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Suburban voters flip two seats in Democrats’ takeover of the U.S. House

J.B. Pritzker defeated incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner by 15 percent in what will go down as the most expensive statewide election in the history of the US Story, page 4

Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood, two Democrats in red districts, had stunning victories over Republican incumbents

Story, page 6

Personal wealth, not ideas, dictated the winner of Illinois’ gubernatorial race

Opinion, page 12

Midterms at a glance Millenials aged 18-29 represented the largest group of voters in Illinois.

More than 55,000 people voted for Nazi Arthur Jones in the 3rd District after the state Republican party failed to field a candidate in the district.

34 of the 83 candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump lost their elections. He described his campaigning as a “great victory.”

The first Muslim women in Congress, the first gay governor and the first Hispanic women representing Texas were all elected.

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New institute aims to boost number of women entrepreneurs

By Katelyn Henslin Contributing Writer

Leaders in DePaul University’s new Women in Entrepreneurship Institute – the only one of its kind nationwide – have created their own successful businesses and now want to help other women leap past their biggest remaining hurdle: access to capital.

The organization cites the lack of representation for women in business as a major hurdle to budding women entrepreneurs, with the male-dominated industry making it harder for them to succeed.

“As a sales leader I find myself working alone with all men,” said Amy Dordek Dolinsky, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Growthplay.

“Unfortunately, there are still major barriers to women. There are very few women CEOs, board members, and very few women in funding.”

Dolinsky and many other women in entrepreneurship who have built successful businesses are looking to support the large amount of Illinois women aspiring to be entrepreneurs.

At Illinois universities, 28 percent of share startups are founded by female students and faculty members, compared to 17 percent nationally, according to the institute’s website.

By becoming a committee board member for the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute, these women have joined a community working to support new entrepreneurs as they face barriers ahead.

The institute is unique because it’s paired with a ‘women in entrepreneurship ‘class that undergraduates or graduate students can take for credit. Students already at DePaul can enroll for the spring class during Winter Quarter. Everyone

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else should contact undergraduate admissions.

“The purpose of the class is to expose women to a community of entrepreneurs in Chicago and to learn about the challenges they face and how to overcome them,” said DePaul management and entrepreneurship professor Alyssa Westring, who will be teaching the course. “Hopefully they will grow in their confidence and abilities to be entrepreneurs. It’s about an entrepreneur mindset even if they don’t want to start their own business. We want them to be ready for the environment and not accept things how they are.”

The institute will also offer outof-class support with panels, pitch competitions and incubators, Westring said.

“The Women in Entrepreneurship Institute will connect founders to funding opportunities so that female founders have equal access to opportunity,” said Abigail Ingram, the assistant director

of Coleman Entrepreneurship Center.

“When investors do invest in womenowned businesses, their returns are higher. While female founders’ startups receive less investment, they generate more revenue.”

Only two percent of venture capital funding is awarded to women-led companies, despite women owning 38 percent of businesses in the country, says the institute’s website.

When it comes to the economic clout of women-owned businesses, Illinois is in the lowest 20 percent of U.S. states.

“The way entrepreneurship has emerged over time is that there are assumptions of what an entrepreneur looks like, what they do, and how they act,” Westring said. “But those are generally based around our conceptual vision of a male entrepreneur.”

Westring stated that, without good capital backing, starting a successful business is a challenge.

“It’s hard to start a business without

money,” Westring said.

These assumptions of what make a good entrepreneur inhibit women in an investor’s eye.

Dolinsky has worked with various capital partners over time while building her businesses. She says she noticed not one has ever had a woman partner, leader or team member.

Similarly, only 26 percent of small business owners in America are women, according to a statistic from Guidant Financial. This a slight increase from 2017, where only 17 percent of small business owners were women.

Despite the lack of female-run businesses, it is reported that women in business typically have higher levels of education than their male counterparts.

In a survey by Guidant Financial, 74 percent of female small-business owners held at least an associates degree, compared to only 64 percent of men.

“There is a singular mindset and perspective happening in these companies,” Dolinsky said. “It puts women startups at a disadvantage. The people who make decisions about capital are mostly men so women don’t get the same attention, funding and support.”

But these women say they aren’t giving up. With experience in the business world, they have advice to offer to future women entrepreneurs.

“It’s important to take risks,” Dolinsky said. “Especially when you are younger, there is no reason not to take risks.”

The institute’s goals are ambitious, hoping to transform the business industry as a whole to be more accessible to women.

“This is not just about telling the students what they should do differently”, Westring said. “It’s not just about changing women entrepreneurs. It’s about changing the system.”

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker, right, and his running mate Juliana Stratton celebrate as they wave to supporters after beating Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner.

Pritzker wins battle of the bank accounts in Illinois

By Rosbelis Quinonez and Ryan Witry Contributing Writers

Democrat J.B. Pritzker rode a green wave of record-breaking spending as he seized the Illinois governor’s office from Republican incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner in a midterm election that generated unusually high turnout.

Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, won easily after pouring more than $170 million of his own money into the race.

Pritzker’s funding for his gubernatorial campaign surpasses that of Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign, where President Trump supplied $66 million of his own money, according to a report by Fortune.

Pritzker spearheaded a widespread campaign, with visual advertisements covering the city and digital promotions on platforms like Spotify, Hulu and Youtube. In addition to being the new governor-elect for Illinois, Pritzker is the country’s richest politician, with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion, according to a report by Time.

Rauner also spent heavily in his failed bid for a second term, contributing more than $70 million in the most expensive governor’s race in the nation’s history. In all, the two candidates raised more than $255 million, exceeding the previous record set in California, a state with five times the population of Illinois.

In a concession speech at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Rauner wished Pritzker, “Godspeed.” He called for unity, telling his supporters, “Now we stand not as Democrats or Republicans, but as people of Illinois. I call on my friends in the Democratic Party: Let us work

together.” The Rauner concession drew preceded by Governor Mary Fallin of cheers at Pritzker’s election night party at Oklahoma and Governor Dan Malloy of the Marriott Marquis hotel in Chicago’s Connecticut.

South Loop. The evening’s first speaker, Much of Pritzker’s campaign seemed re-elected state Treasurer Mike Frerichs catered towards attracting younger rallied the crowd, saying the past four demographics, with advertisements years felt “like being at war.” focusing on the legalization of marijuana, Pritzker secured most of his votes protecting reproductive rights for in Cook County, where he received women, and reforming higher education.

1,208,380 votes to Rauner’s 414,373.

Pritzker campaign volunteer and Rauner carried most of the downstate Edgewater resident Barbara Banach counties. was excited about the election. “People The final vote tally saw Pritzker in Illinois are going to support Pritzker winning 54.2 because they’ve percent of the been waiting for vote compared a change for a to Rauner’s long time,” she 39.2 percent. said.

Conservative “J.B.!

J.B.! third-party J.B.!,” shouted c a n d i d a t e P r i t z k e r Sam McCann supporters at the recorded 4.3 Grand Horizon percent of Ballroom Hall the vote and of the Marriott Libertarian Marquis in Kash Jackson Chicago, after brought home learning about the remaining 2.4 reports about J.B. Pritzker campaign volunteer Bruce Rauner percent.

“I think calling Pritzker Rauner lost the Latino vote this the new governor of Illinois. time because of his comments about The governor-elect took the stage after immigrants,” said Pritzker supporter 9 p.m. with his family and the lieutenant Pedro Aguilera. “We couldn’t afford to governor-elect Juliana Stratton. have a governor who will follow President She promised to support to Trump’s position towards immigrants.” immigrants, women, farmers, Rauner’s popularity has been on a communities of color, LGTBQ steady decline since taking office in 2015. communities and veterans.

In a 2018 report by Morning Consult, “My heart is with the veterans who Rauner was found to have a disapproval bravely protected us, and now depend rating of 60 percent, with an approval on us to protect them when they’re ill,” rating of only 27 percent. Rauner’s low Stratton said. “We not only heard you, approval rating made him the then-third we see you. You will not be forgotten and lowest approved governor in the country, elevate your hopes for a better tomorrow

“People in Illinois are going to support Prtizker because they’ve been waiting for a change for a long time.”

Barbara Banach

will motivate us every single day.”

Pritzker reiterated promises of his campaign once elected, promising to grow jobs in Illinois and advance the economy of the state.

“We will grow the diversity of our economy by growing jobs across Illinois, especially in communities that have been left behind,” Pritzker said in his victory speech.

He promised to fight for equal pay, protect Illinoisan families while supporting immigrants and labor unions.

“We will strive for the highest graduation rate in the nation. We can become the biggest home of entrepreneurs between the coasts,” Pritzker said, who also promised his administration will grow jobs across Illinois, “especially for communities that has been left out and left behind, because none of us success unless we fight for all of us to succeed.”

In addition, the governor-elect said he would fight for a fair tax system.

“We will be a leading protector of workers’ rights, and civil rights, and human rights in the nation,” Pritzker said.

Organized labor played a considerable role during the evening’s proceedings.

Many of the evening’s speakers, including Comptroller Susana Mendoza and Secretary of State Jesse White both thanked organized labor for its support.

Sen. Dick Durbin went as far to say that Rauner hates organized labor “more than the devil hates holy water.

This marks a stark departure from the Rauner era, which included political fights with many of the state’s unions.

David DuVall, president of the Dalton firefighters Local 3766 said the election shows “the middle class voted with their paychecks” and against the right-to-work policies of Rauner.

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Rauner loses gubernatorial race after a single rocky term

By Carina Smith News Editor

After an expensive and widespread campaign season, incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner announced he was conceding to Democratic opponent J.B. Pritzker, effectively ending his time in office.

At his watch party held at the Drake Hotel on Nov. 6, Rauner announced he was dropping out of the Illinois gubernatorial race. The decision came less than an hour after the polls had closed, and ended Rauner’s time in office.

When first elected into office in 2015, Rauner had never held or ran for a political office. Since then, Rauner made a number of major (and at times, controversial) decisions during his four years as governor that have shaped Illinois in significant ways.

The start of Rauner’s time as governor was met with a large laundry list of items that Rauner wanted to immediately start pushing. During his first State of the State speech, Rauner swiftly brought out budget cuts, changes in pensions and education funding, as well as pushing six proposed amendments to the state’s Constitution. The Democratic-held legislature in the state did not deter Rauner from hitting the ground running.

As governor, Rauner raised the personal state income tax rate to 4.9 percent. However, the state stills sits on $9 billion in unpaid bills. The debt has been a major issue for Illinois, but the state has been hiking taxes for the past 12 years. Rauner promised throughout his gubernatorial campaign that he would stop raising taxes if elected in a second term.

“We need to enact reforms to improve government efficiency and encourage job

creation and economic growth,” Rauner said in an interview with the SunTimes last month. “We can – and must – balance the budget by transforming the way government operates, reforming the pension system and growing the economy, which will bring in more tax revenue.”

In 2017, Rauner signed a bill that created a tax credit scholarship program and established charter funding equity to charter schools. The $100 million Invest in Kids program allows for taxpayers to donate to the scholarship funds. In return, donors can get 75 percent of their donation back as a credit on their state income taxes.

The topic of school choice was a major divide between Rauner and Pritzker during the campaign season. Pritzker wanted to end the program because he saw it as “a tax break for wealthy people,” according to an interview he did with WBEZ earlier this year.

In a hotly-debated move, Rauner signed a controversial abortion bill in 2017 that would expand taxpayer-subsidized abortions. The bill drew criticism from Rauner’s fellow Republicans and conservative pro-life groups.

Rauner has gone on record multiple times to say that he believes in the right to choose, which is why he chose to sign the bill despite many in his party disagreeing with the measure.

Walking into the gubernatorial race, Rauner’s campaign did not have a solid support from the state. According to a Morning Consult poll done in November 2017, Rauner held a 30 percent approval and 55 percent disapproval rate – lower than President Donald Trump’s approval ratings. This put the governor as the fifth least-popular governor in the country,

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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to supporters after losing his re-election bid to Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker on Nov. 6, 2018.

and the least popular first-term governor.

Rauner’s opponent, both Pritzker and those who ran against Rauner during the primaries, capitalized on the disapproval ratings throughout the campaign season.

However, Rauner still managed to pull a win back in March in the primaries in the close race. “[Rauner is] just not the right man for the job,” Pritzker said in an interview with Vox earlier this year. “He’s a guy who doesn’t understand the difference between business and government.

People are feeling really let down by him.”

Some in Illinois looked at much of Rauner’s time in office as a failure, though his supporters say most of it was a let-down on the state’s government as a whole, with the blame landing on Rauner’s shoulders.

“People turned [Rauner] into a scapegoat,” said student Adam Perry, who volunteered with Rauner’s campaign. “He put his best foot forward, but everyone wanted to blame him for everything that went wrong.”

In the end, and despite an expensive and exhaustive race, Rauner lost to Pritzker by roughly 15 percentage points in the midterm elections. During his concession speech, Rauner thanked the crowd for his time as governor and urged for his fellow Republicans to work with Pritzker to push Illinois further.

“This election is over, but that does not mean it is the end of the change that we need,” Rauner said. “… Now we stand, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as people of Illinois.”

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Roskam and Underwood defeat Republican incumbents

By Natalie Cardenas, Jakob Emerson, Mikayla Price & Heather Stone Contributing Writers

In two closely watched suburban Congressional districts, Democrats unseated Republicans in seats critical to their takeover of the House of Representatives. In the Illinois 6th District, covering the suburbs west of Chicago, veteran Republican Rep. Peter Roskam lost to Democratic businessman and political novice Sean Casten.

