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Pilsen proposes historic landmark to slow gentrification

By Gianfranco Ocampo Contributing Writer

Gentrification across Chicago could potentially slow down in the Pilsen neighborhood. On Thursday, May 16, the Chicago Landmarks Commissioners voted unanimously to recommend a proposal to turn a 1.5-mile stretch on 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood into a historic landmark. The plan will now go to City Council’s Zoning Committee.

The yearslong activism to slow down gentrification in the Pilsen community has been aided by both DePaul’s Chair of the Geography Department Winifred Curran and Professor of the Geography department Euan Hague.

“Gentrification has long faced community backlash. One critical element is that there is a lack of respect by developers, investors and new residents from finding a hot new neighborhood,” Hague said. “It’s a disregard of the lives that previous residents have made in the

neighborhood previously. People feel a loss of control over their neighborhood.”

Both professors have been part of this activist movement since the early 2000s by helping the Pilsen Alliance, a social justice organization that fights for public education, affordable housing and government accountability. Curran mentioned that after doing some research in their academic studies on Pilsen, they had discovered useful policy tools that could slow down gentrification. They felt a responsibility to do something about it.

To help the organization, both professors research and provide relevant information to either figure out which buildings are being considered for either renovation or razing or how to combat any movements made to further gentrify the neighborhood.

“I think some of the technical aspects such as zoning laws, historic preservation policy, city ordinances that control urban development were not necessarily

See GENTRIFICATION, page 3

Chicago will remember Emanuel as he was, not as he wants

By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief

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Sydney Johnson, a freshman criminology major, takes a head-first dive down a bouncy slide at DePaul’s Spring Carnival on the Linocoln Park campus. Chicago’s weather has been flirting with signs of spring over the last month, but the sun broke through just in time for Spring Carnival.

Bouncing into spring

States chart own path on protecting immigrants

By Richie Requena Contributing Writer

While President Trump has made a hard-line immigration stance a central focus of his presidency — from threatening to shut the U.S. border with Mexico, to cutting aid to Central American countries to his 2016 campaign comments that Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs, bringing crime” into the country — on the state level, it’s a more uneven picture.

While some states like Alabama enacted tough immigration measures long before Trump came into office, other states like Minnesota, Florida and Illinois have ignored the rhetoric in Washington in favor of bills that enshrine the rights of undocumented immigrants.

Some of the recent legislation has focused on the issue of giving state driver’s licenses to such individuals.

Section 12 of Alabama House Bill 56, which was signed back in 2011,

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states that an officer of the law can check the immigration status of a person if they have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is “an alien or unlawfully present” during an arrest, detention or lawful stop.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and other advocacy groups sued Alabama in federal court over the bill, seeking to have it blocked in 2013. Certain provisions still

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apply, including Section 12, but officers are no longer supposed to arrest someone if it’s only to check their status.

A section of the bill also bans undocumented students from enrolling in public colleges.

Before 2005, each state was allowed

See IMMIGRATION, page 11

Rahm Emanuel walked out of his City Hall for the final time as mayor of Chicago on Friday. The paintings depicting an industrial Chicago that hung on the walls of his fifth-floor office were gone. The room he had occupied for eight years looked barren, cold and empty.

A political heavyweight who ruled the White House as President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, who loomed large in the halls of the House of Representatives as a congressman, Emanuel left office clutching his damaged, but mostly intact legacy.

Throngs of people cheered in the lobby of City Hall as he shook what might be the final hands of his political career (he equivocates when reporters have asked him if he will ever seek elected office again).

Even George Blakemore, the City Hall gadfly who launches into antimachine tirades at board meetings, gave Emanuel a hug and a high-five as a send-off.

Emanuel spent the final weeks of his time as mayor trying to cement his legacy — or at least, his version of it. Reporters questioned him on the most controversial moments of his tenure, like the withholding of the Laquan McDonald shooting video, the decision to close 50 schools in mostly low-income neighborhoods and the spotty use of TIF money.

Emanuel, ever the politician, had a rehearsed, three-part answer for everything. He knew that if he didn’t speak up, his name would always be mentioned in the same breath as his missteps.

I led the charge on police reform, not resisted it, he’d say. The decision to close schools helped communities, not hurt them.

To be fair to Emanuel, he was dealt a pretty bad hand. His predecessor, Mayor Richard M. Daley, left the city with a financial mess that forced Emanuel to raise

See EMANUEL, page 7

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Pilsen has seen the opening of trendy spots that invite people with a higher income, including Pinwheel Records which opened in 2015.

GENTRIFICATION continued from ftont understood,” Hague said. “We’re teachers, we’re educators, so one of the things we always try to do is help people in the neighborhood through the Pilsen Alliance seeking answers to questions.”

Gentrification is the phenomena of a low-income neighborhood that becomes targeted because of the easy renovation of the neighborhood into a high value neighborhood to reap the benefits.

According to both professors, Logan Square, Bucktown, Humboldt Park, Uptown and Bronzeville have become successfully gentrified.

“The location is one of the main reasons it’s such a target. It’s close to public transit, it’s close to highways, it’s relatively close to the Loop,” Curran said in reference to Pilsen. “The current Mexican identify which used to be something that people used to stay away.

Once it became clear that Pilsen wasn’t going to be a Mexican neighborhood, city developers tried to turn it into something to use to their advantage and be a tourist version of a Mexican neighborhood.”

With the growth of gentrification throughout the city, the core experience of gentrification, according to Curran, is displacement. This displacement, to both professors, is interconnected to other factors in the economy.

On April 10, WalletHub published a study on the diversity of U.S cities.

This diversity did not include just cultural diversity but also economic, socioeconomic and household diversity.

Chicago scored seventh overall among large cities.

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In the study, a score of 250 indicated an average result among 501 of the largest cities. Although Chicago scored high in cultural diversity with a score of 39 and socioeconomic diversity with 90, Chicago’s scores in economic and household diversity scored average.

The bulk of the study was reporting only the results found, without an explanation for the “why” in each result.

Curran highlighted a problem in what many of these studies miss in these reports.

“It’s how we rank and what we’re ranking. Obviously, Chicago is a diverse city but it’s not an integrated city,” she said. “You’ve got lots of different people from different backgrounds that live in Chicago, but they’re living with people that look like them. That segregation in of itself hurts the economy; it costs Chicago to be as segregated as it is.”

One argued discrepancy between what WalletHub reported and what missed the underlying issue in Chicago is educational attainment, which received a score of 43.

“Just like with housing, you have a legacy of differential schooling. In the public school system, you have two systems,” Hague said. “In one, you have some of the highest-ranked schools in the North Side and the lowest rated in the South Side. What we’re seeing now in Chicago is the concentration of people in certain neighborhoods that have certain amenities. This group is often called ‘the creative class.’”

Alexandria Corriveau, a resource coordinator in charge of managing the budget from state grants for after school programs at McCormick

Elementary School, felt that score was not representative of the state of education in the Little Village neighborhood.

“I do not see that reflected in our community. Less than 25 percent of residents in Little Village have a college degree. Only half [have] a high school degree. Educational attainment is really low in Little Village,” she said.

“A significant amount of Little Village residents are immigrants, and that really affects educational attainment.”

Corriveau said she thinks it is possible to be optimistic.

“Public schools are funded by property taxes, and when you’re in a low-income neighborhood like Little Village that isn't bringing in a lot of money to education, with grants we’re pouring money into our schools,” she said. “We’re able to provide quality programs that students and families are interested in. It’s a big step in achieving grassroot change that we want to see in the community.”

Hague stressed the importance of awareness of the issues affecting Chicago’s communities with numerous urban problems in his classes.

“Unless you’re aware of this history and study it, you don’t really think about it. Especially for young people,” he said.

“It’s important to remember how our cities and housing markets were like. The legacy of housing discrimination is with us.”

Pilsen’s landmark proposal could potentially transform 850 buildings and numerous murals on 18th street into landmarks, making it one of the city's largest historic districts.

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Parts of Airline Highway is covered with water in New Orleans Sunday, May 12, 2019. New Orleans residents awoke to flooded streets Sunday and the Mississippi Highway Patrol closed part of a highway due to heavy rains that also may have contributed to a freight train derailment.

Potential solutions to urban flooding not attainable for communities that need them most

By Erica Carbajal Contributing Writer

As a child, Michelle Ruiz would often wake up to inches of water in her family’s basement apartment in Pilsen. When a rainy period was coming, they would prepare by moving their belongings off the floor, and often pitched in to repurchase a new sub pump every few years with her aunt, who owned the building.

Climate change can feel distant and far off for Midwesterners, but in Chicago, regular occurrences like this are examples of its effects. Urban flooding is an unequal burden for the South Side, with flooding calls from the city’s South Side making up the majority, according to a recent South Side Weekly report. The potential solutions are not always within reach.

What gives urban flooding its specificity is the cause of the flooding.

Urban flooding occurs in densely populated areas where there is not sufficient drainage area for rainfall, causing the sewer system to become overwhelmed. Water then gets forced back onto streets and into people’s homes. It’s more frequent than large scale flooding, though less visible. It causes expensive, wet problems for populations that often cannot afford an effective fix.

Urban flooding is not a problem that is going away. A recent report from the Environmental Law & Policy Center and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs noted that climate change impacts could increase the frequency of severe rainfall locally. Data from the National Weather Service showed that April brought over six inches of rain to the city, higher than the average, and May has already brought close to four.

Chicago encourages permeable

“Some areas feel the impacts worse than others due to differences in sewer sizes and conditions, development levels, stormwater management facilities and geology. The southeast side of Chicago has a fairly low elevation and as a result, flood waters can reach the basement sooner than in other areas of the city.”

Alison Fore

Public & intergovernmental affairs officer of the MetropolitanWater Reclamation District pavement as a solution and has begun implementing it with the Green Alley Project, an effort with a goal of turning the city’s 1,900 miles of public alleys into sustainable areas that better manage the city’s resources.

Permeable pavement is also encouraged for driveways, parking lots and even streets. This pavement can come in the form of asphalt, concrete or permeable pavers, which all are created porous to allow water to pass through the surface and slowly infiltrate to the underlying soil. This, in combination with existing systems like the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) further reduces stress on the sewer system, preventing flooding and river contamination.

But permeable pavement comes at a cost. The city’s website lists the cost as two to three times greater than regular concrete or asphalt. The typical cost for a conventional driveway is $3,040. That means a permeable driveway could be

upwards of $6,000.

James Creighton, a Champaign resident, was part of the Washington Street West neighborhood steering committee. It was a group that got the city of Champaign to spend millions of dollars to build infrastructure to manage stormwater after residents were fed up and unable to continue paying for home repairs. Creighton grew up in Blue Island, where he remembers his basement flooding multiple times in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Creighton said the options to prevent flooding at the individual level aren’t feasible for most families.

“The only solution is a $15,000 fix.

Dig up the yard, find the drain pipe and have a plumber put on a back flow valve,” he said. “It allows stuff to go out, but won’t allow it back in. The problem is South and West Side folks can’t afford that fix.”

The city’s largest effort on storm water management is (TARP), a system of deep

tunnels and reservoirs that captures and stores combined stormwater and sewage that would otherwise overflow into waterways in rainy weather. The water that TARP captures is eventually pumped to a water reclamation plant to be treated before being put back into waterways.

The system is still being expanded, with more reservoirs set to be complete by 2029. The current capacity that TARP is able to manage is 11 billion gallons.

Allison Fore, public and intergovernmental affairs officer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, said several factors play a role in which areas feel the hardest effects.

“Some areas feel the impacts worse than others due to differences in sewer sizes and conditions, development levels, stormwater management facilities and geology,” she said in an email. “The southeast side of Chicago has a fairly low elevation and as a result, flood waters can reach the basement sooner than in other areas of the city.”

Fore said when TARP is complete, there will be significant differences.

“Our modeling has shown that basement and street flooding will be significantly reduced with the reservoirs online. When TARP is complete, we anticipate increases in biodiversity/ fish species as well as a positive impact to recreation and development along waterways,” she said.

Since TARP was introduced in 1985, it has reduced 85 percent of sewer overflow pollution, but statistics don’t mean much for communities that deal with urban flooding regularly. “…[A] family who owned in Pilsen as well have noted that if they have basements, it would flood under the same conditions,” Ruiz said.

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Pregnant woman slain, baby cut from her womb

By Carolyn Rosseau & Don Babwin Associated Press

A Chicago woman who sold baby clothes to a pregnant woman and lured her back to her house with an offer of more clothing has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling the woman with a cord and cutting the infant from her womb, police said Thursday.

