November 6, 2017

Murray brings the fury

Author’s views on race spark student protest PHOTOS BY JOSH LEFF | THE DEPAULIA Amidst chilling sheets of rain, members of the DePaul Socialists and Students for Reproductive Justice (SRJ) held a protest and speak out to denounce controversial speaker Charles Murray’s visit to campus.

Timothy Duke Contributing Writer In the pouring, freezing rain on Wednesday, students protested conservative Libertarian speaker Charles Murray’s appearance at DePaul. College Republicans hosted the event inside of Cortelyou Commons with Chicago police, Public Safety and a contracted company providing security.

Days before the event, Students for Reproductive Justice (SRJ) and DePaul Socialists organized a Facebook event which attracted over 100 students not affiliated with either organization to join the groups in protest.

As Murray took to the stage, a large group of students stood up and urged others to join them in a walk-out, chanting as they left.

“I don’t think we need to stay and listen to this racist, pseudoscience and if you agree, come outside and protest Dr. Murray and the DePaul Republicans with us,” one protester said.

While a few members of the remaining crowd booed those involved in the walk-out, Murray said he applauded the dedication the protesters showed by standing in the rain to demonstrate their own values.

Outside Cortelyou Commons, some protesters held signs condemning Murray

as others held umbrellas, shielding the signs from the torrential downpour.

Protesters yelled into a megaphone, chanting, “Hey Murray, let’s face it. Your science is racist,” and “Racist, sexist, antigay, right wing bigots go away.”

Senior DePaul Socialists member Sam Peiffer believes the protest’s success was due in part to the organization that went into the protest.

“We went into it with a plan, everyone was on the same page and we were prepared to deal with any security situation that could arrive,” Peiffer said.

According to Peiffer, the protest had an attendance greater than the attendance of the event itself. Peiffer believes organizing the event demonstrated their determination to support those affected by racism and sexism.

“Under the Trump administration people feel intimidated. This protest shows that we can stand in solidarity and fight (the right) back with our free speech,” Peiffer said. “We outnumbered him. We stood in the rain for two hours chanting and speaking to each other. People shared a sense of collective hope. People see that if you come out in large numbers, you don’t have to be afraid to speak out

Charles Murray speaks to The DePaulia about his book “The Bell Curve” prior to his event on Wednesday.

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DePaul alumnus becomes key figure in Russian collusion investigation

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George Papadopoulos became a national figure overnight after revelations that the little-known foreign policy adviser had actively tried to set up meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

By Benjamin Conboy & Neil Sengupta News Editor & Contributing Writer

A DePaul alumnus has become an unlikely linchpin in the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

George Papadopoulos, who graduated from DePaul with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2009, pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his role in trying to set up “off the record” meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. The littleknown foreign policy adviser has become the focus of national intrigue since the announcement of his arrest and guilty plea.

Students of political science professor Clement Adibe also said that he had been invited to speak to their Introduction to Foreign relations class this fall.

Papadopoulos’ plea agreement states that he “had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President (Vladimir) Putin.”

Someone named in the documents only as the “Professor,” (who the Washington Post has identified as Professor Joseph Mifsud, director of the London Academy of Diplomacy) introduced Papadopoulos to someone identified as the “Female Russian National” who told him that she was the niece of President Putin and could help set up meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian officials..

On April 22, 2016, the ‘Professor’ and Papadopoulos met at a London hotel where the ‘Professor’ said that high-level Russian government officials told him the Russians had obtained “dirt” on then-candidate Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, which became the infamous emails leaked

by Wikileaks that led to revelations about the Democratic National Committee (DNC) favoring the Clinton campaign over Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.

Papadopoulos grew up in the Chicago area, graduating from Niles West High School in Skokie. His political career began when he started working with Ben Carson’s campaign as a foreign policy adviser. He had so few real-world qualifications that he embellished his resume extensively.

On his LinkedIn, Papadopoulos listed attendance as “U.S. Representative at the 2012 Geneva International Model United Nations.” Two people who were part of the delegation that year, including Antony Papadopoulos (no relation), current secretary general of the Geneva program, said they had no recollection of him being there.

Papadopoulos also claimed he gave the keynote address at the 2008 annual American Hellenic Institute Foundation Conference. The conference agenda for that year listed Papadopoulos as a participant on a youth panel with other students; it lists 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis as the keynote speaker.

Papadopoulos was described by a past professor as being relatively nondescript during his time at DePaul.

“He was pretty invisible and conventional,” said Richard Farkas, a political science professor at DePaul who taught Papadopoulos. “He was not really an outstanding student.”

There has now been speculation that he had worn a wire in meetings with other Trump campaign officials after being arrested because of references to him being a “proactive cooperator” in court documents, a phrase that legal experts say could refer to his wearing a wire in meeting with Trump administration officials, an act that Farkas said Papadopoulos would have found “adventuresome.”

When asked how Papadopoulos, at only 30, rose to foreign policy advisor to two presidential campaigns, Farkas said that if he was asked by a student how to reach that level after graduation, “I would have told them to go and get twenty years of experience in foreign policy, and the presidential candidate would find them. The sort of person who

“(Papadopoulos) was pretty invisible and conventional. He was not really an outstanding student.”

Richard Farkas Political science professor

thinks they can do that has to be a little arrogant. I could see George thinking of himself like that.”

Professor at the DePaul College of Law Gregory Mark, who also worked as for the independent investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, said that it’s too early to see parallels between Iran-Contra and the Russian collusion investigation, but he believes the Russian investigation is more serious than that.

“In Iran-Contra, there was no involvement in U.S. elections,” Mark said.

“Here, we’ve got the probability that a foreign power tried to manipulate the American electorate.”

The White House immediately sought to distance itself from Papadopoulos on Monday, with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying his role within the campaign was “extremely limited” and that it was a “volunteer position”.

Trump himself tweeted on Tuesday morning that Papadopoulos was a “low level volunteer”.

However, these claims don’t match previous statements by the Trump campaign or from Trump himself on the 2016 campaign trail.

In a March 2016 interview with the Washington Post editorial board, thencandidate Trump was asked about his foreign policy advisors and named Papadopoulos as an “oil and energy consultant, excellent guy”.

In the same month, Trump posted an Instagram photo of Papadopoulos, with the caption “Meeting with my national security team in #WashingtonDC.” Court documents related to Papadopoulos’ charges show that at that meeting Papadopoulos “introduced himself to the group” stating in sum and substance, that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between thencandidate Trump and President Putin. The New York Times confirmed on Thursday that both Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions attended the meeting and that Trump “listened with interest” according to one J. D. Gordon, a campaign adviser who also attended the meeting.

This contradicts numerous statements

by President Trump denying connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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in support of an anti-racist movement on our campus.”

Junior Jennifer Holtz, a founding member of SRJ, said protesting Murray was important to her because she believes Murray having a platform to express his views enables a culture of hate and encourages growing sentiments of white nationalism.

“Charles Murray uses rhetoric and pseudoscience that puts white men on a pedestal and assumes women and people of color are at a natural disadvantage,” Holtz said.

Peiffer agrees with Holtz’s sentiment that Murray having a platform at DePaul could lead to a stronger culture of hate, racism and sexism.

“Within the context of the Trump administration, Charles Murray being toured around to different campuses around the country provides a pseudoscientific facade for white supremacists and right-wingers to hide behind,” Peiffer said.

Murray rejects the idea that he is a white nationalist, saying that his views have been grossly misrepresented by the media and his critics.

“Give me anything I’ve said in the dozens of hours on YouTube giving lectures, give me anything I’ve written where you can say, ‘okay Murray, explain away this, because this sure sounds like you’re a white nationalist,’” Murray said. “There is nothing that I have said or written that justifies that. I’m a Libertarian for heaven’s sake. How can you be a Libertarian and be a white nationalist?

They’re contradictory.”

According to Murray, when critics quote his work to display what they believe to be science that supports white nationalist ideas, they do not provide the context necessary to understand why a particular race or sex statistic was included.

On Tuesday afternoon, DePaul sent out an email stating that it does not endorse the views of Charles Murray, nor “do they reflect our values as a Catholic Vincentian university.”

“We are committed, however, to the free exchange of ideas through intellectual discussion and dialogue within our educational environment,” read the email, signed by Vice President of Student Affairs Gene Zdziarski and Vice President of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Elizabeth Ortiz.

Last month, protesters at the University of Michigan shut down an event that Murray was speaking at because of the views and research the speaker highlights in his book, “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.” The book attempts to show how intelligence can be attributed to genetics rather than environmental factors.

Protesters at DePaul, however, did not disrupt Murray’s speech beyond the initial walkout. Many people believed the event had the potential to become violent, similar to the Milo Yiannopoulos event at DePaul in 2016 that was shut down due to disruptions from a Black Lives Matter protest. DePaul covered the security costs of the event, using Public Safety, the Chicago Police Department and a private security contractor.

Murray said he does not mind protesters so long as he is allowed to speak. He also says he welcomes people to challenge his ideas in an open dialogue.

Student protesters like Gabriel Bullock felt like the newly established speaker review board dropped the ball on allowing Murray to be invited to campus. “(The university) says this guy doesn’t reflect DePaul’s beliefs and goes against the Vincentian Mission, but they still allow (Murray to come to campus),” Bullock said.

“They’re contradicting themselves.”

Peiffer, however, believes involving DePaul’s administration would work against groups opposing right-wing ideals, as some Republicans have started to claim that their freedom of speech has been jeopardized.

“We do not want to go to DePaul’s administration to silence people because that plays into (the right’s) narrative,” Peiffer said.

“A big part of their recruiting practice is that they are victims and that they are martyrs of free speech, but simultaneously, the right uses violence and intimidation to silence others’ free speech. We need to prevent these ideas from spreading further.”

Peiffer believes using the administration to silence the right could be a double-edged sword.

“This power is used to restrict left and anti-racist activists as well as the right,” Peiffer said.

According to Murray, as this misrepresentation of the ideals and views of working class white Americans continues, anger rises within this group. This anger is what led to working class whites to vote in a block this election cycle, which Murray says is uncommon in this voting group.

“Maybe if it’s okay for women and blacks and Latinos and gay people to identify with their group and then blame somebody else for their problems, it’s okay for me to do that too,” Murray said. “I think what you saw with the Trump election was whites beginning to vote as an identity group, which is a group who hasn’t voted in a block until now.”

Murray said America needs another Great Awakening, referring to a religious revival that took place in the 18th century.

“The Civil Rights movement was a secular Great Awakening,” Murray said. “It featured speakers who moved people in a way which was very similar to the religious Great Awakenings.”

Following his speech was a question and answer panel, which despite protests outside event doors, went uninterrupted and served its purpose as a platform for discourse.

Several students challenged Murray’s controversial theories, while several others pressed for more insight into his ideas.

DePaul College Republicans president John Minster was excited to have Murray come to speak at the university.

“We thought about who is someone who can draw a lot of interest and a good crowd but is still in disposition and work and has longevity,” Minster said. “We thought Dr. Murray would be a perfect candidate for that.”

Minster believes the event was a success, but wishes those who walked out had stayed to challenge Murray’s ideas.

“We had some good back and forth,” Minster said. “Some people challenged him, which I liked.”

Secretary of DePaul College Republicans

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Murray’s detractors argue he uses pseudoscience to support his views on race.

Olivia Polony agrees with Minster that the Murray’s speech went favorably.

“I think it went pretty smoothly because what you saw, like Charles Murray said, was students listening quietly,” Polony said. “You don’t know if they were listing attentively, but they were still listening.”

Polony believes the way to conduct discourse between opposing views is to listen to and critically challenge each another candidly.

Murray was paid a $10,000 honorarium from the DePaul’s student activity fee and the university paid for beefed up security as well.

For students who wanted to express their disagreement with Murray’s speaking engagement without protesting, professor of art, media and design Matthew Girson organized a “flash murmur” in the John T. Richardson Library where students and staff gathered to read the works of people who

have survived racism and oppression.

“I don’t think Murray is worth much of both my attention and DePaul’s attention,” Girson said. “Instead of protesting him directly, I’m offering another model for people to participate in something that’s productive, open and inclusive.”

The works of authors, poets and civil rights activists like Maya Angelou and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were spread out over tables on the second floor of the library for attendees to read aloud and discuss.

Freshman Maya Baker read a passage fitting for the occasion from a speech on Guatemala’s Day of No Violence Against Women.

“Today is a day where we are pooling all of our positive energy so we can make tomorrow better than today,” Baker read.