“You rub some dirt on it and you deal with it,” said Roskam to a crowd of tearyeyed supporters, many of whom had been voting for the congressman since 2007.

Roskam thanked God, his family, and his staff before pledging a smooth transition for Casten.

“I told him [Casten] this is a great job and he’s going to love it,” Roskam said. “I wish him the very best.”

At Casten headquarters, at the International Brotherhood of Election Workers in Warrenville, the newlyelected congressman declared, “It wasn’t the party that won. It was our values.”

The primary election for the 6th District saw Casten defeat six other Democratic challengers, including five women.

Casten, 46, promised to reach across the aisle and work with both parties.

“In Congress, I’ll make decisions based on facts, not partisan politics,” Casten said in his final TV ad. “I’ll work

with Republicans and Democrats to tackle our problems.”

Casten won 52.8 percent of the vote compared to Roskam’s 47.2 percent.

Dr. Rancy Ellis, a volunteer on Casten’s campaign, had harsh words for the defeated Roskam.

“I’m currently represented by a person who doesn’t believe in facts,” Ellis said. “Peter Roskam is a person who called climate change ‘junk science.’

He’s a person who lied about his record on his votes for coverage for people with preexisting conditions...and he refuses to engage with his constituents by participating in open forums.”

The race between Roskam and Casten became a referendum on voters’ approval of President Donald Trump. The Casten campaign hit Roskam hard for voting with Trump’s agenda 94 percent of the time.

In the northwest suburbs, Lauren Underwood, a Democrat who had never held elected office pulled off a stunning upset, defeating four-term incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren in the 14th District, a district long considered to be a Republican stronghold.

Underwood, a 32-year-old AfricanAmerican nurse, became the first woman and the first black person ever to represent the district, which is 86 percent white. Only four Democrats have held the seat in the last 100 years.

“You lifted me up, and this victory is your victory,” Underwood said. “It’s your example that I’ll follow in Congress. I am

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Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten were involved in some of the state’s most-watched races during midterm elections. Underwood and Casten, both Democrats, won their races.

to be the very best congresswoman this area has ever seen, and honestly, it won’t be that difficult, because I’ll be the first congresswoman this area has ever seen.”

Underwood won 53 percent of the vote to Hultgren’s 47 percent.

Underwood campaigned heavily on health care, citing her pre-existing heart condition. Her opponent voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Nationwide, the “Trump” effect was huge, according to exit polls cited by CNN. Nearly two in three voters said President Trump influenced their decisions on

other races. More than 40 percent named health care as the most important issue, a key advantage for Democrats winning back the House. President Trump’s signature issue, immigration, scored second at 23 percent. And only one in five voters named the economy as their top concern.

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Resale store aims to provide accessible LGBTQ+ healthcare The Brown Elephant is a byproduct of the Howard Brown Health Center, a medical group in Chicago that provides accessible sexual healthcare to people in Chicago.

The promotion of sexual health is a major component of The Brown Asst. News Editor Elephant and Howard Brown Health.

Resale store The Brown Elephant Their Oak Park and Andersonville stores serves the people of Chicago not only give weekly HIV and STI tests, provided with low prices, but with access to health by an outreach team from Howard Brown Health. Locations occasionally have services.

The Brown Elephant, founded in bowls of complimentary condoms near 1982, is an extension of The Howard the cash register, in order to encourage Brown Health Center, a non profit patrons to practice safe sex.

Roldan said that the issue of sexual medical organization with an emphasis health remains important to the clinic on eliminating healthcare imbalances partially due to healthcare struggles experienced by members of the LGBTQ often faced by members of the LGBT community, according to the Howard community.

Brown Health website. The stores sell a “Sexual health is just part of health,” wide array of thrifted items, including Roldan said. “LGBT people in particular furniture, face a lot of clothing and discrimination dinnerware, in healthcare among other settings, so we items. There are really try to currently three address people store locations, in an affirming in Lakeview, and holistic Anders onv i l le way.” and Oak Park.

R o l d a n T h e said that one organization of the ways is named after Howard Brown Dr. Howard Health attempts Brown, founder to lessen of the National the medical Gay Task Force disparity faced and a former by memebrs Howard Brown Health Director of New York City of the LGBTQ Public Health Marketing and Communication community is Commissioner by providing who publicly came out as gay in 1973. Howard Brown specific services to transgender and nonHealth provides a wide variety of health gender-conforming patients.

Howard Brown Health also enables and social services, including primary transgender and gender-non-conforming medical care, behavioral health, research, patients to be addressed by their chosen HIV/STI prevention, youth services, names, an issue often faced by members elder services and community initiatives, of each respective community in according to the Howard Brown Health healthcare centers. website.

“In all our intake forms, we ask All of the proceeds from The Brown people what their gender identity is and Elephant are received by Howard Brown what their chosen name is,” Roldan said.

Health, which are then used to provide “We make sure that info is made available care for uninsured or underinsured to all of our staff they may interact with, patients. and staff are trained to ask about those “[The Brown Elephant] was really things.” born out of basically the need of Sexual health is especially relevant community since Howard Brown’s origin to college students. College students are is rooted in fighting the AIDS crisis and within the age group with the highest providing care for people living with risk for contracting sexually transmitted HIV,” said Erik Roldan, the Director illnesses, according to an article by BMC of Marketing and Communication for Health Services Research.

Howard Brown Health. “In the late “It is extremely important that young 1970s and early 1980s, people were people have access to healthcare and a dying of AIDS and not being able to find healthcare center when relating to sexual compassionate healthcare anywhere. health,” said graphic design major Brett People were dying, and their families Vander Wielen.

“It provides a low-cost and friends wanted to give back to the option where people know they won’t be organization that helped their loved ones discriminated against for being who they pass on. We turned it into our business are and loving who they love.” model as a resale shop.”

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“LGBT people in particular face a lot of discrimination in healthcare settings, so we really try to address people in an affirming and holistic way.”

Unlike non-affiliated public universities, DePaul’s policies prohibit the university from providing students with free contraceptives, like condoms.

“I’ve faced a ton of barriers in safe sex discussions and education about contraception here on campus, because we’re a Catholic campus,” said communications and media studies major Kate Graham. “Our RA’s and staff aren’t allowed to provide birth control to students, which I think is a huge health hazard to the student body.”

Testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted illnesses remains relevant to the gay LGBTQ community, with some thinking that there needs to be a greater emphasis put on sexual health.

“In the gay community, there needs

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to be more of a stress of getting test for HIV/AIDS for young men and transwomen,” said environmental studies major Al Russell. “This is something still that hasn’t gone away and needs to be talked about more.”

The Brown Elephant keeps a strong clientele due to their commitment of providing accessible healthcare, according to Rolden.

“We have the audio that gets played in the stores and it gives a periodic message that lets people know that shopping at The Brown Elephant contributes to our mission, and that definitely is a reason that people donate to us,” Roldan said.

“We hear all the time that people donate to us instead of other resale shops because they know it contributes to healthcare.”

Erik Roldan

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A customer looks through the book section of The Brown Elephant. All of the items that are sold within the store are thrifted.

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Ugly sweaters and winter weather

By Xavier Ortega Photo Editor

DePaul started a Christmas tradition in November with free shirts, hot cocoa, and snowman plushies in DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus on Nov. 7.

The festivities kicked off with students lining up to receive a free DePaul longsleeve t-shirt and a snowman plushie.

Other activities included a bounce house and Christmas trees for students to decorate.

Tina Roberts, a graduate assistant for Traditions and Affinity in the Office of Student Involvement, collaborated with other departments to start a new tradition for students to participate in for the Christmas holiday.

“Traditions and Affinity is a new group at DePaul that focuses on building spirit and creating traditions,” Roberts said. “We noticed there wasn’t any big holiday celebrations here on campus, but we wanted to do something that brought a lot of people together.”

The event advertised an ugly sweater on the DePaul Involvement Instagram, as well as the DePaul events page, but students were surprised that they instead received a long-sleeve t-shirt with a Christmas design.

“The advertisement said ‘ugly sweater

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t-shirts’ and it has the ‘ugly sweater’ pattern on it,” said George Theotokatos, coordinator at Student Organizations & Campus Activities within the Office of Student Involvement. “We have to be good stewards of DePaul’s dollars and not spend too much on free giveaways.”

750 students were lucky enough to get a long-sleeve t-shirt with a special design on it and even fewer received a DePaul snowman.

“Honestly, I did not think I was going to get a shirt since I was traveling from the Loop campus,” said Catherine Hodge, a freshman geography major. “I really like crew shirts and the design on this shirt, so I wasn’t upset that I didn’t get a sweater.”

After the shirts were gone, volunteers for the Office of Student Involvement gave students DePaul hats, courtesy of the Office of Alumni Relations.

“About 500 shirts were given out in the first 27 minutes,” Roberts said. “We received 250 more, but we sold out of those rather quickly.”

Hot chocolate stations were available for students to warm up while they created their own snowman plushie.

“With the sheer number of students who came and the demand for the shirts, we are 100 percent doing this next year and, hopefully, for many years to come,” Roberts said.

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TOP: Students line up to get a free DePaul long-sleeve t-shirt with an ugly sweater design on the front. Almost 750 shirts were given out in the span of an hour.

LEFT: St. Vincent de Paul gets into the holiday spirit as DePaul starts a new tradition with the Ugly Sweater Party in Lincoln Park on Wednesday.

RIGHT: Dibs (left) stands with DePaul president Gabriel Esteban (right) during the tree lighting ceremony in Lincoln Park on Wednesday.

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Virtual private networks protect online communication

By Mackenzie Born Contributing Writer

You’re sitting in Starbucks, stalking people you haven’t seen in years on Facebook when you realize you forgot to pay your credit card bill. You quickly jump onto your banking app to make sure you have enough in your account, and then over to your credit card provider’s site to pay the bill. In the last couple of minutes, you’ve doled out a handful of important usernames and passwords, all while using Starbuck’s public network, which isn’t necessarily secure. Should you be worried?

Maybe. And some experts would recommend using a virtual private network to protect yourself.

Virtual private networks, or VPNs, give you privacy online. They ensure that your location stays private, that your communication is encrypted, and that you are an anonymous user on the internet.

When you use a VPN, your IP address (the way your computer is identified online) and other information you might be transmitting (like passwords) are hidden by the VPN, making it difficult for hackers to get ahold of information you might be sending to a server. VPNs give you anonymity that can be useful for avoiding website location blockers, keeping your browsing history secret, and preventing providers from throttling your internet bandwidth.

While most people enjoy social media and other forms of online communication with ease, there are certain things that we should be concerned about when it comes to hacking and privacy.

“You have no control over the path that your communication takes from

you to the end point,” said Jacob Furst, director of the school of computing at DePaul. “Your communication goes over networks that anyone can listen in on, including untrusted networks that are monitored by bad guys.”

“As soon as you start doing things like online banking or online shopping with your credit card, you want to be careful,” Furst added.

With a VPN in place on your device, you could safely access your bank account and credit card payment portal from your table at Starbucks. But it’s important to note that while VPNs might give you privacy online, they don’t necessarily protect you from hackers or malicious viruses.

“A VPN masks your IP address, but it doesn’t tell you that you shouldn’t be accessing that particular website or document,” said tech operations expert Steve Caswell. “If a virus or spyware is installed on your computer, which is usually unknown to the user, a VPN isn’t going to do much good at all.”

Caswell explains that in some cases of hacking, a VPN can even be used against you.

“Any hacker with half a brain can determine what sequence of letters and numbers constitute a username and password,” Caswell said. “From there, a hacker could even use a VPN to mask their own origin and imitate an IP address from your city, preventing the built-in security measures of your banking website from determining if there is a potential breach.”

Which leads us to the million-dollar question — are VPNs even worth it? And how worried should we be about being hacked online?

“You shouldn’t lose sleep over it, but

everyone should always be concerned about that sort of thing and take measures to limit risk,” said internetwork security expert John Kristoff, adding that whether or not an individual needs a VPN often depends on their online habits and what they use the internet for.

Similarly, Furst says that most of his students use VPNs just to keep their browsing history secret, which means companies can’t collect information on their internet habits and retarget them with ads.

“Leave the paranoia to the professionals,” Furst said. “Know that you aren’t perfectly protected, but you are probably pretty safe,” adding that it’s still important to be smart about using unsecured sites and networks.

While Caswell doesn’t use a VPN himself, he does believe the benefits of a VPN go beyond just security.

“There are heaps of benefits of using a VPN,” Caswell said. “You can ensure internet service providers don’t throttle internet bandwidth and speed, avoid geo-blocking, and be able to access a much larger and expansive media library, like the U.S. version of Netflix if you’re somewhere else in the world.”

Caswell points out that while most companies that create VPNs profit off making us feel insecure about using the internet, there’s no doubt that they do bolster our security online.

“Hacking is prevalent in 2018, and will continue to get more complicated as we tend to share more information online than ever before,” Caswell said.

“Criminals taking advantage of loopholes in cyber security is a big business, so the use of a VPN in this day and age is something everyone should at least consider.”

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CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: October 31, 2018- November 6, 2018 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

LOOP CAMPUS

School of Music

Clifton-Fullerton Hall 3

2

5

Courtelyou Commons Arts & Letters Munroe Hall

1

3

5

4

DePaul Center 5 3

8

Lewis Center

Student Center 1 10

6

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7 4

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS NOVEMBER 1 1) An armed robbery

report was filed for an incident that occured near the Courtelyou Commons. A safety alert was posted regarding the incident.

NOVEMBER 2 2) A harassment

by electronic means report was filed for a person at the School of Music.

