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Alumni embark on ad campaign looking to oust athletic director By Shane René, Jonathan Ballew & Connor McEleney Sports Editor, Asst. News Editor & Contributing Writer
As DePaul’s men’s basketball team continues to dwell in the basement of the Big East standings, students and alumni are banning together to call for a change of leadership in the athletic department, taking aim at DePaul’s athletic director Jean Lenti Ponsetto. Last Tuesday, the same day prized recruit Tyger Campbell announced his decision to attend UCLA over DePaul, Purdue and Maryland, a GoFundMe account titled “Remove DePaul’s Athletic Director” was registered with the goal of raising $800 to purchase ad space in the DePaulia. In just over 2 hours, they surpassed their goal with donations ranging from $10 to $200. As of noon on Sunday Feb. 11, the fundraiser has collected over $1,700 in donations. Matt Martinez, a 2012 graduate of the College of Communication in PR and Advertising who started the GoFundMe page, said the goal of the fundraiser is to capture the attention of DePaul’s administration and shine a light on what they believe is a series of mismanaged and “confusing” head coaching decisions. “We wanted to do this in a way that would get the best attention of the University,” Martinez said. “And we felt like (the) first move as part of our process should be to start on campus.” Carol Hughes, from DePaul’s Office of Public Relations and Communications, issued an official response on behalf of the university when asked for President A.
Gabriel Esteban’s comment. After repeated requests by the DePaulia, Esteban — who replaced the athletic director at Seton Hall less than a month into his role as President — declined to comment himself. “Under Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto’s leadership,” Hughes said, “our student athletes continue to make us proud.” Hughes’ statement continued with a list of the athletic department’s accomplishments under Ponsetto, which highlighted student athletes’ successes in the classroom and in non-revenue generating sports. Hughes said 14 of 15 Blue Demon athletic programs have represented the university at NCAA championships under Ponsetto’s command, including 15 straight NCAA tournament appearances from DePaul’s women’s basketball team. DePaul has also become a powerhouse in the Big East for racking up academic awards for their student athletes, she said. However, since Ponsetto took over as athletic director in 2002, DePaul’s men’s basketball team — the school’s biggest-budget and flagship program — has earned an NCAA tournament berth just once in 2003. Ponsetto then guided efforts to move DePaul into the Big East, where stiff competition has made life difficult for the Blue Demons over the last decade. Now 16 years into the job and three coaching hires later, DePaul has three 20-win seasons and four postseason runs, including their 2003 NCAA tournament run. Ponsetto denied The DePaulia’s request for interview, but issued a statement in
See GOFUNDME, page 27
Amiwala encounters reality of politics as primary nears By Benjamin Conboy News Editor
Bushra Amiwala is getting down in the political muck that is Chicago politics ahead of the Cook County Board of Commissioners primary. Since she announced her campaign in June, she’s encountered fiery opposition and establishment roadblocks. But the 20-year-old DePaul student has also encountered the good in politics. She’s been treated with respect by her primary opponent, incumbent commissioner Larry Suffredin, who called her “an honorable opponent.” “She’s been raising issues, she’s been visible throughout the district. I think she’s a good candidate,” Suffredin said. She was even approached by members of gubernatorial hopeful J.B. Pritzker’s campaign who were offering her team help with phone banking and doorto-door canvassing. But because most of her supporters
PHOTO COURTESY OF BUSHRA AMIWALA Bushra Amiwala speaks to an auditorium full of students at Roosevelt High School in December 2017.
favor the more progressive Daniel Biss for governor, she turned the offer down. But Biss told her earlier in the race that Suffredin is a friend of his, so there wouldn’t be any help there (Suffredin has donated $7,250 to the Biss campaign, according to Illinois Sunshine). She did get a much-needed win when she got her name to appear first on the ballot, which she said could provide as much as a 10 percent boost in votes just by being the first choice. Traditionally, the candidate who turns in their filing signatures first also gets the top spot, but both her and Suffredin both got to the county clerk’s office at the same time, so the top spot came down whose name got pulled out of a hat. Amiwala and Suffredin both got thrown a curveball, which came in the form of a late-announcing firebrand of a candidate named Daniel Foster. When all three candidates were at the Democratic Party of Evanston’s office for an endorsement meeting, Foster threw the first punches in an otherwise
See AMIWALA, page 4
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When helicopter parents won’t stop hovering By Jonathan Ballew Asst. News Editor
Victoria Theodorou isn’t allowed to travel more than a couple of hours away from her house in California — her parents won’t allow it. They follow her GPS location constantly. She isn’t in trouble, nor has she done anything wrong. Theodorou has excellent grades in school (she already has one bachelor’s degree) and holds down a job. She is also a 21-year-old woman, living under what she describes as “helicopter parents.” While there isn’t a clinical term for a helicopter parent, it describes parents that take an overly involved role in their child’s life. Although many loving parents may exhibit traits of a helicopter parent, some are unable to relinquish control — even when their “child” is over 18 years old. Theodorou said that her parents constantly monitor her location through an app called Life 360. The app can track where she is at all times, and even sends updates to her parents. Theodorou has been dealing with helicopter parents her entire life. She is from Naperville, Illinois and attended Benet Academy, while dealing with parents that never seemed to be able to trust her. She believes that a heroin epidemic in her hometown may have had an effect on her parent’s anxiety. “It was hard to deal with,” she said. “I was growing up and needed to learn from my experiences.” She didn’t complain too much in high school because she assumed that things would get better after graduation. But things only got worse once Theodorou became an adult. “As soon as I turned 18, my parents still tried to restrict everything,” she said. Theodorou said that since her parents pay for her education, they hold it over her head as a justification to continue aggressively
parenting her well into adulthood. Even at age 20, Theodorou wasn’t allowed to travel to see her boyfriend, Cameron, who lived two hours south of her. The trip is a straight shot down a single highway. Instead, he was forced to travel to her every weekend, which she says put a huge strain on their relationship. “Having helicopter parents has affected every aspect of my life,” she said. “Especially relationships. I didn’t have a lot of friends growing up because I couldn’t go out and meet people. My parents didn’t trust me at all.” After nearly two years, Theodorou fell in love with Cameron, and the two became engaged. Things only got worse between her and her parents. Theodorou said it was as though her parents tightened their grip when they found out her intentions.
“It is definitely possible that I would be married to Cameron today if it wasn’t for my parents.” Victoria Theodorou “It’s our car. It’s our house. It’s our rules,” is the mantra her parents continued to repeat when restricting her movement or forcing her to be at specific places at specific times. Theodorou’s constant parental monitoring continued to put a strain on her relationship. Today, her and Cameron are no longer together. Theodorou believes that her parents played a significant role in the break up. “It is definitely possible that I would be married to Cameron today if it wasn’t for my
parents,” she said. Theodorou has considered breaking free from her parents. She said that a year ago her bags were packed and she was ready to leave for good and start a life with Cameron. But her desire to finish her education and her love for her family has proved to be too much for her to overcome. “They have threatened to disown me if I don’t play by their rules,” she said. Even today, her parents still use the Life 360 app constantly. Theodorou said that as recently as a couple of weeks ago they showed up unannounced to a party she was attending. The application can even track travel speeds, so in the past her parents have let her know that she was driving too fast. The term “helicopter parent” first appeared in literature in 1969, though the term was popularized around the early 2000s. What makes a helicopter parent unable to loosen their grip and what causes some parents to hold on tighter, at a time when developmental psychologists say they should be letting go? In other words, what makes helicopter parents hover? Orson Morrison is a clinical psychologist and associate professor at DePaul. He said that helicopter parenting can often be a result of parental anxiety that he calls “parental regret.” “Parents will say ‘Oh my gosh, my children are on the cusp of becoming adults, and I’m not going to have much more time left in this parenting role,’” he said. Morrison said that sometimes the child, or in some cases, adult, can play a role in creating helicopter parents. If parents are concerned about their children’s mental health or ability to handle adulthood, it can make it that much more difficult for them to let go. “The research on helicopter parents is quite mixed,” he said. “If they are hovering in a developmentally inappropriate way it can lead to conditions like depression, anxiety, low self esteem, and low confidence in the child.”
Morrison did want to make clear that being an involved parent isn’t a bad thing. In fact, he said that it is crucial to the healthy development of a child. “I do think that parental involvement in children’s lives, regardless of age, is really important,” he said. “It becomes problematic when the parenting is done in a way that does not promote autonomy.” Morrison said that, ideally, parents should let their children gradually make more decisions on their own. He said that they should be along for the ride, but they shouldn’t “drive the bus.” DePaul parents have come under fire for being helicopter parents, recently by The Black Sheep, a satirical website devoted to issues concerning college students. In a recent article titled “The Black Sheep Answer DePaul Parents’ Questions,” writer Taylor Bissonette pokes fun at a Facebook page called “Parents @ DePaul.” Bissonette highlights several posts that he says are prime examples of helicopter parenting. In one post, a parent writes about tracking her daughter’s GPS and being unable to reach her on her cell phone for a few hours. The concerned mother sent the student’s father to drive to the Lincoln Park campus to track her down in person. After getting campus security involved, the student in question was found sleeping in her dorm. Bissonette said that while he understands parents concerns, he believes many of them go too far. “College is a weird experience for both parties,” he said. “But (helicopter parents) are very overbearing. Almost like a bubble.” Last weekend, Theodorou said that she was planning on taking a trip to visit some friends that live a couple of hours away. She was considering deleting the “Life 360” app from her phone. “If I delete the app, of course they would notice,” she said. “They are helicopter parents!”
4| News. The DePaulia. Feb. 12, 2018 AMIWALA continued from front page clean campaign. “It caught me off guard because it was the first time anyone has ever attacked me in this race,” Amiwala said. “Everyone always says, ‘Oh, politics is so dirty,’ and I’m seeing it now right here because of this random third candidate.” Then, the day after her fundraiser on Feb. 1, Foster sent out a press release accusing her of failing to file a critical fundraising form where candidates disclose if they have accepted donations of over $1,000 – which could result in a $25,000 fine. Foster was right though; she didn’t file the form – because no one has ever donated $1,000 to her. Foster did not return multiple requests for comment. “Basically, his accusation was, ‘There is no way that Bushra could have raised all this money without filing (the form),’” she said. Amiwala expressed frustration with the hypocrisy she has encountered in Chicago politics, especially with what she’s experienced from more powerful political players. “(Cook County board president) Toni Preckwinkle specifically referenced (the Time cover) at the Women’s March, and said, ‘We have to vote for our women candidates,’” Amiwala said. “But she is actively supporting (Suffredin). All these people want to encourage women to run, but then they don’t support them.” She said she experienced a similar hypocrisy in Biss. Biss, whose whole gubernatorial campaign has been built around the fact that his campaign, unlike his opponents, has been funded by small donations and not by his own wealth. Almost a third of Suffredin’s expenses are covered by loans he made to his campaign, according to the most recent campaign finance information available on Illinois Sunshine. The campaign has forced her to make some sacrifices. She’s running a campaign with volunteers and fundraisers to coordinate on top of being a full-time student, on top of having four jobs. As the campaign nears the primary election, which could be its end if Suffredin wins, she was running out of hours in the day. So, she quit one of her jobs. “I was putting 25 hours in a week, on top of campaigning,” Amiwala said. “I’m not going to let 11 months of work go to waste because I didn’t go all in with 45 days left before the primary.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF BUSHRA AMIWALA
Amiwala was at the Women’s March encouraging voters to make their voices heard by voting in local elections. She was feeling nervous about the primary election up until her fundraising dinner last week, which had a turnout of close to 400 people. “When I saw everyone there I thought, ‘Wow, these are the real people I’d be serving,’” Amiwala said. “These are the teachers, small business owners and community organizers who live in my district and believe in me.” Evanston resident and voter Sheila Jackson said she’s still going with Suffredin even though she thinks that Amiwala
ran an impressive campaign. “(Suffredin) has been in office for 20 years, he just knows how (county business) is done,” Jackson said. “People are familiar with him, and I think he does a good job. But I think that (Amiwala) would also do a good job, she’s just a little too young.”
