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April 18, 2011
French ban unveils questions By BARTOSZ BRZEZINSKI
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McGowan currently houses the science departments of LA&S.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences discusses split By JOE RUPPEL Charles Suchar, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says the university is discussing creating a College of Science that would absorb departments currently housed in LA&S. The idea for a College of Science was proposed to LA&S department chairs last September, Suchar said. Psychology Department Chair Jerry Cleland was appointed as the interim chair of the College of Science and is the proposal
coordinator for its development. Cleland said that DePaul officials met last week to discuss the proposal. “We are continuing the discussions regarding the development of a new college,” said Cleland. Suchar said that if the proposal succeeds, the College of Science will incorporate eight departments currently in LA&S, including psychology, nursing, mathematics, biology, chemistry, environmental science, physics, and the science education program.
The university office of public relations states, “DePaul has been considering a faculty proposal to restructure its colleges to better serve the needs of students in the health sciences and the traditional natural sciences. Faculty Council recently voted to support this proposal. It now goes to the Board of Trustees for their consideration later this spring.” Lauren Fischer, adjunct faculty and Associate Director at the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, said the proposal is an example of the
university “taking a critical eye to itself.” Fischer said it is smart for the university to continue to grow and address the concerns of students. Fischer said the university has not communicated the proposal campus wide because they are still in a study phase and have not finalized decisions. LA&S is DePaul’s oldest and largest college and includes 431 full-time faculty and approximately 6,000 undergraduate students.
Students weigh in on the best and worst of cafeteria chow The quality of college food ranges from the average depths of community college cuisine to the pinnacle of Virginia Tech’s daily rib eye and whole lobster. To say DePaul’s standard meal fare sits somewhere in-between is an obvious statement, but to which side of the spectrum does DePaul best identify? Freshman Marty Murphy said, “At first, the food isn’t that bad, but you get tired of eating the same thing after a while.” The DePaul student body is definitely not deprived of a thriving food environment. Not only do both the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses have diverse dining
halls, but both campuses are also surrounded by various external food options. Sophomore and vegetarian Richard Rodriguez said, “The Loop campus has limited options–it gets redundant.” Junior Mike Chamernik looks down on Lincoln Park campus food as “all a stream of mediocrity.” So which foods keep students coming back to the Student Center for their meals, and which items send students running for the nearest Chipotle? Turn to page 3 for a list of the best and worst meals at DePaul.
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Are they really supporting secularism, or rights of women, or just using the French republican values to target these women for their beliefs? Mallory Warner Academic Advisor
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away from them is even more oppressive.” “Women’s rights is to have our own decisions,” she said. “Now, there are these rules by the French government telling women how they should dress and how their identity should be formed.” “This is totally going against the women’s movement,” Abed said. While the law makes it illegal to conceal a person’s face in public, it does not specifically cite gender or religious identities. Violators risk fines up to $215 (euro150) or attendance at special citizenship classes. DePaul Academic Adivsor, Mallory Warner, said the idea of citizenship classes “raises a red flag in my head,” said Warner, who recently completed her master’s thesis on headscarf affairs. “What are they really trying to do with it? Are they really supporting secularism, or rights of women, or just using the French republican values to target these women for their beliefs?” Although the law does not ex-
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By ALLISON BARINHOLTZ
After the world’s first ban on Islamic face veils took effect in France on April 11, DePaul University saw many of its members call to question the law’s symbolic meaning. The president of DePaul’s United Muslims Moving Ahead, Marwa Abed, said France’s veil ban is “a move in the wrong direction for women’s rights.” It’s not the government’s place to decide the way people dress, said Abed, a senior majoring in Islamic world studies. French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the veils imprison women and contradict this secular nation's values of dignity and equality, according to the Associated Press. The ban was greeted with wide public support when it was approved by parliament last year. “Even though some people think that the hijab and burqa oppresses women, it’s still a choice,” said Abed. “To take that
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the worst....
Pizza How could you go wrong with one of the nation's most-adored food items? It's seems difficult to do, but the Loop and Lincoln Park Student Centers are filled with students who complain about the pizza being too greasy and bland. DePaulia Off-Campus Solution: Pequod's Pizzeria at 2207 N. Clybourn Ave. provides Lincoln Park with delicious, traditional Chicago-style deep-dish. Pequod's is holding four-stars strong on Yelp with almost 800 reviews.
Soups
Daily soup is offered at each DePaul campus. Some flavors stay consistent while others rotate weekly. Junior Danny Pietro said the soup in the Loop campus seems to be “decent at least,” unlike the soups offered up in Lincoln Park, which “taste watered-down.”
Orange Chicken
DePaulia Off-Campus Solution: A Lincoln Park favorite, Uncle Sammy's on Fullerton Ave. is not only open until the early hours of the morning, but also serves up fresh soup daily, including broccoli cheddar, minestrone and chicken noodle.
Mexican food
The award for the most disgusting, worst-ofthe-worst meal on the DPU menu is almost unanimous: the orange chicken. Junior Mike Metivier said, “the worst is the Chinese food, but they make it look good. It's like food with charisma.” Sophomore Laura Dunham agrees with the strong opposition to the Chinese food and said, “It’s so bad. It's pretty much chicken nuggets in orange sauce.” DePaulia Off-Campus Solution: Mix it up with elements of Thai and Asian Fusion! To get your Asian cuisine fulfillment, try Duck Walk on Fullerton Ave. right under the 1237 West apartments.
Brownstones Coffee & Treats
Lincoln Park Mexican Food: The Mexican-style cuisine at the Lincoln Park Student Center lacks two of the most important attributes to enjoyable food: variety and authenticity. The convenient location of this attempt at ethnic variety might be the only appealing attribute. DePaulia Off-Campus Solution: For close-by Mexican food that rattles your taste buds and fulfills your variety needs, visit the newly opened Qdoba on Clybourn and Webster Ave.
Grilled Cheese
...and the best
Grilled cheese of any variance is a popular choice. Pietro likes his cheese sandwich grilled with seasoned chicken. Murphy turns to grilled cheese often. “The grilled ham and cheese is really good, actually,” Murphy said. Even the most skeptical of students turn to
this surefire food option. Senior Marisa Silberman said, “Everything sucks since freshman year.” Silberman thinks the new rehab in the LP Student Center doesn't make any difference. “The food is still terrible. It was a complete waste of money,” said Silberman. “But at least there's always the grilled cheese...”
Main Event Meal
Lincoln Park's equivalent to Starbucks, Brownstones Cafe is a favorite goto spot for specialized coffee drinks and breakfast sandwiches. Senior Amber Kaminski said, “I like the house coffee, blended drinks and the Brownstones pre-made sandwiches–they’re really healthy and tasty.”
Deli Delicacies Students like to take charge of their lives, calling the shots on what they do and what they eat. The deli sections of the Loop and LP campuses cater to these demands well, with custom-order sandwiches and wraps. “I like the deli. You can taste the difference between that and subway – fresh, neat and clean,” said junior Olivia Metelski. “The taste is like a home-cooked meal. It’s closer to
what I’d get at home.” Other tasty meals reign the campuses as well. Sophomore Doug Davenport loves the spicy chicken, bacon and ranch sandwich, “I see no reason to eat anything else.” Chartwells' Jimenez said the other most common food items bought under her supervision consist of waffle fries, chicken fingers, candy, salads and double-cheeseburgers.
Main Event Meals: This DePaul option is a safe bet and resembles what some students miss most when living on campus–a home-cooked meal. This relief to the taste buds and stomach can be found in the Loop's Main Event and Lincoln Park's Market Carvery.
“I like the Main Event,” said Chartwells cashier Eugenia Jimenez, who often eats among the students at the Loop Campus. “It is made fresh every day--hot and a good selection.” Photos by Tricia Cathcart
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Better odds with housing lottery Room Selection Process for upperclassmen improves with each year By COURTNEY POHLMAN With the end of the school year slowly drawing closer, many students are faced with the decision of where to live next year. While DePaul University offers housing for its freshmen students it does not provide on-campus housing for the entirety of its student body. Many upperclassmen opt to live in apartments nearby while others are lucky to snag the additional spots that remain on campus. But how are students able to remain in campus housing after freshman year? The answer is the university’s Room Selection Process. DePaul’s Room Selection Process, formerly known as the Housing Lottery, gives student housing to students who wish to remain on campus for an additional year. The process is simple. Students receive a room selection code delivered to their campus mailbox. The code determines when students can attend their room selection appointment. At this appointment, the student and his or her intended roommates meet with a housing staff member to select which room or apartment they would like based on availability. What are your chances of landing a spot? According to Meredith Lynch, manager of Marketing and Communications for Housing Services, your chances are pretty high. According to Lynch, during the 2011-12 Room Selection Process, Housing Services received around 800 housing agreements in February. These agreements implied that those students wished to live on campus next year. This month during the actual process, 537 of the 800 students went to their room selection appointments, which occurred on April 5, 6 and 7. “[We] were able to assign 537 Lincoln Park residential spaces for next year’s housing. Additionally, we had 10 Lincoln Park Campus residents who attended the Lincoln Park room selection process sign-
What is it that makes students want to remain on campus? DePaul senior Melissa Flosi, who lived in Centennial Hall her sophomore year, explained why she chose to participate in the Room Selection Process. “I chose the lottery for several different reasons. There is a sense of security when living on campus, and since I have all my science classes in Lincoln Park I wanted to be close to my classes and my parents preferred me living on campus,” she said. DePaul senior Fazila Kabahita had a similar experience. “I decided to do it because my parents wouldn't let me get an apartment off campus; they believed I was way too young to live out on my own,” Kabahita said. Kabahita explained her own experience living in Sanctuary Hall her sophomore year. “On campus I felt safer and I felt more a part of the DePaul community, but it was Photo by Blair Moran more restricting, more expensive and I always had to share a room.” The Sanctuary apartments and townhomes, located at 2347 N. While sharing a bedroom may be restrictKenmore Ave., are available for upperclassmen who want to live ing for some, the cost of living on campus may be tougher for others. Apartments in on campus. They are priced between $8,000 and $9,500 annuCentennial Hall start at $9,249 and are ally. priced as high as $10,000 annually, while up to live at the University Center, too,” agreements. 500 of the 800 students went Sanctuary apartments and townhomes are Lynch said. to their room selection appointments in priced between $8,000 and $9,500 annualIn Lincoln Park, 537 students have set April. “Out of those residents, 489 walked ly. Sheffield Square fits in the middle, havroom assignments with 50 students on a away with a confirmed housing assignment ing an average annual price around $9,000. According to DePaul’s website 3,000 waitlist. Loop Campus students living in for the 2010-11 academic year,” Lynch students live on campus, and of those the University Center have a total of 85 said. 11 students were waitlisted. students with set housing for next year. From 2009 to 2010 the amount of stu- 3,000 students only 800 expressed interest For those on the Lincoln Park waitlist, dents who attended the room selection in living on campus again. With figures like these it’s a wonder how students must wait for openings to occur appointments increased by 37 students. based on student cancellations. Once a Another spike occurred in the amount of well known the Room Selection Process is. “I haven’t even heard of the Room Secancellation occurs the student next on the students who received housing. In the waitlist is informed and has the option to 2010-11 process 489 students received lection Process,” DePaul freshman Loren choose if he or she still wants to live on housing while 537 students obtained hous- Marcinkowski said. “None of my RA’s or R.D. talked to me about it. I thought we campus. ing for 2011-12. But how do these numbers compare to Since last year, 48 more students applied had to get an apartment so that is what me last year? for the Room Selection Process. Even the and my friends are doing.” To learn more about the Room Selection In the 2010-11Room Selection Process, waitlist showed changes, increasing by 39 Process visit www.housing.depaul.edu. Housing Services collected 800 housing students.
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City Council gives 43rd ward alderman chance to negotiate hospital development By PAIGE WAGENKNECHT
Photo by Dana Morones
A fire alarm evacuate the Lewis Building at the Loop Campus on Wednesday, April 13. A student on the fourth floor was thought to have pulled the alarm.
Alarm evacuates Lewis, again By DANA MORONES “Caution Fire, Evacuate Immediately,” is the recording that rang in the DePaul community’s ears on Wednesday, April 13 at the Loop Campus. At approximately 12:56 p.m. a fire alarm was pulled in the Lewis Building on 23-25 E. Jackson Blvd. When the alarm first began to ring students and faculty were asked the leave the building as quickly as possible, but what staff didn’t know was that the alarm was false. Apparently a student on the fourth floor pulled the fire alarm, but his or her intentions are still unknown. “At first I was a little nervous because I was on the 11th floor and I had to walk down 11 flights of stairs,” said sophomore Lauren Monsen when asked about the experience. Monsen, along with many other students and faculty members, had to make the long hike down numerous flights of stairs not knowing what they were going to find at the bottom. Some students even had to use the outside fire escape to exit the building. The staircases were packed
with people stunned and confused by the whole occurrence, but as everyone exited the building all were relieved knowing everyone made it to the ground safely and classes were let out early. According to Robert Wachowski, head of Public Safety, no one was hurt. “The evacuation inspection took ten minutes to realize there was no immediate danger, which is pretty good for such a large building,” said Wachowski. Fire alarms rarely malfunction, and are usually set off accidentally either by people in the building or in heat-sensitive areas. Nonetheless, these events should not be taken lightly. “I wondered if [the fire alarm] was a mistake and waited to see how the others would respond before I did anything,” said senior Annalise Petranoff. Many students responded just as Petranoff did, shuffling down the halls and stairways assuming this was a drill. In some cases, people even hesitated to leave the building. Junior Michael Pellegrini responded saying, “My teacher didn’t know what the alarm was at first but then realized and told
us to grab all of our stuff and move out because we were on the 12th floor.” Taking the time to pay attention to drills and floor plans can help everyone remain calm during a serious threat. Posted in every classroom and every stairwell is a sign of all the nearest exits and what to do in case of an emergency. Many people do not take the time to look at these signs, risking the safety of themselves and others. Public Safety goes through extreme measure to keep the campus safe. Automatic doors which help prevent fires from spreading to other buildings is just one of the many precautions taken. Public Safety provides many tools to help keep DePaul afloat, leaving it up to the DePaul community to use these tools effectively. Thus, next time a fire alarm goes off during class, take all precautions before celebrating an early dismissal. Wachowski reacted to this event by saying, “Take every alarm as a real alarm. It’s better to be prepared as an individual and have a plan ahead of time and know your exits.”
Michele Smith received her first task as alderman on Wednesday after City Council deferred action on rezoning plans for the old Lincoln Park Hospital, bringing bad news to outgoing alderman Vi Daley, who pushed for the plan’s approval before she leaves office in May. Smith’s win last Tuesday against Norwegian Hospital executive and supporter of the project Tim Egan was a referendum against the proposed redevelopment plan, which includes the building of 152 high-rise condominiums, a medical office building and a grocery store. Three long-serving aldermen, Ed Burke (14th), Richard Mell (33th) and Patrick O’Connor (40th), deferred action on the project under council rules that let any two aldermen take that step, despite the tradition of aldermanic control over zoning in their wards. Burke said he wanted to delay the project in order to give Smith a chance to reach a compromise with the developing company, Sandz Development Co., and Daley on a plan that will have residential support. He said that unless the plan is revised, it will be voted “up or down” at the next council meeting May 4. Dubbed New Webster Square the grocery, a planned 20,000-square-foot Fresh Market on the southeast corner of Lincoln and Webster, is a point of contention between residents and supporters of the plan. Residents argue that it will spoil the area by attracting pedestrians
and delivery trucks. Attorney and former 43rd Ward alderman Martin Oberman, who represents the nearby homeowners, said he would challenge the decision in court if the city rezones the property and allows the development. The council members knew Smith wanted changes from the developer, so they called for a compromise rather than immediately approving the project like Daley wanted. Burke, who chairs the Finance Committee, said continued conflict and delays could lead the city to litigation, and we are at the brink where compromise needs to be achieved. Smith promised to continue to work hard and redesign the plan to win residential acceptance. She held up a map outside of city hall on Wednesday showing her votes were highest in precincts surrounding the old Lincoln Park Hospital site. In six precincts closest to the development, Smith ran up a 360-vote margin over Egan, according to election returns. The alderman-elect will take over for Daley on May 16 and could potentially try to revoke city backing for the project. Daley, who has worked on the redevelopment plans for almost two years, said she hopes to be a part of the continued discussions and negotiations over the project. As reported last month, retail components of the project remain the biggest concern for residents. They have expressed fear that Lincoln Park would lose its historical value and local grocery stories would be forced bankrupt.