NOVEMBER 4 3) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor

Assault & Theft

Drug & Alcohol

report was filed in Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital by Chicago EMT.

NOVEMBER 5 4) A possesion of marijuana report was filed in Munroe Hall. Chicago Police took the subject into custody.

5)

A harassment report was filed for a person being followed on Kenmore near the Arts & Letters Building.

Other

LOOP CAMPUS NOVEMBER 1 6) A battery report was filed regarding unwanted touching by an offender at the Lewis Center.

7)

A report of vandalism was made at the University Center regarding intentional damage to a door inside the building.

NOVEMBER 2 8) A battery report was filed regarding a physical

altercation at Wabash & Jackson. Chicago Police responded to the scene.

9)

An aggravated battery was reported on the 200 S Block of Wabash. A safety alert was posted regarding the incident.

10)

A criminal tresspass warning was issued to a person who was trying to steal in the Barnes and Noble.

NOVEMBER 4 11) A theft report was filed in the University Center. Subject took several items from the Chartwells Café without paying for them.

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Protesters take to the streets across the US to protect Mueller investigation

ANDREW HARNIK | AP A protester wrapped in an American flag, holds a candle as he and others gather in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, as part of a nationwide "Protect Mueller" campaign demanding that Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker recuse himself from overseeing the ongoing special counsel investigation.

By Marin Scott Nation & World Editor

In the past week Democrats have taken back the House of Representatives, Republicans have maintained a hold on the Senate and the U.S. has seen the largest voter turnout since 1966. Since the elections, there has been the resignation of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and nationwide protests erupted in defense of the Mueller Investigation.

Sessions’s resignation has come as no shock to those following his time in the Trump Administration. Trump has made it publicly clear that he does not like Sessions, and has continued a turbulent relationship with the former attorney general that was unlike any other throughout presidential history. Much of this distrust was due to Sessions recusing himself from the Russia Investigation.

After Sessions stepped away from then James Comey’s investigation into the relations between Trump staffers and the Russian government during the presidential elections, Trump turned on his attorney general, continually blaming him for the loss of control over the investigation.

Once that investigation was handed off to Robert Mueller, Sessions’s reputation in the White House only became worse. After the elections on Nov. 6, when the Democratic “blue wave” sweeped the nation, Sessions’s fate was sealed.

After Sessions’s resignation,

Trump tweeted that the White will respect the process, and I’m House was welcoming Matthew here to protect the process.”

Whitaker as acting attorney On Thursday night, protests general. This action has since organized by MoveOn and prompted numerous protestors hundreds of other grassroots to take to the streets under the organizations were seen in hashtag, #ProtectMueller. hundreds of locations throughout Whitaker, a known favoritest the country. The one in Chicago of Trump, has made his position attracted about 4,000 protestors on the Russia Investigation alone, all gathered in front of known, agreeing that it was a the Trump Tower. For Green “witch hunt” and has continued and others who took to the to critique Mueller on the matter. streets on Thursday night and Aside from these statements, Saturday afternoon, action Whitaker shares similar views on must be taken to ensure that the immigration reform and crime as Mueller investigation can move both Trump and Sessions. forward without threats from the The fear of those who oppose Department of Justice. the current administration is that “We’ve seen again and again the Mueller how Trump investigation i g n o r e s will be severely the actual limited in democratic its attempts process … to uncover there’s only so the truth much within about Russia’s the democratic i nv o l v e m e n t process that with Trump you can do,” staffers. said Jo Soper, According to a a n o t h e r CNN interview protester from with Whitaker Kathleen Robertson the Chicago in 2017, the area that next attorney Anchor at Refuse Facism protested g e n e r a l Indiana on Saturday, should not handing out fire Mueller, flyers on but instead demanding “[reduce] his budget to so low demonstration against “The that his investigation grinds to Trump/Pence Regime.” For Soper, almost a halt.” people should be doing more than “Whatever the end result is only voting, such as taking to the at least we can look at it and say streets in protest. okay, it went the length of the “There is only so much that investigation,” said Adele Green you can do with words on a at Chicago’s “Protect Mueller” screen. If you come out here and protest. “I might not like it but I you see so many people, it’s so

“People will see that there’s a better way. We don’t have to accept this."

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much more powerful than seeing all these tweets about it.”

For those who attended the protests, protecting the Mueller investigation is not the only motivator for being out on a cold November day. For them, the Mueller investigation offers an opportunity to change the administration and to put an end to many other social and political issues.

“The violation of human rights in general, against refugees, against immigrants, against anyone who isn’t white … we need to do everything that we can to end this,” Soper said when reflecting on what fuels her protests. For Paul Berland, this protest means something completely different.

“I’m an environmentalist.

I look at global warming as a real problem, and the Trump administration is completely ignoring this, which is really frustrating to me. If we don’t get this regime out of power soon, the

human race is in real danger right now.”

The collective feeling among the protestors on both Thursday and Saturday was to show that there are people who are holding the Trump administration accountable and who are hoping for change.

“I believe that the more awareness by being out in the streets, people will wake up.

People will see that there’s a better way. We don’t have to accept this,” said Kathleen Robertson, the Indiana anchor of Refuse Fascism. Robertson came to Chicago from Indianapolis to spread awareness of the Mueller investigation appointment of Whitaker as acting attorney general. “There are a lot of people that feel that there’s no point in voting, no point in saying what I think because nobody listens to me, but that’s not true.”

“My message to students, to everyone, is to stay woke, stay focused, be ready for anything.”

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RINGO H.W. CHIU | AP Park Billow, 27, sprays water on the hot spots in his backyard as the Woolsey Fire burns in Malibu, Calif., Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.

Gunman posted about mental state during bar attack

CHRIS O'MEARA | AP Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum gives his concession speech as he is joined on stage by his wife R. Jai Gillum, right, and running mate Chris King and his wife Kristen Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Tallahassee, Fla. Gillum lost the Florida governor’s race to Republican Ron DeSantis.

Florida election recount underway, tensions rise Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Thousand Oaks, Cali.

Strong Santa Ana winds returned to Southern California on Sunday, fanning a huge wildfire that has scorched a string of communities west of Los Angeles.

Huge plumes of smoke were rising again in the fire area, which stretches miles from the northwest corner of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley to the Malibu coast.

Aircraft swooped low over flaming hills to drop lines of fire retardant as flames marched through brush lands on the edges of cul-de-sac communities.

A one-day lull in the dry, northeasterly winds ended at midmorning and authorities warned that the gusts would continue through Tuesday.

The lull allowed firefighters to gain 10 percent control of the so-called Woolsey fire, which has burned more than 130 square miles (335 sq. kilometers) in western Los Angeles County and southeastern Ventura County since Thursday.

Severely burned bodies were discovered in a long residential driveway on a stretch of Mulholland Highway in Malibu, where most of the surrounding structures had burned. The deaths remained under investigation.

The deaths came as authorities in Northern California announced the death toll from a massive wildfire there has reached 23 people, bringing the statewide total to 25.

Progress was made on the lines of smaller fire to the west in Ventura County, and evacuees from that blaze were being allowed back home. But thousands remained under evacuation orders due to the Woolsey fire.

Arik Fultz, his family and 52 horses survived, but two houses, two barns, three trailers and three decades of accumulated possessions were incinerated on his 40-acre ranch near Malibu.

"It just doesn't feel real that it's all gone," Fultz said Saturday.

"It was way too big a firestorm," said Lani Netter, whose Malibu home was spared while her neighbor's burned. "We had tremendous, demonic winds is the only way I can put it."

The flames also stretched into the suburb of Thousand Oaks, a city of 130,000 people that just a few days ago saw 12 people killed in a mass shooting at a country music bar.

"We've had a lot of tragedy in our community," said Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks, whose district includes Thousand Oaks. "We don't want any more.

We do not want any more lives lost."

At the Fultz ranch, Fultz's mother, 61-year-old Tricia Fultz, said everyone expected the fire to stay well south of their property, but shifting winds forced them to take the horses out to open pastures as quickly as they could.

Three were still in their pens when the adjacent barn caught fire, and Tricia Fultz just had to open the pens, burning her hands and hoping for the best.

"It's so surreal because it's so dark, and when we're in the tunnel you can't see anything," Tricia Fultz said. "There was so much burning and so much black."

The fire hopscotched around the Oak Park neighborhood of 70-year-old Bill Bengston, leaving most houses untouched.

The home for 22 years of Bengston and his wife, Ramona, was the only house on his block that burned. And it burned everything.

"It's all gone," he said softly as he sifted through the remains. "It's all gone."

The hardest to lose were the photos and the mementos handed down through the family — a cigar box that belonged to his great-grandfather; the handcuffs his father carried in World War II. "We're somewhat devastated," Bengston said. "Still a little bit numb."

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After some early bumps, more than half of Florida's 67 counties began recounting votes Sunday in the razor-thin Senate and gubernatorial races, bringing back memories of the 2000 presidential fiasco.

In Democratic-leaning Broward County, the scheduled start of the recount was delayed Sunday because of a problem with one of the tabulation machines.

The Republican Party attacked Broward's supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, of "incompetence and gross mismanagement" following the delay, which was resolved within two hours.

The county, the state's secondmost populous, is emerging as the epicenter of controversy in the recount. Broward officials said they mistakenly counted 22 absentee ballots that had been rejected, mostly because the signature on the return envelope did not match the one on file. It is a problem that appears impossible to fix because the ballots were mixed in with 205 legal ballots.

Snipes said it would be unfair to throw out all the ballots.

The recount in most other major population centers, including Miami-Dade and Pinellas and Hillsborough counties in the Tampa Bay area, was ongoing without incident on Sunday. Smaller counties are expected to begin their reviews Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

All counties face a Thursday afternoon deadline to complete the recount.

The reviews are an unprecedented step in Florida, a state that's notorious for election results decided by the thinnest of margins. State officials said they weren't aware of any other time either a race for governor or U.S. Senate in Florida required a recount, let alone both in the same election.

Unofficial results show that Republican former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis led Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew

Gillum by 0.41 percentage points in the election for governor. In the Senate race, Republican Gov. Rick Scott's lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson is 0.14 percentage points.

State law requires a machine recount in races where the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points. Once completed, if the differences in any of the races are 0.25 percentage points or below, a hand recount will be ordered.

As the recount unfolded, Republicans urged their Democratic opponents to give up and allow the state to move on. Scott said Sunday that Nelson wants fraudulent ballots and those cast by noncitizens to count, pointing to a Nelson lawyer objecting to Palm Beach County's rejection of one provisional ballot because it was cast by a noncitizen.

"He is trying to commit fraud to win this election," Scott told Fox News. "Bill Nelson's a sore loser. He's been in politics way too long."

Gillum and Nelson have argued each vote should be counted and the process allowed to take its course. Both the state elections division, which Scott runs, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have said they have found no evidence of voter fraud.

That didn't stop protests outside Snipes' office, where a crowd of mostly Republicans gathered Sunday, holding signs, listening to country music and occasionally chanting "lock her up," referring to Snipes.

A massive Trump 2020 flag flew over the parking lot and many members of a Bikers For Trump group wore matching shirts and carried flags, mingling among a crowd that included a protester wearing a Hillary Clinton mask.

Registered independent Russell Liddick, a 38-year-old retail worker from Pompano Beach carried a sign reading, "I'm not here for Trump! I'm here for fair elections! Fire Snipes!" He

said the office's problems "don't make me feel very much like my vote counted."

Florida is also conducting a recount in a third statewide race. Democrat Nikki Fried had a 0.07 percentage point lead over Republican state Rep. Matt Caldwell in the race for agriculture commissioner, one of Florida's three Cabinet seats.

From a distant glance, the recounts might dredge up memories of the 2000 presidential recount, when it took more than five weeks for Florida to declare George W. Bush the victor over Vice President Al Gore by 537 votes, thus giving Bush the presidency.

But much has changed since then. In 2000, each county had its own voting system. Many used punch cards — voters poked out chads, leaving tiny holes in their ballots representing their candidates. Some voters, however, didn't fully punch out the presidential chad or gave it just a little push. Those hanging and dimpled chads had to be examined by the canvassing boards, a lengthy, tiresome and often subjective process that became fodder for late-night comedians.

Now the state requires that all Florida counties use ballots where voters use a pen to mark their candidate's name. It also now clearly mandates how the recount will proceed.

Those ballots are now being run through scanning machines in each county for a second time under the watchful eye of representatives of both parties and the campaigns. Any ballot that cannot be read for any of the recounted races will be put aside.

If a race's statewide margin falls below 0.25 percentage points after the machine count, the state will order a manual recount in each county. At that point, only the rejected ballots for that race will be examined.

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Opinions Chicago's price for power

By Adam Webb Contributing Writer

When I was growing up in New Lenox, Illinois, I lived down the street from our mayor. In the scope of the national political machine, being the mayor of the village of New Lenox could be considered insignificant. But to a four-year-old boy, it was like having the president as a neighbor. I wanted nothing more than to become just like him when I grew up. And as I aged, I set my sights higher. Governor, senator, president: I wanted to change the world. But I realized that I could never accomplish my dream, and it wasn’t because of my worldview, work ethic or public demeanor. I realized the one thing that separated me from holding these offices was money.

The total spent in the recent Illinois gubernatorial election neared $250 million. J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic candidate and born-billionaire, spent $171 million of his own money on his pursuit of the position. Gov. Bruce ANNALISA BARANOWSKI | THE DEPAULIA Rauner, a wealthy man himself, spent J.B. Pritzker broke the record for governor campaign spending with $171 million. This record was close to $70 million of his own money. previously set in 2010 in Meg Whitman's bid for California governor, spending $144 million.

