UIC, Northwestern, want to try to eat this pizza all at once, moved it.

The DREAM Act was originally federal campaign are the Illinois DREAM Act, the University of Chicago and many other or- we’ll take it slice by slice, let’s start with legislation, first introduced in 2001 and Smart Enforcement Act, legislative map- ganizations, visited senators’ offices and the kids,” Senator Delgado said. most recently defeated last December. The ping that better represents Latino popula- lobbied for the DREAM Act. DePaul stuMayra Quiroa, who works with Mujeres federal version would enable undocument- tions and a state budget that provides more dents Ross Richmond and Claudia Guzman Latinas En Accion, an organization that travelled to the capitol Wednesday and wit- promotes leadership in the Latina commued students to earn legal status by earning funding for immigrant services.

The Smart Enforcement Act, a piece of nessed the vote after lobbying throughout nity, said the best part of the day was “bea two or four year degree from a higher legislation that would ensure tax payer the afternoon. education institution, or by serving in the ing present for the vote with all the people dollars are not being spent to deport nonRoss Richmond, DePaul Student Gov- that haven’t given up hope.” military for two years.

For the near 500 supporters that trav- criminal immigrants, was scheduled to be ernment Association President said, “I felt

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So long Chicago Mayor Daley meets with city council for the last time

By PAIGE WAGENKNECHT one has demonstrated the wisdom and ANGELIKA LAZARICIU of that adage more than Mayor Richard M. Daley stood before city council for the last time on May 4. Council members honored Daley and reflected on his 22 years of serving as Mayor of Chicago.

All 50 aldermen delivered a speech reminiscing on Daley's time in office, making the event something between a roast and a retirement party.

"Many occupants of this century-old building [City Hall] leave voluntarily," said 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke. "Even fewer leave without defeat at the ballot box."

Burke applauded Daley for establishing his own road to leadership and success instead of taking refuge in the accomplishments and career of his father, former Mayor Richard J. Daley.

"There is an old Irish saying which goes as follows: you have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was," said Burke.

"And for the past 22 years, no

Richard M. Daley.

"We believe that since April 24, 1989, when many of us gathered on the stage at the Symphony Center, you have provided each of us with a dramatic and powerful demonstration of your commitment to serve this city…You've been fair, you've been strong, and you've been effective; an expression of modern, urban, mayoral leadership."

Under his leadership, more than 85 miles of landscaped medians were construced and the planting of more than 600,000 trees were required to meet energysaving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. New public buildings, including schools and police stations, were also added to the city.

Ald. Bernard Stone, 50th, pointed out the transformation of a once "gritty and dirty" city under Daley's leadership.

"You proved your love by changing the face of this city," he said.

One of Daley's greatest triumphs was the building of Millennium

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Mayor Richard M. Daley laughs as he presides over his final City Council meeting on Wednesday, May 4 in Chicago.

Park, which turned an eyesore of exposed commuter rail lines at the foot of Michigan Avenue into a showcase of contemporary art and architecture.

As a token of their appreciation, city council members presented Daley with a crystal bowl, engraved with the city seal, his years in service, and the names of the 129 council members that have served during Daley's term.

Choking back tears, Daley stood tall to a somber crowd and said

“Gay May ”

Photo by Kerri Czopek

This May is the 4th Annual LGBTQA Month at DePaul. Commemorative rainbow ribbons can be found around campus in support of the LGBTQA community.

that he has enjoyed every minute of public life.

"Public service is a great calling and a great profession," said Daley. "When I raised my hand to take the oath as mayor for this city, I had a firm belief that this city was going to work together."

Daley thanked the city council members for their hard work and commitment in moving the city forward, which he called a city of immigrants.

"We are founded by immi-

grants," he said. "And immigrants always work together and I always believed that no matter what people said politically ... I always believed we could move forward.

We had one common goal, [doing] what is good for the city."

The mayor bid farewell to the familiar City Hall, and officially leaves office on May 16, as his successor Rahm Emanuel is sworn into office, establishing new leadership in Chicago in over two decades.

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Wiz Khalifa, Chromeo to play FEST

By KERRI CZOPEK DePaul students packed into the Student Center on May 4th, waiting to hear who the opener and headliner for FEST 2011 will be. The DePaul University music festival will be held in the quad on May 27th and has been brought to us by DAB. The big reveal kicked off with a reel from the cinematography club, followed

by Battle of the Bands winner D.K., who was awarded $1,000. After the winners claimed their prize, anticipation for the unveiling of the main musicians for FEST grew. Out of many possible bands Chromeo was announced as the opener.

The crowd applauded in approval and excitement for the opening band.

Chromeo is an electro funk band from Canada. The two members Patrick Gemayel (P-Thugg) and David Macklovitch (Dave 1) have released three albums the most current being “Business Casual in 2010.”

Next the headliner was to be announced.

Three students were asked to come to the front, where boards had been set up. Each student received a manila envelope with letters in it, which would spell out the name of the artist headlining. The three volunteers fumbled over the letters trying to put them together as fast as possible.

With about three letters up the crowed let out a huge cheer, realizing the headliner for FEST 2011 will be Wiz Khalifa!

Wiz Khalifa is a Pittsburg, Penn., born rapper, who has become increasingly popular across the US. He has released three studio albums; the most recent album was “Rolling Papers” (2011). He has a vast tour scheduled for upcoming months and will be performing at many festivals this summer, including FEST. Tickets for FEST go on sale May 16th and unfortunately there will be a limited number. Be sure to pick one up before they sell out.

Photo by Kerri Czopek

Anip Patel cheered with other students as DAB announced Wiz Khalifa (below) as the headlining act and Chromeo as the opener of 2011 on Wednesday, May 4 in the Lincoln Park Student Center.

So we were wrong... and that's OK

By CHERYL WAITY, Editor-In-Chief, school in the second city even better. We and BLAIR MORAN, Managing Editor don’t even know if we would be second We are so happy we’re not playing a big game of follow the leader with Northwestern. Granted, we would have liked to make the bet that we would have B.o.B just like Dillo day for FEST and won a whole bunch of money, but we like not being considered the second Photo courtesy of MCT WIRE Service

Green scene

By COURTNEY STURGEON 25 years, according to the UniverWhat do Harvard, UCLA and DePaul University have in common? All three are among the greenest in the nation. DePaul has been named to the Princeton Review’s Guide to 311 Green Colleges for the second year in a row.

James Montgomery is an Environmental Science professor and co-chair of DePaul’s Sustainability Initiatives Task Force. He researches wetland science and takes part in wetland restoration and mitigation issues. Montgomery was consulted on some of the school’s building projects in an effort to make the newest buildings on campus more environmentally friendly.

“I’m part of a group of faculty and staff who are very passionate about making DePaul more sustainable,” said Montgomery.

“We’re also promoting and developing a sustainable learning environment in our mission and values, our urban, catholic and Vincentian values.”

DePaul has been actively involved in recycling for more than

considering UofC which would then make us, like, the third school in the second city which we like even LESS. So for now lets be happy that DAB has broken the mold of our past FESTs, that FEST is not Dillo Day and that Wiz Khalifa and Chromeo will be playing in our quad on May 26, 2011.

sity’s website. On average, the college recycles 70 to 80 tons of material per month. More recently, water bottle refill stations and numerous battery and cell phone recycling collection points have been established across campus to help reduce toxic waste.

“The college is trying to find things that they can do better,” said graduate student, Tim McGinty. “You can see that they’re trying around campus.”

There are many opportunities for students to get involved in DePaul’s conservation efforts like attending one of the many educational events held throughout the year by student run organizations like the Environmental Concerns Committee or the American Indian Voices for the Environment.

One of the major reasons Junior Tara Chavez chose to attend DePaul was for its “excellent” Biology department and green initiatives.”

“I remember when I came for orientation, I bumped into the college President and he was saying how he plans on making every building green,” said Chavez.

University recognized for sustainability

by Princeton Review for second time

“I love that we’re so environmentally conscious and actually doing something about it.”

The biology major has many classes in the Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Science Building, which is LEED Gold Certified.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, was developed in March of 2000 as a green building certification system, according to the United States Green Building Council.

Buildings that are LEED certified use green design, construction and operation solutions to create a sustainable structure.

The McGowan building was recognized in the Princeton Review Guide for implementing green technologies in its structure such as solar panels, motion-sensor sinks, hand-dryers and lights and a rooftop garden.

The University also promotes sustainability through transportation initiatives such as the I-Go car sharing service, participation in the CTA’s U-Pass Program and increasing the number of bike parking spaces to just under 1,000, according to DePaul’s website. Public Safety has also

added hybrid-vehicles to its fleet.

According to www.publictransportation.org, “If an individual switches a 20-mile roundtrip commute to public transportation, his or her annual CO2 emissions will decrease by 4,800 pounds per year.”

“Once I got my U-Pass from DePaul, I started using public transit a lot more,” said Junior, Ryan Currie. “It saves me a lot of money and I’m not wasting gas or polluting.”

The announcement of DePaul making the Princeton Review list, coincided with the launch of the school’s “Sustainability Initiatives Task Force” website. The site offers information on how to be environmentally friendly, green initiatives on campus, and environmentally focused academic programs. According to the website, the school plans to “install highly reflective surfaces on the roofs on new buildings, introduce native vegetation that require no irrigation and install building automation systems that will help to improve efficiencies of operation.” The college recently spent $50,000 to add more

recycling containers to its buildings.

There is no need to travel far from the city to escape the concrete jungle; just an el stop away is one of the greenest campuses in the nation. DePaul has taken major steps to “go green” to avoid leaving a carbon footprint.

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Professor ranks high in classroom and online

By KATHERINE HALL DePaul Philosophy students have spoken (or, rather, posted), and RateMyProfessors. com has listened.

Dr. H. Peter Steeves, professor of philosophy for DePaul University, was ranked 14th among RateMyProfessors.com “Top 25” educators in the country, according to the student reviews generated on their site.

He is the first DePaul University professor to make this list The nominations, published annually along with a list of the top 25 universities and colleges, is based on the scores given to professors by students in several categories: Helpfulness, Clarity, Easiness, and Overall Quality.

According to their website. Students use it to review past educators, as well as to help them plan future classes, and the site boasts a list of institutions that stretches from the U.S. and Canada all the way to England, Scotland, and Wales.

Steeves' reviews by former students were consistently positive, extolling the professor's “quirky” sense of humor and, perhaps most importantly, his knowledge and passion for his field. “(He's)The most intelligent prof you will ever meet,” one reviewer wrote.

“Maybe the best teacher I've ever had!”

said another.

Students listed Steeves' clear and accessible teaching style as a big factor, with one relieved reviewer saying: “I couldn't have learned more, and he actually made it make sense! Unbelievable.”

In his office on the Lincoln Park Campus, Steeves was thoughtful when asked what made his classes so effective.

“Different things work for different people,” he said. “You learn from past professors...you have to find a way to take the abstract and make it accessible. That requires making it interesting.”

It also requires dedication. Steeves explained the time that he puts into creating a new class, sometimes starting a year in advance, accumulating readings and creating lectures.

His objective: to help students internalize what he calls "the big questions"-about life, about beauty, about self-while maintaining a standard of academic rigor.

“I want to make sure we focus on those core questions,” Steeves said. “(And) find a way to talk about it in a down to earth way...sometimes we use metaphors, analogies, exercises.”

And not exercises of the "fill in the blank" variety, either. Steeves regularly puts together events and includes the students in their development and production. In

February 2010, Steeves and his students put on “The Mourning Show,” a production about the nature of death and grieving. The students were instrumental in the development and production of the event, both behind the scenes and as speakers and musicians. Steeves calls it his version of DePaul's mission “learning by doing.”

DePaul's Philosophy Department Chair, Michael Naas, called the nomination a “remarkable achievement” in a statement emailed to the department and philosophy students after the rankings were announced.

“We were delighted, but not completely surprised,” Naas added later, when asked about the nomination. “Professor Steeves' courses...are already legendary among DePaul students for being rigorous, engaging, inventive and always entertaining.”

Steeves is grateful for the nomination, and humbled that his students took their positive reviews to RateMyProfessors. com, but adds that he hopes the nomination will serve a bigger picture as well, one which encompasses all educators.

“In general, we (professors) all work hard,” Steeves said. “I would be most satisfied if this was a general reminder that people...take it seriously.”

“It's not just a job; it's more, being a teacher and an educator....I couldn't do this

Photo courtesy of Dr. H. Peter Steeves

Dr. H. Peter Steeves was ranked in RateMyProfessors.com “Top 25” educators in the country. job without other professors, without the students who receive the knowledge. It is... part of a larger community.”

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Must Do's

Four years at DePaul aren't complete without making sure you fit these into your schedule

By JENN SCHANZ

FEST

An academic career at DePaul is filled with many things. From new student convocation through graduation and commencement, students who choose DePaul choose a four-year journey packed with unique academic, professional, and personal learning experiences hand crafted by Vinny D. himself. Sure, some college traditions are the same across the board; partying, studying, loads of ramen noodles, $1 beers, cramming for finals, little sleep and even less cash, but the following traditions are ones only Blue Demons hold claim to.

Vincentian Service Day What better way to illustrate DePaul’s Vincentian heritage than through giving back to the community, a practice Blue Demons have long prided themselves on.

While service learning is a yearround tradition for DePaul,

Vincentian Service Day is an annual event where students join faculty, staff, alumni and community partners for a day of service around Chicago, followed by a picnic in the Quad. According to junior Kaitlyn Willison, Vincentian Service Day demonstrates that even the smallest acts of service can make a difference. “Service learning at DePaul has been one of my most beneficial College experiences,” she says.

Moving off campus

Once a year, the DePaul Activities Board (DAB) organizes what has become known as Lincoln Park’s Lollapalooza by turning DePaul’s Quad into an all out concert venue. Past performors include Jason Mraz, Twista, Ingrid Michaelson, N.E.R.D, Ludacris, and Hellogoodbye, to name a few. Junior Courtney Muir says regardless of who’s on stage, FEST is the sweetest way to end the school year and kick off summer. “It’s such a great atmosphere to have an entire student body letting loose on the quad after a long academic year. I know summer is here when people start talking FEST lineup.”

What’s her fantasy FEST lineup?

“Rusko or something electronic, it’s something I don’t think we’ve experienced at FEST before, and it’s a cool genre of music that appeals to a lot of college kids.”