The DePaulia’s Amber Colón and Benjamin Conboy contributed to this story.

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Heavy rain and cold weather didn’t prevent students from peacefully voicing their opposition to Murray’s speaking engagement on campus.

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Scenes from Murray and the murmur

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DePaul Socialists member Sam Peiffer was in attendance at Wednesday’s protest.

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Students and staff gathered at the flash murmur on the second floor of the library.

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Though cameras were not allowed in the event, Murray granted an early interview to The DePaulia.

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DePaul professor alleges driver hit her in Uber incident

By Amber ColÓn Editor-in-Chief

With the rise of rideshare services, another Uber passenger has come forward to say that she was attacked by her driver. This time, it was adjunct professor Lily Kim, who teaches in the Driehaus College of Business.

Two weeks ago, social media stormed with photos and video posted to Kim’s personal Facebook page. The short, 26 second video showed Kim and her driver getting into a verbal argument as the 41-yearold female Uber driver asked Kim to exit her car immediately.

According to Chicago police, driver “struck the victim in the face, causing minor abrasions” before leaving the scene.

Kim later posted photos of the injuries on her face and neck to Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook posts have since been removed.

Collin Dunn of Clifford Law Offices, Kim’s attorney, spoke to The DePaulia on her behalf.

Dunn said that Kim was headed to the Chicago Cub’s fifth playoff game from her home when the driver then decided that she would not be driving to Wrigleyville. Kim was in an unfamiliar area of Chicago and did not feel comfortable leaving the car, Dunn said.

What happened next is unclear, as the video cuts off abruptly.

“I don’t know if she threw her out (of the car),” Dunn said. “But she eventually got out of the car.”

Dunn said that once Kim was in the Uber, it was only after a short period of time that the driver refused to take her to Wrigley

Field and asked her to leave the vehicle.

“Lily was not comfortable with this,” Dunn said. “At that point, the driver became combative, began swearing and told her to get out of the car.”

According to Chicago police, the 41-year-old Uber driver “struck the victim in the face, causing minor abrasions” before leaving the scene.

Demetrius Jordan, a professor in the same college and friend of Kim’s, said that both are regulars of Uber, using it often to get around to various events related to their positions. He said that nothing like this has ever happened before.

NBC and DNAinfo were the first news outlets to break news of the incident, and social media users flooded the comment sections on each article. A handful of users shared their own stories of being attacked by rideshare service drivers, while others left comments of support.

Some users, however, left comments calling Kim names and questioning her use of a potentially racially charged hashtag, “#GhettoBitch,” which hinted to users that there was more to the story than meets the eye.

Jordan said that while he did not think that Kim made the smartest choice of words, the Kim that was portrayed in the media is not the woman that he knows.

“I am worried about the implications of race and gender,” Jordan said. “There were things being said (about Kim) that weren’t true.”

Jordan said that he is still in shock about the incident.

“Most of what (Kim) does is in service to the community,” he said.

Dunn said that the language used on

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Photos from Kim’s Twitter page show injuries to her face and legs from the incident.

Kim’s social media posts are not the focus of organizers of (the festival),” Song said. “The board members only wanted to include their investigation moving forward.

Senior Junho Song, a former student of Koreans as workers and volunteers. As soon Kim’s, said that he knows her as a professor as she heard about it, she walked out.”

“She brought in a lot of different races that constantly goes out of her way to support and people from different races to the her students.

“I contacted her as soon as I heard about organization because, you know, I think it and she sent me some different pictures of that’s the right way to do it. And by like her wounded areas,” Song said. “She told me looking at it, I would never think that she’s a that she’s trying to file a lawsuit against Uber racist because she has more black friends, if anything, than Asian friends.” and the driver.”

John Stiglich, the attorney representing Song said that he also does not know Uber, was out of the office and could not Kim as someone who is racist.

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DePaul playing a role in Chicago’s bid for Amazon HQ2

By Benjamin Conboy News Editor

As Chicago keeps trying to offer more and more incentives for Amazon to make the city the home of their second headquarters, DePaul and other Chicago colleges have taken a central role in the city’s offerings.

Because Amazon’s headquarters (HQ2) would require a highly-trained workforce, they want their next headquarters to have access to human capital skilled in areas like computer science, software engineering and marketing, something Chicago has plenty of.

Chicago is already pulling out all the stops in their courtship of Amazon, unveiling a tax incentive plan that would give them $2 billion in tax breaks, according to an Oct. 24 report by the Chicago Tribune.

DePaul and other Chicago-area colleges have the unique opportunity to be able to funnel students directly into high-paying Amazon jobs should the city be selected as HQ2’s home.

Chicago’s HQ2 bid committee leader and former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker has been holding meetings with representatives from area colleges to discuss how Chicago’s academic community could help fulfill the estimated 50,000 news jobs HQ2 would create.

“In Amazon’s request for proposal, they talked about the types of employees that would need at this location,” associate dean of the Driehaus College of Business Bob Rubin said. “Amazon’s big business is web services. When they reached out to us it was mostly through that lens.”

Rubin believes DePaul is in a good position to be able to help funnel qualified students directly into those Amazon jobs. `

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

A visualization of what the Amazon headquarters could look like if they moved into the Old Chicago Main Post Office.

“We’re unique in some aspects and we’re redundant in others,” Rubin said. “We have a strong computer science program and our business programs run the gamut.”

A DePaul-Amazon relationship would be mutually beneficial.

“We could have a nice reciprocal relationship,” Rubin said. “They would be hiring our students, but we’re also asking for what they’re looking for as far as research and development partnerships with the university.”

DePaul could not only help with the hiring of workers for DePaul, but also help develop training programs for existing

employees.

David Miller, Dean of the College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM), was also in attendance of the meeting representing DePaul.

“Amazon has significant internal efforts for training,” Miller said. “Some of our other departments at DePaul like the continuing and professional education department would benefit from a partnership. This goes well beyond just computer science-related fields.”

Miller said DePaul’s CDM students would be an excellent fit for Amazon. “(DePaul’s CDM students) are held in

very high regard and are percieved well in the industry,” Miller said.

Computer science student John Malweiseski thinks it would be a spectacular opportunity for the university’s students if Amazon selects Chicago to be its next home.

“Working for a big tech company is what a lot of computer science students want to do with their life,” Malweiseski said. “They consider that to be the goal. (If Amazon came here) it would be like a new Silicon Valley just sprang up in our backyard overnight.”

CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: October 25- October 31, 2017 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

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OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 28 1) A theft report was filed for an item taken 4) An illegal

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taken from the Quad.

from the second floor of the Student Center.

An illegal conspumption of alcohol report was filed for a person in front of 2350 North Clifton. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital by Chicag EMS.

3) A suspicion of marijuana report was filed in University Hall. No drugs were found.

consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed for someone in Munroe Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital by Chicago EMS.

OCTOBER 30 7) A theft report was filed for a garbage can lid

5)

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An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed for someone in University Hall.

Person was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital by Chicago EMS.

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An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed for someone in Belden-Racine Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic

OCTOBER 27 9) A criminal trespass warning was given to a

person who was disruptive in the DePaul Center Barnes and Noble.

10) A theft report was filed for a messenger bag taken from a vehicle behind the Lewis Center.

OCTOBER 29 OCTOBER 25 8) A criminal trespass warning was given to a 11) A theft report was filed for a phone taken person who was climbing the fire escape at the Lewis Center.

from the Law Library in the Lewis Center.

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DePaul hosts panel on North Korean threat as tensions rise

By Tariqah Shakir Contributing Writer

The department of history hosted a presentation and discussion panel entitled “Crisis with North Korea: How Did We Get here?” Nov. 2 at the Schmitt Academic Center.

Students and fellow professors crammed the lecture room to discuss with panelists in a discussion about North Korea’s position on nuclear testing and how the media has heavily deformed nuclear testing as a passive declaration of war.

Professor John Harney of Centre College began with the assertion that the matter does not concern the United States alone and that there are many misconceptions about relations between North Korea and other countries.

“We talk about North and South Korea like they’re these two discreet communities that have nothing in common except for common order,” Harney said.

Despite the media’s portrayal of North and South Korea as socially and politically destructive and always on the verge of a nuclear-missile launch, there is such thing as a “united Korea,” Harney continued.

In a brief presentation following, history professor at DePaul Ryan Yokota elaborated on the “internal operating dynamics” of North Korea that guides the country with foreign relations. He noted that President Donald Trump set a platform for rumors to spread rapidly about the dangers of North Korea’s access to nuclear weapons.

“We need to re-conceptualize the way in which we think about missile testing,” Yokota said. “On the one hand yes, missile testing is significant, ongoing and certainly represents a threat to a certain level and it causes for concern especially in terms of the question of nuclear proliferation.”

Nevertheless, nuclear testing is often ignored by the media as a form of advertising for the missiles North Korea is trying to sell, Yokota said.

Professor Byungdug Jun of the peace, justice and conflict studies program, who is from Korea and DePaul religious studies professor Yuki Miyamoto pointed out that nuclear testing is not exclusive to overseas countries. The record-breaking numbers have been found within the United States, Miyamoto stated.

According to the United Nations website, the United States conducted 1032 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992 compared to Korea of only six. Professor Miyamoto cited further sources come from survivors of nuclear testing who continue to suffer from bodily damage from the testing.

“It might be a little interesting to think [about] the number gaps,” Miyamoto stated.

“Then maybe the question of how to survive is not quite known.”

Byungdug followed with the notion that Korea is focused more heavily on solving their environmental issues and regaining relations with surrounding countries.

The nuclear testing has also been a way to determine the environmental health of the country as well as neighbors. For example, research shows why some areas may or may

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

International tensions have been rising as North Korea continues to test nuclear weapons.

not be supportive for nuclear testing and how mountains can also be affected “So while the U.S. may be saying at this point and time, what North Korea is doing is not rational but then – like the panelists pointed out – it might not be a very persuasive argument since the U.S. has conducted over a thousand nuclear tests,” Byungdug said.

“I think the students will go away with the idea that various nation states pursue their foreign policy in keeping with their version of what their national interest is.”

Special-guest Sulakshana Sen shared

with the audience that many other countries are updating their resources to nuclear testing, not just North Korea.

She that she hoped the students would walk away with a better comprehension of North Korea and its stance on testing.

“Ultimately when we’re looking at it, the panelists spoke about the nation’s state and security and survival, then one of the things that comes up with nuclear weapons is the concept of rational deterrence,” Sen said.

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Ofrendas pop up around DePaul in honor of Day of the Dead

By Hector Cervantes Contributing Writer

In honor of Day of the Dead, Tepeyac, a Latinx cultural and faith-based organization, teamed up with other student organizations to help create ofrendas that are displayed across campus.

Tepeyac set up the ofrendas are collections of objects placed on an altar for a Day of the Dead Celebration.

In Spanish, ofrenda translates to the word “offering.” Day of the Dead was celebrated from Nov. 1-2.

“One of the biggest ways the ofrendas are impacting DePaul is for our Latino students, since they are seeing something that is tied to their culture,” coordinator of Faith Formation Joshua Deleon said. “It’s something that they are used to being around at this time of the year.”

Day of the Dead is celebrated mainly in Mexico, as well as a few other Latin countries such as Guatemala and Nicaragua.

“In Day of the Dead, people create ofrendas or they go to the gravesite of their loved ones and they build beautiful arrangements of flowers, gifts, and bring possessions that they had, their favorite food, and everyone goes all out,” Tepeyac treasurer Victor Lara said.

Religious figures such as crosses, the Virgin Mary and other saints are also elements of the ofrendas and help to celebrate life as a whole.

Tepeyac decided to build the ofrendas for people to remember their loved ones who have died.

“We wanted to give people the opportunity to honor the dead, pay their respects and have an outlet to say these people existed and mattered,” Deleon said. “It is a way of showing that we still love them and these people are still with us.”

Tepeyac has done the ofrendas for the Day of the Dead in the past. “(Tepeyac) did this last year, but on a smaller scale,” Lara said. “The Catholic Campus Ministry office and the Loop chapel were the only places that had the ofrendas.”

This year, they were able to expand and set up more ofrendas than they have in the past.

“This idea ended up expanding,” Deleon said. We were

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People left the names, images and artifacts that reminded them of the family and friends they have lost at the ofrendas. only initially going to have an ofrenda in the Lincoln Park A lot of the ofrendas were quickly filled with the names Campus and in the Loop. Now they are in the chapels, the and artifacts reminiscent of their lost family and friends. student center and all the residential halls.”

