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PLAYING IT SAFE

As national and local violence ramps up, concerns about safety follow suit

By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor

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Multiple students were shot and killed in an shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, according to police. This mass shooting comes almost a month to the day after a mass shooting in a Nashville Waffle House left four people dead.

Only six months into the year, there have been over 20,000 incidents involving guns, 100 of which were mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The presence of gun violence has become a harrowing new reality for Americans and as a result, there has also been an increase in concerns regarding safety and emergency protocols in places where these shootings are most likely to occur.

Consequently, safety concerns are growing among students and faculty at DePaul as the frequency of mass shootings increases nationwide.

And now the effectiveness of Public Safety is being questioned as a 21-year-old woman was stabbed in the face and neck on Webster Avenue on Tuesday, April 10. With all of these constant threats looming over DePaul students and staff, some members of the community have begun to question the steps that DePaul is taking to protect students.

There has been increased concern surrounding the safety of students on and around both campuses. Most notably, the

“Parents @ DePaul” Facebook group has seen an increase in posts regarding safety since 2016, with another spike around January of this year. The page functions as a forum for parents with students on campus to communicate and exchange ideas. Recently, much of the conversation has turned to crimes occurring on campus and ways students can be protected. With frequent Public Safety alerts being sent about attempted muggings and assaults on campus, many students can’t help but feel as though Lincoln Park is becoming more dangerous.

“There’s shady people around this area for sure,” said student Eric Varney. “I never walk with my headphones in at night, and I keep my head on a swivel. (...) That’s all you can really do apart from being a shut-in and never leaving the house.”

DePaul’s Public Safety Department is specifically tasked with preventing and handling crime on campus. According to Public Safety Director Robert Wachowski, the department “works closely with and relies on assistance from the Chicago Police Department” and has clear goals in place regarding campus safety.

But for many at DePaul, it feels as though these goals are not being achieved. Faculty and staff are also becoming more aware of the potential dangers on campus and the potential challenges the university faces in combating these threats.

Kendra Knight, a professor in the College of Communication, says that safety is a

See SAFETY, page 5

Film school creates new comedy filmmaking degree with Second City

By Evan Sully Contributing Writer

Whether it be comedy films or films in general, it takes a lot of people behind the scenes to ensure that the final product looks good, sounds good and entertains its audience. For DePaul students looking to elevate their production talent or cut their teeth in the comedy film industry, the chance has finally come: DePaul’s School of Cinematic Arts has announced that it has teamed up with The Second City to create a brand new, film degree in comedy filmmaking.

The comedy film degree will be offered

to both undergraduate and graduate students, with courses beginning in the upcoming fall quarter. The degree program is the first and only one in the country to team up with famed Chicagobased improv house The Second City, which has been in the city since 1959. The School of Cinematic Arts, meanwhile, is relatively new, having been created in 2015 as one of the three schools within DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media aside from the School of Design and the School of Computing.

The Second City has produced numerous prominent figures in the film and television industry in its almost 60year history, ranging from directors,

award-winning actors and comedians such as Steve Carell, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Comedy film students will have the opportunity to take courses at both The Second City theatre in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood and at the College of Computing and Digital Media’s building in the Loop. Additionally, students will have access to green screens, sound stages and get the opportunity to interact with top names in the film industry. Course offerings for the degree will include “Evolution of Comedy,” “DNA of the Second City,” and “Comedy Improvisation for Filmmakers.”

Gary Novak, director of DePaul’s

School of Cinematic Arts, expressed excitement in getting this program underway and mentioned that it was a combination of being at the right place at the right time.

“It made sense for us to be first,” Novak said. “This is taking (the) Second City approach, the creative approach.”

Talks about the two partners potentially merging went on for nearly a year-and-a-half, but the conversation got serious in December when The Second City reached out to the university based on the track record of DePaul’s film program. In December, both sides began to brainstorm ideas and once February

See SECOND CITY, page 4

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Chicago’s South Side serving freshly-squeezed LimeBikes

By Timothy Duke Asst. News Editor

Streaming along the street atop a light blue Divvy bike, senior hospitality management student Jacob Jandacek anxiously searches for the docking station — the past three docks have been completely filled, and his time is running out.

Jandacek says that while finding only filled docking stations is not an extremely common occurrence, it does happen for him in about one out of ten rides, and it can be extremely annoying or problematic.

“I usually haven’t had more than a five minute walk to find a Divvy station,” Jandacek said. “I’ve had it happen though, and it’s a pain when it happens.”

Jandacek says that using Divvy has helped to alleviate some worries surrounding biking for him.

“I don’t have to worry about my bike getting stolen, and if I’m running late I can just hop on one, and I don’t have to worry about traffic or anything like that,” Jandacek says.

The annoyance of finding a convenient, close, and empty dock is a problem a new dockless bike sharing company, LimeBike, hopes to solve. Cyclists can simply find a LimeBike, open an app to scan a QR code and then unlock the bike. Once their ride is finished, a user can just end their trip and leave the bike wherever they want.

LimeBike has already launched their fleet of bikes in cities across the country and in Europe, and they have begun testing out Chicago as a new destination city.

Currently, LimeBikes can only be found scattered around the 19th ward in the South Side, including the neighborhoods Morgan Park and Beverly. LimeBike will also start introducing electronically assisted bikes to Chicago as well.

“You can pedal really lightly and easily like you’re in a low gear, but suddenly you’re going 15mph,” Jandacek said. “A lot of old people use them in Italy to get around. I could see it being extremely useful for commutes. If I had access to electric assist bikes, I probably would use those instead of public transit to get to school and work.”

Erik Landfried lives in Durham, North Carolina, one of the cities where LimeBike has been established. He works for GOTriangle, a public transportation provider which serves North Carolina’s “Triangle”: Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill.

“They came back in November of last year. Both my wife and I started using it right away,” Landfried said. “(My wife) didn’t do a lot of biking before the bike share came, but she’s doing it a lot more.

She often takes the bus to work, so when she comes back, the transit station is about a mile and a half from our house. Instead of walking home she can grab a bike and get home faster.”

Landfried says the convenience of the dockless bikes has gotten many people biking who may not have done so before.

“You can pretty much count that there will be a bike where you are going now. So if you were going to walk or drive somewhere and you see a bike you can use, you might be more likely to grab that,” Landfried said.

According to Landfried, another downside to the docking model beyond filled stations is that docking stations are sometimes placed in dangerous areas.

Landfried says once he had to cross a busy street to put his bike in a docking station across from his destination.

That’s why Lanfried says docking stations work better in large cities – and why they wouldn’t be feasible in sprawling locales like Durham.

There are also downsides to the dockless system, however. As users can leave the LimeBikes anywhere, some may leave them in inconvenient areas.

“They get tipped over a lot and some people are leaving them in inappropriate places like the sidewalk or blocking a business entrance,” Landfried said. “I’ve never called one in because I’ll just move it off to the side. The dockless bikes are very light so you can just lift it up and move it. I see just as many cars parked on the sidewalks in Durham as dockless bikes, which I think is a worse problem.”

21-year-old musician and Durham resident Parker Harris says his experience with LimeBike has overall been negative.

“I just don’t like the way they feel, and they get more and more dinged up every time I use them because they’re constantly outside and being abused by humans,” Harris said.

Harris also takes issue with what he says is LimeBikes’ shoddy construction.

“As a cyclist with a stolen bike I benefit from the Limes, but I don’t trust them for more than like a mile at a time,” Harris said. “I’ve ridden them and had them be incredibly shaky or the chain keeps catching, which is terrifying to be honest.”

While Jandacek says he’s willing to try out the new LimeBikes, he is concerned about how evenly placed around some neighborhoods they will be, and he ultimately thinks that Divvy caters to a different audience than LimeBike.

“The locations of dockless bikes are likely very random and sparse in unpopulated neighborhoods, which is a turn off to the Divvy customer base — we

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Some LimeBikes have begun showing signs of wear with users carelessly discarding bikes.

know where our bikes are going to be,” Jandecek said.

Jandacek says he won’t be giving up Divvy bike pass anytime soon, which allows him to check out any Divvy bike for an annual price of $99.

“It’s very convenient to make my commute easier,” he said. “It’s also just nice to take a bike ride by the lake when it’s nice out. I’ll try the dockless approach when it’s more widely available, especially if they have electric assist bikes.”

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People riding LimeBikes past a rusted plant in Seattle, Washington. Seattle is one of many cities in U.S. who adopted dockless bike sharing.

4| News. The DePaulia. May 21, 2018 SECOND CITY continued from front rolled around there were degree proposals that eventually made the partnership possible.

“I think it’s a good fit,” said Chris Arthur, a junior film student. “It’s very specific, and I enjoy that.”

Over the years, DePaul’s film program has already been listed as one of the top programs of its kind in the nation. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter, which is a multi-platform magazine that focuses on the entertainment industry, ranked the program No. 17 out of the 25 film schools listed. And last September The Wrap, an entertainment and media news website, ranked the program No. 36 out of 50 film schools in 2017.

Before the field of study became a reality, Novak stated that film students previously “would find their own information of sources,” but that is no longer going to be the case.

“It says that DePaul is leading the charge in filmmaking,” said Kevin Bozeman, a

“It says that DePaul is leading the charge in filmmaking,” Kevin Bozeman

Stand up comic and professor

DePaul students will have the chance to interact with Second City performers and comics with the creation of a brand new degree program.

stand-up comedian and adjunct professor at DePaul. “I hope that it attracts more students to come in from all over the place.”

Even some current DePaul film students are already attracted to the new degree.

Jacob Cantu, a freshman film student, plans to begin taking courses for the comedy film concentration beginning in the fall.

“I’ve always wanted to make comedic films and that was my goal from the start,” Cantu said. “Now that the biggest comedy theater in America is partnering with

DePaul, it opens up many doors for me and any other aspiring comedic filmmakers.”

Notably, Novak says the degree is “not about teaching students to become performers,” ; instead, it will emphasize scriptwriting and the comedy filmmaking process. “It’s about developing content here,” he said.

Speaking of developing content here at DePaul, this program could help put Chicago on the map as being a top destination for film producers and content creators alongside

New York and Los Angeles. “People can stay in Chicago and have a successful career in film and television,” Bozeman said.

While classes for the comedy film degree haven’t begun yet, anticipation seems high for a program that will hopefully benefit the overall trifecta of DePaul, the film community and Chicago. Essentially, the goal is to have “content shot in Chicago, created in Chicago, (and) produced in Chicago,” Novak said.

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News. The DePaulia. May 21, 2018 | 5 SAFETY continued from front concern that front and center in her mind.

“I think safety is our highest priority at DePaul. But the threats to that can be uncertain and unpredictable,” Knight said.

“They can also be pushed to the back of our minds when we are more immediately concerned about papers to grade, lectures to lead and meetings to attend.”

The actual daily operations of Public Safety are also coming under scrutiny, as officers are often seen not actively patrolling the campus – or they’re completely unseen at all. “(When I lived on campus) they were always just parked off the Quad and never did anything,” said student Constance Priddy.

DePaul has put in place a task force to prevent violence and handle potential threats. That task force, the Student Care Team (SCT), is run by the Dean of Students office and is comprised of experts working together to assess threats to students and the DePaul community at large.

“At least every quarter we have something we look at very very seriously,” said Ashley Knight, DePaul’s Title IX coordinator and the chair of the SCT. that can be explained, and sometimes it’s something we need to take further action on.”

However, according to Knight, many members of the DePaul community are entirely unaware of the SCT’s existence or “wary of using it – worried about reporting something that might be ‘insignificant.’”

On March 26 at March for Life, thousands protested in Chicago in support of gun reform following the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. After a long string of deadly mass shootings across the country, concerns about a potential active shooter situation have been growing.

This also comes at a time of great debate surrounding the issue of whether or not school safety officers should be armed; DePaul is one of the only colleges or universities in Illinois without armed safety officers. For many, the mere presence of a gun automatically increases the level of danger, while others argue that the level of safety would be increased so long as the officers are trained.

DePaul’s Public Safety officers are the only campus security guards in the state that do not carry weapons. Maria Peterson, the mother of a DePaul freshman, says it’s time for that to change.

“I think (arming officers) is needed in this day and age, sadly,” Peterson said.

On April 13, Public Safety led a meeting with the faculty and staff within the College of Communication to hold a “presentation of emergency preparedness in the classroom, with an emphasis on active shooter response options,” said Wachowski. “(The presentation) came about after we received a couple of email questions about door locks from faculty in the College of Communication.”

Public Safety has put in place a number of protocols and procedures regarding emergency responses but has failed to adapt the plans to fit the unique needs of the school, among them: an immense amount of glass walls, stairwells lacking cameras and poorly located Public Safety lookout desks.