$2 Midnight Breakfast

Unlike many state schools, fraternity and sorority houses aren’t the staple next step for living quarters after freshman year. For DePaul students who aren’t commuters, a popular choice after dorming it freshman year is to find an apartment in the city. “Moving off campus is a way to experience living in different Chicago neighborhoods,” says junior Emily Martinez, who has lived in an off campus apartment every year since her University Graphics courtesy of Sam Schroeder Hall days as a freshman student.

Nothing is cheerful about finals…except getting bacon, eggs, and pancakes for chump change while you’re hitting the books.

During finals, DePaul’s Lincoln Park Student Center hosts a “$2 Midnight Breakfast” so that the stampede of sleep deprived, cash limited, hungry studiers can fuel up in the middle of the night, for only eight quarters! Junior Bryant Encarnado sees food bribing as an effective method of motivation.

“Finals suck the life out of me. Every last bit. But when someone tells me that I can get breakfast, time with my friends, and a short break from my studying for cheap, I feel like there’s a reason to study.”

Campus crime report: April 26-May 3 LOOP CAMPUS April 27 • A messenger bag was taken from DePaul Center. The bag contained an ASUS laptop.

April 27 •A Public Safety officer observed a subject who was acting suspicious. Later it was found the subject had stolen items from one of the construction sites. Subject was arrested.

April 28 • A criminal trespass to land warning was given to a person harassing students.

•A hate incident occurred at the Richardson Library. In one of the restrooms of the building an offensive phrase was etched in one of the restrooms of the building.

May 3 • A criminal trespass to land warning was given to a subject who was harassing people.

•Graffiti was found on the alley side of the 1150 W. Fullerton building.

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS April 26 •A suspicious letter was found in Byrne Hall, and turned over to Public Safety.

• A staff member placed items in a refrigerator at 2352 Clifton, and when she returned they were missing.

April 28 •Graffiti was found in the Levan/O’Connell buildings. Facility was notified to remove the damage.

•A student was victim to an armed robbery off campus at Seminary and Webster. Student was unharmed, and reported incident to DePaul Public Safety and Chicago Police.

•A student reported to Lincoln Park Public

Safety that their wallet was taken from the CDM building 1st floor.

April 29 •A criminal trespass warning was given to a subject asking students and staff for money.

• A computer was taken from 990 W. Fullerton Ave. April 30 •Public Safety was called for a suspicion of marijuana at Sanctuary Townhome. No drugs were found.

•An unattended laptop was taken from the 3rd floor of Richardson Library.

May 1 •A leak in the ceiling at Student Center, caused damage to room 125B. May 3 • A computer was taken from 990 W. Fullerton room 1403.

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DPU Alerts, more than just annoying texts

By COURTNEY POHLMAN We’ve all been through it. The repeated phone calls, the multiple text messages and the annoying automated voicemails. The bombardment of communication all from a somewhat familiar, yet sill anonymous, 312 phone number, the phone number of the DPU Alert. But did you ever think these routine tests could actually help save your life?

When the mass shootings of Virginia Tech occurred in April 2007, e-mails were sent out notifying the campus about gunman Seung-Hui Cho after he murdered two students in the dorms.

According to the Department of Education, Virginia Tech’s notification system was not administered in a timely matter, an action the department claims ultimately resulted in the death of 30 other students.

The untimely notification was declared a violation of the Clery Act. The Clery Act is a federal mandate that requires all institutions of higher education that use the financial aid program to disclose information of crime on their campuses to students and the public. The act also requires that employees need to be notified of all on-campus threats.

DePaul University’s DPU Alerts are a part of DePaul’s direct emergency notification system that complies with the Clery Act. The university provides the alerts as well as an annual security report posted at publicsafety.depaul.edu.

DePaul’s Director of Risk Management Edward Gregory explained how the university follows the rules of the Clery Act.

“Federal law (the Clery Act) requires testing of the university’s emergency notification system at least once annually. Illinois law also requires a more general test of the university’s emergency operations plan, of which DPU Alert is a part, at least once annually.” “[We] test DPU Alert at least once in the fall, spring and winter quarters so that any new students entering during the university’s primary terms would be aware of the system and how it is used,” he said.

According to Gregory, DePaul’s Business Continuity Office is the administrator of the system while the Public Safety Office and the Office of Public Relations and Communications send out test alerts and actual alerts.

The current system of the DPU alerts, which has been in place since May 2008, uses several forms of communication to reach the students and employees of DePaul.

“During an exercise, a student will receive an e-mail, a phone message and a text if they have entered their information correctly into the DPU Alert system in Campus Connect. For the phone calls, the DPU Alert system will try and call to get a live response from a person. If after two tries it does not reach a live person, the system will leave a message,” Gregory explained.

The university uses multiple outlets of communication in order to ensure students receive the message no matter what. Gregory explained that this method is intended to keep students safe and alert in case of an actual emergency.

Although the university feels the multiple forms of communication used for the tests are necessary, s o m e students f i n d them annoying.

“I feel like I am always getting the DPU alerts.

They call my phone over and over again and then I get long text messages,” DePaul senior Stephanie Stasa said. “It can der hroe be really annoying c S m of Sa especially if I am in rtesy u o c hic class.”

Grap Recently, the school has not needed to administer the tests for any emergency situations, but has used the Gregory said the system is effective in system when the school closed during the keeping DePaul informed and has been blizzard this past winter. highly successful.

“The DPU system was actually really “Because of these tests and various rehelpful telling us about school closings,” minders, around 90 percent of full-time DePaul junior Lauren Potts said. “I did get currently enrolled students list their cona million text messages from it, but it was tact information in the DPU Alert system, the first way I knew I didn’t have class and which is better than national benchmarks it seemed that everyone knew instantly. We for student alert compliance.” all got the texts and the phone calls.”

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Nation & World

Colleges react to bin Laden’s death A ‘symbolic and ideological victory’

By MICHAEL CORIO

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press

A large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, 2011 in New York.

By RACHEL METEA, Nation & World Editor

About half of most college students’ lifetime has been during the war on terror. When the nation learned of Osama bin Laden’s death on May 2, many college campuses erupted in celebration.

Two days later, the president announced he would

not release photographs taken of bin Laden after he was killed by the U.S. military. The issues surrounding bin Laden's death sparked a heated debate across the country and student voices were not left unheard.

Were you happy with the way college students across the country reacted after learning Osama bin Laden had died?

MATT HARTZELL

MIKE MEEGAN

Junior, biology

Senior, political science

“I think it’s fair, given the circumstances. When you go into that much debt after chasing the guy, it seems appropriate.”

“Not at all. I didn’t see too many students celebrating at DePaul but from what I saw in the media, it was terrifying. It reminded me of the Two Minutes Hate from 1984.”

Should President Obama release a photograph of Osama bin Laden dead?

VICTOR MAJESKI

CHLOE GULLMAN

“Absolutely, it’s a matter of freedom of speech. We see so many images of dead people in the media already that it would just be hypocritical not to represent the reality of someone who has died.”

“No. It would be too gruesome for anyone. Releasing the photo would just release more anger for alQaida and release more anger towards our country.”

Freshman, marketing

Freshman, marketing

Americans who turned on their televisions and logged onto their computers Sunday night were surprised to find glaring headlines announcing that Osama bin Laden, the FBI’s most wanted man, was dead. After the noise of firecrackers and celebrations died down, many Americans began to wonder what the death of the man who eluded capture or kill for almost two decades meant in light of the continued military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Osama bin Laden’s death is a huge “symbolic and ideological victory” for the U.S., according to DePaul history professor Thomas Mockaitis, who said that “bin Laden was not the leader in any meaningful sense. He was an image maker, ideologue and a poster boy for the movement.”

Scott Hibbard, a political science professor at DePaul, said the location of his compound is “a pretty clear indication that he was being protected by some segments of the Pakistani military or security services,” adding, “one of the reasons why we didn’t tell Pakistan until after the fact is that the information likely would have been leaked.”

The operation was carried out after months of training. Osama bin Laden, along with his son Hamza and three others, were killed in the raid.

Bruce Evensen, a journalism professor at DePaul, said the successful assassination of bin Laden “helps to seal this reputation of America.”

“However long it takes we will bring terrorists to justice,” Evensen said. “We will be relentless. And we have the power to execute judgment on those who make war against us.”

Many have speculated as to what affect bin Laden’s death will have on al-Qaida and the perceptions of the organization in the Middle East. “It will do little to change the legitimacy of the organization since most Muslims have been thoroughly opposed to it,” said DePaul political science professor, Khalil Marrar.

The recent uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and across much of the Arab world (officially dubbed the “Arab Spring”) may prove to be more damaging to the legitimacy of al-Qaida than Osama’s death, Mockaitis said. “Before bin Laden was the face of Islam to the West – now the perception is the peaceful democratic uprising in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere,” he said.

According to Hibbard, “The success of the Arab spring in Egypt and Tunisia helped discredit the violent ideology of bin Laden.” In light of the democratic movement that started to sweep the Middle East almost six months ago, “it is very fitting that bin Laden is dead,” he said.

As President Obama plans for a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and Iraq over the next several years, many people believe the death of bin Laden will continue to raise questions about the future military operations in Afghanistan.

Professor Hibbard noted that bin Laden’s death “marks the end of an era for the West, from 9/11 to the post-9/11 era,” and the end of a long chapter in the war in Afghanistan.

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The Law of Mother Earth

New rules for school

By SARAH RENS The Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill last week that will require proof of application to college, the U.S. armed forces or entrance into an apprenticeship program before students can receive their diploma. The bill is aimed at ensuring that students start planning for life after graduation.

The bill has been seen by some as a noble aim but has also been subjected to a variety of criticisms.

It has been suggested that while the bill requires students to submit a college application, there is no assurance that they will put together a quality application. Some people believe the application is likely to become simply another requirement for students to fulfill that is devoid of meaning.

Alexandra Novakovic, a professor in DePaul’s school of education said the bill has the potential to be advantageous. However she suggested that the bill would need to be part of a program, ideally starting in ninth grade or earlier. She said it must teach students the value of a college education, instruct them in picking schools and majors, and help teach them about financing their college The applicaeducation.

Without such tion will be a program, just anNovakovic said other thing she worries that “the application students will be just need to get another thing checked students need to get checked off, a prooff, a process cess largely largely devoid of devoid of meaning.”

According meaning. to recent state data, one third ALEXANDRA of Oregon high NOVAKOVIC school students don’t graduate on time or drop out. Concern has been expressed that requiring students to go though an application process would deter even more students from graduating. However, Novakovic said she doubts that this would be a serious deterrent from graduating.

DePaul professor, Andrea Kaufman also expressed concern about the bill. She noted the bill would serve as another hurdle for students when attention should be on providing funding for schools, college tuition and jobs. She also expressed qualms about the likely “disparate impact the bill would have on poor minority youth.”

High school senior, Kayla Piorkoswi, reaffirmed many of these criticisms. She said that the bill has the potential to be valuable to students. However, according to Piorkoswi, the tendency of high school students to rebel against regulations and authority would result in low quality halfhearted and inadequate applications from the majority of students. Consequently, the bill would only be beneficial for motivated, future focused students, she said.

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By GREG HAYNES The world’s first law granting all nature equal rights to humans is set to pass in Bolivia.

The Law of Mother Earth gives nature new rights that include: the right to life; the right to have a diversity of life forms without being genetically altered or structured artificially; the right to pure water; the right to clean air; the right to have a balanced way of life; and the right to a pollution-free living.

“Mother Earth is considered sacred,” the law, which draws on indigenous concepts, states. “Mother Earth is a living dynamic system made up of the undivided community of all living beings, who are all interconnected, interdependent and complementary, sharing a common destiny.”

The law is not only expected to enshrine the rights of nature, but also for mega-infrastructure and developmental projects to not get in the way of nature’s developmental process.

The law requires the government to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and transition from nonrenewable to renewable energy.

The laws will help the environment, Xandria Glass, a freshman said.

“The Law of Mother Nature will help make international as well as domestic industry more transparent,” she said.

“It will not only give more legal authority to the Bolivian government to protect their environment, but also the best interests of their people through regulating industry country wide through this national law.”

However, some experts say there

are still factors that play into how Bolivia is planning to improve their environment.

John Mathys, an associate professor of finance emeritus who looks at the cost and efficiency of government environmental regulations, said that in order for a country to have a stable environment, they have to have competent people in their government and be in good economic standing.

“In Bolivia, it’s impossible,” Mathys said. When a country has a per-capita income below $15,000 a year, people worry about trying to live in that country, he said.

On the political aspect of the issue, Mathys said that Evo Morales is a socialist because these laws are a political statement to help him and the government of Bolivia to stay in power.

Meanwhile, scientists have still reported that Bolivia has suffered from rising temperatures, melting glaciers and more extreme weather events like frequent floods.

So the question is, will these laws help Bolivia’s climate improve?

Maureen Sioh of the geography department said clean air and a stable climate are always good for the ecosystem. However, Sioh said it’s about whether the people of Bolivia have access to that technology which helps provide clean air and a stable climate.

Glass continues to be optimistic about these laws.

“These laws would help to stop industries that carelessly plunder Earth’s resources while poisoning lands. Perhaps they will be a catalyst in inciting alternative Earth-friendly forms of industry that will provide

similar resources, without sacrificing the health of the environment which inextricably correlates to the health of people in general.”

She goes further on to say that if more countries were to follow Bolivia’s path, then we could put a stop to this destruction and similar environmental devastations.

However, Mathys said the U.S. emits lots of CO2 by burning fossil fuels, coal and gas, however, because we have a high economic status, we’re able to take out more CO2 than we put in. Since Bolivia is a lower-economic country, it takes in more CO2 than it lets out.

Mathys said the government plays a huge factor on climate change and the environment. Bolivia’s government has to have competent leaders in order to spend money on the technology to provide clean air and a stable environment. However, government officials in these lower-economic countries have been known for being corrupt and taking bribes.

Geography professor Maureen Sioh stated Bolivia would benefit from Green Day (Earth Day). It’s only a one-day celebration.

Amidst all of the political and scientific issues about these laws in Bolivia, the people still have their faith in Pachamama, the Andean goddess of Mother Earth.

“Our grandparents taught us that we belong to a big family of plants and animals. We believe that everything in the planet forms part of a big family.

We indigenous people can contribute to solving the energy, climate, food and financial crises with our values," he said in regards to their belief in Pachamana.

Illustration courtesy of MCT Wire Services

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Opinions

Haters to the left, Obama for the win

By DARLA WEAVER Senior, Focus Editor This past week, President Obama has inadvertently told his critics to “suck it.” From charming the crowd with jokes about his birth certificate at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner to making the historic announcement on the night of Sunday, May 1, needless to say the President of the United States is Charlie Sheen’s definition of “winning.”

