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Rahm’s legacy or taxpayer boondoggle? Activists, aldermen question financing Lincoln Yards with funds for ‘blighted’ communities development. For taxpayer money to come in, and eventually pay the investor back, the area needs the development of its own TIF Opinions Editor & Contributing Writers district. According to a Chicago Department of Housing and Development document, the City officials and investors are confident “Cortland/Chicago River TIF” as it has been in the $5 billion Lincoln Yards development, named, would be a 168 acre-designation, a mere mile away from DePaul’s Lincoln housed within Chicago’s 2nd Ward. Park campus, and its ambitious vision of a By state law, the TIF money is supposed huge new commercial and residential hub to be earmarked for “blighted” communities. in the neighborhood. But activists — and Recent projects that qualified include some aldermen — question the use of city a new Whole Foods in Englewood and a financing meant for blighted neighborhoods Walmart in Pullman. But other projects, and worry that the project is being pushed including the Marriott Hotel adjacent to too quickly without plans for adequate DePaul’s new Wintrust Arena and the affordable housing. Navy Pier redevelopment, have drawn The development, which stretches the criticism from some activists who believe Clybourn-Cortland-Elston area along the the money would be better spent in poorer Chicago River, will rely on Tax Incremental neighborhoods. Likewise, the Lincoln Financing (TIF), a form of taxation that Yards project would be built in one of the promotes investment in infrastructure with wealthiest areas in Chicago. Lincoln Park the intent that funds accumulated from its had the second highest average income per amenities will go back into the community. capita in 2014, according to data released by In a designated TIF district, property taxes the City of Chicago. resulting from higher real estate values Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair are kept in a separate fund for public Kamin has another concern: the project improvements — dispersed at the discretion could siphon money from schools and other of the mayor — instead of being spent on vital city departments. schools and other city services. Lincoln Yards “Because of the added increment, the will be the largest and most expensive TIF added funds, that is generated won’t be project the city has ever seen, and the money going to public schools or other general raised will build infrastructure to benefit a taxing bodies, that puts a greater burden on private developer: Chicago real estate giant homeowners in Chicago, in other words, Sterling Bay. that may cause a rise in property taxes,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel is energized by Kamin said. “That’s the kind of trade-off the prospect of implementing this large of an here. Rahm Emanuel is promising economic endeavor to make improvements along the development and jobs and all those things river, something that has been a big part of and those are all good. But there’s also a his time as mayor, he says. “There’s a person potential cost here, and that is what really willing to invest $5 billion, create 20-some- needs to be debated, and it’s not the kind of odd-thousand jobs. That doesn’t come debate we should be having in a quick snap.” around all the time. Other critics In a land that, if you EDITORIAL: Lincoln Yards worry about a lack don’t do it, will stay foul is not the legacy Emanuel of affordable housing for a period of time,” at the proposed should desire. Emanuel said. development, As the site sits See Opinions, page 12 including less than a mile away 46th Ward Ald. from the Lincoln Park James Cappleman, campus, the DePaul community might be the new chairman of the Chicago City affected by the development. The process Council’s zoning committee. Of the 6,000 will begin by addressing infrastructure housing units planned for Lincoln Yards, in the area, specifically the traffic-heavy only about 300 are slated for lower-income intersections between Ashland and Racine. residents. According to Kamin, Cappleman Students and faculty will find difficulty has made it clear he wants more affordable commuting to campus if they live near the housing within the TIF district before the site. Rent prices will also increase to satisfy plan gets final City Council approval. the higher property taxes to compensate According to the official TIF proposal, for the TIF money. Students are not the Lincoln Yards “qualifies under the applicable lone suffers of the increase in rent prices — criteria” based on the 13 factors that are mom-and-pop businesses could be affected See LINCOLN YARDS, page 4 by the multiple storefronts planned in the
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Current and former sex workers and supporters of the profession stand outside the Lincoln Park Student Center in protest on Wednesday of XXX: Love and Life in a Post-Porn World.
Sex workers push back against panel on pornography By Emma Oxnevad Assistant News Editor
Tensions erupted during a panel on the ethics of pornography on Wednesday. As part of their year-long series entitled, “The Year of Filth,” the DePaul Humanities Center hosted “XXX: Love and Life in a Post-Porn World.” The purpose of the panel was to discuss the sexist and racist ideolgies of the pornograhy industry in the United States, according to the event’s official page. The panel featured three guest speakers, professor Rebecca Whisnant of the University of Dayton and co-editor of Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Meghan Murphy, the founder and editor of Feminist Current and professor Robert Jensen of the University of Texas at Austin and author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. The event was protested by a number of sex workers and supporters of the profession, who felt that the event was crafted to shame those who partake in sex work. Sex work is defined as the provision of sexual services for money or goods, according to the World Health Association. “It’s anything that is selling a sexual fantasy,” said a protester and former sex worker who requested to remain anonymous. “While there are legal definitions, really what it comes down to is between the client and the worker, and what experience they’re wanting.” Protesters stood outside of the Lincoln Park Student Center prior to the event, holding signs and red umbrellas, the international symbol of sex workers. “I think any industry is going to reflect the culture that it’s within, and capitalism exploits all people and labor,” said Codi Schei, a co-founder of We Are Dancers America and board member of Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) Chicago. “So I don’t think sex work is different, other than criminalization, which also increases stigma and violence.”
Protesters highlighted the economic because its offensive, but because it’s incentive to participate in sex work, harmful.” emphasizing that underrepresented Whisnant went on to state that communities make up a large part of the pornography is harmful to both men and sex industry. women, saying that it creates a culture of “The reason why sex work exists in subordination of women. the modern age the way that it does is Whisnant’s speech was punctuated because of capitalism,” the anonymous with audible comments and laughter protester said. “A big reason for the from the protesters, causing many stigma is that a lot of people don’t want audience members to request for them to to admit the way for many marginalized be quiet. groups, the way for M u r p h y many women, the expanded on this way for many trans point during her folk, for people of speech, rejecting color, to have any the idea that economic stability of pornography is a indepence is through harmless tool of sex work.” fantasy. The protesters “Pornography is ultimately viewed the far from just words panel, holding signs and thoughts in that read “Listen any case,” Murphy To Sex Workers” said. “It is literal and “Sex Work Is depictions of sexual Work,” among other abuse, of rape, mantras. of humiliation, The panel was Protester and Former Sex a l o n g s i d e preceded by an and Worker misogynistic address from H. racist words so Peter Steeves, explicit and so Director of the commonly used in DePaul Humanities Center. Steeves porn it’s almost unbelievable.” addressed the controversy surrounding Murphy is a controversial figure in the event, affirming that the panel was feminist circles for her comments on not meant to degrade sex workers. transgender people, likening transgender “I want to make it clear that the spirit identity to a “trend”. Murphy was recently of this event is not to put down, stigmatize banned from Twitter after multiple or harm in any way the women who are a suspensions for posting incendiary part of these various capitalist industries,” comments against the transgender Steeves said. “We will not stand for community, according to Yahoo. an ethos that either attacks women or “Steeves knowingly booked someone condescends them tonight with tropes of banned from Twitter for hate speech,” the rescuing them against their will.” anonymous protester said following the Following Steeves’ introduction, event. “He is not someone who should be Whisnant took to the stage to discuss allowed to teach to or about marginalized the deeper reasoning behind feminist communities, including women.” critiques of pornography. Jensen caused an uproar from “Indeed pornography is offensive. It’s protesters after referencing nofap.com, offensive to me, it should be offensive an online forum designed to support to anyone with a conscience,” Whisnant men who want to avoid pornography and said. “It’s important to understand that masturbation. feminists object to pornography not Protesters accused both the website
“The reason why sex work exists in the modern age the way that it does is because of capitalism.”
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and Jensen of supporting incels, or involuntary celibates, an online subculture of men who state they cannot find a romantic or sexual partner, despite their self-perceived attractiveness. Incels are are included in Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. Jensen was referred to as an incel by several of the protesters throughout the remainder of the evening, much to the anger of audience members in support of the panel. Following the speakers, the panel opened a Q&A, in which several of the protests criticized both the panel and the speakers. One audience member in support of the event addressed the protesters, remarking that she has extensively studied sex work. One proteser countered her statement, remarking “I live sex work.” The continued loud objections from protesters ultimately agitated much of the audience, leading to a chaotic environment of shouting and hostility between the opposing viewpoints. The anonymous protester later remarked that they would be attempting to file a complaint against the university and the organizers of the event after an audience member repeatedly took pictures of her without her consent. “I understand that it was a public event but it was on university property so they could have actually helped,” they said. “Instead, I now have fear that [the audience member] will post my photo and try to dox me.” While the panel was more tumultuous than was originally intended, it signifies that discussions surrounding pornogprahy and sexual autonomy will likely not be coming to an end. “I think there’s a lot of risk and danger and violence and problems within pornography, that are also pervasive in other parts of our society,” Schei said. “Until we learn to support and listen and respect sex workers, that’s not going to be fully addressed.” Additional reporting by Laycie Dressler.
4| News. The DePaulia. Feb. 18, 2019 LINCOLN YARDS continued from front used to determine if a neighborhood is blighted. Lincoln Yards has the “meaningful presence and reasonable distribution” of five of these factors — obsolescence, deterioration, excessive land coverage, inadequate utilities and declining or lagging equalized assessed value. Proponents of the project insist that it’s being brought to fruition in the proper manner. Peter Strazzabosco, the deputy commissioner for the Chicago Department of Planning and Development, said the detractors of Lincoln Yards are misinformed. “Some people are suggesting without really understanding what’s going on,” said Strazzabosco. “The way that the infrastructure is going to be built is that the developer will pay for everything. The developer is going to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in public infrastructure out of their own pocket. Once this project is completed to satisfaction, they will be reimbursed through tax increments from the proposed tax increment finance district that’s being proposed for this site.” The massive 54.5-acre site is set to involve 21 acres of open recreational space, four new bridges, an updated riverwalk, shop fronts and residential buildings, both affordable and luxury. The official website for Lincoln Yards states that it is committed “to improve a vast, underutilized parcel of land to benefit residents [and] businesses,” but it is currently unclear how the residents of the district will benefit because of the estimated cost to taxpayers at $1.3 billion, according to the Chicago Reader. Developer Sterling Bay will provide upfront financing. According to Strazzabosco, Sterling Bay will fund over $100 million of the project, and once it is completed, the developer will be reimbursed through the revenue that the TIF money is supposed to generate. Sterling Bay’s involvement comes with an unrelated preoccupation, an outlier to the misuse of taxpayer funds. Two of the company’s top executives have donated to Mayor Emanuel’s campaigns. Key Principal Keating Crown contributed $1,000 to Chicago for Rahm Emanuel in 2013 and $5,300 in 2014 and their Chief Operating Officer, Brad Beile, gave $5,300 to the in 2013, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Emanuel has committed the last part of his term as mayor to push the project to final approval before he steps down in May. He sees the enterprise as an investment for the public, not just another tactic to line the pockets of corporations. “All the dollars you would talk about on TIF would go towards transportation, infrastructure and improvements in the parks and other areas that get general benefit that don’t go to the developer, they go to the overall area,” Emanuel said in a talk with DePaul’s Center for Journalistic Integrity and Excellence. “So you make an evaluation, you weigh your equities, and I think that’s the right thing to do.” When asked why there is such a push for the Lincoln Yards project to be done right now, Strazzabosco made it clear that this project has been in the works for a long time. “The redevelopment has been anticipated for five years,” said Strazzabosco. “The city initiated a process to guide future development on this three years ago. Since that time, there’s been 60 meetings, 60 public meetings, about the future of this area.” The official Cortland and Chicago River TIF planning document lists 10
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TOP: Lincoln Yards as it currently sits. BOTTOM: The proposed Lincoln Yards development will sit on 50 acres of riverfront property on the Northwest Side. The site will be home to a transportation hub, retail shops, office space, public parks and residential units.
objectives with the most prominent ones relating to improvements in transportation and infrastructure, the expansion of businesses and job creation. The final objective states that the development will “provide opportunities for women-owned, minority-owned and local businesses and local residents in the redevelopment of the Project Area.” Some see TIF money going towards an already wealthy area to be an egregious misuse of the public funds. Leslie Fox, a 43rd Ward aldermanic candidate, voiced her opposition via email. “The original goals of TIF were admirable. Using smart investment through private-public partnership as a way to increase development in undervalued communities has real value. However, that is not how the City Council has implemented the policy,” Fox said. “It has become an incentive for development in already prosperous areas of the city that also serves as a hand- out for corporate donors.” When asked about the community’s view on the development, Fox had some questions for the people heading the development.
“The development went through with little-to-no community oversight,” Fox said. “The original package allotted for the development was $800 million of TIF money — just recently the community was alerted that the amount has gone up to $900 million. Where is that additional money coming from? Why was it allotted to this particular development? Why was there such a lack of transparency?” As Fox mentioned, the estimated cost requested stands at $900 million, according to the TIF proposal, which breaks down how the funding will be used into eight categories. Of this amount, $800 million is projected to go towards public works including street repair and parks. The remaining $100 million include branches of the development that are unrelated to transportation and infrastructure including administration and marketing, property assembly, affordable housing construction, relocation costs and job training. In this same document, the area “qualifies under the applicable criteria” based on the 13 factors that are used to determine if a neighborhood is “blighted.” Lincoln Yards has the “meaningful
presence and reasonable distribution” of five of these factors — deterioration, excessive land coverage, inadequate utilities and declining or lagging equalized assessed value, according to the document. In her statement, Fox also stated her belief that Lincoln Yards would, “reduce the quality of life for the residents as a result of corruption, poor management, and secrecy.” Strazzabosco had more uplifting words for the influence of the development. “This plan directly aligns with what the public what been talking about and asking for through this year’s long process,” Strazzabosco said. Currently, Lincoln Yards is projected to be finished within the next decade. The Lincoln Yards saga has more installments to come. The upcoming mayoral election, less than two weeks away, will dictate whether Rahm’s successor will continue his support of the plan. Strazzabosco’s Community Development Commission is set to meet on Feb. 19 to decide whether or not TIF money will be used. Its approval is likely.
