October 9, 2017

Students of color share things they are tired of hearing from peers See Focus, page 14

Riesling or chardonnay? Kick back and relax with our Trader Joe’s wine review See Arts & Life, page 16

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Tackling homelessness

Five students find a new home with the help of Depaul USA

BENJAMIN CONBOY | THE DEPAULIA The Dax House will house five DePaul students and one live-in supervisor from DePaul USA. Students currently living there are victims of homelessness.

Five homeless DePaul students will now have a place they can call home. Depaul USA (sic) opened their first house where students without permanent housing will be able to live on six-month to one-year leases.

The Dax House, located in Pilsen one block west of the Dan Ryan Expressway, was leased to Depaul USA by the Providence of God church.

Depaul USA is currently working in six U.S. cities like St. Louis and New Orleans. With a national staff of only 50 people, most of their help comes from 500 volunteers and interns. In 2015, they affected the lives of thousands of homeless people by pairing 477 of them with host homes and by serving 77,400 meals.

While the national organization aims to help homeless people from all walks of life, the Dax Program is specifically geared towards helping at-risk DePaul students secure a roof over their heads.

Before the Dax House was opened, Depaul USA relied on pairing the estimated 50 homeless students at DePaul

Story by Benjamin Conboy News Editor with host homes - volunteers who would offer a room to the students. The host home program fulfilled its goal of providing housing, but Abe Morris, the director of the Chicago Dax Program, said it left the students feeling like they were being intrusive on their hosts’ lives.

“After talking with some of the students who left the program, they felt like didn’t have a place,” Morris said.

“They almost felt like they were being a burden on the families.”

Anthony Lazwando, one of the first students to move into the Dax House, echoed the sentiment that he felt like he was being a bother to his hosts.

“I had a very random schedule,” Lazwando said. “I didn’t want to impose on people when I would come in at 3 a.m. from the gym or studying in the library. I didn’t want anybody to think ‘maybe this isn’t working out.’”

Lazwando had a tumultuous journey before finding

a home through Depaul USA. Due to domestic issues at home, he wasn’t able to live there and couldn’t afford to live in a dorm. Before being paired with a host home, he found himself in a dangerous situation.

“I moved into a bible house across the street from the Lincoln Park bookstore,” Lazwando said. “One of my professors told me that the bible house was a Christian cult of missionary Koreans who try to convert DePaul students to try to get them to be missionaries and preach their gospel.”

The professor encouraged him to make an appointment with Sr. Judy Warmbold, the program’s coordinator.

Depaul USA provided Lazwando with a dorm for the spring and summer of 2017 after he left the bible house.

Warmbold said the Dax program and its mission is a truly religious calling.

“A young couple who offered up their home for the program said they were asking themselves, ‘what is Jesus Christ See DAX, page 3

Former and current students take on Cook County politics Sophomore candidate for Cook County Board denies PAC funds

By Benjamin Conboy News Editor

Bushra Amiwala will not be bought.

The DePaul sophomore running for a seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners announced in a Facebook video earlier this week that she denied a large donation from a political action committee (PAC).

The PAC approached her saying that they had been following her campaign and found that her message and ideas aligned with their own. They said that they had collected money from a variety of small business in the 13th district who shared her views.

They wanted to donate $54,000 –

almost the maximum donation allowed by the Illinois State Board of Elections – to her campaign.

But Amiwala found out the money didn’t come from small businesses. It came from massive donations from soda corporations like Pepsico and Coca-Cola.

“I found out that all these companies had donated the maximum $22,000 apiece to the PAC,” Amiwala said. “I definitely felt misled by them (as to where the money came from). I told the chairperson of the PAC I didn’t feel comfortable taking money when I couldn’t defend every single one of those dollars.”

Amiwala has been an outspoken critic of the so-called See PAC, page 5 “soda tax,”

DePaul alum prepares for race to 10th District State Representative seat

By Amber Colón Editor-in-Chief

When Edward Ward was a student at DePaul, he made sure that his voice was heard. Now, about a year and one half after his graduation, Ward is still extremely involved in his community as he looks to fill the 10th Representative District as State Representative seat in the in 2018.

Though it’s his first time running for public office, Ward is no stranger to organizing. In fact, Ward has “dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised,” according to his campaign’s Crowdpac fundraiser page posted online. So far, Ward has reached

$150 of his $20,000 goal since the page was started four months ago.

During his time at DePaul, Ward studied political science. He started the still-active student organization Men of Vision and Empowerment, was involved with University Ministry and even did some work with Student Government Association (SGA). “(Ward) was wherever the action was.

While at DePaul, he was a prominent student leader, activist, and community organizer. Ed not only stands up for what he believes in, he won’t back down or give in once he’s committed to a cause,” said alumni Katie Wallace, who met Ward through the DePaul Gospel Choir.

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Runners head south on State Street, encouraged by the cheers of spectators.

Off to the races

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The leading group of runners press forward coming out of the tunnel on North Columbus Drive.

Photos by Richard Bodee Text by Benjamin Conboy The Chicago Marathon saw droves of runners from all over the world flooding in for the chance to be the first to cross the finish line on Sunday, Oct. 8.

This year’s marathon was the 40th anniversey of the event. The race is limited to 45,000 participants, considerably higher than the 4,200 who ran in its first year in 1977.

The runners’ route sees them start them in Grant Park where they head north through the Loop and over

the Chicago River. When they reach Lakeview East, they turn around and work their way down through the West Loop, University Village and East Pilsen. From the West Side, they head south through Chinatown and Bronzeville before turning north and finishing the race at Grant Park.

The marathon was won by Galen Rupp, the first American to win it since 2002, completing the 26-mile circuit in 2 hours 9 minutes and 20 seconds.

The pack of runners head towards the Near North Side after passing the three-mile mark.

Spectators lined the streets and the bridge overhead as a crowd of runners pace north shortly before 8 a.m. The red carpet was rolled out to give runners better grip on the grated bridge surface.

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Poet Allison Joseph shares tips for political prose at DePaul

By Albora Memushi Contributing Writer

The poet Allison Joseph stopped by DePaul to read her poetry and answer questions from students Thursday, Oct. 5.

Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, IL. Joseph is editor of Crab Orchard Review, directs the MFA program, and runs the Young Writers Workshop, a summer program for high school students.

She has published fifteen books and chapbooks. Joseph whispers “just can’t stop,” as she’s being introduced by poet and professor of English at DePaul, Chris Green.

Green ends his presentation by reading one of Joseph’s poem that was published in an anthology, “If Waitress Own the White House.” Joseph reflected on the importance of doing timely writing.

“I’m going to do a reading that verges from the despairing to the joyful, so it may be a little schizophrenic, because I think that’s how we’re all feeling these days,” Joseph said. “To be able to use the genre of poetry to reflect what is happening on the national news, whatever is happening individually to us because of our status as human beings.”

Joseph recognizes the dangers of writing critically about powerful political entities.

“I was teaching a class last fall, and I asked my graduate students, it was a class in which we were looking at poets from around the world, poets who had suffered exile by their own government, who were blacklisted, censored, or even killed for writing poetry,” Joseph said. “I asked my students, do you see yourselves as political poets, and they were all like, ‘no, no, don’t put that on me.’ I wonder what they would say now.”

But Joseph pushed them to continue despite their fears.

“By the end of that class I had a student that was writing things that were truly, directly political. We can’t keep out things that we think are one way or another, it all comes into our writing, into our lives,” Joseph said.

Joseph is the winner of 2017 New Georgia Arts Literary Award. Among her

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Allison Joseph shares some of her topical political poetry with attendees of the event. Recently, she has taken aim at the Trump administration.

other honors include being in the Academy of American Poets, John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, Ruth Lilly Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry.

Joseph prefaced her first reading by ruminating on the importance of being a writer.

“I write to be a recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self—all those different aspects of it.”

Joseph followed her first poem, “Headline News,” with “Ordinary Dress,” a poem about her wedding day and the fact that she didn’t have a wedding dress as she married her husband of 25 years when they were graduate students.

The poem that followed was inspired

by Kellyanne Conway’s infamous phrase, “Alternative Facts”. Conway is Donald Trump’s senior adviser. The poem is based on Conway’s statement that there is no such thing as lying, but there were alternative facts.

The poem went viral, one public radio station in Illinois had Joseph come to record the poem. The station manager then tweeted the recording to Conway. Joseph joked, “If I disappear, please keep my books in print, I loved all of you.”

“Cake shall henceforth be known as alternative celery. Students, don’t be upset if you get an F. It’s just an alternative A,” the poem reads.

“The reading tonight was wonderful.

Meeting people like Joseph that is so well versed is inspirational. I love her voice”, said

graduate student Chandler Garland.

Joseph ended the reading by giving students advice on how to write meaningful poetry.

“Write a poem about the thing that you find most interesting poetically that is the smallest thing that you can conceive of, it could be a lady bug. It forces you to pay attention to other things that people ignore.”

“I think she’s a wonderful writer, she makes poetry so effortless,” said DePaul student Estella Achinko.

Joseph’s latest book, “Confession of a Barefaced Women,” is forthcoming in March 2018.

DAX continued from front page calling me to do?’” Warmbold said in a video on Depaul USA’s website. “For us, it’s to help these students get their education so they can be on their feet and be successful in every aspect of their lives.”

Morris’ own experiences with financial instability in college almost ended his career before it even started. He doesn’t see why money should be the only thing preventing these hardworking students from getting an education.

“I see these kids with 3.6 and 3.7 GPAs and someone tells them they can’t continue school because they don’t have money? That’s not right,” Morris said. “These are the doctors of the future who you could be kicking away.”

The help that Depaul USA provides for the at-risk students is not limited to just putting a roof over their heads. They help out with the cost of meal plans and textbooks, and even bought Lazwando a bike to help him get around.

Without the financial assistance the organization provided for him, Lazwando said it would have taken him years longer to graduate.

“I figured out that I could only afford to take one class a quarter,” Lazwando said. “If it weren’t for Depaul USA, I would still be on that type of schedule.”

Combatting homelessness has historically had a priority within the Vincentian community. Griffin Roberts, the founder and president of the DePaul Coalition for the Homeless, said that the Dax program is a continuation of that mission.

“The Vincentian community does well in their attempts to combat homelessness through direct service, education and advocacy,” Roberts said.

Most students don’t realize that some of their classmates might not know where they are going to sleep that night. In addition to providing housing, they are working to combat student homelessness by raising awareness of the problem within the DePaul community.

“We’re in the preliminary stages of planning awareness days on campus which I think will really make headlines across the whole city,” Morris said.

The Dax House houses five juniors and seniors plus Morris, who keeps an eye on things from his third-floor bedroom. The girls have the first floor and the guys live on the second. The back door opens up to a perfectly manicured yard complete with a luscious garden. Lazwando says it’s the nicest place he’s ever lived.

There are strict requirements that

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Emblazoned on the wall next to the Dax House is a quote that sums up the program’s mission.

students hoping to get a spot in the house have to fulfill. Each student has to submit to a vetting process. “(The students) all have to go through a background check and they all have to be employed at least 10 hours per week,” Morris said. “We need grades to be at a certain point as well. We’re looking for a 2.0 minimum GPA. But after all of that goes through, we award the housing on a first come, first serve basis.”

While the first Dax House is a step in the right direction, Morris said they are already

getting very close to being able to open up a second one.

“We’re working on purchasing our own house, rather than leasing it from someone else like we’re doing now,” Morris said. “We’ve got some grants coming in that would allow us to open up that second house, which is something that some students really need.”

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DePaul student opens collaborative space in Wicker Park

By Timothy Duke Staff Writer

Located just off the Western Blue Line stop, a new collaborative workspace for creatives and artists called Foster Studio was recently opened by DePaul sophomore Kieran Hush.

Foster Studio seeks to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment for creatives to work amongst each other. People who become members of Hush’s studio can enjoy a special blend of Intelligentsia Coffee, art supplies, gigabit internet, access to a photo studio and other useful amenities while working in a spacious, clean and minimalistic environment filled with verdant plants.

Hush believes that while the amenities are an amazing addition to the studio, the collaborative experience is what makes becoming a member worthwhile.

“The functional workspace is great and is really essential for the value as a whole.

But when it comes down to it, it’s these unquantifiable relationships that you can have working together in this environment,” Hush said. “Knowing the people that you are working around allows you to enter new depths of collaborative creativity.”

Rory Pipia has been a friend of Hush’s for several years and became interested in working with him last year when he was beginning to have the ideas of this studio.