At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Obama took on the media and his colleagues head-on as he poked fun at the people who have criticized his past two and a half years in office—including Donald Trump and his friends at Fox News.

In the news, potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been questioning Obama’s citizenship, pressuring him to release a long-form copy of his birth certificate, because apparently Trump didn’t know that Hawaii is, in fact, a part of the U.S. In response, Obama silenced Trump by releasing his birth video—a clip from “The Lion King.”

“I want to make clear to the Fox News table: That was a joke. That was not my real birth video. That was a children’s cartoon.

Call Disney if you don’t believe me…

They have the original long-form version,” Obama said after he rolled the clip. It was almost as if Obama was going to exclaim at the end of his speech, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”

Then, late on the following Sunday night, Obama announced the momentous news that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight at the compound in which he was hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan—news our country has been waiting to hear for almost a decade; a moment in which our president claimed that “justice has been done.”

While the world wrapped their heads around the news, Obama’s “haters” decided to publically congratulate the President on our country’s victory. Notorious Republican Rush Limbaugh congratulated Obama on

Photo courtesy of Associated Press

President Barack Obama waves to guests as he and first lady Michelle Obama host a Cinco de Mayo reception at the White House, Thursday, May 5, 2011, in Washington. his radio saying, “Thank God for President Obama.” Even after being roasted by the President on Saturday, Trump congratulated Obama and said, “Job well done.”

But just when you think the critics have let Obama off the hook, they managed to find something new to criticize him about: releasing the photos of bin Laden. There are many conspiracy theorists wanting proof of his death, because they probably think bin Laden’s death was faked and that he is now living off the grid somewhere with 2pac.

Former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin tweeted, “Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No pussyfooting around, no politicking, no drama; it’s part of the mission.”

But amidst the controversy of whether or not to release the photos of bin Laden, Obama did not pussy-foot around, and he reminded everyone who he is—making the decision not to release the photos.

“We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Obama told 60 Minutes. “The

Bin Laden’s been long gone

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By SAM DREESSEN Senior, History

...We have seen a stunning rebuke... in the

uprisings that have been sweeping the Arab world.

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Osama bin Laden—the purported mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. and the target of a nearly decade-long manhunt by the U.S. government—was (allegedly) killed in Pakistan by the U.S. military. However, in many ways, the death of U.S. Public Enemy #1, even if true, is somewhat anti-climatic. This is because, in a very real sense, Osama bin Laden and the vision he represents died politically, if not physically, a while ago.

Regardless of how much control he had over his organization, al-Qaida (Arabic for ‘the base’), bin Laden was its public face and its main mouthpiece. And the ideology of Islamic fundamentalism he represented was, indeed, cruel and terrifying.

In bin Laden’s eyes, the entire Islamic world—the ‘Ummah’—needed to be cleansed of ‘non-Islamic’ influences.

This meant the people of the Muslim world needed to rise up against the economic and military dominance of the U.S., destroy Israel, overthrow their own ‘un-Islamic’ leaders and, in its place, re-establish the Islamic caliphate as it existed in the seventh century.

To this end, bin Laden and those who thought like him were willing to kill not only Americans, Jews and Europeans, but also murder and terrorize large numbers of moderate and/or secular Muslims who did not agree with their vision of theocratic tyranny. The bombing of Shiite mosques by ‘al-Qaida in Iraq’ and the thousands slaughtered

by Islamic fanatics in Algeria showed how bin Laden and those like him held Muslim life in as much contempt as those of the so-called ‘infidel.’

What is not discussed, however, is the other ideology that has sought to control the Middle East and Central Asia: the ideology of the American Empire. While it has

fact of the matter is this is somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received.”

Over the past week, Obama has proved he can live up to his hype that won him the office and GET THINGS DONE. How the President managed to trump his haters and take down America’s most wanted terrorist is beyond mind-blowing. For the many criticisms of Obama’s presidency and the unfortunate events our country has endured, it is a fact that “justice has been done.”

Arab uprisings put bin Laden’s vision to rest prior to his death

been institutionalized for decades in U.S. foreign policy, some found a particularly virulent expression in the neoconservative hawks that dominated the Bush administration and continue to wield disturbing influence in the Obama administration.

This expression was the belief that the U.S. had a seemingly divine right to dominate the Middle East and Central Asia militarily, economically and politically, with the aim of preserving American global hegemony by dominating the core energy-producing region of the world.

This crude imperial aim was sugarcoated with the rhetoric of bringing ‘democracy’ to a region through the barrel of a gun—something Arabs and Muslims were allegedly incapable of doing themselves.

The reality of this ideology is far more deadly than bin Laden’s, because it is backed up with the firepower of a heavily armed superpower. Its fruits can be seen in the massacres of the Iraqi civilian populations of Fallujah and Haditha, the children burned to death by white phosphorus in the U.S.-backed Israeli attack on Gaza, the torture chambers of U.S.-backed Arab dictatorships who have used ‘Islamic terrorism’ as a pretext to crush all legitimate dissent and opposition.

But since this winter, we have seen a stunning rebuke to both ideologies in the uprisings that have been sweeping the Arab world—from Tunisia to Egypt, from Algeria to Bahrain. Millions of people have struggled and sacrificed to demonstrate that they want secular democracy but on their terms. They have demonstrated that they are willing to have diplomatic relations and trade with Western powers, but as equals—not to be lectured to about ‘democracy’ by the very powers that invade and occupy their lands, that support the dictators who torture and repress them.

Therefore, bin Laden and his neo-conservative mirror image have been defeated not in a raid in Pakistan, but in the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Algiers, Amman and Damascus.

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Osama is dead:

"Bin Laden"

continued from cover

What Now?

By CHERYL WAITY Senior, Editor-in-Chief I was in seventh grade when I met Osama bin Laden. He was planes crashing into buildings. He was angry Americans. He was a world away.

I didn’t know where the twin towers were, and I had never heard of a terrorist. I didn’t know Afghanistan was a real place.

All I knew was the sky was clear above my house less than a mile away from O’Hare International Airport that day, and the only aircraft that interrupted the never-quiet air was military. It was eerily quiet.

I knew downtown Chicago high rises were evacuated, and I knew a little girl in the grade below me was scared because that’s where her dad worked. Our teachers were ordered to turn off TVs and radios. It was business as usual in the suburban Catholic school I attended. I didn’t know anyone in New York or from New York or in those towers. And I saw towers falling and towers falling and towers falling and towers falling on the television screen.

I still went to volleyball practice that evening. The sky was still clear, and I was inexplicably angry and confused. I still went to school the next day, and we were assigned to write poems about the attacks. And then school and life ran in usual fashion.

And then there was war.

It’s not that I ever forgot about 9/11 or my meeting with Osama bin Laden; it’s just that he disappeared. Where was he?

In the caves of Afghanistan? On the Pakistani border? In the national global section of the newspaper? In the opinion section of the newspaper? In promises of capture.

So maybe that’s why I was surprised on Sunday night when I received a text message at 9:53 p.m. central standard time from a friend that said, “Bin Laden is dead!” The exclamation point was hers, not mine. I didn’t know how I felt. I picked up the Redeye the next day and then a Chicago Tribune and a New York Times and a Wall Street Journal and laid them out and stared.

I read everything I could. I still really don’t know how I feel.

He’d been dead to me for years.

Maybe I was too far away and too young to feel the hurt of that day the way others have felt it. Maybe it just cut deeper for them, but all I can think is, “What now?” There is still a war in Afghanistan and we just killed the al-Qaida leader, so when is it over? What now? When do our troops come home? Because that is something that hasn’t been lost to me—having my friends

Photo courtesy of Associated Press

President Barack Obama, accompanied by a New York City Police officer, New York City Firefighter, and Port Authority officers, carries a wreath to be placed at the World Trade Center site, in New York, Thursday, May 5, 2011.

enlist and being afraid of where they will be sent and when they will be deployed.

We have killed a symbol, but we haven’t killed terrorism. I hope the death of bin Laden did give some of those affected closure—because families of innocent victims deserve that closure. Hopefully this is a step towards bringing our troops home—because there are families who deserve that, too.

I’m ready for people to stop celebrating an enemy’s death and for them to start asking questions. And until we do that, I can’t help but feel uneasy. I’ve known Osama bin Laden for 10 years, so what now?

bin Laden’s death—at least as it was represented by the media. It seemed like a raucous celebration at the time. Then, I realized the death of bin Laden symbolized more than the death of the most wanted terrorists in recent history; it also symbolized the death of the last decade or so of fear, loss and pain that dictated the lives of Americans for some time.

The question that rose next in my heart was regarding the next steps, what would happen now; how is this reaction going to impact our abilities to find closure and build a lasting peace between individuals, communities, nations and most importantly, within our hearts?

I find the death of Osama bin Laden to be an opportunity for deep reflection about who we are as individuals and who we want to be as a global people. The reactions of his death were understandable; to many people, he was the symbol of terror that plagued the recent history of the world. But now is a time for hope, a time for unifying our hearts to consider the possibility of a world not dictated by terror, but of peace and love and justice.

In my mind, this begins with building strong, respectful relationships between religious communities in this country. It is vital that we begin to realize we are a diverse people and our destinies are both intertwined and made more beautiful if we embrace this reality. At DePaul University, we are working to build healthy relationships between people of diverse backgrounds and religious/philosophical traditions, in order to create an atmosphere on campus where we can work for justice and respond to injustice with shared acclamations of love and compassion.

The death of Osama bin Laden marked the end of an era. However, a new era was born that day. Unnamed as of yet, it is up to us to consider what we hope this next era will be like. My hope is that it is an era of solidarity, of justice and of faith in humanity. We are a beautiful, diverse people; the days, weeks and months moving forward will not only prove this proposition, but amaze us regarding the real potential we have as citizens of the world.

Library thefts spark increased safety awareness

By ELIZABETH SCHUETZ Junior, News Editor It seems like Public Safety has made a solid effort to warn students of the recurring thefts reported in campus libraries this quarter.

Multiple e-mail alerts have been sent—the most recent about two weeks ago—and signs have been posted all throughout campus. I would like to assume most students have been made well aware of the situation; however, if we all know that our belongings are unsafe, why do so many students continue to leave them unattended?

I work in the Loop Campus library and see many of the visitors who walk through the doors each day. Contrary to what most would assume, many are not current students or alumni, but rather, outside patrons from around the city. While it is welcoming of DePaul to allow others into our facilities, it puts many at risk for losing their things to sneaky fingers.

I see desks in the library’s back corner left unattended, covered with textbooks, headphones and laptops. I see handbags left at tables in the middle of the library while owners take smoke breaks or visit the

restroom. I walk past students passed out on lounge chairs with their backpacks at their feet. All appear completely oblivious to the possibility of losing something.

It is comforting to think we are trustworthy enough of our peers to abandon our belongings, but, unfortunately, I think we would all be better off following the advice of Public Safety in order to prevent further loss. In their many messages, they advise to never leave personal items unattended for any length of time. Do not hesitate to report suspicious activity immediately. Also, if you are using your laptop at the Richardson Library, take advantage of the free locks available at the front desk to secure your device.

Another tip I suggest would be to leave your personal laptops at home and use the computer labs instead. This way, you lighten your load while also eliminating the risk of losing it.

Let’s be honest here, a quick trip to the bathroom or taking a phone call is not worth filing a police report and shelling out the big bucks for a replacement laptop. However, if you do fall victim to these recent thefts or witness anything suspicious while on campus, please call Lincoln Park’s Public Safety at 773-325-7777 or the Loop’s at 312-362-8400.

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

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Editorial

Concerns with feeling safe surrounded by guns

BY ANGELICKI VERROS You’re walking to your car after a long day at work or school, and you’re approached by a person who skillfully points a gun to your head. Any items that were once in your hand are scattered on the ground. If you make any sudden movements you’re dead. You are helpless.

If you had a gun on you, would you have been able to use it? At this point, no, you wouldn’t.

In March, gun control advocates and many politicians were confident the concealed carry bill would pass. Earlier this week supporters of concealed carry were making progress until Governor Pat Quinn vowed to veto the bill although House passed it on Tuesday.

Kevin O’Brien, 22, is a senior at DePaul University who feels strongly uneasy about the entire debate surrounding this bill. “I would not feel safe if I was sitting next to someone on the train or bus and they were carrying a weapon,” said O’Brien. “I don’t trust a stranger to protect me, let alone trusting them to carry a gun,” he said.

Trusting the system is another issue, amongst not being able to trust a stranger. Laws in the gun permit system may be one of many reasons why the bill has been debated. Flaws would enhance the chances of someone carrying a gun that is not capable of using it correctly, has a mental illness or a criminal.

Rose Garcia, 23-year-old senior political science major at DePaul University would not use a gun even if she was legally allowed to carry one. “Sure, it would ease my mind a bit and make me feel like I can protect myself,” Garcia said. “But would I honestly be able to kill another human, even if my life was in danger? I don’t think so,” she said.

A person’s morals, religious or other, will not allow the killing of another human, even if their life depended on it.

Allowing a person to legally carry a gun will give people the incentive of using a weapon against those who already have intentions of using a weapon, whether law permits it or not.

In 2010, 80 percent of all murders in Illinois were firearm murders.

Adam Marosi, 22, is a witness to those statistics. Marosi is student who was attending Northern Illinois University during the 2008 shootings.

“The shootings took place on my birthday, a day I will never forget,” Marosi said. “Never, in any situation, would I think allowing students to carry a gun would have stopped this student from shooting five of my classmates,” he said.

I know, concealed carry excludes students or anyone on campus from carrying a gun, but as current Illinois law forbids concealed carry, what’s stopping anyone from walking into a school and going on a shooting rant? Nothing. And passing a law that allows concealed carry everywhere but school campuses would not have stopped the Northern Illinois University shooting, the Columbine shootings, or any other school shooting either.

Students, professors and staff have a right to be protected and feel safe on campus but that security is not the student’s job. “Passing this bill would undermine police officer’s position,” said Marosi.

“There are problems in current school security as the law stands now. Let’s fix those issues first before we allow any citizen to carry a weapon,” he said.

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The next logical step in this process would be to decide on the issue of campus carry, had this bill passed. Nine states are currently debating whether or not to allow concealed weapons to be carried on college campuses. Legislation for campus carry is currently in the Texas House of Representatives, pushing for the right to self-defense at college, as it is allowed everywhere else in the state.