‘We Are One’ rallies for union solidarity By TRACY MARTIN On Saturday, April 9, several thousand protesters took part in a demonstration in downtown Chicago in a show of solidarity for union workers in Wisconsin. In the week of April 4-9, several ‘We are One’ rallies were held around the country. The rallies were sponsored by the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions. The week was chosen in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. On April 4th, 1968, King was assassinated while organizing for the establishment of unions for sanitation workers in Memphis. In Illinois, several dozen ‘We are One’ demonstrations were held across the state. The rally in Chicago was the conclusion of the week-long demonstrations. Organizers estimate over 10,000 protesters were there. The event began with a protest outside of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The hotel was specifically
chosen due to the Pritzker family, which owns the hotel chain, holding several anti-union stances. That afternoon, protesters began marching towards Daley Plaza, where the rally was being held. In a matter of minutes, protesters filled the entire plaza. The rally included several memorable speeches from a number of guests, including State Senator Bill Larson (D-WI), Bill Lucy, a civil rights activist who campaigned alongside King in his pro-union demonstrations in Memphis, and William McNary, the co-director of Citizen Action/ Illinois and president of USAction. There were also several union leaders and workers who spoke on behalf of promoting union worker solidarity. Teachers, firefighters, construction workers, and public workers were some of the groups there showing their support. There were several signs showing support for Wisconsin workers. Green and yellow were common colors
throughout the rally, a tribute to Wisconsin’s Green Bay Packers. Last February, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R-WI) proposed a controversial bill that would strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights, as well as dock 8% of their takehome pay. While the bill was proposed as a means to alleviate the state’s budget crisis, detractors have accused it of being a unionbusting bill that will harm workers in the long run. The debate over the bill became heated, resulting in 14 senators coming to Illinois in an attempt to stop its passage. Despite political roadblocks, as well as high public sentiment against the bill, it was passed through early last March. Before the bill’s effects could be enacted, a judge ordered a stay on the bill, halting its implementation. Walker’s bill is currently held up in the courts, where its constitutionality is being questioned. Several governors around the
Photo by Tracy Martin
Protesters demonstrated support for Wisconsin union workers on Saturday, April 9 at the 'We Are One' rally. country, including Ohio, New Jersey, Florida and Indiana, have followed Walker’s example and implemented similar legislation. These recent actions have been viewed as an attack on unions and an assault on the American worker. In addition to attacks on collective bargaining rights, there are bills being proposed that would
seek to limit employee pensions, benefits, retirement plans, and social security. The final speakers pleaded for unionized workers to continue their fight against the legislations being passed around the country, prompting deafening chants of “We are one! We are one!” from the crowd.
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Vincentian Service Day tradition carries out DePaul mission By KYLE WIDENSKI As the sun rose above the steeple of the St. Vincent de Paul church, more than a thousand people gathered around its splendor wearing two colors, orange and light blue. No, there was no pop star or iPods given away in the church at eight that Saturday morning on May 1.. But, the organized swarm was gathered there for a reason: benevolence. This year, on May 7, the dense crowd will again meet in the St. Vincent de Paul church located at 1010 W. Webster Ave for the annual Vincentian Service Day. The service day is designed to commemorate and carry out the Vincentian legacy of service to the university’s greater Chicago community. The day is also an invitation for students, faculty, staff and alumni to come together as a DePaul community and engage in service projects across Chicago. It’s also an opportunity for all DePaul affiliates to gain a new perspective on those communities and the members they are partnering with. “We come together on a single day for a community gathering to honor our place in the city and give back to the communities we are a part of,” said Rubén Álvarez Silva, the Ministry Coordinator for DePaul Community Service Association (DCSA) and Service Days. Silva leads the Vincentian Service Day Team, an organization associated with University Ministry that plans the service day, organizes and sets the service sites and promotes the event. “DePaul is a Chicago institution in an urban setting and most of the student body, faculty and staff are Chicago natives coming from the 77 different
Photo courtesy of Rubén Álvarez Silva
Students, alumni, faculty and staff members spent last year's Vincentian Service Day at the service site Hoops & Hope. neighborhoods of the city. In a sense, we are Chicago, and we [DePaul] are in it. Thus, we are the institution and anchor of the Vincentian mission, which is to give back to the neighborhoods from which most of us come from. It’s also important because we form relationships from the needs the city has that we address.” Over the past three years participation has increased on both ends, university volunteers and the community partners involved. In 2009, a total of 1,102 DePaul affiliates volunteered and 58 community service project sites were involved, up from 2008. In 2010, a total of 1,407 participated and 83 service project sites were involved while 142 alumni, 12 faculty members and about 70 staff member participated with
the student body responsible for the rest. “I would love to see as many people as possible involved with the service day,” said Silva. “I think it is a great way to make and meet new friends while carrying out our mission of service, plus it is a very inspirational day for the whole city. Our only problem is that the church, where we meet and hold the invocation, cannot hold more than 1,400 of us. The spots are limited, but there are more than enough sites and spots available to still participate this year." Junior Ben Schrier participated in the service day last year at the Howard Community Center where the group renewed a community garden. “The Center’s representatives were
grateful for having volunteers outside the immediate community come in and help out in whatever way possible,” said Schrier. “And as a student of a Chicago school, I feel it is a responsibility to help out the communities we are a part of.” Service sites range from art organizations, large social service organizations, Catholic schools and development projects and organizations associated with DePaul, like Jump Start. Service sites also include participation with Chicagoland YMCAs, parishes, organizations that help the homeless and hungry and also going green and recycling organizations, like Working Bikes who recycle and refurbish old and used bikes then send a portion of them overseas to help those in countries where bicycles are the main mode of transportation. “It’s a win-win situation; a mutual relationship of benefits between the communities of Chicago and the university,” Silva said. “University Ministry is about reciprocity. For the community, it’s an opportunity to have projects completed that otherwise would not be. For the university, it’s an opportunity to have a sense of community building between the numerous DePaul organizations involved and for them to learn about the Chicago communities they are helping.” “If you want to make a difference, learn about other communities of Chicago, help them physically and spiritually, meet other DePaul affiliates and form sustainable relationships with them, then register for the service day,” Silva said. For more information, visit http:// serviceday.depaul.edu/index.php or call 773-325-1193.
CTA retail initiative fills station vacancies By MATT HARDER
It’s a Monday morning, you’re late for work, and the Red Line is delayed by 15 minutes. Unfortunately, because you were running late this morning, you didn’t have time to eat any breakfast. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has you in mind folks! The Chicago Tribune published an article on April 3 that provides details on retail initiatives the CTA is currently taking. The CTA is in a marketing/real estate partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a Chicago-based commercial real estate company, to fill vacancies in 66 out of 137 available retail/concession spaces in stations across the city. Once the Red Line finally arrives, you have the option to stop at Belmont and visit the newly leased concession stand Maui Wowi Hawaiian. Grab yourself a coffee, maybe a smoothie, and then proceed to wait for the next delayed train. How convenient that you were able to grab breakfast right from the station, and you are even able to eat on the go. Be careful that you don’t spill your coffee on the guy sitting next to you though; the subway tracks can be surprisingly bumpy sometimes. Junior Julian Zeng said, “I think that’s valuable especially for regular commuters who are always gong to a certain stop, they can always pop in and get something to eat, it’s convenient. As long as these aren’t detracting from funding for renovations or other important projects, then I would view it as useful. Although the CTA has seen a slight increase in crime and theft, they’ve chosen to initiate marketing and ad campaigns for their retail locations, with the help of Jones Lang LaSalle. The Chicago-based firm has reportedly generated upwards of 50
million for the CTA in the last two years, including current contracts that are said to generate millions more in the near future. Jon Hilkevitch, writer for the Chicago Tribune, reported that Jones Lang LaSalle, “is also managing efforts to sell surplus CTA property.” This effort alone has generated $4.2 million in the last two years. Hilkevitch’s original report of the CTA “retail initiative” also paid specific attention to what is to happen at the Fullerton el stop. The DePaul University community may soon be able to make purchases at the 364 sq. ft. space located at the Southwestern end of the station. The space has a “for lease” sign, and contact information listed as ctarealestate.com. This space is said to be one of 19 others that are ready for move-in immediately, with a reported 40 or more to be listed for lease within the next months. A survey conducted on the DePaulia website attempted to capture the DePaul community’s general sentiments towards the CTA’s efforts for revamping their retail spaces. Over 60 percent of people surveyed said that the retail initiative was a good idea for the CTA, while 30 percent of people split evenly between being neutral, and “no, it is not a good idea.” The most obvious reason for it being a good idea is that it will generate some revenue for the CTA. With the help of JLL, the CTA could see spikes in customers for their retail locations, as well as commuters. The hopes are that advertising/marketing campaigns from new companies leasing the spaces will attract new, diverse crowds to the stations, that may want to do more than ride, or conversely they may want to do more than purchase a smoothie under the train tracks. Matthew Tunney, a junior at DePaul Uni-
versity gave his input when asked how he felt about what the CTA is doing with their excess space. “It doesn’t bother me at all. If it can generate some money, maybe they’ll lower the fares, or improve service in some way. I would stop at a store if Fullerton [station] opened one, it would be really convenient.” Back to you on your way to work, carefully sipping your coffee and smoothie. How much did all that cost you though? And aside from a monetary cost, what was the cost of your time spent making your purchase? The CTA has not released any type of pricing indexes for their retail locations, as these would vary based not only on the type of company that leases, but the demographic of the area as well. The DePaulia online survey shows that the time factor is most significant in people’s decision to make or not to make a stop at CTA concession stand. Another factor that showed substantial numbers was the price of the concession. What these statistics tell us is that the CTA will need to choose their tenants wisely. Quick, efficient service, and reasonable prices are key to the potential success of any retail entity at the Fullerton stop. While the CTA is admittedly busy with their main business functions, they chose to initiate the revamp of their retail locations with help from their chief fundraiser, Jones Lang LaSalle. One of the most interesting statistics gathered from the online survey at depauliaonline.com, is that a whopping 95 percent of people said the CTA should be taking care of other priorities, such as security and maintenance. In its defense, the CTA is not directly handling the “x’s and o’s” of the retail project. Notwithstanding, they do in fact seem to be focused on generating more money, in-
Photo by Dana Lenkus
The CTA hopes to add retail spaces like this magazine vending machine at the Fullerton stop to fill station vacancies.
stead of spending what they have, the right ways. The DePaul community will have to wait and see what the Fullerton space will house, but we can almost be certain that we will not see a return of the beloved Demon Dogs, which was closed at the beginning of the Brown/Red Line renovations that began in 2003.
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Campus crime report April 7-12 LOOP CAMPUS April 9 • Criminal Trespass occurred at the DePaul Center. An officer responded to a sleeping person in the Barnes/Noble bookstore. He was given a Criminal Trespass warning.
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS April 7 • Criminal Damage to property report was done by Public Safety in regards to bushes pulled out at Belden and Bissell. • Public Safety was called about a suspicious person who was tampering with a bike located at Kelly Hall rack. Offender was trying to steal a seat of a bicycle, and Chicago police were called to the scene. Offender fled and was not apprehended. • Public Safety was called to the 4th floor of the Richardson Library on a Mac Laptop which was taken from the area. Victim left the computer unattended.
• A Simple Battery occurred at the 1150 W. Fullerton building. A DePaul Public Safety officer was hit by a student from a surrounding grammar school.
• A Liquor Law Violation occurred at CliftonFullerton Hall. All students involved were transported to area hospitals.
• A Criminal Trespass warning was given to a individual at the 1150 W. Fullerton building.
April 10 • A student filed a theft of wallet and keys from off campus location.
April 8 • A non-forced burglary occurred at Corcoran Hall. Student left resident hall room unlocked and upon return their camera was missing.
• A simple assault occurred at the Brownstones area of Student Center. A student complained about an unknown male who shouted racial slurs at her.
• A student's wallet was taken at an off campus eatery.
April 11 • Public Safety was called for a Suspicion of marijuana at McCabe Hall. No drugs were found at the scene.
• A student was arrested for possession of marijuana at Munroe Hall. April 9 • Public Safety was called for a suspicion of marijuana at Belden-Racine Hall. No drugs were found in the room. • Public Safety observed a Sanctuary resident in the process of public urination. Resident hall staff was called and incident will be handled in house. • A criminal damage report was filed for a broken window in the Theater school. • A theft of a laptop occurred in the Richardson Library when a student left computer unattended. • A theft of a purse occurred off campus by a student attending a party.
• Graffiti was found on the 1150 W. Fullerton building. April 12 • Professor called Public Safety in regards to a suspicious person at the Student Center. An unknown male was sitting in her classroom and refused to leave. When Public Safety arrived the person had already left the building. • A Burglary non-forced occurred at Corcoran Hall. A student returned to his room and found a DVD removed from area. • A Criminal Trespass arrest was made on an individual who was told not to be on DePaul property.
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Social media expert speaks to students about future of online interaction By STEPHANIE WILLIAMS How many times a day do you text, tweet or play a video game? For most of us, these numbers are too high to count, with the digital world becoming engraved in our DNA. And according to Steven Jones, the digital world is everting. To “evert” means to “turn inside out,” and Jones feels that every aspect of the digital world, from video games such as the Nintendo Wii to Facebook’s Farmville, is no longer interaction that’s solely for cyberspace’s sake. In a speaking event filled with students and members of the public at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Student Center on April 12, the 52-year-old spoke about both the future and trends of digital media as it relates to real life human interactions. An author of books including “Against Technology” and “The Meaning of Video Games,” Jones has been working as a professor
of English at Loyola University since 1988. In most of his books he focuses on “textual studies--which is the production, transmission and reception of texts of all kinds in multiple media, including digital media,” according to Jones. Digital media platforms like Twitter have become incredibly involved in our culture, a point Jones emphasized with a personal anecdote. “Twitter can affect our personal physical logistics,” said Jones. He described how a simple tweet he made in airport was seen by a colleague he’d only met once before. Ironically, that person was in the same airport. After a direct message on Twitter sent by the colleague, the exchange of phone numbers and a few text messages later, Jones found himself hitching a free ride in the rental car of a newfound friend. These events wouldn’t have occurred without his virtual presence. “When virtual reality first ar-
Loyola University english professor and author of "Against Technology," Steven Jones, spoke to students about the current and future trends of digital media on Tuesday, April 12 in the Lincoln Park Student Center.
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rived on the scene, humans had to physically place their eyes in goggles or a helmet that took them to another world. Now game systems such as the Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360’s Kinect bring that immersion into our living rooms where our movements affect the game and thus combine both worlds,” said Jones. “It’s no longer a game. It’s reality.” Jones doesn’t see this trend
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stopping. “It’s the future of digital media, to become more life-like,” said Jones. Even if you’re not into video games or Foursquare, a mobile app that awards users points for “checking in” to real-life locations like restaurants, you’re not immune. “GPS and Google maps are other ways we formulate our re-
Obama infrequently in Chicago; residents don't seem to mind By KATHERINE SKIBA and BECKY SCHLIKEMAN Chicago Tribune
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Flowers sit in the stairwell where Sally Katona-King was shoved down by a robber as he ran away with another commuter's iPhone on Monday, March 28. Katona-King died the following day after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage from the fall. The suspect has yet to be caught by police but the search continues.
ality,” said Jones. Those maps, controlled by satellites, control our next moves in life and whether we go left as opposed to right and we tend to think of our GPS simply for directions. We may think we’re controlling our digital lives by the simple pressing of a button, but it turns out that our digital lives may now be life itself.
