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Volume #103 | Issue #23 | April 29, 2019 | depauliaonline.com

During a controversial week, we get advice from someone who’s been there

By The DePaulia Editorial Board

JEFF CARRION | DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

Executive editor of the New York Times Dean Baquet speaks with Carol Marin on Thursday.

JESUS MONTERO | THE DEPAULIA

Baquet speaks at the awards ceremony at the Union League Club. The event, which also honored WGN anchor and DePaul alumna Lourdes Duarte, honored the two journalists for their careers as fearless reporters.

You might have heard by now about the swirl of controversy that The DePaulia found itself in last week. It was a tidal wave of ethical quandaries, the likes of which we have never dealt with before.

We found ourselves accused of exploiting victims of sexual assault. We had hundreds of our newspapers stolen off of newsstands in Lincoln Park. And we got reamed out by the Title IX office for an important story we published on the front page — a story whose facts we stand behind completely.

Luckily, we had someone visit DePaul on Thursday who deals with these ethical issues every day. Issues that, if handled incorrectly, could cause markets to tumble, innocent people to be accused and even lead to the loss of human life.

Executive editor of the New York Times Dean Baquet was honored with DePaul’s Center for Journalism Excellence and Integrity Distinguished Journalist Award.

As the leader of the Times’ newsroom, Baquet and his staff of reporters cover the administration of President Donald Trump, high-stakes national security issues, global war and strife, all “without fear or favor,” as

the paper’s famous motto goes.

We asked Baquet what he would do if he were in our position.

“The first thing I would do is write an editorial,” he said.

Good advice.

A student was upset about how we used an image of them taken at a public event.

Anytime anybody is in a public place, you are subject to being photographed, even if you don’t expressly give permission, and that photograph is legally and ethically allowed to be published. In other words, by appearing in public, you forego your right to privacy.

On top of this, there were multiple photographers at this event, announcements were made that you were subject to photography if you’re in the area and signs were posted. Everyone there knew.

But word spread around Twitter and the comments section of The DePaulia’s website, saying that we were exploiting people for our own glory, that we were insensitive and should be ashamed of ourselves.

This was neither our intention nor what we did. When we cover sensitive subjects like sexual assault, which we covered extensively in last week’s issue and

See EDITORIAL, page 4

Fallout from professor’s ‘Islamophobic’ article continues

By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief

Aggrieved students were vocal this week about their desire for DePaul to censure Professor Jason Hill over an article he wrote last week in The Federalist, a right-wing online news magazine, in which he wrote that Israel has “the moral right” to annex the West Bank and strip Arabs living in Israel of their right to vote.

Students organized a protest in Arts & Letters in the early afternoon of Wednesday, April 24 to express their frustration with the inaction on the part of the DePaul administration.

A coalition of student groups last week put out a statement that called on DePaul to censure Hill for the “Islamophobic” and “racist” views espoused in the article.

“We call on the administration to stand against hate, to stand against racism,” the protestors chanted as they dropped fliers from the upper floors of the building’s atrium and draped signs over the banisters saying “DePaul Must Dump Hill.”

Within 30 minutes of the culmination of the protest, DANAKA KATOVICH | COLLEGE DEMOCRATS President A. Gabriel Esteban emailed a letter to the DePaul Protestors in Arts & Letters Wednesday calling for DePaul to censure against Professor Jason Hill for an article in which he outlines community outlining his position on the controversy the moral argument for allowing Israel to annex the West Bank and stip Arabs living in Israel of their right to vote. surrounding Hill.

“DePaul [...] holds academic freedom in the highest respect, always aware of the potential impact of our words the demands and desires of the student body. regard,” Esteban wrote. “When professors speak or write on and actions. Both of these outcomes are achievable.”

“We weren’t calling for DePaul to fire him, we just topics that prompt strongly-held, divergent perspectives, Esteban’s letter did little to satisfy the dozens of upset wanted them to say that this was unacceptable,” Afzal the question of academic freedom often arises. students who felt offended and even personally attacked said. “The administration hasn’t really learned how to take “Should faculty be allowed to express a provocative by Hill’s language. Some students like Hadyia Afazal, a students seriously when it comes to these debates, which is position?” Esteban continued. “The short answer is yes. member of the DePaul Democrats, said Esteban’s statement disappointing.”

Yet, DePaul aspires to be a community marked by mutual just goes to show that DePaul still isn’t good at listening to

See FALLOUT, page 6

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Still on strike MARLEE CHLYSTEK | THE DEPAULIA

After citywide hotel workers strike, 1 unionized hotel is left with unresolved contract

By Brita Hunegs Contributing Writer

Javier De La Rosa Garcia hasn’t worked in 231 days.

Meaning, he hasn’t seen a paycheck in 32 weeks. Neither have the other 33 employees of Cambria Hotel that have now been on strike for nearly eight months straight.

On Sept. 7, employees of the 26 hotels represented by the union, Unite Here Local 1 declared they would strike until their employers agreed to provide yearround health care. For 25 hotels, this demand was met and new contracts were ratified after three weeks.

But employees of Cambria did not join in the celebration. The union and hotel management were not able to settle a dispute over introducing a requirement of additional work for housekeepers.

The union says the hotel is asking that two rooms be added to housekeepers’ workload every shift.

The hotel said its housekeepers are currently working less than their counterparts at other hotels in the city, and they are merely trying to meet those standards.

That’s why, nearly eight months later, an agreement still hasn’t been reached.

De La Rosa Garcia, 49, immigrated from Mexico City to Chicago in 1998 and has been a houseman at Cambria for 10 years. Being on strike for this long has been hard on him and his family. His wife has diabetes and they’ve had to rely on getting health care from the union to make sure she can get her medicine and make doctor visits. Despite this, he is committed to the cause and willing to continue sacrificing for it.

“The more difficult battles give you the strongest warriors,” Garcia said. “We know we’re doing the right thing; we’re on the right track. We are seeking for justice that’s all.”

Union representative Marcos Feldman notes that all of the workers on strike are immigrants and that the workload increase would largely impact the women staff.

“All of the extra profit they’re seeking to extract from these workers is coming off the backs of mostly black and brown women,” Feldman said.

Among these women is Gloria ___. She’s been at the hotel for the last six years. She is from Mexico and has lived in the States since 2000. Much of what she answered for this interview was spoken in Spanish and translated by Feldman. As the strike has continued to stretch on, she has had to stretch her wallet. She’s had to weigh making concessions for herself and her kids in order to be able to send money to her mother back home. They’ve been able to live off of her husband’s income, but she notes that many of her coworkers have

had to find other jobs and adjust their budgets.

Like Garcia though, she is determined to keep fighting.

“The day to day is hard but we don’t care. It has rained and snowed on us and we stayed out there,” she said. “The message is to the company and our fellow workers that we will fight for a contract, for stability and respect.”

Feldman said that during negotiations, the hotel said it would save $200,000 if the work increase were to be added to the contract.

“They just want more profit off of the backs of these workers,” Feldman said.

But Feldman is insistent that the employees are already overworked. When he works the picket line, his favorite chant to incite goes, “Mama, mama can’t you see? I used to be a human being now I’m just a machine.”

workload and we’re not going to let them do it here.”

Choice Hotels, the corporation that owns Cambria, runs a “Room to be Green” program, according to their website. It is described as an initiative where, “we promote environmentally-friendly practices throughout the hotel system and at our corporate offices.” But Feldman insists this practice does more harm than good.

Guests can opt out of housekeeping their room, the idea being they would save water and mitigate chemical use.

But, Feldman said, when the patrons leave the room still has to be cleaned and doing it is even more strenuous on the workers, “When you leave and it hasn’t been cleaned all week it’s nasty and requires more chemicals, more water, all the things the hotel wants people to save, you end up having to use more of.”

Feldman is also afraid if the hotel gets what they’re after, some workers may end up losing their jobs.

“Increasing workload would also reduce housekeepers’ schedules,” Feldman said. “If people do more work you need less people to do the work.”

Feldman said the union runs active boycotts, asking the public and specific groups not to do business with the hotel. On one of their leaflets, DePaul’s Director for Women in Entrepreneurship Abigail Ingram was asked to “stop attacking women” and “cancel her room block at the Cambria.” However, upon further investigation, it was uncovered that there is an Abigail Ingram with a room block at the hotel, but she is not the DePaul faculty member Abigail Cambria Hotel employee Ingram. Both parties declined to speak further on the situation.

Throughout the morning at the picket line, people continually came and joined in the “They’re working in pain. Some of them have more protest. The strikers and their supporters marched in a serious long-term injuries,” Feldman said. “The bottom circle, picking up intensity. line is none of them can actually do more rooms, they A bellman placed his luggage cart in the middle can barely finish the workload as it is now.” of the sidewalk, blocking part of the marchers’ route.

Gloria has experienced this firsthand. She had to Garcia said disturbances like this happen often, “I’d be have surgery on her arm due to a work-related accident. lying if I said it’s easy to be chill all the time but you “It affects us physically and emotionally,” she said. learn along the way. When it happens and your first “We just have too much pain that we deal with on a reaction is to defend yourself but you turn around and regular basis.” keep walking. You become stronger everytime.” Garcia Management at Cambria declined to comment on said. “Every time they come at you, just give them a nice the record. In a press release, they stated that there is smile and say have a nice day and just keep walking.” a daily housekeeping quota of 15 credits among most Thrice during a twenty minute period, taxis honk of the other hotels that Local 1 represents and that their horns in solidarity with the strikers. They reply Cambria room attendants only clean 13 credits. with cheers and fist throws in the air. It’s this reassurance “The hotel proposed 15 credits to bring it in line that helps push Garcia forward, “When people come with its competitors in the city since housekeeping to the line and say they support you guys and give you workloads are a key aspect of the hotel’s operating applause you say ‘Wow I’m not alone.’ It keeps you costs,” the statement said. going.”

“It’s just not true; there is no exact same standard,” Feldman said. “The truth is that no other hotel increased

“The more difficult battles give you the strongest warriors. We know we’re doing the right thing; we’re on the right track. We are seeking for justice that’s all.”

Javier De La Rosa Garcia

4 | News. The DePaulia. April 29, 2019 EDITORIAL continued from front in the past, we know the level of sensitivity that is required.

Our situation was analogous to one the Times had to deal with a couple weeks ago. In a story about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ criticism of Neera Tanden, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton and the head of the Center for American Progress, a moderate liberal think-tank, the pair of reporters interviewed Tanden’s mother.

She gave unflattering quotes about her daughter, like saying that she can be “aggressive” and that she “shows up at rich people’s places because she needs funds from them.” After the article was published, Tanden’s mother put out a statement saying she didn’t know her quotes would be used in a story.

The reporters, both veteran journalists, did everything right. They identified themselves as reporters for the New York Times, at which point Tanden’s mom sounded off, letting all of her opinions fly.

It worries us how poorly students, and the general public, understand what we and other journalists are tasked with doing. We write the truth and, as the truism goes, the truth hurts.

“If I had gotten that call, I would be empathetic, but firm,” Baquet said. “I would say, ‘I get it, I get that it’s painful.

But you were in a public forum, and there’s no way we could have not covered it.’”

This is exactly the way we approached the situation. We understand the position that this student was put in, but cannot apologize for doing something that is in our job description.

“Your job is not to make your readers

happy,” Baquet said.

“Sometimes you will upset your readers.

That’s just the way it works. Sometimes you will say things your readers will not like and you have to deal with it. You just have to own up to the fact that it comes with the job.”

We were also called “fake news” for very basic coverage of a professor’s controversial article published in The Federalist, which called for the annexation of the West Bank — a label The DePaulia can now proudly share with the Times.

The article was fair and balanced. It lays out both sides of the argument.