Clarisa Figueroa, 46, apparently wanted to raise another child two years after her adult son died of natural causes, investigators said.

“Words cannot express how disgusting and thoroughly disturbing these allegations are,” Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at a news conference to announce the murder charges against Figueroa and her 24-year-old daughter, Desiree Figueroa. The mother’s boyfriend, 40-year-old Piotr Bobak, was charged with concealment of a homicide.

The charges come three weeks after 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez disappeared and a day after her body was discovered in a garbage can in the backyard of Figueroa’s home on the city’s Southwest Side, about 4 miles from her own home.

According to police, the young woman drove from her high school to Figueroa’s home in response to an offer of free clothes that Figueroa had posted on Facebook.

When she arrived, police said, she was strangled and the baby cut from her body.

A few hours later, Figueroa frantically called 911, claiming that her newborn baby

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A memorial to Marlen Ocha-Lopez at the home where she was murdered in April. was not breathFigueroa in a Faceing. When first rebook group for exsponders arrived, “We plead to God that pectant mothers. the child was blue.

At the same time, They tried to resus- he gives us our child Clarisa Figueroa had citate the infant and started a GoFundMe because that is a blessing campaign for the futransported the boy to a nearby hospi- that my wife left for us” neral of what she said tal, where police was her dying baby, said he remained said Sara Walker, a in grave condition spokeswoman for Yiovanni Lopez Ochoa-Lopez’s family. and was not expectVictim's husband ed to survive.

Police then conPolice did not ducted DNA tests, connect the womwhich showed that an’s disappearance Ochoa-Lopez and her and the 911 call about the baby until May husband, Yiovanni Lopez, were actually his 7, when friends of Ochoa-Lopez directed parents, Walker said. detectives to her social media account, When police arrived to question which showed she had communicated with Figueroa, her daughter told them that her

mother was in the hospital with some kind of leg injury, before adding that she had just delivered a baby, said Brendan Deenihan, deputy chief of detectives.

“She told an extremely odd story,” and officers “kind of knew where this is headed,” Deenihan said.

Police then searched the neighborhood and found Ochoa-Lopez’s car a few blocks away. On Tuesday, they returned with a search warrant, finding cleaning supplies as well as evidence of blood in the hallway and in the bathroom. They later found the body in a trash can behind the house and recovered surveillance video that showed Ochoa-Lopez’s vehicle driving through the neighborhood on the day they believed she was killed, authorities said.

Ochoa-Lopez’s family had been looking for her since her disappearance on April 23, organizing search parties and holding news conferences as they pushed police for updates in the investigation.

Her father, Arnulfo Ochoa, said relatives were grateful to have found her. Now they want justice. The family was also bracing for the baby’s death, while still hoping for a miracle.

“We plead to God that he gives us our child because that is a blessing that my wife left for us,” Yiovanni Lopez told reporters through a Spanish interpreter outside the county morgue where his wife’s body was taken.

The three suspects were scheduled to appear Friday in bond court.

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Students break fast and learn about Ramadan at Interfaith Iftar

By Emma Oxnevad Asst. News Editor

Members of United Muslims Moving Ahead (UMMA) at DePaul participated in an iftar in honor of Ramadan on Tuesday.

UMMA is DePaul’s Muslim student association. Throughout May, they will be holding celebratory events in honor of Ramadan.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. The holiday celebrates the first revelation of the Quran to the Islamic prophet.

The appearance of the crescent moon signals both the beginning and the end of Ramadan.

The observation of Ramadan is recognized as one of the Five Pillars of Islam, rules fundamental to the religion.

A major component of Ramadan is fasting from dawn to sunset. The purpose of the fast is to redirect the body and soul away from worldly activities in order to cleanse the soul. Muslims also abstain from sex and otherwise sinful behavior during this time.

An additional purpose is to teach Muslims better self-control and to increase their empathy for those who are less fortunate. This is done in the hope of inspiring more generosity and charitable behavior.

Those who are menstruating, pregnant, breastfeeding, severely ill or traveling are exempt from the fast.

Those who miss the fast must make up the missed days once they are able.

The pre-fast meal is called the suhoor and the fast is broken at sunset with a meal, or iftar.

Students gathered in the Student Center, eating from a buffet of choices to break the fast.

Students also engaged in a prayer during the festivities. It is customary of iftars to include the Maghrib prayer the fourth of the five main daily prayers.

Following the prayer, the main meal is typically served.

UMMA previously celebrated Ramadan with an interfaith iftar on May 8. Future celebrations include an additional iftar on May 23 and a barbecue in celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, on June 7.

EMANUEL continued from ftont taxes, the bulk of which fell on Chicagoans who needed a higher tax burden like they needed a new addition to the Riverwalk — not at all.

And while the decision to close schools was unpopular, Chicago Public Schools are now graduating more students than when he was elected and test scores have improved. But by shuttering 50 schools in one fell swoop in 2013, mostly in already-neglected neighborhoods on the South and West Sides, Chicagoans felt ignored. Again.

But the one thing that will mar his legacy more than any other is his handling of the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by police officer Jason Van Dyke. For almost a year, Emanuel refused to release the dashcam video showing the now-infamous 16 shots. He said that the matter was under investigation, but was eventually compelled to release it by a Cook County judge.

When the footage was released, it shocked the entire country. People wondered why Emanuel hadn’t just fired Van Dyke immediately. A $5 million

XAVIER ORTEGA| THE DEPAULIA

After an Isha prayer, students break their day long fast and celebrate with a large buffet of food and drinks.

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Students talk to one another before breaking fast.

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Various dishes were prepared for the Interfaith Iftar. Students were able to eat and drink after a day long fast.

settlement the city paid to McDonald’s family before a lawsuit was even filed sparked accusations of a cover-up. In the years between McDonald’s death and Van Dyke’s second-degree murder conviction, it became a rallying cry for activists: “16 shots and a cover-up.”

Emanuel has remained adamant that there was no cover-up. He insists he was just following protocol.

But it’s easy to blame the system, especially when it’s as broken as Chicago’s.

It wasn’t Emanuel’s fault that Van Dyke decided to fire 16 shots at McDonald as his back was turned to him. But it is his fault for not taking a stand right then and there. In his refusal to take action, he became another worn-down cog in a broken machine.

The mayor was so cozy with the corporate players in Chicago that he was not-so-affectionately nicknamed the “CEO of Chicago.” His critics said he was too focused on bringing big business to the Loop, often at the expense of the neighborhoods.

Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot has positioned herself as Emanuel’s opposite. She

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Students pray before they break fast on Thursday for the month of Ramadan. The DePaul United Muslims Moving Ahead hosted an Interfaith Iftar where people of all faiths could come shared the experience of Ramadan.

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Rahm Emanuel bids farewell as he leaves the mayor's office for the final time. says she will focus on people, rather than business, and promises to help neighborhoods that felt left behind in the Emanuel years.

Talk is cheap, especially in Chicago.

Lightfoot got elected with 73 percent of the vote and won all 50 wards in the city, so people like her right now. People are generally optimistic she will deliver the change she promised.

But Chicagoans are a skeptical and unforgiving bunch, mostly because we’ve heard that shtick before. We heard it from Emanuel, from both Daleys, from Jane Byrne, and everything stayed the same or got worse. Lightfoot set the bar high for herself, and if she doesn’t clear it, she could find herself doing an Emanuel-esque PR blitz during her own exit from the fifth floor.

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CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: May 8, 2019- May 14, 2019 LOOP CAMPUS

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

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Richardson Library 2

Holtschneider Performance Center 3

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Assault & Theft

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS MAY 9 1) A graffiti report was filed for markings on the 990 W. Fullerton building.

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MAY 13 MAY 8 4) A theft report was filed for a coat taken from 7) A criminal tresspass warning was issued to the restroom in the DePaul Center.

a person who was threatening harm to a Public Safety officer in the DePaul Center.

MAY 10 2) A theft report was filed for items taken from the circulation desk of the Richardson Library.

MAY 9 5) A drug referral report was filed for a room in MAY 14 8) A graffiti report was filed for markings in a the University Center.

MAY 13 3) A criminal damage to property report was

MAY 10 6) A graffiti report was filed for markings in the

filed for BRG speaker wires being cut in the Holtschneider Performance Center.

restroom in the DePaul Center.

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Students walk past an inflatable slide during the DePaul Spring Carnival on the Lincoln Park Quad.

Spring Carnival brightens up campus The warm weather, bouncy houses and prizes made for a fun afternoon on the Lincoln Park Quad

By Connor McEleney Contributing Writer

Inflatables, games, activities, flowers: DePaul Activities Board’s Spring Carnival on the Quad benefitted from ideal May weather on Wednesday afternoon, May 15, but the event did not pop up out of nowhere. Large outdoor campus events take months of preparation, and Evan Hazlett, DAB’s amusement chair, said he’s worked on the Spring Carnival since last year.

“We thought of this in November. We had to submit proposals and in-depth plans,” said Hazlett, keeping an eye on the event. “This past week, I mean, we spent quite a few hours sorting through things and sorting out logistics. Overall, in-depth planning is about two months.”

DAB’s advisors coordinate with vendors, but when it’s time to set up the event, DAB students take control. The organization is almost entirely studentrun, so major campus events fall under their jurisdiction.

“Once vendors arrive, it’s all volunteers and leadership,” said Maddie Shiparski, president of DAB, in front of inflatable carnival toss games. Some vendors are hands-on with setup; others let students construct everything.

Inside the event, students were given a unique prize for competing in and winning carnival games.

“Did you get three in row? Awesome.

Here’s a flower coupon. Bring that to the blue table for a free flower,” said Connor Mudd, DAB’s chair of Art and Media, directing two girls who made three baskets in a game he was overseeing. “I get to be a carnie for a day.”

Hazlett, operating as the carnival’s main planner, came up with the idea to give winning students a free flower as a change-of-pace reward for completing elementary carnival challenges. DAB must draw students to events. Something must be unique.

“How can we incentivize people to play these games if we don’t have enough volunteers to have one individual at every game?” Hazlett said. “A ton of people have been going through and playing and then coming over and getting a flower if they win.”

The flower prize worked on the nicest spring day Chicago has had in awhile.

The success of outdoor events hinges on weather more than one might think.

“This weather? Perfect. Our other amusement events have either fallen on bad weather days or have been off campus on days where it didn’t quite work out,” Mudd said.

But under bright afternoon sun, the carnival looked just right. Like the chalk event DAB put on weeks ago, Mudd was satisfied with the turnout.

“I’d say this was a phenomenal success,” Mudd said.

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Nicole Coveyou (left) and Anna Russel (right) enjoy the festivities.

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ALL PHOTOS: VINCENT YU | AP CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai is held by security guards at Legislative Council May 11; Pro-democracy lawmaker Gary Fan Kwok-wai is taken for medical treatment after being injured in clash; Wu Chi-Wai is seen from another angle scuffling with guards; Pro-democracy lawmaker Chan Chi-chuen (behind) scuffles with pro-Beijing lawmaker Cheng Wing-shun.

Hong Kong legislature brawl shows deep divisions over extradition law

By Stuart Dantoin Contributing Writer

Legislators on the floor of Hong Kong’s parliament engaged in a violent brawl last week over proposed legislation that would allow China to extradite persons who have broken Chinese law — yet reside in Hong Kong — to the Chinese mainland.

The fighting, which resulted in a few hospitalizations and arrests, was fought over a bill introduced by pro-Beijing members of the legislature, including Carrie Lam, the city’s pro-Beijing chief executive — a role roughly translating to governor.

The debate underscores divisions between pro-China and pro-Democracy camps in the city, one of the most important business and financial hubs in the world.

Though most of the 24-member prodemocracy group supports China’s claim to control Hong Kong, they claim the bill will erode Hong Kong’s right of autonomy in civil affairs. To them, the bill is another tumble in the long slide toward political and economic dominance from Beijing.

And if the autonomy of Hong Kong is eroded, it could scare off international investors, including large banking and financial companies upon which the economy heavily relies.

“Hong Kong has always been valuable to Westerners”, said Tyler Hausen, a former

Salesforce marketing and sales manager who has had significant years of experience working out of Hong Kong in the Chinese market. “China, as a whole, is very intimidating for new companies. But the presence of a sort of ‘Western-esque’ city, with Western business practice and ethics, means it’s attractive to newcomers.”

Some of the conflict between Hong Kong and the mainland stems from differing interpretations of the original treaty of return for Hong Kong in 1997. “[To the West], the treaty of return gave Hong Kong a great deal of autonomy in matters of business and governance, with laws which were almost identical to U.S. laws,” said Dali Yang, senior fellow on Asia at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

“Many in the U.S. saw [China and Hong Kong] as separate, when in reality, China has always had this degree of control over Hong Kong… now, China is enforcing their desires.”

