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Safe sex
Student group delivers condoms despite university policy against contraceptives By Amber Colón CODY CORRALL | THE DEPAULIA
Imagine getting a condom delivered to your dorm as easily and efficiently as it is to order a pizza on your phone. Having sex is one of the many things that is just a part of student life, but some student organizations believe that DePaul is not doing everything it can to make sure students are practicing safe sex. As DePaul is a private, Catholic institution, the policy on contraceptives is on a leash as tight as the Vatican’s. Students for Reproductive Justice (SRJ) is an unofficial student organization that decided to take matters into their own hands by giving away free condoms, even at the risk of being reprimanded by the university. Text Jane is a free service open to students who are on campus and in need of birth control. SRJ’s members take turns going on delivery shifts each Friday night from 6 to 11 p.m. Students can request male and female condoms, dental dams, lube and even pregnancy tests. A text message to SRJ’s shared Google Voice number will notify whoever is volunteering that evening, and they will meet the requester in a public place on campus. Text Jane’s peak service hours are around 8 p.m. each Friday night. Text Janet came into fruition by Loyola student Melissa Haggerty. The student ruffled feathers at her own university last fall for demanding the institution to provide wider resources for sexual assault and access to
abortion services and birth control. Junior founding member Amy Weider said that when she met Haggerty, she was convinced to bring a similar initiative to DePaul. “It kind of all started with the Text Jane idea,” Weider said. “We thought it was a good idea, but we thought, ‘We can do more than just this.’” SRJ’s mission statement reads that they “aim to create spaces on and off campus to build community and solidarity with people and groups that are affected by reproductive injustices at DePaul,” and Weider clarified that condom distribution is only the first step of sex education. Last Monday, SRJ held a general body meeting at one of their member’s off-campus apartment. There, founding member, Jennifer Holtz said that they were aware that they would likely receive pushback from the university and that from that point forward they would just be preparing for the worst. “For me, it’s a lot of mental preparation, just knowing that what we are doing could come back to bite us,” Holtz said. However, due to DePaul’s strict policies on contraceptives, the group fears being shut down. That being said, the fight for condoms on campus isn’t at all PHOTO COURTESY OF STUDENTS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE Students for Reproductive Justice hand out free condoms and other contraceptives weekly with the belief that it is “what must be done.”
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DePaul grad starts petition calling for discounted Metra tickets Metra fares are projected to increase for the fourth consecutive year and college students are calling for change. Recent DePaul graduate, Cedric Ngwa, started an online petition on change.org for discounted Metra fares for college students. Ngwa first started the petition in January of this year when he witnessed a group of students trying to buy a Metra ticket using their high school I.D. so that they would get it a discounted price. Seeing this, Ngwa realized there are many students who probably don’t have enough funds to ride the train. “I know how expensive it is to feed yourself, go to school and pay for your transportation to and from Chicago,” Ngwa said. “The average student may not be making enough in wages to where they can afford to have a weekly expense of almost $100 in transit, whether they are full-time or part-time.” According to their website, the Metra is a sister agency to the Chicago Transit Authority, providing mass transit to Chicago and some suburbs. It operates on a distancebased fare system consisting of twelve fare zones. One-
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way fares to downtown Chicago range from $3.50 from the closest zone, Zone A, to $10.50 from the farthest, Zone M. The petition calls for a reduced fare cost for one-way tickets — a $3 discount for full-time students and $1.50 for part-time students. Ngwa lived on campus his freshman year, but for the next three years of his college career he took the Metra to get to school and back home. He admits sometimes he would purchase a ticket for a stop before his destination so the price of the ticket would be a bit cheaper. “50 cents here and there, it adds up,” Ngwa said. The Metra does have discounted fares available for senior citizens, customers with disabilities, military personnel and full-time grade school and high school students. The discounted fares are not available to college students. However, the CTA does offer college students at participating institutions a U-Pass, providing unlimited
rides on the CTA for when they are enrolled full-time in school. The cost of the U-pass is charged on the student’s tuition. “There should be something in place, similar to how the CTA works with certain colleges to provide rides for students,” Ngwa said. “The Metra should have something similar as a corporation with these universities as well.” According to research by StateUniversity.com Education Encyclopedia, approximately 86 percent of college and university students are commuter students. Typically, these students commute to school, as it is more economically beneficial for them since they cannot afford to live on campus. But while these commuter students may be saving by living with their parents, transportation prices are still concerning. “Being a broke college student is real. If Metra prices keep rising, soon I’m afraid I may not have enough money for lunch,” said junior Julie Gonzalez. Gonzalez spends $12 daily if she buys two one-way tickets to get to school and back home, or $54 a week if
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Tumultuous times? Try Tibetan thought-control TIMOTHY DUKE | THE DEPAULIA
The Venerable Thubten Chodron spoke Thursday to people at the Theatre School about how to cope with the anger and aggression that is so pervasive in today’s society.
By Timothy Duke Staff Writer
As political strife, disastrous storms and a seemingly constant stream of military conflicts chip away at the hope of many people across the globe, a growing desire for a new way to find optimism and peace in a chaotic world seems to have manifested. To meet the wishes of people looking for solace in such a time of crisis, DePaul held an event featuring guest speaker The Venerable Thubten Chodron, on Thursday, Sept. 29 at the Theatre School. Chodron, a Buddhist nun, provided insight into the Buddhist modes of thought that can help people struggling through a troubling time. Chodron has studied closely under the Dalai Lama and other renowned Tibetan masters. Chodron has taught the Dharma across several countries including Italy, France, Singapore and in Seattle at the Amitabha Buddhist Center. Chodron also founded Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist monastery in America. Chodron has many books published on Buddhist philosophy, including her recently released book on the teachings of the Buddhist path, “Approaching the Buddhist Path,” the first in a series of books co-authored by the Dalai Lama called “The Library of Wisdom and Compassion.” After being introduced, the audience clapped as Chodron walked slowly up to the short stage. Her burgundy robe enveloped her as she sat down, smiling with a look of joy and compassion. “Don’t applaud me yet, you haven’t heard what I’ve said,” Chodron said. Chodron exudes humility. She guides the audience through a brief meditation before beginning her lecture. “Before we begin, let’s take a moment to think about our motivations because we’re often not aware of why we do what we do,” Chodron said. “So first, just check what your
motivation was for coming here to start with, there’s no right or wrong answers, but just why did you come here? Whatever our initial motivation was, we can build on it and expand on it to transform it into a very broad motivation from which we can learn how to let go of our weaknesses, and enhance our good qualities and talents.” Chodron believes it is one’s motivations that truly render the world anew. Chodron says if one leads their life with the primary motivation of love, joy, compassion and equanimity, instead of creating conflict, people can learn and grow. Chodron says humanity is experiencing troubling times. She reflected on when she was young in the 1960s and 1970s. “I grew up in the middle of the Vietnam War and the race riots,” Chodron said. “(At the time) I thought, ‘Wow, this is a time when we can really make some change and when we can really have an effect.’” During this time of turmoil, Chodron began to lose faith in ideas such as religion — she questioned why people would support something that causes people to kill each other. She remained cynical about religion until she began seeking classes on meditation. “When I was 24, I happened to see a flyer for a Buddhist course and I so I went to it and the rest is history,” Chodron said. “So I wound up going to Nepal and I really cherish that time living abroad because I think it really helped me as a human being in expanding my mind in many ways.” Junior Jake Broschart has been following the teachings of Chodron for a long time. “I’ve read her books, I’ve listened to her talks,” Broschart said. “This is what DePaul needs because we seem divided. These talks help people get on the same page that we are not different from one another.” Religious studies professor Frida Kerner agrees with Broschart in that she feels religious perspectives can provide guidance toward accepting people from a variety of backgrounds.
“Religion has a lot to do with social problems,” Kerner said. “It’s edifying to hear about different tools from religions that can help us solve those problems.” Chodron believes that the only thing people have control over in their lives is themselves, but most of us don’t even know our true selves. “Most of us are so out of touch with ourselves that we have very little control over our own mind and heart,” Chodron said. “As a result we are just buffeted around by external circumstance. Something that we think is pleasant arises, and our mood goes up; something we think unpleasant arises and our mood sinks down. My teacher used to tell us that we were like emotional yo-yos.” Chodron says the mind-training methods were developed to help alleviate the adversities people experience throughout their lives. Chodron explains how today’s world is wrought with challenges and how these 12th century mind-training exercises are still applicable today. “(The teaching) starts out talking about us living in an age of degeneration,” Chodron said. “It very much is an age of degeneration today in that there is a lot of war, at least more ways to harm and kill each other than in previous gens. Beings have more distorted views on things and so much more confusion in their lives. Beings have much more disturbing emotions flying off the radar be it
“Most of us are so out of touch with ourselves that we have very little control over our hearts and minds.” Thubten Chodron Buddhist nun
anger or greed or self-centeredness.” Chodron says it is during these times of great difficulty when humans can truly cultivate control over these mental trainings. During times of ease and relaxation, people tend to become lazier and people usually rise to action during times of great distress. “There are two choices in dealing with difficulties: you can either get depressed and give up, or you get full of energy and engage and make a positive contribution,” Chodron said. “You can either sink or you can swim, and I don’t know about you, but I would rather swim. Which one we choose is completely up to us.” As long as the path one takes is positive, Chodron says that life will be fulfilling. “If we just say it’s difficult and there’s nothing we can do, then we’re making our own direction, and where is that going to take us? Not anywhere good.” Chodron said. Chodron says people will find peace far easier if they treat everyone with love and compassion. According to Chodron, everyone wants happiness and wants to be free of suffering equally, so if one takes this assumption and applies to all living beings, one can cultivate a new understanding for people of differing views. “If we can approach each and every living being with this kind of knowledge of how we’re exactly the same,then you can find a way to communicate with everybody,” Chodron said. Finding this way to talk with everyone in a polite manner is quintessential to a fulfilling life for Chodron. “We can put people in infinite categories and find some reason why they are different from us and why we don’t want to associate with them,” Chodron said “But if we look beyond categories, we can tune into that very important sentient being nature of wanting happiness and not wanting suffering. Everything everyone does is in an effort to be happy.”
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“Hope,” by Clarence Franklin is a call to end the violence that plagues Chicago. It is painted with messages of encouragement for children. On the back of “Hope” is a plea to “let our kids grow up.”
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Almost 200 German Shepherd police dog statues painted by various Chicago artists are on display in the Loop. The project was a part of the “K9s for Cops” campagin, a cooperative effort launched by the Chicago Police Department, Chicago Memorial Police Foundation and PAWS Chicago. The campaign is to pay homage to fallen police officers by raising money for their families, as well as to provide free neutering and spaying services for animals in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The statues are primarily installed on Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and Wacker Drive, but a few can also be found on streets adjacent to the Magnificent Mile.
Each 4-foot statue is funded through $2,000 donations by various Chicago donors, ranging from individual police officers to Lagunitas Brewing Company and the Chicago Cubs. The project was inspired by the “Horses of Honor” campaign in which 125 life-size horses that similarly aimed to honor fallen police officers. The horses were auctioned off after they were removed, bringing in $480,000 to financially aid the families of slain officers and purchase bulletproof vests for the Chicago Police Department. The dogs will also be auctioned off after their tour of duty is complete. The date they will be removed is still to be decided.
“Chance” by MKS Art pays tribute to Chicago’s rich music culture.
“Cosmic Charlie,” painted by Sheila Swann, keeps a close eye over the Magnificent Mile.
Besides honoring officers, the statue Chicago’s history and art, but some are just painted to look interesting.