Pipia began working with Hush to do public relations and provide networking opportunities for the studio.

“I’ve heard Kieran talk about this a lot over the last year,” Pipia said. “What this space would become has changed a lot with all of our influences, but I’ve always been interested in people working together for art, instead of doing it on their own because you can work better with others.”

Pipia says Foster Studio is marketing toward people who want to turn their creative hobby into a career.

“We’re targeting people that want to take that extra step and truly show that they care about and believe in their artcraft,” Pipia said.

Another friend of Hush’s who works

PHOTO COURTESEY OF NATE FOSTER

Foster Studio, opened and managed by DePaul student Kieran Hush, aims to provide a collaborative workspace for creatives for a monthly fee.

on the backend of the studio is Brooke Raush, a student at Santa Monica College in California. Raush says she became involved with Hush’s project through a blog.

“We got involved in this project by starting a blog about creatives not only in Chicago but all over,” Raush said. “We were searching for people who did not have enough exposure to interview them about their inspirations and what they do. After that we wanted to actually open a place for people to work out of together.”

Like the rest of members of Foster Studio, Raush believes in the power of collaborative work.

“The whole point of our studio is to meet likeminded individuals and to talk about and bounce ideas off one another, and help each other with things that maybe someone else can’t do,” Raush said. “People’s work is better if it’s done with the help of others. Groups are stronger than the individual.”

Raush says she mostly deals with social

media, marketing and email inquiries with another member of Foster Studio, Jon Croney, who also goes to school in California with Raush. Both Raush and Croney say they hope that once the first Foster Studio in Chicago becomes successful, they would like to open a new space in California.

“Since myself and Brooke are away in L.A., we kind of see things from afar,” Croney said. “We are reaching out to people in Chicago and in L.A., so that hopefully we can expand out there in the future.”

While Hush may still be a student, this is not his first entrepreneurial endeavor.

“When I was younger, I used to just hustle t-shirts,” Hush said. “That transitioned into a business of consulting work with screen printing for local businesses in the suburb I’m from.”

Even if this studio does not become an overwhelming success, Hush believes investing in oneself, even as a learning experience, is worthwhile.

“We secured an investor and that fell through and then we explored different financial opportunities, but I am funding it entirely myself using my savings,” Hush said.

“I’m just trying to invest in myself and learn from this experience. The way I see it when it comes to money, is that money is necessary to live, yes, but money is not necessary to be happy. There will be thousands of opportunities to provide for your needs but not thousands of opportunities to have a truly enriching learning experience such as this. I do not want anything to limit me, especially something as made up as currency.”

Hush hopes to continue this studio over the next two years while continuing his education at DePaul. After those two years, he plans of looking to either expand or pursue other creative projects.

Foster Studio is located at 1875 North Milwaukee Ave. Memberships for Foster Studio start at $175 per month.

PAC continued from front page saying it is a thinly veiled effort to increase revenue for the county, implemented under the guise of being for public health purposes. She is also critical that the tax disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities.

Even though the soda manufacturers and Amiwala both want to see the soda tax gone, taking money from them just didn’t sit right with her.

“Although they shared my view in regards to the soda tax, I am not in favor of large corporations getting involved in politics for their own gain,” Amiwala said. “Elections should be determined by the interest of citizens, not by how much money candidates can get from private corporations.”

Political science professor Nicholas Kachiroubas talked about the dilemma that candidates can face by taking money from an entity, even if their beliefs align.

“While it isn’t illegal to give candidates large sums of money, it raises an ethical dilemma,” Kachiroubas said. “Some donors will expect increased access or special attention if the candidate is elected.”

The 13th District candidate said she was tempted to take the money but decided against it, saying it would have negated her mission of running a fully transparent campaign.

She said the large contribution would have been more than enough to defeat her opponent, incumbent Larry Suffredin, but still turned it away. “(Funding is) a win-or-lose thing,” Amiwala said. “Your candidacy is legitimized by how much money you have. The first question that everyone asks me is always, ‘how much money have you raised?’”

Amiwala’s video announcement of her denial of the

PHOTO COURTESEY OF BUSHRA AMIWALA

If elected, DePaul sophomore Bushra Amiwala would be the first Pakistani Muslim woman to hold public office in Cook County.

funds found an audience in her home district, with people expressing their support for her in the comments, and praise for her decision came from as far away as the West Coast.

“This guy from California sent me an email saying he had seen my video after someone near him shared it,” Amiwala said. “He said he was proud of my integrity for standing my ground in the face of a potentially campaignwinning amount of money.”

DePaul junior Emma Quinn commended Amiwala’s

decision not to take the money even though the money would have helped her accomplish her goals.

“It takes a lot of guts to turn down that many zeroes,” Quinn said. “But she’s doing it because she actually wants to serve people, not companies, which I think is a welcome change.”

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New play aimed at youth tackles immigration issue

By Dirce Toca Assistant News Editor

The DePaul University Theatre School has opened their curtain for “Augusta and Noble,” a Chicago Playworks’ production that will run until Nov. 11. Aimed at younger audiences, the play puts into perspective two issues many pre-teens may be facing right now – the transition from middle school to high school and immigration.

“The Theatre School at DePaul produces Chicago Playworks, an annual season of plays for young audiences,” said Head of Directing Lisa Portes. “We chose to produce ‘Augusta and Noble’ because it’s a Chicago story, based on interviews with Chicago families about an issue that directly reflects the experience of many young people in our city: the anxiety, uncertainty and confusion that comes from being the U.S.-born child of undocumented parents.”

Portes has been the head of directing since 2005. She served as Artistic Director for Chicago Playworks from 2002 – 17, with “Augusta and Noble” being the last piece she programmed. Portes says Chicago Playworks primarily serves the Chicago Public Schools, with the target age for this production being eight years and up.

Written by Carlos Murillo, the play is focused on 14-year-old Gabi who, throughout her first days of high school, discovers that her mother is undocumented. Through a tale of courage and self-discovery, Gabi learns the process of what is it like to be accepted to a selective enrollment high school, far from home, while realizing the obstacles her parents went through to get her where she is.

With fear that their immigration status might be exposed, Gabi’s mom, Dolores, `

would have preferred for her daughter to go to her neighborhood school. Throughout the story, we learn that Dolores had originally hid Gabi’s acceptance letter.

Playing the character of Gabi is Mariana Castro, a senior at the DePaul Theatere School who was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. While Castro is in America under a student visa, she says her and Gabi may have different life experiences but can still relate to her in the way that Gabi feels like she belongs to different worlds.

“Even though Colombia is my home, Chicago has become sort of a home too,” Castro said. “And since I don’t have any family here, I can understand the uncertainty when being left alone with new responsibilities and unknown territory from one day to the other, having to deal with new experiences on your own.”

Given that immigration is such a big topic right now, Murillo and Portes said they chose to do this play “after the election and in direct response to campaign rhetoric that criminalized and stigmatized specifically Latin American immigrants.”

“Many of our students are first or second generation Latin American immigrants,” Portes said. “We wanted to tell the intimate, human story of a Mexican immigrant family to counter the dehumanization of Latino immigrants fomented by this administration.”

The play goes back and forth between reality and Gabi’s dreams, specifically with the character of El Coyote. His character represents a person who helps undocumented immigrants cross the border to the United States.

“The dream sequences are important to the story because they not only represent Gabi’s confusion, feeling of abandonment,

PHOTO COURTESEY OF DEPAUL THEATRE SCHOOL

“Augusta and Noble” follows a high school student who discovers her mother is undocumented.

fear, and frustration, but it’s an exploration of her parents’ experience and how she begins to understand her history,” Castro said. “As she goes on the journey her parents did, she also goes through a process of understanding her identity and of growing up.”

Though the play is aimed at younger children, it is just as impactful for adults. Jose Blanco, a father in the audience, took his two sons to see the play on Thursday morning.

“My sons may not have really felt the significance, but this play hit close to home for me,” Blanco said. “My mom was an immigrant. Dolores’ story was very similar to that of what my mom went through to get to this country.”

Castro hopes the play will raise awareness and empathy.

“In these times particularly, when everything becomes political, it’s important for kids to understand that this is a case to case scenario and these are families, friends, neighbors, not statistics on a newspaper,” Castro said.

Portes wanted to share a message with this production to the many Latino immigrant families in Chicago: “We see you.

We stand with you.”

CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: September 27 - October 3, 2017 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS

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The Quad

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Sanctuary Town Homes

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Whole Foods

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Assault & Theft

Drug & Alcohol

SEPTEMBER 30 OCTOBER 2 1) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor 3) A criminal defacement of property report was report was filed for two people in Sanctuary Hall. Both were taken to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMTs.

filed for graffiti found on a bench in the Quad.

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A theft of bicycle report was filed for a bike taken from the rack at Whole Foods.

OCTOBER 1 2) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor OCTOBER 3 report was filed for a person in Clifton-Fullerton 5) An aggravated battery report was filed for a Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic

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person in Sanctuary Townhomes. Chicago Police were called and safety alerts were distributed to the campus community regarding the incident.

Other

LOOP CAMPUS SEPTEMBER 27 6) A theft report was filed for a bicycle taken from the Daley Building.

OCTOBER 2 7) A harassment report was filed for a person receiving unwanted telephone calls.

OCTOBER 3 8) A criminal trespass to land report was filed for a person panhandling in the DePaul Center.

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Panel speaks on turning doodles into dollars

By Rachel Fernandez Managing Editor

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center hosted an event on Friday that brought together a diverse group of creative entrepreneurs to talk about how they make money by making art and pursuing their passions.

The event began with an introduction from Danny Schuman, the president and founder of the marketing consultancy company Twist. He opened his speech with the question, “why are we here?” and encouraged the listeners to think less about why they were in the room and more about why they are alive. He spoke about the importance of passion driving the work of artists and how entrepreneurship is about creation.

The keynote speaker for the event was Charles Adler, the co-founder of Kickstarter and the founder of the collaborative space Lost Arts. In his experience running Kickstarter, Adler noticed how people are willing to fund creative work for a better future and how providing a platform and a supportive community where people can share their work and get feedback is essential to artists.

The event reached students in many different creative fields looking for how they can make money off of their passions. One of these students was senior performing arts management major and drummer Aidan Kranz, who felt as if the event spoke to the line of work he would like to continue with post-grad.

“Passion inspires me to do creative work,” Krantz said.

“It’s what I find connects me to other people and a way to express how I see the world and interact with it.”

The event then featured a 10-person panel of other creative entrepreneurs. In constructing the panel, assistant director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center Abigail Ingram brought in a variety of workers including painters, fashion designers, bakers and writers who could speak on their experiences profiting off of their crafts. Even though the art they produce is vastly different, Ingram finds that their

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Attendees flip through Lieutenant Norals IV’s photography books. His photography captures scenes of Chicago life. creativity unifies them and drives their success.

“The creativity piece goes further into it,” Ingram said. “If you’re going to be an artist, you have to find artistic way to market your business as well.”

While creating the event, Ingram also wanted the audience to take away that through the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, students “have a community of resources where if they’re creative students, they can reach out and find ways to build a business around what they love to do. We are here for that.”

One of the members on the panel was Lieutenant Norals IV, founder of his own independent Chicago-based photography company called Blu Tint Photography. For him,

getting to speak on the panel was a good opportunity to share his experiences working as a creative entrepreneur “because it’s always about empowering others to know that they can do it themselves.”

After graduating from from Harrington College of Design, Norals IV started his business and has since been driven by his creativity and passion to grow his brand and unique style of photography.

“You start to think about where you came from and how much further you have to go, because you’re never going to stop growing until you’re dead in your grave, so you might as well keep on pushing,” Norals IV said.

WARD continued from front page His peers remember him as someone who was everywhere and involved in everything. Elijah Obasanya, a close friend of Ward’s said that it was Ward who gave him new insight on political topics and was somebody that he could talk to about “anything and everything.”

“On campus he was involved in anything and everything related to the black student body, other minority student organizations, religious organizations and many other socially conscious organizations,” Obasanya said. “Outside of class I don’t think that many people realize that he is a very funny guy with a huge passion for the poor and disenfranchised in the community. We hear a lot about the issues of crime, gun violence, and destitution in communities of color in this city. We don’t hear enough about people who have made it their mission to help fix these issues, and as a result moving our country forward. This is what makes (Ward) so special, and this is what makes him the perfect candidate for the job.”

“He was very passionate about making an impact on campus, but he is also very passionate about making an impact on disenfranchised individuals all over Chicago as well.”