BENJAMIN CONBOY | THE DEPAULIA We know that in today’s hyperpartisan “Your job is not to make your readers happy,” said Dean Baquet of The New York Times. “Sometimes you atmosphere, giving will upset your readers. That’s just the way it works. Sometimes you will say things your readers will not both sides of a story like and you have to deal with it. You just have to own up to the fact that it comes with the job.” can in and of itself We do write nice and fluffy stories to continue reporting on these important be considered biased. But our duty as when they come along. But we'll never issues. If dialogue and debate is generated journalists is not to determine which give you something you want to hear by the content of the articles we publish, argument is valid and which is not — it “[The New York Times] gets attacked we can safely say that we have done our is to give you the facts and let you decide a lot from the left,” Baquet said. “We’re jobs. for yourself. in a really tricky political climate where As the old journalism cliche goes, if And whoever this student was who people don’t want to hear the other side.” you’re not making someone mad, you’re called the story “fake news” was probably The issues that our editorial staff have not doing your job. just upset that we didn’t frame the story faced this week have only emboldened us the way they saw it.

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Students with Halal diet worry about lack of transparency from the dining hall

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

A group of students gather in the Student Center for a feast like no other as the chef responsible for the meal looks on proudly. It’s right after DePaul’s spring break in 2014 and Chartwells is unveiling their new halal certified meals after a long-held campaign from students across campus for more inclusive dining options.

Now, just five years later, questions and concerns have begun swirling around the program regarding the availability and proper labeling and handling of halal meats.

Hawraa Faisal took to the DePaul Class of 2022 group Facebook page on April 7 to warn students of her fear that “the chicken being served in the dining hall is no longer halal.” This came after a week of troubling experiences with Chartwells employees, she said.

Halal meat is available upon request for all students in the dining hall, and Faisal says that her recent requests for halal chicken were repeatedly met with confusion and conflicting answers from Chartwells cooks, specifically at the Flame station.

Eventually, according to Faisal, as a cook began preparing her meal, he hesitated, stopped, and then said, “I'm gonna tell you something, this chicken isn't halal. We don't have any halal chicken anymore and I wanted to let you know because I know that that's something very important to you.”

Because of these experiences, Faisal

believes that she had been previously served non-halal chicken from Chartwells an unknown number of times, she said.

According to Chartwells District Manager Mark Little, this is the first feedback they have received regarding the availability of halal options this year and that the availability has not changed, “outside of limited purchasing and supplier issues.”

“Chartwells cannot confirm or deny any communication or action by a singular associate that falls outside of management instruction related to this matter as it was not reported directly and immediately by this student,” Little said.

He also added that “Chartwells has in place specific associate communication/ training, processes, utensils, cooking vessels, and methods to ensure that Halal product is handled correctly.”

Following the initial complaint, SGA president Nahal Hashemian also reached out to dining services, including the new Dining Committee created by Housing and Student Centers, Students for Food Justice, and various other student organizations to enact changes related to dining.

“I cannot speak on behalf of our DePaul Dining staff, but I can say with quite certainty that availability of halal options was not the drive behind this conversation, the miscommunication and misinformation of what chicken was or was not halal was,” Hashemian said.

“Dining services and SGA are working together to correct that issue, and showing that we honor and respect our students needs is the first step in doing so.”

MARLEE CHLYSTEK | THE DEPAULIA

“Chartwells cannot confirm or deny any communication or action by a singular assciate that falls outside of management instruction related to this matter as it was not reported directly and immediately by this student.”

Mark Little

Chartwells District Manager

6| News. The DePaulia. April 29, 2019 FALLOUT continued from front While Esteban did say that Hill’s views a microphone out of his hand. are not reflective of the views of DePaul “[Yiannopoulos] was invited to speak as a whole, he declined to censure him for at DePaul, and those who interrupted making statements that he characterized the speech were wrong to do so,” as “unpopular.”

Holtschneider “I don’t feel wrote at the time. safe as a Muslim “Un ive rs it i e s student knowing w e l c o m e that someone speakers, give like this is on our their ideas campus,” Afzal said. a respectful “It’s ridiculous that hearing, and then my tuition is going respond with to the salary of an additional speech Islamophobe, of a countering the transphobe, of a ideas.” very sexist man.”

S t u d e n t Controversy groups circulated surrounding free a Google doc speech debates with dozens of at DePaul have screenshots from been thrust to Hill’s Twitter the forefront of account in which the community’s he expresses consciousness in support for the years since Islamophobic Milo Yiannopoulos conspiracy was invited to theorist Laura speak on campus Loomer, who by the College was banned Republicans, and he from Twitter in was interrupted by DePaul College Democrats November for a demonstrators who tweet about Rep. disagreed with him Ilhan Omar and being allowed to Muslims that speak on campus. violated Twitter’s hate speech policy.

In that instance, then-university “It’s a pattern of discrimination,” Afzal president Fr. Dennis H. Holtschneider said. “We worry that these patterns will took a stance similar to Esteban’s. He manifest themselves in very unfortunate said that Yiannopoulos should have ways if it’s not corrected by DePaul.” been allowed to speak and he was “ashamed” when he saw a protestor steal

“I don't feel safe as a Muslim student knowing that someone like [Jason Hill] is on our campus. It's ridiculous that my tuition is going to the salary of an Islamophobe, of a transophobe, of a very sexist man.

DANAKA KATOVICH | COLLEGE DEMOCRATS

Protestors taking part in the Wednesday, April 23 protest in Arts & Letters.

Hadyia Afzal

DANAKA KATOVICH | COLLEGE DEMOCRATS

Arts & Letters has become a common place for students to protest.

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APRIL 17 1) A possesion of cannabis report was filed in APRIL 19 4) A criminal tresspass warning was issued to a Munroe Hall. person on DePaul property.

APRIL 18 2) A computer fraud report was filed regarding 5) a fraudulent email recieved by a university report.

3) A harassment in person report was filed regarding a subject following the complainant

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LOOP CAMPUS APRIL 18 6) A violation of an order of protection report was filed for an employee in the DePaul Center Dunkin Donuts.

APRIL 22 7) A graffiti report was filed for markings on the CDM building.

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SGA calls on students to initiate changes

ANNALISA BARANOWSKI | THE DEPAULIA

With a strategic plan put in place, students can critique where they couldn't before

By Noah Festenstein Contributing Writer

DePaul’s Student Government Association want students to submit their own proposals to the benefit of the everlasting university experience.

With a number of students submitting various proposals and sharing ideas, SGA’s new student collaboration system helps glorify the importance in having a proactive student body.

The strategic plan SGA has in place is to allow students who are objective state their opinions, while utilizing media outlets to allow students to reach out and contribute ideas.

“This year, Vice President Emily Hoey and I have tried to completely change the campus culture of SGA, beginning internally to create a strong foundation within the university and expanding on our personal relationship with students and our media outlets,” said SGA President Nahal Hashemian.

Junior Abbas Dahodwala of Radio DePaul management said he wanted DePaul to advertise student events better.

“I’d like to see DePaul advertise their student events more,” Dahodwala said.

“The media outlet of DePaul’s newsline doesn’t meet standards; instead of using it mainly to promote all events and student involvement, it is too propaganda focused.”

Students needing information that speaks out to everyone is the main concern, which is what Dahodwala inferred as a media-inclined student. This and ranging from upgrading buildings, services and campus happenings is a basis for creating ideas and proposals.

Those proposals SGA receive carry weight to help utilize their own respective knowledge in creating a better campus for all.

Hashemian built off that notion.

“Our relationship and standing

“Our relationship and standing within the university and students has grown exponentially this year, and I believe that students absolutely want change on campus and now know that SGA is a platform here to do that

Nahal Hashemian

SGA President

within the university and students has grown exponentially this year, and I believe that students absolutely want change on campus and now know that SGA is a platform here to do that,” she said.

Students on DePaul’s campus want different things, but when it comes to their needs it is seen more as a collective benefit.

Hoey has supported such community efforts through the student voice. Therefore, Hoey provided some perspective from students in regard to their current needs on campus.

“While some ideas offer new innovation such as the potential for an official student health center, most expand on preexisting resources that are presently serving groups of students,” Hoey said. “Such ideas include expanding the new Success Coaching initiative, the Chicago Quarter program and resources for first-generation students. Resources like these help particularly vulnerable populations, including our first-year and transfer students, better adapt and find their place more meaningfully here at DePaul.”

Hashemian and Hoey have worked toward a healthy collaboration with the SGA board and the student body. Hoey shone light on the importance of the student voice.

“The voice of DePaul’s student body is more important than ever,” Hoey said.

“Grounded in the Mission, DePaul’s latest strategic plan offers numerous entry points for student input and involvement in the allocation of university capital and SGA’s task to solicit such input has been formative in helping our internal body grow in greater understanding of student priorities.”

To simplify this, every student on DePaul’s campus with their values and interests gets the privilege to sustain an empirical voice. Based on each student’s experience, they get to help define how DePaul can serve for the greater good. Students tend to find difficulty to expressing their voice, and SGA is here to provide them a medium. Which, according to the presidential duo, is exactly what has been accomplished: providing the channel for students to have a voice to the administration.

Proving that any student can express opinion toward administration, University Hall desk employee sophomore Alexis Johnson spoke on one of the more touted subjects, the quarter system.

“The quarter system expands the amount of classes you can take, though one of the big disadvantages is the rigorous pace of class,” Johnson said.

Looking at the big picture, she spoke out to all who can get more involved at DePaul.

“In the next two years, I’m hoping to have more resources to reach my goals as a science major. Research is really important to me,” Johnson said. “It’s about finding the right balance between all things at DePaul with extracurriculars and academics.”

Singular students don’t have to speak out for all at DePaul, but what really matters to SGA is nurturing the the student voice. To withstand a healthy collaboration effort between the student body and SGA, Hashemian provided the way students can get in contact with SGA. “This strategic plan proposal campaign, while absolutely unique among universities and an incredible opportunity, is not the only chance for student input about changes you’d like to see at DePaul,” Hashemian said. “Any change, big or small, is something we want to hear about from students. So please, continue to email your ideas to sga@depaul.edu and we’ll work to connect you to the right EVP or senator for that particular initiative.”

“SGA feels a primary responsibility to serve as catalysts for the students in order to advocate, educate and influence university policy, and our involvement in the strategic plan is foremost informed by student ideas,” Hoey said.

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Breaking through Stonewall IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

This mural portrays Marsha P. Johnson (left), her boyfriend Joseph Ratanski (middle left) and Slyvia Rivera (right) marching down Seventh Avenue in New York City in 1973.

Johnson and Rivera are recognized as trailblazers of the LGBTQ+ rights movement after the catalyzing Stonewall riots.

Dinner Gala highlights overlooked LGBTQ+ social justice advocates

By Riley Reed Contributing Writer

DePaul students and faculty gathered on April 24 for the Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Dinner Gala to commemorate two of the influential activists of the Stonewall riots. The two trans women helped pave the way for future activists in the modern LGBTQ+ movement.

Mycall Riley, head of the LGBTQIA Resource Center and organizer of the event, said it served as “a commemoration of the two activists and other trans and nonbinary folks that often get ignored by mainstream media.”

The goal of the event was “to remember Stonewall and the radical roots of LGBTQ+ activism, the progress made and the progress we still need to make,” according to Riley.

The Stonewall Inn was a refuge for the LGBTQ+ community, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. In the 1960s, gay bars were frequently the target of raids as well as police violence toward the community.

On June 28, 1969, following a raid of the bar and police harassment a riot broke out between patrons and the police.

Johnson and Rivera, two drag queens of color, were at the forefront of the riot, which is thought to be a defining moment in the American gay liberation movement.

DePaul sent a message of solidarity and ensured that, as an institution, they will show support by being a safe and welcoming environment for members of the LGBTQ+ community. The event was sponsored by the LGBT studies program, LGBTQ+ Resources Center, Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity and other departments and organizations motivated to promote social justice

LUCY GRUNDHAUSER | THE DEPAULIA

Students and faculty gathered in the Cortelyou Commons on April 24 to celebrate the legacies of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two trans women who advocated for LGBTQ+ rights. reform on campus.

