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Whole Foods opens in the old Dominick’s location Wednesday, page 3

Employees at the new Whole Foods DePaul location prepare for the store’s opening Wednesday, Feb. 25. This is one of the first Whole Foods to open in a former Dominick’s location.

Amid outbreaks, students opt out of vaccines New provost announced

By Julian Hayda Contributing Writer

It’s a quarterly process. Students meet with advisors, learn which classes are needed, register, pay tuition and repeat.

It’s straightforward, almost habitual.

But that process is interrupted for many DePaul students every quarter as they’re met with a hold or warning on their account.

Apart from financial holds, DePaul is required to verify students’ immunization records and can penalize those who have not met Illinois’ minimum immunization requirements. While most students have to prove they’ve been immunized, a growing movement against vaccination means some students risk contracting and transmitting certain diseases, such as measles, that have been spreading recently.

DePaul can prevent students from registering for classes and bar them from basic services on Campus Connect if they don’t prove they are immune to measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, and diphtheria, which are prevented by the MMR vaccine and tetanus shot, respectively.

“We are an institution that resides in the State of Illinois and must comply by [state] requirements,” said Susan Janick, DePaul’s immunization coordinator for the Office of Student Records, in a recent email.

Despite the vaccination requirement, immunization codes allow DePaul to let students enroll without their required vaccinations if they or their parents have religious or philosophical reservations to immunization.

According to the Centers for Disease

By Brenden Moore News Editor

you should not have access to public facilities,” Dr. Bart Barrett, M.D. a family physician, author, and Christian preacher from Orange County, California said.

Barrett published a viral blog piece on his website in January about one of his patients, a child, who died of measles because his parents had a moral opposition to vaccination.

“The decision not to be immunized is not just a decision that affects the individual in question, it affects the society and people around them that is then exposed to those diseases,” Barrett said.

Religious exemptions to medical procedures used to only be a First

The DePaul Board of Trustees elected Marten L. denBoer as the new provost, for the university announced last Wednesday.

DenBoer, who is currently the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will assume the role of provost on July 1 replacing interim provost David Miller, the dean of the College of Computing and Digital Media.

“The feedback we received from the deans, faculty and staff leadership showed overwhelming support for Dr. denBoer,” said Board Chair William E. Bennett in a release.

“There was a unanimous vote of the trustees to select him as DePaul’s next provost.”

During his visit to campus denBoer said the university’s mission drew him to DePaul.

“I have admired from afar as DePaul’s academic quality has risen over the past decade even as it remained faithful to its Vincentian values. I am honored and thrilled to have the opportunity to join such a vigorous and creative intellectual community,” said denBoer in the release.

DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M cited denBoer’s extensive administration and leadership experience, including previous experience as a provost.

“Dr. denBoer comes with significant experience as an academic leader, having served as provost and associate provost in previous appointments,” Holtschneider said. “His past work with faculty to support

See VACCINES, page 8

See PROVOST, page 5

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Boxes of the measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine (MMR) and measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine inside a freezer at a doctor’s office.

Control and Prevention (CDC) the “anti-vax” movement is connected with a recent outbreak of measles, a disease thought to be eradicated in 2000. Measles infected 644 people in 27 states last year, and the number of cases continue to rise this year.

A recent non-scientific poll conducted with 162 DePaul students on the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses found that 28 percent of students share believe immunization should be optional to university students.

“It’s never good to force anybody to do something they don’t want to do, or spend their money on something they don’t want,” Myles O’Hare, a senior finance major said.

“If you do not want to vaccinate, then

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First Look INSIDE THIS ISSUE The DePaulia is the official student-run newspaper of DePaul University and may not necessarily reflect the views of college administrators, faculty or staff.

News

Opinions

Arts & Life

Sports

Chinese New Year Gala

Lying for fame

The hidden coffee shop

“Marco” water polo

At one of DePaul’s annual events, students rang in the Year of the Goat with authentic food and entertainment. See page 6.

Is the punishment for NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams enough? See page 12.

The new Asado Coffee location right on DePaul’s Loop campus is in fact rich with history. See page 17.

The adolescent club sport flexes its muscles at their first tournament. See page 28.

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Whole Foods Market employees learn how to make the Neopolitan pizzas a week before the store opens. The store features several grab-and-go options on the first floor.

Whole Foods Market opens Wednesday

By Grant Myatt Managing Editor

After sitting empty for more than a year, DePaul’s go-to grocery store on campus comes back to life this week.

With the official opening set for Wednesday, Whole Foods Market will fill the void of the on-campus grocery store since Dominick’s closed Dec. 28, 2013. Each Whole Foods location is customized to fit the needs of the community and this location aims to provide convenient options for students.

“I know a lot of the DePaul students were kept in mind when developing this store,” said Allison Phelps, a Whole Foods spokeswoman.

“But we didn’t want to forget about the other parts of the community—there’s commuters, families and even faculty and staff.”

Compared to Lincoln Park’s other Whole Foods Location near North Avenue, which spans 77,000 squre feet, the compact DePaul location at 959 W. Fullerton Ave. is only 29,600 square feet. Despite its smaller size, the store has still has everything that a typical location offers.

The first floor is designed to include grab-and-go options including many of prepared foods, while the second floor is more of a typical grocery store layout with other items for a pantry or refrigerator. This location also includes a few firsts for Whole Foods including a to go coffee window along Fullerton Avenue and a taqueria—something that no other locations in the Midwest have.

“The Cuban-inspired taqueria is a first for any of our stores. We’ve done ones in the past, but we wanted to draw more of a Latin flavor as opposed to a Mexican style,” said Matthew Mell, the executive coordinator for purchasing at Whole Foods. “We know that in this area both students and the folks who live in Lincoln Park are really big on food trends and trying new stuff, so they usually are more adventurous.”

The coffee window will open early and feature a limited menu with coffee, tea and some pastries. The coffee bar uses La Marzocco espresso, although specific prices were not set during a visit to the store last week.

Another highlight is the Red Star Bar on the store’s second floor. This space, complete

with many tables, is the perfect spot to grab a beer or glass of wine. It will also feature an exclusive Fullerton Stop beer as well as cut cheeses.

All new Whole Foods locations take a standard 12 to 15 months to rennovate before opening, Phelps said. The Fullerton store was gutted completely down to a cement floor so they could start with a fresh canvas.

Blue accents are prevalent throughout the store to acknowledge DePaul, including pieces of an old DePaul basketball floor used throughout for decoration. But not only is each store visually customized, the products also vary from each Whole Foods location.

“Each store has its own buyers and specials,” Phelps said. “So what sells at one store might not sell at another store, and so they’re able to customize the product that you see to that community and based on the demands from that community.”

A common concern for many DePaul students is price. However, Whole Foods has their Everyday 365 Value brand, which is more reasonably priced compared to products from other suppliers. But for those students looking to shop at Whole Foods on a budget, their in-store team is available to give complementary value tours to help find the right food on a budget.

Kristen Harris, the store’s marketing and community relations specialist, said she wants students to know that they can shop at Whole Foods on a budget by focusing on some of the different value items. Over the past few weeks, she worked to connect with the community through the store’s social media accounts and create some excitement.

“I really wanted the community to feel like this was their store, so I did the best to understand and see what people in the area cared about,” Harris said.

The store’s to go coffee window will conduct practice runs prior to opening on Monday and Tuesday where guests can try one 12-ounce beverage between 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m. The beverages are free, but they ask guests to make a voluntary donation to the Whole Planet Foundation.

Whole Foods opens Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 9 a.m. The first 500 people in the store will receive a gift card ranging between $5 and $50, with one special $500 gift card.

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An artist works on one of the handmade signs for the new Whole Foods Market DePaul location at 959 W. Fullerton Ave. Each Whole Foods location is customized specifically for the demands of the community that it’s located in.

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A map depicts the layout of the second floor to help shoppers find there way. Each Whole Foods store has its own graphic artist, and all of the in-store signage is made by hand and created specifically for that location.

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REBEL WITH A CAUSE

Challenger Caroline Vickrey pushes for development reform in 43rd Ward

By Brenden Moore News Editor

Lincoln Park is at a crossroads.

While not facing as severe of problems compared with crime-ridden and economically depressed South and West side neighborhoods, the wealthy residents of the lakeside neighborhood have engaged in heated conversation over issues such as development and education.

Incumbent Ald. Michele Smith has an extensive record that has won her praise as well as criticism. While Smith could very well win on the first ballot, it is no guarantee.

And it will certainly not happen if Caroline Vickrey, Smith’s strongest challenger, has anything to do with it.

Vickrey, who supported Smith four years ago, broke ranks after she said the alderman broke campaign promises with regards to development, specifically the project at the former Children’s Memorial Hospital site on Lincoln Avenue.

“As soon as she was elected, she started talking about building a crossroads and the language she started using was immediately different,” Vickrey said. “Instead of getting the neighborhood groups that should have on board at the very beginning and should have been expressing their opinions, and she should have understood where they stood right at the beginning of the process, that was left to the very end.”

Despite never having run for public office before, Vickrey has held her own throughout the campaign. Perhaps it’s the attorney in her. Or the Local School Council member. Or maybe the Oz Park advisory council president. Whatever the case, Vickrey knows the neighborhood through and through and has suggested that it distinguishes her from the other candidates.

Raised in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood, Vickrey made a point of staying in the city she loves, settling in Lincoln Park 22 years ago and with her husband and raising their three kids here.

“I wanted to be closer to my husband’s work, downtown, my work, it was an easier commute and then really it was the schools,” Vickrey said. “We started out a Park West co-op, which is a great nursery school and a neighborhood institution where lots of

people send their kids.”

“We fell in love with the pre-school, and then we started at Lincoln Elementary School, our kids started there, and we did consider moving at one point, but then we just really loved the school and it was great,” she said. “We decided to work and to improve it.”

Education is an important issue for Vickrey. She was elected four times to the Local School Council at Lincoln Elementary, served as the PTA president and coached tennis for a number of years.

This sets the stage well for the aldermanic election, where education is arguably the second-most important issue of the campaign after development. At the center of the debate was the Lincoln School annex secured by Smith. While alleviating overcrowding at the school, many, including Vickrey, argued that there was a better way forward.

Smith, who is extremely proud of her record on education, said that the annex was necessary and that without it, another area school would be transformed from a magnet to a neighborhood school.

“My opponent’s alternative was to shut down LaSalle Language Academy. That’s what she wanted to do,” Smith said. “By shutting it down and turning it into just a neighborhood school, it would have resulted in 350 children of color who come to our neighborhood for school to lose their chance to go to LaSalle Language Academy.

It was a very serious issue and a seriously wrong position for her to take.”

Vickrey, however, vehemently denies those assertions.

“The alderman likes to portray me as being anti-education and wanting to kick kids out of schools, which is flat out wrong.

It’s just incorrect,” she said.

According to Vickrey, her position is that the discussion should have started with the CPS plan to demagnetize LaSalle given the close proximity of the school to Lincoln, and that an honest discussion should have been held on “how can we preserve the LaSalle magnet program, but also help Lincoln.”

“She knows that I didn’t want to shut down LaSalle and that’s because I came and spoke to her extensively about my solution and my proposal, which by the way, she

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Caroline Vickrey speaks at an event in January at DePaul during her campaign against 43rd Ward incumbent Ald. Michele Smith. never got back to me and never gave me a response,” Vickrey said. “And that’s kind of what a lot of people experience when they have dealt with her in the past.”

This is an important point to Vickrey’s campaign. While she fully acknowledged that her, Smith and the other candidates are not too far apart on broader citywide issues, style matters — and she believes that Smith, who the Tribune endorsed but acknowledged that she must work with people better, does not have the proper touch.

In the case of the Children’s site, Vickrey said that the process would have gone by much faster and would have been less controversial if she were running the show.

“There were lots of public meetings, and that’s great, but at some point you have to synthesize all of the different opinions,” Vickrey said. “And I don’t envy that job, I don’t that it’s easy, but the way that you do it is through some sort of semi-democratic process of saying that these neighborhood organizations have been around for a while, they represent a large group of people, and they kind of represent kind of a unified voice for the neighborhood.”

Vickrey, who was endorsed by the

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scholarly initiatives and his attention to the development of degree programs for students that adapt to market needs are exemplars of a tested leader.”

Faculty were pleased with the appointment as well, with many praising his past experience and his commitment to research.