In fact, serving the poor is one of Ward’s main goals. He said that because politics is ingrained into the country’s social DNA, it would be “foolish” to ignore how it plays a role in our everyday lives.

“If I don’t win, I want people to understand and know that my primary goal is to serve an underserved community that’s often looked over,” Ward said. “This country sometimes fights to protect the middle class but completely ignores the poor.”

Ward said he will run as either a democrat or an independent.

“The jury is still out on that,” he said.

“I vehemently oppose the monstrosity committed by the democratic party in our communities, but the community itself is primarily democratic.” Ward said he believes in bringing power to the people.

“I decided to run for office because I believe that we have leaders in office who in fact are very competent people,” Ward said. “The problem is that these competent people become incompetent when it comes to understanding their roles for our communities. Politicians are not and should never be treated like celebrities.”

Now, Ward is working toward his goal of raising a total of $20,000 for his campaign.

His Crowdpac page describes him as “unbossed and unbought.” For the time being, Ward said that his main goal is for his message and campaign to gain momentum.

Ward said he chose to run for 10th District State Representative because he has already been seeing “a pattern among newly elected political servants.” They get in on name alone, he said, and “while making their empty promises, they adhere to their own personal proclivities.”

As of now, Ward is running up against the current 10th District State Representative, Melissa Conyears-Ervin, also the wife of 28th ward Alderman, the ward in which Ward currently resides.

“We are being taxed at alarming rates, the cost of living continues to increase while minimum wage barely increases,” Ward said. “We need people who aren’t afraid to go against the grain and fight for the people even when (nobody) is watching.”

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Ed Ward announced his candidacy to be Illinois’ 10th District State Representative.

Ward continued by saying that “nonviolent drug offenders should be let out of prison immediately” and that “upon release the voting privileges of every ex-con should be reinstated.” In addition to wanting to reform the criminal justice system, Ward said that taxation in the city of Chicago also needs a makeover.

He said that taxes, as they are, “currently are far too high”, it’s taxation without representation, those responsible would merit impeachment.

“I have a vision to reallocate resources to starved communities,” Ward said. “We need adequate educational funding, we need a police force where corruption is not the norm, (we need) a judicial system where all government officials are held accountable if they fail to properly execute the duties of their offices.”

“There’s a lot more I could say,” Ward said. “But for the sake of this interview I digress.”

Both Wallace and Obasanya agreed that Ward is the perfect candidate for the job.

“If he says he cares, you can bet he’ll put those words into action. When I think of a political system run ‘for the people, by the people’, I think of Ed,” Wallace said. “He gives me hope that we can make a difference and create change if we’re willing to stand by our word, stand together, and stand up for what is just, even if it means standing in opposition with those we love.”

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Poetry symposium honors Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks

By Ebony Ellis Contributing Writer

On Monday, Oct. 2, a poetry symposium was held in the DePaul Theatre School atrium honoring the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Angela Jackson, Brooks’ biographer, appeared as a guest speaker for the event that was hosted by the Center for Black Diaspora.

The event started with an introduction and was kicked off by political science professor Christina Rivers. She provided the audience with a warm welcome and announcements of courses for the upcoming quarter. She then introduced the audience to Dexter Zollicoffer, one of the creators of the event and the diversity advisor for the Theatre School.

When asked about the reasoning behind the creation of this event, Zollicoffer said “The center knew they wanted to honor Gwendolyn Brooks, she is a local artist and we are honoring our own.”

Once Zollicoffer gave his remarks regarding the purpose of the event, he introduced Francesca Royster, an English professor at DePaul. Royster took the audience on an insightful and meaningful journey when she spoke about Brooks and the impact of the poet’s work on her childhood and her views on life as a black woman. She connected the audience using relatable tales of her childhood along with how exactly Brooks made her think and feel.

After Royster was seated, Jackson walked to the front of the atrium. The author intrigued the audience with excerpts from

her biography about Brooks. She went on about the poet’s early life, the work she did as an activist and how greatly her words impacted other writers.

This conversation led to performances of Brooks’ work by the Depaul Theatre School Alumnae with Master of Fine Arts Degree in acting. Abie Irabor and Shadana Patterson, both DePaul trained actresses recited Brooks’ works. Irabor read aloud a few chapters from “Maud Martha,” Brooks’ only novel. Patterson read few poems from “Annie Allen” and “A Street in Bronzeville,” two of Brooks’ many poetry books. The women recited Brooks’ words as if they were their very own, evoking emotions of humor and strength.

Jackson returned to the center of the room and participated in a Q&A session with the audience. It was evident that members of the audience absorbed a lot of information about Brooks due to the insightful questions that were being asked.

Irabor mentioned that the better the writing is, the easier it is to act out.

“I read through it and she painted the picture for me,” Patterson said. “Her words have become my memory.”

Most of the questions from audience members were directed at Jackson. Before she answered each question, the author took a long pause, making sure that her responses were sound and thoughtful.

Jackson recalls Brooks as her mentor.

“We met at the OBAC (Organization of Black American Culture) Writers Workshop, if not before, around 1970,” she says. She continued to speak about Brooks’ about how exactly her work inspired many poets in the 1960s, 1970s and even contemporary poets.

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Angela Jackson reads excerpts from her biography of Brooks. Brooks’ depictions of urban black life led her to be the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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Anti-abortion law up for debate in Ireland

Demonstrators participate at The March for Choice event in Dublin, Ireland, calling for a change to Ireland's strict abortion laws Saturday Sept. 30, 2017.

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Irish law banning most abortions could change in 2018

By Carina Smith Copy Editor

At a time of intense political polarization, the argument over whether abortions should be legal or not is at the forefront of many politicians' campaigns. The debate over reproductive rights has become an international issue, including in Ireland where the government announced in late September they plan to hold a referendum in the summer of 2018 on the Eighth Amendment, the section of the constitution that restricts abortions from only being performed in the most severe circumstances.

Protestors gathered in Dublin, Ireland on Sept. 30 for the sixth annual March for Choice, which is run by pro-choice groups in Ireland like the Abortion Rights Campaign, Union of Students in Ireland and the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment.

The march is a rally aimed to gather people in the typicallyconservative country to call for change on Ireland’s strict abortion law. The amendment, which was added in 1983, is the response to the idea that an unborn child has a right to life. Pro-choice activists want to relax the law for more women to have the ability to legally terminate their pregnancies inside of Ireland instead of having to travel outside of the country for the operation.

The march’s theme, “Time to Act,” urges for action "to ensure the upcoming referendum and

any subsequent legislation... provides for free, safe and legal abortion in Ireland,” according to Abortion Rights Campaign spokesperson Clare Lanigan.

Abortion is a hot-button topic in Ireland as well as the United States, which is represented by two sides: pro-choice and antiabortion.

Pro-choice groups are prevalent in the United States just like in Ireland. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois is an organization that fights to defend the rights of people who live in Illinois, including protecting womens' reproductive rights, including her decision to terminate a pregnancy.

“We’ve engaged in litigations to try and hold off those kinds of medically-unnecessary restrictions that don’t do anything to advance women’s health and to really keep Illinois a state in the Midwest where we protect reproductive rights,” ACLU of Illinois staff attorney Amy Meek said. “And that’s something we’ve been fighting for for decades and we’ve been very successful at this time where we’re seeing hundreds and hundreds of (anti-abortion) laws being enacted all over the country.

On Tuesday, Oct. 3, the House pushed a bill that, if passed through the Senate, will block abortions from taking place after 20 weeks into a pregnancy. People were either up in arms or rejoicing after the news that it had passed through the House, showing the

deep divide in our nation. Meek said, “these kinds of unnecessary bans don’t have any basis in real science,” and therefore shouldn’t

“These kinds of unnecessary bans don't have any basis in real science."

Amy Meek Staff attorney The American Civil Liberties Union be put into place.

On the other side of the argument are anti-abortion groups, who fight to keep abortions illegal or increasingly limited. Executive director of the Pro-Life Action League Eric Scheidler works on grassroots activism groups that help to end abortions nationwide. The ProLife Action League holds prayer services for aborted fetuses, works to educate the community about abortions, talks to people outside of different clinics and organized protests following the release of the video allegedly showing Planned Parenthood selling fetal tissue.

Scheidler says his organization is in communication with pro-life groups and they work along the same guidelines toward ending

abortion in their respective countries.

“We’re in opposite situations (from Ireland),” Scheidler said.

“We’re dealing with one of the most radical legal regimes for abortion in the whole world.

There are very few countries in the world where you can get an abortion as late in pregnancy and with as few restrictions or guidelines to it than you can in the United States, where abortion is, for all practical purposes, legal up to the very day of birth.”

Abortion laws in the U.S. are usually dependent on individual state laws. In Illinois, the laws prohibit the abortion of a viable fetus, meaning the fetus can live outside of the womb.

Most hospitals in the U.S. register the age of viability at 23 or 24 weeks into a pregnancy.

Abortions that are past the 21or 22-week mark of gestation are usually considered late-term abortions and are only performed for health reasons, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

In Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner recently signed a controversial bill that expanded taxpayersubsidized abortions for those who are covered by Medicaid or state employee insurance.

Rauner said he passed this bill because he didn’t believe that a person’s income should play a factor in making a decision like terminating a pregnancy.

Illinois Right to Life, a pro-life organization, openly opposed this bill mainly because it now allows

for abortions to be paid through tax-payer dollars.

Program manager for Illinois Right to Life Regina D’Amico said that pro-choice groups and abortion providers are “attacking laws that enact reasonable restrictions and are trying to wwwpush through extreme, out-of-touch, abortion expanding bills.”

Both Scheidler and D’Amico praised recent events like the passing of the 20-week abortion ban and the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has a history of voting against abortion positive legislation, into the Supreme Court. The two said they believe this will bring them one step closer to placing more restrictions on abortions across the United States. However, Meek sees the future for reproductive rights as a bright one, even if pro-choice groups have to continuously fight in the streets and in the government to keep them there.

While the future of abortion laws in the U.S. are still unclear, the people of Ireland are patiently waiting for next summer when the government will review the Eighth Amendment. For the pro-choice groups who showed up to the march, the hope is that Ireland's government will allow full access to abortions. Lanigan said her group, "will not settle for exceptions-based access or mere amendment of the Eighth.

Full repeal and proper abortion services in Ireland are needed now."

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PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS | AP President Trump speaks with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Oct. 5 next to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

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ALEX BRANDON | AP In this July 24 photo, President Trump speaks about health care in the Blue Room of the White House.

FRANCISCO SECO | AP Women with "esteladas," or Catalonia independence flags, walk along the old quarter in Girona, Spain on Oct. 2.

Catalonia urges mediation with Spain in secession dispute

Trump considering 'bump stock' ban

Barcelona, Spain

Washington D.C.

President Donald Trump says his administration is considering whether "bump stock" devices that allow semiautomatic rifles to perform more like fully automatic weapons should be banned in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre.

Trump says ahead of a dinner with senior military leaders at the White House Thursday evening, "We'll be looking into that over the next short period of time."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said earlier Thursday that the president welcomed a review of U.S. policy on the devices, which were apparently used by the Las Vegas shooter to make his weapons more deadly.

The National Rifle Association has said the devices should be "subject to additional regulations." And House Speaker Paul Ryan says a ban is "clearly something we need to look into."

In a statement on Thursday, the NRA says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives should immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law.

The organization, which holds a powerful sway over members of Congress, dismissed some of the initial response from lawmakers who have pressed for more gun control.

"Banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks," said the NRA. The statement came from NRA leaders Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox. Senior congressional Republicans say they are open to considering legislation banning "bump stocks" like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to make semi-automatic rifles perform more like fully automatic weapons.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas said as a hunter and sportsman he doesn't understand the use of the bump stock and wants to have a hearing on it.

Trump's one-two punch hits birth control, LGBT rights Washington D.C. In a one-two punch elating religious conservatives, President Donald Trump's administration is allowing more employers to opt out of no-cost birth control for workers and issuing sweeping religiousfreedom directions that could override many anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and others.

At a time when Trump finds himself embattled on many fronts, the two directives — issued almost simultaneously on Friday — demonstrated the president's eagerness to retain the loyalty of social conservatives who make up a key part of his base. Leaders of that constituency were exultant.

"President Trump is demonstrating his commitment to undoing the anti-faith policies of the previous administration and restoring true religious freedom," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.

Liberal advocacy groups, including those supporting LGBT and reproductive rights, were outraged.