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Senator Dick Durbin proposes bill to lower textbook prices By Evelyn Baker Nation & World Editor
Illinois senator Dick Durbin held a press conference call on Tuesday, Sept. 27 with two of his fellow senators Al Franken, D-MN, and Angus King, I-ME, to reintroduce the Affordable College Textbook Act. The proposed act aims to create alternatives to the rising prices of college textbooks in order to remove at least one obstacle from attending a higher education facility. “Textbook costs are one of the most overlooked barriers to college affordability and access,” Durbin said. The price of textbooks has risen 88 percent between 2006 and 2016, compared to a 63 percent increase of college tuition and fees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index. In order to achieve affordability, the proposed bill will grant pilot programs in colleges and universities across the country to help “students, faculty and academic communities to develop resources… that otherwise might not be available,” King said. Sophomore Eliyah Rios spends roughly $200 to $300 on textbooks each quarter and says it’s too much. For one of his classes, he chose not to buy the $190 textbook and saw his grade suffer. “I didn’t do as well in the class without it,” Rios said. “And I couldn’t find (the textbook) anywhere used for a cheaper price.” If DePaul had an open textbook instead, Rios said he would have used it. One goal of the act requires institutes
that receive funding to report how much money students will save to determine its effectiveness. The Government Accountability Office will supposedly be required to report to Congress any change in the price trends of college textbooks. Originally introduced in October 2015, the bill was referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on the same day where it has remained untouched. A member of the committee, Franken said the Affordable College Textbook Act has not yet been addressed because the same committee has been preoccupied with health care lately. “We did some great bipartisan hearings on shoring up the (Affordable Care Act) and I think we’ll be resuming the negotiations,” Franken said. The two year delay can be attributed to the slow workings of the senate, Durbin said. “The Senate moves exceedingly slow and we’ve been waiting on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act,” Durbin said. Signed in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson, the Higher Education Act (HEA) has since been rewritten eight times. Another revision of the act was extended from 2013 to 2016, which Congress is currently working on. By attaching the Affordable Textbook Act to the HEA, Durbin and King agreed it is likely to have a better chance at getting through to the senate. “It’s difficult to get an individual bill like this to the floor of the U.S. senate,” King said. “You have to connect it to another major bill whose train is already leaving the station.” A 2015 Brigham Young study as well as a 2017 Achieving the Dream study found
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College textbook prices have nearly doubled since 2006, something Durbin wants to change.
using open educational resources can help students complete their courses, get better grades and also take more credits. Marissa Malta graduated from DePaul in spring 2016 with a double major in Economics and Arabic. She spent anywhere between $70 to $200 on textbooks each quarter during her four years at DePaul, saying that the price fluctuation usually depended on whether or not she was taking math classes. “I felt like I always needed the books for my classes even if I didn’t touch the book during the quarter,” Malta said. If her classes at DePaul had utilized more open textbooks, Malta said she “would have read (her textbooks) more.” Perceivable opposition to the bill include textbook publishers, which will
receive pressure to lower their prices to be competitive with universities that offer open educational resources, Franken said. The price of creating and producing college textbooks the bill aims to defer from college students will instead be paid through grants funded by tax dollars. Senator Durbin is also part of threemember team headed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, introducing the Bill to Reform Higher Education Accreditation and Strengthen Accountability for Students and Taxpayers. The bill “would allow students who are facing student debt to consolidate debts and lower the interest rates,” Durbin said. The bill has been unsuccessful so far when brought before the senate.
CONDOMS continued from front page new. In 2000, The DePaulia reported that fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon’s condom distribution was halted at the annual Involvement Fair. Brian Ludwig, a thenactive member of the fraternity, said that his organization was able to hand out about 50 condoms before being asked to stop. The fraternity admitted that part of it was an act of publicity for their organization, but DePaul was still quick to discipline the brothers. Similarly, in 2015 DePaul Feminist Front created an online petition seeking to change the university’s contraceptive policy. The petition only reached 1,339 valid signatures of the 1,500 needed to be submitted 30 days prior to the next Student Government Association elections, kicking the initiative, which would have presented as a referendum question, off the ballot. “From my perspective, the policy is that we are unable to distribute condoms to students for any reason mainly because of our connection to the archdiocese,” said Alyssa Rickman, coordinator of Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW). “I don’t see that policy changing in any sort of way.” Although the Catholic Church has changed its stance on contraceptives in recent years, DePaul and other Catholic institutions likely will not budge when it comes to providing students with birth control. “We physically can’t hand (condoms) out. We do care about our student’s sexual health, so not distributing condoms does not necessarily mean that we don’t care,” Rickman said. “It’s just a matter of our obligation to the archdiocese.” Despite being aware of DePaul’s policy against contraceptives, SRJ hasn’t lost hope. Holtz and Weider said they plan to work with other student organizations, including Students Against Incarceration, to spread
their message. “There’s definitely a fear (...) because of what happened with the administration over at Loyola and I would hope that DePaul would care about its community and let us exist,” Holtz said. Haggerty was threatened with the removal of her scholarships at Loyola for using Text Jane to provide students with condoms. Holtz said they are still cautious and don’t feel discouraged even as a group that is not affiliated with the university. Rickman
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said that because they are students at DePaul operating on DePaul property that they still need to comply by the rules. In 2011, DePaul ranked last (#141) in Trojan’s Sexual Health Report Card, which uses on information on sexual health resources from 140 institutions — both private and public — to rank them. Over the years, DePaul’s ranking has risen before sinking back down again in 2016, placing the university at spot 125.
Most DePaul community members share skepticism over the results of Trojan’s report card, as did Holtz and Weider, but Weider noted that DePaul is also a private, for-profit institution, so SRJ is going to take DePaul’s policy and the reasoning with the same grain of salt. Rickman said that connections the HPW office and the university has with outside resources, like the Center on Halsted, have been set up so that students can still find the resources that they need in order to practice having safe sex. “I totally understand why there’s frustration around this policy,” said Hannah Retzkin, sexual and relationship violence prevention specialist at HPW. “(DePaul) is a private institution at the end of the day and it is a religious institution. That’s the policy that the institution has decided to uphold (...) and as student organization who are a part of the DePaul community they must uphold that.” In an American College Health Association campus-wide survey distributed by HPW last spring, only 35.4 percent of the 368 students polled said that they had received prevention information on sexually transmitted diseases and infections. HPW said that they recognize there is more that needs to be done, but starting the conversation is the first of many steps. “There are institutions (...) that don’t even talk about sex,” Retzkin said. “We don’t want that — but we have to uphold that the university has to follow this policy.” Having HIV testing and events like “Sex In The Dark,” which will happen Monday, Oct. 2 at 6.pm., show that the university values sexual health, even if contraceptives cannot be delivered on campus, Retzkin said. The Dean of Students Office was not immediately available for comment.
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From prisoner to upstanding citizen: a gang member’s journey By Erica Carbajal Contributing Writer
A former West Side Chicago gang member who struggled with drug addiction now dedicates her life to serving her community and helping to mediate violence on inner city streets. On Aug. 9, 2011, Angalia Bianca walked out of prison for the last time after serving a total of 12 years. She then spent seven months in the Safe Haven program where she immediately immersed herself in volunteer work. “I made a promise to God that if he took the taste of the streets and heroin out of my mouth that I would help people until the day I die…I just started volunteering to keep my promise while I was there,” Bianca said. Bianca now works at CeaseFire as a violence interrupter and data specialist where she and her colleagues often risk their lives to stop violence. After an eight-hour day in the office, Bianca said she is technically free to go home, but instead she continues her volunteer work. “I go into the streets because I know the streets and I have to continue feeding my need to save lives,” Bianca said. “I work a lot and I’m OK with it. I love my job.” Her work isn’t limited to Chicago Bianca has travelled to Nova Scotia and Abu Dhabi to speak about the spread of violence and to train people on conflict mediation. Andre Thomas, a coworker and friend, said he has learned about his own experiences through Bianca. “I learned from her that this problem doesn’t just affect African-Americans, or black and brown, it affects other people too,” Thomas said. CeaseFire colleague Jerusha Hodge ff
admires Bianca’s humility. “She never once acted like she was better than anyone else,” Hodge said. Hodge said she has seen some people let recovery get to their head and develop an arrogance when working with those who are still struggling, but with Bianca it’s different. “She always acts as if she is still recovering,” Hodge said. While there are many moments Bianca has risked her life to mediate violence, the one that stands out occurred when she wasn’t on the clock. After witnessing a shooting while driving through the streets of Chicago, Bianca approached the 15-year-old victim. The shooters fled, and she kept him alert and helped saved his life until an ambulance arrived. Mayor Rahm Emanuel then honored the courageous act with a Resolution for Bravery Award, but for Bianca, that wasn’t the point. “It’s not really about the awards, it’s about saving lives for me,” Bianca said. Aside from volunteering and her career, Bianca is also an author. She is currently working on a memoir of her life. “It’s a true life, brutally honest journey. I’m excited because I know it will help a lot of people,” Bianca said. Bianca plans to donate a portion of her books’ proceeds to prisons in hopes of inspiring those who struggled with harmful lifestyles. As for the future, Bianca said she’ll never stop. “ “I love being in the streets,” Bianca said. “I love volunteering, I love helping others and I love being involved.” PHOTO COURTESEY OF ANGALIA BIANCA
Angalia Bianca received the Resolution for Bravery Award from Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: September 20 - September 26, 2017 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
LOOP CAMPUS
Seton Hall 1
Sheffield Square 4
5
3
3 2
Sheffield Ave.
Munroe Hall
5 6
3 8
DePaul Center
6 4
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS SEPTEMBER 21 1) An illegal consumption
of alcohol by a minor report was filed for a person at Seton Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital by Chicago EMS.
SEPTEMBER 22 2) A battery report
was filed regarding an incident that occurred on Sheffield Ave.
SEPTEMBER 23 3) A smell of marijuana report was filed for a
room at Munroe Hall. No drugs were found.
Assault & Theft
Drug & Alcohol
SEPTEMBER 24 4) A possession of cannabis report was filed for
a room at Sheffield Square Apartments. Chicago Police were called and took a person into custody.
Other
LOOP CAMPUS SEPTEMBER 22 5) A criminal trespass
report was filed for a person making racial remarks in the library at the DePaul Center. Person was escorted out of the building.
SEPTEMBER 26 6) A battery report was filed for a person who was tripped by a subject in the DePaul Center. Chicago Police were called and person was taken into custody.
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Vincentian Prayer Breakfast recognizes DePaul activists By Benjamin Conboy News Editor
Attendees of the Vincentian Prayer Breakfast gathered the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 27 to share a meal and prayer service while recognizing the recent accomplishments of the DePaul Dax Program. Student Government Association (SGA) vice president Gracie Covarrubias kicked off the breakfast by taking a moment to reflect on St. Vincent DePaul’s living legacy at DePaul. “Now more than ever, it is important to create spaces such as this to reflect on 400 years of the Vincentian mission,” Covarrubias said. Fr. Joseph Dien, a Vietnamese Vincentian scholar currently studying at DePaul’s English Language Academy, led the breakfast’s opening prayer that memorialized St. Vincent’s devotion to serving those in need. “Through (St. Vincent’s) deeds and examples, his immense love and mercy, we are very happy to inherit his legacy, which is evangelizing the poor and helping them in practical ways,” Dien said. “May we overcome our own troubles to bring joy to the sorrowful, happiness to the mourning and consolation to the afflicted.” Attendees ranging from President A.
