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Volume #99 | Issue #11 | Jan. 19, 2014 | depauliaonline.com

Fake it ‘til you make it

Lincoln Park residents scrutinize 43rd Ward candidates By Megan Deppen News Editor

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Cases of beer stacked in a cooler at Walgreen’s. Some DePaul students use fake IDs to purchase alcohol or go to bars.

DePaul fosters culture of fake IDs By Jess Villagomez Contributing Writer

It’s a Saturday night and the beginning of another weekend for DePaul University sophomore, Alex, a 19-year-old male student who wished to remain anonymous. Like clockwork, the weekend activities unfold as usual. First, a trip to his favorite liquor convenience store to purchase the much needed alcohol to satisfy both himself and his friends. Though the alcohol is pricier than at other stores, Alex doesn’t mind shelling out a couple of extra bucks. They rarely ask for his ID anymore, given that he is a regular there, going at least once a weekend, sometimes twice, has Alex smade him a regular. tocks up on handles of overpriced liquor that he will later put in the freezer back at his apartment. Bottles of vodka and tequila chill until they are later quickly consumed. Once people begin to pile into his apartment it becomes open season. The suction noise of the freezer doors being opened and closed can be heard amongst giggles and loud music. Plastic cups fill up the already crowded apartment between the groups of students. One small piece of plastic is all that it takes. Alex’s state ID has a hologram on it, and from a quick glance looks like any other ID you might obtain at the DMV. A longer look reveals that the photo is slightly stretched; the plastic is flimsy, almost breakable. The signature looks slanted or misplaced.

The state imprintedon the ID is Michigan. The age, 22. According to an email sent out by DePaul Campus Public Safety Nov. 5, 2014, recent cases of underage drinking and an increase in student misconduct has heightened campus and police efforts to catch students with fake IDs. The email said, “As part of its ongoing efforts to prevent underage drinking this fall, CPD, in conjunction with the Secretary of State Police, are conducting bar sweeps in the Lincoln Park area, aggressively pursuing patrons carrying fake IDs and bars around the DePaul campus that serve underage drinkers as well as businesses, such as convenience stores and liquor stores, selling packaged goods.” According to DePaul Public Safety Director Robert Wachowski, the 2014-15 academic year has already had multiple cases of reckless student conduct attributed to alcohol, as well as an increase in students needing to seek medical help attention for alcohol related injuries. “It’s a safety issue,” Wachowski said., “Just in one Thursday alone in at the beginning of the year there were seven students taken to the hospital.” Though the safety of students is a main concern for Public Safety, their jurisdiction is limited to residence halls and the DePaul campus. However, that does not mean DePaul has little power within its own jurisdiction. Sara and Lindsay, both 19-yearold female DePaul students who preferred to remain anonymous, paid the price for

See FAKE, page 6

Lincoln Park residents crowded the small stage at the St. Vincent DePaul Center last Tuesday for the 43rd Ward alderman debate, just weeks before the city election Feb. 24. Representatives from The Ranch Triangle, Sheffield Neighbors and the Lincoln Central Association hosted the debate, where remaining candidates Jerry Quandt, Jen Kramer, Caroline Vickrey and incumbent Michele Smith discussed property taxes, pensions, development projects and the mayoral election. Ald. Smith, a supporter of Rahm Emanuel, gave development projects in Lincoln Park special attention. The Children’s Memorial development site, where locals have contested the lack of transparency with the project and its intrusion to Lincoln Park, is a “transformational opportunity to change our neighborhood,” Smith said.

See DEBATE, page 4

CTA cracks down on U-Pass misuse

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A CTA U-Pass for college students.

By Rachel Hinton Copy Editor

Officers at the Fullerton ‘L’ stop continued to check U-Passes in an effort to stop fraud that began before the new year. In an email to students, the DePaul U-Pass Team stated their support for the new program and said that misuse of the U-Pass, or use of the card by someone other than the cardholder would result in “confiscation” and “suspension of the students participation” for up to a year. “The U-Pass discount fare program from the CTA is a value for our students, many of whom save hundreds of dollars a year with the card,” Bob McCormick, vice president for Information Services with the DePaul U-Pass Team said.

See UPASS, page 6

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Fr. Holtschneider discusses his time away from DePaul on sabbatical, see page 4.

Despite violence and hatred, the freedom of speech remains powerful, see pages 12.

With the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, what topics are fair game for satirists to use? See pages 14-15.

After a win against St. John’s, the men’s basketball team boasts their most wins in the Big East under head coach Oliver Purnell with a 4-2 record, see back page.

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Four finalists for provost to visit campus By Brenden Moore & Megan Deppen News Editors

DePaul’s Provost Search Committee announced the four finalists f or t he o pen provost position along with their visitation schedules in an email to the DePaul community last Friday. Nancy Brickhouse of the University of Delaware, James Coleman of Virginia Commonwealth University, Marten denBoer of California State Polytechnic University, and Alan Ray of Elmhurst College, beat out more than 100 other applicants to get to this stage. The candidates reviewed by the committee were considered not only by their commitment to the DePaul Vision 2018 plan, but also by their diversity. According to the committee website, the search produced “the strongest and most diverse pool of candidates that we have seen for this position in recent history.” A majority of the candidates were white and male, 71 percent and 73 percent respectively. The final candidates include one woman and one Native-American. According to the website, the committee also omitted sessions from the candidates’ schedules dedicated to diversity issues due to “the tight schedule of the visits.” This concerned some members of the university’s Faculty Council, who agreed at their meeting last week to factor in diversity during their sessions with the candidates. The search committee consists of trustees, faculty, staff, a student, a dean, and representatives from the President’s Office, Aca-

demic Affairs, and Human Resources. As is standard operating procedure, the committee hired an outside search firm to collect potential candidates. The total cost remains confidential, however. DePaul has not had a permanent provost since 2012 when Helmut Epp retired. Donald Pope-Davis was hired in 2013 following another National search, but he left after only six months on the job. In that time, there have been three interim provosts as well as an interim president and an interim dean of the Law School. The provost is the chief academic officer at the university and is immediately responsible for the intellectual life of the institution, including the quality of education, research and service. They are the university’s second in command and work closely with the president and the executive vice president. Faculty on the committee came from the colleges of communication, business, education, and liberal arts and social sciences. Two staff members, from the Center for Students with Disabilities and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, were included, along with Dean Gerald Koocher from the College of Science and Health and SGA President, Matthew Von Nida. Each candidate follows a tight two-day schedule on both campuses to meet with faculty, staff, and students and to answer questions. Students have a total of four hours over the two days to meet and question each candidate. The committee website is open to students to view information about the candidates, the applicant pool, and submit feedback that will be considered in the final decision.

MARTEN denBOER

JAMES COLEMAN

• Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, California State Polytechnic University, Pamona since 2008. • Associate Provost, Queens College of the City University of New York from 2001-2008. • Received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Maryland. • Visiting DePaul Jan. 22-23

• Dean, College of Humanities and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University since July 2011. • Vice Provost for Research, Rice University from 2007-2011. • One of three candidates for provost and VP of academic affairs at Miami University in November 2014. • Received his Ph.D from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. • Visiting DePaul Jan. 26-27

ALAN RAY

NANCY BRICKHOUSE

• President, Elmhurst College since July 2008. • Senior Vice Provost, University of New Hampshire, Durham from 2006-2008. Previously Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (2004-2006). • Various positions at Harvard Law School from 1996-2004, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Finishing term as Elmhurst College President June 30. • Received his Ph.D from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. • Visiting DePaul Jan. 28-29

• Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Science Education, University of Delaware since August 2013. • Served as interim provost at University of Delaware from June 2012 - August 2013. • One of three provost candidates for University of Missouri in November 2014; provost candidate for University of Kentucky in April 2013. • Received her Ph.D in Science Education from Purdue University. • Visiting DePaul Feb. 3-4

MARTEN denBOER MEETING SCHEDULE Thursday, January 22 8-9:30 a.m. 9:45-10:45 a.m. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. 12:15-1:45 p.m. 2-3 p.m. 3:30-5 p.m. Friday, January 23 9-10 a.m. 10-11 a.m. 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1:45-2:45 p.m. 3:30-5 p.m.

Loop Campus Fr. Holtschneider Joint Council Faculty Council 55 E. Jackson, Room 801 (Open to Faculty Council only) Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Leadership Open Campus DePaul Center, Room 8005 Lincoln Park Campus Deans Lincoln Park Campus Tour Faculty Council Student Center, Room 316 (Open to Faculty Council only) Students Student Center, Room 325 Staff Arts & Letters Hall, Room 415 (Open to all staff) Open Campus Arts & Letters Hall, Room 103

JAMES COLEMAN MEETING SCHEDULE Monday, January 26 8-9:30 a.m. 9:45-10:45 a.m. 11 a.m.-12 .pm 12:15-1:45 p.m. 2-3 p.m. 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, January 27 9-10 a.m. 10-11 a.m. 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 12:30-1:30 p.m. 1:45-2:45 p.m. 3:30-5 p.m.

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Fr. Holtschneider talks sabbatical, new contract By Brenden Moore News Editor

DePaul President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M. sat down with The DePaulia last week to discusss his sabbatical and return to the university. Here are exerpts from that interview. The DePaulia: What did you do on your sabbatical? Fr. Holtschneider: I had 48 graduate students, all of them doing their master’s degree in higher education policy, which is my field. And I co-taught that with the head of the program at Harvard, and so she and I just had a great time. DePaul doesn’t teach my field, so if I want to teach my expertise, I have to do it at other universities. Harvard has a great program in that field; it’s where I studied myself. And I teach there every summer, but it was nice to go back and have an entire fall just working with the students and working on those issues. DP: What is you field? FH: It’s government policy in higher education. So that’s why you see pictures of me down in Washington. I go down to Washington with the major higher education associations and work on what government policy should be for you

guys, so that you can get financial aid, so that you can get support services of all different kinds. And I especially do a lot of lobbying down there on Capitol Hill, with senators and representatives asking them to please change policies, especially for students who come from families with need to try and keep those resources up and keep them available because they’re always among the first things in every budget that people are trying to cut. A lot of times success in a year is just keeping what we’ve already got. But I spend a fair bit of time doing that. But it’s actually nice to think about it and teach it. So I was talking to students about how that all works. DP: Did you find time to relax? I heard you were writing a book. Did you finish it? FH: I did. Book is a grand word. It’s a small piece part of a series on boards in universities, and there’s a different book for each committee, and I wrote one of them for the series. So that was done, I sent that out. It’ll be coming out sometime end of spring. But in addition to that, I worked in healthcare on another board I’m on called Accension. That’s the largest private health system in America. And I am chair of that board and we had to redo that board and governance for the entire company.

And so being away from DePaul gave me some time that I could dedicate to that organization. It’s the largest Catholic health system in America, but it’s actually the largest private health system in America. So I wouldn’t have had that kind of time if I had been spending a lot of my time on DePaul things. That worked out nicely. And my sister and I headed to Hawaii for a week. We actually took vacation around Thanksgiving. That was a nice little break in the midst of all it. DP: You mentioned board of trustees a few times. Speaking of that, the DePaul board just extended your contract (through 2019). What are your thoughts on that and what do you hope to accomplish in that extended time span? FH: I’m thrilled. DePaul is one of the great universities in America. It has such a nice culture. It has such committed people, both faculty, and you talked about how committed the students are, to kind of looking at the world and going ‘how can we take all the resources of the university and try to improve the world around us?’ It’s both fun and it’s really satisfying to work here, to wake up in the morning and say ‘ok, I’m going to work really hard’, but it’s really worth it. I consider myself very fortunate to have been given an opportunity to work here back in 2004.

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Rev. Dennis Holtschneider has resumed his responsibities as president after returning from has quarter-long sabbatical. And then to be allowed to stay longer. The average length of a college president in American is somewhere between five and six years. So I’m very fortunate to have this sort of length of involvement at DePaul.

DEBATE continued from front page According to the Chicago Monitor, the plaintiffs against the project argued the plans violated zoning rules by building structures too tall for Lincoln Park. The plaintiffs for the case included the Park West Community Association and the Mid-North Association, of whom candidate Caroline Vickrey is a board member. “We worked with an open, transparent, thorough process,” Smith said. “The only thing holding up (the development) is this lawsuit.” The DePaulia recently reported the lawsuit has been dropped, and plans to develop the site have continued. “If we resort to a lawsuit every time we don’t get what we want, then we won’t get very far in a democracy,” Smith said. Vickrey marketed her idea to create a community board, comprised of eight neighborhood groups, a representative from the chamber of commerce, a zoning expert, and an architect to “(outline) a master plan for ward.” The board would, “proactively set up guidelines and goals that we want for our ward as residents,” Vickrey said. The debate drew attention to residents’ concern for overdevelopment, who some said would diminish the character of Lincoln Park. “We love the historic preservation of (Lincoln Park’s) buildings and the way the ward feels and looks,” Jen Kramer, the former event coordinator for Navy Pier, said. “When a developer is looking to build, it is important that the people most affected be communicated with before (the plan) even comes to the alderman.” Candidates also pitched their ideas for the development of the A. Finkl & Co. property that sits on the north branch of the Chicago River between Clybourn and Ashland avenues. “You betcha we’re going to have a lot to say about it, it’s right in our backyard,” Smith said. Demolition of the 112-year-old steel factory will leave 40 acres (almost seven

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The four candidates for 43rd Ward alderman (from left to right) Jerry Quandt, Caroline Vickrey, incumbnt Michele Smith, and Jen Kramer, discussed issues ranging from neighborhood develepment to where they stood on Mayor Rahm Emanuel. times the size of Children Memorial’s six acres) open to developers, a Crain’s Chicago Business report said. Smith called the Finkl property “one of the most important development opportunities in Chicago,” but did not specify what would occupy the space. “We don’t need another strip mall,” Smith said. Smith, Vickery and Kramer vaguely supported revamping the river and installing green spaces around it. Residential development, however, would only make the congested area more chaotic, DePaul alumnus and businessman Jerry Quandt said. Emphasizing his experience in brandredevelopment and global business, Quandt supported the preservation of a manufacturing district on the Finkl site. “I can see what’s happening in the world of micro-craft manufacturing,” Quandt said. The Finkl property, Quandt said, would provide a hub for a “new age” of manufacturing jobs. “Spirits, 3D-printing, boutique food prep — all these businesses could spark

life into Chicago’s economy,” Quandt said. Residents questioned Quandt’s experience however, contrasting his four year’s residency in Lincoln Park compared with Vickery’s positions in neighborhood associations and Kramer’s employment by the city of Chicago. “I’m no stranger to hard work. I had a 24-hour pager when I worked for City Hall,” Kramer said. Kramer insisted that her position with the city of Chicago would not give her an unfair advantage in the race, addressing concerns of Chicagoans who are all too familiar with the infamous workings of the “Chicago machine,” benefiting those loyal to party politics with promotions and pay raises. Residents took notes throughout the debate and even called out retorts to candidates when they avoided answering questions. When asked about raised property taxes, a strategy to generate revenue for pensions, and that many officials are reluctant to support, Quandt claimed only that the pension system was of vital importance and would be addressed.