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Bill Daley aims to make his own mark with mayoral campaign By Madi Garner Contributing Writer
about politics in Chicago, the name itself seems big enough to make people vote for him,” he said. “I know just about everyone hated Rahm [Emanuel] so at this point anyone that takes his place should make Chicagoans happy.” With the campaign slogan of “no more excuses,” Daley is adamant on his political positions and proposed changes in policy. Some of his top proposals include introducing $50 million to go toward violence prevention and searching for ways to increase revenue in order to make it through the likely future pension crisis. According to the Chicago Tribune, Daley said that in regards to increasing revenue “anything is on the table,” whether that be “marijuana, casinos, commuter taxes, real estate transfer taxes.” In addition to the $50 million, Daley has released a three-part plan to reduce crime in Chicago. The three parts are “enforcing and strengthening gun laws, investing in police and developing a coordinated gang strategy and violence reduction” according to the plan released on his website. Daley also plans to propose legislation that combines the force of Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges. For children and students growing up in the city, this plan promises to offer them a chance to attend community colleges for no cost. “It just seems to me that with the new world we’re in, that we ought to look at this as really K-14,” Daley told Chalkbeat Chicago. “Many jobs today, all you need is maybe two years of college.” As of publication, Daley has been endorsed by the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business.
In the wake of Rahm Emanuel leaving office, Chicago’s mayoral race started off as a free-for-all. With so many candidates it’s hard to pinpoint who is who, who actually has a chance and what their candidacy will mean for the city. One name in the race, however, is undoubtedly familiar to Chicagoans: Bill Daley. Even to out-of-staters living in Chicago the Daley name resonates with the city’s past because of the legacies of former mayors Richard J. Daley and Richard M. Daley, father and brother, respectively to Bill Daley. Daley’s campaign is different from his familial predecessors by focusing on fundraising, something he has been immensely successful at, allowing him to dominate the mayoral advertising. One of the most recent contributions to his campaign, and a controversial one at that, was from Ken Griffin, Illinois’ richest man. Griffin, who was a big backer of Republican Bruce Rauner’s failed 2018 governor’s race, gave the Daley campaign $1 million. Larry Bennett, a political science professor at DePaul, said that the fundraising by this Daley differs from his father’s campaign. “When Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago politics in the 1950s and 1960s his campaigns for mayor were driven by the Democratic Party ward organizations across the city,” he said. Despite this difference, however, Bennett said that similarly to “his brother Richard M., Bill Daley also presents
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Bill Daley speaks during a news conference in Chicago on Feb. 8. Daley is aiming to follow in his father and brother’s footsteps by running for mayor.
himself as a unifying figure,” with a focus on being “an ‘ideas’ candidate...proposing to shrink the city council, increase municipal revenues, and the like.” Mitzi Ramos, a professor of Chicago government and politics at DePaul described what a candidate needs to become a frontrunner. “We need candidates who tout real solutions to the issues plaguing the city and not bandaid remedies, which are designed to generate votes from particular constituents rather than designed to address the issues plaguing residents,”she said. She went on to say that the Daley legacy may not be beneficial to this race. “After 40 plus years of Daleys in control, many Chicagoans are not even looking at Bill Daley as a viable candidate
because they do not want a repeat of history,” Ramos said. Whether or not Daley will have the same success as family members are still unclear in a race where there are yet to be any truly-defined frontrunners. “Can Bill Daley convince voters that he is ‘his own man’?” Bennett said. “If the overwhelming majority of voters view him as ‘just another Daley,’ then I think his chances of making the run-off are much reduced.” For students and young voters however, the name recognition does not necessarily coincide with negative connotations. Sebastian Clark, a transfer student at DePaul University, said that Daley was the only name he recognized in the race. “Just from listening to people talk
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Amara Enyia delivers a walk to the polls, but no Chance the Rapper By Shane René Managing Editor
Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia kicked off early voting with a brief, sparsely- attended rally at the Daley Center Monday, Feb. 11, culminating in a chilly, three-block march to the polls and an empty promise. For weeks, flyers circulated online and on college campuses advertising a “Party to the Polls” tour with the candidate and Chance the Rapper, who cut a $400,000 check to Enyia’s campaign last month. When Enyia arrived more than 30 minutes after the rally’s scheduled 11 a.m. start time, Chicago’s favorite rapper was nowhere to be seen. While speaking to media outside the Daley Center on Monday, Enyia said she knew Chance would not be in attendance because of a “late night” at an event Sunday evening. Other campaign staffers noted that Chance lives a busy life, which can make scheduling difficult. “People aren’t there for the celebrities,” Enyia’s deputy policy director and senior political science student at the University of Chicago Richard Omoniyi-Shoyloola said. “They are there for the ideas.” He said Chance has put his money where his mouth is and now is the time to refocus the campaign’s energy on the candidate. Money aside, Chance’s endorsement has improved the visibility of Enyia’s campaign, particularly among the young voters who Eniya will need to rely on in order to become the next mayor of
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Mayoral candidate Amara Enyia speaks with students at her “Party to the Polls” on Feb. 11. Chance the Rapper was scheduled to come but could not make it last minute, according to Enyia.
Chicago. Enyia said the “Party to the Polls” tour advertising the Grammy Award winners appearance is a key part of her campaign strategy to draw college students to the polls — and she’s optimistic that could happen.
“We’ve had a lot of people tell us they have never been involved in Chicago politics until now, because this is the campaign that really attracted them,” Enyia said. “We know that millenials voted in record numbers in the midterm election, and that they have clearly expressed that this is a key election for them and that they care about the issues. So we are simply translating that energy into getting people to come out to the polls.” November’s midterm elections did see record midterm turnout among young voters with 18-29 year olds casting 3.3 million early votes, up more than 180 percent from the 2014 midterms, according to the political data analysis firm TargetSmart. Still, that demographic remains America’s most apathetic block of potential voters, logging the worst turnout of any age group in every national election since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking voter-age almost 50 years ago. Omoniyi-Shoyoola said record turnout in midterms is especially exciting because even without a presidential ticket on the ballot, youth voters sent a clear message that they are willing to engage the political process. He says the campaign’s goal is to cultivate and embolden that fervor. In local elections, turnout trends even lower across demographic boundaries, and the age disparity can be even more pronounced. A 2016 study from the University of Portland of mayoral elections in 50 U.S cities showed Chicago voters over the age of 65 have seven times more electoral clout than those under the age 35. “It’s no secret that people my age tend to be very disaffected and not very willing to get up and get engaged with politics,” Omoniyi-Shoyoola said. “That downtown rally showed the fact that [Enyia] has been able to reach out to so many young people, help them feel like they can be part of the political process, feel like their voices can be heard and feel that way to such an extent that they are willing to show up on a cold day downtown when all of us have classes and exams to prepare for, so I thought that was very encouraging.”
While the Enyia campaign may be targeting the youth vote, it is yet to be seen if young voters are targeting her. Monday’s rally drew a small crowd of about 40 people — mostly students shuttled to the Daley Center plaza in buses the Enyia campaign provided, which picked up students at various college campuses around the city — and even fewer continued down the street to a nearby polling place. The bus shuttling DePaul students from the corner of Jackson and State arrived more than 20 minutes after the scheduled 10 a.m. pick up time. In a Telemundo Chicago/NBC 5 poll published Feb. 14, Enyia sits in sixth place among the 14 candidates at seven percent. In front of her are Gary Chico at nine percent, Lori Lightfoot at 10 percent, Susana Mendoza at 12 percent, Bill Daley at 13 percent, and front runner Toni Preckwinkle at 14 percent, with undecideds polling at 19 percent. “How you poll matters,” OmoniyiShoyoola said. “If you send out polls through a medium that is disproportionately going to be responded to by people who are older, of a certain demographic or certain parts of the city, that’s going to skew the poll in their favor and whichever candidates reflect their interest. But that doesn’t mean that [the poll] is representative of the whole city.” Surveying young voters accurately can be a struggle; young people are less likely to own a landline, which is a traditional means of polling public opinion, but much like polls, the demographics of voters in local elections also skews toward older people. The University of Portland’s 2016 study showed that while the average age of eligible voters was 41, the average voter was 54 years old. Over the last two weeks, Enyia has run through a gauntlet of bad press. The Chicago Tribune reported Feb. 14 that Enyia failed to pay a former campaign spokeswoman $24,000 for four months of work. The revelation came just a week after the Tribune released an investigation saying Enyia did not report a third of her income, including $21,000 for her work on Chris Kennedy’s gubernatorial campaign. She says she simply forgot to giver her accountant the tax forms.
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Commodities and contamination: The market behind recycling By Erica Carbajal Contributing Writer
For the past few years, Chicago has been recognized for having extremely low recycling rates, with a 9.7 percent rate recorded in 2017. Independent Recycling Services, a family owned waste and recycling hauler founded in the 1970s, said part of this comes from the lack of knowledge in terms of how the recycling process works and what is considered contamination. Independent Recycling Services differs from corporate waste management companies in that they don’t own a landfill, so they profit from sorting out recyclable material, reducing the amount they would otherwise have to pay other companies in transfer fees for trash to be transported to a landfill. Essentially, the recycling industry is a commodity-driven market like any other, so just because a certain material is generally known to be recyclable, doesn’t always necessarily mean it’s getting recycled. Keisha Glover of Independent Recycling Services explained why glass is often considered contamination. “There are certain items I always felt so confident recycling...like I’m doing my part putting glass out there because glass is one of those commodities that’s infinitely recyclable,” she said. “It didn’t even occur to me, and I work for a recycling company, that they absolutely don’t want that...it breaks. It fragments out...it just rips cardboard, paper to shreds, rendering all of that unrecyclable.” Glover said that glass is recyclable, but often times they just say it isn’t because of the risk it poses to the other commodities it’s mixed in with. The general recommendation for glass is to separate
it out, which many people don’t like to do she said. since they’ve gotten so accustomed to the Labeling is another part of the single-stream recycling system. problem, which Glover said is something Electronics are another source of the recycling industry is trying to get contamination when mixed in with better about communicating. regular single-stream recyclables. While “Sometimes you’ll see a recycling can they’re recyclable, they’re made up of and it’s just a bunch of text and you don’t toxic elements and are hauled separately. know...can I put this here? And then you In the state of Illinois, it’s illegal to throw just throw it out because you don’t know away or put electronics in with single- what to do with it, or maybe the container stream recycling materials. Rebecca itself doesn’t make sense.” Quesnell, sustainability coordinator at The labeling on materials themselves Independent Recycling Services said can also be misleading. Quesnell electronics are picked up by a separate explained how plastics can sometimes company. pose a higher risk of “It’s a totally contamination because different stream,” they are made up of a she said. “It can wide range of synthetic cause issues with the compounds. Plastic, other recyclables though, is often one and it’s counted as of the main materials contamination. It people try to recycle, can be flammable... partly due to the just not a good idea numbered recycling to put that in there.” symbol on the bottom A d d i t i o n a l l y, of products like not all recycling water bottles. These haulers accept the are actually resin exact same materials codes which indicate and if tenants to companies like ANNALISA BARANOWSKI | THE DEPAULIA live in buildings Independent Recycling that recycle, but aren’t conscious of Services how desirable the plastic is. their hauler’s program, their items may “These resin codes identify what the not be getting recycled. For example, product is made out of, not necessarily Independent Recycling Services is able indicative that it can be recycled easily,” to separate out plastic bags because they Glover said. “So the contamination risk is have manual sorters who separate the that we could receive a lot of plastics that materials out, but there are many haulers may be extremely difficult to recycle.” that don’t accept them because the bags While some landlords still don’t can clog their machines. provide recycling programs at all, there Quesnell recommends contacting are some resident buildings that don’t haulers directly if their landlord doesn’t have access to enough recycling bins to provide enough information. put their materials. “Ask what they accept in their “What’s interesting now is say you program and maybe get some stickers on live in a 32-unit building, you have three the container saying what’s recyclable,” metal dumpsters and they’ll give one little
cart for recycling,” Glover said. “In my household, the majority of what I have is recyclable so I could never understand why we have a small cart, and then big dumpsters for trash.It was almost encouraging us to just throw it away and maybe the recyclers will sort it out.” Separating recyclables from trash doesn’t happen, although this is what many people assume happens when a recycling hauler like Independent Recycling Services picks up their trash. Glover said it’s important to make this distinction because even though they’re primarily a recycling hauler, they run two routes and recyclables aren’t sorted out from trash. “I can attest that when it all gets compacted it gets pretty contaminated and very hard to extract value out of,” she said. “It’s nearly impossible.” Gail Selleg, an avid recycler and Pilsen resident of 16 years, recognizes that a lot of what gets put in garbage dumpsters is recyclable and does her best to reduce this. “I sort the garbage on one full alley that I live on,” she said. “It really reduces landfill trash quite a bit. I can usually collect at least one-third of a tall kitchen bag each week the night before recycling is picked up.” Glover said education and communication between the industry and consumers are key parts to improving our recycling. Encouraging the other two Rs, reducing and reusing, are just as important. “We are trying to communicate better methods to communicate how to best improve...and sometimes it’s refusing,” Glover said. “That’s one of the things we’re trying to highlight now is refusing to support packaging that isn’t readily or easily recyclable and just assuming that the hauler is able to take care of it.”
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT: February 6, 2019- February 12, 2019 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
LOOP CAMPUS 990 Fullerton Lot Seton Hall 2
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FEBRUARY 7 1) A criminal damage
to property report was filed for markings on Seton Hall.
FEBRUARY 8 2) A graffiti report
was filed for writing on a building in the 990 Fullerton lot.