“Faculty I talked to were not surprised,” Professor Kevin Stevens said. “What it came down for many was that he had been a provost before and had managed difficult times.”

Cal Poly Pomona is a public university with more than 22,000 students, and denBoer has served as the provost for the past seven years.

The university faced huge budget challenges over the years given the state of California’s education system.

Despite having to adjust to a tuitiondriven model, many faculty are confident that denBoer will adjust to DePaul.

“DePaul’s mission is very clear and it resonates with him,” Stevens said. “And he grasps how that mission is central to everything we do.”

Sun-Times, said that her favorite part of the campaign has surprisingly been doing events as well as going door to door and talking to voters, who “rejuvenate” her. This is probably needed given the negative state of the race, which she dislikes the most.

“What I don’t like is sitting next to people at a table and talking about why I think they’ve done a terrible job,” Vickrey said. “It’s not fun, it’s not in my nature, but I do have to explain to people who don’t pay as close of attention as I do what has gone wrong in the past four years.”

Vickrey did this by maintaining a hectic schedule of holding two events everyday up until the election for the past week, trying to convince Lincoln Park that it’s time for a change.

In her spare time, Vickrey enjoys spending time with her family, especially doing things outside. They love visiting national parks and actively utilize the lakefront trail for long bike rides. A huge DePaul basketball fan, Vickrey is a friend of Coach Doug Bruno. She hopes to build a solid relationship with DePaul if elected.

At the very least, Lincoln Park has a choice to make between several qualified candidates.

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Marten denBoer from Cal Poly Pomona University will start as DePaul’s new provost in July.

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Chinese dragons duked it out in the Student Center at DePaul’s sixth annual Chinese New Year Gala. Authentic food and entertainment helped students ring in the Year of the Goat.

Bringing in the Year of the Goat

By Lauren Awtry Contributing Writer

Over 250 students, faculty and members of the DePaul community packed the Student Center to celebrate the annual DePaul Chinese New Year Gala co-hosted by the Chinese Studies Program and the Center for Intercultural Programs on Thursday evening.

The event kicked off with traditional Chinese food and then moved into a period of cultural performances with an intermission of Chinese New Year trivia, leaving nothing but smiles on the faces of the attendees.

Alexa Reghanti, a sophomore majoring in International Studies, was one of many DePaul students who came to show her support for the Chinese Studies program, to enjoy the cultural festivities and to eat the free food, which was an added bonus.

“I think it’s really nice that DePaul can host an event like this” Reghanti said. “I was adopted from China and went to an all-Chinese immersion school, so a lot of the culture that I learned about the Chinese New Year and tradition was all through the academic lens and I am really excited to continue that at DePaul,” Reghanti said.

DePaul has hosted the event since 2009 and it was started by Professor Li Jin, the director of the Chinese Studies Program as an extracurricular activity for students who were taking Chinese language courses.

“It then sprawled and grew into this large-scale university-level cultural event,” Jin said.

“This event provides a perfect opportunity to make our international students from China feel included and build connections between friends with Chinese heritage and those interested in Chinese culture and society,” Jin said.

Junru Wang, a first-year international graduate student from China, shared her feelings about being away from her friend on China’s biggest holiday.

“It sucks that I am not at home, but I am really grateful that DePaul had this wonderful event,” Wang said.

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ABOVE: Students sample food catered from Sweet Station, a restaurant from Chinatown. RIGHT: The meal included beef and broccoli, orange chicken, fortune cookies, la dofu, chow main and sesame balls.

A common tradition of the Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year as some refer to it, is to celebrate with immediate family and close relatives. In the Asian culture, this holiday is a celebration that lasts around two full weeks and is a time when people take off of work or school in order to go home to celebrate with their families.

Nina Wang, a DePaul alumnae and one of the performers at the Gala, compared the Chinese New Year to how American’s celebrate the Thanksgiving and Christmas season and said, “No matter where they are (referring to family), they always come back home.”

Food is another Chinese tradition that seems to be a key factor in ringing in the New Year. At the Gala, the local restaurant, Sweet Station, served common favorites such as beef and broccoli, orange chicken, fortune cookies and more traditional dishes such as

la dofu, chow mian and sesame balls with red bean paste.

When asked what her favorite part of the holiday was, Sara Frankiewicz, a sophomore Chinese studies major, said, “I love the firecrackers, the lion dance and definitely all the food. My favorite is the spicy tofu.”

Not only did the food spark conversation throughout the night, but the “Year of the Goat” controversy did as well. There was much speculation over whether the official Chinese zodiac animal is a goat, sheep or ram. Even Google added to the confusion by displaying a graphic on their site on New Years day that appeared to some as a sheep.

Frankiewicz said the Year of the Goat is a bad year and most people don’t want to be a sheep or a goat. However, another DePaul student, Alex Nguyen, a junior majoring in

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secondary education, said, “When it comes to the goat, they are very caring, very durable in terms of personality wise, but they are also very shy.”

Whether the zodiac sign brings good or bad luck, and whether it is actually a goat, a sheep or a ram, one thing is for sure: DePaul will need a bigger space to hold the event for next year because of the sizable turnout.

In her opening remarks, Jin said, “My New Years resolution is to find a bigger place for next year’s celebration.”

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Appointed vs. elected school boards, a city debate

By Eric Traphagen Contributing Writer

Elected school boards for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) remains a highly contested issue going into Tuesday’s mayoral election. Many Chicagoans are unhappy with the condition of the city’s public schools and all four of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s opponents support a change to the 20-year-old referendum giving the mayor power to appoint school board members to four-year terms.

The board is responsible for the finances, governing, and organization of CPS. So, the members of the board of education have profound impact on the policies and direction of CPS. William Sampson, DePaul Chairman of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences said electing board members does not guarantee that the public’s values will be represented accurately.

“There is no assurance that board members will know anything about education or finance,” Sampson said.

“Since the mayor will be held accountable for school performance, he or she will want to control the education process for which he or she is held accountable.”

Having the ability to appoint members to the school board also comes with the accountability for the board to be run well. In addition, the mayor can appoint members that work best for his or her view for the direction the city should head.

Aside from qualification, in order for

a school board to function at its fullest, the members of the board should have a diverse background and different areas of expertise.

“Elected boards, just as appointed boards, require a broad range of skilled individuals to be successful,” Horace Hall, a DePaul Educational Policy and Research Studies professor, said.

“Not every member needs to be from the financial district, nor should board elections turn into popularity contests, where voters ignore the evaluation of a contender’s qualifications,” Hall said.

Need for a diverse and highly skilled school board, combined with the fact that elections do not guarantee that the most qualified candidate will be elected, make mayoral appointments seem the right way to go. Then why are the four candidates challenging Emanuel’s seat in favor of elected school boards?

Elected school boards have their advantages.

“One of the major advantages of an elected school board is that it can bring all citizens closer to issues surrounding public education and criticality voice our needs and concerns,” Hall said. “This ideally breeds civic engagement and support.”

The main issue seems to be the balance between keeping the community’s concerns and involvement at the forefront of educational policy while simultaneously ensuring that the board has diverse and qualified members.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel (L) has battled mayoral candidates (L-R) Willie Wilson, Bob Fioretti, and Chuy Garcia on Chicago’s policy of a mayor-appointed school board.

Dina Portnoy, the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s Director of Senior Fellows program said “the governance of public school districts can by a highly contested arena.”

Portnoy spent 25 years teaching in Philadelphia, which also has appointed school board members like Chicago. She believes that at their core, public schools are democratic institutions.

“There has to be some way that people who are concerned with schools, people who are knowledgeable about education,

but also people who have the interests of the diversity of parents and community members are serving on school boards” Portnoy said.

While Emanuel maintains newly elected governor Bruce Rauner is not in favor of changing the 1995 referendum.

Emanuel’s opponents and some of the top minds in the teaching profession would like to see more community involvement in the direction the city and nation’s education is headed.

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LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS FEB. 11 1) A liquor control act / marijuana smell report was filed in Munroe Hall. No drugs were found, but liquor was located and emptied.

FEB. 13 2) A criminal damage to property / verbal threats report

was filed regarding an incident involving a bicyclist and a motorist near the Lincoln Park Campus.

3) A criminal trespass arrest was conducted at the Student Center. Offender had received prior trespass warnings.

FEB. 14 4) A liquor control act report was filed regarding an

intoxicated person in the lobby of Munroe Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic by EMT.

5) A liquor control act / marijuana smell report was filed in Munroe Hall. No drugs were found, but liquor was located and emptied.

LOOP CAMPUS FEB. 11 6) A criminal trespass warning was issued to an

intoxicated person on the DePaul Center Plaza. Subject left the premises.

FEB. 12 7) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a person

who had made inappropriate comments to people in the bookstore.

FEB. 13 8) A theft was reported in the DePaul Center. The

complainant’s property was taken from their pocket by an unknown offender.

9) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a person at the DePaul Center entrance.

FEB. 13 10) An aggravated assault report was filed regarding a person on the public sidewalk near the Daley Building, arguing with various people, eventually producing a replica hatchet. Chicago Police responded to the scene and placed the offender under arrest.

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While there are no conclusive statistics about how many Americans believe vaccination is either dangerous or not effective, Google trends show that searches connecting vaccination to adverse side effects reached an all-time high this month.

Anti-vaccination-related topics began to be searched in late 2007 and early 2008.

Students at DePaul can request a vaccination exemption in DePaul Central, where students manage financial aid and other enrollment issues. After explaining why they object to traditional means of immunization, students submit the form to the Student Records Office for review.

According to the code stated on the form, “the religious objection may be personal and need not be directed by the tenets of an established religious organization.”

The DePaulia’s first attempt for exemption was rejected on the basis that the objection to vaccination was not sufficiently explained. A second attempt, with only a few more lines outlining the student’s belief that they had the right to their own body, had enrollment holds dropped and immunization requirements waived overnight. A Supreme Court case in 1905 between the State of Massachusetts and a Catholic family ruled that an objection to compulsory vaccination can only be claimed under the right to freedom of religion, and not out of a fear for the safety of the practice. Illinois’s law meets federal protections to freedom of religion halfway.

“There’s a compelling obligation to

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protect citizens from the negligent acts of other citizens,” Barrett said.

This gets at a concept known as herd immunity, which is defined by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases as a point “when a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease, (and as such) most members of the community are protected against that disease because there is little opportunity for an outbreak.”

Concepts like herd immunity justify governments’ rationale for allowing some members of the public, like those with weak immune systems or religious objections, to not be vaccinated. However, when a critical portion of society has not been immunized, a communicable disease can spread, mutate

and potentially infect people who had been vaccinated with an older strain.

“There’s a lot of people who believe that diseases like measles and whopping cough have been eradicated an think it can’t happen to them,” Nella Sanders, a special education major said, coincidentally after her infectious diseases class.

According to the CDC, measles are transmittable to 90 percent of people who are not immune to it, and that vaccination is 97 percent effective at preventing its transmission. According to the concept of herd immunity, diseases like measles can be eradicated by the sheer statistical improbability of contracting an infection if enough people are immune.

The World Health Organization puts

the herd immunity threshold for measles at 83 to 94 percent, meaning that around nine out of 10 people need to be immune to eradicate measles in a given area. The recent outbreak of measles suggests that many parts of the country have fallen below that threshold, though all 50 states do mandate vaccination for most students enrolling in public and private schools.

Halyna Shepko, a clinical herbalist and educator from Hudson Valley, New York, said vaccines are not the only way to achieve herd immunity.

“Prior to vaccination, cycles of natural infection added to the herd’s immunity,” Shepko said. She suggested that a healthy diet, a natural lifestyle and a habit of breastfeeding after birth help build a child’s natural immunity to diseases.

Shepko’s main reservation with vaccination is not with their effectiveness, though she doubts that too. She doesn’t believe the ingredients are safe to inject into the human body.

“Many people don’t realize that all vaccines carry a smorgasbord of ingredients that increase chances for illness and even death,” Shepko said.

“Most doctors do not want to question authority or challenge professional organizations and licensing bodies, such as state medical boards, the very organizations that develop and enforce vaccines mandates,” Shepko said. “Citizens around the world are easily manipulated by doctors and politicians who are engaging in fear mongering to push forth agendas that have more to do with power and corporate profits rather than health.”

The Journal of Pediatrics published a study in July that compared 20,000 studies to find that the side effects of vaccination were negligible compared to the risk of diseases they prevented.