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Incumbent Ald. Michele Smith answered many questions regarding decisions she has made since being elected in 2011. “So what’s your answer to the question?” a resident called out. Based on the atmosphere of the debate and with the election only weeks away, candidates will have to brace themselves for the scrutiny of residents and influential North Side neighborhood associations.

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Field of Dreams City scrambles to rescue troubled Obama Library bids that could bring hope and change to blighted Chicago neighborhoods By Brenden Moore News Editor

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Fields of concrete and weeds surround the Garfield Green Line stop in the Washington Park neighborhood on the city’s South Side. Much of the land, either owned by the city of Chicago or University of Chicago, is part of one of the proposals in the university’s bid to host the Obama Presidential Library.

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The proposed Obama library site backs up to the Garfield Green Line stop. Public transit has been a key component of all the library bids.

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The city’s efforts to secure the Obama Presidential Library have accelerated over the last couple of weeks, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling for community hearings ahead of the possible acquisition of parkland in either Washington or Jackson parks for the president’s legacy institution. The latest push comes after members of The Barack Obama Foundation leaked that Chicago’s two bids, one from the University of Illinois at Chicago on the city’s West Side and the other from the University of Chicago on the South Side, were in jeopardy. The foundation was concerned by the turnover of leadership at UIC, considered a longshot, while they were concerned by U of C.’s lack of ownership of the land it proposed for the library. While UIC put the leadership issue to rest by issuing a strong statement from the current and future leadership teams, U of C., once considered the frontrunner for the library, now finds itself in a real dilemma as it has no way of acquiring the land on its own. The university, where Obama taught constitutional law, kept the many key details of their bid secret until a few weeks ago, when it finally came out that parkland would be a part of any U of C. library bid. “You might say that in the case of the University of Chicago people who were responsible for this, they didn’t realize the significance of the land acquisition matter,” said Larry Bennett, a professor of public policy at DePaul. “And I would say that’s pretty stupid if you didn’t realize that.” “The other possibility is that the University of Chicago has been so able to manipulate local land use in the area around its campus for so many years that that was kind of an afterthought for them,” he said. “They assumed that, well, if it looks like we’re pretty close to being picked, we can assemble this land and we’ll just do it.” At issue is either 22 acres in Washington Park or 21 acres in Jackson Park. Emanuel threw out a third site, near the South Shore Cultural Center along the lake, as it would have most likely invited a lawsuit and significant controversy. The mayor has taken control of the process and scheduled community meetings in both communities to discuss the possible acquisition of park land by the city. The meetings made it apparent that the community wants the library.

To go along with that, last week, more than 40 politicians and community leaders on the South Side urged the mayor to do whatever it takes to secure the library. Not all are so eager, however. Friends of the Park, an organization that advocates for the city’s parks, sent a letter to the president and first lady urging them not to choose a site that would take away parkland. “In support of Chicago’s two university bids, we hope you will select Chicago as the home of the Obama Presidential Library, but that you reject the concept of a campus setting in an existing and instead use placement of your library as the model for good urban community development without eroding parkland,” the organization wrote in its letter. The organization supports either using non-parkland that the university owns west of Washington Park or UIC’s West Side bid, which is currently vacant property. And according to Bennett, the West Side site may be more beneficial than either of the South Side sites. “My sense is that from a community development standpoint, the UIC bid is better, that it is proposing to put the library in a section of the West Side that could really use some sort of institutional anchor like that and in the case of the Obama Library, you could probably fit it into Jackson Park or Washington Park, but you’ve already got the University of Chicago there,” Bennett said. The West Side site proposes for the library to be placed in the North Lawndale community, one of the poorest in the city. While Emanuel has helped that bid by making the city-owned land it would sit on available and by pledging to reopen the Kostner Blue Line stop among other infrastructural improvements, the mayor has previously stated his desire for the library to be located on the South Side. For the city to secure the land for the South Side sites, it will require a vote by both the City Council and the Chicago Park District. Other competitors for the library include Columbia University in New York, where the president finished his undergraduate degree, and Hawaii, were he was born. Both bids have land lined up for their respective bids. Wherever the library is placed, the impact on the community will likely be evident. “It would be a prized institution in any of the neighborhoods mentioned, and it would also force the hand of the city and the CTA to do some things in terms of improving

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Both of the University of Chicago’s bids would include parkland. This has invited controversy from Friends of the Park and mayoral candidates alike, but the bid still has overall communtiy support. basic public services and transit access, which would also be good for those communities,” Bennett said. Should U of C get the library, it has pledged to collaborate with area institutions, including DePaul. “They wanted to create a presidential library that is more than just a place to hold the president’s papers and for researchers,” said DePaul President Rev. Dennis

Holtschneider, C.M. “They actually wanted to rethink the idea of a presidential library as a convening place where lots of the world’s, and especially the city’s, issues could be worked on. It’s more than just a library. It’s a center of galvanizing thought and action.” Holtschneider said that there are several existing projects that the university would like to work on at the library should it go to U of C.

“I like the conceptualization of what their library can be and do. I like that instead of inventing everything themselves, they partnered with good work already happening and said ‘How can we pull it together,” he said. “But right now, the heart of what they’re worried about is can they get the land.” The Obamas are expected to choose the winner early this year.

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People brace the cold to enjoy a sunny day in Lincoln Park. The first few weeks of the new year have been marked by subzero windchills and and the return of “Chiberia.”

FAKE continued from front page being caught with fake IDs while on campus. Early into their freshmen year, Sara and Lindsay were encouraged by fellow floor mates to enter into a group deal for fake IDs. “A girl down the hall was ordering them off a website and was like, ‘Give me money, we’ll take a picture and you’ll get an ID in a couple of weeks,’” Sara said. “Winter break went by, and we figured we had gotten scammed. The next thing we knew, we received emails telling us we were being reviewed for judicial review,” Sara said. Both girls were among 20 other students who received two years of probation with the discovery of the fake IDs. In Illinois, using, obtaining or distributing fake IDs is illegal. According to dontbesorry.org, an organization committed to educating underage students on the penalties of having a fake ID, penalties include, but are not limited to revoked driving privileges, hefty fines and even possible jail time. Using a fraudulent ID is classified as a Class 4 felony and can carry a sentence of between one to three years, or probation coupled with fines up to $25,000. So, why do students get a fake ID when the consequences are potentially lifechanging? Though DePaul’s location in the heart of Chicago introduces students to attending and living at a school in an urban setting, entertainment options, such as going to bars or concerts, are limited to those under 21. This has created a fake ID culture at DePaul. As a result, many students think a fake is the only way to experience college life in the city. Despite the possible legal consequences, finding “a guy” who will mass produce fake IDs is easy. Finding students willing to shell out $80 to $100 for one is even easier. Students today are wiser, quicker and have found loopholes in the system designed to catch them in the act. In other

words, for Alex, the party goes on. According to Alex, he purchased his fake ID at the start of his freshman year with a group of floor mates. If more students went in on the deal, the price of the IDs would have been cheaper. “One of my friends had a connection with a guy and she had the number for him, but I was kind of worried. I didn’t want to meet up with a random stranger to get a fake ID,” Alex said. They purchased their IDs in a deal with each costing $80. Since then, Alex has used his fake ID to get into bars around Lincoln Park, including Bar Forza located at 2476 N. Lincoln Ave. “Bar Forza is definitely an underage bar,” he said. “During my freshman year, you couldn’t go a weekend without running into a bunch of freshmen there.” According to Alex, Bar Forza was one of the bars that accepted fake IDs, often not even carding female students. Now that he is no longer living in the residential halls, Alex mostly uses his fake ID to buy alcohol for himself and his friends. To avoid getting caught with his fake ID, Alex takes precautionary measures. “I would never use it downtown, near campus or at a grocery store,” he said. He avoids places too near or far from campus. He has yet to stray far after establishing his loyalty at his current liquor store. According to 20-year-old DePaul sophomore, Jake, a male student who preferred to remain anonymous, felonies are rare when being caught with a fake ID. Often the most common punishment is simply getting it taken away. “Most people don’t want to give college kids felonies. They would rather take it so you can’t use it, and they won’t be liable,” Jake said. For 1000 Liquors, a liquor store located at 1000 W. Belmont Ave., just a couple blocks away from DePaul’s Lincoln Park Campus, taking away the fake ID is the solution to decreasing the amount of students with them. According to a 1000 Liquors employee who wished to remain anonymous, their

procedure dictated that they typically take away and dispose of the IDs. “We know it’s fake. We take it and discharge it. I can’t give it back. Kids will try to bribe us to give it back to them, but usually when we confiscate it, and they complain, it’s like, ‘We can either keep it or call the police.’ Then they just leave,” he said. According to the liquor store employee, 1000 Liquors typically sees about five to six students with fake IDs each weekend. A few of those cases cause them to call the police or take stronger legal measures. Because of liquor stores and bars confiscating the fake IDs and calling it a solution, some students think that it is not enough to stop the use of fake IDs and underage drinking. A law is only as powerful as its enforcement, and according to Alex, the enforcement is not effective in stopping him. “If I got my ID taken away, I would immediately get another one. I don’t really see trying to crack down on the IDs as important as they make it,” he said. According to Alex, if DePaul wanted to limit the amount of students using fake IDs to buy alcohol, harsh punishments would not be the solution. Though bar raids and strict enforcement cracks downs on students with fake IDs are ongoing, there is a way around them. “On the social media app Yik Yak, people will post what bars are getting raided,” Alex said. “If you don’t have one or get it taken away, I don’t think that it affects you socially, because you likely have a friend who has one and will buy alcohol for you,” he said. For the underage students, DePaul’s strict punishment for students caught with fake IDs has created a “just don’t get caught” mentality, causing more caution with use rather than a decline in use. “DePaul definitely knows that people have fakes,” Alex said. “Freshman year is the prime time. You get the pool together, and pay $80 for some IDs. Everyone has a fake, and if they don’t, they know someone close to them that does.”

UPASS continued from front page “We understand the economic realities, but, according to the terms of use, if someone other than the eligible cardholder is using the U-Pass, the card will be confiscated.” While students understand the importance of reducing fraud, and stopping the use of stolen cards, the use of U-Passes between friends is an entirely different matter, one that the new policy is also eradicating. While a lost or stolen U-Pass should be reported, the issue does not directly confront the issue of sharing U-Passes which, while violating the terms of use, does not seem like such a pressing issue to students. “I think it’s fine if you’re letting your friends use them,” said Amanda Leichliter, who said the new policy has made her late for class on a few occasions. “I think there are other problems they should consider instead of just trying to make money.” Those who have had their cards stolen in the past say that reporting the card as stolen to Ventra and ID services, and trying to get the problem figured out, was a headache. According to Gabi Marsh, who is currently going through the process of getting a new U-Pass and calls the U-Pass checks “unneccesasary,” she is being sent back and forth between Ventra’s customer services and ID services. “Having to deal with them is frustrating and they both need to communicate better,” Leichliter said. “Going back and forth between the two offices is aggravating.” U-Pass checks will continue at the Fullerton stop, but those whose cards are stolen or lost are encouraged to quickly report to the ID-Card office to assist against fraud protection, according to McCormick.

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DePaul ranked in lower-tier of schools in sexual health resources By Anne Malina Contributing Editor

The grades are in and DePaul has flunked yet another exam. A Trojan Sexual Health Report Card exam, that is. The Report Card is a yearly ranking of campus sexual health resources in universities nationwide. The categories that were studied include, but are not limited to: contraception availability, sexual assault resources, educative outreach and STD/STI testing. Although DePaul’s Sexual Health and Violence Prevention Specialist Rima Shah was skeptical of the means used to gather these rankings, it is notable that out of the 140 universities that Trojan investigated in all 50 states, DePaul was ranked 113. Shah said that in order to comprehend the reliability of Trojan’s research, one needs “a far more in-depth understanding of what methods were used to compile their lists.” Nonetheless, sexual health and education are significant issues for young people in America, and not just on college campuses. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 50 percent of sexually transmitted diseases diagnosed every year occur in

people between ages 15 and 24. Needless to say, most college students fall into that demographic, and DePaul appears to be particularly lacking in sexual wellness. Students were opinionated on the matter, particularly in regard to what DePaul should do about it. “DePaul should raise more awareness about sexual health,” DePaul freshman Raquel Medina said. “(T)here should be free clinics … and maybe a class that teaches things about (sexual health).” She went on to surmise that perhaps it is DePaul’s religious background that is hindering the spread of sexual education on campus, leading to a greater risk of pregnancy, sexual diseases and infections. DePaul junior Sarah Gonsalves also thought that DePaul’s religious foundation had something to with its low sexual health grade. However, she believes more responsibility should be assigned to the students themselves. “(T)here’s just a lot of young people doing stupid things,” Gonsalves said. “But it’s a Catholic university, so I think a lot of students assume they can’t turn to school resources for help.” However, Gonsalves said that if contraceptives, such as condoms, were more readily available on campus, students might take more initiative to protect their own sexual health.