Opening remarks were given by Ron Caltabiano, dean of the music school. He told his story of growing up around the LGBTQ+ rights and civil rights movement, and how activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera shaped the way he came to live his life and participate in social movements. He said the two activists inspired him to take action, and have inspired so many others to do the same. He felt that the world was on its way to electing a more diverse body because of the work of Johnson, Rivera and other activists of the time.

“We guided ourselves through Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall,” Caltabiano said. Fifty years after Stonewall, community members filled the room to celebrate the progress made.

The event had an impact on the students attending. Alyssa Befumo, a freshman studying peace, justice and conflict studies, said “the event made me feel that on DePaul’s campus I had a place to feel recognized, and this event made me feel that my story would be validated by the institution I chose to attend.” She attended the event because, like Johnson and Rivera, she is an activist, “fighting to open the minds of a close minded world, and pave the way of progress for future generations."

In addition to commemorating the legacies of Johnson and Rivera, the event shed light on the importance of media representation.

The LGBTQA Resource Center invited keynote speaker Zachary Stafford, journalist and editor in-chief of

LGBT-interest newspaper The Advocate, to discuss his work and give light to the modern story telling of social justice movements.

A DePaul alum, Stafford discussed the ways media has told the stories and how as a society “we need to give people the space to grow.” Strafford first described the “cancel culture” of the media, and how with one quick tweet the world is to judge those that fail.

“We are all still human and we fail,” Stafford said.

“Celebrities are put on pedestals in society, and people don’t like to see them as flawed,” he said.

He reminded the audience to not be so quick to judge Rivera and Johnson because although they were influential activists, they had personal struggles as well.

He went on to discuss how if many of our historic figures had had media platforms like Twitter to share all of their words, many would not be given the full stature they hold in today’s culture.

Strafford went on to discuss the “token effect in media,” saying that personal narratives are only told about “first times” or are stories about influential deaths, and they get warped into more of a symbol than an actual message, giving a perspective that the stories of other activists and people in the community need to be “given the space” to be heard, not just those activists who are always being remembered. Although they are important, the stories not told are “the second, or third” of a community.

“There is light where you seek it,” Stafford said.

He added that “change will come” and that the work of two celebrated activists has paved the way for progress, but that it should pave the path “to stumble and to fail” because a part of progress is being able to learn and grow.

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Nation &World

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By Paul Gordon

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The 2020 Democratic presidential race has already begun and the selection field is up to 20, with more likely to join in ahead of next year’s state primaries.

There is a long road until the election a year and a half from now and candidates are on the move to make the short list.

Ben Fisher, a contributing writer at the Jerusalem Post, said he doesn’t think the large number of Democratic primary candidates is an issue.

“A large group of candidates vying in the primaries is the sign of a healthy democracy,” he said.

It is not unusual to have many candidates jump in the race early on. The declaration can be strategic to give politicians national visibility for their aspirations later on.

“Democrats think Trump is vulnerable, so that encourages all those candidates who have ambitions of being President to run,” said Erik Tillman, a DePaul political science professor.

Democrats are almost entirely united in their disdain for Trump. His presidency has urged many candidates to call for unity ahead of the Milwaukee convention in 2020.

R. Craig Sautter, a DePaul professor in the School of New Learning and cofounder of political media and strategy firm Sautter Communications, said the large pool of candidates “helps showcase party talent in Congress, in Statehouses, even in cities around the nation.”

In the presidential primary, Sautter sees

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three subgroups.

“We see members of the old guard going after the prize they couldn't win in the past; the next generation of leadership jockeying for power and recognition and hopefully a vice presidential slot; and the political newcomers to the national stage all out campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire and on national TV via interviews.”

There are likely to be more candidates throwing their hat in the ring before the first Democratic National Convention debates in June.

Current candidates are already clawing over funding to continue their campaigns during the primary; the Democratic National Committee has put a fundraising and public poll minimum for participation in those debates.

As for campaign strategies, many of the candidates are employing similar antiTrump rhetoric. “[Democrats] still seem to be harping on the same points that they did before the

report …This reinforces some persuadable Independents that the Democrats may be delusional,” Sautter said.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton often received criticism during the 2016 election for being locked into anti-Trump rhetoric.

“The people who definitely will vote against President Trump are already persuaded,” Sautter said. “I fail to see the strategic vision of current 24/7 anti-Trump Democrats. What is done is done. He won the election, and Democrats cannot change that.”

One candidate breaking from this tack is South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who surged in March while touting an issue-focused campaign that avoids anti-Trump language. Buttigieg is hoping to appeal to independent voters who flipped in the 2016 election. “[Independents] are the ones who sway an election one way or the other, since the other two sides are fairly evenly divided,”

said Sautter.

While some Democrats are attempting to beat Trump by fighting fire with fire, others are trying to draw a circle that encompasses a wide swathe of voters.

“A debate between those who want to push the party further to the left versus those who want to maintain a more moderate platform will be central during the primary campaign,” Tillman said.

“Both sides will argue that their strategy is the best for defeating Trump.

“I tend to think who the nominee is, and what specific policies he or she proposes, matters less than most people think,” Tillman said. “Instead, the state of the economy in 2020 — or, more broadly, voters' sense that things are on the right track in the U.S. — and President Trump's approval rating will have much more effect.”

Regardless of who the Democrats nominate to go up against Trump, it is likely to be a bitter fight.

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Republican primary contender Bill Weld: Who is he?

by Gianfranco Ocampo Contributing Writer

When former two-term Massachusetts Gov. William Weld announced in February that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, it seemed to indicate that the 73-year-old self-described libertarian would be the first to challenge incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. With his official campaign announcement April 15, Weld is raising questions about the state of the Republican Party and his own chances of success.

Weld was the governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, and in the 2016 presidential election he ran alongside Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson as Vice President.

Today he’s positioned as a classic fiscal conservative with some progressiveleaning positions, with politics website OnTheIssues.org identifying him as a “progressive leaning Libertarian.”

Weld has been critical of Trump’s fiscal policies, his decorum and behavior as a president, and issues on immigration and climate change.

Weld’s campaign did not respond to an interview request from The DePaulia.

“I've never met a tax cut I didn't like.

I cut taxes 21 times. I think probably the first taxes I would go on to cut would be to further lower the capital gains tax, because I think that's very good for the economy,” Weld said in an interview with Boston public radio station WBUR. “It influences investment decisions and when people decide to invest that has a spillover effect on the employment rate.”

As for Trump, Weld told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: “I'm not sure how serious Mr. Trump is about governing, honestly. He has a one-word environmental policy: 'hoax.'

A one-word immigration policy: 'wall.' I think sometimes his lack of experience in preparation for the office shows."

Weld’s most immediate challenge is the massive support Trump enjoys from Republicans; according to an April 12 Gallup poll, 89 percent of Republicans

GAGE SKIDMORE | FLICKR Former Governor of Massachusetts William Weld speaks at the 2016 FreedomFest event in Las Vegas, Nevada. He's running against Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primaries.

approve of the job the president is doing. “[Trumps] been an unstoppable economic force. Replacing him would be foolish,” said Alex Romano, a Republican who voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. "He’s come through big on his economic promises, [and he] needs another four years to finish up the job on national security and health care.

“Weld talks classic Republican mantra — cut spending, lower taxes. Typical trickle-down economics. Nothing special,” he continued. “[Trump is] spending on important things — national security, infrastructure, defense, and energy.”

R. Craig Sautter, a DePaul professor in the School of New Learning who has produced political radio and television campaign ads alongside his brother for 28

years, said Weld’s battle with Trump is an ideological one.

“What happens whenever a president is elected [is] it becomes their political party.

The re-election platform is written by the White House.” Sautter said. “Insofar [as] Weld represents the traditional Republican Party, Trump has no problem putting that in.

“Trump will barely even acknowledge him.”

Weld might also have trouble reaching Democratic voters. America Victoria Koffsky, vice president of the Democratic National Committee-backed group College Democrats of America, said she will not support a Republican no matter their platform. despite crossover on platforms and won’t be able to attract democratic

voters' either.

“If someone is running for office under a political party, they’re representing that party's platform,” she said. I fundamentally believe the Republican party’s platform is outdated and oppressive.” “The Democratic Party is moving further left and right now it’s a dangerous thing to be a centrist Democrat. So, to be a centrist Republican can't work in their favor.”

Weld has made criticism of Trump a key tenet of his campaign strategy. In a video announcing his candidacy, a male voiceover implores the viewer that, “Today we need Bill Weld now more than ever… because America needs better.” The video then shows a montage of controversial Trump remarks, from his assertion there “were very fine people on both sides” after the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to his minimization of the late Sen. John McCain's military service with the comment, "I like people who weren't captured."

“The president, of course, is famous for being mean-spirited, and disruptive, and divisive, and wanting anything but civility,” Weld told WBUR. “He calculates that it suits his political instincts to have everybody's teeth on edge, everybody looking around to see who's the newest group that they can hate and fear, and it is just not the politics I was brought up with and I don't think it's good for the United States.”

Sautter, the DePaul professor, argued that both Weld and Democratic candidates should prioritize matters other than Trump’s civility or lack thereof.

“I think people have taken their position on Trump,” he said. They like him, hate him, or tolerate him. That issue is closest to who is Trump. He’s a loudmouth guy but you might like what he says.”

Weld maintains that despite the obstacles he faces, he’s not running on principle alone and does believe he can beat Trump.

“I’ve done it before, particularly in New Hampshire where I’m spending a lot of time," Weld told CNN’s Jake Tapper. "It’s one vote a time and one voter at a time."

Murder of journalist in N. Ireland raises possibility of violence in no-deal Brexit

By Bianca Cseke

the Good Friday agreement, and there is freedom of movement thanks to the A 29-year-old journalist covering a Common Travel Area. But it’s customs rules night of unrest in Northern Ireland was for traded goods that remain a sticking killed by a militant group earlier this month, point. A no-deal Brexit would mean new helping stoke fears of additional violence as customs requirements on goods like the United Kingdom works out a deal to chemicals and animals or animal products originating from outside leave the European Union. the EU. For more on this story, Lyra McKee was Experts disagree on covering rioting in visit depauliaonline.com how much of an effect, Londonderry, which broke if any, McKee’s killing or out after police raided a Brexit will have on further political violence housing complex to search for explosives in Northern Ireland.

Although violence and weapons they believed were going to be stemming from dissident paramilitary used by militant dissidents, when she was shot. Days later police said they believed the groups in the country is nowhere near as New IRA, a militant republican group, was high as it was during the Troubles, it has behind the attack; the group later admitted been a sporadic occurrence since before the responsibility while claiming McKee was 2016 Brexit referendum.

“The tragic murder of Lyra McKee won’t not the intended target. affect the ongoing Brexit negotiations,” Erik Some fear that the 1998 Good Friday Tillman, a DePaul professor of political agreement, which ended decades of science who specializes in international sectarian violence between republicans relations, said.

“All the parties involved and unionist paramilitary groups, may were united in expressing grief and outrage not survive if the U.K. leaves the European at the killing. ” Union without a deal.

Jennifer Todd, a professor of politics Earlier this year, a Londonderry car at University College Dublin, agreed that bomb attack and several explosive devices McKee’s death probably won’t affect Brexit sent by mail were attributed to the New negotiations.

IRA. “The British government is obsessed There have been no customs and with internal party affairs,” she said. “This immigration checks along the border since Online Editor

will pass from minds quickly.”

Mary McCain, director of DePaul's Department of Irish Studies, said many of the paramilitary groups "were around

before Brexit and unfortunately they will continue to be."

She said she hopes people on all political sides can come together to find solutions.