FEBRUARY 9 3) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor
report was filed for a person in Clifton-Fullerton Hall. Person was transported to Illinois Masonic
by Chicago EMT.
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Center. FEBRUARY 7 4) A distrubance report was filed for a person FEBRUARY 12 screaming outside of the Daley Building. Chicago 7) A criminal tresspass warning was given to a Police were called to the scene. person asking for money in the DePaul Center.
FEBRUARY 9 5) A fraud report was filed for a person who was invited to a meeting under false pretenses.
FEBRUARY 10 6) A criminal tresspass
warning was given to a person drinking and urinating in the DePaul
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Organizations address domestic violence against black women By Carolyn Bradley Copy Editor
While Black History Month serves as an opportunity to educate and celebrate the great contributions AfricanAmerican people have made throughout history, it is also a time to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that AfricanAmerican women face domestic violence and homicide at higher rates than other groups. According to a July 2017 report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, homicides stemming from intimate partner violence disproportionately affect young racial and ethnic minority women. The CDC said non-Hispanic African-American women experience the highest rates of homicide, citing 4.4 homicides per 100,000 population, while American Indian/ Alaska Native women experienced 4.3 homicides per 100,000 population. The report said about 29.4 percent of female homicide victims were between the ages of 18-29. It reports 59.2 percent of victims who were single at the time of death as non-Hispanic African-American women. The Women of Color Network listed poverty, poor education, limited job resources, language barriers and fear of deportation as roadblocks to safety and support for survivors of color. According to a September 2014 Quarterly Domestic Violence Summary from the Chicago Police Department, 13 victims of domestic violence were African-American, three victims were white, two victims of domestic murder were Hispanic and two were of unknown race. Tamara Turner, provisions
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coordinator at domestic violence agency Neopolitan Lighthouse, said that though domestic violence happens everywhere, urban areas experience more instances of domestic violence. “Although domestic violence occurs in all areas and within all groups of people, I believe that domestic violence occurs more often in communities where there is a prevalence of poverty and other types of violent crime,” Turner said. “I believe that this is because poverty and lack of financial resources adds extra stress and strain within relationships.” Many black women live in these impoverished communities, where violent crime often takes place, according to Turner, and violence is normalized. Turner said black women are also discouraged from making a big deal of the domestic violence they experience. Family and friends may also have normalized domestic violence. “Domestic violence is also a taboo subject in the black community, and a common sentiment is that domestic violence is just between the victim and the abuser,” Turner said. “Other people shouldn’t get involved.” Many black women also do not want
to get their abuser in trouble and face job loss or brutality from the criminal justice system, Turner said. They avoid reporting because they love and are concerned about their abuser. Ember Urbach, director of the Centralized Training Institute at the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network (CMBWN), said the network provides training to individuals who work with survivors of domestic violence. The network performs social justiceoriented training, according to Urbach. The training discusses people of color, specifically black women, facing more barriers than other individuals when they are trying to get assistance. The CDC also reported 19.7 percent of suspects of black female homicide as acquaintances, 15.7 percent as strangers and 15.2 percent as a parent. “[Black women’s] community may be different,” Urbach said. “They may have less access to resources because they are in underserved areas. Most calls to [CPD] come from areas in Chicago that are furthest away from domestic violence shelters.” Urbach said most domestic violence shelters are from the North Side, yet the
police department receives most calls from survivors on the West Side. The network is trying to expand resources to hospitals and more areas where survivors are able to receive more assistance. “I think we should encourage the public to get involved and be advocates for those who are being abused,” Turner said. “Most people know someone, or numerous people, who are being abused but do very little to address the issue and support the victim, and this is something that needs to change.” Networks and organizations create resources to assist people who face domestic violence. CMBWN works with many organizations and individuals in the community who work in neighborhoods that are primarily made up of people of color. Urbach said the network gives the best tools it can to navigate the issues at hand. Executive Director of the Connections for Abused Women and Their Children Stephanie Love-Patterson said the organization provides safety planning, counseling, advocacy and helping people understand their rights under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act. Services such as healthcare and housing that can be more challenging for African-American women to obtain. Love-Patterson said African-American women and men might experience discrimination from a landlord, from a housing program or from healthcare providers. “We advocate for every individual that we serve,” Love-Patterson said. “If we notice a particular challenge for someone, then we know we have to advocate a little bit harder and provide additional support. With their permission, we can advocate for them on that front.”
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Nation &World Transparency International: World is facing 'crisis in democracy'
EVAN VUCCI | ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump speaks about border security Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. Transparency International says the U.S. is seeing an "erosion of ethical norms at the highest levels of power." By Brian Pearlman Nation & World Editor
For the first time since 2011, the U.S. has fallen out of the top 20 countries on anti-corruption group Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index. With a score of 71, it sits between France, which scored 72, and the United Arab Emirates, which scored 70. The lowest-scoring countries out of the 180 that the CPI covered were North Korea, Yemen, South Sudan, Syria and Somalia, which received a score of 10. The highestscoring countries were Switzerland, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, New Zealand and Denmark, which received a score of 88. The average score was 43. The CPI, which has been conducted yearly by the Berlin-based watchdog group since 1995, does not precisely quantify public sector corruption — Transparency says on its website that “there is no indicator which measures objective national levels of corruption directly and exhaustively.” It also doesn’t take into account illicit financial flows, money laundering, tax fraud or private sector corruption. Instead, it relies on 13 external datasets from sources that survey experts and business leaders around the world, but which use different scales, like the World Bank, Freedom House and African Development Bank. The CPI standardizes these scores, converts them to a scale from zero to 100 and averages the scores for each country. According to Transparency, stronger democracies correlate with less corruption; full democracies scored an average of 75 on the CPI while autocratic regimes had an average score of 30. The group claims the world is facing a “crisis in democracy.” But is that just hyperbole? “The issue is not a crisis, but a confluence of many crises, of differing orders of magnitude, straining different political, social and economic institutions of democratic societies,” said DePaul law and affiliate history professor Mark Gregory. He pointed to regions like Eastern Europe, where historically democracy was touted “as a sort of panacea for the ex-Soviet
PHOTO COURTESY OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL Berlin-based watchdog group Transparency International released their annual Corruption Perceptions Index late last month; the U.S. fell out of the top 20 for the first time in seven years.
Bloc, promising at once freedom and the prosperity for which the people of those nations so yearned.” But when democracy didn’t come right away, or when it resulted in new challenges that countries were unprepared for, like increased immigration in the U.K. from its ex-colonies in the ‘60s, some were able to cope; others suffered strain to their democratic institutions. In order to stem public sector
corruption, the 2018 CPI recommends preserving and strengthening checks and balances, empowering the citizenry, enforcing anti-corruption legislation and protecting press freedoms. In the United States, Transparency cites “nativist populist sentiment, a rise in hate crimes, trenchant political polarisation and the longest government shutdown in US history” among its concerns.
Jordan Gans-Morse, a political science professor at Northwestern University who specializes in law and corruption, said experts continue to debate whether the growth of democracy is slowing around the world or whether a genuine backslide is occurring. Gans-Morse pointed to a recent New York Times article that looked into several high-profile corruption scandals in municipal governments around the U.S., including the extortion charges against Alderman Ed Burke in Chicago. And closer to the top, scandals continue to swirl around President Trump and members of his administration. “Whatever one may think of Trump, cabinet member after cabinet member [has been] embroiled in scandal — in some way breaking ethical rules or using the office to benefit himself,” he said. “And that’s not unheard of, but it’s unusual to have this many scandals in one administration.” Julius Hinks, a communications officer with Transparency, said ordinary people, including students, should be concerned about this year’s CPI no matter their political persuasion. “Ordinary citizens, including many students worldwide, too often stand on the front line against corruption,” he said. “Regarding the index, this year’s CPI reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption is contributing to a crisis in democracy around the world, so students’ chances of studying and then working in a free, democratic country are affected by corruption.” Gregory, the DePaul professor, said political leaders displaying a lack of patience is the “single greatest indicator” of a crisis in democracy. “If every tweet is followed by a countertweet, if every accusation or YouTube snippet yields instant condemnation which has to be later moderated or withdrawn as facts and context reveal a larger, truer picture, you know you have some issues,” he said. “Of course, when institutions become repressive, then the issues have consequences that transcend individual reaction and become dangerously systemic. That is crisis.”
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In Latin America, a deadly job for journalists By Richie Requena Contributing Writer
He was a radio broadcaster who had run his talk show, “Our Region Today,” for nearly 20 years in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Then on Saturday, Feb. 9th, as Jesús Eugenio Ramos Rodríguez was eating breakfast at the Hotel Ramos with former Emiliano Zapata mayor Armín Marín Sauri and two others, he was shot eight times by a lone gunman who appeared to be targeting only him. He later died from his injuries at a local hospital. Ramos, who according to local newspaper Tabasco Hoy was known to friends as “Chuchín,” is the second journalist to be killed this year in Mexico, a country that advocacy group Reporters Without Borders in 2018 called one of the world’s deadliest for journalists. In their 2018 year-end report, the group noted that nine professional reporters were killed in Mexico with the probable motive being to silence them. And according to non-profit journalism organization Insight Crime, Mexican journalists who report on crime, security and justice have been at an increased risk for violence in recent years — particularly when they are reporting on corruption and politics. Mexico isn’t the only country in Latin America where reporters are not sufficiently protected. In 2013, Venezuelan reporter Luis Guillermo Carvajal was kidnapped by unknown assailants;. he had been doing journalism in his home state in Venezuela for nine years. He said that he “had been receiving threats for the work he did [and] people had wanted him to not speak on the government's’ lies.” Carvajal said the people who kidnapped him wanted for him to “disappear.” What saved him was government intervention from a mystery person he would never meet.
Carvajal said that after his release, the threats against him heightened — including threats saying drugs would be planted on him to make him look like a drug dealer. He would later move from his home state after being advised by the police to do so. “I had a very strong fear, because I was being threatened by people that didn't care about taking another person's life” he said. According to Impunidad Cero, a Mexican organization focused on holding criminals accountable through journalism, four out of every five homicides go unpunished and 90 percent of all crimes goes unpunished in Mexico. This may contribute to a gross under-reporting of crimes, including 93 percent of kidnappings last year that did not get reported to the authorities or even have an investigation launched, according to a report by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico’s census and agricultural agency. DePaul alumni and Insight Crime staff writer Parker Asmann said that Mexico and Venezuela “should serve as a reminder to journalists in the United States of the very real dangers that come with the profession around the world, and should remind us of how fortunate we are to have a certain level of safety and protection that allows us to do our job without the fear of reprisal, jail time or death.” These fears are ones that DePaul senior Stephanie Mata sadly knows well. Her 32-yearold cousin Alonso Marquez of Guadalajara was kidnapped last year after going missing on July 16th, 2018; he was later found dead along with seven other bodies of women and children in a mass grave on Aug. 4, 2018. Marquez, who was deported from the U.S. only four years prior to his death and who left behind three young children in America, ages two, six and nine,
PHOTO COURTESY OF TABASCO HOY/TWITTER Jesús Ramos Rodríguez, a veteran radio broadcaster for Radio Oye 99.9 FM in southeastern Mexico, was murdered as he ate breakfast Saturday, Feb. 9. The country is among the world's deadliest for members for the media.
was working multiple jobs at the time, in the hopes of eventually returning to his kids. Afterwards, his mother did not want to be a part of any more investigations because she was devastated by the death of her only son. Mata said her aunt “didn’t want to know who did it, or why; she just wanted to have his burial and get it over with.” Mata said “there is a lack of trust of police in Guadalajara… police roam the streets, but bodies still keep showing up [in mass graves].” Mata said that private Facebook groups have come into play to report crimes that traditional media cannot report on. The violence that pressures professional reporters into silence is now on the shoulders of everyday people. “People in Guadalajara don’t know what’s going on, until it happens to them” said Mata. “And when the media does talk about finding 30 to 40 bodies, they don’t go into detail about how, why, or who. “The people have a right to know what is going on, finding out the truth goes hand-in-hand
with reconciliation and peace,” she added. On social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, community members have been able to more reliably expose the truth of horrific crimes and government corruption because they cannot be pressured or identified so easily. Groups dedicated to spreading the word about those who have gone missing or are kidnapped are also common. One anonymously lead Facebook page called “Valor por Tamaulipas,” for example, focuses exclusively on showing the truth and atrocity of crimes committed by the cartels in that state. And in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, people have been using an app called “Fogo Cruzado,” or “crossfire,” that is dedicated to reporting real-time gun battles on a map based on first-handaccounts, media information and police reports. The app is meant to keep civilians safe and away from active shooter zones. These sort of tactics and resources are being used by everyday people because they know that no one else can do that
for them at the moment. According to Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights, Ramos Rodríguez’s murder marks over 143 journalists who have been murdered in the country since the year 2000. And while the State Attorney General’s Office of Tabasco announced they have begun investigating the incident, many dangers for journalists in Latin America remain. “It's very rare that those who murder journalists are held accountable,” Asmann said. “Some Mexican towns along the US-Mexico border, such as in Tamaulipas state, have become socalled ’no-go zones’ for journalists because of the severe risks that come with reporting there.” While there have been efforts to protect journalists, including a 2012 Law for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, and the 2006 implementation of a Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Journalists, the profession remains a dangerous and deadly one.
Progressive Democrats tout 'Green New Deal': so what is it? By Mikayla Price Contributing Writer
The last time anything major related to climate change hit the Senate floor was in 2009. Now, 10 years after the Clean Energy and Air Act, the “Green New Deal” is being touted as its successor. Unlike the CEAA, however, the Green New Deal calls for not just clean air and energy, but an entire suite of transformations to the U.S. energy sector, job market and economy. On Feb. 7, Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, D-N.Y., unveiled the plan with Democratic Massachusetts senator Ed Markey. The deal seeks to get the U.S. to rely on 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2030, as well as guarantee universal health care coverage and a living wage. It also emphasizes helping minority communities who experts — including 300 who contributed to a government report on climate change released in November — say will be among those most affected by the effects of climate change.