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Trojan, known for their many brands of condoms, found in their yearly report card that DePaul is ranked 113 out of 140 in providing sexual health resources. When asked, Shah denied that DePaul is sexually unhealthy overall, but she did offer some proposals for how DePaul can improve its sexual wellness that coincided with what Medina had suggested. “Expanding educational programs around sexual health and healthy relationships can go a long way,” Shah said, “I feel such programs are most effective when they are student-driven

and collaborative in nature.” She went on to suggest that anyone with ideas for improving sexual health and education at DePaul, particularly in regardsto sexual health programming initiatives and collaborations, should contact her at rshah46@depaul.edu.

CAMPUS CRIME REPORT : Jan. 7 - Jan. 13 LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS Seton Hall 2 5 1

Clifton-Fullerton Hall

LOOP CAMPUS

Sanctuary Hall

CDM Building 9 10 11 13

DePaul Center 4 3

Student Center Ray Meyer Fitness Center

LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS JAN. 7 1) A possession of cannabis report was filed for a room in

JAN. 12 6) A harassment by electronic means report was filed for a

LOOP CAMPUS

student.

JAN. 7 9) A theft report was filed for a wallet stolen in the DePaul

JAN. 13 7) A possession of marijuana report was filed in Clifton-

10) A criminal trespass to land report was filed for a person

Hall. No drugs were found.

Fullerton Hall. Offender was taken into custody by Chicago police.

JAN. 9 3) A smell of marijuana report was filed for a room in Sanctuary

8) A smell of marijuana report was filed in University Hall. No

JAN. 10 11) A disturbance report was filed for people causing a

Clifton-Fullerton Hall. The offender was taken into custody by Chicago Police.

JAN. 8 2) A smell of marijuana report was filed for a room in Seton

Hall. No drugs were found.

JAN. 10 4) A hit-and-run accident report was filed for a victim hit by a

vehicle by Seminary and Belden avenues. The victim was taken to the hospital.

5) A possession of cannabis report was filed in Seton Hall. Offender was given a ticket by Chicago Police.

drugs were found.

Center. The wallet was taken out of a backpack.

sleeping at a food court table in the DePaul Center.

disturbance in the cafe at DePaul Center. Chicago Police asked them to leave the building.

JAN. 12 12) A theft report was filed for a missing computer in the College of Digitial Media building.

13) A retail theft report was filed for a suspect taking candy bars from a store in the DePaul Center.

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Student creates Super PAC supporting student loan reform By Zoe Krey Opinions Editor

$1.2 trillion. That is the collective borrowed cost of a college education. And with that continually rising cost coupled with a decline in governmental and institutional aid, opportunities in higher education might close for many. But not if Colin Mackintosh has anything to do with it. Mackintosh, a freshman business student at DePaul, is founder and president of a Super PAC dedicated to fighting for the rights of current and former students to have the ability to refinance their federal student loans. The PAC, named Student Debt Reform, came to be after Mackintosh learned about them while taking Catherine May’s PSC 120 course last quarter. “We discussed the role of money in political campaigns and the issues surrounding Super PACs,” May said. “I showed a clip of Stephen Colbert who satirically demonstrated the problems with Super PACs and also formed his own PAC in the 2008 election.” “Colin became intrigued with the idea and asked if he could start a Super PAC. I didn’t know exactly the process, but I did tell him he most likely could form one,” she said. “So I pointed him

to some sources and he followed through. I really admire Colin because very few students actually try to take their knowledge and apply it in the real world.” According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Super PAC is a political action committee that “may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates.” “Our objective currently is to get our name out and to promote our issue,” Mackintosh said. “The PAC as a whole would like to stay as bipartisan as possible by focusing more on alerting and educating people on the importance of this issue and be less on promoting individual candidates.” Student loans have proven to be a loaded topic for those who have amassed a large sum of debt just for pursuing an education. May believes the issue to be extremely relevant for today’s generation. “As we see stagnation in wages over time, the wage to debt ratio is a significant concern to examine for young adults,” she said. “As Senator Elizabeth Warren has stated, the federal government is making millions of dollars in profit off of student loans. Students should be able to reduce

their debt through refinancing at lower rates like homeowners and other corporate actors.” Warren, a liberal senator from Massachusetts, has been an advocate for student loan debt relief. Last year, she and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) co-sponsored a bill that would allow for students to refinance their loans to today’s lower interest rates. However, senate Republicans blocked the bill. Warren and Durbin appeared at a student event in Chicago last October where they discussed the issue of student loans. Warren was fairly blunt in her assessment of the problem. “The United States government, instead of saying that we’re going to invest in your generation, is saying hey listen, if you’re clever enough to be born to a rich family, you’ve got every opportunity. Mom and Dad will write a check and you’re golden. You can make it,” Warren said. “But if you’re not, and you’re somebody who’s got to go out there and work for it, the cost of college is higher, you have to go out and borrow a little money, and there’s an extra tax put on you.” Echoing Warren, Mackintosh believes that providing students with the option to refinance their federal student loans would “be the first step in the right direction

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Freshman Colin Mackintosh started a Super PAC dedicated to pushing for student loan reform. towards making higher education accessible to everyone.” Student Debt Reform will operate in the political arena by accepting donations from any person who is inspired to help support the cause for federal student debt reform. “Unfortunately, if you want to be heard and effect the political agenda, you need to raise money so that the political leaders will listen.” May said. “While the role of money in campaigns is a problem and a corrosive force in our democracy presently, money talks.” People can donate through the PAC’s website using credit or debit cards, PayPal, or by sending a check that includes the required information listed on the website. People can even donate using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Dogecoin. “We feel that accepting cryptocurrency provides an

innovative way for people to better connect with our organization and to stay up to date, especially in this tech savvy era,” Mackintosh said. Explaining the filing process for starting up a Super PAC, Mackintosh said that time and money were key components of the process. “The most time consuming part was just figuring out who I needed to file with, what form I needed to file, what requirements must I meet, how will I be regulated and what legal documents do I have to produce myself,” Mackintosh said. “I probably visited the bank eight times over the course of fall quarter, only to find out I still need to file with “this” organization or create “that” document. On paper, creating a Super PAC is simple, but doing it for the first time is very time consuming.”

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Dining services revamps Lincoln Park dining options By Christian Ianiello Staff Writer

From lobster rolls to apple pie ice cream floats, DePaul’s dining services are constantly adapting to new trends. The transition from fall to winter quarter brought about many dramatic changes to the university’s food service. James Lee, district manager of Chartwell’s and chef for 14 years, helped to explain just how and why DePaul’s dining hall continues to transform. Lee uses many mediums when deciding how to improve food at DePaul. “We do a lot of focus groups and get feedback. For example, once a month, we host a dining with directors where people can come in and talk to us,” Lee said. The Kitchen, which at one point served preset meals, was born after one of Lee’s focus groups. “Students wanted the freedom to pick and choose. So we visited places like Whole Foods and came up with how the kitchen is now,” Lee said. Now, the Kitchen is a selfserve station. Student surveys are another tool Lee uses to step up DePaul’s food game for students. “It was the first year we have actually done online surveys,” Lee said. “Normally we get 200 to 400 responses in our past face-

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Students sample the new dining options in the refurbished DePaul Lincoln Park Student Center. Both the food and the atmosphere change based on the latest trends.

The grocery store, ETC, in the DePaul Student Center has a new look, featuring DePaul artwork and a new layout. Snack options cater to students’ sweet tooth and healthy cravings.

to face-surveys. But going online we got 12,000 responses. It was insane.” Sustainability, health and wellness were at the top of students’ lists, and Lee took action to meet those needs. Last fall, LP burger teamed up with a local meat co-op, which pushes sustainable farming and supports local farmers. The dining hall also has more healthy varieties in the salad bar, such as spinach and quinoa salads. However, despite their low nutritional value, the unhealthy foods are still here to stay.

interesting. I think it was kind of far fetched and that’s why it lasted like a week,” Utter said. “We did the Harbor Side lobster for four weeks and it just never took off, so we scratched the idea on Thursday and by Monday we opened it up with that big dessert bar,” Lee said. Although the lobster was not a hit for most, the dessert bar seemed to be the opposite. “I thought that was really fun and would like to see that become stable,” Richie Roesner, DePaul sophomore, said. Whether one loves the

“We will always have traditional favorites like the chicken tenders, but we are going to keep pushing health and wellness,” Lee said. With about 7,000-meal plan swipes per day, DePaul students are quite aware of food changes. Freshman Ben Utter noticed one of the many changing seasons of “Seasons”, the restaurant that changes themes most often. Previous themes have included an Asian stir fry, a barbeque joint, and a dessert stand. “The week they had lobsters and shrimp was kind of

changing food or hates it, it is up to students to voice their opinions, according to Lee. “It is your voices that dictate what we are going to do. Two years ago, students were asking about sushi and we finally found the right company,” he said. Lee even hinted at some more exciting transformations coming to DePaul in the upcoming quarters involving Blue Demon Burger contests and mobile ordering. “It never stops changing, but that’s what keeps it exciting, keeps it fun,” he said.

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Nation &World

No forgiveness granted Muslims face tradition of backlash for extremism

By Kevin Gross Nation & World Editor

After the horrific terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo office and other sites in Paris, millions around the world united to demonstrate solidarity for those 17 people who died in the attacks, as well as to express appreciation for free speech. Lost among the chaos of such solidarity, however, was the acknowledgment of the many Muslims who faced backlash in the aftermath of the al-Qaida-tied attack. The Union of Islamic Organizations in France claimed there had been more than 50 anti-Muslim attacks in France since the terror incidents, including assaults on French Mosques with firebombs and grenades. Countless other instances of taunting and threats have also occurred since the attacks. “It often feels necessary for a nation to chase its identity in the face of a disaster, and part of that unfortunately all too often involves backlash against those who get lumped together with the perpetrators,” Amina McCloud, a DePaul Islamic studies professor, said. Backlash against Muslim and Arab citizens is, in fact, nothing new or shocking to the Western world. In the United States, there had been numerous attacks on Arabs or “Arab look-alikes” following the 9/11 attacks, with Human Rights Watch reporting a 1,700 percent increase in American hate crimes in the year following that tragedy. Texan Mark Stroman was convicted of murdering a Pakistani and Indian in the days following 9/11, as well as for blinding a third man who was Bangladeshi. “I did what every American wanted to do after Sept. 11 but didn’t have the nerve,” Stroman said after his arrest. Rhetoric against Muslims in other nations has also risen in the wake of the international focus on terrorism; U.K. publication The Independent reported that about half of Britain’s Mosques have been attacked since 9/11. “As a young 20-something Muslim woman, I’ve realized that we’re the generation that has to constantly apologize for 9/11, even though we were children when the event happened,” Ainee Fatima, a DePaul senior and Muslim studies student, said. “People ask us, ‘why don’t you speak out about (extremism)?’ Open your eyes and ears. Many of us are speaking up.” Many critics of Islam claim that the religion is predisposed against free speech and criticism of their prophet; that it naturally incites violence and extremism through the idea of Jihad; or that Muslim principles are incompatible with Western ways of life. While discussing Islam, television figurehead Bill Maher said, “When there’s this many bad apples, there’s something wrong with the orchard.” However, all too often it is forgotten that the global Muslim population is non-homogenous and remains as diverse as any other religious population, with practitioners varying both in their interpretation of Muslim texts and, perhaps more importantly, in their approval of Muslim extremism. “Remember, in some ways the KKK and Nazi ideologies were rooted in Christian belief,” McCloud said. “But they were never considered to be part of mainstream Christianity. Part of the problem of Western

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French Muslims walk past anti-Muslim graffiti painted on a Mosque in Saint-Etienne, France. cultures is the tendency to lump unfamiliar cultures together.” For instance, in the recent Paris attacks Muslim Parisian Lassana Bathily bravely faced danger as he hid potential hostages in the walk-in freezer of a Kosher grocery store that was attacked, then went upstairs alone to speak with the gunman. When French authorities later stormed the premises of the store, they mistook Bathily for one of the attackers and held him for an hour-and-a-half, according to French media outlet BFMTV. Other instances of Muslim bravery against extremism have been numerous. One of the policemen who was fatally shot in the Charlie Hebdo attack was Ahmed Merabet, a 42-year-old Muslim. Yet Muslims have consistently faced Islamophobia and unequal social footing as a result of the aforementioned cultural lumping. “People in France have all come out for freedom of speech, yet they continue to publicly ban Muslim headwear (referring to laws banning the wearing of hijab head scarves in certain public areas, as well as the full public ban of niqab and burqa veils). It’s hypocrisy,” Fatima said. Amid the aftermath of the French attacks, Charlie Hebdo restarted its publication, with the first print edition featuring a cover cartoon with the prophet Muhammad holding a “Je suis Charlie” placard and shedding a tear. Above the cartoon a caption read “all is forgiven.” Laurent Joffrin, editor of the French newspaper Liberation, told The Independent, “Muhammad is there but presented in a positive way, with a hint of tenderness. Some people expected a provocative front page … Instead, we have a model of political intelligence.” With backlash against Muslims continuing in France and elsewhere, the world’s Muslim population can only wait and see whether others will give them a hand of acceptance in the future.

