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Vagina Monologues premieres with sold-out shows

By Pat Mullane Arts & Life Editor

In its 18th consecutive year at DePaul University, The Vagina Monologues, an episodic play originally written in 1994 by playwright Eve Ensler, premiered this past Friday and ran until Sunday at the university’s Lincoln Park Student Center.

The play consists of a varying number of monologues performed by a number of women, that detail the different aspects of womanhood and the feminine experience. From subject matters that include sex and love, menstruation and orgasms, rape and sexual harassment, the overall theme of the performances represent the vagina as a tool of female empowerment in a society backed upon gender inequality.

The proceeds from the show were donated to beneficiaries that deal with preventing sexual assault, including “A Long Walk Home,” “Rape Victim Advocates” and “Take Back the Halls.”

For Julie Peacock, one of the directors of the show, the goal of The Vagina Monologues was not only to raise money for the beneficiaries but provide a sense of empowerment for all females in the room.

“The Vagina Monologues has impacted, first of all, by giving me a sense of empowerment.

That’s kind of the goal of the show, other than raising money for the beneficiaries, so it’s always nice to know it works, if not for everyone then at least for me,” Peacock said. “The second and more important way it has impacted me

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DePaul students rally for reproductive justice, pro-choice

By Danielle Harris News Editor

Countering anti-abortion protests were scheduled at hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics across the United States Feb. 11, with an estimated 300 demonstrators gathered outside the Thompson Center downtown for a rally in support of reproductive rights. About 10 DePaul students joined the rally, organized by the Chicago Campaign to Expose Crisis

Pregnancy Centers, Shout your Abortion 773, the Illinois Choice Action Team and the International Socialist Organization (ISO). The protests and counter-protests occurred over the weekend at a time of increased scrutiny over federal funding to Planned Parenthood and promises made

by President Trump to defund the family planning organization — a pledge met by outrage from Democrats and praise from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The rally began at 5 p.m. and many

in attendance spoke on a microphone, condemning pro-life protesters and calling for an increased priority by lawmakers to protect reproductive rights for cisgender and transgender persons alike. It was an inclusive environment with demonstrators chanting, “Queer, straight, black, white, all unite for women’s rights.”

Rachel Cohen, one of the rally’s organizers, said pro-choice activists must change their methods to best counter the “attack” on women’s reproductive rights

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Pritzker Park refuge for crime and homelessness

By DePaulia Investigation For Izamarie Montiel, a DePaul junior, the oddly-shaped park across the street from DePaul’s Loop campus is a place to avoid.

“I always get off at the Harold Washington Library stop in the mornings to get to class, and I usually walk faster past those outside of the station to avoid any JESSICA VILLAGOMEZ | THE DEPAULIA confrontation. The threat is there,” Pritzker Park, located near DePaul’s loop campus, is supposed to be a Montiel said. green space in the city.

The park, less than an acre

in size, has transformed into a lot littered with trash and a hangout for the Loop’s homeless population. The reality of this urban park is very different from the idyllic description on the Chicago Park District’s website, which calls the lot “a small restful green space in Chicago’s vibrant State Street Corridor.”

The park is named after Cindy Pritzker, a member of one of Chicago’s wealthiest philanthropic families, who led a movement to expand Chicago Public Libraries.

Her late husband, Jay Pritzker,

is best known for successfully expanding the Hyatt hotel chain into a global powerhouse. The park, at the intersection of State and Van Buren Streets, opened in 1992.

Crime and vagrancy have given the State Street Corridor’s neighbors cause for concern. John Marshall Law School, DePaul University and other colleges with Loop campuses participated in a meeting last fall to express concerns about the park to

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Englewood Whole Foods brings produce, jobs for area residents

By DePaulia Investigation When Vanessa Haslerig, an Auburn Gresham resident, heard of the city’s plan to build a Whole Foods in Englewood, her initial reaction was one of disbelief.

Now, it has become a place that she loves to visit.

“I didn’t believe they were going to do it. When I saw what they did I was excited,” said Haslerig. “The people are great here. The produce is always fresh and beautiful. I love it. I get carried away coming here.”

Located on the Southwest Side of Chicago is Englewood, one of Chicago’s top five most violent neighborhoods.

According to the 2010 census figures, Englewood population in 2010 was 30,654 residents, made up of 96 percent AfricanAmericans.

The population has dropped dramatically since its peak of more than 90,000 in the the 1960s, when Englewood was known as home of the second busiest shopping district in Chicago at 63rd and Halsted.

Over several decades, as the neighborhood has seen a decline in business and population, many grocery stores closed or moved to new locations, leading to a such a lack of fresh food that Englewood became known as a food desert.

To help revitalize Englewood, the city proposed a plan to revitalize the once thriving area around 63rd and Halsted. That corner has now transformed into Englewood Square. Within this refurbished foundation is a brand new Whole Foods, Chipotle, and Starbucks.

Whole Foods finished construction in fall of last year, promising in a press release, to bring “good, affordable, healthy food” to the area.

Haslerig appreciates the market store for allowing her to maintain her vegetarian diet by offering organic products for an affordable price.

“The organics are a great price here. This is closer to home and they have most of the things I buy, fresh produce especially.

I do a lot of juicing. I’m a vegetarian, so this is perfect for me,” said Haslerig.

There were many concerns with the new store. Is this store meant for Englewood residents?

Would it employ residents from the area? Would it be affordable to the residents that needed access to fresh food?

Price Comparisons The DePaulia examined prices of area grocery stores to see if the Whole Foods guarantee for fresh affordable food is still living up to that promise.

Looking at Jewel-Osco, Aldi, and Whole Foods across the Chicago area, the DePaulia put together a chart that summed up the price differences based on neighborhood and store.

The most striking difference in price comparison is the gap between Aldi prices and Whole Foods. At the Aldi store in Bolingbrook, you can get a loaf of white sliced bread for 80 cents, whereas a customer pays $2.99 at the Englewood Whole Foods.

Despite the high prices compared to other brand stores, the price differences between the Whole Foods in Lincoln Park and Englewood are stark. Englewood Whole Foods is sometimes one or two dollars more affordable than Lincoln Park.

Employment Status One of the promises Whole Foods made to the city was to provide job opportunities for Englewood residents. According to the statistical analysis, 17.1 percent of Englewood residents are unemployed. 31.4 percent are

employed and 51.3 percent are not in the labor force.

In contrast, Lincoln Park unemployment is only at 4.2 percent overall, with an additional 22.7 percent not in the labor force. With a large university and many affluent residents, Lincoln Park has advantages over a neighborhood like Englewood.

According to Chicago Now, Whole Foods provided an employment education series for the Englewood area. This allowed for many residents to learn the skills required to work at the store. Chicago Now reports that 85 of the 100 employees live on the South Side, including 35 residents of Englewood.

Whole Foods also promised to bring in vendors from the neighborhood to boost the economy.

Lamar Harvey, a supervisor at the Englewood store, said, “We have a ton of local vendors that are actually from the area that provide fresh produce as well.

It’s a win-win situation. The community gets fresh produce; local vendors get the opportunity to display their products in a retail store. We have roughly about 20-25 vendors from the Chicagoland area.”

Household Income Versus Prices The DePaulia discovered the prices are still expensive considering the median household income in Englewood.

According to Statistical Analysis, the median annual income per house is $18,900. In Lincoln Park, it is much higher at $88,700. That’s a difference of 78.7 percent in household income.

Although the prices are largely different from Lincoln Park, the Whole Foods in Englewood still charges a shopper $3.99 per pound for fresh chicken breast. That is only

one dollar less than Lincoln Park, a 25 percent difference.

The Lincoln Park store also offers more options to their customers with a 29,600-squarefoot store, almost twice the size of the 18,000-square-foot store in Englewood.

At a median household income of just $18,900, many residents do not have the liberty to choose between the fresh food offered by Whole Foods and the more affordable option, like Aldi or Jewel-Osco.

Englewood Mall TIF Funds The Englewood Mall project’s purpose is to make Englewood a more desirable place to live. With 200 new job opportunities and workforce training programs, Englewood Square is giving hope to the residents as a positive environment.

Originally called the Englewood Mall Area TIF Redevelopment Plan and Project, the project’s plan is to bring growth back to the once lively shopping district.

TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) funds, which come from Cook County property taxes, have been allocated to Englewood Square since 1989.

According to the City of Chicago website, TIF funds help “reverse disinvestment trends” and help provide “new institutional uses, mixed-income housing development and rehabilitation, and related initiatives.”

The biggest investment the city and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have made in the Englewood Mall project was bringing Whole Foods to the area. For 25 years, the city invested little into the Englewood Mall project.

In 2014, the city allocated nearly $11 million to the project, which is 73 percent of the total $14.4 million spent there between 1989 and 2017. The majority was spent on preparing

the site and construction.

A large part of the plan was to bring Whole Foods to the Englewood Mall. According to Forbes, Whole Foods Market is worth $9.7 billion. Several residents wondered why Whole Foods did not pay for the construction instead of using city tax money.

The Whole Foods public relations office did not respond with a comment on the TIF money.

Michael Scott, a local shopper of the Englewood Whole Foods, said “TIF money is very corrupt, very scandalous. Social funding, community building improvement, education improvement, that’s what TIF money should be used (on).”

Located in a small block radius in the middle of the Englewood neighborhood is newly-minted Englewood Mall.

The Whole Foods looks alien in the Englewood neighborhood.

Across the street are weathered and stained buildings, some vacant.

Despite looking out of the ordinary, the revival of Englewood Square seems to be a welcome change by Whole Foods customers and employees.

Many enjoy the lower prices and fresh, organic food. The new store has also started to bring opportunities to the community.

Whole Foods kept many of the original the promises: lower prices, fresh food, vendor opportunities, and hiring from the Englewood neighborhood.

This store seems to be on the right track to bringing change to a neighborhood that’s been disregarded by the city of Chicago for decades.

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4| The DePaulia. News. Feb. 13, 2017 MONOLOGUES continued from front page is that it introduced me to so many dedicated people who really help me grow.”

As co-director of the show, along with Charia McDonald, Peacock’s job not only included finding the beneficiaries and sponsors for the event, but also finding a cast of women to perform.

“To find participants, we always just do a few days of open auditions. Charia and I sat in a room and anyone who wanted to audition was able to come in and audition,” Peacock said. “The process in putting together this production was a long one. We did casting in early November, rehearsals every Saturday of January, a 6-hour Dress Rehearsal last weekend, and then finally the show this weekend.”

Christian Borkey, one of the performers of the show, wasn’t entirely sure what exactly The Vagina Monologues were when she auditioned in the fall.

“I found out about the production through a Facebook event, and I decided I’d audition.

I had no idea what the show was even about, I had only heard it through like references in other media – specifically, a “Family Guy” cutaway,” said Borkey.

“Anyway I auditioned and they liked me, and that was that.”

The play was compiled of both original monologues by Eve Ensler and monologues written

by DePaul performers that detail their personal experiences of being a woman.

“We were either assigned a monologue by the directors or told to write our own monologue.

I was assigned “Cunt” (originally written by Eve Ensler),” said Borkey. “I guess I just give off that energy.”

Easily one of the most animated and aggressive performances of the night, Borkey begins it by screaming “cunt” from the audience and eventually making everyone in the room scream it with her in attempt to reclaim the word from all negative connotations.

“I’ve never been in such a politically charged show wherein our speech is an act of political resistance, so that’s cool,” said Borkey. “I hope the audience comes away with a greater appreciation for vaginas and for their voices.”

Other personal monologues of the night included one by Jireh L. Drake, who details a powerful and important letter to her niece who is only child though Drake is fearful for how the world will treat because she is black female.

Though the most memorable personal monologue of the show was by Adrian Fraser, who passed away last Wednesday, just two days before opening night.

With his name and performance still freshly printed in the play’s booklet, performer Molly Murrary detailed that his monologue would not be performed by any of the cast members due to not being able to relate to the subjects within

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Fellow performers watch as Albie Sher (right) performs her personal monologue. it. Instead the monologue was posted outside the doors of the room The Vagina Monologues were performed in, and the show itself was dedicated in his honor.