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The Mercedes booth featured the newly-redesigned AMG-GT, the manufacturer’s pinnacle sports car. They also brought out all of their base-model sedans and family cars.
Chicago Auto Show returns with the year’s hottest rides Photos by Josh Leff Text by Benjamin Conboy
The Chicago Auto Show returns to the McCormick Place this week for the 110th year to showcase manufacturers’ freshest products and a taste of the latest designs. Chicago’s annual auto show is the largest one in North America and draws manufacturers ranging from simpler, consumer-focused brands like Hyundai to brands like Rolls Royce, which unveiled its facelifted, $300,000 ghost. The newest sports cars are always a focal
point of the show. Ford brought one of their super-rare GTs (below), which just took home a 1-2 finish at the 24 Hours of Daytona race last week. Jeep also brought back its fan-favorite Camp Jeep experience, where anyone can get the chance to drive a Wrangler on a simulated off-road track on the event floor. The exposition will be in Chicago until Feb. 19 and costs $13 to enter. The Porsche booth emphasized their lower-range, cheaper options like the Carrera.
The Ford GT is an extremely rare supercar, of which only 250 are produced every year. Each one takes several days to build. By comparison, Ford normally produces about 16 cars every minute.
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Lt. Gov. candidate Ra Joy talks ‘Kennedy Kush’ with College Dems By Jonathan Ballew Asst. News Editor
Ra Joy, lieutenant governor candidate and running mate to Chris Kennedy, was hosted by the DePaul Democrats on Wednesday. Joy spoke on a myriad of issues during the course of the evening, but he put special emphasis on marijuana legalization — what he likes to call “Kennedy Kush.” Last week, state Sen. Daniel Biss visited DePaul with signs that read “CannaBiss.” This week, Joy chose to hammer home that same message. “Jack liked to call it Kennedy Kush,” he said, referencing President John F. Kennedy. “If you tweet one thing tonight, tweet that Ra Joy supports the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana.” Joy said that his campaign would also support commuting the sentences of those currently incarcerated for cannabis related crimes. Although legalization was a big part of Joy’s message on Wednesday, it is not an issue that sets the Kennedy-Joy campaign apart from any of the other Democratic gubernatorial candidates. All six Democrats on the ballot openly support the legalization of small amounts of marijuana. But there is one part of the Kennedy-Joy plan that differentiates them from the rest of the field. Their campaign calls to have the University of Illinois act as a third-party arbiter. Kennedy and Joy say that Illinois should learn a lesson from some of the other states that have already legalized marijuana. “States like Colorado have made some mistakes,” he said.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JONATHAN BALLEW
Joy had a laid-back conversation with students, and invited them out for a beer afterwards.
Joy said that legislators are not the best people to roll out a comprehensive plan on cannabis reform. He mentioned Colorado’s failed attempts to discourage packaging that would look appealing to minors, or not realizing that some cannabis products have incredibly high levels of THC (the psychoactive component in cannabis). Joy said that allowing a university to handle the legislation could prevent some of those same mistakes in Illinois. Marijuana was not the only issue of the night. Joy talked in length about the exodus facing Illinois, particularly concerning African Americans and college students. During a budget impasse that left Illinois without a budget for 793 days, over 72,000
college students left Illinois, according to Capitol Fax. Joy said that is unacceptable. “If we invest in higher education, America will give us their jobs,” he said. Doug Klain is the vice president of the DePaul Democrats. He helped plan the evening and said that for many students, actually sitting down with a candidate is often the most effective way for them to decide where they will cast their vote. “We find it helps when students can actually ask a candidate their own questions, instead of just seeing them on TV,” he said. Klain said that he didn’t have too many expectations for the evening, though he did mention a recent scandal in the gubernatorial race.
“I think the elephant in the room is going to be the J.B. Pritzker tapes,” he said before the event. Klain was making mention of a string of FBI wiretapped tapes from 2008 that were recently published by Rauner. On the tapes, Pritzker says unflattering remarks about African Americans while talking to then-Governor Rod Blagojevich. He calls a possible African American appointee the “least offensive” option. Klain was right. The very first question asked by students to Joy asked him to address the Pritzker tapes. “People usually don’t talk about race,” Joy said. “Particularly in mixed company. Joy said that he was not surprised to hear those comments from Pritzker, and that some people were missing the point entirely. “I was profoundly offended by the language,” he said. “Under what context is least offensive appropriate?” Michael Lynch, president of student government, was in attendance. He was happy to see students engaging politically during what he says will be a very important election. “This was a great opportunity for DePaul students to hear from candidates and have a chance to interact with them and hear what they are all about,” he said. After talking for over half an hour, he did not rush out of the building. He stayed behind to shake hands and took the time to sit down with student media for another halfhour. Even after the event, some students waited for Joy to finish being interviewed so that they could head to Derby — a local bar. “It’s been a long night,” Joy said. “Now we are all going to grab a drink.”
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: January 31- February 6, 2018 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
LOOP CAMPUS
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University Hall Corcoran Hall
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Sheffield Square DePaul Center 10 3
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LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS JANUARY 31 1) A suspicion of marijuana report was filed for a room in Corcoran Hall. No drugs were found.
Assault & Theft
Drug & Alcohol
FEBRUARY 2 4) A criminal damage to vehicle report was filed for window damage to a vehicle in Lot P.
FEBRUARY 3 JANUARY 31 2) A criminal trespass warning was issued to a 5) A suspicion of marijuana report was filed for person at 2400 N. Sheffield.
a room at Sheffield Square. Drugs were found and Chicago Police were called to the scene.
Other
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A smell of marijuana report was filed for a room in Corcoran Hall. No drugs were found.
LOOP CAMPUS JANUARY 31 8) A criminal trespass report was filed for an individual becoming irate in Barnes & Noble.
FEBRUARY 1 FEBRUARY 1 3) A theft report was filed for a wallet taken FEBRUARY 4 6) A harassment by electronic means report 9) A criminal damage report was filed for graffiti from the lobby of University Hall. was filed for a person receiving unwanted voicemails and emails.
damage in the DePaul Center.
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A disorderly conduct was filed for an individual talking to themselves in the DePaul Center lobby.
FEBRUARY 4 11) A criminal trespass
report was filed for a person drinking in the DePaul Center.
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Photo of the Week: Dude, where’s my car?
Photo and column By jonathan ballew Asst. News Editor
After what had been a winter without much snow, Chicagoans got nine consecutive days of it, which has only happend three other times since 1885, according to the Chicago Tribune. Uber and Lyft fares were surging as some residents had to pay four and five times the usual rate for the ride-sharing services. Residents were forced to dig their cars out with shovels, scrapers and anything else they could find on the cold mornings. Not everyone was so diligent with snow maintenance. Those that were out of town or too busy (or lazy) to shovel their car may have had a hard time figuring out where their car was when they finally needed it. Buried cars could be seen throughout the city, especially in neighborhoods with side streets too small for snow plows to drive down. CPS had school closings, and children could be found all over the city making snow angels or trying to find what could pass as a hill suitable for sledding in Chicago’s flat urban environment. But DePaul students weren’t so lucky, and classes continued. Students could be found stepping over snowbanks to board the bus, or tip-toeing through giant lakes of slush down in the Loop. For now, residents remain either excited or weary at the prospect of more snow.
A Toyota Prius down Roslyn Place is completely buried under snow after several days of accumulation. Many residents used shovels to dig cars out.
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TEDx DePaul to return, speakers announced By Dirce Toca Contributing Writer
TEDxDePaulUniversity will be returning on May 1. The third annual TEDx event will bring in 11 speakers who will give presentations powerful on various topics, all centered on the theme “Reimagine.” TED, according to their website, is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. To continue the concept of spreading ideas worth sharing, TED provides a TEDlike experience via TEDx, where the x means it is an independently organized event. Now in its third year, TEDxDePaulUniversity hosts faculty, staff, students and alumni as the speakers. This year, the speakers come from across the DePaul community and consist of five students, three alumni, two faculty and one staff member. They came out on top of a record-breaking 114 applicants – a 46 percent increase from 2017. Hosting the event is Rachel Pride. Pride was one of the student speakers last year, where she emphasized the impact that human beings can have on the community if they simply take a break from their phones to serve those around them. One of the speakers is Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, staff at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He came to DePaul a little over a year ago, having served as dean of the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, and as executive
associate dean of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Vasquez de Velasco brings a designer’s perspective to the DePaul liberal arts program, and his talk will focus on reimagining the relevance of the liberal arts in the 21st century. Vasquez de Velasco describes the liberal arts as a collection of disciplines that also provide the foundation for what some universities address as general studies. “That’s where you find the humanities, the social sciences,” Vasquez de Velasco said. “It’s where you’ll find the majors of philosophy, history and english, but you also find multidisciplinary majors like gender studies, and african and black diaspora studies.” Originally from Peru, and having lived a number of years in Europe, Vasquez de Velasco has seen both sides of the equation. “I know the differences between institutions in different parts of the world,” he said. “The American liberal arts core is a real source of strength and higher end. It can empower us as collaborators, as people that know how to work together.” Karli Butler, another one of the speakers in this year’s TEDx event, is a two-time alumna of DePaul’s College of Communication. She graduated from undergrad in 2004 and finished her master’s in 2010. Butler was enrolled in the first class of her master’s program when she was physically attacked and forced to drop out of school. She turned her pain into triumph and was determined to finish her studies. Currently she is the trauma-informed
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Rachel Pride, a student who spoke at DePaul’s TEDx event last year, will be hosting this year.
social service provider at a nonprofit organization called Curt’s Café. Using her experience to teach and empower, she works with young women between the ages of 14 and 24 who live in at-risk situations. “I’m going to help the audience reimagine forgiveness,” Butler said. “I was attacked by someone, and I chose to forgive that person, and that experience has influenced my outlook on forgiveness.” Past years’ themes have been the Saint Vincent de Paul-centered “What must be done?” (2016), and “Courage to Connect” (2017), which reflected conversations that speakers felt either were happening or needed to happen on campus.
Wendy Smit, a co-organizer of the event, says this year’s theme – “Reimagine” – is a single word that will invite the audience to consider questions and subjects in a new light. “It’s timely because it comes at a time when DePaul is building a new strategic plan and has recently welcomed a new president,” Smit said. TEDxDePaulUniversity 2018 will be held May 1 from 1-5 p.m. at the Lincoln Park Student Center., room 120 A & B. Registration is now open, tickets are $5.
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The controversy continues
Debates on using Native American mascots prevail
KARL MONDON | BAY AREA NEWS GROUP Protestors gather in Santa Clara, Calif., on Nov. 23, 2014 protesting the use of "Redskins" as the mascot of the Washington, D.C., football team.