During a university-wide walkthrough of each building conducted by The DePaulia, many structural flaws were discovered that make students and staff more vulnerable to outside threats. Many rooms are enclosed partly or entirely by glass, which makes barricading the door and hiding out of sight – DePaul’s recommended emergency plan for an active shooter situation – entirely pointless. This flaw is present in buildings across both campuses, including in the CDM and Daley building, the Arts & Letters

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Blue emergency boxes, like the one pictured above, can be found throughout campus. DePaul would not provide information on response times.

Hall and the Student Center, each of which see thousands of students daily.

While the glass walls are likely to be detrimental in active shooter situations, Wachowski had a curiously specific answer.

The glass walls, he said, “were installed as a best practice at the time, to minimize risks of sexual assaults and other improper or dangerous behavior that could occur behind closed doors.”

However, he declined to comment on whether design changes would be considered to make the buildings safer for students and staff.

Additionally, the university spent $35,195 in a quantity order on specialized door locks for classrooms across both campuses, according to a Nightlock

representative. Despite this,DePaul has failed to verify if faculty and staff were ever properly instructed on how to use the locks; staff were emailed a link to an instructional video, but no further action was taken to follow up.

The question of increasing the amount of buildings that require swipe access has also been raised. Nearby Loyola University installed a swipe system in its library after repeated incidents in which people not affiliated with the school were found on the premises.

Many Loyola students see the spread of swipe access buildings on the campus, including the library, as a positive improvement.

“It makes sure that only students and faculty are able to get in (to the library)

and keeps out those random people,” said Sarah Lambi, a student employee at Loyola’s campus safety department.

According to Wachowski, expanding swipe access is not the solution for DePaul’s safety woes.

“These options aren’t guarantees for crime prevention, and they are not feasible for our open campus,” he said.

When asked to compare DePaul’s safety to that of Loyola’s and UIC’s, Wachowski decline to comment.

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Crimes committed on and near the DePaul Lincoln Park campus from March 30 - April 16, from data obtained via Chicago Open Data Portal.

6| News. The DePaulia. May 21, 2018

Political science undergraduates register fellow students to vote

By Brian Pearlman Staff Writer

“Hi, we’re trying to register people to vote – only takes two minutes,” said DePaul senior Seamus O’Connor on a warm Monday afternoon in the Lincoln Park Quad.

The small group of students he was addressing smiled politely. “I’m already registered in my home state,” said one.

“No thanks,” said another.

“No problem,” O’Connor responded.

He thanked them and, with group mates Ally Sledz and Sam Tomko-Jones, moved on to another group of students who were sitting in the grass nearby.

The students weren’t just asking others to vote for fun; it was all a part of a project for PSC 315 – Internet, Technology, and Politics. The class, which is currently offered once per year to DePaul political science majors, requires students to come up with an experiential web campaign project.

“It was semi-assigned. At the beginning of the course we were told to write down what our interests would be and kind of setting up this kind of project. And then the professor created a few categories and then we picked which one we wanted,” O’Connor said.

“We all had similar interests,” said Tomko-Jones.

After deciding that they would focus on getting students registered to vote, the group, which also includes senior Hadiya Afzal, did some research and created an outline. They looked at a widely-cited study published by Pew Research in April, which found that only 51 percent of Millenials turned out to vote in 2016. And

they looked at a study from CIRCLE, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, which suggested that Millenials could have swayed elections in at least 10 states.

While voter engagement in primary elections is notoriously low, the group also had to grapple with the 3 percent turnout of those aged 18-24 in this year’s Illinois primary elections.

“State and local officials arguably have the biggest direct impact on student lives-they make decisions about issues like student debt and funding for education, along with many other decisions,” the group wrote in their information packet.

After creating a list of important dates for Illinois voters, including October’s voter registration deadline and grace period, the early voting period that begins in late September and the absentee ballot deadline, the team created an online platform through which to spread their message.

Under the Twitter handle @18_ for_2018 and with a bio that encourages people to “Excercise your voting power by registering to vote now!”, the group posts voting memes, helpful hints and links to external voting resources such as website Ballotpedia.

“Getting visibility is the biggest thing,” O’Connor said. “It’s just hard to get people to register when you have 9 followers on Twitter.” (The group had 21 followers as of this writing.)

On May 15, the group posted an interactive map they created using Esri mapping and analytics software, which allows users to select any state in the U.S. or its terrorites and view the voter registration requirements.

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Seamus O’Connor, Sam Tomko-Jones and Ally Sledz going over registered voter tallies.

And on Monday they did some actual canvassing, in order to see how many DePaul students they could get registered.

They weren’t always successful – many claimed, whether it was true or not, that they were already enrolled to vote in their home states. When that happened, O’Connor, Tomko-Jones and Sledz smiled, shrugged their shoulders and kept on moving.

When someone did want to be registered (or wanted to check and make sure they were), O’Connor gave them his phone with the Vote.gov website preloaded onto it. Minutes later, after going through the prompts and answering a few basic questions, the student was good to go – a registered Illinois voter.

In every case, the group members made sure to stress just how quick and easy the entire process is.

“I feel like everybody thinks its this big task where you gotta go to a government office and do all these things, but really it just takes two minutes,” O’Connor said.

“The tools are all there,” Sledz said. “It’s just a matter of letting people know how accessible they are and how easy it is.”

After an hour, Sledz did the tally: 53 students asked, 33 “already registered,” 10 refusals, 10 registered successes.

A modest success, but one that will hopefully go a small way towards raising the rate of voter participation for Millenials, both in Illinois and nationwide.

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DePaul misses the mark in several areas in new six-year plan

By Jonathan ballew News Editor

COMMENTARY I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of you probably didn’t get a chance to read DePaul’s newly released 16-page Strategic Plan over the weekend.

Well I read the document, in its entirety, and I think DePaul got a lot right: Elevating our academic profile and growing our endowment are excellent goals. But there is still a lot that I think they are missing.

Granted, I only had a one-week deadline and I was lacking an entire task force, but here is what I wish DePaul would have addressed in the six-year plan.

A commitment to free speech on campus:

The DePaul administration has been somewhat on the fence over this issue, and from what I can tell, the majority of DePaul students favor a community that encourages discourse. It also seems to be one of the only points of agreement between the campus Republican, Democrat and Socialist groups.

And students in general want the right to peacefully protest or simply not show up — just look at what the students at UIC were able to do with R. Kelly. Holding debates between all sides not only helps us grow, it helps us to see inside the minds of those who are different from ourselves. I’d argue that hearing from someone with racist ideas can still be valuable in order to understand where your enemy is coming from.

I know DePaul has collaborated with the University of Chicago when it came to crafting our “guiding principles for speech and expression” (which sounds like a document straight out of a George Orwell novel), but I think we should adopt UChicago’s staunch commitment to allow all speakers, providing they do not incite violence. To that end, hats off to DePaul for reversing its original decision to ban Steven Crowder. I really can’t stand Crowder or his ideas and most of his viewpoints are shortsighted, but there is no threat of violence there.

Ultimately, the term “free speech” is found nowhere within the six-year plan.

Going forward, I hope our future at DePaul is one of spirited debate and conflicting ideologies. I welcome the discourse, and so should you.

A commitment to fix our security flaws:

The words “security” and “safety” are not used once within the entire Strategic Plan. In the wake of this weekend’s shooting in Texas, along with the shootings happening regularly in Chicago and on school campuses nationwide, it is ridiculous to not address these concerns. DePaul is one of the only colleges in Illinois without an armed guard in a country where 90 percent of campus guards on colleges are armed, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

I served as a Marine and was trained in security — some might even consider me an expert on this topic. But guess what? It doesn’t take an expert to realize that anyone could walk right past the tired, underpaid, overworked guards at 14 E. Jackson with an AR-15, take the elevators straight to the 11th floor and massacre students who are learning behind giant glass windows.

I really want DePaul to test the response time of officers to blue boxes throughout campus; It’s something that DePaul should be testing and improving constantly. They should also publish the results so the DePaul community can be sure we are being protected by properly trained personnel

(When asked by the DePaulia about testing response times, a university spokesperson flat out ignored the question).

Bob Wachowski, director of public safety, told one of my colleagues that when our editorial board interviewed President Esteban at 55 E. Jackson, we didn’t need to have a DePaul ID. (We were asking him why one isn’t required for 14 E. Jackson.)

That is untrue. I have never been able to go past the guards at 55 E. Jackson, where the upper-level administration works. On the day we interviewed President Esteban at his offices, all of us were required to show our IDs to the guards and sign our name in the logbook.

And last week, when I went to human resources to complain about a missing paycheck, the offices were behind a locked door that required a secretary to buzz me in.

Our students and faculty deserve the same treatment as the upper level administration.

The idea that it just can’t be done is nonsensical. Hundreds of buildings in the Loop are able to keep their employees safe everyday.

My ideas? Hire trained armed guards for both of our campuses. I have a ton of veteran buddies that could really use the work.

There should also be a requirement that at least one person have a DePaul ID before a group of people travel up in the elevators.

Vegas casinos almost all do this, and it works incredibly well at keeping out people who don’t belong. Also, an ID should be required to enter doors through the stairwells. We may not need to implement these strict measures at Lincoln Park (though I would argue we should), but it is a no brainer for our Loop campus.

These ideas will not make us completely safe, but they will make DePaul a “hard target,” rather than the “soft target” it currently is, just waiting to be the next national media headline.

Commit to hiring better people:

When it comes to hiring practices, the word “hiring” only comes up in the document twice, and both times concerning diversity. That is pretty ironic considering someone hired Jen Kramer as the new Director of University Events. Kramer was found to have racist and transphobic tweets on her account.

What Kramer said is deplorable. But I’m not sure if it is as bad as the bozo who hired her. (DePaul conveniently “won’t comment on personnel matters.”)

The hiring of Kramer means one of two things: 1). The hiring manager didn’t do a basic Google search on a high-profile hire for a brand new position. (Kramer’s Tweets are one of the first results thanks to a DNAinfo article.)

2). The hiring manager knew about the Tweets and didn’t care.

I personally believe it to be the first option, and incompetency seems to be the culprit. Anyone with a basic level of competency would at least tell Kramer to delete the Tweets after hiring her.

And where are all the usual champions of diversity and inclusion at DePaul over Kramer? So far, I haven’t heard so much as a peep. Meanwhile, the DePaul administration will bury its head in the sand and hope another storm passes, and Kramer will continue to keep her job.

Grow the endowment by making people excited about Basketball:

Speaking of hiring practices, we should talk about the terrible hires made by Athletic

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Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto. It is laughable she still has her job. Forget the Wintrust deal, just her record alone over the last decade is reason enough to fire her. When you do a job poorly for a decade in any other occupation, you get fired. This is cut-anddried stuff, DePaul.

DePaul wants to double its endowment to $1 billion by 2024. That’s a lofty goal, but creating a winning men’s basketball program would be a great start; Loyola saw a 660 percent increase in donations in March.

Again, this is basic stuff.

I get emails daily from readers who say they aren’t giving DePaul a dime until the administration steps up and hires the right people. If you build it — in this case, a men’s basketball team, they — fans and with them, dollars — will come.

All of these commitments could rectify a lot of the problems that actually were addressed in DePaul’s new six-year

plan. I am quite certain 17-year-old kids in Chicago are more excited about Loyola than DePaul right now. So fix the athletic department — right after that pesky NCAA investigation is over.

Make the school a safer place and maybe parents out of state will be more willing to send their “babies” to a city school. This antiquated idea that having armed guards would hurt our image is outdated and silly.

Parents would respect our commitment to a more secure environment.

The new plan calls for attracting even higher caliber students. If we continue to commit to making DePaul a place of discourse, higher caliber students will want to come here.

DePaul has so many benefits that make us all call it home. But until the DePaul administration addresses some serious concerns, it will never be able to truly flourish.

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Building Big Brother: China's new frontier

CODY CORRALL | DEPAULIA Science fiction author Stanley Chan, Chinese Studies Program head Li Jin, Associate Dean John Shanahan and School of Computing professor Xiaoping Jia discuss fiction and innovation.

By Cody Corrall Multimedia Editor

Students and faculty gathered in the Levan 100 auditorium on Wednesday night for a panel on China’s relationship between science fiction and technological innovation – and how they manifest in different cultures. The panel, hosted by the DePaul Chinese Studies Association, featured Stanley Chan, a prolific author with nine Chinese Nebula Awards for science fiction writing under his belt.

“I was in Chicago in 2012 so it’s like I’m coming back, virtually,” Chan said with a laugh, his face projected on the wall as he Skyped in from Beijing.

The panel also featured John Shanahan, Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Associate professor of English and Xiaoping Jia, professor of software engineering at the School of Computing.

In 2015, Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem” won the Hugo Award for best novel – skyrocketing a mainstream science fiction market previously unheard of in China. According to Chan, China has a complicated history with science fiction that dates back to the late Qing dynasty when Chinese writers would translate popular Western novels into classical Chinese. Liang Qichao’s translation of Jules Verne's "Fifteen Little Heroes" put him at the forefront of the science fiction movement in China.