Gabriel Esteban to neighborhood locals enjoyed a bountiful breakfast before hearing the keynote speakers. The program coordinator of the DePaul Dax Program, a subset of the global Vincentian group DePaul International, Sr. Judy Warmbold, D.C., began the keynote session by introducing the program and its mission. “Homelessness has no place anywhere,” Warmbold said. “This is the motto of DePaul International.” The program’s roots can be traced back to 1989 where it began in England. From there, it expanded to Ireland, France, Ukraine, Slovakia and Croatia. Twenty-five years later, it was adopted at DePaul University in 2014 as a result of the Dean of Students Office highlighting the issue of homeless students. The Vincentian Family in Chicago estimated there are at least 50 homeless students at DePaul every quarter. “Our initiative is to address and erase the situation of DePaul University’s students facing hard times, housing insecurity and homelessness,” Warmbold continued. “Vincent said, ‘The things of God develop of themselves.’ I think these words tell the story of our Dax Program.” The program has previously paired atrisk students with volunteers willing to host them in their homes for one quarter. Abraham Morris, the program director of DePaul’s Dax Program, said that the organization is taking steps to eliminate the
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Sr. Judy Warmbold, D.C., speaks about the work the DePaul Dax Program is doing. need for volunteers and provide the at-risk students with on-campus housing. “I’m happy to announce DePaul opened its first Dax house on Sept. 15,” Morris said. “Two students have already moved in.” The need to create housing independent of hosts came after Morris was approached by homeless students living with volunteers who were saying they felt like a burden on their families. Morris began his keynote speech by sharing a story about his own close encounter where financial issues almost ended his college education at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Morris got an email from his financial advisor saying he had an overdue balance on his tuition account of $1,300. His FAFSA money, in conjunction with a personal safety-net loan of $1,000, still left him in the red. He tried to get another personal loan so he could continue classes, but his disabled
mother’s credit score was too low to cosign for him. He was left with no other option but to drop out of college and move home. As he was preparing to go home, his financial advisor called him and said there had been an error. His balance was $13, not $1,300. “I know what it’s like to wonder whether you can continue your education because of financial troubles,” Morris said. Nashal Hashemian, a junior and an executive assistant to the SGA, said she decided to come to the event after becoming interested in how she could utilize the Vincentian ideology to do good by others. “I’ve really begun to reflect on myself and what the Vincentian mission means to me,” Hashemian said. “After listening to these speakers, I realized just how much more that I can do.”
METRA continued from front page she buys a 10-ride ticket. Purchasing a monthly pass isn’t an option for her as she can’t afford to spend almost $200 at once. “It sucks because I go to school full-time and so automatically I have to get a U-Pass, it’s charged to my tuition,” Gonzalez said. “Why can’t I get that same transportation benefit for the Metra?” A discounted student fare would take some stress off of students since Metra prices will continue to increase each year. Metra announced the fare increases are part of a 10-year “$2.4 billion modernization plan” to buy new coach cars and rebuild train engines. But commuters argue that an increase in fares seem unfair when there are no improvements in the service provided by Metra. “I understand fully that public transportation in Chicago needs appropriate funding in order to continue to provide around the clock transportation via bus, train, or subway train. But it is inappropriate to continue to charge these commuting students, and in some cases the family of these students, higher and higher fare cost simply because Metra has a monopoly on train transportation,” Ngwa’s petition reads. Senior Jack Wagner travels from the South Side of Chicago four to six days a week for work and school. His schedule varies quarter to quarter, but on average he spends close to $50 weekly on Metra tickets. “I think the petition is fair,” Wagner said. “If Metra thinks they’d be losing money by giving college students a discounted fare rate then they should consider how much money they are losing when their conductors don’t collect fares. I have been on crowded trains during morning rush and not seen a conductor pass through the car. I can only imagine how much revenue does not get collected daily.”
As of Saturday night, the petition has close to 14,000 signatures. Ngwa’s shortterm goal is to reach 15,000 supporters, but he would ideally like to obtain upwards of 50,000 signatures before delivering it to the CEO of Metra and Gov. Bruce Rauner. “I’ve reached out to the Student Government Association and the DePaul Transfer Student Union,” Ngwa said. “My next plan of action is to have in-person meetings and conversations with students on the importance of this. This is not just for DePaul but for students from UIC, Loyola University, Columbia College, and various other universities as well.” This petition is for all students who travel in and out of the city for school. To sign the petition, please visit change.org and search “Metra discount for college students.” Your information will stay private.
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The price of a montly Metra pass has more than quadrupled since 1974, and prices are still rising.
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June 2017 saw a totla of 6,941,185 riders on all of Metra’s lines. However, overall ridership has been declining at a rate of almost 2 percent per year.
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Disaster in paradise
Satellites all over the island were destroyed by Hurricane Irma, leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without access to the internet, radio or television news stations.
Photos courtesy of Carlos Jiménez Flores, Hugo Infante and Pedro Colón Figueroa Text by Amber Colón Editor-in-Chief
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Telephone poles block many of the roads in Puerto Rico, such as this one in Dorado.
When Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico on Sept. 19, the entire island’s was devastated. Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, said that it would likely be 15 years before Puerto Rico would ever look like it did just a few weeks ago. Cruz has been living in a shelter for the past two weeks since her home was destroyed in the storm, all while traveling to those in need on foot. While she’s been demanding that President Donald Trump send more than a few thousand troops to Puerto Rico, as those living on the island are U.S. citizens, Trump
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has criticized Cruz for her “lack of leadership.” I visited Puerto Rico in March, and one of the things I kept thinking about was what to do if a tsunami or hurricane were to hit the island. Growing up in Chicago, I’ve never had to know how to prepare for a storm like Maria. Puerto Ricans everywhere knew that a Category 5 storm like Maria would hit the island hard, but no one could have prepared for a power outage that would last six to eight months, grocery stores running out of food and bottled water or four hour lines for fuel.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CARLOS JIMÉNEZ FLORES Despite homes being flooded in La Perla, a neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, residents managed to look on the bright side and throw an impromptu diving party.
PHOTO COURTESY OF PEDRO COLÓN FIGUEROA Resident of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Pedro Colón Figueroa, 86, goes through his belongings to see what he can salvage as a thick layer of mud covers the floor of his living room.
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RAMON ESPINOSA | AP DARRON CUMMINGS | AP Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price People affected by Hurricane Maria bathe in water piped announced Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 he is resigning amid from a creek in the mountains in Naranjito, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. criticism of his travel on private planes.
GEMUNU AMARASINGHE | AP A Rohingya Muslim girl rests on a pile of bags as she waits with others to walk towards a camp for refugees after crossing into Bangladesh Sept. 29, 2017.
Trump's health secretary resigns in travel flap
Myanmar refugee exodus tops 500,000 as more Rohingya flee
washington D.C. President Donald Trump's health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration's agenda and angered his boss. Tom Price's regrets and partial repayment couldn't save his job. The Health and Human Services secretary became the first member of the president's Cabinet to be pushed out in a turbulent young administration that has seen several high-ranking White House aides ousted. A former GOP congressman from the Atlanta suburbs, Price served less than eight months. Publicly, Trump had said he was "not happy" with Price for repeatedly using private charter aircraft for official trips on the taxpayer's dime, when cheaper commercial flights would have done in many cases. Privately, Trump has been telling associates in recent days that his health chief had become a distraction. Trump felt that Price was overshadowing his tax overhaul agenda and undermining his campaign promise to "drain the swamp" of corruption, according to three people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity. On Friday the president called Price a "very fine person," but added, "I certainly don't like the optics." Price said in his resignation letter that he regretted that "recent events have created a distraction." The flap prompted scrutiny of other Cabinet members' travel, as the House Oversight and Government Reform committee launched a governmentwide investigation of top political appointees.Initially, Price's office said the secretary's busy scheduled forced him to use charters from time to time. But later Price's response changed, and he said he'd heard the criticism and concern, and taken it to heart.
teknaf, bangledash He trekked to Bangladesh as part of an exodus of a half million people from Myanmar, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades. But after climbing out of a boat on a creek on Friday, Mohamed Rafiq could go no further. He collapsed onto a muddy spit of land cradling his wife in his lap — a limp figure so exhausted and so hungry she could no longer walk or even raise her wrists. The couple had no food, no money, no idea what to do next. Their two traumatized children huddled close beside them, unsure what to make of the country they had arrived in just hours earlier, in the middle of the night. Rafiq said their third child, an 8-month-old boy, had been left behind. Buddhist mobs in Myanmar burned the child to death, he said, after setting their village ablaze while security forces stood idly by — part of a systematic purge of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Buddhist-majority Myanmar that the United Nations has condemned as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing." Five weeks after the mass exodus began on Aug. 25, the U.N. says the total number of arrivals in Bangladesh has now topped 501,000. The crisis began when a Rohingya insurgent group launched attacks with rifles and machetes on a series of security posts in Myanmar on Aug. 25, prompting the military to launch a brutal round of "clearance operations" in response. Those fleeing have described indiscriminate attacks by security forces and Buddhist mobs, including monks, as well as killings and rapes. "We don't ever want to go back," a stunned Rafiq said, describing his family's ordeal as Bangladeshi volunteers stuffed a small wad of cash into his hand and gave their children biscuits. Another man offered a bottle of water, and Rafiq poured some into his wife's mouth as she lay in his arms, staring blankly at the sky. "This is not our home. It is not our country," Rafiq said. "But at least, we feel safe here."
Aid flows to Puerto Rico but many still lack water and food San Juan, Puerto Rico Thousands of Puerto Ricans were finally getting water and food rations Friday as an aid bottleneck began to ease, but many remained cut off from the basic necessities of life and were desperate for power, communications and other trappings of normality in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There were many people around the country, especially outside the capital, who were unable to get water, gas or generator fuel. That was despite the fact that military trucks laden with water bottles and other supplies began to reach various parts of Puerto Rico and U.S. federal officials pointed to progress in the recovery effort, insisting that more gains would come soon. In some cases, aid that was being distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was simply not enough to meet demand on an island of 3.4 million people where nearly everyone was still without power, half were without running water in their homes and the economy was still crippled from the effects of the storm that swept across the U.S. territory as a fierce Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 20. "I haven't seen any help and we're running out of water," said Pedro Gonzalez, who was clearing debris to earn some money in the northern coast town of Rio Grande. Increasingly desperate and with a daughter with Down syndrome to support, he had already decided to move to Louisiana to stay with relatives. "We're getting out of here." FEMA was in the town the previous two days to distribute meal packets, water
and snacks. But people said they hadn't been able to get there in time. "This has been a complete disaster," said 64-year-old retiree Genny Cordero as she filled plastic trash cans with water at the home of a neighbor who was among the lucky ones to have service restored. Those who made it, however, were grateful. "This will help somewhat, so we don't starve," said Anthony Jerena, a 33-year-old father of two teenagers who had managed to get two boxes of water, each containing 24 bottles and, three packages of meals-ready-to-eat. Yolanda Lebron, spokeswoman for the Rio Grande mayor, said they used a car with a loudspeaker to announce that FEMA would be registering people for aid, but did not mention there would be food and water given out. "We didn't dare," she said. "We didn't know if we were going to have enough." Gov. Ricard Rossello and other officials said they were aware of people's deepening frustration and of the difficulty, and danger, of living on a sweltering tropical island with no air conditioning and little to no water. He blamed some of the delay on the logistical challenge of getting aid shipments out of the seaports and airports, all of which were knocked out of commission in the storm, and then distributing the supplies on debris-strewn streets. Rossello said Friday that the government would seize all food still sitting in containers at the port that private business owners had not yet claimed and would distribute it to people for free.