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The grave of Ahmed Merabet, a Muslim policeman slain in the Charlie Hebdo attack.

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‘Two years free’

The economic ramifications of the community college tuition proposal By Kevin Gross Nation & World Editor

High schoolers, adult learners and school administrators sighed in relief as the Obama administration proposed a plan on Jan. 8 to make two-year community colleges free for many Americans. The plan — referred to as America’s College Promise — is supposedly oriented toward people who are “serious” about attaining a degree or professional license. It would provide tuition funds for students meeting certain criteria, such as attending classes at least half time with a 2.5 GPA, and the administration estimated that an average full-time community college student would save about $3,800 in tuition per year. “This isn’t a blank check. It’s not a free lunch,” Obama said when announcing the plan. “But for those who are willing to do the work … it can be a game-changer.” Inside Higher Ed reported that students would receive such funds up front, meaning that recipients from this program could presumably still receive aid from other sources such as Federal Pell Grants and use that additional aid for textbooks, living expenses or other costs. Importantly, however, many of the other details have yet to be fleshed out. The White House predicts that 75 percent of the

Without the implementation of the proposal, federal funding for community colleges remains relatively low.

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The proposal for federally funded community college tuition is partially based off of a similar plan implemented in Tennessee. program — which would carry a $60 billion price tag over 10 years — would need to be funded by the federal government, with states picking up the additional onus of funding. This would naturally require Congressional and states’ approval for the plan to become a reality, as the LA Times reported that it is infeasible for the plan to operate solely through executive action. “I would guess that some states would not participate,” William Sander, a professor of economics and educational policy, said when discussing the possibility of a shortfall for some students. “(Additionally), the chances that this particular Congress will approve it are low.” Yet, there remains some hope

2014 found to be hottest year on record

that community college is an issue that the Democratic White House and its opponents can agree on. The nationwide plan is partially based on a community college system already implemented by Republican Tennessee governor Bill Haslam. Additionally, the state’s two Republican senators traveled with Obama as he pitched the plan at various locales, in what is possibly a gesture of bipartisan cooperation. The implications of this policy extend beyond the community college realm. Some economists compare the current student debt crisis to the home mortgage bubble leading up to the 2007 recession, in the sense that inflated tuition prices encourage large amounts of borrowers to take on

risky loans, which are often passed on by lenders to other interests in order to minimize their risk. This hurts not just student borrowers; it can create economywide harm in the sense that debt investors lose wealth, and home and car markets are harmed by debtor’s inability to take on mortgage risks and investments. However, Sander described the possibility that, “More students might take more of their coursework at community colleges where it is cheaper, (putting) downward pressure on tuition at four-year schools.” In essence, newfound competition from community colleges would force standard colleges to rethink the unconditional rise of prices. There is also the hope that the policy could address the United States’ lagging educational capacity in the international world. “The problem is that not enough young adults are going to college,” Sander said. “The

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Community college to offer fracking degree ROBINSON, Ill.

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For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that in 2014 the world had its hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. Earlier, the Japanese weather agency and an independent group out of University of California Berkeley also measured 2014 as the hottest on record. NOAA said 2014 averaged 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.24 degrees above the 20th-century average. But NASA, which calculates temperatures slightly differently, put 2014’s average temperature at 58.42 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1.22 degrees above the average of the years 1951-1980. Earth broke NOAA records set in 2010 and 2005. The last time the Earth set an annual NOAA record for cold was in 1911. NOAA also said last month was the hottest December on record. Six months in 2014 set marks for heat. The last time Earth set a monthly cold record was in December 1916. “The globe is warmer now than it has been in the last 100 years and more likely in at least 5,000 years,” said climate scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, who wasn’t part of either research team. “Any wisps of doubt that human activities are at fault are now gone with the wind.” Texas A&M University climate scientist Andrew Dessler and other experts said

U.S. used to lead the world in this statistic. Now, there are many countries that have higher rates of college attendance and completion.” There is worry that this educational discrepancy could lead the United States to lose even more jobs to international competition. In addition to the well-documented phenomenon of American de-industrialization, Maxaur business consulting predicts that the outsourcing of white-collar service jobs could be a $25 billion market by the end of 2015, up from the $7 billion worth of such outsourced jobs in 2003. It remains unclear whether the proposal would ever be successfully implemented or effectively address such concerns, but community college students around the nation will surely be observing the political process in the following months to see whether such promises of tuition relief ever become reality.

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Most scientists have little doubt that human activity contributes to climate change. the latest statistics should end claims by non-scientists that warming has stopped. It didn’t, as climate denial sites still touted claims that the world has not warmed in 18 years. 2014’s heat was driven by record warmth in the world’s oceans that didn't just break old marks: It shattered them. Record warmth spread across far eastern Russia, the western part of the United States, interior South America, much of Europe, northern Africa and parts of Australia. One of the few cooler spots was in the central and eastern United States. “Every continent had some aspect of record high temperatures” in 2014, said Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Nine of the 10 hottest years in NOAA global records have occurred since 2000. The odds of this happening at random are about 650 million to 1, according to

University of South Carolina statistician John Grego. Two other statisticians confirmed his calculations. Climate scientists say one of the most significant parts of 2014’s record is that it happened during a year where there was no El Nino weather oscillation. During an El Nino, when a specific area of the central Pacific warms unusually and influences weather worldwide, global temperatures tend to spike. Previous records, especially in 1998, happened during El Nino years. Every year in the 21st century has been in the top 20 warmest years on record, according to NOAA. Temperatures have risen by about 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the mid-19th century and pre-industrial times, said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where the space agency tracks warming temperatures. — Associated Press

A southeastern Illinois community college plans to offer a petroleum drilling technology degree program this fall that is aimed at preparing graduates for careers in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Illinois signed off on long-awaited rules to govern the high-volume oil and gas drilling process within its borders last year, and Lincoln Trail College President Kathryn Harris said state officials have approved the school’s petition to start offering the associate’s degree. “Fracking is coming to Illinois soon, and that will mean good jobs. This program will help people get skills they need to find jobs in the field,” Harris said. She told WTHI-TV that Lincoln Trail College offered oil education programs about 35 years ago but stopped doing so after enough qualified students graduated. “The idea is that many of the people who are working in the oil fields right now are at retirement age because they were our students 30 years ago and they’re ready to get out, so they need a new work force,” Harris said. The school said the new degree program will focus on horizontal fracking practices and will prepare students for jobs in planning, development and the operation of oil and natural gas extraction and processing facilities. Lincoln Trail College is in Robinson in Crawford County about 40 miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana. — Associated Press

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Opinions Why your New Year’s resolution isn't working By Sharon Lavin Contributing Writer

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People hold up pens and pencils as they stand at a memorial gathering for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in France at Trafalgar Square, London, on Jan. 11.

POWER OF THE PEN Journalists strive to tell the truth in the face of violence, oppression, intolerance and hatred By Kyle Tyrrell Contributing Writer

As a journalism student at DePaul University, primed to graduate in June and get set loose into this chaotic world, I must say I have never been more proud to be a journalist and a DePaul student. The field of journalism and the pedagogy at DePaul are in harmony. The students I have forged relationships with in the classroom are some of the strongest, most ethically pure people I have come across. They are going to make an impact on the world — as many of them, I know, have global aspirations. With the public executions of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and then the brutal massacre at Charlie Hebdo, which splintered off into other murders across France, I’d venture to say nations are divided on the subject of free expression. It is a difficult subject, because everyone is entitled to their beliefs, even if those beliefs are laced with hate and intolerance. But journalists have a knack for flying in the face of intolerance and hatred. That’s why they go to epicenters of violence and war to synthesize the stories that need to be told. It’s a violent time for journalists across the globe. The ones who came before us, they faced dictators, rapists, criminals and terrorists. They risked their lives and their freedom for a chance to expose the hideous people of this earth for what they truly are. Journalists find stories that need telling: avenues that are secretly closed by blockades of government oppression; private businesses that are not held accountable, exploitations of labor among people who have no voice, immigrants bought and sold like commodities, women beaten by savage men, government funds that are mysteriously sucked up and systemically rooted poverty-to-prison cycles; all of these, and more, are pried open by journalists who stop at nothing.

Journalists have taken down presidents and global corporations, and will continue to, so long as they try to get away with iniquities and lies. Journalists carry with them the most powerful machine of all: the truth. But this is also true of my classmates and the values taught at DePaul. We take a deep investigation into the humanities at DePaul, and because of that we have a student body open to all forms of demonstrations, religions, sexualities and behavior. Sometimes there are silent demonstrations outside the Schmitt Academic Center. Sometimes banners stream from overhangs and are immediately taken down. It’s meant to discomfort. If it is discomforting, you had better investigate that discomfort for yourself. What is it in you that is angered? I have found so many DePaul students, in majors across the spectrum, who seem to strive for the same social justice, and for that, I am proud to be a student here. The rights granted in the First Amendment of the Constitution are really the blueprints for liberated people. We exercise these rights daily. Many DePaul students stand for the right to peaceably assemble. I see it around campus all the time. Whether I agree or disagree with the message, I enjoy the rhetoric, and I need myriad viewpoints shoved in my face so I can understand that I’m not the only one walking this earth. Freedom of speech is one of the most beautiful and liberating clauses ever written. It guarantees more than just basic human rights; it opens the world up to higher consideration, contemplation and challenges old ideas. Right now, free speech rights are abolishing the myopia of anti-gay and anti-women’s rights. Free speech led to the discussion and resolution to abolish slavery and to allow women to vote — to consider the real meaning of “all men are

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This image from a video released by Islamic State militants on Aug. 19, shows journalist James Foley before his killing by Islamic State militants. created equal.” We have a long way to go, but without an open market of free thoughts and rhetoric to challenge archaic thoughts and intolerance, there is no freedom, only blind ignorance. For all the DePaul students bent on changing the world for the better, it’s an honor sharing a university with you, and I hope to live up to the example you set. I hope to be able to live up to the integrity and multilateral thinking you all are beholden to. I hope to challenge people who live in the past with their beliefs. I hope to make people like that extremely uncomfortable. To everyone devoting their lives to changing the world, don’t forget the words of Plato, who wrote in the “Symposium” that love is the thing to which all beauty is directed. What is that love? It’s truth. A previous version of this appeared in the Chicago Tribune.

Earlier this month, people from all around the world made promises to do something good, or to stop doing something bad in hopes of bettering themselves. Resolutions can be made at any point in time, but we find it most convenient to make them when we see a clean slate. This is why about one in three Americans chose the new year to mark the start of a promise to themselves. Forbes noted a mere 8 percent of people have success with keeping their New Year’s resolution. That means that 92 percent of us make a promise to improve upon something in our lives and fail by the end of the year. Why is it that each year we find time to think about a promise to make, yet usually do not keep it? Ben Hallman, of The Huffington Post said, “Change is hard, but for a while we seem to be able to keep it up.” We have a spurt of motivation starting with the new year. We see an opportunity to start fresh and be a new and improved version of ourselves, then are lucky if we keep the momentum going just a few days later. This idea of starting over when the new year arises is unrealistic. We cannot forget to reflect upon the unique struggles and successes that we each have overcome in the last year. While most of us make resolutions that are vague and common, we neglect to think about the specific things we really need to improve on in the coming year. Americans too often make resolutions that sound like wishes instead of goals. We say we want to lose more weight, save money and get a better job. We tend to state what we want but not how to get it. We have all achieved goals in our lives, but they usually don’t arise from our New Year’s wishes. Our goals are achieved through strategic planning and determination. Make a measurable and specific list of the promises you want to make to yourself, but don’t continue to make them on Jan. 1. WebMD commented on the falling out of New Year’s resolutions, stating, “Here’s a New Year’s resolution anyone can keep: Resolve not to make anymore New Year’s resolutions.” Go ahead and keep making the promises to lose weight, save money and get a better job. But make them on a day you see fit for yourself. Take Jan. 1 as a day to reflect on the year passing. Then, when you are ready, make the bold move to make that new promise to yourself. Resolutions don’t need a new year.

