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Volume #102 | Issue #13 | Jan. 29, 2018 | depauliaonline.com
New beginnings
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Story by Breya Jones Contributing Writer
Long awaited cultural centers open Other than the occasional student walking through the third floor of O’Connell, the only sound that filled the South wing of the third floor was the golf team practicing swings. That all changed last Thursday with the opening of four new spaces. On the day of the opening the once empty hallway became packed with students, staff, artists and golf teams members. DePaul’s Black, Latinx, LGBTQA, and Asian PacificIslander Desi-American (APIDA) cultural centers had their grand opening after months of waiting. The opening featured food, a raffle and a featured artist in each of the centers. The decision to create the cultural centers was announced in the spring 2017. Along with this decision came the announcement that, due to lack of funds, the Center for Identity, Inclusion and Social Change would be closing down. The Office for Multicultural Student Success (OMSS) would oversee the new centers. Former president Dennis Holtschneider announced the cultural centers in response to a
list of demands from black student organizations on campus following the the Milo Yiannopoulos event and the protest surrounding it. The demand in particular at Fr. Holtschneider was responding to was the creation of a Black House, building where black students could have a place of their own to meet. The other demands on the list have yet to be fulfilled.
“We still have to see how intersectional these spaces turn out to be.” Elon Sloan Senior
A school wide email from Fr. Holtschneider stated, “(...) DePaul will immediately create a new center dedicated to serving AfricanAmerican students; that centers for Latinx and LGBTQA students will soon follow; and the university will establish a formalized point of contact for undocumented students.” As subsequent email announced that the Center for Identity, Inclusion, and Social Change would be closing on Aug. 15. This email also outlined the structure and staffing that the new cultural center would have. At the beginning of fall quarter DePaul student affairs sent out an email stating that all the coordinators should be in their offices by Sept. 18, and the centers should be fully operational by the end of fall quarter. The opening date became pushed back until a concrete date was given earlier this quarter. According to Patricia SantoyoMarin, the associate director of OMSS, the delay in the opening of the centers came for issues with construction. Several rooms and offices were renovated in order to house See CENTER, page 8
Six students robbed at gun point near Lincoln Park campus By Ben Conboy News Editor
Six DePaul students were robbed at gunpoint within 30 minutes of each other near the Lincoln Park campus. In the early hours of Thursday, Jan. 24, men, armed with handguns and wearing surgical masks,
jumped out of a white Audi SUV, put guns to the heads of the students and demanded their wallets and cell phones. Two of the robberies occured on Sheffield Avenue, between 12:15 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., and another on the 1600 block of West Armitage Avenue sometime between 12:05 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., according to
a Chicago Police Department (CPD) community alert. Another robbery, which CPD believes was perpetrated by the same group of men, occurred later that night on the Near West Side. Isabella Eleuterius, one of the first students to be robbed that night, was
walking back to the dorms with 3 of her friends after a trip to 7-Eleven. When they were near Roy’s Furniture on Sheffield Avenue, she said three of the men hopped out of the Audi, brandishing firearms. When one of the men reached into Eleuterius’ pocket to get her cell phone, she i n s t i n c t i v e l y See ROBBERY, page 6