“Some boys have vaginas.

Get over it,” Murray said, reading a single line from Fraser’s monologue that the cast thought he’d want the audience to hear.

“I’ve known Adrian since I was 13, and we both ended up here at DePaul. His monologue was so poignant and beautiful and heart wrenching,” said Borkey. “He told me that he was so proud of my monologue, and I knew that performing it all-out was the best option. I think everyone else in the cast

knew that too, and they were all very affected by his death despite knowing him for such a short period of time.”

“He was just that great.”

And while last weekend’s production was struck by the unexpected news of the death of a cast member just days before its premiere date, the enlightening, passionate and important performances by the women of “The Vagina Monologues” served not only as a dedication to one’s life, but a remembrance to how compelling a single voice could be. For the production of the show, each monologue and every performance on stage does not serve to empower

vaginas and womanhood, but to merely recognize and anchor the already existing potential and embodiment of individuality every woman has.

“There are a couple things I want the audience to take away. The first would be how important their voices are.

Sometimes just speaking out can be an act of resistance in and of itself,” said Peacock. “The second would be a sense of community.

DePaul can feel very fragmented at times, and I hope that people see all these different individuals with varying identities know that even though you may not know everyone around you, it doesn’t mean they aren’t rooting for you.”

Arabic club celebrates unity at annual Cultural Night

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Members of the Arabic Language and Culture Club speak to attendees at their annual Cultural Night Feb. 9 in Cortelyou Commons.

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A group of men form a line, hold hands and kick their feet up and down to perform the traditional Arabic “Dabke” folk dance.

The “Lawweeh,” or the most skilled dancer of the al Salaam Dabke group, is at the beginning of the line to direct the rest of his troop and to encourage more energy.

Shortly after they begin, everyone from the crowd joins in. Cortelyou Commons instantly transforms from a traditional DePaul building into the heart of the Middle East.

This Dabke dance was a part of DePaul Arabic Language and Culture Club’s (ALCC) Annual Cultural Night on Thursday, Feb. 9. The event was entitled “El Donya Helwa” which means “life is beautiful” and is a song by Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram.

According to ALCC vice president Saad Ahmed, ALCC took awhile to pick an appropriate Dabke group that expressed this theme in their performance.

“We kind of wanted the Dabke group to be reminiscent of that song,” Ahmed said. “So that’s what our theme was mainly. That was a bit of a challenge we

just wanted to throw ourselves into and it worked out good.”

Before the Dabke group performed, the night began with three poets: Najwa, Mohammed Al Badri and Director of the DePaul Arabic Studies Department Nesreen Akhtarkhavari. Then Arabic singer Bahaiddeen Assaf took the stage, even starting some of his own Dabke performances with the crowd.

People in the audience consisted of students who study Arabic at DePaul as well as Loyola University of Chicago’s ALCC and the University of Chicago at Illinois’ ALCC. One of the reasons Ahmed chose to get involved in DePaul’s ALCC is because members don’t have to be Arab to join.

Ahmed is not even Arab – he’s Pakistani, and joined the club because he “enjoys the culture.”

However, ALCC event planner Roba Elashry is Arab. According to her, most of the members in ALCC aren’t Arab – the executive board consists of people from Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Pakistan. She believes it’s what truly makes their club so special and thought it was “amazing” and “encouraging” that so many people wanted to learn about her culture through both the club and their Annual Cultural Night.

“Our mission of ALCC is to bring the Arabic culture on campus because even though we do know a lot of Arab people, we just feel like the culture is not very (known),” Elashry said. “What’s really surprising is that most people or most of the members in our club aren’t even Arab. So that’s an even better opportunity to spread the culture because we already

know what it is – it’s nice for us to celebrate it. But when we see a lot of people who are not from the club that are more excited about (our Annual Cultural Night), that’s what encourages us to put it together.”

ALCC’s mission is solely to spread their culture and inform people of what it means to be an Arab, staying away from any politics. It’s also part of the reason Elashry enjoys being in ALCC so much, especially after everything that has been happening in the political world lately.

“I’m very into a lot of what (other Arabic clubs on campus) stand for but I’m tired of (politics),” Elashry said. “I just want to be involved in something less stressful and more cheerful.”

Senior Shourouk Abdalla is also grateful she can be part of a club on campus that is apolitical, but also one that is a-religious.

“I like that (ALCC) is apolitical and a-religious because Arabs, first of all, come from different religious backgrounds,” Abdalla said. “So if it’s just for Muslims, then that doesn’t include the Coptic Christians or the Orthodox or different Arab Jews that are everywhere in the world. Then apolitical – the Arab world is always in flames with politics so to have a space where Arabs and non-Arabs and anybody interested in the culture (or) the language can come and discuss its beauty and embrace it – it’s really nice.”

For Ahmed, the Dabke is the perfect example for people to experience the beauty of the Arabic culture.

“I think it’s just the dance itself,” Ahmed said. “It unifies the people. It shows them the culture of the Middle East.”

News. Feb. 13, 2017. The DePaulia | 5 MARCH continued from front page under the Trump administration.

“I think it’s really important that we rebuild a bottom up movement where people feel confident to unapologetically defend abortion rights (. . .) and reproductive justice in general,” Cohen said. “I think for way too long we haven’t been in the streets so we’ve been hoping we could just protect service providers. In the meantime, the right wing has redefined this as an issue not of women’s rights but of fetal rights.”

DePaul senior Felipe Bascunan was among the demonstrators outside the Thompson Center. He too saw a need for change in the defense of reproductive rights.

“Reproductive justice is bigger than just this because our demand isn’t going to be ‘make abortion legal,’” Bascunan said. “Abortion is legal, but who is it legal for? (Abortion is legal for) people who can afford it and (for) people who live in a major city. We want free abortion on demand for everybody. The Democrats and Planned Parenthood have given up on making this demand. (Hillary) Clinton had this stance to make abortion ‘safe, legal and rare.’ You see this in Planned Parenthood (broadcasting) that abortions are only three percent of what (they) do.

And what we want to say is we’re not trying to minimize (abortion). We’re trying to make this a basic human right.”

The effort to defund Planned Parenthood has been covered heavily by the media, but Bascunan said pro-choice demonstrations are vital in combating abortion protests that have continued since the procedure was legalized in the 1970s.

“No matter what position (Trump) personally takes on this, he has emboldened

a far right which has made attacking reproductive rights one of its central planks since Roe v. Wade,” Bascunan said. “It’s important to understand that this has been an ongoing attack that has been massively lost in the past couple decades (in regards to) the people who have actually stood up to these people. Anti-abortion protesters are allowed to protest against clinics across the country unopposed because there isn’t a mass (pro-choice) movement anymore.”

Bascunan said this approach by Democrats and Planned Parenthood only helps the pro-life movement.

It’s insane to me that they’re seeding this ground to the right,” he said. “They’re basically admitting they’ve lost the moral argument. So they’re saying that (abortion) is somehow wrong but they want it anyway. We need to make the argument again that abortion is a basic human right for everybody.”

DePaul junior Taylor Edwards is a member of ISO and helped arrange the group of students that joined the Thompson Center rally. She said the rally outside the Thompson Center and similar rallies across the country are important as they send a message to the White House that progressives opposing Trump’s policies will continue to protest for the rest of his presidency.

“For this specific action, I think Donald Trump has been specifically targeting identities in certain ways (such as) the Muslim ban and defunding health care for women,” Edwards said. “We need to show that the Women’s March wasn’t a fluke. It wasn’t a random event. We need to show that that was the start to a new political commitment to opposing Donald Trump and his attack on marginalized identities.”

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6| News. The DePaulia. Feb. 13, 2017 PARK continued from front page several attendees. Some action has been taken since then, but students and the homeless population have both said that police presence is still lacking.

Many DePaul students avoid activity in Pritzker Park during their daily commutes to classes at the Loop campus across the street. In the last year, more than 85 crimes, ranging from simple assault to battery and drug possession, have been committed in and around Pritzker Park, according to city records.

DePaul journalism and public relations student Jennifer Hirsch described some of the incidents she has witnessed during her daily commute to DePaul’s loop campus, on the Red Line from Lincoln Park. “I remember one time I was walking past to go to the CDM building and there was a fight that broke out between four guys,” she said. “Although I was on the other side of the street, it was scary to see how many people rushed to the area to see what was going on.”

Neighbors have voiced concerns that the park has become a gathering spot for the homeless and drug dealers. Chicago’s homeless population totals more than 125,000, according to a 2014-2015 study by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

“I’m homeless and I stay at Roosevelt Road and State Street for shelter,” said Dean, a homeless man in Pritzker Park who asked his last name not be included.

“Occasionally I walk through this park and nothing has changed. There’s still drug dealing going on and homeless people like myself.”

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Pritzker Park is just outside the northeast entrance to the Harold Washington ‘L’ stop. district commander Robert Klich has met with neighbors, including representatives from John Marshall Law School and DePaul University, to improve conditions.

But he said police have only limited authority to deal with the homeless men and women who hang out in Pritzker

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“Vagrancy in and of itself is not a crime,” Klich said. “It’s completely lawful to be homeless, and homeless people can sit and use that park during hours of operations.”

To address growing concerns over how the park is being utilized, the park’s closing time was moved to two hours earlier, from 11 p.m. to 9 p.m., according to Klich.

“We’ve stepped up patrols there.

Park District has stepped up security, their checks of the park to see that their actions are lawful. So we worked with the Alderman’s Office, colleges in the area and park district to better control the area,” Klich said.

Improving the security around the park and decreasing the hours of operation has made a slight decrease in crime, according to Klich. The first district commander says complaints to Chicago police have decreased since Oct. 1, 2016, with only 120 calls, the majority of which are for suspicious persons.

“That number is down from what it used to be,” Klich explained.

But Dean, who calls Pritzker Park his home, denies seeing a greater police presence. “There is no police here at all,” Dean said. “You see some bike guys coming by every once and awhile but not really too much of anything.”

In 2015, the city of Chicago Department of Planning and Development announced that it was looking to sell the nearly one-acre site.

The city planners were looking into using the developmental proposals for commercial and retail parking for the park district. But by eliminating the park, it would leave the community without a public open space. Developer proposals were due by the end of 2015, no bids were high enough to continue with the project.

Many DePaul communications, CDM, law, and business students exit off of the Brown Line Harold Washington Library and Red Line Jackson “L” stops.

When exiting the train station, students of Robert Morris University, Columbia College, John Marshall Law School and DePaul University are faced with groups of people circling around the exits that

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enter into the Pritzker Park area. Ten to 15 people, depending on the time of the day, surround the station exits, according to student observers. The train tracks can provide shelter during bad weather.

“When making my way off the station, I first check who is at the exit,” Madeline Wong, a junior at DePaul University said. “I tried to avoid eye contact with those around the exit. Pritzker Park looks beautiful by itself. However, those who inhabit it make it way less appealing.”

John Marshall Law School’s Loop campus sits adjacent to the park. “Pritzker Park is one of the last green spaces in the South Loop,” Darby Dickerson, dean of John Marshall said. “The John Marshall Law School and our neighbors including DePaul University, Robert Morris University, Roosevelt University, the School of the Art Institute, Columbia College, the Harold Washington Library and other members of our community including the Chicago Police Department, Chicago Park District, and Alderman Sophia King are working to restore Pritzker Park to a gathering space for our students, residents, and visitors.”

“The Office of Community and Government Relations itself does not have any plan or suggestions for students walking by or through Pritzker Park,” Fran Casey, Director of Community Relations at DePaul University said. “That is why we, along with our public safety office joined forces with John Marshall Law School, the first District CPD, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Loop Alliance and other stakeholders to see how we could address this problem together.”

Casey also outlined past programming at the park that attracted tourists, included a large eyeball sculpture during Chicago’s summer sculpture series. That was “a few years back,” according to Casey. “Maybe once CPD feels that they have managed to deal with the criminal activity in the park, there could be renewed programming attempts that could stimulate more use by the students,” Casey said. “We are continuing to work on exactly that.”