“Weapons should absolutely not be allowed on campus,” Alexander said. “But the fact that this school operates within the very busy limits of a major city makes it impossible to avoid if this bill passes.”

The question of enforcement does come into play here. Although the campus does have definite lines dividing the school from the rest of the community, the sheer volume of movement across those lines would make it difficult for Public Safety personnel to track who is armed and who isn’t.

Since DePaul is a private institution, the decision on whether to allow concealed carry on campus would have been made by the university. But the bill would have allowed concealed carry in K-12 public schools and public universities, with school consent.

Even supporters of the bill at DePaul think along the same lines, that weapons are not appropriate for a university campus.

“I feel like campuses are not a place where a person has a reasonable expectation of being harmed,” Clanton explained. She went on to say that campus carry would not be necessary in that respect.

Gilreath said he would shy away from having guns on campus. He does not believe a lot of students are ready for that power.

DePaul faculty members have also voiced concerns about being armed on campus. Should they need to give out a less than stellar grade of critique, could they be in danger at DePaul?

This controversial bill has also shown Illinois residents exactly where their elected officials stand on the gun rights issue.

State Rep. Brandon Phelps (D-Harrisburg) wrote the proposal for this bill. The Democrat from Southern Illinois asserts that all Illinois resi-

Current Illinois gun laws er’s Identification Card, in June of 2010, but mu may possess them only ies, hotels, or group-livi down.

dents should be able to carry conce law of deterrence echoing Gilreath carry, the safer they will be.

Phelps told the Quad-City Times

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The right to bear arms and self-defense

BY ALLISON C. BARINHOLTZ The Illinois House voted to reject passing one of the most important and controversial pieces of legislation in a quite a while: the concealed carry bill that would allow permitted and trained individuals in Illinois to carry a gun on or near them at all times.

People feel a natural need to protect themselves and their families, which is why the second constitutional Amendment grants citizens the right to bear arms. However, there exists no constitutional amendment granting the right to government to limit the usage or ownership of private guns.

Convinced of the idea that more guns will equal more gun violence overall, advocates of gun control look at past social patterns in states that allow gun ownership. They emphasize that as gun ownership increases, so does homicide. But it is important to consider whether increasing gun ownership causes increasing homicide or if it is the other way around.

It all breaks down to two aspects: the willingness of citizens to protect themselves, and the notion that individual mishaps should not have national (or state-wide) consequences.

With the capability of individuals to carry guns, coupled with the proper permits and training, the common citizen is safer overall. The permission to carry a gun grants both power and responsibility. Some are afraid that granting people more power in this field will encourage more and easily provoked gun violence. Comfort may lie within the realization that a firearm does not need to actually be used in order to gain a desired effect.

Some may argue that the availability of concealed carry in places of high crime rates (like Chicago, for example) will just aid in the ease of criminals obtaining and using guns. Bluntly and honestly, criminals will acquire the weapons they wish to use, regardless of regulations – they are criminals, after all.

But what about the terrible tragedies, like at Columbine and Virginia Tech? Obviously, guns were already not allowed on the campus in which these shootings took place, but the aggressors brought the weapon anyway, so a concealed carry law (or lack thereof) would have really no effect on this. However, what would have an effect would be the possibility that other individuals at the scene had guns as well. Think about how many fewer people could have died in those situations if others had the means to stop the shooter before harming many others.

Some argue against guns in schools because of how difficult it would be to regulate at-school crime. But, if guns aren’t allowed, and the legislation passes – what about accidental gun presence on campus? For example, should someone be punished because they are carrying a gun while simply passing through campus, via car or walking? Especially at campuses like DePaul’s Loop and Lincoln Park Campuses, it would be difficult to determine an aggressor from an innocent bystander at that point.

This dilemma aside, it is time for people to realize the true problems that individuals face – fear, and the willingness to surrender to any force that reduces fear, sometimes jeopardizing civil rights and liberties in the process.

Benjamin Franklin said it best, “Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”

Overall, concealed carry might be just what Illinois, including Chicago, needs to dissolve the walls of fear that keep us in our homes at night.

Current Illinois Gun Laws

s state that it is unlawful to possess a firearm without a valid Firearms Ownor FOID. The Supreme Court struck down the 28-year-old Chicago gun ban unicipal laws currently state that licensed owners with registered weapons y in their homes. They are not allowed in public, or in public places like libraring facilities. In order to transport guns, in Chicago, they must be broken

ealed weapons, because of a simple h’s opinion: the more guns people

s, “I’ve never had the groundswell

or the grassroots effort that this bill is getting and the attention that it’s getting right now.” Thousands of supporters of the bill protested in Springfield last March, held by the Illinois State Rifle Association.

But the Huffington Post reports that Chicago-area lawmakers advised

their downstate contemporaries to spend some time in Chicago before casting their vote.

The amount of death and injury this city has seen due to gun violence is a major reason why Mayor Richard Daley and Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel oppose the bill. They wrote their first joint letter to State Congress asking them to consider the impact this bill would have on Chicago’s safety.

According to WBEZ, Daley said the General Assembly should not impose concealed carry laws on municipalities, because it would undermine police authority and promote violence in a so densely populated city.

Governor Quinn has also stated that he would veto the concealed carry bill if it reaches his desk. No measure of this kind has made it out of committee for twenty years.

For more details on the bill itself, visit the Illinois General Assembly’s website at www.ilga.gov, and search for HB1048.

Photo courtesy of MCT Wire Services

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Arts & Life

Gentrification nation

Chicago-based social issue filmmakers, Kartemquin Films, reintroduce documentary about Lincoln Park community

By DAVE SATTERWHITE “When DePaul tears down Wally’s house, it’s gonna mean one less place to play and one less friend to play with.”

The words almost sound scripted, as do most of Scott Taylor’s sentiments in “Now We Live on Clifton.” The documentary, produced in the 1970s by the 45-year old Chicago-based social documentary company Kartemquin Films, focuses on the gentrification of Lincoln Park via DePaul University. Told through the voices of local children, the film is a last look at the neighborhood before houses were torn down, families were displaced, and that particular part of Chicago was changed forever.

As its opening captions state, the film focuses primarily on Pam and Scott Taylor, two children in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids are candid as can be about their lives, but with an air of intelligence that seems strangely lost to time.

Their lives are quite unlike those of kids today, solely based on the era.

In place of 24-hour cartoon networks, they are shown watching television with their parents. One eerie shot of a Nixon speech on the family TV screen says worlds about the future of these optimistic young folks. Later, they joke and quote the television with their friends—living, talking and thinking like adults.

All this may do little to reflect the central message of the film, but the level of intelligence in these kids should not go unmentioned. There is an eerily prophetic tone to their words, as if they know the real implications of DePaul’s encroaching presence in their world. Scott’s friend Wally moving out of Lincoln Park, for example, will ultimately mean far more than one less friend to play with. But in merely observing this, the kids prove their perceptiveness, as well as their real appreciation for simple, communal neighborhood life.

“Clifton” only exhibits the beginnings of DePaul’s influence on Lincoln Park. One shot depicts Pam, Scott’s bright sister, standing in a field where the LPC’s own quad would one day stand.

“My friends and I sometimes come here,” she says. “We used to come here more in the summertime when there was nothing to do.” When asked what used to be there before DePaul took over, she says, “Houses.”

Watching the documentary, we see elements of Lincoln Park that withstood DePaul’s startling impact: the same St. Vincent DePaul Parish, our own Kelly’s, even the same gas station across the street from the quad.

Among all these familiar sights, however, are buildings and shops that one might be more likely to see on the lower west side today. Liquor stores populate the blocks, and the houses look nothing like the expensive brownstones that now surround our campus.

Still, Lincoln Park is home to Scott Taylor, and he loves it the way it is. “It’s a pretty good neighborhood,” he says, repeating himself once or twice. He believes it.

The film works because of its personal touch. Watching it, we know these children and their lives and their place in the city.

We see Pam practicing karate at a dojo on Fullerton, minutes after she details the importance of such a facility.

“I like to learn karate,” she says. “Because before, when I was little, they used to push me around.” When asked who she means by “they,” she says, “some boys.”

Her knowledge of self-defense’s inherent value runs deep: “We decided that only women should come because we thought that women were usually the ones who got raped… so women could learn to defend themselves.”

Roxanne, Pam’s older sister and karate instructor, then recalls an encounter she had with a rapist. She defended herself and sent the man running with one year’s karate experience. The location of the assault? On Fullerton, “between Sheffield and Seminary.”

Just as many long-gone establishments are represented in the film, the children in “Clifton” are quick to note the changes in their old neighborhood.

“I don’t think a regular family could afford a house like that,” Scott says of his friend’s old place of residence. The new

Photos courtesy of Kartemquin FIlms

Above and below: Scenes are shown from the 1970s social documentary about gentrification in Lincoln Park due to the expansion of DePaul.

owners remodeled the place into an upscale dwelling after paying the family to leave. “They have a Mercedes-Benz, two motorcycles… they could maybe feed two people.”

When asked if they have kids, he answers “No. They have two dogs. Pretty soon, this block is gonna be just families without any kids. ‘Cause all the families with kids are getting kicked out.”

The film closes with a series of stills: “For Sale” signs, with the Taylors providing narration.

“It’s really terrible what the landlords

who own these buildings are doing,” says Pam. “But I love my house anyway. It’s warm, it’s big enough for us, it has things we need and things we want and that’s all that matters.”

“Now We Live on Clifton” will air on WTTW Thursday, May 12.

Lawrence Arms feel love from long-time fans

By DAVE SATTERWHITE Full disclosure: The Lawrence Arms is my favorite band of all time, and their shows have never been anything less than religious experiences for me. I’m all about them, and objectivity is going to be impossible with this one.

Getting to the front row was easy.

Reagonomics had no control of the audience whatsoever. As The Lawrence Arms wrapped up their set by jokingly dissing the crowd as “the worst [they’d] ever seen,” the more indignant among us knew it was time to stand up.

The more proud and dedicated fans at the less-than-crowded Congress Theater shuffled their way toward the stage.

Sifting through a sea of Dead Milkmen fans, eye-rollers and otherwise apathetic flannel-wearing mannequins, we made our presence known. And we were drunk.

Considering both their reputation as a rambunctiously inebriated punk outfit and their visible sense of giddiness opening for the Dead Milkmen, the Lawrence Arms spent their time on stage with an uncharacteristically calm feeling about them. After revving the crowd up with a couple of classics, the Larries reeled in their energy and let an oddly familiar audio sample introduce the meat of their set.

“We are the clowns, only here to entertain.” Those words, sung in a drunken hobo growl over acoustic guitar, introduce the Lawrence Arms’ fourth and most ambitious album, “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”

Days before the show, bassist and allaround loudmouth Brendan Kelly hyped the show on his blog. The entry stated that the show would include a surprise for the band’s more die-hard fans, without any further clues. While an entire-album

performance didn’t seem out of the question, their middle child and arguably most divisive full-length seemed an odd choice.

For fans, the show was a wish granted without ever being wished. “Greatest Story” is a concept album wrought with more slow songs and studio magic than anything else in their otherwise visceral catalogue. For the uninitiated or otherwise unenthused, this meant a solid half-hour of sheer boredom. It is an album to learn for the words and the guitar solos, many of which were mangled slightly by the fact that the Lawrence Arms are not musical prodigies.

But as they wrapped up the album and punctuated their set with a couple of nonalbum fan favorites, the Chicago punk veterans looked proud of themselves.

When Brendan said goodnight to the crowd, he reminded himself and the crowd

that punk heroes the Dead Milkmen were up next.

In that moment, the aging (there, I said it) punk rocker looked and sounded like a sixth grader at his first punk rock show, brimming with optimism for such an unlikely event—and he wasn’t the only one.

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Riot Grrrl power Decibelle Music Series lets female artists spread their creative love

By HANNA GUERRERO An electro violinist named Bitch tore up the stage last Sunday, May 1 at Schubas.

Bitch, along with many other alternative female artists in various fields of music, is part of the Decibelle Music and Culture Series.

Past performers include Margaret Cho, Cat Power and Peaches and Gossip. Now in its eighth year, Decibelle, which was formally known as Estrojam, is a not-forprofit organization that strives to present women in the arts, music, visual arts and other forms of artistic expression that aren’t usually represented in the mainstream media.

The series runs from April to August this year and has events lined up throughout the months to support and cultivate a positive, diverse, DIY indie community.

A Decibelle concert series attendee crowd-surfs at an event.

Decibelle teams up with other non-profit organizations throughout the Chicago area that are for the arts, health, social change, human rights, non violence and education.

“Chicago has a vibrant indie arts community,” said Brenda Shumacher, one of the producers of the series this year.

Every year Decibelle has a fundraiser for Girls Rock! Chicago helping to cultivate and inspire young women to pursue artistic expression in music. In 2006, the Girls Rock band, The Jagged Tulips, opened for ‘80s punk rocker Nina Hagen at Metro.

This is just one of the many ways Decibelle incorporates young, aspiring artists into the series.

Aside from supporting local Chicago non-profit organizations, Decibelle also showcases local Chicago acts along with nationally recognized acts in order to help local artists receive recognition for their talent. Past local Chicago artists are hophop artist Psalm One, indie rock band The Reputation, and plaster cast artist Cynthia Plaster Caster.

Mainstream music is dominated by women, but only those who sing pop – most of the pop divas of today sing the same tune. This is not to say there isn’t a diverse amount of female voices out there.

Shumacher points out that, “Decibelle presents voices not heard. Women you don’t see on MTV.” Decibelle traces its roots back to the Riot Grrl movement of the mid-‘90s that showed the world women can rock. Decibelle was

Photos courtesy of Decibell Music and Culture Festival

Peaches performs at a past Decibelle series concert. created after the Lady Fest in the Midwest, the festival that landed in the Midwest after the Lady Fest in Olympia, Wash. where the Riot Grrl movement was formed.

Showing their Riot Grrrl roots, Decibelle screened the documentary, “Who took the Bomp?: Le Tigre on Tour” as part of the Chicago International Music and Music Festival at the Wicker Park Arts Center.

The documentary presents the electropunk band which features Riot Grrrl pioneer, Kathleen Hanna, former member of Bikini Kill. The documentary shows the challenges faced as the three members of the band confront the sexism and homophobia that is widespread throughout the mainstream music scene.

Decibelle reaches out to help people not only excel onstage, but offstage too.

During the series, workshops are presented to educate people on learning the skills to create their own music, learn how to self

publish, how to get into filmmaking and even how to DJ. Decibelle strives to create a community open to explore in music styles that go underrepresented and show artists who are positive role models to young women.

