JABARI PARKER ELIMINATES DEPAUL Sports, page 28
CHICAGO MARATHON News, page 3
Vol. # 97, Issue #5
| October 8, 2012
Closer to home
INER | MAX KLE
DePaul goes digital with phone app
By HALEY BEMILLER Senior Writer
surfaced over the past several years. We have considered all of them and would certainly consider any others that might be forthcoming in the future. As of now, however, nothing definitive has been forthcoming.” For now, all parties involved in working with DePaul have remained quiet. When contacted, both Mayor Emanuel’s office and the McPier Board declined to comment on the specifics of a potential deal. However at a Faculty Council Meeting on Wednesday, Fr.
DePaul students can now find out everything they need to know about the university with the help of iDePaul, a new application for mobile phones. Through this application users are able to access course information, events, maps, news and more. According to Bob McCormick, vice president for Information Services, students can log-in using their Campus Connect ID and password. They are also able to connect to course assignments and discussions from D2L. If users aren’t students, they can access everything but course information and the DePaul directory feature, which allows students and faculty to look up anyone in DePaul’s system. However, users with privacy settings have been respected and omitted from the app’s directory. “The rest of the application is really there to answer the question, ‘What’s going on at DePaul?’” said McCormick. He also believes it’s a way to unify the campus and make students’ lives easier. “You get that sort of sense of community and engagement, of people not being able to have to go to multiple places to find out what’s of interest to them,” he said.
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DePaul basketball may be on the move By MIKE CHAMERNIK & MATT PARAS Senior Writers
The mayor’s office has taken interest in DePaul’s 2018 Vision to bring back Blue Demons basketball to Chicago. DePaul has been in discussions with the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority to build a new arena, which was originally reported by Crain’s Business’ Greg Hinz. If the two were to reach an agreement, the new arena would be built near McCormick Place.
Behind the negotiations, multiple outlets reported, was Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “DePaul for years has been talking about a stadium in Chicago that’s better for their basketball team, better for their fans and better to be close to home,” said Emanuel at a press conference Oct. 1. “It’s in our interest as a city that they choose Chicago. And so we’re going to work together to look at Chicago being a home for DePaul’s Blue Demons. “I want to bring this to a conclusion that is successful for them and successful for the city
of Chicago.” A new building would get the Blue Demons out of Allstate Arena, which has hosted DePaul basketball games since its opening year in 1980. Nothing is specific yet – it is still unknown what the arena may look like, what the seating capacity will be, or how much the building will cost. The only detail the looks like a certainty is that the arena will be ready for use in 2018. On Sept. 28, DePaul issued a statement regarding a potential new arena. “There have been a number of ideas and proposals that have
Students in favor of public teacher evaluations By ZAINEB JAVAID AND MITCH KURKA Contributing Writers
Getting ready to fill in your course cart? Whether you are already planning your classes for next quarter, or waiting until last minute, there is chatter among students about professor suggestions and who to avoid. For most students, Rate My Professor is the primary source for gathering information about professors online,
but the DePaul Student Government Association (SGA) has been working to create another option for students, making teacher evaluations public information, allowing them to gain perspective on the teacher effectiveness and course difficulty. After concerns and speculation from DePaul University’s administration about a previous proposal, the SGA hit the drawing board and is on the verge of submitting a new, more comprehensive document that outlines the strategy behind their initiative to make teacher evaluations public to students in different colleges. The question now is not whether or not
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Students cited teacher effectiveness and the difficulty of the course as the key information they would like to gain from the evaluations.
this can be possible, but whether students are actually interested in this initiative. The SGA released an online survey Sept. 5, through the Academic Affairs,
urging DePaul students to voice their opinions on whether or not they would like to see teacher evaluations go public. According to the SGA survey, which ended Sept. 21, 87 percent out of 161 respondents said they would like the opportunity to view the course evaluations of fellow students when selecting classes each quarter, and 82 percent of 162 students said they would be more likely to complete the evaluations if they were made public. Students cited teacher effectiveness and See EVALUATIONS, page 7