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Son of Robert F. Kennedy joins Illinois governor’s race

By Brenden Moore Political Editor

Putting to bed months of speculation, Democratic businessman Chris Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, announced last week his candidacy for governor of Illinois.

Kennedy enters what’s expected to be a crowded Democratic primary field as the party seeks to find a candidate to take on embattled Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who said he will run for re-election.

“We have a tough task ahead: taking on a governor who has put Illinois in the worst shape it’s been since I moved here thirty years ago. I feel called to serve at this moment because I know we can do better,” Kennedy said in a statement.

The businessman came out swinging in several interviews, lambasting Rauner as a “heartless” leader while repeatedly criticizing him for the state’s continued lack of a budget.

“Compromise is not surrender (…) If we can put stubbornness aside, we can act on a shared vision for making Illinois a place where everyone can succeed,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy, the former CEO of the Merchandise Mart and former president of the

University of Illinois board of trustees, has long considered running for public office, but never acted on it until now, perhaps taking advantage of a relatively weak bench for state Democrats considering a run.

With U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin passing on the race and former First Lady Michelle Obama considered a pipe dream, no candidate appears strong enough to clear the field. The only other Democrat in the race thus far is Chicago Ald. Ameya Pawar.

Others seriously considering bids are billionaire J.B. Pritzker, U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, and State Sens. Daniel Biss and Andy Manar.

“The Democratic field coming up should be really exciting and represent different factions of the party as well as geographically,” said Jack McNeil, a DePaul student and president of the College Democrats of Illinois.

Kennedy is expected to be able to compete financially with Rauner, a billionaire who has already contributed $50 million to his campaign account. The race is expected to be among the most expensive and contentious of the 2018 midterm elections.

Rauner, a businessman with no prior experience in government, was elected in 2014 amid a wave of discontent

over the handling of the state’s skyrocketing pension obligations and a structural budget deficit that grows by the day.

Vowing to “shake up Springfield, and bring back Illinois,” Rauner has played hardball with the Democrat-held legislature. He has butted heads most notably with House Speaker Michael Madigan, resulting in a budget stalemate that has left bills unpaid and put the lives of the state’s most vulnerable in the balance.

Though unpopular, Rauner has successfully made the even more unpopular Madigan into a foil. Upon last week’s announcement, Rauner tweeted out that Kennedy was “just another Madigan crony.”

Though tying legislative Democrats to Madigan proved effective in the last election, DePaul professor Nick Kachiroubas believes it will be more difficult with a candidate like Kennedy.

“Even though he’s being touted as being tied to Madigan, he doesn’t have the Madigan name,” Kachiroubas said. “He has a different name and it’s a well-known name, so he can kind of benefit from associations with the Democratic Party, but also from his own personal affiliations as well.”

While Madigan is considered

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Chris Kennedy poses for a portrait in his Chicago office Feb. 8. the greatest weakness for the a tough year for Republicans, at Democrats, McNeil believes the least if things continue the way party’s candidate can be effective they have, at least in the last few if their messaging focuses on weeks,” Kachiroubas said. “So Rauner’s record, such as the lack that makes it even more of an of a budget and the problems uphill battle for a Republican governor.” that has led to.

The Cook Political Report “You can blame Madigan all you want, but two years, currently shows the race as “lean no budget, hasn’t happened in Republican.” But, Kennedy’s entrance shakes up the race and history,” McNeil said.

And, with the president’s could make it one of the most party typically suffering losses closely-watched in the country during midterms elections, should be win the primary. The Rauner may run into trouble primary takes place March 20, 2018. given Illinois’ blue leanings.

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Anti-semitic crime rises Jewish students at DePaul fear continued violence

By Taylor Ashmore Staff Writer

Stuart Wright, a 31-year-old Chicago was charged with a hate crime and is being held on a $150,000 bail for drawing swastikas on a synagogue in the Loop Feb. 4. According to DNAinfo, Chicago police said the man is “a white supremacist who has a swastika tattoo on his back.”

This crime, while terrible, is among the many anti-Semitic hate crimes that have occurred across the United States in 2017. The lack of collective knowledge on such crimes may shock some people, but is not news to the Jewish community.

“There’s a push for media to be specifically reporting on certain types of crimes done by certain types of people,” Matthew Charnay, DePaul’s Jewish Life Coordinator, said. “They want to show how people of color and, specifically Muslim people, are hurting white Christians. They don’t care as much about Jews.”

“The other thing here, is because it’s so common,” Charnay said. “It’s not interesting to people anymore because synagogue windows get smashed all the time, for example.”

DePaul University has also faced hate crimes target Jews campus, most recently when an anti-Semitic fliers were printed from multiple printers on the Lincoln Park Campus in March 2016.

“It’s not news if it happens all the time,” Charnay said. “If everyone was drowning every day, they wouldn’t report all of the drownings.”

“For a long time, people believed that anti-Semitism was dead just like the Nazi Party,” Danielle Harris, a Jewish DePaul student said. “I think because Americans do not truly recognize anti-Semitism, it is not heavily covered by the media.”

Sam Smiley, a DePaul student raised in a multi-religious home but identifies as culturally Jewish, agrees.

“It’s plain and simple, people think that

Jews aren’t really marginalized in the same way they used to be,” Smiley said. “The Holocaust is over now, but it’s not really over in the same way. There is systematic racism even though slavery is over.

“I remember being in middle school and having Jew jokes made and people don’t think it’s offensive,” Smiley said.

“It’s not as common for people to stand up about it, people back down when it comes to religion.”

This lack of media attention brings attention to the current political climate.

“I really think it has to do with the hatred and bigotry that came with Trump’s hatred towards marginalized groups,” Smiley said. “Because Trump is the president he’s normalizing the hatred and I think it has increased recently because of that.”

“With all of the hatred stemming from Trump’s presidency and policies, people who commit hate crimes are getting justification for their actions,” Harris said.

Jews have been marginalized across history, starting even before Christianity was an established religion. There was also political, social, and economic antiSemitism during the Enlightenment, and, of course, the immense hatred found in the Holocaust. This anti-Semitic attitude continues today in some areas.

“There’s never been more than 20 million Jews ever in existence at one time throughout history,” Charnay said. “The idea that it’s such a small community but it always seems to be stable makes a lot of people upset.

“People don’t like things that are different, it scares them,” Charnay continued. “The tight-knit idea of the Jewish community is something that targets them.”

All three agree on one thing: the average person can stand up and make a difference.

“I think confronting passive antiSemitism, passive Islamophobia, passive

Violence against Jewish people has increased over the past few years. Recent antiSemitic crimes are worrisome to the Jewish community. gay bashing, that’s what’s actually going to change something,” Charnay said. “Stop minor hate. It takes years to manifest itself. You have to plant the seed of hate, you have to water the seed of hate, and it has to grow. It doesn’t just happen one day.

It evolves over time and if someone can stop the water of that seed, it’ll die.”

“If you see something say something,” Harris said. “Don’t brush off sly remarks made or glance away when someone insinuates violence; confront them.”

“If someone says something offensive, it doesn’t even have to be about Judaism, but being aware that that’s not okay and being comfortable standing up and saying that’s not okay,” Smiley said.

“The biggest thing people can do is go to a Jewish Life event and not be ignorant,” Smiley said. “If you learn about what everything is about and you’re tolerant, then coexisting and respecting everyone else becomes a lot easier.”

The DePaul Jewish Life Center offers events throughout the school year that are open to everyone, and can offer a chance to learn about another culture.

As more awareness is drawn towards

the lack of media attention the Jewish community receives, many question if the hate crimes will continue.

“These hate crimes will definitely continue as things become more and more volatile in the U.S.,” Harris said. “I think it is going to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.”

Smiley agreed that anti-Semitic hate crimes will likely escalate.

“I like to think everyone in the world is good and not going to attack marginalized groups, but I do think they are on the rise and I don’t think it’s going to stop if we continue to support and tolerate negative opinions,” Smiley said.

Charney said that honest reporting, not increased coverage, would be most beneficial.

“There’s waves of it being reported more and being reported less depending on who and when and where and why,” Charney said. “I don’t want there to be more coverage about anti-Semitic crimes.

I just want it be fairly reported and accurately reported.”

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Executive Order Denied Recent Trump case is not the first time an executive order was blocked

By Sam Johnson Contributing Writer

President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration was blocked by an appeals court Feb. 9 after the federal appeals panel found no evidence that anyone from the seven nations had committed acts of terrorism.

There are 94 district courts, 13 circuit courts, and one Supreme Court in the federal system, which interprets laws.

However, the ability to overturn executive orders can come from more than just a federal court ruling.

“The president can revoke or rescind it,” David Barnum, emeritus professor of political science, said. “And I think that is what President Trump has done in many cases.”

Article two of the constitution prescribes in detail the executive branch’s power, however, through what is known as an executive order, the president has the right to sign a law that does not need prior approval from anyone. It is only in bringing an executive order before the federal courts that any president’s reach can be cut down.

On Jan. 27, 2017 President Donald Trump signed "Protection Of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States," which banned seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., regardless of legal resident status. It sent immigrants back on planes, and detained multitudes of individuals at local airports across the country.

This “travel ban” is where the questions begin, and it is where the courts will once again be called to limit the power of the president if need be.

In court documents released from the United States Eastern Court District of New York, Judge Ann Donnelly revoked parts of the president’s executive action days into the implementation of the executive order.

Darweesh v. Trump Order was the first challenge. The judicial branch took exceptions to the parts of the order which had legal residents turned away in airports, even after making it back to America.

“I think that Trump’s very aggressive use of executive orders is going to generate tons of litigation in the courts,” Barnum said. “Much of which is going to turn up the fact that if the order makes it to the Supreme Court there isn’t much precedent to consider.”

This is what may happen with another court ruling,

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Protestor gather to oppose Donald Trump's contraversal executive order that restricts travelers from seven muslim-majority countries. one in which the executive order has been challenged yet again. In the Western District court of Washington at Seattle, documents were released Feb. 3, which noted the state of Washington and Minnesota had filed another court case against the Trump order.

District Judge James L. Robart issued a temporary restraining order.

This temporary order nullified the entire executive action. Barnum said that the executive branch has been trying to get around congress for years, and possibly decades, but notes that the case will only reach the Supreme Court on appeal.

Oral arguments were heard against the temporary restraining order on Feb. 7, with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court decided to uphold the halt of the travel ban, and the White House said that it may take the fight over the halt to the Supreme Court.

“Theoretically, the formal position of our constitution is nothing belongs to the executive branch, except maybe the president’s power to be commander-in-chief once we’re in a war, and a few other things,” Barnum said. “But congress passes laws and the president enforces laws, he doesn’t make them.”

Barnum also said that these litigations against the Trump executive order are going to be tested repeatedly.

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Judge James Robart halted Donald Trump's executive order in a federal court hearing on Feb. 3.

To make the current situation more muddled, the Supreme Court still only has eight sitting judges. The president has picked Neil Gorsuch, but he is still awaiting congress approval. If this current case gets all the way to the Supreme Court and ends in a tie, the lesser court’s ruling would be upheld.

Kinga Rzezinowska, a DePaul freshman, is worried about the rights of refugees and immigrants if the order is unhalted.

“I’m an immigrant and my parents are too,” Rzezinowska said. “There should definitely be checks and balances, just to protect everybody’s rights.”

Although Rzezinowska does not hail from one of the countries on the travel ban order, as immigrants, she says she and her parents feel affected

by Trump’s order.

This chain events may be unprecedented in some way, but it isn’t the first time an executive order has been challenged.

According to a Congressional Research Service report, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer was a Supreme Court ruling that reversed President Harry S. Truman’s executive order to seize control of the nation’s steel mills during the Korean War in 1952.

In United States v. Texas, public court documents reveal that President Barack Obama had his executive action on immigration revoked. The order was part of a program initiated

by Obama called, The Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA. Aside from executive

orders, there are other ways unconstitutional laws can be rescinded. A landmark ruling on June 2015 set Jim Obergefell on the Supreme Court stage, when the state of Ohio did not recognize his marriage to his late spouse John Arthur.