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Opinions Trump's Tiger

The changing value of presidential honors in the time of Trump BRAD BARR | USA TODAY SPORTS

President Donald Trump awards Tiger Woods for the Tour Championship in Sep. 2018. The relationship between the two has come under increased scrutiny following Trump's election, with some re-examining Woods's role in golf clubs and tournaments owned or sponsored by Trump.

By Shane Rene Managing Editor

The intersection of sports and politics is an American tradition. The issues we debate in the halls of government often find their way onto the playing field and mark significant steps in our march toward social equality. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in professional baseball before Jim Crow lost its grip on the south; Michael Sam taught us football players could be gay before gay people could marry. Whether it sparks riots or brings tears to your eye, the relationship between these two pillars of American life has always played a role in pushing us forward.

But not all moments in sports are political — in fact, most aren’t.

When Tiger Woods won The Masters Tournament on Sunday, April 14 to complete one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of professional sports, it had nothing to do with politics.

In an era of particularly bitter national discourse, it was a welcome distraction.

But then the 45th President of the United States of America decided to do something about that. He took out his phone, opened Twitter and smudged his grubby, little fingers all over yet another American tradition.

“Spoke to @TigerWoods to congratulate him on the great victory he

had in yesterday’s @TheMasters, & to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback in Sports (Golf) and, more importantly, LIFE, I will be presenting him with the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!” Mr. Trump tweeted with his signature unpredictable use of capital letters.

It took Trump less than 24 hours to make this decision, and there was little evidence of rigor in his selection process — or the existence of any selection process for that matter. Which, perhaps for the first time in his presidency, is perfectly fine. The Presidential Medal of Freedom — the president's formal recognition of someone's meritorious contribution to society — is one of the few duties the president can execute alone, leaving them with full autonomy over this small slice of their legacy. “[The Medal of Freedom] really says a lot about what each president values,” Associate Professor of political science Ben Epstein said. “It's a way for them to suggest what or who is important and who should be recognized and why people should be recognized.

It's a way to leave a legacy in terms of, not only in who they select, but what type of person and what type of values the president emphasizes when they are in office.”

So why, according to Trump, should Woods be recognized? And what does that say about what Trump values?

In his tweet, Trump says it is for his

“success” and “comeback in sports and, more importantly, life.” Only the biggest Tiger haters in the world would deny the wonder of Woods at his peak, let alone when he conquered Augusta National for a fifth time earlier this month.

Ed Sherman, a Chicago Tribune sports writer who covered golf during Woods’s reign of terror in the late '90s through the early 2000s, didn’t hesitate to sum up Woods’s place in golf as one of the great spectacles in sports.

“He’s right up there with the greats of every sport—like [Michael] Jordan or Babe Ruth or Wayne Gretzky. He’s one of those guys that everybody knows even if you don’t like golf,” Sherman said. “The greatest player we’ve ever seen.”

Golf fans often argue over who is the “greatest of all time.” Jack Nicklaus has more major championships victories (18 to Tiger’s 15), the gold standard of golf tournaments. Woods has more wins, recently pulling one win shy of the tying Sam Sneed’s all time record of 82, and a raw talent unlike anything we’ve ever seen in sport.

“I’m not the biggest Tiger fan,” said 2017 DePaul graduate and golf fan Nick Petrakos. “But what Tiger has done for the game — you can’t compare it.”

“For the game,” he says. But you have to wonder whether athletic greatness is really a meritorious contribution to society.

“The idea is to give the award to people who have a large political or social impact and that's really interpreted widely,” Epstein said.

Nicklaus was awarded the medal of freedom in 2005 by thenpresident George W. Bush. At that time Nicklaus had been retired from the PGA Tour for almost 20 years, and more than 30 years removed from his prime. At that point in his life, philanthropy consumed most of his time—and still does. That commitment to philanthropy is why he received the honor.

Woods will be just the fourth golfer accept the honor, after Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and the first black PGA tour player Charlie Sifford. At the age of 43, he will also be one of the youngest people to ever receive the award and will become the first to accept it as an active athlete.

It’s not hard to find Trump’s other motivations either. Trump and Woods play golf together and have even built golf resorts together. Woods is the epitome of a winner, and Trump likes to think of himself the same way.

I’d make a joke about their shared history of extramarital affairs and pornstars. But that just feels too obvious.

Of Trump’s eight medals of freedom, four have gone to athletes. The others to prominent conservatives. But his most recent medal of freedom ceremony may just be the most Trumpian of all.

"But you have to

wonder whether athletic greatness is really a meritorious contribution to society."

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

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Hot war: How the climate debate was rigged from the start

By Erica Carbajal Staff Writer

Climate change today is a highly political issue, but it wasn’t always that way — and it shouldn’t be. Throughout the years, big energy industries have been key players in constructing the platform of climate change denial, and as their platform grew, journalists felt more compelled to give deniers a voice in stories centered on climate change, further contributing to public misunderstanding.

In an investigative piece by InsideClimate News, reporters looked at notes from a 1978 Exxon Mobil committee meeting where James F. Black, then senior company scientist, presented the dangers of releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by Exxon’s use of fossil fuels. At the time, climate change and potential efforts to reduce impacts weren’t political or debatable at all.

Exxon acted promptly in 1979 on this information by initiating a large scale research effort that looked at the impacts of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

For a while, it looked like Exxon might have been the cutting edge leader in climate change research and based on their own findings, may have changed the trajectory for what the future of their corporation would be. That is not what happened.

Instead, when climate change started to enter the public conversation in 1988, Exxon denied their earlier research findings, and wasn’t transparent with their shareholders.

Jill Hopke, assistant professor in the journalism department whose work focuses on environmental communication, said there’s a reason that 1988 was a turning point in bringing climate change into mainstream news coverage and public dialogue.

“That was when NASA scientist, James Hansen, had actually addressed a

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Climate protesters in London outside of the Bank of England on April 25. Organized by the group Extinction Rebellion, the protestors disrupted the city for 10 days.

congressional committee, and he did so in the midst of a heat wave…and a lot of what we think about climate is influenced by the weather that we experience,” she said.

Exxon began funding different groups to sow doubt about climate change science as it became a more recognizable issue, and consequently, the emerging deniers took to the media to voice their “doubt,” creating an issue of false balance that continues to this day.

The concept of “false balance” relates to the journalistic norms and standards of remaining objective, and always

presenting both sides of the story. This has historically created a struggle for journalists covering climate change related stories, since they often feel the need to apply balance and include the voice of a small group of scientists who dispute the majority 97 percent scientific consensus that climate change is human caused and will continue to have worsening impacts.

Presenting climate change as an issue that has two equal and opposing sides does not accurately portray the problem.

Before fossil fuel industries started funding doubt campaigns, coverage on climate change related stories was mainly covered by specialized science reporters covering scientific findings directly.

“Then, there’s sort of this phase where it’s covered by science reporters, but once the industry funded and industry backed doubt campaigns come into play, there’s a turn by journalists and they start consulting sources that are industry backed and are clearly trying to poke holes in the growing scientific consensus about anthropogenic climate change,” said Robert Eshelman, an environmental reporter and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

While the issue of false balance has recently gotten better in terms of media outlets addressing the 97 percent majority consensus and not giving undue time to deniers, Eshelman said the greater challenges now are the established media outlets who still spread misinformation.

“It’s (now) an issue of you’ve got ideologically driven publications and television networks that continue to promote denial of climate change…and elected officials that deny climate change,” he said.

Elected officials, and even the small group of scientists who actively work to create doubt about the scientific consensus are almost always funded by the fossil fuel industry. Oklahoma Sen. James M. Inhofe for example, who infamously brought a snowball to the Senate floor as “evidence” that climate change is a hoax, received nearly four hundred thousand dollars from oil and gas companies in campaign contributions.

If journalists still feel pressured to include the voice of climate

deniers, they can do so in a way that highlights the 97 percent scientific consensus, and provide more information on where deniers receive funding from in order to give audiences a better understanding of denier motives.

Kaitlyn Pike, sustainability coordinator for DePaul’s Student Government Association said as the scientific evidence continues to grow, there’s no longer a reason to provide a voice to deniers in news coverage at all since it creates an unjustified sense of comfort with inaction.

“This false sense of uncertainty in whether humans have a role in climate change, and whether climate change is ‘even happening,’ can lead to national and global complacency, and an incentive to take no action in regards to environmental issues,” she said in an email.

Hopke highlighted that another important thing for media reporters to consider is how much an extreme weather event may have been intensified or made more frequent due to climate change’s effects.

“It is actually possible in many cases, for climate scientists to model to what degree was a particular extreme weather event influenced by climate change,” she said.

Eshelman also echoed the importance of connecting the intensity of storms to climate change.

“TV meteorologists have a tremendous role to play in connecting extreme weather to climate change… local meteorologists really stepping out and trying to do segments that inform the readers about how the frequency of more intense, more extreme weather events is a result of changing climate which is caused by human actions,” he said.

When it comes to the potential for catastrophe, we’re on the clock with climate change. Our perception of this issue has been shaped by the voices we hear, and those voices get selected for us. We need to break down this largely manufactured political disagreement — especially if we’re going to act before the clock runs out.

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Focus

Studying in

Taking your midterm preparation outs

Some of Heneghan’s research surrounds what he calls the “Chicago wilderness.” It includes both open spaces and spaces set aside for biodiversity conservation.

“Chicago wilderness accounts for those landscapes and institutional connections between those organizations for whom conservation is part of their mission, including DePaul,” he said.

PHOTO BY XAVIER ORTEGA

“One essential component of our work has been to increase access to the river,” Frisbie said. “We do this in a number of ways, including our paddling program, our trail-building advocacy, and our large-scale volunteer efforts, including Chicago River Day, our annual cleanup event that will draw 2,000 people to more than 65 locations along the Chicago River system on May 11.”

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With this year’s final set of midterms around the corner, it’s Ella Lee likely students are beginning to get Focus Editor stressed—and looking for ways to cope with it. While naps, ice cream and angrily staring down that study guide for hours on end may work to an extent, the answer to students’ school-induced stress might be right beyond the doors of the library.

“There is a recognition that a short walk in a green space, say before an exam, has been, at least statistically, proven to increase performance,” said Liam Heneghan, an environmental science professor at DePaul. “There are all of these other effects as well: reduction in blood pressure, and even modulating pain and anxiety.”

The advantages of nature exposure described by Heneghan were echoed by Friends of the Chicago River, a local organization dedicated to the conservation of the Chicago River.

“Research has shown that people viewing nature feel more tranquil, peaceful, relaxed and experience improved mental alertness,” said Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River. “A recently released study [done by the National Center for Biotechnology Information] shows how walking or even just sitting in a place that makes one feel connected to nature significantly reduces stress hormone levels.”

The study is loosely based on biophilia, a term coined by E.O. Wilson in 1984 which theorizes that humans have an innate desire to be connected to nature. “[Biophilia] is a set of ideas at the forefront of immolating the relationship between people and the environment,” Heneghan said. “There’s two components: we’re all aware of the ways in which we might be frightful about nature—like fear of spiders or something—but there might be a genetic element to that, like a built in human nature. The inverse of that is this longing for natural places.”

There are numerous benefits of spending more time outside, inclu

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n the sun

side might be the solution to your stress

For cities like Chicago and institutions like DePaul, this research is just getting started. Heneghan says that research into the matter is fairly new in urban areas.

“Over the course of the 20th century, there’s been a little bit of interest in what kind of plants and animals are found in cities, but over the subsequent 20 years— the last generation of research—cities have become extremely interesting to the field,” he said. “Partially because cities are where most people experience nature these days, and for the vast majority of the US, most of the human experience of the natural world is in the constructed environment.”

Heneghan explained that while cities might not have the tropical rainforestlike environments which generally invoke the image of conservation, people might be surprised to learn what they can offer. Chicago is a clear example of just that.