“Elvis is dead. The world is round.

Vaccines are safe,” Barrett said.

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A state of confusion

Alabama gay marriage controversy highlights conflict between state and federal rights

By Megan Deppen News Editor

Federal law always trumps state law, except by minute technicalities. With state courts taking the lead on same-sex marriage rights, some states resist these changes even when they come from the federal level.

On Feb. 9 the Federal District Court found Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, which would have meant the state would have to allow gay couples to attain marriage licenses. That morning, however, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore issued an order in response that prohibited probate judges, who issue marriage licenses, from serving gay couples.

According to Moore's order, since the federal district case was brought against Alabama's attorney general, who does not hold jurisdiction over probate judges, it was still unconstitutional for probate judges to grant samesex marriage licenses.

"Justice Moore’s original ruling, that the probate judges don’t need to follow (the federal district court) decision is correct, but only in the most technical sense,” DePaul law professor Jeffrey Shaman said.

Whether judges followed Moore's order showed mixed results. As of last Wednesday, about two thirds of Alabama’s 67 counties issued same-sex marriage licenses while the rest of the counties either permitted only heterosexual couples to marry or didn’t issue licenses at all.

“This is a pathetic, last-ditch attempt at judicial fiat by an Alabama Supreme Court justice — a man who should respect the rule of law rather than advance his personal beliefs,” Human Rights Campaign Legal Director Sarah Warbelow said in a press release Feb 9. "All probate judges should issue licenses tomorrow morning, and Chief Justice Roy Moore ought to be sanctioned.”

"Though technically correct that federal district courts don’t have direct impact on the probate judges when the case was brought against the attorney general, all couples have to do is file a lawsuit against the probate judge in the federal court," Shaman said.

"Once (probate judges) have been to a second lawsuit where there’s absolutely no question (of issuing the marriage license).

There’s not even a technical argument against it,” Shaman said.

The Alabama Department of Public Health planned to release revised same-sex marriage certificates to the probate judges on Feb. 6 and Moore said in his order that using these new documents would “confuse

Gay marriage supporters rally in front of the probate court of Mobile, Alabama.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has led the efforts to oppose federally ordered gay marriage in the state. the system” and decrease the efficiency of state record keeping. "(Moore) is just trying to score political points," DePaul law professor David Franklin said.

Moore is often referred to as "The Ten Commandments Judge" after multiple lawsuits were brought against him over the span of 20 years for hanging a handcarved tablet of the Christian guiding principles. Critics said many of his judgments were founded on his conservative principles and ruled unfavorably against the gay community.

Despite Moore's resistance, Shaman believes the Supreme Court will rule in favor of granting

same-sex marriage across the states.

According to Freedom to Marry, an organization promoting same-sex marriage trials in the Supreme Court, 37 states have legalized gay marriage and the rest have legal cases pending.

Goodridge vs. the Department of Public Health in Massachussets in 2003 was the trial that permitted same-sex marriage for the first time in a state.

"In the last 20 to 25 years the number of state courts have taken the lead in recognizing certain kinds of rights before the supreme courts have done so," Shaman said.

Resistance by Moore to accept the ruling have drawn comparisons to the state's conflict in the Brown vs. Board of Education case during the Civil Rights movement.

"This sort of struggle between federal and state judges has happened before. The most obvious example had to do with school desegregation," Shaman said.

"There was massive resistance in a number of southern states to that decision," Shaman said.

"State and federal conflict arises every so often."

Shaman cannot determine exactly what will happen if

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same-sex marriage is legalized nationally, but he expects there will be resistance.

"Some people are very opposed to this sort of thing," Shaman said. "Some segments of various communities in souther and other states are very opposed to this."

"But I don't think resistance could be very effective because if the states refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, all you have to do is go into federal court and the court will direct them to issue the same-sex marriage licenses," Shaman said.

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Income driven payments spark student loan revolution

By Rachel Hinton Copy Editor

The student loan crisis is one many students are all too familiar with, as the daunting question “how will I pay back my loans?” looms over the collegiate experience as students go further into debt every academic year.

The question may already have an answer, though it isn’t well known yet. Income-Based Repayment plans, or IBRs, are a way for students to pay back their federal loans in a way that correlates payment amounts to the income of the borrower, reducing the anxiety of repayment.

The plan’s most recent changes cap payments to 10-15 percent of disposable income, rather than a fixed monthly payment that could have been as high as 20-25 percent of disposable income, which may help to solve the crisis for in-debt students and ease the possibility of properly paying off loans.

A 2007 law brought about IBRs; repayment terms were more generous, monthly payments were capped at 15 percent of income and the living expense deduction was raised significantly. By including more students into the IBR plan, those who earn less pay less and won’t have to worry about default if they can’t pay.

“This is a brilliant idea. It’s the second optimistic move I’ve seen that is helpful for all people,” John Berdell, DePaul professor of economics, said. “Most Americans have limited means to insure against unforeseen problems like sickness or losing income and tying these payments reduces the risk that adverse conflicts will hurt us.”

Former President Bill Clinton created a new loan option in the

1990s, adapting the initial plan from the 1960s that allowed students to borrow directly from the Department of Education and be eligible for an incomebased repayment plan. Payments were limited to 20 percent and any balance not repaid was forgiven after 25 years. The 2007 implementation of IBRs only further aided indebted students.

Shelley Mesch, a junior transfer student studying journalism, has $70,000 in combined debt, which includes a Parent PLUS loan. She likes and supports IBRs, given that repayment is a worry many college students face.

“Growing up it’s understood that not a lot of people can really pay for college,” Mesch said.

“Everyone goes in debt, but (a degree) is something you have to have to go on to get a good starting job.”

Plans in other countries, like Australia, factor in the idea that not everyone gets to make it to college. The country adds a supplemental tax onto the incomes of those who go to university, according to Berdell.

“We’re doing something similar to that with this program,” Berdell said, referencing Australia’s plan.

“Australia’s system is much more attractive to those making these big decisions and for those who may be first generation college students and are afraid of debt. Our plan shows that people of limited means no longer have to be limited by the borrowing program or the debt they incur.”

As a solution to the debt crisis, not enough is known about whether or not the plan will be successful for all students, but it is a step in the right direction.

Making higher education more public — like what President

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National student debt burden in the United States has undoubtedly grown in the last two decades.

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Students often find it difficult to balance financial and academic responsibilities.

Obama recently proposed to do with community college — as well as paying attention to the inequality gap, were all recommended ideas.

“It’s not an immediate solution, but it is something worth pursuing,” Mesch said. “Capping repayments would decrease the amount of anxiety our generation

faces. This could help society get over the idea that repaying (loans) is worth more than college itself.”

Texas prison uprising highlights concerns over inmate medical care

By The Associated Press As many as 2,800 federal prisoners will be moved to other institutions after inmates seized control of part of a prison in South Texas, causing damage that made the facility "uninhabitable," an official said Saturday.

Ed Ross, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said the inmates who had taken control are "now compliant" but that negotiations were ongoing Saturday in an effort for staff to "regain complete control" of Willacy County Correctional Center.

"The situation is not resolved, though we're moving toward a peaceful resolution," FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said Saturday evening.

It wasn't immediately clear what progress had been made through the negotiations, but Sheriff Larry Spence said there were no hostages involved in the standoff and only minor injuries reported.

Spence said the inmates "have pipes they can use as weapons."

Management & Training Corp., the private contractor that operates the center for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said about 2,000 inmates became disruptive Friday because they're upset with medical services

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The exterior of Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, where prisoners rioted on Feb. 20. and refused to perform work duties.

MTC spokesman Issa Arnita said in a statement that prisons officials have begun moving the inmates and that the process would continue into next week.

Arnita said prison administrators met with inmates Friday to address their

concerns but that the prisoners "breached" their housing units and reached the recreation yard. The Valley Morning Star reports fires were set inside three of the prison's 10 housing units.

Authorities say about 800 to 900 other inmates are not participating in the

disturbance. The inmates being held at the facility, which is in far South Texas more than 200 miles south of San Antonio, are described as "low-level" offenders who are primarily immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

"Correctional officers used non-lethal force, tear gas, to attempt to control the unruly offenders," Arnita said in the statement.

No inmate breached two perimeter security fences, and there's no danger to the public, he said.

The large Kevlar tents that make up the facility were described in a 2014 report by the American Civil Liberties Union as not "only foul, cramped and depressing, but also overcrowded."

The report said that inmates reported that their medical concerns were often ignored by staff and that corners were often cut when it came to health care.

Brian McGiverin, a prisoners' rights attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said that he was not surprised inadequate medical care could ignite a riot. He said medical care is grossly underfunded in prisons, especially in ones run by private contractors.

"It's pretty abysmal with regard to modern standards how people should be treated, pretty much anywhere you go," he said.

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Opinions

No one is safe

Jordanian people refuse to let fear dictate their lives

By Tom Rietz Contributing Writer

Throughout the past month, developments of the JordanianISIL hostage crisis have gone from tense to brutally violent. Tensions between Jordan and the international terrorist organization have escalated to such a high point that Jordan has committed a violent bombardment of ISIL’s occupied territory. Iranian figures report that Jordan’s increased military capabilities have “destroyed 20 percent of the fighting capabilities of (ISIL),” showing how one can expect the Jordanian government to respond to the extremism and non-negotiation of hostages.

This threat was the public execution and conflagration of Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, a pilot in the Jordanian Royal Air Force.

Though this barbaric stunt is in line with the terrorist group’s previous actions, al-Kasasbeh is the first Muslim man who has been killed on display, raising questions about the group’s sectarian mission. This invariably counteracts with the group’s objective of creating a sweeping Muslim state and has significantly hurt the group’s image amongst other Islamic extremist groups.

Questions have been raised

as to what the motivations were for the Islamic State to act in such a way, and if they are truly organized enough to present a legitimate and longstanding claim on its place in the international community. Not only has the act of burning al-Kasasbeh alive negatively impacted the recruitment of Jordanian peoples, but ISIL’s killing of British hostage David Haines on Sept. 13, 2014, caused a severe decline in the membership to the group from the U.K. and nearly all parts of Western Europe.

Due to the mishandling of hostage negotiations, which led to the failure of cooperation in a deal and the killing itself, ISIL has seen a significant hit to its credibility, legitimacy and overall strength of leadership. According to ABC News, after being interrupted in a conference and given a briefing of the news of the video, President Obama said, “I think we’ll redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of our global coalition to make sure they’re degraded and ultimately defeated. It also just indicates the degree to which whatever ideology they’re operating off of ... it’s bankrupt."

ISIL’s actions have failed to cause fear in the hearts of the Jordanian people, and it has

caused a new nationalistic backlash to emerge out of Jordan. The recent war powers resolution laid out to the hands of Capitol Hill made it clear that the United States was responding in the same fashion, echoing sentiment from the Japanese, British and French governments, all whom have lost citizens and soldiers to ISIL. This recent attack reduces the criteria for who is an acceptable ISIL execution candidate, meaning that any citizen worldwide is eligible to be treated in an inhumane and barbaric fashion. These are international threats that must be addressed through the usage of military force, lest it go uncontained and continue to escalate the death toll of innocent lives.

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Jordanians travel to southern Jordan Feb. 6 to pay respects to the family of Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, the pilot burned alive by the Islamic State after his plane crashed in late December 2014.

The high price of lying for fame

By Sharon Lavin Contributing Writer

Journalist Brian Williams’ falsified war story hit home for many Americans.

Williams told the American public on multiple occasions that he was hit by enemy fire in 2003 while riding in a U.S. Army helicopter. His lie led to a six-month suspension from NBC Nightly News and a ruined reputation for himself and the network.

This past month, it was revealed that his helicopter was not the one hit by enemy fire, but rather the helicopter that was ahead of his. Fabricating minor details may be one thing, but there is no overlooking this huge aspect of the story. Williams was caught in a tough spot where he was called out for his lying.

People with high power want to please their audiences, which causes them to exaggerate their tall tale stories to make them more appealing. Why does the power of fame give people such strong urges to lie?

And what is the appropriate punishment?

A person who is popular in the media does not want to tell a boring story. They must keep things interesting in order to stay ahead of their competition. Many of those who are a part of the press neglect to think that the stories they tell in private are also stories that can easily be revealed to the public. Williams is supposedly known for telling

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Brian Williams is currently serving a six-month suspension from anchoring the NBC Nightly News for embellishing his wartime combat experiences. exaggerated stories in private, but nevertheless was looked highly upon as a journalist and news anchor.