Verne’s work was influential to China’s popularization of science fiction. In 1903, Lu Xin translated “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and would later translate the works of H.G. Wells.

During the cultural revolution of 1966 - 1976, anything that resembled Western capitalism was seen as harmful to the People’s Republic of China. Because of this, literature was scarcely printed and science

CODY CORRALL I | DEPAULIA Students and faculty gather in the Levan 100 auditorium for the panel "China's New Frontier" hosted by DePaul Chinese Studies Association.

fiction was nearly eradicated in Mainland China. There were movements to bring it back into social consciousness in the 1980s with the magazine “Science Fiction World” and the first Chinese science fiction movie “Death Ray on a Coral Island,” but they were condemned by the republic and were deemed “spiritual pollution.”

Chan hopes that because of the genre’s recent mainstream popularity, Chinese authors can further expand the landscape of science fiction and bring Chinese works to a worldwide audience. “Younger generations of science fiction writers from China can have their works be seen and read by Western readers,” Chan said. “I think in the future, we’ll see more diverse and more characterically Chinese science fiction.”

Shanahan believes that there are more similarities than differences between Western and Chinese science fiction, as Chinese authors are often inspired by the West. They both utilize foundational

components of science fiction: dynamic world building that adds or takes away from an environment and defamiliarization of what the reader takes for granted, like time and space.

Science fiction across cultures has a similar responsibility to document the world as it is now. “Science fiction is being called the realism of our times,” Shanahan said. “It’s the form that is best at capturing what it’s like to live in 2018.”

The ways in which they differ often stem from cultural differences. China is a collectivist nation while the United States is individualistic, and this translates into their respective storytelling. “(Western science fiction) is purely individualistic, maybe family at most, but it’s always individualized” Shanahan said. “The horizon for Chinese storytelling comes from a kind of statism … and many of the stories seem to show collective ways of figuring things out.”

Shanahan notes that a flaw within Western science fiction is a failure to think

about the genre in a global context. While Chinese authors are well-versed in Western science fiction and literature, the same can’t be said for the United States. Western science fiction writers are often unaware of the elements of Chinese storytelling, which can limit the scope of an inherently limitless genre.

Science fiction narratives in both cultures are inspired by advancements in technology and are more connected because of it. “We’re both dealing with a fictional world,” Jia said. “We don’t work with a real physical world when we write fiction. When I write computer code I can, to some extent, create my own world.”

Similarly to how Chinese authors are inspired by Western science fiction, the same can be said for technological innovations. China invests in its tech industry to compete with the tech titans of Silicon Valley. This often comes from imitation: “The younger generation of Chinese IT workers is more American than Chinese,” Jia said.

Chinese science fiction writers are inspired by real-world technological innovations, but the reverse is also true.

In 2017, Cixin was invited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to see a new radio dish that was built to hear extraterrestrial messages; he deemed it as something “out of science fiction.”

In their attempts to best Western technological advancements, China is taking pages out of the science fiction books. “I think it’s important to build a bridge so we can learn,” Chan said. “I think that writers and people in the tech industry are trying to close the gap between humanity and science.”

The world of science fiction can be dark and dystopian, especially as it tries to better represent life in the modern era. Against it all, authors like Chan are still hopeful for what’s to come and the innovations yet to be discovered. “I can see a bright and optimistic future,” Chan said.

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A deeper look into terrorism

Extremist groups try to create fear in the public for years

By Varvara Makarevich Staff Writer

Paris, 2015. Nice, 2016.

Berlin, 2016. St. Petersburg, 2017.

London, 2017. Brussels, 2017.

Barcelona, 2017. And some won’t even be able to tell the connection between these European cities and dates on the list. The answer - major ISIS terror attacks in the recent years.

And while ISIS’s goal of creating a new “caliphate” has largely gone up in smoke in Iraq, which officially declared the group’s defeat in December, the terror group still has pockets of territory in Syria. Additionally, experts say there is a risk of more lone-wolf attacks now that ISIS has largely gone to ground.

There is an obvious and a seemingly easy way to identify potential terrorists, whether they are directly connected to ISIS or simply radicalized and boosted by the actions of the terrorist organization and its affiliates.

“We can educate social workers, teachers, parents to spot warning signs, just like we do with alcohol or drug abuse problems,” said Thomas Mockaitis, a history professor at DePaul who specializes in counterinsurgencies and terrorism. “We can do this for radicalization.

Nothing is 100 percent successful, but by doing this you’re reducing it to the level that unfortunately you have to live with.”

Part of the reason these sorts of attacks have taken place in Europe is due to the disenfranchisement of poor Muslim populations there: “In many European countries there’s a significant Muslim population, and it is also ghettoized, discriminated against,” Mockaitis said. Dissatisfaction with such poor living conditions provides an inroad for radical Islamic groups like ISIS to recruit people, though he cautions that the number of people motivated towards extremist ideologies is, in fact, small. Meanwhile in the U.S., Muslims tend to be much more integrated into society, and Muslims on the whole don’t experience the same degree of

discrimination.

According to Mockaitis, European countries were well ahead of the Americans in terms of security for years, since they had to deal with Irish Republican Army and the Middle Eastern terrorism. Mockaitis says Americans started taking terrorism more seriously after 9/11, and he believes that today the countries are more on equal footing when it comes to security, in areas such as airport security.

The need for increased security, even in public places, often provokes officials to reshape city plans, the designs of public spaces, and transportation hub logistics. Some changes are so subtle that the public doesn’t even consider them as safety measures.

Academics and authorities are trying to figure out how to design public spaces in a safe but welcoming way.

“We don’t see all the measures taken by the authorities, because there’s a value to some that we don’t see,” said Roberta Garner, a sociology professor at DePaul., “And we don’t need to draw attention to them because terrorists would see them.”

Terrorist attacks change lives and cities. In the wake of the December 2016 Christmas market attack in Berlin, where 12 people and 56 were injured, BBC correspondent Dominic Casciani wrote that “The U.S., Israel and the U.K. were among the nations that had led the thinking on protecting public spaces with the development of measures ranging from in-yourface massive barriers to incredibly subtle changes in the street that people might barely notice.”

According to Quartz, New York City planners turned to a design firm to improve security in the city. They replaced the “menacing metal barriers” around the city’s Financial District with “customdesigned faceted bronze bollards” that “became a friendly place for Manhattan co-workers to gather outdoors.”

An example of another attractive and effective security barrier is described by Justin Schumacher, an emergency

AP FILE PHOTO In this June 23, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle on the main road in Mosul, Iraq.

response planner, in a post on Medium.com. He writes that the huge word “Arsenal” in front of Emirates Stadium, the home stadium for the Islington, U.K.based Arsenal F.C. soccer team, “has itself become a draw with fans often going out of their way to get their pictures taken with it.”

They may not realize that it’s not just another city attraction, but instead a well-thought security element. Thus city planners and designers, while facing more challenges in their job, also have more opportunities to be creative and make not only aesthetic changes but a valuable contribution to the society.

Like British soccer fans, people around the world attend thousands of football games, concerts, and festivals every year.

Garner says that innate affinity people have for being with other people should not disappear in the wake of a terrorist incident.

“All people are committed to keeping societies open as much as possible. And to become terrorized and stay at home, and not connect to other people in public is kind of to succumb to

the terrorists,” she says. Most people, she says, rationally see a kind of trade between being in public spaces and giving up some of their liberties, such as when people have to go through a metal detector in Wrigley Field or the airport.

“We have to tell people that if you want to live in a free, open society, you have to accept risk,” said Mockaitis.

“Security measures don’t bother me at all,” said Agathe Muller, a senior at DePaul. “If that can help in any way I’m happy to spend the extra two minutes.”

She came to the U.S. 10 years ago and was in Paris when the Bataclan Theatre tragedy happened in November 2015; it was the deadliest attack on France since World War II, leaving 130 people dead and over 400 injured.

The day after the attack, Muller says she witnessed what she says is the most silence she has ever heard in the streets of Paris.

Muller stayed for another week after the attack and only felt safe when she was on the plane back to Chicago. She says she doesn’t worry much about

terrorist attacks in the U.S. “I’m even more afraid of aggravated robbery or a gunshot that is not targeted towards me,” Muller said.

Ultimately, Islamist terrorist attacks in Western nations can feed into a vicious cycle of radicalization that inspires not just similar incidents, but reprisal attacks as well. It can lead to societies being highly polarized, along with a rise in right-wing populism and anti-immigrant sentiment that has been taking shape in Europe over the last few years – examples include the rise of the AfD party in Germany, the National Front in France and the Freedom Party of Austria.

“That (right-wing populism) actually increases the attitudes of discrimination which make the radicalization more likely,” he said.

Ultimately, Mockaitis says one of the best ways to fight terrorism in any of its manifestations is to “fight Islamophobia, fight the anti-immigrant thing, fight antiSemitism, fight racism,” Mockaitis said. “That will help you reduce that radicalization.”

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America's infatuation with murder

GRAPHICS BY ALLY ZACEK | THE DEPAULIA

Our obsession with killers continues to distort our ability to separate the murders from the mugshot

By Mackenzie Murtaugh Opinions Editor

Early Friday morning, students at Santa Fe High School evacuated the building after the fire alarm was pulled. The moments that followed were filled first with loud bangs of bullets, then shock, terror and a saddening, complex familiarity.

The gunman, student Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, opened fired on the student body, injuring many and killing 10 people. He reportedly targeted his victims because he did not like them, including one female student who had rejected his romantic advances.

Just three months after the Parkland shooting mobilized the gun reform efforts around the country, there have been 10 more school shootings in the U.S. including Santa Fe, according to an updated database from The Washington Post.

News media instantly labeling Pagourtzis as “reserved” and “normal” and using the tired excuse that “there were no warning signs” provides a significant precedent for America's long history of obsession with murderers. Without a doubt, a young person who has experienced trauma deserves assistance, but the difference with cases like Pagourtzis, Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof is that the American public loves to coddle these young, white male shooters – in fact, it’s what they have always done.

From cowboy shootouts in the Old West, to lynchings of African-Americans in the South and even capital punishment in today’s American justice system, the importance of death in America has been solidified. The question often lingers in the culture: should someone die because they committed a crime or should they be put to death simply based on their difference from us?

Inevitably, the news media has taken death, and specifically murder, to the bank since the highly publicized murders of H.H. Holmes, known

as America’s first serial killer, in the 1890s.

Americans received their first taste of the serial killer archetype then, and we haven’t stopped pondering the same question since: What makes these people want to kill? We became so fascinated with the second-hand adrenaline of killing that we created celebrities out of those who kidnap, drug, rape, kill and dismember.

The “celebrity serial killer” was established in the 1970s, with the likes of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer. Putting a name and face to their actions separated them from those who were publicized but anonymous, like the Alphabet murderers and the infamous Zodiac Killer. Their twisted acts of violence made the rounds on the news media because their stories piqued the public’s interest.

Here, the public first understood that these men, who were almost always white, young or middle-aged men, could be their neighbors. Bundy used his intelligence and conventional attractiveness to easily coerce young women into his car, which his victims would soon realize did not have a passenger seat, and Gacy was known as a friendly and caring family man who would eagerly don that offputting “Pogo the Clown” costume to entertain children. Some, like Jeffrey Dahmer, were clearly mentally disturbed since childhood: He was known to dismember and then hang animal carcusses from trees.

This reflects the school shooters of today who claim to have been bullied into their killing sprees.

Cruz, the Parkland shooter, claims to have been bullied senselessly by his classmates for his scrawny body and scary, volatile demeanor. Immediately, the news media flooded the airwaves and internet with stories, calling for students to stop bullying and to report it when they see it. Yet we understand that bullying cannot and will never justify someone’s desire to kill. There are a multitude of avenues

to take in the event of harassment; using students as targets in shooting practice cannot be one of these avenues.

While journalists have a duty to report crimes, their duty is not to encourage the romanticization of murderers. Calling the Dylann Roofs and Nikolas Cruzes of the world misunderstood, damaged or broken only adds an emotional fixation to the murderers, causing the public to sympathize with white supremacists and, more generally, violent men.

“Nothing is stopping these young men from killing,” said Andy Billingsley, former University of Illinois-Chicago student. “As far as legislation goes, no one is stopping them from taking their parents’ weapons, from bringing them on campuses and from performing what they think of as their duty to kill.

Then the media begins to portray them as sad individuals, and the public loves it.”

From this melancholy media exposure, infatuation develops, and young women sometimes even desire to send love letters to these killers in prison. Some develop personal relationships with the inmates, like in cases of “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez and cult leader Charles Manson. According to Psychology Today, sexologist John Money described this infatuation with the term hybristophilia – in which one “derives sexual arousal and pleasure from having a sexual partner who is known to have committed an outrage of crime, such as rape, murder or armed robbery.”