By Dirce Toca Contributing Writer
Multiple professional sports teams, colleges and even high schools have taken heat in recent years for their use of Native American imagery. The controversy and protests center around the use of caricatures, nicknames and logos that people perceive as offensive. As the Cleveland Indians announced that they will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on the team’s uniform beginning with the 2019 season, other professional teams resurfaced in the debate, including the MLB’s Atlanta Braves, the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins, and the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks. As far as Illinois institutions go, the Lane Tech Indians (Lane Tech College Prep High School) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign use to have a Native American warrior - the Fighting Illini - as their mascot. Few of these sports teams and institutions began using their logos since the early 1900s. The Cleveland Indians began using their cartoonish caricature logo in 1947, the Kansas City Chiefs’ name originated in 1973, Chief Illiniwek had been U of I’s mascot since 1926 and the Lane Indian has been a defining symbol throughout Lane’s 100 plus years. It’s hard to say what the context was behind the naming of many of these: good intention, bad result? Or are people now much more hyper-sensitive in a more politically correct environment? The outcry by the public that the use of Native American imagery is insensitive and racist has led to several official removals of logos and mascots, but can you really get rid of something that has been part of a team’s history and legacy? Chief Wahoo was considered a cherished symbol to many fans. And while the logo is being removed from players’ uniforms, the team will retain the trademark for Chief Wahoo, and consumers will still be able to purchase merchandise with the logo. The
team name will also not be changed. Despite the rising pressure to eliminate them, many establishments continue to cling to their team names, logos and school mascots. From 1966 to 1986, the Atlanta Braves team mascot was Chief Noc-a-Homa, a character clad in a chief ’s war bonnet who performed a spirit dance before games. Chief Noc-a-Homa’s name was a variation on the phrase “Knock a Homer,” and he was then replaced by a walking baseball named Homer the Brave Native American groups complained that the portrayal was disrespectful. But in 2013, the team brought back a logo as a sort of throwback – the “Screaming Indian” – a caricature that was said to be even more offensive than the Washington Redskins’ name. In the same year, the Oneida Indian Nation held a symposium to discuss their campaign with the hopes of forcing the Washington Redskins to change their name. Oneida Indian Nation Representative, Ray Halbritter, explained that the tribe wanted the NFL to stop using a racial slur as the name of a football team. Team owners made it clear that they will never change the name. The Kansas City Chiefs, meanwhile, haven’t seemed to stir up as much national outrage, perhaps because their official mascot is the K.C. Wolf. But they have definitely drawn criticism for the way their fans celebrate the team; many wear feathers and Native American headdresses while celebrating with the “tomahawk chop” and other tribe calls throughout the game. Chicago Blackhawks fans also often attend games dressed in Native American garb, with headdresses and red face paint. The team name doesn’t necessarily contain an offensive caricature or a racial slur, but they are essentially using an Indian head as their logo. Of course, not everyone will find the same things offensive. It is said that perhaps the Blackhawks face less controversy since the team name is honoring Chief Black
Hawk, a real-life American Indian war leader who lived in the 18th and 19thcenturies, rather than the idea of a tribe. “I don’t think it’s a sign of disrespect. I’m dressing up in a headdress and painting my face to cheer on my team,” said senior Matthew Pacelli. “It’s not meant to demean or mock anyone’s culture.” Similar to the Chicago Blackhawks, U of I’s former mascot, Chief Illiniwek, was meant to honor, not mock. According to the Council of Chiefs’ website, the mascot was created as “a symbol to represent both honor and tradition at the University of Illinois.” The Council of Chiefs is made up of alumni who have portrayed the mascot at the university’s sporting events. But as of 2017, though it continues to be widely used by students, Chief Illiniwek has been officially retired. For Lane Tech High School, the controversy began when the editorial board of the school newspaper, “The Warrior,” decided to eliminate all Native American imagery from its header. The newspaper used to feature an “Indian” head inside the letter “O” in “Warrior” and use feathers for the “W.” But the issue went beyond a simple change in the newspaper. It was a domino effect that some fear could end up erasing a culture that many generations of Lane students, faculty and alumni cherish. When walking through the halls of Lane, there is historic artwork of Native American imagery and one can find trophies and plaques with the Indian logo. Getting rid of the Lane Indian would mean getting rid of over 100 years of history. “In my mind, Lane has kept the Indian symbol because they respect it,” Lane Tech alum Daniela Castro said. “It’s tradition.” To some, these logos and mascots are the honored traditions of their sports teams and school institutions. To others, they are race-based, disrespectful symbols that have to go.
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Washington D.C. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosts spending and swells the federal deficit, ending a brief federal government shutdown that happened while most Americans were sleeping and most government offices were closed, anyway. The House and Senate approved a bill to keep the government funded through March 23, overcoming opposition from liberal Democrats as well as tea party conservatives to endorse enormous spending increases despite looming trillion-dollar deficits. The twin votes put to rest a brief federal freeze that relatively few would notice. Many who did quickly labeled it a pointless, head-scratching episode. The shutdown was the second partial government shutdown in three weeks. The breakdown came largely in the Senate, when after a day of inaction, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky went rogue and stalled a vote in protest over his party's willingness to bust the budget. The White House was forced to order the government shutdown shortly after midnight, but leaders quickly hustled to move before federal employees were due back at work, hoping to minimize the disruption. The budget agreement is married to a six-week temporary funding bill needed to keep the government operating and to provide time to implement the budget pact. The bill includes huge spending increases sought by Republicans for the Pentagon along with a big boost demanded by Democrats for domestic agencies. Both sides pressed for $89 billion for disaster relief, extending a host of health care provisions, and extending a slew of smaller tax breaks. It also would increase the government's debt cap, preventing a first-ever default on U.S. obligations that looms in just a few weeks.
Winter Olympics 2018 kick off in South Korea Pyeongchang, South Korea In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side Friday night under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger, suspicion and bloodshed. The sister of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, shook hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in — and appeared genuinely pleased — while they watched an elaborate show of light, sound and human performance. Minutes later came a moment stunning in its optics and its implications: the United States, represented by Vice President Mike Pence, sitting a row ahead of Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, and the North's nominal head of state, all watching the games begin — officials from two nations that many worry have been on the brink of nuclear conflict. Not long after, North and South Korean athletes entered Olympic Stadium together, waving flags showing a unified Korea — the long-time dream, in theory at least, of many Koreans both North and South. It was the rivals' first joint Olympic march since 2007. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach then handed the podium to Moon, who declared the Olympics officially open. The ceremony's signature moment delivered another flash of unity and deft political stage-managing, too. Two athletes from the joint Koreas women's hockey team climbed stairs to the cauldron with the Olympic torch. At the last moment, though, they handed off the flame to former Olympic champion figure skater Yuna Kim, arguably South Korea's most famous person. She actually lit the cauldron as the home crowd
roared. After years of frustration, billions of dollars and a nagging national debate about their worth, the opening ceremonies took place before a world watching the moment not only for its athletic significance and global spectacle, but for clues about what the peninsula's political future could hold. There is a palpable excitement in this isolated, rugged mountain town, as one of the poorest, coldest and most disgruntled parts of an otherwise prosperous South Korea kicks off two weeks of winter sports, spectacle and, from the looks of things, some inter-Korean reconciliation. A huge crowd gathered in the freezing Olympics Stadium as performances displayed the sweep of Korean history and culture. The march of athletes from the world's many nations saw them girded against a frigid Korean night with temperatures that dipped below freezing and biting winds. Members of a delegation from North Korea, part of an Olympics partnership between the two Korean rivals, watched from high in the stadium a performance called "The Land of Peace" and as past South Korean athletes paraded a large southern flag. The North Koreans, dressed in identical garb, cheered in careful coordination. The North has sent nearly 500 people to the Pyeongchang Games. More than 2,900 athletes from 92 countries will compete here, making it the biggest Winter Olympics to date. And so, with a little help from a liberal South Korean president eager to engage Pyongyang, the 2018 Pyeongchang Games open.
California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia took a voluntary unpaid leave of absence Friday, a day after sexual misconduct allegations against her became public. Garcia, a Democrat and chair of the Legislative Women's Caucus, is accused of groping former legislative staff member Daniel Fierro in 2014, an allegation she denies. He reported the claim in January and it is now under formal investigation. Garcia said she's taking leave to avoid distractions and any appearance of influence over the investigation. "Upon reflection of the details alleged, I am certain I did not engage in the behavior I am accused of," Garcia said in a statement. "However, as I've said before, any claims about sexual harassment must be taken seriously, and I believe elected officials should be held to a higher standard of accountability. " Fierro did not comment on Garcia's decision. He's accused her of stroking his back, grabbing his buttocks and trying to grab his crotch in the dugout after a legislative softball game. An anonymous male lobbyist told Politico on Thursday that Garcia made a crude sexual remark and tried to grab his crotch at a May 2017 fundraiser. Both the lobbyist and Fierro said Garcia appeared to be drunk at the time of the incidents. Garcia, of Bell Gardens, has been a prominent voice for women's rights since she was elected in 2012, and more recently has spoken out in support of the #MeToo movement that's gripped the California Capitol and the nation. Fierro first reported the incident in January to his former boss, Democratic Assemblyman Ian Calderon, who reported it to Assembly leaders. Fierro said he decided to tell Calderon about the incident because of Garcia's outspokenness in the #MeToo movement, which has led to investigations in statehouses nationwide. Fierro, of Cerritos, left the Assembly in 2016 and now runs a communications firm. Calderon, his former boss, is now the majority leader.
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The politics of ghosting: is it ever okay? Students reflect on the complications of ghosting and being ghosted, and when, if ever, it's okay to ghost By Mackenzie Murtaugh Opinions Editor
Disclaimer: all names have been changed to protect the identities of those who have or been ghosted. These are true stories from DePaul students. We’ve all been there: you meet at a party, you text for a few weeks or months, maybe get together a few times, but then suddenly they disappear. “Read 1/12/18” is all that stares back at you, mockingly. Looking back at your messages, seeing their activity on social media hasn’t declined, remembering the deeply personal things you told them; these all create one question: what happened? Well, chances are you’ve been ghosted. Ghosting occurs in relationships when someone, usually a romantic or sexual partner, completely leaves you hanging by not responding to your messages, phone calls, etc. These occur without explanation, with you left to ruminate on what you may have done wrong. Being ignored after a connection like that hurts, and there’s no getting around that. But those relationships where there’s hardly any emotional connection might hurt someone just as badly. Ghosting a one-night stand seems harmless enough, but what if the ghosted thought something would transpire? Meet Nicole, DePaul student. Her story begins with the Tinder app. At the time she was 17 and under the minimum age required to use the app. But, like many teens, she was eager to explore what the app had to offer, so she lied about her age and began swiping. On the app, she met Sean, a 24-year-old restaurant server who drove a motorcycle and had never been in a serious relationship before. They hit it off fast and began texting soon after. Their messages were slightly flirty, but mostly platonic. Nicole was talking to three other Tinder boys at this time though, and after a few weeks she lost interest in Sean. He begins to subtly berate her with wholesome messages saying things like “Hey, you okay? What’s wrong? Where you at?” But his last message left a sour taste in Nicole’s mouth: “You don’t have the decency to say goodbye to me, that’s fine.” Perhaps Nicole didn’t have the decency to say goodbye, but was she obligated to say goodbye to someone she had never met? And what about Julia, a 21-year-old DePaul student? She was friends with Steve for months, while hiding the fact that she had a crush on him. They randomly hooked up one night, and Steve asked her out on a date a few days later. Eager to see him again, she said yes. After no word from him for a few days, she texted him to ask if the date was still happening only to receive no response. She sent Steve another message: “cool thx for ignoring my text.” Again she was rebuffed. They’ve since seen each other out in public, and he has continued to ignore her completely. After asking Julia out, he completely ghosted her. “Even though it’s happened to me from guys and made me feel horrible, I think it’s in a lot of people’s nature to avoid confrontation especially if you don’t have ties to someone,” Julia said. “I know I’m not the only one that thinks that because why else would people do it? It’s out of lack of the maturity to confront people.” Without ever talking to someone face-to-face, truly understanding the compatibility between a couple is impossible. The experience of getting to know someone through coffee dates and dinner is lost, and the awkward stage is prolonged. Anyone can think over what to say for a perfect text, but it takes a special connection to play
off each other that easily in real time. But a relationship lost over a drunken night hurts deeper. Julia and Steve had a real, emotional connection before he went ghost. The lack of closure Steve left her with would make anyone feel confused and insecure. Julia didn’t do anything wrong, and the reason for his departure is most likely Steve’s inability to effectively communicate. “Sometimes it might be like you care about the other person’s emotions and how they’re going to feel about why you have to stop talking to them,” said Shelby, another DePaul student who has experienced the ghosting phenomenon. “You don’t have to deal with the other person’s emotions, and you don’t have to feel responsible. It’s weird, but the person that ghosted doesn’t have to feel like they really did that to someone they care about because they can pretend like it never happened.” Shelby was ghosted last year after a month of dating someone she met off Tinder. They hit it off fast, and Shelby thought this was a person she could spend a long time with. A few days after they were intimate (he bought her a toothbrush and made her breakfast), Shelby noticed he wasn’t responding to her texts. Knowing his past with drug addiction, she was worried for his safety. For a week, she texted him multiple times. It wasn’t until she saw his posts on Instagram that she knew she had been ghosted. She was left wondering, just like so many others, what she had done wrong when the relationship seemed to be going so well. Months later when she was dating someone new, she found out that he had died from a drug overdose. In a written memorial posted on social media, she found out that he had started to see his ex-girlfriend again, right around the time the ghosting happened. Shelby’s situation is more severe than many other stories, but it still relates to the ghoster’s reluctance to communicate effectively. Many young people do not want to accept the repercussions that come with awkward communication in a situation like hers. Shelby could have reacted with anger or dejection, and that would have scared most dates out of a face-to-face discussion. By simply cutting them out, ignoring their texts or calls, unfollowing their social media and turning your head in public, the ghoster’s feeling of responsibility is gone with the relationship. So maybe ghosting a Tinder date or a one-night stand is harmless since there’s hardly an emotional connection. No-strings attached relationships can still be a thing in 2018, no matter how easy social media makes staying in contact. But the excuses for ghosting when intimacy occurred have no weight. This creates a warped view of yourself after you’re ghosted. Without knowing what, if anything, you did wrong, you can be left with a scar of self doubt that inhibits your ability to open up to future prospective partners. “(Being ghosted) makes you question the entire relationship you shared with that person,” said Shelby. “Ghosts delegitimize the emotional things you two shared. Someone who can be that flippant about a connection that seemed so serious tells me enough about that person.”