“A lot of people come to the Student Center so there are Tepeyac cooperated with other campus groups to help more names there,” Deleon said. “It is a way of showing that make the ofrendas accessible to everyone. many cultures of DePaul here are represented here,” Deleon “A lot of organizations helped out to make these ofrendas. said.

I focus more on community building and having people help Lara created a ofrenda for his friend who passed away out,” Lara said. “It was a good turnout when we created these recently. ofrendas.”

“I created one in my house where I bought my friend People have put names in the ofrendas and have already beer. She passed away recently and she really likes it and I put dropped stuff off to honor their loved ones. it there. I also bought Hot Cheetos and limón because she “I thought the ofrendas were really well set up because enjoyed that as well,” Lara said. they had a sign that explained what Day of the Dead is all Through the ofrendas, people are able to learn about about,” freshman Jessie Gonzalez said. “My family usually Latinx culture. does the same kind of thing, but we just have pictures, we “It helps other people to get to know our culture which is don’t really set up an altar.” something that I really liked,” Gonzalez said.

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Nation &World

A Rohingya's journey to Chicago

How one man left his home to escape death Nasir Bin Zakaria, a Rohingya Muslim man from Myanmar, helped found the Rohingya Culture Center of Chicago, located in West Rogers Park.

By Rosbelis Quiñonez Contributing Writer

In the middle of a hot fall day in Chicago, Nasir Bin Zakaria found it difficult to focus in his meeting. Not far from his desk, a group was singing and laughing in the middle of an English class at the Rohingya Cultural Center. “See? This [is] all that the center is about. This place we can learn from each other,” Zakaria said to a couple of enthusiastic human rights activists sitting with him. They were planning the next demonstration in Chicago against violence toward the Rohingyas, a minority ethnic group that is the target of violent attacks in Myanmar.

In the southeast Asian country, to be born Rohingya is a stigma. The United Nations (UN) considers them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Predominantly Muslim, the more than 1 million person community represents only four percent of the population. In contrast, 87.9 percent of the Myanmar population is Buddhist, including its government and militia.

Myanmar authorities have been denying citizenship to Rohingyas since 1982. The military forces of Myanmar have been harassing and killing Rohingyas.

However, the violence has increased since last August, when an armed Rohingya group attacked a Myanmar border police post in Rakhine state, where the majority of the Rohingya population lives.

As a response to the attack, Myanmar troops have killed at least 1,000 Rohingyas in what the UN called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” In a desperate effort to save their own lives, approximately 500,000 Rohingyas fled their homes to live in crowded refugee camps mostly in Bangladesh, according to the UN. Shailja Sharma, an associate professor in liberal arts and social sciences, is an expert in refugee and forced migration studies. She said that religion is an important explanation of the conflict with the Rohingya community in Myanmar, but it is not the only one.

“Because they are Muslim and Bengali speakers, they are seen as different from the majority of the population which are Buddhist and Burmese speakers,” Sharma

said. “It was easy for people in Myanmar to tap into the Islamophobia and target them as Muslim as opposed to Buddhists.”

However, Shamar said that Rohingyas have been living in Myanmar for 200 years since Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and other territories were under the control of the British empire. “To talk of (the Rohingyas) as being from Bangladesh does not even make sense because these borders did not exist 200 years ago. These are borders that came to be in 1946," she said.

In Shamar’s opinion, the conflict has also political and economic aspects.

“Buddhists, especially the monks who are very powerful in the country, are trying to get people behind them by identifying an enemy, the Rohingyas. So, it’s a kind of political power struggle,” Shamar said.

“Rohingyas have been pushed out and that land has been taken over by the majority community in Myanmar, so it’s about land as well. It’s an economic game. It’s a competition for jobs, for land, for support by the state, all of that.”

While Zakaria believes that religion has been used to justify the Myanmar government and military's intentions to displace Rohingyas, he has his own theory as well.

“China and India are doing business with Myanmar," he said. "Rakhine state is rich in oil, gas and water for electric power.

I believe that (the Myanmar government and the military forces) are doing this for money."

Zakaria spends at least 70 hours per week at the Rohingya Cultural Center, where his desk is in an open space because he is willing to talk with everyone.

What is happening in Myanmar today makes Zakaria remember his childhood in his home country.

“Myanmar is a dangerous place for a Rohingya boy,” Zakaria said.

The worst was not the blows of the Buddhist teachers but the risk of being forced by the military to work in their camps or to kill insurgents. One day, the soldiers took Zakaria to the jungle.

The boys' mission in the jungle was to kill Buddhist terrorists, he said. As the soldiers ordered, the Rohingya children walked the whole day. Zakaria recalled how badly his body hurt. At night, he laid

down next to the other children and cried quietly.

“If I go with them, I’ll die," Zakaria remembers thinking to himself.

As soon as the soldiers fell asleep from their drunkenness, Zakaria slowly emerged from the mass of kids.

The jungle was too thick to run. The 14-year-old boy walked as fast as his skinny legs allowed him. He was not crying anymore, but still feared the soldiers would come to kill him. As he walked, the memories of the tigers in his father's stories came to his mind. Finally, he saw a truck carrying rice. To Zakaria’s luck, the driver was Rohingya and drove him to Zakaria's uncle's house.

Zakaria’s parents, afraid for his life, sent him to Bangladesh. He left so soon he could not even say goodbye or thank you.

After spending a few months in Bangladesh and Thailand, he decided to go to Malaysia with a friend who offered him support. For 18 years he lived in Malaysia, but the government denied him refugee status. Zakaria got married in 2009, and the couple had their first daughter in 2011. Now that they had children, Zakaria and his wife decided to leave because as Rohingya, his daughter would not be able to attend school.

The family decided to go to the United States. Their refugee application was denied for five years until finally it was approved in 2012. In August, Zakaria and his family landed in Chicago. Although they were not undocumented anymore, the family had other challenges.

Working as a dishwasher in the River City Casino, Zakaria realized that other Rohingya families in Chicago were struggling as much as he and his family because ddin't speak English well. Zakaria decided they needed a place to meet and help each other.

“Every community has their own center. We didn’t have a place to learn, to be happy, to cry, to pray together,” he said.

Zakaria unsuccessfully knocked on many doors looking for help to start the Rohingya Cultural Center until he found the help he needed in The Zakat Foundation of America. The Muslim nonprofit organization offered the economic support to rent a space in Rogers Park and helped

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to open the Rohingya Cultural Center a year ago. Today the center offers English classes, translation and social services to nearly 400 Rohingya families.

Laura Toffenetti, a volunteer at the center since May 2016, is amazed by his good job as executive director.

“He carries a huge responsibility and it doesn’t seem to be breaking him. He doesn’t question problems, he just solves them,” Toffenetti said.

Zakaria is grateful for his new home.

“I am feeling now what is freedom. It is a beautiful life,” he said. Still, he is dedicated to help the Rohingya community in Chicago and those who are in refugee camps and in Myanmar. For now, Zakaria is working hard to keep the Rohingya Cultural Center’s doors open.

VICTORIA WILLIAMSON | THE DEPAULIA The majority of the Rohingya population live in the state Western Rakhine.

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the opioid crisis The medical industry's role in creating and ending it

By David P. Stein Contributing Writer

Addiction to opioids has plagued the U.S. for decades, and it's a problem that hasn't shown signs of slowing down. Out of the 1,889 deaths caused by opioid-related overdoses across Illinois in 2016, it’s doubtful that any of these individuals wanted a life stifled by a possessive drug addiction.

An opioid is a drug that binds to at least one of the three opioid receptors in the human body. Heroin, a street drug, is likely the most common opioid that people consider among this category of drugs, but highly addictive opioids can be dispensed at pharmacies with a prescription. Drugs like oxycodone, oxycontin and fentanyl are just a few examples of medically prescribed opioids commonly used for pain management. All are highly addictive and are being abused violently across America.

Dr. Jeffrey Bratberg is a professor at the University of Rhode Island and also a doctor of pharmacy, accredited by the Accredited Council for Pharmacy Education.

“Fifteen years ago doctors were told that pain is the fifth vital sign. And then these nice pharmaceutical reps said, ‘here’s a great, easy to use drug, that everybody does better on.’ If a patient’s in pain, and then they don’t have pain and they’re happy, and it’s all paid for, [doctors] aren’t going to say let me take you off this opioid, and have you do acupuncture and massage therapy instead,” Bratberg said.

It became too easy to prescribe, and opioids flooded the market. Bratberg argues that people in the medical profession, and society in general, has to change how addiction is perceived. He wasn’t too encouraged by President Trump’s recent message during a briefing

surrounding the opioid crisis. “(Trump) reinvigorated the failed ‘don’t do drugs!’ statement which doesn’t work. I mean, we definitely need prevention and education in all areas, but the statement I agreed most with was the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) commissioner, who said that we need to treat addiction like we treat other diseases,” Bratberg said, also suggesting that addiction is like a mental disorder.

“I think we need to treat addiction as a disease, and as a brain disease, and we need to train pharmacists and other health professionals together to use opioids more wisely, and to dispense much more dioxin with opioids to prevent unintentional overdose,” Bratberg said.

The total number of fatalities in Illinois has nearly doubled in just a three-year span, following the 1,072 recorded opioid overdoses in 2013. It is clear that a solution is needed quickly, and according to long-time nurse practitioner Hillarie Jones at the University of Connecticut, this opioid epidemic is far from exclusive to the state of Illinois.

She cites an incident that took place at the University of Connecticut where ex-pharmacist Michael Olzinski was busted for forging prescriptions and diverting upwards of $30,000 worth of controlled substances between 2012 and 2015.

“The crisis is the same no matter where you are in the country. There are people in Wyoming abusing opioids, too, not just people in Illinois,” Jones said.

Jones admits that she will prescribe small doses of opioids when she feels that the situation warrants it.

“Most of the time it’s for fractures, or really bad injuries, bad burns, and once in awhile I’ll do it for someone who’s got really bad tonsillitis,” she said. “But quite honestly, we really try to avoid prescribing opioids, and when we do, it’s usually in very small quantities.”

Like Bratberg, Jones acknowledges the importance

of treatment opportunities for opioid addicts, as well as other substances that are being abused. In fact, she praised UConn’s efforts in instituting an on-campus recovery home, the UConn Recovery Committee, where students can visit for support or even live. Jones said she also hopes that more schools throughout the country will emulate this concept.

In addition to the treatment of ongoing cases of opioid addiction, it is also vital that the next generation of medical professionals receive proper education in order to combat this crisis. Jeremy Rousse-Grossman, a pharmacy student at the University of Toronto, believes opioids have a role in medicine, but require special attention.

“During my career, I’m going to want to promote healthy living. Pain killers are helpful, but only to a certain extent,” Rousse-Grossman said. “I plan to be really careful when dealing with controlled substances like opioids, and I fully expect that the Doctors I’m dealing with will proceed with same level of caution.”

Meanwhile, in Illinois, there has been a call to action.

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Medicine along with the State Department of Public Health will be joining forces to use a 1.13 million dollar federal grant, which will allow them to study the opioid epidemic that concerns 16 of the state’s southernmost counties. In conjunction with one another, doctors Mai Tuyet Pho and Wiley D. Jenkins will work closely to find answers that can mitigate an epidemic that has already contributed to countless early deaths.

With the national spotlight on opioid misuse and addiction, including Trump calling the crisis a 'health emergency,' more information is being acquired through extensive research and education. A more efficient treatment system for those who suffer from opioid addictions would be treating addiction as a form of mental illness, some medical professionals say.

Opioid and heroin overdoses between 2000 and 2014

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Sexual assault awareness, one social media post at a time

By Nikki Roberts Contributing Writer

If your Facebook timeline looks anything like mine, then you’ve seen an abundance of posts over the past few days that contain two haunting words: “me too.” Started by actress Alyssa Milano in response to the accusations of assault aimed at Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein, the Me Too movement is a way for survivors of sexual assault and harassment to bring attention to how common, and how overlooked, instances of harassment and assault actually are.

“If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem,” Milano said.

Before discussing this movement further, it is important to define the terms “consent,” “sexual harassment” and “sexual assault.” Consent is the clear, verbal affirmation given by people about to engage in intercourse or other sexual activities. It can be as simple and bland as one person saying, ‘I want to have sex with you,’ to which the other person can give their permission, respond in a similar manner or simply say ‘yes’. Consent must be given freely and coherently. It cannot be obtained by force or from someone who is inebriated.

The Rape, Assault and Incest National Network (RAINN) states that sexual harassment “includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature in the workplace or learning environment.”