In Obergefell v. Hodges, Obergefell, along with several other plaintiffs from Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, appealed to the Supreme Court and won.

“I guess that would be something that affects me here,” Emily Kuperman, a DePaul sophomore, said. “I know people that were probably going to be interested in having same sex marriages, and I think it’s important that they get to do what they want to do.”

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East Chicago, Indiana has been declared a disaster area by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb due to a lead contamination problem.

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President Donald Trump has promised more legal action after a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Trump tweeted "SEE YOU IN COURT" after the decision came out Thursday, but what he has in mind remains to be seen.

Trump said Friday that he has "no doubt" he will win the case in court and promised to take additional, unspecified security steps "rapidly."

The 3-0 ruling means that refugees and people from the seven nations — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — can continue entering the United States for now. The administration has several options on how to proceed. Here's a look at where the legal fight goes from here.

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The Trump administration could decide to ask the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the three-judge panel's ruling. But the odds of success seem low, said Margo Schlanger, a law professor at the University of Michigan. She noted that the three-judge panel was unanimous and included a judge chosen by a Republican president.

SUPREME COURT APPEAL The government could file an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court and ask the justices to restore the ban. But it would take at least five justices to overturn the ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and that may be a long shot. The high court still has only eight members since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia — four conservative and four liberal justices.

"There are almost surely four votes to deny an emergency request to reinstate the order," said Peter Spiro, a

law professor at Temple University.

The last immigration case to reach the justices ended in a 4-4 deadlock last year. That suggests a similar split over Trump's order, which would let the 9th Circuit ruling stand and keep the freeze in place.

WAITING FOR GORSUCH If the Supreme Court declines to intervene right away, the case would remain in the 9th Circuit and ultimately be considered on its legal merits. It also could return to U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle, who temporarily blocked the ban after Washington state and Minnesota urged a nationwide hold on the Jan. 27 order.

The lower court action so far is temporary and hasn't resolved broader questions about the legality of Trump's order. It simply halts deportations or other actions until judges can more fully consider whether the order violates legal or constitutional rights.

Allowing the case to play out longer at the appeals court has one advantage: By the time a ruling on the merits comes down, the Senate may have confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. That may improve Trump's chances to prevail on appeal.

But just how the issue might reach the Supreme Court isn't clear. Several other challenges have been launched in courts around the country, and the court could opt to wait before stepping in.

REVISING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER The White House could amend the executive order to expressly carve out existing green card holders and other people who already have some ties to the United States. Up to 60,000 visas were initially canceled in the wake of

the ban, affecting the lives of students, professors and workers.

White House Counsel Donald McGahn had issued guidance days after the executive order saying it didn't apply to legal permanent residents of the U.S., but the appeals court said that was not enough.

"The government has offered no authority establishing that the White House counsel is empowered to issue an amended order superseding the executive order signed by the president," the opinion said.

Revising the order "shifts the legal boundaries so that it becomes a tougher constitutional target," Spiro said.

The appeals court issued a sharp rebuke to the Justice Department's argument that the president has the constitutional power to restrict entry to the United States to prevent terrorism, and that courts cannot second-guess that authority.

"There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy," the opinion said.

Washington state, Minnesota and other states say Trump showed his intent in the presidential campaign when he called for a ban on Muslims entering the country. They also say his order discriminates against Muslims because it provides exceptions for refugees who practice a religion that makes them a minority in their home country. That would favor Christians in the countries affected.

The appeals court said the administration failed to show that the order satisfied constitutional requirements to provide notice or a hearing before restricting travel. But it did not rule on whether the order violated religious protections under the First Amendment.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Thursday issued a state disaster declaration over East Chicago's lead contamination problem, nearly two months after his predecessor rejected the city's request.

Holcomb approved the 30-day emergency declaration, saying state agencies will focus on helping find new homes for about 100 residents remaining at a polluted public housing complex and discussing options with new federal agency leaders.

The governor said he hopes the declaration will accelerate coordination among local, state and federal agencies. Other plans include directing $2 million toward demolition of the West Calumet Housing Complex, along with seeking federal assistance for soil cleanup and the replacement of lead water pipes throughout the industrial city along Lake Michigan.

"What I want to do is make sure we get this right," Holcomb said. "Putting a 30-day shot clock on our efforts, I think, will help us not just corral, but focus all of our efforts, both the federal and state efforts, and the local efforts on it right now."

East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland sought the disaster designation from thenGov. Mike Pence, who is now vice president.

The mayor was hoping it would make more state programs available to residents dealing with the contamination, which has forced more than 1,000 people to move out of the West Calumet complex.

Pence's office said in December that the declaration wasn't needed because federal and state agencies were already addressing the situation.

Last summer, Copeland ordered the evacuation of the 40-year-old public housing complex, where about 700 children lived, because of severe soil contamination. The site was once home to a lead products factory.

Some yards had lead levels more than 70 times the federal safety standard. Federal officials have given residents until the end of March to find new homes.

East Chicago City Attorney Carla Morgan told The (Northwest Indiana) Times that local officials appreciated Holcomb's decision.

"We're working closely with the governor's office to figure out how to best help our residents," Morgan said.

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Political burnout

Media engagement in civic activism overbearing to the public

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Whether you support one political side or the other, or float lifelessly in the middle, a majority of Americans received some type of R & R over the last weekend.

Last weekend’s events featured numerous tweets from President Donald Trump, cries of laughter from Saturday Night Live and an epic comeback from the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl LI. Nationwide viewers gathered Sunday for appetizers, place bets and to watch the not-so-surprising politically charged advertisements.

Given Trump’s first two weeks in office, companies utilized their $5 million advertisement slot to reflect on his doings.

Regardless if we think those doings are right or wrong, it’s safe to say that politics infested the weekend’s entertainment.

Notable advertisements during the SuperBowl consist of Kia, Coca-Cola, 84Lumber and Budweiser. The main target of these commercials derive from Trump’s latest executive actions.

These political advertisements, also America’s entertainment, are filtering into our social media and news outlets excessively more than ever before. This is a whole new process for consumers nationwide to adapt to. But we seem to bask in the uproar — we participate, engage and argue with one another. These happenings tend to bring out the negative sides to our political standing rather than flashing a light on one’s stance.

“Unlike other presidential transitions, I don’t see a return to “normal” anytime soon,” DePaul’s public relations and advertising professional in residence Ron Culp said. “Bitterness and disbelief cloud any opportunity for compromise on one side of the aisle, and the other side seems willing to see how this plays out over the next several months.”

Obama was our normal. This transition, which these companies are trying to portray, is very fresh. We live in it and it’s happening right now.

“Social identity has become an integral

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Melissa McCarthy played White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, in the popular SNL skit, which has over 20 million hits on YouTube.

part of our current political situation, so it makes sense for companies to capitalize on positive messages that spread love and acceptance,” senior Trevor Hollis said. “I think there’s such a heavy political focus in the media right now because levelheaded people want to preserve the rights of certain social identities that are under attack.

A very popular episode of "Saturday Night Live" premiered the night before the Super Bowl. Host Kristen Stewart comprised a monologue in which she referred to her "Twilight" days and her relationship with Robert Pattinson. At the time Trump tweeted at her, not just once, but 11 times, about her role in the relationship.

Stewart fired back saying “The president is not a huge fan of me. But that is so OK. And, Donald, if you didn’t like me then, you’re really probably not going to like me now ‘cause I’m hosting "SNL" and I’m like, so gay dude.”

The one-two punch came with Melissa McCarthy’s brilliant persona of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The skit pinpointed the relationship between

the administration and the news media.

“Myself and the press have gotten off to a rocky start," McCarthy said. "And when I say rocky start I mean it in the sense of ‘Rocky' the movie because I came out here to punch you in the face.”

It’s quite difficult to ignore the material that "SNL" is evoking. Trump took to Twitter many times to downplay Alec Baldwin’s imitation of himself.

“I’d rather us be talking about the issues that the president is so committed to helping Americans on," Spicer said. "But you know, it’s a part of American culture.”

“While frustrating to individuals on both sides of the political aisle, the current discourse may be creating a greater level of interest in politics than at any point since the 1960s. Unfortunately, the all-important middle ground is being lost in the current debate,” Culp said. “Currently, belligerent 'I’m right/you’re wrong' attitudes dominate political discourse. Media has been lured into the polarizing 'he-said/she-said debate,' which diminishes its reputation.”

Now reflecting back on the weekend, everywhere we glanced we were a target of some sort of political expression.

After the airing of the Budweiser and 84Lumber commercials during the Super Bowl, boycotts erupted on Twitter. #BoycottBudweiser began trending and harsh comments were made towards the company's portrayal of immigrants.

“Sadly, many people are enjoying the current political turmoil. Failure of bi-partisanship didn’t just happen in the past year. It’s been festering for many years,” Culp said. “In the meantime, brands must be careful not to intentionally or accidentally embrace political positions that tick off their consumers and stakeholders.”

After the boycotts and the Twitter arguments, we must digress the reasoning behind why companies sell their products: to make a profit. And Americans turn to the satirical "SNL" for laughter and entertainment. These two causes are starting to bleed together, enforcing the audience to be turned one way or another, defeating the actual purpose to why we are involved in the first place.

“I think most people would like if politics were boring again. Nothing makes sense anymore,” Hollis said.

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Unconstitutional USA

Trump's travel ban remains suspended, but its impact carries on By bela famularo Contributing Writer Jan. 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that banned refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling. Trump stated this was necessary to keep America safe, when rather it has been causing more harm across the globe.

This Muslim ban is not just an executive order to keep everyone safe, it’s a result of Islamophobia. By banning individuals who have the right to travel freely from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, is not only unconstitutional, but it portrays the sentiment from the White House that Muslim travelers and residents are not welcome to the U.S. Feb. 3 was a victory day for those opposing the travel ban, U.S. district Judge James L. Robart from Seattle halted the executive order on a nationwide ruling.

In the most recent update surrounding the travel ban, three U.S. appeals court members upheld the suspension, which led to an angry tweet from President Donald Trump who tweeted “see you in court” in response to his loss in reinstating the ban.

While Trump and his administration are pushing for the travel ban to be reinstated because of national security, their responses towards the backlash are unpresidential. The expulsion of Sally Yates from her position as acting attorney general because of her position against legally defending the order speaks volumes of how the administration will handle future offenses.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer even commented, “I think that they should either get with the program or they can go.”

“As a person with such a high level of influence, Trump should be able to take criticism and respect other’s points of view,” Katherine Power, a DePaul senior said. “The way he fired the attorney general worries me because it shows how he will defame other people's character and knock them down just to get what he wants, without attempting to hear the other side of the story or how it will affect others.”

While national security seems to be the biggest motive behind Trump’s highly controversial and unethical executive order, the travel ban rejects traveling refugees and immigrants an opportunity to create a better life for their family and themselves. The argument can be made the order is based on principles of Islamophobia. This is disgraceful and not at all what America is about.

DePaul junior Isabel Aldape had a different point of view on the ban.

“I agree with it as a temporary solution to a permanent problem, we need to develop a stronger and more secure screening systems for not only Muslims but anyone coming into America because of the events that have happened due to terrorist acts missed by a faulty security check somewhere down the line,” Aldape said. “It's harsh, but that's what we need right now until we figure this out.”

Like Aldape said, it is harsh, and those who support the ban fail to understand the position the travel ban has put America in regards to international relations. It will forever remain as an ugly mark in American history towards Islamic relations; it creates fear in many because it goes against so much of what this country was built on. Many countries including Peru, China and Colombia are coming together to mobilize against Trump. Iran has even banned American citizens from entering their country in retaliation of Trump’s executive order.

Barring refugees, visa holders and immigrants with green card status, for the first 48 hours of the ban, from entering the U.S. only succeeds in highlighting the Trump administration's incorrect leadership style.