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Not all opinions deserve the same coverage By Rachel Fernandez Managing Editor
Reporting on controversial issues and opinions of public interest is never easy for journalists. The New York Times recently published an article headlined “Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far.” The piece focused on a “fringe element of men who say women are ruining the tech world,” and reported their views and opinions on why they feel like they are being marginalized as their work environment strives to be more diverse. The story takes quotes from certain men who share similar views, however there are very few fact-based counterpoints presented in the article even though that evidence exists. For news pieces, it is the responsibility of the reporter to make sure that the audience is provided enough context within the article to make an informed opinion on the information being presented. Even though the piece notes that this is a relatively small group of men who feel this way, journalism instructor Amy Merrick believes that “what resulted was giving this group of people an uncritical platform to express these fringe views that are really not based on research
or case studies about what happens in the workplace.” Much of the interest in exploring these opinions came from the publication of a memo written by Google engineer James Damore, who claimed that women were biologically inferior to men when it came to technology related jobs. In his memo, Damore used selective studies to back up his claims and stated that “fellow Googlers express(ed) their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues which they agree with but would never have the courage to say or defend because of our shaming culture and the possibility of being fired.” So, naturally, the public would want to know about the other people who felt this way which led to the New York Times article. “I think that if there are people out there that’s saying that women aren’t biologically equal to men and that’s why they shouldn't be in that industry, they need to be challenged with straight facts to back up why that’s not true, because that’s all that we as reporters can do,” senior journalism major April Lane said. Although coverage of these opinions is certainly of public interest, they truly hold no merit in a larger societal framework. However, very little of that
background information was provided in the New York Times article. The article mentions that “studies and surveys show there is no denying the travails women face in the male-dominated industry,” but does not draw on or link to any of those studies. Instead, the story points to some recent sexual harassment lawsuits and quotes from figures with opposing viewpoints. While they are valid counterarguments, they narrow the scope of how systematic this problem is. “There’s always a role for the reporter in providing context,” Merrick said. “We have a lot of social-scientific research and business case studies about how people of other genders perform at work, and I think there is certainly good reason to include some of that in the story.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest percentage of women in computer and mathematical occupations peaked at 36 percent in 1991 and has been declining since. The Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey in 2016 has that number at 25.5 percent. In a 2014 study, Fenwick & West LLP law firm found that women only make up 11 percent of executive positions in Silicon Valley companies. The National Center for Women in Technology published research on how implicit bias,
such as referring to potential candidates as “he,” reinforces sexist stereotypes in technical workplaces. Regardless of how the men in the New York Times article feel, their systematic power is not going away any time soon. These statistics also only represent cisgender workers in the field, excluding transgender people and a growing population that rejects gender binaries. The reporter of the New York Times story, Nellie Bowles, has spent her career covering technology, Silicon Valley and Internet culture for the Guardian, Vice News Tonight and currently at the Times. She has been involved and ingrained in the culture for much of her career and is no doubt aware of the men who hold these opinions. The readers, on the other hand, may not have the same background knowledge. While Bowles presented some opposing viewpoints, there is more data and social-scientific research that can easily counteract the opinions she was reporting on. “There is always a danger in assuming that readers will reach the same conclusions that you do,” Merrick said. “You have to recognize that you have to construct your point step-bystep, provide different types of evidence and not expect that people have the knowledge in
that particular domain to fill in the gaps themselves.” Alex Moy, a graphic design and animation double major in the College of Computing and Digital Media, “felt like [the New York Times article] was setting up for a rebuttal that never came.” Although he does not hear those views expressed outwardly in the circles he has been a part of, he recognizes that they extend beyond the tech industry. “These men in Silicon Valley have just positioned themselves within spaces where they feel empowered to voice their opinions amongst one another,” Moy said. “How can they preach that their new tech and products will change the world, without actively taking the steps to change the world?” When presenting the views of people who have historically been in power, it is important to use more concrete data and evidence rather than just the voice of an opposing viewpoint. Giving opinions that systematically undermine others on such a big platform without providing enough context creates a notion of false equivalencies. Women should be able to make arguments based personal experiences, but for now, facts are the only weapons we have.
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Twitter expands tweet length, sacrifices clarity in the process By Natalie Taylor Opinions Editor
Sounding off on Twitter just got an upgrade. On Tuesday, Sept. 26, Twitter announced it will test the idea of expanding tweets to 280 characters or less. Twitter’s online announcement claims they are, “giving you more characters to express yourself.” The change comes out of users’ frustration of continuously hitting character limits without fully expressing ideas. The original tweet limit was based on the size of an sms message, 160 characters. Twitter allotted 140 characters for text and 20 characters for a username. The short amount of space Twitter granted encouraged careful editing in order to effectively get across ideas. For this reason, DePaul professor of communications Kelli Marshall incorporated Twitter into her film studies courses. “Twitter forced my students to think and to write critically about films using as few words as possible,” Marshall said. “The 140-character limit always made them get to ‘the meat of the issue,’ so to speak. They didn’t have enough space to write fluff.” Short character limits encouraged better writing. It forced users to get to the point, use concise language, and cut out repetition. Lengthening tweets will not only negatively impact grammar, but
also give “Twitter trolls” a larger platform to disseminate their ideas. The current practice for stringing long-form thoughts together is through a tweet thread. This practice is lengthy, making arguments separated and unmoving. In other words, a 140 character limit makes a Twitter troll’s argument less powerful due to its fragmented delivery. Expanding tweets to 280 characters will give trolls more space to attack others and make messages more impactful due to their collective delivery. “ I don't think this (280 characters) will significantly change U.S. Twitter practices, except that we can say in one tweet what we used to say in two,” said Paul Booth, DePaul professor of Media and Cinema Studies. “People will still troll, will still spread memes, will still interact. People, in other words, will still be people.” Trolls on Twitter will remain no matter the character count. However, expanding the amount of room trolls have to spread messages will only hurt the platform. On the other hand, it is important to think about Twitter’s character limits in a global perspective. The increased character limit will make the social site globally focused, giving all languages the opportunity to fully communicate ideas. Booth said, “While the original 140 character limit was originally imposed to fit within text messaging limitations, those
same limits no longer apply. In the U.S. we often forget that people from other countries use Twitter as well, so upping the character limit to 280 can help people in other languages (where more characters are needed to communicate).” While this is an issue for languages such as English, French or Spanish, languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean do not experience issues with hitting character limits. The average tweet in Japanese reaches 15 characters, as the Japanese language allows one to say more with fewer characters. Twitter’s announcement of the character change noted that an average tweet in English is 34 characters long. Twitter tested the 280-character limit with a small amount of users, many of whom pointed out the absurdity of the new length. Users began adding signatures to tweets and editing down 280 character tweets to fit into the 140-character limit. Vice editor Caitlyn Kelly shortened Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s 280-character announcement of expanded tweets back to the 140 character format. This exemplifies how 280 characters promotes repetitive language and gives users the opportunity to ramble, when the same idea could be communicated in a smaller amount of words. DePaul Senior Sydney Varner said, "I'm glad I don't have to knowingly
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make as many grammatical errors but then again I think some people should be restricted to those 140-character responses." 280-characters would allow for less abreviations, but overall less thought out, edited tweets. Whether or not Twitter will permanently expand all tweets to 280 characters or not, longer tweets take away from the essence of the site.
NCAA death penalty punishes fans the most By Andrew Hattersley Contributing Writer
Sports scandals at Penn State, Baylor and Louisville, on multiple occasions have posed questions about whether one of these schools should become the first since Southern Methodist University in 1986 to receive the NCAA’s harshest form of punishment: the death penalty. The penalty calls for a program to be disbanded for as long as two seasons if found guilty of major violations twice in five years. That was the case with SMU, which was placed on probation in the early 1980s before receiving the penalty. What the late Joe Paterno, Art Briles and allegedly Rick Pitino did at their respective programs are abhorrent and deserve to be dealt with in the harshest manner. Punishments could include show cause penalties, multiple postseason bans and loss of scholarships, but the death penalty should not be used. One of the trickle-down effects of the death penalty is punishing fans, coaches and athletes decades later who may not have ever been associated with the program at the time of punishment. SMU is a reminder of the difficulty in recovering from a steep punishment. After spending four years as an undergraduate student in the SMU program, from 2011-15, it is evident that the penalty is a painful reminder for SMU fans of where the program was-- and its desire to get back to that level. Former SMU student Chris Sellers said, “(The death penalty) ultimately punishes the fans and the student athletes way worse than the people who were involved in the cheating.”
According to the report provided by the Committee of Infractions, the NCAA found 13 football players at SMU were paid approximately $61,000 each from September 1985 to December 1986. The punishment for the crime was crushing for SMU in multiple ways, affecting the win column, attendance and the overall environment on game day. “After the death penalty we were bad for so long that we lost an entire generation of fans.” Sellers said, “A generation of alumni went to SMU and football was not part of their experience.” The stiff penalty also hurt SMU in recruitment and left them behind in battles to join major conferences. Former SMU student Austin Michelsen said, “The program struggled to get high caliber recruits and was left behind when the Big 12 was formed.” Since the penalty, SMU has gone 98-216-3 through 2016, with just four winning seasons since reopening the program in 1989. That record is a steep drop-off from their 149-147-8 record in the same timespan prior to the penalty. After competing for national championships in the years prior, SMU was now fighting to finish with winning records. The penalty also hit SMU hard in terms of attendance, even though it has improved in recent years, the team averaged just over 33,000 fans per game prior to the penalty, but that has dropped steeply to just above 20,000 since. “The game day environment is full of an older generation and young alumni, there is a missing age group of middle aged people,” Sellers said. In 2017, attendance has seen a slight
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SMU running back Braeden West breaks away from TCU cornerback Julius Lewis during a game in Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.
uptick to over 22,000 over their first couple home games, but according to former SMU student Alex Brown, who still lives in the area, there has been an improvement in attendance, but there is still a gap amongst young alumni. Brown said, “The student sections at games is relatively full, and the west side of the stadium, older alumni, has been really full. The weak part of the stadium is the young alumni section, which I believe is caused by the program being so bad.” Taking away basketball at Louisville due to program's work with adidas to pass $100,000 to an unnamed recruit would be taking away a key opportunity for the students at those schools to band together as a community to root on its team.
Students are not the people who have committed infractions, unlike Paterno and Briles, but by handing out the death penalty it is the crowd that is punished. A postseason ban is going to hurt the student body, but at the very least they get to enjoy a regular season full of memories and an opportunity to join together. It’s taken almost 20 years for SMU to recover. The NCAA needs to be careful they don’t make another fan base go through this sort of rebuild after seeing what happened with the Mustangs the first time.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Let’s go All the tea on
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Close to 200 clubs and organizations gathered for two days at the Lincoln Park and Loop involvement fairs. These fairs aim to strike interest from new or returning students looking to get involved. Students utilize clubs in a variety of ways, ranging from professional development to networking to finding a solid group on campus they can always depend on. For transfer student, Tiffany Lucas, Asian Cultural Exhange club allowed her to go from not knowing anybody, to developing some of her closest friends. “I mean there was some awkwardness at first,” Lucas said, “but I realized after a while that it was a nice place to be and actually probably all my closest friends come from this club.” One of the most enjoyable parts for student involvement coordinator Kristin Hagen is seeing a group of students come up with an idea they are excited about and pursue it. “I think with some of the new ones it’s always really cool to see a group of people who are really passionate and really excited about whatever topic it is,” Hagen said. With anywhere between 325 to 350 organizations, one of the main focuses moving forward is to ensure all groups have the support they need from the office. One of the ways they plan to accomplish this is by hosting a student organization success training program to build skills in event management, budget planning, stress management and conflict management among others. “We’re enacting this training program to help clubs to be better organizations, be happier as leaders, be more successful,” Hagen said. Student Veterans Association leader Eric King certainly appreciates the help he has received from DePaul whether it’s through funding or other methods. “I can’t even count how many offices I’ve gotten help from personally,” King said, “I can’t even begin to count out how many resources I’m aware of that DePaul offers veterans far beyond the financial part of it.” Rarely does the office turn down any organization, with the only reason so far being the club already exists, and even that is a tough message to deliver. “It’s tough, one of the really key things that we really only say no to is if that club already exists on campus,” Hagen said, “If you want to start a knitting club and there’s one already started maybe it makes sense for you to be a part of that one, it’s established and things like that, right now that’s the only reason we have said no in the past.”