In pushing for the new legislation, authorities specifically cited the case of Chan Tong-kai, who police said killed his pregnant girlfriend in Taipei before traveling back to Hong Kong. Taiwan is concerned Chan’s extradition would put the rights of Taiwanese citizens in jeopardy, as it could be used as a precedent to further erode the rights of their nation, which shares a similar limbo to that of Hong Kong. China’s judicial system is notoriously opaque, and it is routinely accused of

silencing and arresting political opponents as well as zealously using the death penalty.

According to Ben Whitimer, a former expat who lived in Hong Kong for three years, the Chinese government has been cracking down on supporters of autonomy.

The police “work behind the scenes — get people arrested on trumped up ticket charges; or simply have the city council increase rent in a certain area so the original residents can’t stay, and subsidize the costs for residents who vote more in line with Beijing’s wishes… I’ve heard rumors about corrupt cops who routinely beat up prodemocracy supporters in broad daylight,” he said. “The one country-two policies era is at an end.”

Proponents of the bill argue it is needed to put firmer penalties on criminals in Hong Kong, whom, they say, use the lack of a current extradition law to remain at large.

China also wants to tighten what it sees as a porous border between Hong Kong and the city of Shenzhen to the north — one of the largest staging grounds of illicit narcotics in China. Almost all the drugs flowing out of Shenzhen go through Hong Kong, then to other parts of Europe. And once the drugs are in Hong Kong, there is little Chinese law enforcement can do.

Regardless of reasons, Hong Kong and Taiwan may need aid from Western nations to maintain sovereignty. An American fleet protects the Taiwanese straight, though the U.S. does not recognize Taiwan itself.

Taiwan recently legalized gay marriage, an act many pundits claim is an attempt to curry favor with more liberal Western nations, pointing to the fact that support for the gay marriage bill within Taiwan is not very strong.

And the American government has offered no actionable support to Hong Kong. According to the state department, the U.S. desires to ‘uphold the one country, two policies’ mission of China. Western governments simply do not think Hong Kong and Macau are important to their ends. In 1997, Hong Kong and Macau comprised 19 percent of China’s GDP; today, they comprise barely 4 percent.

“Unless Hong Kong and Taiwan can make themselves valuable again to western powers, their days are numbered,” Hausen said. More and more everyday, Hong Kong is no longer the business hub of China, and the city does not competitively distinguish itself from other Chinese cities. According to Yang, the situation’s momentum favors China.

“Historically, the PRC [People’s Republic of China] has controlled the flow of people from the mainland into Hong Kong,” he said. “It is obvious the government of China would be closely interested in the demographics of the city in regards to support for the pro-Chinese parties.”

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Argentina's Macri faces growing discontent amid economic woes

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Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri, is received in Brazil on Feb. 7, 2017. The Argentine peso closed at an all-time low April 26 amid an economic crisis spurred on by inflation and high unemployment.

By Alec Farley Contributing Writer

With the economy in shambles and a $56 billion credit line from the International Monetary Fund, the Argentine peso closed at an all-time low April 26 at 45.95 to the dollar. The volatility of the economy brings various social and humanitarian implications, and President Mauricio Macri is feeling the pressure.

According to the Argentine Social Debt Observatory of the Catholic University of Argentina (ODSA-UCA), almost a third of the population has fallen below the poverty line. This leaves plenty of citizens lacking basic necessities such as food, shelter and access to health care.

Daniel Galleano, a native Argentine from the country’s capital of Buenos Aires now living in Chicago, is able to see from a distance the impact the inflation of the Argentine peso has had on friends and family back home. A family friend of Galleano was diagnosed with breast cancer

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to choose who was eligible for a driver’s license; many states did not ask applicants for proof of legal residency. But that changed when Congress passed the REAL ID act of 2005.

The REAL ID act required states to check the birth certificate and social security numbers of their residents before issuing them a driver’s license.

That hasn’t stopped individual states from passing laws that give undocumented residents licenses. In 1993, before the REAL ID act, Washington’s HB 1444 allowed the state’s DMV to use tax identification numbers or utility bills — rather than a social security number — to prove residency, regardless of immigration status.

Eleven other states and Washington, D.C. have passed similar laws, 10 of them in the past decade.

Minnesota could be the next state to provide driver’s licenses to immigrant residents with the Driver’s License for All Bill introduced in February. The bill would allow residents to prove their residency with forms other than a social security number, such as a tax identification number.

and struggles to afford the medication she needs to survive.

“The price of the medicine is fixed in dollars and is very expensive,” Galleano said. “I give money to her, some people of my family give money to her, but it’s not enough to cover everything.”

Argentina hasn’t seen such economic disparity since the crisis of 2001 when the country defaulted on an $85 billion debt which resulted in the unemployment rate rising to a peak of 22.5 percent and the urban poverty rate to reach a staggering 57.5 percent. Thousands took to the streets in December of that year, rioting and looting; then-President Fernando de la Rúa declared a state of siege.

Today, many concerned and atrisk citizens are also taking to the streets to protest rising poverty and a high unemployment rate that’s being exacerbated by the double-digit inflation.

In response, Macri has been implementing austerity measures by reducing government spending and raising taxes.

A staff member of Minnesota House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler, a Democrat and the lead sponsor of the bill, told The DePaulia it passed in the House because “there is a consensus amongst the majority party that immigrants are important to the state of Minnesota and its growth.”

“Life is very difficult without a driver's license,” the staff member said, citing impediments to getting viable insurance, traveling to and from work and being able to financially support one’s family.

Florida legislators also tried to pass legislation that could give all of their residents access to a driver’s license. The corresponding House and Senate bills both died in committee earlier this month.

Opponents of letting undocumented residents have a license, such as New York Republican Sen. Daphne Jordan, say that it could allow for voter fraud, ID fraud and bank fraud.

But states that do give undocumented residents a license, temporary or permanent, require that the licenses all have distinguishing features such as the words “Not for Identification” or “Federal Limits Apply,” and they are not allowed to be used for voting.

Other opponents say they should not

Carolina Sternberg, chair of DePaul’s Latin American and Latino Studies program and native Argentine, said the current economic woes in Argentina can be traced back to the beginning of Macri’s administration in 2015.

“The budget he had for national research is in critical conditions now,” Sternberg said. “As a consequence of that, we are now experiencing a ‘brain drain’ [in Argentina] and a lot of people are looking for positions as researchers and scholars elsewhere.”

Public education has also been slashed by more than 50 percent, and the central bank has set a 60 percent interest rate, according to Sternberg.

In addition, a lot of jobs and businesses are currently at risk because there simply isn’t a demand to keep up with the supply and there is no stability in the market.

The lack of money in circulation is also a contributing factor.

United States expat Dave Floerky owns two bars in Buenos Aires and said the poor get a license because they are not here legally.

A 2016 Stanford University study examining California bill AB 60, which provides licenses to undocumented immigrants and helps them get insurance coverage, found that the rate of hit-and-run accidents decreased a year after the bill was implemented.

The authors suggested a possible reason for the decline was that undocumented individuals had less reason to flee the scene, as they did not have to fear deportation.

The authors estimated that “not-at-fault drivers avoided out of pocket expenses for car repairs (physical damage) of about $3.5 million.”

Illinois has allowed people to receive temporary licenses without social security numbers since 2013, and now the state is pushing for rights for undocumented residents in other ways.

Of concern to some legislators and advocacy groups are government-funded privatized detention centers used to hold immigrants. Critics say these facilities often do not have adequate resources to care for children and families, and there have been thousands of allegations of abuse levied against many of them.

economy is taking its toll.

“Businesses are closing everywhere as the current economic situation is rough,” he said. “Nobody has any money to spend going out during the week; fortunately for us, they still go out on weekends.”

“We should be able to weather the storm,” he added.

Analysts say the current state of the Argentine economy will be a key issue in the upcoming October presidential elections. While former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was expected to run against Macri, she announced on Saturday that she will instead be a vice presidential candidate alongside her former chief of staff, Alberto Fernández.

In a roughly 13-minute long video posted on social media, Kirchner references anxiety over the ability of Argentines to keep their jobs, the rising cost of living, high taxes and “an obscene financial lottery of astronomical interest rates and borrowed dollars.”

Illinois HB 2040, introduced by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, in February, seeks to ban the use of such facilities in the state.

“Detention centers should not be funded by a private corporation — they’re going to do the bare minimum to keep it running and not care about the people housed inside,” said DePaul senior Luis Roman, who is a member of the Latinx fraternity Lambda Theta Phi. Luisa Sosa, of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which advocated for the bill, said it is imperative for her group to make changes and pass legislation that protects the communities.”

“The current administration continues to throw attacks at our immigrant and refugee communities,” she said.

HB 2040 passed in the Senate on Thursday, May 16, and now moves to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Despite the anti-immigration rhetoric in D.C., Sosa said communities are more engaged than ever at the local level. “[Communities] feel moved by the family separation at the border and deportation [that are] happening every day,” she said.

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Opinions Golden Apple of my eye A love letter to the humanist power of journalism

By Grace Del Vecchio Contributing Writer

Journalism has historically served the public’s desire to be shocked by cultural and global news in order to feel challenged, uncomfortable and passionate.

Since the advent of print, the field has largely been responsible for the facilitation of shared experiences in order to unite unfamiliar communities. Despite this, journalism has been critiqued because of a discrepancy between reporters and their audiences. The cultural significance of journalism has been lost on the public and, conversely, reporters have lost sight of what the public needs to feel engaged.

In Hossein Derakhshan’s Nieman Lab article “The news is dying, but journalism will not — and should not,” media scholar James W. Carey is quoted saying “News both forms and reflects a particular ‘hunger for experience,’ a desire to do away with the epic, heroic and traditional in favor of the unique, original, novel, new — news.”

This “hunger for experience” is what seems to drive the public’s desire for journalism, especially stories that focus on the simultaneously different and common lives of those unknown to the audience.

In the year 2000, reporters for the long-running radio program “This American Life” took shifts at The Golden Apple, a popular Chicago diner. For 24 hours, these reporters strived to fulfill this “hunger for experience” by interviewing each person they encountered in the diner.

The atmosphere of the diner is clear, being revealed in the story as a place of community, warmth and comfort. There are stories of a mother who would tell her kids to return to The Golden Apple when they found themselves lost, regular customers who would come in every day for a cup of coffee, and visitors who simply became entranced by the welcoming ambience. The notion of a diner like this seems timeless, as is clear in the May 2019 release of the original program.

I recently encountered this podcast myself and became immediately interested in this concept of preserving human stories through the lens of media. I visited the diner last week and met a group of young adults there who had decided to come because of the program from “This American Life.”

The group comprised five people and, although not all had fully listened to the program, they revealed that the piece was a large factor in their decision to eat there that night. Two of the girls, Laura and Emily, told me they had listened to the program together and were intrigued by the way in which it reflected a “preservation of the time.” When they listened to the program, they often forgot that the piece took place nearly 20 years before, unless there were references to pagers and fax machines.

While at the diner, I also met two men who had been coming for years. The duo, Chuck and Zane, chuckled to each other when I asked them if they had ever been there before. Zane had been coming to the

The Golden Apple Grill & Breakfast House, located at 2971 N Lincoln Ave., has been running for more than 40 years.

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diner since he moved to the area nearly 10 years prior. Chuck, however, has since moved away but used to visit all the time when he had lived there 25 years ago.

The two had just finished their meals but seemed delighted in speaking to us about their lives and experiences. Throughout the conversation, they spoke about their perceptions of journalism and especially the form that reflects human experience.

Chuck and Zane were skeptical of the current state of journalism but had a positive view toward the kinds of stories in “This American Life.” They said they GRANT HOOVER | THE DEPAULIA believe this particular form of journalism Five diners inspired by the recent "This American Life" re-broadcast to revisit the historic eatery. is especially desirable because there is no bias; it simply serves to “broaden your in the connection between reporters global perspective.” and the public. In debates on whether As the two men pointed out, there has journalists should be covering more policy been much controversy in the field — yet or scandal, there seems to be a lack of people still seem to possess a desire to reporters’ knowledge as to what the public glance into the lives of others unknown needs and wants. If the public thinks to them. This may stem from the that their needs are not being met in the commonality of these stories: No matter media, they are less likely to effectively the time or place, the underlying factor engage. Pieces on human experience aid of the human experience remains. We are this discrepancy in some way by focusing able to find both solace and intrigue in the on the lives of the common person, simply notion that there are people all around the providing an outlet for readers to engage world with experiences just as deep and with communities they would never have rich as ours, despite being vastly different. known about otherwise. Stories on the What the Golden Apple does, however, common lives of people are simple and is provide a place for that shared human will always connect with readers because GRANT HOOVER | THE DEPAULIA experience. the human experience is timeless.