"The Trump administration is saying to employers, 'If you want to discriminate, we have your back,'" said Fatima Goss Graves, president of National Women's Law Center.

Her organization is among several that are planning to challenge the birth-control rollback in court. The American Civil Liberties Union filed such a lawsuit less than three hours after the rules were issued.

"The Trump administration is forcing women to pay for their boss' religious beliefs," said ACLU senior staff attorney Brigitte Amiri. "We're filing this lawsuit because the federal government cannot authorize discrimination against women in the name of religion or otherwise."

Xavier Becerra, the Democratic

attorney general of California, said he planned to file a similar lawsuit as soon as feasible. Other Democratic attorneys general said they were mulling the same step.

Both directives had been in the works for months, with activists on both sides of a culture war on edge about the timing and the details.

The religious-liberty directive, issued

by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, instructs federal agencies to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated. The guidance effectively lifts a burden from religious objectors to prove that their beliefs about marriage or other topics that affect various actions are sincerely held.

"Except in the narrowest circumstances, no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law," Sessions wrote.

In what is likely to be one of the more contested aspects of the document, the Justice Department states that religious organizations can hire workers based on religious beliefs and an employee's willingness "to adhere to a code of conduct."

Many conservative Christian schools and faith-based agencies require employees to adhere to moral codes that ban sex outside marriage and same-sex relationships, among other behavior.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm, called it "a great day for religious freedom." But JoDee Winterhof of the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT-rights group, depicted the two directives as "an all-out assault, on women, LGBT people and others" as the administration fulfilled a "wish list" of the religious right.

Catalan separatists called for international mediation with the Spanish government as they pushed ahead Monday with plans to declare unilateral independence this week after a violent police crackdown scarred a disputed secession referendum.

The violence on Sunday in the prosperous northeastern region left more than 890 civilians and 430 police injured when anti-riot squads moved into polling stations and dispersed voters.

Shocking videos and photos of police dragging people by the hair and kicking them were flashed around the globe, leading some European leaders to warn about any further escalation of violence.

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said a regional parliamentary commission would investigate why Spain's anti-riot squads fired rubber bullets, smashed into polling stations and beat protesters with batons to disperse voters in the independence referendum that Spain opposed. He also urged the 5,000-strong contingent of special Spanish police forces deployed in Catalonia to leave immediately.

Puigdemont called Monday for the European Union "to stop looking the other way" and urged Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to accept international mediation in the crisis. He urged the EU to view Catalonia's desire to break away from Spain as a Europe-wide issue.

"This is not a domestic issue. The need for mediation is evident," Puigdemont said.

Of the 893 civilians injured in the melee, two suffered serious wounds, Catalan health authorities said. The Interior Ministry said 39 police received immediate medical treatment and 392 others had scrapes and bruises.

But Spanish authorities commended the police, saying their response to the voting was professional and proportionate. And Spain's interior minister said the 5,000 extra officers deployed to Catalonia would stay as long as necessary.

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What revolution?

Hefner branded the objectification of women as 'acceptable'

By Yazmin Dominguez Online Editor

Marilyn Monroe was the kick-starting force behind Playboy’s success. A photo of her smiling, one arm extended, posing on top of an elephant in Madison Square Garden in 1949 rocketed Playboy into the limelight. Photographed by Tom Kelley, she made $50 for the photo series named “Mona Monroe.”

Monroe’s photographs went through the hands of Kelley to the Chicago calendar company, Western Lithograph Company, which featured Monroe’s spread and trickled down to the hands of then 27-year-old Hugh Hefner a few years later.

Paying $800 for her photos and without her consent, Hefner blasted her front cover throughout America, touting her as the “sweetheart of the month” and selling 50,000 copies. It was a success for a risqué magazine in post-World War II America, when sexuality was associated with tradition and marriage.

“What Playboy apparently brought to the table was the idea of the urbane, gentleman-about-town, who had an interest and engagement with high culture and politics and was unashamedly not interested in marriage but was still heterosexual,” history professor Lisa Sigel said. “A lot of the men's magazines before then were unrespectable and more engaged with kink, at least according to my research.”

The original Playboy Hefner passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 27 due to cardiac arrest and respiratory failure at 91. Days after his death, headlines floated around glorifying his legacy. Publications such as Newsweek eulogized Hefner as championing racial equality because Playboy featured Martin Luther King and Malcolm X during the 1960s, a time when the mainstream was intolerant of civil rights.

In article featured in The Washington Post described how Hefner “prided himself as an advocate for the LGBTQ community.” The article continues to explain how Hefner, and in turn Playboy, weighed in on same-sex marriage, transgender rights and sodomy laws which were considered blasphemous at the time.

Playboy and Hefner gave a grandiose platform to such topics during an era of intolerance. The pornographer took a liberal stance on these political issues too.

However, the way Playboy attained its high status of worship and respect must also be mentioned.

The lack of an ‘unpopular’ opinion from the general media towards Hefner embodies the problem. At its core, Playboy built its empire on the exploitation and fantasy towards the ideal American woman. And, yes, he began with the exploitation of Monroe.

In the same photoshoot with Kelley, Monroe posed nude for a series of photo, which were then published in the ‘Golden Dreams’ calendar. In her biography “Marilyn: Life in her own words” by author George Barris, she expresses that

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she was first ashamed by the work with Playboy and received a small pay for the shoot. Later on the photo-shoot helped her career, but not without a strong reaction from her FOX executives, who were concerned it would ruin her career.

"(Hugh Hefner) wasn’t complicit in the way people lived in the world, he helped create it."

Tessia Phillips

Women & Gender Studies student A senior Women and Gender study major Tessia Phillips thinks Playboy’s treatment of Monroe is similar to the exploitation of Hefner’s bunnies.

“All these models and actresses talk about how he plucked them from obscurity and how the horror story goes is ‘I was living in my car and he gave the kid a shot.’ It’s really grossly similar to male athlete rhetoric like ‘he took a chance with me…’” Phillips said. “What they don’t say is they exploited women that were down on their luck. I see a lot of that with

Marilyn Monroe in particular.”

Many claimed that positive attitudes and attributes towards the dead man should not overshadow the basis of his raunchy business. It could be said that he crafted the sexual revolution. Perhaps for straight white heterosexual men he did. It can be argued that created a sexual revolution for his ‘playmates’ too, but he did so while explicitly exposing them to a rabid consumerist culture in which they were viewed as objects and paid pleasures.

And no, he did not sexually empower the women of America - rather the opposite. He made it socially acceptable to view women as sex symbols and objects, which is still a problem today.

“A lot of the things I'm seeing are that Hugh Hefner started this sexual revolution and it no longer had to be shameful to be sexual or expose certain parts of your body, but what gets left out of that argument is that applies as long as they looked like this, this and this,” Phillips said. “With Playboy and second wave feminism appearing around the same time, the very first dichotomy of expectations for women, was you should be able to be proud of your sexuality and own it and display that however you choose, but also if you do it in this way it's shameful. I think both of those two things happening at the same time was the first time western women saw that they weren’t allowed to pick one you had to do both and there was no way to do it.”

While the main headlines have been

glamorizing Hefner, Sigel makes clear how Hefner’s legacy is being remembered amongst academics.

“Academics know that Playboy did not cause the sexual revolution and that Playboy did not cause the feminist revolution. It’s problematic to look at a commercial publication as casual as an agent of bottom-up change for masses of people,” Sigel said. “But for popular pieces, it’s nice to have actors that people can talk about in order to make claims about how the sexual revolution happened.”

Hefner should be remembered, but in the right way. He was simply a businessman who built a pornographic empire and for decades branded sex as socially acceptable.

“Hugh Hefner put a face to very broad processes by which people changed their understandings of sexual pleasure, the use of birth control, city life, women's roles in society and other things,” Sigel said.

His heart must have been in the right place, right? Hefner did let one article supporting abortion rights be placed in Playboy. Hefner did, in fact, create a non-profit called the Playboy Foundation, which promoted birth control and women’s rights, according to Fortune Magazine. Checking up on the non-profit’s outdated website only promotes his First Amendment program and perhaps the most relatable programs to its cause is their rationale sex and drug policy program. Under the contact tab the website only provides their address, which a quick Google search shows an empty plot of land surrounded by barbed wire right down the street from the Playboy Mansion.

The foundation is very symbolic of how much Playboy actually represents women’s right. Playboy’s ideals surrounding women's rights are selfserving and made on sexist double standards.

The Chicago Tribune stated in a headline the truest statement surrounding his legacy, “For better or worse the world will never see another Hugh Hefner.”

It is true that another Hefner would be impossible for the next entrepreneurialminded pervert to pull off without seeming unoriginal, so it shouldn’t be repeated again.

“He wasn’t complicit in the way people lived in the world, he helped create it.

After his passing I think people haven’t taken into consideration he lived in a world where it was normal to sexually exploit women, but he played such a major role in making that sexier, more appropriate and acceptable,” Phillips said.

For the rest of eternity, Hefner will rest across the graveyard of Monroe in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He bought the graveyard across the icon in 2009 for $75,000. He told the Los Angeles Times, “I’m a believer in things symbolic. Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.”

He began his career by exploiting Monroe and it is not too soon to say that he will do the same even in the afterlife.

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No one needs an automatic rifle

By Danielle Ortiz Contributing Writer

We need change and we need it now. On Oct. 1 in Las Vegas, a man opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. At least 59 people were killed and 527 people were wounded. In the face of such tragedy many are asking themselves, where do we go from here?

Some are sick of people bringing up gun control so soon after catastrophe, but as mass shootings happen so frequently in America, is there ever a right time to talk about the topic?

“When is the time? If you say after a mass shooting is not the right time, then the right time will never come up because there is a mass shooting almost every single day. So, when is the time?” said Samin Agha, a secondyear law student studying at the University of Houston.

Talking about mass shootings and gun legislation is a necessity.

If the issue is ignored, people are going to be in danger. Freshman Linh Nguyen said, “It’s a big problem, so if you don't talk about it how can you be more aware of what is coming or might be coming?”

The push for gun control is not one that arises from callousness; it comes from anger.

On April 28, 1996, 35 people died in a mass shooting in Australia. Less than two weeks later, their government passed strict gun control laws. In the decade after, firearm homicides fell by 59 percent without a corresponding increase in nonfirearm homicides.

In contrast, in the United States we’ve been left to accept these casualties in the name of “freedom.” A study by Gavin Aronsen, a reporter from mother jones, analyzed data on mass shootings since 1982. His findings showed that 82 percent of guns used in mass shootings

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Nancy Hardy, of Las Vegas, cries as she walks among crosses placed in honor of those killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

are purchased legally. And of the over 5,000 children who are injured by guns on average per year in the U.S., a third are hurt unintentionally because of unsafe gun practices.

Studies show that children are accidently shot by their peers. “Most children who died of unintentional firearm injuries were shot by another child in their own age range and most often in the context of playing with a gun or showing it to others,” said Aronsen. The tragic deaths caused by guns are not the fault of the instruments, but the lack of safety measures enforced by adults and owners.

If one is to own a gun they must do so responsibly, under lock and key. This protects not only themselves, but everyone else too.

Americans have the right to bear arms. However, the meaning of those words must evolve in this day and age. The Second Amendment was written when guns held one bullet and

were mainly used for hunting.

No one needs an automatic rifle to hunt deer. To uphold the argument that automatic rifles are necessary for hunting reasons is ignorant and false.

In the context of American history, the second amendment was used to wipe out native populations. Guns were instrumental in the genocide of the Native American people.

The Second Amendment was originally ratified to obtain Virginia's vote in ratifying the Constitution. In southern states, it was customary to have a state militia that would enforce the practice of slavery by smashing uprisings, enacting inspections on quarters and conducting regular patrols.

The planned constitution gave the federal government the power to raise a national militia, which would have the power to absorb state militias into federal forces. This raised fear in the southern states that the federal army could be used

to emancipate slaves. To obtain southern votes, the Constitution was amended to give militias the right to bear arms and uphold patrols.

It’s irresponsible to whitewash history in the name of freedom and patriotism.

The Second Amendment is founded on racism and violence.

Americans must cease praising The Second Amendment under the rights of “freedom,” when in reality it is founded in racism and oppression.

Gun laws must evolve. A vast majority of Americans support universal background checks. “We need to be a lot more serious (about gun legislation). You're able to have a license for a gun online. Even young kids are able (to get guns) from forging their parent’s signature online. We should take our part of not only stopping gun violence and taking more precautions. If people want to get their license (for guns) at least take mental tests,” said freshman

Ganise Concepcion.