Harassment does not have to be limited to a specific person; general statements that target groups of people are also defined as harassment. Additionally, RAINN defines sexual assault as “sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the victim.”

In addition to these definitions, there are two important things to keep in mind while discussing the Me Too movement. The first is that sexual assault is not always attempted or completed rape. Assault can occur in several ways, from a romantic partner pressuring you to have sex to an unsolicited touch from a stranger on the street. Secondly, it must also be noted that not all survivors of assault and harassment may

make a “me too” post. For some survivors, addressing their experiences can remind them of the trauma that comes with experiencing a sexual assault. According to DoSomething.org, four out of five survivors experience chronic physical or psychological health issues after their assault.

Since Milano’s call to action, social media has been flooded with statuses seeking to shed some light on the issue of sexual abuse. Some of the posts simply read, “me too." Others provide an explanation of what “me too” means, and instructions on how to keep the movement going. A small number of posts detailed the sexual abuse the person experienced — a bold move that is extremely effective because it attaches a name and a face to the often nameless victims of sexual assault.

Additionally, while women are typically the victims of sexual assault crimes, the Me Too movement has allowed many men to be vocal about their abuse for the first time.

“I decided to post because I do not think that victims should be ashamed of what happened and to prove how often and widespread sexual assault (is). Personally, I had no idea how wide spread (sexual assault) was and I hope that from the sheer number of people posting it will start a conversation and eventually lead to a reform,” said Elizabeth Dukatt, a DePaul University sophomore.

As with every online activism movement, there will be people will who deny the need for survivors to speak out. I have seen some posts that attempt to discredit the movement by calling those who chose to speak about their experiences “Social justice warrior snowflakes” and “femi-nazis.” I have also seen posts that insist not every person who has posted “me too” could actually have been physically assaulted.

“A lot of people think sexual abuse is something that happens to a small fraction of people, but it's more common than we all think. I hope that me adding “me too” will make people realize how common this is,” said Anaíra Abonce, a Loyola University sophomore.

According to RAINN, an American is sexually assaulted every 98 seconds. That’s 882 sexual assaults in the U.S. each day. Additionally, 321,500 people over the age of 12 are raped each year. RAINN also states that people ages 16-24 are the largest age group of victims of sexual violence. Looking at the statistics a bit closer to home, DePaul’s Office of Health Promotion and Wellness

reports that 53 percent of students have experienced sexual assault at least once within the confines of a romantic relationship, and that 35-50 percent of these victims are male.

“I have met a lot of sexual assault survivors. I have heard their experiences, and watched these men and women express their trauma through various art forms.

The Me Too project is another great way to reach out to other survivors and spread awareness about how common sexual assault in our society has become, said Kurdt S. Tonin, a writer for Pages Per Content.

"One in every four women will be raped in their lifetime, yet only one in every 1,000 cases of rape will actually be prosecuted. For those who can't get a prosecution out of their rapist, or for those who don't feel comfortable going through the judicial system to seek out justice, the Me Too project comes in as an important tool to share our stories with each other, and realize we are not alone, we will not be silenced, and the fight against sexual abuse is far from over."

The goal of the "Me Too" movement is that online awareness will serve as a catalyst to real societal and policy changes. While online activism is a crucial first step in opening the discussion about sexual violence, there is still much that must be done.

“I think online activism is extremely important to not underestimate because everybody's on their phones and scrolling on their feeds (…) you get to reach a higher body of people this way. "Me Too" will only bring awareness of the problem, which is good; it's a first step.

But that's it. As long as we don't reveal our monsters or file charges or lobby to get more protections for sexual abuse survivors, not much will be accomplished,” Abonce said.

Clearly, sexual violence and harassment is not limited to just a few nameless victims. Survivors of assault are male and female; children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. They and are single or in new or long-term intimate relationships. Sexual assault happens often and it happens to our family members, friends, peers and co-workers. Because we live in a society that buys in to rape culture, we are often unaware of the magnitude of the problem. Activism movements such as "Me Too" are a critical first step in working to reduce sexual assault and harassment.

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College political groups react to Charles Murray's visit

PRESIDENT A. GABRIEL ESTEBAN

Letter to the Editor: President Esteban not Murray event was successful thanks to DePaul administration doing enough infringed upon, no one's voice unheard.

By College Republicans Some credit should also go out to the DePaul administration. to connect with Despite our clashes in the past, they did everything necessary students We are exceedingly happy with the event we put on last to make this event successful, and for that we thank them. In VICTORIA WILLIAMSON | THE DEPAULIA

Wednesday. Dr. Charles Murray gave students a new perspective to consider when thinking about class structure in the United States; he got to give his lecture, audience members got to ask questions and protesters got to protest. No one's speech was

the future we hope to continue to put on thought-provoking discussions like this, while we also want to continue to encourage protesters to actually join the dialogue rather than fight against it. It is what our university system demands and our education needs.

DePaul not a government; must act with concern for students

By College Democrats

By hosting Charles Murray, DePaul submitted to the tide of bigotry that has become increasingly emboldened in the last year.

The idea that DePaul is obligated to provide Murray a platform to “facilitate discussion” or “encourage communication” ignores the fact that he does not want to engage in discourse. Murray’s theories have been debunked and debated from the classrooms of DePaul to the floor of Congress. We know without a doubt that what he spouts as “theory” is merely an excuse for people to justify white supremacy. White supremacy relies on a willful refusal to “discuss” and “communicate.” Murray was not invited here because the DePaul Republicans wanted to challenge him on his empirically false ideas — they brought him here because they agree with him.

If people want to hear Murray’s opinion, they may buy one of his many books, read one of his opinion pieces in any one of America’s mainstream newspapers, or visit the webpage of his think tank. Murray is not without influence or platform. If DePaul had refused Murray a microphone to spew bigotry, they would have been perfectly within their rights as a private institution and their values as a Vincentian organization. DePaul University is not the government, and it does not owe racists a platform to speak.

There is no illusion that refusing Murray in any way lessens his external presence, but as a university, DePaul has the responsibility to understand the ramifications of the words it lends credence to.

A university is accountable first and foremost to its students, and it cannot claim to value people of color, poor students and women, and then host Murray. To do so is to willfully disregard the values of social justice and community service.

In an email sent out by Student Affairs the day before the event, DePaul made it clear that the views of Murray did not reflect those of the university. If Murray’s views are antithetical to the university and Vincentian values, and to the idea of a critically thinking populace, why host him at all? Marginalized people have faced enough oppression in their lives. To have their university — a place that said it was excited to have them and invested in their future — host a founding father of scientific racism is insulting.

When asked to host Murray, DePaul should have said, “Charles Murray is racist and sexist. You come to college to learn at the very least, why those things are bad and maybe to become less so yourself.” Instead, they chose to embolden the ideas of a bigot and send an email to their students talking about values.

Talk is cheap, and DePaul is broke.

DePaul Republicans should publicly debate DePaul Socialists

By DePaul Socialists The DePaul Socialists were part of the coalition of students that organized a successful protest against Charles Murray on campus this Wednesday, as well as the contingent that registered for the event and staged a walk-out when Murray began to speak.

At the beginning of the event, John Minster, President of the DePaul Republicans, acknowledged that there was going to be a walk-out and invited those students to stay, listen to Murray’s talk, and engage in the question and answer portion of the event.

The students chose instead to refuse to listen to a racist pseudoscientist and joined the protest outside. Some people have questioned why, if we were there to oppose Charles Murray, we did not stay in the event and challenge him in the question and answer portion.

First, it is important to understand that we were not there to protest the fact that the DePaul Republicans were allowed to bring Charles Murray to campus. We support free speech for students and are not in favor of giving the DePaul Administration more power to restrict student groups for two reasons. The first is that the far right on campuses often tries to argue that they are oppressed or unequally restricted; we do not need to feed this

false narrative in order to oppose them. Secondly, administrative restriction of speakers and political activity historically results in negative repression of progressive or leftist student groups as well. If the administration itself had brought Murray to DePaul, we would have absolutely called for the cancellation of the event.

Instead, we were there to protest Murray’s racist, sexist and classist ideas and to show the DePaul Republicans that they are the political minority on campus.

With this goal in mind, we agreed that a loud, well-organized protest would be more effective than directly challenging Charles Murray through the question and answer portion of the event.

Murray’s ideas have been debunked by countless academics and he has refused to acknowledge the legitimate critiques of his misleading use of correlations as causal effects. Debating Murray directly would not have changed Murray’s ideas and the private nature of the event would prevent debate from influencing anyone outside of the people who were already supportive of his racist agenda. If the DePaul Republicans are genuinely interested in an open exchange of ideas, then they should participate in a formal debate with those of us who do not agree with them.

In the interest of providing a full and open discussion, we would like to challenge the DePaul Republicans to a public debate during the winter quarter.

Dear Editor, On Friday, Oct. 20, the Student Center was abuzz as if preparing for a head of state to visit (…) Although in reality, it was just our university's president. In the office where I work, our day was interrupted twice with cabinet level officials reporting on the updated location of Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban and that he and his wife were expected to stop by “any minute now."

The visit was underwhelming and brief. Our President did not ask any questions about the work of our office, did not ask any personal questions of student employees such as “what are you studying?” or basic questions of our staff like “how long have you been here?” He did not seem interested.

I find it disheartening that our president would choose to fly through our Student Center on a Friday — a day that traditionally has the lightest presence of students. I find it appalling that we got mere moments of his distracted time. I was puzzled by the presence of his wife — I was unaware our university sponsored “Bring Your Spouse to Work Day” (but please let us know when the next one is scheduled).

Mr. President, as a student at DePaul I was disgusted that I was made to be a part of a dog and pony show. We are your students — the life-blood of this university.

We deserve more than a token visit. You have been here since July and this was the first time I’ve seen you. Please step out of your office more often and engage with us. Drop by the Student Center cafeteria on a Tuesday at lunch and take time to get to know your students: our successes, concerns and struggles. Please visit our offices more regularly. There’s no need to announce your visit in advance.

Our important work and the way we do business doesn’t change just because you, or any other university official, stops by.

An opportunity for genuine engagement was lost on Friday. Don’t allow this to continue to be the tone you set during your time as president.

Most sincerely, Your graduate student and Student Affairs student employee. (*Name withheld at the request of student)

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

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Focus

Learning to read your birth chart beyond your sun si

By Rachel Fernandez & Carina Smith Managing Editor & Copy Editor

Horoscopes have become the latest trend, with sassy Twitter astrologists and magazine columns boasting they know exactly how your entire life will look based on your birth date. The actual science of horoscopes and astrology is much more intricate than a single sign, though. Your real astrological signs are decided based on location and time of day from when you were born. This leads us to our natal or birth charts — the diagrams that represent the position of the Sun, Moon and the planets from when and where you were born. Several websites can give you a full rundown of your natal chart with the given information. Each planet is given a sign depending on each individual’s natal chart, and knowing what the signs on each planet mean is a huge part of understanding your chart altogether since different planets dictate different parts of your personality, life and how you react to events.

Sun

Mercury

Mercury controls the way you think.

It primarily dictates communication and how you tend to interpret information. It is associated with your speech, reason and memory as well as the way you interact with others.

Moon Earth

Your m comma chart. Th and ins do wit doing will he you

Your sun sign is determined by your birth date and is arguably the most important.

Our sun signs give us our life purpose and our style. It is the leader of your personality and your natal chart as a whole, so it’s important to pay attention to this sign.

Venus

Although there is no "earth" sign, it can be represented by your rising sign. This is the mask that you wear to the outside world and the way that others see you. It’s the sign that defines your automatic response to your environment. Your rising sign will indicate how you are perceived by others.

Mars

Venus is the love planet. It controls the way you show affection in personal relationships and the way you appreciate the beauty in the world around you. It tends to dictate romantic relationships and friendships.

Ever wondered what your constellation would look like? Try finding your sign in the top right corner.

Mars, the fourth planet in the solar system, commands your physical energy and forcefulness. It dictates your ambition and the way you execute ideas. It can sometimes be violent, but it balances Venus’ harmonious energy.

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ign Jupiter

Uranus

Jupiter determines your luck and success.

It is connected with your morals and ethical standings as well as gives insight to your spirituality and wisdom. Jupiter can also be linked with confidence and optimism.

Uranus controls your creativity, individuality and need for change. It can determine your spontaneity and the way you respond to new situations.

Neptune

moon sign is the second-inand when it comes to your he moon shows your habits stincts, the things that you thout even thinking about them. Looking to this sign elp you understand where ur innermost needs lie.