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A tail of true rejection By Lacey Latch A rt & Life Editor
This time of year can be hard for a lot of people; memories of past heartbreak and anguish are likely to come up. Maybe you see Valentine's Day as the perfect time to start anew and look for new love. But of course with that, you run the risk of rejection. Rejection is quite possibly one of the worst things in the world, but I assure you - there are varying degrees of it. It’s like ripping off a band-aid. The pain depends on how much hair you have or something like that. As we approach the holiday of love, I’ll take this
opportunity to share my personal story of the worst rejection I have ever felt. I was young and wide-eyed. My heart was full of nothing but love for this particular man. He was cute, fun to be around and had been with me through some of the hardest times in my life. He was my everything. He was also a dog. My dog, in fact. His name was Johnny. As much as I loved Johnny, he rejected me. One fateful day, I lured him in my room hoping he’d hang out with me. After a few short minutes, he was gone. I watched helplessly as he casually turned
around and walked right out the door. Just when I thought we had something going, he shut me down. My heart was still full of love for him, but I was guarded from then on. I wasn’t willing to be burned again. Basically what I’m trying to say is that all rejection hurts, but when you are rejected by your own pet, it cuts deep. Your entire physical being is filled with love and adoration for them, but sometimes they just don't seem to care. It hurts, and I hate to tell you that the aching pain in your chest will never relent, but I’m here for you. We’re all in this together.
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Breaking up with your partner hurts, but so does splitting up with your best friend By yazmin Dominguez Online Editor
We met in fifth grade. She was a Sagittarius, and I was a Leo. It was an inside joke that we were so compatible because our zodiacs were both fire signs. We both had the same passionate ‘Lana Del Rey’ esque outlook on life. We would cruise down the streets of our hometown in her black Jeep Liberty windows down blasting radio WXRT, flicking our cigarettes out her rolled-down windows. We were best friends for eleven years. She would come over for Christmas. My parents loved her. I had my first sleepover at her house. My first musical festival was spent with her. We both skipped prom together, and instead we hung out in her room, ate Doritos and talked about how much we hated “everybody that was at prom right now.” We both moved to Chicago in 2013. She went to Columbia College, and I came to DePaul. We continued our friendship by taking the Red Line from Fullerton to Harrison almost every weekend of our freshman year. The summer after that year, she moved back home, and I stayed in Chicago. She went through something traumatizing while I was living my new life. She said I wasn’t there for her, so she cut me off. A year passed with no communication when I received a call from an unsaved number. It was her. I had the pattern of those 10 digits ingrained in my head from the hundreds of times I had dialed that number from my house phone. She was in a panic and said she needed someone to be there for her
because none of her other friends could understand her like I did. I was at her apartment in less than a hour. But, even after reconciliation, the friendship was never the same. It was the start of an ending. Romantic breakups hurt, but have you ever “broken up” with a life-long best friend? Although Valentine's Day is the Hallmark holiday meant to celebrate love and appreciation for the people in your life. Break ups and loss are an undeniable part of love and they apply to friendships as well. “The emotional effects of a platonic break up can be even more confusing or troubling than a romantic break up. Part of this is because our social scripts for platonic and romantic relationships differ,” said Kendra Knight, associate professor of communication studies with an expertise in romantic and sexual relationships. It is difficult to meet someone who hasn’t had fights with friends or walked away from a platonic relationship. Ending a close relationship with an individual, despite the reasoning, is jarring. The pain of terminating a friendship can be as painful as romantic breakups. “Individuals who are experiencing either kind of break up may think about how much they have invested in the relationship, and their likelihood of having a similarly satisfying relationship with another relational partner,” Knight said. “In friendships, it can be very difficult for people who have been friends for a very long time, or who have seen each other through very difficult times, to recognize that the relationship has become untenable.”
And it was difficult. Less texts were exchanged between her and I, laughs became replaced with passive aggressive comments which were justified with the phrase, “it’s tough love.” I was feeling the same anxiety I felt when I knew my romantic relationships were ending as I was with my life-long, childhood friend. Losing friendships can be seen as a part of growing pains. In a survey conducted by Not4Dating, a website meant for users to form strictly platonic relationships, states that more than two thirds of Americans have lost 90 percent their friends in the last decade “We have always said to each other within our friendship that we loved each other very dearly and if we were away from each other for more than 48 hours, we would call or Facetime even during winter or summer break,” senior Kamila Zaremba said. “If we didn't see each other, we did miss each other since we were both vital part of each others lives.” Zaremba has recently begun to feel the emotions of breaking off her friendship with who she considered to be her college best friend. After having been roommates for a year, their friendship began to unravel, which ended with feelings of betrayal on her friend’s behalf. “I missed her a bit but not to the extreme that I felt after something had happened between my partner and I. She was the first person I wanted to tell and figure out how to deal with everything that was happening,” Zaremba said. “It’s been a very recent process I’ve known all along, but I wasn't allowing myself to feel all the emotions of missing her until very recently.” Yet, the pain of a platonic breakup
comes as a surprise to many because the termination of the relationship is not expected, versus engaging in a romantic relationship, where an ending is always a possibility. “When we break up from a romantic partner, there may be more finality associated with it. And there may be an accompanying sense that a better romantic relationship will be made possible because the previous romantic relationship has terminated,” Knight said. “That reasoning doesn’t translate well to platonic break ups. Because our social scripts allow for multiple platonic relationship simultaneously, it may feel more like an irrevocable loss to undergo a platonic break up, no matter which side you are on.” “I wish I could still be friends with my old roommate, I feel like that is no longer a thing for her. It’s not a possibility,” Zaremba said. “We had gone through a lot of growing pains.” Ending my relationship with a person who knew me better than anybody else was a difficult decision. The memory of two 10 year-olds playing in their neighborhood park was replaced with two 21-year-olds who had gotten into a fight at a bar. Our friendship of over a decade ended in a curt, thirty second exchange. “I guess I’ll see you around,” she said. “No. You won’t.” I slammed my car door and drove away. I haven’t seen my best friend since and I most likely never will again. It was a platonic breakup, and just as love is a major part of life, so are breakups. GRAPHICS BY VICTORIA WILLIAMSON | THE DEPAULIA
I just called to say "I love you" By Rachel Fernandez Managing Editor
Jesse Stellwagon was in his college dorm room with his girlfriend of three months, Laura, when he first said it. “I had a long night of, uh, liquidation, and she was sitting there, probably taking care of me,” Stellwagon said. “And I looked at her and I was just like, ‘I love you. I don’t expect you to say it right now but that’s how I feel.’ And she kind of just looked at me like, ‘ok.’” Stellwagon remembers saying it for a few more months before she eventually said “I love you” back to him. They continued to date for 11 years and got married over a year ago. Saying “I love you” in a romantic relationship is considered a big step with both people involved often scared to be the first one to verbally express their feelings. The phrase is typically associated with commitment and the desire for it to be reciprocated, but having that expectation could pull you out of a moment. “It’s usually better to say it when you’re feeling it but with the expectation that they might not be necessarily feeling it back in that direct moment as well and not necessarily demanding it,” said
Michael Maloney, a Chicago-based therapist who works closely with couples. “So just in that moment it doesn't need to be forever, but saying ‘in this moment I feel connected to you.’” Saying the phrase is a way of verbalizing the love you’re feeling, but Maloney finds it important to look at other ways in which people express their love. “The ‘I love you’s can be taken as behavior,” Maloney said. “It can be literally saying ‘I love you’ before you part ways, a kiss or hug or some sort of physical interaction when you come back together. Finding those ways to feel connected.” Ultimately, Maloney emphasizes the importance of relating to one another. “You feel really connected to the one that you love, then that feeling of love sort of hits your body and you feel attached to that person,” Maloney said. Expressing emotions certainly puts a person in a position of vulnerability. We can’t decide what to feel and what not to feel, so sharing these emotions is admitting to something you have no control over. This can be daunting in relationships, especially with a feeling as powerful as love. “Some people are just able to be vulnerable faster than other people and
I think,” Sarah Bessonney, 22, said. “If you’re ready to be vulnerable and share that piece of yourself, then I think you should go right ahead, and if you love someone and you’re not ready to be vulnerable yet, then listen to that too.” Although she felt it sooner, Bessonny waited almost a month to the day for her boyfriend Curtis Green to tell her he loved her. “I knew that if I said it, it was going to be too much too soon for him because it was so intense already and we hadn’t been dating for that long,” Bessonny said. She and Green started dating when they were in high school and he was her first boyfriend. After spending years in a relationship, part of which was longdistance, the two of them became engaged about a year and a half ago. “I definitely knew that I loved him before he knew that he loved me,” Bessonny said. “We both agree about that now even as an engaged couple.” “I love you” is more of a moment than a lifelong feeling. Nothing is forcing you to love a person forever, and nothing is forcing the other person to love you back. My advice? Take the feeling as it
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comes, and if you want to say it, say it. That being said, emotions are scary, and telling someone how you feel is especially terrifying given the arbitrary expectations we tend to have. So I get it. I get why people are scared. But you should do it, and so should I. Here, I’ll start: I love you!