Cruz and Roof still receive love letters in prison, and it’s possible that Pagourtzis will as well. The most harrowing aspect about this possibility is that one of his motives was to kill the young woman who rejected his advances and then embarrassed him in front of his classmates. Pagourtzis even indirectly propagates “Incel” values, the online culture of young men who identify as “involuntarily celibate”

and blame women for not wanting to have sexual relations with them.

They hide in the dark forums of the internet, where their male supremacy, racism and self-hatred is accepted and encouraged. The recent Toronto attacker, in which the driver intentionally crashed and killed 10 people, posted on his Facebook page just before the attack that “the Incel rebellion has already begun.”

“Incel culture is currently on the rise, and sometimes it’s even promoted,” said Jake Reaves, computer science student at Roosevelt University. “Online, they congregate and sympathize with each other, furthering their misogyny.”

Our lives take place online. We find people who have experienced our shortcomings and traumas and can relate to them better than those we find in our schools. Teenagers know this better than anyone, as they grew up not knowing a life without the ability to connect with the anonymous people behind our screens. Yet, with the news media’s inherent influence on how people are perceived, there should be a higher standard on who gets what story. Calling a rapist and murderer like Bundy an attractive young man who no one would have expected to commit these acts is no different than calling Pagourtzis a troubled and rejected youth who, again, no one would have pegged as a murderer.

What can be taken away from the history of America’s infatuation with murder is that we can never tell who will be the next Bundy, Gacy, Cruz or Pagourtzis. Instead of past murderers who would keep their psychotic tendencies to themselves, we can spot some of these warning signs much earlier than before, thanks to the online culture that surrounds our lives. Reporting a classmate’s misogynist and white supremacist online behavior might save future lives – or perhaps we’re just too far gone.

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

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Left on read

GRAPHICS BY ALLY ZACEK | THE DEPAULIA

By Varvara Makarevich Contributing Writer

How many of you have experienced a situation where you write a work or study-related email and get no response? You write another one. Then you leave a voice message. A week later, long after you’ve already resolved the issue yourself without the other person’s help, rarely do you receive an apologies-for-not-being-able-torespond-in-time email.

I came to journalism from another field where communication is also the key to success: public relations. This is where I learned that you’re supposed to answer any work emails you get and every phone call you receive, no matter how badly you want to skip them. And this is why it surprises me every time I get no response from some people.

In some way every professional – and every student, all of whom could be considered aspiring professionals – is a PR manager for himself. If we adopt this approach, perhaps everyone would take their communication habits much more seriously.

When students fail to consider that they are their own enterprises, they can miss out on opportunities, said business professor Joel Whalen.

“When people fail to communicate, or they communicate ineffectively, they’re essentially building walls around themselves, barriers to growth, to working with other people, and they can isolate themselves,” he said.

Even though students sometimes fail to respond to calls and emails, from my empirical experience it’s often a pattern more common among older people. And there might be a reasonable explanation. Blair Davis, a media and cinema studies professor, says generational habits can play into people's behaviors.

“Workflow communication tends to fall into different generational patterns in terms of communication in

general,” she said. “We tend to use those media that we’re most comfortable with and adopting, adding new medium or any new particular social media platform.

The older we get, the less likely we are to want to try, and use, and adopt newer media.”

This means that an older person is more likely to listen to their voicemail than a young person – though it doesn’t mean they will return your call. And the chances that you’ll get in touch with them via Facebook or any other relatively new medium are low.

Bree McEwan, a communications professor, agrees that a generational gap may be one of the reasons people don’t respond to calls.

“We see some generational differences there; people who are used to having answering machines and giving a call back, they’re listening to voicemails and giving a call back,” she said. “Folks who never had an answering machine assume you will reach out in some other way if it’s important.”

Another interesting observation, raised by Davis, is the idea that the more recently a communication channel was invented, the shorter the messages usually are. “We see tons of communication getting shorter and shorter as each generation prefers brevity,” she said.

This doesn’t mean, however, that we should blame the phenomena of not responding to emails solely on habits or age. Paradoxically enough, the technologies that we’ve created to improve and ease our lives often cause us to get lost in a barrage of communication flow.

“Everything is coming through on our personal mobile device. You get your emails, text messages, and voicemails on there,” Whalen said. “Let’s say, you’re waiting for an elevator, you check your email, you see that so and so emailed you – and then you never go back to it.” We do this unintentionally, he says, because by the time we think about a particular email, we’ve already received 10 more and a bunch of text messages to boot.

Whalen says some instances of non-responsiveness

can be cracked up to accidents, in which human beings are simply trying to deal with the avalanche of emails that they constantly get. “I think that has to do as much with technology as it does with people’s social behavior,” he said.

The technological side of the problem can be easily solved today. Option one: time management. Set up a time during the day when you go through all your emails, texts, messages and respond to them. Option two: choose certain forms of communication for certain purposes.

Option three: download specific software that allows you to manage and organize your emails.

“People consume emails and briefs differently than they do other written forms of communication,” Whalen said. “They are not reading these documents word for word, they’re scanning quickly through the document looking for a reason to delete it and then move onto the next one.” And maybe this is why some companies are already shifting their communication channels.

“A lot of companies are recognizing this issue with emailing problems, because they are moving to instant message services,” McEwan said. “And I think this is why you see the rise of services, such as ‘Slack’, which feel more like a messaging service.”

Let’s be honest, sometimes the reason we don’t get a response is very simple: Our message is just not important or engaging enough for the person we’re addressing. That doesn’t, however, mean that anyone should deny anyone else the right to human dignity and respect. A simple “No, thanks” will do. And also, it will save so much time.

Next time you feel you’d rather leave someone’s message or call without a response, imagine finding yourself in the same position – a position where someone else considers you unworthy of even the shortest response.

You wouldn't like it – would you?

How 'America's Dad' fell from public grace

By Brittney Bray Contributing Writer

Beginning with his days on “I Spy” and up to his portrayal as the lovable Cliff Huxtable on the “The Cosby Show,” for most of his career Bill Cosby managed to maintain a clean-cut image to fans and the public eye. Through his scripted television roles, Cosby was often portrayed as a wholesome father and a devoted, beloved family man.

Through his role as Cliff Huxtable, a positive black father figure in television when there was a lack of representation, Cosby helped make “The Cosby Show” a staple in television.

Such roles further solidified his status as an admired actor and comedian.

“The image of black fatherhood depicted by Mr. Cosby through ‘The Cosby Show’ was one almost wholly bereft from television at that point,” said Kelly Kessler, an associate professor who teaches media and cinema studies.

“The ‘70s were full of single parent ghetto sitcoms, buffoonish nuclear families, and an occasional two-parent Black family in shows like Norman Lear’s ‘Good Times’,” Kessler said.

“But Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable was America’s father.

He simultaneously brought a new image of black fatherhood to television and became everyone’s dad, regardless of race,” she said “The runaway Nielsen numbers

show that.”

Cosby also did extensive charity work, which included fundraising for groups such as the Jackie Robinson Foundation, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, and Jumpstart, an organization that promotes literacy and childhood education. In 1988, Cosby donated $20 million to Spelman College, a historically black college in Atlanta.

All of this helped Cosby build an image that ultimately shielded the comedian from the sexual assault allegations that followed him. In April, these allegations were ruled credible, with Cosby being convicted on three counts of sexual assault. At 80-years-old, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

How did Cosby manage to trick so many people into believing he was a righteous moral exemplar? Could no one see the real Cosby, the same Cosby who would stand accused of sexually assaulting approximately 60 women throughout the course of his career?

In reality, once the Hollywood cameras stopped rolling, Cosby shed his familyman persona and replaced it with something more sinister.

Despite the conviction, though, Cosby’s achievements cannot be undone.

“His philanthropic contributions are extensive as is his history of sexual predation,” said Jalylah Burrell, the Ida

B. Wells-Barnett Postdoctoral Fellow at DePaul. “I think the public can wrestle with the complexity of humanity. It is possible to do tremendous good while causing catastrophic harm,” she said.

There have been several publicly criticized incidents in Cosby's career that began to crack the facade of his family man image.

In 2004, during the NAACP’s 50th anniversary celebration for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Cosby ranted about domestic violence in the black community in relation to childhood illiteracy.

The rant is now known as the “Pound Cake Speech.” Cosby also criticized the black community for teen pregnancy rates, singleparent households, incorrect grammar use and failing to make progress after the Civil Rights era.

Jill Stewart, a public relations and advertising instructor, attended one of Cosby’s standup shows and also saw the difference between the on-screen Cosby and the in-person Bill Cosby.

“I heard Bill Cosby perform in Las Vegas in 1981, and that shaped my opinion of him permanently,” she said. “I thought he just ‘phoned in.’ He just sat in a chair on the stage and he leaned back like he wasn’t working very hard, and he was smoking cigars and telling jokes.

I was really turned off, and that

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Bill Cosby leaves the courthouse after his conviction on April 26.

had nothing to do with the sexual allegations that came out much later.”

As a revered celebrity, Cosby, like many other celebrities, managed to warp the public’s perception of him. He was able to use their perceptions as a cloak to hide who he really was all along.

Stewart also explained the possible role that PR could have had throughout Cosby’s career.

“I would imagine that if Bill Cosby had a PR team, they would have done everything they could to discredit the women, and that seems a little unfair to me, because the celebrity always has the advantage. Balances of power tilt towards men who are powerful and wealthy,” she said.

Not only has Cosby’s

Hollywood star been removed, but several universities have taken back his honorary degrees.

The latest fall from grace for a beloved star is a wake up call reminding us that celebrities are human.

Stripped of all image, celebrities like Bill Cosby and the others accused of sexual assault are not to be revered or idolized.

They may have more money and fame than the average person, but celebrities are no better than anyone else. They are talented actors, comedians, directors, models, singers, but they are also human. They are not angels or idols to be revered. As these sexual assault charges emphasize, people with celebrity status are just as capable as anyone else of committing unspeakable acts.

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Women in comedy continue to triumph over adversity

By Marissa De La Cerda Contributing Writer

“Crude.”

“Attention-seeking.”

“Un-lady like.”

“Un-feminist.”

These are some of the reactions people have to female comedians and their jokes. Most recently, Michelle Wolf faced a lot of these criticisms for her roast at the White House Correspondents Dinner when she joked about the physical appearance of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ivanka Trump. She, like many other female comedians over the years, was condemned and dismissed as not being funny.

“The history of comedy has not been kind to women, which is not a surprise since we live in a patriarchy,” said Peter H. Steeves, a philosophy professor at DePaul whose area of expertise includes the philosophy of comedy.

While this is true, female comedians continue to fight against the patriarchy so that they can be heard and influence change. There have been a multitude of women who have had a substantial influence in the comedy world over the years such as Lucille Ball, Joan Rivers, Tina Fey and Ali Wong, to name a few. Just like Michelle Wolf, they illustrated a sense of bravery and uniqueness when they challenging the status quo regarding what it means to be a comedian.

“Lucille Ball was one of the first female comedians to be known by all Americans and to have her comedy influence the culture at large,” said Steeves.

In the 1950’s sitcom “I Love Lucy,” she played the wife of successful entertainer Ricky Ricardo (played by her actual husband Desi Arnaz) who also always wanted to be an entertainer herself but never had the talent. In reality, however, Ball was deemed the more successful and talented of the pair. With this, many feminists criticized Ball for painting women as second-class citizens despite the show’s critical success. She later found additional successes in other network sitcoms such as “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.”

“It’s hard to fault Lucy. And we shouldn’t fault her,” said Steeves. “We should fault the culture that left her with so few options.”

This is to say that Ball was left with few options in regard to her comedy, which is something that has slowly changed as female comedy has evolved.

Similarly, Joan Rivers was met with a lot of criticism when she rose to prominence in 1965 and throughout her career late into the 90’s. Known for her self-deprecating humor, she began establishing her profile as a guest on the “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson. It is here that she established her comedic style that consisted of

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jokes about her upbringing, her relationship status and her appearance.

She was criticized for being too abrasive. Johnny Carson even went as far as saying that while many female comics don’t exist, “the ones that try are sometimes a little aggressive for (his) taste.” Nonetheless, she continued with her comedy, eventually forming a rival program titled “The Late Show with Joan Rivers” and doing other stand-up shows, guest appearances and various talk shows. Though comedy was not particularly inviting to women, she overcame several barriers and paved the way for other female comedians like Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman to follow.

In the 1990’s, both Silverman and Fey began their careers by writing for “Saturday Night Live” and honing their skills as insult and satirical comics focusing on topical issues. Fey went on to write critically-acclaimed shows and films such as “Mean Girls,” “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Silverman had several comedy specials on Comedy Central, including “The Sarah Silverman Program,” where she focused on telling stories about her personal life, including various mental health struggles she faced as a child and continues to face as an adult.

Critics and comedy viewers dismissed her comedy bits as not being funny, sometimes because they just didn’t understand them or saw them as too personal. In a world that spent so much time to shame women for sharing their stories, Silverman’s crassness was a big shift for women in comedy.