Saturn

Saturn brings about the most conflict and determines the way you deal with challenges. It dictates your discipline and work ethic and can be a good indicator of what career path you are best suited for.

Neptune represents universal wisdom.

The fanciful planet determines your creation and dreams and can also indicate your connection to artistic outlets.

Pluto

Pluto is the slowest moving planet and tends to be associated with destruction and obsession. It represents power, transformation and how individuals fit into and form a society. It relates more to the masses than many of the other planets.

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Arts & Life

Horror of the Humanities

A Zombie Shakespeare booth at the Humanities Ceter’s fifth annual event that took place in room 120A in the Student Center with a screening of “The Eyes of My Mother.”

Story and photos by Amber Colón Zombie Shakespeare paid a visit to campus just one night before All Hallows’ Eve, joining the patrons of the Humanities Center’s fifth annual event, “Horror of the Humanities” for some of humankind’s most horrific phenomena.

The large, towering sculpture of a bloodied, rotting Shakespeare stood at the entrance of room 120A in the Student Center, where students set up poster booths that showcased the uglier sides of topics such as serial killers, corn syrup and the “plant apocalypse.”

In one corner of the room, a self-identifying witch read tarot cards for students and forecasted their futures. Dead poet and “rabble rouser” Mickey Virgin (student Logan Breit) took requests for spooky poems while

reminiscing on the candlelit dinners he enjoys with his fiancee, who he may or may not have met in hospice.

Virgin, who said he is the result of a test tube experiment gone wrong, spent the night tapping away at his typewriter just outside of a screening of the avant-garde film “The Eyes of My Mother.”

After the movie was shown, writer and director Nicolas Pesce was joined by philosophy professor H. Peter Steeves for a question and answer session.

Pesce talked about the inspiration behind his film, which is a bilingual, black and white horror-drama that tells the story of Francisca, a Portuguesespeaking immigrant from an unnamed foreign country.

Mickey Virgin writing poems while remaining in his goofy character.

A draft of the poem "doghnuts" at the “Horror of the Humanities” event.

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"The Eyes of My Mother" screening and Q&A Francisca, a surgeon back home, is desperate to connect with others in her new land.

Unsure of how to navigate the mass culture that many of us regard as “American” and are oh so used to, she begins to carve up her neighbors, friends and lovers to fit her preferences.

She’s a lot like Jeffrey Dahmerlike in this way, but Pesce and Steeves argued that she is also just like every other American: acting on her duty and freedom to choose.

Humans can find themselves in a strange place when they first come to a new land, especially when it’s one that’s ripe with a culture that thrives off of practices or ideas that may seem strange, or even occult to newcomers.

Pesce wanted to highlight the fact that his film can universalized to fit any time and place in America. The focus of the film is on the struggles that immigrants face when they first come to this country

and how they navigate forming meaningful relationships in the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave.”

Perhaps the most hopeful part of the film is Francisca’s son Antonio.

He’s actually the son of a woman that Francisca took upon herself to “carve up" in order to make a friend that fits her needs, but in his young age he doesn’t know or understand this. What he does know, however, is the woman’s pain. He realizes a stranger in his community, just as the people who rejected his mother do.

What he does differently is based on what he’s already seen. His response, to help the woman, comes out of empathy for the pain she feels.

“Is there hope for Antonio?”

Steeves asked.

The answer to Steeves’ question doesn’t have a simple answer. Maybe it’s in our thoughts and actions toward new people.

Writer and director Nicolas Pesce during a Q&A after “The Eyes of My Mother.”

“The Plantpocalypse” poster booth. Other booths provided topical discussions around serial killers and corn syrup in light of the festive spooky season.

Robot revolution

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New exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry displays current state of energizing advancements

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The Musuem of Science and Industry’s newest exhibit “Robot Revolution” is for all ages and runs through Feb. 4. The exhibit offers a current and futuristic display of robots.

By David P. Stein Contributing Writer

It is said in the book of Genesis that God created man in the likeness of his own image. But if you visit the Robot Revolution exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, you will see that humans are now creating their own self-replicating beings, with more awe-inspiring detail than ever before.

“I think it’s really interesting how the robots are actually so evolved. Technology is definitely further than I thought it was.

And I find it particularly interesting to see how everything works, and what has become possible,” said Freija Van Lent, a guest at the museum who gazed at a group of robots that were playing soccer.

The exhibit doesn’t only feature robots that are designed to emulate humans, at least visually. Some designs reflect animals, and others hardly resemble a living creature at all. However, all the robots present at the exhibit have at least three fundamental characteristics in common: they can all sense, plan and act. However, according to director of exhibit design and development, John Beckman, the robotics industry is a work in progress but it’s certainly growing rapidly.

“Robots will be becoming more and more prevalent in the future. As you see them in the exhibit, they’re separated into cooperation, skills, smarts and locomotion.

Some do a little bit better in one than the others, but a lot of them have elements of each. They just haven’t quite gelled yet. But sometimes like in manufacturing, they are very reliable and very helpful. Walking around your house and helping you with things, so we’re getting pretty close,” Beckman said.

Interestingly enough, the exhibit provides very little historical context with regards to robotic development. Beckman explains that they want the focus to be on technology’s current state, and what could lie ahead in the future based on the current attributes of their robots.

“One of the things we wanted to do at the exhibit, is you’ll see very little

history in the exhibit, in order to show you specifically where we’re at right now, and hopefully open that sort of line of questioning in your mind and say, ‘well, if a robot can do this, I wonder, if it can do that," Beckman said. "Or if it can do this and this, I would make it do that.’ So even for the industrial robots and some of the stuff, we’ve arranged the exhibit by those attributes rather than the applications.”

Beckman credits many technological advances that have helped move robotics further along, including the Microsoft Kinect, which revolutionized the industry.

“Some of the things that have happened lately, have been a huge help. The devices that are in our phones, gyroscopes, accelerometers, are now made smaller and cheaper, and that makes a huge difference in terms of making a robot more aware of itself and its surroundings," Beckman said. "The Microsoft Kinect, while everybody was enjoying playing games in their basement, quietly revolutionized university level robotics because you could just basically strap one to the top of pretty much any robot you had, and suddenly you have a very sophisticated vision system, where that was really hard before.”

Another interesting detail about how the robots operate and progress is that, like humans, they learn and evolve based on the environment they are in.

“Actually, people look a lot at childhood development in how you teach a robot be smart. Are we really talking about AI and intelligence?" Beckman said. "Well, you gotta give them a little bit before you give them the next bit, before you give them the next bit."

But despite all these incredible technological advances that are being made, Beckman assures many of the exhibit’s guests that we are still a ways away from any sort of robot apocalypse.

“If anyone was worried about a robot apocalypse, keep in mind that we’ve got three robot specialists. Two of whom are on duty at any given time. Just to keep everything working. It’s a daily challenge,” he said.

One of Beckman’s robot specialists, Adrian Choy, has been working in robotics

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A robot in the “Robot Revolution” exhibit that communicates with guests. for the past 10 years. He says that every could happen, like mechanical failures, single day at the museum is different, and changes in programming that need to be unpredictable. done, and it’s always a constant challenge “So there’s really not a typical day because there’s no routine maintenance in this exhibit, so we don’t really stick to that we can really predict, because as a specific schedule. My job is to lead the robots age, problems are always changing." team logistically. At the very least, we do While the Judeo-Christian bible the routine stuff for our robots. We turn encourages humans to be fruitful and them on in the morning. It takes about multiply, it is clear that those in the robotics an hour just to get all 40 of our robots up industry have their own objectives when it and running. We do at least 100 battery comes to procreation. changes a day with our robots, and we have a feeding schedule,” Choy said.

“And then the unexpected errors that

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The Walking Dead episode 2: "The Damned" recap

By Cailey Gleeson Contributing Writer

The action finally picked up in this week’s episode of “The Walking Dead” as everyone’s favorite survivalists continued their war against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors. What may be more surprising than the long-awaited action finally gracing the screen was the return of a character from the first season—even though you probably don’t remember who it is.

Instead of converging on the Saviors all at once, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his allies were divided into four main groups: an armored car attack led by Aaron (Ross Marquand), an urgent care center with Carol (Melissa McBride) and King Ezekiel (Khary Payton), a satellite station assault led by Morgan (Lennie James), Jesus (Tom Payne) and Tara (Alana Masterson), and a raid on an armory by Rick and Daryl (Norman Reedus).

Similar to the premiere, this episode began with a series of bizarre close-ups of the protagonists. However, it is shortlived once again and almost immediately cuts to Saviors completing their own war preparations—until Aaron and a group of others ambush them in their metal clad cars. The Saviors seriously underestimate Aaron’s strategy—shooting at them until the dead Saviors turn and kill the survivors.

The decision to make Aaron the leader for this gunfight is interesting because the show has never prioritized him, despite the fact that Rick’s group wouldn’t have ended up in Alexandria without him. Even though the attack on this outpost appears to be successful, there are a few casualties from Rick’s group, including Aaron’s boyfriend Eric (Jordan Woods-Robinson), who suffers a seemingly fatal gunshot wound.

Things don’t start as smoothly for Ezekiel, Carol and the rest of the members of the Kingdom as they’re attacked by walkers after recovering from an apparent explosion. They quickly gain the upperhand against their undead attackers and press on. After following a trail of blood, Shiva makes another appearance in this episode and finishes off an injured Savior that Ezekiel and his group were tracking.

Following this, Ezekiel gives a speech to his soldiers to inspire them to keep fighting for victory. Ezekiel’s optimism towards the whole situation is refreshing and hilarious, especially because of his passé vocabulary.

Jesus, Morgan and Tara tackle what was undoubtedly the hardest battle in this episode, both physically and philosophically. After making their way into the station, Morgan leads his own team while Tara and Jesus find a hidden Savior named Dean who initially appears to be innocent, but reveals his true colors after he takes Jesus hostage as he was attempting to convince Tara to show mercy. After escaping from his grasp, Jesus ties up Negan’s minion, to the dismay of Tara, instead of killing him.

Morgan doesn’t have much luck in the station either, as he and his team are gunned down by a group of Saviors almost immediately after Morgan exclaims, “I don’t die.” Although he takes a gunshot to the chest and appears to be dead for several scenes, he eventually rises and takes down nearly every remaining person in the station. Perhaps the biggest moral dilemma of the episode occurs when he rejoins Tara and Jesus outside and comes face-to-face with the Savior that killed

Khary Payton as Ezekiel in “The Walking Dead” which airs Sundays on AMC. Benjamin (Logan Miller) last season. Even though he’s completely abandoned his pacifism, Jesus convinces Morgan to spare the Savior’s life.

Unsurprisingly, the most action occurs for everyone’s favorite duo, Rick and Daryl. After splitting up in their search for weapons, Daryl finds a room that appears to have recently held another of the Savior’s hostages—causing him to have flashbacks to his time as one of Negan’s prisoners.

It’s a somber reminder that Daryl is still suffering from his torment despite his tough-guy demeanor. Meanwhile, Rick is attacked by another one of Negan’s men but is able to fight him off—ultimately brutally impaling him on a post. Instead of finding the weapons he was looking for, Rick finds an infant in a crib and suffers an apparent existential crisis as he is unable to look at himself in the mirror as he contemplates his next move.

The biggest twist of the episode arrives at the end when Rick comes face-toface with Morales (Juan Gabriel Pareja), a Savior who was in the original group of survivors in Atlanta in season one.

Instead of reminiscing about old times and catching up, Rick’s former friend puts a gun to his head and informs him that he’s radioed the Saviors. In what may be the most random cameo in the show thus far, the return of Morales may just be one of the most important because it exemplifies how much has changed since the group left Atlanta seven seasons ago.

Frank Darabont's "The Walking Dead" premieres on Sunday at 9p.m. on AMC. The current eighth season is slated for 16 episodes, working its way well into the new year. The next episode is "Monters" which airs on Nov. 5 which details the conflict with the Saviors that leads to unintended consequences for the Hilltop, the Kingdom and Alexandria.

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You can bet this new slang term will get people talking

bet [bet]

verb (used with object), bet or betted, betting.

1.

to wager with (something or someone).

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to make a wager:

verb (used without object), bet or betted, betting.

Do you want to bet?

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High school student Josue Jimenez recounted a story of the aftermath of a date he recently went on. It went like this: She texted Jimenez and told him it was a nice time, but she wasn’t feeling him and apologized. "Bet," Jimenez replied, because she kind of pissed him off with that comment. When on the date Jimenez felt like they were vibing. They weren't from the same area, so she didn't know that word. She then immediately starts asking Jimenez what that word meant, yelling at him, calling him names and trying to make him feel bad.