Williams’ exaggerated stories were once known as part of his personality. However, his exaggeration and joking has now put his job in jeopardy. A Washington Post article by journalists Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham and Paul Farhi quoted multiple NBC journalists anonymously because they were warned not to speak publicly.

One NBC journalist described the event as painful. “I can’t tell you how much it hurts.

We all worked so hard at establishing our credibility, and it feels like our credibility has been badly damaged. People are angry at Brian.”

It is clear that Williams’ falsified war story didn’t just affect himself, but his whole network. The media is a tough realm and any individual mistake can have a domino effect on the network as a whole.

The Washington Post also reported that the NBC journalists “were not surprised by the allegations that Williams had inflated his involvement in news stories and what he supposedly witness while on assignment.”

Roig-Franzai, Higham and Farhi reported, “(the NBC journalists) said his exaggerations were an open secret at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and became an inside joke, mostly because they were not made on ‘Nightly News.’”

The New York Times reported that

NBC Nightly News, hosted by Williams, was drawing in around 9.3 million viewers a night. Williams had a large and loyal fan base. With his suspension set at six months, it is hard to predict how NBC will proceed from here on out. New York Times reporters Emily Steel and Ravi Somaiya said, “Six months is a long time to disappear from the television landscape, and analysts said it would be difficult for him to re-establish himself as a viable nightly presence.”

Fabricated stories are something that the average person may oversee in casual situations. However, Williams knew how many people listened to his stories and should now experience the consequences of his actions.

Jack Schafer from Politico Magazine said, “Journalists are paid to be more vigilant than civilians about the stories they tell.” We should be able to trust reliable journalists to feed the media true and hard facts about any given situation.

Williams should have thought more about NBC’s reputation before he exaggerated his story. His reputation wasn’t the only one on the line.

His punishment may have been a suspension of six months, but he will never become the same well-liked and trusted man that Americans tuned in to every night.

Nor will his fellow journalists ever respect him as a reporter again. That seems to be the worst punishment there is.

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TURNING BLUE DEMONS RED

By Nicholas Oviatt Contributing Writer

The city of Chicago needs a swift kick in the butt. Get the guillotines set up in Grant Park and all of the city officials rounded up.

Incompetence, cronyism, socialism, inequality and pride are all pushing Chicago into chaos and foreseeable disaster.

This is a citywide and culture-wide problem. Democrat, Republican, Green Party member, Marxist, millionaire, homeless person, mother, retiree, gay, lesbian, bisexual or whatever label you call yourself, I am here to say it doesn’t matter.

No one really cares. Why is there this need to label everything?

Here in the city of Chicago your party label shouldn’t dictate your ability to win an election, yet it does. Anyone seeking to run as a Republican would be shot down before they could even get their pants on.

I have talked to three of the candidates running for alderman: two in the 43rd Ward and one in the 2nd Ward, and all of them would have considered running while registered as a Republican, but said the risks associated with such a “label” were too high.

Likewise, the vast majority of students at DePaul would never even consider voting for a Republican. The culture in Chicago has grown so vain, intolerant and incompetent that it is a wonder how Chicago still calls itself a world-leading city.

Voting Democrat in every city mayoral election since 1927 does not represent informed decision-making; it is reckless decision making. It is just another sign of this city’s unwavering obedience to its

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political machine.

Unless Republicans like losing all the time, you would think they would have adapted to this losing streak. And in fact, they have.

Recognizing the overwhelming social liberalism present in the city, the Chicago Republican Party has moved to address the most pressing issues facing everyday Chicagoans: the fiscal issues. Beyond this, and being mostly free from the city’s crooked political machine, they have sought to find the truth.

The truth is, most people are more interested in real solutions, not political games aimed at solely winning elections.

The truth is, most people don’t care all that much about gay pride parades or organic coffee beans.

Yet, it seems that only the “party slaves” turn out to vote in Chicago’s elections. The reason is because instead of

appealing to the individual, politicians are busy pleasing factions, unions and other special interest groups. People have become concerned with beating others, rather than uniting them.

Then again, that’s usually what you get when you cast a vote for a party that lives and breathes collectivism and total obedience from its electorate. But for Republicans, a group whose roots are in Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Federalist Party, they seek to empower individuals of all backgrounds.

Now I will admit, there are hypocrites in every political party. But, we should not let that discourage those with good intentions.

The time is now for us to come together in all of our diversity and shake off the shackles our malevolent leaders have thrust upon us. It is time for the labeling to stop, and it’s time for the real

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tolerance and solution building to start.

As one candidate for alderman said, it doesn’t matter what your political party is when you need your garbage picked up or when you have a rat problem. The only thing that matters is that you have a good government there to help you, regardless of whether or not you elected them.

For Chicago’s Republican Party, they understand the need to prioritize. While the city is debating new park projects, some city schools go without art or music classes. It’s time to stop the wasteful and inefficient spending on powerful unions, unnecessary park projects, oversized bureaucracy and crony backroom deals.

The Republican Party wishes to give every business in Chicago a fairer, more competitive tax rate. It is Republicans who are rushing to give students in all communities top-notch schools; but unfortunately, due to the rigidity of unions, it is forcing them to open up charter schools.

The Republican Party does not wish to toss aside government. Rather, we simply have come to the conclusion that it is government itself that is the problem in this specific case.

City Hall is only serving itself and its friends, and Republicans will use everything in their arsenal to stop this. You can be sure that common sense Republicans will do everything they can to expose the truth for what it is, one of them being that pennies don’t fall from heaven.

Anybody who unwaveringly supports a “label” has become an enemy of the freedoms and liberties that this nation has so tirelessly bestowed upon its individuals. We, as one large and diverse community, must remain steadfast to our principles in times of great change and choice.

The controversial movie brings more laughs than shocks

By Heather Slawny Staff Writer

On a very lucky Friday the 13th, a movie theater was filled with nervous audience members, nervous energy and pretendingnot-to-be-nervous giggling.

Everybody took pictures of their movie ticket — seeing a movie like this without telling anyone would be creepy.

That’s right, I exchanged legal tender to see the infamous new movie, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” on its opening night.

To be frank, the movie was funny and certainly not on purpose. The awkward screenplay effectively paralleled “Twilight” — a fan-fiction from which this controversial franchise was born in the first place — and the audience often laughed at the movie more than with it.

Jamie Dornan probably tried his best to portray the vague Christian Grey, who has an ambiguous job that pays well but requires little to no work, and who has no discernable personality traits other than an unsettling mean streak.

Unfortunately, Dakota Johnson, who plays Anastasia Steele, chose this film to reveal her surprising talent. According to film critic A.O. Scott’s New York Times review of the movie, “Anastasia’s portion of the dialogue is more likely to be funny on purpose,” making the movie a bit more bearable.

Both the book and its movie have received scrutiny for their content — to such an extent that petitions were created boycotting the movie.

A popular petition on Life Petitions by Jonathon van Maren pointedly attacks BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, Sadism and Masochism), saying that if someone consents to violent acts such as being “slapped” or “whipped” during sex, “it makes it legal (perhaps)” but not any less “disgusting or violent.” His readers agreed.

The irony in this is that feminists are officially telling women what they are and are not allowed to enjoy during sex.

A dominatrix, B.O. Kane, commented in a review of the

movie on The Daily Beast that “the majority of dominant/submissive relationships begin online or after meeting at a fetish event.” Not all who enjoy BDSM are forced into it through an abusive relationship, like Ana, and in this respect, the film incorrectly portrayed a fairly unknown topic.

Although controversial to some and alien to most, BDSM is not inherently bad. Scott said in his review, “sex is a knotty business, perhaps all the more so when actual knots are involved.” If anything, “Fifty Shades of Grey” has untied some of these knots for the public, making kink more acceptable and less foreign.

What deserves scrutiny is that the knots on Ana’s wrists are tightly bound to an abusive relationship widely considered as romantic.

Christian is controlling. He follows Ana wherever she goes and tells her what she can or cannot eat, drink and do. He clearly pressures her into his alarmingly “unconventional desires” and is thrilled by her apparent inability or lack of motivation to stand up for herself. He also introduces Ana to BDSM, which of course must be

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“Fifty Shades of Grey” opened at the box office Feb. 14. the most glaring issue.

Yet, the movie is still considered erotic and romantic by most of its fans. This would be less of an issue if the film, which earned $81.7 million by the end of its opening weekend, didn’t grow to more than what it is: a really, really bad movie made from an equally amateurish novel.

Hopefully, “Fifty Shades of Grey” has a minimal impact on what women expect from relationships. Hopefully, men don’t take its boyfriend tips. And hopefully, society can still see abuse and BDSM as two different things.

Whether or not “Fifty Shades of Grey” will change the world, we can all expect a sequel soon.

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

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Focus

MARCHING THROUGH TIME Despite advancements in civil rights, many issues remain unchanged

By Vanessa Bell Contributing Writer

It was after midnight on May 16, 2010, when the Detroit police raided a house in connection with a murder. According to reports from CNN, the officers threw flash grenades inside to distract the residents. At some point, officer Joseph Weekley opened fire and the person on the receiving end of the gun was 7-year-old Aiyana Jones. Jones didn’t survive her injuries, resulting in a city filled with outrage. The story garnered national attention and spread across the Internet and social media at lightning speed. All of which pushed it into a new, lightly tapped arena­—hashtag activism.

The shooting happened on a Sunday.

By Wednesday, organizers from other cities had already been checked into their hotels to protest. But, 41 years prior in the winter of 1969, things went a little differently. On Dec 4, 1969, the Chicago police raided a home on the 2300 block of Jackson Boulevard on the West Side of Chicago. Black Panthers and civil rights activists Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were killed by police officers who fired over 90 shots at Hampton alone.

Police worked up a statement alleging that Hampton and Clark shot at the officers first.

Where today offers camera phones, ‘69 only offered word of mouth.

Vivian Vaughn was the liaison between the community and city for the Urban Progress Center in Chicago during the time of Hampton and Clark’s death and said that she remembers how the police tried to cover up what happened in order to defuse any potential riots.

“Normally, (the police) would clean something like this up and make it seem

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in 1963. Protests in the 1960s consisted of neighborhoods coming together to make a change. like something completely different happened,” Vaughn said. “We marched around his house and made sure they didn’t get a chance to change it and people could see how the blood hit the wall.”

The organization of protests that would follow events like this usually started with a lot of research. Organizers would gather information and create flyers and pamphlets.

“A lot of times there was no money for printing, so people would draw the flyers over and over and post them in the community,” Vaughn said.

The flyers would be a call for people to meet up, usually at a church. During the meetings, they would inform citizens of their rights, the law and how they were being denied these freedoms by the government.

Similarly, hashtag activism allowed for modern organizers to create digital flyers

and post them online, making everything a click away. Following the verdict for Trayvon Martin — an unarmed teen killed in Florida — protester Armani Lee said he found out where to meet up on Twitter.

“I was already downtown when it happened,” Lee said. “I was with some friends and we heard about the verdict and saw that everybody was meeting at Daley Plaza for a peaceful protest.”

Protests, and the development of them, have evolved in many ways. With the increased access of technology and information to the public, it has been easier for the emotion and meaning of social issues to travel across the world while the wounds are still fresh. History is more accurately documented and is recorded in real time.

However, this also ushers in a reality and seriousness of injustices that can be baffling to people who haven’t fully grasped how much

hasn’t changed about the way the world works.

After the news of Michael Brown’s death by police in Ferguson, Missouri, hashtag activism reached new heights. Protests started almost immediately and as the days followed, the crowd grew with people from other cities coming in to support. Celebrities like Kerry Washington, John Legend and Big Boi from Outkast were instrumental in getting the word out to people faster by tweeting about Ferguson to their millions of followers.

Nancy Davis, associate professor in DePaul’s School of New learning emphasized the importance of being critical when looking at what news organizations are printing about the protests, as they can be dangerous.

“They’re corporate owned,” Davis said.

“You really have to scrutinize what you see.”

This is why many people turned to

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“Hands up, don’t shoot,” became a phrase synonymous with the Ferugson protests after the shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014. black owned news outlets and radio stations throughout the 1960s.

Before any reports of rioting and looting, police officers were already using teargas and rubber bullets to stop the protesters.

Word traveled across the globe via Twitter and resulted in people from the Middle East tweeting Ferguson demonstrators tips on how to ease the pain of teargas on the eyes.