Alice Julianna, manager of the DePaul Improv and Sketch Comedy group, says that comedy is important as a venue for women to share their experiences.

“Comedy is and has been an important genre for women because it is an opportunity to discuss the female gaze and perspective,” she said. Similar to other genres, comedy helps offer a perspective that so many people have not seen. It allows for audiences to understand their experiences in a way that isn’t too dark or serious.

To this day, this remains an important aspect of female comedy. Modern comedians such as Jenny Slate, Issa Rae and Ali Wong use their platforms to discuss their experiences as women, the latter two specifically sharing their experiences as women of color. The only difference now is that there are different mediums for these comics to showcase their work. Issa Rae began her career as a comic by posting videos on YouTube and eventually signing a deal with HBO to develop her sketches into a show called “Insecure.” Wong has released two Netflix comedy specials where she discusses her experiences balancing family and a career. She revels in the truths of motherhood that are rarely discussed in public.

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Rae and Wong’s successes on the Internet and streaming services allows for the voices of female comics to be heard on other platforms besides the stage or TV. The emergence of new female voices over the past several years has resulted in a change in comedy in which people are beginning to accept that women are funny and have always been.

Gary Novak, director of the School of Cinematic Arts, said that definitions of what comedy is are constantly shifting, and the increase of women in comedy contributes to that.

“Comedy isn’t universal. There are different definitions on what is funny, and you can’t please everyone, but to say women aren’t funny is wrong,” he said. Novak says the comedic voices of women are very important and continue to be needed.

Recently, he worked with The Second City to offer a new undergraduate degree in comedy filmmaking. Novak says there have been classes that focused on comedy writing, but the Media and Cinema Studies Department wanted to offer students the opportunity to create, develop and show off their comedic writing and directing abilities in more depth.

“Second City is home to so many comedic talents – so many established female comics like Tina Fey,” Novak said.

Novak also said that female comedy has become increasingly popular, and though it is often met with a lot of criticism, it nonetheless finds itself creating important conversations.

Though Michelle Wolf was met with a lot of criticism for her roast, she was also met with some praise. Many praised her for using her platform on a national stage to stand up for her beliefs. Though the jokes about the appearances of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ivanka Trump reinforced misogyny, she did use the rest of her speech to point her gaze outwards.

“Successful comics often also have an element of the ‘outsider’ perspective which is utilized to punch up and critique those in power who have caused problems or deserve a little humbling,” said Julianna.

“Perhaps feminist comedy and women’s laughter are powerful means of social change,” said Steeves.

Michelle Wolf, like Joan Rivers,Sarah Silverman and other female comics before her, faced many critiques and hardships they did. Their contributions to female comedy have, however, remained at the forefront in the fight against patriarchy – in comedy and in the world at large.

The impact they have had on the comedic world will serve as an inspiration for female comics who are trying to establish their voice in a world that still attempts to shut them up.

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Arts & Life Chicago has my heart

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The mural, located in the pedway near Randolph St. and Michgan Ave., celebrates Chicago's influential creatives. Two DePaul students are also featured in the mural.

College artists help create new pedway mural

By Yazmin Dominguez Online Editor

Underneath Randolph St., only a block away from Michigan Ave. in the Heritage Pedway, DePaul junior Amoz Wright and School of the Art Institute (SAIC) sophomore Sarah Wilson were in the zone. Wilson, sitting high up on a ladder, was painting the face of Chicagoan and photographer René Marban. Sitting on a crate below her, Wright worked on the dark shade of activist Bella Bahhs’ face.

The two college artists along with SAIC senior and artist Skyler Sun were creating history in the underground pathways of downtown Chicago. They were painting the first mural in the pedway system.

Sun, Wright and Wilson were capturing a sentiment that is strong within Chicago’s artistic scene: the undeniable impression of rising talent within the city and the responsibility that comes with it. The kids have grown up and so have their talents.

“We feel like having these rising stars on the wall is almost like a perfect representation of what is going on in Chicago right now. Chicago is almost in a state of an art renaissance,” Wright said. “A lot of the people that you see on the wall are pioneers for pulling the city off the ground. We thought it would be a good idea to include them in this project with Chance the Rapper.”

Because, within the city, there is no better local artist that represents the growing wave of Chicago’s young creatives than Chance. The decision to include him surrounded by ten other rising talents in the mural was a conscious decision.

“He is kind of like a face for rising stars.

All the people here got the chance of doing the same thing,” Wright said. “They’re all adding something to the city whether it be through their talents, their volunteership

or whatever it might be so I thought it would be cool to … have them in the piece.

The ten figures in the mural are: singer Kaina Castillo, neckwear designer and entrepreneur of 3dimedesigns Keyante Aytch, visual artist Samantha Jo, visual and sonic content creator Jackie Robertson (Jac Stovler), owner of Nini’s Deli and clothing brand Chicago Native Juan-Elias Riesco, rapper and DePaul biology major Femi Adigun (FEMDOT), streetwear designer of Actually on Dirt and photographer Evan Brown, artist and graphic designer Crystal Zapata, photographer René Marban and poet and activist Bella Bahhs.

“I think it's a pretty monumental thing to have your face be on a mural in a public space and such a huge one at that,” said entrepreneurial DePaul junior and neckwear designer Keyante Aytch. “It's a pretty awesome thing to be able to have something that you can look back on ... for years and years.”

The color combinations of rose red, bright yellow, navy blue and turquoise splashed in the background brought life to the dullness of the pedway system.

And that was the exact intention of MidAmerica Asset Management, the leasing company that owns the underground space and that is seeking to bring more traffic into the pedway. In December of 2017, Sun responded to a “Looking for artists” ad from the company in SAIC’s job board; according to Sun, within an hour he was in contact with the owner of the space, checking out the location.

"People just use this (pedway) while they're on their phone walking through to get to the next street so then when people walk around that wall and see color in the glass reflection, they come around and they get to enjoy something,” Wilson said.

“They just get to (think) 'Oh, that made me feel a little bit brighter walking out into the

shitstorm of Chicago.'"

Wilson was brought onto the project after Sun realized the amount of work creating a mural would entail.

"He told me about the mural and I was really excited because I wanted to help, but I didn't want to say anything,” Wilson said.

“I didn't want to get in his project, and eventually he was like ‘Yeah, we're going to need a lot more help than I thought, so I want you to come on as a painter’ and I said, 'Absolutely, done deal.'"

Sun and Wright met for the first time at an SAIC art show only two weeks before Sun was commissioned to build the mural.

“I was talking to him about how I want to do something big. I want to do something where it makes me show my work. ... He was talking about how he wanted to collaborate,” Sun said. “A week and a half later I get this thing. I was like, ‘Amoz, this is it!’ He was all for it.”

Each artist dedicated themselves to different areas. Sun focused on the design of the type and background, while Wilson’s interdisciplinary focus on painting at SAIC came into play as she painted all eleven faces. Wright was responsible for sketching the faces and bodies, and Wilson focused on the details within the painting. For all three artists it was their first time working on a mural of this magnitude, each one of them working on each process together.

“I wasn’t seeking this at this point in my career. I wanted to do a mural eventually in my city but it wasn’t my goal to do it at this point in my career. So I’m just extremely blessed that God brought me this opportunity,” Wright said.

For a couple months, Wright and Sun went back and forth between potential concepts and designs. At first, Wright played with the idea of portraying notable Chicago musicians like Common, Kanye West and Chance the Rapper. He soon

decided, however, that the mural’s locations wasn’t the appropriate space for the three musicians to be at. He didn’t think the message would deliver.

After a Google search, Wright came across a photo of Chance on Saturday Night Live with his arms spread wide. Having to fill a 40-foot-by-8-foot-tall canvas, he saw potential in the image and decided to go with it.

In the finished piece, the phrase “Chicago has my heart” will be sketched across the mural, interwoven perfectly between the strategically placed faces of Chance and the ten other Chicagoans.

The artists took inspiration from Kevin Coval, the creator of Chicago Young Authors, an organization dedicated to giving a literary outlet to inner city kids.

The last poem in his popular poetry book, “The People’s History of Chicago” is titled, “Chicago has my heart.” Sun and Wright believed the title captured the same sentiment.

“I feel like this mural kind of sparked from that. It’s like telling the history of Chicago through poetry, art, entrepreneurship,” Wright said. “We had to figure out almost in a sense of the size kind of being the metaphor … of where they’re at in their careers because they’re still rising. … They all have great potential to be there.”

The “Chicago has my heart” mural will debut on Thursday, May 24, when the public can gather to watch the artists paint the final strokes on the wall.

"The cool thing about this is when people ask me, ‘Oh, who are these people?’

You get to say ‘Oh, you'll know in a couple years, don't worry about it.’ (That’s) already happening,” Wilson said. “Also the idea that Chicago has my heart: Yeah, it definitely takes part of your heart when you get to put your mark on the wall.”

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Marvel's anti-hero returns

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Following immense success with the first "Deadpool," Ryan Reynolds returns as the sarcastic, foul-mouthed anti-hero in the newest action-packed installment "Deadpool 2."

By Garret Neal Staff Writer

“Deadpool 2” carries on shortly after the conclusion of its predecessor, “Deadpool.” Wade Wilson has made a name for himself since defeating the first film’s main villain Ajax – or Francis, as he was more commonly referred to – and has been granted a tenuous spot as an X-Men trainee. He is tasked with protecting a child with a hot temper named Russell that is capable of projecting fire from his epidermis. Unfortunately for Mr. Pool and the child, a cyborg named Cable has recently traveled back in time to kill the kid. Nice guy.

For me, lots of the appeal of “Deadpool” came from its, shall we say, unique take on the superhero genre. Raunchy humor, fourth wall breaks and over the top action made it my second favorite superhero film of behind only “Civil War”. The second film mostly utilizes the same storytelling techniques, so if you enjoyed the first one you’ll likely have fun here too.

Sex jokes come at you fast and furious and they are plentiful, so if one doesn’t land for you there’s almost always another just over the horizon. Like in the first film, Catholic school-unfriendly earn the film its R-rating. There’s lots of callbacks to the first film as well.

The action, while not the focus on the film, is effective. One highlight is an entertaining jail break scene featuring Cable just destroying everybody. Later the character of Domino is introduced, and she takes the film into totally over-thetop territory with her superpowered luck abilities. It all leads to some of the most memorable action scenes of the film.

Speaking of new characters, Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Cable (Josh Brolin) are both great. Domino initially teases Deadpool with her luck superpowers, which he doesn’t believe are real. They are though, and the film takes full advantage of them.

People run out of bullets at just the right time around her, cars crash in just the right

areas and things just somehow work out every time. Perhaps the best part is when the film slows down so viewers can see Domino’s nonchalant reaction to these unlikely circumstances – and even the rare moments when she does get surprised.

Cable, meanwhile, comes from the future and is about 75 percent human, 25 percent robot. The robot part seems to dominate his personality, as Cable lacks any sort of emotion through the first two thirds of the film. It serves as great contrast to Deadpool’s high energy antics, leading to very effective comedic interactions. And don’t worry: The film is completely selfaware that Brolin plays the villain Thanos other Marvel films, too.

Outside of these two welcome newcomers, much of the supporting cast returns from the first.

Dopinder the taxi driver (Karan Soni) is used slightly less in the sequel, and his existence just perpetuates one joke through the whole film until there is a pay off at the end. That payoff is nice, but the character was more versatile in the first film. Blind Al (Leslie Uggams) is here, just as blind and grumpy as ever. She, like Dopinder, gets much less screen time than in the first

film, but she brings the laughs every time she shows up. Comedian T.J. Miller is also here, as Deadpool’s friend Weasel. Outside of those characters, there is a sizable number of cameos to keep an eye out for.

Watch for Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, among others.

The film takes its cues from the first film in most cases.Many of the jokes even trample the same topics as the first film, and viewers may tire of more gags aimed at Marvel’s rival company DC. There’s also more pronounced tonal shifts in this film than in the first one. In scenes where Cable is the only one present, the comedy often gets taken down to negative levels as he

explains his tragic backstory. Even more striking are scenes when Wade Wilson talks with his wife. Much of the plot is centered around Wade needing to get his heart in the right place, which is all he and his wife speak of. Switching from butt jokes right to these tender moments felt jarring.

Once everything wrapped up, I was left with a film that was hilarious at times, but not quite as fun as the first. Do be sure to stay for the end credits scene: It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in the theater.

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Resisting age restrictions

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Reggie’s Rock Club always allows young music lovers to see their favorite bands with a parent or guardian.

The best Chicago music venues for underage fans

By Nikki Roberts Copy Editor

When I was a 15-year-old commuter from the west suburbs of Chicago, I told my parents I had purchased tickets to see pop punk bands Stickup Kid and Candy Hearts play an all-ages show at the Beat Kitchen. I lied to them and made up a story about how a friend’s dad would be taking us both to the show that night.