For what? A word you don’t know? Get on Twitter, girl.

Over the past few months, the slang term “bet” has come into prominence with young people via primarily Twitter. In the same vein as “bae,” “yolo” and “yas,” the term has exploded into the mainstream after its origin in urban cultures. Though some people, like the woman from Jimenez's date, have not yet come to terms with the new slang.

This simple variation of “you bet” or “I agree” is used widely with young people and urban neighborhoods with its origin in New York City. It can be used in many situations — a few examples being making plans like, “let’s meet up at 8 p.m.” or “aight, bet” or something a bit more sinister, like being turned down, “let’s go on a date tonight.”

On “No, I’d rather not — thanks though” versus “oh, bet," the former is straight-forward in its message, but the latter implies the person being rejected is upset with the answer.

“The word is used to mostly throw shade or be a little sassy to someone,” said Nicole Murphy, a Logan Square resident and employee at a hub for urban slang, Zumiez.

Yet this word comes as another example of pop culture adopting terms from urban neighborhoods by appropriation.

Words like "woke," "lit," "fam," "yas" and "snatched" are unavoidable. The problem is that these words originated in urban areas of metropolitan cities, and the use of them by those not a part of that culture can be problematic and exploitative.

Some think the term’s growth is nothing to be afraid of, as it is truthfully the phrase “you bet” but with less verbal commitment. Others agree that the use of the term is exploitative to the cultures that

created it.

“It’s just a part of language,” Jimenez said. “I don’t think a lot of words are about race or social problems, especially one like this.”

He goes on to talk about the social concern for the appropriation of slang by white young adults. He expressed his concern for the attribution for slang words, citing an incident with Oakland-based rapper Kreayshawn, who became popular with her viral hit song “Gucci Gucci” in 2012. She was falsely attributed with starting "basic girl culture."

“We know it’s a strange thing, and it's everywhere,” Jimenez said, regarding the co-optation of urban slang.

“Like, they literally gave Kreayshawn, a white rapper, credit for 'creating basic girl culture,' when I’ve heard that word for years in the hood.”

It is interesting to note that the advent of this slang term has also been attributed to author Sylvia Plath and supermodel Kate Moss. The author’s “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath” used the term “basic” to describe another person’s character in 1950, and Kate Moss famously called a airline pilot a “basic b*tch” in 2015.

According to Jimenez, the term began to be used often in hip-hop back in 2009.

Yet Jimenez is not upset about the new use of “bet,” as it has not been attributed to anyone. Other terms have been attributed to those who are not a part of an urban culture while “bet” is harder to attribute to a singular person or culture as it has been used in urban communities for decades.

The term is most used as a shorter version of “you bet” rather than an entirely new term like “yolo” or “basic.”

Some do not think the same way as Jimenez. One person thinks the term is based more on a combination of race and age. Most of its use comes from teenagers and young adults through Twitter and in conversation with others their age.

“It’s way more about the kids than the neighborhood,” said Diego Tena, a social media influencer and self-proclaimed hypebeast.

“Everybody says it, and it is weird to me just because it’s the kids wearing boat shoes and Vineyard Vines polos saying it now," Tena said.

"Like, I’ve never seen or heard that in my entire life until now.”

“Bet” finds itself somewhere in the middle of these perspectives. Though it is mostly used by young people, pop culture has a problem with adopting urban culture

without giving credit where it is due. Will “bet” hold up in the sea of new and old slang terms? "Yolo," "swag," "bae," and "bye Felicia" have come and gone, but with the new term’s accessibility, as it simply shortens an already used phrase, it’s hard to tell how long the word will be trending.

“Just let the slang catch on, and maybe it’ll be in the dictionary,” Jimenez said. “I think that’d be so funny.”

Maybe then the woman who turned him down would better understand his stance.

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Theatre School's "Into The Woods" dreams big

By Carina Smith Copy Editor

The iconic musical “Into the Woods” made its debut show at the Fullerton Stage at The Theatre School on Nov. 3, and DePaul’s production blew Cinderella out of her slippers.

“Into the Woods” is meant to spin fairytales on their head and look beyond the happily ever after. The musical follows Cinderella, Rapunzel, a baker and his wife, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack from “Jack and the Beanstalk” as they leave the comfort of their homes and go deep into the woods in the search of making their wishes come true. The narrator warns the audience throughout about the dangers of making a wish too big.

The musical originally debuted in 1986 and has taken the theater world by storm with its quirky humor and original storyline. A star-studded Disney screen adaptation of “Into the Woods” was released in 2014, raking in a mediocre 71 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, showing that nothing can beat the feeling of watching this show on the stage.

The musical started with the wellknown “I Wish” song, where the main characters are introduced and singing about their problems. The narrator, in his official and smooth voice, gives a backstory of why the characters are so miserable, setting the stage for the chaos that is about to happen.

The first half of the musical is full of hopeful tunes and joyous characters who are just looking to fulfill their wildest dreams. Cinderella (Delaney Feener) and Rapunzel (Marian van Noppen) truly took the stage by storm with their vocals, belting

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"Into The Woods" runs at the DePaul Theatre School through Nov. 12. songs of love and loss as they try and avoid, Though the visual aspects of this show or get closer to, their princes. The baker truly shined throughout the second half, (Jayson Lee) and his wife (Katie Travers) the ability for the actors to convey the elicited laughs as they trekked through the emotion was lost. When the characters woods in search of the ingredients to make had lost everything, and were desperately a spell and work on their relationship. trying to scrounge up any hope that was left The second half of the play fell flat, to defeat the thing threatening to destroy though. This part of the story was supposed their home, the actors showed minimal to focus on what happens when “happily emotion. ever after” is over and real-life sets in.

Scenes that should have left tears in

audience’s eyes instead left an awkward feeling that the song had went on too long and the emotions were too fake to feel real.

If the play had ended at the first act, or if the actors carried the feeling and emotionallycharged performances that were seen in the first act, then the play would have been world better. The second act just left a dry and bored performance for audiences to watch.

“Into the Woods” was more than just it’s vocal and acting performances. Audiences also got to see how much effort the crew put into the production with dark and mangled trees, sound effects and bright and flashing lights that draw the audience in and make them feel like they are lost in the woods with the beloved fairytale characters.

The costumes were arguably the best part of the play. The men of the play wore revealing and telling outfits — from the wolf who showed his chest through a fur jacket to the rhinestone cups that the princes wore. The women wore elegant and colorful attire that looked as if they had come straight from a Broadway play.

The attire was able to take the play from looking like a minimal-budget high school production to a musical that looks puttogether and professional, a bonus for the actors and audience alike.

Overall, the hard work and dedication that went into making this musical a success on a number of different levels truly showed in the performance, and it’s definitely worth taking an evening to go and watch. The Theatre School will be playing “Into the Woods” until Nov. 12.

Tickets are $15 and student tickets are $5.

Catch this play at the Fullerton Stage before it disappears back into the woods.

Red Bull Sound Select kicks off with Ne-Hi

By Matt Koske Arts & Life Editor

Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 30 Days in Chicago has officially kicked off.

The Los Angeles-based event has brought its talents to Chicago to spotlight Chicago artists in a month long event at various venues throughout the city.

On Nov. 2, Metro held its second concert for Red Bull featuring Chicago artist's Ne-Hi and Whitney. Opening for them was Mt. Joy, an indie-folk band from Philadelphia. The sold-out show gathered its indie Chicago scene for a 3-hour night of tunes.

One of Chicago's very own rising indie-rock bands, Ne-Hi, released their album "Offers" back in February 2017. Ever since, the band has been touring the album across the United States, performing with other Chicago bands like Twin Peaks and, of course, Whitney.

The four piece band consists of guitarists Mikey Wells and Jason Balla, drummer Alex Otake and bassist James Weir. In 2013, while college students, the band's local Logan Square basement spot became their own humble abode.

Now, playing sets at Pitchfork and securing their first ever show at Metro before the rapidly growing Whitney, the band has come a long way with their sound.

The energy, though, hasn't gone anywhere.

The DePaulia spoke with songwriter and guitarist Mikey Wells before their Red Bull Sound Select show.

"We had three months of playing and when you just play every night and you learn what is working and what isn't. The Pitchfork set was the end of all of that routine," Wells said. "We've been a band for awhile now so you learn little things with three other guys that you don't even think you're learning."

The rockers opened with their 2017 single "Stay Young" and swiftly segued into their 2014 self-titled LP track, "Since I've Been Thinking."

"Chicago is a big city with a lot of music and art. You can afford to live here without breaking your back. You still have to work hard and make your rent," Wells said.

Wells also works at the Ukrainian Village bar, The Empty Bottle. Back in February, Ne-Hi's album release show for "Offers" occurred at his place of employment.

"I meet bands there that I really dig. I also get to see bands that aren't necessarily my thing. It helps because I see things and I can say, 'well, I don't want to do that,'" Wells said.

Before all of this, Ne-Hi initially came together to score a friend's film.

Unfortunately, the film never got made. But fortunately for Ne-Hi, they did.

"Musician or not, anyone can say that music becomes some of the most memorable parts of a film. Outside of the visuals and the acting, it's something that I look for. Even the placement of songs in 'Goodfellas' is so stylized, it creates its own

story," Wells said.

Both Ne-Hi and Whitney have never played at the Metro. The show kicks off a busy November month for the Red Bull Sound Select.

"Playing the Metro as a band for the first time is very exciting. It's cool that

Whitney asked us to play. Doing different venues is always sweet and playing Chicago is always the best," Wells said.

Ne-Hi ends the year with a New Year's Eve set with Chicago's Twin Peaks at Thalia Hall.

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Guitarist Mikey Wells of Ne-Hi performing at Pitchfork this summer.

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While We're Young

Mindhunter

Shortly after director and writer Noah Baumbach's "The Meyerowitz Stories" was released on Netflix, one of his past gems from 2014, "While We're Young," was added to the streaming service.

"Mindhunter" is Netflix's closest portrayal of an HBO show, but don't let that stop you. It works for what it is. David Fincher helms the directing chair for nearly half of the episodes in Netflix's new original crime thriller.

Ben Stiller plays Josh, a documentarian that is nearing his 10th year of working on the same project. Josh also teaches documentary filmmaking at a nearby local college. After class one day, Jamie and Darby, the fantastic young couple being Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, stop Josh and push all the right buttons by discussing one of Josh's past documentaries. Josh — being much older than the young, hip couple — is invited for some drinks. Josh agrees, but brings along his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) and the conversation is exactly the fuel that Josh and Cornelia are searching for to spice up their mid-life relationship.

The two couples have their differences, sure, but what really brings out the comedic elements here is Ben Stiller's role - one of his best - as he attempts to mesh with the younger couple by verbalizing the slang, dressing the role and actively pursuing the social life of a mid-twenty something artist.

In the 1970s, two FBI agents, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, expand behavioral science study by seeking out and interviewing up close and personal some of the most crazed and sociopathic serial killers in history.

These real life killers are sat down in attempt to gain valuable information to these killer's past and hopefully receive some sort of childhood or simple act that perhaps triggered these infamous killers to commit their horrible sprees. In between these interviews, Ford and Tench work on active investigations around the United States, offering their knowledge from what they learned on the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI, to seek out the suspects. Tonally, the plot develops like any other Fincher related story and it gets surprisingly thrilling throughout the 10-episode season.

Creator Joe Penhall accurately depicts a memorable killer, Ed Kemper, so excruciatingly similar to the man he was that it sets up a daring look into the minds of these outlandish figures.

Baumbach's keen eye for character, like in the majority of his work, finds a void that needs to be filled, but that can only happen by seeking it out within yourself.

Whether you enjoy real crime stories or you enjoy a complex character study, "Mindhunter" dives deep into the thoughts and processes of whatever the heck is going on in these killer's heads.

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In theaters and upcoming film releases Nov. 3 “Thor: Ragnarok” Thor finds himself in a lethal contest against the Hulk, his former ally. He must prevent Hela from destroying the civilization.

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett

Nov. 3 “A Bad Moms Christmas” Three under-appreciated women rebel against the challenges of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas.

Stars: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn

Nov. 3 “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” A charismatic surgeon is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart after sinister events.

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Colin Farrell

Nov. 3 “Last Flag Flying” 30 years after serving in Vietnam, a former veteran re-unites with his old buddies to bury one of their sons.