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CDM welcomes screenwriting industry professionals By Shelby Wheeler Contributing Writer
On Saturday, DePaul’s screenwriting students and other CDM majors came out to attend the Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference held in DePaul’s Loop campus. “There’s a lot of festival events, contests for filmmakers, actors and fans, but not a lot for writers so the idea about creating Courier 12 was to give screenwriters a day with excellent talent from across the industry to exchange ideas,” said Brad Riddell, producer of feature films for Fox, Sony and Universal and a DePaul digital cinema professor. “It’s a day to celebrate writers.” DePaul digital cinema students that majored specifically in screenwriting received the VIP treatment by being allowed in a “screenwriters only” room where students could mingle, eat, take pictures and even get early access to seating. SHELBY WHEELER | THE DEPAULIA DePaul students, both undergrad and DePaul screenwriting students at the Courier 12 Screenwriting Conference panel which featured professional screenwriters. graduate, gathered to listen to a series of panel discussions from some of the most the industry. elite writing executives from shows such Anna Hoizan, DePaul professor, as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “That 70’s Show” screenwriter and moderator for this and “Brown Girls” to speak on their panel, asked Bailey and Gandhi on their experiences in the entertainment industry thoughts on the limited role of women in and expertise in screenwriting. Students color in the media. “I still think it feels even got the opportunity to pitch some like a trend,” Bailey said. “If the people of their scripts and TV ideas prior to the telling the story don’t reflect the story conference at the Pitch Fest. that’s being told there is a disconnect Arianna Jordan, a DePaul graduate there.” student, looks forward to pitching next Both Bailey and Gandhi feel that year. “The screenplays and ideas I have while the door to Hollywood is open, now are underdeveloped, but it’s a great people of color must rush their way in to opportunity so I will have to try next find a spot. They stressed the importance year,” Jordan said. of changing the people behind the camera Sources called the conference’s first to get not only POC on screen, but off panelist, David Totcherman, “a Digital screen as well. Media Powerhouse.” Totcherman, an Bailey and Gandhi both had previous Emmy-nominated producer and Co- careers as actors, so they touched on founder of Canvas Media, spoke first how representation in the media can be SHELBY WHEELER | THE DEPAULIA on the importance of streaming media. improved. Gandhi mentioned how she Screenwriting professor Matt Quinn talks with DePaul alum Tom Dean. Totcherman, who currently produces didn’t need to put on this persona of the Emmy Nominated show “Vanity,” an Indian girl with an accent in order “One executive called me a unicorn,” spoke on YouTube and how student to get a role, because there is more than Fest I might have gotten the job.” “Can I just be Shonda Rhimes? Can I Conway said. “You’re black, you’re female, screenwriters need to know that “it is just one type of person. The thing that just have her career?” said Jalysa Conway, you are a veteran, you did cyber warfare, important to have something on video”. made “Brown Girls” different was that staff writer for “Grey’s Anatomy” when you work for Shonda. Are you queer too?” Totcherman says that it is much more it represented interracial relationships, Brad Riddell asked her where she hopes to Conway said what made her unique was convenient to send someone a link of a queer and LGBTQ communities and see herself in the next few years. Conway, her background and that opened many video rather than read a script. “In the POC. along with two USC grads and also former doors for her in the industry. past, you had to find a way to get a DVD The third panel featured DePaul students of Ridell, Jenna Richman and Mary Coleman, the head of to a producer, but now we can send links alum, Tom Dean, a past Courier 12 Sarah Tarkoff, spoke on their experience creative development at Pixar, spoke and that’s something we need to take event worker turned guest speaker. Dean in TV writing as women, working with on storytelling in the animation side of advantage of,” Totcherman said. He spoke jokingly talked about how he didn’t even big TV producers and working in writing cinema. Coleman said that when she on how students should use “snackable” get the first job he applied for after he rooms. All three of these women writers develops a story, she remembers the or smaller, shareable online media to graduated, which was at an ice cream came from different backgrounds which story’s needs to be “getable, relatable promote themselves because as writers shop. However, he spoke on the start you have more opportunities to sell shorts of his career through his feature film, gave the students a different perspective and entertaining.” Coleman believes that even if a story is set in a different time, than full length media. He told students “The Time Traveler’s La Ronde,” which on writing. Tarkoff, who currently is a writer on someone in the audience needs to be able that through digital media you are able to was selected from the annual Blacklist, The CW network show “Arrow,” works to have a connection with the story and build a community and build data based which ranks some of Hollywood’s best on sci-fi writing and even has a novel that is something to keep in mind when on what your audience responds to. unproduced screenplays. He mentioned being published next year. Richman feels developing both animated and digital Panel two featured both the director how the Blacklist can be a place where you that she was a “reluctant writer” and ideas. and actress Sam Bailey and Minita Gandhi could not only get your screenplays in the actually wanted to be a diplomat. She DePaul sophomore Ellicia Myles from the web series to HBO show, “Brown hands of some of Hollywood’s elites, but mentions how her love for politics adds looked forward mainly to hearing about Girls.” “Brown Girls” follows the lives also just simply allow your screenplays to to her writing in shows like “Designated the storytelling side through animation. of two young women of color that come get feedback from other artists. Survivor” and “Limitless.” Conway, “Mary Coleman from Pixar has my ideal from completely different backgrounds. Dean gave students tips and tricks previously a ROTC military veteran, now job,” Myles said. “That’s something I want Bailey and Gandhi spoke on their on pitching their ideas and scripts to works with Shonda Rhimes on a diverse to do is combine my major of animation experience in the entertainment industry executives. “Being prepared is impressive,” cast and crew. Conway mentioned how with screenwriting.” not only from a creative perspective, but Dean said. “If I was as prepared as the also their experience as women of color in people that were in this morning’s Pitch her producers liked her mainly because she was from a different background.
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Glass Animals showcase new material at Aragon Ballroom
Glass Animals performs on Sept. 28 at the Aragon Ballroom showcasing their newest album, “How to be a Human Being.” By Yazmin Dominguez Online Editor
Bringing their peanut butter vibes back to Chicago since their performance at Lollapalooza, indie rock band Glass Animals visited the Aragon Ballroom on Thursday, Sept. 28. Having come into the public eye after the release of their well-received first album “Zaba” in 2014, Glass Animals reemerged in August with their latest work, “How to be a Human Being.” Having been on tour for two years after the success of “Zaba,” Glass Animal’s sophomore album was heavily influenced by their time on the road. “How to be a Human Being” continues to show off their signature synth pop sound, only this time each track is a fictional story loosely based on different people the band encountered while on their previous tour. Popular tracks such as “Pork Soda” was named after a woman’s tattoo exemplifying her love for the meal in a drink. Its popular chorus “pineapples are in my head” came to be after lead singer Dave Bayley overheard the phrase being said by a homeless man. Their album tells the story of 11 different fictional characters, each influenced from Bayley’s and the rest of Glass Animals’ encounters, offering explanation for the different characters ranging from a toddler on a toy bike to even a greased-up swimmer in a speedo featured in the album’s cover and music videos. Their album title “How to be a Human Being” is meant to embody and showcase all the different walks of life from infancy to the elderly. Their album expresses the quirkiness and depth of the band through lyrics, sound, performance and even stage design as seen by Chicago fans last week. Before Glass Animals held a high-energy set, up and coming artist Amber Mark started the evening with her sultry R&B infused pop set. The opener had fans in the crowd singing as she performed tracks from her
debut album, “3:33 am,” which she wrote to emotionally cope with the passing of her mother. Performing catchy and heartfelt songs such as “Lose my cool” and “Can you hear me?,” Mark warmed up the crowd for the anticipated act of the night. Precisely at 9 p.m., the 36-second stream of conscious pre-recorded track “[Premade sandwiches]” blasted through the venue while the pineapple disco ball on the stage began to rotate, marking the beginning of their long awaited concert. Starting with familiar hits from “Zaba” like “Black Mambo,” Glass Animals quickly turned to play their new tracks like “The Other Side of Paradise” and “Mama’s Gun.” Dave Bayley’s on-stage chemistry with the rest of his band mates, Drew MacFarlane (guitar), Joe Seaward (drums) and Edmund Irwin-Singer (bass) was easily visible. Bayley’s eccentric, high energy brought out the crowd’s best dance moves which made their performance even better. Even bros wearing baseball hats and polos were dancing to the lyrics of “Youth,” a song written from the perspective of a nostalgic mother to her young son who, according to the music video, is speculated to have had a sad disappearance. The strangeness of the album’s concept adds to the quirkiness and talented ideas behind Bayley and the rest of the band. Their devotion and love for their own art is visible in their live performances. The highlight of the night was an omen to “Zaba” when they played their hit “Gooey.” The hit had the Aragon in full groove mode, especially when Bayley jumped off stage and immersed himself within the crowd while ironically singing about not being able to take this place and wanting some space. Nearing towards the end of their set, they surprised the crowd with an unexpected cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” Followed up by what Bayley announced was his favorite track of the album, “Agnes,” a song he described as the saddest song he will ever write.
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Bassist Edmund Irwin-Singer of Glass Animals at Aragon Ballroom. The pineapple disco ball stopped spinning and venue lights flicked back on after Glass Animals ended the show by performing their latest hit “Pork Chops,” which was easily the best way to end their high energy concert.
Glass Animals will continue promoting “How to be a Human Being” throughout the United States until midOctober, in which then they will continue their headlining world tour in Mexico.
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Film festivities
A look into the movies of the Chicago International Film Festival By Matt Koske Arts & Life Editor
As award season is fully underway, film festivals are taking place every other weekend and the word of mouth is spreading for films that greatly deserve it. Last year, the Chicago International Film Festival welcomed films like “Arrival,” “La La Land” and “Moonlight.” If you have any inclination of the Oscars last year, these three films were scattered all across the board at the ceremony, leading up to that horrendous Best Picture fluke. Chicago is a city for great films, both locally and internationally. The festival is prime for showcasing films from both here and abroad that are world class, critically acclaimed and highly anticipated.
The Shape of Water Directed by Guillermo del Toro
From the mind of “The Hobbit” and the exceptional “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro is back in the Oscar predictions category with his next film, “The Shape of Water.” Starring Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer, we are in the backdrop of the Cold War era in 1962 where Elisa (Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation in a high-security government laboratory. The film has been having a fantastic run in the film festival circuit, completing trips to Toronto and Telluride and opening to rave reviews. The Chicago International Film Festival is hosting “The Shape of Water” as its closing night film, along with a tribute to Michael Shannon, who also stars in the film. The film hits theaters in December (a prime slot for Oscar bait) so catch an early screening at the festival and you won’t regret it.