Because the city was built when many of the country’s major prairies were disappearing, he says their remains are still right here.

“Strangely, a lot of the highest quality prairie remnants are maintained within sitting distance of the Loop,” Henneghan said.

The Chicago River offers a unique opportunity for urbanites to connect with the natural world; since it runs straight through the city, it’s hard to miss. Frisbie says a lot of what Friends of the Chicago River does is ensuring the river stays that way.

“Increasing access, improving water quality and allowing wildlife to thrive sets Chicago apart and makes us healthier,” she said. “Healthy rivers are good for everyone – not just economically but physically and emotionally, too...We strongly believe the more people get closer to the river, the more people will understand its value to the community and benefit from that access.”

Given the many green spaces the city has to offer, the experts agreed that there’s no excuse for students to deprive themselves of what the natural world has to offer come spring.

“Even just sitting in the quad is still getting a little bit of [a] nature fix,” Heneghan said.

uding high energy, better focus, Vitamin D and lower levels of stress.

While the quad will always be a college student favorite, the city offers plenty of spaces outdoors to take in the natural sunlight and fresh air. “I like sitting on the quad,” said Haedy Gorostieta, a DePaul sophomore. “But I love going to the conservatories.”

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Though often called concrete jungles, cities like Chicago have more green spaces than often assumed.

Heneghan says that while the green spaces might look like just small patches on a map, they add up to be the size of one of the United States’ smaller national parks.

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PHOTO BY XAVIER ORTEGA

GRAPHICS BY ANNALISA BARANOWSKI

16 | Arts & Life. The DePaulia. April 29, 2019

Arts & Life Chalk the walk

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Local muralist Nate Baranowski completes an "Avengers: Endgame" chalk mural as part of DePaul's Chalk Festival on the Quad.

By Connor McEleney Contributing Writer

An “Avengers: Endgame” chalk art piece on the sidewalk in the Lincoln Park Campus Quad might have caught your eye recently. Last Wednesday, the DePaul Activities Board hosted the DePaul Chalk Festival in the Quad where seven student artists and a professional muralist drew chalk art during the afternoon. Connor Mudd, a sophomore at DePaul and DAB’s head of art and media, held the event. Nate Baranowksi, a local street painter and muralist, drew promotional chalk art for Marvel’s new blockbuster hit “Avengers: Endgame.”

“We’ve got seven students chalking here and one professional artist who is sponsored by Marvel doing Avengers: Endgame art,” Mudd said. “I’ve wanted to do a chalk festival for a while now because I’m from Denver and there’s a big chalk festival there every year. When I had the opportunity to plan events, I thought to get artists from DePaul and have a chalk festival on campus.”

The chalk designs were diverse and unique. One artist drew an abstract piece, another drew a bunny, St. Vincent de Paul was drawn and Baranowski’s “Avengers” chalk piece garnered attention from passing students.

The event was largely Mudd’s idea.

“I reached out to artists, got the space booked and got everything all set,” he said. “We chalked some ads and a few people reached out after seeing them.

Others came through direct messaging on Instagram. We saw portfolios online, liked what they did and then reached out to them.”

Students flowed in and out of the event, drawing chalk art of their own in the designated student chalk zone across from the designated artists.

Nadia Ahmed, a senior graphic design major, chalks up the sidewalk in the Lincoln Park Quad for the Chalk Festival last week.

Off to the side of the event, near the middle of the Quad, sat the Marvel promotional table. Devon Thomas, an intern from Allied Global Marketing and student at DePaul, explained Marvel’s

presence at the festival.

“We do a bunch of events targeting the demographic we’re trying to reach for the movie,” Thomas said. “For “Avengers,” one of the demographics we’re focusing on

is college students, so that’s why we’re at DePaul.”

Marvel was interested in promoting “Endgame” hours before the release of the blockbuster film.

“Marvel Studios actually reached out to us and said they would like to send a table and an artist to chalk in the festival,” Mudd said.

The promotion table was full of Avengers-themed items. There were three different free posters available, Marvel buttons and a raffle for an Avengers lunch box with two free “Endgame” tickets and a t-shirt.

“We’re out here trying to build some buzz for the film,” Thomas said.

But Baranowski and his “Endgame” chalk piece weren’t the only subjects worthy of attention at the festival. Seven student artists showcased their work, too.

Devin Becker is a second-year student and art minor at DePaul, and she was one of the seven artists asked to feature their work at the festival.

“I wanted to see what this was about so I reached out to them and they asked me to send a portfolio,” Becker said. “They approved me and gave me a spot.”

Her design was spatial and line-based, weaving around her sidewalk square with bright colors and curves.

“I basically have all these different shapes that puzzle piece together because that’s something I like to doodle,” Becker said. “I’m gonna write something, but I haven’t decided the overall message yet.

I let that develop as I work on the piece more. That’s the best way I can describe it.”

The DePaul Chalk Festival was a success for all involved. Marvel promoted their film, Mudd’s vision of a campus chalk event was fulfilled and students took advantage of an opportunity to publicize their artwork in a fun, direct way.

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Latinx Arts Festival highlights work in comics

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Ricardo “Naco” Gonzalez, a comic book artist, talks as a special guest on Thursday in the Latinx Cultural Center during SOMOS: Latinx Art Festival.

By Xavier Ortega Photo Editor

This week, the DePaul Latinx Cultural Center and Tepeyac hosted the second annual Latinx Art Festival: SOMOS at the Latinx Cultural Center in O’Connell room 360. The weeklong festival celebrates Latinx arts with a free and open art exhibit featuring works from Latinx artists, photographers, poets and graphic designers with special guests, a poetry slam and arts and crafts.

Monica Haydee Ramos, the Latinx Cultural Center coordinator, was pleased with the amount of students coming to each day of the festival and looks forward to next year.

“This is such a great festival and it is such a pleasure seeing people coming out and supporting local Latinx artists and having a space for Latinx students to talk to one another and hang out,” Ramos said.

“We had some performers cancel on us, but instead of getting discouraged, the students started to do karaoke with the microphones and speakers we had and had a great time.”

On the last day of SOMOS, Ricardo “Naco” Gonzalez and Enrique Reyes came

as special guests and talked about their careers as Latinx comic book artists and gave advice for Latinx students thinking about entering into the comic book industry. Gonzalez and Reyes both work together on their comic book, “La Chamba,” and work with a lot of different organizations across the country to empower Latinx artists and communities with workshops and mural projects, to name a few.

“I was a kid wanting to go into the comic book industry, but I didn’t see a lot of [Latinx] representation in comics which was definitely discouraging,” Gonzalez said. “I then decided to make my own representation by making my own comic book that many Latinx people can relate to.”

Even though SOMOS is over, Tepeyac and the Latinx Cultural Center will still have events for students to participate in. The Latinx Cultural Center is also open for students to come in and study and has information on events, scholarships, Above: Enrique Reyes, a comic book artist, tells students pursuing a comic book career to internships and a place for students to constantly practice, especially if you feel you are not a good artist. Below: Left: Monica connect with Latinx students.

Haydee Ramos, the coordinator of the Latinx Cultural Center, gets her face painted by Lupe Casas. Right: Notebook sketches from Gonzalez .

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Long Shot O'Shea Jackson Jr. steps out of the shadow, into the spotlight

By John Cotter Contributing Writer

When I first came across an image of O’Shea Jackson Jr. on the big screen in the box-office smash “Straight Outta’ Compton,” I couldn’t help but be reminded of evident comparisons to his father, the legendary Ice Cube. But this 28-year-old is so much more than just a shadow of his father’s image. His most recent acting work that is ushering him into the spotlight is his supporting role alongside Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in the upcoming Lionsgate political comedy, “Long Shot.” The film follows Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), a witty journalist whose demeanor undermines his talent in writing, who is hired as a speechwriter for Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), a no-nonsense politician. Fred has a lot of admiration for Charlotte, so much that all of those within their circle can see him blushing from a mile away. Jackson Jr. comes into the story as Fred’s best friend and wingman Lance, who insists that if Fred can put his mind to it and respect himself first, he can win Charlotte over.

The DePaulia spoke with Jackson Jr. about starring in his first wide-release comedy, handling political commentary through comedic manners and the future of his acting endeavours.

Being part of the forefront of “Long Shot” is something that Jackson Jr. was more than ready to take on, with his experience on set matching the tremendous grin he had on his face throughout the interview.

According to Jackson, he was happily surprised by the organized presence that he could feel on set.

“I was surprised by how organized they were. Seth has a team of writers that are looking for the gold in a scene. They are looking for how it can be funnier, they are always two steps ahead. I’ve been on some hellish sets, so I was thankful for how organized it was” he stated.

The mutual coordination that Jackson Jr. expresses is something that came as a shock when learning that much of the film’s comedy was improvisational, a style of comedy that he loves partaking in and would love to continue in the future. The appreciates improvisational comedy and the freedom or range it allows him as a performing artist.

“I don’t like having be so held to the page,” he said. “Sometimes, writers speak in a completely different way than you do; there are words and phrases that you aren’t used to saying all the time. So, it doesn’t seem real. My job is to make it real.

Improvisation allows you to stay in the realm of the story, but also do your own thing! If it’s funny, then it sticks.”

“Long Shot” tackles politics like “Anchorman” tackles broadcasting: by placing the characters in these environments and letting the jokes and satire fly. Lance and Fred are best friends despite their political differences, something that seems to have ruined many friendships in our current political spectrum.

“With a country that tries to divide itself so many times, I think Lance’s character is so important because it shows you how much you can like about a person besides who they vote for,” Jackson Jr. said.

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Charlize Theron and Seth Rogan in "Long Shot" as Secretary of State Charlotte Field and journalist Fred Flarsky.

“That shouldn’t be the endall-be-all. The left and right wing are always going at it so much that they lose sight of what’s important. We can find a balance that’s important if we want to better ourselves and push forward. Or else, we’ll just kill each other trying to get there.”

I could feel the aura of excitement in the room when interviewing Jackson Jr.;he truly felt proud of the work that he put into this film.

With the recent birth of his first daughter, he loves to see her reaction to his face being on the TV screen. “‘Oh my god, Da-Da is on TV. That is cool.’ She got to see me on Ellen, it was great,” he said. “Just to see her face light up. While I am out of town, I know she sees me on TV, and there is nothing cooler than that. I gotta be a cool Da-Da.”

“Long Shot” released in theaters nationwide last weekend, with Jackson Jr. adding to the already impressive cast list of veteran comedians and established actors that contribute to this innovative political comedy.

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O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Lance, Fred's successful best friend and trusted support system.

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HBO's 'Chernobyl' provides harrowing look at history's worst nuclear disaster The aftermath of the explosion in Chernobyl, which eventually became the deadliest nuclear disaster in history.

By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief

When the new season of “Game of Thrones” premiered two Sundays ago, viewers got a glimpse into what looked like a post-apocalyptic world.

It was in fact a trailer for HBO’s new mini-series, “Chernobyl,” which chronicles the deadliest nuclear disaster in the history of the world, its attempted cover-up and the horrifying and unending process of decontaminating the area.

The mini-series, which premieres May 6, begins seconds after the explosion at Reactor 4. The scientists manning the reactor that night scramble to shut the reactor down. No one is sure what happened. A young scientist peers over a railing where the reactor used to be.

“You’re confused,” the commander, Anatoly Dyatlov, tells him when he reports what he saw. “RBMK reactor cores don’t explode. What you’re saying is physically impossible.”

It takes three whole days before anybody acknowledges that the core is gone, all the while spewing higher levels of radiation into the atmosphere than were even conceivable in the naive days of the Manhattan Project.

The worker who peered over the railing didn’t know that by even gazing into the reactor, he had stared into the eyes of Medusa. Rather than turning to stone, his skin began to peel off and he vomited blood until he died minutes later. Such was the fate of untold numbers of scientists, firefighters and hospital workers — untold because the Soviet government’s death total remains at an unbelievable 31.