“We love seeing people of all ages, sexualities and races at our events.” Added Shumacher, “It gives people hope and inspires all genders.”

Decibelle is a music series with a positive mission that creates a welcoming environment, letting people gather and build community. Although the series showcases and promotes female artists, it is more than open to all genders.

Future events include a performance by rap punk duo God-Dess and She on Tuesday, June 21 at Berlin night club and Decibelle’s LGBTQ pride party and parade float at Berlin night club Sunday, June 26.

New generation punks love polished All Time Low

By JOANIE FALETTO Arts & Life Editor Nostalgia by way of guilty-pleasurey pop-punk is shamelessly satisfying. But apparently, the angsty genre lived on after the word “emo” fell out of vogue six years or so ago. News to me.

As a 20-year-old roaming around the Congress Theater on Friday, April 29 a good five inches taller and five years older than the crowd’s average, this realization became weirdly real.

The Dirty Work tour that featured The Summer Set, Hey Monday, Yellowcard and headliners All Time Low brought me back to a world I had left long ago and into a scene I had no idea still existed. I mean, prepubescent boys with straightened, dyed-black hair? Is this 2005 or have I completely aged myself out of the loop?

The Summer Set and Hey Monday delivered exactly what you would expect: clean, high-energy power-rock that fit the bill of a Disney-fied rebel yell. A good chunk of the audience sang along, but every high schooler in the house ate it up.

Enter the anthem-singers of my teenage defiance, Yellowcard. Out supporting their latest album that was released in midMarch, “When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes,” the California-based, violinwielding band put out a well-varied set at once catering to the dinosaurs like me and the mid-’90s-born scenesters. Knowing his audience all too well, singer and rhythm guitarist Ryan Key let out one carefully placed f-bomb before sneakily keeping the skimpy stage banter at a PG: “Let’s have a fun rock’n’roll show!” Thanks for making me feel even more like a chaperone.

Sprinkled throughout the safe, happy, well-meaning set were crowd favorites like 2006’s “Lights and Sounds,” and older

gems “Way Away” and “Only One.” Of course, the closer was “Ocean Avenue,” which was more than worth waiting eight years to see (um, yeah, it literally came out in 2003). I knew the song, unfortunately, wasn’t going to last forever, but thanks for at least injecting it with an extended crowd-involvement section, guys. My inner 13-year-old was beaming, and so were the actual 13-year-olds.

Headliners All Time Low apparently has an enormous following. Again, being ancient in comparison to a baby-faced crowd that is single-handedly responsible for keeping Hot Topic in business, I was completely oblivious. The Yellowcard backdrop fell, exposing the in-your-face visual announcement of “ALL TIME LOW.” The place vibrated with pubertyridden anticipation.

They stormed the stage in all their scene-y glory to the packed open-floor venue and a light show fit for Lady Gaga at her most wigged-outedness or an ecstasyinfused, underground rave, or both. ATL kicked it off with “Time Bomb,” and an audience just absolutely pining for the four, Baltimore-based guys never stopped going bananas.

The songs were perfectly orchestrated—a little blip of silent here for some crowd participation, a couple synchronized jumping there. All the while, the lights are going hard, a staunch contradiction to how the band was trying to advertise themselves.

The colors were changing, spotlights were spinning, blasts of light were exploding with every song’s big hits. Still, ATL was using between-song breaks to attempt to meet an impossibly high f-word quota and to exercise seemingly rebellious and careless, punk rock banter. Let’s talk explicitly about sex! Use the f-word

Photo by Joanie Faletto

All Time Low plays at the Congress Theater on the Dirty Work tour. again! One more time! Say something anti-establishment! Then the songs began again, and All Time Low was down to record label-approved focus and precision backed by a light show that had The Man written all over it.

Distracted by songs like “I Feel Like Dancin’” and an acoustic cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” the kids couldn’t notice the maybe-faked act of disobedience and disregard for authority. Did it matter?

No. The songs were perfectly rehearsed and executed, inspiring the crowd enough to get the balcony of parent chaperones shaking (which, at the rickety Congress, is legitimately worrying).

At the end of the night, the kids were satisfied with the excessive amount of cussing and shocking stage chitchat of taboo subject matter as much as they were with the rock show. Each band knew exactly what they were doing and how they needed to do it, meticulously taking into consideration what each group of the audience wanted the show to accomplish.

My nostalgia was answered, and, walking home to my apartment past scores of kiddies awaiting their moms to drive up, so was the question of my adulthood.

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“The Beaver” does not beat hype

By CHRIS OSTERNDORF From Kyle Killen’s blacklist-topping script to Mel Gibson’s very public private life, “The Beaver” has had a long road to the screen.

For those of you not familiar, the blacklist is a compilation that comes out in Hollywood every year naming the best as of yet unproduced screenplays.

Considering that this particular film is about a talking beaver puppet, which a man named Walter Black (Gibson) uses to turn his life around, it’s not too surprising that the script gained a fair amount of attention.

However, after several years in development and a continually pushed back release date, “The Beaver” finally arrives now with more of a whimper than a bang.

Let’s start with Gibson. First of all, he’s very good. There were some industry insiders that theorized his performance might even be strong enough to gain him an Oscar nomination, but that was before his much-publicized meltdown. However, as the depressed and despondent Walter Black, Gibson is actually all the better because of who he is. That is to say, it’s only appropriate to see Gibson going through a profound moral and spiritual crisis, considering that it seems all too likely he may having a similar crises in his life as of late.

He of course voices the puppet as well, and does an excellent job in creating two different personalities. The beaver takes over Walter’s life, going from helpful to harmful, and is a fully fleshed out character of his own. But Gibson also does an excellent job reminding you that Walter is still there, underneath him.

As for Killen’s script, while it’s certainly good and very original, albeit perhaps a bit gimmicky, he’s far from the second coming in Hollywood. I don’t think I need to go too in depth with the story here, because if you’re not going to see a movie about a beaver puppet who turns into a guy’s life coach, than I doubt there’s anything I can do to change you’re mind.

This was undoubtedly an ambitious project for Killen to write, both in the sense of the premise, and in the philosophical questions it asks. Simply put, it takes courage to write a script about existentialism and use a talking puppet as the conduit to convey your lofty ideas.

That being said, “The Beaver” is ultimately not too dramatically different than most Hollywood movies. A film that asked similar questions a few years ago was “Up in the Air,” and it was ultimately all the more successful for not relying on a strange concept, like “The Beaver” does.

As for the question of whether Killen’s a good writer, the answer is yes, absolutely.

But it’s also clear that he has a lot of maturing to do as a writer. He’s no Charlie Kauffman, but if given time he may be able to hone his craft quite successfully in coming years.

Perhaps the bigger problem with “The Beaver” is the directing. Then again, maybe problem isn’t the right word. Jodie Foster steps behind the camera here, as well as playing opposite Gibson as Walter Black’s wife, Meredith. Her performance is quite good, in fact, the best I can remember seeing from her in a long time.

Unlike her usual roles, she is both subtle and vulnerable here, as opposed to tough just for the sake of being tough. But her direction is sterile. Not bad, but not particularly interesting. One has to wonder whether in the hands of a more maverick filmmaker if “The Beaver” could have better lived up to the unconventional nature that the concept of the film promises.

The other issues with “The Beaver” are twofold. First, there’s a subplot regarding Walter’s son Porter (Anton Yelchin) that feels largely out of place with the main storyline. Yelchin is actually quite good, and it’s clear that Killen included Porter, who’s going through an existential crisis of his own, as a parallel to Walter.

However, his storyline is largely concerned with a romance involving him and a classmate played by Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence, who’s frankly rather boring here, not showing any of the presence she was praised for in “Winter’s Bone.” This love story isn’t really bad, but feels kind of cookie-cutter in comparison to the quirkier main storyline.

The final issue is the film’s climax. It’s not that it’s bad, in fact quite the opposite, it’s excellent, so much so that I don’t want to give away any specifics about it here. The movie’s climax is so good, that everything else in the final act feels dull by comparison. The resolution certainly works within the context of the story, but it’s also not that satisfying.

Hype is always a strange thing. As much as we don’t want it to change our

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Actors Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson star in "The Beaver." Foster also directed the film. perception of a film, it often does. “The Beaver,” although still pretty good, doesn’t quite live up to the myriad of hype that has surrounded it since Killen’s screenplay came out. Maybe it’s that it’s been too long, and it’s hard to be as interested in the film now as when the idea was still abuzz in people’s minds. More likely though, it’s just that “The Beaver” is good, but

not great. Good is fine. Good is good. But good is not great, and to live up to the hype, “The Beaver” probably would have had to be great.

But hey, lets not forget we’re discussing a talking beaver puppet here, so chances are you’ve already made up your mind whether to see it or not, and I can’t convince you one way or the other.

The Dead Milkmen still very much alive

By RAFAL NOWAK and LUKE POCIASK

The Dead Milkmen are back at it again promoting their new album “The King in Yellow”. Their last album, “Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig),” released in 1995 was met with some time off in-between 2008 when they decided to hit the road again.

The first thing you’ll probably notice when seeing them on stage is how old they’ve gotten since they released “Beelzebubba” which has one of their larger hits, “Punk Rock Girl.” The second thing you’ll definitely notice is how they haven’t missed a step from their old days.

I’d never seen the Dead Milkmen before their hiatus (I was around 3 years old when they first took a break) but it wouldn’t surprise me if they are even more energetic now then they were in their heyday.

Rodney Linderman sprinted and jumped across the stage as he barreled immediately into I Walk the Thinnest Line.

The Dead Milkmen’s set was pretty solid and covered most of their discography, emphasizing on their classics “Big Lizard in My Backyard” and Beelzebubba. A highlight of the show was when Rodney

Photo by Rafal Nowak

The Dead Milkmen perform at the Congress Theater.

Linderman invited a girl on stage to take reigns of his keyboard as he walked around on stage prepping one of their larger hits, “Bitchin’ Camaro.” As the song (and crowd) exploded simultaneously, the girl

and Rodney shared the mic during the chorus of the song. Rodney Linderman continued to interact with the crowd throughout the night. The crowd was so interested in what he had to say that

there were even circle pits breaking out to his stage banter. Rodney Linderman was stoked to say the least.

My main gripe with the show was the choice of venue. The Dead Milkmen are known for their barebones song melodies and satirical lyrics, but I felt that sort of went to waste at the Congress Theatre.

The Congress’ boomy acoustics translated Rodney Linderman’s vocals into a garbled mess at certain points. Obviously not the Dead Milkmen’s fault that the Congress often has less than crisp sound, but taking in account the number of people that showed up, this show could have been held at the Metro and would have suited their style a little bit better.

That being said, I can safely say that no one left disappointed by any means, and that the Dead Milkmen are eager to come back to Chicago.

If you don’t know who the Dead Milkmen are, listen to them. They’re a classic act that appeals to not only punk fans, but anyone who likes simple and effective music.

Despite their age, the Dead Milkmen will prove to you that even if you’re pushing 50, you can still kick ass like you’re 20.

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Facets brings new perspectives to film DePaul A.V. Club welcomes Facets Night School for lecture and film screening

By ANGELIKA LAZARICIU This past Monday, May 2, DePaul’s A.V. Club and Facets Night School welcomed a special presentation of “The Night of the Hunter,” a 1955 American thriller film directed by British actor Charles Laughton.

DePaul’s A.V. Club hosted guest lecturer Susan Doll from Facets Cinematheque, an arts and film organization located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., who discussed the film as part of their ongoing film lecture series.

Patrick Gill, co-founder of DePaul A.V. Club, said they approached Facets with the idea of bringing their Night School to DePaul.

“Whatever [Facets] wanted to show, we would show,” said Gill. “Coincidentally, I really love “Night of the Hunter,” so when Susan [Doll] said she wanted to screen it and lecture on it I was really excited.”

“The Night of the Hunter,” which stars Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, is a haunting and frightening classic masterpiece of greed, innocence, seduction, sin and corruption. The disturbing, complex story was based on the popular, bestselling 1953 Depression-era novel of the same name by writer Davis Grubb, who set the location of his novel in the town of Moundsville, WV, where the West Virginia

Penitentiary was located (also mentioned in the film). Robert Mitchum plays the character of Harry Powell, a psychotic, self-styled preacher who infiltrates and terrorizes a family to get his hands on stolen money. Even though the film was originally misunderstood and ignored, it is still considered one of the greatest American films of all time.

Doll informed the audience that from the film’s start, it was designed to have a special feeling of a child’s fairy tale, including the difficult keeping of a secret, and a magical journey to safety.

“The film is all told from a child’s point of view,” said Doll. “It accentuates the contrasting, elemental dualities within the film: heaven and earth, male and female, light and dark, good and evil, knowingness and innocence.”

Gill commented on the fact that the story was told like a fairy tale, but not the kind our parents told us.

“I like melodrama and I like when the abstract invades films,” said Gill. “I like when light takes unreal position to enhance character and when actors can embody complex, far-reaching concepts and get them onto the screen.

“Also, I have to say that there’s just something about Robert Mitchum’s ability

Photo by Brianna Kelly

Facets Cinematheque's Susan Doll act as the guest lecturer at DePaul A.V. Club and Facets Night School's screening of "The Night of the Hunter." to bellow that rattles my bones and locks my eyes on him.” Robert Ebert said of “Night of the Hunter” that “[the film] is an expressionist oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy.” Because of this, people do not know how to categorize it, so they leave it off their list of movies to watch. That is the main reason why Facets has a program like their Night School.

“The purpose of our Night School is to present, distribute and educate about film,” said Doll. “All of [the films] are

legitimized by the speakers who bring to the audience something to think about and remember.”

“Susan’s talk was really helpful for me,” said Gill. “I haven’t really watched a lot of German cinema, so when she drew the parallels between a movie I enjoy and another movement like German Expressionism, not only a new way of watching the movie was opened to me, but I found a new group of films that I feel I may enjoy.”

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Themes complete Night Movies series

By COLLEEN CONNOLLY There is no better way to learn about the on-set (and off-set) dynamics of moviemaking than through another movie.

“Movies about Making Movies” is this quarter’s theme for Night Movies put on by the College of Digital Media’s digital cinema program.

Night Movies is a quarterly showing of a series of films connected by a common theme. Although DePaul’s CDM students may glean the most from the films, you don’t need to a film student or a movie buff to enjoy Night Movies.