Both candidates ran on platforms of fighting for the people, but how are we be brought up that for all of the aspects of however, believing that limiting the supposed to support these men who claim Illinois he claimed to want to fix, his $171 amount of their own money they could altruistic intent, yet, rather than donating million could have done a lot of good use would infringe on their rights. “To this exorbitant amount of money to the for the state if simply donated. Is it fair each their own.” people they claim to fight for, spend it to to suggest Pritzker should donate $171 To be clear, Pritzker did nothing boost their own egos and acquire more million? No. It would great if he did, but wrong or illegal by funding his own visible power? The short answer is that we not doing so takes nothing away from his campaign. Most of the concern with shouldn’t. character. Alternatively, what matters here current campaign financing is the fear Wealthy candidates’ decision to put is that the system we have in place values of corruption through corporate donors. a high price tag on their elections forces the process of becoming the fixer more The fear is that if certain entities donate the hands of their opponents as well. than the process of actually fixing. too much, they will force the candidate to Governor Rauner spent just over $60 Toby Orisarayi, a political science appease their whims. It’s far million in 2014 to win the seat for the major, aspires to run for office more terrifying for first time. With Pritzker flexing is wallet, eventually. “I was actually supposed the candidates however, Rauner funneled another $30 to be an intern for Pritzker, to be solely million of spending into his campaign but then I found out that he is this year to eclipse $90 million, and it still extremely rich so I figured that wasn’t enough. An individual does have a he wouldn’t even need me to right to spend however much they want, intern for him,” Orisarayi but the ramifications of their actions affect said. He doesn’t believe more than just their own campaign. there is anything wrong Dean Thompson served as the with the massive selfcampaign manager for Rep. Peter funding the two Roskam’s re-election bid in Illinois’ 6th candidates District. provided “One thing I can tell you, from eight to the congressional campaigns, a gubernatorial race, and a presidential: money doesn't win elections. People and ideas win elections,” Thompson said.

I would have to agree with Thompson that Pritzker won through his platform, but his platform would have never been known without his financial power to invade the screen of every voter’s phone, laptop and television for the past year.

Pritzker’s opponents attempted to highlight the billionaire’s lack of similarities to the every man he claims to be. Between removing the toilets in his Gold Coast mansion to evade income taxes to recordings of racist conversations with disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich, Pritzker’s antics were nearly drowned out of the political conversation due to the massive sums he spent on his own campaign.

Aside from Pritzker’s controversial actions, it should

responsible for appeasing themselves.

Pritzker’s platform aligned with the Democrats in Illinois. There is no reason to doubt he will be willing to follow through on his promises made about social issues, but tax reform and campaign finance reform is where things get tricky.

Pritzker is responsible to himself, a billionaire, about how he restructures the system that currently helps billionaires.

We like to believe that our elected officials are just reflections of us. We say we’re tired of the elites controlling everything, but Nick Amendola, a senior at DePaul, wonders if we’re ready for the alternative.

“I think a candidate has to have credentials and experience and knowledge. I wouldn’t imagine someone with all of that finding themselves to be poor,” said Amendola. “I mean, yes, someone could be raised in poverty and have ambitions to run for something but how credible could that individual be?”

Thompson believes there is some hypocrisy in the movement for campaign finance reform. “It's ironic that the people who say money is the problem and we shouldn't let people make donations to their preferred candidates by and large have very negative things to say about the 45th President of the United States,” said Thompson. “And yet, by the data, he's been the figure, more than any other in recent times, who relied on just speaking to the masses and spreading his message through free platforms like Twitter and cable news and mega rallies.”

Ultimately, yes, a candidate must still have decent ideas as a foundation their funds and there have been examples of candidates winning elections with more median net worth. Though in major races, like Illinois’ gubernatorial election, personal wealth or the ability to quickly acquire it still appears to be a prerequisite.

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Politically inspired fashion is in this season

By Jack Breslin Contributing Writer

Conservative political activist Candace Owens made false claims last month that Yeezy designer Kanye West was helping her design an anti-democratic clothing brand called Blexit, which would encourage black Democrats to turn Republican. West, who was notoriously conservative last month, now claims he wants nothing to do with the brand. He has since attempted to distance himself from politics, claiming that he has been “used” to promote ideology he does not agree with. Sadly for West, that won’t change how the public views the Yeezy brand.

Fashion has throughout time always been used as a creative way to make a statement, but never has that been more true than it is in 2018 in an increasingly political climate. With more brands and figures like West coming out and making their political views known publicly, the logo on your shirt can say a lot more than you might want it to.

Regardless of whether West supports or denounces Blexit, the damage has already been done by his very public political statements. Yeezys are now essentially synonymous with MAGA hats, and the same goes for Nike’s synonymy with Colin Kaepernick and democrats.

In the case of Nike, the brand represents the opposing opinion to that of the currently unpopular Kanye West.

Its outward political display had mixed effects in terms of public perception. Though Nike’s stock has done well since the initial Kaepernick ad was aired, there was a 34 percent decline in favorability after the ad, and that decline includes millenials and other key demographics for the brand, according to a study by Morning Consult interviewing over 8,000 Americans. Some say that Nike’s

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stance is an important step in political progression.

“I feel like this Nike is like the Black Panther of our culture,” said Fear of God brand designer Jerry Lorenzo in a Complex news interview with John Mayer. “With Nike, you have somebody that understands culture and has the resources to have a significant effect on it.”

Nike has not only the resources, but more importantly, the people in power that support them.

Their overall favorability may be down at the moment, but their liberal supporters have increased significantly and Nike’s stock is expected to see continual growth in the next coming years.

While Nike is positioning itself as the Black Panther as Lorenzo said, other brands like Yeezy and Jordan remain behind on social issues. Chicago’s own Chance the Rapper even called out Jordan for being negligent of social issues in Chicago, posting a meme replicating the Kaepernick “Just Do It” ad, with a picture of Jordan and the words “F*ck them Kids” written across his face.

“With everything going on right now being so polarizing, I think Chance is really starting to prioritize making sure he’s doing the right thing for Chicago,” said local 90s fashion store owner John Agnello, who designed

a shirt for Chance at the 2015 Grammys with a picture of none other than Michael Jordan on it. “Jordan has never been active politically, but for Chance who looked up to Jordan to post that says a lot about what we expect from fashion influencers nowadays.”

While Jordan has remained mostly out of politics after famously saying “Republicans buy sneakers too”, other brands are starting to realize that his approach is growing dry. Last year, Adidas ran an ad campaign called “Calling all Creators,” which explored how athletes, artists and other tastemakers have an influence on culture through fashion. The ads brought together athletes like NBA star Damian Lillard and pop culture icon Pharrell Williams into the same room to discuss culture and content creation; these names are just two of so many more.

Pharrell in particular very publicly filed a cease and desist letter to President Trump barring him from playing his music at any of his rallies, which led to a myriad of other artists like Rihanna to do the same. Rihanna and Pharrell are both fashion designers in their own respect; Rihanna founded her own Fenty Beauty brand and Pharrell has his own line of designer sneakers with Adidas.

While Jordan remains on the decline, people like Rihanna and Pharrell are examples of how being outwardly political (and more outwardly liberal), can be good for business despite Nike’s favorability numbers indicating otherwise.

“That’s our job; we need to continue to enlighten while we inspire,” said Pharell to the other influencers in the ad. Lillard responded with a sentiment all of the tastemakers agreed with, “I’m not trying to stay in my lane, I’m trying to strike while the iron hot.”

Modern anti-semitism changes young Jews

By Courtney Lewis Contributing Writer

At 13 years old, I didn’t have a care in the world. I was living with my family in the town of Deerfield, on Chicago’s North Shore, going to school, cheerleading practice, Deerfield Square after class – and synagogue. In heavily-Jewish, affluent Deerfield, I never thought twice about being Jewish.

Most of my friends were Jewish, and we all went to Hebrew school, had our Bar/Bat Mizvot and wore our Star of David necklaces freely. At Shepard Middle School, on a particularly snowy Thursday, end-of-the-day announcements over the PA system listed which synagogues had cancelled Hebrew School classes that evening. I was Jewish, and that was that.

In the bubble of the North Shore, I never felt like I was ever going to be at risk for being Jewish. Anti-Semitism was ancient history. I had no idea that there was a sect of Americans that wanted me dead. I had no idea that Trump’s America would make these people brave enough to threaten and even murder Jews in an affluent, Jewish community like Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh.

That’s not to say I knew nothing about anti-Semitism before. Of course I had learned about the Holocaust. In synagogue and school alike, we heard the horror stories of Nazi Germany. I was disgusted and sad, but I didn’t relate to the material any more than I did to biblical stories of exodus from Egypt.

My grandfather had a different take.

He met Morris Goldner, a Holocaust survivor, through my grandmother. When Goldner learned that my grandfather was a writer, he asked my grandfather

to write his story. This story became the novel “A Match Made in Hell,” profiling Goldner, a Jewish boy turned resistance fighter in 1940s Poland. At 13, my mother finally decided I was old enough to read it, and when I was assigned by my English teacher to write a piece based on an author’s writing style, I decided to work with “A Match Made in Hell.” I couldn’t capture the voice any author better than my own grandfather.

While I read the book and wrote my own tale based on my grandfather’s prose, I was struck by the similarities between Goldner’s pre-war life and my own. Suddenly, European Jews were not ancient figures from textbooks, they were real people like my family, my friends, and myself. They lived lives not unlike mine until the Nazis murdered them. My grandparents knew Morris Goldner, who had witnessed these horrors. This was real.

I vividly remember sitting in my English classroom on the second floor of Shepard Middle School, surrounded by my peers and friends, writing my story in my grandfather’s language. Suddenly, I imagined Nazis rounding us up and putting us in train cars, Jewish middle schoolers who I knew and loved, who fought our parents for the newest Juicy Couture sweatsuit or for money to buy vending machine ice cream. I pictured my mom, who I had yelled at that morning for not leaving the house fast enough on the way to school, my dad, my brother, my sisters, all walking past “Arbeit Macht Frei” at gunpoint, entering Auschwitz. We were no different than Morris Goldner’s family, other than living in a different time and place.

On Saturday morning, eight years

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Students from a school near Squirrel Hill react following a funeral service at the Jewish Community Center on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018.

after my assignment, I sat in my living room watching news coverage of the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Squirrel Hill. A congregation like mine, in a community like mine, attacked by a man saying he wanted “All Jews to die”.

I found myself feeling all those same feelings as I did at 13. I could picture my family, my fellow congregants and myself, fearing for our lives at what should be a safe, sacred place. Synagogue has always been a refuge for me. Going to Shabbat services, like all of those people in Squirrel Hill did on Saturday, gives me a break from the whirlwind of school, work and current events where I can connect with and be grateful for the present moment.

By entering a synagogue full of people praying on the sabbath and shooting, Robert Bowers destroyed that refuge.

After Saturday, not even a synagogue can be a safe place to pray and practice Judaism.

Even as a Jewish woman from an affluent Jewish community, I suddenly feel afraid of being Jewish. I feel afraid of going to synagogue, of wearing the chai necklace I wear every day, in America, in

2018. Under our current administration, domestic terrorists feel safe. And I, and others like me, cannot.

When I spoke to my grandfather today, to tell him that I was thinking about writing this essay, he reminded me of a famous poem by German Martin Niemoller from 1934: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I am Jewish, and I am afraid. My black friends, my Muslim friends, my Hispanic friends, my LGBTQ+ friends— we are all afraid. Too many people with minority identities have lost their lives.

No one else needs to die. So I am speaking out, so we all must speak out, before there is no one left.

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

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Focus

Winter break bucket list 9 fun things to do during your time off from school

By Yamini Bangarusamy Focus Editor

The holiday season offers a great respite from studies for DePaul students.

The nearly six-week break is relaxing to many, but a lot of students struggle to find activities to occupy their time if they aren’t heading home for the holidays. The dilemma is worse for students who are spending their first winter in the Windy City.

“I’m excited for break because I haven’t had the time to explore more of the non-touristey places in Chicago,” said Peyton Suzuki, a freshman from Los

Angeles. “I’m aiming to do just that over break, while bundled up from head to toe, of course.

“Winter break was the first time I got to explore the city on my own terms,” said graduate student Sanjna Malik. “I made a list of all the places I wanted to visit, but didn’t get a chance to when I was drowning in homework.

Like Malik, The DePaulia made our own ultimate bucket list of quintessentially Chicago activities you can take advantage of over break.

1 Christkindlmarket Based off of the original 16th century Christmas market in Nuremberg, Germany, Christkindlmarket, the largest annual open-air Christmas market in Daley Plaza, draws inspiration from winter festivals in Germany. Vendors are tucked into cozy village-style huts and sell food, ornaments, clothes and other handmade items. Patrons particularly enjoy sipping Glühwein (roughly translated as “glowing wine”) or hot chocolate from the event’s

signature mugs. Going along with this year’s theme of “I love Christkindlmarket,” the mugs this year are designed in a heart-shape. Don’t forget to get your fill of the famous sauerkraut and potato pancakes, as well. This year’s event will run from November 16 to December 24. Making your way to this holiday staple from school is hassle-free as the market is only a short distance away from the Lake Red Line stop.

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ZooLights at the Lincoln Park Zoo is a holiday tradition 24 years in the making. This free, familyfriendly hosts fun activities such as ice sculptors, fun rides, sweet treats, carolers and even visits from Santa Claus. Enjoy the glow of 2.5 million lights when ZooLights returns on Friday, Nov. 23rd.