Pete Evangelou, one of the Golden Apple Pete Evangelou, one of the owners Though it takes on different forms, owners. At least one owner is in the featured in the original program, said the aim of journalists should largely be to restaurant at all times of the day. that the diner has remained largely the connect and inform communities so that same since the release of the program their readers are more able to understand strange collection of human existence. in 2000. He said that “people change, and empathize with different types of As human beings, we will always have neighborhoods change” but the diner has people. this insatiable “hunger for experience.” essentially remained the same. The people The Golden Apple is a perfect Our goal as reporters, and as readers, and the neighborhood have evolved as a facilitator for this necessary type of should always be to satisfy this desire. reflection of the time, but the community connection. The reporters from “This Through the lens of human experience that the diner facilitates has endured with American Life” were able to present an stories, maybe we will be able to do so, or this passage of time. array of human life, providing a simple at least come closer to it.

Journalism, as a general field, has been glimpse into the fantastically diverse and under scrutiny because of a discrepancy

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

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Letter to the Editor: "Democracy dies behind closed doors"

By Dick Farkas Professor of political science

Communicating within the university community should not be a hard thing to do. We are a community of thinkers and doers and approach our tasks with an openness and mutual respect that enhances our understanding of difficult and complex things. That’s the idealist’s view. More accurately, it is our goal.

But as learners we occasionally fail.

We neglect the hard-fought lessons of generations past and of robust visionaries that surround us.

When the students I instruct in the political science department decide to study — really study — the nature and potential of democracy, some pretty unsettling things happen. They often discover that those most vociferous about the values and principles of democracy are often those who find it comfortable to ignore and rationalize away those same values and principles.

Our university and its top leadership need to reassess their commitment to open, respectful, transparent decision-

making constructed on a platform of tolerance and transparency. I recently had the occasion to ask Human Relations at DePaul for one basic fact.

No names, no details, just a number. I was interested to learn how often staff have been terminated at the end of their probationary period. The response was that the information requested will be “considered” only on a “need to know basis.” Curious, that those in control of the data have the singular prerogative to decide who has the need to know and when.

The right to know should be the default mechanism in an open and democratic community. Responsible participation requires information, and while there can be credible reasons for withholding very specific information for cause, this must not be the routine or automatic impulse. There needs to be respect for the faculty, students and staff in the community.

To be clear, there is no law that prohibits DePaul from being more transparent. Additionally, there is little

restriction that would prevent DePaul from making its best effort to provide its constituents with the information needed to support or criticize the University.

There is no argument anywhere in the academic world that claims that a respectful, democratic, participatory process of deliberation and/or policymaking is possible when the voices of the community are kept in the dark.

Without access to information, scrutiny is impossible and judgment is relegated to emotion. University administrators need to re-examine and rethink their commitment to partner with the DePaul community in an effort to make things work optimally.

Paranoid leadership undermines confidence, legitimacy and trust.

Whether the request comes from faculty, student journalists, staff or elsewhere, an attempt to insulate our university from constructive criticism by withholding information is an unproductive strategy.

Our university administrators need to make every effort to recognize their roles in validating the claim we make in our

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Dick Farkas, an expert in Eastern European politics, has taught at DePaul for more than 40 years.

classrooms, and beyond that, the best management of people for purpose is to embrace input, voice, participation and criticism from those being managed.

The late Federal Judge and Civil Rights icon Damon Keith reminds us, “Democracy dies behind closed doors.”

The pro-life myth How anti-abortion activists are warping the way we discuss reproductive health

By Emma Oxnevad Assistant News Editor

I’m a huge fan of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” While sometimes hard to stomach, the story and characters immediately spoke to me and I plan on loyally tuning in this summer for its third season.

While I’m looking forward to the newest iteration of the dystopian America built on totalitarian misogyny, I can’t say I’m thrilled to see it reflected in real-life politics.

In 2019, abortion laws have been a major point of contention, with states like Ohio, Georgia and Alabama employing extreme restrictions on access to abortion.

Ohio and Georgia will practice the “heartbeat rule,” in which abortion will be prohibited once a fetus’ heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks into the pregnancy. In Alabama, abortion is now prohibited by law at any stage of pregnancy. Cases of rape or incest will not qualify as exceptions for these laws.

When those who are against abortion label themselves “pro-life,” they claim to be against abortion in order to save the lives of unborn children, demonizing the practice as barbaric and unholy. However, being "pro-life" only appears to go so far.

In the United States, more than 600,000 children experience foster care each year. Of these children, 75 percent of them are working below their grade levels in school and 50 percent will never complete high school. If there are this many disenfranchised, unhappy children living in America, where are all of the prolife pundits advocating on their behalf?

The short answer is because once fetuses grow into poor, underprivileged people, society stops caring about them.

“I do believe with the statement that pro-lifers seem to only care about children before birth. This opinion is quite frankly due to my experiences while living in Appalachia,” said freshman Demi Amodeo, a Georgia native. “Most of the states passing these laws have extremely high poverty and dropout rates due for various reasons. The mothers are mainly blamed according to politics, but no one seems to take into consideration that the mothers that are a result of the failing

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Three women protesting Alabama's new law banning nearly all abortions. The controversial law is the latest in a stream of bills designed to be challenged in court, with the potential to go to the Supreme Court.

welfare system. If lawmakers want to see less abortions, they would put in the funding to provide birth control, sexual education and overall better welfare to those who are underprivileged.”

Amodeo went on to say that the highly conservative population of Georgia leads to a pro-life consensus.

“As a Georgian, I can’t say that the state has ever had reproductive rights,” Amodeo said. “ Even though abortion was ‘legal,’ it was still nearly impossible to get one without parental consent because the state knew that the adults were primarily conservative and agreed with pro-choice.

Those who don’t believe typically leave.”

A common pro-life rebuttal to abortion is adoption: Surely, it’s a reasonable request for a mother to carry a child and then give it to a family who wants it, right? Things are never that simple or universal. While adoption is by no means a bad solution to an unwanted pregnancy, it is not without its pitfalls, a large one being that the mother still must carry out the pregnancy. That includes paying for hospital bills, adapting to the extreme changes brought to one’s body and the physical and emotional labor-no pun intended — of carrying a child for

nine months, only to give it away.

And that’s the point. There is no universal answer for what to do when faced with an unwanted pregnancy. That's what makes the ability to choose so important and what makes these laws so terrifying.

In addition to the hypocrisy of the alleged “pro-life” stance, lets call a spade a spade: These restrictions on abortion will only serve to control and disenfranchise those with female reproductive organs.

Anna Barban, president of DePaul’s branch of WeDignify, a pro-life organization, believes that abortion is damaging in a number of ways and an unfair way of exerting control over others.

“Abortion not only destroys life within the womb but also damages women emotionally, physically and mentally. I believe it is necessary to respect all life, both in and outside of the womb,” Barban said. “I believe life is to be protected from conception through natural death. My stance is founded upon scientific consensus proving that life begins at conception. It is also founded on the principle of human dignity, in that no human has control over another, regardless of their societal status.”

This is a curious perspective, as you rarely ever see pro-choice advocates attempting to force people to get abortions. However, the allegedly morally superior pro-life stance is ripe with judgement and control over the reproductive rights of women.

Additionally, these laws will not put an end to abortion. They will, however, restrict access to safe abortions and increase the likelihood of unsafe procedures.

As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), unsafe abortions are “a procedure for terminating an unintended pregnancy carried out either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment that does not confirm to minimal medical standards, or both.”

Unsafe abortions are the third leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide, according to WHO. So much for wanting to preserve lives.

"We know what this country looked like when abortion was illegal.

Many, many women died,” said Dr. Sherry Nordstrom, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Erie Family Health Center.

"So if you’re ‘pro-life,’ you should care about this. Abortion will not stop because it is illegal, it will just become more dangerous for the most vulnerable women. Because rich women will always have access.”

Pro-choice is not synonymous with pro-abortion. It is not synonymous with irresponsibility, cruelty or a disregard for the lives of others. These new abortion laws, however, encapsulate all three of those adjectives. Simply put, these restrictions to abortion are dangerous and only serve to strip those with female anatomy of their agency and human rights.

While the abortion debate is not likely to end peacefully or in a timely manner, the political powers that be need to let go of their agendas and recognize the humanity of the people whose bodies they are legislating. If you would never get an abortion, that is perfectly fine and it is within your human rights that you are able to make that choice. It is important that people everywhere are able to make that same decision for themselves.

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Focus

Mother’s Day miracl

Lincoln Park goes bananas over newborn gori

The gorilla infant is breastfed by its mother, Rollie. This is the first gorilla born at Lincoln Park Zoo in four years. The last one born, Bella, was mothered by Bahati and fathered by Kwan, who also fathered this o

By Ella Lee Focus Editor

This year’s Mother’s Day was made extra special for Rollie, one of the Lincoln Park Zoo’s western lowland gorillas, by the birth of her second baby on Sunday, May 12. The species is listed as “critically endangered,” making the birth all the more exciting.

The still-unnamed baby was born at exactly 2 a.m., and is estimated to weigh between four and five pounds. Since his birth, he has remained closely snuggled up to Rollie.

“Gorilla infants are very dependent on moms for their care,” said Jill Moyse, the zoo’s curator of primates. “The infant will continue to make critical milestones such as crawling, walking, eating solid foods and playing with others.”

Lots of work goes into preparing for the birth of gorilla infants. Moyse said that once the zoo receives a recommendation to breed gorilla pairs from the Western Lowland Gorilla Species Survival Program (SSP), a female gorilla is taken off her birth control. Zoo attendants must continue to ensure she receives proper nutrition, fluids and

vitamins, and then they start to train maternal behaviors with her.

“Some of the behaviors are to bring an object —‘the baby’— to the mesh so keepers can see it,” Moyse said. “We also desensitize mothers to bottles and presenting certain body parts to the mesh so we can monitor the pregnancy.”

The gestation period for western lowland gorillas is roughly eight and a half months, and Moyse said that gorilla mothers are usually in labor for six to eight hours, though it does vary between females. Once the baby is here, it’s important that the newborn stays close to its family.

“We do not separate mothers and infants from their social group,” she said. “Gorilla groups are family, and they need to be with their social group to feel comfortable and safe. It also allows the juvenile females in the group to learn proper maternal skills from mom.”

While the zoo can’t say for sure whether the newborn will stay at the Lincoln Park Zoo for its whole life, Moyse said it is typical for the male to stay within its family group until it is between 7 and 10 years old. Gorilla transfers for social or breeding purpos-

es are recommended by the SSP. Zoo-goers said they were astonished by the tiny baby and the family’s close attention to it.

“It’s amazing seeing him here, with his family all surrounding him,” said Heather Terry, a mom from Champaign-Urbana on a class field trip with her son and his school. “And of course, the mother—like any good mother— is protecting him, which in this case means hiding him.”

Her son Luke, 8, added that he couldn’t believe “how cute” and “how human” the baby looked at just under a week old.

Other onlookers said they saw the bigger picture when watching the newborn gorilla.

“It’s interesting to see the cycle of life,” said Curt Lundquist, a Chicago resident whose zoo day was inspired by friends visiting from San Francisco.

“The older ones have silver backs, you know, and they’re the kings of their surroundings. That’s one end of the spectrum. This is the other end of the spectrum. It’s a brand-new boy, and so he will grow up to be a silverback one day. We see both ends of the spectrum, and it’s just so cool.”

Western lowland gorillas are “critically endangered species,” lar than 60 percent over the last 20 to 25 years.

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Rollie holds her new baby and is surrounded by her social group. Moyse said gorillas need to stay near their group in and out of captivity in order to feel comfortable and safe.

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Gorillas have distinctive fingerprints like humans do, but they also have unique nose prints.

Gorillas in captivity are often given birth control to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

one.

Adult male gorillas are called “silverbacks,” and in western lowland gorillas, that silver can extend to the rump and thighs.

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So far, the newborn has stayed close to its mother at all times, which Jill Moyse says is typical of gorilla infants.

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Arts & Life

Marble Mania

An inexpensive, entertaining crafting fest

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Students use foam and color dyes to create marble art on Friday from 3pm to 5pm at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center in an event designed to relieve stress.