Eventually, a campaign was started online by people on the ground to collect funds to feed the protesters and equip them with gas masks while they were out.

A few contributions turned into the creation of the organization Operation Help or Hush, which currently funds a support system for protesters. Frankie Shields who marched with Civil Rights activists after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said she didn’t know of any organizations like this in the ‘60s. If a person wanted to protest, they’d take their own lunch.

“People feel like, ‘If I’m out there protesting, you should support me,”’ Shields said. “If you can’t stay out there and protest, take a lunch, go home and let the next shift come in.”

Shields said that there would be times when the neighborhood would get together or there would be meetings at church where people cooked, but nothing that was in place for feeding everyone every day. This could be, in part, because of how slowly news traveled from city to city about what was going on.

Vaughn said she was actually surprised at how quickly and accurately word spread about Hampton’s death throughout the city and how the media covered it. In cases like Jones’ and even Tamir Rice—a 12-year-old gunned down by the Cleveland police— word spread fast with images and live reports from citizens in the community. For Hampton, like most issues in the ‘60s, the community had to rely on meetings and journalists.

Jeffrey Haas was one of the first reporters to arrive at the scene of Hampton’s murder in Chicago. Haas was a crucial figure in getting the truth out about the FBI’s well thought-out plan to kill Hampton. “They

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Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose wears an “I can’t breathe” shirt supporting Eric Garner, who was killed in July 2014 from a chokehold by a NYPD officer. were on it,” Vaughn said, “(The journalists) weren’t biased and they were able to prove that the police killed that man on purpose.”

Publications like The Chicago Daily Defender, Memphis Tri-State Defender, Bay State Banner and many more were the primary sources for African-Americans to get their protest news. As evident from the titles, all of these outlets were local. “(They were) locally owned, so the people who owned them really knew what was going on, on the ground,” Davis said, “and now we don’t really have any of those vehicles.”

Vaughn said the negative headlines of the ‘60s movements didn’t matter to them, but in 2014, these headlines sparked uproar.

The photos used in Mike Brown’s coverage prompted the trending topic #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. Using this hashtag, Twitter and Instagram users posted two pictures of themselves, one with a positive message and one with a negative message. Within hours, the topic started trending worldwide.

“A person doesn’t have to dress a certain way or look a certain way to not be killed by the police,” Jason Perez, national co-chair

for Black Youth Project, said.

The discussion on social media didn’t stop at #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. It continued with “Black Lives Matter”—the current motto for the protests following Brown’s death. In a seemingly new world, there are people of all shades and walks of life who are joining together on the issue of police brutality. However, with more people who aren’t black coming together, the saying has been shifted to “All Lives Matter,” a saying that Perez said is horrible.

“We’re trying to make a political point to say that black people have to do all these other things in order to matter,” Perez said.

“Shouting ‘all lives matter’ over that is terrible.”

Shields said this is nothing new and that people from other races would step in and try to overshadow the movement even in the ‘60s, so she agreed that the slogan should stay the same.

“We don’t need you to come along and say ‘all lives matter,’ we understand that,” Shield’s said, “but right through here, black lives are being targeted.”

However, Shields thought that putting too much emphasis on this issue derailed the real meaning of the protests.

“Unlike the children of today,” Shields said, “we knew that even though they were unkind to us, we needed what they had to offer.” Vaughn also believes that the solidarity amongst races is important and is in a better place than it was in the ‘60s.

“They don’t have the same prejudices we had a long time ago,” Vaughn said “Young whites and even young blacks don’t really understand what we went through because they didn’t have to deal with that level of racism.”

But, today’s generation is in fact getting a clearer picture of it themselves. Eric Garner and Oscar Grant were both killed by police officers, and both situations were caught on cellphone cameras and posted on YouTube. Officers in Garner’s case were cleared.

What that presented to this generation was that catching an injustice on camera doesn’t solidify a verdict in the victim’s favor. Yet, organizers still encouraged people to record the police.

“It may not do anything in the courtroom but it changes things for the public,” Perez said.

Lee thought that because of serious differences, protests aren’t as organized as they were many years ago. “There was a lot more camaraderie,” Lee said. “Even though they were going through more brutal attacks, it was more effective.”

Social media is a tool that can be used to build up or break down a movement, despite whether or not the posts come from individuals or news outlets. Regardless of distraction from either one, organization (or at least good coverage of it) can trump it all.

“It seems, to me, that there’s an issue of self-discipline,” Davis said, “nowadays we have an issue of keeping ourselves together psychologically and keeping our focus straight.”

One thing that remains consistent about protests in general is that the fight isn’t over.

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Arts & Life

KNOPE, NO MORE

For seven seasons the pivotal sitcom celebrated love, friendship and womanhood in a delightfully fun way

By Courtney Jacquin Editor-in-Chief

When the penultimate episode of “Parks and Recreation” came to an end last Tuesday evening with Gary/Jerry/Larry/Terry Gergich floating off into the distance in a hot air balloon after his mayoral “inauguration,” I found myself crying on my couch. Maybe it was a lack of sleep, maybe it was somehow caring about Mayor Gergich, but mostly it was realizing that after seven seasons, the groundbreaking comedy was finally coming to an end.

It’s amazing “Parks and Rec” made it this far. The series got off to a rocky start, struggling to find its own and relying too heavily on the techniques of “The Office,” from which the show is a spinoff.

But it found its groove around season 3 when Rob Lowe and Adam Scott were added to the cast, and it became the best comedy on network television and possibly anywhere on TV. It never got the award recognition it deserved, save for Amy Poehler’s Best Actress in a Comedy award at last year’s Golden Globes, but “Parks and Rec” made the TV landscape inhabitable by including different, fresh voices.

It was a show about a woman — a working woman — who was passionate about her job and good at it, too.

Leslie Knope was nothing like any TV character before her. She was smart, driven and loved her job to pieces, but she was never seen as a bitch. Her almost annoyingly bubbly personality made her impossible to hate — most of the time.

In one of this season’s final episodes, after Ben Wyatt

announces his run for Congress, Leslie is expected to partake in a pie-baking contest with all of the other candidates’ wives. Leslie refuses to take part in the antiquated tradition, then changes her mind, then eventually Ben makes his own pie (well, calzone).

In a press conference in the midst of the “controversy,” Leslie addresses the press and protesting meninists (bless you “Parks and Rec” for calling out the ridiculousness of men’s rights) and delivers one of the best speeches in the show’s history.

“I’m now going to give you permanent answers to all the silly questions that you’re going to end up asking me and every other woman in this election over the next few months,” she said. “‘Why did I change my hairstyle?’ Oh, I don’t know, I just thought it would look better. Or my kids got gum in it. ‘Are you trying to have it all?’ That question makes no sense. It’s a stupid question. Stop asking it. ‘Do you miss your kids while you’re at work?’ Yes, of course I do. Everybody does. And then, you know, sometimes I don’t.”

Ben then jumps in and calls out the press for never asking him if he misses his kids while at work or who’s taking care of them, shedding light on how absolutely ridiculous the narrative in which we view women in politics, and beyond, is.

It’s why there have been ongoing, actually serious debates on if Hillary Clinton could be president as a grandmother. It’s why we talk about what female politicians wear during the State of the Union address and couldn’t care less about the color of the president’s tie. It’s why we subject women to the “Mani Cam” on red carpets and ask them which designer they’re wearing while we

ask men what they’re working on next. It’s why we haven’t closed the pay gap between men and women.

Showing real-life feminism in a meaningful way on the show is really a testament to its star, Amy Poehler. In her book “Yes Please,” she explains her philosophy of “Good for her! Not for me.” as a lens for looking at other women.

Women constantly pit themselves against each other and either can’t accept the success of other women, or can’t fathom the life choices they make. It’s when “feminists” balk at women who choose to be stay-at-home moms, when women criticize mothers for going right back to work after having a baby.

“Good for her! Not for me.” is the way to support other women while respecting their choices for how to live their lives, knowing their path isn’t for you and maybe your path isn’t for them.

Leslie Knope is the biggest cheerleader of other women. Leslie’s ridiculous support of her friends is a major running joke throughout the show, but female friendships like this aren’t shown nearly enough on screen, and they’re just as much an important part of feminism as a working woman with children who never has to prove she can’t do both.

“Parks and Recreation” is so many things, and its position as a beacon of on-screen progressive feminism being just one small aspect of what makes it so wonderful. At its core it’s a funny, silly, witty show about small town government with characters so lovable you can’t help but wish they were your friends and family.

After seven seasons they really have become a part of us, and seeing them leave us is hard.

And that’s why I’ll be sobbing uncontrollably Tuesday night.

Must-see episodes “Flu Season”

Season 3, Episode 2

When the flu breaks out in Pawnee, Ann, Leslie and Chris end up under Ann’s care in the hospital. This episode is peak Chris Traeger (Stop. Pooping.)

“The Fight”

Season 3, Episode 13

When the gang goes to the Snake Hole Lounge to try Tom’s new liquor (rat poision), it gets everyone obliterated, leading to a ridiculous fight between Leslie and Ann, Ron dancing in a tiny hat and an appearance from Jean-Ralphio.

“Ron and Tammys” Season 4, Episode 2

When Tammy 1 comes and threatens to take Ron away, the only woman who can stop him is Tammy 0 — Ron’s mom. Leslie gets in the mix and finds herself in a moonshine drinking contest with the two, all while Ben takes on the sinking ship of Entertainment 720.

“Halloween Surprise” Season 5, Episode 5

The Halloween surprise is, of course, Ben’s proposal to Leslie. If you don’t cry when he drops to one knee you’re a stone robot who has no love in your heart.

“Moving Up: Part 2” Season 6, Episode 22

After months of planning, the Unity Concert finally comes to fruition with a better lineup than all other music festivals — The Decemberists, Scott Tanner (Jeff Tweedy), Bobby Knight Ranger (Yo La Tengo), Ginuwine, Mouserat, Duke Silver and a Li’l Sebastian hologram.

The final, hour-long episode of “Parks and Recreation” airs at 7 p.m., Feb. 24 on NBC.

Favorite recurring characters

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PERD HAPLEY

THE TAMMYS

JEAN-RALPHIO

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Chasing the dream Kevin Costner and coach Jim White recall tales of triumph in ‘McFarland, USA’

By Pat Mullane Staff Writer

The last film I can recall that revolved around a running sport was “Chariots of Fire,” which was made in 1981. While Disney’s “McFarland, USA” is far from the same quality as “Chariots of Fire,” it is still an effective addition to the incidental category.

The film follows the true story of Jim White, played by Kevin Costner, and the surprisingly successful cross-country team he created for the school’s community high school in 1987.

During a conference call, both Jim White and Kevin Costner spoke about the adaptation of this inspiring story and what exactly made it so much more than just a sports movie.

While this inspiring tale of a small California high school may be unknown to the majority of moviegoers, Costner said he was actually quite familiar with it before he took the role.

“I remember 15 or 20 years ago, I read a story about McFarland in Sports Illustrated about Coach White, and I was just thinking, ‘Wow, what a great story,’” Costner said. “When I was approached to be in this movie I thought, ‘wait a second, I know

this story.”’

Costner, a California native, revealed he actually played high school baseball against McFarland in the ’70s.

“It’s really become full circle for Jim and I,” he said.

The circle for Jim White, however, started when he moved to McFarland in search of a new teaching job, and eventually landed at McFarland High School. While rich in farmland, the predominantely Latino community was one of the poorest in the state, leaving young men with two options: make their pay by farming or through gangs.

Those who farmed did so before and after school, with running as the only form of transportation between each.

White, who was also the school’s physical education teacher, remembered the first time he sent the boys to run a lap.

“These boys didn't slack off and jog or walk like everybody else was doing. They actually loved to run,” he said. “They'll run for anything, you know.”

After discovering the boys’ indisputable endurance, Jim White grouped together seven boys to create the school’s first cross-country team, the team the film is based on.

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Kevin Costner, left, plays Jim White, a high school cross-country coach who pushes young athletes in a predominately poor community in California in the new movie, “McFarland USA.” “(The film) means an awful lot to the community of McFarland, myself included,” White said.

The release of the film, he said, even caused the city to change its city slogan, which once read, “Heartbeat of Agriculture,” but now reads, “Tradition, Unity and Excellence,” with a logo of a girl running through fields.