The question has been posed if this ban even protects us from terrorism, which it does not because terrorism is everywhere. You do not have to be a certain religion or race to be a terrorist and that is something everyone should understand from the history of attacks countries have seen in the past.

The Trump administration says this is not a ban on Muslim people, but the several countries that are under the ban are all predominantly Muslim. Trump says he is just trying to keep America safe, but what he fails to realize is this ban targets those who already have been in the U.S. and those who have worked in the U.S.. Even people with green cards who have went through a long process to be able to live in the U.S. are being denied their rights.

“The travel ban does put the U.S. in danger because it's (going to) put our allies against us, and it's going to make those people already in the U.S. revolt, and may result into more "attacks," freshman Natalia Bies, majoring in economics and minoring in political science, said.

“Leaders from other countries have said that (this shows the U.S.' true colors) so everyone is going to see Trump as the face of America.”

It is not fair for Trump to be able to create an executive order that takes away so many people’s rights. Having our country’s representatives not support or welcome all types of people into America is hurtful and not what, we as Americans, are supposed to believe.

During the procession of the ban, CEOs from companies like Facebook, Lyft, Starbucks and many more have reached out to the public to make it known they do not stand with Trump’s executive action. Many of them voiced that their own family members once migrated to the U.S. Lyft took an extra step to show their support by donating $1 million over the next four years to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as well as Starbucks, which pledged to hire 10,000 refugees in 75 countries over the next few years. However the CEO of Uber, recently made it public that he supported Trump

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and mentioned he was on his advisory council. He eventually backed down because of the large amount of criticism he began to receive.

This not only brings awareness to the situation, but allows our crumbling nation to rise together and stand up against Trump. There have been recent reports of

people coming together to protest against this ban at different airports. It’s a great message to send to Trump that we, as a nation, will not allow our rights to be taken away, that we will stand together to fight this and whatever else he throws at us in the future.

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

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Focus The DePaul community reflects on moments of Black

By Michael Brookins

By Nyah Hoskins

President – M.O.V.E. (Men Of Vision and Empowerment)

Historian – S.T.R.O.N.G. (Sisters Together Recognizing Our Never-ending Growth)

President – DePaul Black Student Union

I am history because right now we are in the midst of a change in America and the way we act currently will headway the past and determine the events of the future. As an African-American male student at DePaul University, I find myself having to adapt to many different environments, personalities and beliefs even when it is very condescending to my existence. Racism is rarely blatant anymore. It is more subtle (nowadays). We are no longer dealing with “whites only” bathroom signs or the “black codes” but black students deal with “passive inequality” in group projects, invalidation of movements that fight for their freedom and the appropriation of their culture daily. Why is it that non-black people who listen to hip hop music, a predominantly African-American genre, disagree with Black Lives Matter? How (is) it that group presentations with black students most often lack black leadership? Which priest from our Catholic university will have the courage to address the “false visuals” of the saints, prophets and Jesus Christ we continue to display, knowing that original Hebrews were dark and brown-skinned?

If we can’t address our own non-inclusive literature and rhetoric, who are we to denounce the statements of Donald Trump, who has decided to be straightforward in his beliefs on race and sex, yet has been met with backlash. I have tried my best to deal with this issue my whole college tenure and embarked on a number of campaigns through Men of Vision and Empowerment (M.O.V.E.), social media, activism and with my music as artist Mike Fulahope.

Recently, on (social media), I have decided to post a selfie of a strong Black woman that I know every day for Black History Month. I did this to lay bare the academic success and personal attributes that manifest with Black females at DePaul. When we talk about Black history, the history of Black males tends to (surpass) the contribution of the Afro-female. My goal is to make renditions like these all the more common and I believe (this) will eventually lead us to a more socially acceptable world.

I am history because of the history of my parents. The Caribbean slave revolts and revolutions proved to me that even though we may be held in bondage, we have strength in numbers. The steady independence of the country of Ethiopia was an affirmation of the governing power Black people have to self govern without colonial help.

When I was a child, the importance of Black history was displayed year round. I always attended a predominantly Black school up until college, so the celebration of Black History Month was a 28-day holiday super embrace of my Blackness.

As I emerged in my Blackness, I had to realize a few things to flourish. My womanhood and my Blackness coexist, I never have to pick a side. Black people are the core and root of everything. America was built by Black people.

Pop culture derives directly from Black culture.

Fashion trends? Black people did it first. We are innovators. The major lesson that took years for me to learn was that Blackness is not monolithic.

There is no “proper” way to be Black. If you are of African descent, you are Black. Your (interests) and hobbies do not discredit your Blackness.

S.T.R.O.N.G allows me to live in conjunction with their mission: to uplift, empower and be a support system for Black women on campus (which) helps us cultivate the community we need at DePaul. Black history, or HERstory, starts with us. We Black millennials have a global advantage through social media. We have the opportunity to support and network with the Black Diaspora in a matter of seconds. Our Black history will be digital and revolutionary.

As we open our minds and intersect our history, there will be more marginalized Black people being highlighted, such as Black women, LGTBQ+ (and) gender nonconforming getting the recognition they deserve.

I am history because I was able to witness a Black man, a mirror image of myself, be sworn in as the president of the United States. I was in eighth grade staying up late with my parents waiting for the final votes to be tallied and then it was announced that Barack Hussein Obama would be the 44th President of the United States.

As a young Black kid that was about to enter high school, this was such a euphoric moment. My confidence and the belief in my abilities to make changes in the world grew tremendously.

History is made everyday of our lives, whether we notice it or not. We all play major roles in history making but not everyone recognizes their personal contribution.

As a Black leader in today’s society growing up under the administration of a Black President, I’ve had the privilege to not only observe such a historical figure in action but also learn from him. I am history. President Obama has opened doors for African Americans around the world and this has empowered me to do my part in making history on DePaul’s campus. Throughout my two years as president of the Black Student Union (BSU), I have seen many injustices occur to students of color. Through the hope President Obama has given me, I make it a point to advocate for marginalized students.

With the work currently being done by the executive board, we are creating history. Even though we may not see the end results of the projects we are starting during our college days, new boards will pick up the tasks and see them through. History is not always doing something for the ‘now’, but rather paying it forward for the future generations. I saw history take place and now I am making history happen.

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By Mario Morrow

IHISTORY AM

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history that have shaped them into leaders on campus

By Kristin Lansdown

By Dexter Zollicoffer

Resident Advisor – DePaul’s Seton Hall

John T. Richardson Library – Access Services Circulation Student Supervisor

Diversity Advisor – The Theatre School

I am history because I rise above the standard; the standard of complacency, of conformity, the standard of what defines a black and Latina woman. I am history because I am the song of Nina Simone, the blood stains of cotton, the beat of a drum in “La Negra Tiene Tumbao,” the drive of escaping captivity and because I am the strength of my ancestors.

When I was five-years-old in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I was told that I was stupid because I am brown. Today I am a consistent Dean’s list recipient, pre-med neuroscience major and a young woman who is proud to openly love her body and her skin. I have taken those words that existed to deter my excellence as initiative to excel as a leader, especially on this campus.

(As) a Resident Advisor I have recognized how imperative minority representation is in leadership positions. I have the opportunity to engage with residents of all backgrounds and develop unique relationships that redefine what diversity is. History has taught me in order to dismantle the narrative of what is “Black” (and) what is “Latinx,” I must leave my comfort zone and go against the grain. I often think about if Audre Lorde never picked up a pen, if Rosa never stood her ground (and) if Harriet hadn't guided me. Where would I be?

The strength shown by women like them has empowered me to continue towards my goal of increasing minority visibility in healthcare.

My (passions) for women's health, self-love (and) self-awareness (have) grown which is why I decided to audition in this year's Vagina Monologues. It was on (a) whim, but my drive (was) to tell women (of) all shapes, colors, sizes and gender identities that their bodies are exquisite pieces of art. I want little black boys and girls to know that they can accomplish whatever they put their minds to. By being a leader on campus I acknowledge the responsibility I have to uplift other people of color at DePaul.

I am history because I am a byproduct of the work many of our ancestors have done, some of which are still alive. One person that comes to mind is Autherine Lucy. She was the first black woman to try to integrate the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa because she wanted to earn her master's in library science there. That was really important to me because she enrolled, but then she was expelled. This was after the Brown v. Education ruling, so she had the right to be there but they expelled her anyway. She tried to reenroll and got expelled again, and wasn’t able to earn her degree until 1992.

Thinking about that I had the opportunity to work with supervisors of mine, that are women of color, who are also pursuing their masters in library sciences and that has been an influence to pursue mine. It’s really important because the library field is dominated by white women. It’s important to me to have that representation in libraries, to curate collections that reflect diversity so that anyone is reading books about other people so you can learn. That goes beyond race.

I’m currently pursuing my counseling degree here, and once I finish that the library science degree will be next. As a school counselor I’m really interested in how you can use books to make a difference for students in their social and emotional lives. Literacy can make an impact changing the lives of students of color. I want to have a long-lasting impact on students of color in Chicago.

I am history because I’m an actor. This incident happened quite a few years ago back in the early 90s. I was out of town acting in a production of ‘The Recruiting Officer’, an 18th century. restoration comedy. In it, I played a rustic who is best friends with another character who is also a rustic. Both characters supposedly are best friends, grew up together, are uneducated, dressed in rags and generally unkempt. The actor playing my counterpart was white and when we were both (called) in to speak to the costuming and make-up designer, the designer spoke at length to the white actor about how they were going to wig him so his hair would be long and shaggy (...) since these characters had likely never been to a barber shop.

When it was my turn to ask about what they were going to do with my hair, the costumer, who was white, only gave me a blank stare and with a wave of the hand, told me my hair was fine and they wouldn’t do anything to it. Mind you, I was sporting a tightly cropped high-top fade, a la Kid-and-play at the time. Nothing about my hairstyle suggested 18th century rustic.

However, it occurred to me that the white costumer could not fathom a wild and unruly Afro, which is exactly how my hair would have been considering the situation of the character.

I learned in that moment that sometimes people will not see race (as) a way of not dealing with race.

By Cara Anderson

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Arts & Life

GOING THE

DISTANCE DePaul students reflect on different Valentine’s Day plans

By Taylor Ashmore Staff Writer

As love fills the air this Valentine’s Day, DePaul couples, both on and off campus, have put together plans for the big day, whether it be dinner downtown or a romantic FaceTime call.

DePaul couples located in the Chicago area have plenty of options for V-Day. Various restaurants in Lincoln Park are offering special menus and deals, including Café Ba-Ba-Reeba, Stella Barra Pizzeria and Oyster Bah. Many DePaul students have already celebrated Valentine’s Day, due to the date falling on a Tuesday this year.

“We went to a restaurant called Enoteca Roma over the weekend since we hadn’t been on an actual date in a while,” said Mackenzie Costanzo, who met her boyfriend through friends at DePaul’s Second City Event. “We’ll probably end up eating ice cream and chocolate while watching a cartoon or something.”

Gabriel Bustoz met his girlfriend through a student organization on campus, and plans to lie low when Valentine’s Day arrives.

“We plan to stay in on Valentine’s Day since we both have night classes, but will probably go out the weekend after,” Bustoz said.

Other students are taking advantage of the sights downtown, even if it may mean

cutting into Tuesday night homework time. “(My boyfriend) and I met at school, he was in my discover class so we spent the whole week together,” said freshman Emily Lindsey, a freshman at DePaul.

“We are going out to dinner and walking around the city.”

The 10 most popular Uber destinations on Valentine’s Day last year were comprised of restaurants, so it’s no surprise that this year most couples are planning to follow suit. The most popular restaurants were Italian and seafood restaurants, according to the Chicago Tribune.

While other couples are enjoying being together, long-distance couples will be spending the night apart.

DePaul student Lydia Connolly’s boyfriend goes to school at Franklin and Marshall College in rural Pennsylvania, located 695 miles away from DePaul.

“I’ll probably FaceTime him,” Connolly said. “We sent each other gifts.

It is extremely difficult being away from him.”

“It’s hard seeing couples on campus around Valentine’s Day, but it makes seeing each other later that much better,” Connolly said.