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Focus The Anatomy of the Looking at the origins and meaning behind the heart symbol By Rachel Fernandez Managing Editor
When you walk into the State Street Barnes and Noble and head over to the greeting card section, a gaudy Valentine’s Day card sits right at eye-level. At the top of the card, a flashy sticker with the words “I Love You” demands attention in a cursive font. All around it, tiny fabric roses and small heart-shaped gem stickers are spattered over a glittery white floral design. Two elongated, wine-colored hearts hang from strings tied to the center of the card, and a single line of music from an unidentifiable song is screen printed along with a snakescale pattern across the bottom. It’s kind of an eyesore. As you open the card, sparkles fall from the front revealing the message, “Love is a shared thought, a gentle touch, a sweet song. Love is us. Happy Valentine’s Day.” How sweet. “Valentines cards these days I just think are so cheesy,” Suzie Shin said. “They’re always crusted with glitter, and it’s just so excessive.” Shin, 22, is a designer, illustrator and a design apprentice at Thirst, a Chicago-based communication design practice. She recently made her own Valentine’s Day cards that she could easily send to friends and family rather than a significant other. The design is simple and the text is straightforward. She uses a consistent and solid-color heart shape along with the phrases “dear friend happy valentines day” and “you are loved.” After looking up what other designers had done to create a barebones heart shape, she found that it’s really just two circles and a perfect square. “I like the simple geometry it took to make it,” Shin said. Shin’s design was driven by a desire to creCOURTESY OF SUZIE SHIN Suzie Shin’s Valentine’s Day Cards. ate the kind of Valentine’s Day card that she would have wanted to buy herself, making it as simple as she was thinking in her head. “What I’m saying in the presentation is exactly how I would emote love in a card using a heart,” Shin said. The simplicity of the heart symbol makes it ideal for reproduction. It’s easy to draw, visualize, cut out and sculpt. You can find it in clouds, and you can even make the shape with your hands. Our phones give us 18 different heart emojis to use, and we click on a heart every time we want to show that we “like” something on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Hearts are used on
cards, clothes and logos, and they all communicate the same message: love. The origin of the heart shape is unknown, though there are a few different theories. It could have come from the silphium seed pod, which was used as an ancient contraceptive and very much resembles the heart symbol we know today. It may have also been derived from the shape of breasts and butts. Maybe it was fashioned after ivy leaves. It might just be a bad attempt at drawing a real anatomical heart. But the association of the symbol with the concept of “love” didn’t happen until the 13th or 14th century. Before then, it was used purely for decorative purposes. So how did this humble symbol become so synonymous with such a powerful emotion? “We’re not born knowing what these things mean. We have to learn their association,” said Marissa Strassel, a professor in DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media. Strassel is currently teaching a semiotics class. “The way that I frame it is that students examine the tools and the structure we have for creating interpreting and understanding meaning in a variety of ways,” Strassel said. Simply put, semiotics is the study of meaningmaking. This field focuses mostly on signs and symbols and what they communicate to the outside world. We all understand that a red hand means “stop,” a skull and crossbones means “danger” and a heart symbol means “love.” Semiotics examines how these meanings came to be, and it can yield useful insights into the connotations of symbols like the heart. Symbols are abstract representations that typically have meanings ascribed to them, and humans have formed these meanings and reinforced them over time until they became shared. “A really good symbol should be simple, memorable and easily replicated,” Strassel said. Think: the retweet symbol. Or (hint hint) the heart. “I think of it as a connection,” Blake Becker, 20, a student in Strassel’s semiotics class said. “From a symmetrical standpoint it is perfectly mirrored vertically, and I think that there’s a pair created from it from the two rounded sections meeting at the end. There has to be a connection, whether that be in life or in a relationship.” “There’s something so elegant about simplicity that remains timeless,” Nate Azark said. Azark, 39, is the founder and creative director of 12 Line Studio, a Chicago-based illustration and design company. The studio focuses on branding, and the heart symbol is definitely a useful tool in their arsenal. He designed a lockup for the food company Evol. that uses the heart shape to communicate the company cares about what they put in their food (plus, “Evol” is “Love” backwards). “It sets you up for understanding whatever the artist or designer is trying to get across without having to use any words at all,” Azark said. In his view, the universality of the heart symbol can be a canvas to convey many different meanings. “Any embellishment to something that’s been simpli-
fied so much really makes an impactful statement, even with an understated shape like the heart,” Azark said. For instance, a black heart can signify evil, a heart of gold can signify kindness and a broken heart can signify, well, heartbreak. Strassel agreed. “(The heart) is a really simple, memorable, replicable symbol,” she said. “It’s really fun because you can manipulate it in many different ways and it still has that same understanding. That’s really powerful.” According to Strassel, one of the reasons the heart symbol is so versatile is that culture and context play big roles in its meanings. While the heart shape may seem to have the same meaning in Murfreesboro, Tenn. as in Kyoto, Japan, this is still only because of the cultures they exist within. In her memoir “Without You, There is no Us,” writer Suki Kim chronicles her experience teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s elite. Strassel recently read the book and noted a fleeting passage on how the young North Korean boys Kim was teaching didn’t recognize the pink hearts that appeared when she opened up the Photo Booth computer program. Regardless of whether or not they had ever seen the shape before, the boys were living in an environment that did not condition them to ascribe a certain meaning to the heart symbol. Hearts have made their mark on contemporary culture in the United States, and as Valentine’s Day approaches, hearts will undoubtedly continue to be plastered across cards and mugs and phone cases and notebooks and anything with a platform on which they can be displayed. We love to love and our use of the heart symbol will continue to show it. “The heart isn’t going anywhere.” Azark said. “It’s here forever, and that’s due to the simplistic nature of it. COURTESY OF NATE AZARK It’s distilled down to Nate Azark’s lockup for Evol. its basics. You can’t really simplify a heart.” Two circles and a square. That’s all it is. With it,we can say so much: love, like, lust, affection, passion. A heart gets the message across. “My daughter made a drawing a couple of weeks ago that had a whole series of hearts in different sizes and different shapes and different colors, and she gave it to me,” Strassel said. “It was great because it was a drawing that my daughter made, but it’s also her way of communicating that she loves me and thinks I’m great.”
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Hearts & Life
Vagina Monologues
DePaul performers open up an inclusive dialogue PHOTO COURTESY OF CONNOR O'KEEFE
Charlene Haparimwi describes an intimate euphoric moment of self discovery in “The Vagina Workshop” on Friday night at the Courtelyou Commons.
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Kolbie Sherrell performs “Like a Virgin” at Friday night's show.
By Mackenzie Murtaugh Opinions Editor
DePaul’s 19th annual performance of the episodic play “The Vagina Monologues” kicked off with laughs, cries and reverence on Feb. 8 and ran through Feb. 11. The play, written by Eve Ensler in 1996, highlights the adversities people with vaginas face such as sexual violence, abuse, manipulation, medical malpractice and marginalization. This year’s performance focused less on the sexual aspects of vaginas that were the focus of the original play and presented more of an engaged dialogue for people with and without vaginas. The original play has been criticized for catering to cisgendered women with the exclusion of people elsewhere on the gender spectrum who possess female genitalia. Directors Julie Peacock and Anna Freed strove to promote an inclusive environment for audience members and performers alike. They split the performances into three categories of “Sex”, “The Body” and “Identity”, in order to put less emphasis on vaginal sex in favor of exploring the social, racial, emotional and economical implications of having a vagina. “We wanted to make sure we were able to focus on more than just sex and being sexual, because there is so much more to gender, identity and even genitalia than just sex,” Peacock said. Opening up the conversation for sometimes unsettling topics in a setting like this paves the passageway into public
discourse. "Obviously vaginas need to be talked about more, but nobody really thinks about the birth aspect and going to the doctor and the medicalization of people with vaginas," said Albie Sher, a performer in the show. Her monologue, “I Was There in the Room,” tells the story of a grandmother watching her grandkid give birth. Society’s conversations of childbirth are seldom, and many find uneasiness and embarrassment in them. Graphic and and brutal, the monologue compares the resilience of the vagina to a heart that expands, sacrifices and forgives while discomforting the audiences with its explicit and brutal imagery of the operating room during childbirth. “I’ve never really been interested in (the conversation of childbirth) myself, but I think talking about it from the perspective of a third-party person and seeing everything it can do and relating it to the heart was super cool because personifying a vagina, it’s able to do all these things to bring life … it’s really powerful,” said Sher. Peacock and Freed set out to do just this. Opening up the conversation for sometimes unsettling topics in a setting like this paves the passageway into public discourse. From there, the performance transitioned to moving and sentimental topics. An emotionally charged performance by Rachel Pride called “My Vagina is a Disease” altered the narrative
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Christian Borkey in an energetic performance for the piece “My Angry Vagina.” from sex and body representation to the historical medical malpractice perpetrated on people with vaginas. Beginning with the hypocrisy of the “female hysteria era” of the 19th century, this episode examined how women, who were seen as pure and asexual until their husband wanted to have sex, ignited in crazed fits of depression, anxiety and sexual desire, were frequently raped by their male doctors when treated for the nonexistent malady. The performance discussed the lack of better quality medicines and doctors for those of lower socio-economic status and in black, Latinx and Native American communities. Some monologues expressed the anger of having a vagina in a social context. Christian Borkey’s performance of “My Angry Vagina” was energetic and passionate about the adversities of having a vagina, such as the absurdity of tampons and Pap smears. “She wants to live freely and without having to think about how goddamn ridiculous the world is,” said Borkey about their character. “Even though the monologue is super funny, there’s a layer of sadness that’s under there throughout the whole thing.” Using comedy to speak about how tired and sad she is, the writer’s ideas more deeply affect the audience, and Borkey. For them, humor acts “as sort of a barrier or mechanism” to cope with the challenges of having a vagina. This year’s performance is the first since the death of Adrian Fraser, a cast member
in the 2017 lineup who died two nights before his performance of “My Mangina,” his original monologue that illuminates his struggles with transitioning. The piece was performed passionately by Oliver SterlingAngus for the first time in front of an audience. “They’re two very different people (Fraser and Sterling-Angus), but it was really powerful to see him perform,” said Sher. “The first time he did it, there was no one who wasn’t crying.” The show became a commemoration of Fraser’s life and memory. Hearing his story became the highlight of the night, reminding the audience and cast members that a single voice can raise awareness of the deeper, psychological issues of people with vaginas, apart from their sex-related issues. The newly framed mission statement of DePaul’s Vagina Monologues fits well into the recent discourse of a postWeinstein world. The inclusivity of this year’s performance encourages people with and without vaginas to stand in solidarity against those who have told the masses what a woman is and isn’t. “The play shines a light on the unseen torment that people with vaginas often face in the workplace, especially when they are marginalized by powerful people within their industry. As the playbill states, “Woman isn’t vagina and vagina isn’t woman.” It’s a strong reminder that cis women aren’t the only ones facing discrimination over their anatomy.
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The resilient Bianca Muñiz By Zoey Barnes Focus Editor
A career based on songs of resilience and crafted by a woman whose love for music surpasses all the challenges she’s endured in her lifetime, brings vocalist Bianca Muñiz to Chicago for the first time. She is a fiery 23-year-old, whose music speaks unapologetically and passionately of deep truths. Muñiz spent the weekend in Chicago performing at Chicago high schools, local news station Fox 32 News and music venue Beat Kitchen. Muñiz, a New York City native, has used her voice since second grade choir. Throughout high school she took voice lessons and performed in musicals. She recently graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. While working to graduate, Muñiz released her first EP titled “Scary Dreams.” This past week, she released her first music video on Vevo, called “For You.” As her career continues to grow, so does her passion. After sitting with Muñiz and her sister, Jacqueline, for a few hours before their show at Beat Kitchen on Saturday, I learned a lot about the dynamic duo. We chatted about nails, hair, tattoos, poetry, and Muñiz’s recent bout with cancer,
something she’s been battling with since she was an 11-year-old. Muñiz takes much of her musical style and inspiration from Radiohead, but laughs and admits that it mostly comes from everyone she has ever listened to. She says her newest song, “For You,” is a glimpse into her mind. With a brand new single out on Spotify and an even newer music video, Bianca is excited for the future. “We hope to have a new album out by summer. It’ll be our first full length, studio album,” Muñiz said. At 11-years-old Muñiz was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and after multiple surgeries she went into remission. Last year, however, Muñiz was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the past few months she underwent a double-mastectomy, and she is finishing chemotherapy now. “Physically I’m very tired. But mentally and emotionally I am so much more determined to reach my goals,” Muñiz said. Taking the stage, Muñiz let the music take her away. During a mesmerizing set showcasing her powerhouse vocals, she seemed to glow. She opened for local Chicago band, Sedgewick. She has a voice that could travel for miles, with lyrics that could empower anyone. Muñiz’s encompassing voice
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NY-based artist Bianca Muñiz is on the rise after beating cancer for the second time. shines true to the spirit of her lyrics. With songs about her sisters, her struggles and her friends, her voice ranges with the lyrics. Powerful lyrics and powerful vocals, coupled with a stirring story, give Muñiz a relentless stage presence. With an amazing talent for composition, both lyrical and
musical, Muñiz looks to have an exciting career ahead of her. She is ready to release her album and further her career, and she is undoubtedly an artist to be on the lookout for.