Instead, I hopped on a Metra train towards downtown Chicago, took the Blue Line to Damen and struggled to decipher which way was north and which way was south before jumping on a northbound bus towards Beat Kitchen.

Before the show even began, a bouncer marked my hands with two bold Sharpie X’s. When I tried to speak with the members of Stickup Kid after the show, NIKKI ROBERTS | THE DEPAULIA I quickly found out that my X’s made me Chris Pluska, a security guard at Reggie’s Rock Club, places a 21+ drinking wristband on a patron. a target for the venue’s bouncers, who the barriers she faced to see her favorite underage fans figure out other ways to band. It’s disheartening if there’s no way for ushered me outside before I could thank metal bands when she was a young high cheat the age restrictions. them to get in.” the band for an excellent show. Sitting school student.

When Boyle found out local surf pop For Joe Rothstein, a 19-year-old on the pavement outside of the venue, I “Back in high school, most bands I group Beach Bunny was playing a 21+ metalhead, having a father with a similar watched from outside as older fans bought wanted to see were mainly 18+. I sadly show, she decided to completely disregard music taste has allowed him to take the vocalist of Stickup Kid a few beers. watched some of my favorite bands like the venue’s age restrictions and find an advantage of this policy and see shows that This was my first time experiencing the Megadeth, Dethklok and D.R.I all come to alternative way into the show. he could not have seen otherwise. negative effects of my young age at a music town and I couldn’t make it because of my “I'm 20, so I had to sneak in through “My dad was cool enough to ‘sneak performance, and it certainly was not the age,” said Nava. “There were some venues the back [of the venue],” said Boyle. “I was me in’ to a lot of shows,” said Rothstein. “I last. that allowed minors to attend with a so paranoid the whole time that someone started going to Reggies when I was about Many young music lovers have been parent/guardian accompanying them, but who worked there would see me and 13 or 14. They've always been cool with in my position or have had other negative there was no chance in hell either one of question me, but nothing happened. It was kids going as long as there's a guardian. experiences due to their age. All too often, my parents would have taken me.” definitely in the top five most rebellious Metro uses this policy too, although I underage fans are crushed after finding out As more and more killer metal lineups things I’ve ever done.” rarely go there anymore. Not many other a favorite band or a stacked local lineup is passed her by, Nava decided she couldn’t Many teenage fans aren’t willing to clubs in the city would allow this to fly.” playing a 21+ show; a show that’s highly bear to miss any more shows. break laws to see their favorite acts. For Unfortunately, for fans without off-limits for them. They look at their “In November of 2012 there were two these law-abiding underage music lovers, understanding parents, there’s nothing lousy, vertical ID and hold back the tears shows at [a local venue] that I was dying to there’s usually not much else that can be they can do but wait out the years until as they are forced to accept the unfortunate see,” said Nava. “Both shows were 18+ and done to overcome strict age restrictions. they meet the age requirements. fact that they either have to miss their I wasn’t turning 18 for another couple of However, the Metro in Wrigleyville, “I’ve been into hardcore and punk for favorite band's Chicago tour date, or find months. My boyfriend suggested I go to a Reggie’s Rock Club in the South Loop, a couple years now and there are so many an alternative way into the show. swap meet in Little Village to get a fake I.D Thalia Hall in Pilsen and the Vic Theatre shows I missed, all because of my age,” said “I’ve found that as more of my friends to attend the shows. For $40 I obtained my in Lakeview have a policy that allows Julian Vazquez, 15. “There’s no way that turn 21, they're playing a lot more 21+ fake I.D, got through [the] identification underage patrons to attend any restricted people of young age can obtain booze [at shows and much less all-ages shows,” said check and was able to attend both shows.” age show at these venues, as long as they are all ages shows], so I don’t see why there Meghan Boyle, 20, a fan of Chicago’s indie However, the idea of obtaining and accompanied by a legal parent or guardian should be an age restriction.” rock scene. “When it comes to which shows using a fake I.D. is too risky for many that meets the age requirements.

To make things simple for young fans to go to, I used to have a lot of options to young people. In Illinois, possessing, "You’re allowed to legally be like Vazquez, and for music fans of all choose from. Now, whichever shows I go distributing or obtaining a fraudulent I.D. [accompanied by a parent/guardian],” said ages, we ranked 16 popular Chicago music to are usually the only ones I know of that is a Class 4 felony that can result in one to Robby Glick, owner of Reggie’s Rock Club. venues on a 10-point scale to assess their aren't 21+; it's definitely taken a toll on my three years imprisonment and fines up to “It’s up to the parent. I know a lot of kids age inclusiveness. social life.” $25,000. Rather than face the possible legal are really into music by the time they’re 11, Dahlia Nava, 23, distinctly remembers repercussions of using a fake I.D, some 12, 13...and really want to see their favorite

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Here's our scoring system: If the venue hosts all-ages shows, they received 4 points.

If the venue hosts 17+ shows, they received 3 points.

If the venue allows underage patrons to come to a show with a parent or guardian, regardless of the show's age restrictions, they received 2 points.

If the venue hosts 18+ shows, they received 1 point.

A bonus point was given to venues that earned all 10 possible points and had a separate 21+ venue in addition to their main venue.

No additional points were awarded if the venue hosts 21+ shows.

These venues earned all possible 10 points plus the bonus point.

Metro + Smart Bar (10+) Reggies Rock Club + Music Joint (10+) “My favorite Chicago venue, hands down, is Reggies. I could go on about the awesome shows they've had and the tiny size of the venue, but it's even more than that,” said Rothstein.

“Chicago is a city with a zillion hipster hangouts. You know the ones I'm talking about: the bars that scatter Logan Square and Wicker Park.

Meanwhile, Reggies serves as almost a safe haven for metalheads, punks and rockers alike. It's the only venue of its kind in the city and the friends I've made there over the course of 5+ years now I consider family to me."

Metro’s Smart Bar venue provides a separate location for their 21+ fans.

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These venues earned a perfect score but didn't have a separate 21+ music venue.

Thalia Hall (10) Vic Theatre (10) NIKKI ROBERTS | THE DEPAULIA

The Vic hosts shows for all ages and allows young fans to attend with a legal parent or guardian.

These venues are great for young fans, but be sure to read the fine print before purchasing a ticket--most of them don't allow underage fans to attend with a parent or guardian that is of age.

Aragon Ballroom (8) Beat Kitchen (8) Bottom Lounge (8) Cobra Lounge (8) Concord Music Hall (8) Lincoln Hall + Schubas Tavern (7) The Riviera Theatre (7) Subterranean (7) NIKKI ROBERTS | THE DEPAULIA

Concord Music Hall in Logan Square hosts a variety of shows, but stricty enforces age requirements with no exceptions.

While each of these three venues may be a great spot to catch a show, they definitely aren't a place for those of us who still have vertical IDs. All of these venues host strictly 21+ shows. No exceptions.

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Gambino's career begins a new chapter

By Isabella Brock Contributing Writer

Childish Gambino, better known as Donald Glover, released the single “This Is America” May 5 on Saturday Night Live to significant critical and commercial success.

The song discusses contemporary issues within the African-American community in America. The single quickly rose to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, making it Glover’s first No. 1 single. Even larger than the song itself was the music video, released shortly after the single. Focused on issues within the African-American community, the video contains layers of references and political imagery. The video was directed by Glover’s frequent collaborator Hiro Murai, a legendary music video and television director.

Glover is well known throughout many sections of the entertainment industry. “I’m an actor, a writer and a singer,” said Glover on “Saturday Night Live.” “Some people have described me as a triple threat. But I kind of like to call myself just a threat.”

The song has turned the spotlight back to Glover’s music. His previous album, “Awaken, My Love!” was released in 2016.

The top single from that album “Redbone” IMAGE COURTESY OF IMDB peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard charts.

The song has given Glover the potential Donald Glover, also known by his stage name Childish Gambino, released the controversial video "This is America" on May 5. to make Childish Gambino a household He has evolved from an underground, The video for “This Is America” UIC student and fan Tarquis Underwood. name. intelligent lyricist, to a popular, multi- sparked a wide variety of analysis and “The video tried to raise awareness (of “I didn't think it would blow up as big as genre musician.” Glover’s previous albums discussion. There is a multitude of pop political issues), but it comes down to if it did, but I'm honestly not too surprised,” pulled inspiration from ‘90s hip-hop and culture references throughout the video. anyone cared in the first place.” said DePaul student Tristan Wilbers. “It ‘70s funk. Fans speculate the upcoming Jim Crow, the Charleston church massacre, Despite the video being filled with was kind of a perfect storm, with his rising album will sound quite different. “In the Bible and the 2017 film “Get Out” political messages, Glover has declined to popularity, the time it has been since he did ‘This Is America’ you can hear a kind of all are featured. The video also touches comment on any aspect of the video. “He a music video, and the fact that the video amalgamation of many of his sounds,” said on social issues within the community, always talks about how it's not his job to be obviously has a really potent message.”

Wilbers. “His R&B influences are obviously including mental health, police brutality political,” said Wilbers. “He just wants to Fans believe this song represents a new present ... and the dark Atlanta-style trap and gun violence, among others. While the show what life is actually like, and to give era for Glover. “As an artist his evolution style he emulates so well, even though he's symbolism and imagery is subtle, fans took people something dope to watch. He made is unbelievable,” said DePaul student never really embodied that style in the away a big message: “Nobody really cares the video, and it speaks for itself.”

Matthew Yonemura. “I have always past.” about the harsh reality in America” said called him the modern renaissance man.

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Grad uses film to discuss mental health

IMAGE COURTESY OF SYDNEY O'HAIRE

Sydney O'Haire drew inspiration from her life when crafting her thesis film "BeingThere" that takes an honest look at mental health.

By Garret Neal Staff Writer

After graduating from undergrad, Sydney O’Haire’s life got, as she describes it, “a little out of control.” Her family and friends supported her, and when they recommended she go to rehab she went without resistance. O’Haire said once she got there it was “a really wild experience,” and she made a very close friend named Joy during her stay. The story of their friendship inspired O’Haire to write her thesis film, “Being Here.” Sadly, Joy passed from breast cancer away in 2015. O’Haire said part of why she wanted to make the film was in her friend’s memory, but also it was also for people with mental illness.

“I think it’s a big issue in the world and it’s not really addressed. And when it is addressed or portrayed in media it’s not very honest or true to the process,” O’Haire said.

“Being There” is a short film that centers around a woman named Charlie who is nearing the end of her stay in rehab. However, between hesitations about reconnecting with family and leaving her best friend Joy, she doesn’t feel ready. Those two factors become precisely the ones that will prepare her to face the real world again.

Once she had a concrete idea, O’Haire tabbed Tanner McCullough as the producer, since they had worked together on other projects. She went with Eric Liberacki as the cinematographer, who she said is “always the first person she goes to to shoot anything.” When casting Charlie, who was loosely based on herself, O’Haire had only one option in mind. She went straight to Melisa Breiner-Sanders.

After the two had worked together on “Dressed,” a short film,last February, O’Haire started writing this role banking on Breiner-Sanders playing the part. She also knew Breiner-Sanders was moving to New York soon. Somewhere along the process, the two sat down to do a table read of the unfinished script Breiner-Sanders hoped to assist her friend with the casting process..

“I was like, let’s get a table read going so I can find you actual actors to read your words,” Breiner-Sanders said. “(O’ Haire) was like, ‘Um, do, you want to read Charlie?’ and I said sure. Then she said,

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The film follows Charlie, a woman nearing the end of her stay at a rehab center despite her not feeling ready.

‘Would you like wanna, like, actually do it too?’”

After moving to New York, BreinerSanders flew back to play the part. Her costar was Carin Silkaitis, playing the role of Joy. Joy is a character that, on top of being in rehab, faces huge family troubles and a battle with breast cancer. Silkaitis said the cancer part of the role came relatively easy, as she had her own brush with breast cancer; luckily, she was able to catch it in time before it advanced to the point where she would need to undergo chemotherapy, as Joy does in the film. The other portions required a little more digging.

“I did a lot of research on addiction and also treatment facilities. How long you’re normally in, what it’s like to live there, what your living quarters would be like, what your daily routine would be,” Silkaitis said.

For the family section she was able to draw on her experience as a mom. Since one of her sons is in college, she knew the feeling of being away from one’s children.

As far as what happens with Joy’s family in

the film, she just had to imagine what that would be like.

The relationship between Charlie and Joy is one of the centerpieces of the film.

Breiner-Sanders and Silkaitis said they knew it would be important for them to accurately capture got the strength of their characters’ bond right. They had many phone conversations leading up to the shoot to learn about each other. BreinerSanders said they tried to be in contact as much as possible while on set to get to know each other as people.

“At least for me, it was very much to try and be able to be as emotionally and physically comfortable with Carin as possible while shooting,” Breiner-Sanders said.

Silkaitis said the phone conversations were a huge help. When they finally met for the first time, introductions weren’t necessary.