By Connor McEleney Contributing Writer

The Ray hosted the Messy Marble Art event Friday in a room next to Brownstones. The two-hour event took place in the afternoon, and students created small marble art collages with shaving cream, paper towels, colored food dye and a popsicle stick.

Spray a paper towel sheet with shaving cream, make a square. Drip food dye on the shaving cream, take a popsicle stick, mix the dye and cream, take a blank sheet of paper, press the sheet on the cream, peel the sheet off, scrape the cream off the sheet, let the page dry. No marbles needed.

Each piece looked swirly and colorful – ideal small dorm art.

Natalie Altenburg, an EDGE student and DePaul freshman, came up with the idea.

“I worked at a summer camp for teenagers with autism and there’d be different activities they had,” she said.

“This was one they had us do. I had a lot of fun doing it with them, and the art is up in my dorm room.”

At the beginning of the event, Natalie stood before the room and demonstrated

the simple technique behind the craft. The process was messy, but simple. Shaving cream everywhere with only a small box of paper towels to clean messes.

Stephanie Punda, a DePaul staff member, helped set tables and art supplies beforehand. She explained the purpose of laidback craft events.

“It’s a great do-it-yourself project, but also a stress reliever because school is always hitting hard,” Punda said. “It’s just creating a new opportunity for students.”

Small art events give students a chance to interact and stay involved without playing intramural sports or working out.

In a corner room in the Ray, there were no weights or treadmills – only crafty students and a DIY art activity.

“I know people think of the Ray as just some place to work out, but we do a variety of different activities to speak to students in different ways,” said Sarah Hardin, associate director of campus recreation. “To some students, working out isn’t their thing.”

Like finding your niche at DePaul, the marble art process requires attention, deliberation and creativity. Once the dye and cream are wiped off the sheet paper, a beautiful marble design appears.

Above: Teagan Capek, a junior film and television major, mixes shaving cream around with colored dyes to make marble art. This stress-relieving event was organized by Campus Recreation on Friday at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center.

Above: A few of the student-made art pieces during the Marble Art event held at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center on Friday.

Left: Stephanie Punda, the assistant director of fitness and wellness, uses a wooden stick to mix around a mixture of shaving cream and colored dyes to create marble art.

After you put the dye on the shaving cream and mix it, you press a sheet of paper on top and wipe off the excess shaving cream to get you own artwork.

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DePaul grads prove collaboration is key to filmmaking with festival debut

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Kelly O'Sullivan and Ramona Edith Williams in "Saint Frances." O'Sullivan teamed up with Alex Thompson to ultimatrely tell this story about a version of the female experience.

By MichaelBrzezinski Staff Writer

In film school, every student or future filmmaker plans their ideal dream scenario of how they will move into making and releasing their feature-length debut in the industry. Everyone’s dream scenario is different, but they all usually have to do with telling a personal story that comes from deep within and then making that story a reality with a close crew of people that you know and trust.

After that the dream continues with you then submitting the film into whatever [insert prestigious film festival you want here], it then goes on to receive universal praise and, maybe if you are lucky, a couple of awards.

Most of the time, this dream scenario narrative doesn’t pan out the way you want it to. But in some cases, like that of Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan and their new film “Saint Frances,” sometimes it just seems to all work out that way...or does it?

“Don’t buy into the myth of the overnight success,” said Thompson, director of “Saint Frances.” A Chicagobased production, it held its world premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival, where it went on to win the Audience Award for a narrative feature and the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice.

While it might seem like Thompson and O’Sullivan, who wrote the screenplay for “Saint Frances” and also star in it, are just blowing up, this is something they’ve been working toward for quite some time. For Thompson, it started

"There is no art to tyranny. It’s all in the collaboration. Having your work workshopped with your classmates and then workingshopping their work is so important. It’s always important to make as big mistakes as possible so you can learn as big as possible."

Alex Thompson

Director and star of "Saint Frances" professionally with coming to DePaul’s School of Cinematic Arts for his master’s in Directing, where he worked with Professors James Choi and Raphael Nash.

Choi and Nash would both go on to be key producers for “Saint Frances.” But Thompson’s time at SCA served as an incredible opportunity to build a network of collaborators and make wonderful mistakes.

“There is no art to tyranny. It’s all in the collaboration. Having your work workshopped with you classmates and then working-shopping their work is so important,” Thompson said. “It’s always important to make as big mistakes as possible so you can learn as big as

possible.”

“I was able to make so many huge mistakes at DePaul,” Thompson joked.

This all came in handy when it came down to Thompson and O’Sullivan making the film. The crew was made up of some of Thompson’s closest frequent collaborators and the cast was almost entirely from Chicago-based theaters.

“Even if the film was a first for the both of us, it was easy in a way because that network of trust and collaboration was there,” Thompson said. “This was the easiest film I’ve ever seen made.”

The film is a tender story of the unlikely friendship that forms between a deadbeat nanny and the six-year-old girl she has

to take care of. O’Sullivan’s screenplay is one that tackles specific facets of the female experience, such abortion, selfjudgment and shame, with a rich sense of authenticity and wit.

“The movie is based around trying to destigmatize these parts of women’s existence,” O’Sullivan said. “I hope that people have a good time and they laugh and they leave feeling more empathetic, and that they feel more agency and freedom to talk things that they might feel a certain amount of shame about.”

In light of recent news regarding some states’ decision to ban abortion, O’Sullivan hopes the film will especially draw the audience’s attention to the issue.

“I hope that this film gets in front of people who don’t already align with a prochoice narrative,” O’Sullivan said. “Facts don’t change people’s minds. Emotions change people’s minds, and that’s the power of art.”

It’s this sense of pure heart and rawness that makes “Saint Frances” a standout piece of film —one that really represents a special collaborative and inclusive style of filmmaking for this new generation to embrace.

While “Saint Frances” awaits distribution, it will continue to play the festival circuit with being the opening night film for the Chicago Critics Film Festival and it will soon open in Brooklyn as apart of the wildly popular Rooftop Series.

“I feel very lucky that we’re hitting the market at this time,” Thompson said.

“We’re really hoping for a theatrical release this year, and we’re excited to tell more once we know more.”

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John Wick: Chapter 3­—Parabellum Sensical nonsense in continuation of series

By John Cotter Contributing Writer

There is a scene early on in “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum” that acts as an anecdotal personification of John Wick (Keanu Reeves) in a perfect way: Wick’s trusted criminal doctor patches him up, with the doctor insisting that Wick shoot him not only once, but twice, because no one believes that Wick leaves any room without spilling blood. The best part is this is one of the quieter moments in a cinematic amusement ride that is about as self-aware as it needs to be. “Parabellum” succeeds at being not only a great successor to the idiosyncratic chaos of “John Wick: Chapter 2,” but putting extended clips on the glocks to make for more violence, more bloodshed and yes, more dogs.

As it should, “Parabellum” begins right where the second film left off, with John Wick’s international bounty reaching a staggering $14 million, making every environment a jungle gym of savagery at the hands of John Wick, who we may as well just refer to as Keanu Reeves at this point. Reeves’s portrayal of the bloodhungry “retired” killer is as blunt and meta as the cheesy dialogue sees fit, with Reeves becoming somewhat of a culture icon since the first film’s release back in 2014. Wick is labeled in the killer community as being “excommunicato,” which refers to the religious condemnation of a sinful figure.

This is one of many surprising religious symbols and references, suggesting a sacredness and dedication to the seemingly senseless violence in Wick’s day-to-day life.

Any more of a plot summary than this would be gratuitous, with the cognizant performances, engaging production design, dreamy cinematography, and sheer creative ruthlessness taking center stage. The more plot-heavy scenes are unfortunately integral and necessary so that action-packed scenes can deliver the eye-popping entertainment that they do, but sadly drag the film’s runtime beyond what is requisite. While, yes, these slow moments are necessary, with other action films like the “Transformers” series forgetting that constant noise and explosions becomes pure white noise to the audience, the script gives us little to care about. Let’s be honest: If you’ve made it to the third installment of this series, you’re here for the expertly choreographed action and contextually sensical nonsense, not the monotonous story.

Thankfully, there is so much more to appreciate here from a production viewpoint.

Oscar-nominated cinematographer Dan Lausten makes every bright, colorful light pop as brightly as the blood runs red. While the cinematography is easily one of the standouts of the strictly cinematic side of the film, mostly everything else is serviceable, but not necessarily outstanding, which didn’t diminish my experience but sometimes left me itching for more during the film’s calmer moments.

A certain suspension of disbelief is not only recommended, but deeply intrinsic to enjoying a film of such bizarre stakes like “Parabellum.” At this point, Marvel should just buy the rights to the character of John Wick, because he has the wits and talent of all the Avengers combined. The problem is, Wick fits into no other universe but his

own, with fights occuring in train stations, libraries and hotel lobbies as people pass by these fights as if it is commonplace.

This is a very minute directing decision that immensely pays off.his self-aware universe is all about John Wick, with his ominous nickname “The Boogeyman” taking form as the blink of an eye could end up being the cause of your demise, a demise at the hands of John Wick.

It is so fulfilling to see a third installment of a respected action series define and execute its unique style so well, with the use of experimental subtitles, thwacking sound design and hilarious dramatic irony acting as three ostensibly random ingredients that, when mixed together with the right amount of flare, make for a delicious blend of all things fun, loud and down-right riotous. The use of subtitles to truly let you know when dialogue is meaningful may seem pandering, but the film’s dedication to being so unconventional makes this creative decision all the more amusing.

I couldn’t help but crack a smile during these “important” moments signified by these subtitles that act more as subheads than anything else.

Sound design is usually a feature of a film that goes unnoticed, but that is thankfully not the case here, because the violence is choreographed both visually and sonically. This makes every punch, every gunshot, and every explosive death as gruesome as they can be.

The dramatic irony is yet another factor that will most likely go unnoticed by most audiences;it is just intrinsically a part of Wick’s godlike presence in this distorted universe. Characters fight John Wick because they know how legendary he is, knowing well that they will most likely not make it out alive but dying fulfilled knowing it was by the means of IMAGE COURTESY OF NIKO TAVERNISE John Wick’s revenge.

Keanu Reeves as John Wick in "John Wick Chapter 3 — Parabellum."

There are moments of intense violence that are abruptly halted by a scene of playful dialogue banter, with another one of the series’ staples being the seamless interweaving of comedy and action to create a consistent tone that never feels disturbing or lighthearted. One of the film’s central villains is so dedicated to killing Wick that he comes off as a fanboy meeting his favorite celebrity, which plays perfectly with the tone that the film breathes so effortlessly.

No one blinks an eye when they fight John Wick in “Parabellum,” and if they do, they better have their will already written out. “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum” is such a fun time at the movies that you would be doing yourself a disservice missing out — that is, if you are as into an obscene amount of violent destruction as I am. I found myself enjoying the crowd’s reactions as much as I enjoyed the madness on screen, making this a necessary Friday night viewing at the movies.

With the right mix of well-executed choreography, directing, cinematography, sound design and unadulterated selfawareness, “Parabellum” is about as good of a successor to “Chapter 2” as one could expect, despite some of the film’s slower moments that dwell on a plot that no one really cares about. If you’re buying your tickets to see Wick do what he does best, IMAGE COURTESY OF NIKO TAVERNISE you’re in for a relentlessly good time.

Halle Barry as Sofia in "John Wick Chapter 3 — Parabellum."

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Meditation for mental health

By Keira Wingate Contributing Writer

The mind is a complex thing: it brings a different mood, thought or emotion with every day that passes. It can be hard trying to navigate around it, but becoming mindful can bring that 3D type of dimension into life with more ease and understanding.

Mental disorders account for nearly one-half of the diseases that burden young adults in the United States, according to the Journal of Adolescent Health, which is the official publication of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. The college years represent a developmentally challenging transition to adulthood, and untreated mental illness may have significant impacts on academic success, productivity, substance use and social relationships. Mindfulness meditation has been known to help with mental health — anxiety, stress, depression — and it can be done in many ways. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggested that mindful meditation can help with psychological stresses such as anxiety and depression.

“Meditation — in particular, mindfulness meditation — can be integrated into psychotherapy as a technique to help address anxiety, depression, mood dysregulation and other conditions,” said Orson Morrison, the director of DePaul University Family and Community Services. “It helps by helping people be in the present, to observe instead of judge and allow difficult emotions to

pass instead of escalate. As a psychologist, I find meditation very helpful in being present with my clients while I’m doing psychotherapy.”

Meditation teaches the mind to be present and in the moment — to embrace the feelings that may be surfacing, rather than straying from them.