CHICAGO— As presidentelect, Barack Obama proclaimed his "Kennebunkport" was Chicago's South Side and said he would try to get back every six to eight weeks. Instead he has unwound on ocean-splashed Oahu or Martha's Vineyard and has made it back to Chicago seven times, about half as often as he anticipated. On the eve of his eighth trip home Thursday, an overnight visit with three fundraisers, most Chicagoans said they understand why he's here intermittently. Some are even relieved, finding his huge security detail disruptive. "I think it would be cool if he came back more often, but his role is in D.C. now, so realistically he has to be there, just like any other job," said Jeremy Rothschild, marketing director for Bike and Roll Chicago, which leads a "Presidential Bike Tour" in Obama's Kenwood neighborhood. At the University of Chicago, where Obama taught law, political scientist William Howell said it's not unusual for the best intentions of presidents-elect to be "laid asunder as soon as they take office." "I suspect the infrequency with which he's been able to make it home is part of a larger pattern," Howell said. "I imagine he's stay-
ing up later than he expected. I wouldn't be surprised if he's not calling friends as often. There are all sorts of things vying for his attention on a minute-by-minute basis." Not far from Howell's office is the Hyde Park Hair Salon, where clients use seven chairs and an eighth _ the one Obama used _ is under glass so that it doesn't get damaged by the tourists stopping by from as far away as China. "He's been a very, very busy president," Zariff, 47, a barber who goes by one name and has cut Obama's hair since 1994. "He's been busy with the economy, with catastrophes around the world. He hasn't had time to get back here. It's been non-stop since he got in there." A block from Obama's home, resident Emily Davenport, 26, a University of Chicago graduate student in human genetics, was ambivalent about his homecomings, finding them both exciting and disruptive. "It's more of an inconvenience," she added, "because you never actually get to see him." American University political scientist James Thurber, editor of a new book, "Obama in Office," is not convinced that Obama is all about Chicago, though. "He's certainly a Chicago guy, but it seems to me he's had roots in many places: Cambridge, Mass., New York, especially Hawaii. And Chicago was sort of like a stopping-off point for his political career."
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Nation & World
US invasion of Iraq goes on eighth year, DePaul commemorates By KATRINA KOPECK The U.S. invaded Iraq eight years ago. Despite promises of removing forces, nearly 50,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq today. DePaul’s Middle East Politics Association (MEPA) wcommemorated the anniversary on April 8 with a panel of Iraqi students and staff to discuss the war, current conditions in Iraq, and the resulting refugee crisis.
“I want to tell other people Iraq lost, America lost …nobody won,” said Mustafa Basree, a student at DePaul and an Iraqi refugee. Born in Baghdad, his family was forced to flee to Syria in 2005 after several threats to their lives. In Syria, Basree said his family struggled to assimilate to a new culture and find work. After finally settling down, in 2009 the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offered Basree’s family resettlement in the United States. “I come from a culture where men kiss each other on the cheek out of respect or love; you can’t do that here,” Basree said. Basree now studies biology and chemistry at DePaul and is president of MEPA. He hopes to become a microbiologist to find a cure for cancer.
Other panelists included DePaul Arabic professor Mahmoud Sae’ed, an Iraqi-American and award-winning novelist, and Islamic Studies professor, Laith Al-Saud. Al-Saud was born in Baghdad but grew up in the United States. With a Shia mother and Sunni father, Al-Saud said the denominations of Islam are not as exposed as the U.S. media would have us believe.
CULTURE COLLISION Groups work to preserve identity in France, view women's oppression differently
“[Islamic denominations] are only important now since its been publicized by outsiders,” he said. Although Basree has been in the U.S. throughout the occupation of Iraq, Al-Saud said he remembers the first Gulf War and is frustrated by the current situation and “Islamaphobic” views of many Americans. “If we’re going to turn this country around, we have to do it together,” Al-Saud said.
France's secular nation France was declared to be the most ‘militantly’ secular country of Western states in a BBC analysis of church and state relations:
“Secularism is the closest thing the French have to a state religion. It underpinned the French Revolution and has been a basic tenet of the country's progressive thought since the 18th Century. To this day, anything that smacks of official recognition of a religion such as allowing Islamic headscarves in schools - is anathema to many French people.”
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Women supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamat-i-Islami rally to condemn the ban imposed on wearing a burqa or veil in France, Thursday, April 14, 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan. Placard on left reads "veil is pride, respect and security of a woman."
“Veil ban” continued from cover plicitly state it, Abed said she feels the ban targets the Muslim community. “It is telling them they are not French enough and that to be French,” she said, “you have to shed your religious and cultural identity to somehow fit in. According to Abed, these attitudes do not run parallel to those in the U.S. “Although there is tension here and a rising xenophobia that targets and profiles Muslims,” she said, “we still praise individualism.” Abed said that in Chicago, most of the violence over ripping scarves off Muslim women does not take place at DePaul University. “On campus there is a lot of appreciation
for diversity,” she said. Dennis Holtschneider said When the veil debate was banning face veils has never approved last July, a survey by been considered at DePaul. Pew Research “That conversaCenter found tion doesn’t exist “Even though Western Eurohere,” he said. pean countries “Our Muslim to be in over- some people think student populawhelming sup- that the hijab and tion has grown port of the ban. in recent years, According to the burqa opresses and it’s greatly survey, 71 perenriched us as cent of Germans women, it’s still a an institution,” and 62 percent Holtschneider choice.” of British said said. they would supIn 2004 France port a similar banned religious -MARWA ABED law in their own symbols—incountries. In cluding crucicontrast, 65 perfixes and Islamic cent of Americans said they veils—from public schools. would oppose such a measure. Church and state were forUniversity President Rev. mally separated in France
more than a century ago, a time when Muslims were barely a presence in the country. Today, France has the largest Muslim population in the world, with 10 percent of the country's 64 million people who are Muslim. But of the 5 million Muslims living in France, less than 2,000 wear a full face veil. Warner said she believes DePaul University and Chicago have “a very open and accepting environment for students who have different thoughts, beliefs and ideas to kind of work together and challenge each other, to push those boundaries.” “I think this is a very positive environment to have these kind of discussions.”
France defines the right of freedom of religion as a liberté publique (public liberty), rather than a civil right (as interpreted in most other countries). Along with Islamic veils, the wearing of crucifixes, Jewish kippa skullcaps and other religious symbols are banned from public schools.
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THE BUDGET By MICHAEL CORIO Congress narrowly avoided a shutdown of the U.S. federal government on April 8, reaching a tentative compromise on a budget with $38 billion in cuts. Despite claims from both political parties that the $38 billion in budget cuts is a noteworthy step towards reducing the national debt, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will only cut $352 million from the deficit through Sept. 30.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides federal funding NPR and PBS, was cut by $80 million, while the EPA was cut by $1.6 billion, a 16 percent decrease from the previous year.
The elimination of funding for the national high speed rail system, which is likely to put the brakes on California’s $43 billion super project and similar developments across the U.S.
Funding for Obama’s Affordable Care Act and Race to the Top education program were included in the bill despite strong Republican opposition.
Republicans placed a cap on the fund used to compensate crime victims, enabling them to claim an extra $5 billion in savings.
Democrats stymied Republican efforts to limit funding for abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, as well as initiatives to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency's power to set carbon emission standards and regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
G.O.P successes included blocking the Interior Department from enforcing its “wild lands” policy for the rest of the year, which could open up more public lands to oil and gas exploration.
The Department of Defense received an extra $5 billion. The defense increase came with an additional $157.8 billion to fund the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the only departments to see an increase in its budget.
The erasure of $6.2 billion leftover U.S. Census funds was the largest single program cut, an accounting gimmick that enabled Congress to claim the savings, despite it being previously slated for elimination.
DRUG SLANG IN WAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. The trend has people worrying that Mexico is developing a kind of offhand jargon that anesthetizes people by making escalating violence seem routine. Some experts, however, say slang and euphemisms can help people deal with the horrors around them. Some Mexicans are so terrorized by the especially brutal Zetas gang that they refer to the cartel in hushed tones as "The Last Letter," or merely "The Letter."
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eople march in front of the National Palace during a protest against violence in Mexico City on April 6, 2011. The sign reads in Spanish: “Calderon, murderer of youngsters”.
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How much do you really know about Catholicism? By ANGELIKA LABNO Junior, Journalism Until recently, I lived in a Catholic bubble. On Ash Wednesday, when I asked a Christian friend if he was getting his ashes, he informed me Lent was a Catholic thing; I was floored. Since Catholics are fundamentally Christians, I imagined there couldn’t be much of a difference between them, but after further discussions with Christians, I realized how mistaken I was. The list of differences is a long one, from praying to Mary and the saints to religious iconography in the worship space. Not only was I made aware of the differences but I inadvertently came under criticism for my religion. There seems to be a general resentment toward Catholicism from my friends. “Catholics are, like, crazy strict,” they said. “Isn’t transubstantiation sort of cannibalistic?” another teased, referring to the Catholic belief that the wafer during Communion turns into the body of Jesus. After recovering from the shock at some of their misconceptions, I dug into the roots of my religion to try to better explain the misunderstandings. Intercession—a prayer to God on behalf of others—is a major difference between Catholicism and other Christian denominations. For example, Catholics pray to saints and Mary, the mother of Jesus, so that they might intercede the prayer to God. Some see this as idolatry, but St. Rita High School’s president, Rev. Thomas McCarthy, is quick to denounce the accusation. During a recent mission at south-suburban St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Rev. McCarthy explained the misconception. “We [Catholics] do not worship saints. That’s not Christian and we’re Christians. We don’t worship, but we venerate.” He followed this up with a great example: Asking the saints to pray for us is no different than asking your friends to pray for your sick grandmother. The difference is Catholics believe the saints and Mary are in Heaven, closer to God than our peers, hence making their
intercessions more valuable. Catholics, like Christians, also pray directly to God, but a saint’s intercession is just extra help. In terms of praying to Mary, Rev. McCarthy joked, “If you want something to get done, you go to that person’s mother.” Catholics hope that when they send their prayers to Mary, she will, like any other mother, further push Jesus to answer them. Closely related is the misconception that Catholics practice idolatry through religious iconography. Catholics, however, recognize statues and religious art as just that— artwork. They are not there to be worshipped; rather, they are symbolic reminders. For example, looking at a crucifix elicits the message of salvation—the actual object is in no way taking precedence over Jesus. Being born with “original sin” is another concept a friend of mine has a problem with, because she thinks Catholics believe we are born sinners, we’re innately evil and the only way to change that is through baptism. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, they lost the original holiness and justice for themselves and the rest of humanity. This deprivation of original holiness and justice is considered “original sin.” Through this, humans are weaker in power, experience suffering and death and are predisposed to sin. This is entirely different from saying that we are born evil. The Catechism states that “original sin is called ‘sin’ only in an analogical sense: it is a sin ‘contracted’ and not ‘committed’—a state and not an act.” We are not born sinners; we are born with the sin—or curse, as I prefer to call it—of not being able to experience the paradise that existed before Eve succumbed to eating the darned apple. However, there’s a saving grace-baptism, in which one can be “born again.” While our first birth gives us life on earth, this “second birth” gives us an afterlife. It not only gives back to us the opportunity to be holy, but also the ability to experience the paradise destined for us from the beginning—maybe not during this lifetime but in the afterlife. To reiterate, being born with original sin does not mean we are born with an actual committed sin, but
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simply a fallen state in which we are prone to sin. I understand this barely scratches the surface of Catholic misconceptions. I won’t even try to delve into transubstantiation for fear of falling short in my explanation. I feel people are largely uneducated on Catholicism, and I’m including myself and practicing Catholics when I say that. Religion, in general, is a difficult subject to fully comprehend; I’ve seen priests fumbling for words on certain topics, and I’ve heard varying answers to the same question. We need to understand that while some concepts are clear-cut, others are multi-faceted and sometimes unexplainable. What’s important is to accept our differences and keep an open mind, because when we assume, we inhibit our capacity to learn.
GOP opts for budget cuts, not higher taxes Budget cuts affect funding for everything, from education to environmental clean-up
By VICTOR MATA Freshman, English Details of the budget deal between GOPs in the House and the Capitulator-inChief confirm what intelligent and honest observers suspected during the debate: this isn’t about helping the economy. It’s about enacting Republican political priorities to the detriment of anyone who doesn’t support them. It’s a giant giveaway to the rich and the corporations that pay their bills. And worst of all, it doesn’t even make economic sense. Many of these cuts are from programs that spend a little now so we don’t have to pay a lot later. For example, the Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service will lose $41 million. These are the people who eradicate invasive pests and diseases from our agricultural products, which are a $50 billion-a-year industry. If any disaster strikes as a result of this haircut (about 7.6 percent of APHIS's budget), it’ll cost a lot more than $41 million to fix it and make up for the lost revenue. The rental assistance program will lose $24 million, which prevents homelessness. Because more homeless people is what this country needs. This fits perfectly with Republican priorities, actually, since while poor people generally vote Democratic, homeless people don't vote. WIC (Women, Infants & Children), a faction of the Food and Nutrition Service, will lose a whopping $504 million, which provides nutritional aid to poor children under the age of five. This is both revolting and stupid. Revolting because
the tax cuts extended in December to those earning more than $200,000 will cost the government around $375 million. So in a stunning reverse-Robin Hood maneuver, we’re effectively taking from the poor to give to the rich. And it’s stupid because early childhood is the most important period in a person's life in terms of building potential. Neuronal connections are being made in the brain that require nutritional support, and if they don’t happen then, they won’t happen ever. (This is why people raised speaking one language have trouble making sounds in some other languages.) The less intelligent these poor children grow up as a result of the poor nutrition that stems from their poverty, the less they’ll earn as adults and the less taxes they’ll pay. The Fund for the Improvement of Education will lose $231 million—another relatively cheap investment in the nation’s future. Wouldn't improving education create jobs and lead to more revenue for the government? The fruit and vegetable program will lose $41 million. Cheaper healthy foods means people eat more of it, meaning less obesity, meaning less health care costs borne by the government. Duh. Juvenile justice programs will lose $148 million, which intervene with troubled youth before they become hardened criminals. I'm sure it’ll be much cheaper to lock these people up as adults. The Army Corps of Engineers will lose $579 million. You know who also cut the budget of the Corps of Engineers? G. W. Bush. You know when? Right before Hurricane Katrina. That went really well.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy will lose $438 million. This is really where the rubber hits the road in terms of revealing how full of shit the Republicans are. They say they want a budget that creates jobs, but slashing almost half a billion here proves otherwise. Here's why: Energy efficiency means cheaper energy, which means people have more disposable income to spend elsewhere in the economy. Experts are already worried about what $4 per gallon gas will do to the economy; reducing the cost of electricity and gas frees up money to be spent elsewhere, creating jobs.