Chicago Thanksgiving Parade

The 2018 Chicago Thanksgiving Parade, which attracts approximately draws 1 million spectators each year, takes place on Thanksgiving Day from 8 - 11 a.m. The parade takes place in downtown on State Street and will run from Congress Parkway to Randolph Street.

Expect to see incredible dance and band performances, equestrians, massive floats, giant cartoon balloons and even celebrity appearances.

If you can’t make it in person, you can still catch the live broadcast on WGN 9 Chicago.

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Ice skating in Millennium Park

Root for our hometown teams as they compete all winter long. Make it a point to enjoy a Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks or Wolves game (or all of them) if you’re in need for a rush of adrenaline to combat the plunging temperatures. DePaul men’s basketball plays eight games over break, so check out a game at the Wintrust Arena if you haven’t already.

Skate against the backdrop of the Chicago skyline at the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink in Millennium Park.

Admission is free and you can rent skates for under $20. Never fear if you do not know how to skate because free ice skating lessons are offered on Fridays at 11 a.m. and Saturdays and Sunday at 9 a.m. The rink is open from Friday, November 16 to Sunday, March 10, 2019, weather permitting.

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Wormhole Coffee Shop This time travel-themed coffee shop with a big ol’ Delorean parked near the front window is a Wicker Park favorite. This coffee shop is a throwback to the 80s with nods to classics like “Back to the Future,” “Star Wars” and “Ghostbusters” to name a few. To take a trip back in time and enjoy their signature cold brew drinks, drop by this neighborhood staple.

The Bean, or more formally know as “Cloud Gate” is a gleaming public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor that sits in Millennium Park. The popular attraction bends the Chicago skyline around its mirrored surface. This showpiece has quickly catapulted to the top of Chicago attractions, dethroning Navy pier as the biggest tourist attraction in the Midwest. Although magnificent year-round, the Bean is particularly breath-taking in the winter, its svelte figure lightly dusted with a crisp, smattering of snow.

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Walnut Room at Macy’s on State

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The famous “Walnut Room” in Macy’s on State Street was the first ever restaurant to open in a department store. The 17,000 square foot dining room offers shoppers a nice respite from frenzied holiday shopping.

Make sure to enjoy classics like Mrs. Hering’s Chicken Pot Pie.

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Navy Pier’s annual Winter Wonderfest is 170,000 square feet of fun, wintry-themed attractions such as indoor ice skating, inflatable rides, a giant Christmas tree and festive carousel to name a few. Attractions cater to all ages as there’s something for everyone to enjoy. The event runs from December 2 to Jan. 8, 2019.

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Arts & Life

To ride on the witch’s broomstick:

How the rising interest in the occult empowers women

By Mackenzie Murtaugh Opinions Editor

Bad witches, akin to the Wicked Witch of the West and the Sanderson Sisters, presented a real threat my adolescent years.

Was the vile, green woman going to come down upon my house and threaten my life over an ugly pair of shoes, or was I going to be forced to play friendly with those three godless and catty sisters? It turns out that these trivial issues were not as pressing as childhood entertainment made it seem, but it did one thing with ease: it supplied young girls with the image of a woman who is feared because of her power.

Recently, witches have seen warmer feedback than ever before with films and shows like Luca Gu ad ag nino’s c r e e p y remake of “Suspiria” and the nostalgiainducing Netflix

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show “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”

While the former gives us bone-chilling occultism by way of a secret coven looking to harvest young dancers, the latter is telling of the current desire for occultism, specifically witches. Sabrina navigates the series as a human-witch hybrid who must defend herself and her mortal friends against the dark forces that are coming for her. She struggles with her dual identity, and until she forwardly accepts it, she struggles as a powerful woman.

Not only are witches and the occult popular in media, but in culture as well. Young women, particularly those of Gen Z, have flocked to alternative forms of religion and spiritual systems. According to a 2018 research report from IBISWorld, the Psychic Service industry has grown two percent in the past five years, making it now worth over 2 billion dollars. The industry caters mostly towards women as its biggest demographic. In 2015, the approximate number of American women who spent over $10,000 for psychic readings was 285,000, whereas men who spent that much fell to a minute 325, according to data compiled by the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums. This could be for a number of reasons, but almost universally, it is more socially acceptable for women to rely on emotions r a t h e r than logic, whereas men have been trained to do the opposite.

“To me and a lot of women like me, witches and knowing about them make you feel like a better woman in a politically charged moment like right now,” said Tavi Markovitz, a 22-year-old woman who expresses an interest in witches. “To me, even though I don’t practice it, witches represent the idea of a woman who is powerful and who can’t be controlled by men.”

More and more companies are realizing the potential money in women’s current obsession with the occult—

Urban Outfitters, the “lifestyle” store that markets to the hip and the young knows their demographic so well that they sell both tarot decks and healing crystals.

The trendiness of witches was bound to be met with the anti-feminist machine of capitalism, and this was not met without issue.

“It upsets me to see big corporations capitalizing off witchcraft when it’s not as much about the crystals or the dark, gothic and witchy look,” said Kiki Joy, a 23-yearold woman who practices Wicca, the Pagan religion that has now become synonymous with witchcraft. “It’s more so about standing in solidarity with women, believing them when they speak and understanding that we have been oppressed by men who were born into power. Witches and women aren’t born into that same type of power, but they can harness it by working hard.”

Historically, witches embody feminism, as their independence and righteous defense of their craft are constantly threatened. They are feared because of their otherworldly, or womanly, powers. Accepting of female capability for power that historical witches had could not happen in the power-hungry and patriarchal societies of the past, an ideology that has seldom changed. During the Salem witch trials, young girls and women desired freedom from their “womanly” duties, and they were accused of witchcraft when they acted on their urges. While it is likely that none of the women killed were actual broomstick-wielding, green-skinned witches, male domination persisted out of sheer fear that women had the capability to harness more power than men.

In the U.S. today, women are not accused of witchcraft and burned, but there is something to say about how men tend to react to powerful and defiant women.

A casual walk down the street can turn deadly for a woman if she asserts herself over a predatory stranger. By directly defying male dominance, women are put at risk, which doesn’t sound that different than the powerful and defiant witches of the past.

Witchcraft and the occult give young women what they are searching for in our current political climate: power. Witches were always symbols of power, and while their image has been obstructed by maledominated forces, they bring a positive narrative for female independence and solidarity.

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'Suspiria' is feat of epic filmmaking

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Dakota Johnson leading the impressive cast of "Suspirira" in one of the many epic dance sequences in the film.

By Michael Brzezinski Staff Writer

Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” is his most successful and iconic film. Not only in its critical reception and box office receipts but it is frequently looked upon as one of the most defining and influential horror films of all time with its dynamic usage of colors and crazy expressive set pieces. It is a film that you probably find many people refer to as an “untouchable” masterpiece. Some might disagree with that though, and Luca Guadagnino is one of them.

The popular Italian auteur has chosen to follow up his 2017 coming of age awards darling “Call Me By Your Name” with a remake of Argento’s classic. The thing is it might not be fair to call this a remake but rather a reframing of key elements from the original.

Guadagnino himself said in an interview with The Guardian that this is “an homage to the incredible, powerful IMAGE COURTESY OF IMDB emotions I felt when I saw [the original].”

And after seeing, the film that is a very Dakota Johnson stars in "Suspiria," directed by Luca Gudagnino. unsurprising thing to hear because Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a film built off of powerful unsettling emotions and compelling imagery.

To be frank, I don’t think I’ve ever been more glad someone has remade something like this.

This film follows the same general premise of the original film. We follow an American dance student named Suzie (a tremendously dark turn for Dakota Johnson) as a newcomer at a prestige German dance school (whereas the first film takes place in Freiburg, this film has the action set in 1977 Berlin with the school set right across the street from the Berlin Wall) that may we’re lucky enough to now have two films Guadagnino also trades the psychedelic or may not be run by a sadistic coven of that utilize it in very different one-of-a- score of the original for a serene and witches, lead by the elusive Madame Blanc kind ways. unsettling composition from Radiohead (played brilliantly by Tilda Swinton, who Stylistically, Guadagnino goes in the frontman Thom Yorke. also plays two other characters underneath exact opposite direction as Argento. The Guadagnino emulates a lot of qualities layers of makeup). aesthetic is grounded, there are no stylized from the New German Cinema movement.

It’s a truly great premise for a film and colors, it’s muted with a soft 35mm grain. The film uses the uneasy political climate of

"Without spoilers, the grand climactic dance number of the film is one of the most terrifying and alluring sequences ever put to film.

They move with the pace of agile demon."

Germany in the ‘70s as a striking backdrop mixed with an air of intense generational guilt from World War II and the lingering threat of history repeating itself. It’s a very distinct thematic detail that is made even more fascinating by how Guadagnino blends it with his themes of motherhood, femininity, and communities built and preserved solely by women.

The film isn’t just thematically rich but is filled with so many breathtaking stylistic flourishes. One of the biggest gripes I’ve always had with Argento’s original film is the lack of physicality in its narrative and horror for a film centered on dancing.

Guadagnino not only brings the physicality but he capitalizes on it. There are so many dance sequences that are so meticulously choreographed and edited to elicit a truly visceral experience. Without spoilers, the grand climactic dance number of the film is one of the most terrifying and alluring sequences ever put to film. They move with the pace of agile demon.

It is sequences like that that make “Suspiria” a sort of revelation for modern horror cinema. Today, in the Blumhouse Production-era we praise shoestring horror films for being quiet and minimalist. But with “Suspiria” we have a horror film that is a genuine extravagant spectacle with aggressive and gruesome imagery and scares built purely from tone, emotion, atmosphere, and bombastic cinematic tricks.

I love horror and I love outlandish go-for-broke filmmaking and Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a perfect marriage of those. Top-to-bottom it reminds me of what I actively look for in films in any given year. A hyper-violent feminist piece of arthouse horror that puts you under its spell and doesn’t let go for its entire 152-minute runtime. Even though they are very different, much like the original, this is a stone cold masterpiece that will be reflected upon and admired for centuries to come.

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'Bohemian Rhapsody': A film for fans

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Rami Malek stars as musician Freddy Mercury in this highly anticipated biopic documenting the artist, and his rock band Queen's historic rise in the '80s.

By Jacqueline Brennan Contributing Writer

I would like the record to show that I went into “Bohemian Rhapsody” with high expectations and lots of excitement, and I did not leave disappointed. I let the craze of the film’s release muster over the weekend before seeing it Monday evening. I was not surprised to see every seat in the theater occupied and majority of the crowd being older than 35 years of age.

It was funny, a gentleman beside me asked me, “Aren’t you too young to know who these guys are?” I had to suppress a laugh and tell him I wasn’t, and that I grew up on Queen because of my father; the gentleman appreciated that my father liked Queen and played it around me. He said, “Your father was smart to teach you right.”

What can I say? Queen is for all misfits of any age.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a biopic of Freddie Mercury and the rock group Queen. The film pays tribute to Mercury’s life through his struggle of coming to terms with his sexuality and his diagnosis with AIDS as well as the success of some of the band’s famous records. Despite not getting an in-depth look at Mercury’s life, the audience still got an understanding of how hard it was for him to come to terms with his sexuality and how the drugs and alcohol affected his relationships and his career with the band.

Fans were treated to some of Queen’s historic musical performances, like their Live Aid show back in 1985, and the creation of popular songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You,” among others. The film has a fantastic balance of conflict and entertainment between Mercury coming to the realization that his partner had played him and destroyed his relationships with his friends, to the final 25 minutes of the film which consist of Queen’s performance at Live Aid. There were times of silence and there were times of synchronized singing from the audience - it is truly a film for the fans.

During its opening weekend, “Bohemian Rhapsody” earned over $51 million in the box office, making it the No. 1 film in the country. Despite its success in the box office, critics did not like this movie at all, giving the film a very poor rating; Rotten Tomatoes gave it a meager 61% rating.

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The film has been criticized for it's handling of Mercury's sexuality and AIDS diagnosis.

“Bohemian Rhapsody is less about Freddie Mercury (who died in 1991), and much more about Queen,” movie critic Katie Walsh wrote inthe Chicago Tribune.

Walsh went on to praise Rami Malek for his performance as Freddie Mercury and that the casting of Mercury's bandmates was perfect. Walsh gave the film two and half stars out of five.

Like Walsh, many other critics thought the film didn’t do justice to the legacy of Mercury and focused more on the band as a whole.

Movie critic Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post wrote, “As a trite, often laughably clichéd biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, an enterprise that should have been as daring and flamboyantly theatrical as its subject winds up being bowdlerized, Wiki-fied, distortedly compressed and unforgivably

conventional.”

Hornaday gave “Bohemian Rhapsody” a rating of two and a half stars out of four.

I can see where people were upset with this film and the way it turned out, but I also understand why it is the way it is.

Director Bryan Singer had a vision for this film with the time length he was given to do so, and I feel as though he did a great job with it. Being a fan of Queen myself, I know that there was too much that could have been said about Mercury’s legacy as well as Queen’s itself. The film would be much longer than two and a half hours if Singer was to dive deep into Mercury’s story.

I also understand that there was a lot of research and help from former bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor when the writing of this film began. So I have to believe that if May and Taylor didn’t like something that was being written, they had

the opportunity to speak out about it and have it changed in the script.

Fans reaction and excitement for this film is what made it so successful. Fans on Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 94% satisfaction rating.

On Google users can leave a review of the film and, after going through the reviews for 10 minutes, I found an overwhelming amount of positive feedback. There were fans that were disappointed of course, but the overall impression I got was that of happiness in regard to the film.