So why isn’t the law in place?

The short answer is people make money by selling guns and those people have the motive and money to lobby against new gun laws.

According to The Center for Responsive Politics, “during the 2014 election cycle, gun rights advocates gave parties, candidates and outside spending groups nine times more than their opponents, $3.7 million versus $423,750, and spent nearly seven more times on lobbying, $27.3 million versus $4.2 million.” Those funds also overwhelmingly went to Republicans, which could be part of why the Republican-majority congress refuses to pass new gun regulations.

Going forward, we must ask ourselves how we prevent mass shootings from happening again. Some people are calling for tighter security at hotels.

Unfortunately, a hotel was just the latest site of a broader issue.

Unless we’re willing to have heightened security at all soft targets there is no chance of this being successful in stopping mass shootings. And it’s not feasible to provide that level of security at so many locations. The best option right now is new gun regulations.

This is often blatantly conflated with confiscating all guns. That is no one’s intention, just common sense gun laws.

There must be a ban on rapidfire weapons that are uniquely suited for mass shootings with the addition of mandatory gun safety training. Just as you have to get a permit and take a class before you get a license to drive a car, the same measures should be in place for gun regulations with universal background checks.

Any of these actions would be an improvement. With lives on line, we can’t afford to do nothing.

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Las Vegas resident Nancy Cooley signs a Vegas Strong banner honoring the victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Veronica Hartfield, wife of Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield, and son Ayzayah Hartfield stand during a candlelight memorial for the officer. Hartfield was killed during the shooting.

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

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Focus

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Being one of the most “diverse” schools within suburban Chicago, this letter would seem unexpected for most DePaul students. In fact, most students would deem the university so multi-cultural that discrimination or bias is not even a discussion. What “most” of these DePaul students tend to have in common is the color of their skin-white.

According to DePaul’s enrollment summary in 2015, 55 percent of the student population is Caucasian. The “other” 45 percent is dispersed into various other minorities on campus.

Therefore, each minority on both the loop and Lincoln Park campus take up less than 20 percent of the total DePaul student population. Due to the slim number of minorities, the treatment of minorities on and off campus is similar.

This scenario may not be new to students of color at DePaul. Numerous students are exposed to a background of education, in which they are part of a small minority. This is highlighted in the famous movie and series, Dear White People. The movie is a satirical representation of black students experience at a university with majority white students. The similarities within the movie and DePaul minoritiy experiences is interchangeable.

Often minority students are criticized for only surrounding themselves with similar students. However, this is because of a need for a similar environment. This was the aim of multicultural on campus organizations, that advocate community within culture. For example, the African Student Association, an organization that provides students of African descent

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the opportunity to discuss topics in a safe space, typically with like-minded individuals. The growth of these on campus clubs are a step closer to a more inclusive and diverse DePaul community. However, they are highly criticized by students for excludiing the biggest ethnicity on campus, white students.

Although we have built “safe spaces�, is this really enough? The Milo Yannopolis incident in 2016 is a perfect example of the present hostility at DePaul. While various people protested his prescence at DePaul, the growing Republican community supported his racist and discriminatory remarks. This repetitive act of disunification is a constant reminder that DePaul students are seperated, and that a majority of students do not actively voice their opinions.

While the differentiated DePaul experience for minorities is immanent, there are multiple communities that do deserve recognition for their inclusive efforts. The DePaul Center for Diversity and multicultural organizations are some to name. Additionally, there are various white DePaul students that do advocate for minorities on campus. However, the feelings of those facing challenges adapting to the DePaul community deserve a voice as well. The prejudice, bias and stereotypical treatment of minorities at DePaul is eminent and needs to be discussed. Therefore, after a discussion with various minorities on campus, a list was constructed of small demands from students of color to white students.

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Arts & Life

By Evelyn Baker Nation & World Editor

Wine is a big part of my life. Whether I’m waiting tables and explaining to them which red Bordeaux they should pair with their steak frites or deciding which white wine will go best with my take out and big night in, I’ve got a glass of wine in my hand most nights of the week. One of my favorite places to pick up affordable wines is my local Trader Joe’s, but the enormity of the aisle and abundance of bottles can make the process intimidating, to say the least. Here’s a start in breaking those down. All of these wines were found at the Lincoln Park Trader Joe’s on Diversey between Clark and Halsted, which is easily accessible from DePaul’s Lincoln Park and Loop campuses via the Brown line. So go ahead and grab your favorite and watch the full season of “Glow” or recap all of “The Office” (U.S.) with your feet up on the couch and finish off the bottle of these tasty great valued wines. No judgement.

What’s in it: chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, viognier and muscat canelli Why I picked it: My go-to white is usually chardonnay, but I wanted something a little different. Plus, the label features a dozing apple/ grape/pancake (up for debate) dreaming of better things while stomping through the city as a giant.

So, relatable.

My notes: In short, I love it. This white blend does everything for me I usually want out of an oaky, buttery California chardonnay, minus the oak or butter. Its fuller bodied and coats your tongue with a honey-like quality that balances a sense of sweetness with rounding acidity.

Basically: It’s a wine you can drink with your mom who only drinks riesling or moscato.

It’s almost old world without the oak and has a medium plus acidity that makes your mouth water a little bit. Plus, with a 13.5 percent ABV, it’s got a pretty high alcohol content for a white wine.

What to drink it with: Perfect to bring along to your favorite local Thai BYOB (the spice of the Thai will complement the acidity of the wine).

ABV: 13.5%

Why I picked it: Knowing what pinots, cabs and other well known single varietals taste like, I wanted something a little different. Grenache/syrah blends are typical of the Rhone Valley in France, and with this being a Spanish blend, I didn’t know what to expect.

But when you’re buying Trader Joe’s wine for $5.99, you REALLY don’t know what to expect. So, reaching into the shelf for something you’re unsure yet hopeful about really can be fun.

My notes: It initially tastes like ripe red cherries and a lot of red fruit, but balances out to include a little bit of black fruit like blackberries on the tail end. It’s dry and because it doesn’t have a long finish, it’s not too heavy like a cabernet sauvignon and makes for super easy couch drinking. If you’re big into Cote du Rhones you might miss out on the earthiness that is typical of some french versions of this red blend.

Basically: It’s easy and light enough to rival a pinot noir or gamay as the go-to glass of red for a warmer fall evening, but it doesn’t hit you in the face with too much of anything, flavor included. Think the adult version of Cherry Pepsi.

What to drink it with: Spanish tapas (Cafe Ba Ba Reeba, anyone?), grilled foods like burgers or to class up a fall picnic featuring a cheese plate at Oz park.

What’s in it: Riesling! The popular German grape is known for being a sweeter white, and many bottles indicate just how sweet or dry it is with a key on the back.

This one is labeled as medium sweet. Side note, rieslings from northeastern Alsace, France are usually dry.

Why I picked it: I’ve been into drier rieslings lately, but I wanted to match the apple-stuffed pork I was making for dinner, and the residual sugar in a sweeter white would work well with the sweetness from the baked apples. I’m not big on sweeter wines like moscato, but some rieslings offer a lighter sweetness balanced by acidity, which doesn’t leave it tasting syrupy. I grabbed this specific riesling off the shelf because of its medium sweet labeling, which was the least sweet out of the other two German rieslings available.

My notes: It’s not sweet enough to be in the same category as a Barefoot moscato, but equals the price. This medium sweet German white is light and citrusy, but it definitely has the touch of residual sugar to remind you it’s a riesling.

Basically: While easy to drink on its own, this riesling would be best with food. It’s definitely enjoyable, especially for the limited stock of rieslings carried by Trader Joe’s.

What to drink it with: If you’re going home for the weekend and your mom is making pork chops and applesauce, bring a bottle of this to barter for the pile of dirty laundry you undoubtedly brought along.

ABV: 13.5%

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Blue Man Group celebrates 20 years

PHOTO BY LINDSEY BEST

Blue Man Group celebrates 20 years in Chicago. On Oct. 5, Blue Man Group welcomed the college press outlets to the Briar Street Theatre for another colorful show.

By Carina Smith Copy Editor

Blue Man Group is celebrating 20 years of performing in Chicago this month with their usual high-energy and colorful performance that has drawn audiences nationwide to see the famous group. Blue Man Group Chicago hosted a college press event on Thursday, Oct. 5.

Blue Man Group, originally started in Manhattan in 1991, is now a permanent staple in five cities across the United States and even has a world tour. The group is rightfully named the “Blue Man Group,” as the entire show is performed by three bald men whose skin is painted blue.

Since being started over 26 years ago, Blue Man Group has become a staple in the performing arts and comedy scenes worldwide.

Briar Street Theatre is only a short walk from the Belmont stop, and the inside of the venue is just as interesting and unique as the performers inside. The walls are lined with pipes and streamers, welcoming the audience into the oddness that can only come from the blue men. The inside of the theater looks the same as the lobby, except for two small screens on either side of the stage that give instructions to the audience to “tell Emma you hope her headache goes away” and other quirky things to keep people engaged.

The performance starts off on a colorful foot, with the three men being mesmerized by paint and music, entrancing the audience by only putting light on the small part of the stage that they inhabit. They go on to use a variety of different comedy sketches and props to keep the audience laughing, dancing and, at times, screaming. Blue Men Group is meant to “explore our cultural norms with wide-eyed wonder,” according to a description of the current show. There is never a dull moment during the roughly

hour and a half show, and everyone in the audience is kept on their toes.

At some points in the show, three people in neon outfits can be seen in the top corner behind a screen playing different instruments. The musicians are there to add more feeling to the show, including suspense, triumph and the pitfalls of the blue men as they navigate the stage. According to Associate Music Director Jeff Quay, some of the music is completely improvised based on how the crowd is reacting to the different skits in the show.

Audience members in the front row are asked to wear a poncho to avoid being covered in paint, food and a mysterious goo that shoots across the stage and into the audience. At times, the blue men go out into the crowd to find a participant or two who are willing to come up and help them perform. Eric Gebow, a blue man who has been performing with the Blue Man Group for the past 18 years, talked about having to work with the other performers when an audience member doesn’t do as they planned and they have to improvise together and with the band to not make it seem like a flop.

“When we go to get the audience member, there’s a guy that’s always the dominant one to begin with,” Gebow said. “And then we work together, but the audience can get a little lost sometimes.

So, we depend on the band to fill that in and tell that story.”

The show hasn’t stayed the same over the last 20 years, though. The show that the theater is currently running has been out since February. The crew in Chicago goes off of a script that is given to them by the writers in New York City and they perform that version of the Blue Men until there is another update to the script.

However, there are certain elements of the show that haven’t gone away, like using drumsticks on a variety of objects and the

PHOTO BY LINDSEY BEST

Blue Man Group entertains the audience with colorful paint and comedy sketches. monstrously sized iPhones, which have been used in a different way in each show since 2012.

Though Tobias Fünke isn’t painted blue in this act, Blue Man Group Chicago is still a must-see in Chicago, and DePaul students can take advantage of the college

student discount for the show. Blue Man Group Chicago offers a $35 discounted ticket with a valid student ID. The discount can be redeemed at the Briar Street Theatre box office, on Ticketmaster or by calling the venue.

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The Florida Project

“Tangerine” director Sean Baker follows up with a story of wonderment in the shadows of Disney World

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Budget motel manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe) and resident Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) in Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project.” The film opened in theaters on Oct. 6.

By Matt Koske Arts & Life Editor

After an exhausting franchiseheavy summer, the spectacle of writerdirector Sean Baker (the iPhone-shot “Tangerine”) pinpoints the impoverished and overlooked outskirts of the happiest place on Earth.

“The Florida Project” is merely a journey of childhood wonderment stashed in a layered world with heartfelt tendencies energized by the economically unstable residents of a brightly shining budget motel sitting a few feet off of Route 192. Its manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe, the only recognizable Hollywood actor in this film, for now) is fixated on the grey area between running his business and caring for the residents who struggle to feed into what is necessary to run his business.

The wide-framed glimpses of not-sopopular souvenir shops - and hotels that actually cater to tourists - lie in-between the route of exploration for a rag-tag team of children on their days off in the summer heat. 6-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) gathers her playmates Jancey (Valeria Cotto) and Scooty (Christopher Rivera) to spend the day lying about their asthma symptoms to get spare change for a ice cream cone, spying on the old lady sunbathing poolside topless and remaining carefree about the harmful tribulations that their mother’s go through to simply get by.