Auto show drifts into McCormick Place By Ross Greer Contributing Writer
The Chicago Auto Show took over McCormick Place this past weekend, with major auto manufacturers showcasing their newest concept vehicles in the 110th edition of the show. The show, which took up over one million square feet, had something to pique the interest of any auto enthusiast with a wide variety of concept cars, utility vehicles, race cars and collectibles. A handful of manufactures took advantage of the oldest and largest metropolitan auto show in North America by debuting new models or new concepts entirely. Although official numbers aren't released by the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, outside research group Foresight put the number of attendees in the hundreds of thousands. Chevrolet, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Lexus, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen all premiered new production cars for late 2018 or early 2019. One attendee, Jack Morgenson, looked forward to seeing what Toyota had in store for their TRD line of trucks. “This year’s Toyota TRD section is going to be wild. All of them have reworked shocks and lifts. A snorkel was even added to the Tacoma for better air intake,” Morgenson said. Jack Hollis, general manager of Toyota North America, premiered Toyota’s three updated vehicles highlighting their offroad abilities. “Chicago is where we like to debut some of our coolest stuff - stuff that likes to get dirty and looks phenomenal with mud caked all over it,” Hollis said. Volkswagen took the opportunity to premier their new Arteon, which has already been released in Europe. The midsize sedan caught eyes with a metallic spicy mustard-colored paint job and a more luxury-minded design than the other major Volkswagen four door, the Passat. Hinrich Woebcken, CEO of Volkswagen’s North American region, described the
company's desire to push further into American markets while meeting the needs of American drivers. One vehicle that has done particularly well in the U.S. is the Atlas. “The Atlas is aimed right at the heart of the SUV market with the size, comfort and features that Americans expect,” Woebcken said. Nissan also used the show as a stage to introduce two new concept cars focused on maneuvering winter conditions, which has unsurprisingly become a popular concept at the Chicago show. The Nissan 370Zki, an all-terrain roadster that can be fitted with snowmobile treads to tear through icy conditions, and the Nissan Armada Snow Patrol, a sport utility vehicle lifted and modified to handle the worst winter conditions, both drew large crowds. Though not for sale, at least at the moment, these unique vehicles still impressed. Throughout all the different exhibits at the show one theme stood out: manufacturers trying to draw crowds by relying heavily on customer interactivity. One typical staple of the Chicago Auto Show is the many test tracks set up throughout and around McCormick Place. Although there were less indoor tracks than in previous years, there were still plenty of chances to test out showcased cars; it was no less of a spectacle to watch a Jeep Wrangler crest over a 30-foot hill while still indoors. In addition to Jeep’s indoor test driving track, Toyota and Kia also had tracks set up. While the Jeep track had bridges, dirt and bumpy roads, the Kia and Toyota tracks focused on highlighting their vehicles’ onthe-road performance, including straight aways to test the brakes. Outdoor test drives were also provided by Ford, Cadillac, Kia, Mazda, Volkswagen and Subaru. Virtual reality driving simulators made an impact this year, with nearly every major manufacturer featuring at least one on the show floor. Ford’s simulator, which seated three people at a time, even vaulted five feet off the ground and jostled visitors around according to their movement.
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The Maserati showcase featuring the 2018 Maserati Granturismo.
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The Mercedes showcase at the Chicago Auto Show on Friday. These simulators caught the eye of many attendees with long lines forming at most of them. Kia took full advantage of their NBA sponsorship, setting up multiple Pop-AShot arcade games in front of their car fleet in order to draw patrons. Kia also had the three hamster mascots from their commercials being guided around the show floor for visitors to take pictures with. Nissan, meanwhile, boasted its Star Wars sponsorship by showcasing a few models outfitted to look like spaceships from “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. Besides the cars the Auto Show also had events throughout each day, including
former professional Chicago athletes, a pet adoption event and various news broadcasts. Food and drink stands were littered throughout McCormick Place’s North and South halls so attendees could grab a Goose Island beer while they meandered through the fields of cars. The Chicago Auto Show is open to the public from 10a.m.to 10p.m.Feb. 10-18th. There will also be discounted ticket prices throughout the week for Women’s Day, the Chicago Auto Show Food Drive, Hispanic Heritage Day and Family Day. With all the attractions, the show has something that both diehard car aficionados and casual fans can enjoy.
Rom-Com Recommendations
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By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor
Romantic comedies are the backbone of our entertainment industry. They are repetitive and formulaic, yet the top-grossing films in the genre have still managed to bring in $3.7 billion in ticket sales globally, according to Forbes. Unfortunately, the rom-com world is also almost always about two straight white people falling in love. While the rom-com genre is problematic in that sense, it is still one of the best ways to celebrate the holiday of love. Enjoy!
50 First Dates
One of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore’s cutest films together, “50 First Dates” follows Sandler as a man that can’t commit until he meets Lucy (Barrymore) and is convinced he’s met the girl of his dreams. The only problem is that she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day. This realization, of course, doesn’t deter him from falling for her.
The Wedding Date
Anxiety about being single at her sister’s wedding prompts Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) to hire a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) as her date. Her plan is also a way for her to impress her ex-fiance who dumped her a few years prior. Slowly, the fake couple begin to fall for each other and things get much more complicated for everyone at the wedding.
27 Dresses
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Katherine Heigl plays a woman who has been a bridesmaid 27 times and who struggles with the idea of being a bridesmaid for her sister at her upcoming wedding. James Marsden plays a journalist that is sent to write a story about her as someone who is the living example of the saying “always the bridesmaid never the bride.” In typical rom-com fashion a budding relationship begins to form, though Marsden’s article begins to complicate matters.
Matthew Mcconaughey stars as Ben Barry, a ladies man who makes a bet that he can get a girl to fall in love with him in 10 days. Kate Hudson stars opposite him as a writer for a popular magazine. She is determined to write a story on “how to lose a guy in 10 days” by doing outlandish things to drive him away. When they get together and their agendas clash, the results are incredibly funny.
Silver Linings Playbook
Set in Philadelphia, this story follows a man recently released from a mental institution (Bradley Cooper) as he moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things become complicated when he meets a mysterious woman (Jennifer Lawrence) and they soon strike up a friendship. This is a much more contemporary film as the dramatic aspects lead it away from the common tropes of rom-coms past.
13 Going on 30
In my opinion one of the greatest films of all time, “13 Going on 30” follows Jennifer Garner as a 13-year-old girl who has mysteriously transformed into her 30-year-old self. Mark Ruffalo plays her love interest and childhood friend. It is a hilarious and unique twist on the romantic comedy. To make things even better, there is an epic group dance number to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” that is definitely one for the ages.
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Valentine's Day on TV By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor
Whether you love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day often provides some of the greatest themed episodes on TV. The hilarity that can be found in this holiday is practically limitless. Below is a list of some of the greatest Valentine’s Day episodes of the best comedies out there.
"Parks and Recreation" Season 2, Episode 16: Galentine's Day This episode is one of the show’s greatest out of its seven-season run. Leslie Knope invites all of her gal pals out to celebrate self love as she lavishes them with handmade personalized gifts. The Parks and Recreation department also puts together a seniors dance to celebrate the holiday. As a gal who grew up with my grandparents, this episode really hits home. If you find yourself with your pals wanting to celebrate the holiday of love, watching “Galentine’s Day” is a great place to start.
"Parks and Recreation" Season 4, Episode 14: Operation Ann This show excelled at Valentine’s Day and deserves to be mentioned twice. Two seasons after the world was blessed with “Galentine’s Day,” our favorite Pawnee-ans once again celebrated together. In “Operation Ann,” the gang tries to find Ann a date for the holiday. Meanwhile, Ron and Andy assist Ben as he tries to solve an incredibly complicated set of riddles that lead to Leslie’s Valentine’s Day plan. If y“Galentine’s Day” put you in the Valentine’s Day spirit, this episode is the only reasonable next step.
"The Office" Season 7, Episode 16: PDA It’s no secret that “The Office” was one of the best comedies of recent time and as such, the Valentine’s Day episodes are great. In “PDA,” everyone in the office becomes increasingly annoyed with newly reunited couple Holly and Michael and their neverending PDA. At the same time, Jim and Pam get drunk after having a bit too much champagne at lunch and return to work inebriated. Once again, the people at Dunder Mifflin hilariously endure another holiday.
"30 Rock" Season 4, Episode 13: Anna Howard Shaw Day Liz Lemon is a hilarious and offbeat character, so it makes perfect sense that she would schedule a root canal on Valentine’s Day to avoid dealing with her loneliness. In her drug-induced hallucinations, she sees all of her ex-boyfriends in the lobby. At the same time, Jenna stresses over the fact that her stalker has moved on to someone else and Jack meets a new woman, a powerful newscaster. In typical “30 Rock” fashion, this episode is a unique twist on the well established tropes of the holiday.
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 12, Episode 8: The Gang Tends Bar For once Paddy’s Pub is packed with customers, forcing the gang to actually do their jobs and run the bar. But instead of working, everyone is distracted by a mystery crate that Cricket found in the alley, much to Dennis’ chagrin. As Dennis continues to insist on them working, everyone begins to think he’s actually trying to hint at the fact that they have interpersonal conflicts to resolve. It’s a Valentine’s Day episode that is hardly focused on the holiday, which is perfect for many people. If you find yourself feeling apathetic toward the day, this is the episode for you.
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Before the Flood
National Parks Adventure
Produced by and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Before the Flood” is an in-depth look at climate change as DiCaprio travels the world exploring its devastating effects and impacts.
Narrated by Robert Redford, this documentary takes you on a virtual adventure through our nation’s national parks. The cinematography is visually stunning from beginning to end, and the film provides plenty of background information on how our national parks were formed and what exactly they protect.
DiCaprio interviews powerful subjects such as Barack Obama, Pope Francis and Elon Musk. He inquires about the threat of climate change. Directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by National Geographic, this film is your best bet if you’re looking to learn more about climate change while also getting to look at and hear DiCaprio at the same time. The film also focuses partly on climate change denial among politicians and lobbyists in the United States. The film presents the overarching question of “Can this all be reversed? And if so, how?” Intended to spur a sense of urgency in the viewer, this film is an entertaining and convincing look at a hot topic of discussion today. The fact that it premiered in 2016 makes the film even more powerful, since little has been done in the intervening years to combat those effects.
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The Native American history of these lands and their current importance in the grand scheme of the American identity is made clear. The actual lands that are protected are discussed in depth along with the diverse species of wildlife they harbor, many of which are threatened by man. We even follow a group of mountain climbers as they travel throughout numerous parks in the American West. Some parks that may be familiar are Yellowstone, Redwood National Forest and the Everglades, all of which appear in the film. This documentary is perfect for anyone who just wants to learn a bit more about “the people’s parks.” It offers picturesque views of the parks and the wildlife therein that are nearly impossible to get anywhere else. Coming in at about 40 minutes long, this is the perfect film for anyone looking to sit down for a bit and learn something new.