Families watch the power plant burn in the mid-night from a bridge a few kilometers from the plant. Radioactive ash falls from the sky like deathly snowflakes as the children twirl and gleefully dance in it.

Today it is known as “The Bridge of Death.”

No one who watched from there survived.

It isn’t until the final minutes of the show that we learn what exactly caused the reactor to blow, and in a way, the story of how the reactor failed is the same one that is told time and time again in the fiveepisode series.

It all starts with a powerful Communist in a nice office. He leans on another guy with an office that is not as nice. He then

Above: Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgard as Valery Legasov, the Soviet scientist chosen to investigate the explosion and Boris Shcherbina, the man who led the Soviet commission. Below: Adam Nagatis as a Soviet fire fighter responding to the incident. leans down on a guy who has no office. In other words: Soviet politics at work.

The same politics play out when the Soviet minister of mining conscripts coal miners to do the fatal job of tunneling underneath the reactor to prevent the radiation contaminating the groundwater of all of Western Europe and East Asia.

The minister shows up to the coal fields and meekly tells the crew they’re going to Chernobyl for a special job — it’s not his decision, trust him. It came from the higher-ups. The shift leader asks if the men will be taken care of after the job is done.

The minister just shifts and stares at his feet, but they go anyway.

The neglect of Chernobyl’s first responders — known colloquially as “liquidators” — by the Soviet state is another interwoven theme throughout the series. An estimated 500,000 civilian and military workers were involved in the clean-up. Most of them died silent deaths with no fanfare or honors because the Soviet government wanted to minimize the

political fallout (pun unintended).

They die horrifying deaths, and then their families are told they died for other reasons and they’re not eligible for survivors benefits.

So the story of Chernobyl goes. It’s a

story of Soviet insecurity manifesting itself in the form of countless horrifying deaths.

The series offers a stark glimpse into just how fragile our nuclear power stations can be and how devastating the effects can be when something goes wrong.

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Unpacking the explosive rise of mukbang

By Holyn Thigpen Contributing Writer

In a 43-minute-long video with almost 400,000 views on YouTube, Stephanie Soo sits atop her kitchen stool and devours over 100 spicy dumplings with sprinkles of impassioned commentary—“So hot, so steamy so juicy!”—and straight-tocamera gossip about friends’ douchebag boyfriends of days past. By the end of the video, she has demolished the dumplings and ranted about everything under the sun: a successful mukbang, no doubt.

Soo, who has garnered over 800,000subscribers since the launch of her mukbang YouTube channel two years ago, is but a small peg in YouTube’s most powerful new machine. Mukbangs have taken the platform by storm, with top mukbang videos receiving 20 million views or more and mukbang creators procuring millions of subscribers in mere months. The term is even entering the millennial/gen-z vernacular. Picture this: two teen girls finish off a large pizza by themselves and half-jokingly, halfworriedly determine they just had a “major mukbang.”

The mukbang, which literally translates to “eating broadcast,” originated in South Korea at the start of the last decade with a reality show that followed people around as they ate. Instantly popular, the concept was quickly adapted to an online format, with home-made eating videos popping up across AfreecaTV, a South Korean streaming site. Termed “BJs” or “broadcast jockeys,” these straight-to-camera eaters specialized in one thing and one thing only: consuming enormous, delicious meals in a single sitting. The videos tended to be conversational, with BJs openly expressing the pleasure they derived from their meals and delving into anything on their minds, no topic off limits.

Over the past few years, mukbangs have exploded on an international scale thanks to the infinite outreach of YouTube, with many of today’s most popular mukbang hosts hailing from countries on the other side of the globe from South Korea. This has, in turn, spurred a change in mukbang meal choices, with traditional Korean dishes such as kimchi and dumplings being replaced by delicacies such as McDonald’s burgers and Chickfil-A waffle fries. The age of mukbang globalization is truly upon us.

If you’re wondering why and how a phenomenon so strange has become so untouchable, I don’t blame you. For the novice mukbang viewer, it’s difficult to understand the appeal of watching others zealously stuff themselves to levels that barely seem humanly impossible.

However, several plausible explanations for the mukbang boom have recently been posed.

“In Korea, it’s not common for people to go out to eat by themselves,” saidwriter Simon Stawski, who co-founded the food blog Eat Your Kimchi and has spent years exploring the South Korean food scene.

“For those that can’t eat with others, they’ll more than likely stay home to eat alone, but they’ll still have the urge to socialize while eating, which is what I think mukbangers replicate.”

Another hypothesis from Michael Hurt, director of cultural studies at the Busan University of Foreign Studies, suggests a constant need for technological influence as a prime factor in mukbangs’

IMAGE COURTESY OF ERIK THE ELECTRIC/YOUTUBE

YouTube star Erik the Electric in one of his many mukbang videos featuring popular American fast food items.

"I’ve had viewers and subscribers send me countless emails over the years telling me that my videos have helped them realize that just one day of eating or hours of eating isn’t enough to make them ‘fat’ or overweight and that it’s okay to indulge once in a while."

Erik the Electric

Mukbang YouTube star popularity in South Korea. “Korea is a society of the spectacle,” Hurt said, “and it’s gotten to the point where social interaction can’t happen—an barely be understood—without being mediated in some way.”

The friendly, informal nature of broadcast jockeys brings a feeling of authentic socialization to the solitary viewer. And considering that the “spectacle” Hurt speaks of it just as prevalent in the U.S., it seems likely that a similar social landscape has contributed to mukbangs’ American ascent.

So what’s life like as a broadcast jockey? Receiving ad monetization that pays your bills and allows you to simply eat and speak your mind online sounds good to be true, and that’s because, well— it is. According to Nicholas Perry, creator of the 1.3 million subscriber mukbang channel Nikocado Avocado, the effort required to create high-quality mukbang content is far greater than most would guess.

“It’s a full-time job. I’m the business,” Perry said. Each of his weekly videos requires several grocery store trips, hours of cooking, extensive filming, several days

of editing, and major clean up, though videos he films out at restaurants typically require less work. Already, Perry has had mukbangs all over the world, from one in a Las Vegas buffet restaurant to another on a plane bound for Hawaii. As his platform has grown, he’s broadened his content to attract more viewers, tackling everything from 50 scrambled eggs to an enormous pot of rainbow noodles.

"It's very powerful to have millions of people following your every move to the point where they want to know what you’re doing," Perry said. Keeping viewers on their toes, even if it means crippling stomach aches or some seriously questionable recipes, is just part of the mukbang game. Perry, in fact, admits to suffering from sexual dysfunction as a result of these constant binges. “I started having erection problems,” he said. “It never happened until I started doing mukbangs.”

What’s even more concerning than the health effects of mukbangs on broadcast jockeys is the widespread influence mukbang culture exerts on the eating habits of viewers.

“We would be concerned that watching

a large amount of food being consumed may be triggering to individuals with eating disorders or who are susceptible to developing one, where the eating disorder involves restricting food intake, but also where binge eating is a factor,” said Richard Sly, clinical advisor for the eating disorder organization Beat. Not only are the foods consumed in mukbangs often unhealthy, but broadcast jockeys consume them in excessive and often dangerous quantities.

Even if mukbang creators can indulge week after week with no resulting effects on their health, it doesn’t mean this behavior should be framed as a fun, ongoing indulgence for the millions of viewers who will reap the repercussions of such eating behaviors. With the number of broadcast jockeys on YouTube and elsewhere increasing exponentially, how great an impact could mukbangs have on eating patterns, especially in a country like the U.S. already struggling extensively with obesity and eating disorders?

Others, however, view mukbangs as a positive force in maintaining sustainable diets. “I’ve had viewers and subscribers send me countless emails over the years telling me that my videos have helped them realize that just one day of eating or hours of eating isn’t enough to make them ‘fat’ or overweight and that it’s okay to indulge once in a while,” said mukbang YouTuber Erik the Electric. “Mukbangs and having eating videos have helped me overcome my bouts with undereating— they’ve also helped me be able to be more ‘social’ around food, which is primarily what mukbangs are about.”

It remains to be seen whether the modern-day mukbang will cement itself in a bizarre corner of Internet culture or fizzle out like so many fads before it.

Whether you’re of mukbang fandom or thoroughly disgusted, the best move right now seems to be to sit back, relax, and watch how this online eatery unfolds in the vast realm of global pop culture.

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Smaller acts to look for at Lolla

By Cailey Gleeson Staff Writer

Once you get past the headliners, it seems like all of the acts on the Lollapalooza lineup blur together. Whether it be their positioning on the tires or just over enthusiasm for seeing the likes of Ariana Grande live, many of the smaller acts are often forgotten, which is tragic considering some are better than the headliners themselves.

Even though these smaller bands can be lost in the mix, each year, some break out following their sets at the festival—and end up as headliners in the future. This year, Lolla’s graduating class of break out acts is especially promising.

Beach Bunny If anyone is going to break out following their set at Lolla, it’s Beach Bunny. Their surf-rock sound is the perfect vibe for any occasion and has caught the attention of artists like Remo Drive and PUP—so far. All of their tracks make you want to drive around with the windows down and the music up. It’s only a matter of time before they’re on everyone’s radar.

Men I Trust

Age.Sex.Location

In short, Men I Trust is dream pop’s dream. Their melodic tunes construct a calming atmosphere that most artists within this genre strive to create. At the same time, you can’t help but bounce your head along to each track. Their Coachella set was well-received by both fans and critics alike, so you can expect the same when they hit the stage this August. Plus, they’ve caught the attention of Tyler the Creator—who personally asked them to perform at his Camp Flog Gnaw festival last year.

The Band CAMINO

Everything about Age.Sex.Location is unique. First off, they don’t want to be called a band. Instead, they refer to themselves as a collective of “friends and collaborators.”

It’s impossible to contain their music within one genre because no two songs are alike.

Some of their tunes lean towards electronic while others have indie-folk elements.

Their first EP “ASL 1 Beach House” was born in a 72-hour session that occurred in—you guessed it—a beach house.

The New Respects

The New Respects are truly in a class of their own, composed of twins Lexi and Zandy, their brother Dairus Fitzgerald and their cousin Jasmine Mullen. This Nashvillebased band blend pop and soul— with a hint of rock and roll—to create groovy tunes that you want to listen to on repeat. Their debut album “Before the Sun Goes Down” came out in 2018 but has millions of streams on Spotify. Plus, they’ve been named “10 New Artists You Need to Know” by Rolling Stone and their Lolla set—and probable opening appearance at one of the many after parties—will be what makes them mainstream.

The self-proclaimed “your mom’s favorite band” is about to be everyone’s favorite band. They have a song for just about any mood you could imagine. From “My Thoughts on You” to “Berenstein,” the bops just don’t stop with The Band CAMINO. With their newer releases, they’ve managed to change up their sound while still staying true to their roots. They’re basically Hippo Campus and COIN’s love child and it’s shocking that they aren’t on everyone’s playlists yet.

This summer get one class closer to

graduation!

GRADUATE – ONLINE Ten-Week Session

UNDERGRADUATE – ONLINE Ten-Week Session

June 17th–August 25th CCA 185 Beatles & The Creative Process CCH 367 Leisure, Recreation and Health

CCS 267 Nutrition for a Lifetime DA 200 Data Analytics

June 17th–August 25th LLS 420 Collaboration Effectiveness: Global Leadership

Summer Session I

GRADUATE - IN THE LOOP Ten-Week Session

Summer Session II

Saturdays: 6/22, 7/13, 7/27, 8/3 and 8/17

EA 517 Facilitating Adult Learning

June 17th - July 21st DCM 317 Ethics in the Professions July 22nd - August 25th DCM 319 Creativity and Innovative Thinking CCA 153 The Art of Speechmaking

Check out go.depaul.edu/snlsummer for course descriptions, syllabi and course list.