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Environmental clean-up and and nuclear waste disposal will lose $834 million—because leaving dangerous chemicals and radioactive byproducts lying around couldn't possibly come back to bite us in the ass. The District of Columbia will lose $43 million, which is fine because all the lobbyists live in Virginia and Maryland,
so no damage to any GOP constituents here. The Small Business Administration will also lose $92 million. Don't we hear Republicans say every five minutes that small business creates two-thirds of all new jobs? This doesn't even make sense on the Republicans’ own terms. Public housing will lose $605 million; people in public housing vote Democratic anyway (when the bus isn’t late on Election Day, that is). Highways and airports will lose $43 billion—another cut that reveals the GOP doesn’t even know how to follow its own priorities. The U.S. already has the worst infrastructure in the developed world, and poor infrastructure amounts to a cost to both producers and consumers and as such is a drag on economic activity. It’s effectively a tax. Worse, because you can’t put off infrastructure upgrades forever, it’s also a debt. And, like a debt, the longer you wait to pay it off, the more expensive it becomes. So not spending this money now means we’ll need to spend it and a lot more later on. Look, I’m not sanguine about the state of the budget or the national debt, but it’s possible to balance the budget without doing it on the backs of the poor, and even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says we spend too much on defense. And what’s sickening about Republican rhetoric is that, although they love to blame Obama for the mounting national debt, about one-quarter of it is due to Bush’s policies. So along with stupid and cruel, you can add dishonest to the list of the GOPs least endearing trait.
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Qu’ran burning serves as call to humanity By PETER DZIEDZIC Sophomore, English & Religious Studies Last month, an act of religious intolerance and spiritual ignorance scarred the progress made in interfaith relations across the nation and across the world. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor condemned for making a push to establish “Burn a Qur’an Day” earlier this year, went ahead as planned and burned a Qur’an, offering a message that is thrown only in dark ages and wearisome times—that we will not tolerate that which we do not know, and we will not welcome those who are not like us. And yet, like all other great events in history, it will fall on us—the discerning citizens, the passionate youth, the discerning students of the academy and the world—to either answer or condemn the call to hate. As a DePaul student, I cannot say the actions of this pastor reflect the honest Photo courtesy of Associated Press norm of spiritually-inclined and aware individuals. I do not see Qur’ans burned An Afghani man shouts anti America slogans as he holds a poster of Florida pastor Terry Jones during a or Torahs torn on a daily basis. Rather, I peaceful protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday April 7, 2011. see a campus that is religiously diverse and rallies around the call for a better world. newsfeeds more often than the honest and tolerance and understanding in our world, into a sequel much greater than our goals DePaul’s religious diversity is transformed toilsome work of the peacemakers and we are also responsible for our own self- and ourselves and much more satisfying into a mosaic of insight and wisdom, not a bridge-builders of humanity. cultivation. We must not only foster a daily than the recent chapters of our history fen of violence or segregation. We must not forget that, while our reality and sustainable culture of tolerance, that have been written in blood, published But sadly, the diversity and acceptance fight for understanding and tolerance may education and awareness, but we must also in our hearts and minds and stories, and of the DePaul community is not universal. not capture the headlines, it does radically strive to continually educate ourselves, to immolated by our fears and insecurities. It falls on each and every one of us, affect the lives of our neighbors and our change our worldviews and enhance our We must not be the generation that as members of this unique community, community, and this is a satisfaction understanding of our life and the global allows the chapter to burn yet again, but to condemn acts such as those pursued that should be inherent in our hearts and context that shapes us as individuals and as rather, to let it stand for what it is and by Terry Jones. We must remember ingrained in our minds as conscious a community. let it transform our lives, inspiring us to that, unfortunately, the terrifying acts of Vincentians. This event, as tragic as it is, should be continually strive for the creation of a rouge extremists capture headlines and As responsible as we are for promoting taken as a chapter of a new book, a segue world much greater than our own.
Run Mark, Run! What's in store for the future of Facebook? By PAUL PETEFISH Senior, Computer Science There has been much debate lately about the worth of the social networking website Facebook. Wall Street recently put a $50 billion value on the company, but keep in mind Facebook only did $2 billion in revenue in 2010. I have my doubts about whether Facebook is worth $50 billion, but if the owner and founder Mark Zuckerberg was looking around the corner, he would sell the company and run. Run far and fast. So what is this $50 billion thing called Facebook? Well, in actuality, it is an application. Most of us have heard the term “killer app,” which is essentially a very popular computer program, or application. And that’s all Facebook is—a very popular application. Soon enough, people will certainly grow weary of status updates, profile changes and new photo postings and move on to the next shiny new application. This of course is nothing new. We have seen
the same falling out happen to MySpace, Yahoo search and AOL instant messenger, just to name a few. The social networking website MySpace, which is very similar to Facebook, recently cut its workforce by half in an effort to look more appealing for a buyout after a major drop off in user activity. In order for Facebook to survive, it will need to venture out into new diverse regions. Think Google; Google started as a search engine, but now it’s into everything from satellite imagery to television to cell phones. The key to Facebook’s survival is diversification. The one major thing Facebook has going for it is the personal information of about 600 million people— everything from age and gender to what products you buy and everything you “like.” This is an advertiser’s dream, but does this translate into $50 billion? Will Facebook be able to make a transition into other ventures? No one can be certain, but I am sure that if I were Mark Zuckerberg, I would be currently taking bids and getting out clean.
Bravest woman in Afghanistan visits Chicago By TIM LYDON Graduate Student, English On the last night of March, “The Bravest Woman in Afghanistan” spoke to a packed house at the Chopin Theater in Chicago. Malalai Joya has earned her moniker—at the age of 25, she denounced her country’s “U.S. and NATO-backed warlords” at a Constitutional Assembly, enraging lawmakers who threatened her with death. Two years later, in 2005, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament but was eventually dismissed for her constant criticism of the government. She has also been demanding an end to U.S. occupation in Afghanistan for years. Joya told the crowd that the violence in Afghanistan has increased 24 percent since Obama took office. On the 2010 UN Human Development Index, which ranks the social progress of countries in different categories, including access to knowledge, nutrition and health services, Afghanistan was ranked 155 out of 169. According to Transparency International, Afghanistan is the second most corrupt government in the world, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed that the U.S. wants permanent military bases in his country. U.S. lawmakers say they fear a civil war will erupt in Afghanistan if U.S. troops leave, but Joya says there is already a civil war being waged over opium production, with drug barons and warlords fighting for control of the profits. We have been in Afghanistan for almost 10 years, spending billions upon billions on reconstruction, yet the country is still at the bottom of the world in terms of social progress. We are flushing money down the toilet by trusting Karzai, but for all his faults, at least he is unafraid to
shine a light on the true intentions of the U.S government. Of course, he welcomes a permanent U.S. occupation, as it will let him off the hook; he can ask for money, then turn around and blame the occupation for all the strife. During the 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain was vilified for saying we will be in Iraq for the next 100 years, but at least he was honest—we probably will be. Obama made us believe all the troops would be home by now. It’s clear our foreign policy is solidified no matter who is in power. The Pentagon is salivating over the prospect of a long-term bastion in central Asia that would allow the military to discourage Iranian influence, stifle Chinese expansion and hunt Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. However, our presence will warrant endless attacks from the Taliban and give birth to more radical fundamentalism. Foreign occupation does not foster goodwill between countries. Instead of being the caretaker of our expensive, misguided military empire, Obama can give the next president, whether next year or in 2016, the clean slate that Bush didn’t leave him. He can end the occupation and devote time and resources to building watchtowers in order to keep an eye on Afghanistan from afar, as well as aid progressive political movements in the country and invest in education. Joya says the need for women’s education in her country is tantamount. But we cannot keep destroying Afghanistan with our weapons and think our money will clean everything up. Joya demands that the U.S. government stop “playing with the destiny of my people.” This isn't hyperbole. If we construct permanent bases in Afghanistan to use the country as a base for our “war on terror,” the people there will suffer for it. The role of the U.S. military is not to police other states, it is to protect our state, and Afghanistan is no threat to our country—we are a threat to theirs.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Craft Criteria The Brewers Association sets guidelines, standards, and definitions of what craft beers and breweries are. They state “an American craft beer is small, independent and traditional.” While this description is very vague and romantic, what qualifies a beer as “craft style” is very rigid.
Chicago brewery gets picked by beer industry giants
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By MATT HARDER
independent, no more 2. Tothanremain 25 percent of a brewery can be
Beer drinkers cringed at the news of a buyout of Goose Island Brewery by Anheuser-Busch. The details of the deal, worth approximately $39 million (a small fee for the internationally successful beverage company Anheuser-Busch Inbev), hit wires in late March. Some beer fans care more than others, but Chicago natives and residents fear for the continuity of a treasured Chicago craft. Could this negative sentiment be due to the fast-fading amount of prominent local goods and companies? Lately, Chicagoans have lost staple companies and products to outsourcing, buy-outs and mergers such as Marshall Field’s, Frango Mints, First National Bank and now Goose Island. “I think people will soon forget about it [the buy-out], comparable to what happened when Macy’s bought Marshall Field’s…no one cares anymore,” said DePaul student Kevin McCarthy. The only immediate comfort provided for Goose Island fans came directly from the orchestrators of the deal. Anheuser-Busch President Dave Peacock said in an interview, “You don’t want to change what’s working… It would be crazy to change the taste of their products.” Contrary to local and popular belief, there is much more to be optimistic about as a result of AnheuserBusch’s financial stature.
Lisa Carlson, manager at Goose Island’s Clybourn Avenue Pub, said she had no previous knowledge of this deal until it hit Facebook and email threads. She also explained that senior management at Goose Island has assured the brewery and pub staff, “Nothing is going to change. Anheuser-Busch wants us to continue doing what we’re good at.” Starting as a small-time brewery, Goose Island founder John Hall started making the hoppy magic happen in 1988 at his Fulton Street Brew House. His son Greg Hall has served as the head brew master but is said to be stepping down at the close of the deal (expected to be finalized by the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2011). There are many reasons why this sale to the big guns can be a positive thing for Goose Island. History has shown that four of the top 20 craft brewers in the U.S. beer market have sold out to larger companies, only to see huge gains in distribution and revenue. Goose Island is now the fifth mass-production, craft brewer to sell out to a larger company in the last calendar year. “312 is one of my favorite beers. I’ll keep buying it as long as those recipes don’t change. I don’t think mass-distribution is bad, maybe it’ll be better and they’ll lower their prices.” said Goose Island patron Dennis Wilson. Peacock has also publicly stated that they plan to spend a minimum of $1.3 million to expand Goose Island’s Fulton Street Brewery. This will not only allow for more production, but also a larger area of distribution. Founder and standing
CEO of Goose Island, John Hall, stated that certain ales have had to be retired because of a lack of revenue and resources for constant production. This situation will take a 180-degree turnaround toward creating more boutique ales, more experimentation and a larger range of distribution. More experimentation with “pilot brews” will not only get the current fans more excited, but will attract new drinkers to Goose Island’s products. The locally owned and operated Goose Island Pubs will see an influx of business, which could potentially call for more locations. Lisa Carlson emphasized that customer flow at the Clybourn Pub has noticeably increased. “We’re seeing new customers; some have even asked if we’ll be carrying Bud and Bud Light.” Anheuser-Busch has immense marketing capabilities and will be able to take Goose Island’s 50 “craft beers” outside of a distribution range of just 18 states and four locations outside the U.S. After all, distribution rights are the main reason for this sale. Anheuser-Busch’s press release names itself as Goose Island’s “Partner…for Growth Strategy.” Goose Island has been outsourcing production and distribution through entities owned and operated by Anheuser-Busch since 2006 and has now given both their shares owned by the Craft Brewers Alliance and those held independently by Goose Holdings Inc. to Anheuser-Busch. Motivations for this deal on Anheuser-Busch’s side include tapping into the craft beer market, which they have not successfully done to-date.
“I’ll still be buying Goose Island products, as long as they remain a microbrewer, instead of changing things to be ready for mass production. They still need to care about how the beer tastes, that’s why we like Goose Island” said student Matthew Fox. While it may be a monetarily driven motivation, the same craft brew nature of each Goose Island product will remain. The difference will lie in the amount of people who will now be intrigued by the changes—enough so to try the products. Diversity is good for beer, and not only will Goose Island products be entering new markets and on new platforms, but they will now have the financial stability to try even more new things. In his public press release regarding the sale of his company, John Hall said “This partnership between our extraordinary artisanal brewing team and one of the best brewers in the world in Anheuser-Busch will bring resources to brew more beer here in Chicago, to reach more beer drinkers, while continuing our development of new beer styles. This agreement helps us achieve our goals with an ideal partner who helped fuel our growth, appreciates our products and supports their success.” The meticulous production of their specialized brews makes Goose Island a diamond, which is no longer in the rough. Anheuser-Busch bought out Goose Island to tap into the craft beer market, and while this may worry some beer enthusiasts, the deal looks quite promising for the little guys from Chicago.
Breweries must stay under 6 million barrels for annual production.
owned or controlled by another beverage industry entity that itself is not a craft brewery.
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The third, and most complex criteria for a beer to be considered craft, is that it is traditional. The Brewers Association’s website explains, “A brewer who has either an all-malt flagship… or has at least 50 percent of its volume in either all-malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor.”
Although Goose Island meets only two of the three criteria for craft beers, it still maintains the craft feeling. The Fulton Street Brewery is a local legend, and a treasured part of the Chicagoland beverage and spirit market.
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Beer vs. State of Illinois
Photo by Darla Weaver
The United States has had a three-tier system for the beer industry since the end of Prohibition. This system has separated the industry into brewers, distributors and retailers. Illinois maintains the separation legislation, which has recently come under fire from Anheuser-Busch. The industry giant filed a discriminatory suit against the State of Illinois claiming that they should have equal opportunity to purchase and operate distributorships in the state. Anheuser-Busch essentially wants to be able to distribute their own products, which could poGoose Island keeps their craft beers on tap at their pub on 1800 N. Clybourn.
Photo by Matt Harder
tentially monopolize the market, since they would control two out of the three tiers within the beverage industry system. Potential effects can lead to a distribution war between beer conglomerates AnheuserBusch and MillerCoors for the most products stocked in retail locations. This could essentially eliminate the craft beer autonomy that has recently been flourishing because of the fact that the smaller breweries were allowed to self-distribute. With Anheuser-Busch’s money, vast product depth and production capabilities, Goose Island may be in for more of an economic boom than they expected. Graphic by Samantha Schroeder
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Arts & Life
Ice cream
dreamin’ As the temperature increases, so does the desire for our fave frozen treats. Check out our top eight picks for Chicago’s most uniquely delicious chilly treasures. Is it summer yet? By LYNSEY HART
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Annette’s 2009 N. Bissell
There is something nostalgic about a walk-up, locally run ice cream joint, and that is exactly what you’ll get when you come to Annette’s Italian Ice. You also won’t get bored no matter how many times (a day) you decide to drop by. The menu is packed full of different ice cream flavors (Annette’s personal favorite is Eskimo Kisses, while I go for the hard-to-find Key Lime Pie variety). Not to mention there is frozen lemonade, fat-free frozen yogurt, frozen bananas and, of course, their homemade, 100 percent natural Italian ice. They all carry a price of $3.00 for a small, but keep in mind that Annette’s is cash only. As for what sells best? “It all depends,” said Annette, the owner who was manning operations when I walked up. “Days like today [65 degrees and sunny] we sell more ice cream. On days where it hits the 90s, we’ll sell more Italian ice.” No matter what the temperature, this seasonal spot always seems to draw a crowd. However, don’t let that deter you; the line moves fast enough that you still may not have picked out a treat by the time you hit the counter. If you are itching to try some Italian ice, Annette’s recommends Lychee, which is reminiscent of rose and grape. When you’re heading out the door to grab a treat, don’t leave Buddy at home; Annette’s carries Dog Paws ice cream.