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Obama gives it the good ol’ college try By Danielle Harris Copy Editor

President Barack Obama recently unveiled a long overdue plan to provide a free college education to qualified students. The plan, entitled America’s College Promise, pledges to cover tuition costs for those who have a C plus average, attend school at least part time and are working towards credit transferable to a fouryear college. The plan also aims to cover tuition costs for qualified occupational training programs. “Put simply, what I’d like to do is see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it,” Obama said. The president announced his plan Jan. 9 in Knoxville, Tennessee, but most college students would agree that America’s College Promise is long overdue. With the United States owing more in student loans than credit card debt, the current education system is inarguably failing most of its students. “Some students are lucky enough to have parents that can pay for their entire education, but most of us aren’t that fortunate. I chose DePaul partly because I was offered the most in scholarships and grants to go here, and I know I’m not alone in that,” Helen Gustafson, a DePaul sophomore said. If the plan were passed, it would not make the United States the first country to provide free higher education. According to the Washington Post, many European countries, including Germany, Finland and Norway, cover the entire cost of tuition —

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The White House announced a proposal on Jan. 9, that President Barack Obama said would make community college "free for everybody who's is willing to work for it." even for foreign students. The money needs to come from somewhere, however, and the White House said the cost to put Obama’s plan into effect would cost $60 billion. What exactly does America’s College Promise, assuming the plan even makes it past Congress, mean for future generations? While education equality is an admirable goal, the price tag for covering millions of students’ college expenses would be extensive to say the least. The White House estimated that the proposal, if passed, would assist about 9 million students with

an average of $3,800 in savings per student. Many naysayers will point to the hefty cost of Obama’s plan as proof that the proposal is unrealistic. Yet with multiple foreign countries with similar systems in place successfully providing free college, it is difficult to claim the plan as impossible. “You don’t want a society to have those with money to have an education and those without to not, “ Catherine May, a professor in DePaul’s Political Science Department, said. “I haven’t investigated Obama’s plan much, but if it can remedy

that and contribute to political stability I will approve.” “The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps,” a November 2014 study by the Center for American Progress, analyzed the nation’s rising inequality and only further complements Obama’s plan. The study found that “black and Hispanic children, on average, have lower test scores than native-born white children in large part because they are more likely to be raised in poor, lowincome families than are native-born white children.” College degrees traditionally result in higher-paying jobs, and giving lowerincome citizens equal opportunity to earn a diploma would likely shrink the wealth gap that exists in American society. Some will argue that the Obama administration missed a chance to help strictly low-income students who need the help more. After all, why should the country finance higher education for students who can already afford it? But helping students across the board pay for their education does not hurt low-income students. It merely helps students of all backgrounds. Somehow, a plan aiming to give all Americans equal opportunity to receive higher education has already been morphed by some into a negative concept. Isn’t equal opportunity, “for everybody who’s willing to work for it” the American Dream? Regardless of the cost or the politics, paving the way for lower-income citizens to receive a higher education is an excellent proposal. If the Germans, Norwegians and Finns were able to make a free college education into a reality, it is a goal that

Je suis Charlie: the future of free press By Kate Kownacki Contributing Writer

Last week, few people knew of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Now, in the wake of a horrifying attack resulting in 12 fatalities, hysteria has been unleashed, leaving the future of free press up for public debate. According to the BBC, the attack was the “deadliest terror attack in France since 1961 during the Algerian war.” It is suspected that the gunmen were affiliated with the jihadist group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and chose to attack the Charlie Hebdo headquarters after viewing a controversial cartoon mocking the prophet Muhammad. The first edition of Hebdo published since the attack depicts the prophet Muhammad on the cover, holding a sign that reads, “Je suis Charlie,” or “I am Charlie,” the unifying slogan that came about in the wake of the attack. Above, it reads, “All is forgiven.” Hebdo’s resiliency is being called heroic by most, but others think they provoked the attack and deserved the consequences. Anjem Choudary, a radical muslim cleric in London wrote, “Why in this case did the French

government allow the magazine Hebdo to continue to provoke Muslims, thereby placing the sanctity of its citizens at risk?” Calling Hebdo cartoonists provocateurs implies that their murders were justified and that murder is acceptable as long as there are reasons behind it. It is not. In the race to place blame, logic has been set aside indefinitely and has been replaced with religious intolerance and the stifling of free speech. Then, there are people like media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who tweeted “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.” Muslims do not have to apologize on the behalf of a group of jihadist extremists. Nicholas Kristof put it perfectly when he said, “The average Christian had nothing to apologize for when Christian fanatics in the former Yugoslavia engaged in genocide against Muslims.” All major organized religions have inherent flaws, but we must not be so quick to forget that the peaceful outnumber the extreme. Islam is not the only target, or even the most frequent target of Hebdo cartoonists. Organized religion, institutionalized violence

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Attendees hold "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) signs as several hundred people gather in solidarity with victims of two terrorist attacks in Paris on Jan. 10. and human indecency are the intended targets. And as humans, we reserve every right to criticize the ideals we perceive toxic to societal progression. Leftists have often perceived organized religion as a perpetuator of injustice on a mass scale. Labeling a set of ideals as a “religion” offers an unmistakable guise for violence and oppression. This is not to say that Hebdo’s content was not offensive, but ultimately it is harmless comedy directed toward organized religion as a whole. Jon Stewart commented on the

situation and said, “I know very few people go into comedy as an act of courage, namely because it shouldn’t have to be that.” There is a distinct difference between propaganda and satire in this case. The journalists at Hebdo are not representing a government organization, and the intention of their work is in no way meant to incite xenophobia, Islamophobia or any other widespread misunderstanding of values. It is intended to be a pure form of expression, a way to cope with the injustices of the world. The bottom line is this: We

can debate the ethical standing of Hebdo publications, or we can understand that our opponents to freedom are not words and cartoons, but oppression and violence. These journalists did not deserve to die in the name of their craft. Violence is the enemy, not any one religious sect, race or form of artistic expression. In this time of terror and extremism, we must put our differences aside and stand united in the name of freedom and nonviolent expression, stand united in the name of Charlie Hebdo.

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

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THE RIGHT TO JOKE After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, some wonder if satirists shouldn't tackle certain topics By Emily Brandenstein Contributing Writer

To some, satire is lighthearted humor, using comedy to poke fun at politics or recent events. But lately, satire has come under attack, with extremists taking drastic measures to punish satirists for their risqué comedy. The Jan. 7 attack on Parisbased magazine Charlie Hebdo resulted in the death of 12 journalists and cartoonists. The Yemen branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attacks, declaring the act as revenge for what certain Muslims found to be offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Paris attack is one of many recent satires that have sparked an upheaval in the media over the past few months. The satirical movie "The Interview," released in December 2014, sparked controversy for its offensive portrayal of North Korea’s desperate state under Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un.

The movie’s release was delayed after Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer system underwent a cyber attack, allegedly perpetrated by North Korea, in which Sony employees were locked out of their computer network and their personal information, emails and several unreleased movies were leaked online. The pointed satirical humor employed in “The Interview” and Charlie Hebdo have forced the ancient free speech debate to take a drastic turn. The tongue-in-cheek movie and magazine have pushed the issue of freedom of expression into the realm of public and private safety. Amy Roeder, improvisational comedy teacher at Chicago’s Second City, has been dealing with audience response to offensive comedy for 16 years. Roeder said that satire as a delivery system for criticizing religion, culture and politics has recently been under fire with many questioning its ethics. “The messages are speaking

a more pointed truth to power,” she said. “Is satire sometimes disrespectful? Yes. Is it sometimes ham-fisted? Yes. But as a tool, it is valid and will likely always be so.” Roeder said she has experienced the debate that comedians like Seth Rogen — writer, director, and star of The Interview — face when deciding whether or not a joke is offensive in light of particular circumstances. “I remember the discussions we had at the improv theater I worked at in Boston following Sept. 11,” Roeder said. “From the perspective of today, it seems weird to think that people would even consider if humor, theater and laughter were appropriate following Sept. 11, but we honestly didn’t know if our jobs still mattered.” Although satirical humor always seems to shock the public, its usage is not just a recent phenomenon. Jonathon Swift’s 1729 essay, “A Modest Proposal," is one of the earliest and most renowned examples of satirical writings in

the English language. In Swift’s essay, he provides a solution in response to the impoverished, famished state of Ireland during the 18th century. His solution was for the Irish people to eat their young. Swift was not suggesting this as a literal solution to famine, but rather used it as a vehicle to blame the oppressive plantation system that exploited the labor of farmers. Paul Booth, an associate professor of media studies at DePaul, cites “A Modest Proposal” as playing an integral role in the development of satire as a stylistic voice. “The danger with satire is that the best satires are the ones that are hard to identify. ‘A Modest Proposal’ was met with horror when it was first published because people thought it was actually advocating eating children,” Booth said. “People take it at face value when its

true impact is only found in its critical thinking.” The satirical digital news publication, The Onion, founded in 1988, boasts headlines such as, “Report: Only 2% of Internet Worth Sitting Through 15-Second Ad,” “U.S. Government Offers 100 Million Americans Generous Severance Deal To Leave Country” and “Gay Teen Worried He May Be Christian.” In an interview with NPR’s Renee Montagne, The Onion editor Joe Randazzo said that when featuring sensitive stories, writers do their best to not make “jokes about horrible things with no context or no

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WORKS OF HA-HA-ART LENNY BRUCE

"Satire is tragedy plus time.You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it," the controversial comedian said in a routine. Lenny Bruce was a stand-up comedian and satirist, who criticized politics, religion and American morality through his jokes about sex and his consistent use of vulgarity. In 1964, Bruce was convicted on an obscenity charge for saying a profane word during a routine, which he was posthumously pardoned for in 2003 by New York Governor George Pataki. His satirical interviews touched on themes such as patriotism, abortion, drugs and the Ku Klux Klan. In 2004, Comedy Central named Bruce as the third greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

‘BORAT’

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point or no heart.” Before the 1980s gave us The Onion, 1953 offered MAD, a monthly satirical magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines. MAD started as a comic book and transitioned into a satirical publication that covered on 20th-century politics, sports, popular culture and entertainment. A widely recognized MAD cover was published after the 1961 American presidential election. The cover congratulates John F. Kennedy for his presidential win. The bottom of the cover reads “We were with you all the way, Jack!” The cover’s flipside depicts a mirrored presidential congratulation, but offered to Richard Nixon, reading, “We were with you all the way, Dick!” The MAD mascot on the cover waves a Nixon flag and wears a button that reads “I like Dick.” “Religiously and politically charged art has been causing controversy for years,” said animation student Abigail Bokun. She cited the cartoonists who published caricatures that crudely and negatively depicted incoming immigrants coming through Ellis Island between 1892 until 1954 as an example of satire's long history. As a young animator, the brutal murders of cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo were particularly

impactful on Bokun. “In a world that is so bent on making things politically correct, artists who use satire to make fun of politically-charged controversy will have to use their own judgment from now on,” Bokun said. “It shouldn’t have to be like that, and I’m saddened to see that artists feel threatened by the current situation. But I also believe that we as a group of individuals who can create, can also use our creations to bring about peace and happiness in a way that doesn’t throw a religious group or culture under the bus.” The recent response to satire has been violent and aggressive, as in the case of last week’s Charlie Hebdo massacre. Some argue that the benefits of publishing Hebdo’s cartoons must be weighed against the threat that staffs may face from terrorist groups. “(Hebdo’s cartoons) seem to have polarized people into thinking this is either about free speech or respect for religion when I don’t think it’s that simple or that those two things are opposite,” Booth said. “If Hebdo hadn’t been shot, how many people would have actually seen his cartoon? Sixty-thousand? One hundred-thousand? How many have seen it now? Millions, I would bet. If the terrorists wanted to hide the cartoon, then they utterly failed.”

Released in 2006, the movie “Borat” is based on one of Sacha Baron Cohen’s characters from his HBO television show “Ali G in da USAiii.” The film stars Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakh journalist originally traveling throughout America to make a documentary about the country, but then changes his mission to meeting and marrying “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson. In the making of the “documentary,” Cohen interviews Americans who think they are actually talking to a Kazakh journalist and are unaware of Cohen as a comedian. Cohen satirizes aspects of American culture throughout the film, including the right to bear arms. When Sagdiyev is not able to buy a gun because he is not an American citizen, he buys a bear to protect himself on his journey through America.

‘SOUTH PARK’

One of the most popular cartoons on television, “South Park” has satirized almost every aspect of American culture throughout its more than 250 episodes that have aired on Comedy Central. The show follows four main characters — Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick and Eric Cartman — as they journey, literally, everywhere. From space, to heaven, hell and everywhere in between, the characters on the animated show have seen it all. The creators of the show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have satirized it all. Notably, in the 2005 episode “Best Friends Forever” the show satirized the Terri Schiavo case, as Cartman fought Stan and Kyle to get Kenny’s feeding tube removed, only so he could get the PSP Kenny willed to him.

‘THE GREAT DICTATOR’

“The Great Dictator,” released in 1940 and written, produced, directed by and starred Charlie Chaplin in his first all-talking film. Throughout the film, Chaplin satirizes fascism and the axis leaders during World War II. He condemns Hitler, Mussolini, antiSemitism and the Nazi party. As the movie was released during wartime, it was incredibly popular with both American and British audiences. Chaplin mocks Hitler full on as he portrays him with an obnoxious ego, and idiotic villainy in the film.

‘THE COLBERT REPORT’

A spin-off from “The Daily Show,” Stephen Colbert hosted “The Colbert Report” from 2005 to 2014. He played a fictionalized version of himself, based on conservative political pundits such as Bill O'Reilly, and mocked politics while interviewing guests from popular celebrities such as Paul Rudd and Jennifer Lawrence, to political leaders such as Barack Obama and David Miliband. Colbert satirizes politics and political pundits through his outrageous interviews and jokingly all-American viewpoints.