For Costner — a familiar face to sports films — the uniqueness of “McFarland, USA” was in its reality, one that Costner made sure the film kept, even initially declining the role until Coach White’s role was written more

accurately. For him, it was the truth behind the film that made it all the more special.

“What you're really watching when you watch a sports movie, you're watching what makes it inspirational,” Costner said. “Just the fact that there’s a level of authenticity about how a person has to go through their day can be very entertaining.”

Though marketed as an inspirational sports movie, Costner and White were keen to express that this film wasn’t just a stereotype.

“It is really, really true to life’s

hardships that the kids had to go through working in the fields,” White said. “That is so important to understanding what they're really going through.”

Costner agreed, stating that there was a reason the title of the film was what it was.

“At its very core, this is not a movie about running. It's not about cross-country,” Costner said. “This movie is really about the American dream and the American dream in McFarland is alive and well.”

“McFarland, USA” is in theaters now.

Asado Coffee offers taste of Chicago history

By Andrew Nunez Contributing Writer

The Loop has changed greatly during the past decades, going from an area full of small businesses and department stores to corporate headquarters and universities.

Many of these buildings look like they were pulled straight from the 1800s, their exteriors a blend of several foreign styles.

Asado Coffee is one that attempts to appeal to this generation of college students while at the same time, preserving its historic roots.

Located on Pickwick Lane at 22 E. Jackson Blvd., Asado gives students another way to get their coffee fix, and was built using one of the oldest buildings in the area.

“We chose Pickwick for its central location within the Loop,” Jeffery Liberman, chief organics officer and owner of Asado, said. “It’s a great area to give college students coffee when they need it.”

This location came about with Liberman’s partnership with CA Ventures, the real estate firm that owns Infinite, the student housing just east of Pickwick Lane.

The building started as Pickwick Stable in 1857, and was built for a flower merchant before the Civil War. As it was transformed into different restaurants, the city grew to the point of obscuring the building from public eye. A building in front of the renovated stable was eventually removed, leaving a tight alleyway behind.

Considering the age of the building, renovations have been made since

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Pickwick Lane leads to the new home of Asado Coffee. The alleyway once led to Pickwick Stable, but is now hugged by modern buildings in the heart of the Loop.

Liberman gained ownership of the building.

“The only untouched parts of the building are the front and two back walls,” Liberman said. “High strength concrete has been used to keep the building up to historic specifications.”

Pickwick Lane was home to a variety of businesses prior to housing Asado Coffee. It was a butcher shop, and later an inn during the early 1900s. It eventually became a restaurant in the 1940s.

The student housing located next to Asado also needed many renovations.

What is now the main lobby used to be a cluttered area used for piano storage.

Paul Jaskot, a professor of history of art and architecture at DePaul, said that in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Loop surrounding the stable was considerably different than it is now.

It was a moment of transition for Chicago, with many department stores within the Loop, including what is now the DePaul Center and the 14 E. Jackson building.

In terms of the style of buildings within the Loop, there were a variety of influences that came into play.

“You had the Chicago elite focusing on historical styles, such as European, Classical Rome or Medieval France,” Jaskot said.

The shop’s unique location seems to draw students towards taking a visit.

“Well the alley opening caught my attention,” DePaul student Sean Esterquest said. “The first time I passed by I did a double take and looked down and spotted Asado.”

“Once I noticed it, I walked past a few more times before curiosity took over and I checked it out,” Kevin Bailey, a student at DePaul, said.

Both students recommended Asado Coffee for the quality of its coffee and the modest prices.

“They are one of the top roasters in Chicago that can compete on the national level,” Bailey said.

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Great burgers at Good Stuff Eatery

By Zachary Stevens Contributing Writer

Good Stuff Eatery is a chic, urban restaurant that serves top-notch burgers, fries and milkshakes. When I first heard of a burger restaurant opening up in the Loop I couldn’t resist making my way over there as soon as possible.

The family-run company, founded by former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn, has been around since 2008, with locations in Washington D.C.; Crystal City, Virginia; Georgetown; Philadelphia and even a forthcoming location in Saudi Arabia.

Their latest location opened in the Loop Jan. 28.

The company branched out to Chicago after its "Prez Obama Burger" was named the 2014 Judge’s Choice Winner of the Hamburger Hop, a burger competition in Millennium Park.

The menu features farm fresh beef burgers and turkey burgers, in addition to the option to “Cluck It” and make any of the burgers on the menu a chicken sandwich. It also features hand-spun milk shakes, floats, wedge salads and sides like hand cut fries and vidalia onion petals.

The now-famous "Prez Obama Burger" is nestled between a brioche bun with onion marmalade, applewood bacon, Roquefort cheese and a horseradish mayo sauce. After biting into it, it’s apparent why it’s awardwinning. The bitterness of the Roquefort cheese pairs perfectly with the sweet onion marmalade, making it an irresistible combination.

The crispy bacon’s smokiness and the tang of horseradish mayo adds great flavor to this masterpiece of a burger.

Good Stuff Eatery's Cliff ’s homegrown vidalia onion petals are fried in a light crispy batter creating an almost abstract onion ring.

When you order their onion petals you are directed to their dip bar, which includes basic condiments like ketchup and mustard, and unique dips like mango, sriracha, chipotle and Old Bay mayo.

Mango and chipotle mayo were appealing, as sweet and spicy usually pairs well with a savory food item, and the chipotle mayo proved to be amazing.

Prices at Good Stuff Eatery range from $6 to $9, and is located just blocks away from the DePaul Loop Campus, at 22 S. Wabash Ave.

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DePaul senior Joey Cantacessi performs at Metro with his groovy, five piece band, Marmaletta. Many of his bandmates also attend DePaul.

By Jaycee Rockhold Contributing Writer

There is plenty of talent hidden in the crowd of DePaul students— and in the city of Chicago, there’s bound to be. But when it comes to bands, it’s not always easily accessible. A lot of groups based out of DePaul come and go, making it sometimes difficult to find a band with members that are still active.

However, after some thorough Bandcamp searching and Facebook researching, a few bands stepped into the spotlight.

LOVE INCENTIVE

ULTRAHAZARD

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Here’s an incentive to break the norm of Chicago garage rock. Love Incentive, DePaul’s own Michael Basiewicz and New York University’s Robert Szmurlo (and also joined by their “good friend, MacBook Pro”), is a two-piece “rock band” with heavy electronic influences.

Basiewicz, a freshman psychology major, said the band is based around “the merger of cold beats and precise electronics with traditional band instruments to give it life.”

When asked about the duo’s dynamic, Basiewicz described why the band stuck out.

“We’re heavily influenced by all kinds of electronic and dance music in general, along with various rock music,” he said.

Though half of the band lives on the East Coast, Love Incentive hopes to bring live performances and antics to Chicago in the spring and summer.

Fans of late ‘70s and ‘80s bands like The Cure and New Order should have an affair with Love Incentive.

There are many prominent topics local political punk outfit Ultrahazard like sto weave into their music, ranging from “feminism, solidarity among artists, class war, roller derby and revolution”.They describe themselves as “crack rock steady with less crust and a little pop punk”, fitting their quick, intricate guitar chords and ska influenced rhythms.

Sam Peiffer (DePaul) is the newest member of the band, joining Violet Staley (Wright College), Eli Raiff (Wright College), Nick Moses (Columbia College Chicago) and Saffron Lehrer.

Each member comes from a completely different musical background, spanning from reggae to jazz, with Peiffer playing trumpet. The band has a list of several shows coming up, with the most recent being a benefit show at Weenie Hut Jr’s in Logan Square. A full-length album with the intent of “spreading their political messages to a wider audience” is in the near future, in addition to a tour.

MARMALETTA

GONE HAWKING

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Marmaletta is a fivepiece space band that likes to groove. According to the band members (four of whom go to DePaul), the name is based loosely off of the Italian term “Marmalatta” which means, “to jam, but like jam to put on toast.”

Consisting of Joey Cantacessi, Cole Hawking, Stuart MacFayden, Evan Weinstein and Ryan Flynn (Lake Forest College), the group doesn’t necessarily have many long-term plans except to keep making music. “ We don’t like to look too far into the future, that creates expectations,” the band said. “We just really want to continue to grow musically and have fun while doing so. We are actually beginning the recording process and will release some new tracks in the coming weeks.

“Other than that, we’re going to keep writing tunes, making friends and playing shows.”

Marmaletta is also set to headline with support from Sol Shine and Rover at the Abbey Pub on Feb. 25.

Gone Hawking is a dynamic alternative band, first formed by Joe Lendabarker, Max Zuppa and Jimmy Cramsie in 2010. Zuppa (bass and vocals) and Lendabarker (guitar and vocals) are both DePaul freshmen, while Cramsie (drums) is still finishing off high school in the west suburbs of Chicago.

Lendabarker described Gone Hawking’s sound as seminal ‘90s emo, heavily influenced by bands like The Promise Ring or the “We Have The Facts” era of Death Cab for Cutie. Close Quarters Coalition, an independent label from Texas, will be putting out the band’s latest release, “Portals & Wormholes.”

In addition to their newest EP, Gone Hawking is harnessing enough material to shape up a full length. The LP will hopefully be released in the spring in addition to a smattering of some live shows. In the end, Gone Hawking just wants to create some “memorable pop tunes.”

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Fashion week flaunts ‘70s flair

By Ally Zacek Contributing Writer

Fashion Week is not for the faint of heart or those with cheap tastes, an aparant trend as New York Fashion Week kicked off.

In the world of pop culture, Fashion Week is one of the most talked about and reported events of the season, and is the cause of many clogged Instagram feeds.

“I really enjoy spring Fashion Week because, historically, I’ve enjoyed these collections more,” Kristin Stahlke, sophomore and social media manager for Designed by DePaul, said. Spring fashion week highlights trends for the following fall. “I enjoy watching the runway shows that are streamed on the Internet and keep up with trends by following designers and fashion bloggers on social media.”

2014 was all about the ’90s, but it’s time to say goodbye to choker necklaces and welcome bohemian influences like embroidery and flared hems.

One of the biggest trends for fall 2015 is a revival of ’70s styles and silhouettes. Designers like Rebecca Minkoff, Jill Stuart and Anna Sui incorporated ’70s influences in their collections.

Some of the most popular recurring trends from this decade revival included chunky turtleneck sweaters, A-line mini skirts, a lot of denim and wide

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New York Fashion Week highlighted ’70s styles and silhouttes. Designers like Jason Wu (left), Perry Ellis (center) and Tommy Hilfiger (right) incorporated flared hems and Pantone’s picks for fall color trends. legged pants.

To incorporate this subtly, focus on silhouette and shopping according to color. Thankfully, Pantone’s color picks for fall 2015 — such as “marsala,” “reflecting pond,” and “stormy weather” — channel the ’70s well. Experiment with fabrics like corduroy in these fun colors, but avoid browns to prevent looking frumpy.

“The trend I’m most looking forward to is turtleneck layering, which probably sounds odd,” Leah Voskuil, sophomore and vice president of Designed by

DePaul, said. “I’ve long been a fan of oversized sweaters — they’re everywhere on the runway this year and they’re being worn under dresses, large necklaces and clean-cut coats.”

Men can rock the ’70s trend as well. Designers like Hermès and Fendi used things like jeweltoned color palettes, chunky sweaters and fabrics like denim and corduroy. Dip your toes into this trend by looking for colors like mustard yellow, charcoal gray and khaki green.

Freshman Michael Fuentes

said he is eager to try trends, but in moderation.

“The most important thing about dressing myself is that it is comfortable and it fits,” he said.

“I think that if you can mesh trends with your style and you are comfortable wearing it, that’s all that matters.”

Among the ’70s glamour, another trend has emerged as a popular contender on the runways this year: fur and shearling. Fur started gaining speed as a trend this fall and winter, but it is only getting stronger for fall 2015.

Jason Wu’s show featured fur in a unique way, by using it as the center of his looks rather than an accent.

Since neither your bank account nor PETA would be thrilled about incorporating real fur into your wardrobe, opt for faux instead. Faux fur brings an air of glamour to any outfit and can be done subtly. Look for jackets, vests or even cardigans that have a faux fur collar or trim.

Shop retailers like Zara, Topshop and H&M for trendy pieces at affordable prices.

Whenever trying a new trend, the easiest way to go about it is to pair it with a neutral, classic base.

Accenting a simple outfit with trendy pieces ensures the trends aren’t overwhelming or gaudy.