“Mostly [...] it’s about getting together and watching awesome movies,” says Sharon Mooney, a TV production manager and lecturer in DePaul’s School of Cinema and Interactive Media, who also helps organize Night Movies.

Night Movies held its first series during Winter Quarter with the theme of “alienation, disconnection and the human experience in the post-industrial world.”

This quarter’s theme is quite different but the corresponding movies have equal impact.

“Film sets make for great drama, and comedy, due to the intimate group dynamic,” says Mooney. “Plus, people who make films are crazy.”

The film series began on Thursday, April 28 with the showing of “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.” The comedy portrays the struggles of the protagonist as he tries to draw the line between his on-screen and off-screen lives. The film

was well received by the audience and will likely bring them back for the next showing in the series.

The rest of the films in the series include dramas, mockumentaries, and several foreign films dealing with same theme of the dynamics of moviemaking.

“Tristram Shandy” will be followed by showings of “Real Life” (a satire), “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (a drama), “Irma Vep” (a French film), “Camera Buff”(a Polish drama), and “Man Bites Dog” (a mockumentary).

Mooney and Eric Marsh, who also works for the digital cinema program in the School of Cinema and Interactive Media, carefully selected each film in the series.

All of the films relate to one another in the context of the theme and present a different aspect of filmmaking.

Mooney said they also wanted to show students movies they probably would not have seen before. The directors for these films are great, but their work may not be well known, even among film students.

Whether you are a film student or just someone who is interested in little known films, you might want to check out this diverse series of unique films about making movies.

The next showing will be “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” on May 12, followed by “Irma Vep” on May 19, “Camera Buff” on May 26, and “Man Bites Dog” on June 2. All showings begin at 6 p.m. and take place in the small CDM Theater located in room 708 of 243 S. Wabash Ave.

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Flower power Lincoln Park Conservatory knows blooming blossoms in the city is no walk in the park

By SARAH RENS After months of snow, rain and frigid temperatures, spring has finally come, bringing with it a seemingly unappeasable wave of spring fever to Chicago residents.

Luckily, there are means to soothe your spring fever just a short walk from campus.

The Lincoln Park Conservatory houses several thousands of plants from around the world. Within the conservatory there are green houses devoted to ferns, palms, orchids, and an assortment of other gorgeous species. After wandering through the luscious rainforest, examining prehistoric ferns, breathing in the smell of spring blossoms and gawking hundreds of stunning orchids, one cannot help but wonder how this urban oasis flourishes in our very own Lincoln Park.

The Lincoln Park Conservatory was built in 1890 to serve as a “paradise under glass” for Victorian-era Chicagoans who had developed a great fascination with nature. Over the last 120 years, the Conservatory has undergone minor structural changes but exists largely in its original state. Consequently, unlike many conservatories, the Lincoln Park Conservatory is not automated and has neither heat nor air conditioning. All necessary temperature changes in the conservatory must be completed by opening windows and various heat valves. This makes the upkeep procedures of the gardens very demanding.

In order keep up Lincoln Park’s “paradise under glass,” the conservatory employs 13 staff members who are under the direction of horticulturalist, Steve Meyers. When asked

about the upkeep of the gardens, Meyers stated, “It’s a 365 day a year job. I really might as well sleep here.”

Plants must constantly be moved between the growing greenhouses in the rear of the conservatory and the four display rooms.

Once a plant is no longer in bloom, it must be taken out of the display room and moved back to the growing rooms. Meyers noted that the process is particularly demanding because most of the plants are not in pots and must be transplanted on a regular basis to keeps the gardens looking vibrant. To facilitate this process there is a staff member assigned to each of the display rooms and separate staff assigned to the growing rooms.

Along with the daily ebb and flow of plants between the growing and display rooms, the conservatory also holds three shows a year: a holiday show, a spring show and a summer show. For each of these shows, all of the plants are removed and new species fill their places.

In the coming weeks, the conservatory’s spring displays will be replaced by new tropical summer displays.

Located next to the Lincoln Park Zoo along the lakefront, the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s proximity to campus makes it a convenient way to quell one’s spring fever. However, there are several other conservatories and gardens located around the city as well. Like the Lincoln Park Conservatory, many of them are free.

If you have a green thumb you are looking to put to use, don't be afriad to get dirty, many of these gardens welcome community involvement with open arms.

Rainbow Park Victory Garden

7500 S. South Shore Dr. Free admission

The Chicago Botanical Gardens 1000 Lake Cook Rd., Glencoe Free admission

The Garfield Park Conservatory 300 N. Central Park Ave. Free admission

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum 2430 N.Cannon Dr. Admission: $7

Jackson Park - Urban Farm 6401 S. Stony Island Ave. Free admission

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Spare Parts and AliveOne: a perfect pair

By KYLE WIDENSKI The commotion in AliveOne can be felt the moment you walk by the windows.

Pint glasses clanking, spirits high and the thump of Spare Parts’ bass guitar resonates throughout your body. No table is empty and neither is floor space. It’s a Thursday night and the crowd seems exceptional in numbers. But this is not uncommon; in fact, every Thursday night, listeners young and old, hoard the bar to listen and groove.

AliveOne, located at 2683 N. Halsted St., plays host to Spare Parts’ weekly performances. This band tests and pushes the limits of jazz, but influences can be traced back to jazz greats. Spare Parts consists of Colin Scott on the bass, Kevin Kozol on the keys and Mike Bruno on percussion and drums.

Stepping through the back room door, the stage is unveiled as the band is rehearsing in the large empty room. Spare Parts and their instruments are colorfully illuminated from the stage lights as they pause a moment to answer a few questions.

“Our influences come from a lot of different artists and genres,” said Scott as he picks his muted bass. “But we all grew up listening to a lot of classic rock and old jazz musicians. Zepplin, The Beatles and, I was actually a huge fan of Primus. That’s why our music has a ‘70s fusion to it. It’s our way of emulating those musicians who influenced us.” “[Spare Parts modifies] the standard style of jazz to create their own,” said Adam Rosenquist, a 21-year old casual listener.

“Their music is funky and fresh and they go into 10-minute jams to get the crowd moving.”

Electrified, funk-ified and dance-ified, Kozol’s keyboard begins the night’s show with a riff. At the beginning of the next musical meter, Bruno strikes the snare to start the tempo. Meanwhile, Scott bends the neck of his bass as he slides his fingers down the frets to lay down a slapped beat.

Bodies can be seen grooving and heads bobbing to create an energy that the band feeds off of.

“There’s a definite sense of energy given off from the crowd,” said Kozol. “The crowd ranges from young college kids to older jazz listeners. So the mix leads to a more interesting night because you never know what the audience is going to be like.”

AliveOne hosts a Spare Parts performance weekly.

This band has spent years tweaking their sound and it’s paid off undoubtedly. They have attained national and international acclaim from playing at festivals around the nation and world. And AliveOne makes it easier than ever to see this world-class band play for free.

“It’s easy to meet people because everyone there shares a common interest of listening to music and having a good time,” said Rosenquist.

The group has been around since 2000 and has collaborated with other numerous Chicago groups, like Ben-Sity when they opened for Snoop Dogg at the House of Blues in late February.

“Spare Parts’ first album [Exit 54] was released in 2003, but we’ve been playing together longer,” said Bruno. “Colin and I went to high school together, but we met Kevin at a house party when we went to Carbondale [Southern Illinois University].

That was the first time we played together and, we’ve been playing for 11 years now,” as he sits behind his drum referencing the accomplishments of the band.

“The band seems to average crowds of one hundred each week,” said AliveOne bartender Ryan McGee. “It’s a trade-off, a mutual relationship. The band draws in the people and we provide three dollar micro-brewed drafts and spirits to keep the customers happy.”

That’s not to say that the bar is not an attraction itself. With Chicago’s one and

Photos by Kyle Widenski

Chicago band Spare Parts consists of Colin Scott, left; Kevin Kozol; and Mike Bruno, right. only “AllLive” jukebox, vintage music furnishings, a pool table, two separate bars and a lounge room, AliveOne is often frequented by the college crowd.

“AliveOne’s goal is to offer the best free live music in the city,” said McGee. “It’s a great place for a Thursday night where Spare Parts offers a time well spent while not spending a lot of money.”

The band has plans for their near future that will keep them busy for months to come.

“We have our festival circuit coming up starting with Summercamp [music festival] this May and lasting all summer,”

said Bruno.

“But we’ve recently released our third album, Trio,” said Scott. “Our next move is to start planning our fourth album. It’s in the beginning stages and will probably take about nine months to complete it.”

They have yet to name it.

The union of Spare Parts and AliveOne specializes in making every Thursday night worthwhile. With world-class music to stimulate your senses, specials on spirits, wines and brews to make you warm and a décor to entertain your eyes, it is an environment for everyone to experience.

Frolick with Fleet Foxes

By BRIANNA KELLY Photo Editor Fleet Foxes' melodious folk music ignites the desire to seek great adventure.

It embodies pure emotions, representative of the natural landscapes that inspired them. Many of their tunes would be the perfect soundtrack to a gang of merry men, frolicking about a forest, which may just be the perfect description of the band itself. Fleet Foxes is comprised of six grizzly-looking, guitarand mandolin-strumming musicians from Seattle.

Their music is for every season and every reason. Each song has the potential to both calm down and wind up listeners, depending upon their mood and motivation for listening. Fleet Foxes may just be one of the great storytellers of our generation. The band performs parables about growing up, falling in love and finding oneself. Their thoughtful lyrics are brilliantly paired with vocal harmonies. The beautiful choral abilities of the lead singer and secondary guitarist, Robin Pecknold, allow the band to be distinguishable for their unique sound.

Fleet Foxes’ anxiously awaited second full-length studio album, Helplessness Blues, was released on Tuesday, May 3.

The original quintet added a sixth mem-

ber to the band for the new album and entered the studio aiming to create a less poppy version of the sound they became famous for. Many of the song lyrics focus on the past and are much more melancholic than those on their self-titled debut Fleet Foxes, such as first two tracks on Helplessness Blues, “Montezuma” and “Bedouin Dress.” Like their previous EPs and full-length album, it has garnered much praise from music critics.

Fleet Foxes will return to Chicago for their next performance on Saturday, July 16 for the sixth-annual Pitchfork music festival in Union Park.

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Stripped-down Artropolis still huge

By JOANIE FALETTO Arts & Life Editor There is nothing scaled-down about the Merchandise Mart. The venue’s annual Artropolis 2011 may have been smaller than ever this year, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t still a big deal. Try hosting an event at the gloriously iconic, riverside landmark that isn’t a big deal.

From Friday, April 29 through Monday, May 2, the art fair was contained to one floor of the Mart for the first time in its five-year history. This year also marks the first time the event joined Art Chicago, the 31-year-old “renowned international fair” showcasing established work, with NEXT, the “invitational exhibition of emerging art” featuring talented newbies. Four floors down was the floorwide Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, another first-time addition to Artropolis.

Regardless of the space and money-saving adjustments, director of Art Chicago/NEXT, Paul Morris, is not too shy to boast.

“Art Chicago and NEXT are in top form this year,” Morris said. “With a more focused floorplan, the dual presentation of both fairs will allow our guests and visitors greater access to the art on view.”

Hosting 184 exhibitors from more than 50 cities around the world, Artropolis 2011 didn’t act like an art fair on the chopping block. The Mart’s twelfth floor was teeming with curious creativity junkies of every background, ‘hood and generation, and the concept that the white, whizzing hallways actually came to an end was a rumor that proved a challenge to confirm. The events, too, were as broad and boundless as the maze-like building that held them.

Size change incites sorrow

Rob Vagnieres of Bridgeport roamed the international fair on the brink of tears. Not actually, but the severity of his furrowed brow was quite convincing. The self-described “timeless” older gentleman browsed Parisian artist Catharine Cary’s booth by his lonesome, softly voicing his woes over Artropolis’ new and “top-form” shape.

“It’s really kind of sad,” Vagnieres whispered with a heartbreakingly worried pout. “I’ve been coming for a long time, it doesn’t seem like as many galleries anymore. It used to be so big, it would stretch all the way out to Navy Pier.” He paused. “Things have changed.”

Citing the new revelation of increased artwork affordability and fair navigation, Vagnieres wasn’t entirely dejected: “All in all, it is always such a great experience.”

Local first-timers feel the love

You would think that gallery guy down the street would get the axe before more exotic art-showing prospects. Though the list of exhibitors at Artropolis 2011 was forced to be more exclusive, the fair did not discount fresh-faced locals. The inclusion of local first-timers like artist Bernell Loeb of Coalition Gallery and Nicole Villeneuve Gallery director Anna Timmerman was a refreshingly un-snooty salute to talent over variety.

“We’ve never shown [at Artropolis] before. This

Photos by Joanie Faletto

Art lovers browse Artropolis 2011 galleries filled with paintings, sculptures and more. is our first time showing art as a gallery in general,” said Timmerman. “I applied [to show at Artropolis] on a whim.”

Once Timmerman got word that her gallery had received a spot at the show, she immediately began picking large-scale, visually exciting pieces at her South Loop space to showcase—and fast.

“I applied in December, and we found out in March that we got a spot,” Timmerman said. “It was stressful, but really exciting.”

Loeb had been attending Artropolis since its inception in 2006, but after only emerging as an artist in 2010, this was her public, “very reaffirming” debut.

An admittedly slow painter (her booth’s 4’x3’ focal piece took three months to paint), Loeb employed much-needed hustle when she got the thumbs-up from the fair people.

“I didn’t find out [I would be showing] until five weeks beforehand. We actually didn’t know the size of our booth until two weeks ago,” Loeb said. “[The booth] is a lot bigger than we anticipated, but I could just drive home and bring more [work] over.”

The newcomer roams her decorated nook to charm buyers looking to deck out their dining rooms with her $6,000 work. Contrasting the visiting veteran Vagnieres, the mugs of the wealthy shoppers were painted in jubilance. Loeb’s expression looks no different.

Artropolis brought busy hallways to the 12th floor of the Merchandise Mart for the annual fair.

Sports

Finale bittersweet for senior Salkovic

“Women’s tennis” continued from back cover geared up for this tournament and they really showed it with our play.”

The team, seeded third, was led by senior Katarina Milinkovic, who clinched the team’s final match of the season against Marquette with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Olga Fischer to place third.

“We really fought hard, no matter the opponent,” Milinkovic said. “And I think that this year was a little harder because the teams were as good as before, maybe even better.”

For freshman Kelsey Lawson, the excitement of playing in her first Big East tournament was not lost.