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell

Nov. 10 “Lady Bird” The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year that goes by the name Lady Bird.

Nov. 10 “Murder on the Orient Express” A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish and suspenseful mystery with 13 stranded strangers racing to solve the puzzle.

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As the quarter quickly approaches the end, there's a lot of last minute assignments and final studying occurring. We all need to secure the grades, which means doing a lot of work. At least there is one thing that we have control over when it comes to these busy times: study music.

Check out some of these albums that definitely can aid you in your long nights in the library staring blankly at an empty word document.

1. "Call Me By Your Name" Soundtrack Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film, "Call Me By Your Name" proved to be a huge hit in film festivals. The film is making a strong push for a Best Picture nominee and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the soundtrack was nominated too. The Sufjan Stevens to the piano piece by Frank Glazer, this soothing soundtrack helped secure this film to be a top contender this award season. It's also a top contender to get you through that long research paper.

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2. Tycho - "Past Is Prologue" Tycho was recently nominated for best electronic album at last year"s Grammy's, but "Past Is Prologue" is his first studio album. This is back when not many people knew Tycho's instrumental, ambient sound, that didn't come until "Dive," "Awake" and the Grammy nominated "Epoch." If I could pick one artist to listen to while studying for the rest of my life, it would be Tycho. I'd also pick to listen to him non-stop when I'm not studying. Pro tip: Check out Dictaphone's Lament.

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29. Altar vow 32. Check out groceries 33. ___qua non 34. Dividing point in a road 36. Dusting powders 39. “__ before beauty” 40. How some make singles’ bar pickups?

42. Promissory note, of sort 43. Former Portuguese territory in China

3. Alt-J - "An Awesome Wave" Alt-J really helps for the longer studying sessions. When you finish one paper and you still have to do some discussion posts, this is what you need to listen to. This gives you that little jump in your step, it picks you up, brings you down and picks you right back up again. Their set at Lollapalooza this summer consisted of many songs from "An Awesome Wave," their newer stuff has been incorporating a new sound, but this here, is prime Alt-J. It helps, for sure.

45. Eye provocatively 46. Avidly eager 47. Commits a faux pas 49. Festive neckwear 50. Emmy winner Perlman 51. Poison in classic mysteries 54. Small wheel 56. Starts of many park signs 57. Blood system letters 58. Curly cabbage 59. Word before “chi” or after “mai” 60. How some become popular 65. How some become popular 66. Treeless plain below the equator 67. Something to fight for 68. Pig’s place 69. County of England 70. Fall in winter Down 1. Priest’s robe 2. Home improvement letters

4.

"Harry Potter" Soundtrack Typing in "Harry Potter soundtrack" usually does the trick on YouTube, but in this case, I'm picking one. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" does something that no other film in the franchise does, it significantly stands out. They all do, but it's GOF that has a little freedom to express some other feels.

My favorites are "Underwater Secrets" and "Neville's Waltz" because they compliment any boring assignment into the fun HP movies we all love dearly.

3. “King” or “carte” lead-in 4. Like Hammett’s falcon 5. Flat bottomed boats 6. Inferior horses 7. Write-__ (some nominees) 8. Pacific salmon varieties 9. Anagram for “soared” 10. Takes away from 11. How some have romantic dinners 12. Copy, briefly 13. Expressed wonder verbally 18. Send word 23. Black tea from India 24. North American evergreen forest 25. Why some do what they do 27. Air traffic control agency 30. Toy person 31. Bay window 35. Bouncer’s joint?

37. Aborigine’s call

38. Cotton candy, essentially 40. Conbustible 41. Jong, Kane and others 44. “Roses__red” 46. Arms depot 48. Female fortunetellers 51. Makes the pot grow 52. Cook over an open fire 53. Drug-yielding plants 55. Actors Guinness and Baldwin 58. Fort with many bars 61. Word before “Happy New Year!”

62. “Peggy __ Got Married” (movie) 63. Function 64. Having everything one needs

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Men's and women's soccer end tough seasons

By Garret Neal & Shane Rene Asst. Sports Editor & Sports Editor

A 1-0 win against St. John’s on Oct. 26 punched DePaul’s ticket into the Big East tournament for the third season in a row. On Wednesday, DePaul took on Providence in the first round.

The game went through the first half scoreless with the Demon’s holding a 4-3 shot advantage. Providence would end the scoring drought in the minute 78, capitalizing on a DePaul defensive error.

The Friars’ Amber Birchwell intercepted an attempted clear and hit one to teammate Hannah McNulty in the middle of the box.

McNulty tapped in the goal past a diving save attempt from Lauren Frasca.

It looked like that goal could be the deciding one, but DePaul’s Madeline Frick game up huge with the equalizer in the final minute. Given a free kick from 25 yards out, Frick sent a line drive to the upper right corner to send the game into overtime.

Two overtime periods were not enough to determine a winner, so it came down to penalty kicks. There, DePaul would fall 4-1 and be bounced from the tournament.

Franny Cerny lead the team with 22 points on the season, featuring ten goals on 28 shots on goal. Alexa Ben came next with 15 points and seven goals. Ben will end her illustrious DePaul career with 27 goals, fourth most in program history. Madeline Frick lead the team in assists with five.

The DePaulia was unable to schedule interviews with the women's soccer team due to new NCAA regulations that grants players a mandatory seven days off immediatley following the final competative match of the season.

BIG EAST Men's Soccer

BIG EAST Woman's Soccer

FINAL STANDINGS

FINAL STANDINGS

1.

8-1-0 (12-4-1)

1.

6-1-2 (14-3-3)

2.

6-2-1 (12-3-2)

2.

5-0-4 (13-2-5)

3.

5-2-2 (9-6-3)

3.

5-3-1 (10-8-2)

4.

5-4-0 (11-5-2)

4.

5-4-0 (13-7-1)

5.

2-2-5 (5-8-5)

5.

4-3-2 (8-8-4)

6.

3-4-2 (9-7-2)

6.

3-2-4 (7-7-5)

7.

3-5-1 (3-11-2)

7.

5-4-0 (8-9-1)

8.

3-6-0 (6-10-1)

8.

2-5-2 (4-11-3)

9.

2-6-1 (5-11-2)

9.

2-7-0 (6-12-0)

10.

2-7-0 (7-11-0)

10.

0-6-3 (0-12-5) (x-y) - Overall record

BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN VOLLEYBALL

WOMAN'S BASKETBALL

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DePaul's right side hitter Brittany Maxwell.

DePaul battled Providence in the Demon’s third on a four-game road trip.

Providence came into the match at 4-8 in conference to DePaul’s 2-11.

Providence swept DePaul 3-0, repeating what they had done in the two teams’ first match up. The Friars took the first set 25-20 behind five kills from Addison Root. DePaul would get closer as the game went on, losing set two 22-25 and the final set 24-26.

Brittany Maxwell had her sixth double-double of the season with ten kills and 21 digs. Katie Dolan lead the ream with ten assists.

DePaul finished the weekend with a matchup against number the number 15

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Creighton Blue Jays. There was no upset in store as Creighton pulled out the brooms for the 3-0 win. Creighton handled each set, winning the sets 25-11, 25-14 and 2516.

Caitlyn Coffey lead the Demons with seven kills followed by Myah Reed and Maxwell with six and five respectively.

Kelsey Horvath was the assist leader with ten and Haley Bueser added ten digs. The loss is DePaul’s seventh in a row and 12th in the last 13 games.

After four games on the road, DePaul will come home for the final three games of the season, facing off with Villanova on Nov. 10, Georgetown on Nov. 12 and Marquette on Nov. 18 to end the season.

DePaul finished with the best record in the Big East last season.

The DePaul women’s basketball team sits at no. 25 overall in the first AP preseason poll, which was released on Thursday. Head coach Doug Bruno showed appreciation for the ranking as a reflection of respect for the program in an interview with Bob Sakamoto of DePaul Athletics.

However he also recognized that the team has to win games to earn it, or as he put it, the team is “playing for the reviews and not the previews.”

“This ranking is a prognostication based on speculation and not results.

Our goal is to be ranked throughout the season as we tackle one of the most difficult nonconference schedules in the country and live up to our ranking on a game-

by-game basis,” Bruno said in the same interview.

Last season the team was not ranked in the preseason poll, but ended at 17 after a 27-8 outing and a 15th consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.

The Blue Demons have four AP Top 25 teams on the docket, with No. 1 Connecticut, No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 22 Oklahoma. Of course they play Big East mate Marquette twice, who was ranked No. 17 in the poll. Marquette beat DePaul in all three face offs last season, the win coming in the Big East Championship game.

The women tips off the year on Friday, Nov. 10 against Northern Colorado in McGrath-Phillips Arena.

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Standing ovations: who gets them and why

By Sarah Julien Contributing Writer

After Houston Astro’s first basemen Yuli Gurriel escaped a World Series suspension for a racist gesture toward the Los Angeles Dodger’s Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish, the fans at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas welcomed Gurriel to the plate with a standing ovation.

Just a few days later, when the series returned to Los Angeles, Gurriel was showered with boos from every corner of Dodger Stadium.

The vehement disapproval of Gurriel’s actions was to be expected in Los Angeles, but the warm reception in Houston raised eyebrows. It’s hard to imagine Astro fans were making a direct celebration of the first-baseman’s racist gesture, but a standing ovation doesn't exactly scream disapproval — in fact, it can feel a lot like the opposite.

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Yuli Gurriel: "I sincerely apologize to everyone that I offended with my actions. I deeply regret it."

Standing ovation is derived from the Latin word ovatio, or ‘exult,’ according to the definition cited in Merriam-Webster.

Romans would stand to give an ovation to a general who had not won, but who deserved the honor of being acknowledged for having fought valiantly. Standing ovations naturally seeped into other realms of public gatherings.

Historically, the most notable event where a standing ovation takes place is within the theater scene. The roots take ahold in the crowd’s notion that they had unanimously seen something that left them in awe. A truly great performance in the theater has the audience standing for an applause to acknowledge the talent.

Mainstream Broadway shows have taken the act of occasional praise and turned standing ovations into an obligatory part of the evening's events.

The act of standing ovations has bled into entertainment events such as concerts, political conventions, public speaking events and concerts. Concert goers have become accustomed to the artists ending their sets, and after the crowd stands and chants for an ovation, the artist comes back out for a few more ballads.

“I always think that an artist will come back out for another song, and I get mad when they don’t,” student Amyia Brooks said.

The sets have been timed for these standing ovations, and the nuance and specialty of these moments have become diluted by preconceived expectations.

Standing ovations in the theater

versus standing ovations in sports differ greatly.

“Where as it might be out of line for a theater where there is more of a code of decorum, sports allows you to let loose,” David Haugh, sports columnist at The Chicago Tribune, said. “It is a part of the genre, atmosphere and a part of why people want to be in that environment–anything goes.”

Graduate student Nick Johnson believes that standing ovations in baseball are most often encouraging moments.

“Standing ovations in baseball could be anywhere from the starting pitcher coming out of the game who has been dealing for the last eight innings, one run– you obviously don’t see that a lot so you are going to see fans stand up and applaud him for that,” Johnson said. “Or you get standing ovations for players like Altuve.

Fans can appreciate a player who has gone through all the hard work that they put you through in the off-season, and to see that work culminate on the field—the fans are just trying to appreciate the guy.”

However, in lieu of current sporting events, standing ovations have acted as a mirror that reflects the great divide within the bipartisanship country. Among many stories in sports news, two incidents in different professional leagues struck a similar chord.

On Oct. 28, The National Football League’s Seattle Seahawk’s fans gave a standing ovation during the national anthem in support of the Houston Texans’ players taking a knee. The Texans taking the knee was in response to the Texans’ owner Bob McNair's remark on "inmates running the prisons." According to The Seattle Times, nine of the players stood for the anthem, but more than 40 chose to take a social stance by taking the knee.

Out of 100,000 people, 765 white citizens are incarcerated and 2,855 black citizens are incarcerated in Texas, according to the 2010 U.S. Census “It is healthy whenever people examine why they do what they do,” Haugh said. “I am all for professional athletes having a more vested interest in the way the world works beyond the 53-yard by 120-yard rectangle they would play on every Sunday or the basketball court, or the baseball field.”

During the 2017 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros, Houston fans gave Gurriel a standing ovation when he went up to bat during game four of the World Series. This is following his racist slanted-eye gestures towards the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Darvish during game three after Gurriel batted a home-run. In this instance, baseball fans found the standing ovation in support of Gurriel to be in support of his insensitive behavior. Some audience members stood in support of the racial actions, but most were cheering about the MLB’s decision to not suspend Gurriel until next season for his behavior. Even if this was the case, it was hard for baseball fans to digest.