“For new trends, I almost always will go to H&M. They have a constant cycle of relatively inexpensive pieces that are spoton with what is on the runway, in a more toned down sense,” Voskuil said. “If I want to go big with a certain trend, I always check out the sale section at Topshop or go to a thrift store.”

You don’t have to be a street style icon or a celebrity at a runway show to adopt new trends.

The best rule of fashion is to wear everything with confidence, so take a risk next fall with some of these show-stopping trends.

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‘Book of Mormon’ returns to Chicago

By Emma Rubenstein Senior Writer

Over the past three years, Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s “The Book of Mormon” has boldly gone where no piece of musical theater has gone before. The production is raunchy, volatile and hilarious. But, above all else, “The Book of Mormon” possesses an unparalleled heart that is both surprising and warming.

The show chronicles the journey of two young Mormon missionaries who travel to Africa. In Uganda, they befriend the residents of a small village and, as they attempt to convert the residents, learn more about themselves and the world than they ever could have anticipated.

“I play Mafala Hatimbi, who is actually the patriarch of that village that they go to visit,” renowned actor and cast member, James Vincent Meredith, said.

“My daughter, Nabulungi, is the one who first kind of buys into what they’re selling and she in turn tries to convince the other villagers of their message.”

The show teaches its audience acceptance gently. While its message is clear it does not proselytize but, rather, lets its audiences gather their own information and formulate their own opinions. The esteem that the show has garnered in past years is unprecedented. It is a tour-de-force that refuses to lose momentum.

“I know that I’ve never been a part of a production that’s had so many performances,” Meredith said. “The fact that we can go almost 900 shows and every night still kind of feel new and electric and have audiences that still eat it up because it’s their first time seeing it as well as other audiences who have seen it time and time again, whether it be with our company, or having seen it on Broadway or the other tour. (They) still are so psyched to come

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James Vincent Meredith plays Mafala Hatimbi, the patriarch of a Ugandan village visited by two young missionaries in “The Book of Mormon.” and hear the story and be moved.”

While the show is at times over-the-top in its visual and narrative strategies it is, somehow, always real and always human.

While from a situational standpoint the story is distinct, the message that rings through it has the potential to touch everyone who comes to see it.

“I think that was the one thing that kind of surprised me initially about this story,” Meredith said. “Not that it was just so funny, but the fact that the attachment that I had to the two characters — the two Mormons — at the end, was so deep. A lot of people I know who have seen the show have had that same surprising connection

to those two guys at the end.”

Meredith is an experienced staple in the world of theater. He works as an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre and has a performance repertoire that is varied and extensive. Though a network of hard work and talent has contributed to his success, the advice he had to offer young actors was specific.

“What I would say is play well with others,” he said. “Be nice. It seems like such a weird thing to say, I guess, but I’ve been in many situations where perhaps the most brilliantly talented actor didn’t get the gig but the one who played well with others and who was a true team player and a true

ensemble player, they did get the job. There is nothing lost in being kind to people. You just never know where or how it’s going to pay off, particularly in this business.”

Meredith, more than most, knows the typical rehearsal-to-performance pattern that accompanies involvement in most shows, but something about “The Book of Mormon” is different. Because its run has been so lengthy, Meredith described how rehearsal was much more about “maintenance” than it was about development and transformation.

“The rehearsal process is different but the attitude with which you approach it is still the same,” he said. “You’re still focused on trying to make the work as good as it can be but we’re not dealing with a new product, we’re dealing with something that we’re just trying to maintain.”

While theater can at times be controversial, “The Book of Mormon” has pushed the term to its limits. Though the content is risky, there is a kindness behind it that transforms what some have labeled obscene into a hilarious, meaningful and honest tale.

“You know, I remember when I would first do it and I would have family or people who would come and I would say, ‘Well, I don’t know if this is going to be your cup of tea or not because it’s not for everyone,’” Meredith said. “I would have all these different qualifiers and after a while I just stopped doing it because people who I thought would not enjoy it at all and who would be offended and who would get up and leave were the most ardent fans of the show.”

Meredith is no stranger to success and, as a cornerstone of the renowned “The Book of Mormon” community, has brought something truly special to the world of Chicago theater.

Review: MCA’s Doris Salcedo retrospective

By Jordan Sarti Staff Writer

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s fourth floor houses Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s first retrospective.

Salcedo has produced sculptures, installations and public interventions for the last 30 years. She extensively researches conflict and interviews victims of political violence to inform her work.

Then, using materials like silk, animal fibers, cloth, used furniture and cement, Salcedo creates pieces that are both delicate and powerful. Her work manages to honor the individual victims through painstaking detail while speaking to senseless violence.

Salcedo packed the gallery’s entrance with a maze of nearidentical sculptures: tables covered in a layer of dirt pressed under another inverted table, with yellow-green blades of grass sprouting between the cracks.

The tables are approximately coffin-sized, setting the exhibition’s tone as a funerary event.

“We are no longer capable of responding to tragic events,” Salcedo said in the looped documentary video featuring

some of her public works and interventions. She states that one of her tasks as an artist is to create space for individuals in war-torn countries to adequately mourn their losses.

The retrospective features work spanning from 1986 to 2014. “Untitled Works” (198990) features neat stacks of folded white shirts impaled by a steel rod. Created in response to two 1988 Colombian plantation massacres, these works mark the beginning of Salcedo’s interview practice. The stacks of shirts evoke absence, families living amongst the artifacts of the dead. The steel bar penetrates the uniform workers’ shirts with an impersonal violence.

Another series, “Atrabiliarios” (1992-2004), occupies an entire room. Shoes, singles and pairs, are displayed in small alcoves cut into the museum’s walls.

Salcedo covers the alcoves in screens of stretched and preserved cow bladder, creating a hazy sepia filter-like effect. The screens are roughly stitched onto the museum wall with black thread. This piece is a response to Colombia’s desparecidas, disappeared women, whose remains were often identified by their shoes.

A series of tunics, called “Disremembered” (2014), was inspired by meetings with Chicago mothers who lost children to gun violence. For each tunic, Salcedo intricately weaves silk threads with nearly 12,000 needles to create an impossibly delicate garment. It reflects both the divinity and pain of grief. Salcedo seeks to bring survivors of violence to the center of society, rather than ostracizing them and adding to their painful alienation.

The exhibition’s final room houses a vast rippling piece called “A Flor de Piel” (2014), a garment made of hand-sewn rose petals. The piece is a tribute to a Colombian nurse who was kidnapped and tortured to death. According to Salcedo, the piece began “with the simple intention of making a flower offering to a victim of torture.”

The room is all but covered in the train of blood-red mottled petals, filling the air with a floral headiness.

After touring the circuitous gallery, viewers must exist the way they came: through the coffin-like table maze. On the way out, perhaps the defiant blades of grass become more evident: A vain but necessary hope.

Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios (detail), 1992-2004. Installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 2005. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase: gift of Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Patricia and Raoul Kennedy, Elaine McKeon, Lisa and John Miller, Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund, and Robin Wright.

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Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Something complicates them being together. They get over it eventually and end the movie together. This is the premise for almost every high school movie. As much as it tries to be, “The Duff” is not different. Bianca Piper (Mae Whitman) is the Duff (designated ugly fat friend) of her friend group, which is pointed out to her insensitively by her neighbor and childhood friend Wesley (Robbie Amell). The film follows her as she goes through a makeover supervised by Wesley, so she can break out of her Duff shell, and win the attention of her crush.

Bianca spends most of the film trying to come out from under the shadow of her two best friends, Casey and Jess. A drawback to this movie, like many high school movies, is how one-dimensional these characters are. Casey is good looking and athletic and Jess is good looking and fashionable. That’s really all you get from their characters. This is the same problem with the antagonist of the film, Madison (Bella Thorne). There is no substance to her character; she’s only mean, and there’s no reason for this either. “The Duff” tackles the task of teaching teen viewers to be more confident and that they shouldn’t change who they are to be liked. While it proves successful in creating a witty, feel-good movie, its attempt to fight the stereotyping of “designated ugly fat friends” might drive teens to point fingers at what are actually genuine friendships.

Too often, mainstream electronic music producers become obsessed with cleanliness, bass and spacey artificiality. They push for excitement and for instant gratification through a bass drop. The other side of this is the avante-garde producers, some of whom produce stagnant, pristine wobbles more apt for a gallery showcase than an interactive performance.

But as he proved with “Bromst” and “America” ­— an ambitious, warm concept album about life in this country— Dan Deacon can breach both worlds. A bespeckled Baltimorean with a stereotypically hipster appearance, Deacon is more of a composer than a straightforward producer, with “America” filled with live instrumentals. “Gliss Riffer” is his first truly solo album in years, and as a result, his compositions play almost like whimsical indie pop with a heavy electronic influence. He’s ditched most of the orchestral interludes found on “America” for keyboard and synth tricks but maintained his signature warm and joyous bounce. Still, his work is carefully created, armed with a kaleidoscopic pallot of samples and oddities.

It’s a shift, certainly, but the pop-centric “Gliss Riffer” is a wonderful addition to Deacon’s canon.

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Warner Brothers may have unexpectedly dropped them, but Jeff the Brotherhood are still releasing another fun, stoner album on their own Infinity Cat label.

After the release of two singles ­— “Push Pull” and “Begin Again” — the drony electronic duo seems to be teasing another strong effort after their 2012 selftitled album.

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By Kirsten Onsgard Arts & Life Editor

2014’s new releases were lackluster at best. Case in point: Meghan Trainor, Hozier, Nikki Minaj.

Luckily, 2015 has blessed us all already with great new albums from favorites like Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Panda Bear and Drake.

Here’s who else is set to release an album later this year.

1. Kanye West — “Bound 2” When we last heard from

Kanye, he reaffirmed what we all knew: He is a god and he talks to Jesus, who says, “What up, Yeezus?” It’s not sacriligious if it’s true, right?

The greatest thing about Kanye is that no one knows what he’ll do next ­— except for Seth Rogan, for whom Kanye supposedly freestyle rapped his entire new album.

2. Grimes — “Oblivion” While “Visions” was a delight in itself, it’s even better to see Claire Boucher evolve as a live performer over the years. Her 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival performance was accompanied

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by awkward backup dancers, and Boucher herself appeared uncertain. Last summer, she confidently graduated to the mainstage.

The single she’s released since 2012, “Go,” hints at a pop-heavy release, hopefully later this year.

3. Deafheaven — “Dream House” I don’t pretend to be a huge fan of metal, but don’t knock Deafheaven until you try them. 2013 was the year they converted many non-metal fans with “Sunbather,” a shoegazing explosion of sound. They’ve

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32. Screenwriters creation 37. Make accustomed 38. Move into the limelight 41. Chubby plus 42. Viola effects 43. “I’ve got a secret to tell you” 44. Grammar book topic 46. Suffix with “claim” or “cool” 47. Pinched pennies

already teased their next album last year with “From the Kettle Onto the Coil.”

a darker album, and he certainly has a lot to live up to after “Good Kid M.A.A.D City.”

4.Radiohead — “Lotus Flower” Thom Yorke and the gang haven’t done much for me since “In Rainbows,” but there’s no denying that a Radiohead release is exciting. Better yet, the TBA release could mean a tour.

6. Beach House — “Norway” Since its inception, the dreamy pop duo Beach House released an album every two years, but this tradition was broken when they failed to release an album last year.

Though they’ve been laying low, the duo is still producing music: one track premiered last November, and another was produced from space sounds.

5. Kendrick Lamar — “Backseat Freestyle” Kendrick has already teased his latest album with “The Blacker the Berry” a few weeks ago.

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STREAK, continued from back page however, sealed the game at the line.

Before that, the Blue Demons went on a second half run sparked by senior Forrest Robinson. Robinson led the Blue Demons with 17 points and made five 3-pointers, three of those being after halftime.

Georgetown led 42-33, their largest lead of the game, with 15:29 left, but the Blue Demons rallied. Purnell chose to run the full-court press in spots, which turned out to be very effective. DePaul forced 13 Georgetown turnovers, scoring 20 points off of them.

DePaul never led in the second half, but the closest they got was 56-55 with 5:45 remaining thanks to a Robinson 3-pointer. It was the third Robinson three in a row.

“I thought we were getting what we wanted in our screening game,” Purnell said. “When Forrest picks and pops, you have to pick your poison. You either help on Billy, who is driving to the basket, or you’re gonna switch and cover Forrest.