To summarize my favorite review I stumbled upon on Google, one woman said she was a huge fan and has read every biography she could get her hands on, but she knew this film would in no way be able to get a full and accurate account of everything that happened in Mercury’s life, as well as the bands success. She said she went into the film with an open mind but was hoping the writers wouldn’t turn it into a bashing session, and she was happy to leave the film knowing they didn’t. She went on to say how she thought May and Taylor did a great job at helping bring this story to life, while protecting Mercury and other people who were key figures in the story.

I read her review and felt she hit the nail on the head - there was no chance that this film would give the audience a full and accurate look into the legacy of Freddie Mercury and Queen. This is exactly how I felt going into the film and how I felt leaving the theater.

“I have not yet seen the film but I really want to,” said DePaul student Noah Festenstein. “I’m a huge Queen fan, they’re one of my top favorite bands. I’ve heard nothing but good things about the film from my brother and others who have seen it , despite what critics have said about it. I can’t wait to see it for myself.”

If you haven’t seen “Bohemian Rhapsody” I recommend you do before the film is released on DVD. It is something you need to seen on the big screen because of the many musical performances that occur throughout the film. I enjoyed the film and think you have to experience it at least once because this is a film about one of the biggest entertainers the world has ever seen and someone who changed the scope of the music industry for years to come.

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Intentionally leaked music is newest tactic for artists vying for internet fame

By Jack Breslin Contributing Writer

In a culture where memes run the world, hip-hop has thrived this year like no other genre has. Well over half of the current Billboard Hot 100 songs are primarily by hip-hop artists, but social media has allowed hip-hop to reach massive success beyond what we quantify as successful on a commercial level. Nowadays, one can go viral with a track without it even being officially released on streaming platforms.

When looking at the memetic influence surrounding the culture of hip-hop, Kodak Black’s “ZeZe” with Travis Scott and Offset is a perfect example. The track is currently No. 6 on the Billboard hot 100 for the week of Nov. 10 after falling from No. 2 last week, but the song was already a hit before fans had even heard a single verse. A short clip of Kodak and Travis dancing to the first six seconds of the tropical-themed instrumental went viral and became a meme, amounting huge expectations for the official release. The reaction to the official release was lukewarm, but the social media buzz surrounding the instrumental and accompanying meme sent the song straight to the top anyway.

“Everyone on the Internet knew about the beat. It was a worldwide phenomenon.

It was the biggest music snippet of the month, and the biggest meme too,” “ZeZe” producer D.A. Doman from Evanston, Illinois told Billboard. “The love that the

"Leaks and unreleased songs definitely creates hype for an artist if they are on the come up or already popular and are about to release a major project in the near future."

Hasan Mo

DePaul student and hip-hop fan beat got shown hasn't happened before for an unreleased song to my knowledge, and everyone I've talked to has said the same thing. It’s a first in hip-hop for an unreleased song’s instrumental to get so huge. It was getting played at parties, clubs, concerts, and everything.”

Though Doman’s “ZeZe” might have been the highest charting song after going viral before its release, it’s far from the only song of it’s kind. Lil Uzi Vert’s “New Patek” peaked at No. 14 last month after a snippet of the song was leaked several months before by none other than Uzi himself, and his leaked track “Of Course” was seen being played during walk-outs for the Duke Basketball team despite never having an actual release. Many artists like

Uzi, Playboi Carti, and Chicago’s own Juice WRLD have been able build their fan bases around unreleased and leaked music rather than proper albums by staying active in the social media sphere.

“Leaks and unreleased songs definitely creates hype for an artist if they are on the come up or already popular and are about to release a major project in the near future,” said Hasan Mo, a communications student at DePaul and fan of underground hip-hop. “One artist in particular that I find myself anticipating is Lil Uzi Vert, I find myself listening to his WorldStar and SoundCloud releases a lot.”

Soundcloud and other internet platforms have been changing the landscape of hip-hop for a few years now, but it’s

continually evolving. Fans of the newer, more youthful artists are so hungry for their music that some songs have already gotten millions of plays before a proper release. Juice WRLD’s unreleased “Armed and Dangerous” had well over 5 million plays on YouTube before being removed by his own label, and Uzi Vert’s “Like Me” (once again, leaked by Uzi himself) has received millions of plays despite being cut short at a minute and half.

In some ways, the rise of unreleased music reaching mass popularity is a product of music (hip-hop especially) getting shorter in song length. Lil Pump’s “Gucci Gang” peaked at No. 3 earlier this year despite being only two minutes and four seconds in length, the shortest charting song on Billboard in 42 years.

Fans are becoming increasingly satisfied with whatever they can get from an artist, but memes are directly related to that.

Everything that goes viral is a short and sweet, a snapshot of the culture that fans cling to that skyrocket these tracks to the top of streaming platforms.

“All you need is a few face tats and something to go viral and you’re up next,” said Jeffrey Bowen, a Chicago resident and childhood friend of Chicago rapper and popular SoundCloud artist Famous Dex. “If you have clout on Instagram, you really don’t even need that much music out; people will want to hear what you have to say regardless.”

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An enjoyable, if forgettable, tale of war

By Garret Neal Staff Writer

“Overlord” is a new action/horror film directed by Julius Avery, who is probably more known for his upcoming “Flash Gordon” film than anything he’s released so far. While the content of the two films is likely to be quite different, “Overlord” left me feeling encouraged as to the potential of the Gordon film. “Overlord” has the feel of a high budget B-movie that executes everything pretty well, even if it doesn’t do anything super unique.

“Overlord” follows a group of soldiers who are dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day. The unit has been tasked with destroying a radio tower, located in a small French town, so that the air support will be able to reach the beaches with less resistance.

Upon arrival to the town, things get a little more complicated than anticipated.

Pvt. Boyce (Jovan Adepo) sneaks into the church that holds the tower controls to find that the Nazis are conducting deadly experiments on their captives. Boyce regroups with his unit, determined to return to the church to destroy the tower and the devilish experiments beneath.

The film hits the ground running, opening with perhaps the most thrilling sequence of the film. The soldiers are just minutes away from parachuting out toward their desired location. Each member of the platoon gets a few lines that quickly establishes the character trope each falls under—the paragon of virtue, the over talkative New Jersian and the mysterious silent guy. Things go wrong quickly, as bullets pierce through the plane immediately killing one member. As things

go haywire, the camera does a great job of establishing the cramped space, leaving the audience feeling trapped alongside the soldiers. The camera begins to shake as the plane falls apart, leaving me almost as confused as those on screen (in a good way).

While this was my favorite scene, the rest of the film did well enough to keep me entertained. It doesn’t take long after that for the film to plant the seeds for what is going down in the church basement. The film uses such seeds to help sprout the horror vibe well through the first hour or so.

The church features some truly disturbing moments of body horror, effective in both furthering the mystery and making me squirm. They even throw in a few jump scares, thankfully not going overboard.

The end of the film switches to a more action heavy tone. There are really only two or three ‘monsters,’ so don’t get your hopes set on a run and gun style. Instead the film utilizes chase scenes, tense one-on-one battles and a few nice explosions to help take out the Nazi’s guarding the church.

And flamethrowers. Flamethrowers are always fun to watch.

I felt that the film dragged a bit in the middle. The film gave me some nice leads on the mysteries of the church in that first hour, but the 30 minutes until the film turns on the action left me in a lurch. I knew the film had to answer my questions about the church and I wanted it to very dearly, but instead they try on focus on the dismantling of the tower for what I felt was a bit too long. Once the action started kicking off, I was once again satisfied.

Though there were a few times I felt that the 40-50 guards the film says are in the

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Jovan Adepo stars as Pvt. Boyce in "Overlord," a film produced by J.J. Abrams. church had all taken their breaks at the same time because only 10 ever seemed to face the protagonists.

Those protagonists did as solid a job keeping me engaged as the story did. Boyce is the one the film spends the most time with. He’s the new guy who doesn’t really like killing and is the moral compass of the film, constantly doing ‘the right thing.’ It could be to the point of announce for some, but as a certified lame-o I enjoy paragon characters. The rest of the characters, no matter how long we spent with them, also never leave their stereotypes. Still, they felt

believable as I watched the film, and I felt invested regardless of their lack of depth.

That’s probably the way to describe my feelings on the film, too: nothing here felt new, or really surprised me—save some of the body horror moments in the church.

Neither the story, nor the characters were deep, yet through some very solid execution at almost every level of this film, I found myself enjoying most of the two hours I spent in the theater. If everything in October couldn’t quench your thirst for horror and film violence, consider this to satisfy your palate.

Actor Wyatt Russell on genre-bending film

By Michael Brzezinski Staff Writer

William T. Sherman once said “War is Hell.” However, things could somehow be worse. Sherman probably never considered the factor of Nazi-manufactured zombies into the equation of war. That’s the premise of the new horror action film from maverick Hollywood producer, J.J. Abrams, titled “Overlord” - a film that reenvisions the hours leading up to the D-Day invasion about a troop of five American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines fending off a wave of Nazi’s and their ungodly reanimated creations.

Or as the film’s star, Wyatt Russell put it to The DePaulia “It’s history twisted in a million other ways.”

In the film, Russell plays rogue paratrooper and top-tier explosive expert, Cpl. Ford. Ford is positioned as the gruff and tough leader of the quintet of stranded soldiers after their plane is shot

" Knowing that you are being guided by the hand of someone like J.J. Abrams is a confidence booster."

Wyatt Russell

Actor, Cpl. Ford in "Overlord" down over a small Nazi-occupied french town. “Overlord” is like if John Carpenter directed “Re-Animator” and “Saving Private Ryan” into a blendor of dark humor, excessive gore, and big thrills.

“It’s B-quality that’s fun but executed at an A-level,” Russell said. “You feel that there is a palpable sense of reality.”

Russell, the son of Hollywood legends Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, says he mostly decided to come on board the

project due to the involvement of J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions.

“When you see the name J.J. Abrams above a movie, you think about the future,” Russell said. [J.J.] is so prolific with stuff like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’ that when you come aboard a movie of his, you’re playing on another level. Knowing that you are being guided by the hand of someone like J.J. Abrams is a confidence booster.”

While the film takes place over

the course of just six hours, the actual production took around three months to complete. While some movie sets can be rough, Russell has mostly fond memories from his work with the cast and crew of “Overlord” (besides an unfortunate case of Mono during production).

“We went through a four to five day boot camp about the mental element of war and knowing each other in the situation.

We grew closer and it mostly just made [the production] a lot of fun,” Russell said.

“What makes movies fun is working with good directors and good actors.”

Russell’s biggest wish for this film is simply that people go out and just simply enjoy themselves with the bombastic genre mishmash that is “Overlord.”

“I just hope that they enjoy going to the movie,” Russell said. “So that they can experience it in a movie theater with friends and say ‘Wow, I’m glad I saw that!’”

“Overlord” is in theaters now.

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Studio Ghibli: Why you should be watching

By Michael Edicola Contributing Writer

Before I began writing this piece I talked to my mother about Studio Ghibli and the movies they make. I asked her if she remembered films like “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” to which she responded very positively saying “It’s not normally my kind of movie, but I love ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service.’” Much like the rest of Ghibli’s work, “Kiki” is a Japanese animated feature that made its way to the West through a deal with Disney. Ghibli films were dubbed over with voicework from such prominent actors such as Sir Patrick Stewart, Uma Thurman, Kirsten Dunst, and Mark Hamill among many others; the films were then distributed across the U.S. Nowadays Ghibli is quite well known to many, but that wasn’t always the case.

In the mid 80s to the late 90s Japanese animation, known as “anime,” such as Ghibli’s work was not a household product.

It wasn’t until the release of the psychedelic, dystopian anime film “Akira” that American audiences began to take notice. So what exactly caused people to latch onto such a different experience than what they were used to? Was it Disney’s involvement? Was it the actors newly added? That may have opened the door, but I think the staying power of the films resides in the running theme of all Ghibli films: humanity.

Hayao Miyazaki, the lead creative force behind many of Ghibli’s works, did not set

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out to make children’s films with flashy animation. He made complex animated films about what it means to be human.

I’m certainly not the first to notice this, and I highly recommend you check out a video by Youtube creator Channel Criswell on Hayao Miyazaki that inspired me to write this particular piece. I asked my good friend and cinephile Tom Giazzon what he thought was the universal draw to Ghibli’s work and he simply said two things: “The focus on the human condition” and the “vivid and engaging world building.” I couldn’t agree more with his sentiment.

When I say Miyazaki made complex films I mean to say that the message of his films didn’t take you by the hand like most Western animated films had done before.

Miyazaki’s work holds a level of respect

Will Chicago ever have a seat at the fashion table?

By Hailey Hinton Contributing Writer

Three Chicago fashion entrepreneurs and two Chicago fashion students say they are frustrated that Chicago has never had a seat at the fashion industry table.

That can change, but it will take more money and media coverage, they say.

Tony Long, the CEO of FashionBar Chicago, said, “We can be leaders in fashion if we had a place at the table. Instead, we’re building a table, and offering seats for people to sit down.”

Arabel Rosales, the CEO of AAR & Associates and co-founder of Latino Fashion Week said, “There’s a little bit of a disconnect in the sense that we have these incredible designers that are here, and we have a number of boutiques–but there’s not enough branding and promotion that is done for those boutiques.”

Emma Hinton, a recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago who majored in Fashion Business, had similar thoughts.

“I think Chicago could definitely keep with cities like NYC And LA if we had more of a fashion presence in the media. Social media and influencers are huge now in the industry,” Hinton said.

Long also made a point to say that an industry needs to be established first.