“I believe I've come to know myself better through meditation,” said DePaul senior Alainna Plut. “It also makes me appreciate life more, and appreciate the ability for myself to feel these intense emotions.”

There is no specific form of meditation that ensures mindfulness. For some, it can mean walking and embracing bright colors in passing, washing the dishes, writing in a journal or simply sitting in silence and focusing on breathing. Meditation is about being aware. It may sound scary to embrace the pain and suffering life causes, but it creates a focus that wasn’t there before.

“Meditation has been extremely helpful just on a day-to-day basis to and being able

SAMF Survival Guide 2019

By Ashley Sanchez Contributing Writer

Many concert goers and avid festival followers will attend Spring Awakening Music Festival for the first time this year, and if this is your first time, let this be your guide to the ins and outs of the 2019 Spring Awakening Music Festival: Fanny packs aren’t just for soccer moms anymore: If you’ll be head-banging to Excision or waving your arms at GRiZ, you’ll want to be hands-free. A great way to achieve this is through fanny packs. The ‘90s fad is back and better than ever with stylish fanny packs around every corner. Festivals are the perfect place to sport this functional and fashionable trend.

Be aware of your phone and/or invest in a phone tracker app: As with any large festival, there are always people on the lookout for unaware concert goers with expensive cell phones to swipe.

Make sure to know where your valuable belongings are and try to leave anything at home that you don’t need.

Bring a sealed water bottle: Water is a hot commodity at music festivals. With overpriced bottled water at every vendor, most people don’t think about bringing a sealed water bottle. The festival allows one sealed plastic water bottle onto the grounds with you. Use this to your advantage and don’t pass out.

Know where your friends are: This may seem like an obvious one, but the Find My Friends app is always a musthave at festivals where you could get separated from your group.

The details: Want to play into the glam of the festival by wearing glitter or gems? Don’t forget some eyelash glue for when your makeup starts to sweat off the sparkles! Don’t forget sunblock to stop you from burning under the heat of the festival and if it’s sunny, bring an extra pair of cheap sunglasses. These are items that people tend forget about but will be thankful you brought along to share.

Last but not least, have fun. Don’t forget that you’re only there for those three days.

Don’t let the heat or rain get to you. For more information on what is allowed and not allowed inside the festival, visit the Spring Awakening Festival Guide page on their website.

to refocus,” said DePaul senior Brian Rhinehart.

W h e n it comes to being mindful, the four noble truths are helpful in trying this form of m e d i t at i o n .

The Buddha’s teachings discuss the four noble truths — the truth of MARLEE CHLYSTEK | THE DEPAULIA suffering, the truth of why you’re suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. In short version it means to embrace, let go, stop and act. Embrace the feelings of joy and pain, let go of the cause, stop and be aware of it, and act in a way that brings more understanding.

“When I started meditating, I found it really difficult initially, because sitting in that silence with myself was a perfect time for my fears and anxiety to come in screaming,” said DePaul senior Lauren McGrath. “I eventually found that I was able to calm down and feel real peace that I haven't felt from doing anything else.”

Becoming mindful will bring more clarity to the things in life that may affect the long list of never-ending emotions. It means noticing things that may have not been visible before, but embracing them will bring acceptance to them. Showing the simplest of pleasures that life has to offer.

“By meditating, I can pay closer attention to the goodness and warmth inside of me that was being clouded by anxious thoughts,” Plut said. “And since realizing that, allows me to see that everybody has an innate goodness inside of them, too.”

Becoming mindful helps to cultivate a deeper meaning and more appreciative awareness of your body and mind. It’s all about using that awareness to further delve into mindful meditation. Take a walk and just simply listen to the wind against the trees. Make your favorite meal and just enjoy that meal — no TV, no music — take each bite with an awareness of flavor and spice. Life will never be a walk in the park, but it couldn’t hurt to do just that.

“I think that it goes beyond just being able to function every day. I think that it goes on a much deeper level,” Rhinehart said. “To understand the bigger questions in life, like who are we? Who am I? Why are we here? What purpose do we serve?

What purpose is there in life? And I think meditation helps you kind of work through those questions and it kind of centers you.

You don’t feel as uncomfortable about some of the unknowns. It kind of just starts to put some of the pieces together, and I think it’s a beautiful thing.”

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'Booksmart'

A teen comedy that breaks from tradition IMAGE COURTESY OF FRANCOIS DUHAMEL / ANNAPURNA PICTURES

Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Denver in "Booksmart," a new comedy about two straight-laced highschool students determined to take some risks before college.

“Olivia created an environment that watching “Booksmart,” it really does not “But for me, the best films that I’ve been

By Michael Brzezinski was very loving and easy and everyone take long before you realize you are in the a part of are films that no one had large Staff Writer had the best time,” Dever said. presence of a very special film with a really expectations with. I think that’s what With summer movie season kicking “Director’s don’t go on other directors’ singular heart to it. If the way it’s been made [“Booksmart”] so good. People went into full gear with the likes of the Avengers, sets, but actors go on everyone’s sets, so playing with festival crowds and critic in having so much passion for the story.”

Godzilla, John Wick, Pikachu and Elton that’s why actors make the best directors,” circles is any indication, “Booksmart” is “We also just want people to call their John, it becomes frighteningly simple to Feldstein said. “They can go, ‘I’m gonna destined to be a modern teen classic. friends after they see this movie,” Feldstein overlook the smaller, more personal films take this from this person, I’m not gonna “With movies, you never know what added. that audiences can be graced with at the take this from this person’ and then they the outcome is going to be,” Dever said. theater. Films that bring the scale down create their dream set and that’s what to a human level and treat audiences to Olivia always wanted to do.” escapist poignancy and relatability. Films This heart and passion 100 percent like Olivia Wilde’s fresh and gut-bustingly shows through in the film. Underneath hilarious debut feature “Booksmart.” the smooth surface layer of style, raunch “Booksmart” tells the story of two and belly laughs is a very nuanced and high school seniors, Amy and Molly, who rich emotional core. One that actively on the eve of their graduation decide to works with everyone in audience for a play against the rules that they have stuck little inner reflection. so closely to for their entire grade school “There’s so much you can take away career in order to live out one crazy night [from “Booksmart],” Dever said. “I think that they never allowed themselves to the film asks the audience to maybe look have. at the world [a] little differently and place That might sound like something you less judgement on people that you judge have seen before, but let me assure you before.” that “Booksmart” is one of the most lively “This opens you up to see people and outwardly audacious and cinematic more clearly for who they actually are offerings from the teen comedy genre versus who you sort of expect them to be,” we have ever seen. This is due of course Feldstein said. to the amazing direction from Wilde and Subversion and surprises are important the unbelievable charisma and chemistry in any film, but especially within one that of the film’s two up-and-coming leads, belongs to such an iconic and popular Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein. subgenre as the teen comedy. When

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Olivia Wilde on set of her directorial debut "Booksmart."

Wei Tang and Yongzhong Chen in "Long Day's Journey into Night."

* This play is not endorsed by Phil Spector or the Ramones. It is a fictionalized account inspired by a true-life event. Parental Advisory: Strong Language

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Mental health on the silver screen Menenzes having a unique and broadened perspective on this issue in relation t o

By John Cotter Contributing Writer

From the exaggerated insanity of figures like Jack Torrance in “The Shining,” to the consuming narcissism of Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver,” the entertainment and media industries have had massive stakes in contributing to the stigma of mental illness in society through their m i s re pre s e nt at i on of it in films, with this having real-world consequences that are hard to notice at first glance. This stigma is one that is ever-evolving, especially through media, and can only be dwindled through responsible representations of mental illness by utilizing honesty, ethics and confidence in their execution. Thankfully, we have seen a plethora of accurate depictions of mental illness in Hollywood with films like “Eighth Grade,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and even Disney’s “Inside Out,” that educate audiences young and old on the normality of mental illnesses and their looming presence in many Americans’ lives.

The stigma of mental illness and its cause-effect relationship with media is one that acute media consumers like DePaul senior and communication and media major Marty O’Connell are aware of.

“The stigma has started to vanish over the past decade. Society has come around on this idea of mental health and mental illness being a treatable thing now,” he

stated.

DePaul junior Halle Wagner is also aware of the responsibility that the entertainment industry has in informing audiences on such integral and intrinsic topics, with films such as “Silver Linings Playbook” contributing positively to the correction of these destructive stigmas.

“You can tell that these characters are struggling and are trying to get help; the film doesn’t ‘other’ them,” Wagner said.

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“The U.S is very understanding when it comes to mental health, but other countries are much more judgemental,” Menenzes said. “A family member of mine has minor schizophrenia.

People thought she was insane, but she got medicated and she is doing so much better.”

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has a crucial role in the stigmatization and glorification of mental illnesses such as depression.

“Social media adds to this stigma in the ways of being an attention-seeking thing in which people take advantage of words like ‘depression.’ It desensitizes it,” she said.

Seeing cinema, and even social media, having such an innate role in society’s understanding of what mental illness is goes to show how significant of a role media stakeholders have in producing ethical content, with media like Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” leaving some viewers dissatisfied with the irresponsible ways that it deals with such congenital and widespread issues. Halle, Marty and Damita all gave this as a prime example of unethical treatment of mental health in media, with Halle having some choice words for the repercussions of the show’s depictions.

“It seems like the show is telling audiences that you can kill yourself if you are angry at your friends. It shows Hannah’s suicide as revenge for people being mean to her,” she stated.

Even though it is apparent that the entertainment industry is taking steps toward creating representative and ethical content surrounding mental illness, it is clear that this is a stigma that can only be diminished through more accurate portrayals and widened perspectives that remind those with mental illnesses that they are not alone; that there is content out there that can not only empathize, but sympathize with their struggles.

Arizona Baby A ground-breaking album from an artist in a category all his own

By Cole Bursch Contributing Writer

“Arizona Baby,” the new album by Kevin Abstract, brings forward a personal collection of songs reminiscing on memories of the past and the prospect of a better future. Kevin Abstract has been around for years as a main member of the hip-hop group Brockhampton along with his own previous solo projects, MTV1987, Death of a Supermodel and American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story. Born Clifford Ian Simpson, Kevin Abstract is not your average rapper and singer. Not only can he shift between different flows and Frank Ocean-esque crooning; he also bravely puts his own emotions and personal life at the forefront of his music and lyrics.

“Big Wheels,” the first track on “Arizona Baby,” is an exuberant burst into the album that exemplifies all of Simpson’s lyrical and vocal talents. The track runs just under two minutes and features an intense beat in the background of Simpson’s quick flow that transitions mid-song to a few bars of singing. The constant transitions from singing to rapping throughout the album bring forward an intriguing contrast that puts an emphasis on the choruses and verses. This allows the listener to get the best of both worlds of Simpson’s talents and also focus on the lyrics, which remain one of

the binding factors of this album. Another track that utilizes the contrast of singing and rapping skills is “Corpus Christi”, the city he was born in, where he weaves in and out of a rap about his personal life with a chorus of “if you wake up feeling more lonely than you felt yesterday, the more you gotta let me go then.”

“Arizona Baby” is filled with personal lyrical accounts of the childhood and high school memories of Simpson, who had turbulent experiences in childhood before his music career. In a rap community that is at times filled with homophobic lyrics, Kevin openly raps and sings about who he is and what he has been through. On “American Problem” he reminisces about a previous relationship that didn’t work out and the coping mechanisms he uses to forget the pain. However, he transitions from an off-kilter flow to bars about the struggles of being gay at his high school, where his principal would discriminate against him, ending the song with the lyrics, “I am just another American problem.”

The two songs on the album that stick out as possible fan favorites are “Peach” and “Georgia,” which are filled catchy choruses and deep introspective bars. “Georgia” is a future summer anthem about finding your people and your home. Simpson ran away from home in Texas at 15 and went

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The album cover of "Arizona Baby" from Kevin Abstract. to eventually live with his sister in Georgia, and he sings “call my mom and let her know everything is alright.” The next song that will be on repeat for any potential listeners is “Peach,” a song about love and all its complications. The song intertwines a beautiful chorus of “If you left your love I’d be right” followed with bars on the journey that a relationship can be.

The only part of “Arizona Baby” that was difficult to listen to was the last song, “Boyer,” which lacked direction and didn’t satisfy the listener in an otherwise

exceptional album. Another criticism of the album is the potential for a more connected narrative that would tie concepts and songs more clearly together into one coherent vision. However, the album overall gives the listener a whirlwind of emotions through thought-provoking lyrics that are all spun on catchy and loveable beats.