It’s already been derided by critics from both sides of the aisle, from Fivethirtyeight. com, which called it “impractical,” to President Trump himself, who recently said it “sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark.” But Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats are pushing forward, and whatever pundits’ opinions of the GND, it’s starting a conversation. “The concern amongst Americans about climate change is at an all-time high, so this really is an opportune political moment to have a national dialogue about climate action,” said Jill Hopke, a DePaul journalism professor who focuses on environmental communication. Hopke pointed to a recent Yale University survey which found that 6 out of 10 Americans are “alarmed” or “concerned” about global warming. Another Yale survey, which was conducted before the draft text of the resolution was released, found that 64 percent of Republicans also support the policy goals of the GND as summarized by the researchers.
But right now, one of the biggest issues with the GND is that it’s vague. As a resolution and not a bill, it doesn’t have the force of law, functioning instead as a plan for future action. “In it of itself, it does not have any impact on actual policy. We have to wait for the details of what exactly can they pass,” said professor Hugh Bartling, an associate professor in DePaul’s Public Policy Studies department. When those details are ironed out, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he is considering putting it up for a vote — something people weren’t expecting in the senate, according to Bartling. “His rationale is to put a lot of Democratic congressmen on record of supporting this,” he said. He also emphasized that the newly-created House Select Committee on Climate Crisis did not give the GND subpoena power, which means it is not clear what type of actual legislation will come out of it. In its present form, the resolution
begins by listing the amount of money climate change may ultimately cost the United States: more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output by the year 2100, according to an October report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “There is always the discussion of [the] cost of taking action, but this resolution is also trying to bring in the conversation of the cost of inaction, and the staggering cost we are already facing as a nation,” Hopke said. Mark Potosnak, department chair of the DePaul Environmental Science and Studies department, said action must be taken soon. “We have done enough, but we are hitting that point … of no return," he said. "If we don’t change our ways in a 10-year time period, [there will be] a dramatic impact on all systems.”
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Lincoln Yards is not the legacy Emanuel should desire PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRIS WALKER AND PETER TSAI | CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The Lincoln Yards site currently stands completed grounded and paved, awaiting Sterling Bay's development to begin. The people behind the site promise that the community will benefit from increased tourism and opportunities for store owners, but those assurances are not logical when put into perspective.
By The DePaulia Editorial Board The 2017 Hulu documentary “Too Funny to Fail” tackles “The Dana Carvey Show” and its short run on ABC during 1996. When it was greenlit, its success seemed undeniable to both ABC and fans. But with a pinch of political interference and a dash of deadline, the show burnt to a crisp before you could take it out of the oven. ABC pulled it after premiering seven of its 10 episodes. The Lincoln Yards mega-development couldn’t be any more different than this mega-flop — or could it? “The idea that anything could go wrong with this show made no sense to us,” Stephen Colbert said in the documentary. “Look at all these talented people … look at our star …” For Lincoln Yards, the star is Mayor Rahm Emanuel. His decision to not seek re-election shocked some Chicagoans, and others pondered what his legacy would be once he leaves office. How should we view a mayor who closed multiple Chicago public schools, citing student success rates will rise when the influx of students left teachers unprepared (and underpaid) and caused success rates to decline, whose key argument for the city’s financial woes is that they were given to him by his predecessors, who withheld the dash-cam footage of Laquan McDonald’s murder for over a year? “There’s certainly a lot of speculation that the Emanuel administration is rushing this through because the mayor and his planning commissioner David Reifman consider it a legacy for Mayor
Emanuel, but the question is whether overall area,” Emanuel said while talking that is steamrolling the process of good with Carol Marin for DePaul’s Center for planning, and in my view, it certainly is,” Journalism Excellence and Integrity. said Blair Kamin, architecture critic for But infrastructure isn’t the only thing the Chicago Tribune. that the TIF money is used for. In the Emanuel hopes to erase his poor document, the estimated cost for “public tenure with the Lincoln Yards megaworks and improvements, including development by bringing it into fruition streets and utilities, parks and open with part of its funding coming from space, public facilities (schools and other taxpayers in the form of the controversial public facilities)” is $800 million. But the “tax incremental financing,” or TIF. These requested TIF money is $900 million, so public funds are intended to be used where will the other $100 million go? The to uplift “blighted” neighborhoods and document says that it will go in plenty their infrastructure, redevelopment or of other directions, including analysis, business revenue. How does one begin administration, rehabilitation of existing to define a “blighted” Activists, aldermen question buildings, job neighborhood? training and interest, Emanuel’s answer financing Lincoln Yards among others. to the question is The TIF proposal with funds for 'blighted' quick and to the point: will be voted on the site, which lies in communities. See cover Feb. 19, but the the abandoned Finkl story. development’s issues Steel mill, is currently will not end when it obsolete. The official TIF proposal is approved or denied. The people behind mandates that an area must exhibit five the project have made the decision to of the 13 categories that determine if it speed up the process in an incredibly fastis blighted or not. Lincoln Yards has the paced manner, leaving many to criticize “meaningful presence and reasonable their intentions. The developer Sterling distribution” of five of these factors: Bay released the final version of its plan obsolescence, deterioration, excessive on Jan. 19, and the Planning Commission land coverage, inadequate utilities and approved of it just five days later, barely declining or lagging equalized assessed giving the community a window to value. It is convenient that the area fits the discuss and criticize. Emanuel pleads exact requirement. with us that the community will benefit A little too convenient. from this mini-downtown by increasing “So I think that in all the dollars tourists and rental opportunities for you would talk about on TIF would go store owners. The TIF proposal even towards transportation, infrastructure states that one of its main objectives is to and improvements in the parks and “provide opportunities for women-owned, other areas that get general benefit that minority-owned and local businesses and don’t go to the developer, they go to the local residents in the redevelopment of
the Project Area.” But this kind of rhetoric — the kind that attempts to reflect progressivism — shouldn’t convince you that opportunities for store owners, especially marginalized ones, will arise. “As alderman, I would have opposed the Lincoln Yards development from the beginning and would not have moved forward without the express consent of the community,” said Leslie Fox, candidate for Alderman of the 43rd Ward, just east of Lincoln Yards. “I will initiate a complete moratorium on TIF’s until there is full transparency and accountability for a program that was originated to invest in blighted areas and is now being used to support developers that support elected officials’ campaigns.” If the community isn’t satisfied, Lincoln Yards will fail even with its extensive, professional and heavy-hitting team. Currently, there is hardly evidence of community acceptance. The Hideout, a staple in the city’s music and comedy scene that sits dangerously close to the site, is scared for its life. The proposed CTA shuttle service leading directly to the site will lead local businesses a sales plummet. But if the community, not just Lincoln Park, but anyone who wants proof of benefits for the surrounding area, wants to see it fail, it will. It begins with discussing the project’s intentions — is it a beneficial business hub or a legacy project for a selfish mayor? Before the community accepts Lincoln Yards, we have to see some evidence of community acceptance. Without this, the project is sure to go down in history as another mega-flop, akin to Chicago’s parking meter deal, and even Dana Carvey.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Class is sometimes in session Public schools are technologically advancing as they ruminate replacing curriculum with online teaching and block classes while some are left wondering if it will be effective By Carolyn Bradley Copy Editor
Students have complained about the school day being too long, too early and too boring, while they simultaneously have so much to learn in so little time. In the past, students have had to adhere to strict schedules of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. school days and considerable workloads with information crammed into seven or eight 50-minute classes. These schedules have existed for decades, and as time passes, students are beginning to benefit less and less from them. Some school districts in Illinois have switched to “blended learning,” which involves portions of classes being online in addition to in-person teaching, with classes meeting only a few times a week. Chicago Virtual Charter School has been practicing blended learning for the 12 years it has existed. Elizabeth Wilcek, director of operations at the charter school, said the school is a hybrid model in which students are expected to attend online instruction as well as face-to-face instruction. They also attend a learning center once a week with live instruction, and the remainder of the time, they are working online. Wilcek said the program allows teachers to meet students’ needs and provide more instructional support through one-onone time with teachers. Other students may need less support and can work more independently on project-based learning. Wilcek also said there can be difficulty ensuring students are attending both the live and online instruction regularly. Overall it is an opportunity to enhance learning that students and teachers might not find in a traditional school day. Nicole Ellis, a counselor at Lane Tech College Prep, said school starting at 8 a.m. can be a difficult start time because of students staying up late and because of students who have a long commute. Students can be tired when they get to school, before the day has even started. “I do think the way our day is set up, it is conducive to students’ learning,” Ellis said. Ellis said a block schedule of having four classes on one day and four classes on another day would be the best structure. Students could have more time to focus on a class while simultaneously having less to worry about in one day. If schools are going to bombard students with subjects that need to be completed to fulfill curriculum requirements, they need to be strategic and realistic about how much students can do in such a short allotment of time. But blended learning could be an issue for students who have depression or anxiety, because online learning could encourage avoidance of facing the issue of coming to class, Ellis said. “By having [students] come to school, work through it, talk to teachers, it allows them to build some resilience,” Ellis said. “If you only have the option of being online, I do think that could be dangerous in terms of becoming avoidance.” Ellis makes a point in saying schools should accommodate students who may have needs regarding mental health, especially because mental health concerns are becoming more prevalent. While she said she does not think an entire district should consider using blended learning, she did say it should be considered for extenuating circumstances. Students would be more successful if schools listened to their needs. Especially at such a formative time as adolescence, there are psychological needs that cannot be ignored. If students have to focus on school and cannot take care of themselves both physically and mentally, this creates problems. Students
can fall into a hole of being unwell, which negatively impacts their academic performance and creates a series of problems, such as falling behind and excessive stress that take a while to fix. Donna Kiel, a senior instructional assistant professor in DePaul’s College of Education and founder of the Office of Innovative Professional Learning, said she found blended learning effective for students. She said the effectiveness depended on the teacher’s skill. When done correctly, she said, the online portion of the class met the learner needs, and the in-person portion complemented the online learning. “When it happens, it’s very powerful for the student because it’s very practical,” Kiel said. “Students in their face-to-face encounter are applying the learning rather than being a passive receiver of learning.” Kiel witnessed the benefits of blended learning at both St. Joseph High School in Westchester and South Beloit High School in South Beloit, where she served as principal for several years. One of the problems with blended learning is school districts simply disposing of the concept when they do not train teachers correctly, Kiel said. Kiel said research shows current school days do not meet the needs of the students, especially high school students. “Changing that school day, with some really careful, deliberate research around what time of day is best, how much time students need, I think that’s really compelling and significant,” Kiel said. Student success depends on student support, and if schools take their students’ well-being into consideration, they will pave the way for the success they strive for in daily learning.
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What you need to know about the Ella Lee and Julia Hale Focus Editor and Contributing Writer
Chicago’s mayoral race is a mere week away, and candidates have finally settled in on their positions. Given that there are 14 candidates still in the race, a runoff is expected. Though it’s unlikely our city’s fate will be decided Feb. 26, here are where the candidates stand on three of the race’s most-discussed topics.
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Gery Chico
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Education: -Rebuild CPS by renovating schools using leftover TIF -Expand technical education opportunities, college prep programs, and the city’s One Summer Chicago program Economics: -“Growing our economy from the middle out,” according to his website -Open a temporary casino -Transit TIF to fund projects for public infrastructure Violence: -Gire CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson -Create a CPD Deputy Superintendent for Gun Violence Prevention -Sue Wisconsin and Indiana for their poorly enforced gun laws
Lori Lightfoot
Education: -Eliminate “CPS bureaucracy,” -Rethink neighborhood boundaries -Work with two- and four-year colleges to reduce the price of attendance Economics: -Avoid raising taxes on the local level, bring in new state revenue -Modernize all city agencies with new technology Violence: -Reduce shootings by 75% during his first term. -Require background checks on all gun sales, impose fines for illegal gun possession, and insist judges give those convicted of illegal gun possession tougher sentences. -Require an outcomes oriented culture appoint a Deputy Mayor for Violence Prevention, who will report to him
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Amara Enyia Education: -Support a fully elected school board -Redraw the CPS school boundarie -Change the school funding formula and review selective enrollment system Economics: -Public bank -Reinvest in all neighborhoods, instead of those which typically draw tourism like the Loop Violence: -Empower communities to selfmonitor -Build sustainable and strong block clubs across the city
DANIEL X. O’NE
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Education: -Ensure that every neighborhood has a level 1 or 1+ elementary and high school -Racial Equity assessment conducted by CPS before putting policies, programs or budgets into place -Fully elected school board Economics: -Ensure that women- and minority-owned businesses are not overlooked by city contractors -Make the process of creating and closing TIFfunded districts more transparent to citizens. Violence: -Address gun violence as a public health crisis by looking at the root causes -Replace CPD’s gang database
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Garry McCarthy
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Education: -Reinvest in neighborhood schools with money from selling closed schools -Hybrid school board
Education: -Expand early childhood education and utilize TIF funds for child care -Increase access to arts and sports -Turn 50 underused schools into community centers
Economics: -Borrow no more money -Hold government accountable on performance based metrics
Economics: -Invest downtown fees into neighborhoods -Allow “fix-it” tickets, correctable violations -Promote summer job programs
Violence: -Eliminate micromanagement of police by city hall
Violence: -Prioritize de-escalation training -Implement consent decree
Educatio -Fully elec -New fund education -End char
Economi -Increase c business m -Create ne
Violence: -Keep non -Create M -Improve capacity
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candidates for Chicago mayor Jerry Joyce
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La Shawn K. Ford Education: -Expand “enrichment activities” -Fully elected school board Economics: -Eliminate fee structures like red light cameras and car boot -Immediate moratorium on new TIFs Violence: -Create an Office of Violence Prevention -Expand restorative justice
Neal SalesGriffin
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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Education: -Hybrid-elected school board, where six members are elected and one, who has a student in CPS, is appointed by the mayor -Ensure the crime of sexual assault of children receives a sentence of no-less than 20 years
Education: -Reduce the number of students per classroom to 20-25 students -Fully elected school board
Economics: -Legalize marijuana and use that money toward unfunded pension liabilities. -TIF reform
Economics: -No tax raises -Advocate for fair wages and quality healthcare
Violence: -Hire more officers -Create the position of “detective emeritus,” which would bring back recently retired detectives when necessary -Repurpose closed CPS buildings as new fire and police training facilities
Violence: -Let the police do their job -Encourage the community to work with the police in the CAPS program.