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In theaters and upcoming film releases Jan. 26 “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the "Flare". Star: Dylan O'Brien
Feb. 9 “Fifty Shades Freed” The third installment of the "Fifty Shades" franchise, following the couple after their marriage. Stars: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson
Feb. 2 “Winchester” The most haunted house in the world, built by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester fortune. Inspired by true events. Stars: Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke
Feb. 9 "Peter Rabbit" Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor compete for the affections of a woman next door. Stars: Domnhall Gleeson, James Corden, Rose Byrne
Feb. 9 "The 15:17 to Paris" Three men thwart an ISIS attack on a train heading to Paris. The men involved in the real-life event play themselves in the film.
Feb. 16 “Black Panther” Black Panther springs into action when the fate of his nation is threatened by an old enemy.
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Valentine’s Day is hard for singles. Couples everywhere you look, holding hands, exchanging glances of love - it seems like they’re mocking your empty heart. For those going through a breakup, it’s even more difficult. Reminders of your lost love occur every which way you look. Here’s a playlist of songs you may have listened to in the grieving process to get you through this Valentine’s Day the right way.
1. "Linger" - The Cranberries Originally written about the writer’s first kiss, it details the confusion that accompanies falling for someone who has power over you, ending with their ultimate departure from the relationship. The song captures a feeling of constantly wondering if the partner you adore is being faithful. This song will resonate with anyone who feels their love is trying to push them away, and yet is left feeling hopelessly in love with their biggest saboteur.
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2. "When Someone Wants to Leave" - Dolly Parton A tale of love worn too thin is the premise of this song. She slowly begins to accept that her lover wants to leave her, but watching them slowly pull further away is hard to get over. She sings that the lover desires to leave her just as much as she wishes they would stay, leaving the listener feeling just as empty and emotional as Parton. Anyone who has experienced this “onesided love,” good luck getting through this tune.
Across 1. Pressly of “My Name Is Earl” 6. Successful, in Variety 11. Puppy’s tail movement 14. City near Salt Lake 15. Less available 16. “___ the ramparts...” 17. Attractive 19. Miner’s profit 20. Cologne water 21. Collection of sayings 22. Do alternative 23. Small racing vehicles 27. Extended a subscription 29. Foreman striker? 30. It’s between black and white 32. Stretch auto 33. “___ in Black” (1997 film) 34. Consumer 36. Ringlets
3. "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon More resilient than the rest on this list, Carly Simon rips apart her self-obsessed ex in this song. “You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself go by,” is something that causes the listener to reflect on their ex; did they care about what you were wearing that night to make sure you felt good, or was it more subjective than that? Even the least vain will find themselves thinking twice before checking themselves out in a mirror after listening to this forceful tune.
39. Where peat is found 41. Referring to birth 43. Distort, as data 44. Jellied garnish 46. Battery type 48. Suffix with “direct” or “detect” 49. Yodeler’s feedback 51. Like deserts 52. Flanders of cartoons 53. Anglers’ weights 56. Asylum seeker 58. U.S. lang. 59. Computer “brain” 60. John’s “Blues Brothers” co-star 61. Sigma successor 62. The hereafter 68. Hangman request? 69. Cause of many yawns 70. “The King” of music 71. Decimal-system base 72. Horse instructors 73. Apportioned, as
4. "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O’Connor The lyrics tell of post-break up experience, when you’re attempting to cloud your mind by keeping busy. Examples include “eating dinner in a fancy restaurant” and “putting your arms around any boy you want.” Even with these distractions, it’s an arduous task to forget someone. Counting down the days and hours seems like the only thing holding yourself onto the love who has left. Love lost hardly seemed more bleak ... Happy Valentine’s Day!
cards Down 1. One way to run 2. In the past 3. “Don’t mind if ___” 4. Jason’s wife, in myth 5. Get bigger 6. Bart, to Maggie, slangily 7. Mighty hardwood 8. Tuck, for one 9. Aromatic herb 10. All-natural 11. Carpentry 12. Eaglet nursery 13. Midas’ undoing 18. Defeated, in a way 23. Viola da ___ 24. Toast spreads 25. Creature near the Antarctic Circle 26. Evil angel 28. Grounded Australians 31. “Bigfoot” relatives 35. Car built for speed 37. River’s border,
sometimes 38. One from Malmo 40. Word with “bay” or “pay” 42. Rio Grande city 45. One of two that makes a king? 47. Slung mud at 50. Live-forever plant 53. ___ ease (relieve one’s mind) 54. Pointlessly silly 55. Islam branch 57. Brother of your father 63. Beretta, for one 64. “Prove” prefix 65. Macrogametes 66. Cool number? 67. NYC winter clock setting
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DePaul shoots lights out, routs Providence By Andrew Hattersley
BIG EAST Men's Basketball
Asst. Sports Editor
DePaul (10-14; 3-9 Big East) snapped a three-game losing streak in emphatic fashion with an 80-63 win over Providence (16-9; 7-5 Big East) at the Dunkin Donuts Center Saturday afternoon. The Blue Demons jumped out to a 16-point lead after a 14-2 run shortly before halftime led by a string of great plays from freshman forward Paul Reed and graduate transfer Marin Maric. Reed continues to improve as the season progresses as was demonstrated Saturday with nine points and two steals in eight minutes of action in the opening half. DePaul head coach Dave Leitao was pleased with how his team used their defense to create offense. “We got our hands on some balls to turn our defense to offense and get some buckets,” Letaio told media after the game. “Our defense was really good most of the game.” DePaul closed out the first half with a bang when Eli Cain hit a deep three to give the Blue Demons a 15-point lead heading into half. Cain had 10 points in the first half, and hit all four of the shots he took. The Blue Demons were efficient offensively shooting 59 percent, while holding Providence to 34 percent. The Blue Demons didn’t let up to begin the second half, opening on a 16-2 run to create a 56-27 lead behind nine points from Strus in the first five minutes of the half. Strus finished with 17 points, including 14 points in the second half. Rather than sitting back, the Blue Demons attacked in transition as Providence tried to get back in the game NAM Y. HUH | AP by pressing DePaul. Paul Reed has averaged 7.1 points and 5.4 rebounds in his last six games For much of the second half, the Blue Demons held a comfortable lead of over rhythm of the game; we never got into a building their tournament resume, 20 points, even extending the margin to flow. You got to give them a lot of credit, we could never get going, trailing from the 31 with 13:45 to play. The Friars closed did not play well in any phase of the game.” 11-minute mark of the first half when the the gap to 15 with 47 seconds remaining Maric led the way with 18 points Blue Demons went on an 11-2 run to begin following an 11-1 run, but it was too late and eight rebounds, while Tre’Darius taking control. to do anything other than narrow the McCallum had a double-double with 12 Next up for DePaul is a home game final margin slightly. Providence coach Ed points and 10 rebounds. Wednesday against streaking St. John’s, Cooley credited DePaul for not allowing The Blue Demons led for close to 31 of who have picked up wins over Duke, the Friars to get in any sort of rhythm. the 40 minutes, telling of how dominating Villanova and Marquette in the last two “I thought DePaul played great start to an effort it was. On the other hand, weeks. The Blue Demons beat the Red finish,” Cooley said. “We never got into the Providence, in need of a win to continue Storm 91-74 in early January.
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23-2 (10-2)
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Following a come from behind win against Butler, DePaul (20-6, 12-2) was forced to rally again against Xavier, 2-12 in the Big East, for a nail-biting 73-72 win. The win helped DePaul achieve their 11th straight 20-win season. The Musketeers believed they had hit the game-tying shot with .2 seconds remaining, but it was changed to a 2-point shot allowing the Blue Demons to escape with a one-point win. Two days after DePaul head coach Doug Bruno picked up his 700th winning, senior guard Amarah Coleman reached 1,000 points in her Blue Demon career with a steal and layup in the first quarter. Ashton Millender led the scoring charge with 16 points, while Kelly Campbell finished just short of a triple double with nine points, 14 rebounds and nine assists. Although the Musketeers shot 60 percent from the field, the Blue Demons once again used defense to spark a rally were able to hold Xavier to nine points in the third quarter.
The DePaul men’s and women’s teams continued their run through Indiana with a standout performance at the Hoosier Hills meet with five victories. Junior Brian Mada won his third straight event in the triple jump completing a jump of 13.57 meters. Sophomore Adam Nelson also had his best performance of the spring season, clocking in a time of 6.83 in the 60-meter dash. On the women’s side, Kiersten Walker took first in the 400-meter dash, finishing at 55.61. Alexia Brooks continued her stellar run winning the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.46. Ariel Davis finished four in the same event clocking in at 8.73. The Blue Demons also picked up two wins from the distance crew. Freshman Lizzie DeJoie collected a win in the 800-meter run, while the distance medley of Jessica Sanborn, Kaitlen Crawford and Elizabeth Endy, Miranda Rea took home the top spot.
DePaul women’s soccer welcomed seven new players to the program after they signed their National Letter of Intent Wednesday. Angelina Gendreau and Mollie Eriksson joined the program after successful prep careers in Canada, while Sarah Cohen and Sydney Parker opted to stay in-state with DePaul. Parker’s New Trier High School team won the State Championship in 2016 and finished as a runner-up in 2017. The Blue Demons additionally signed Ellie Mink, Mary Tierney and Brooke Weitzel, all of whom had successful high school careers, while playing at various club levels. Coach Chastain praised both the youth and national experience the class has and said she is excited for these players to raise the bar at the program. All seven players will join the Blue Demons 2018 roster, as the Blue Demons look to rebound off a 7-7-5 season in which they were eliminated in the Big East Tournament by Providence in penalty kicks.
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Five up, five down
Trio of shutouts sets DePaul off to 5-0 start to season By Amber Colón Editor-in-Chief
The 2018 softball season has begun on a high note, with the Blue Demons finishing 5-0 at the Total Control Sports Invitational on Sunday at the Dome in Rosemont. With plans to beat a snowy commute to the ballpark on Friday morning, the team stayed in Rosemont on Thursday night. They rang in the three-day tournament with a lot of luck on their side: most of their practices before the tournament were indoors, an advantage most of the other teams in the tournament did not have. “We're really well prepared, (and) we know the venue really well, so we feel like we have a little bit of an edge,” said coach Eugene Lenti ahead of the tournament. “But, you know, we still have to go out and play the games.” Now in her senior year, shortstop Haydn Christensen said that one of her first goals was finishing up this season’s first weekend with a 5-0 record. Over the last four years in the program, Christensen has been a part of a lot of different accomplishments. She said that her hopes for this year are to win both Conference and the Big East Championship. But going into this weekend, her focus was steady. “The only person that’s going to beat DePaul softball got off to a perfect start in the Total Control Sports Invitational. us is us,” Christensen said ahead of the Illinois University at 9 a.m. CST. tournament. Pitcher-catcher duo Zoch Cothern are The Blue Demons used 10 hits to drive in a total of nine runs for the season’s first both in their second years with DePaul softball. Both breakout stars as freshmen, two games against IUPUI. A home run by Jessica Cothern gave the duo are continuing to work together the Blue Demons a 4-0 lead over IUPUI in throughout the 2018 season in the hopes of game one. The girls finished 5-2, allowing bringing home several wins. “Last year, I feel like we all came in freshman Pat Moore her first collegiate with high hopes,” Cothern said. “Proving victory. ourselves on the In opening day’s field and being game number two, in the allowed to be first two innings went on the field as a by before either team freshman is a huge scored. Alysia Rodriguez deal, so you wanna snatched up two RBIs, step up and show one via a home run to that you're meant right field and the other to be there.” a single, giving the Blue Zoch’s Sunday Demons a 4-0 lead win in the center against Wright State. circle started her Missy Zoch pitched 2018 season on a shutout win against the right foot by Wright State on Friday, marking her third improving the team’s complete shutout record to 2-0. win of the season. On Saturday, the She’s got a .3 ERA, Blue Demons played striking out in 23 against Eastern Kentucky. DePaul catcher and of 23.2 innings and Outfielder Angela third baseman having allowed Scalzitti led DePaul only nine hits and with a 4-for-4 day at the plate, while Zoch picked up her second a single run. “I don’t see a weakness with this group,” consecutive shutout. The pitcher allowed Lenti said. “In years past we’ve had injuries. only two hits by the Colonels. The Blue Demons swept the (...) But I think this is one of the best competition on Saturday by finishing up defensive teams we’ve ever had at DePaul. the second day with another game against It’s a solid group, and our pitching is better than last year.” Wright State. It’s Lenti’s 37th season as the head coach To wrap up the tournament, sophomore pitcher Missy Zoch threw a of DePaul softball, and after this weekend, no-hitter against Northern Colorado (2- he’s only three wins shy of a tallied 1,300 0) on Sunday, wrapping up the team’s first career wins — which places him fifth alltime in NCAA history and fourth all-time weekend on a positive note. Next up, Blue Demons will be playing for active coaches. After the Cougar Classic, the Blue in the Cougar Classic in Mount Pleasant, S.C., hosted by College of Charleston next Demons will head down to Arlington, weekend from Feb. 15-17. That Saturday Texas the week of Feb. 23-25 to play in the they will face neighboring Northern UTA Maverick Tournament.