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Scooter’s Frozen Custard 1658 W. Belmont
Chicago may be a foodie town, but there is one spot where it seems to fall flat—frozen custard. Scooter’s is the oldest frozen custard spot in Chicago, and their age is only seen by the amount of awards and recognition they have received throughout the years. Ice cream’s denser and creamier cousin, frozen custard, has the same percentage of butterfat as ice cream. However, it also contains egg yolk (pasteurized for health safety) and has less air beaten into it. Scooter’s frozen custard in particular, beats around 20 percent air into its custard, compared to ice cream which can have up to 100 percent. This, along with being served at a warmer temperature, makes the product denser and creamier than ice cream. Considering at any given time there are only two different flavors of frozen custard (vanilla and the flavor of the day), most of the variety at Scooter’s comes from mix-ins. The little kid in me squealed in delight when I saw “Worms in Dirt” which has Oreo pieces and gummy worms mixed into vanilla custard. Scooter’s may be a hike from campus, but it will surely be worth your time.
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Photo by Brianna Kelly
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Original Rainbow Cone 9233 S. Western
If you are up for a little adventure, there is no better destination than the Original Rainbow Cone. Full of Chicago history and pride, this local favorite has been serving their one-of-a-kind ice cream treat since 1926. While they do offer different flavors of ice cream, I recommend sticking to original. What you’ll get is a cone layered with chocolate, strawberry, palmer house (vanilla with walnuts and cherries), pistachio ice cream and orange sorbet. They’re packed on in flattened layers for a reason; lick all the flavors at once for full effect. There is something that has helped The Original Rainbow Cone remain a staple in Chicago for over 84 years: the price does not match the quantity, or the quality. At just over $3 for a small, you will get more than enough ice cream to satisfy your sweet tooth for a couple of days.
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Cloud 9 604 W. Belmont
This Asian treat is rarely seen in the States, which is why some unknowingly assume that the snow ice served at Cloud 9 is simply Hawaiian shave ice. But that would be doing this unusual frozen treat an injustice. Cloud 9 describes it as a treat that “has a fluffy texture much like cotton candy, and melts like creamy ice cream.” Cloud 9 has rotating flavors each month (April offers original, mango, strawberry and chocolate). Once you pick a flavor, you have the option of adding toppings— the pureed fruit sauce is a good healthy alternative versus chocolate or caramel. However, I recommend taking a taste before you go piling stuff onto it; this delicious cloud doesn’t need anything extra. Photo by Brianna Kelly
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Forever Yogurt 931 W. Belmont
Belmont is quickly becoming the Mecca of frozen yogurt, but one differs from the rest in a particular way. Forever Yogurt, which is located conveniently by the Red Line (and has a train tracker located inside) is completely self-serve. There are 14 flavors ranging from vanilla to Heath toffee to red velvet each labeled with calories and grams of fat per serving. However, while there are a couple non-fat options, there is only one non-dairy option, raspberry pomegranate sorbet. With so many flavor options, take advantage of the sample cups they offer before you get carried away mixing pistachio and cake batter. Once you have filled your cup (there are 2 sizes to choose from), head to the condiment bar where you have 40 topping options. Most were typical items, but they do have mochi bits and some other interesting additions. The novelty of the store is exciting, and the frozen yogurt is tasty (although my combination of cake batter and Heath toffee may have been a little sweet). However, since the cup is weighed by ounce, it can add up fast. My small size with two toppings ended up at $5.23, so Forever Yogurt may be best kept to a once-in-a-while splurge.
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Gyood! 2048 W. Belmont
For those who have missed out on delicious, creamy summer treats because of lactose-intolerance, this summer just got a whole lot better. Gyood! serves 100 percent lactose-free soft serve ice cream that can be served regular-style, or in the form of shakes (with non-lactose milk), gyoodsicles! (soft-serve with orange soda), ice cream sandwiches and more. Plus this sweet treat won’t bust your summer-time diet; a half cup serving is only 80 calories. Oh, and the best part? Gyood! delivers. That’s right, ice cream straight to your door via grubhub. Of course, there is a minimum order of $13 for delivery and a charge of $3, but split the cost amongst a few of your friends and bring summer laziness to a whole new level.
Starfruit 2142 N. Halsted
Many people mistakenly assume that Starfruit serves frozen yogurt. In reality, they provide frozen Lifeway keifer, which is a fermented milk drink that contains 10 probiotic cultures (compared to yogurt’s two). These priobiotics are friendly bacteria that, according to Starfruit, have been shown to help you come back to life after having a few-too-many the night before. The set-up of Starfruit is very similar to frozen yogurt shops. There are 13 flavors, but most of the fun comes from the toppings. For the environmentally conscious, six of the 13 flavors are available in organic varieties. These six varieties include green kiwi passion fruit, and strawberries & cream. Starfruit also offers the unusual goji berry as a topping, which has a mild tangy, sweet and sour taste and improves the libido of both men and women.
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Paletas (No set location)
One of the joys of ice cream trucks is that they always seem to come around at just the right moment. The same goes for paleta-carrying carts. And if you come across one of them, do not pass it up. Paletas are traditional Latin-American popsicles that come in either milk- or water-based versions and go perfectly with summer days spent outside. Typical favorites of the milk-based variety are coconut and arroz con leche (think rice pudding in popsicle form). On the other hand, the water-based varieties (they’re vegan!) are often fruit juice-based and contain little pieces of fruit. Growing up with these, I have always been a sucker for watermelon. However, if you happen to get a cart that has the cucumber and chile flavor, do not be afraid to try it, because at typically under $1.50 a piece, you can afford to be a little adventurous.
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Festival forecast
Lineups start stacking up for favorite summer street fests By SAM GRADY It’s almost festival season in Chicago, and you know what that means: great live music, delicious food, and bustling street-side boutiques are just around the corner. Two of Chicago’s vibrant celebrations of the summer are the Do-Division Street Fest and Wicker Park Fest. Kicking off the fest season in impressive fashion is the Do-Division Street Fest and Sidewalk Sale. On June 4 and 5, the signature Chicago street fest provides great shopping, live music and family entertainment together under the summer sun. It spans a hefty 10 blocks on Division from Ashland to Leavitt. The bash features the Family Fun Fest and the best food, music and crafts from the surrounding neighborhood. Full music lineups are yet to be announced, but so far the list is filling with diverse talent. Stages are separated on opposite ends of the festival. Thus far there are two cover bands, Led Zeppelin 2 and This Must Be the Band a Talking Heads Tribute Band, which will provide an array of familiar songs. Original artists include Big Freedia, Omar Souleyman and DJ Bonobo. In between the stages the blocks are covered with trendy salons, spas, cafes, bakeries and boutiques, in addition to herds of popular restaurants and eateries. The sidewalk sale offers affordable prices on unique fashion and high-end meals. At an affordable $5 suggested donation,
all proceeds from admittance will be given to local non-profit organizations, the West Town chamber of commerce and three area elementary schools. The fest is a relaxed enjoyable summer event that is a true Chicago experience. The 8th annual Wicker Park Fest 2011 will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, from noon to 10 p.m. on Milwaukee Avenue from North Avenue to Wood Street. The Wicker Park neighborhood is widely known as the city’s artists’ nook and may be considered the birthplace of the Chicago ‘hipster revolution.’ The festival encompasses the lively, artful spirit with fashion and jewelry designers setting up shop on the street to showcase and sell their work. Wicker Park fest has created its name with an eclectic taste in live music performances. On two stages playing back-toback, live musicians are always playing during the fair. The lineup for this upcoming fest so far includes Wild Flag, Wavves, Ana Sia, Joe Pug, Flosstradamus, California Wives and Blitzen Trapper, affirming Wicker Park’s signature indie style. Internet buzz in the indie rock world has been waiting for the much-anticipated announcement of the debut concert from Wild Flag. The all-female indie supergroup, which has gained a strong following on the web, will play their first set of shows at Wicker Park Fest 2011. Surf-pop group Wavves will also be performing on the 24th and are expected to draw a large crowd.
Photos by Joanie Faletto
Above: fun. performs at Wicker Park Fest 2010. Left: The crowd waits for fun.'s performance. Below: Flosstradamus spins at Do Division Fest 2009. The festival also continues its tradition of bringing in solid hip-hop acts in addition to bands. Local DJ duo Flosstradamus will be making an appearance as well as California DJ Ana Sia at this years’ fest. More headlining acts are to be announced in the coming weeks, but festival organizers promise the suggested gate donation of $5 will not change, even as the festival attendance expands each year.
Second City provides PR lesson through laughs By JENN SCHANZ
Photo by Michael Brosilow, courtesy of Second City, Inc.
Second City's Timothy Edward Mason.
From the Cubs and Sox rivalry, Jay Cutler’s public image and the psyche of the city’s carriage horses, to life, death, Jesus and male strippers. Sunday, April 10’s press night at Second City featured director Billy Bungeroth’s “South Side of Heaven,” a comedic cocktail blended up with Windy City satire and all things universal in what can only be described as a knee-slapping, drink-spitting, stomach-aching laugh riot that truly captured the comedic side of human fate. Known by many as “The Harvard of Comedy,” Chicago’s Second City has produced some of the country’s finest and most internationally recognized comedians, actors, writers, producers and improv artists. Before walking Hollywood red carpets or gracing the stage of Saturday Night Live, comedians like John Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Steve Carell got their starts by stirring up the stage in Chicago’s Old Town. But press night didn’t only attract tourists and respected members of the city’s media. DePaul University’s PRSSA Chapter (Public Relations Student Society of America) took the opportunity on April 10 to do more than laugh. The chapter’s vice president of special events, junior Emily
Martinez, saw attending “South Side of Heaven” press night as a way for PRSSA members to be exposed to a unique side of public relations. “We need to work on exposing members of our chapter to different forms of PR such as theater or entertainment, not just corporate or consumer,” Martinez said. Martinez joined PRSSA president Sonal Moraes, vice president of membership services and development Matthew Kochis, and committee members Elise Scheve, Brittany Worthylake and Lauren Snyder in experiencing firsthand the importance of cultivating press relationships when working in entertainment PR. “Attending a press night not only presents our members with a networking opportunity, but also to see how crucial the press is in influencing the credibility of a company such as Second City,” said Martinez. According to Second City Inc. president Diana Martinez, who will be speaking at a DePaul PRSSA meeting later in the month, the root of Second City’s inspiration is two-fold. “It comes from the actor’s point of view and social and political aspects of our society.” “I think Chicagoans are hardworking, we’ve got our Midwestern values, and at the same time we’re very cosmopolitan, political, edgy. We have a very diverse community
to work with…it’s the perfect place for this kind of political and social satire,” she continued. The show’s highlights included an examination of a paranoid TSA agent played by Timothy Edward Mason, a sentimental side of striptease depicted by Sam Richardson, and the unfortunately comedic, socially stunted life trajectory of adolescent girl Regina, portrayed by Holly Laurent. Aside from the obvious creative and performance skill of all six ensemble members, what was most impressive about “South Side of Heaven” was the obvious collaboration between cast and director in an effort to reflect universal truths that audience members could not only relate to, but laugh their butts off in the process. Mason’s TSA agent bit is reinvented nightly, as he blends in as part of the audience before the show, eavesdropping on side chatter, and then proceeds to Google information about audience members to use in his monologue. That sort of creativity and commitment to a audience-performer relationship makes a night at Second City more than an average show, but an experience, one that harmonizes the personality of a city with the perspective of its people, something all performance ensembles should strive for.
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trades shivers for sweat By COLLEEN CONNOLLY The 2011 Shamrock Shuffle lived up to its name on Sunday, April 10. With the record heat radiating off the hot pavement, there were definitely more people shuffling than running through the eightkilometer course downtown, including myself. The race was over before noon, but temperatures had already reached the 70-degree range. Runners were glowing at the starting line and dripping at the finish line. I guess it’s Mother Nature’s preferred method of payment for that rare summer day in early April. Despite the heat this year, there was a record turnout of over 32,000 runners. On a Sunday, the downtown streets are normally calm and empty, but on April 10, they were congested with greenclad runners. The warm weather was nice for the North Ave. Beach bums, but it was a little hard on us runners. Freshman Dani Prebeck, a Shamrock Shuffler, had mixed feelings about the weather. “I guess I would say it was bittersweet,” she said, referring to the timing of the sudden change in weather. “Some of the runners were complaining, but I like getting all sweaty when I run.” Prebeck would not have had the same experience at last year’s Shamrock Shuffle. Just a year ago, Shufflers endured frigid temperatures and Chicago’s favorite kind of spring shower—snow. The heat may have given this year’s runners a slight edge over last year’s frozen participants. The winner of the men’s group, Simon Bairu, beat last year’s winner by one second with a
time of 23 min., 38 sec. Amy Yoder Begley, the winner of the women’s group, holds the fastest time since 2006. She finished the race in a speedy 26 min., 50 sec. To put this in perspective, it took me almost an hour. It’s hard to say just what kind of weather Chicagoans should expect for the Shamrock Shuffle, which is why the date for the race has been moving farther and farther away from its corresponding holiday, St. Patrick’s Day, every year. The weather is simply too inconsistent and unpredictable in early spring. There are rumors about a re-christening of Chicago’s famous 8K footrace, to a more appropriate name for the date. Perhaps the tagline for this year’s race—Spring Thaw—will become the new Shamrock Shuffle. No matter what you call it, it doesn’t seem like Chicagoans will stop running (or shuffling) in the unofficial first race of the running season. As runners cooled down after the race, the summer weather only improved the atmosphere. With the high spirits at the post-race party and the cool breeze coming from the lake, all in all, it was a good day to shuffle.
Photos by Jamie Anastasia
Above: Some of the record-high 40,000 registered runners begin the 2011 Shamrock Shuffle at the starting line. Below: Runners jog through Chicago during the race on Sunday, April 10.
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2011 Shamrock Shuffle
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Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page shine as “Super” heroes By EDUARDO SAYAGO The work of director/writer James Gunn is an acquired taste. He is not for everyone, but if you enjoy movies that will make you cringe and laugh (sometimes at the same time), then check out “Super,” a bizarre yet humorous tale about a ‘regular’ crimefighter in homemade tights. Frank (Rainn Wilson) is a middle-aged cook who has only two shining moments in his life: the day he married Sarah (Liv Tyler) and the day he helped a police officer capture a purse-snatcher. ‘Helped’ entails him seeing the thief enter a corner store, the officer turning the corner, and Frank saying “He’s in there.” “Thanks buddy,” replied the officer. This scene lasts no more than four seconds. We see his relationship with these life occurrences as he draws both moments in crayon, and tapes the drawings on his wall to serve as inspiration. Sarah, Frank’s wife, is lured in by Jacques, a smooth-talking drug dealer, (Kevin Bacon), who is unusually calm—given his shady profession. Sarah is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. She falls off the wagon, and then some. Frank falls into grief. He has no idea what to do until he watches a superhero (Nathan Fillion) on a Christian show and decides to become one in order to win back his wife. “Shut up crime!” boasts Frank, who becomes the Crimson Bolt. Soon, he is beating up criminals with a wrench. When Lib-
by, (Ellen Page), a comic book enthusiast, discovers he is the Crimson Bolt, she appoints herself as the Bolt’s sidekick, Boltie. Together they take on Jacques. To be frank, (Libby makes fun of his name right after she told him not to joke about hers), I was not expecting “Super” to be so violent. I thought that the crime fighting scenes would be played for humor, perhaps even be kitschy. However, that was not the case, I cringed every time he slammed his wrenched into someone’s face. Libby is also unsettling. When she transforms into Boltie, she seems to discard her humanity. In one scene, she heals Frank’s wounds from a failed attempt to fight Jacques. In another scene, she beats the living sh*t out of a guy who keyed her best friend’s new car. And it turns out in the end that she got the wrong guy. (He also might have died from his wounds; she slammed a statue into his skull.) The film’s weakest link is the dialogue and filler scenes. “Are we between the panels?” Libby asks, in reference to what happens between panels in comic books. A few scenes were not necessary. The first scene between Frank and Jacques was a bit humorous but wasn’t relevant. Unless it’s a stoner comedy or an avant-garde short film, there is no reason to have a whole scene revolving around scrambled eggs. Wilson and Page make the uneven script and cringe-worthy “filler” scenes their own. Page is often cast as the whip-smart, wise-beyond her ages woman who is also
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Ellen Page and Rainn Wilson are shown in a scene from "Super." relatable (“Juno,” “Smart People,” “Whip It.”) Two of her movies, “Juno” and “Inception,” earned her an Oscar nomination and an opportunity to choose her roles. I admire her for trying something very different. Wilson also delivers an enthusiastic and witty performance. (Favorite line from him: “People look stupid when they cry.”)