John Kozlar
Willie Wilson
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Education: -Rebuild special education programs -Hybrid school board Economics: -Attract big companies without being detrimental to residents -Create Office of Vocational Training and Employment Violence: -Create Office for Violence Prevention -Use data to reduce force and racial disparities
Paul Vallas
Education: -Implement plan to relieve debt from student loans -Place IB, dual enrollment and early college programs in neighborhood schools Economics: -Balanced city budget -Solve pension funding issue Violence: -Increase number of officers and restore detectives
EVAN GUEST | FLICKR
Education: -Fully elected school board -Give parents and students vocational study options starting junior or senior year Economics: -Community-based grants -Employ homeless population in temporary jobs Violence: -Full transparency from police and government; no more “cover-ups” -Boost neighborhood watch programs
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Arts & Life
A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds DePaul's newest onstage production infuses classic story with modern dance By Carolyn McCabe Contributing Writer
“A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds” opened at The Theater School on Wednesday, February 13, nearly 100 years after it opened in Warsaw, Poland. Placed in a shetel in 1880s Eastern Europe, the play tells a story of lost souls, love and destiny, all while honoring Jewish traditions and people. The storyline can resonate with just about anyone; each character has something they are fighting for, whether it be love, greed or their own destiny, while also highlighting the struggle of Jewish people as a whole. “A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds” possessed an otherworldly element in multiple ways, highlighted by the uniqueness of the way the story is told: through both dialogue and dance. The entire production consisted of DePaul students, minus the musicians who are professionals in Chicago, and the choreographer, Lin Batsheva Kahn. Jeremy Aluma, the director, is a graduate student. This is his fifth and largest play at DePaul and marks the 30th in his career. “If there’s anything I want people to know going in, it’s a story of Jewish people and struggling to find their place and I want to give that justice,” Aluma said. The play, despite its serious and frightening narrative, features dance which adds an idiosyncratic spin to the traditional production. “The dance within the play allows the audience to breathe and reflect on what they are seeing,” Kahn said. “It allows for artful moments within the dialogue.” Kahn used both traditional Jewish dance and modern dance for the pieces. There are 11 dances throughout the play, ranging from solos and trios as well as performances with the entire cast. Many of the actors are not trained dancers, but the movement flows in and out of the storyline so fluidly that it is hard to tell. Some dances are fun and light, creating a place for the audience to relax and settle into the fast-paced show, while others are dark and intense, functioning as a method to move the story forward and bring forth emotions that cannot be constructed through words. “The dances serve as a way to get closer to the characters,” said Sydney Silver, a cast member. “It is hard to empathize with the character if you don’t know them.” The play opens up to a dance number with the entire cast on stage, lit with an eerie glow setting the tone for the entire piece. The opening dance is contemporary, juxtaposing the old-fashioned costumes. They move to the live musicians that play right on stage with the actors, along with the beat of their own breath. The ending parallels the beginning with a dance number but with only two characters. It is contemporary and intimate, wrapping up the entire story with only their bodies talking. “I think anytime we can add physicality to the performance of actors it moves people in a unique way,” said Aluma.
ALL PHOTOS BY CAROLYN MCCABE | THE DEPAULIA
Above: Choreographer Lin Batsheva Kahn helping with choreography for students Jayson Lee and Grainne Otlieb. Below: Left to right, Kahn instructing a student performer. Lee and Ortlieb during rehearsal.
Last quarter, four of the cast members took a modern dance class taught by Kahn at DePaul in preparation for the show. The class is offered to all students and welcomes dancers with all levels of
experience. “Through my classes, students gain an understanding of dance and get so close to each other in an authentic way,” said Kahn. “I try to create a positive, respectful
environment.” “A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds” is a story of fortitude and resilience. It runs until February 24 at The Theater School’s Dr. John and Joyce L. Watts Theater.
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'True Detective' transcends genre tropes By Benjamin Conboy Editor-in-Chief
“True Detective” was born of the tried and tired noir detective formula: There is a terrible crime that was never solved. A strongbut-silent detective can’t let it go – he has to know who did it. But he starts drinking. His wife and children begin to resent him because he grows distant. The case file just sits, collecting dust in an evidence locker. He realizes that in order to confront his demons, he must solve the case and bring them to justice. His primary motivation is to escape the loneliness of his pain. “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto takes that formulaic character and creates a world populated by nothing but pain, so that the detective encounters around every single corner. There is no joy, not a single character written in for optimistic relief; I can’t remember seeing a single character smile in any of season three’s first six episodes. Mahershala Ali is at his all-time best when he assumes the role of the tortured state police detective. His character, Wayne Hays, was a reconnaissance officer in Vietnam. Or as his partner Roland West (played by Stephen Dorff) put it in one scene where they are trying to intimidate a suspect, “They’d send my man over here, out into the jungle alone. And he’d come back with scalps.” The show surrounds the disappearance of two children – a brother and sister – in the Arkansas Ozarks. Their father, an abject machinist in an unhappy marriage, allows them to go to the park together as long as they’re home by dark. But they never come home. The rest of the season follows Wayne and Roland’s investigation into what happens. The investigation takes dark and sinister twists as it spirals downward, farther and farther into absolute darkness. The incredible world “True Detective” is able to construct is possibly its biggest achievement. The world is desolate and destitute, all of its inhabitants bitter and resigned. The characters all radiate darkness. All of them are a product of this wanting world, like a man the locals call The Trashman. The Trashman is an eerie Native American man who bumbles around town in a go-kart with a trailer attached to it, piled high with scrap. He never goes faster than walking speed, his little two-stroke engine humming monotone. Another is Johnny Boyle, a teenage bully with long blonde hair who drives around with his friends stuffed into a little purple Volkswagen Beetle. He was at the park when the children disappeared, lighting off firecrackers and drinking beer. Wayne and Roland question him with a verbal brutality he’s used to dishing out rather than taking, and when he finally starts talking, he unravels a story much more sinister. The show has this way of making the viewer think everything is important; the way the score intensifies when they catch the glance of a stranger in a diner or interview someone who might know something. Every suspect interview is misdirection. Everyone looks like they’re hiding something and as a result, it is impossible to have so much as a hunch about who actually did it. The story is told on three different timelines: The first takes place in 1980, when the crime was committed. The second takes place 10 years later when, after the case went unsolved, it is reopened by the state police. The third takes place in the present, where Wayne is suffering from Alzheimer’s and is being interviewed by a documentary crew making a film about the case, which is still unsolved. In most detective dramas, any depiction of the detective as an old man would be in happiness. He will have solved the case and his family will have forgiven him. But this is not most detective dramas. He still obsesses over the case, even though the details of it become ever more fleeting. He has no family left. His wife is dead and his son acts as more of a supervisor than a loved one, telling his dad that if he won’t stop wandering outside, getting lost on a mission he has forgotten, then he’ll have to put him in a home. But that is where “True Detective” lives. It lives in a world where there is no happiness and no happy endings, where there is no resolve and certainly no light. It is the perfect noir. "True Detective" airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on HBO.
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Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff star in the third season of HBO's crtically acclaimed anthology series "True Detective."
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OSCARS PREDICTIONS By Michael Brzezinski Staff Writer
CATEGORY: BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WHO WILL WIN?
WHO SHOULD WIN?
ROMA
ROMA OR BLACK PANTHER
Alfonso Cuaron’s deeply personal and profoundly epic film snagged and broke the hearts of audiences and professionals alike. It also seems to be the one nominee with the least amount of bad blood so with that, I think it has a solid foot up on the other nominees.
“Black Panther” is the only other nominee that I could see swooping in for the big win with its huge SAG ensemble win and social relevance. “Roma” is my personal favorite of the nominees but I would be more than okay with either one of these winning.
ALFONSO CUARON
ALFONSO CUARON
Cuaron’s DGA win solidifies his place here and it’s well deserved. He pulls off at least a dozen cinematic tricks in “Roma” that should have been impossible and makes them look seamless.
The man is a living breathing legend.
RAMI MALEK
BRADLEY COOPER
Rami Malek does a barley decent impression of a rock legend wearing god-awful fake teeth. But Malek has the awards track record this season and insane amounts of campaign push. This award is his to lose.
Bradley Cooper gave the performance of a lifetime in “A Star is Born.” His performance was intense, commanding, vulnerable, and deeply moving all out once. At several points, his work left me speechless.
GLENN CLOSE
YALITZA APARICIO
Glenn Close has come out of nowhere with her small summer release film “The Wife.” The Academy is known for awarding “legacy trophies” where legendary performers who have gone a long time without winning anything get to win one for a performance where they didn’t necessarily deserve it and this looks to be a case of that, though Close is quite good in her film.
For me personally, this should belong to Aparicio’s silently and passionaely poignant work.
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
I was taken with the beauty and emotional complexity of “Mirai” but it still doesn’t even manage to hold a candle to the bombastic and experimental excellency of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” It’s tracking very positively to win the gold which would make it the first non-Disney film to win this award since 2012 with Gore Verbinski's “Rango.”
Let’s hope the Academy actually acknowledges that there are more animated films other than that from the mouse house. Head to depauliaonline.com for predictions for the rest of the categories.
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The art of influencing the Academy Awards
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By Marty O'Connell Contributing Writer
In just a few days, Hollywood’s biggest stars will come together at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the 91st Academy Awards. Plenty of controversy has surrounded this year’s Oscars ceremony, from Kevin Hart giving up his host duties to ABC’s decision to cut multiple categories from the telecast. Regardless of all these problems, the show must go on, and ABC will air the ceremony on Feb. 24 starting at 7 p.m. Despite that controversy, a great year of movies will be represented at this year’s Oscars. Legends like Glenn Close, Sam Elliott, and Spike Lee are nominated, while first-time nominees like Yalitza Aparicio of “Roma” and Lady Gaga of “A Star Is Born” will be present. There will be plenty to watch for in terms of big awards, and if you’re in the mood to bet, it’d be worth doing your research. Over the past five years, many of the winners at other awards shows, such as the Golden Globes or the SAG Awards, went on to win the Oscar as well. Here are a few of those award shows and their past winners to highlight how often these awards line up. Behind the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes are perhaps the most
popular awards show of the season. The awards are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (which consists of only 93 members) to movies and television shows that they considered the best of that calendar year. Since each award is split into two categories, drama and musical or comedy, more actors and actresses go home with hardware than at the Oscars. It’s these categories that often line up with the Oscars; in 2018, the awards Best Actor and Best Actress for Dramas, as well as Best Supporting Actor and Actress, all went to the same people at the Golden Globes and the Oscars. In 2017, both the Oscar for Best Picture and the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Drama) went to Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.” Given how often the 2019 Golden Globe winners have won at other awards, winners like Rami Malek and Glenn Close are favorites to take home Oscars this weekend to add to their collections. The BAFTAs (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) are a celebration of the best of film and television. The voters are members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which formed in 1947 and currently has approximately 6,500 members. While in past years (like 2018) the winners have been the same as
the Oscar winners, sometimes there will be differences during these ceremonies (such as Dev Patel in 2017 and Kate Winslet in 2016). This year’s ceremony, which took place on Feb. 10, saw Olivia Coleman and Rachel Weisz of “The Favourite” took home awards, marking Coleman’s second and Weisz’s first of the season. The SAG Awards, or the Screen Actors Guild Awards, is a ceremony hosted by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which is an American labor union founded in 2012 and consisting of over 160,000 members. Instead of giving out an award for Best Picture, the SAG Awards celebrate the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In both 2015 and 2016, the films that won that award (“Birdman” and “Spotlight” respectively) went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture; this past year, “Black Panther” took home the award. The Independent Spirit Awards are a bit of an outlier on this list. These awards, which began in 1984, celebrate independent films and filmmakers. There is overlap with the big awards, but often smaller movies or actors/actresses win. In 2018, the winners for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress were the same as the Oscar winners, but at the
Independent Spirit Awards, “Get Out” won Best Picture and Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for his work in “Call Me By Your Name.” This year’s ceremony will be held on Feb. 23, the day before the Oscars, and will celebrate several films that did not receive much (or any) recognition from this year’s Oscars, such as “You Were Never Really Here,” “Eighth Grade,” and “First Reformed.” Academy Awards are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which was formed in 1927 and has over 6,000 members. Historically, many of the Oscar winners won several awards during their respective awards season. “Spotlight” and “Birdman” each won Best Picture at the SAG Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Academy Awards. J. K. Simmons won the Best Supporting Actor award at every 2015 ceremony for his work in “Whiplash.” Four of these five award shows saw Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, and Allison Janney sweep the acting categories in 2018. Sunday night’s Academy Awards could see some of these names who have already won big in 2019 win again – but there’s always room for surprises. With the way the Oscars lead-up has been going, it will certainly be a ceremony worth watching.