Baker has manifested a sense of setting that demonstrates with minimal plot the specificities of truth while on the edge of the social ladder. Once again, Baker casts non-traditional actors (like in “Tangerine”) to convey the understanding of what it means to be driven by wonderment, even if you aren’t able to comprehend the harsh realities.

“The Florida Project” premiered at Cannes and concluded a deal with A24 after a bidding war with four other prominent distributors. Later, the film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival to a standing ovation and much acclaim.

The DePaulia sat down with Baker, the writer-director of “The Florida Project,” which opened to a wide release Oct. 6.

“We went into it knowing we were going to make a film about childhood so it made it a bit easier because we were able to pull from our own childhood, everyone has a childhood,” Baker said.

Moonee is under the care of her 23-year-old single mother, Halley (the Instagram model Bria Vinaite), who makes her first on-screen debut.

“When I pitched them (the financiers) this girl from Instagram, thank God they went for it,” Baker said. “She met with Brooklynn and Valeria and within five minutes Brooklynn was sitting on her lap.

I said, ‘don’t act like mother and daughter, be like sisters.’ Immediately they were singing songs that were in the top 10.”

Baker and his writing partner, Chris Bergoch, began working on this project six years ago. Bergoch had always visited Florida and developed an understanding of the subject matter. The initial process they took in researching for “The Florida Project” was very similar to their previous films. Bergoch and Baker also co-wrote “Tangerine” and “Starlet.”

“Chris and I feel the most responsible and respectful way to approach these stories is to have the input of the community that we are focusing on,” Baker said.

“The details of understanding how the welfare system works in Central Florida and the social services, the child welfare and everything about how these motels are managed, even the local slang, all of

that had to come from us doing interviews and us befriending people while spending time there,” Baker said.

“Tangerine,” Baker’s previous film, premiered at Sundance in 2015. Leading up to the festival, Baker was hesitant regarding the material and style of the film due to it being shot on a few iPhone 5’s.

The comedy follows two transgendered prostitutes in the stretch of Los Angeles on Christmas Eve searching for one of their pimps.

Baker’s non-conventional way of depicting his comedic story signifies his apparent arc as an independent filmmaker.

The success of “Tangerine” brought value to “The Florida Project” and the systematic approach for the co-writers provided them with one of the most powerful films of the year.

“All of my films have been dramedies and they had a strong dose of humor in them, mostly behavioral humor.

“Tangerine” was the first time I was trying humor within the style. This was a choice we made going into it and it was a scary one for me being a cist gendered white guy from outside of that world it felt very dangerous but truthful,” Baker said.

“We said that we were going to try it again, we’re going to abandoned our original script for “Florida” (initially it was a much darker, mother-daughter script) and go for a total “Little Rascals” thing. And hopefully it’s working,” Baker said.

Bobby accepts the kids in the motel as who they are: kids. They’re on summer break, of course they’re going to be running around in the back office playing hideand-go-seek. Yes, they will accidentally shut the power off for the entire motel, it’s inevitable. This parental tendency is what excels Dafoe’s performance high above his past work. Nearing his career best, Dafoe shows the rag-tag group youngsters what

is missing in their lives, he’s ethical in his decisions and he’s constantly present.

Moonee, the breakout star, never misses the opportunity for a witty remark or a feel-good laugh. She’s vulgar, but that will not diminish her sense of adventure and her commitment to what she sees as a normal life.

“She’s one of those ‘born to do this,’ she’s grounded and I think she’s going to go all the way. She’s a little thespian – that’s what she is. She’s in the moment, she loves it and she hated to go home everyday,” Baker said.

“The Florida Project” premiered at Cannes and concluded a deal with A24 after a bidding war with four other prominent distributors. Later, the film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival to a standing ovation and high acclaim.

“So many of my friends are with them, I know Barry (“Moonlight”), I know the Safdies (“Good Time”), I know David Lowery (“A Ghost Story”) very well. I called them all up and asked them how it was working with A24. They were just like it’s absolutely wonderful. There’s no complaints. And they’re very collaborative, which is great,” Baker said.

Baker sticks us right into the soul of the story. We never want to leave the adventure that the kids take us on. It’s free flowing, it embodies everything that we miss about our childhood and it will hit you so hard that the next time you visit Disney, you will stop think about the kids that want to be there so bad but simply are not able to.

“We wanted to show this in a way that children think there’s always that hope.

They retain hope, they still have that sense of imagination and wonderment, so we thought lets bring the audience to that place,” Baker said.

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Spanish-language music is more versatile than you think Latin trap on the rise as collaborations with American artists rise

By Amber Colón Editor-in-Chief

It seems like everyone knows “Despacito” regardless of whether or not they know what the Spanish lyrics mean. Throughout the summer, the song played (and still plays) on major radio stations like B96 and Kiss FM. Much of this is largely due in part to Justin Bieber’s remix of the song, which features his poppy vocals and a much, much cleaner version of Daddy Yankee.

However, “Despacito” is not representative of all Latin music. When you hit up any bar or club over the weekend in Chicago, it’s likely that you will end up dancing to music that’s in a language you don’t understand. Latin music is finally getting a bit of the recognition it deserves. Latin music is not just made up of mariachi bands and the chorus of “Despacito.” Anyone who listens to

J. Balvin’s “Mi Gente” got the Beyoncé treatment, complete with a full chorus of Spanish lyrics from Queen B. The urban tropical sound Willy William and J. Balvin bring into the mix blend well with her smooth vocals, delivering a track that leaves fans of all three artists unable to control themselves. A usual bop in any bar or club scene, “Mi Gente’s” makeover is sure to win over even more hearts and bodies. Beyoncé even shouts out Blue Ivy on the remix, asking, “Azul, are you with me?”

It’s a little known fact that Cardi B identifies as Caribbean — Dominican and Trinidadian, to be specific — her accent actually comes from being raised by her abuela.

When the former stripper released a Latin trap remix of “Bodak Yellow,” which features

Latin music religiously knows that Daddy Yankee is the king of reggaeton and that Marc Anthony is the authority over all things salsa.

Spanish-language music covers several genres including everything from punk rock to bachata and reggaeton, and more recently, a bouncy, dope Latin trap. Artists across both Latin and American trap are actually collaborating more and more, with Karol G’s “Ahora Me Llama,” featuring Migos’ Quavo, which indirectly led Cardi B to following her lead and create a track with him as well — which is yet to come.

With artists like Bad Bunny and Bryant Myers having the style and talent necessary to make hits like “Despacito” go global, it’s possible that Latin trap can be the next big thing.

Messiah El Artista, the world went wild. Her original lyrics translate well in Spanish and even allowed her to rap more, as Spanish is a language which allows speakers to get more across with less words. Cardi B is a rising, international treasure.

Latin trap artists pull beats and lyrical progressions similar to artists like Lil Uzi Vert and Migos, but with their own Latinx roots playing a big role in the lyrics written and the instruments used to produce a song like Karol G’s “Ahora Me Llama,” which actually features Quavo’s auto-tuned English melodies alongside Bad Bunny’s deep, baritone sound. The Colombian-born Karol G mixes cumbia and trap sounds in her music, making her even more relatable to the average Latinx millenial.

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Soft melodies shine in Phoebe Bridgers’ “Stranger in the Alps”

By Marty O’Connell Contributing Writer

Musician Phoebe Bridgers has surrounded herself with experts of sad songs like Ryan Adams, Julien Baker and Conor Oberst, so it’s no surprise that her new album is a superb collection of songs that will rip your heart out. “Stranger In The Alps,” the debut LP from the 22-year-old singer-songwriter, is filled with personal lyrics sung in hushed tones over soft melodies. These songs have been bouncing around Bridgers’ head for years, and now they are out in the wild to ruminate in our own.

Coming from California, Bridgers has been involved in music since she was young, writing her first songs as a teenager and playing in punk bands in her local DIY scene. One day in 2015, a mutual friend introduced her to Adams and the pair immediately hit it off, taking a trip to Adams’ Pax-Am studio in Los Angeles to record what would turn into Bridgers’ debut release, the three-song EP “Killer.”

It’s Bridgers at her most vulnerable, stripped down to just her voice and her guitar as she sings about lost love, depression, and obsessions with serial killers.

Two songs from “Killer,” the title track and “Georgia,” are carried over to make up two of the 10 tracks on Bridgers’ debut LP. “Stranger In The Alps,” named after a censored version of a line from

“The Big Lebowski,” showcases a young artist introducing herself to the world with a very promising start. Album opener “Smoke Signals” paints a picture of a trip into isolation, hiding out from life and mourning lost heroes, while “Chelsea” offers up a new interpretation of the relationship between Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and Nancy Spugen. The single “Motion Sickness” throws jabs at an exlove who fakes an English accent while singing, while “Scott Street” retells the sad catching-up between two ex-lovers who bump into each other on the street.

These songs are similar to the EP in that the focus is on Bridgers’ voice and her guitar, but the album also introduces new elements into the fold. Sporadic keyboard melodies and brief guitar lines that sound like they’re right out of “Twin Peaks” pop up throughout the album, and “Funeral,” a heartbreaking tale of one’s struggle versus the struggle of others, begins with harsh feedback and noise before falling down into a soft fingerpicking pattern.

While these songs detail Bridgers’ personal sadness, she also pays tribute to her heroes. She sings of David Bowie and Lemmy Kilmister while Oberst and John Doe of the punk band “X” guest appearances on “Would You Rather” and “Killer” respectively. The album closes with a cover of “You Missed My Heart” by Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavelle, which Bridgers reimagines as a quiet piano

“Stranger in the Alps” is Bridgers’ first full-length LP that was released on Sept. 22. ballad. As Bridgers runs through the awful deeds the song’s narrator has done before they reach their eventual peril, the sense of heart-wrenching loss is driven home further and further.

By the time the album ends, you’re left sitting there in the dark, devastated

by every lyric and every melody from this young woman’s diary of thoughts. Even still, you can’t help standing up to flip the record over for another listen. Despite the deep sadness running through her work, Bridgers keeps you coming back for more.

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Got Killerspin? Ping pong house offers high competition

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DePaul Table Tennis Club President Veer Panchal teaches a class at Killerspin. It’s $365 a year to be a member or $25 per day. . Killerspin opened in 2014 and has 110 members.

By Andrew Hattersley Contributing Writer

In a big city like Chicago many people have likely walked down Clark Street only to notice a Bank of America, Revival Food Hall and the post office, however, tucked amongst these buildings is one of the most popular ping pong locations in Chicago, Killerspin house which opened in 2014.

Since then Killerspin has grown from a place where people in Chicago could come and play whenever they please, to a membership community of approximately 110 members.

Players originally could come in and play simply by purchasing a set of paddles or using their own. However, in December 2016, a new Concierge Member program was formed where players could opt to pay a fee of $365 per year to receive unlimited play, as well as, receive individual or group lessons from elite ping champions.

Alternatively, players can also opt to pay a $25 daily rate if they don’t feel they will use the location enough.

Felipe Morita, operations and marketing manager of the location, said the biggest reason the program has grown since he arrived just under a year ago is simply through members spreading the word.

“A lot of people come here because of word of mouth,” Morita said, “They like the environment, they like the players.”

One of the earliest members, and also longest tenured players is current DePaul student and Table Tennis Club President Veer Panchal.

Panchal has been a regular since he was a sophomore in high school and wasted no time joining as a member when the program began.

“I actually started playing competitively when I was pretty much under their wing, they started looking at me a little bit and teaching me how to play and when memberships started here I just knew I had to join,” Panchal said.

Panchal also noted DePaul might consider switching to this location as it could allow the club to receive some memberships and foster friendships amongst the club and members at Killerspin.

One of the benefits of becoming a

member is the opportunity to learn from Morita, as well as, five-time Olympian Ilija Lupulesku, or Lupe as he is known to the members.

“My skill level has probably doubled or tripled from the time I have been here because you take lessons from someone who has had like 40 years of experience, he’s been playing a long time Lupe has,” Panchal said.

Not only are members able to receive lessons from former champions like Lupe and Morita, but they also have the opportunity to compete and learn from other players both mentally and physically.

For 72-year old Ron Stevens, a member at the location, ping pong has helped improve his hand eye coordination and reflexes.

“I actually feel younger I really do physically and mentally,” Stevens said, “It’s an amazing thing when you’re playing competitively the development that takes place not just physically, but what is going on in your mind.”

Not only can players work on their craft against other members, but also against a robot that is available for players to use if they don’t have someone to play with.

“We learn to do drills all the time and when the robot is doing the exact same shots as you over and over again,” Panchal said, “You get to practice just so much by doing whatever shot you want it to do for you.”