“This was definitely a different experience,” said Lawson, who pushed past Rutgers’ Morgan Ivey in the first round of play to win the match for DePaul. “I’ve never been in a situation like that before.

“But it was also really fun to just play, especially since I clinched the Rutgers match and that was just really fun because my whole team was just there cheering for me basically.”

It was this ability to compete under pressure that had Head Coach Mark Ardizzone most impressed. “[I was] really just excited how the girls, especially the younger girls and returning girls, competed,” Ardizzone said.

“Very pleased with how the younger girls handled that pressure.”

But the team’s biggest challenge was yet to come, as they faced No. 42 University of South Florida in a rematch of last season’s semifinals, which DePaul won.

However, the Blue Demons could not pull through this year, losing 4-0, their first semifinals loss since 2008.

“We knew that USF was going to be our biggest challenge,” McKnight said. “We left our hearts on the court, but we just weren’t able to get the win this time.”

According to Head Coach Mark Ardizzone, USF had a lot to gain by the win.

“They were playing for their NCAA lives, really,” Ardizzone said. “And they were also kind of, I’d seen one of his quotes was that it was revenge a little bit for us beating them last year…and the doubles point was really fantastic.

“We lost it, but it was, as a coach, you can have fun being involved in something like that because it was fun. It was intense. People cheered. But they were better than us this year.

Their top three players, a little bit like us last year, were just too good for us to beat.”

As hard as the loss to USF might have been, the Blue Demons still had to face their longstanding rivals, Marquette, whom they overcame, winning 4-3.

“Obviously, they’re our big rivals and every win against Marquette is really important for us,” Milinkovic said. “I cared personally because it was my very last match that I would play for DePaul.”

Though the Blue Demons had placed second in conference the past two seasons, the drop to third was not disappointing.

“Placing third was a huge accomplishment for us because a lot of teams had started to count us out because of our injuries…and having that pressure on our backs to win despite what people thought, accomplishing that was big,” McKnight said.

It was due largely to these injuries that the Blue Demons were unable to achieve some of the goals they had set out at

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Lynsey Ciezki

Photo by Brianna Kelly

Salkovic, who had a career doubles record of 11651, hits a backhand at practice earlier this season.

the beginning of the season.

“I don’t think we were as healthy as we planned to be. One of our best players was injured, Selma was injured,” Milinkovic said. “Obviously winning the conference and making it to the NCAA wasn’t accomplished, but other than that I think we had a great season…

“One of our goals was to be a good team and to develop great relationships with each other because obviously the team was new and we had a lot of new girls and they fit in perfectly. And we were really working on team energy and team spirit and I think that was the key to our success this year.”

Ardizzone had similar thoughts, saying their inability to stay in the top 40 or reach the NCAAs “wasn’t for lack of trying.”

“Every year is all about, at the end of the year we can look at wins and losses and some number next to your name,” Ardizzone said. “But for me personally, I look at, ‘Did my team get better?’ And we’re definitely better.”

And as she completed her freshman year, Lawson had only a sense of contentment with the season’s outcome.

“I just think placing third in conference was a huge accomplishment,” Lawson said. “We did really well with what we were given. We really came out and gave it all we had.

“I know personally there’s nothing I can look back and say, ‘I really regret not doing that’ because I gave it everything I had. And I think we all did that.”

Chicago native Lynsey Ciezki, of Medinah, Ill., is a junior at DePaul and plays third base on DePaul’s softball team. Ciezki played on the varsity softball team all four years at Lake Park High School and made the IHSA state tournament with her team three of those years. With a current batting average of .307 this season, Ciezki has 17 RBI, 35 hits and 25 runs scored.

Q: How did you get started playing softball?

A: Actually, my mom always tells me this story. My brother was playing in the front yard one day and was wearing his hat backwards and the next day I came in the house wearing my hat backwards and ever since then I’ve been playing ball.

Q: What has been your most memorable moment on the field?

A: Last year at DePaul we beat Washington in California. They were ranked number one and that was an awesome win.

Photo by Kerri Czopek

Ciezki sets up at third against Louisville on March 30.

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Q: Do you, or your team, have any pregame rituals?

A: In home games, we always dance and let loose before the game. We also always

A chapter in DePaul history closed on May 1 when Selma Salkovic, one of the school’s most heralded doubles players, and Katarina Milinkovic, who finished her career 94-42 in singles, played their last matches in a Blue Demon uniform.

“It was a little sad because it was the last time Katarina and Selma would be playing and what they’ve meant to the program,” said Head Coach Mark Ardizzone. “It was a little sad for me, emotional for me, seeing them play in the last time…I was really glad they got to go out with a nice team win over Marquette.”

Though Milinkovic said she will be returning next season to serve as an assistant coach and be with her “girls,” Salkovic’s time at DePaul is up, as she heads to graduate school in France.

“I’ll miss my team the most,” Salkovic said. “I’ll miss the girls. I’ll miss traveling.

I’ll miss losing and winning. When you lose you cry together, when you win are happy together…I don’t think im going to miss hitting tennis balls, but I’ll miss the feeling of competing and even the pressure.”

Salkovic spent the majority of her senior year injured, causing her to struggle even in doubles play, her self-proclaimed “specialty.”

“So, I’ll try to remember my first three years and the last one I’ll try to remember not as much. I’ll just try to take good things from it,” Salkovic said.

Though she’s satisfied with her many accomplishments over the years, including last season’s team and individual appearance at the NCAA tournament and winning the ITA Midwest Regional, leaving won’t be easy.

“That was my identity, being a part of the DePaul tennis team,” Salkovic said. “Now I’m not anymore, so that’s going to be really hard.”

With the team leaders graduating, it’s up to junior Gia McKnight to step up.

“I think she’s been waiting kinda in the wings behind these guys, especially with some of the superstars we’ve had these last few years, Anna [Redecsi] and Selma,” Ardizzone said. “Really she’s been a great player for a few years, but making that next step to be a big time player in these kind of tournaments was something she needed to do and I think she got a chance to do it this weekend.”

By MEGHAN BOWER

play with an invisible basketball before games.

My family and I always go there when they come here for a game.

Q: Do you think you will be playing softball after you graduate?

A: I don’t know. I want to, but it depends on how next year goes. I will be coaching for sure, but I don’t know if I will be playing.

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: I would say Polish food.

Q: What is your favorite thing to do outside of school and softball?

A: Well, being in Chicago I like to go shopping. I like to go to Millennium Park and just hanging out around the beach.

Q: What are you majoring in?

A: Physical education.

Q: Why did you choose DePaul?

A: I really like the atmosphere here...it’s great. The city of Chicago is the best.

Q: What is your favorite professional sport to watch?

A: I would have to say baseball. I’m a Cubs fan for sure.

Q: Do you have any favorite places to eat in Lincoln Park?

A: Lou Malnati’s is probably my favorite.

Q: What is your favorite movie?

A: “Sweet Home Alabama” is up there.

Q: What is your favorite T.V. show?

A: “One Tree Hill.”

Q: Do you have a favorite book?

A: I am actually really into Nicholas Sparks right now, so I would just say that I enjoy him as an author a lot.

Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

A: I’ve already been to Hawaii, but I would definitely go there again. I liked the beaches and the atmosphere. It’s different than here.

Q: What do you plan on doing after you graduate next year?

A: I want to coach. That is my number one goal. Then probably become a P.E. teacher. If all goes well.

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“Title IX” continued from back cover That plan ultimately comes from DePaul Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto, who said their strategy early on was to have at least one more women’s sport than men’s. Currently there are 15 sports teams: seven for men, eight for women.

In total there are 313 participants, 165 of which are female (52.7 percent) and 148 of which are male (47.3 percent) according to the most recent figures reported to the Department of Education. Those numbers count players who compete on multiple teams—such as a cross country athlete who also runs with indoor and outdoor track—as more than one participant. Not counting the duplicates, women make up 116 of the 214 total individual athletes (54.2).

The school’s female undergraduate enrollment during the same reporting period (from July 1, 2009 to June 31, 2010) stood at 54.4 percent of the 13,172 full-time undergraduate students.

Since DePaul has historically had about 55 percent female enrollment, Ponsetto said, the tactic of keeping one more women’s team than men’s team has worked well.

“The department of education gives you a 3 percent leeway, but we’ve always fallen within the 3 percent,” Ponsetto said. “I don’t tell enrollment management who to enroll. I don’t tell them how many men or how many women.

We get the numbers from the Office of Institutional Planning and Research, and we just try to make sure that we’re within that 3 percent variation.”

It is a job made a little bit easier partly for one reason: DePaul does not have to deal with the great imbalance caused by a Division I football team.

The maximum number of scholarships available to a division I football team is 85, good for the largest roster in college sports—not to mention the walkons, which can push the number even higher.

Because of sheer numbers, proportional compliance can be difficult for schools with football programs, since no women’s sport has a roster even close to that size.

That can make juking the numbers in order to comply with Title IX—like, say, counting male practice players as female athletes—tempting. Ponsetto said

Complying with Title IX

she understands the other schools are in a difficult predicament, but fundamentally has an issue with doing it herself, even if it is technically legal via a loophole.

“I don’t philosophically think that that’s the appropriate way to manage Title IX, but at the same time I’m not in their situation,” said Ponsetto, who played basketball at DePaul as one of their earliest Title IX athletes. “I recognize that a lot of sports—volleyball, and sometimes soccer and certainly women’s basketball—use male practice players to try and really provide an opportunity for all the student-athletes to engage against higher level competition as opposed to playing against themselves. There’s a good fundamental reason for why coaches do it.

“But I wouldn’t use it as a strategy to count, to meet any sort of Title IX guidelines. I don’t think that was the intention or that was the spirit of the law. But I recognize again, you’re talking about two places that do it that have really good-sized football rosters that probably go for 100 student athletes, so if that was what the law intended, was to allow, to provide that loophole, I’m not in

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Photo by Brianna Kelly

We're talking civil rights here. Gender is a civil right just like color is a civil right, just like ethnicity is a civil right.

-Doug Bruno

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a position to really question it. I would just say that I wouldn’t look for DePaul to comply with the law in that way.”

Some schools will also add students to rosters that can be easily expanded, despite some of the participants never competing.

Cross-country and track are two of the most popular targets for that kind of over-stuffing. “[O]ur rosters are very, I think are very much in line with what you would need for the sport to be successful,” Ponsetto said. “We don’t have a gigantic men’s or women’s track program. We have student-athletes who can compete at the Division I level and could

Bruno, seen here against Georgetown earlier this season, began his women’s coaching career in the 1970s. earn marks in the Big East conference, and so we haven’t looked to pad numbers by just having a bunch of people come out for tryouts to pad numbers.”

Statz said the type of number manipulating that occurs “absolutely” goes against the intent of fairness, and that she was surprised it was going on.

“It doesn’t really pass the common sense test to me,” she said.

Bruno called the number games “ludicrous” and said the concept is often difficult for people to grasp because NCAA athletics is a male-dominated industry. Out of the 342 Division I athletic directors, only 32 were women according to the 2009-10 NCAA race and gender demographics report.

“We’re talking civil rights,” he said. “Gender is a civil right just like color is a civil right, just like ethnicity is a civil right. It’s amazing how hard it is for people—specifically men—to grasp

that gender is the same civil right as what should be provided for African Americans. People get that—they don’t always agree with it, but they get it. And yet, gender is a civil right. And men can’t even see it.”

According to Bruno, the spirit of the law is being violated to meet self-imposed restrictions on roster size.

Subsequently, people are losing the opportunity to get a specific type of education that cannot be duplicated in the classroom, such as working through adversity and teamwork, he said.

“Title IX is not about a quota,” he said. “It’s a declaration that it’s a civil right for a woman to be educated through sport…The opportunity to be educated through sport is at the core of what Title IX is in the component about sports.”

That equal opportunity is something Ponsetto made clear the athletic program takes very seri-

While DePaul complies with Title IX via proportionality, there are other ways for an institution to provide equitable opportunity.

The first is by demonstrating a “history and continuing practice of program expansion” for women.

“Some of the cases have shown that you have to literally be adding sports within the last five years,” said Kathryn Statz. “You can’t have added women’s soccer in 1995 and say, ‘We have a history of expanding sports.’”

The second option is for the school to “fully and effectively accommodate” female athletes.

“That’s the one that’s the most controversial because it’s so subjective,” Statz said. “The Bush administration tried to suggest to the Office of Civil Rights that schools could kind of develop a survey, and that that could be widely used to show accommodation.”

However, Statz said since the survey would generally use students already enrolled in the institution as its respondents, it was not a very good representation of whether needs were actually being met.

“Very few schools use it because it’s just not very…you don’t feel very certain,” Statz said. “It’s way too vague.”

ously.

“It’s very much who we are as an institution, which is about accessible opportunity to a high quality education, and the same would be true for any component of the civil rights statute,” Ponsetto said. “I think DePaul would really welcome putting in place whatever strategies were really necessary, not only because it was mandated by law, but because it’s the right thing to do.”

“Yniguez defines defense” continued from back cover been one of her biggest strengths. No matter where we put her defensively, she had done a great job. She probably is defensively as good of a player as we have ever had.”

The high point of Yniguez’s career came at the end of last season when she was named first team All-Big East and batted .291. She knocked in 36 RBI that year, hit seven home runs which tied for second on the team, and was 3-3 on stolen base attempts.

This season, however, she has struggled at the plate and has not equaled her offensive output of last season.

Alex Morocco, a senior outfielder, said she knows the team can rely on Yniguez to come through even when she is having difficulties at the plate.

“When she is not hitting, she steps up her defense and plays that much better,” Morocco said. “We have been playing really great defense and she is our leader on defense.”

As great of a softball player as Yniquez has been over the years, she has also been able to maintain being a great student at the same time.

Each season, she has been selected to the Big East All-Academic team, while studying within the College of Commerce.

Along with her academic success, Yniguez is viewed as being a leader to many of the younger

members of the team.

“Coming in as a freshman, it is really hard,” said freshman first baseman Megan Coronado.

“Brittney is one of the people who makes you feel welcome. On the field, she lets you know what’s going on. She is a really good leader on the field and off the field.”

Yniguez said: “I try to be a role model all the time. Whether it is with my sister, or younger players in general.”

That attitude has allowed for some of DePaul’s younger players to flourish under Yniguez’s tutelage.

DePaul has won 15 games in a row and seem primed for a run deep into the postseason as they head into the Big East tournament May 12-14 in Louisville, Ky. And with the playoffs still coming up, Yniguez said she knows she still has plenty of time to shine.