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By Vanessa Bell Contributing Writer

There are three unavoidable challenges in life: bills, hair and company coffee. While there is little that can be done about debt collectors and powdered creamer, people are finding better ways to manage their hair by removing shampoo from their daily routine. The resurfacing trend is called “no’poo,” and it’s not as revolting a double entendre as it sounds. Shampoo is essentially used to help hair grow by cleansing the scalp and removing dirt and dandruff build up. The problem generally comes in when people become a bit too inspired by Herbal Essence commercials and decide to put large amounts of shampoo on the shaft of their hair. The hair shaft is the part of hair that shows and is commonly referred to as the “dead” part of the hair. Though it may be easy to think cleaning it with shampoo often is a no-brainer, it’s actually not all that it’s cracked up to be. Shampoo can cause breakage, shedding and other types of damage, which are all results of chemically over-processed hair. However, the ’no-poo title can be a bit misleading. The method isn’t a decision to completely eliminate shampoo, but rather limit the use of it to about one to two times per week. Bolingbrook hair stylist Ashunti Sims conducted a no’poo experiment on her own hair and said she agrees with trying regimens that eliminate excessive use of shampoo. There are four different types of hair: type 1, 2, 3 and 4. Each one of the hair types is broken down into three sections. Based on a warm water test with a single strand of hair, stylist can determine an entire routine to get a person’s hair exactly how

they want it. Almost none of them include using shampoo daily. “Over about a sixmonth period I went without shampooing my hair,” Sims said. “I found that my hair didn’t feel stripped and appeared to be more moisturized, but not using shampoo left build up on my scalp.” During this time, she often only washed her hair with conditioner. This method is more commonly known as cowashing. Sims has type 4c hair, which means her hair is really fine, but curls up tightly. She said that though people would like to rid themselves of shampoo, this experiment proved one thing: They need it. “The main purpose of shampoo is to cleanse and that’s what [it does],” Sims said. “But the downfall to shampoo is the variability in detergent strength and pH.” She stressed the importance of a person knowing their hair type and reading the back of the shampoo bottle to ensure that they aren’t putting anything in their hair to strip it. She also emphasized this is the very first step in deciding whether to cut back on shampoo. Olivia Smaniotto is a student at DePaul University who, by description, has type 2 hair. “I shampoo about two times a month, I use conditioner about two times a week and that’s it,” Smaniotto said. As a result, her hair is shinier than it was before and “holds styles better.” According to popular hair regimen sites such as Naturally Curly, this is because Smaniotto’s hair type retains moisture. Natural oils are produced by everyone’s sebaceous glands. However, depending on their hair type, it can either hold too much or not enough. Hair types 1 and 2 typically, but not always,

retain more oil than types 3 and 4, resulting in the need to shampoo more frequently. “Sometimes my hair just looks extremely greasy,” Smaniotto said. “I usually just put some powder in it to soak up the oils.” For a person committed to cutting back shampoo with hair like Smaniotto, Naturally Curly recommends she try washing her scalp at least once per week using baking soda and vinegar. The baking soda and vinegar cuts away the buildup without acting as too strong a detergent as found in many shampoos. However, it is imperative that she sticks to her scalp. If too much is applied to the shaft, the hair can become damaged and start to break. But, of course this method isn’t for everyone. Columbia College Chicago student Natalie Andrews said that she’s given no-’poo a whirl, but couldn’t keep it up. “I was extremely selfconscious,” Andrews said, “It’s a long-term commitment.” Andrews’ regimen did include baking soda, but when she decided to stop using everything completely, she eventually felt the need to go back to shampoo because she was being “a baby about it.” As far as the salon is concerned, Sims said she doesn’t see shampoo ever going away because it is still very important. But she does see a reduction in the use of it, as people begin to focus on the importance of conditioner. She also said that it’s best to look into the topic further before diving in. “Don’t just follow the trends, do your research and know your hair,” Sims said. “You have to pay attention to what your hair loves and doesn’t love.”

Find your hair type: 1. Take a couple of strands of your hair and drop them into a bowl of water. 2. Let them sit in the bowl for two to four minutes. 3. Observe your hair. If you hair is floating in the water, you have low porosity. If your hair is sinking, you have high porosity. Low porosity hair has a difficult time retaining moisture. High porosity hair is usually extremely damaged by either heat or chemicals. 4. Compare your strands of hair to the chart below to determine your hair type.

Type 1 This hair is very straight. Over the course of one week, try shampooing once, washing with only conditioner once (co-washing), moisturizing twice and wearing a protective style four times.

Type 2 This hair ranges from loose waves in the shape of an “S” to tight waves that almost appear curly. Over the course of a week, try co-washing twice, style a wash-’n-go bun twice and wear two days at a time.

Type 3 This hair has very well-defined springy curls with a lot of body. Try a sulfatefree shampoo once per week and a leave-in conditioner twice per week. To fight frizz, find a good gel or cream that works best for your hair and use it about three times per week.

Type 4

This hair can range from thin to coarse with a lot of coiled strands, and can be damaged by heat and brush strokes more easily than other type. Try co-washing your hair once per week and deep conditioning once per week. Make sure your hair remains hydrated with your preferred oil once per week. CAROLYN DUFF | THE DEPAULIA

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DePaul alum opens up with hip-hop By Kevin Quin Staff Writer

Pacing down Chicago Avenue on a late Monday evening, I tucked myself underneath a roof extension to avoid the cold drizzle from the light rain shower. Wiping specs of water off my phone’s screen with my thumb, I scrolled down to my email inbox to confirm that I was at the correct address for Classick Studios, one of Chicago’s most popular recording spaces in Humboldt Park. Soon, Dan Kanvis appeared on a bike and greeted me with a warm smile and firm handshake. “I’m so sorry to keep you waiting,” Kanvis said humbly. While trying to get inside the building, we encountered some resistance from the security keypad. After trying several different three-digit passcode combinations, Kanvis successfully unlocked the door and we made our way upstairs to the studio. During that mishap, Kanvis calmly demonstrated resilience and patience — two traits critical to the success of an independent artist. From paying for studio time, booking legitimate shows and promoting his debut album “Windows,” Kanvis has his hand in every aspect. While this could be overwhelming for some artists, the 23-year-old Michigan native has found it rather fulfilling. “I’m pretty much a one-man team,” Kanvis said as we sat at a table in the lobby. “I also have friends who help me out of love and support for what I’m doing. As of late, I’ve been writing video treatments and directing. ” Kanvis first stepped foot in the city’s hip-hop scene by hosting

a monthly showcase called “Heavy Rotation.” During his time at DePaul, he experienced difficulties making connections and booking shows other than battle of the bands style events. Once he turned 21, he decided to throw his own show every Thursday at the Tonic Room, in which he did everything from booking artists to making promotional flyers. Though he ended “Heavy Rotation” to focus on “Windows,” the connections he made proved to be vital. “This album wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t do ‘Heavy Rotation,” Kanvis said. “I was able to meet producers, and some were able to help with the album. It was a lot of work balancing it with a full-time job.” One of the artists Kanvis met through “Heavy Rotation” was Daryn Alexus, another Chicagobased R&B singer. She described collaborating with Kanvis on “Windows” as unique, because both are up and coming artists. “He really believes in artistry as a unit, like working together collectively and supporting each other,” Alexus said. “I love how hands-on he was with the track. He knew exactly what he wanted.” In an effort to keep “Windows” cohesive, Kanvis intentionally limited the number of collaborations. Though the majority of the album was made in studio sessions, consistent communication with producers via email also played a large role. Drawing inspiration from hip-hop contemporaries such as Kanye West and Kid Cudi, Kanvis wanted to bring forth elements of reality intertwined with fantasy on “Windows.”

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DePaul alumnus and hip-hop artist Dan Kanvis at Classick Studios in Humboldt Park. “The artists that I’ve always connected with were ones who weren’t afraid to be vulnerable,” Kanvis said. “‘Don’t Leave Me’ is the most personal song I’ve ever written because I say things about my family. I’m a shy person and introverted, so it’s pretty nerveracking to put it all out there, but it’s part of the release I like.” That same vulnerability shines through on “Windows,” as Kanvis opens up about anxiety for the future and the pursuit of a love interest. Using his own life experiences as inspiration when

writing, Kanvis’ songs give the effect of an audible journal entry. “This whole album is pretty much autobiographical,” Kanvis said. “I tend to keep my writing really secluded. Until ‘Windows,’ I’ve only really started to get in and write with others. It was something I always wanted to do; I just didn’t know enough people.” It’s now midnight and the studio session is coming to an end. Kanvis is listening to the final cut of “That Drag” while seated in the engineering chair, critiquing every sound wave to make

sure what he hears through the headphones is what he imagined in his head. His attention to detail makes for a great sense of selfawareness, which is needed to become a solidified name in the Chicago hip-hop scene. “For the two years I’ve been working on this, there was a period of time I hated everything that I made,” Kanvis said. “This album is about me trying to figure it out. I don’t know exactly what I’m doing yet, but that’s the fun part.”

‘Rose Tattoo’ highlights the heartfelt, heritage By Emma Rubenstein Senior Writer

This season, Shattered Globe Theatre took on Tennessee William’s matchless and beautiful “The Rose Tattoo” and is sure to deliver a treat for each audience who has the privilege of seeing it. Directed by Greg Vinkler, the production is wonderfully crafted, moving and filled to the brim with talented DePaul Theatre School alumni. “The Rose Tattoo” chronicles the lives of an Italian-American family living in Louisiana. Seraphina is a strong and passionate woman whose husband dies as her daughter, Rosa, begins to experience the beauties of love and life simultaneously. “It is very much a mother-daughter struggle,” Daniela Colucci, who plays the role of Rosa, said. “It’s all about love and passion and the struggles of losing love and discovering love. It’s a really beautiful play. It’s very poetic.” Colucci’s excitement to be part of the production lies within the world that the cast and crew have created on stage and the message that the show has to tell its audiences. But it also stems from somewhere very personal. “Half of my family is Italian, and I’ve never gotten to do any type of art or production that has anything to do with my heritage,” she said. “This is my first time working with a bunch of people who are Italian-American. I feel like it has put me

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Drew Schad, Daniela Colucci and Eileen Niccolai in the Shattered Globe Theatre’s production of “The Rose Tattoo,” by Tennessee Williams, directed by Greg Vinkler. in touch with my heritage.” Though the production’s writer is widely known and the show itself has garnered praise and several Tony Awards, it is rare that audiences have the opportunity to experience “The Rose Tattoo.” “It’s an exciting project to be part of because it is a rarely produced piece of the Williams repertoire,” Debra Rodkin,

who portrays a wise and respected woman named Assunta, said. “That in and of itself attracted me to it because it is not something that you get an opportunity to see very often.” Though the show tackles enormous themes, the cast and crew have approached them with poise and gusto. While the production is unafraid to plumb the depths

of despair, it is deeply funny too. “I was amazed at the amount of humor there is in it,” Rodkin said. “There are some falling down on the floor, rolling around, funny kind of moments in this that are just hilarious.” While the members of the cast share varied professional backgrounds, many of them have graduated from the prestigious DePaul Theatre School and have been touched by the lessons that it taught them. “I think that the training I got at DePaul has affected who I am as a rehearsal actor,” cast member Noah Simon said. “I do a lot more script analysis and imagining the world around the play. I probably approach theater a little bit more academically now, and I feel the difference in the characters that I portray. They are richer and have a better understanding of the world they inhabit.” This winter, The Shattered Globe offers an infrequent yet incredible production that is not to be missed. The story that it has to tell is deeply human, and the message that it has to impart is profoundly buoyant. Where there is loss there is always resilience. “Open your hearts and be accepting of what we are going to show you,” Rodkin said. “Allow us in.” “The Rose Tattoo” runs at Theater Wit through Feb. 28.

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Facts and fiction

Historical films tangle truth and fabrications By Pat Mullane Contributing Writer

As we find ourselves in the midst of awards season, movie theaters tend to become increasingly populated by films based on true stories. Serving not only as a popular slice among the academy, but also among ourselves. Films that recount true events capture a thrilling emotion that history books fail to forge. Whether Lawrence is in Arabia, or Lincoln is abolishing slavery, these films don’t stand as PowerPoint presentations on historical events. They’re simply fabricated dramatizations. And lately they haven’t been treated as such. This word “fabrication” has practically been synonymous with biographical and docudramatic films since the birth of cinema. With every year and each release comes a publicly scrutinized debate over the dramatic twisting of history presented on screen. This line between what’s acceptable to twist and what’s not is far from bold. Michael DeAngelis, an associate professor at DePaul in media and cinema studies agreed that the issue was far from black and white. “It’s hard to verify whether a film goes too far. The main goal of the screenwriter is to tell a good story, and plenty of films recreate the story a few steps removed from the truth,” DeAngelis said. “People

have to understand that the truth is not absolute. There are different perspectives. People aren’t solely good or evil; they’re a grayness of both.” Some recent releases have already hit this highlighted discussion. The Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, “Selma,” is currently under fire for its portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson, specifically regarding his role in the civil rights movement. In the film, Johnson, played by Tom Wilkinson, is depicted as being reluctant toward MLK’s planned march from Selma to Montgomery. History says otherwise: Johnson was rather supportive of the entire operation from the start. Mark Schultz, whose story is the subject of “Foxcatcher,” publicly denounced Bennett Miller’s adaptation. Real life Schultz, played by Channing Tatum in the film, served as an aid to the filmmakers throughout the shooting of the movie, yet after the film was released, Schultz took to Twitter to exclaim the film’s numerous discrepancies, mostly concerning his relationship with John DuPont, which a number of critics pointed had homosexual undertones. A number of other acclaimed films have been under similar criticism for their depictions of history. “The Imitation Game,” a film about Alan Turing, an codebreaker for Britain during World War II, received criticisms for

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“Selma” is one film currently being scrutinized by audiences for certain historical inaccuracies, especially its portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson. creating entire fictional characters and alternating the timeline of different events. “American Sniper,” a biopic of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, split viewer’s opinions in half. Considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. history, Kyle, who was deployed to Iraq in 2003, was recorded to have killed 255 people during his six years there. While the film depicts Kyle as an American hero, many have interpreted his real life actions and ideologies toward Iraqis as both racist and psychopathic. These debates could go on routinely and perhaps they will, but the iniquitous attempt to discredit a film’s value due solely upon accuracy is unjustifiable. This argument is not with the veracity of a film; it’s with the perception. “Nobody should see any movie based on a true story expecting the documentary truth,” Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips said in an email. “Sometimes

the fictionalizations hurt, and sometimes they don’t.” “For example, I don’t have a big problem in the case of ‘Selma,’ because the movie has a good, honest soul and it works as effective drama.” Of course, there’s a cloudiness that emerges between the line of fictionalizing too far, and the effects it can have upon the audience’s perception. Films can capsulate our memory a lot stronger than a textbook can, resulting in a misunderstanding of history. “With the Internet and all the resources at our feet, the average person today should be smart enough to understand films aren’t truth for truth,” DeAngelis said. “Although with children it’s a little different.” “There’s an irritation when it comes to children’s films, like say ‘Pocahontas,’ that have some sort of political consensus underneath the basic truth. These kids are

going to take exactly what they get from the film as the honest truth.” Without a doubt, this measure of importance through historical accuracy varies from film to film and person to person. The problem lies far beyond Hollywood, but with us. These re-enactments of historical events and representations of real people’s lives offer a window of the past through the lens of a camera. They do not offer the truth, nor are they obligated to. “As screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner told me, a lot of grief could be avoided if the phrase ‘based on a true story’ was banished,” Phillips said. ‘“Instead, movies inspired by history should start with, ‘This is a fictionalized version of real events.’ Both say essentially the same thing, but the second one puts people on guard a little, which is good.”