The Recording Academy's cruelty By Lacey Latch Arts & Life Editor
A woman with reddish-brown hair in a masterfully tailored black pantsuit sits amongst strangers. The faces that surround her are some of the most recognizable in the world but hers stands apart. It hasn’t graced any album covers or commanded a stadium of fans from the stage. Rather, she has largely watched from afar as the brilliance of the music industry unfolds around her. Karen Meyer watched as her son rose to unimaginable heights from his humble beginnings in Pittsburgh until his untimely fall to addiction in September 2018. Malcolm “Mac Miller” McCormick was supposed to sit amongst his peers at the ceremony in the Staples Center on Feb. 10. Instead, Meyer attended in his honor: a mother fulfilling a dream her son never can. A mother who would much rather be celebrating than mourning. A mother who wishes she didn’t have to be there at all. Following the star’s sudden death, there was an outpouring of grief in all avenues of the entertainment industry. Exactly a month to the day of his death, Miller’s final album “Swimming” was nominated for Best Rap Album, marking what would remain the first and last nomination for the artist. Shortly thereafter, Millers parents announced that amidst their heartbreak, they would attend in his place and accept his award should he win. The twist comes when reports emerged
that the Recording Academy offered to cover their expenses and fly them out to the ceremony. What seems like a generally good-natured sentiment turned sour the second the Rap Album award was given. Cardi B. earned a well-deserved award for her debut album “Invasion of Privacy,” which was a solid contender in the already crowded category. The real problem lies underneath the surface. Sure, the competition was tight and it is very plausible that “Swimming” was not determined to be this year’s best rap album. That’s all well and good. Presumably, Meyer would have been in the crowd all the same. The true cruelty comes with the fact that the Recording Academy extended this offer only after Miller’s parents announced their plans to attend. In what looks like an increasingly egregious ploy for publicity, they jumped on the opportunity to intertwine the ceremony with Miller in some way, who had been dominating the news for months. It has become clear that the Recording Academy offered an opportunity that they knew never existed. Karen Meyer would never stand on that stage with a photo of her son gracing the screen behind her. She would never be able to hold a bittersweet celebration for her son’s final creation amongst his professional counterparts. Instead, the Recording Academy offered to treat a grieving mother to a once in a lifetime event that would never come. And all along they knew. They knew who was to win, they knew it wasn’t Miller.
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Exactly two months after his death, Miller was was nominated for Best Rap Album.
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Louis C.K. picks fight with Parkland By Erick Zepeda Contributing Writer
Comedian Louis C.K. has been trying to get his career back on track after five women spoke out about sexual misconduct. The accusations surfaced in November 2017, when the women came forward to discuss their stories. Incidents of C.K.’s sexual misconduct date back to the late ‘90s, one woman spoke anonymously to protect her privacy. At the time, she was a production worker on “The Chris Rock Show” where C.K. was a writer and producer. She alleges that he continuously asked her to watch him masturbate, a request to which she eventually gave in. Acknowledging it was the wrong decision, she felt that he was abusing his power and she conceded because of the culture of the workplace. Comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov recalled an incident in 2002 at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado where C.K. invited them to hang out in his hotel room. Believing it was going to be a congratulatory nightcap, they accepted the invite. After entering the room, C.K. allegedly asked the two if he could take out his penis. “He proceeded to take all of his clothes off and get completely naked and started masturbating,”Goodman said in an interview with New York Times. One woman recalled him masturbating while the two were having a phone conversation. In 2003, Abby Schachner attempted to invite him to one of her shows, while she could hear him masturbating. Schachner said she heard
him close the blinds, as he began to breathe heavily, talking softly and describing sexual fantasies. The last known incident was in 2005, when C.K. was on set with Rebecca Corry as a guest star appearing on a television pilot. “He asked if we could go to my dressing room so he could masturbate in front of me,” Corry said in an interview with New York Times. Corry declined his offer. As word got around set, executive producer Courteney Cox discussed shutting down production. But Corry had no interest in being the person who shut down the show. After word about his sexual misconduct reached headlines, C.K. released a statement discussing the truth behind the allegations. In the statement, C.K. pronounced that he would take the time to stop talking, step back and listen to what everyone has to say. The comedian took almost a year off before he began to pop up at comedy shows unannounced to do stand-up routines. It didn’t take long for him to appear in headlines, this time for comments toward Parkland shooting survivors. Leaked audio of a performance by C.K. at the Governor’s Comedy Club in Long Island was posted on social media. “They testify in front of Congress, these kids, like what the fuck, what are you doing?” C.K. says in the set. “You’re young, you should be crazy, you should be unhinged, not in a suit saying, ‘I’m here to tell…’ Fuck you. You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? How does that make you
interesting? You didn’t get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way and now I need to listen to you talking?” Fans were not pleased with the comedian’s remarks, largely viewing them as insensitive. “It’s sad because I used to think he was funny, but after the sexual misconduct and this, I think he’s hit rock bottom,”said Alfonso Nunez, a former C.K. fan. The immediate backlash to his comments after the audio was posted didn’t stop the comedian right away. “If you ever need people to forget that you jerked off, what you do is make a joke about kids that got shot,” C.K. told an audience in San Jose, California. Some people question whether there is a line to avoid crossing with tragic events and comedy. “I think that people who were uninvolved or unaffected with the event need to tread very carefully,” said DePaul IMAGE COURTESY OF IMDB student and comedian Amy Do. “I’ve Louis C.K. in his FX show "Louie." blacklisted Louis C.K. and do not follow or to hear Louis C.K. turn that into a joke is give my eyes to anything he’s doing.” His cruel comments didn’t sit well with disgusting,”Sanchez said. C.K.’s insensitive comments bring Manuel Oliver, who lost his son Joaquin, one of the 17 people killed in the Parkland up a tragic moment in the lives of those shooting. As a response to C.K. and his who were affected by the shooting. Those comments, Manuel Oliver recorded his that lived to tell the story have used their platform to speak on behalf of those that own stand-up routine. “You ever hear dead baby jokes?” Oliver didn’t. Students stood in front of Congress begins. “I got a dead baby. His name was telling their story in hopes that no one else Joaquin Oliver. He was going to be 18, but has to go through the tragedy they did. It is apparent that C.K. not only wasn't listening, now he’s dead. And that’s not a joke.” Manuel Oliver’s stand-up routine but was trying to talk over them elsewhere. affected DePaul student Stephanie Sanchez. Maybe he should go back to listening and “I teared up, having to be in that not speaking. man’s shoes, having lost his son and have
Actor's racist comments shed light on widespread acceptance of racist rhetoric By Holyn Thigpen Contributing Writer
“I went up and down areas with a cosh…hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something…so that I could kill him.” Actor Liam Neeson’s shocking revelation of a race-based violent streak during a recent interview with The Independent has horrified longtime fans and colleagues alike. After a close friend was raped and described her attacker as being black, Neeson admits to having roamed predominately black Irish neighborhoods over the course of a week, waiting to be provoked and exact “revenge,” he said. Some have leapt to Neeson’s defense, claiming that the aggravated mental state spurred by his friend’s rape excuses his radical behavior. But is that not just idol worship talking? In our celebrity-obsessed culture, fans have become more and more apt to jump to the defense of stars whose work has left significant impact on their lives. In cases that have emerged as part of the #MeToo movement, inexcusable actions have been justified by fans who claim to know and understand the inner workings of their favorite stars’ psyches. So where does Liam Neeson fit in? Ching Yu-Huan, a professor of psychology at Bournemouth University whose work focuses on cross-cultural psychology and domestic violence, has an answer. “When it comes to anger, we may be less in control of our behavior when we are in a rage,” Yu-Huan said. “But that doesn’t mean that everyone who gets angry
of its release, with many fans quickly disavowing Neeson as despicable and an example of “white, toxic masculinity.” Already, the interview has proved disastrous to Neeson’s film promotions and current press tour. Last Tuesday, Lionsgate canceled the red carpet for his newest film “Cold Pursuit,” and though several major film projects IMAGE COURTESY OF ASSOCIATED PRESS are still on his lineup, it remains Neeson appeared on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday Feb. uncertain whether 5, one day after his remarks emmassed widespread backlash. he will ultimately about the rape of a friend would pick up be seen on screen anytime soon. Neeson’s a weapon and walk the streets with it, role in “Men and Black: International” has looking for someone of another race to kill. especially been met with outrage, with fans Our experiences and biases do influence demanding he be cut from the film before who we take out anger out on.” Sony Pictures releases it this summer. As Yu-Huan explains, Neeson’s implicit “It’s all indicative of a couple things,” racial bias, as demonstrated by his story, said Evan Nierman, founder of the crisis is shocking but not unusual. Rather, it is management and legal public relations firm part of a larger conversation that needs to Red Banyan. “There’s been accusations of take place regarding how we raise children racism directed toward the president, and to think of those who differ from them this is directly on the heels of race-oriented and methods we can use to recognize and scandals among lawmakers in Virginia. minimize our own biased tendencies. With [Neeson] really put his foot in his mouth at the extremity of Neeson’s case, however, a particularly bad time.” backlash has been incessant. Neeson’s This brings up a compelling question: Independent interview quickly became the why do the insensitivities of celebrities No. 1 trending Twitter topic within hours continue to fall under the spotlight while
those of the president are continually ignored? Though, admittedly, Trump has never been as blatantly violent in his rhetoric, the dozens of offensive comments and revelations that have branded his presidency remain largely under the radar. From his “locker room talk” about grabbing a woman “by the p**sy” to his statement that “laziness is a trait in blacks” to his infamous comments that Mexicans entering America are criminals and rapists, the list of Trump’s offenses is lengthy and ever-growing. The problem is, the breadth of his out-of-bounds comments has somehow protected him. “It’s perverse to say that because Trump evidences overt racism more than any postWorld War II president, we should start ignoring his outbursts,” writes Jennifer Rubin, longtime foreign and domestic policy contributor for The Washington Post. “The frequency of Trump’s remarks does not diminish their significance to the presidency as an institution or the hurt they have caused so many people.” Liam Neeson’s story of race-fueled violence is inexcusable and will — as well as should — limit his future career prospects; it came from a racist, unwarranted place and is a stark reminder of the often below-radar racism prevailing in the entertainment industry. But for Neeson’s act to be disseminated widely and emphatically while Trump’s outrageous comments consistently attract only mild media buzz is a worrying example of the normalcy Trump’s rhetoric has been granted. Neeson must step on the backburner and reflect on his prejudice, but Trump must do the same, a hundred times over.
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Candidates court college voters As politicians turn to social media to expand their reach, some are proving more successful than others
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Sen. Kamala Harris on Capitol Hill on Feb. 7, 2019.
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When Sen. Kamala Harris’ communications director, Lily Adams, posted a video of Harris dancing to Cardi B’s “I Like It” about two weeks ago, she probably thought it would help make the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate more relatable to young voters. It didn’t. In fact, most of the responses to the video criticized Harris and her campaign team for using gimmicks instead of policy in order to appeal to voters. The response was similar to that of Hillary Clinton’s viral “Chillin’ in Cedar Rapids” Snapchat clip from 2015, in which Clinton, holding her phone close to her face, tells viewers she’s “just chillin’ in Cedar Rapids.” The video came off to many viewers as an obvious attempt to win young people’s vote by using a platform Clinton wasn’t used to. Students told The DePaulia that they care little for these attempts when they do not also include more serious discussions of policies that will actually make a difference. “They just need to listen to us more and stop trying to be on the times with memes and stuff,” said Megan Henning, a senior at DePaul. “They need to listen to what our problems are and come up with solutions to those problems.” Presidential candidates who want to appeal to young voters in 2020 will need to learn from mistakes like this and instead better understand the issues that audiences care about, DePaul students said. For one, politicians should look at this group of voters on a more individual level, not just as a single entity that can be impressed in a single way, according to one student. “If you can’t define the population and agree on it, but continue to treat us as a homogenous group, then there is no hope at getting our attention or engagement because we otherwise feel glossed over and voiceless,” said Peri Drury, a graduate student studying public policy at DePaul. “We are a large and varied group with multiple concerns, but a lot of us ultimately feel that our lives and quality of life don’t matter and that we have little to no voice in the political system as it is today with the electoral college and alt-right.” Harris isn’t alone among 2020 candidates that aren’t successfully getting their messages across. Drury brought up presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren who, despite being known for more progressive and socialist leanings, has been seen as a controversial figure partly because of what
some deemed a misguided response to President Donald Trump’s questioning of her ancestry. W a r r e n released the results of a DNA test in Oct. 2018, showing that she had a Native American ancestor up to 10 generations ago. She has since apologized for identifying as a Native American. “I can’t go back,” Warren told the Wa s h i n g t o n Post last week. “But I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal ANNALISA BARANOWSKI | THE DEPAULIA sovereignty and tribal citizenship and the harm it caused.” Yet, this doesn’t mean voters don’t care about candidates’ social media presence or having diverse candidates to choose from, students said. “Without a doubt, having a social media presence is key to gaining support from young voters since these platforms serve as a major source of information and influence,” said Jana Cruz, a graduate student studying public administration. Students brought up former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia as examples of politicians effectively reaching out to young voters. “[Enyia] has addressed a lot of issues and decided important policies that have shown to be important to young voters, such as economic cooperative models and investing in communities, especially those that have been looked over,” Drury said. “I think her history in organizing, policy and advocacy, as well as deep belief in transparency of government has spoken to young, progressive voters who don’t want a traditional politician, but someone who understands people and communities
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Ocasio-Cortez in a video that has over 4 million views. while still being wellversed in policy and governmental structures.” Sanders also did a great job appealing to young voters when he ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, Cruz said. “ H i s content was very authentic, prompted emotions and created conversations,” she told The DePaulia. “He was also very strategic in ensuring that he visited college campuses to personally connect with
young voters who hold a lot of political power but need more persuasion.” More recently, Ocasio-Cortez has been getting a lot of attention for her engagement of voters on social media and strong stances on progressive issues. “As a young politician she knows how social media works and is successful in delivering strong political messages without needing a long, drawn-out speech,” Cruz said. “She understands what her audience will react to and delivers.” Ocasio-Cortez engages with voters on various social media platforms, especially Twitter and Instagram, but her interactions come across as more genuine to many. For example, when she answered policyrelated questions live on Instagram while cooking mac and cheese for dinner, many young voters could relate to her cooking a simple, affordable meal while discussing solutions to issues that matter to them. It did not come across as a campaign strategy, like Clinton’s clip that started with a beer Koozie adorned with the phrase “More Like Chillary Clinton.” That authenticity, or lack thereof, will make or break many candidates running for office, including in 2020. “The nominees will have to fulfill a type of authenticity and inspiration, as well as break down policies and plans into digestible information to get young people to the polls,” Drury said.