"Last year, I feel like we all came in with high hopes. Proving ourselves on the field and being allowed to be on the field as freshman is a huge deal, so you wanna step up and show that you're meant to be there."
Jessica Cothern
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Sports. Feb. 12, 2018. The DePaulia | 27 GoFundMe, continued from front page response to the GoFundMe campaign seeking to oust her as athletic director. “As athletic director I certainly realize fans are entitled to voice their opinions,” Ponsetto said. “That doesn’t mean I have to agree with it. Our men’s basketball team is a fine group of student-athletes who are terrific ambassadors for our university. The players and their coaches are working hard to improve every time the team takes to the court. All of our student-athletes make me proud every day with their many accomplishments — both in athletic competitions and in the classroom.” While Ponsetto says she is proud of her student athletes, some alumni aren’t feeling so proud of their alma mater’s performance on the court — which, to some, is really all that matters. “If DePaul wanted to be a Loyola, a UIC (or) a Chicago State, play in a lowertier conference, play most of their home games on campus and their sole goal was to graduate students and make great student athletes, then I get it,” Martinez said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad if that’s not the ultimate goal of the university, but from an outsider's perspective, when you start making these big moves (namely transitioning into the Big East conference and building Wintrust) it sends the message that we care about basketball, we’re going to invest in it, and we want to have a great program. “But to make the (coaching) moves that they have over the past 10 years, it just doesn’t make any sense.” For DePaul fans like Martinez, Ponsetto isn’t a villain. She just struck out on three bad coaching hires and now, they believe, it’s time for new leadership. “(Ponsetto) has done an admirable job serving the university, keeping the program out of trouble, getting DePaul into the Big East, and also working with the city and donors on getting Wintrust built,” Martinez said. “I think that what has happened over the last 10 years is that she hired three coaches in a row that have just been awful hires and there has been no accountability on behalf of the university to hold up to the standard of what the basketball program should be.” Traditionally DePaul students have shown some apathy for their athletics programs, though a poorly located arena
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Some donors got creative by making donations under the names of Ponsetto, her husband and poked fun at former DePaul coaches, Oliver Purnell and Jerry Wainwright — both hired by Ponsetto.
As of Sunday night, the page had raised $1,755, cruising past its goal of $800. The donations ranged from $5 to $200.
in Rosemont and a new one that is still a half an hour away from campus certainly isn’t doing anyone any favors. Since Wintrust opened in November attendance is averaging only 3,057; a feasibility study commissioned by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority projected 16 DePaul men’s basketball games would see an average of 9,500 fans. It has been well over two decades since Blue Demon basketball was a hot topic on campus. “I think it’s great that the students actually care about the school's athletic performance and want to see the team start winning,” senior PR and advertising major Melissa Bellew said. “However, I think they should take their concerns directly to the president of the university rather than slander her in an ad.” According to the description posted on the GoFundMe page, the calls for Ponsetto’s firing or resignation won’t stop anytime soon. Martinez says once the first
ad is run in the DePaulia, a new fundraiser will begin with an eye on a TV ad during the Big East Tournament this March. A televised advertisement during the Big East Tournament would not come cheap. Although CBS Corp. and Time Warner's Turner Sports do not comment on ad rates, the NCAA basketball tournaments are the second-largest generator of national TV ad dollars, second only to the NFL, according to a report from Reuters. Prior to the launch of the GoFundMe campaign, the DePaul basketball Twitterverse has been active with alumni calling for the end of the Ponsetto era. In the month of February, the hashtag “#FireJLP” has been tweeted 394 times from 57 accounts reaching 12,375 users, according to Twitter analytics provided by Keyhole. Among the most active and critical users is the person using the Twitter handle @HasJLPBeenFired. The page’s operator says he donated $100 to the
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, continued from back page something she’s very happy to have done. “One word is legacy,” Stonewall said. “It’s a great legacy and I’m happy to be a part of it.” Junior Mart’e Grays echoed Stonewall’s comments and also said she considers him a father figure off the court. “We joke around a lot and say there goes our dad,” Grays laughed. “He’s like our second father in most cases; seriously, he’s a great person to be around.” After beginning as a player at DePaul in 1968, Bruno said he is blessed to be at DePaul for 32 seasons. Bruno says he owes a lot to his former coach Ray Meyer, assistant coach Frank McGrath and former athletic director Gene Sullivan, who Bruno served as an associate head coach under at Loyola. “I love DePaul and I owe everything I’ve ever done in coaching to coach Ray Meyer and coach Frank McGrath, Ray was the coach here that gave me an opportunity to play,” Bruno said. “We have nothing here without coach Ray Meyer giving me a
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Doug Bruno was a three-year letter winner under Hall of Fame coach Ray Meyer. chance in ‘68 to play for him, coach Frank McGrath was his assistant here and was very, very good to me and Gene Sullivan, the three people the buildings are named after.” After also picking up win No. 600 in the arena the famous movie “Hoosiers” was filmed, Bruno said Hinkle was a special place to coach in and one he always enjoys
coming to. “It’s been an honor to coach in Hinkle all these years,” Bruno said. “I got to coach on the men’s side here for eight years, and we had some really storied battles down here, and we’ve been coaching down here ever since Butler has been in the league. I’ve been down here to watch the State Championship in recruiting many times;
GoFundMe campaign and made t-shirts that read “#FIREJLP: Make DePaul Great Again.” “I work for a prestigious financial services firm and used to receive and respond to 3-4 emails a week from students through volunteering with DePaul’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program,” The account’s operator told The DePaulia. “Frustrated with the continued basketball losses, I removed myself from the program and told them that I’d volunteer again when Jean Lenti Ponsetto either resigns or is terminated. “In many cases, this is money that would have otherwise been donated directly to the University or used to purchase tickets to watch the men’s basketball team play. If we can call attention to the fact that donations to the university are being withheld and spent elsewhere because of the athletic director, that’s powerful.”
it’s just a great place to always enter and watch and for us to come back and play, it’s just a special place.” With the win, Bruno joins an exclusive group of coaches that includes names such Pat Summitt, Tara VanDerveer, Geno Auriemma, Muffet McGraw, Andy Landers and others to win 700 games. Bruno stressed it was more about the players than him, but he’s proud to a part of a community of great coaches, that includes those in their first year as well. “These are numbers, those are great coaches and, more importantly great people, and I’ve been blessed to know those people,” Bruno said. “Obviously Geno and I have been very close with the Olympics, coach Summitt and I were very close, coach Jim Foster just got his 900th win; we’re very close. The community of coaches and the community of the sport is so much bigger than any one game or any one person, so I’m just proud to be a member of the community of coaches.” Bruno got off to a headstart to reaching win No. 800 with a win over Xavier on Sunday afternoon after the Musketeers three-point shot was overturned in the final seconds.
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DePaul women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno collected his 700th career win Friday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse, the same place he grabbed win No. 600.
Bruno captures 700th career win in familiar place By Andrew Hattersley Asst. Sports Editor
Just over two years ago, DePaul head coach Doug Bruno won his 600th game with a win over Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Friday night, history repeated itself as a Bruno picked up win No. 700 following an 86-68 victory over Butler, adding another chapter to an already storied coaching career. After the game, Bruno thanked all his players, assistant coaches and administrators that have helped him get to
this point. “It’s about all the players that have played for us,” Bruno said. “I haven’t won any games, the players have won 700 games when I’ve been their coach, but the players won every game and I’ve been blessed to have great players, assistant coaches and a great administration at DePaul.” After falling behind early by 14 points due to their inability to slow down Butler’s Whitney Jennings, the Blue Demons responded with a 17-0 run spanning the second and third quarter to open a lead they would not relinquish. Bruno was
proud of his team and said this was an important win for them against a talented team with some good wins already. “I think this is a really special group, I’m really proud of this group,” Bruno said. “At the same time, this game tonight is about their 19th win so much more than it is a coaches 700th win, each player gets to write a legacy of four seasons, this is their 19th win and their one-in-a-row for the 19th time.” That one-in-a-row mentality is something Bruno credits as one of the key mindsets he has preached and believes it’s
important for coaches looking to build a successful tenure at a program. “I really believe in the concept of onein-a row,” Bruno said. “We preach this onein-a-row thing, I’ve been preached one-ina-row my whole life, and if you’re going to last in this business of coaching, then the ones-in-a-row are going to add up and that’s what’s happened here is the ones-ina-row have added up.” Sophomore Chante Stonewall said playing under Bruno and helping him pick up a milestone win is something she’s very
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Tyger watch ends, questions remain By Shane René Sports Editor
COMMENTARY When Tyger Campbell left DePaul basketball fans hanging on the edge of their seats by going silent on Feb. 1, the day he was supposed to announce his final college choice, everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing: cold feet — and the UCLA campus would be a very practical place to warm them up. You can’t blame him. It’s hard for any elite student-athlete to make a deeply personal and life-changing decision in public, but Campbell had the weight of a university on his shoulders. For DePaul, it was ‘Tyger or bust’ and he knew that too. But he also knew, like everyone else outside
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Tyger Campbell is officially off to UCLA. Chicago, that UCLA is the best place for him and his future. “The selling point on DePaul for (Campbell) was the city,” Rick Carter, a former associate head coach who helped
recruit Campbell, said. “You get national exposure from being (in Chicago). At UCLA you get the same thing.” Campbell is among a finite group of individuals vying for a spot in an even more finite group — the NBA. He could be a king at DePaul, or opt for the highest precentage route to the NBA. He was simply too good for us. Now that DePaul’s biggest recruit in two decades has officially turned his back on Lincoln Park, it’s time to examine what DePaul has to offer the country’s top high school talent — and it’s not a lot.
Our glory days are now useless for recruiting, so far gone that no high schoolers was alive the last time DePaul was in the NCAA Tournament. Campbell was a rare opportunity. A recruit at the top of his class with a genuine connection to the school, but even that couldn’t keep him in Lincoln Park. So why are we supposed to believe that Wintrust is going to bring in the recruits as promised? If we couldn’t land a best-case-scenario recruit with Wintrust at our disposal, why would it work with somebody else? If there is a silver lining in Campbell’s final walk away from Lincoln Park is that it’s proof that the recruits just aren’t sticking to Wintrust and President A. Gaberiel Esteban has reason to start making real changes.