The opportunity to play against quality competition is certainly a bonus of joining, but the community atmosphere amongst the members keeps players coming back as often as they can.

“They call it Killerspin house for a reason, it is made to be a place where people can gather and hang out, we hold tournaments here and just get a bunch of members to interact with each other,” Panchal said.

This type of community has also allowed players like Stevens to learn about different players’ cultural and religious backgrounds.

“It’s also incredibly diverse ethnically and racially, which is a blessing I value,” Stevens said, “It’s enriching, I’m learning about other cultures, religions in this

process as well so it’s a real camaraderie among the group here.”

Killerspin originally made its name in Chicago as a retailer providing paddles, tables, balls, accessories and other items.

Depending on one’s skill level, according to the company website, paddles can range anywhere from $39 for a basic paddle to upwards of $350 for the Stilo7 SVR edition made of carbon fiber and intended for ping pong enthusiasts looking to gain that competitive edge.

According to Morita, Killerspin also offers a variety of packages for companies or groups to rent out anywhere from one table to the entire space.

“If they want to shut down the place just for the event, we’ve held events with Bank of America for more than 200 people,” Morita said.

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Fighting In The War Room

Conversations With People Who Hate Me

The twice-weekly podcast “Fighting In The War Room” is hosted by Katey Rich of Vanity Fair, Da7e Gonzales and Matt Patches of Thrillist and David Ehrlich of IndieWire. Regularly, the group discusses hot movie takes, issues regarding the film and TV industry and film festival recaps.

The not-your-average podcast “Conversations With People Who Hate Me” is not what you think. Kidding though, because it actually is what you think by just reading the title. Host Dylan Marron brings harsh online bullies that make fun of him on the podcast to talk with them about why they do so.

Nearing 200 episodes, the podcast has provided insider opinions on everything from Netflix’s burying of movies, Sundance highlights, mourning David Bowie and to the most recent, “Has Ryan Gosling Ever Been Good in a Movie” episode. The banter, the jokes and the giveaways are very relevant with regards to the weekend releases or any recent topic that is floating around business. As an aside, the podcast has a “Storm of Spoilers” section for fans of whatever TV show (say “Game of Thrones” or “Rick and Morty”) that is currently up-to-date.

Marron turns these hateful conversations into productive discussions about a variety of topics. He hopes to flesh out the people behind the keyboard that often fire at him over social media and develop some sort of understanding. It’s about listening from both sides of an argument and working out the misunderstanding, if there is one. Each segment it is unknown whether something will work out in the end of the talk. Although sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t, like the time Marron got hung up on as he reached out to a hater.

You don’t necessarily need to have seen any of the films that the journalists are analyzing. If anything, it will factor into your decision if you simply want to visit the theater that week. One of my favorite episodes happened a few weeks ago, episode 176, when the hosts revisited “Personal Shopper,” dove into the “Ready Player One” trailer and broke down Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.”

It’s a win-win situation. If you like the podcast, that’s awesome, but if you don’t, you can become a guest star. “Conversations With People Who Hate Me” is a weekly interview series that is available on Apple Podcasts Google Play, Spotify and YouTube. Episode 9 was recently released and is streaming now.

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In theaters and upcoming film releases 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 “The Mountain Between Us” After a plane crash, two stranded strangers must form a connection and embark on a wilderness journey with no help coming.

Stars: Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Beau Bridges

Oct. 13 “Marshall” About Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his defining cases.

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson

Oct. 13 “The Foreigner” A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism.

Oct. 13 “Happy Death Day” A college student relives the day of her murder, gaining details of her killer’s identity and her terrifying end.

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Whether it’s a local Chicago band or a group from overseas, there’s always new music being released. The majority of this week’s popular releases have been singles, as many artists are between albums so it’s crucial to keep their fan bases active with new music. Check out these new songs that came out within the past week and dive into the artist’s discography to determine the route these artists are taking with their new stuff.

1. “Blue Coupe” - Twin Peaks Elmhurst’s very own garage rock band Twin Peaks released their newest single, “Blue Coupe.”

This release is apart of their Sweet ‘17 phase, as they release two singles every month for the rest of the year. At the end of the year, all singles will be available on 12” vinyl for $44.99.

“Blue Coupe” is bassist Jack Dolan’s only single, as he stated on Twitter that he dedicates this song to the friends he has lost to drugs. “Blue Coupe” was released along with “On the Line.”

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2. “Half Man Half Shark” King Krule Archy Ivan Marshall, better known as his stage name “King Krule,” came out with a new single “Half Man Half Shark” from his upcoming album “The Ooz” which is being released on Oct. 13.

Previously known as Zoo Kid, the 23-year-old English singer-songwriter is making quick power moves with his second studio album as King Krule. He played at Pitchfork in 2012, thus beginning his route to success and honing his sound.

Across 1. Surname of two presidents 2. Kind of battery, familiarly 11. Car-grille covering 14. Flower or color 15. Battery pole 16. A floor vote 17. How some win 19. Car speed (abbr.)

20. Noah’s count 21. Bobby of rink fame 22. Rock that’s worth something 23. Ideally 26. Type of restaurant 28. “___ who?”

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

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

3. “Honey” - Kehlani Playing in Chicago on Nov. 2 at the Riviera, Kehlani released her new song “Honey.” The Oakland native sings about how she is a “beautiful wreck” and a “colorful mess.” She posted on Instagram that the song came to be after messing around with guitar loops with her friends.

Her debut album “SweetSexySavage” was released in January. Kehlani plays with Kodie Shane and Blaise Moore apart of the Red Bull Sound Select 30 Days in Chicago in November.

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

4. “Vices” - Ludacris Following up with his “Vitamin D” release in March, Ludacris drops “Vices,” a single on his upcoming untitled album.

The “Fast & Furious” actor is releasing the music video on 50 Cent’s variety show, “50 Central,” sometime soon. Ludacris raps and rhymes about his vices, which are popping bottles and smoking weed.

Spanning nearly 18 years, Ludacris’ music career has developed into his ninth studio album after his last album release, “Ludaversal” in 2015.

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

37. Aborigine’s call

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

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

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Men's golf welcomes a new era

By Shane Rene Sports Editor

DePaul men’s golf team members Joey McCarthy, Bobby Thomas and Freddy Thomas say the team’s goal for the season is simple: bring home the Big East Championship title.

“I think (winning the Big East) is our unequivocal goal,” fourth-year junior Bobby Thomas said. “We’ve been close — we’ve had the lead a number of times, I think we’ve had the guys to do it every year and I think we definitely do this year.”

Close is right — back in May, the Blue Demons soared into the final round of the 2017 Big East Championship with a 7-stroke lead on the team leaderboard, before melting down like Dustin Johnson in the final round of the 2010 U.S. Open to finish fourth.

Bobby’s brother, Freddy Thomas, says he doesn’t think this year’s team will surrender the lead like teams in the past.

“I think we have a tougher group of guys this year,” Freddy Thomas said.

“Everything is in the past as far as we’re concerned — it’s a new year and we’re going to make our mark this year.”

Only time will tell if the 2017-18 Blue Demons can handle the pressure of a 36hole lead with the class and stoicism of a vintage Tiger Woods, but the men’s golf program is already starting to feel a little different.

At the end of the 2016-17 academic year, head coach Betty Kaufmann stepped down after 19 years with the team, handing the head-coaching duties over to her assistant, Marty Schiene.

Schiene says he’s approaching the year with a clean slate, putting the past behind him to focus on a new year in a new era for DePaul men’s golf. Many of his players have reacted positively to the coaching change.

“It’s been great,” Bobby said. “When Marty is out there we just want to get after it and get better and he lets us do that.”

The Thomas brothers agree that Schiene’s new regime is far more relaxed and “free-wheeling” than Kaufmann’s, welcoming more input from players at practices and team meetings, which they believe will translate into lower scores.

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Freshman Joey McCarthy has been the Blue Demons top finisher both starts this year.

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Through two events in the fall portion of their season, the Blue Demons have logged a fifth place team finish (among 15 teams) in the NKU Fall Classic at Elk Run GC in Batavia, Ohio and a dead-last finish at the Louisville Cardinal Challenge at the University of Louisville GC in Simpsonville, Kentucky.

Despite the poor finish in Kentucky, freshman stand-out Joey McCarthy isn’t concerned with the team’s performance thus far.

“It’s a long season,” McCarthy said.

“(We) don’t want to peak now.”

In his first year playing collegiate golf, McCarthy has lead the charge for DePaul in back-to-back tournaments. The freshman carded rounds of 76, 69 and 73 to finish T-7 on the individual leaderboard in his first career event at the NKU Fall Classic. “(Starting my college career) was a lot easier starting off at a tournament like NKU because the field was not good,” McCarthy said. “I wasn’t intimidated at all — like, when I looked down the range, I didn’t see anybody I couldn’t beat, so that gave me the

confidence to play good.”

McCarthy followed up his top-10 with a team-best T-28 against a talented field in Kentucky with rounds of 76, 74 and 73.

“I’ve played well, but it could have been better,” McCarthy said. “If I can put it all together, I think I could start winning.”

Bobby finished the NKU just outside the top-20, stumbling out of the gate with an opening round 79. Rounds of 72 and 73 pulled the fourth-year junior up the leaderboard over the final two days.

“I struggled in the first round,” Bobby said. “I doubled two par-3’s with pitching wedges and didn’t putt very well.

“The second and third rounds I didn’t play very well either, it was just a matter of me grinding it out and trying to put a score on the board that would help us.”

Bobby says he is trending in the right direction, but his ball striking has been disappointing through the first two events.

He finished T-39 in Kentucky, posting rounds of 76, 76, and 73.

His brother fared better in his first start of the year, cracking the top-20 for a T-12 finish on the back of a second round 70.

“This fall I just haven’t had a good ball flight,” Freddy said. “I’ve been struggling with a miss both left and right so I haven’t felt comfortable with the full swing from the driver on down to the wedges.”

Freddy followed up his T-12 finish with rounds of 79, 80 and 78 in the Kentucky, which he says is the highest three round total he’s ever shot.

“I just didn’t have it,” Freddy said.

As DePaul looks toward the rest of the season, the players say they are already seeing signs of progress in practice.

“We’ve already seen improvement in our qualifying numbers,” Freddy said. He says that as the team gets more repetitions and more experience playing tournament golf, the scores will start to drop.

“We’ve got a coaching staff in place that knows what they are doing,” Bobby said. “They know the mindset of a player, what tournament golf is like, and how to help us succeed.

“And they know how to play the game — both guys just flat know how to play and that’s going to show up in how much we get better.”

BLUE DEMON RUNDOWN VOLLEYBALL

Blue Demons Volleyball played Creighton and Providence in its two games this past week.

The number 12 Blue Jays came into the match off a loss to a dominant Marquette team. Creighton set the tone early against DePaul by jumping out to a 15-6 lead in the first set.

Creighton finished the set on a 7-1 run. Myah Reed lead DePaul with three kills in the opening set, but also had two errors to end the set as DePaul fell 10-25.

The Demons got a 3-2 lead early in set number two off a block from Caitlyn Coffey and Brittany Maxwell. It was downhill from there as Creighton would go up 13-4 and ended the set on a 7-0 run behind the service of Alexa Roumeliotis.

The final set continued Creighton’s

dominance as they sailed to a 25-13 win and the 3-0 sweep. Maxwell lead DePaul with five kills and Haley Bueser lead with seven digs.

Against the Friars, DePaul opened set one with an 8-5 advantage. Providence fought back and took it 25-20, holding DePaul to a .086 hitting percentage.

DePaul kept it close in set two, tying it at 11 a piece part way through. Providence got the best of it down the stretch as they took the set 25-19.

DePaul dropped the final set 19-25 and got swept for the fifth game in a row.

Maxwell lead the team with 15 kills and 31 attcks.

The Demons next game is against Georgetown on Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. at the Verizon Center.

MEN'S SOCCER

Men’s Soccer had its fourth Big East game of the season on Oct. 7 against the Seton Hall Pirates.

DePaul took the lead early with a goal from Zach El-Shafei in minute 21. ElShafei fired it from outside the box and it glanced off a Seton Hall defender before finding the lower right corner of the net. It was hist first goal of the season.

DePaul would take that 1-0 lead into the half despite trailing in shots 6-8.

The Pirates hit the equalizer in minute 60 from Andres Arcila. Arcila gave the ball a quick tap off his left foot to send the ball into the right side of the net, just out of the goalies reach.