Lady Bird
Directed by Greta Gerwig Greta Gerwig’s solo directing debut (she directed “Nights and Weekends” with Joe Swanberg) is the Centerpiece Film at the Chicago International Film Festival. “Lady Bird” is accomplishing a highly successful run at recent film festivals generating a tremendous amont of buzz on film Twitter and alike. The coming-of-age film stars Saoirse Ronan as the Lady Bird, Timothée Chalamet and Odeya Rush. Gerwig’s script is semi-biographical to her own upbringing in Sacramento, as the Lady Bird spends a summer dreading looking for colleges, socializing with her friends, and throwing witty remarks at her mother. The film screens at the festival at 8 p.m. on Oct. 18. The special presentation will be a hard ticket to come by, so make sure to secure one fast so you don’t miss out until Nov. 3 when it hits theaters.
Running from Oct. 12-16 at AMC River East, films like Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” and a DePaul CDM professor Alireza Khatami’s debut film, “Oblivion Verses” will be screened throughout the duration of the festival (usually with a post-screening Q&A). Ticket passes and special student deals are available on the Chicago International Film Festival website. Make sure to secure your tickets soon because these popular films go quickly. Also featuring a tribute to Michael Shannon and Jane Fonda, the festival includes shorts, documentaries and industry panels for festivalgoers to fully utilize their time at a great festival.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Directed by Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh’s (“In Bruges” and “Seven Psychopaths”) darkly comic drama is another highly anticipated premiere at Chicago’s film festival. The film stars Frances McDormand in a stand-out role as a mother who challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder by setting up three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri to personally trigger them. The vulgar and aggressive McDormand plays a role that hasn’t been seen in her recent projects. Also starring Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, the film will be released mid-November. Another special presentation, the film screens at AMC at the Chicago International Film Festival at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21.
Oblivion Verses
Directed by Alireza Khatami DePaul CDM professor Alireza Khatami is making his feature debut with “Oblivion Verses.” Recently, the writer/director won the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. The Iranian director had Spanish actors shooting the film in Chile with production companies from The Netherlands, Germany, France and Chile. The film follows an elderly caretaker of a remote morgue as he finds a young woman killed during a protest that embarks him on a magical journey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns. “Oblivion Verses” screens at the festival at 6 p.m. on Oct. 20 and at 1:45 p.m. on Oct. 21.
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Red Bull Sound Select presents 30 shows in Chicago By Sabrina Miresse Contributing Writer
Red Bull Sound Select is coming to Chicago this November for 30-days of live music around the city. Over 70 artists are performing in this month-long event. Sound Select launched in 2012 as an artist development program that attempts to use local platforms to provide new, fresh music. Hosting Sound Select events across the country have enhanced support for local venues and musicians. This is the first time the event is taking place in Chicago after originating in Los Angeles. Some popular local venues that will showcase this Red Bull event are The Metro, Riviera Theater, Lincoln Hall, Thalia Hall, Concord Music Hall and The Empty Bottle. Among claimed headlining artists are Young Thug, 6lack, Lil Yatchy, Mitski, Alice Glass and more. While big name artists such as these can be enticing, Red Bull used the help of music blog Fake Shore Drive to choose various Chicago artists to showcase in their 30-day event. Nearly every night of the event will include a local artist. After Young Thug opens the event on Nov. 1 at The Metro, local band Whitney will headline the next night at the same venue. Philadelphia-based Mt. Joy will open for Chicago bands NE-HI and Whitney that day. Whitney is a band composed of lead Julien Ehrlich, formerly of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Max Kakecek. Ehrlich’s has soft, soothing vocals that are different than many other indie bands out there. Their debut album “Light Upon the Lake” came out in 2016 and is the only album the band has out at this time. Overall, this show will likely bring together three slightly differing tastes of the indie music scene. Beginning with the more folk-tunes of Mt. Joy, continuing with indie-rockers NE-HI and finishing with the melodic indie-pop tunes Whitney will perform with. About two weeks later, Chicago rock group Meat Wave will open for Parquet Courts at The Empty Bottle on Nov. 15. Meat Wave is comprised of vocals and guitar lead Chris Sutter, bassist Joe Gac and Ryan Wizniak on drums. This punk group has an aggressive alternative rock sound. The headlining act that night, Parquet Courts, are a much different style of alt rock than their openers. Abstractly put, Parquet Courts create songs that could be placed in Quentin Tarantino films. The music from this band is odd and pushes the boundaries of alt-rock. They have a late-90s punk edge to their sound through the deep vocals and overlying bright guitar tunes. Overall, the band creates an old-soul feel to their albums. Their 2016 album “Human Performance” is a gem in the mix of Parquet Courts creations and a prime example of this old-soul sound. A few days later, Noname will perform as a part of the Sound Select. Noname, also known as Fatimah Warner, is a poet and rapper with a strong female voice and message. She was featured on both Chance the Rapper’s first album, “Acid Rap,” and latest album, “Coloring Book.” Noname has made a name for herself in the Chicago hip-hop scene within the past few years through collaborations with Chance the Rapper and her debut album
The posterwork for the Red Bull Sound Select 30 days in Chicago taking place all throughout November.
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“Telefone” in 2016. She will perform with Californiabased rapper Buddy and Portland-based rapper The Last Artful, Dodgr at Concord Music Hall on Nov. 21. “Telefone,” the material she will likely perform willinclude mostly collaborations with other rappers. Among these include Smino, Saba and Xavier Omar, who could likely appear on stage with Noname. Another Chicago rapper Kweku Collins will headline Nov. 25. This hometown artist will play with underground rapper Kamau and young Wisconsin rapper Trapo that night at S.P.A.C.E. concert hall in Evanston, Illinois—Collin’s hometown. Collins makes his music seem effortless, and impressively so. Only a few years out of high school, the young musician already has three albums out. His most recent album, “Grey,” was released this past April. He has collaborated with artists from Chicago’s scene such as Jamila Woods in “Ego Killed Romance” off of the 2016 album “Nat Love.” Collins even extended out to Milwaukee rapper WebsterX for collaboration when he was just starting in 2015. “Never Say Die” was created between the two and rapper Boathouse for Collins’ debut album, “Say It Here, While It’s Safe.” Collins’ growth has been immense over the past almost three years. Catch him at the Red Bull event while he’s still gaining a name in the music scene. “Lonely Lullabies” is a top song of his MATT KOSKE | THE DEPAULIA from the debut album. TV’s promoting the 30 live shows in Chicago at Red Bull’s private preview party. Near the end of the month-long event is London-based funk/soul band circles. Like in their name, the dramatic Sound Select. A wide-variety of styles and Jungle with Germany native NoMBe and sound of the band is extremely present in sounds are showcased on this playlist in Chicago’s Drama Duo. These three will their songs. Their debut album “Gallows” preparation for their live performances perform at The Metro on Nov. 27. Jungle is was released in 2016 with a statement throughout the month of November. a hypno-tech band that prides themselves from the band on heartbreaks and hoping Shows are exclusive to Red Bull Sound in reinventing a 70s sound. that the album helps their audience in Select members, but this membership is Opener and Chicago group Drama some way. free. More information on the membership Duo is a musical collaboration between If you’re unsure of what bands to check and tickets for events can be found at the Na’el Shehade and Via Rosa. Both are out, listen to the “30 Days in Chicago” Red Bull Sound Select website. known in the Chicago hip-hop and R&B playlist on Spotify created by Red Bull
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HBO’s “Vice Principals” star Danny McBride hangs out
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“Vice Principals” is created by Danny McBride and Jody Hill with episodes directed by David Gordon Green. The two-season show is in its second season on HBO.
By Matt Koske Arts & Life Editor
Currently streaming on HBO is the witty and eccentric two-part miniseries “Vice Principals.” Season one, in full, is available on HBO now, though the second season is being released on a weekly basis and is on episode three for your viewing pleasure. Neal Gamby (Danny McBride) is an ill-tempered vice principal in charge of discipline at North Jackson High School. After the principal (a hilarious cameo by Bill Murray) resigns to tend to his dying wife, Gamby imagines himself taking calls as “Principal Gamby” and securing the principal desk. That accomplishment isn’t going to come easy for our cantankerous protagonist. Meet Lee Russell (Walton Goggins), the highly flamboyant suckup vice principal of curriculum at North Jackson High. The two unqualified, lost-in-theirown-world, disliked vice principals battle for the top position of authority at your typical middle-class area of academia. These co-vice principals jab one another in attempt to achieve the upper-hand in the principal race, but both are slapped in the face when neither receive the infamous employment opportunity when the school board welcomes Dr. Belinda Brown (Kimberly Hebert Gregory), principal of North Jackson High. McBride co-created “Vice Principals” with Jody Hill. They previously took on those same roles for the HBO sports comedy series, “Eastbound and Down” which ended in 2013. Their frequently returning executive producer and director, David Gordon Green (who directed “Pineapple Express” and the recently released “Stronger” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing survivor), also serves as a collaborator on the project. HBO coordinated an interview with creator and star McBride and the first season executive producer and the second season director, David Gordon Green, via Goggle Hangouts. “There wasn’t really anything from our personal lives that inspired it. I’ve always been fascinated with stories at a school. I was a substitute teacher for a little bit and I always thought it was fascinating how there was one world going on with the students and there was a completely
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Danny McBride in “Vice Principals,” which airs on Sunday nights on HBO. different world going on with the teachers and administrators. Rarely did those two sides get a full understanding of what was happening with the other,” McBride said. “It seemed like a cool place to set a story and jockeying for the head of that world felt like. It drew parallels to the classic ‘quest for the crown’ story. We love to put high, epic expectations on mundane everyday goals,. McBride, years ago, attempted to secure writing gigs in Los Angeles. Like many who make the shift out to Hollywood he encountered some struggles in making the dreams a reality. He backtracked and moved back home to Virginia and became a substitute teacher. That shift for McBride shed light upon the student-administrator relationship and the hardships of the educator. That perspective has a glaring resemblance in “Vice Principals.” For a television show, especially a HBO project, it is rather surprising for the production process to shoot backto-back seasons. The two-season-anddone endeavor proved to be a smooth experience, especially for the crew who have thrown it all the way back to the glory days of college. McBride, Green and Hill met in 1995 on campus at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. “One thing that’s very valuable is, not just about how Danny and Jody I work together, but having people that keep you in check. A lot of very aggressive elements of our industry and profession can make
you cynical, bum you out and make you really competitive. And the greed is outrageous sometimes, too,” Green said. “So having a group of people that keep you as grounded as you were in high school keeps the process so human and these people will call you out on your bullshit.” “I think it (the back-to-back production schedule) kept everyone in the zone and focused. It was something we wanted to try and something that was one and done. I get intimidated by shows that have multiple seasons and trying to catch up from that far behind. We like to design our projects to be able to be consumed over one hungover afternoon. That means it’s complete if someone spends their whole day getting over a hangover and watching our story,” McBride said. Initially, McBride and Hill wrote “Vice Principals” as a feature script. Yes it became a HBO show, but the longevity of the story has implications that it came from an idea for a movie. As this happens with many writers’ ideas, it’s character that transpires a story over a longer period of time. This was the case here, too. The creative minds found traits and emotions within certain characters that you simply wish to keep them on screen longer. “We loved Lee Russell. He jumped off the page instantly. When we wrote the original screenplay, that was the reason why we wanted to make it into a TV show, was for that character. We read a lot of different people who purely had a
comedic background and no body had the bite,” McBride said. Gamby and Russell begin the show as arch enemies. They constantly chirp each other in the race for the principal. Once they realize that they both lost, neither are going to accept that defeat. The two co-stars team up as co-principals and commit some dangerous (and potentially criminal) acts in their egregious plan to end Dr. Brown’s time as principal. Two completely different styles form a buddyduo as the show develops and a sense of understanding begins to flourish between them. “When we first started talking about Walton Goggins, everyone, all of us across the board, were like ‘he’s exactly the person.’ The goofiness mixed with malice would be a fun, delicious thing to watch. The first time I talked to him after sending him the script, he called me up and started talking to me as Lee Russell, without any direction. It was 100% what you see on TV. And that was what we had imagined,” McBride said. The 18-episode series runs through Nov. 19. so there’s still plenty of time to catch up over one hungover afternoon. Unlike many network and streaming shows at your fingertips, “Vice Principals” is a quick binge. Tonally, you’ll get all the laughs that you’re looking for, but on top of that McBride brings a side to his comedic character that has deep, heartfelt emotion. His persona may be problematic, but the love for his family and his job is most important to his selfish character. “I would get bored when I watched comedies. Somewhere around the second and third act, I would look at my watch. Once I was tired of the jokes I wasn’t invested enough in the characters. For us, it seems like it’s easy to get laughs and it’s hard to get people to invest in your characters and get laughs. So I guess that’s just what we are always trying to do – make these people feel real for better or for worse,” McBride said. “Vice Principals” next episode, “Think Change,” airs on HBO next Sunday, Oct. 8. “It’s really cool to think of these relationships as family. As we’ve grown and challenged each other, with this group of collaborators, you always know that the world can reject you but your friends will always be there to push you to be creative and push you to enjoy what you do for a living,” Green said.