“I am struggling, but I try to keep my head up high knowing the postseason is coming up,” Yniguez said. “Hopefully I can come through then.”

According to Lenti, Yniguez is working hard and taking the right approach.

Photo by Brianna Kelly “She just tries to make the most of the opportunities presented to her,” Lenti said. “The next Yniguez, left, gathers up the infield for a meeting during a 13-2 opportunity to do well is the next opportunity.” five-inning loss to Louisville earlier this season.

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“Men’s tennis” continued from back cover the loss, finish up strong…our goal was to win. We didn’t expect to lose in the first round. We expected to be competitive in the semifinals.”

Hartman was not the only disappointed Blue Demon, as the loss resounded throughout the team.

“We were looking too much forward to Louisville in the semifinals and Notre Dame in the finals, but especially Louisville in the semifinals,” said junior Matija Palinic. “And we kind of underestimated St. John’s a little bit, thought they were just going to give it to us and they came out hungry, ready to play right away…we were kind of a little bit slack.”

According to Hartman, the team was simply not ready mentally for the battle put up by St. John’s.

The cold and windy weather conditions also played a role in the team’s struggle at the outdoor match, according to senior Bartosz Jozwiak.

“I didn’t think we were ready yet to play outdoors,” Jozwiak said. “Although most of the team looked pretty well outdoors, still I think a lot of us were struggling with serving and just playing outdoors is just different.”

However, Hartman said no excuses could be made for the Blue Demon loss.

“St. John’s played well and they won the match,” Hartman said.

“We didn’t give it to them. They deserved to win the match. They faced the wind too. It’s not like we were the only one with the wind against us.”

But the disappointing loss could have been worse, according to Jozwiak.

“When we played against St. John’s, it was a very painful loss, but in spite of the fact, we gave ourselves a chance,” Jozwiak said. “And my colleague, my teammate, Ben [Hartman] gave us the hope. I lost my match real quick and I think, I just want to recognize that he came back from

Week in Review Softball (36-11, 17-1) 4/30 – DePaul swept UConn at their home doubleheader, winning the first game 4-2 and the second 9-1 in five innings. Kirsten Verdun pitched the first game, walking no one, striking out 10 and allowing only five hits, though two UConn batters did score homeruns. Verdun, Alex Morocco, Sarah Shizas and Lindsey Dean all scored for the Blue Demons.

Dean started in the circle for the second game, striking out three, allowing three hits and walking one.

The Blue Demons had a team total of 15 hits, with a solo homerun in the second by Samantha Dodd.

5/1 – The Blue Demons faced UConn for the third game of their series and claimed a close 2-1 win. Verdun gave up nine hits and walked none, while Dean earned her third save of the season after remaining hitless in 1.1 innings. Megan Coronado and Brittney Yniguez scored back-toback runs off errors. The win was DePaul’s 17th conference victory.

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Jozwiak, who went 22-12 in singles this season and 79-53 in his career, hits a volley. [behind]…He gave us the hope and that’s what really matters. We were real, real close. It could’ve been a bad loss, but it was a very, very close loss.”

Though things did not go their way and the team was feeling down on themselves, according to Head Coach Matt Brothers, they were able to bounce back and finish strong with a 4-0 win against the UConn and a 4-2 victory over Marquette to claim fifth.

“We finished on a good note, a positive, good note for our seniors who both got a chance to contribute to the win [against Marquette] and go out feeling good,” Brothers said. “Erase part of the nightmare of the St. John’s match, if you will.”

Though the team was unable to accomplish their goals of winning the Big East, the season was not for nothing.

“We reached a program high of No. 47 in the country and to be honest, when you look back at some of the matches, the close matches that we lost, it was several, two or three of them came down to tiebreakers in a third set that just didn’t go our way,” Brothers said. “Had two or three of those matches gone a different way, gone in our favor, we very well could still be playing.”

The only two teams that truly beat the Blue Demons, according to Palinic, were New Mexico, a 6-1 loss, and the University of South Florida, also a 6-1 road

loss.

“I think that was one of the toughest things because as the season drew on, we see like, if we’d won a match here or there, we could be in a completely different spot,” said Hartman. “And it was tough to keep going to practice every day, especially when it was waiting for conference and then at conference we had a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform well there.”

But for Brothers, the hope is that the close calls will only help the returning players.

“It just makes you stronger,” Brothers said. “You just kind of take that experience and hopefully turn it around the next time you find yourself in that situation.”

still some who move to Chicago and take pride in supporting other hockey teams.

“I’ve been a Canucks fan ever since I lived there,” said Kait Taylor, a DePaul senior who lived in Canada from 2002-04.

“

I've been a Canucks fan ever since I lived there [Canada]...I don't mind seeing the Blackhawks fans hurt a little.

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-Kait Taylor

Taylor is one of the few who has yet to fold under the pressure of all the Blackhawks fans in Chicago, whether they were born and raised or are new fans of the team. The pressure to support the Chicago hockey team gained momentum during this season’s playoffs and disdain for the Canucks and their fans only increased after the close series.

“I enjoy it,” said Taylor. “I don’t mind seeing the Blackhawks hurt a little.”

Even for those who do adapt to Chicago sports culture and begin to support Chicago teams, a divide still exists between them and native Chicagoans. During the hockey playoffs, it seemed that more and more people began watching the games and cheering on the Blackhawks, which caused “true” fans of the team to become defensive.

“They think they know a history of a team,” said Danielle Owen-Giller, a DePaul senior who has lived in the Chicago area her entire life. “But, they’ve never really experienced it.”

While it may seem that those who are from out of town are faced with either sticking out by staying loyal to their hometown teams, or not being fully accepted if they do support the Chicago teams, some have found a healthy alternative.

“I’m from Alabama, and I still follow the Crimson Tide now that I’m in Chicago,” said Hakmiller, who lives in Wrigleyville and occasionally attends Cubs games. “I found a group of Alabama friends living here that get together during the games, but when my family comes to visit we’ll go to Cubs games. It’s nice to have a balance.”

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Wednesday 5/11

Men’s tennis (18-9, 3-2) 5/1 – The Blue Demons placed fifth in the Big East conference, after losing their first-round match 4-3 to St. John’s, who came out strong taking the doubles point. DePaul easily took UConn 4-0 and finished the tournament with their sixth straight win over Marquette, this time a 4-2 victory.

5/1 – DePaul finished in third at the Big East conference. The Blue Demons beat Rutgers 4-2 in the quarterfinals before facing No. 43 USF. The Bulls came away with the 4-0 victory after taking the doubles point and winning their first three singles points, knocking DePaul out of the semifinals. DePaul then beat Marquette 4-3 after senior Katarina Milinkovic clinched her singles match.

Track and field 4/30 – DePaul’s Tim Nedow and Melissa Fraser each placed first in two events. Nedow had a shot put throw of 18.33m, a season-best, and a discus throw of 52.43m. Fraser claimed first in hammer with a throw of 55.73m and a season-best distance of 51.74m in the javelin.

Alanna Kovacs came in second in the javelin with a throw of 46.38m.

With a season-best time of 47.57, Tonderai Tomu took first in the 400m dash, while Edin Pasalic placed fourth with a season-best time of 48.05.

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5/5 – The Blue Demons won their 16th straight, this time on the road with a 2-0 victory over Illinois. The win streak is the longest since 2007 when they won 20 in a row. Dean was again the winning pitcher, tallying four strikeouts, zero walks and giving up three hits. Both Lynsey Ciezki and Coronado scored on RBI

by Allie Braden. Only four errors have been made by DePaul in the past 16 games.

Women’s tennis (15-11, 6-2)

“Transplant fans” continued from back cover their hometown friends.

“I enjoy cheering on Chicago teams since many of them are rivals with St. Louis teams,” said Charlie O’Donnell, a St. Louis native who moved to Chicago to go to DePaul. “It provides me with competition between me and some of my friends back home.”

O’Donnell made it a point to state that, although he adopted the Blackhawks culture, he’s “definitely not a complete Chicago convert” and doesn’t follow any other Chicago teams.

“I started following the Bears once I moved,” McNeal said. “The Bears are right here, so I can go to games or even just sports bars and have other fans around me. I still watch Browns games, but everyone I know has been paying more attention to the Bears lately, so it’s just easier.”

According to DePaul senior Tory Hakmiller, of Mobile, Ala., people seem to pick up interest in the Blackhawks first.

“I don’t know if it’s because they’re good, or maybe they just don’t have hockey teams back home,” Hakmiller said.

Unlike O’Donnell and the rest of those riding on the Blackhawks bandwagon, there are

5/4 – DePaul tallied another 9-1 home win in just five innings, this time against Northern Illinois. The Blue Demons had seven hits and five RBI. Dean allowed right hits, walked three and struck out two.

Thursday 5/12

Friday 5/13

Saturday 5/14

Sunday 5/15

Big East Quarterfinals

Big East Semifinals

Big East Championship

Louisville, Ky.

Louisville, Ky.

Louisville, Ky. Chicago Penultimate Chicago, Ill.

• DePaul’s Assistant Director of Athletics Academic Advising Jill Hollembeak will be inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in August.

Last Chance Qualifier Louisville, Ky.

• Former women’s basketball Associate Head Coach Nicci Hays-Fort was named head coach at Colgate Univ.

• Softball’s Lindsey Dean, pitcher, and Allie Braden, second, were named to the Big East Honor Roll.

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Defense defines Yniguez

By MATTHEW SCHWERHA You’re only as good as your last game.

That is the motto stressed by DePaul shortstop Brittney Yniguez.

A senior on the DePaul softball team, Yniguez had her struggles this season, but continues to be a team leader who Head Coach Eugene Lenti and her teammates can lean on.

“Even though she has struggled offensively this year, she really has kept her focus and helped the team the best she can,” Lenti Photo courtesy of said. “She DePaul Athletics Brittney Yniguez is not hitting like she has in the past, but she is doing a great job driving in some key runs and sacrificing runners along.”

Yniguez grew up in Fontana, Calif. and chose to come to DePaul to prove to herself she could live out on her own.

“I wanted to feel the whole independence thing,” said Yniguez, who is currently batting .162, with one home run on the season. “DePaul was perfect.

I wanted to come to a smaller school and the softball team was good. I fell in love with the atmosphere of Chicago.”

Once becoming acclimated and getting used to a new city, Yniguez began to be the vocal leader and a stalwart of the team. As a freshman, she started 45 of the 55 games she saw action in and since then has started in no fewer than 53 games in a season.

“Obviously she has been a great player for us,” Lenti said.

“She has been a very versatile player for us. That’s probably

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DePaul remains compliant without the questionable counting tactics other schools use

By SHAYMUS MCLAUGHLIN Sports Editor

During the basketball season, Doug Bruno likes to have his women’s basketball team practice against male players. He has been doing it since the 1970s and called it a “common practice” for programs around the country, since the team gets accustomed to an opponent that may be more physically gifted.

“Players get better when they play against more talented players,” Bruno said. “If the NBA could find, or if Coach Purnell could find seven guys to practice against that are better than his current guys, you do it. In women’s basketball, the level of talent [on DePaul] is tremendous, relative to the comparison female-to-female.

“Males tend to be quicker, faster, stronger.

The quicker, faster, stronger male makes the women have to play at a stronger, tougher

pace, and prepares them for playing against very tough female teams.”

However, The New York Times recently reported that some schools—including Duke and national champion Texas A&M—were not just using the male players for practice, but were also counting them as official school athletes.

And not just any school athletes, but as female athletes.

“No,” said Associate Athletics Director Kathryn Statz when asked if DePaul counted male practice players as female athletes.

“We figure if you’re a male, you should be counted as what your gender is.”

The schools manipulate their roster numbers this way in order to stay compliant with Title IX—part of the landmark 1972 Education Amendments that prohibited sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal financial aid.

“Schools have a responsibility to comply with the law. Title IX is a law, which states that women must be provided the same educational opportunities as men,” Bruno said.

“Schools must comply in order to receive federal funding. And one of the methods that schools choose to use is to eliminate male sports or gerrymander their accounting system—which is what’s going on with male practice players.”

Part of Statz’s job is overseeing the athletic program’s compliance department—making sure all the rules are being followed.

That includes complying with Title IX, which can be done in one of three ways: Displaying a history and continuing expansion of programs for women’s sports; fully accommodating the demand for women’s sports; or, DePaul’s choice, which is keeping athletic participation proportionate to the school’s undergraduate enrollment.

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Transplant fans deal with Chicago sports

By KIRBY FOOTE Chicago is known for being one of the biggest and best sports cities in the world, offering Chicagoans the opportunity to be a part of the histories, rivalries and traditions of many successful professional teams. For those from out of town, conflicts may arise whether to succumb to the Chi-

cago sports teams and culture or to stay loyal to one’s hometown teams.

With such a large portion of its student body being made up of people from cities other than Chicago, the question of which team to root for is one many DePaul students have to face.

For most, a balance can be found rather easily by paying at-

tention to both the home teams as well as the Chicago teams, unless of course the two cities play each other.

“If anything, moving here just meant I had more teams to root for,” said Will McNeal, 26, who is originally from Cleveland, but moved to Chicago three years ago. “I still follow Cleveland teams and now I have Chicago

teams too, so it’s just more opportunities to get involved. When Cleveland plays Chicago, I usually rep for the Cleve, especially for basketball.”

While some opt to proudly sport their hometown jerseys and form rivalries against their Chicago friends, others take the opportunity to join the Chicago bandwagon and face off against

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Tennis teams end season on different notes First-round loss not what men expected

Third place a positive after difficult season

By MEGHAN BOWER

By MEGHAN BOWER

With a 16-8 record and seeded fourth, the No. 60 DePaul men’s tennis team had high expectations for their performance at the Big East Championship on April 29-May 1 at Notre Dame. But after a close 4-3 loss to St. John’s in the first round, their fourth 4-3 loss this season, hopes of winning conference quickly disappeared.

“Well, it was a disappointment,” said senior Ben Hartman. “It wasn’t what we wanted, expected. We were able to bounce back, handle

As a young team plagued by injuries with high expectations after last season’s dominating performances, the DePaul women’s tennis team felt the pressure to remain among the best at the Big East Championship on April 29-May 1 at Notre Dame and came away feeling good.

“I was extremely happy with our performance at the Big East,” said junior Gia McKnight of taking third at conference. “We did a lot better, I thought we performed a lot higher than we had been previously, leading up to it. Everybody was

Assistant Sports Editor

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Ben Hartman, above, leaves with

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Katarina Milinkovic, above, went

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