“The first day we got to set I went up to makeup. When Melisa walked in she just said, ‘Oh, we already know each other.’ It was just the easiest hug-hello, and it made

it so easy to be able to play with each other and be vulnerable with each other,” Silkaitis said.

After raising over $14,000 on their Kickstarter campaign, the crew were able to get to work on finalizing the film. As is usually the case, shooting produced some memorable moments for all. Liberacki said he enjoyed the challenge of shooting underwater shots in the pool. Trying to keep up with Breiner-Sanders while holding an underwater rig was not bad in the shallow end, but once he got in the deep end he “lost all traction.”

“I ended up just kind of flailing wildly,” he said.

Everything has now wrapped up and the film is getting its finishing touches.

O’Haire said her final film at DePaul will be finished in the coming weeks.

“I decided to apply to film school when I was in rehab. I wrote a lot of my graduate application essays there and studied for the GRE,” O’Haire said. “I feel like this makes the story really go full circle.”

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Revisionist History

FiveThirtyEight Politics

If you’re a self-professed nerd, you must listen to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast “Revisionist History” for no other reason than because that’s what Gladwell is: a professional nerd — and a truly gifted storyteller.

On the current events side of this week’s podcast-geek-fest we have FiveThirtyEight’s Political Podcast. When Nate Silver, founder and editorin-chief of FiveThirtyEight, broke onto the national political scene after the 2008 general election – having accurately predicted nearly every single senate race, most of the house and the presidential election correctly within a small statistical margin of error – political junkies everywhere new that there was a new standard for political analysis.

Each week, Gladwell offers listeners a single historical topic that he believes to be “misunderstood or overlooked,” and he then dives in to the nittiest and grittiest of details over the course of 30 to 40 minutes.

Tackling topics ranging from the misuse of commas in the United States Constitution and the world’s most controversial semicolon, to NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain’s free throw shooting method as an exploration of why “smart people do dumb things,” Gladwell never fails to make you think, see, or feel something about the world that you had never considered before.

Prior to the release of the first real episode of season three, Gladwell released a bonus episode of himself being interviewed by University of Pennsylvania professor and organizational psychologist Adam Grant. The purpose of the interview: to argue, of course, because it’s no fun to agree all the time. The interview really sets the tone for the show in general, in which Gladwell covers seemingly old stories with a painstaking attention to the ultra-specific details – because sometimes it’s fun to get lost in the sauce.

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Discussions are led by FiveThirtyEight’s Jody Avirgan with a panel of Silver, political reporters Clare Malone and Harry Enten, and a variety of others s. The crew tackles the most pressing current political issues through the lens of a horse race. Instead of debating who’s right and who’s wrong, the conversation centers around who could win, who won’t win and why, by analyzing the most sophisticated polling and political science available. They even publish “emergency podcasts” when big news breaks and/or Trump does something you just can’t not talk about.

Silver and his team at FiveThirtyEight are among the leading lights in the global analytics movement. In a way, the same thing that the likes of Billy Beane and Theo Epstein did for baseball, Silver and his fleet of data geeks have done for politics; the only difference is that FiveThirtyEight isn’t trying to win anything, they just want to understand – which is why they may arguably be the most objective popular news analysis around.

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In theaters & upcoming films May 11 "Life of the Party" A middle-aged mother returns to college in order to complete her degree after her husband asks for a divorce.

Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Gillian Jacobs

May 18 “Deadpool 2” Wade Wilson must battle ninjas, the Yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines to regain his spice for life.

Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Gillian Jacobs

May 11 "Breaking In" A woman fights to protect her family during a home invasion in her recently deceased father's home.

Stars: Gabrielle Union

May 18 "Book Club" After reading "50 Shades of Grey" in their monthly book club, the lives of four lifelong friends are changed forever.

Stars: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen

May 18 “First Reformed” Mary's radical environmentalist husband commits suicide as a former military chaplain deals with grief over the death of his son.

May 25 “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.

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D e JAMZ “Spinning fresh beats since 1581”

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By Lacey Latch Arts &Life Editor

As you stare down the road ahead and see a hefty set of final papers and exams in your path, it’s easy to immediately ignore all of your responsibilities and focus on the summer that’s just a few short weeks down the road.

Because of my sheer inability to rid my mind of this time of relaxation and freedom, I’m going to just lean in and embrace it – literally. The heart wants what it wants, after all. Behold, four songs that all feature “summer” in the title to really help you dive into your desire to skip class over the next two weeks.

1. “Summer Love" - Justin Timberlake The hardcore awkward middle school phase that I am still struggling to break free from is revived in full while listening to “Summer Love,” one of Timberlake’s more mainstream hits. This song was a product of Timberlake’s career post-*NSYNC and pre-2013 comeback, or the “JT Sweet Spot” as I like to call it. If you’re having a hard time remembering exactly what this song is, I urge you to throw it on because one second into it you’ll practically be 13 and angsty all over again.

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2. “Cool for the Summer” Demi Lovato If you ask my best friends from high school, they’ll tell you that I have forced them to promise to play “Cool for the Summer” at my funeral, whenever that may be. And I’m proud to say that they are wholeheartedly telling the truth. While the lyrics make literally no sense in the context of a funeral, the song is just too good to not be officially sent out on. Demi Lovato transcends this earthly realm with some of the notes she hits on this certified summer hit and you can never convince me otherwise.

Across 1. Warning shouts in golf 6. Mark down drastically 11. PC brain 14. Kind of cabinet 15. Yukon garment 16. Acorn’s source 17. Regardless of the consequences 19. Bird of the past 20. Like finger-paint 21. Rods’ partners 23. Division into factions 26. Oft-stubbed item 27. Plays the killjoy 28. Bad luck 30. Caravan number 31. Code name?

32. Cleopatra’s snake 35. Winning serves 36. “Here ___ trouble!”

37. Asian cuisine choice 38. Where Goldilocks was found 39. Portion of a broadcast

3. “Summer” - Calvin Harris A completely different style song than the rest of the bunch, Calvin Harris’ “Summer” is as authentic as you can get with mainstream dubstep beats. It is a smooth song that was crafted to perfectly go hand in hand with a nice summer drive where the windows are down and the radio is up. Harris has plenty of other hits under his belt that are great for the warm, wonderful and sunny days ahead, but “Summer” is just too on the nose to overlook.

40. Use digits?

41. “Hooray!”

43. Mozart composition 44. Fall collection?

46. Poorly made 47. More sick 48. Not yet a fire 50. Item in a lobster restaurant 51. Just deserts 57.Part of IOU 58. Type of legend or sprawl 59. With mouth wide open 60. It goes through withdrawals 61. Avian baby deliverer 62. Exclude from practice Down 1. Broadcast watchdog letters 2. “And what have we here?”

3. ___ shot (drummer’s quickie) 4. 180 deg. from

4. “Summer Friends (feat.

Jeremih & Francis & The Lights)” - Chance the Rapper It wouldn’t be summer in Chicago without Chance the Rapper, because if I’ve learned one thing since moving here, it’s that essentially Chicago is Chance and Chance is Chicago.

As such, “Summer Friends” is Chance’s contribution to my musical summer escapes. This relaxing song is perfect to listen to while sitting around a fire with friends, fending for your own against the mosquitoes that you can’t see but know are out there.

WSW 5. Plank producer 6. Writer’s cramp, e.g.

7. Back muscles, in brief 8. West Point athletes 9. Calypso relative 10. Fun rural diversion 11. Reach the critical point 12. Sao ___, Brazil 13. Authoritative proclamation 18. Name on a green toy truck 22. Feature of many a prima donna 23. NASA milieu 24. Chris Rock or Kevin Hart product 25. Beats a hasty retreat 26. Workplace honcho 27. Wound covering 28. Kin of “bro” and “dude” 29. Two-tone treat 31. Pie a la ___ 33. Unlike fresh water

34. Galileo’s birthplace 36. The four in a quart 37. Watch the bar or goal 39. Short synopses 40. Dr. Scholl’s product 42. “___ got an idea!”

43. Send overseas 44. Gadhafi ruled it, once 45. “The Waste Land” poet T.S. 46. Moved like a coward 48. Boss on a shield 49. Within earshot 52. Leftover tidbit 53. Kind of limit 54. Capture, as a burglar 55. IRS calculator?

56. Suffix with “ballad” or “mountain”

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Student-athletes or athlete-students?

Blue Demons juggle schoolwork and a full time athletic schedule

By Liliana Trifilio Contributing Writer

You wake up. The alarm clock is still buzzing in your ear as you scarf down a breakfast burrito and begin packing your uniform. For a moment you think about the final project you haven’t started yet and decide to shake the thought. You need to concentrate on what counts. You need to be prepared for anything. Your plane leaves for California in three hours: It’s game day.

For student athletes sports are not a hobby, but a lifestyle. While the constant balancing act between school and sports can pose many challenges, the love of the game ultimately makes all the effort worthwhile.

Spring sports often face problems such as shifting weather, muddy fields and heat waves. In addition to the hefty school workload, spring athletes must travel further distances in order to avoid the harsh Chicago climate that interferes with tournaments and meets.

“Chicago has some great venues for championship golf but spring makes it more difficult for northern schools,” said Garet Buckley, a senior on the DePaul golf team. “If the season went later we would see a lot more northern golf. By June, the weather and the courses are ready, and that’s why the NCAA championship was about an hour away from the city last year.”

The life of a student athlete is both exhausting and time consuming. Many athletes at DePaul spend hours on and off the field training, practicing and competing.

“We wake up at 6:30 a.m. to run because we have to log 8 miles per week to keep in shape. At 8 a.m. we lift with our trainers and then classes are sometimes between 9:40 a.m-1:20 p.m.,” said Buckley. “We leave for practice at 2 p.m and return to campus around 6 p.m.”

DePaul’s golf team practices at Ruffled Feathers in Lemont, Illinois, a golf club an hour away from the Lincoln Park campus. However, harsh weather conditions during spring sometimes prevent or interfere with outdoor practices.

“We have our on-campus simulator and practice area for days when there are bad weather predictions,” said Buckley.

“There’s nothing to gain from practicing or playing in steady rain.”

Many northern universities travel to warmer states for competition. However, for students this means missing multiple days of school.

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The golf team typically travels to Florida, Arizona, Iowa and South Carolina for tournaments. Despite the vast number of golf courses in Illinois, weather conditions in warmer states during spring are more dependable for national tournaments.

Buckley says that travel can start early. Golfers will often leave campus around 5 a.m. in order to catch a flight that arrives with enough time to play a practice round — a three to four hour time commitment for an efficient golfer on foot — before competition begins the following day.

Members of the track team share a similar experience.

“Typically we fly to places farther away and drive to meets that are in the Midwest,” said Jade Gates, a freshman thrower. “We’ve traveled all across the country and each year we get to visit new places. That’s one of the most exciting parts of being on the team.”

The track team has meets in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, California and Oregon.

The tournament schedule requires student athletes to play for multiple days at a time. Often on weekends, athletes are competing against other schools. During weekdays, athletes train and practice multiple times each week.

“We usually have 2-hour practices 5 days a week and 3 hours of lifting each day,” says Gates. “Meets can be anywhere from 2-5 days depending where it’s at.”

Managing the workload of a fulltime student can be challenging with the demanding schedule athletes face.

“We really don’t have time for school work on the road, and we have to either get ahead of projects or get extensions,” said Buckley. “Only having a 4-day week at DePaul is really helpful because we can always leave for events earlier than other schools if we need too.”

The balancing act between school

“Kids are pushed extremely hard at the expense of their education.

The traveling and the amount of time kids are spending is taking away from academics and the college experience.”

Robert Kallen

NCAA expert and visiting economics professor and sport is a complicated issue that affects both students and faculty.

“Kids are pushed extremely hard at the expense of their education,” said Robert Kallen, an NCAA expert and visiting professor in DePaul’s economics department. “The traveling and the amount of time kids are spending is taking away from academics and the college experience.”

DePaul generates lots of revenue from sports, which puts even greater pressure on students and coaches to succeed athletically.

“Athletics is a business in college, and its purpose is primarily to generate money from women and men’s basketball teams at DePaul,” said Kallen. “We hope that the men’s and the women’s basketball teams generate enough revenue to cover the school, but there is great pressure from the Athletics Department for students in lesser revenue sports to grow their sport.”

During stressful times in the quarter, coaches help ensure athletes can be successful students by adjusting practices and training requirements to meet students’ needs.

“When it’s finals week they give us time to do our work,” said Brian Mada, junior jumper. “Sometimes balancing my schedule is hard, but you figure it out over time.”

However, when athletes are on the road they often wait to do schoolwork until after the tournament is over, which creates high levels of stress in meeting deadlines and getting good grades.

“When I’m traveling I don’t think about school,” said Mada. “I want my entire focus to be on the game.”

Athletes like Gates believe sports push students to their full potential as both players and learners.