In minute 65, Seton Hall’s Marco Neves had a one-on-one chance, but goalie Quentin Low made a glove save to keep it

equal.

Going down the stretch it looked like this could be headed to overtime, but in the minute 86, Seton Hall took a 2-1 lead. Juan Camilo sent a cross to Gaspa Jean-Baptiste who headed it to Jonathan Jimenez to finish it off.

The loss is DePaul’s third in the last four games. DePaul is now 1-2-1 in the Big East and 4-6-1 overall. Philipp Konigstein leads the Demons with 12 points and five goals.

DePaul's next game will be against Northwestern on Oct. 11 at 3 p.m. at Wish Field.

Northwestern is 2-9 this season and has lost three straight, most recently to Notre Dame. A DePaul win would take the Wildcats to 0-8 in road games.

26 | Sports. Oct. 9 , 2017. The DePaulia ARDIZZONE, continued from back page Keeping up relationships is a big part of what has made the trips so fun for him over the years. So even while he looks to hit new spots, like Belarus this summer, he makes sure to hit most of his usual spots too.

“I’ll always try to hit Zagreb every year. I’ll always try to hit Budapest,” Ardizzone said. “If nothing else you just say hi to a coach(...)I didn’t go to Budapest for two years once...when I went back one of the guys said 'I thought you maybe you had died.'"

Relationships like that have lead to some interesting experiences. Once, in Serbia after washing his clothes in the sink, he began hanging them up on the wall to dry. He threw dripping wet socks and shirts over lamps, chairs and anything he could hang them on. Once he found a spot for everything he ran out to the tournament he was scouting that day. Towards the end of the day, he got back and entered the room to find everything was gone. Clothes, passport, everything.

“I’m like, oh my god I finally got robbed,” Ardizzone said. “So (the owner) comes running saying ‘Mr. Mark, Mr. Mark...I had to move your room.' So she gives me the key to the new room, I go down there and everything is hung up exactly as I had it. I was so embarrassed, I couldn’t even look her in the face.”

And of course the relationships with the players help to get them to DePaul.

Many coaches recruit off YouTube videos, Ardizzone said, but he wants the players and their families to be able to put a face to the name that has been contacting them.

For sophomore Aspasia Avgeri, an Athens, Greece native, this personal approach was the reason she chose DePaul.

“He came to Greece when I was 15, but didn’t come to see me, he came to see another girl from my tennis club,” Avgeri said. “But he saw me playing, I was playing well that day, thank goodness.”

Avgeri defeated an opponent in the top 200 in the Women’s Tennis Association and after the match, Ardizzone asked her to come to DePaul. Avgeri was flattered by the offer, but being 15, she decided to hold off on a decision. So, he just came back the next year.

“He would keep coming to Greece every summer and he met my family, and I think that’s why I decided to come to DePaul,” Avgeri said. “He was coming to Greece every single year and I couldn’t believe it(...)so I was like, yeah I want to be on your team.”

The repeated trips to Europe have given Ardizzone a bit of a celebrity status.

In America, DePaul is often behind some higher level teams in the minds of top recruits, but in Europe it is the other way around.

“I’ve had maybe five Hungarians, but helped 15 get scholarships so those coaches trust me and seek me out,” Ardizzone said.

“One of our current girls, it was very funny, said to me...I couldn’t talk to you because you were always surrounded by girls...She couldn’t even come up to me because there were coaches, players and other people I know.”

Planning these trips are not easy.

Ardizzone has to dig online to find out when and where the tournaments are.

Flights and hotel stays are planned almost to the minute, Ardizzone said, in order for him to make everything. If things

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Ardizzone with former players Selma Salkovic and Patricia Fargas in London. go wrong, Ardizzone has learned that panicking gets him nowhere.

When in London this past summer, Ardizzone was boarding the last train to the airports. Almost just as he sat down, the train caught on fire. A voice calmly came over the loudspeaker calling for everyone to evacuate. Ardizzone didn’t really know what to do, but he kept cool and followed the crowd back to the main station. He ended up having to pay for a ride, which killed him, but he said he got a refund later.

“I don’t panic. You just have to be able to handle it and be flexible,” Ardizzone said.

Ardizzone already has his next trip planned for the Thanksgiving break. This time it will be four countries in eight or nine days, seeing some new players and some he has seen already.

“The journeys are long and tiring,” Ardizzone said. “But it is one thing I’ve told every American girl on my team, that they need to go(...) It’s an incredible experience.”

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BIG EAST Woman's Soccer

BIG EAST Woman's Volleyball

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3-1-0 (8-1-1)

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3-0-1 (9-2-2)

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7-0 (13-5)

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3-1-0 (7-3-0)

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3-0-1 (7-4-3)

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5-1 (12-5)

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2-1-1 (5-4-2)

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2-0-2 (9-1-3)

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4-2 (11-6)

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4-3 (14-5)

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4-3 (10-10)

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3-3 (14-7)

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2-5 (10-12)

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2-5 (7-13)

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1-5 (7-11)

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1-6 (7-12)

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2-2-0 (7-3-2)

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2-2-0 (9-4-1)

5.

2-2-0 (6-6-0)

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

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2-2-0 (5-6-1)

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1-2-1 (6-4-1)

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1-2-1 (4-6-1)

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1-2-1 (1-8-2)

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

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2-2-0 (6-7-0) 1-2-1 (5-7-1) 1-3-0 (5-7-1) 0-2-2 (0-8-4) 0-3-1 (2-9-2)

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Blue Demons bested by Marquette

By Andrew Hattersley Staff Writer

It was a tale of two halves for the DePaul women’s soccer team, who dropped a key conference matchup against rival Marquette 2-0 in a physical game Thursday afternoon at Wish Field.

The Blue Demons controlled the first 45 minutes, but were not able to put away a couple of good chances inside the box.

“I thought they had great energy, I thought they were battling,” head coach Erin Chastain said. “They were sticking to the game plan of how we play and I thought we got some good chances.”

Midfielder Alexa Ben liked the way DePaul moved the ball in the first half and thought this created a lot of those good opportunities.

“We were playing quickly with it, we weren’t holding onto the ball too much, it was just one or two touches and I think that’s what really helped us,” Ben said.

After being outplayed for most of the first half, Marquette opened the second half much more aggressive and had DePaul on their heels.

“They kind of regrouped at halftime and came out with a stronger energy in the second half,” Ben said. “We tried to match it but they just wanted it a little more than we did at the end of the day.”

Those missed opportunities finally came back to hurt the home squad, who fell behind 1-0 midway through the second half. The opening goal came on a cross

from Marquette midfielder Eli Beard that forward Carrie Madden was able to chip just over DePaul’s goalie Lauren Frasca’s reach.

“The first goal I thought we were ready and defensively everyone had just gone to the floor,” Frasca said.

Just four minutes later, Madden collected her second goal of the day on a corner that bounced around in the box before she headed it in to make it 2-0 Marquette.

“The second goal was deflating because it is just something that we should be able to handle and we didn’t, so I think our team got deflated from that,” Chastain said.

These two goals really turned the momentum in Marquette’s favor and really proved too stiff of a challenge for DePaul to come back.

“It’s hard playing 45 almost 60 minutes without scoring and then for them to score one and another really gave them the momentum in the second half,” Frasca said.

With two teams so evenly matched for much of the game, players noted in the end it simply came down to who was tougher inside of the box.

“I think it just comes down to in the box they wanted it more and that’s how they got their two goals,” Ben said. “We just have to clean up both of our boxes and we just have to learn from this game.”

The loss dropped dropped DePaul to 5-7-1 overall and 1-2-1 in Big East play.

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Goalie Lauren Frasca had four saves and two goals allowed in the loss against Marquette.

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36 days, 14 countries, one coach Women’s tennis coach Mark Ardizzone travels Europe looking for fresh talent, reconnects with old friends

By Garret Neal Asst. Sports Editor

Serbia, Greece, Bosnia, Romania.

The women’s tennis team is chock full of talented players from all over Europe, in large part due to the unique approach head coach Mark Ardizzone takes to recruiting.

Each year, Ardizzone embarks on a solo trek across several European countries, stopping only to scout players and reconnect with former ones.

Ardizzone didn’t used to be a worldtraveler, usually going to California or Memphis to scout a few tournaments, but rarely leaving the U.S. borders. About 16 years ago, when a friend asked him to go to her wedding in Hungary, that all changed.

He arrived in Hungary at the beginning of the week and didn’t have much to do, so as any tennis coach would do, he found the nearest court. One day, he went to the courts and he noticed the area was hosting a tournament.

“So, I watched this tournament for a little bit and the next day I went back and one of the kids came up to me,” Ardizzone said. “I talked to her dad that day, I talked to her that day and a week later when I came home, she committed to DePaul.”

Ardizzone realized that there was

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Women’s tennis coach Mark Ardizzone meets former players Gergana Ganeva, Dunja Antunovic and Beatrix Csordas in Bulgaria.

serious talent in Europe and he took it upon himself to find it. The European trip became an annual experience.

Ardizzone began returning to Budapest to see some athletes he knew, but each year he would try and add somewhere new. This past year was his longest stay yet, visiting 14 countries in 36 days.

The trips are on DePaul’s time, so Ardizzone tries to stay as busy as possible.

Ardizzone said his goal is to see a junior competition for younger players and a small professional competition for 17 and 18-year-olds in each country. Even when not at tournaments or scouting players, he says he visits tennis clubs or talks to

coaches he knows about their players.

When he has a day when he is not seeing a player or coach, he says he feels like he is wasting DePaul money, so he makes sure that rarely happens. Ardizzone, in fact, looks to save money at every turn, preferring to walk than call a cab, not buying meals and places to stay that are not exactly The Mandarin.

“I will walk everywhere. My record is three hours, because I just try never to rent a car. In 15 years, I’ve probably rented cars three times total. I’ll try to just get by on transportation and it’s kind of a fun challenge,” Ardizzone said. “I’ll eat a huge breakfast where it’s free, especially when it’s

free at hotels. I bring my own food.”

His food of choice is canned chicken.

He brings a large amount with him that he cracks into whenever he gets hungry.

Sometimes, some of his former players’ (or their parents) will host him for a meal.

In Serbia, he was met by a former players parents who spoke no English.

“They just look at me and hug me and smile and they’re so happy to see me, but there’s no communication,” Ardizzone said. “It’s part of the process. That’s why I tell players who leave here, we never say goodbye, we just say until the next time.”

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Men’s basketball adds four walk-ons

By Paul Steeno Staff Writer

Being a walk-on at the Division I level isn’t easy.

From the moment these athletes step onto campus, they must prove that they deserve their spot on the court, field, course or rink. Without a scholarship as their security blanket, they can be let go at a moment’s notice.

Four athletes began the challenging walk-on journey Monday, Oct. 2 when DePaul basketball held its first official practice of the season.

DePaul’s Athletic Department denied the DePaulia’s request for interviews with coaches and players.

Tobias Dwumaah

Dwumaah is a 6-foot-3-inch senior from Chicago who is a hybrid guard and forward. He was the manager of the team last season.

He graduated from DePaul College Prep in 2013 and has played in organized summer basketball tournaments in Chicago the last couple of years.

James Anderson

The 6-foot-1-inch guard from Melbourne, Australia came to the United States before his junior year of high school to play basketball at La Lumiere High School in La Porte, Indiana. During his senior year, he was part of a La Lumiere squad that went 29-1 during the regular season and won the 2017 DICK’s Sporting Goods High School Nationals championship game. He also played AAU ball for ALL-IN Athletics.

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The 5-foot-9-inch guard from Michigan City, Indiana also spent his high school days playing at La Lumiere.

He was also part of the team that won the 2017 DICK’s Sporting Goods High School Nationals, where he made a name for himself with his dance

moves on the bench.

Bolstered by former La Lumiere head coach Shane Heirman’s addition to the coaching staff in May, DePaul has established a pipeline of talent between the two schools. The Blue Demons now have five players from that high school on the current roster.

Jason Malonga

Malonga is a 6-foot4-inch shooting guard from Bolingbrook who spent his high school days playing for Benet Academy in Lisle.

Malonga averaged 11.2 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game during his senior season and helped his team capture a second-place finish in the Class 4A Illinois High School Association State Basketball Tournament last March.

With the addition of these four players, the Blue Demons now have 10 guards on the roster, 11 depending on what position Dwumaah plays. Levi Cook’s surprise exit last month leaves graduate-transfer Marin Maric as the only player listed as a center on DePaul’s roster — a blow to a team that struggled to compete with size last season.