MCA celebrates renowned Chicago sculptor By Jordan Sarti Staff Writer

Chicago is celebrating longtime resident and prolific abstract sculptor Richard Hunt this year. In addition to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) exhibition, the Chicago Cultural Center is hosting another survey of his work, on display in its galleries until the end of March. Renowned since he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunt attempts to reconcile opposing concepts in his art. New York’s Museum of Modern Art displayed the first retrospective of his work in 1971, when Hunt was only 35 years old. As one of the United States’ most widely commissioned public works artists, he has completed more than 125 major public commissions around the country, with 35 in Chicago alone. His most recognizable pieces in Chicago are on display at Midway Airport and the State of Illinois Building. He utilizes industrial materials such as bronze and steel to create highly mobile, organic forms, which are monumental, yet appear weightless. Like other

modernist artists, he attempts to access the sublime through distinctly modern forms. For his 80th birthday, the MCA is hosting an exhibition for its DNA series with work spanning the 1950s to the present. The small, first-floor gallery is filled with studies for his famous public works, drawings and smaller welded pieces. A map of Hunt’s public works greets patrons at the gallery’s entrance, calling attention to the huge volume of work he has completed across the East Coast and Midwest especially. The state of Illinois hosts 67 of his pieces. As they enter the gallery, viewers get a sense of the evolution of his style through the decades as he experimented with styles and form. This is especially evident in his drawings. The earliest one, from the 1950s, shows Hunt trying on a cubist style. In later drawings, viewers watch him evolve the more fluid and organic forms he is famous for in his sculptural work. The exhibition includes several of Hunt’s studies for monumental works as well, including one for “We Will,” on display at Randolph Street outside

the Chicago Cultural Center. Smaller studies allow viewers to get a sense of the pieces’ entire compositions in the round. In his work, Hunt explores the relationships between seemingly contradictory qualities, such as weight and lightness, movement and stasis, as well as modern and ancient. In a more recent piece, titled “Persepolis,” Hunt updates the ancient city’s legacy in a distinctly modern way. Alongside the exhibition, the MCA published a video on its website in which Hunt discussed his work. “The angling upwards, the idea of ascendency,” Hunt describes in the video, “The idea man has always had of being able to fly, just a freedom from gravity … there’s been a lot of that in my work over time.” The short film offers a privileged window into Hunt’s private studio. The MCA hosts a talk with Hunt Jan. 29 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and another with Naomi Beckwith, one of the exhibition’s curators, on Tuesday, Feb. 10 from noon to 1 p.m.. The MCA’s exhibition is on display through May 17. The Chicago Cultural Center’s retrospective is on display through March 29.

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Richard Hunt, “Untitled,” c. 1963. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Mark Maremont, Stephen Maremont, and Kate Maremont Stone in memory of Jill Fischer Maremont. © 1963 Richard Hunt. Photo: Nathan Keay, © Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

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Raunchy TV makes family time cringeworthy By Jen DePoorter Contributing Writer

You know the scene. It’s a Sunday night and you’re watching the newest blockbuster with your parents. So far so good — nobody is hogging the popcorn, your mom hasn’t asked “who’s that?” a million times, and your dad is still awake — when suddenly a 12 minute sex scene comes on, and takes all you can to not combust in your seat. 2014 was certainly a raunchy year for television: season two of “Orange is the New Black” launched on Netflix, fans of HBO’s “Girls” saw more of actress Lena Dunham than past seasons and “Game of Thrones” aired a highly controversial rape scene between an incestuous brother and sister. But why do so many teenagers and young adults feel uncomfortable watching these shows with their parents? Alex Messina, a graduate student at DePaul University, said it could be due to our culture’s conservative views on sex — that sex is an act solely performed

behind closed doors and cannot life when the show ends. be viewed as art or a universal “Not many people want to expression of love. admit to their parents that sex is “I think one of the reasons something they think about and why sexual scenes on television possibly partake in,” Messina and movies are sometimes said. “And vice versa, not many awkward for us to watch with older relatives may be interested our parents is because we have in admitting that they’ve done a hard time exactly what acknowledging is being that sex, the done in the Even as we mature act of doing scene they’re and know it’s silly to it and the currently enjoyment that watching be embarrassed, it’s comes from with their hard to shake that it, is relatively embarrassed, uncomfortable feeling. y o u n g e r u n i v e r s a l ,” Messina said. f a m i l y “Even as member.” we mature Caress Alex Messina, and know that Thirus, a DePaul graduate student it’s silly to be second-year embarrassed or graduate fidgety during explicit scenes, it’s student at DePaul, felt more hard to shake that uncomfortable comfortable talking openly to feeling,” she said. “We’ve been her family about topics usually conditioned to think we should deemed unapproachable. be uncomfortable because even “In my experience if people now, sex isn’t talked about as talk about these things with their openly as it should be at a young parents, then those subjects tend age.” to not be as awkward if they’re Another plausible reason for watching it on TV,” Thirus said. feeling mortified is the fear of “It’s all about what your family is being confronted about one’s sex comfortable talking about.”

While scenes of a sexual nature didn’t bother Thirus and her family too much, the degree of violence a show portrayed did play a factor as to whether or not everyone could comfortably watch the show. “One thing we kind of disagree on is if a TV show is too violent,” Thirus said. “My mom hates ‘The Blacklist.’ She doesn’t watch it, and she gets uncomfortable. But my dad and I love it, and it was the same with this TV show ‘Awake.’ It had a lot of psychological, kind of twisted-in-the-head drama, and my mom hated it, but my dad likes it. It’s just a matter of what you’re comfortable with.” Although some may feel embarrassed about watching explicit scenes with their parents, others feel more embarrassed about being caught watching guilty pleasures, such as “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” on Sunday nights. “Every time my mom walks into the living room and sees my sisters and I watching it, she says ‘Why do you guys watch this garbage?’” DePaul alumna Cynthia Rivera said. “She puts

her mom jeans on when she hears them talking about dildos, having sex or posing nude. ‘That’s so trashy,’ she’d say.” Television network HBO has captured and even capitalized on the embarrassment young adults feel when watching these types of shows with parents by releasing a series of ads promoting its HBO Go streaming service. In the ads, teenagers and their out-of-date parents have a series of cringeworthy conversations while watching HBO shows. A mother uses a makeout scene between two women in “Girls” to discuss her daughter’s sexuality. A father talks to his son about all the women he could have had sex with during a scene in “True Blood.” What’s HBO’s solution for avoiding the uncomfortable scenes and awkward talks? Using HBO Go to stream shows on a laptop, tablet or smart phone in the privacy of the bedroom and away from prying parents. Smart move, HBO, smart move.

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An American at Oxford Where the magic lies By Charlotte Pence Contributing Writer

I am not the first person to go abroad. Should you ever choose to do the same, there are times when you will feel a grand connection with all the people who have gone before you. Sometimes this will come from the awareness that yours is the funny accent in the room. You may find it the first time you try the local food that your grandma insisted you seek out. Other times it will be found in the less charming moments of inevitable homesickness and stress. When this happens, you must look out of an airplane window and remind yourself that if there exists all this space above the clouds, there is hope for your muddled mind, too. Wait out the ride and rise above it until the seat belt sign is turned off, and you can move about freely. Returning to Oxford after a full six weeks of break provided a similar situation, and I realized that it is the times in which we are faced with obstacles that we are forced to consider how to get around them. The previous fall term, entitled Michaelmas after the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, consisted of eight weeks of tutorial classes, and yes, many feasts. These tutorials comprised one-on-one sessions between students and tutors whereupon

entering the classroom, the student was required to read their paper out loud while the tutor either listened patiently or interrupted with critiques. I’m not sure which of these responses is more terrifying. This style has led me to read dictionaries in my spare time, hoping that the knowledge will pour over and into me, so that in the next hour-long session I will, at the very least, have an improved vocabulary with which to defend my argument. This style, albeit sometimes grueling and nerve-racking, has helped me in my daily life, too. There is always a better word to use; there is always something hidden that you cannot see. And I have enjoyed the search for it. Michaelmas was inevitably filled with all things academic. Tutorials, lectures and readings by guest poets (to whom I listened while jotting down my own verses) filled my hours as I absorbed it all. After the term ended, however, things started to change around me. Many of the students returned to the states, and I sometimes felt as if I were left standing on the dance floor after the music had stopped. Having lived there for months, Oxford started to lose its enchantment. When this happened, I was able to understand that losing the ability to see the magic around me, wherever I am, is what true

loneliness is. And loneliness is something that most people fear, and so I attempted to understand and challenge its methods. I took the advice of a loved one and began to listen to the tourists on the street rather than shuffle by them. It was they who were seeing the magic for the first time. I wanted that back. So I decided to find it. I moved to a new room in the older buildings of Brasenose College, where the church tower outside my window reminded me daily that I was in rural England. I found a museum dedicated to honoring children’s stories and triple-emailed the employees to ask if I could follow them around for a few months in the name of an internship. I traveled to new cities and spoke new languages. I spent time in pubs and cafes with friends from all over the world, intent on seeing value in every person and every moment. Writing things down as they happen had the effect of making me feel older and wiser than I am. I imagine myself some day telling these events to a niece or nephew, even though they are happening now. While these tales have value, I have learned that they aren’t why I came here. I did not come for the pictures taken, the new words learned or the sentence that would be added to my resume. I came for the moment when I forgot to take a picture because I

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The main street in Oxford, Broad Street, which joins St. Catherine’s College with the City Centre.

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Brasenose College’s Frewin Annexe, where second- and third-year students can choose to live off campus. was standing atop a cliff looking across an ocean in the direction of my homeland, wondering who I would be when I returned. I came for the tiny moments of magic, that, left unsought, are so easy and dangerous to miss.

Charlotte Pence is a DePaul creative writing student, who is studying abroad at the University of Oxford’s St. Catherine’s College for the academic year.

Q&A: ‘Black Sea’ director Kevin Macdonald By Mike Horky Contributing Writer

“Black Sea,” starring Jude Law, comes out Jan. 23. The DePaulia sat down with director Kevin Macdonald, to discuss the themes of his film, and what it was like to film on an actual submarine. The DePaulia: Your previous films delve into the flawed aspects of humanity, and how violence is wired into our DNA. “Black Sea” is certainly no exception to this rule. Why did you choose to make this film, and how were you able to get these aspects out of the story? Kevin Macdonald: One of the things about making films is that you’re always the victim of your own interests. If I tried to make a romantic comedy, it would probably end up very dark and violent; you’re doomed to repeat yourself. Originally, what made me want to do this was it was something different. There’s this story about a cursed Russian submarine, which went down in the year 2000, and almost everyone on board died instantly. But, about 25 people in one compartment survived. They were trapped in the sea about 100 meters down in the Bering Sea, and they slowly ran out of oxygen and eventually didn’t make it to the surface. I had to think who I wanted to be down there. I didn’t want them to be military, I wanted them to be civilians and make it different from most submarine movies. So I thought they’d be down there looking for

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Jude Law stars as Captian Robinson in “Black Sea,” directed by Kevin Macdonald. treasure, and you think, “they’re trapped under the sea, looking for treasure, maybe it gets on board, maybe they start fighting over it,” and it becomes a little test case of how people react under great stress in a confined environment, both the good and the bad. DP: Was it always this slow build in which you realize the animals they’re becoming? KM: It actually wasn’t always like that. Originally in the script, it used to start with an action scene that was right in the middle of the movie. Originally it started in the middle of the story, and then you went back to the beginning to see how they got there.

But I was slightly worried that it would give away too much of where the story was going. With chronology, it’s easier to have tension in regard to where the story’s going to go. DP: What was it was like to film in a real submarine? KM: We filmed in a real Russian submarine that we found coincidentally. Some crazy collector had actually bought the submarine in Russia in 1992 at the end of the Cold War. He kept it floating in this river in London, and on the outside it looks like the one you see in the movie, but the inside was just perfect, in pristine condition like it would actually work.

We spent the first two weeks of shooting there, and the reason why it was the first two weeks was because the actors really got to experience that claustrophobia, and being inside the metal beast. DP: What were some of the biggest obstacles on set? KM: One of the hardest things about making a submarine movie is that you can’t move the actors too much, and you can’t move the camera very much because the spaces are so tiny. Also, it was very hard to film underwater. We did that big sequence, going to get the gold, in a huge tank at a film studio. It is so hard to film in water, you can’t really communicate, people can’t hear you or speak to you, so you tell them things in advance, and they end up doing the wrong thing. We had a really terrible disaster while filming in the tank, we had put a bit of foam in the water to make the ground squishier, and that foam had bromine in it, which reacts with the chlorine in the water and replaces it, making the water almost a fluorescent green color, the whole tank of it. We tried to turn it clear again, with no luck, so we had to empty the tank out and clean the whole place and refill it, which was a huge expense. At that point, Ridley Scott was outside the studio filming “Exodus,” and he had turned his river set all red for the water-to-blood scene. So we would empty all our water into that river at night when no one was around, and it basically disappeared.