“Arizona Baby” is a masterful combination of rapping and singing to deliver honest stories about loss, love, discrimination and life as an American teen who doesn’t fit the mold that society projects onto them.

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what’s FRESH on HBO: Series Finale Edition

Veep

Game of Thrones

"Veep," the highly decorated political satire has finally come to an end. And in line with its trademark cynicism, it ended on a dark note.

The DePaulia’s office has been rife with heated spoiler-laden conversations about whether “Game of Thrones” is making its exit as the best show of all time or a blistering dumpster fire of careless characterization and pathetically poor pacing.

The final season chronicles Selina Meyer, played by a Julie Louis-Dreyfus at the top of her game, and her attempt to regain the presidency. And this time, she wants to get elected, and not assume the office as just the next shmuck in the line of succession.

Selina travels the country glad-handing voters and engaging in some light treason. Their mockery of the intelligence of voters is brutal, but its political criticisms are still on point.

The colorful and foul-mouthed characters that make "Veep" so laugh-outloud funny are better than they've ever been. It's an unrelenting barrage of pure comedy, and the world is worse now that it is over for good.

We all agree though that there are real complaints, particularly when it comes to the treatment of the female characters of Westeros. Still, an element of the saga at its best is the frequent subversion of typical dramatic story structure by emphasizing the "long-view" of this fantasy world's history.

George R.R. Martin’s story excels when it details epic and shocking battles, assassinations and triumphs. But where traditional stories would end, “Game of Thrones” keeps the tale going. What comes after the big-bad villain is defeated? When the hero of our story finally sits on the throne, do they actually rule wisely?

But if you have an aversion to profanity, find another show to watch.

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With “Game of Thrones” at its end now, we know that regardless of how this particular story ends, the world of Westeros will keep spinning. Plots, fights and fools will continue on in the song of ice and fire.

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In theaters & upcoming films May 17 “John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" Hitman John Wick is on the run after killing a member of an international assasins guild.

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry

May 24 “Booksmart" Two straight-laced highschool students try to make up for lost experiences before heading off to college.

Stars: Kaitlyn Denver, Beanie Feldstein

May 17 “The Sun is Also a Star" Two teens fall in love as they both deal with the looming deportation of the girl's family.

Stars: Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton

May 31 “Godzilla: King of the Monsters" Humans face off against a group of God-sized monsters including the infamous Godzilla.

Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Lexi Rabe

May 24 “Aladdin” A live-action remake of the classic tale of a boy searching for fortune, crossing paths with a genie along the way.w Stars: Naomi Scott, Will Smith, Billy Magnussen

May 31 “Rocketman" An imaginative look at Elton John's meteoric rise throughout the years.

Stars: Richard Madden, Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard

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By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief

Playboi Carti exists almost exclusively on the internet.

He became one of the first socalled “Soundcloud rappers” to burst into the mainstream consciousness. But unfortunately for Carti, and fortunately for his fans, his music is plagued by constant leaks. New music somehow finds its way onto Twitter or Soundcloud, where fans fawn over it until it is taken down within days. Because they are fleeting and elusive, Playboi Carti leaks have always had more of an appeal than his studio albums have. They’re like collector’s items: rare, but valuable. So here are the best of Playboi Carti’s leaks.

1. “Cancun/My Stummy Hurt" - Playboi Carti This one became a meme because of the final seconds of the clip, which are, to say the least, absolutely iconic. Carti has a wad full of 100-dollarbills, rubbing them on his belly while repeating words that have become canon in the Cartiverse: “My stummy hurt.”

Does his stummy hurt because of the hundreds? Is he rubbing the hundreds on his stummy to stop it from hurting? At the time of publication, it remains unclear. The 50-second song’s accompanying video appears to have been impromptuly shot in a parking garage. The British rapper Skepta is listed as a feature on the song, but you never hear

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him. You just see him walking around the garage smoking a blunt, presumably medicinal to stop his stummy from hurting.

2. “Kid Cudi" - Playboi Carti This is classic indecipherable Carti, but the only thing I personally can make it out where he says “smoke dope like I’m Kid Cudi.” So I guess that’s the only thing the Lord wanted us to know. The beat is a fresh take on the classic Carti sound.

There’s no word on whether or not it’s produced by longtime collaborator Pierre Bourne, but it sure sounds like it. There’s this fluffy, cosmic synthesizer that makes you feel like you’re floating through the universe, shepherded by Carti’s delightful adlibs.

Across 1. Groundwork 6. Churchill’s symbol of triumph 11. Chesapeake in Maryland 14. Without substance 15. Place for the highborn?

16. Finished food 17. Financing 19. Words starting many park signs 20. Pauline’s woes 21. Stew server 23. Like fillets 26. Aquamarines and emeralds 27. Makes joyful 28. Bygone Toyota model 30. Charged atoms 31. Lapwing 32. Mentalist’s claim 35. Luxury hotel feature 36. Small upright pianos 38. Sticky stuff

3. “EARFQUAKE" - Tyler, The Creator ft. Playboi Carti This one was a leak — until it wasn’t. People uploaded a snippet of Carti’s verse from this song off Tyler, The Creator’s new album a couple weeks ago, but “IGOR” officially dropped on Thursday night, so a leak turns into The verse is only 20 seconds long, but it pretty much puts the whole album on its back and carries it, because the rest sucks. Tyler, The Creator has never been shy about his love of Playboi Carti’s music, expressing admiration for him a number of times on Twitter. So Carti’s verse feels like it was just shoved into the song because Tyler felt like it.

39. Royal flush necessity 40. Elbow to the ribs, perhaps 41. Fever and shivers 42. If everything goes right 44. Most congenial 46. Mix of two songs into one 48. Noisy insects 49. Printing press part 50. Produced, as a play 52. What one dots?

53. Ostracisms 58. “Fat ___ and Little Boy” (1989) 59. Not for minors 60. Like some Pennsylvania buggy drivers 61. “__ no use” 62. To the manor born 63. Maiden of mythology Down

4. “Whole Lotta Red" Playboi Carti This is one of the leaks that started it all. The phrase “Whole Lotta Red” has since become synonymous with Carti, even though I still don’t have a clue what it means. Something to do with drugs? Maybe. Could it be something related to committing crimes? Most likely. This leak embodies everything that makes Carti great — his melodic, freewheeling lyrics create the atmosphere that people have come to love about his music.

It’s always been less about lyrical content and more about creating a sense of place. Fluidity and a cohesive sound are Carti’s bread and butter.

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25. Slippery peels 26. Londoner 28. Guiding principle 29. Fancy washstand vessel 31. Sloppy critters 33. Big name in

marches 34. Erato is their Muse 36. Beyond the city limits 37. Type of school 41. West Point or Annapolis 43. Fill in ___ blank 44. Near in time or place 45. Pat of an O’Neill title 46. Florida city 47. Small Highland village 48. Society division 50. Give the cold shoulder 51. Cashier’s responsibility 54. Ruckus 55. Mathstickremoving game 56. One-sixth of a fl. oz.

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Standout freshman seeks to carry success into NCAA Regional

By Evan Sully Staff Writer

When Henry Larkin first came to DePaul from Oakland, California, to be on the track and field team under head coach Dave Dopek, he had no idea how well he would perform in his first season in a completely new environment.

The freshman sprinter won all six of his 400-meter races this season, including his time of 47.67 seconds at the Big East Outdoor Conference Championships from May 11-12 in Randall’s Island, New York. Larkin, alongside Brendan van Voorhis and Isaac Walker, qualified for the finals at the conference tournament.

Not to mention, Larkin was a part of both the 4x100-meter dash and 4x400meter relay races that edged Georgetown and Villanova to earn gold at the league competition. As a result, Larkin will represent DePaul at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Championships in Sacramento, California, from May 23-25.

“It’s been pretty incredible,” Larkin said regarding his early success. “It’s a special kind of feeling. When you finish those races and you have those kind of times, those kind of [personal records], it’s hard to describe how special it feels.”

On the second and final day of the Lenny Lyles/Clark Wood Invitational that Louisville hosted on April 27, Larkin set a 46.46 personal record in a 400-meter dash that was good for gold. His time tied the current record that was set by Dopek, the greatest sprinter in DePaul, when he ran track for the Blue Demons.

“I was probably more excited than he was when he tied my school record at that Louisville meet because I’ve been waiting for that for a very long time, and I’ve had a lot of people that had the ability to do so and for one reason or another didn’t,” Dopek said. “So, it was nice to see him believe in not only himself and in the training but also in the race tactics that I was giving him.”

Larkin credits Dopek’s system for a lot of his success as a freshman. Dopek spoke about rest and recovery; his system is less about the actual training methodology and has more to do with his athletes trying to prepare themselves Monday through Friday to have the best opportunity to take advantage of their competition come Saturday.

“It’s intense, but Dopek’s personality or his presence is pretty perfect as a coach,” Larkin said. “He’s just nice enough that you feel comfortable around him but he’s not like your friend. He’s still your coach pretty much, but his training system does a really good job of keeping us conditioned throughout the preseason.”

Track, though, has not always been Larkin’s main sport. Larkin grew up playing soccer from kindergarten through the eighth grade before his mother recommended that he try track because he was not a particularly great soccer player.

“I was terrible at it,” Larkin said. “I was fast, but I couldn’t dribble, couldn’t shoot very accurately. I was pretty bad; I got crossed up a lot.”

His mother’s side of the family is relatively big on track. Larkin’s grandfather professionally ran the 800-meter, and one of uncles ran collegiate track at Louisiana State University. Another of Larkin’s

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DePaul freshman Henry Larkin crosses the finish line in first place in the 4x400-meter relay race last week in Randell Island, N.Y.

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DePaul freshman Henry Larkin runs in the 4x100-dash last week in Randell Island, N.Y. Larkin will race in the NCAA West Preliminaries this week in Sacramento, California. uncles made the U.S. Olympics roster in 1980 but did not participate in the Olympic Games in Moscow because the U.S. led a boycott of the event.

Arguably the most prominent characteristic that Larkin brings to the table is his ability to remain focused

under pressure. Dopek believes that Larkin has a good head on his shoulders with solid goals while also understanding that track is a year-by-year process.

“Probably the biggest thing about Henry is his mindset,” Dopek said.

“His mindset is more mature than most

quarter-milers that I’ve worked with in terms of having a real understanding for work, rest, attention to detail, which is really important when you’re out there running a race that has just a little bit of strategy to it.”

Being from the West Coast, Larkin hadn’t really heard much about DePaul before assistant coach Stephanie Townson emailed him in high school. But as soon as Larkin visited DePaul to see what being a student athlete in Lincoln Park would be like, he immediately felt comfortable.

“It was definitely a mix of different factors,” Larkin said. “Obviously, I spent a lot of time with the athletes on my visit here, but just walking around the campus and visiting the classrooms and sitting in on classes, I could just tell this place could feel like another home for me. I like living in big cities. I’ve always lived in cities, so Chicago felt perfect. My parents have lived here before, so they loved it.

And then on my orientation visit I met a bunch of kids who weren’t athletes and I’m still friends with a lot of them, so DePaul was a pretty perfect fit for me.”

With three years left in his DePaul tenure, Larkin said there’s many things he can improve on, such as getting more sleep and finding a better balance between academics and athletics. Larkin is double majoring in political science with a concentration in international politics and philosophy.

“Philosophy’s more of my bag. I really, really like that stuff,” Larkin said.

“It’s fun, but political science has always been something that I’m good at and always been something I’ve enjoyed, so I couldn’t really [choose] between the two, so I decided both.”

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College helps prepare Millender for professional career

By Evan Sully Staff Writer

Ashton Millender’s tenure playing college basketball at DePaul might have come to an end on March 23 in a heartbreaking NCAA Tournament loss against Missouri State, but her professional career is just getting started.

Standing at 5-feet-8-inches, the fifthyear senior guard from Glenwood, Illinois signed a training camp contract with the Chicago Sky, the local WNBA franchise that plays at Wintrust Arena, on May 4.

Millender was one of 18 players invited but wound up being the third invitee to get waived on May 12. The Sky’s move to cut Millender came just one day after Gabby Williams, fresh off a Euro Cup Championship title with Spain-based Girona, arrived at camp. This also came four days after the Sky waived forwards Leslie Robinson and Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah, who were on training camp contracts.

Perhaps Millender’s superb effort on the court as a senior is what led the Chicago Sky to give her this opportunity.

One of the most prolific scorers DePaul has ever seen, Millender climbed to second all-time in both 3-point field goals with 286 and 3-point attempts with 771 in her final season in Lincoln Park en route to scoring 1,392 career points.