He managed to make the audience empathize with Frank, despite his violent wrench and awkward encounters with society. scene between Frank and Jacques was a bit humorous but wasn’t relevant. Unless it’s a stoner comedy or an avantgarde short film, there is no reason to have a whole scene revolving around scrambled eggs.
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Hayden Panettiere ponders role in new “Scream” By JACOB SABOLO
HP: Wes is amazing. You would expect a guy like that to be creepy. I mean, it’s like if you met Stephen King you would expect him to be creepy. There has to be a reason why their love in life is to terrify people. But he’s such a sweet man and there’s nothing creepy about him, he’s really funny and has these one-liners that are just hysterical. But the one thing I love the most about him is that when you are on set, you can see how much he loves what he does. And that is such a great vibe for the set, for the crew and the cast. It makes people want to be there, he’s a mastermind and he’s brilliant.
In 1996, “Scream” redefined the horror movie franchise and has since become iconic in American cinema. The newest installment finds heroine Sidney Prescott back in her hometown of Woodsboro alongside two returning characters Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley. However, the majority of the cast is composed of up-and-coming actors and actresses such as Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin and Hayden Panettiere. Several college newspapers including The DePaulia took part in a phone conference with Panettiere as she talked about “Scream 4.”
R: Who is your favorite character out of all the “Scream” movies and why? HP: Sidney (Neve Campbell) is such an iconic character, but I remember loving Matthew Lillard’s character (Stu from “Scream”). He just hit that comic relief right on the head and what he did with the character and the thrill ride of it, and it was still terrifying, but it had those great moments of being hysterical. I always loved his character.
Reporter: How long did it take you to perfect the perfect scream for this movie? Hayden Panettiere (HP): You know, I think it’s accumulative. I learned when I was very young to scream at the top of my lungs—it came in handy a couple of times. And being on “Heroes” for four years, I definitely got a head start on it—on that blood-curdling scream.
R: How big of a horror fan are you and how was it acting in a scary movie? HP: I’m a big horror movie fan. I used to love to scare myself half to death when I was younger as long as I had my parents’ bed to run into. When I started living by myself I had to pretty much ban all horror movies from my house. I couldn’t even watch a preview for a horror movie, because my imagination would just get the best of me. But I’m a big fan of horror movies now. I, especially on this film, got caught up on the ones that I missed out on. The great thing about this is that it’s not just a horror film, it’s a real rollercoaster, that big game of “Clue.”
R: Was part of your preparation watching all of the previous “Scream” films? Or did they not want you to watch them? HP: It was part of my personal preparation for it, but they didn’t really weigh in on the topic of watching the movies. But, if anything, I think that they would have said yes, re-watch them, because some of the characters [are] similar; they still reflect some of the characters that have been in the past “Screams.” R: “Scream 4” is made up of the new generation of young actors and actresses. What do you and co-stars bring to the film that is different from the original “Scream”? HP: There’s a lot of modern day [elements] that comes into the film: much more technology and how that plays into horror movies now; the filming of murders—like the kind of thing you see in “Saw.” The rules have changed, the audience has evolved and have gotten harder and harder to scare, so the rules and clichés have to change and evolve and adapt as well. The [cast] is a group of young
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Hayden Panettiere arrives at the premiere of "Scream 4," which opened April 15. people who are much more modern to our audience today. RP: How was it working with Wes Craven as a director?
R: If you could play one major horror villain from a past franchise whom would it be and why? HP: It would be fun to play Carrie. That would be fun right? To play a complete psycho? I like Carrie. [“Carrie” is] a horror movie and it’s a really terrifying one, but you kind of feel for her. It’s a character that you get to create and play with, and I’ve always wanted to play someone a little cuckoo.
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help Facebook Credits become an “important online currency” and How much time did you spend on Facebook today? may allow Facebook to become a According to a study released by comScore Inc., average serious competitor amongst U.S. users spent one of every eight online minutes using digital distribution companies Facebook in 2010. While this may seem low to some like Netflix and Hulu. Schroeder younger users, this accounts for the entirety of U.S. may be counting his chickens Internet users. Facebook usage across the American before they hatch, however, as Internet-using populous jumped up to 12.3 percent in I believe this is more along the 2010 from 7.2 percent in 2009. lines of Heinz green ketchup: it’s As more people spend greater amounts of time locked interesting and it’s one way to into Facebook, the social media giant will try its best to watch movies, but it isn’t worth become a one-stop Internet shop. While the future may the price and, currently, it isn’t bring a Facebook search engine or dedicated Facebook practical. e-mail address, the newest development may surprise you: Yes, the wheels are still movie rentals. That’s right—you can now rent and stream turning slowly and the catalog movies without ever having to leave Facebook. Using 30 is only open to the U.S., but it to 40 Credits ($3-$4), you can rent a movie and watch it is important to think about what up to 48 hours later, though the current catalog is limited this could mean in a few years: to “The Dark Knight” and five other movies including the not only movie rentals or downloads, but perhaps music first two installments of the “Harry Potter” series. Simply and television downloads would become available as visit the official Facebook page for any of the six featured well. I doubt Netflix, Hulu or Apple will be shaking in movies and you will now have the option to watch each their boots any time soon, as college students just aren’t movie, with the buttons located on either the main wall or buying it. the profile side bar. “It sounds a lot like Netflix to me,” says senior Juan In the official press release announcing the rentals, Hernandez. “It should be pretty interesting to see what president of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Thomas happens and see how they try to compete with Netflix… Gewecke said making films available through Facebook because the people working at Facebook certainly aren’t “is a natural extension of our digital distribution efforts. dumb.” It gives consumers a simple, convenient way to access Even though the data hasn’t been released to the public, and enjoy our films through the world’s largest social the popularity of this idea can be gauged by taking a look at network.” The first movie, Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark the growth of “fans” for these Facebook pages. According Knight” became available via Facebook on March 8. The to RelaxNews via The Independent, both “Harry Potter” next five films were made available on March 27. and “The Dark Knight” have seen substantial growth in Mashable’s Stan Schroeder writes that this move could their fan bases – with the latter growing from about 3.9
By TONY VALDIVIESO
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Select movies can now be streamed through the social networking site
million fans on March 8 to about 5.6 million fans only ten days later. It would seem as though the Warner Bros. experiment has been successful thus far, but who knows what direction the future will take this idea in. Yes, soon enough, users may be able to watch “The Social Network” actually on Facebook. I know Mark Zuckerberg has thought about this before and is counting the seconds until it happens. Whether it is a Facebook browser or being able to watch your favorite television shows without ever leaving the confines of Zuckerberg, the seedlings of Facebook will continue to expand into new and surprising directions as, more and more, the public becomes one nation, under Facebook, with liberty and Farmville for all.
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Talking to Chicago “Super” star Michael Rooker By TOM CONROY Michael Rooker is one of the truly great unsung actors in Hollywood. He has given stellar performances in films like “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,” “Mississippi Burning,” “Tombstone,” “Days of Thunder” and “Mallrats.” He also worked on the DePaul CDM Project Bluelight “Scott’s Dead” a few years back. A Chicago native, Rooker has come back home to promote his new film, “Super,” in which he costars with Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon. Recently, Rooker sat down with the DePaulia to discuss the film and his career. The DePaulia (DP): Do you enjoy coming back to Chicago, when you get the chance? Michael Rooker (MR): Yeah, I’ve been having a good time, so far. I like it. It’s a good city and I grew up here.
a role. He was a little embarrassed about asking me to do it since it was like three lines [laughs]. But, I mean, we all did it for nothing. We did it because we all knew each other and we’re all friends and wanted to make the movie. DP: What’s that like when you work on a film with a lot of people you’re familiar with? MR: It’s a lot of fun. You have a lot of fun between takes, and even during takes. You tend to be a lot more open or sometimes more critical. I can yell at James, “God, that sucked! Can we do it again?” [laughs] But, it’s all in good fun.
DP: You worked with director James Gunn on “Slither.” How was it the second time around? MR: Just as bad as the first time around [laughs]. He’s so demanding. He’s always telling me what to do [laughs]. He’s not the boss of me. He’ll learn.
DP: Now I could see a lot of depth in your part of this film. How do you bring that kind of complexity to a character that could easily have just been considered a standard “thug?” MR: It could easily be that and I think that’s the mistake that’s easy to make if you’re a beginning actor. There’s that whole cliché, “No small role, no small actors.” You think about it for a while, and it means exactly that. Abe could just be your regular run of the mill, thug guy. You just have to do your homework, no matter what the size of the role is. I think the smaller roles can sometimes be more difficult than the larger ones because there’s not always a lot written in the script for the smaller parts. Therefore, you get to make it up and it’s even more fun. It can come right from your own imagination. It can spring from something more creative than just what has been written down on the script. And that’s what’s happening with Abe. Some people may look on paper and think that it’s insignificant, but it’s up to the actor to bring their craft and make it something that someone’s going to notice.
DP: When did he first approach you about the film? I know it’s been in the makes for a while. MR: It has been in the makes for a while. But this last time, it actually got cast and got done, of course. But the film was actually written ten years ago. So it’s gone through several casts and never got made. This time around, it just so happened that James’ ex-wife, Jenna Fisher, knew and worked with Rainn Wilson. So she showed the script to him and he loved it and that’s how the film finally got made. I’ve been friends with James since “Slither” and he eventually asked me if I wanted to do
DP: You seem to play that part of the tough guy or henchman quite a bit. Do you ever get tired of it or do you just have fun with it? MR: I would say that all of my roles are different. Sometimes there’s a through-line that’s pretty intense, kind of on the cusp between good guy and bad guy. You’re not necessarily sure what’s gonna happen with this guy, whether he’s going to snap your neck or get you coffee [laughs]. I love doing that kind of stuff and I find it very intriguing to try and get that stuff out so that the audience will get a sense of, “I don’t know if I’d want to meet this guy.”
DP: What’s your favorite thing to do when you come out? MR: Eat [laughs]. DP: Is there a restaurant that you always go to? MR: I usually grab some pizza. I really like it all, so I’ll usually have a hot dog, too. And if it’s summer, I’ll go to a Sox or a Cubs game and just enjoy the city. I was also a lifeguard at North Ave. Beach once, so I go back to the beach and hang out.
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Michael Rooker's costars Ellen Page (above) and Rainn Wilson (below) are shown in in scenes from "Super."
Photos courtesy of The Associated Press
Or in the case of Abe, he’s the guard of this guy. There are people who don’t like him, but he’s got to protect him. He doesn’t necessarily agree with all of the stuff that goes on, but he’s got a job to do. It was fun to do that kind of role. DP: I know that my favorite role of yours is “Mississippi Burning.” It’s one of my favorite films. Is there a role of yours that you would consider your favorite or maybe something you’d like to be remembered for? MR: A personal favorite. You know, I enjoy a lot of the little things I end up doing. “Eight Men Out,” I really enjoyed. For that film, I was cast in a group, and we were as thugs, basically. And “Mississippi Burning” was very similar. Alan Parker is a great director and he would watch us and see how we perform certain scenes. And he would end up cuing in on me and I kind of ended up being the most aggressive of the bunch I was the most willing to get out there and get physical and I like that kind of stuff. I love doing physical comedy and sorts and I love mixing it up even in those types of scenes. And just like Abe, there wasn’t a lot written about that role so I had to develop and throw in some things from my imagination. And my guy really became the instigator of all the violence. So that was a really cool role for those reasons and it’s a role I’ll always
remember. It’s those roles where there’s not a lot written about in the script and I get to use a lot of my own imagination that I really cherish. But to answer your question, “Eight Men Out” is probably my favorite. But then there’s “Days of Thunder,” and of course “Henry.” DP: “Super” is unlike any superhero movie I’ve ever seen. I was wondering if you could explain what you think the movie is truly about at its core? MR: Well, you know, the question of vigilantism is brought up. The subject of mental illness is brought up. I mean, obviously the main character is mentally ill. And it is complicated: The morality of some thug, fighting crime. It’s a complicated piece. And it’s all in Gunn’s head. He’s the mastermind behind this. DP: Now a few years ago, you worked on “Scott’s Dead,” a DePaul University Bluelight project. How was it working with a student film crew for a change? MR: I didn’t have any problem at all. You know, we did that little movie. Everything was on time. Everybody did their jobs. Everyone was a little intimidated, I think. Some people get intimidated by me [laughs]. I don’t know why. But I was able to utilize that well on set. But it was great. I had a good time.
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Latino Film Fest’s “Che” too heavy on the history By TRACY MARTIN Earlier this month, Chicago held its 27th Annual Latino Film Festival. The festival has become well respected for representing Hispanic communities in a positive and artistic light. The festival featured films from professional and amateur directors. Films came from all over Latin America, including, but not limited to, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Mexico. The movies’ subject matters touched on a wide breadth of issues and ranged between several genres. One of the featured films at the festival was “Che: A New Man,” a documentary that focused on the life of the popular revolutionary. The documentary was directed by Tristan Bauer. Ernesto “Che” Guevara has the esteemed honor of having the most reproduced image in the history of photography. The Argentine revolutionary’s interesting mythos has attracted its fair share of followers, as well as detractors. Because of this, many directors have sought to tell his story, to mixed results. An important thing that sets this documentary apart from other Che films is the sheer wealth of information that it has. The documentary sees previously unreleased information that the filmmakers were allowed access to by the Bolivian government. But where does this movie’s quality stand in relation to other Che movies? Well, it’s certainly not bad, but some flaws hindered full enjoyment of the film.
The movie was very informative, but almost painfully so. It showcases a complete profile of Che’s life, from his beginnings being born to an upper-middle class family in Argentina to his death as a storied revolutionary in Bolivia. Clocking in at 129 minutes, the movie touches on everything that needs to be said. One of the things I didn’t like was the film’s presentation. It was just too dry. It was very, very fact-heavy. Of course, this is to be expected in a biographical documentary, but it could’ve been handled better. It felt too cold and detached, and considering the subject, it could have been more exciting. There are also weird edits throughout the movie. The effects of his death aren’t well elaborated on, while several minutes of one battle stretch on seemingly for ages. Most of the films at the festival included a short Q&A with the director at the conclusion of the film. Unfortunately, Bauer was unable to make the flight to America. While this doesn’t weigh negatively on my opinion of the film, it still would have been nice to hear from the director himself why he chose to do some of the things he did. “Che: A New Man” was one of the better films shown at the festival. It was well worth the ticket price. Out of the several films that I’ve watched in the festival, this would be near the top. But while it was a good film, if you’ve already watched Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” or just don’t feel too keen on watching a historical documentary with better than average production values, then this film isn’t for you.
Rave On
"Che: A New Man" chronicles the life of Che Guevara, artwork of whom is shown above.