Maddy Auby, a DePaul student originally from Holland, Michigan, is only an ‘L’ ride away from her boyfriend who attends Trinity Christian College, located south of Chicago in Palos Heights.

The couple has been dating for almost two years and hopes to see each other soon.

“We aren’t doing anything official,” Auby said. “He’s only 35 miles away, but when you take the train it takes an hour and a half.”

“I miss being able to see him every day without having to go out of my way,” Auby said. “It was convenient when we were in the same town because our lives were intertwined, but now we have to work hard to stay together.”

If you’re still scrambling for date ideas, Chicago has plenty to offer.

Navy Pier is hosting National Ferris Wheel Day at its Centennial Wheel.

The Wheel will be turned “into a giant, rotating ‘photo booth’ with props and other fun surprises,” from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. according to Navy Pier’s website.

Sweetheart flights are also available for couples, including dinner and dessert for just $38. The Blue Man group also performs on Valentine’s Day, with tickets ranging from $59 to $109. Tove Lo and the Japandroids will both be making appearances in Chicago later on in the week, and tickets could offer a good Valentine’s Day present.

Since Valentine’s Day falls on a Tuesday this year, many singles will be lying low.

“I’ll just go to class, do my homework and play tennis,” said Tim Walsh. “It’s going to be the same as any other night.”

“I’m going to get a Valentine’s Day brownie from the Stu,” Cristina Cazares said with a laugh. “I’m going to take it easy. I’ll watch some Bob’s Burgers and just hang out.”

Singles don’t have to fear going out into the city, however. Navy Pier is also hosting an event for singles around Chicago, involving fitness. “My Sweaty Valentine Zumba” will take place from6 to 7 p.m. on Valentine’s Day and fuses Latin and international rhythms with movement, combining together to make a fun workout.

DePaul University will also be home to its very own “Anti-Valentine’s Day,” hosted by the DePaul Activities Board (DAB).

DAB will provide an “Anti-Valentine’s Day movie, ice cream bar, a hot chocolate and apple cider bar and DIY activities,” according to DePaul’s website.

DePaul’s fraternities and sororities will also be hosting “Cupcake Wars” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. The organizations will be selling cupcakes that they baked and decorated themselves, in hopes of raising money for their philanthropies.

Whether a you’re a couple, miles away from your significant other, or single, Chicago and DePaul both have plenty to offer this Valentine’s Day.

Relationship advice from The DePaulia....

“Love yourself first and always. And don’t text them when you’re angry.

-Donyae Lewis, Focus Editor

“Don’t jump to conclusions, assume the best intentions.”

-Jessica Villagomez, Editor in Chief

“Don’t get in a relationship.”

-Danielle Harris, News Editor

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QUIZ: HOW SINGLE ARE YOU?

Pick a romantic comedy: a) “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” Not only is Kate Hudson GOALS, but it’s pretty upsetting that she ends up with Matthew McConaughey’s character in the end.

Your dating mantra is like Donna Meagle’s in “Parks and Reacreation”: “Use him, abuse him, lose him.” You’re so cold. b) “Titanic.” Who doesn’t want to spend more than three hours watching the tragic love story of Rose and Jack?

You still tear up every time you hear Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.” c)“Bridesmaids,” mostly because the plot has barely anything to do with the wedding and more to do with the hilarious antics of the bridal party. You may or may not have peed your pants during the food poisoning scene, but that’s nothing compared to Maya Rudolph’s character having no choice but to sit in a wedding dress and poop in the street.

Describe your dream Valentine’s Day date: a) You want your potential boo to show you a good time.

That means picking you up in an Uber black car, taking you to a five star restaurant and pulling all the stops to impress your desired self. You could be with anybody on Valentine’s Day and you chose this fool. They better not make you regret it. b) Honestly, it doesn’t matter as long as you’re with a person that special person. Little Caesars pizza and a Netflix marathon? Pure romance. c) You haven’t put much thought into it. Valentine’s Day is an overhyped holiday to make people spend money they

“If they don’t watch ‘Game of Thrones,’ is it even worth it?”

-Pat Mullane, Arts & Life Editor

don’t have as a way of proving their so-called love. You’re not buying into this garbage.

Which of the following best describes your reaction to seeing flowers and heart-shaped chocolate boxes when you walk into a store: a) Your Valentine’s Date better not go the cheap route.

No grocery store flowers accepted, thank you very much!

You’ll send your lucky date a list of acceptable v-day gifts.

They are not allowed to deter from said list. b) Valentine’s Day is coming up quick and it’s time for you to save up money so you can get something nice for your boo! Maybe you’ll do something a little more personal, like a handwritten note or a scrapbook with pictures of you two together. How precious. c) Ugh, it’s that time of year again. Also, why are flowers and chocolates the go-to Valentine’s Day gifts? People should really try something more practical, like a Starbucks gift card or a subscription to the New York Times. Gift cards and newspapers don’t start wilting a couple days after you purchase them!

If you could spend Valentine’s Day with any celebrity, who would it be?” a) Rihanna. She’s unattainable but you could definitely change that. Before Riri knows what hit her, she’ll have “Love on the Brain.” b) Well I could only spend Valentine’s Day with a celebrity if your boo is able to tag along. If the celebrity was worthy, you’d be willing to temporarily make your couple a thruple.

“Two people need to work as a team instead of playing against each other so everybody wins” -Ben Gartland Sports Editor

Do you watch “The Bachelor?” a) Absolutely. It’s hilarious watching those women fall all over themselves for some random dude they just met.

Have they no self worth? Regardless, you appreciate their lack of pride. It makes for some great television. b) Oh, definitely not. It’s painful watching the bachelor go from one romantic date where you really think he’s found the one only to make out with another contestant hours later. It’s gross. c) Only with a group of friends. The show is clearly fake, but the cattiness that emerges is worth the brain cells killed watching the drama unfold.

Mostly As: Yeah you’re single, but a catch like you has zero chance of spending Valentine’s Day alone. Some poor soul who thinks they have a chance with your unattainable self is in for a rude awakening Feb. 15 when you stop replying to their texts, calls and snapchats. Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

Mostly Bs: You are your significant other are so coupley that your friends are already making jokes about what they’ll say in their wedding toasts. You laugh it off like they’re being ridiculous but deep down you really hope that will be a reality one day. Have fun grabbing dinner and a movie with the person you plan on spending every Valentine’s Day with for the rest of your life. Ugh, couples.

Mostly Cs: You, my friend, are a single pringle. Your dating life may not be the most exciting aspect of your current existence but that is totally fine. It’s 2017, after all! You’re an independent person and you don’t need no man (or woman). Spend Valentine’s Day with your good friends and laugh at all the fools spending unnecessary money on this Hallmark holiday.

“Date the copy editor.”

-Danielle Church Copy Editor

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(Left) Filled with chives, sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese, the “Classique” is just one of the many gourmet potatos to get at The French Lunchbox in the West Loop.

You say potato, I say potahto: New bistro offers comfort food

By Brian Pearlman Contributing Writer

With a little over 30 vendors ranging from barbecue to Greek to Japanese, the Chicago French Market — located at 131 N. Clinton St. — provides plenty of options to hungry Loop commuters.

As of Feb 1, the latest addition to the market’s roster is The French Lunchbox, a bistro-themed spot that melds hauteinspired flavors with that most American of dishes: the humble baked (and stuffed) potato.

Chef and co-owner Gide Merriman, who runs the stand with his wife Jenn, comes to the Market from Bistro Bordeaux in Evanston, where he was once executive chef.

What eventually became The French Lunchbox was initially floated as a more traditional French bistro — but that all changed when the decision was made to come to the French Market, where Café Marché is a mainstay. Merriman decided to preserve the French theme, while bringing French food to a more approachable level.

“If you go to France, a bistro or a bistro setting isn’t as fancy as we try to make it (in America) — the same with the trattoria for Italians,” Merriman said. “It really is a place on the corner with worn-in tiles where you go to have drink. It’s open late. The food is generally simple.”

That mantra carries over to the potatoes, each of which are placed in a paper boat and swaddled in tin foil. Don’t be fooled, though — a carnival corn dog this is not.

In the “classique” — which is French Lunchbox’s version of a conventional loaded potato at, say, Outback Steakhouse — chives, sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese accompany a delicately creamy, almost velvety potato interior. It would be unfair to describe it as akin to mashed potatoes; this is something entirely better, improved even further by the addition of thick cubes of bacon lardon for $2 extra.

The “brie fondue” variation takes the “comfort food stuffed into an extra-large potato” ethos even further.

The silky potatoes are here coupled with copious chunks of chicken breast, ham and spinach before being layered with a delicious brie cheese sauce. It is rich to the extreme, without overpowering the other flavors.

Other varieties include Merriman’s take on “hachis parmentier” (French Shepherd’s Pie), “crevette ‘n’ grits” (which features shrimp, grits, cheese, and jalapenos) and a vegetarian “poutine aux champignons” with button mushrooms, cheese curds garlic confit and mushroom gravy.

It also happens to be the only place in the Chicago French Market where you can get Dark Matter Coffee, a fact that Merriman is very proud of. The partnership has yielded a unique blend available only at French Lunchbox, sourced from two different South American countries.

“It’s taking the stuffed potato to the next level,” Merriman said. “We’re trying to create something that is new, which is very difficult in the Chicago food scene. It’s exciting.”

Charlie Day talks packing a punch in“Fist Fight” Actor Charlie Day and director Richie Keen revisit high school in comedy “Fist Fight”

By Pat Mullane Arts & Life Editor

Actor Charlie Day (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Horrible Bosses”) stars in his first leading role in the upcoming comedy film, “Fist Fight,” starring Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Dean Norris and Jillian Bell.

A loose remake of the 1987 teen comedy “Three O’Clock High,” “Fist Fight” follows high school teacher Andy Campbell (Day) who is challenged to an after school fist fight after accidentally getting his colleague Ron Strickland (played by Ice Cube) fired. Taking place on the senior-prank-filled last day of school, Campbell tries desperately to not only avoid being fired but also evade a fight he’s destined to lose.

Television director Richie Keen, also from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” directs his first feature film with “Fist Fight” and takes control of a full cast of comedian veterans and newcomers.

The DePaulia recently sat down with Day and Keen of “Fist Fight” to discuss past high school pranks, and filming a fight scene with Ice Cube.

Your character on “Always Sunny” is illiterate, barely had a job, ate cat food but then here you’re this family man English

teacher. What was the transition like, did you draw anything from your “Sunny” character Charlie Kelly?

Charlie Day: No! I was relieved to be a character that could read and write, relieved to play someone mannered a little more like myself in many ways but then when he unravels he dips into more of Charlie Kelly hysteria and psychosis.

Richie Keen: I feel like we did a really good job in casting because you see Charlie not be the craziest person in the room.

You have Jillian Bell, Tracy Morgan and Kumail Nanjiani, but it’s Charlie who is like “Hold on, let’s think about this.” So that was really fun to see something different.

With all these comedians costars from Jillian Bell and Tracy Morgan, how much of the film was improved?

Keen: The answer is, there was a lot of improv but the question is how much did we actually keep.

We felt like we’d be fools not to let everyone do some improv, so we shoot everything that was scripted, but there was no way I’m going to let Charlie and Kumail stand together and not let them mess around for an hour.

And if they do that improvisation and someone breaks but it’s funny enough, do you just do it again?

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Charlie Day (left) and Ice Cube (right) star in “Fist Fight,” a loose remake of the 1987 teen comedy “Three O’Clock High.”

Day: That’s right so you improv or do an alt (version of the script) and people laugh, but you know that’s really funny, we have to do it again. I feel like it’s never quite good as that first take. That first take, whatever magic is in there, is lost. That’s why you have to try your hardest not to laugh.

Keen: Of course he’s saying this!

Day: Oh I know, because I’m the worst at it.

Keen: Some of my favorite moments on set is watching Charlie just barely not break, like you can see his lip starting to curl.