Watch for these and other cool classes in Autumn Quarter, too!

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what’s FRESH on Netflix

Someone Great

The Perfect Date

Gina Rodriguez, DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow star in this modern romantic comedy that follows a group of friends as they deal with major life changes and officially enter adulthood. Rodriguez carries the film as Jenny, a music journalist who is simultaneously celebrating a huge career accomplishment and coming to terms with the end of her nine-year relationship with her boyfriend, Nate.

Following the success of “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” earlier this year, Netflix once again signed on breakout heartthrob Noah Centineo for the lead role this week. “The Perfect Date” follows Brooks Raddigan, a teen who starts an app in which girls can rent him out for a date and control every aspect of his personality to fit their liking. Essentially, an UberEats order but for your love life.

Instead of relying heavily on Jenny and Nate’s developing love story over the course of a decade, the main events are highlighted through the use of flashbacks as present-day Jenny and her friends move forward in their lives. This keeps the story interesting and fresh but provides enough background to connect you to what Jenny is going through.

In “The Perfect Date,” he’s selfish and often unaware of everyone else in his life as he focuses solely on making enough money off his app to afford Yale. With that said, Centineo brings enough grace to the role and he navigates the balance impressively.

To top it all off, the film is boosted by an all-star soundtrack that includes hits from Lizzo, Lorde and Mitski in case you were worried it didn’t authentically address heartbreak enough. In another, more unrelated development, this was also the first film I have seen in which a character casually Juuls. So in short, “Someone Great” understands what the young people want.

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Opposite him stars Laura Morano in a role that fits her skillset much more than the one in which I was introduced to her originally – in Disney Channel’s “Austin & Ally.” Now, I’m actually rooting for her and her dry sense of humor and fearless individuality comes off authentically in “The Perfect Date.”

While this film hardly breaks ground when it comes to the cinematic arts, it follows the genre conventions of the rom-com enough to feel comfortably familiar, but its use of a modern storyline and young stars keep it from feeling stale.

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In theaters & upcoming films April 17 “Breakthrough” Based on a true story, a 14-year-old boy miracualously comes back to life after a horrible accident.

Stars: Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace

May 3 “The Long Shot" A journalist strikes up an unlikely relationship with the Secretary of State who was once his childhood babysitter.

Stars: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogan

April 19 “The Curse of La Llorona” After ignoring the warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her kids are sucked into something supernatural in their home.

Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz

May 10 “Pokemon Detective Pikachu" A boy discovers a pokemon who longs to be a detective in a world wherein pokemon are collected for battle.

Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith

April 26 “Avengers: Endgame” The universe was left in dissaray after the battle against Thanos.

Now, the Avengers have returned to restore order.

Stars: Brie Larson, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson

May 10 “The Hustle” Two very different con artists team up to take down the men who have wronged them in the past.

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson

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By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

It’s spring in Chicago, which means we all just had the pleasure of suffering through yet another snowstorm on our never-ending trudge toward warm weather. It’s days like these that make me miss the summer weather in New Jersey.

To make matters worse, we’re on the horizon of Midwesterners referring to Lake Michigan as “the beach,” which results in my entire body immediately cringing. Sand next to water does not constitute a beach. With that said, as I battle this fierce bout of homesickness, all of this week’s recommendations come from the same album, “a demo: or, songs about girls and the northeast.”

1. “Spare Some Change”Hammond's Folly It’s not everyday that a young musician refers to himself as a “scumbag/songwriter.” Even less often do artists declare that they have no grand, worldaltering hopes for their music.

Instead, South Jersey native Kyle Harrison, under the stage name Hammond’s Folly, released his first demo with the hope “to make listeners shrug their shoulders and say, ‘meh.’” The lead song feels like it was pulled directly from Greenwich Village’s folk heydey of the ‘60s and feels primed for the soundtrack of a city-set romantic comedy.

“Spare Some Change” will hook you from the first strum of the guitar and you’ll be glad it did.

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2. “But I Can Write A Song" – Hammond's Folly Harrison channels his inner Bo Burnham in “But I Can Write A Song” as he lists a slew of ways in which he could disappoint women over an upbeat piano tune. Importantly, what he may lack in sheer physicality or athletic ability he makes up for generously with his musical skills. Of the whole demo, this is perhaps the song that best captures Harrison’s wit and sense of humor when it comes to word play.

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

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

44. Brown shade

3. “Shore Summer Days" – Hammond's Folly, Dan Ledden Teaming up with one of his best friends from high school, Harrison and guitarist Dan Ledden capture the unique world of the Jersey Shore with “Shore Summer Days.” The chorus begs to be stuck in your head and Ledden’s contributions on guitar add a unique edge to this song, helping it stand apart from the rest. If you’ve never been to the Jersey Shore, you’ll wish you had been. If you have, you’ll wish you never left.

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

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“South Jersey” Hammond's Folly Easily the most personal and powerful track of the bunch, Harrison delves into the life and loss of his dear friend John in the fall of 2016. The heartfelt and at times heavy lyrics contrast wonderfully with the hopeful strumming of acoustic guitars, capturing the complex feelings that develop after experiencing such a tragedy. “A demo: or, songs about girls and the northeast” marks Hammond’s Folly’s first foray into the professional music world and it is as promising a debut as any I’ve seen.

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

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

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

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Wish Field struggles with attendance due to lack of soccer culture

By Bella Michaels Contributing Writer

A late, brilliant goal is blasted into the upright corner net. As the player celebrates his winning goal, his teammates rush over to him one by one and he pauses. He looks over to the sunlit stands, as sweat drips down his face and sees emptiness. He wondered, who was he playing for?

In a field that can hold 1,200 fans, Wish Field struggles to bring in much less than half of that for games.

DePaul men’s basketball season-opener saw 3,710 fans in reported paid attendance.

Many are complaining that the basketball team is struggling to fill the seats at Wintrust Arena, but even in their struggle, they’re bringing in more than Wish Field can even hold.

Chicago is known for its vibrant sports culture. History has shown the strong bond between Chicagoans and their teams—except for when it comes to soccer.

While soccer is growing in the United States, it has been a largely followed sport in Chicago—a multicultural city, full of immigrants that come from countries where soccer is a way of life.

Most support for soccer goes to European teams that Chicagoans follow religiously at local bars like A.J. Hudson’s, The Globe Pub and Fado. These bars are home to Chicago’s most authentic soccer fans. But there isn’t an outpour of support for the local footy teams, like the Chicago Fire.

This lack of support is also reflected in the soccer culture at DePaul.

“I think there is basically no soccer culture here,” DePaul junior defender Max De Bruijne said. “I think the only thing that most people are really focused on is basketball. I love the sport—but from a soccer point of view it’s a little sad.”

De Bruijne was born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands—where soccer is the dominant sport and where some of the world’s top soccer players have been manufactured.

“Back home, everyone plays soccer, and everything is focused on it,” De Bruijne said.

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team in the Netherlands—has an average of 49,711 home game attendance, according to Eredivisie’s 2017/18 season report.

The average home attendance this past season for the Chicago Fire was 14,806, according to Chicago Fire’s all-time attendance table. England’s second-division teams have higher attendance than Chicago’s major league team. Portsmouth FC 2017/18 average attendance was 17,917, according to World Football.

Sasa Labovic, junior defender, believes that things have improved since his father, Dragan Labovic, played soccer at DePaul.

“When my dad played here, the men’s team didn’t even play on campus,” Labovic said. “They had to go to an external park to play on a field back then. But I definitely feel like aside from the athletics of soccer, the student body is not as soccer-oriented as the Chicago area reflects.”

Despite the increase in soccer interest in the city of Chicago, students still aren’t convinced enough to fill up Wish Field.

“I think the part of the lack of soccer culture on campus is that people are obviously not going to show up when you’re

can do it at any level. There were games where Charlie Moore played little or none and it was basically because he never had a stretch where he played consistently well.

He looked like a guy who was so afraid of not making mistakes that he’s afraid to shoot, he’s afraid of getting involved, he just kind of fades out because he doesn’t want to do the wrong thing. That kind of effect really spiraled for him.”

According to Chasen, the uptick in competition level didn’t help Moore either. Per KenPom.com, Kansas played the toughest schedule in the nation last season. Moore’s best game of the season, he exploded for 18 points on 6-for-9 from 3-point land, was on Dec. 18 against South Dakota, a team that checks in with the No. 229th highest KenPom.com ranking in the country. Moore posted a zero in the scoring column while playing at least five minutes on nine occasions and eight of those nine instances were against high-major programs.

In contrast, during Moore’s one season, at California the Golden Bears had the 76th toughest schedule in the nation per KenPom.com. At California, Moore’s scoring output and shooting percentage dipped once the schedule flipped to conference play as well.

But his time at Kansas, and at California, are now in the past. Last week, Stadium college basketball insider Jeff Goodman reported that Moore will return to his hometown of Chicago to play for the DePaul Blue Demons. Moore’s father is battling an illness and he will apply for a family hardship waiver [the justification is that he needed to be closer to home to be with his father] and

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not winning,” men’s soccer coach Mark Plotkin said.

Plotkin played for the Blue Demons from 2006-09 and helped them to four consecutive appearances in the Big East Tournament.

“When I was in school here and we were winning—we did get a ton of students into our games and it was really fun,” he said.

“When we played UCONN—and they were ranked number two in the country—the entire sideline was packed with students and when we beat them, they all sprinted to the field and jumped around with us.”

It is no secret that the Fire and Blue Demons haven’t been winning titles lately, but what happened to passionate, loyal fans?

Are victories the only thing that will bring people to the games?

With the growth of soccer in the country now compared to when Plotkin was in school, he believes the campus’s interest will grow along with the team’s wins.

“So, it’s on us to put a winning product on the field in order to have fans want to come, cause obviously no one wants to support a team that’s losing all the time,” Plotkin said.

When asked what the University could

per a source the expectation is the NCAA will approve his family hardship waiver and he’ll become immediately eligible to play.

“Charlie Moore adds an all-around experienced guard to our program that can shoot and distribute the ball at a high level,” Blue Demon head coach Dave Leitao said in a statement posted on DePaul athletics’ website. “He also brings high-level experience from playing in both the Pac-12 and Big 12 Conferences and his return to his hometown is exciting for our fans and basketball fans in Chicago.”

At 5-foot-11-inches tall with good passing skills, Moore has the look of a point guard. But don’t be fooled, because that isn’t his best position.

“Last summer, when I was talking to [Kansas head coach Bill] Self about Charlie, I think one of the things that I remember he said that stood out was everybody wants to play him at point guard because of his size, but there’s no question that he is a scorer,” Tait said. “That’s his best skill and his first skill and the thing that they were hoping to get out of him the most.”

At least with the Blue Demons, it’s probably a good thing that Moore projects more as a shooting guard than a point guard. The Blue Demons have an excess of point guards on their roster right now. Devin Gage is the veteran returner while Flynn Cameron returns as well with a year of Big East Conference experience and an extended postseason run under his belt.

Former Kansas commit Markese Jacobs is an incoming four-star recruit who will eventually contribute significantly, but is recovering from partially tearing the

do to make soccer more appealing to the nonfans, Plotkin said scheduling, since games are usually weekdays at times when students are in class.

“I think that weekends we could do a better job,” Plotkin said. “If the university promoted it a little more and brought different events down to the field, we can get more support at the games.”

A DePaul student was asked what he thought about DePaul soccer.

“I don’t follow it,” said Nicholas Moreano, a sports journalism major. “I don’t get the feel of its presence here. I think doing more articles and pictures of the team around campus would create more awareness so that I could feel like we do have a soccer culture.”

De Bruijne emphasized the importance of social media to spread the word.

“I think nowadays with social media, posting game day shout-outs will stimulate people to come,” De Bruijne said. “Especially to the freshman that are new on campus because you’re creating a soccer culture for them.”