“I think sports have helped my academic success,” said Gates. “It helps you balance your time and figure out how to manage your schedule. My life is sports and school; I’m not distracted by other things that might hold me back.”

However, despite the circumstances, many students like Gates believe the benefits outweigh the costs.

“Nothing is given to us,” says Gates.

“We didn’t get here from luck. We always put in the work.”

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Mada takes flight in his junior year

By Andrew Hattersley Asst. Sports Editor

It’s been a steady climb for junior jumper Brian Mada from his freshman year to junior one, adjusting to the cold and new techniques. Mada broke through this season with three individual championships, three school records and a spot in the preliminary rounds of the NCAA championships beginning May 24.

“This offseason I put in a lot work,” Mada said. “Coach was really dedicated and strict making sure we were doing the right stuff. It's just been a lot of work, and as the season started to progress it started to pay off.”

Mada credited head coach Dave Dopek for adjusting to him and knowing what drills he needed to emphasize for each athlete. To help Mada get to where he is now, the focus for Dopek has been teaching him how to analyze a jump and improve his knowledge in the event. By doing so, Mada has become a much more complete jumper.

“Brian is an exceptionally gifted triple jumper. But in order to access more of his potential, we have had to work on improving his technique through his phases,” Dopek said. “Triple jump biomechanics are about controlling momentum and being in the right position at the right time.”

The ultimate goal for Mada is to follow in the footsteps of his coach who became the first individual or team member to capture an NCAA championship when he won the 200-meter title at the 1995 championships.

He praised the support he’s received not only from Dopek, but from the rest of the staff and his teammates as well.

“They've been amazing, especially Coach Dopek has been very supportive,” Mada said. “He's inspirational, he won the NCAA Division 1. That's what I want, he's just been very supportive.”

The other adjustment for Mada, who moved to the US in 2015 from Rusape, Zimbabwe, has been the weather.

“The weather, I couldn't handle it – that's really probably why I was doing well, but I wasn't doing as much as I was supposed to do,” Mada said. “The weather was a really, really big factor for me, and this year I just got used to it. I'm just like, it doesn't matter whatever weather I am in, it doesn't have to stop me and achieving my dreams.”

In a testament to how he has now adjusted to the weather, Mada set a personal record of 15.74 meters in this spring’s cold

and windy temperatures at the Illinois Twilight. Mada arrived at DePaul after winning a silver medal at the African Junior Athletics Championships and being named the School Sports Network Student Athlete of the Year.

Despite adjusting to the weather and a new school, Mada still won the triple jump at the Big East Championships his sophomore year and qualified for the NCAA West regional his freshman year in the triple jump as well.

This past weekend, Mada once again captured the triple jump for the third straight team, but he said it didn’t come without help from his teammates, who helped him overcome the disappointment of finishing second in the long jump.

“I love DePaul. The team is very supportive especially last weekend I was really down because I came in second in the long jump,” Mada said. “I (was) expecting to win and people were very supportive of me, and then my other event, the triple jump ... I had a lot of support and I carried it with me and won the event.”

One of the competitors joining him in the regionals is freshman Jade Gates, whose friendship with Mada has grown as they’ve pushed each other during the outdoor season. Gates said it was important to be there for Mada on the second day.

“We were just like, well, it's time to focus on the triple, that's where you are, that's your bread and butter. You go for it,” Gates said. “That was the second day when we were watching him and ... making sure he knew we were there supporting (him) and stuff like that. It meant a lot to him, but it meant a lot to us to be able to be there for him.”

As Mada now turns his attention to NCAA Regionals, his focus is on reaching nationals. Mada enters the regional as the 17th seed with his jump of 15.74 meters.

USC jumper Eric Sloan currently occupies the 12th spot with a seed mark of 15.84 meters. The top 12 participants will advance to Eugene, Oregon to compete in nationals.

“Last year it didn't end up as well as I wanted to, like when I went to regionals I prefer to be like in the top 20, and when I went there I was in the top 30s, and it wasn't a great placement for me,” Mada said. “This time I'll be 17th and my goal is to go to nationals, and so there are only four people that are ahead of me. I just need to focus really hard and make sure that I go to nationals.”

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Brian Mada jumping at the 2018 Big East Indoor Track & Field Championship.

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Where's the love for Mr. Stevens?

The most obvious and well-deserving pick for NBA Coach of the Year didn't even get a single vote

By Andrew Hattersley Asst. Sports Editor

For the second straight season, fans across the NBA are once again enjoying a surprise playoff run from the Boston Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals, and this time the team has a chance to potentially advance further already leading the Cavaliers 2-1 in the series with a chance to take control of the series Monday night.

Last year, on the shoulders of 5-foot9-inch point guard Isaiah Thomas and a group of steady veterans in Avery Bradley, Jae Crowder and Al Horford, the Celtics got all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Cavaliers. This year began once again with championship aspirations after Danny Ainge shook up the roster by adding All-Stars Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving, and No. 3 overall pick Jayson Tatum in the draft.

Those aspirations have been dealt a series of major blows beginning in the opening quarter of the season when Hayward was lost due to a gruesome fractured ankle. The injury problems only continued when guard Marcus Smart missed over a quarter of the season with a thumb injury. The final blow appeared to come when Kyrie Irving underwent season-ending surgery on his left knee.

Despite missing three of their top players, the Celtics still earned the second seed in the Eastern Conference in large part due to an entertaining style of basketball predicated on sharing the ball.

Despite leading his team to that mark, Stevens did not receive a single vote for the 2018 Michael H. Goldberg Coach of the Year Award. The honor went to former Toronto Raptors coach Dwayne Casey, who led his team to the No. 1 overall seed in the Eastern Conference before falling to the Cavaliers and subsequently being fired a few days later.

Outside of Casey, seven other coaches including: Brett Brown, Mike D’Antoni, Nate McMillan, Greg Popovich, Doc Rivers, Quin Snyder and Terry Stotts all received votes over Stevens. It should be noted Rivers’ Los Angeles Clippers didn’t even make the playoffs, making his inclusion puzzling to say the least.

The ever-humble Stevens brushed off not receiving a vote, opting instead to credit the rest of the coaches in the league.

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Brad Stevens is emerging as one of the brightest young basketball minds in the world as he takes the Celtics deep into the playoffs.

“The way that thing works is you get one vote. And I’m telling you, I looked at the sheet and there’s no way I would have voted for me over any of the other 29 people,” Stevens said. “And the guy that should have won got it. And the other guys that got votes, they’re unbelievable.”

Stevens may not have believed he should have won, but the fact that he did not even receive a vote is astounding.

While the award is based on regular season performance only, what the former Butler coach has been able to do late in games and out of timeouts in the playoffs has put on full display what he has been able to do all season. Even his own players marvel at his out of timeout brilliance, an asset that has helped separate him as one of the best coaches in the league.

“We joke all the time about when we are in the huddle and he’s drawing up plays,” Tatum said during an interview on the Jump. “We look at him like ‘man I don’t know if that’s going to work,’ but numbers don’t lie. He always knows what the other

team is going to do and know the right play, even if it’s not for the guy that’s got the hot hand.”

At different points this season Tatum, Brown, Horford and even Terry Rozier late in the season have led the Celtics to late game wins. For DePaul head coach Dave Leitao, seeing the group play as a unit has been among the things he’s enjoyed watching most.

“When coaches preach what they preach to either their team or the general public that success is about the group, no one person being more important than the group. And I think we see that on display with Boston.” Leitao said. “There is a group effort that is real and not something contrived, it's not something you talk about in interviews but you can see it on display every night that they're playing.”

In an era where an isolation style of basketball has become more prominent, Stevens has stuck to an offense predicated on sharing the ball that led Butler to back-to-back appearances in the National

Title game. He even drew comparisons to Popovich, who’s also had a Hall of Fame career while emphasizing a similar philosophy.

Leitao said the fact that Stevens has managed to do this with a team that returned just four players from a year ago, makes what he’s doing that much more impressive.

“For him to do with guys that are playing together for a short period of time, and in a market where individuality is a large part of what happens in the NBA is quite remarkable,” Leitao said. “It's a credit as much to his relationship-building process and his ability to take guys and speak a language that they understand and they adhere to, which is a phenomenal part of coaching that I think goes understated a lot.”

With Hayward and Irving set to return next season, the Celtics’ run at championships is only just beginning.

Maybe next year, someone will throw Stevens a vote.

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DePaul softball celebrates their 2018 Big East Tournament title.

surrendering eight hits and five runs before senior Kennedy Garcia replaced her in the third inning. In her final game with DePaul, Garcia surrendered only one run over five innings of work. Moore entered the game with a 1.83 ERA, and despite the tough outing still finished with a 2.11 ERA for the year.

The Cowgirls jumped on Moore early with back-to-back hits from their first two batters before Maddie Sue Montgomery gave Oklahoma State a 2-0 lead on a double to center field. Oklahoma State added three more in the second, with run scoring hits by Maddi Holcomb, Vanessa Shippy and Whitney Whitehorn to chase Moore from the game.

Similar to Friday, DePaul had opportunities to start a rally in the third and fourth innings with lead-off hits

from Maranda Gutierrez and Morgan Greenwood; both were stranded by Emmie Robertson.

The Blue Demons finished the year 35-17 with a Big East regular season and tournament championship in hand. This marks the second straight year DePaul has been eliminated in the first two games of the tournament, but it also marked the first time they had been in consecutive years since 2011 and 2012.

Despite the loss, DePaul returns eight of their 10 starters next season with six of those starters in the lineup being underclassmen this year, and optimism remains high for a third straight tournament berth. DePaul will still have to replace a couple of key pieces with Christensen, Leyva and Garcia all graduating.

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Head Coach Eugene Lenti, pictured here during the Big East Championship, led the Blue Demons to the NCAA Tournament for the 20th time in his tenure with the program.

Softball eliminated from regionals

By Andrew Hattersley Asst. Sports Editor

The weekend began with optimism and excitement as DePaul appeared in their 20th NCAA Tournament appearance after riding a four-game winning streak capped off by a win on Sunday over Creighton to clinch a spot in the NCAA Tournament. For the second straight year, however, the season ended in familiar fashion, with back-to-back losses to No. 15 Arkansas and Oklahoma State.

The Blue Demons entered the NCAA Tournament as an efficient offensive team batting .280 with a batting average close to five runs per game. The Blue Demons could not match that productivity and were limited to just two hits both days and failed to score a run in each, losing 2-0 to Arkansas and 6-0 to Oklahoma State.

In their opening game loss to host Arkansas, sophomore pitcher Missy Zoch held Arkansas scoreless for the opening two innings before the Razorbacks broke through in the third with RBI hits from

Haydi Bugarin and Autumn Buczek that gave the Razorbacks a 2-0 lead. The Razorbacks’ Mary Haff, who entered with a 1.38 ERA, did not surrender a hit until the fifth inning and improved her record to 27-6.

The Blue Demons had some late opportunities with lead-off hits from Megan Leyva and Haydn Christensen in the fifth and sixth.

Despite the lack of run support, Zoch kept DePaul in the game by pitching into the fourth inning and only allowing four hits, while striking out five batters.

Freshman Pat Moore pitched well in relief, surrendering just one hit while striking out three batters. Both pitchers had to deal with an energized crowd of close to 2,000 people in attendance at Bogle Park. With the loss the Blue Demons fell to 12-15 against the host school in the NCAA Postseason.

In a win-or-go-home game on Saturday afternoon, Oklahoma State quickly jumped out a 5-0 lead after two innings as starter Moore struggled,

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Loyola announces 660 percent increase in donations

By Shane René Sports Editor

Just over a month removed from the Loyola Rambler’s historic dance through March Madness, we finally have a number to show us all what it was worth.

Loyola University Chicago’s athletic department announced early last week that the department has seen a 660 percent increase in donations compared to the same time frame last year, according to associate athletic director for external operations Tom Soboro. The story was first reported by ESPN. After creating some traction in the Chicago press over the course of the regular season, the Ramblers magical run to the Final Four encouraged a predictable spike in donations and overall interest in the program. So long as current season ticket holders don’t give up their seats, season ticket sales are also projected to rise around 170 percent.

No actual dollar vaules were released.

Some of the donations to Loyola’s athletic department will go into the department's general coffers, but many of the donations were earmarked for the Alfie Norville practice facility.

According to DePaul’s president, A. Gabriel Esteban, fundraising is on the rise at DePaul, just a few stops away on the Red Line.

“Fundraising has gone up this year vs last year’s year to date if I remember the figures,” Esteban said. “That's overall for the university. We are up slightly over the three year moving averages, and so on.”

Esteban says that adminstrators he’s spoken with at other school’s aren’t as up on post-tournament donations as people may think.

“It’s really in enrollment and so on since winning the national championship,” he said. “And there have been academic studies (that) looked at the impact of making the tournament, but they also say that it has, they looked at football basketball, they said it has a temporary effect (...) unless you are consistently there.”

ALLY ZACEK | THE DEPAULIA