“Chicago has a passion for fashion, we have nearly eight to 12 fashion schools,” she said. “There’s a reason why these students are paying $30,000 to $60,000 for an education. An industry needs to be established.”

George Vlagos, founder of Oakstreet Bootmakers, said he would like to see more plaudits for the quality of Chicago’s fashion industry.

“We don’t push fashion -- it’s really

about being a quality product,” he said. It’s about continuing to make something of value. I think if you’re making something of value, it can’t fizzle out.”

Greta Morgan, 20, and a junior at DePaul University, said that quality is not just for wealthier people, but that students like herself also enjoy having quality things.

“If I see something in a store that is not a well-known brand but has the quality, I would purchase that over say something similar that has poorer quality just to have the name on,” Morgan said.

“Most luxury brands you pay for quality over quantity, which makes it worth it for me.”

“In the long run, that is what sustains your brand. It’s about your brand being top quality,” Rosales said.

The bottom line is marketing, selling and moving goods from one place to another, Long said.

Hinton said Chicago already has what it takes.

“We can’t expect established designers to move their fashion houses to Chicago,” she said. “But what we can do is help promote up-and-coming and already established designers to stay here in Chicago, and really build their brand here.”

Rosales agrees that Chicago is a great place to start.

“When you’re looking at New York and LA or some of these other places to live at, we’re still in a much better position,” she said. “We still can give you a really good foundation to work from, to build from, to build your business from, and then you go out and market and brand outside.”

for the viewer, allowing them to connect with the emotions of his characters on display and understand the mystical worlds that surround them. In the West there was, and to an extent still is, a mindset that cartoons are designed wholly for children.

My counter argument would be sit down and watch “Akira” and tell me you’d show it to your children. Animated media, particularly anime, has been addressing deep and important themes far better than your average “Hunter Killer” for quite some time. Miyazaki films are so highly regarded that many Western animated shows currently running like “Steven Universe” and “Star vs. the Forces of Evil” clearly take heavy influence from anime with character driven, serialized stories.

The only issue with such involved

filmmaking is that such narratives could be off putting for some who are not fully used to idea of animated content addressing such themes. The complexity is why I recommend checking out Miyazaki’s work, however; it’s the perfect way to dip your toe into a whole new style of film without being overwhelmed. The beauty of Miyazaki’s work is that you could be five years old or 50 years old and you’ll get something meaningful out of his films. If you’d like to get something meaningful out of one of his films in a theater setting then you’ve come to the right place.

After relatively recently acquiring the distribution rights from Disney, GKIDS has been working in tandem with Fathom Events to do limited runs of Ghibli films in theaters with both their English dubs and the original Japanese with English subtitles.

On November 18th through the 20th you can find a screening near you to see one of the classic Ghibli films “Castle In The Sky,” and I could not recommend enough that you do so. Ghibli holds a special place in my heart for films that have stuck in my mind far longer than most, and I think you would be doing yourself a disservice if you didn’t check them out for yourself on the big screen. I honestly don’t think you can replicate the sweeping score and gravity of a Ghibli film on a laptop - so do yourself a favor and experience a whole new world at your local theater.

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what’s FRESH for Veterans Day

Resurface (Netflix)

We Are Not Done Yet (HBO)

This award-winning documentary short follows a group of veterans that find solace and rehabilitation in the sport of surfing. Though only about half an hour in length, “Resurface” is a poignant and honest look at the obstacles, both mental and physical that plague many of America’s returning servicemen and women.

This HBO documentary profiles a group of American veterans as they embark on a journey of recovery and re-assimilation into civilian life through the use of spoken word poetry. The group of veterans join together in a United Service Organizations (USO) writing workshop.

Despite many of the veterans depicted in the film having life-altering disabilities attained during their service, surfing provides an outlet for these men and women to clear their minds and re-introduce themselves to the beauty and potential that life has to offer.

Actor Jeffrey Wright produces the documentary and joins the soldiers on their journey of recovery through writing. A deeply emotional film, “We Are Not Done Yet” takes viewers into the aspects of war most often ignored: the after effects on those who answered the call of duty for their fellow Americans.

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In theaters & upcoming films Nov. 9 "The Grinch (2018)" A new animated version of the classic Christmas tale about a grumpy Grinch plotting to ruin the holiday for Whoville.

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson

Nov. 23 “Ralph Breaks the Internet” Six years after the events of "Wreck It Ralph," the discovery of a wifi router sets off a new adventure for Ralph and Vanellope.

Stars: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot

Nov. 16 “Instant Family” A couple adopts three foster children and quickly realize that they are in over their heads.

Stars: Rose Byrne, Mark Wahlberg

Nov. 23 "Creed II" Adonis Creed prepares to face Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago, with guidance from Rocky Balboa.

Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone

Nov. 16 “Widows” After the deaths of their criminal husbands, four women plan a heist to forge a path for their futures.

Stars: Viola Davis, Liam Neeson

Nov. 23 “Robin Hood” In this modernrendition of a classic tale, a crusader and his commander mount a revolt against the corrupt English crown.

Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx,

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By Mary Rose Weber Contributing Writer

At this point in the quarter there seems to be one thing preoccupying the mind of many a DePaul student. While we may want to focus our energy on Thanksgiving food and Christmas cheer, we instead must fixate on final exams, papers and presentations. With these pressures it is hard not to have that ubiquitous feeling of stress with the end of the quarter and all its trappings: the aforementioned finals, housing, going home - the list goes on. To help us detox from all the negativity, I have compiled four songs that I find to be great stress relievers, or de-stressers if you will.

1. “Honeyguide" - Frances Luke Accord This brand-new single from Frances Luke Accord highlights one of the strongest assets of the folk duo: their voices. Brian Powers and Nick Gunty’s vocals intertwine and complement each other in an otherworldly way.

Paired with light strumming, “Honeyguide” has the sort of airy quality that is instantly soothing.

Joined by folk singer Humbird on this single, the soft-spoken duo exudes the kind of optimism that is in short supply during finals season. Listen to this song to calm your nerves and help you maintain your sanity.

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2. “Star Witness” - Niko Case Often stress is caused by pure and simple procrastination - like when you know that you need to be studying, but you just have no motivation. For the times when you need a song to get you moving, there is Neko Case. Case’s voice is powerful enough to move mountains, and therefore should be powerful enough to move us, the lowly college student, as well. Just try not to be inspired and feel the negative energy leave your body when she sings. With her voice and raw emotion as your guide, there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

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. “Ooo Baby Baby” - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Is there anything more relaxing than soul? Smokey Robinson & The Miracles “Ooo Baby Baby” strikes a slightly less uplifting tone then the previously mentioned songs, but that just adds to its merit as a de-stresser.

As Robinson sings, “Mistakes, I know I’ve made a few / But I’m only human / You’ve made mistakes too” reminding us that sometimes the best stress reliever is recognizing that none of us are perfect. Also, the smooth and soul stirring power of Smokey Robinson’s dulcet tones is enough to remind us of what’s good in the world.

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. “Color Song" - Maggie Rogers Sometimes the best cure for stress is pure escapism, of which Maggie Rogers is the antidote.

“Color Song” features nothing but Rogers’ stripped down vocals and the soft chirping of crickets.

Her gentle description of a blissful scene in nature is the perfect way to leave all of your problems behind and fall under her spell.

With little more than the power of her voice, you can find yourself in the environment of which she sings and simultaneously feel the stress leave your body.

1. Lobster-house wear 2. Collected sayings 3. Diego’s start 4. Calligrapher’s containers 5. Composed 6. Sound, as reasoning 7. Successfully pitch 8. Eye part containing the pupil 9. Martini component 10. Overlooks 11. Curving outward at the knees 12. Ring-shaped reef 13. Some invitation replies 18. Smelters’ raw materials 22. Art, today 23. Believer of a sort 24. Become one on the run?

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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Late run helps DePaul edge Green Bay

By Cristhian Plasencia Staff Writer

DePaul entered Friday night expecting a stiff test from a Green Bay team that had reached the NCAA Tournament in nine of the past 10 seasons and that is exactly what they got. Unlike last year against Northern Colorado, however, the 15th ranked DePaul women’s basketball team was able to open the season with a 73-64 win over Green Bay Friday night at McGrath-Phillips Arena thanks to a 20-3 run to close the game.

It did not start well for DePaul as they turned the ball over seven times in the first quarter as the Phoenix took an early lead.

It was a surprisingly off-night for junior guard Kelly Campbell, who finished with just five points and six turnovers.

“I personally had a rough first quarter, I couldn’t execute passes,” Campbell said.

“There was a lot of stagnant on offense, but we figured it out in the second half.”

Although the Phoenix were able to get too many easy baskets in the first half, DePaul’s full-court pressure started to have an impact in the second half. The Blue Demons forced the Phoenix into 24 turnovers on the night and were capitalize with 26 points off those turnovers.

“We are small, so we are a high-risk high reward defense, and we extend the floor that way,” head coach Doug Bruno said. “I think we have to extend the floor, because of lack of overall size, then you’re going to give up points in paint. That is the give and take we have to deal with here.”

Green Bay outscored DePaul 22-2 in points in the paint in the first half, as the Phoenix looked to push it inside early and often. The Phoenix continued to dominate this area out-scoring DePaul 38-16 on the night.

Coming down the stretch of the fourth quarter, it was DePaul’s defense however, that made the difference. With the Phoenix leading 57-51 with eight minutes to go,

DePaul held Green Bay scoreless over the next two minutes as they began to cut into the lead with a three by senior guard Rebekah Dahlman.

The fourth quarter belonged to DePaul as they shot 55 percent from the field while holding Green Bay to just 29 percent as the Blue Demons out-paced the Phoenix 22-11 in the final quarter.

“We were able to wear down a very good Green Bay team,” Bruno said. “When we were playing straight man defense, they were able to pick us apart and get anything they wanted.”

Dahlman led DePaul in scoring with 21 points while shooting four-of-eight from the field to go along with 11 free throws.

Dahlman returned to the court after suffering a season-ending injury in the 2017-18 season opener against Northern Colorado.

“It felt great to be out there, and I’m just doing anything that I can do for the team,” Dahlman said. “I’ve been here for six years, so I know the little things, especially when I was helping the team off the court.”

The senior guard said beginning with Green Bay, the goal for her is just to continue to stay healthy and close her career out on a high note.

“I’ve been having a lot of injuries throughout my career and a lot of adversity,” Dahlman said. “But this the year you know coach always says one solid year, that’s what I’m hoping for.”

After Dahlman gave DePaul a 62-61 lead with just under four minutes to play, it was senior guard Ashton Millender’s turn to continue the rally. Millender, who struggled much of the night hitting just four-of-10 3-point opportunities, connected on her final three to give DePaul a 65-61 lead and the lead for good.

Despite the loss, it was an impressive effort from Green Bay who were without their starting forward Karly Murphy, after she tore her ACL in her left knee one minute

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Sophomore Dee Bekelja and senior Ashton Millender pressure Green Bay senior guard Laken James during the Blue Demons 73-64 victory over the Phoenix Friday night. into Tuesday’s game against Northwestern.

The Phoenix also lost starting junior guard Caitlyn Hibner for the season due to an arm injury earlier this year.

Senior Mart’e Grays, who led the team in scoring last year, scoring 14.4 points per game struggled Friday night missing all six of her shots in the first half. Although Grays finished the night with only five points and didn’t make her first shot until midway through the third quarter.

TAKEAWAYS, continued from back page trailed in this statistical category 22-2. Not to mention, Green Bay also edged DePaul in total rebounding 41-33. DePaul’s two tallest players, senior forward Mart’e Grays who stands at six-foot-two-inches and junior Chante Stonewall who stands at six-foot-one-inches tall, grabbed just five rebounds apiece.

Not a single DePaul player had double digit rebounding numbers. Senior guard Tanita Allen led the team by way of hauling down seven boards. Junior guard Kelly Campbell, who led DePaul in total rebounding last season, got six rebounds.

“We’re obviously a small team, so we’re working on our post defense on the daily. So (we’re) just really using our height to our advantage and trying to double down,” Campbell said. “We’re gonna have to figure it out because we’re gonna be playing teams with much bigger players, so we’re still working on it.”

Bruno stressed the difficulty of his team improving its rebounding numbers in the next few games with a challenging schedule ahead. This upcoming slew of outings for DePaul will be played against high-caliber teams such as the defending national champion Notre Dame on Saturday. Among others are Syracuse, Northwestern, and both Oklahoma and Connecticut on the road.

“I’m not sure that we’re gonna get the rebounding numbers exactly to our side real quickly against that kind of schedule,” Bruno said.

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Senior Rebekah Dahlman made 11 of her 12 free throw opportunities, while scoring 21 points in DePaul's 73-64 win over Green Bay Friday night at McGrath-Phillips Arena.

Defensively, DePaul’s defense was mediocre at best. Bruno’s full court press that he implements is supposed to work out so that his team’s defense can apply pressure throughout all 94 feet of the

basketball court. However, WisconsinGreen Bay was able to find holes in that defensive strategy. Consequently, DePaul gave up many open 3-point attempts and wide open layups. DePaul caught a break

“She’s a very good player but she just didn’t have a great game tonight,” Bruno said. “She still brought special moments tonight. Down the stretch, she made big plays and is capable of that. She’s just got to stay focused and ready. I expect her to have an All-American type of year.”

The road only gets tougher for DePaul as they are back in action next Saturday at the Wintrust Arena when they host top ranked Notre Dame. in that their opponent converted on only 25 percent of its 3-pointers.