“I thought we did a really good job of freeing him up,” he said. “Obviously, he did a really good job of knocking down shots.”

DePaul started the game strong, taking a 14-9 lead with a Jamee Crockett 3-pointer. Crockett finished with 13 points, three rebounds and three assists.

They also withstood a 9-0 Georgetown run in the first half to go into halftime trailing 30-27.

Georgetown guard D’Vauntes SmithRivera led the Hoyas with 19 points.

Smith-Rivera was a force for the Hoyas, also grabbing seven rebounds and shooting 6-of-8 from the line.

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DePaul guard Durrell McDonald goes up for the layup Wednesday against Providence. The Blue Demons lost that game and the following game to Georgetown, 68-63, on Saturday.

“Smith-Rivera was terrific,” Purnell said. “What a fine money player he is.”

The win propelled Georgetown to second in the Big East behind Villanova. It was the Hoyas’ third victory in a row and also swept the season series with DePaul.

They previously won 78-72 Jan.13 at Allstate Arena.

The Blue Demons have just three remaining games — facing Creighton, No. 19 Butler and Marquette — before the Big East tournament on March 11-14. Two of those games, Creighton and Butler, will be at Allstate Arena where the Blue Demons are 9-5 this season.

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DEPOLO, continued from back page practiced with before. All of us are from high schools where we only played with females. Now, playing with males, it’s definitely more competitive so it has really helped all of our skills.

“Also, we don’t cut anybody — we invite everybody,” Harder said. As long as you have experience in the water and are comfortable swimming so that we don’t have to save you, you can hang out with us. We would teach you how to tread water if you had never played water polo before.”

The club welcomes all levels of players to join the team, but the majority of the current players have some experience with swim teams or on high school water polo teams. The club meets most Monday and Tuesday nights for practices at NEIU’s North Park campus pool. They have been an official club since last spring and have not had any official matches yet. Their first opportunity to compete at an official club college Photo courtesy of DEPAUL WATER POLO CLUB level is at a tournament being held DePaul’s Water Polo Club poses for a group picture. The group will compete in a club college level tournament at Northwestern Feb. 28 to March 1. at Northwestern University from Feb. 28 to March 1. Among the teams competing will be Loyola members and trying to get he looked at his phone and as good,” he said. “I felt during “I hang out with all the water University, University of Illinois people to come out,” Harder said. said, “I just got a text from one the end of my freshman year and polo people on the weekends,” at Chicago and Northwestern.

“We always say, come to a few of my members asking if there’s part of my sophomore year that I she said. “They’re really great On Orgsync, DePaul’s online practices, see what it’s like, see practice. It’s 8:04 p.m. and it came to DePaul for all the wrong friends. We’ve got a strong group campus engagement network, the what we’re all about and there’s starts in 11 minutes.” reasons. Starting up this club, of both men and women that women’s team has 15 members, no commitment.”

But the men’s team has grown I was able to meet people who really enjoy each other’s company but at practices the number of Men’s team president since it was created last spring, were likeminded in the sport and not only on the pool deck and females that show up varies.

Klostermann shared the same and Klostermann is pleased with as friends. It’s one of the reasons I in the water but also on the “It’s hard to get people difficulty as Harder in getting its growth. still like being at DePaul.” weekends and outside of water dedicated to the schedule, people to commit. As he pulled “If it wasn’t for this club, my Harder shared the same polo.” but we’re always inviting new up to practice Wednesday night, experience at DePaul wouldn’t be sentiment.

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A member of the DePaul Figure Skating Club does a camel spin, a figure skating technique, at McFetridge Sports Center.

From left to right: Emily Williams, Karin Gumbinner and Sophie Peterson, all members of DePaul’s Figure Skating Club.

Go figure: DePaul’s new ice skating club

By Octavia Johnson Contributing Writer

After noticing her freshman year that DePaul University had a club hockey team but not a figure skating club, Sophie Peterson, a junior at DePaul, decided to take matters into her own hands.

“Having a lot of friends that attend DePaul and figure skate made me want to form the club,” Peterson said. “My friends and I would always complain about there not being a figure skating club here at school.”

Figure skating is one of many forms of ice skating. This skating developed from many jumps, spins and other movement techniques that require a combination of athletic skills and dance techniques.

Beginning early in her career, Peterson started skating at the age

of 4 and competed with other figure skaters as a 7-year-old until she was about 17 years old. After stepping away from competitions, she decided to give personal lessons to people who were just starting out on the ice and even well-trained skaters.

While forming this figure skating club, Peterson thought that it would be a great opportunity to bring everyone together that had interest in figure skating so that they all would be able to skate together.

Although skate sessions have already started this quarter, DePaul’s Figure Skating Club was formed last fall quarter with a recruitment of about 15 members as of today, with the members being made up of girls.

Since the club is just getting started, the girls are meeting up every Friday afternoon for an hour and a half at McFetridge

CREIGHTON, continued from back page season sweep over Creighton (15-11, 8-7) and also ended the Jays’ six-game winning streak. DePaul also kept pace at the top of the Big East conference as they held on to a tie for first place in the conference with Seton Hall.

Hrynko provided the offensive output for DePaul as she put up 33 points and five rebounds, while junior forward Megan Podkowa added 15 points and nine rebounds. For Creighton, sophomore guard MC McGrory and senior forward Alexis Akin-Otiko each had 16 points.

Creighton took the lead to start and held the advantage at home and went out in front 28-22 with 6:10 to go in the first half. From there, however, DePaul went on a 19-6 run to close out the half with Hrynko getting the last 16 points all by herself. The Blue Demons led 41-34 at the half with Hrynko already at 20 points.

The Blue Demons kept their lead as the second half started, but the lead was precarious. Going between ranges of ten to four-point deficits, Creighton was resilient in not letting the Blue Demons take control of the game.

DePaul continued their run in the second half, holding a ten-point lead with

Sports Center’s indoor ice rink located at 3843 N. California Ave. DePaul currently does not have a private ice rink for the girls to practice and compete at, but that is one of Peterson’s goals to accomplish for next year. She is aware that private ice can be costly for the club, but with more members being recruited, she believes that they can accomplish that goal.

Peterson is also looking for funding for her club so that she and the girls will be able to accomplish their goals in a timely manner. But for right now, the girls are just practicing basic figure skating skills while getting to know and learn different techniques from one another.

Peterson and other members of the figure skating club have centered on one main focus for the next couple of quarters, which is to be able to recruit more mem-

just over six minutes to play but Creighton started to make their way back into the game. They chipped away as the minutes wore down but could not make the final push to get back into the lead. With 44 seconds to go, Creighton got as close as they were going to get when Akin-Otiko completed a three-point play to get the Jays to within two points.

With the threat of another close loss looming, Hrynko came up big once again.

On DePaul’s next possession, sophomore guard Jessica January put up an open three with 11 seconds to go but missed. Hrynko was there to grab the offensive board and to get the ball to January while taking time off the clock.

January was fouled and went to the line with five seconds to go with a chance for a one-and-one but missed the front end, giving the Jays a chance for a last-ditch shot at the buzzer. It went off the rim and DePaul held on for the 78-76 victory. It was DePaul’s first win of the season with a margin of victory of less than ten points after losing five of their seven losses by the same margin.

Following their 103-66 win against Providence in their final road game of the year Sunday, DePaul concludes their regular season on March 1 at home against Marquette before going to the Big East tournament March 7-10 at Allstate Arena.

bers. She knows that there are more figure skaters at DePaul.

“I’m pretty sure that there are a lot of students around campus that know how to do some form of figure or ice skating and are maybe wondering if DePaul would ever have a team,” Peterson said.

Peterson has already started to promote DePaul’s new club by setting up social media pages on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to inform the DePaul community that there is a figure skating club here on campus for anyone who might be interested. She and other members of the club plan on recruiting new members at the Student Center on DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus searching to collect names and emails over the next few weeks.

Savannah Fish, a junior at DePaul and member of the club, has been figure skating her entire

life and started competing at the age of 12. She is familiar with all forms of figure skating, ranging from freestyle dancing to synchronized figure skating. Fish is very excited that DePaul has a figure skating club now.

“I think it’s a great way to meet new people that know how to figure skate and love to figure skate and want to have a good time in the process,” Fish said.

Although the club will not be competing against other teams or giving lessons how to figure skate at this time, they are currently looking for a coach to help them out in that area of the club.

“We are working on getting a coach so that we can start competing at the collegiate level, but for now our focus is on growing the club,” Peterson said.

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DePaul guard Chanise Jenkins drives to the basket Jan. 23 against Creighton.

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DePaul’s Water Polo Club practices at Northeastern University. The club formed three years ago during founder Rashid Klostermann’s sophomore year.

DePaul’s water polo club gearing up for first competition

By Emily Brandenstein Contributing Writer

The cement, eggshellcolored walls of Northeastern Illinois University’s pool deck bore splashes of mighty chlorine swells as DePaul’s water polo club ran through drills during Wednesday night’s practice. Bright yellow Mikasa balls were thrown, dragged and hoisted every which way as the club’s assistant coach, Everardo Leon, led the club’s practice, calling out pointers to the team

over loud splashes.

Three years ago, a club water polo team did not exist at DePaul. During Rashid Klostermann’s freshman year at DePaul, he tried starting one.

Initially, he was unable to get a team together, so sophomore year he gave it another shot.

Klostermann began reaching out to the members of the DePaul class of 2017 Facebook page where he found a few guys who showed interest in starting a club with him. They set up a meeting to discuss the

club at the most obvious choice for a meeting spot for college students — Chipotle.

“That first meeting came out of that Chipotle on Lincoln Avenue. It’s always been our headquarters,” Mark Betti, one of the founding members of the club that connected with Klostermann last year, said.

“I didn’t play water polo when I first came to DePaul, I played rugby. Then I met Rashid and some other guys who played water polo from my area, and he (said) ‘hey, I

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Christine Harder was the first female to join the newly formed water polo team last year and dragged a friend from her freshman dormitory along with her. She is now the president of the women’s club, which became separate from the men’s when more females joined the team.

“We do everything together just for strength of numbers.

It’s good to practice with different people that we haven’t

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Hoyas edge men’s hoops

Women’s hoops beats Creighton With DePaul’s struggles in closing out close games, their game at Creighton was looking like it would take the same path.

After cutting the deficit closer and closer in the second half, the Jays got to within two with 44 seconds to play and looked to get the final push needed to take the lead that had eluded them all second half.

DePaul, however, held strong and, with a big rebound from senior guard Brittany Hrynko, watched as a desperation shot from Creighton hit the rim at the buzzer and emerged victorious 78-76.

The win gave DePaul (21-7, 13-3) the

was going to form a water polo club, do you want to come?’ and I said ‘yeah! Let’s do it!’”

At that first meeting, Klostermann, Betti and a few other students debated whether or not they should join the University of Illinois at Chicago’s water polo team or if they should start their own. They chose the harder task of creating their own community of players, which is now an official university club team, and has both men’s and women’s teams.

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DePaul senior guard Brittany Hrynko drives against Creighton Friday Jan. 23.

The two teams met again Feb. 20 with DePaul winning 78-76.

After Wednesday’s 84-57 blowout loss to Providence, DePaul head coach Oliver Purnell said that his team could play better and the key would be how the Blue Demons responded.

The Blue Demons fought hard Saturday, but fell 68-63 to Georgetown at the Verizon Center. The loss was DePaul’s fourth in a row and the Blue Demons (1216, 6-9 Big East) have now dropped seven of their last eight.

“I was pleased with our effort tonight, and I thought we really struggled a couple of times in the game that were critical for us,” Purnell said. “I thought defensively down the stretch, we were really, really good. But, we didn’t rebound the ball. We

did a good job stopping them on the first shot, but we were giving two or three shots.

“We have to do a better job of finishing things off,” Purnell said. “Georgetown, clearly, is one of the best teams in our league and one of the best teams in the country. We put ourselves in a position to win, but we didn’t finish it off on the glass.”

Georgetown (18-8, 10-5) outrebounded DePaul 43-30 with center Joshua Smith leading the Hoyas with 11 boards. Smith was a presence in the paint, also scoring 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting.

Despite the rebounding disadvantage, DePaul was still in a position to win the game. Sophomore Billy Garrett Jr. hit two free throws to cut Georgetown’s lead to 64-62 with 27 seconds left. Georgetown,

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