The Raveonettes rock Lincoln Hall
By ZOE BARKER With barely enough room to breathe, noise fans packed Lincoln Hall on April 6, one day after the Raveonettes’ newest album, “Raven In the Grave,” hit the states. The Danish duo pleased the crowd with a mix of old, new and justreleased tunes. By the time I got to the venue at 10 p.m., fifteen minutes before the band was set to go on, there was not an inch of room on the floor. Banished to the second floor balcony, I took a much-needed seat, though still had barely enough space to see the stage. The ground was shaking even up on the balcony, giving no less of an experience than being front and center. Amps with the words “Rave On” lit up the stage. Two assisting musicians helped fill the sound that is well known from the band’s albums, something unachievable with just the two main members. The helpers switched between backing guitar, keyboard, and drums, while Sune and Sharin stuck to singing, guitar, and bass. After three newer songs, the crowd loosened up for “Dead Sound,” a favorite from their 2007 album, “Lust, Lust, Lust.” Intense, fluorescent white bar-lights flashed with the beat. The volume overall was lower than I had expected but was not disappointing. Before playing “Hallucinations” Sune stopped to say, “We’ve never played this place before, but it looks really cool. Thanks for coming out.” During the next song, Sharin’s solo vocals gave me chills as they filled with room along with tribal drums and static. Then “Love Gang” was a perfect break for those who had been dancing the whole time. The band played song after song, taking very few breaks to talk to the audience, in true shoegazer form. It was like watching Robot Chicken (replacing humor with indie-surfer pop). Quick transitions led each song flawlessly into the next. They ended with a song off their new album, appropriately titled, “My Time’s Up.” I was
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Photo by Zoe Barker
The Raveonettes perform at a packed Lincoln Hall on Wednesday, April 6. especially pleased that they played “Aly Walk With Me,” a personal favorite of mine, during the encore. The entire performance was like being transported to a different planet--A place where robots and surfers live in perfect harmony. And the automatic weapon-like pace of the set list kept the energy high throughout. This experience gave a new meaning to the “Jawbox” lyric, “I sunk my eyes in static.” I think I now understand what they were talking about. With both my eyes and ears sunk in the beautiful static of the Raveonettes, I was convinced to buy their new album and thoroughly enjoyed being persuaded to do so.
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“Chicago Cup” continued from back cover four different areas of the city. “You have basically your Hyde Park, your Lincoln Park, your Rogers park and then us here in the north suburbs,” Lenahan said. “So kind of the whole city’s represented here.” For DePaul juniors John Jandl and Matt Leinauer, sizing themselves up against local teams and having the chance to own bragging rights are tournament highlights. “It’s always nice to evaluate ourselves in terms of the talent in Chicago,” Jandl said. The tournament not only presents an opportunity for teams to assess themselves as they come off of winter break, but also creates a competitive playing environment during a spring season filled with scrimmage matches. “In the spring, a lot of stuff is very developmental, but this is, you’re actually competing for a championship, so it does add a little bit of a competitive flavor to the spring, which is mostly about finding out who can play, who can’t play and things like that,” Lenahan said. Along the same lines, UIC Head Coach Sean Phillips said, “And with the title Chicago Cup and with there being a cup or a championship at stake…from a coach’s standpoint, I felt it replicated, as close as you could, a fall competition environment.” Though the origination of the idea for the Cup is unknown, the
discussion had been in the works for a couple years, according to Loyola Head Coach Brendan Eitz. “It was kind of in the works for a couple years,” Eitz said. “With three Division I soccer programs in the city, I guess Northwestern would be considered just outside the city in Evanston, but all the teams have done really well the last five, six years. “Each team has made the national tournament at some point… so with the quality of teams here it makes it a really good local tournament.” According to Phillips, “It was just kind of one of those ‘Oh, duh’ moments. Why don’t we try and do this?” Last year’s event was hosted by Northwestern, though UIC walked away the champion. “It was good competition and good energy [last year],” Eitz said. “And it’s fun for the guys when you’re playing for something. And that something is to be the best team in Chicago during the spring.” For Jandl, being the best team in Chicago is about more than just winning. “It’s good for recruiting to have your name out there as the best team in Chicago,” he said. “Now, there’s a kid who’s interested in going to school in Chicago who’s a sophomore, freshman or junior in high school knows he can go to one date and see all four
And the winner is...
of those teams play,” Eitz said. “It makes it easy for those recruits to evaluate the style of play for all four teams and the regional teams of Chicago in one day.” The tournament will likely be hosted by either Northwestern or Loyola on a rotation, as both have available turf fields. “UIC is grass and four games in one day might be tough,” Eitz said, adding that DePaul’s turf field is converted into a softball diamond for the spring season. But regardless of location, the coaches expect to keep up the local competition. “I think the goal is to continue the tradition,” Eitz said. “It’s going to be every spring that we have a set date that we’re going to play the Chicago teams.” Eitz hopes that eventually the competition can spill into the fall, although it is unlikely it would have the same one-day format due to scheduling. There has also been some discussion of expanding to include other teams, as other DII and DIII coaches in the area expressed interest after last year’s event, according to Eitz. However, NCAA rules on the number of competition dates allowed in the spring season create complications. “I think with the way NCAA rules are, we’re allowed five competition dates and this is one of the competition dates,” Phillips said. “And within that you don’t
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The Blue Demons won the second annual Chicago Cup on Saturday, April 16 at Loyola. They beat UIC in the first round of the tournament thanks to a goal from Antonio Aguilar. It was assisted by Thiago Ganancio and was the lone goal in the 1-0 win.
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Jandl (21) heads the ball during a Northwestern game last year. ever really want to play more than “It can help us, as we build it, 120-130 minutes. And the way create another event to raise the we set it up is it’s two 60-minute awareness of how good college games. And that’s really the max, soccer is here in Chicago,” Philso it would be tough to include lips said. more people.” And the ultimate goal?
2) In the other first round game, Loyola beat Northwestern to set up the championship round match against DePaul. The Blue Demons' recent transfer Wes Vallentine scored DePaul's only goal off an assist from Stephen Korosis. After regualtion ended in a draw, it came down
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to penalty kicks. DePaul goalie Joe Ferrari made two saves, while Aguilar, Ray DeLeon, Matt Leinauer and Jared Blincow scored their penalty kicks. In the consolation game, Northwestern beat UIC, last year's winner, to come in third place.
Young team embraces defense in spring season By MEGHAN BOWER
Assistant Sports Editor
The DePaul men’s soccer team is doing what it can to take advantage of its spring season, working on everything from defensive strategy and mental game to establishing new leadership and gaining experience. “We’re extremely young,” said Head Coach Craig Blazer. “So we’re really building on our defensive foundation of putting pressure on the opposition. We’re making it very specific of how that gets accomplished. So we’re providing the players with a lot of information, but presenting it in a manageable way.” Not only are the players listening and learning, but they are also taking charge of the defensive approach, according to Blazer, who added that they will use their defense as a starting point for their attack. Photo by Brianna Kelly “All this hard work is, the end product is Men's soccer looks to new leaders after losing five players to graduation. going to be that we’re going to have goal scoring opportunities,” Blazer said. Blazer said. ing a winning, I don’t want to be redunAlready with four spring matches under All but one of the team’s goals thus far dant, but developing a winning mentality,” their belts, two wins and two draws, the have been scored by freshmen, most of said recently appointed Assistant Coach team has begun to see the effects of all whom were playing in their first-ever col- Craig Reynolds. “Meaning, let’s not just their training. legiate game. According to junior Matt go through the motions in the spring. Let’s “The guys are excited about [their de- Leinauer, getting the freshmen into the treat it as a real learning period for this velopment] and they’re starting to see the game is the most important aspect of the team and let’s go out there and win games.” results in training and we’re starting to see, spring season, although winning is still on While the team’s inexperience is one of just after the first two games, a little bit of their minds. the biggest challenges, they must also dethe results of all the hard work and that “Our message to the players is, let’s start velop a new leadership system after losing that’s what’s required to be successful,” in the spring with a mentality of develop- five seniors, including Alex Mangan, De-
Paul’s first soccer player to be selected to the Lowe’s All-America team. “The biggest thing I can communicate is that this group knows that we are gonna be successful as a group and that they understand that they all have to work hard for this group to do well,” Blazer said. “And that’s what they’re already showing. That at this time we don’t have an Alex Mangan, but at the same time that’s a very positive thing ‘cause this group is very willing to work for each other.” According to John Jandl, the team chemistry is as good as it has been in a while. As soon-to-be seniors, Jandl and Leinauer are making it their job to ensure the team is heading in the right direction through leading by example and emphasizing the importance of staying fit and taking everything, even practice, seriously. “It’s a new group of players with new strengths and…as a result we’re playing to our strengths,” Blazer said. “It’s a work in progress, but all the players are making improvements in their own areas.” And that progression could eventually lead to the success the team is looking for, according to Reynolds, who said: “I think they’ve done a great job and I think the potential of this team to go to the next level, which is winning the Big East and getting an NCAA bid, is quite realistic.”
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“Purnell” continued from back cover 15-15 (8-6 in the conference). At Dayton it was 7-20 (0-12). And at his most recent stop, Clemson, the record was 10-18 (3-13). Part of his blueprint means a rough first year, as the radar is recalibrated and new schemes, routines and attitudes are instituted. “Bottom line, in that first year, you want to establish a way of doing things off the court. You want to establish the way you wanna play on the court,” Purnell said. “You want guys to kind of understand what you’re doing, and you want to win as many games as you can, there’s no question about that. But I think it’s clear that we were a little outmanned in maybe the best Big East in the history of the Big East, in terms of balance and good teams.” MOLDING THE TEAM Purnell took over a team that waved goodbye to its two most productive players from a year ago—Will Walker, who scored 16.2 points per game to lead the 2009-10 squad, and Mac Koshwal, the athletic forward who put up 16.1 per game, both left the team. Together, they accounted for 42.6 percent of the team’s total scoring. “It’s hard to expect something different when you look at where we were, and you look at what we had coming back,” Purnell said. “Mac Koshwal wasn’t walking through that door, and when you look at the point production com-
ing back, there wasn’t a lot there. On top of that, early seasonending injuries to Eric Wallace and Devin Hill—two players Purnell wanted to utilize—thinned the bench right away. Moses Morgan and Mike Bizoukas also dealt with less serious injuries during the opening weeks of the season that kept them out of games and limited Purnell’s options. All of that—injuries, departures, expectations—combined to open the door for the freshmen and promptly shoved them through. Cleveland Melvin, Brandon Young and Moses Morgan finished the season as integral parts of the team. In Purnell’s eyes, their emergence as go-to players wasn’t all that surprising when looking at it in the context of the team. “I thought we could have that kind of contribution, mainly because when you look back on what has transpired before, certainly we didn’t have a whole lot of offensive production coming back,” Purnell said. “We had no guys who were All-Big East players coming back, or even potential All-Big East players. As you’re establishing a foundation, you want to play your freshmen. You want to build a foundation, you want a core group of guys moving forward that now help with the next group coming in.” But the youth also required some special handling on Purnell’s part. He and the coaching
with intricacies so they would continue to play freely, while still running an offense effective enough to be competitive. He stuck with simplicity to help his players gain confidence and build a strong base for next year. “I can’t tell you how many games or practices we went in and said let’s go change this, and then we kind of sit back, talk about it in a meeting and go, eh, we better not, because we don’t wanna take a step back,” Purnell said. “We didn’t want the wheels to fall off. We wanted our guys to keep getting better, and for them to realize they were getting better, and for our crowds to realize that, and even to a certain extent the media realize that. But it would have been easy if we had overloaded it for the wheels to fall off.”
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Purnell looks on with Associate Head Coach Ron Bradley staff only implemented about half of the entire offense, and it was kept simple. The coaches would call a play, giving them a specific look. If the defense took it away, Purnell wanted them to “just make a play.” “We want our guys to be able to play kind of freely,” Purnell said. “If you put too much in, they couldn’t handle it…you don’t
want Cleveland thinking about, ‘Am I running this right or am I running that right?’ And Brandon too. [You say] alright, just go make a play, because you’ve got some ability. That’s not an easy or comfortable way to coach, but it’s the right thing for a young team I believe.” Purnell had to find a balance: Don’t over-burden the players
SECOND SEASON JUMP Traditionally, Purnell’s teams have started to come together in his second year with the program. At Old Dominion, he jumped to 21-8 (11-3), a six-win jump. At Dayton, he added eight wins overall and six in the conference for a 15-14, 6-10 mark. And at Clemson, he went from 10-18, to 16-16 in year two, then 19-15 the year after. “I kind of look at this as not the first year necessarily, but this is the halfway point of the first year,” Purnell said. “We put our foundation in, our way of doing things, our culture. Now we’ve
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“Golf bonds” continued from back cover
IMEOUT with
Cali Gustafson
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Cali Gustafson, junior, is an elementary education major from Deerfield, Ill. Currently, she has a 10-20 singles record, while going 13-15 in doubles play. In both 2009 and 2010 she was selected to the Big East All-Academic Team. Q: How many years have you played tennis? A: I’ve been playing since I was eight years old. Q: Why did you choose DePaul? A: I chose DePaul because I really liked the girls on the team during my visit. I liked the coach and the location in the city was perfect. I went to a practice as well and throughout my visit I saw myself being a part of the DePaul family. Q: What’s the hardest part about being a student-athlete? A: In the beginning it was hard to prioritize both school and tennis, but you get used to it. Q: What has been your biggest accomplishment at DePaul so far? A: Going to NCAA’s last year. Q: Who’s your tennis inspiration?
A: My dad. He has always motivated me to excel in sports and is the reason I’m where I am today. When I use to play basketball we’d shoot free throws in the snow. That’s where I learned my dedication. Q: How do you handle being nervous before a tennis match? A: Well tennis is such a mental sport, so I try to maintain my focus. I get warmup very intensely to allow myself to mentally prepare and visualize that I’m already in the match. Q: What do you hope to accomplish as a player by the time you graduate? A: Academically, I hope to maintain my status on the Dean’s list. In tennis, I want us to go to the finals of the Big East Conference. Q: Where’s your favorite place to eat on campus? A: I love Sweet Mandy B’s and Geja’s. Geja’s is Fondue, you should try it. It’s so good. Q: Who’s your favorite music artist right now? A: Well, my favorite band right now is Bright Eyes. Q: What’s your favorite thing about the spring time? A: This is my favorite time of the year. I like going to the beach or to Oz Park to read. Q: Besides tennis, what’s your favorite sport to watch? A: I like to watch hockey. Go Blackhawks. Q: Venus or Serena Williams? A: That’s tough. I love Serena’s intensity. But my favorite is Rafael Nadal. Q: What’s your favorite movie? A: “The Breakfast Club.” I know just about every line.
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Charles [Boucher] makes the dessert.” According to Kaufmann, the players often have to be creative with their free-time activities, though they aren’t always fun for everyone. “[Watching the Master’s] was fun for some,” said Westley who was hoping for a Tiger Woods win. “This guy [teammate Moritz Ackerhans] was cheering for the guy who won…I was basically cheering for everyone, but the guy who won. He seems boring, just like a boring guy.” While they may not agree on who should be golf’s No. 1, the group gave up a resounding chorus of “no’s” when asked if rising early for tee time was well-received, though Budd willingly wakes up two hours before the required meeting time, according to Ackerhans. “I basically try to plan it so I get the most sleep possible,” Westley said. “I try to think of ways to improve my morning routine to make it so it takes less time so I get more sleep. “Like if we have to wake up and eat breakfast at 6:30, I’m probably waking up at 6:20. Take a five-minute shower, get dressed and go to breakfast.” There is more morning conversation than in past years, according to Kaufmann. But the amount can be dictated by something surprising: food. “It depends on how good the breakfast is,” Westley said. “I mean it’s really hit or miss. Breakfast at some hotels is great, at some hotels it’s awful.” But the tastiness of the early morning meal is not nearly as important as the dinners, according to Ackerhans. “Outback [Steakhouse] is kind of our place,” said Westley. “It’s our go-to place… we probably know the whole menu.” No matter how much time they spend together off the course, once they tee off, they’re pretty much on their own. “They’re really not supposed to talk too much to give information back and forth,” Kaufmann said. “So I can give, Ben hits a five iron, I can tell Moritz he hit a five iron, but Ben is not really allowed to tell Moritz that.” Though conversation is limited, the team has found ways in the past to communicate their progress during tournaments. “Sometimes we’ll see each other on cross-
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Westley has finished in the top 25 five times this season. ing holes and you just do like hand signals and stuff,” Westley said. “Like, you ask how are you playing: thumbs up, thumbs down, eh. We used to actually have a signal for if you birdied a hole. And so if someone’s playing behind you, you’d go like this—” Westley began moving his arms up and down—“so they’d know you made birdie. We haven’t done that this year. That was last year.” “We did the John Wall Dance last year,” Budd said, before Westley and Ackerhans joked about bringing the signal back. Maybe the John Wall Dance will make a comeback as the team heads into their final stretch with the Big East Championship from April 17-19 in Palm Harbor, Fla. And the team’s relationship could be the key to success. “I think, right now, it’s just everybody, you have faith and belief in the whole team out there and know that everybody can do their job,” Kaufmann said. “And I think that that’s kind of key to you just being able to go play golf…It’s the first time in a long time that everybody’s capable of going out and doing it and you have a lot of trust in your teammates that everything’s kind of coming together.”