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what’s FRESH on Netflix: True Crime Edition
Abducted in Plain Sight
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
In what has become one of the most talked about true crime productions this year, “Abducted in Plain Sight” follows the Brobergs, a naive family from Idaho that unknowingly befriend their sociopathic neighbor who has eyes on their 12-year-old daughter.
In one of many installments in the American obsession with true crime stories, Netflix has released “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” The series presents a modern retelling of one of the most infamous serial killing sprees in the country’s history with the killer himself driving the narrative in his own words.
Robert Berchtold presented himself as a harmless and well-meaning man. The Brobergs grow increasingly more comfortable with Berchtold which eventually results in the formation of a troubling relationship between him and their young daughter. To twist the story even more, as his actions escalated, he managed to the girl not once but two separate times from her family.
The viewer follows the Bundy murders from three perspectives - Bundy himself in recently released taped conversations, the journalist who got him to open up and law enforcement officers collecting clues along Bundy’s war path. Because of this, the timeline can seem distracting at times.
That’s what makes the story so interesting - it’s told by a family who genuinely didn’t suspect anything awry but have since seen the error of their ways. Because of this it can feel frustrating at times to hear the story with no mention of suspect behavior from Berchtold. This further reaffirms that you really don’t know what people are capable of.
The series is gripping, with the overlapping perspectives and timeline jumps easily overshadowed by the truly horrifying story at its core. Bundy has become a legend in terms of notoriety but all of the specifics from the years he tormented the northwest have long been forgotten or altered through the generations. Now, Bundy gets to tell his story.
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In theaters & upcoming films Feb. 13 “Isn't It Romantic” A women wakes up after an accident to learn that she is the star of a romantic comedy in an alternate universe. Stars: Rebel Wilson
March 1 “Saint Judy” The true story of Judy Wood, an immigration attorney that changed the U.S. law of asylum to help women Stars: Michelle Monaghan, Common
Feb. 14 “Fighting With My Family” Two people who grew up in a wrestling family attempt to become World Wrestling Entertainment superstars. Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Lena Heady
March 8 “Captain Marvel” Carol Danvers transforms into one of the most powerful heroes in the universe when Earth is caught in an intergalactic war. Stars: Brie Larson
Feb. 22 “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Hiccup searches for "The Hidden World," a secret dragon utopia, before a hired tyrant finds it first. Stars: Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harington
March 15 “Five Feet Apart” Two crtically teenagers meet in the hospital and fall in love but their life-trheatening illnesses get in the way. Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse
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Was there some universal decision among the world’s musicians that early 2019 was the time to release all of their new music to the masses? It’s like a musical hydra’s head – as soon as you listen to one song, two more take its place. I may be alone in experiencing this phenomenon, as it may be only my favorite artists that are releasing new work, but there still are an awful lot of them. There were so many new songs, I even had to cut three artists from the list, and instead focus on the songs I felt were most exciting and deserving of attention. For some it was a new expression, new collaborations or even leftovers, songs recorded for a past album not seeing the light of day. Here are the new songs that I am excited about this year.
1. “Heads Gonna Roll”Jenny Lewis What more can be said about Jenny Lewis and her long-awaited return that hasn’t already been touched on? A lot, evidently, as Lewis proves time after time that she’s a musical voice that cannot be ignored. Her upcoming album “On the Line” marks her fourth solo album since her split with indie rock favorite Rilo Kiley and she continues to impress with positively otherworldly vocal power and ballads about what it means to live. In this brand new single, she sings about a breakup with loopy lyrics laden with allegorical imagery, extremely specific references and a contemplation on death and morality. And do you hear that drumming in the background? That’s right – it’s Ringo Starr.
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2. “Can She Dance” – Dr. Dog Dr. Dog has put out new music nearly every year since their first album was released in 2002. Despite their prolific output, every album captures a different sound and different musical styling; showing their versatility and the inability to truly categorize them. “Can She Dance” combines elements of classic Dr. Dog sound in a completely unique and new way. It has the Beach Boys harmonies and 60s beat that Dr. Dog is most commonly associated with, as well as the psychedelic instrumentals that have become a staple of their more recent work. Couple that with the almost glam rock vocal ballad performed by singer Toby Leaman, and you have a song that is quintessential Dr. Dog.
Across 1. North Pole resident? 4. Surrealist Jean 7. Certain house pet 10. Creative person’s deg. 13. “Who Wants to ___ Millionaire” 14. Loss of electricity 16. Hither’s partner 17. Affleck of Hollywood 18. 1954 Brando film 19. ___ Lanka 20. It stops traffic 23. Brown or polar animal 25. Mr. Berra 26. Hagar the Horrible’s wife 27. Sexton and Frank 29. Family business word, sometimes 31. Money-managing execs 32. Puzzle in a box 34. Kismet 36. Word in a Shakespeare title
3. “Hey! Yeah!” – Deer Tick Similar to the aforementioned band, Deer Tick has a remarkably large music library, making new albums every one to two years. Following up 2017’s double album, “Deer Tick Vol. 1 and Vol 2,” this year’s “Mayonnaise” is an album made up entirely of alternative takes and additional singles from “Vol. 1 and 2.” This 90s rock-inspired tune, with its strong bass riffs and power pop energy are a perfect fit for our 90s nostalgia-obsessed generation. It makes the case for Deer Tick’s enduring legacy and why people tune in to listen to them album after album. As frontman John J. McCauley sings in his gruff vocals, “I can’t think of nothing that ever seems to keep you down.”
37. Like a nursing infant 39. ___-relief (sculpture) 42. Clockmaker Thomas 43. Gilbert and Sullivan operetta (with “The”) 45. Gusto 49. Historic Scott 51. Type of wave 52. They’re heard at the Met 54. Type of rug 56. Baskin-Robbins alternative 57. Aretha Franklin song 60. Touch, in a children’s game 61. Type of flu 62. Place to lay one’s head 65. Suffix with “favor” 66. Held from above 67. Number of cities in a Dickens title 68. Type of station 69. Droop
4. “Dylan Thomas”- Better Oblivion Community Center So it’s confession time. This song does not technically fit into the theme of this list. Better Oblivion Community Center is not one of my old favorites – it’s a brand new band, releasing their first, unequivocally awesome debut album. I snuck it into the theme here because Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, the two members of this band, are pre-established artists releasing a new collaboration under this joint name. This deceptively simple tune masterfully weaves together the voices of Oberst and Bridgers as they sing an Orwellian tune of rebellion in a future dystopia. If the standout single from this concept album is any indication, then we’ll be hearing a lot more from the collaboration, which is definitely a good thing.
70. Classic car of yesteryear 71. Make one’s own clothes Down 1. Tidal reflux 2. Director Spike 3. Castanet player’s dance 4. “M*A*S*H” star Alan 5. Like a marsh 6. Public places for walking 7. Bird or church official 8. Grows older 9. Choppers, so to speak 10. Me, ___, and I 11. Precede 12. Baker and Loos 15. Hobo 21. “___ Tu” (‘70s hit) 22. VCR button 23. ___ California (Mexican peninsula) 24. Beloved of Geraint
28. ___ serif (font choice) 30. Daisy supporter 33. An unloved plant 35. Change sentences 38. Going off the path 39. They’re unlikely to be collected 40. “Rome wasn’t built in ___” 41. Some music scale notes 44. Chicken ___ (dish) 45. Pleasingly plump 46. List of mistakes 47. Military blockades 48. Menlo Park initials 50. More skillful 53. Exchanges 55. Type of wide dress 58. In search of whales, perhaps 59. Bi-, quadrupled 63. Lamb’s mom 64. ___ Jones average
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DePaul still has long road to reach desired destination By andrew hattersley Sports Editor
Coming off of two straight wins against Providence and Xavier, there was a buzz in the air not felt an awful lot in recent years as DePaul’s game hosted No. 10 Marquette Tuesday night at Wintrust Arena, with a chance to win three straight conference games for the first time since the 2014-2015 season. Once the game started, however, Marquette quickly took control with four 3s from both Sam and Joey Hauser, as well as Sacar Anim and Markus Howard as the Golden Eagles jumped out to a 13-4 lead. The 3-point barrage didn’t stop there, because the Golden Eagles finished 12of-29 from the 3-point line and never trailed in the end coasting to a 92-73 victory. Coming off of a landmark win for Marquette, DePaul head coach Dave Leitao said his team ran into a “buzzsaw” Tuesday, while also not executing well enough offensively or defensively to come out with a win. “The combination of their first two possessions defensively (...) sometimes you get one play behind. We were more than one play behind and they got two open 3s; they made them confidently,” Leitao said. “I don't know that (…)[other than] maybe a spell here or spell there, we did anything to distort their rhythm or their confidence.” After forcing Howard to turn it over eight times in their matchup, they saw the very best from Howard on Tuesday. The Big East’s leading scorer was in top form at Wintrust, topping 30 points for the fourth time in five games with 36 points, four rebounds and two assists. Coming in, DePaul senior guard Max Strus said the plan was to force other Golden Eagles to beat them. “Take the ball out of his hands,” Strus said of the plan with Howard. “He's a good player, he played good tonight.” As DePaul looks to take the next step as a program, Marquette presented an opportunity that will come around again. To knock off a top 10 program for the first time since taking down Kansas in 2006,
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DePaul senior guard Max Strus and Marquette's Brendan Bailey tussle for the ball during Tuesday night's game at Wintrust Arena. the Blue Demons can take valuable lessons from their loss to Marquette. All DePaul had to do is look at what Marquette has done. Leitao said if you look at what Marquette has done during conference play, every game aside from their 19-point loss to St John’s and 18-point victory against Butler has been close. “What Marquette has done is learn how to play well consistently and learn out to close out games,” Leitao said. “In order to counteract that, you don't have to play your A+ game, but you going to have to play well and (…). I would have to look at the film, but I don't know possession-by-possession if did it enough critical areas. I don't know that our focus was near where it needed to be to beat a team like this. I guarantee you our execution wasn't where it needed to be, where it has been.” The Blue Demons shot just 38 percent from the field, almost seven percentage points lower than its season average, and also turned it over 16 times, also well
higher than they had in conference play. On the other side of the spectrum, after forcing 19 turnovers in their first meeting, DePaul forced just six on Tuesday night. “We took much better care of the ball, the first game we had 19 turnovers,” Marquette head coach Steve Wojchiechowski said of the difference between the two matchups. “They are really good when you allow them to get out in transition. When they're in transition, Strus and Cain, their two senior leaders, are dynamic, and so coming into the game, we really wanted to take much better care of the ball, which we did.” The good news for DePaul is it has plenty of games of significance heading down the stretch and the opportunity to secure more program-boosting wins over the next month. Entering Monday, DePaul was projected as a No. 6 seed in the NIT Tournament according to DRatings but dropped out following the loss to the Golden Eagles. That still leaves plenty for DePaul to
play for down the stretch, and is one of the reasons Leitao said his focus is solely a day-by-day approach rather than looking at where the Blue Demons are in the grand scheme of things. “When you set a GPS and go on a drive, you don't start marveling at the beach that you arrived at until you get there,” Leitao said. “We're in the middle of a battle, dayby-day, 10 teams going back and forth. If you ask me, are we better than we were, ok yeah, but that doesn't mean anything. It means that tomorrow is another day, and I don't know exactly what is going to happen tomorrow.” Leitao added that he’s taking a page out of Doug Bruno’s book and tries to go 1-0 every game and every day. After the Feb. 16 game against Butler, the Blue Demons have just five games left before the Big East Tournament and sit in tie for fifth with Butler and Georgetown.
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DePaul (19-7; 10-4 Big East) went out East for their sixth and seventh conference road games of the season and came away with two impressive wins over Seton Hall and St. John’s. The Blue Demons took on the Pirates on Friday in New Jersey, winning 94-84, avenging their earlier loss to Seton Hall this season at home. DePaul was lifted by senior Mart’e Grays and freshman Lexi Held, who combined for 51 points in the game. Held scored 28 points in the game, but 14 of them came in the fourth quarter. While Grays added 23 points, 13 of them came in the second half. The Blue Demons took on St. John’s on Sunday at Madison Square Garden and managed to pull out a close, fought victory 70-62. DePaul struggled shooting the entire game, going 23-60 from the field and 6-20 from the 3-point line. However, for the second-straight game, Held led the Blue Demons with 16 points, nine of them coming in the fourth quarter.
The DePaul softball team continued to plow through its non-conference schedule this past weekend, this time in Birmingham, Alabama. The Blue Demons improved their record to 8-1 on the season after going 3-1 in the Samford tournament. DePaul opened up the weekend with a doubleheader Friday against Eastern Illinois and Samford, the tournament host. Against Eastern Illinois, the Blue Demons came from behind in the seventh inning to pull out a 6-4 victory. DePaul trailed 4-0 heading into the final inning and were able to put up six runs to steal a victory. The next game came against Samford, but this time the Blue Demons were not able overcome a 6-0 deficit and lost their first game of the season, but got their revenge the next day with a 5-2 win. DePaul closed out the weekend with a 4-0 win over Georgia State on Saturday, which was their shutout of the season.
Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams were in action over the weekend, and both were handed losses on the road. The men’s team went down to Florida to take on Florida Atlantic and lost 4-1. The Blue Demons had success in doubles action, coming away with a 6-3 victory thanks to the duo of Tripp Tuff and Tamas Zador. However, in singles action DePaul struggled and ended up losing all four single matches. The women’s team also struggled on Saturday as they got shut out by Wisconsin 7-0. The Blue Demons are now 3-5 on the season. Both teams were in action Sunday with the women's team taking on host Denver, while the men’s team had to finish up a match on Sunday morning as well due to darkness on Saturday. The Blue Demons fell to Stetson 4-3 before rebounding to take down Tennessee Tech 4-2 to close out the weekend.
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Hard work pays off in year two for Paul Reed By Evan Sully Staff Writer
DePaul men’s basketball has taken a leap forward this season by winning 13 games, the most since the 2006-2007 season. One player whose overall game has trended in the same direction has been Paul Reed. The six-foot-nine-inch 210-pound sophomore forward from Orlando, Florida is averaging 11.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per game through 24 games while shooting 52.9 percent from the field, an improvement from last season when Reed averaged just 3.6 points and 3.1 rebounds per game on a 51.8 percent shooting mark. Reed’s rebounding figures have propelled him to lead the Big East conference in total rebounds per game. Not to mention, Reed also leads the Big East with a defensive rebounding percentage of 24.5 percent. In total, Reed has grabbed 194 rebounds, which ranks third overall in the conference. One hundred thirdy of Reed’s rebounds have come on the defensive glass and 64 have come on the offensive glass. Overall, Reed has the second-highest rebounding percentage, and his offensive rebounding percentage is third-best in the conference. Perhaps the most prevalent component of Reed’s game this year has been his ability to step out of the paint and drill 3-point field goals with confidence. Reed has converted on 36.4 percent of his shot attempts from deep in comparison to a 21.4 percentage line one year ago. “It’s been amazing,” Reed said when asked about what it has been like to break out this season on a revamped DePaul team. “I remember I would be feeling bad for the fans when they come see us lose, so now that we’re winning, or winning more, it just feels good. And I feel good to be part of that.” In the 13 games played against conference opponents, Reed has drilled 53.3 percent of his 3-point field goals after only attempting six shots from long range before then. Assistant coach Shane Heirman has been working with Reed to improve his jump shot, and that relationship has picked up ever since conference play began in December. “It helps my teammates get open too,” Reed said. “It really brings more options for the whole team because when I drive, somebody’s gotta guard me and I can just swing it to one of my teammates for an open [3-point field goal], so it helps.” Reed has put up double-digit scoring figures 13 times this season and scored a career-high 21 points on Jan. 19 in a road win against Seton Hall. Additionally, Reed has recorded four double-doubles. “Paul Reed is the most improved player in the Big East, and I think it’s clear-cut,” senior guard Eli Cain said. “I don’t think there’s anybody close to the improvement that he’s put on from his freshman to sophomore year. But the thing about [Paul] is he works. He works and he believes in it. He’s a young guy, so it’s gonna be a lot of doubts like all of us, even me and myself. It’s hard to see the bigger picture sometimes, but he listens and I think that’s the biggest thing that changed from his freshman to sophomore year... is his mindset.” Aside from Reed’s ability to shoot the basketball and rebound, Reed has utilized his length to the maximum level on defense. Reed’s 99.2 defensive rating is third-best among all Big East players.
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DePaul sophomore forward Paul Reed attempts a shot during a Jan. 23 game at Carnesecca Arena against St. John's with teammate Femi Olujobi, as well as, Red Storm defenders Mustapha Heron and Marvin Clark II looking on. Reed finished with 18 points. Reed has blocked 31 shots, which is fifth-best in the Big East at a rate of 1.3 blocks per game. As a result, Reed’s block percentage, an estimate of the percentage of opponent two-point field attempts blocked by the player while he was on the floor, is second-best at 5.2 percent. Before coming to DePaul in the summer of 2017, Reed had a successful basketball career at Wekiva High School, where he led his team to a state runnerup finish in Florida’s 9A class. As a senior, Reed averaged 18.2 points and 11.4 rebounds per game en route to earning Central Florida Player of the Year honors from the Orlando Sentinel. DePaul head coach Dave Leitao saw Reed’s potential when he recruited him a few years ago. “He knew how to put the ball in the basket, you know, and I thought he had to get stronger and all that to do that, but I think with him there’s a high ceiling on just about every part of his game,” Leitao said. “Facing the basket and making plays, either catch and shooting from three or passing, which he’s learned how to do a whole lot better, is all part of what he’s gonna be able to do consistently as his game keeps growing.” Outside of school, Reed played AAU basketball for the Showtime Ballers and averaged 18 points, 13.7 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game at the 2016 Adidas Uprising Summer Championships in Las Vegas. With conference play in full swing, Reed is handling his business one game at a time. One thing that Reed mentioned is that he and his teammates have been on the same page this season because they have been playing together. “The biggest thing I’ve learned is [that] you’ve gotta have fun with it,” Reed said. “If you have fun with it, you’re going to hoop.”
Sports. Feb. 18, 2019 The DePaulia | 27 SIMULATOR, continued from back page the middle of the room sits a large, canvas cave with artificially turfed floors and a large projector screen stretched against the back wall, on which they can project a simple driving range or one of 50 different world-class golf courses to be played as accurately as the technology can allow. Schiene says that while having an indoor facility provides a sanctuary away from Chicago’s brutal winters, the system allows the team to practice in a variety of conditions they may face traveling around the country. “We’ll play match play tournaments in the simulator going into match play events to give the guys a feel of what match play is like,” Schiene said. He said programing different wind speeds also helps players learn to calculate their distances on windy days out on the course. “[The simulator] allows us to spend a lot of time on our swings so we can get that dialed in and won’t have to spend as much time on the range at tournaments,” Thomas said. The simulator allows players to practice their full-swings as much as they want, but is much less effective for practicing short games, which is predicated more on feel and turf conditions than swing mechanics. Many of the world's top professional golfers use a device called a Trackman, which generates precise feedback on everything from distance and clubhead speed, to the spin rate and launch angle of the golf ball, down to a decimal. That system retails for upwards of $25,000. Coach Schiene calls their FlightScope system a “poor man’s Trackman,” which does many of the same things at a more affordable price. The Blue Demons’ first tournament of the year wrapped up Feb. 11 in Florida, where the team won two of three matchplay matches. After a 3.5-2.5 loss Monday morning to Ball State, DePaul rallied back to win their afternoon match 3.5-
BUTLER, continued from back page so it was tough.” After missing the first game between the two sides, Butz was effective while finishing with nine points and eight rebounds in just over 23 minutes of action. While DePaul shot nearly 52 percent in the second half, they allowed the Bulldogs to knock down eight threes and shot over 57 percent from 3-point territory. After holding the Bulldogs to just over 28 percent from behind the arc in the first half, Leitao said his team struggled at times with their screening coverages that forced them to be chasing shooters and break down their defense. “The ball screen coverages or multitude of screens that they set creates a distortion of your defense,” Leitao said. “Now you’re chasing the ball around and you’re closing out long close-outs to shooters. If you don’t get over a Brunk or Fowler screen with Thompson or Baldwin and they start going downhill, it compromises you because the roll guy’s got to be picked up which leaves shooters open on the perimeter.” After allowing an average of 58.5 points per game in wins over Providence and Xavier at the beginning of this month, the Blue Demons allowed over 90 points for the second straight game since then. Strus said the issue Saturday stemmed from the Blue Demons’ inability to keep
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DePaul senior Bobby Thomas practices hitting his wedge to a variety of distances as part of a friendly contest with his teammates. 2.5 against Drake University and took down Ohio University 4.5-1.5 Tuesday morning. “The guys were disappointed we didn’t win the first match and that’s kind of the pivotal one to get into the winners
Butler’s guards in front of them, which forced DePaul’s defense into tough spots. “I think just keeping the ball out of the lane, that hurt us a lot today,” Strus said. “The ball would get in the lane kicking out to guys and then we got to help and then rotate so getting guys in rotations hurts us so I think if we keep the ball in front of us, guys guard their own guy and keep your man in front of you I think that will help us out a lot.” Moving forward, he added that the Blue Demons’ defense has to improve and if it does, it will help them in other areas as well. “Our defense needs to get better,” Strus said. “That’s two games in a row we’ve given up 90 points so we obviously need to figure it out on the defensive end and come together on defense, and hopefully that leads to more offense and stops and rebounds and get out and run, so we really need to pick it up on defense.” Strus finished with 23 points, while hitting 7-of-14 shots from the field. Cain and Olujobi were other Blue Demons in double figures with 17 points and 15 points respectively. With the loss, DePaul now sits in a tie for seventh in the Big East standings, however aside from the top two in Villanova and Marquette the rest of the conference remains wide open. The Blue Demons will be back in action Wednesday night when they take on Creighton at Wintrust Arena.
bracket,” Thomas said. “We didn’t feel like we played up to what we expect … personally I struggled through the first round, but we bounced back and played better the second round. “Then we went out and smoked Ohio,
which was nice.” The Blue Demons will travel to Palm Valley Golf Club for the Loyola (MD) Intercollegiate in Goodyear, Arizona on Feb. 23-25.
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DePaul senior Femi Olujobi goes to the basket against Butler's Joey Brunk Saturday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Olujobi finished with 15 points and three rebounds.
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DePaul struggles continue against Butler By Andrew Hattersley Sports Editor
Indianapolis -- DePaul (13-11; 5-8 Big East) recovered from one double-digit deficit in the first half, but couldn’t do it a second time as an 11-0 run midway through the second half helped Butler (15-11; 6-7 Big East) pull away for a 91-78 victory at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Saturday night. After trailing by as many as 14 in a choppy first half filled with fouls, senior guard Eli Cain knocked down a three to pull DePaul within one at 57-56, but from there the Bulldogs responded with 3-pointers from Nate Fowler, Paul Jorgensen and Henry Baddley while the Blue Demons turned it over three straight times on the other end. Before long, Butler was back up 68-56 and the Blue Demons would get no closer than within eight points the rest of the way. “We came out, we battled and found a way to get the ball inside and score some points and try as best we can to defend their multitude of shooters,” DePaul head coach Dave Leitao said. “We had a stretch of three or four bad offensive possessions and they had three or four great offensive possessions which led to open shots and next thing you know we are down 12 again. It was later in the game, we had to do that same thing all over again.” The Blue Demons recovered from that hole in the first half despite battling foul trouble with Paul Reed, Devin Gage and Femi Olujobi all picking up two fouls midway through the first half followed shortly thereafter with Lyrik Shreiner collecting his third foul as he attempted to secure an offensive rebound. Leitao was then forced to bring back Gage after senior guard Eli Cain left limped
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Senior guard Max Strus battles against Butler’s Henry Baddley Saturday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Strus finished with 23 points. off the court following a pass to Olujobi with 9:30 left in the first half. However, he would miss just over two minutes of game action. Despite the first-half struggles, DePaul headed to the break with the momentum after Cain and senior guard
Max Strus knocked down a pair of threes to cut the deficit to three heading into the break. “We cut it down – there was a spurt that I feel like that they maybe got it to 10 – but cutting that down definitely gave
us some momentum going into halftime,” sophomore forward Jaylen Butz said. “Coming out of the halftime was kind of hard for us to keep that momentum so it
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Golf thaws out for spring season with simulator By Shane Rene Managing Editor
Even if you’ve never read Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book “Outliers,” you’ve probably still stumbled across its central message that practice makes perfect — about 10,000 hours of practice, to be more precise. To master any skill, whether it be baking, darts or the saxophone, Gladwell says 10,000 hours of dedicated practice time is the ticket to success. Talent, luck and positive circumstance may lend an advantage to some, but the sacrifice of time and energy to incessantly hone one's craft has no replacement. For those who play a warm-weather sport with a heightened sensitivity to weather conditions in a region still thawing out from a polar vortex, finding just one hour of quality practice time can be difficult. DePaul’s men’s golf team is familiar with that problem. “I think schools from the south and warmer states have an advantage during the spring season,” DePaul head coach Marty Schiene said. Senior Bobby Thomas said the first round of tournaments in early spring can be difficult as the players are still feeling out their distances in a new climate, and notes that almost every school in the Big East shares this cold-weather conundrum. All
10 are situated in cold-weather states, with midwest members like DePaul, Marquette and Butler catching the brunt of January’s polar vortex. “You just get used to [the cold] after a while,” said Carlo Antonio Gatmaytan, who hails from the Philippines. “The first couple months I was here it was pretty hard to adjust.” The solution for any athlete trying to prepare for competition in unsuitable weather is to practice indoors, even if that means modifying aspects of the game. But, while a baseball player can perfect his swing in a long, narrow batting cage, a golfer cannot properly evaluate the state of their game within the same confines. In the 60 feet 6 inches between the pitcher's mound and home plate, a baseball player can see a vast array of pitches to contend with while accurately analyzing the angle off the bat and how hard they are hitting the ball — what happens to the ball beyond the netting is relatively insignificant. When you launch a golf ball 300 yards off a tee and must hit the next shot from where the first one comes to rest, understanding the entire flight of your golf ball is essential — the difference between a great shot and a disaster can boil down to a millimeter difference at impact. That sort of indoor space is hard to come by and leasing an airplane hangar isn’t in the Blue Demons’ budget, so DePaul’s men’s golf
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DePaul golfers Bobby Thomas (left), Grant Boyson (center) and Ronnie Griggs (back) hang out while Carlo Antonio Gatmaytan (mirror) plays Pebble Beach in the simulator. team has turned to a 21st-century solution in the form a high-tech golf simulator. “It’s fantastic,” Schiene said. “It gives us an opportunity to test [our players].” In a nondescript room on the third floor of the O’Connell hall on the Lincoln Park campus, the men’s golf teams have a dream
hangout for any avid Sunday hacker. A large L-shaped sofa sits in the back corner across from a flat-screen TV — likely tuned to the week's PGA Tour coverage — with golf clubs and training aides scattered about. In
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