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Barbecue
Available on Netflix now Unknown to many, this little gem streaming on Netflix spans from Texas to the Syrian boarder in this documentary about the tradition behind a simple barbecue. Told in 13 different languages, director Matthew Salleh celebrates community, friendship and culture in this pretty journey about the fiery gathering. The tasty story takes place in 12 countries, which spanned over a threeyear production time frame. As culture and food collide, the simplicity of cooking food over a fire is accepted as a fine act of social comprehension and tradition. “Barbecue” differs from a generic food documentarystyled project that Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmerman set out to achieve because, in this case, the filmmakers never once step in front of the camera. There’s also no voice-over narration, which exemplifies the characters and the stories of people from all around the world as they share their thoughts on the beloved activity. “Barbecue” features some bizarre kinds of food that are cooked over the flame. In Mongolia, they cook a marmot, a beaver like creature that is a natural carrier of the bubonic plague. This documentary is now streaming on Netflix and is a tasty treat for food lovers and globe-trotters. MATT KOSKE | THE DEPAULIA
I Am Not Your Negro
Available on Netflix now Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at last year’s Academy Awards, “I Am Not Your Negro” documents James Baldwin’s reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. The documentary is based off of Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, “Remember This House.” Comprised of his notes and drawings, the manuscript never was completed. As Samuel L. Jackson narrates the journey, which is entirely drawn from Baldwin’s work, the film swoops through the racism in the United States as filmmaker Raoul Peck communicates with the subject. Peck’s understanding of the suppression of black humanity, the patterns of our racial history and the relationships between the North and the South is nothing less than a complex story, but it’s effective that simply dwells upon the racial issues that are so ever apparent. The critically acclaimed “I Am Not Your Negro” is streaming on Netflix. After its success last year throughout the award season, the film had a profitable theatrical release in a wide-variety of cities before the Oscar nominee’s announcement and now is available for all history buffs.
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In theaters and upcoming film releases Sept. 29 “American Made” A pilot lands work for the CIA as a drug runner in the South during the 1980s. Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
Sept. 29 “Flatliners” Five medical students embark on an experiment that stops their hearts, offering a glimpse of what occurs in the afterlife. Stars: Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobev
Oct. 6 “Blade Runner 2049” A young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard. Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas
Oct. 6 “The Florida Project” Six-year-old Moonee courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious mother near Disney. Stars: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto
Oct. 6 “Una” A woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after their sexual relationship.
Oct. 13 “Marshall” About Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his defining cases.
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Movies are not just about superb acting or beautiful visuals. A lot goes into the making of a movie and the collaborative process makes the movies that we see so encompassing. Soundtracks create the emotion of a scene, or the tone of an entire film. Check out some of these soundtracks that came out this summer or before that really bring out the emotion or the intensity of the a scene, that without it, there’s be nothing.
1. “The Moon Song” - “Her” Nominated for the Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, “The Moon Song” was written by Karen O and the director of “Her,” Spike Jonze. The entire soundtrack to the film is beautiful, lots of the tracks were written by Arcade Fire, but “The Moon Song” brings the two main characters in the film so closely together, the closest that they have ever gotten in the film, to a dramatic romance between Joaquin Phoenix and his operating system, Scarlett Johansson.
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2. “I Get Overwhelmed” - “A Ghost Story” Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star in “A Ghost Story” which was released in July this past summer. Affleck writes a song in the movie before he dies and becomes a ghost. There’s a scene when Mara listens to this song and is completely struck by the happenings of everything around her, you can sense that she feels the emotion in the song and her husband. She simply sprawls out on the kitchen floor with her headphones and reminisces about how it used to be.
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3. “A Real Hero” - “Drive” It’s hard to stay away from songs that are geared towards a love story, but it’s happening. “Drive” has a killer soundtrack, but when Ryan Gosling takes Carey Mulligan on a drive, “A Real Hero” plays throughout the ride. The entire soundtrack is the ultimate tone-setter for a genre film like “Drive,” but there’s something about that scene that says a lot about Gosling’s character and what he is set out to do in the film. He’s lost in his own world, but this scene is the only escape he really imagines.
48. Place trust in (with “on”) 49. Lasso loop 51. Natural light shows 52. Difficult experience 54. With “eye,” public blights 55. Insane 56. Sales technique 61. Absorbed, as the cost 62. Obedience school supply 63. Antivirus buyer 64. Cozy retreat 65. Meddlesome women 66. Like neat beds Down 1. New walker 2. Blood classification system 3. Needing a refill 4. Square meter (Var.) 5. Hostage taker 6. Deplete completely 7. Tell-all books, briefly 8. Little torublemaker
4. “Impulse” - “Dunkirk” You can’t have a list of soundtracks and not include one of Hans Zimmer’s masterpieces. His summer release of “Dunkirk” was just as intense as his countless other works of art, but the consistency of his work (along with his partnership with Christopher Nolan) shines ever so bright in “Dunkirk.” “Impulse” is a scary track, it haunts not only the audience but the soldiers who were ducking and covering from the airstrikes above. Hans Zimmer, once again, encompasses sheer thrill.
9. Lacquered metalware 10. Slim and graceful 11. King maker 12. Message boat 13. One of the Rolling Stones 18. Couldn’t be better 22. Feathered missile 23. Nick name? 24. Classic music hall 25. Oppressed 28. Like a rodentinfested building 29. Great Lakes city 30. Compete 32. Loretta who played Hot Lips on TV 34. Place for sporting events 35. Awaits judgment 38. Alec’s “Star Wars” role 39. Cordwood units 42. Freedom from worry 45. Pogo, e.g. 47. “Location, location, location” business 48. Defense attorney’s
claim 49. One who won’t settle down 50. Make a speech 51. Circulatory trunk 53. Conventional wisdom 54. Mild quarrel 57. Harmless cyst 58. “Miracle on Ice” team 59. Bad ink color for business 60. Before, in palindromes
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Sports BIG EAST Men's Soccer
BIG EAST Woman's Soccer
BIG EAST Woman's Volleyball
STANDINGS
STANDINGS
STANDINGS
1.
3-0-0 (7-2-0)
1.
3-0-0 (9-2-1)
1.
5-0 (11-5)
2.
2-1-0 (7-1-1)
2.
3-0-0 (7-4-2)
2.
4-0 (11-4)
3.
2-1-0 (6-2-2)
3.
2-0-1 (9-4-2)
3.
2-2 (13-6)
4.
2-1-0 (5-4-1)
4.
1-1-1 (5-6-1)
4.
2-2 (9-6)
5.
1-1-1 (4-5-1)
5.
1-2-0 (8-4-1)
5.
2-2 (8-9)
6.
1-2-0 (6-4-0)
6.
1-2-0 (6-6-0)
6.
2-3 (12-5)
7.
1-2-0 (5-5-0)
7.
1-2-0 (5-6-1)
7.
2-3 (7-11)
8.
1-2-0 (4-6-1)
8.
1-2-0 (5-7-0)
8.
1-3 (9-10)
9.
1-2-0 (1-7-1)
9.
0-1-2 (0-7-4)
9.
1-3 (7-9)
10.
0-2-1 (2-7-1)
10.
0-3-0 (2-9-1)
10.
1-4 (7-10) (x-y) - Overall record
BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN WOMEN'S SOCCER
VOLLEYBALL
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The team gathers before their match against Georgetown, who won 4-0.
Brittany Maxwell, who had a doublew-double, sends one back in a loss to Butler.
DePaul took on the 17th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas on Sept. 28 at Wish Field. The Demons took a seven game win streak against the Hoyas into the match. Georgtown had control for most of the match, leading DePaul in attempts 172. The Hoyas lead 3-0 at halftime with a goal from Rachel Corboz and two from Amanda Carolan within six minuets of each other just before the half. Georgetown would add one goal later from Taylor Park and defeated the Blue Demons 4-0, ending DePauls winnig streak against them. Depaul then moved on to Creighton on the road. DePaul would take an early lead when Franny Cerny delivered a header off a cross from Morgan Turner in the 13th
DePaul volleyball played it's fourth Big East game in Indianapolis aginst Butler. DePaul dropped the match 3-0 and fell to 1-3 in the conference. DePaul fell behind early 8-3 in the first set. DePaul would make two seperate 4-0 scoring runs in the set, but never lead and fell 19-25. DePaul got off to a slow start again in the second set, going down 5-1. Butler went on a 5-0 scoring run to push the lead up more and ended up winning 25-20. DePaul faired slightly better in the final set as they got up to an 8-6 lead. Butler came back with a 4-0 run to grab the lead. The game would go down to the wire until a costly attack error from the Demons gave Butler a 25-24 advantage. Butler would close it out on the next play and DePaul fell
minute. DePauls deffense came up big in the 69th minute when Creighton' put together back to back shots, but were denied by DePauls back line. In the 83rd minute, Cerny put in the second goal off a deflection, for her seventh goal of the season. The Demons out shot the last place Blue Jays 17-3 and got their first away win of the year. It was also the first Big East victory and fith shutout. DePaul will come back home to take on Marquette at Wish Field on Oct. 5 at 3:00 p.m. Marquette is coming off of a 1-0 win over St. Johns. Graduate Student Darian Powell leads the Golden Eagles with twelve points.