ACL in his right knee at the end of January.

With John Diener entering the transfer portal, Moore will likely compete for playing time with incumbent shooting guard Jalen Coleman-Lands should Leitao indeed use him at this position. Incoming freshman Oscar Lopez also plays this position and could factor into the playing time divide as well.

With the talent on the roster for next season, Leitao hopes the change of scenery will unlock Moore’s shot again and that he can become a valuable floor spacer for a team that will look to build upon the 38.2 percent 3-point percentage [second in the Big East Conference] they posted in conference play last season.

Irrespective of his struggles at Kansas, Moore was a four-star talent out of high school who was ranked 61st in his class by ESPN.com and 71st by 247sports.com. He contributed immediately during his freshman season at California in a major college basketball conference and was good enough to earn a transfer spot at Kansas which isn’t an easy by any means. The Blue Demons hope the talent will prevail over his past struggles and that he’ll turn things around in Lincoln Park.

“I think with Charlie Moore, if he could just go on the floor and play within himself and just do the things he’s good at doing and not try to do more or try to do too much, I think he could be a really good player,” Tait said.

“I think he’s a really good fit at DePaul.”

To put it more bluntly: “He was horrible at Kansas, but he isn’t a horrible basketball player,” Chasen said.

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Senior day is bittersweet for the Blue Demons

By Joshua Gurevich Asst. Sports Editor

DePaul softball took the field bright and early Saturday morning for the start of a three-game series against Creighton.

Despite being sixth in the Big East conference standings and DePaul being second, Creighton came out firing in the first game, putting five runs on the board in the top of the second inning.

DePaul starting pitcher Krista Dalgarn was not able to finish that inning and was replaced by Natalie Halvorson, who was able to get a fly-out to keep the Blue Jays from inflicting more damage.

The Blue Demons slowly started to come into their own when Kate Polucha got hit by a pitch and Gabby O’Riley reached on an infield single.

Angela Scalzitti was able to manufacture a double that scored both Polucha and O’Riley and cut the deficit to three runs.

The rain began to come down in the third inning and transitioned to small pellets of hail by the fifth.

DePaul once again found themselves trailing by five and tried to make a comeback once again.

With one out recorded in the fifth, Maranda Gutierrez walked and Jessica Cothern ripped a home run to right field, that narrowly missed a window at McCabe Hall, and DePaul closed to a 7-4 deficit.

The Blue Demons continued their rally with walks by Morgan Greenwood and Kate Polucha before O’Riley stepped up for her atbat.

DePaul had just gotten the momentum back in their favor when Creighton pitcher Kiele Miller began to complain that she could not grip the ball properly because of the heavy rain that was coming down and the game was suspended.

The game resumed on Sunday with DePaul looking to change the outcome.

There was no action until the bottom of the seventh inning when Greenwood walked.

Madison Fisher came in to run for her and advanced to third base on a throwing error from Creighton’s third baseman that allowed Polucha to reach second. O’Riley then hit a sacrifice fly into foul territory that scored Fisher and meant DePaul was within two.

That was all they could muster and they lost the first game of the three game series by a score of 7-5.

After the conclusion of the suspended game, the Blue Demons' seniors were honored in what is their last series at Cacciatore Stadium of their career. Brianna Viles, Alysia Rodriguez, Morgan Greenwood and Sabrina Kuchta were all honored.

“I knew it was my last weekend out here so I was just trying to have a good time with my team,” Viles said. “Go all out and really just enjoy the last experience.”

The team fed off of the energy of the senior day ceremony by scoring three runs in both the first and second innings.

In the first, the Blue Demons only manufactured one hit but had two walks and one batter hit by a pitch.

In the second, the bats were the ones doing the damage, as Gutierrez hit a deep home run to left field that scored Viles.

Greenwood then doubled off the top of the outfield fence and was brought home by another double by Polucha.

“I think our team has a lot of drive, we don’t like to lose,” Viles said. “I think this is just gonna fuel us to come out with a fire next weekend and really put it away.”

Creighton had a big hole to come back from and started by getting one run in the top of the fourth inning.

The Blue Demons looked to be set for a five-run win when the Blue Jays came up with the top of the order in the seventh inning.

The first batter took a walk and scored on an

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DePaul junior Madison Fisher slides into second base during DePaul's game agaisnt Creighton at Cacciatore Stadium on Sunday.

RBI double from freshman Kiara Mills.

Two more runners reached base before Kailey Wilson came up to bat. She hit a nodoubt home run to deep center field and the five-run lead became one in a matter of minutes.

Krista Dalgarn came in to relieve Natalie Halvorson and got the two Creighton batters to strikeout and pop out to get DePaul the narrow win by a score of 6-5.

Before the third and final game of the series, DePaul honored the last two Big East champion teams as well as alumni.

The Blue Jays quickly took a 3-0 lead after two innings.

The Blue Demons rallied back in the third on a double by Cothern that scored Erin Andris.

Creighton scored another three runs in the fourth inning on two home runs.

This time Halvorson came in to relieve Dalgarn and was able to get out of the inning.

In the bottom of the sixth inning Greenwood hit a home run to left-center field and DePaul was within four.

Scalzitti scored soon after on a sacrifice fly by Rodriguez to make it a three-run game.

DePaul, however, ended up losing game three 6-4.

“What we talked to them [about] postgame is just making sure we take care of the little things, we didn’t take advantage of certain pitches and let them sort of get the upper hand,” head coach Tracie Adix-Zins said. “We need to learn from it, learn that we need to be a little bit better, and make minor adjustments.”

With over 15 innings of softball in a five-hour stretch, Adix-Zins also spoke on keeping the team ready to go.

“We just gotta take care of our bodies, we got a lot of games this week,so that’s the biggest thing making sure that they get the rest that they need,” Adix-Zins said. ”Hopefully they take advantage of a little bit of rest, and take the mentality that we’ve had this entire season and take that into the last little bit.”

DePaul will travel to Loyola on Tuesday and Illinois in Urbana-Champaign on Wednesday before they finish their last Big East series on the road at the Villanova Wildcats.

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Clousing has been an integral part of the team this year and has contributed to help the team be ready for whatever situation they will have to go through.

“Throughout our adversity as a team this year, when we would talk, our goal in mind was Big East, no matter what we are going to put everything aside,” Clousing explained. “I think this year that prepared everyone, I don’t think it mattered their age, we prepared throughout the season what Big East is going to look like, what we need to do to prepare for it, and what our mindset was going to be once we got there.”

Despite the plethora of injuries that struck the team, they were the number two seed going into the Big East Tournament.

During the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, the Blue Demons advanced with relative ease, beating Creighton and Villanova respectively.

These results pitted DePaul against number one seed Xavier who won 20 straight team matches going into the tournament final and beat down the Blue Demons on their home court in Cincinnati by a score of six to one in conference play.

“Just the mentality of being in the finals, I knew that it was going to be a completely different match,” Clousing said when referring to her conference match at Xavier.

“I knew the conditions were not in my favor. [At Xavier], being outside, I kinda just had the mentality that this is 100% different conditions, it’s hot, it’s outside, so I just went on a clean slate.”

Clousing was the first competitor to finish her singles match in the final and won in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.

Sophomore Marija Jovicic was named the tournament’s most outstanding player, with a record of 5-0 in singles and doubles matches during the weekend. She was also one of the few players who was healthy the entire year.

“I think it was more about the entire team atmosphere during the Big East,” Jovicic said. “During the entire year when we were struggling with injuries, and different adversity, we were talking about that Big East, that moment where we will need to focus and deal with everything that is bothering us.”

Jovicic continued to speak on how they had come together as a team when all things were not going in their favor.

“We got into that mentality from the start, and I could see on everyone’s faces around me, they were so focused, they knew we needed to win,” Jovicic said. “I went with it, I went with that energy and motivation, and I just knew that I had to get my points and the final result was going to be good.”

Coach Mark Ardizzone said he has had teams with major injury problems, but nothing quite like this team. The Blue Demons have used 21 different doubles pairings in their matches so far.

“We have had a couple years at DePaul where we’ve had that, to be honest, when kids are out it forces other kids to step up, to play higher positions or to play with a different doubles partner,” Ardizzone said. “In the long run, we know when we get everyone together that we do have a strength in numbers and we have a good group.”

DePaul will now await the NCAA Tennis Selection Show on Monday, April 29 to determine who they will play in the first round of the tournament.

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Women’s tennis overcome hurdles to win Big East Tournament

By Joshua Gurevich Asst. Sports Editor

The DePaul Women’s tennis team has had a tumultuous season filled with injuries and close calls. The Blue Demons have had stretches where they were unable to have a full team fit to play some of their matches.

It all started in early November, when Serbian freshman Hristina Djokic got hurt at the Notre Dame Invitational.

This event was the start of a whirlwind campaign that included highs and lows

that have been rarely experienced in years past.

Other student athletes that have been injured for multiple matches include Keisha Clousing, Lenka Antonijevic, Alina Kuzmenkova and Milica Tesic.

In conference matches against Marquette and Xavier, the Blue Demons were forced to forfeit the number six singles spot because they did not have a full team at their disposal. In two other nonconference matches against Michigan State and Cleveland State, the team had to forfeit both the number six singles and

three doubles duals.

“I think that actually helps us because when we played Xavier we knew we did not have our lineup at all,” senior captain Keisha Clousing said when speaking on all the injuries throughout the season.

“We knew that at conference we actually never lost to them at full strength, we never even played them at full strength, Clousing said.

“So our biggest strength coming into that match is that they don’t know if that was our different lineup, we knew that we were a lot stronger that when we played

them.”

As a result, this season seemed like a big struggle. The Blue Demons started the season very shaky and only won two matches as a team out of conference out of a possible 11. They quickly began their turnaround and were more than respectable in the Big East by compiling a more than respectable record of 6-2 in the conference. Before the Big East Tournament, the Blue Demons were three games below .500 at 8-11.

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Moore transfering to DePaul from Kansas

By Paul Steeno Senior Basketball Writer

Things don’t always work out.

After a successful freshman season at the University of California where he averaged 12.2 points per game and was among the very best freshmen in the Pac-12 Conference, a coaching change prompted 5-foot-11-inch guard Charlie Moore to seek opportunities elsewhere. He landed with the perennial blue-blood University of Kansas Jayhawks.

To say the change of scenery didn’t work out would be understatement.

As a Jayhawk, Moore averaged 2.9 points per game on 28.6 percent from the field as he struggled to earn meaningful playing opportunities with guys like Devon Dotson, Lagerald Vick, and Quentin Grimes ahead of him on the depth chart. Billed as a shooter, Moore shot just 26.7 percent from 3-point land at Kansas, failing to connect on a 3-point field goal in 69 percent of his games in a Kansas uniform.

“I think confidence and not really feeling PHOTO COURTSEY OF JAMIE SQUIRE | GETTY IMAGES comfortable in a role where you fit was Charlie Moore brings up the ball for Kansas earlier this season.

Moore announced his transfer from Kansas to DePaul on April 22. probably as much of a factor in his [low] 3-point percentages as anything,” Lawrence coupled with a high turnover rate [2.7 “[During] his time at Cal, when he’d Chasen said. “At Kansas, if you make mistakes Journal-World and KUsports.com Kansas turnovers per 40 minutes despite a 19.4 make a mistake they’d take him out of the you aren’t going to play the rest of the game basketball beat writer Matt Tait said. “He got percent usage percentage] and questionable game then they’d have to put him back because Kansas has a ton of McDonald’s Allout there and didn’t really get in the flow very defense at times limited Moore’s playing time in because they didn’t have enough good Americans and five star kids and guys who often.” to 13.1 minutes per game during his stay at players to not give him minutes at the end of The low 3-point shooting percentage Kansas. the day,” 247 Sports Kansas beat writer Scott See MOORE, page 25