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just gonna turn the team over to the younger kids and start building for next year. And the seniors responded to that.” In the three-game St. John’s series, the team scored 7, 12 and 7 runs on their way to the sweep. Since that point, they have scored no less than five runs in any game, and have gone 9-1 over that 10-game span. “It was a tough thing, and it’s a hard thing to get out of,” Lenti said. “They were able to do it because they worked hard, and they stayed together and they had great senior leadership.” When they are in a slump, the hitters all deal with it in their own way. But it usually, the more chances to break the slump, the better. “I just try to stay confident and remember that, you’re gonna get a bunch more at-bats,” said Sean Plese, who is batting a team-high .429 this season. “[It’s]
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upgraded our talent level…Now they start the second half. Now you’ll see us take a jump.” Part of the second half, as Purnell calls the offseason, will include a trip to France in August— the same trip the women’s team took in 2010. With it, they will get practice time and play five games against European teams. That gives Purnell some extra time to work with the new players and gel them with the returnees. “We’ve got 10 days of practice which will probably translate into 15 practices before we even start school,” Purnell said. “I love that
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for our freshmen. That’s not just by accident, we planned it that way. Like Cleve came on, what if Cleve had those 15 practices and five games in Europe?” He will also have more tools to play with. Shane Larkin, a 5’10” point guard from Florida who is rated as an ESPN Top 100 player, leads the list of incoming freshmen. Chicago’s Macari Brooks and the recently-added Charles McKinney are two more well-regarded recruits at the guard position, while center Derrell Robertson and forward Jamie Crockett round out the list. Miami transfer Donnavan Kirk will be eligible to play after the fall quarter is completed. That’s five new players on an already-young team. Finding playing time will not be a problem, Purnell said, partly because he uses a deep bench, but even more importantly because the team needs help. “We’ve gotta have guys who can make plays and help us compete as a team,” Purnell said. “Last time I checked, we only won one Big East game, so moving forward we’re certainly gonna have an open book. We’re certainly gonna be looking at any and everything that can help us improve that.” Purnell has now had one season to begin charting the program’s course. And while the first year suffered from more turbulence than many would have liked, he is confident that the steps he took this year, along with the numerous bumps and bruises, will translate into improvement next season. After all, that’s why he made the choices he did. “What we expect and my goal every year no matter what my team did, if we won 25 games this year, it would be the same, to be better next year. And we should be better next year,” he said. “And the reason we should be better is the core group of those guys are young guys, freshman and sophomores that played a lot this year, and we’ve got some help coming in for them. We’re gonna be more talented and deeper clearly than we were last year, and so we’re gonna be more experienced than we were last year. So we expect to be better.”
Week in Review
Softball (26-11, 10-1) 04/09-10 – DePaul won three straight games at Villanova. Lindsey Dean, Samantha Dodd and Allie Braden each tallied three hits in the first game, a 10-3 victory. In the second game, a 7-4 win, Dodd went 2-3 with two RBI and two runs scored. In the third and finals game, DePaul ended the game in five innings thanks in part to a grand slam by Kirsten Verdun on the way to a 12-2 victory.
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Recently, Sean Plese (sliding) and the Blue Demons have reached base much more than they did against Louisville. just remembering that 3-10 in softball or baseball is a good number. It’s a game of failure, so you just kind of have to mentally think, ok I can do this, and get back out there and do it.” Samantha Dodd, who has three homeruns, 19 RBI and a .353 average this season, not only wants the at-bats. She wants to crush the ball as well. “I would say for anything, every time I’m in a slump or I feel like I’m
doing bad, I just tell myself mentally to swing out of it,” she said. “See the ball, swing as hard as you can.” And once the hits start coming from one person, other seem to pick up their game—it’s the old adage that hitting is contagious. The group buys into that, from the top down. “All the players in the lineup and the players on the bench they see, the kid in front of me is hitting, the kid be-
hind me is hitting, I can hit,” Lenti said. “So it’s like what we say from the first time you’re an athlete. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can’t, you won’t. Now they all believe they can and that’s the contagious attitude they have. So if you take that attitude into the game, you’re not gonna be successful 100 percent of the time, but you’re still gonna be successful more often than not.”
04/14 – DePaul won both games of a double-header at Pittsburgh. Brown picked up her second consecutive save in the first game, a 6-2 win in which Dodd extended her hitting streak to seven games. The second game was highlighted by Dean, who hit a grand slam on the way to a 7-2 DePaul victory. Golf No games in the last week. Men’s Tennis (14-8) No games in the last week.
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heard anything from a specific team or anything.” Did she even know a team might be interested in picking her early in the second round? “I had no clue at all,” Chester said. After being taken by the Lynx—who selected former UConn star Maya Moore with the first overall pick—Chester’s draft rights were traded to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for a 2012 second-round pick, and the draft rights to Rachel Jarry, an Australian forward whom Atlanta drafted four slots after Chester was taken. “It’s always been my dream to play in the WNBA,” Chester said. “It’s not like I had a preference of where I was going. I’m glad I’m going to Atlanta. I’m really excited about it.” There was a bit of confusion, however. “I got drafted by Minnesota, so right after I got drafted I didn’t know if a coach was supposed to call me. I didn’t know what was supposed to happen,” she said. “So I was waiting around all day for Minnesota to call me…then I found out I was being traded to Atlanta and it all made sense then.” Chester said she was contacted by Dream Head Coach Marynell Meadors the next morning. She begins her post-DePaul career on May 15 when training camp starts, leaving the college game forever. “Felicia Chester is one of the best players and best people
04/10 – DePaul won their last home match of the season in cominating fashion, beating Western Michigan 7-1 at Lakeshore Athletic Club. Katarina Milinkovic and Selma Salkovic opened doubles with an 8-4 victory, and the pairing of Gia McKnight and Kelsey Lawson won the second doubles match. After the game, Milinkovic and Salkovic were honored by the school as part of senior day. Track & Field
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Chester in her last home game as a Blue Demon. I have ever been blessed to coach,” DePaul Head Coach Doug Bruno said in a statement after the draft. “She is also one of the totally most underrated. Our DePaul success this season was a direct result of all the ‘little things’ that Felicia contributed to our DePaul team.” Chester finished her senior season second on the team in scoring with 11.4 points per game, and first in rebounding with 6.6 boards per game. She started all 36 games this year and became DePaul's 26th 1,000-point scorer by scoring 19 against the University of Connecticut earlier this season. Fellow Blue Demon seniors Deirdre Naughton and Sam Quigley went undrafted. Bruno said before the draft that getting picked in the third round was a possibility for Quigley, while Naughton would like-
ly start her professional career in Europe. Of the six previous DePaul drafted players, three—Kim Williams, Lenae Williams and Allie Quigley—have played at least one season in the WNBA. In addition, three more former Blue Demons have made the league, but were undrafted: Tawona Alhaleem, Latasha Byears and Mfon Udoka. But as the highest-drafted DePaul player, Chester has at least one thing on all of them. “It’s an honor to have achieved that,” she said. “I really don’t feel like I can take all the credit. I feel like DePaul and coach Bruno have helped me grow as a player so much over the last five years. “I’m just so grateful to DePaul for helping me achieve that.”
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04/12 – With DePaul leading 7-6 in the bottom of the sixth inning, pinchhitter and freshman Megan Coronado hit a three-run homerun to right-center that gave DePaul a 10-6 lead. Bree Brown closed the game out in the top of the seventh with three strikeouts.
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04/08-09 – At the Sun Angel Track Classic in Tempe, Ariz., Melissa Fraser broke the school record for hammer throw for the second time this season with a distance of 56.82m. She earned first place in that event. The next day, Toni Salvatore won the 1500m run with a time of 4:33.18. Other members of the squad participated in the Chicagoland Classic the same days. On Friday, Kelly Pickering ran a career-best time of 4:47.55 to finish fifth in the 1500m run. On Saturday, Zach Gaskell finished in fifth in the high jump with a height of 1.86m.
News and Notes • Men’s and women’s basketball tickets are now on sale. A $50 deposit can be made with the DePaul ticket office for season tickets. Individual game tickets are also available. • Men’s basketball signed Charles McKinney to the National Letter of Intent. The Chicagoland native, a 6-4 guard, is ranked in the top 60 on ESPN.com’s list of shooting guards. Last season, McKinney averaged 12.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.2 steals. McKinney played three seasons at Maine East High School before his playing his final season at Quality Education Academy in North Carolina.
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After cold stretch, softball heats up at the plate By SHAYMUS MCLAUGHLIN Sports Editor Talk to DePaul softball Head Coach Eugene Lenti and you get the impression that softball epitomizes Murphy’s law. When the team is on a rough streak, anything that can go wrong, will. But when things are going smoothly, it seems like everything that can go right, will. Lenti’s team has seen both sides of that recently.
Golf team bonds with food, jokes By MEGHAN BOWER
Assistant Sports Editor
Traveling every other weekend, even to places like sunny Florida, can be exhausting The golf team keeps things light by not taking themselves too seriously and bonding over small pleasures. “[Traveling is] fun,” said Ben Westley, who leads the team with an average score of 74.63. “I think if you didn’t get along with your teammates, you’d probably dread traveling.” But for Head Coach Betty Kaufmann and her crew of seemingly carefree players, having fun this year isn’t a problem. “When you spend this much time together you get to know the little idiosyncrasies of everybody and you have fun with it,” Kaufmann said. “You gotta have fun. I think this year’s been one of the best years of everybody kind of hopping in and just trying new things. We’ve done a lot of different stuff.” Team activities include everything from flag football and bowling (though no one is that good, according to Westley) to touring the Everglades and cooking team dinners. “Russell [Budd]’s our little chef,” Westley said. “I don’t cook at all. I make pasta.” Budd, who likes to cook everything and anything, said, “Chicken’s my thing. We do team dinners. Max [Mayer] usually cooks the potatoes, I cook the chicken,
“The more success you have, the more confidence you have. The more confidence you have, the better you are. So it’s a never-ending good cycle,” Lenti said. “If you don’t hit, it’s a bad cycle, it’s a hard cycle to get out of. But they’ve been working hard, they’ve been doing what we’re asking them to do, taking a better approach at the plate, getting good pitches to hit and they’re having success.” For a stretch, the hitters were stuck in more of a bad cycle than good.
Beginning against Oklahoma on March 17, the team went 2-6 and scored just 19 runs over their next eight games. Then they were swept in the home-opening doubleheader against Louisville, losing 2-1 and 13-2. That skid had Lenti frustrated enough to deliver a strong message. “We kind of put the onus on the seniors after Louisville,” he said. “We were playing St. John’s that very next weekend and I kind of told the seniors, this is your last hurrah. You make it happen now or I’m
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Kirtsen Verdun eyes a pitch against the Louisville Cardinals on March 30.
Oliver Purnell: Year One The head coach explains his method for building winners and why year one is almost always a struggle By SHAYMUS MCLAUGHLIN Sports Editor The hiring of Oliver Purnell in April of 2010 was touted as a new era by the DePaul Athletic Department, a return to the winning ways of old. During his introductory press conference, he did himself no favors, setting expectations sky high. “Everything you could possibly need to build a tremendous basketball program is here,” Purnell said at the time. Later that day, he added that the school “belongs in the elite of college basketball.” After year one, the program is not there. Purnell knows it, the school knows it, fans know it. But for Purnell, this season was simply step one—the first movement of what he hopes will eventually be a successful suite. AN EXPECTED STRUGGLE “I think it was a solid foundations season,” Purnell said after a Thursday workout, about a month after the team’s season ended with a 97-71 loss to UConn in the Big East tournament. “It was about putting in systems, changing the culture to our culture, our fans kind of getting accustomed to the way we were trying to play.” Oftentimes however, it wasn’t pretty.
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All eyes were on Purnell this season with DePaul, his first in the Big East. Purnell ended his first season at DePaul with a 7-24 record, including a 1-15 mark in the Big East during the regular season. A record nearly identical to the 2009-10 campaign that got former Head Coach Jerry Wainwright fired during the season. But before Purnell stepped on the court for the start of the regular season, the welltraveled coach said he had a blueprint. He knew what needed to be done in order to take a program headed for the ground and reverse course, pulling it out of a tailspin. Part of that plan requires shifting pieces and establishing a new way of doing things. That often means year one is a struggle, as he works to set up the program for success, the next year and beyond. “Was it expected? Sure. Why was it expected? Because I’ve done it four or five other times, and that’s what happens,” Purnell
said. “That’s what happens. Unless LeBron James or someone is gonna show up, you’re gonna struggle.” Make no mistake: Purnell isn’t happy with the handful of wins and bucketful of losses, even if it was anticipated. “There were two or three games that were right there for the taking and we didn’t get it done,” he said. “So you can go back over those, and there’s always game you could pick out that hey, you’re right there. But the bottom line is, if you don’t win a substantial amount of games and you don’t get to postseason play you’re gonna be disappointed from a win-loss standpoint. That’s what you compete for.” Purnell has never had the luxury of a player like The King show up alongside him for his first season with a down program. His first year at Old Dominion, the team went
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Chester achieves her ‘Dream’ Windy City winner By SHAYMUS MCLAUGHLIN Sports Editor For Felicia Chester, the 2011 WNBA Draft was about tempered expectations. “On draft day I was just telling myself, ‘Don’t get your hopes up,’” she said. She spent the day at her house, watching the draft on TV with her fiancé, the Bears’ Cory Wooton, and one of her best friends. They all quickly found out her modesty was unwarranted, however. Chester was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx at no. 14 overall, the second pick of round two. She became the
highest-drafted DePaul player ever, and the seventh Blue Demon to be selected in the WNBA draft. “Honestly, I was so excited when I saw my name up on the screen,” Chester said. “Some people were telling me [before the draft] I might get drafted, I might not get drafted…I was pretty much in shock when I saw my name at the beginning of the second round.” Chester said she had received no indication from any teams prior to the draft that they were interested in her. “After our season ended was when I sent my information into the WNBA,” she said. “I had never
DePaul faces crosstown rivals in second year of the Chicago Cup tournament By MEGHAN BOWER
Assistant Sports Editor
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As the cross-town rivalry heats up between Cubs and White Sox fans, the DePaul men’s soccer team began fueling their own competitive fire this past weekend against University of Illinois-Chicago, Loyola-Chicago and Northwestern University in the second annual Chicago Cup on April 16. “We have a great opportu-
nity here in Chicago, having the four local schools and we have these natural rivalries,” said DePaul Head Coach Craig Blazer. Northwestern’s Head Coach
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Tim Lenahan, who hosted the tournament last year, also sees it as an opportunity to represent
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