24-26. Brittany Maxwell recorded her fourth double-double of the season with 12 digs and a team leading 16 kills. Maxwell lead the team with 40 attacks. The Demons next traveled to Milwaukee for their first match against Marquette, who sits atop the Big East. DePaul oppened up strong with a 7-2 lead in the first set, but Marquette answered with a 15-4 run and won the first set 2519. DePaul fell in set two 9-25. Marquette finished off the sweep with a 30-28 victory in a close third set. The match saw Ashley Marshall make her season debut. DePaul's next game will be at Creighton on Friday Oct. 6 at 6:00 p.m. There, DePaul will be looking to break its three game losing streak
26 | Sports. Oct. 2, 2017. The DePaulia is disrespectful to their fight, while others argue it is the right to protest that the military fights for. Smith brought up the point that just because the military fights for the flag does not mean they can define what it stands for. “I don’t think that being in the military gives you any greater standing to say what patriotism is and what it isn’t. I think that that definition varies depending on one's history in this country and one's present day experience,” Smith said. “For African-Americans, I think patriotism means pushing back on established norms and expanding the meaning of that term.” Juan Carlos Perez was a Marine Corps infantryman from 2007 to 2015 and did tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. Perez argued that the actions he has taken defending his country gives him the right to see players actions as disrespectful. "I've trained for and deployed four different times around the world including getting injured in Afghanistan,” Perez said. “I consider that time, mixed with the the blood, sweat and tears endured in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, a solid justification to deem the players actions disrespectful to what I have done and what others have sacrificed to keep the U.S. and our allies safer.” Perez added that while he feels that it is disrespectful, he agrees with others like his friend Jalil Vasquez who believe they fight for others right to protest. Vasquez served for four years as an infantryman in the Marine Corps and was adamant that it is the player's right to fight. “I don't agree what they are doing to TIME IRELAND| ASSOCIATED PRESS be honest, but this is not a communist or The Jacksonville Jaguars make their show of unity before a game against the Baltimore a fascist country. They have every right to Ravens. protest in any shape or form they please. NATIONAL ANTHEM, continued “So in the same sense, kneeling during This is an essential part of our country,” from back page the national anthem does not mean you Vasquez said. “So I support their freedom “(The flag) is one of the few things support the national anthem, it’s showing of protest 100% even if I don't agree with where we can all stand and acknowledge you have a specific grievance against it. the action or way they choose to protest.” In light of all of the controversy, the country's founding as well as the people That’s fine, but I think there are a lot better president Donald Trump added to it when, who fought and died for it,” Minster said. ways to do it,” Minster said. during a speech, he insulted the players “Some people say you are supporting it by The military, as Minster kneeling during the national anthem. using these rights. No. Burning the flag mentioned, has become an active party is Trump, using an explitive, said that owners does not mean you support the flag, right? this part of the debate. Some have said it should fire those players.
“I don’t think you should be fired if you do that. This is classic Trump, overreaching and polarizing an issue,” Minster said. “I think there is a broad swath of Americans who agree with him and who are pissed off about this whole thing and when he is as forceful as he is on it, at least publically, that creates this perception that, ‘yeah, he is on our side’. And in the same sense it makes people on the left get even more crazy.” Smith went further, saying that it was a race issue as well. “It’s no accident that he is targeting a league that is predominantly AfricanAmerican, and it is also no coincidence that he is portraying them as unpatriotic because that is a stereotype that accompanies African-Americans,” Smith said. “I mean, we had the first AfricanAmerican president who they were trying to portray as not even being born in the U.S. and therefore not eligible to be president. So, I thought that this was a studied move by Trump to distract people.” Ziegler said that this is a free speech issue and that if players were fired for kneeling, it would be breaching the First Amendment. “What the First Amendment does is it protects you from the government trying to restrict your speech and so Donald Trump is wanting to restrict the speech of these football players who he called on to get fired,” Ziegler said. Trump’s comments lead to several debates on top of the turmoil that had surrounded the initial actions of Kaepernick. The NFL came out in full force with showings of unity. Owners, many of whom supported Trump during the election, came out with statements saying their team stands as one. Many teams locked arms during the anthem, while some players knelt. What started as a statement against police brutality has morphed into a show of division in the country. “We are super polarized right now,” Minster said. “This debate has become extremely toxic and the whole message that Kaepernick and all these folks were trying to convey in the first place has become lost.”
Club Golf looks for succesful transition of power By Dan McDaid Contributing Writer
As a new student attending a new school, most people would look to join existing clubs that interest them. Fith year senior Adam Gracik chose a different route and decided to create a club that interested him. In the fall of 2015, Gracik transferred to DePaul as a sophomore from the University of Missouri. He soon realized that DePaul had no club golf team, so the lifelong golf advocate took it into his own hands to start one. Gracik played golf for three years at York Community High School in Elmhurst, as well as baseball for four and football for one. Since starting the Club Golf team two years ago, he and the team have found success on and off the course. “Starting the Club Golf team here has benefitted me in more ways than I thought it possibly could when I transferred here in 2015,” Gracik said. “After serving on SAF-B at DePaul last school year, I truly see how much each club can mean to the student body.” When it comes to success, former Vice President Nick Petrakos said, “qualifying for Nationals two out of the first four semesters as a team is pretty good in my books.” Petrakos was one of three graduates from the team in the spring.
“(Being part of a club) helped me most with team working and networking amongst students from other schools,” said Petrakos. “The people I have met and people I have been able to work with have been great.” Now, it’s Gracik’s job to replace them and keep the competition level high throughout the club. Gracik is finally getting a hold of the workload between school, work and golf. “At first, it was stressful, but as we’ve grown over the past two years, I’ve figured out ways to simplify things,” Gracik said. “Saving myself time. “I am the director of tournament Operations for The National Club Golf Association. I also work for the Illinois PGA (Profesional Golf Associtation) two days a week, since I am able to trim down my schedule during the school year.” As Gracik’s last year at DePaul approaches, he is starting to plan for the team to succeed after he graduates. “I am currently in the process of figuring out roles for the future of the club,” Gracik said. “I will have three to four members run the team once I leave. “I currently have a treasurer and a media manager that assist me tremendously. Three past executive board members of the team have graduated, but without their help the past two years, it’d be difficult to be where we are now,” Gracik said.
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Members of DePaul's club golf team at Harborside International Golf Club. The people involved in the club have high hopes for the team’s future when Gracik moves on. “Adam has the club going in the right direction,” Petrakos said. “He has shown to take initiative and control of all situations and events. I see it only growing and becoming more successful from here.” Sophomore Joey Fremgen says he will look to fill part of Gracik’s role as head of the club. “Adam has done a great job of getting
me and others prepared for his departure during my first year in the club,” Fremgen said. “I look forward to helping as much as I can to make this club successful in my finals few years here at DePaul. The plan is to be in Vegas at the start of December for the Fall National Championship.” DePaul Club Golf began its third season this past weekend with a runnerup finish at the first of two Great Lakes Regional tournaments. University of Illionis won the event.
Sports. Oct. 2, 2017. The DePaulia | 27 NCAA, continued from back page impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville,� Pitino said. Shocking to Pitino, but maybe not to everyone in the college basketball field. Former associtate head coach at DePaul, Rick Carter, who helped in DePaul's efforts to recruit Bowen says he wasn't suprised to hear the allegations. "I wasn't suprised and it made sense," Carter said. "When we were recruiting (Bowen) everyone said if you get him, you're gonna get investigated because his dad has been asking for money." Carter says that DePaul does not use the same recruiting tactics as Louisville alledgedly uses, so the Blue Demons tried to sell Bowen on rebuilding DePaul's program as he did at La Lumiere as a high schooler. "(People in the NCAA) have wanted to clean up the sport for a long time, but they didn't have the ability to get the information to do it," Carter said. "If you go to the NCAA and turn in your boss or you turn in other people, nobody is ever going to hire you again — it's a very loyal business." Carter says that he believes this scandal will help the NCAA "manipulate the game the right way," giving schools like DePaul a fighting chance down the road. Still, Carter believes the Blue Demons are at an inherent disadvantage simply because they aren't as popular. While Duke and UNC play nationally televised games each week, DePaul doesn't get the same face time with college baskeball fans sitting in their living rooms across the country.
Hall of Fame coach Rick Patino was placed on unpaid leave as a result of the charges
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Trigger warning: This sports article contains politics
DePaul recruit Brian Bowen at center of NCAA scandal By Shane René Sports Editor
GRAPHICS BY VICTORIA MARIE WILLIAMSON | THE DEPAULIA
By Garret Neal Asst. Sports Editor
On Aug. 26, 2016, 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was noticed taking a knee during the national anthem before a preseason matchup against the Green Bay Packers. After the game, Kaepernick revealed that he was making a protest against the treatment of African-Americans. Kaepernick was not the first athlete to make a political statement, or even the first to not to stand during the anthem, yet his decision sparked a wave of controversy that washed across the nation. As taking a knee during the national anthem became a more common sight across the league, it brought more and more media attention. The amount of coverage became bothersome to many. “I think most of these people don’t
DePaul College Democrats, gave more examples of politics in sports in the past. “I’ve never really thought politics could be separated from anything,” Ziegler said. “What is a woman’s place in sports? Some might say that is political. For a while we didn’t let black people play on our professional teams, some might say that is political.” Minster noted that in 2016 the Dallas Cowboys were denied the ability to wear a sticker on their helmet honoring cops that were killed in a sniper attack. Whether politics have a spot in sports or what kinds have been allowed previously became a split in society, but the protest continued to bring up more topics for debate. The new divide was on the respect of the flag.
On Sept. 26 the FBI released a 32-paged report detailing an investigation into multiple NCAA men’s basketball programs who allegedly bribed recruits with cash handed down from shoe companies, namely Adidas, identified in the FBI report as “Company-1.” The report specifically alleges that $100,000 was funneled from an Adidas executive to the family of a five-star recruit, identified as “Player-10,” to play for University of Louisville, an Adidas sponsored school, then sign with the company when he was drafted into the NBA. The University of Louisville, identified as “University-6,” has fallen at the center of the controversy due to past violations with NCAA protocol and the size of it’s men’s basketball program. The ACC powerhouse leads the NCAA with a team value of $45.4 million, according to Forbes. “Player-10,” as identified in the FBI’s initial report, committed to the “University-6” around June 3, 2017, which the report says occurred “almost immediately after the illicit bribe scheme.” “University-6” was identified as a public research university with a student body of 22,640 in the state of Kentucky. The University of Louisville is the only institution in the state that fits such a description and the university’s interim president, Gregory Postel, confirmed the University was involved. The only 2017 recruit to commit to the University of Louisville near and around the date of June 3 is Brian Bowen, a hot commodity among NCAA programs, including DePaul, before landing in Louisville. Bowen was suspended indefinitely by the University on Sept. 27. Louisville’s athletic director Tom Jurich and Hall-of-Fame head coach Rick Pitino were placed on paid and unpaid leave, respectively, following the allegations. Pitino has served as head coach of the Louisville Cardinals since 2001, leading them to a national championship in 2013. He will fight in court to obtain the remaining $37.7 million left on his contract that runs through the 2025-2026 school year. “These allegations come as a complete shock to me. If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorney’s Office that these third-party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the
See NATIONAL ANTHEM, page 26
See NCAA, page 27
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want political values (in the game) in the first place, myself included. They just want to be able to watch football on Sunday and yap about their fantasy football team,” said John Minster, president of DePaul College Republicans. Professor Terry Smith, a black man who recently wrote an article published in the Huffington Post on the topic of kneeling during the anthem, argued against the no politics in sports stance. Smith recalled the 1936 Berlin games, where Hitler hoped to prove his theory on the Aryan race as superior in every way correct. Instead, African-American athlete Jesse Owens ran and jumped his way to four gold medals and three world records. “I think if you go back to the Olympics in the 1930s with Hitler, there has always been an element of politics in sports,” Smith said. Mikaela Ziegler, president of the