But it’s a testament to the cast that would just hang out in between scenes, I can picture Tracy Morgan walking around in a tank top just telling stories. It shows on screen, everyone’s having fun on set.

This film obviously focuses on teachers and high school, so I was wondering what you guys were like back in high school as students? If you did any senior pranks?

Day: I was too scared to get expelled. My sister went to the local public school, my parents thought maybe I had some potential so they had me apply to this fancy public school, and I got in. We were nickel-anddiming our way to that school so I knew if I got expelled, I’d be a huge disappointment. But I was terrible in school, I was a jokester and couldn’t pay attention because I was distracted by all the girls and fantasizing about playing professional baseball.

This is high school to the extreme, with horses for senior pranks, fights with Ice Cube and

a dance routine with Big Sean, what was the hardest scene to film for you?

Day: Truth is, sitting in this chair right now, I’m still having to adjust because of the pain from this movie — and it’s been a year and a half since we filmed it. Without question, filming that fight was the most difficult thing as an actor I’ve had to physically.

This film touches upon the issues behind the U.S. school system, what did you want viewers to take from the film?

Day: I always hoped that people laughed but they don’t feel as if their laughs came cheap.

You had good laughs but you’re also thinking about the school system and what teachers are going through. I’m not hoping to change the world but that you leave with both things.

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“Carmen” offers great ‘opera-tunity’ PHOTO COURTESY OF EKATERINA GUBANOVA

DePaul alumna Lindsay Metzger (left) performs on stage as Mercedes in the Lyric Opera House’s production of “Carmen.”

DePaul alumna reflects on road to Lyric Opera House

By Rachel Hinton Managing Editor

Lindsay Metzger didn’t realize that opera was a career path she could take before her time at DePaul. Metzger, who graduated in 2010, was a vocal performance major during her time at DePaul.

On Saturday, thanks in part to her education at DePaul and her hard work and dedication to her craft, she starred as Mercedes in the Lyric Opera House’s production of “Carmen.”

Metzger saw her first opera while still a student at DePaul and became immersed in the operatic community in Chicago soon after.

“All freshmen had to go and see performances,” Metzger said. “I was absorbing as much as I could. It opened a new world for me that I didn’t know existed. I never realized I could make it a career before that. Opera chose me in that way.”

Metzger said her performance was a "funny circle of life moment.” From the time she graduated from DePaul to now, she has been working in the field and learning various roles that have helped her progress. She reflected on her experiences and what’s led her to the current moment in her career.

Mercedes is one of Carmen’s closest friends and confidants besides Frasquita.

The premiere performance drew a large crowd to watch the opera comique — an opera with musical numbers separated by dialogue.

The characters each gave enchanting performances that united to make a vibrant

show. “Carmen” has been performed for over a century in cities around the world.

Learning a role like Mercedes, as well as the many others she’s gotten to play since graduating, required a discipline Metzger feels she learned at DePaul.

She had to take no less than 18 credit hours per quarter and it was this busyness that helped her prepare for the roles she’s getting now.

After finishing her bachelor’s degree at DePaul, Metzger went on to get a master’s degree in opera from UWMadison. After that she joined the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, which serves as an apprentice program of opera singers. James Byrne, manager for the center, said the school serves as a finishing school to help people learn how to perform on large stages.

“The Ryan gives a taste of being in a house ensemble, and performers might be in rehearsal for two or three operas at a time,” Byrne said. “It’s all about finding your niche. Each voice is unique.

Each requires a different time period to grow, but that’s part of what makes it interesting.”

The Ryan has helped Metzger refine her niche and have also helped her build on what she learned at DePaul and UWMadison. Students often have to be prepared for anything from two to eight shows.

The massive workload can also include improv classes and language classes — since many operas are in French, Italian or German.

The program, as well as being in Chicago and going to DePaul, has opened an immense amount of doors for her and allowed Metzger to commit to her artistry, something she’s thankful she’s been able to do.

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“You never know until you try,” Metzger said. “In college, you get out of it what you put into it. When you love what you do, your passion becomes your work.”

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“John Wick” was one of the biggest surprises of 2014, with a very small advertisement campaign and no hype behind it. Then it came out and blew audiences away. “Chapter 2” does not get the luxury of having no expectations, but still surprisingly lives up to the hype of the original. The sequel begins with John Wick once again set on retirement, but drawn back into the assassin world after a bounty is placed on his head.

As the story unfolds, the audience gets to experience more of the underground assassin kingdom that was first explored in the original. Of course, the movie delivers on the most important part of an action movie, the action itself. Director Chad Staheski’s experience as a stuntman shines through with expertly choreographed fight scenes that are brilliantly filmed, with the audience being able to see every bone crunching hit. For any fan of action, this one is a must see.

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HIT THE ROAD

Auto show opening weekend showcases new technology All photos by JOSH LEFF | THE DEPAULIA

The 2017 Chicago Auto Show celebrates its 109th year this year at the McCormick Place Convention Center. The annual show runs through Feb. 20 and showcases new cars for 2017. Some of the featured exhibits take a look into the new technological advances in the automobile industry.

By Pat Mullane Arts & Life Editor

McCormick Place Convention Center opened its doors this weekend to kick off the highly anticipated Chicago Auto Show, marking the 109th installment of North America’s largest and longest running automobile show.

Visitors roam freely in the convention center’s large spaced rooms to take a first look at the over 1,000 new vehicles the show had to offer.

Whether you’re admiring the car from the outside, popping the hood for a glance at its engine, or feeling the smooth leather in the interior, the auto show held back no constraints in regards to giving every guest a sense of exploration.

“I seriously did not expect to be able to just open the doors of basically every car – a Ford, a Porsche, Mercedes-Benz – and just freely walk in and sit with your buddies. We’re blasting the stereo in this Jeep just chilling and like we’re on a road trip,” Dominick Roesner, a first time visitor to the Chicago Auto Show. “No way I’d say I’m a big car guy but this is just a good place to go with friends and walk around and step in cars that are worth more than your life.”

With five exclusive indoor test tracks – compared to three in the previous year – visitors were able to experience the actual drive of an array of vehicles and landscapes.

Easily the two most intimidating of all the tracks was Ram’s 30,000 squarefoot pickup-truck course that featured a 30-degree angle hill for visitors to drive up and descend from, and Camp Jeep’s 35-degree hill located in the back of the South Hall.

Other memorable courses include Toyota’s test track that let you choose between a Cubs and Sox themed RAV4 and Toyota Highlanders or MercedesBenz’s Iron Schockl that takes the riders on an incline to a height of 27 feet before showcasing G 550 V-8 SUV and Gelandewagen’s brake system as the car stops in the middle descent on the way down.

“It’s kind of like something out of (Six Flags) Great America, with these towering hills – it’s like a rollercoaster, you know,” Christina Calatagan said, after testing the Camp Jeep’s indoor test track. “I’m going up on this huge hill and I’m trying to tell my husband that we’ll never need this, and he knows that. We’re in our mid 50’s; when are we going to be in a scenario where we have to drive up a hill like this?”

A common focus of the auto show in the past years has been how the quick evolving technology advancements will not only affect vehicles on the road but how to make such vehicles more fuel efficient.

And while this year surely touched upon all those subjects, the two words to describe the 109th Chicago Auto Show would be “pure spectacle.”

When visitors weren’t standing patiently in the everlasting line to test a car out on the indoor track, they were busy sitting surrounded by screen in the Ford F-150 Raptor virtual reality simulator that was designed to shake and spin with every terrain and object hit by the car.

While the simulator served as more of a video game experience than a real-life drive, it was clear that visitors were less interested in the car itself and more so the brilliant optics and technology behind the virtual reality experience.

“I swear if they made this a video game, I’d buy it right away,” Louise Tortorelli said.

“But I’m pretty sure I can’t afford this video game or this car, either way it was a helluva experience -- you have to try it.”

Another technological aspect that were outside of the automobile norm was Ford’s Hank the Robot, an almost five-foot bright blue and silver animatronic that brought in crowds of children and adults around the Ford stage to promote free giveaways.

Away from the public eye is someone in a suit with countless sensors and kinetic devices that allow Hank to mirror the person’s movement. Also attached to the person is a mic that allowed Hank the Robot to talk and have conversations with the audience.

“Hank was really funny, I want to know how they did that. He was pointing at this guy’s hat and making fun of it and talking to him, like asking his name,” 10-year-old Harrison Packnett said. “I don’t know why there’s a robot here, but I got to go inside some really cool cars. I’ll buy them when I’m able to drive.”

From Chicago Blackhawks to Cubs, the Auto Show displayed an array of different city sports themed cars, that while not free to enter, grew a large amount of crowds that admired the exterior of each.

Outside of Chicago sports teams, “Star Wars” made its mark at the show with the display of a Nissan Rogue crossover with a “Star Wars” X-wing fighter superimposed on it.

Whether you’re fan of Chicago sports, “Star Wars,” robots and more, there’s one obvious aspect that brought together all visitors: the love for automobiles.

“My whole family are car enthusiasts, grandpa used to show us how to take a car apart and put it back together,” Tortorelli said. “It’s safe to say everyone here either has appreciation for automobiles or is going to leave here with one. This is my fourth time coming here from Palatine, and there’s no doubt I’ll be back next year for more.”

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that explore the ups and downs and many feelings of love.

It’s that time of February again, where the red roses and chocolates hit every store waiting to be picked up as a Valentine’s Day chore. If there’s one subject music has overly explored throughout its existence, it’d be love. From the delightful romantic ’50s ballads to ’90s angsty, old-school breakup songs to the club bangers of our generation.

If you have a special someone or you’re looking for one or you’re content being your own soulmate, here are four songs

1. “Ho Hey” - Lumineers This is for those that have just started their new relationship, and whether you’re a week into dating or a few months, “Ho Hey”

by The Lumineers exemplifies that “on top of the world” feeling.

It’s a solid and catchy tune though it may have been played one too many times when it was originally released in 2012. With only two albums, The Lumineers sure have plenty of songs that explore both the bright and rough patches of being in love.

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Whichever way this relationship takes you, this band’s got your back for your love soundtrack.

2. “Carol Brown” - Flight of the Conchords For those unfamiliar with Flight of the Conchords, they’re a New Zealand-based comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, that eventually went on to earn its own HBO television series.

Their song “Carol Brown” reflects on Clement’s past relationships and why each one has specifically gone wrong. So if you find yourself reflecting on

Across 1. Luxurious health retreats 5. Rubber tube 9. City near Great Salt Lake 14. Walesa of Poland 15. Great Lake 16. 66, for one 17. Geometry calculation 18. 100 dinars 19. Athletic shoe department 20. Stuffed things 23. Head out to sea 24. Line up the crosshairs 25. Abscam investigator 28. Well-chilled 31. Banned bug-killer 34. Permitted by law 36. “___ for the money ...”

37. Callas number 38. Stuffed things 42. Insect feeler 43. “Are we there __?”

44. Brown shade

past relationships this Valentine’s Day, “Carol Brown” and the chorus of ex-girlfriends that accompany it, is the best place to start.

3. “Best I Ever Had” - Drake No Valentine’s Day playlist is complete without Drake, who is well versed in the heartfelt feelings of love. This song “Best I Ever Had” is for those that have been in a relationship for quite some time, always finding ways to keep things fresh. The song was released in 2009 off his third mixtape, and was one of the beginning looks into the

45. Crafty, like a fox 46. Become extinct 49. How-__ (indstructional books) 50. Cafeteria dispenser 51. “If all ___ fails” 53. Stuffed things 61. Lacking human warmth 62. Early bird’s breakfast 63. Pesky insect 64. European ermine 65. Garden with a snake 66. Volcanic discharge 67. Wrongful acts, in law 68. Hindu outfit 69. Picture pitcher Down 1. Noisy closing 2. Andean land 3. “Bullets,” to a poker player 4. Persian pooh-bahs 5. Medal-worthy

Canadian rapper’s long twisted journey of love.