“We’re gonna have to scramble this thing on the defensive side because we are so small,” Bruno said. “Chasing people is gonna give up layups, it’s gonna give up open 3’s. You don’t want to give up layups and open 3’s, but you can’t mathematically put two people on one player and not have a coach with brains on the other bench not be able to exploit that, and they did.”

DePaul’s full court press eventually paid dividends though, especially in the fourth quarter when they held Wisconsin-Green Bay to one-of-13 from the field to end the game. That included a 22-5 run for DePaul.

“Our press was able to wear them down a bit today,” Campbell said. “They had a shorter bench, they had a couple injuries, and we have a bigger bench this year so we were able to wear them down and really speed them up a little bit.”

One thing that DePaul has going for them is that they have a deep bench this season. Lexi Held, Maya Stovall and Sonya Morris, all true freshmen, got playing time. Morris started the game at the guard position.

“These freshmen are gonna have to help us. They’ve gotta help us,” Bruno said. “Lexi (Held) and Maya (Stovall) gave us short minutes, but those two players have to play and Maya Stovall and Lexi Held are really good players, and I’ve gotta find them time. They’re gonna play, and they’re gonna be very important to us.”

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New season, different feeling

By Lawrence Kreymer Asst. Sports Editor

When DePaul walked off the court for the final time last season after losing to Marquette in the first round of the Big East tournament, questions on whether the team was moving in the right direction intensified. During the ensuing offseason the program tried convincing fans and the students that going forward would be different.

After one exhibition game and one regular season game, the team is excited with the way they have started, but know they still have areas to improve in.

“I’m very happy and proud of the guys, particularly in our first game against [Bethune-Cookman] and our ability to follow a specific game plan,” DePaul head coach Dave Leitao said. “We got big contributions from different people in different ways, and understand that we still haven’t scratched the surface yet. Because I think we can still get a lot better.”

Coming into the season there were question marks how this team would gel and line up on the court. After missing key players last season, including the likes of sophomore guard Devin Gage and junior guard Jalen Coleman-Lands, getting them into the starting lineup and back to the speed of play was a priority in game one.

Both of them struggled early on in the game, however, especially Gage who got in early foul trouble and ended up sitting on the bench for most of the first half. When the second half began, Gage started on the bench as he watched his teammates mow down the Wildcats. He finished the game with four points on 15 minutes of action.

Leitao is excited to have Gage back after he missed most of last season with an injury. Prior to his injury, Gage was playing well during his freshman season as point guard.

“I thought coming off the box he was pressing too much after only playing in eight games last year,” Leitao said. “He got a little sloppy with the ball and he got himself in foul trouble. I think he was excited to be back on the court and excited for his teammates. I’ve got faith, like the rest of the guys, that he is going to keep growing as a player.”

Having Gage back on the court also allows senior guard Eli Cain to move to the wing, and have Gage orchestrate the offense. However, with Gage battling foul trouble and playing minimal minutes in his first game back, Cain played point guard most of the night and finished with eight assists. Having the ability to go to Cain as point guard throughout the season makes Leitao excited for the different looks and options he has in his reservoir.

During the second half, Gage watched his teammate, sophomore forward Paul Reed, put on a dominant display on defense and offense. Reed’s defensive pressure created misses for the Wildcats and led to easy points for DePaul and himself on the other end. Reed coming off the bench gives Leitao and his coaching staff with another option at center, while already having sophomore forward Jaylen Butz and senior forward Femi Olujobi as other options at the position.

“When I was out on the court the first time I was cold, I had to get a sweat in first to play better,” Reed said. “The second time I went in I was already warmed up.

I had a better feel for the game and how Bethune-Cookman were playing, and how I can incorporate my game.”

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DePaul seniors Eli Cain and Max Strus celebrate the Blue Demons 80-58 victory over Bethune-Cookman on Wednesday night.

Also, with Cain coming back for his senior season and senior forward Max Strus also returning, this gives the team a good mix of younger, less experienced players and veteran players on the roster.

Strus, who has had to lead the Blue Demons during most of his time at DePaul, once again had another impressive showing against Bethune-Cookman showed that he’s ready to lead DePaul to more wins this season.

“We all have very high expectations for this team,” Strus said. “Today feels good, better than last year even when we won last season. There’s a new energy around this team, guys are willing to do whatever it takes to win. We have got a great group for that to happen and we are looking forward to the next game.”

This newfound energy that Strus described is consistent with what the team was saying prior to the season. With new players and guys coming back after sitting out last year, everyone on the team feels this year will be different.

After one game it is too early to judge how good this team really is, but having multiple options now in each position gives Leitao more flexibility in how he wants his team to look on any given night. Defensively the Blue Demons have the ability to switch from a man-to-man defense to a 2-3 zone throughout the game, and offensively being able to shoot more threes and playing at a faster tempo creates more scoring opportunities for everyone else.

The public expectations for the Blue Demons weren’t high coming into the season, after one game it’s too early to tell if this year will be different. However, with the team arguably being more talented than previous seasons, it gives fans something to be excited for. In a couple of weeks fans of DePaul Men’s Basketball will indeed have a good indication if this year is truly different, or it will be a repeat of the past decade.

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Lack of interest remains inside and outside Wintrust

By William Hopper Contributing Writer

With DePaul men’s basketball tipping off its second season at Wintrust Arena Wednesday night, the question is whether interest in the program will increase in the arena’s second year.

An unscientific survey of 100 students conducted by the DePaulia last week found that 65% of participants had no interest in the team. But the problem goes beyond a lack of interest in men’s basketball: DePaul students have been paying very little attention to any events happening at Wintrust Arena.

Most concerts and games at the $170 million venue draws small crowds. Last season, according to attendance numbers obtained by The DePaulia through a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) from the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (commonly known as “McPier”), DePaul men’s basketball had two games against Central Connecticut and Alabama A&M where fewer than 1,000 people were seated in the 10,000 seat arena. An appearance by the Blue Man Group as part of Welcome Week this September was met with an sparse audience as well.

Part of this lack of interest may stem from the fact that besides the allure of a new lineup and newly-built arena, the South Loop area around Wintrust doesn't offer much for students in the way of bars, restaurants and entertainment.

This issue is especially clear in terms of the places available to grab a bite to eat or drink in the neighborhood. Julie Keras, a spokesperson for the Blue Crew, says the area just doesn’t offer a lot for the student body.

“I think that fans usually eat in the Loop on the way back from Wintrust,” they said. “There aren't a ton of options right near the arena.”

Since opening last year, surrounding restaurants and bars have also taken notice of the low numbers coming and going from games. Places like Reggie’s

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After a dissapointing inaugural season at Wintrust defined by low attendance, DePaul hopes to create a buzz in the South Loop.

Live, a bar and music hall, should be the perfect spot for Wintrust attendees, located adjacent to the Red Line station at Cermak-McCormick Place. However, this just hasn’t been the case owner Robert Glick said.

“So far, it’s kinda just been the bigger DePaul games where we’re getting a decent bit of the DePaul crowd here,” Glick said.

“The concerts— not so much yet. There’s been a handful of shows and we haven’t been inundated with those concert goers before or after the show yet.”

Glick also said that while Reggie’s can expect some Wintrust attendees for afternoon events, there’s very little turnout after night games.

DePaul senior Michael Greene has only been to Wintrust once or twice, and

says that there’s a definite lack of interest in what’s happening in and around the arena that’s steered him from future visits.

“I wanted to get in and out,”Greene said of his overall experience at a night event at the stadium.

What’s more, he said he also feels that the South Loop wasn’t of interest to him.

“There’s a White Castle on the way, but I wouldn't eat there,” Greene joked.

Part of the issue with the surrounding area may harken back to the overall lack of enthusiasm towards the Demons by the general public, especially compared to other colleges. This can be quantified by the number of local sport bars that actually support the Demons.

The website Sport Bars in Chicago does just that. It logs a number of the

sports bars in the city, and organizes them based on the college teams they support.

For the Blue Demons of the 145 bars they list on their site there’s only a single bar in the whole city that explicitly supports the team: Kelly’s Pub in Lincoln Park.

Notre Dame, a rival of DePaul, has at least nine bars supporting them in Chicago, according to their alumni page.

This lack of representation for the Demons, not only in the stadium but out of it, may be part of the problem when it comes to the low attendance at Wintrust.

Having a winning team that fans want to come out and support will only help attendance inside and outside the arena.

ATTENDANCE, continued from back page forward Paul Reed and an alley-oop to Strus.

“The second time I went in [the game] I was more warmed-up,” Reed said. “And I started the second half, so I had a better feel of the game and I knew how the other team was playing and I knew how I could incorporate my game into how they were playing.”

Reed and fellow sophomore forward Jaylen Butz both had promising performances, and Strus posted a dominant, game-high 25 points. Cain shot 2-11 from the field for an underwhelming eight points, but his eight assists showed more comfort playing on the ball than he exhibited last year.

With all the promising things to observe on the hardwood this season, a glance up into the seats can be jarring.

Nobody expected Bethune Cookman to draw a huge crowd, but opening night for any program should draw some enthusiasm from it’s fan base, no matter how fleeting and angry they may be.

DePaul’s season opener saw 3,710 fans in reported paid attendance — roughly a third of the arena’s capacity — which is lower than any reported paid attendance total last year. To make matters worse, paid attendance figure doesn’t even tells us how

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DePaul's student section at Wintrust Arena in the South Loop. Student attendance remians low despite closer proximity to campus. many people actually made it inside the arena on game day.

Turnstile, or “real” attendance figures require a Freedom of Information Act request to the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority to obtain because the university only reports paid attendance, which can be a very different number.

Last year, two of DePaul’s lowest caliber

opponents — Central Connecticut and Alabama A&M each reported over 4,000 in paid attendance. Both games saw less than 1,000 spectators.

We can look at an improved roster and solid performances in Wednesday’s game and be optimistic, and we should, but DePaul’s athletic department should also be very concerned about attendance figures

in the season opener. If less than 4,000 in paid attendance is any indication of what’s to come at Blue Demon home games, the Blue Demons will take an unthinkable step backwards in an already abysmal record with making people care enough to show up, drink beer and watch basketball.

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DePaul’s student section during Wednesday night’s home opener against Bethune-Cookman. Paid attendance totaled just 3,710, just over a third of the arena’s capacity.

Attendance problems continue in DePaul’s home opener

By Shane rene Managing Editor

COMMENTARY If you are one of the few remaining students and alumni at DePaul following the cringy saga of the men’s basketball team, you may already know this: the Blue Demons won their home opener Wednesday night, 80-58 over BethuneCookman of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

Unfortunately, there weren’t very many people around to see it.

“Bethune-WHO?,” a rowdy, clearly intoxicated fan shouted repeatedly prior to tip off. With so few people in

attendance (less than 4,000 paid attendance) he was the only person anybody inside the arena could hear.

And he had a point. If a coach was looking for a soft season opener for a team looking to build some confidence, Bethune-Cookman would suffice — and the Blue Demons were certainly looking for something positive to push them forward.

“For a couple of reasons I think [I was] legitimately concerned about this game,” head coach Dave Leitao said after the game. “One, because we haven't really played well against the two team previous to this, both in the scrimmage and the exhibition game. We didn’t have a good flow and didn’t understand what we were trying to do on both ends.”

DePaul beat Rockhurst University in their exhibition game by seven points, which can hardly be considered a win. Star Blue Demon senior guard Max Strus played only nine minutes, but when a Division I team wins by single digits with four of the five starters logging 25-plus minutes over a Division II opponent, it’s time to locate the panic button.

Through the first half of Wednesday’s season opener at Wintrust Arena Bethune-Cookman showed no signs of rolling over. Eventually the Blue Demon’s found their rhythm and pulled the game’s momentum more and more in their direction with two vicious dunks from sophomore

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Rebekah Dahlman’s impact felt in her return to Blue Demon roster

By Evan Sully Staff Writer

No matter the circumstance, a win stands as a win in the record books for the women’s basketball team and head coach Doug Bruno. However, that doesn’t quite mean that everything is set in stone.

Coming off a 73-64 home victory against Green Bay in their season opener on Friday night, the Blue Demons are looking to tweak some things as their nonconference schedule progresses. First and foremost though, it was made obvious on Friday that the Blue Demons have sixthyear senior Rebekah Dahlman back and healthy.

Dahlman played more confident than ever and scored a team-high 21 points off the bench. She has suffered a handful of injuries dating back to 2013 when she began playing collegiate basketball at Vanderbilt.

“I feel like a grandma out there,” she said with a smile when asked about her role as a veteran. “I’ve been here for six years, so I know the little things and I’m trying

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Senior Rebekah Dahlman scored a team-high 21 points against Green Bay. to help my team on and off the court, so it’s great to be here.”

Dahlman’s veteran leadership could be huge for DePaul down the stretch once the

team begins Big East play in late December.

She got to the free throw line 12 times on Friday and converted 11 of her attempts.

Dahlman played aggressively throughout

the game and did not settle for a ton of 3-point shots. Her mindset of attacking the rim is one that might give DePaul an emotional boost in the near future.

“If I have an opportunity, of course I’m gonna attack,” Dahlman said. “I felt great out there, and I’m just doing anything I can for the team.”

Bruno was more than happy to have Dahlman active and is looking forward to seeing the impact her mental toughness may have on the rest of his team.

“Her goal, my goal, our goal together is for her to have one great collegiate year,” Bruno said. “If we can have her healthy, get her to play ball for one year, that’s a very valuable sixth-year senior.”

One part of DePaul’s in-game strategy that might need to get relooked is their interior defense and utilization of the full court press.

DePaul’s lack of size down low proved to be costly for the majority of the game, as Green Bay won the battle of points scored in the paint 38-16. At halftime DePaul

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