After tying her career-high of 27 points in a home game on Nov. 17 versus Notre Dame, the 2018 NCAA Tournament Champions, Millender finished this season converting a teamhigh 89 3-pointers. She averaged 13.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and earned a career-high seven assists in the Big East Tournament semifinal versus Creighton.

Not to mention, Millender scored in double figures in 26 appearances and stayed healthy as she started all 34 games, moving her to No. 1 all-time in games played with 144. Despite the end result with the Sky not panning out in Millender’s favor, she learned a lot from the brief time spent practicing with the hometown team.

“It was a great experience overall,” Millender said. “I learned a lot from all the players and it just showed me what to expect if I go overseas and possibly go back to the WNBA and what I need to work on and just to improve and become a better player to play with those type of girls.”

The size of the other guards is one of the biggest differences that Millender pointed out between competing against WNBA talent and those at the collegiate level. One similar factor, however, Millender said, was the pace of play.

“The guards for me were much bigger than what I’m used to in the Big East and the regular season,” Millender said.

“For example, Diamond [Deshields], she’s a 6-foot-2-inch guard with ball handling and shooting, so that was the big difference for me. But the play of the game, of course they’re stronger, but I feel like if you lift weights it’s going to be the same, but I would say the difference for me personally was handling ball screens.”

DePaul head coach Doug Bruno has nothing but high praise for Millender and the legacy she left at DePaul as an all-around student-athlete. Millender brought a combination of defense, shooting and communication, all of which are keys to success in DePaul’s renowned up-tempo playing style.

“She’s one of the best people to ever come through DePaul and I was thrilled that she got the opportunity to sign a training camp contract with the Sky because that means that somebody

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DePaul senior Ashton Millender attempts a 3-pointer against Creighton in the Big East Tournament March 11 at Wintrust Arena. recognized how good she was,” he said.

“She was a great defender, she was a great talker on defense, she was a great competitor, she could make a great 3-point shooter. So, it’s just a really special basketball player but also a really, really special human being, and so we’re going to miss Ashton.”

Junior forward Chante Stonewall emphasized that Millender was not only an encouraging presence on the court, but off the court as well, especially when it came to sisterhood.

“She will missed be skill wise, but also there as a friend and person who will be there to check up on you,” Stonewall said. “She’s been through a lot and I feel like we can never have a down day especially after her experience. So, she will definitely be missed in that aspect.”

Likewise, junior guard Kelly Campbell mentioned that some factors, such as Millender’s love for defense, competitive spirit and assertiveness, are things that distinguished Millender as a teammate.

“I think Ashton’s been a great leader for our team,” she said. “More of leading by example, but she was vocal when we needed her to be. I know she pushed us all very hard in practice, she was always someone who came with a lot of energy and really pushed her to be her best.”

Millender now plans to take her basketball talents overseas in France with hopes of playing in the WNBA one day. James Wade, head coach and general manager of the Chicago Sky, told Millender that going overseas to play basketball is where she’d get better.

“I would like to go overseas,” Millender said. “It’s always a little scary in the back of your mind because it’s a new country, a new language. You really don’t know everybody, or nobody really probably speaks English, but I feel like it’s a life journey that’s going to teach you lessons. I would love to learn French or whatever language they speak wherever I go.”

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Most Outstanding Player after the Blue Demons won their third-straight tournament title.

“It feels awesome that we can keep the tradition here at DePaul and be the threetime reigning Big East champs,” Halvorson said on May 11. “This is definitely a bigger stage than what I have been on before, it is not just me today, those wins are everyone; Krista [Dalgarn] closed the game today, she did great, the hitters hit, so the credit is to them.”

While Halvorson was able to do her job by keeping her team within one run through four innings, two runs through six innings and three runs going into the bottom of the seventh inning, the offense couldn’t return the favor to their star pitcher.

In two games against James Madison, DePaul had to face pitcher Odicci Alexander both times and not only did they manage to just score one run in 11.1 innings, the Blue Demons could only muster up five hits while striking out nine times.

Even with the lack of scoring through 13 innings against the Dukes, DePaul went into the bottom of the seventh inning only trailing 3-0, and just last week in the Big East Tournament title game against Villanova, they rallied back from a six-run deficit to win 11-10.

After struggling through the first six innings to get players on base, DePaul loaded

the bases with two outs in the last inning with sophomore Skylor Hilger up to bat. But the Blue Demons’ offense failed to produce one more moment of magic as Hilger struck out, ending her team’s season.

The only time the Blue Demons’ offense looked somewhat dangerous was in the fourth inning against Saint Francis, where DePaul scored three runs, which proved to be enough for DePaul to get their lone NCAA Tournament victory this season.

For head coach Tracie Adix-Zins, who was in her first season as the head coach at DePaul after Eugene Lenti retired last season, the season might have ended on a sour note with a 1-2 record in her first NCAA Tournament appearance with her alma mater. But she led the Blue Demons to another 30-plus win season and another Big East Tournament title.

“It’s a lot; it’s very overwhelming,” Adix-Zins said after winning the Big East Tournament on May 11. “I think it just shows a lot of how hard [the team] worked. The time we put in over the fall, over the winter and through the spring, it’s a testament to the what we’ve done.”

Adix-Zins will go into her second season losing four key seniors from this season’s team: Morgan Greenwood, Alysia Rodriguez, Brianna Viles and Sabrina Kuchta. But she will look to replace the void the seniors left with her own recruiting class and gear up for another NCAA Tournament appearance.

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DePaul junior Erin Andris is not able to catch the ball during the Blue Demons game against Creighton April 28 at Cacciatore Stadium.

FUTURE, continued from back page of the ball. The biggest addition for Bruno for next season was landing 6-foot-2-inch Kiara Dallmann, who transferred from Iowa Western Community College; she averaged nearly 14 points and 7.5 rebounds per game.

“Kiara Dallmann is a key recruit here,” Bruno said. “6-foot-2-inch junior college transfer, that’s going to be key to our recruiting because she can fit in right away and play the role that Mart’e Grays played last season. So, Kiara Dallmann is going to be really key here.”

Dallmann isn’t the only player whom Bruno expects to be thrown into the mix right away because DePaul will add four freshmen, with three of them being six feet tall and averaging over seven rebounds in high school.

“The freshmen class coming in, you have Nadege [Jean] who was here all of last year and rehabbing from her injury, so she will be a second-year freshman,” Bruno said. “But then players like Marisa Warren, Kike Rimmer, Kayla Caudle and Hannah Purcell, these are all talented freshmen. So, we are really excited about the group that’s coming in.”

Caudle has built a reputation in high school as being a highly skilled rebounder and in her junior season averaged 15.3 points and 14.4 rebounds per game; at the end of her junior season, she was already Vernon Hills’ all-time leading rebounder.

Rimmer and Purcell will also help add an inside presence for the Blue Demons because both averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game, but the biggest challenge for the incoming players will be building chemistry with their new teammates.

“We have six new incomers coming, so I think that’s going to be our biggest challenge: just being able to assimilate everybody,” Stonewall said. “Placing everyone in roles that can be successful to the team.”

The key transition for the new players will be adjusting and adapting to Bruno’s system, which can take players time to learn the up-tempo system and being in the right spots at the correct time.

“I think it will take some time; any new program you get into is hard to adjust to,” Campbell said. “But just helping them as much as we can with all the different plays, just help them assimilate to the program the

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DePaul senior Mart'e Grays backs down a Creighton defender in the second round of the Big East Tournament March 11 at Wintrust. best they can.”

Campbell and Stonewall being the two leaders of the team now, their role gets bigger on the court, but also off the court as they look to build chemistry with a new group of players.

“We are not afraid to play freshmen, and yet I’m cautious to count on freshmen,”

Bruno said. “It takes them time, the adjustment from high school to college on many levels. They are adjusting to an allnew environment, they are adjusting to a new way to go to school where they have to study more on their own. They have to adjust [to] new teachers, new coaches, new teammates, living on their own without

their parents.

“I mean, there are so many adjustments that go on with freshmen, the speed of the game, there’s a lot that goes on in being a newcomer, and so I think that it takes them time. So, I would love for them to have a chance to play, but we don’t sit here counting on their impact.”

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Broken bats

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DePaul senior catcher Jessica Cothern swings and misses against Providence April 13 at Cacciatore Stadium. DePaul’s season ended on Saturday against James Madison.

Softball only scores five runs in three games in NCAA Regional

By Lawrence Kreymer Sports Editor

The magic and the offensive prowess that DePaul (35-16; 11-5 Big East) showed throughout most of this season ran out of steam in their elimination game against James Madison in the NCAA Regional in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After defeating Saint Francis 3-1 in their first elimination game on Saturday, the Blue Demons faced James Madison for the second time in as many days. Just like the first game

on Friday, where the Dukes won 5-1, James Madison took care of business again by defeating DePaul 3-0 and advancing to take on No. 15 Michigan in the regional finals.

But the common theme in the Blue Demons’ 21st NCAA Tournament appearance was their lack of offensive production. DePaul managed to only score five runs in three games, and when their offense was needed the most in their second game against James Madison, it went cold.

The offense that helped carry DePaul to a second-place finish in the Big East and a

third straight championship in the Big East Tournament could not save the Blue Demons again. In 51 games this season, DePaul finished second in runs scored with 245, second in runs batted in with 231 and second in hits with 357 in the Big East.

Unlike the first meeting between the Blue Demons and the Dukes, where DePaul scored the first run, James Madison was able to score the first run in the first inning off of a solo homerun. The early run for the CAA Tournament champions set the tone for the rest of the match, and the pitching for the

Dukes carried them the rest of the way.

For the next four innings, both teams’ pitchers kept shutting out the other team’s offense. Junior pitcher Natalie Halvorson got her first start in the NCAA Tournament and was able to limit the damage to only three runs when the Dukes had runners in scoring position multiple times Saturday.

Halvorson, who transferred to DePaul from Kirkwood Community College this season, went 2-0 in the Big East Tournament last week and was named the tournament’s

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New wave of talent looks to lead women’s basketball into future

By Lawrence Kreymer Sports Editor

While a lot of the attention is being placed on the DePaul men’s basketball team and their incoming recruiting class, women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno has made sure to strengthen and improve his roster once again with four new signing and two transfers.

Bruno has coined the term “DePaulBall” during his tenure in Lincoln Park. Bruno and his “DePaulBall” strategy have put an emphasis on 3-point shooting, and that has been reflected in his recruiting over the years.

That continue to be a strategy in recruiting and how the team plays on the court, but in their most recent recruiting class size and rebounding is the common theme.

In 2018-2019, DePaul only had two players on the roster who were over six feet tall: junior Chante Stonewall and senior Mart’e Grays. While they were the tallest players on the roster, it was junior Kelly Campbell who led the Blue Demons in rebounding with 7.7 rebounds per game.

In the Blue Demons’ first-round loss to Missouri State, the Blue Demons got outrebounded 42-31, which developed as a theme throughout the game, but especially in

the first half when Missouri State secured 23 rebounds to DePaul’s 11. While the offensive rebounding was relatively close — 14-13 for the Lady Bears — they were able to use their size and height over the Blue Demons in the first half when they built a double-digit lead.

This past season, the problem wasn’t that the Blue Demons couldn’t rebound the ball, because they ranked third in the Big East. The problem was when Grays, the team’s tallest player, would check out of the game, they had no replacement for her at the center position.

“There’s no question that we need to get bigger, we need to be bigger,” Bruno said.

“But at the same time I don’t subscribe to the theory that because you can’t teach height. I want quality-sized players over than just big players. It’s easy to get big players that can’t play; I’d rather play with five guards than a big player who can’t play. So, I think it’s really important as we search to make our program bigger that we do so with quality players, not just bigger players.”

Bruno will be without Grays, Tanita Allen, Ashton Millender and Rebekah Dahlman as the four will be graduating in June. The senior class helped lead the Blue Demons to a second consecutive Big East Tournament title over Marquette in March and the programs 17th straight NCAA Tournament appereance.

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Kiara Dallmann is transferring to DePaul next seaon from Iowa Western Community College. Dallmann averaged nearly 14 points and 7.5 rebounds per game last season. to coach college basketball,” Bruno said.

“It’s a constant state of transition and four years is a very limited amount of time…

You have to generally retool every year and that’s what programs are and I’d like to think that we built DePaul into a program. So, we are going to miss very much Mart’e Grays, Ashton Millender, Tanita Allen and Rebekah

Dahlman, we still must forge forward and we return two key seniors in Kelly Campbell and Chante Stonewall.”

Next season, however, Bruno will have five players who are at least six feet tall and who have all proven to be good rebounders

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