4. “Marvin’s Room” - Drake Honestly Drake deserves two songs on this playlist because he knows about this subject more than anyone. If Valentine’s Day is making you think of a recent breakup, you pop in “Marvin’s Room” and let those tears flow with Drake’s verses. Hopefully a good 50 percent of these lyrics don’t apply to your past relationship because intoxicated Drake is a little too salty in this, as he calls his ex to pour his heart out.

6. Baltimore pro 7. “The King and I” kingdom 8. Sea wrigglers 9. Prom dress ornament, often 10. Robot of Jewish folklore 11. Hamilton vs. Burr, for one 12. And others, for short 13. Shows a profit of 21. Indian yogurt dish 22. City of witch hunts 25. Pilots let them down 26. Twofold 27. Without compassion 29. Terra-___ (fired clay) 30. Lennon’s wife 31. French right 32. San ___, Calif.

33. Uses a stun gun on 35. Sitter’s handful 37. Donned the

feedbag 39. Flunking a polygraph 40. “Amazing Grace” verse ender 41. Deep gulf 46. Pub servings 47. One donning something 48. Homecoming game attendee 50. Subsurface war vessel 52. Apollo 11 moon lander 53. It protects a break 54. Choir voice 55. Ill-mannered lout 56. Mother sheep 57. Bar mixer 58. Work on a bone, dog-style 59. Roofer’s repair site 60. Five-pointed figure

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Sports

OUT OF REACH

NAM Y. HUH | AP

Creighton senior guard Tyler Clement (left) wrestles for the ball with DePaul freshman guard Devin Gage (right).

Men's basketball crushed by Jays

By Shane Rene Asst. Sports Editor

DePaul (8-17, 1-11 Big East) rolled into Saturday’s game against no. 23 Creighton (21-4, 8-4 Big East) with a record painted in 50 shades of losing and walked away with a bruising 93-58 loss, adding a dark, new shade to the loss-column of the Blue Demon’s record.

“You got a really good team that has their eyes set on (The NCAA Tournament) against a team that’s trying to find their way on offense,” coach Leitao said. “It was a bad recipe for us today with (Creighton) playing well and us not being able to many thing too well.”

Chris Harrison-Docks was the only Blue Demon with a hot hand in the early-goings of the first half, dropping 13 points (4-6 from three-point range) and added four steals.

Billy Garrett Jr. and Eli Cain had a modest showing – at best – in the first 20 minutes. Cain made one-of-six field goal attempts for two points; Garrett was a perfect two-for-two at the foul line.

“We executed the defensive game plan against Cain and Garrett,” Creighton’s head coach Greg McDermott said after the game. “Harrison-Docks made some tough shots in the first half, but other than that, the execution of our game plan was right where it needed to be.”

Outside of Harrison-Docks, the Demon’s offense was flat, but flashes of stingy defense kept them in the game. Creighton turned the ball over nine times and struggled on the offensive glass, grabbing only two offensive rebounds.

DePaul’s 32 percent field goal

shooting paled in comparison to an efficient 60 percent from the Blue Jays, putting the Blue Demons behind 39-26 at the half.

“We shot the daylights out of the basketball,” Creighton head coach Greg McDermott said.

“Things look pretty good when the ball goes in.”

Creighton came out swinging in the second half, posting six unanswered points in the first two minutes. Mid-way through the second half, the Blue Jays had a 22-point advantage, and the DePaul was showing no signs of closing the deficit.

Leitao was called for a technical foul less than twominutes into second half play – the culmination of a frustrating afternoon with the refs and his team’s lack-luster offense.

Garrett found his shot in the second half, scoring eight points to total 10 on the game, and Cain hit a three-pointer at the 11:36 mark for his fifth and final point of the day.

Harrison-Docks lost the energy he had in his 13-point first half, resulting in an underwhelming two points in the final 20 minutes. The Western Kentucky transfer finished with a game-high 15 points – his personal best since joining the DePaul this season.

With Creighton’s lead hovering around 30 points, the final five minutes were reserved for the bench players on both sides. Levi Cook, Erten Gazi, R.J Curington, Devin Gage, and Darrick Wood all saw the court in the final five minutes for DePaul, scoring a combined 10 points.

“One of the things you look at when you look as our record is, ‘boy they’re not that good of a team,’” Leitao said post game.

NAM Y. HUH | AP

Junior forward Joe Hanel fights for the ball in DePaul's 93-58 loss to Creighton.

JACQUELINE LIN | THE DEPAULIA

“But we’ve had the ability to be competitive in a lot of situations during conference play, and today

we weren’t.”

DePaul will look to capture their second conference win of the

season at home on Monday night against no. 2 Villanova (24-2, 11-2 Big East).

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January could return by next week

By Adeyemi Sosina Contributing Writer

Entering the season, last thing Jessica January thought would be an injury hindering her preseason Big East player of the year predictions. Regardless, January has remained optimistic about her injury and rehab process. Before being sidelined with a broken finger, January was the leadingscorer on the team, averaging 15.3 points and 6.6 assists per game. The Blue Demons squad has stepped up and filled the void, going 11-1 since her injury.

“It’s a testament to the type of players coach Bruno recruits,” January said. “He recruits players that step up in the big moments. I’m really proud of my team.”

Bruno is positive about his star guards return in the coming weeks. After having surgery, doctors gauged January’s return at six to eight weeks — meaning she could suitup Feb. 19 against Marquette at the earliest.

“As a coach when I hear 6-8 weeks, I hear six I don’t hear eight,” Bruno jokingly said. “She’s been really working to put herself in the right physical condition to come back — she’ll be assessed in the next week. So, we’ll find out the 14th or 15th, in the bestcase scenario she’s back against Marquette, the worst case we don’t know.”

At the end of the day, the doctors have the final call in January’s return. As a fierce competitor and leader, January is staying in great shape and believes she’ll be back on the hardwood soon.

“It’s just a day-by-day thing,” January said. "If I had my choice I’d be back in practice right now, maybe even two weeks ago.”

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Senior guard Jessica January has been out since the beginning of January with a broken index finger on her right hand.

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Freshman guard Kelly Campbell dribbles the ball around the perimeter in a game against Xavier.

NCAA hosting possibility

By Ben Gartland Sports Editor

While DePaul women's basketball is coasting through the Big East schedule (they moved to 14-1 in the Big East and 22-5 overall this weekend), there is something bigger on the line than a fourth-straight Big East regular season title.

This year, the NCAA selection committee has started to release their top 16 seeds for the NCAA tournament every week. For women's basketball, every seed who is a four seed or higher will host the first two rounds (the round of 64 and 32).

Last Monday, DePaul was named as the 16th overall seed by the NCAA selection committee,

which means they would be a four seed that would host the first two rounds at McGrath-Phillips Arena.

DePaul has potentially six games left to solidify their position.

Coming up for the Blue Demons is a road game at Marquette, the only team who has beaten them in conference this season. They also have the Big East tournament, which will be in Milwaukee.

DePaul will have to win three games in a row to win the Big East.

DePaul last hosted in 2006 when they were a four seed and the games were held at Allstate Arena, but that year the sites were predetermined. DePaul has been to the Sweet Sixteen twice in the past three years and has been to the NCAA tournament 14 straight years.

personal games, so they will be as ready as possible when they can finally begin playing.

As with most sports, work ethic plays a huge role in basketball. “(Strus) is such a hard worker,” assistant coach Pat Sellers said. “We sometimes have to tell him to slow down a little, and for a coach, that’s like heaven. His work ethic has rubbed off on (Grandstaff) too, and has pushed both of them to the next level.”

For transfer students, it can sometimes be hard to gel with a team that has already been playing together for a year or two. But for Grandstaff and Strus, fitting in has been no problem. They both agreed that their transitions into DePaul were easy, and that they like the rest of the guys on the team.

“They’ve accepted me, and that’s awesome,” Grandstaff said of the team.

Sellers agreed with this too.

“The team is helping [Max and Austin] deal with not playing,” he said. “Their presence has brought up the intensity of practice, which is great.”

However, both players are anxious to get back on the court.

“I cannot wait,” Strus said.

“It’s been so hard watching the games and not being able to play.”

BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN WOMEN'S TENNIS

SOFTBALL

Photo courtesy of DEPAUL ATHLETICS

Women's tennis defeated Purdue in an upset this weekend.

Women's tennis picked up an upset over the weekend as they took down Purdue 4-3.

The Blue Demons started off strong when they picked up the doubles point.

Yuliya Shupenia and Ana Vladutu combined for the No. 1 doubles match and won 6-4. Keisha Clousing and Patricia Lancranjan won the No. 2 doubles match 6-2 to give DePaul the 1-0 lead.

From there, the teams moved on to the singles part of the match. Purdue picked

up their first point in the No. 6 singles match, but DePaul took the lead back with two straight singles wins by Shupenia and Clousing. Purdue halved the lead when Rafaella Baquerizo won her match, but DePaul clinched the match when Vladutu won her match in three sets.

The Blue Demons improved to 3-4 on the season and have their first home match of the season when they take on Cleveland State on Saturday.

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DePaul softball opened the season going 2-3 in five games.

DePaul softball opened up the season with a 2-3 performance at the Louisiana Tournament in Lafayette, LA. The Blue Demons' first game was on Friday when they took on Ball State in a 5-2 loss to the Cardinals. Freshman pitcher Missy Zoch took the loss.

Later that evening, DePaul fell once again, this time to No. 11 Louisiana. The Ragin' Cajuns crushed the Blue Demons 9-1.

Transfer pitcher Kayla Landwehrmer took

the loss in her DePaul debut.

On Saturday, DePaul picked up their first win of the season with a 3-2 victory over Iowa State. Kennedy Garcia earned the win in her DePaul debut, while Zoch clinched the save. Later that afternoon, DePaul lost in a heartbreaker to Louisiana as they blew a tworun lead in the seventh inning.

On Sunday, they matched up against Iowa State again and pulled out the victory against the Cyclones for the second time.

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THE WAITING GAME Max Strus and Austin Grandstaff will get their shot in 2017-18 after sitting out a year Photo courtesy of DEPAUL ATHLETICS

Junior guard Max Strus transferred to DePaul from Lewis.

By Emily Eller Contributing Writer

Any athlete will admit that it is a colossal commitment to play at the collegiate level, but for DePaul men’s basketball players Austin Grandstaff and Max Strus, that commitment comes with sitting on the bench for a season.

According to NCAA rules, players

who transfer from one four-year college to another must spend a whole academic year in residence at their new school before being allowed to play for the team or receive travel expenses. While some athletes may see this as a disadvantage, the DePaul men’s basketball transfers are taking full advantage of their situation.

Grandstaff is a sophomore point guard who transferred from Ohio State,

Photo courtesy of DEPAUL ATHLETICS

Sophomore guard Austin Grandstaff transferred from Oklahoma. and Strus is a junior point guard who came to DePaul from Lewis University.

Both players agreed that it was much different, and better, than their previous schools.

“The community here is a lot closer than at my last school,” Grandstaff said.

“I feel really welcomed here.”

Because they can’t play in the games this season, Austin and Max have

acquired special roles in the meantime.

“We are on the scout team,” Strus said, “We look at scouting reports for the teams we play, know their plays, and study their best players.”

By doing this, Grandstaff and help make sure the team is fully prepared for each of their matchups. Besides this, they are continually working to improve their

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Men’s tennis moves to 6-0

By Garret Neal Contributing Writer

The DePaul Blue Demons took down the Lewis Flyers 5-2 for their sixth straight victory.

Nathan de Veer continued his dominance at the number one spot with a strong two-set victory, which had a thrilling conclusion when he won two straight games when the second set was tied at four games apiece. De Veer has not lost a singles match over the course of the six-game streak.

Fellow senior and current number two Tim Corwin suffered his first single loss of the season against the Flyers sole senior, Mate Srdanovic in three sets. DePaul also had two other two set victories and a threeset loss. The Demons won the doubles point as they have every game so far. DePaul will look to continue its success as they travel to Williamsburg, Virginia to face William and Mary on the 18th and Georgetown on the 19th.

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Men’s tennis has won their first six games of the season, including their Saturday win over Lewis.

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