When game six brought the series to Los Angeles, the crowd was prepared to stand—not for an ovation of praise, but to show their frustration. As Gurriel walked up to bat, fans in the stadium broke out in a standing chorus of boos. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill stepped off the mat to let the statement resonate just a little bit longer.

“Everyone starts noticing what is going on here, and then it becomes a thing,” Haugh said. “Ten seconds becomes 20 seconds becomes 30 seconds, and then next thing you know Rich Hills is stepping off the mount and it is a statement. The best standing ovations begin as reactions and

MATT SLOCUM | AP

Yu Darvish: "Acting like that, you just disrespect all the people around the world." they end as statements.”

The similarity between the LA Dodgers and the Houston Astros and the Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Texans is the reaction from two different leagues from the same town, Houston. The Houston Texans NFL players were taking a knee during the anthem to protest their coach’s insensitive comment about inmates.

The coach’s comment reinforced social and racial stigmas, and it spoke to the ignorance of his white privilege. However, the same city’s MLB team had a player display racial hand gestures towards an opposing teams’ player of Asian descent. After the Houston

Astros teammates gesture, during the next game the Astros fans gave him a standing ovation as he walked up to bat. Did the love for winning overcome the fact that he made a racially charged gesture, or does the division within Houston model what is happening across the country?

“Different parts of the country have different reactions to this issue, which is America. It is not just the NFL (or MLB), it is Chicago and it is your neighborhood block,” Haugh said. “They may either love the Anthem protests or they may hate it, but whatever it is, a consensus starts to build.”

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DePaul breaks into the eSports scene

By Garret Neal Asst. Sports Editor

eSports, competitive video game playing, continues to grow. ESPN2 is even hosting a “Street Fighter V” tournament this year. It finally reached DePaul when the “League of Legends” club created its competitive teams at the beginning of the quarter. The club itself has been around since the beginning last year. It began by hosting viewing parties of professional matches, game nights and other activities, but after building up a decent membership it was time to form a competitive team.

“We chose this year because we have over 100 members and we felt we could find 30 students that could be committed to playing competitively,” said senior Daniel Reyes, the group's vice president.

In addition, colleges have begun offering scholarships to competitive eSports players. The National Association of Collegiate eSports, formed in July of 2016, is an organization that works with over 20 schools setting guidelines for scholarships, competition and eligibility for eSports athletes. Many of the tournaments award players with scholarship money, which is against NCAA rules, so a separate organization was formed. Reyes hopes to lay the groundwork to get a reward for players at DePaul.

“I just want to leave the structure for future students to maybe get a scholarship and DePaul to recognize those students who do enter tournaments that offer scholarships,” Reyes said.

Right now, the team is looking to get into the Collegiate Starleague (CSL) “League of Legends” tournament. In CSL, teams from over 300 universities compete to earn a place in the University League of Legends (uLOL) Campus Series regional rounds. Teams that advance out of the regionals move to the championship series, where last year the winner took home $30,000 of scholarship money per student.

“We’re looking to just get into the CSL first. If we’re not ready, then we will compete in smaller tournaments until we are ready for CSL. Eventually if you’re good enough, you enter uLOL,” Reyes said.

Creating the teams has been an involved process. You may see signs around the Student Center calling summoners for

SOCCER, continued from back page while so to get right back into it and tie it up was a huge moment in the game, " Wilhelms said.

The Big East conference announced Friday Nov. 3 that Wilhelms earned AllFreshman Team honors. He was the only Blue Demon to earn conference accolades for men’s soccer this season.

The rest of the first half was filled with plenty of fouls and neither side able to get much momentum. DePaul was able to put the heat on Marquette, however, scoring just four minutes into the second half after graduate midfielder Bryan Simons took advantage of a misplayed ball from Marquette goalie Noah Heim and tucked it away for a 2-1 lead.

“That was very nice because I’ve been close all season, like really close I even made fun about it yesterday with Hans,” Simons said. “We said I wasn’t able to score, today I pulled one off.”

From there, DePaul had to fend off a desperate Marquette team in need of a win to qualify for the Big East tournament. That only got tougher after sophomore defender

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Players match up against each other during a sign up event on April 6. the teams. Despite a good turnout for the club, they are still looking to make sure they get the best the school has to offer.

“We test players out to see if they sync.

We make sure no one is too toxic,” said Miguel Castellanos, the club’s PR manager and member of one of the competitive teams. “But it can be a struggle because DePaul is not as big as a state school obviously, so although there are League players here, there aren’t as many. So, you have to deal with what you have.”

League has a ranking system where players go from bronze to challenger. In between they have to go through silver, gold, platinum, diamond and master. The club has four competitive teams right now, a high-ranked team, a low-ranked team and a B-team for each one. The highranking teams are mostly diamond ranked players while the low ranked ones are silver and gold.

Reyes said he took it upon himself to organize the schedule for the teams.

The high-ranking teams practice for three hours, four days a week and the low-ranking teams are two days a week. To get ready for CSL, Reyes schedules scrims against other schools from over the country. It’s a big commitment, as any sport is, but Reyes knows there is a balance for school and competition.

“You have to balance your work life, you have to balance this life and you have to balance your school life,” Reyes said. “It does take a little bit of time for the students who want to get into the competitive scene, but this is a big opportunity.”

The group is still keeping up with the non-competitive events. Recently they have had things like Pictionary, Jeopardy or watching “League of Legends” anime. One of the more unusual events was ‘guess that champion’, were sounds or short videos of top competitors where shown and participants had to guess who it was.

“Although we are a 'League of Legends' club, we are not 'League of Legends'

exclusive. So, we try to have events where students who are interested in the game with no experience at all or are beginners can come to our events and be able to have fun,” said club president Keni Jae Love.

As of now, it is just “League of Legends,” but there are plenty of games out there with competitive scenes. “StarCraft II,” “Hearthstone” and “Overwatch” to name a few. Castellanos thinks that this group will stay exclusive to “League,” but he has heard others express interest in individual groups forming for each game, and hopes they will.

“At involvement fairs we heard people talk about how they wanted an eSports organization for each individual game,” Castellanos said. “Our core is just 'League of Legends,' and it’s hard just to get these players because as I said, it’s not a state school. So, for other games, no. But I would like to see other groups pick them up.”

Sasa Labovic received his second yellow of the second half and was sent off in minute 66, leaving the Blue Demons to defend a 2-1 lead with 10 men for the last 24 minutes.

“Down a man and Marquette scored four goals against Creighton a couple of games ago, they’ve got really good players as well and I think we just kind of wanted it a little bit more and the guys they dug in,” Blazer said.

Blazer credited Low and sophomore defender Max de Bruijne for stabilizing the defense, with both players making a couple huge stops late to preserve the lead.

Despite being eliminated from postseason contention, and being without senior Stijn van der Slot, players noted the focus was about sending the seniors out the right way.

“It was the last game of the year for us we wanted to end on a good note for all the seniors,” sophomore midfielder Zach El-Shafei, said about the focus heading in.

Coaches and fans also caught a glimpse of the future as well with El-Shafei and Wilhelms both stepping up to make big plays in the final game of the season.

“Those guys are buddies on and off the field and their chemistry is fantastic, they’re both athletic, but more importantly

they’re really good technical soccer players they both have a nose for the goal, but do the work defensively as well,” Blazer said. “I think those guys are part of the future and part of the attack and part of the chemistry and the makeup.”

Wilhelms’ finished his first season at DePaul with four goals and four assists in 16 starts and knows this experience will serve him well heading into next year.

“I think now since I got a little more experience this year with the college game it’s just playing quicker, playing more as a team and having chemistry on the field,” Wilhelms said.

After making it to the Big East tournament the past two years, players and coaches were quick to point out this season is not what they were hoping for, but they are not far off getting back to the conference tournament next season.

Both players and coaches stressed cleaning up their play in both the offensive and defensive 18 yard boxes is a good start to win some of the close games they lost this season.

“We have to learn how to bring games home and of course we have to get better overall, we have to get better at finishing opportunities, we have to get better at

not giving up goals too easily in the end it comes down to bringing games home when you’re ahead in them,” Simons said.

El-Shafei echoed that point, noting the team was close in a number of games and just has to figure out how to get better results from those games.

“Every game we lost it was really close, a lot of the mistakes we made always resulted in goals against us. So I think just learning from our mistakes, trying to fix things, whether it’s technical or communication, just polish those things off,” El-Shafei said.

Blazer also acknowledged these close results, but believes they just have to be a little better in some areas, including inside the box.

“You know you got to do a little bit of everything well, you got to start off the season well to build momentum, perception is reality and when you have referees or teams that come in and say oh I heard you guys are playing well, but just a little bit unlucky, we got to kind of break that rhythm,” Blazer said. “We are good enough, we have good players, we just can’t take it for granted, we’ve got to play every play, every minute a little bit better.”

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A sweet end to a sour season

By Andrew Hattersley Staff Writer

A tough season ended on a positive note for DePaul men’s soccer on Wednesday, Nov. 1 as they knocked off rival Marquette 3-1 at Wish Field.

With the win, DePaul closes out the season 5-11-2 and 2-6-1 in conference play leaving them ninth in the Big East.

The game did not get off to a good start for the Blue Demons as they fell behind again just eight minutes into the game after Marquette forward Grant Owens was able to slide a shot past senior goalie Quentin Low for a 1-0 lead. The Blue Demons responded with three goals of their own to rally for its first win since Sept. 30 against Villanova.

Head Coach Craig Blazer was proud

of the way his team responded to the early goal and being eliminated from postseason contention with a loss to Creighton just a couple days earlier.

“The guys just kept believing in the whole idea of believe in each other and disappointed with the Creighton result and a lot of other things with the season,” Blazer said. “But today we brought it, Marquette had a good first goal, got to give them credit and we responded well and scored two minutes afterwards.”

That goal came from freshman midfielder Istvan Wilhelms, who was able to slide in just above the six-yard box to put away a cross from senior midfielder Philipp Konigstein to tie the score at 1.

“I thought it was very important especially since we haven’t scored in a

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Billy Garrett Jr. embarks on G-League career

By Shane Rene & Paul Steeno Sports Editor & Staff Writer

Former DePaul Blue Demons guard Billy Garrett Jr. earned a spot on the training camp roster of the New York Knicks’ G-League affiliate Westchester Knicks via open tryout Oct. 23. On Friday, Nov. 3, the team named Garrett to the final roster.

Garrett impressed in Westchester’s game against the Long Island Nets on Oct. 30 with 16 points, going 50 percent from the field and knocked down all eight of his free throw attempts. The DePaul graduate also logged five turnovers, four rebounds, three assists and a block.

While Garrett came off the bench against Long Island, he played a team high 27 minutes, beating out starters Trey Burke (former Michigan star) and Xavier Ratham-Mayes who logged 23 and 24 minutes, respectively.

Sixteen points in a G-League preseason game won’t send Garrett to the NBA, but he is trending in the right direction. At least 30 G-League players were promoted to NBA rosters in each of the past five years, according to the G-League’s official website.

“I’m happy for him and I just think it’s the next step for him on his journey to reaching his goals and his dreams,” Garrett’s father, and name sake, said. “As you get older and you have your children who have

a chance to realize what their dreams are, you are happy for them.”

Garrett Jr. was a four-year starter for the Blue Demons. He averaged 13.1 points on 38.6 percent from the field and 3.5 assists per game during his career at DePaul.

In 2014, he earned the Big East Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year award after leading all freshmen in the conference in points and assists per game for the 20132014 season. He finished his career 34th on DePaul’s all-time scoring list with 1,154 points.

The Chicago native also was a threetime member of the Big East All-Academic team (student athletes must maintain a 3.0 GPA for an academic year to earn this designation) and was one of ten players selected to the Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team in 2017 because he maintained a 3.24 GPA while making significant on-court contributions to the basketball team.

G-League training camp rosters consist of 17 players. Once the season starts, G-League teams must maintain a minimum roster size of 10 players and can max their rosters out at 13 if some of their players get called up to the NBA. “He’s defied odds all his life,” Garrett’s father said. “It’ll just be more determination, a willingness to figure out what the coach wants to be able to mix in his talents, and just put his best foot forward. I think if he does that I like his chances of making the team.”

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Billy Garrett Jr. was honored by fans before his final game at Allstate Arena.