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in FILM “American Sniper” Out now

“American Sniper” details the dismembering of bodies and minds in the Iraqi war in the only the way director Clint Eastwood can depict. Bradley Cooper plays Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. history, who becomes hardened, embittered and fractured with each kill he notches over four tours in Fallujah. Addictively, Kyle cannot stay away from war as he finds life at home mundane. Kyle thinks that because of the skill he was given, it is his duty to protect soldiers from atop a perch as they systematically tear apart Fallujah. With grisly scenes of violence and torture lurking around every corner, Kyle and his band of SEALS search Fallujah for a deadly Syrian sniper who has an American body count of his own. Kyle’s wife Taya, played by Sienna Miller, gives an unraveling performance as she slowly loses her husband both physically and psychologically to war. Director Eastwood and co-producer Cooper combine in a performance that fringes on the gore of war and the dark trauma that follows warriors well past their fighting days. “American Sniper” is a must-see for anyone interested in the complexity of war. KYLE TYRRELL | THE DEPAULIA

“Black Sea” Out now

Belle and Sebastian “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance”

The Decemberists “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World”

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The Glasgow indie-pop mainstays latest album pairs a more mainstream, upbeat sound with their usual penchant for quirky, playful lyrics.

After a short hiatus, the seventh studio album from the freak-folk outfit promises introspective, tongue-in-cheek lyrics with their signature roots sound.

A small crew, an old Russian sub, and the promise of treasure. This is the set up for Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, “Black Sea,” starring Jude Law and Scoot McNairy. It might seem like it’s been done before, and it has. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, and “Black Sea” definitely proves to be a promising film, even with its overused tropes. Jude Law plays Captain Robinson, a once-proud submarine operator in modern day England who has recently been laid off. Out of work and abandoned by his estranged wife and child, he spends his days wallowing in sadness. That is until the promise of redemption is brought to his attention in the form of gold at the bottom of the sea. Director Macdonald slowly builds on the growth of these men’s madness, until it comes to a nearly uncomfortable edge between primal violence and calm sanity. The fact that nearly the entire movie takes place in a submarine helps him establish a tone that is increasingly claustrophobic and dismal. Though the formulaic script and a few flat characters hinder the film, “Black Sea” has fine direction, and a nice return to form from Jude Law. MIKE HORKY | THE DEPAULIA

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“Spinning fresh beats since 1581”

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Find this and all our DeJamz playlists on depauliaonline.com and on our spotify account By Kirsten Onsgard Arts & Life Editor

The DePaulia interviewed DePaul men’s basketball players Forrest Robinson and Durrell McDonald to create a playlist of songs that pump them up and soothe their nerves before a big game. 1. The Temptations — “My Girl” Robinson said upbeat and groovy songs such as “My Girl” help him find a zen emotional balance before a big game. “I don’t need to be too amped, and I don’t need to be too low,” he said.

2. Adrian Marcel — “Honey” “It’s smooth,” Robinson said of the R&B singer. “I like to get mellow before the game.” 3. Yung Thug and Rich Homie Quan — “Bullet” “His voice is so annoying, but it makes me laugh,” Robinson said. “It gets me in a good mood because it makes me laugh.” 4. Mac Miller — “Friends” “It’s calm, and the lyrics are beautiful,” McDonald said. “It just helps me relax.”

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5. Ab Soul — “Gods Reign” McDonald said he finds this song’s lyrics inspirational. “It gives me focus, as well,” he said. “That’s what I like about him.” 6. Joe Budden— “Cut from a Different Cloth” For McDonald, “Different Love” is all about the lyrics. “The lyrics just get me motivated,” he said.

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Across 1. Cat’s scratcher 5. “The Wizard of Oz” studio 8. Major-leaguers 12. Queen’s residence 13. Before, in poetry 14. Give the slip to 15. Devotee 17. Competent 18. Firestorm 20. Afflict 21. Computer symbol 22. Rude person 25. Ballpoint, e.g. 26. Airline to Stockholm 29. Daring 33. Golf ball prop 34. Meal starter 35. Cameo stone 36. Raise a stink 38. Cousin of an ostrich 40. Evolution scientist 46. Rob of “Brothers and Sisters”

47. Traveler’s bag 48. Actor Baldwin 49. Artificial conception 50. Fashion magazine 51. Fly, e.g. 52. Aye’s opposite 53. Husky burden Down 1. Stylish 2. Adriatic resort 3. Shakespeare’s stream 4. Social Security provision 5. Nickel, e.g. 6. Diver Louganis 7. Happier 8. Greek philosopher 9. Boxer Sugar Ray 10. Nobel Peace Prize city 11. Spotted 16. ___ Baba 19. Teen affliction 22. Louisville Slugger 23. “___ to Billie Joe” 24. Intimidates

25. Place 27. Youngest March sister 28. “ ___ and the City” 30. Christmas carol 31. Absorbs 32. Informants 37. Construct 38. Enlighten 39. “Welcome” site 40. Applaud 41. Burrow 42. Fiji’s capital 43. Partition 44. ___ of Capri 45. Have to have

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Growing up with Stuart Scott By Colin Sallee Staff Writer

“Guys are much less likely to go to the doctor,” ESPN Broadcaster Stuart Scott said as he spoke on cancer awareness during a SportsCenter “Man Up” segment in 2013. “We think we’re too macho — guys, stop it. I’ve fought cancer three times and I’m winning. With early detection you can too. It is time to man up.” Scott died on the morning of Jan. 4 after several battles with cancer. He was 49. Scott’s words are hardly just fluffy fillers for cancer awareness; they have substance. Since his first broadcast on ESPN2 in 1993 to his final “Monday Night Football” game in the fall of 2014, Scott’s words have made an impact in ways that even he couldn’t have imagined. “I’m not a big sports fan, but I knew who Stuart Scott was in high school,” former DePaul student Kenny Watkins said. “My friends would use some of his catch phrases like ‘booyah’ and ‘the lord said you gotta rise up!’ which always made me laugh.” Scott was a Chicago native who moved to North Carolina when he was young. There he would go on to graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in arts and speech communication. Before landing at ESPN, Scott spent time at a local news affiliate in Florence, S.C., as well as three years with NBC. Over the last 20 plus years, Scott pioneered a new wave of broadcasting that related to a demographic that wasn’t necessarily represented on that stage before: younger African Americans. Scott’s voice was distinct in every highlight he commentated and every interview he conducted. When considering the platform he was on, his “urban” vernacular and high energy delivery was the first of its kind. Scott started appearing regularly on SportsCenter in 1996, and as the network grew larger and larger his style became that much more popular. Stuart’s delivery could be felt through the television screen. And with the rise of cable television and sports media, others in the industry would begin to question Scott’s cutting-edge language.

MCGHEE, continued from back page side of basketball. His end goal, he hopes to become a head coach one day. “It’s a transition, and it’s different,” McGhee said. “But I’m just happy to be around the game and be around the guys. You can’t play, but you can still be involved.” As a graduate assistant, McGhee’s responsibilities rely on a lot of busy work, helping DePaul prepare week to week. But McGhee is also seen at practice and on game days at the end of the bench. He’s allowed to help his former teammates, trying to motivate them and help them understand the game further. “The fact that I’m only one year

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ESPN Broadcaster Stuart Scott died after several battles with cancer on Jan. 4. In July, he earned the Jimmy V award for courage and perservance at the ESPYs, ESPN’s annual award show. “Stuart created some competition amongst fellow anchors,” Ed Sherman, a sports journalism instructor at DePaul and contributing media writer for the Chicago Tribune, said. “All these guys started dropping outrageous punchlines that really didn’t relate to the sport in any way. Management, I’m sure, had to reel them in at some point because in my opinion it was a little over top.” Scott was no stranger to those who felt his style was too much. In fact, he received backlash from those within the African-American community. The New York Times cited an NPR excerpt from 2002 when Scott was told he was dragging his race down by using slang and improper language. Scott, being the cool customer that he was, simply responded with, “All right, man. We are better than that. That’s not going to change what I do and how I do it.” Listening to him call highlights and apply words to games we were watching was

removed, it helps me with most of the guys,” McGhee said. “They look at me as an older brother and aren’t afraid to come to me. I just try and tell them the truth.” The role has also let McGhee pick up on areas that he said he wouldn’t notice as a player. He said being at a distance allows him to see what’s a bad shot versus a good shot or where they should be on the court with more clarity. His mind is developing toward the mindset of being a coach, and it’s a mindset that Purnell has noticed. He said he’s noticed the amount of “grunt work” that McGhee has had to fill. “He’s in our coaches meetings and is learning the game,” Purnell said. “His relationship with the players is his most valuable asset, as far as the program is concerned,

spectacular. His flare, his confidence and his delivery are all iconic to our generation. His willingness to embrace life even when things were gloomy transcended sports. His impact left the realm of basketball, football and competition. He served as an example for so many who shared his battle throughout the country. When reading and hearing what colleagues said about Scott in light of his death, it’s easy to tell why he was so widely respected. This was a man of great pride and selfworth. He understood what made him happy and what kind of impact he had on others; and he wasn’t going to change because of a few people’s opinions. Scott’s popularity rose once he became a spokesman against cancer. He battled the disease in three separate instances starting with his diagnosis in 2007. Scott, the father of two daughters, did not take the standard route when it came to dealing with his cancer. He continued to live life in the fashion he already was; one

that and his character. The only reason he’s in this position is because he showed me he’s an outstanding young man. He’s the kind of young man that I want to put in a leadership position in front of our players.” Purnell said McGhee is more than capable of becoming a head coach in the future too. “I try to talk him out of it everyday,” Purnell said, jokingly. “But no, Ed’s the type of person that whatever he really works at, he’ll be successful. I’m proud to have coached him.” For now, McGhee is just trying to absorb as much information as he can. McGhee’s already noticed what he said was the biggest takeaway from coaching. “It’s patience,” McGhee said. “There’s a lot of patience involved

that was full of energy and positivity. He even continued to work on ESPN’s many platforms, including SportsCenter and Monday Night Football. His well-documented, seven-year battle with cancer was culminated at the ESPY’s this past summer when he was awarded the Jimmy V award for courage and perseverance. Scott’s speech would be one for the ages. He spoke of his daughters, his loved ones and his life experiences. He would close the speech by saying, “Have a great rest of your night, and have a great rest of your life,” reminding the audience that no matter how bad things may be, never take any day for granted. The few days after Scott died, practically every professional sporting event honored him with a moment of silence before their respective games. This validated Scott’s significance, not just in the sports world, but also in common American society. Thank you, Stuart. Your work will always be greatly appreciated.

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Former DePaul guard Edwind McGhee played at DePaul from 2010 to 2014 as a walk-on. with the other side. But you just have to make sure you take time to explain and to coach. “It’s about taking a step back

and realizing as a coach, ‘What can I do to be more beneficial than just yelling at them right now?’” he said.

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Softball will look to defend its 2014 Big East regular season and tournament titles. DePaul softball was tabbed to repeat as Big East conference champions Thursday in the conference’s annual preseason poll. The Blue Demons gathered 48 points and six first place votes. The Blue Demons went 44-11 last season, including going 18-1 in the Big East. DePaul beat St. John’s 3-0 in May. The team will be without star pitcher Kirsten Verdun this season. Instead, the team will return reigning Big East Player

Freshman standout Alexa Ben was named to Soccer Amercia’s All-Freshman First Team Thursday for her remarkable season. Ben, from Schaumburg, was a large reason why DePaul was nationally ranked in the fall and had a program-best 16-1-4 record. Ben had a school record 11 assists to go along with her 29 points, which led the team along with junior Elise Wyatt. Ben is the first freshman to be named to an All-Freshman team since Juliane Sitch, who was named by Soccer Buzz Magazine to their All-Freshman team in 2002. DePaul soccer had a historic 20-game win streak last season, ending their regular season undefeated. The team’s season ended with a first-round tournament loss at Wisconsin.

of the Year Mary Connolly and Big East Rookie of the Year Dylan Christensen. The Blue Demons also have a strong senior class of Brittany Boesel, Staci Bonezek and Ali Lenti. DePaul’s season begins in February with the team taking a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii against Oklahoma, who mde the Women’s College Word Series last year. DePaul’s season ended in the Regional Final against Kentucky.

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Alexa Ben was named to Soccer America’s All-Freshman First Team.

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Brandon Young signed with the Texas Legends in the NBA D-League.

TENNIS Prior to the beginning of the season, both the men’s and women’s tennis teams have representation in the rankings. Overall, the women’s tennis team is ranked 46th in the nation. They went 22-4 in 2014 and won the Big East tournament championship. Individually, freshman Patricia Lancranjan has a strong debut coming in at 93rd in the singles poll while seniors Jasmine King and Patricia Fargas will start the year ranked 52nd in the doubles poll. The Blue Demons also return junior Ana Vladutu, who became the first DePaul women’s tennis player to play in the NCAA singles

tournament. On the men’s side, juniors Kyle Johnson and Sten Leusink are ranked 56th in the International Tennis Association doubles poll. They went 7-5 as a duo last year, going 7-0 in the No. 2 doubles spot. The men’s team went 11-14 last season and placed second in the Big East championship. They will try to replace senior Filip Dzanko’s production. Both teams opened up their seasons this weekend with the women travelling to the Purdue Invitational while the men play the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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SCHULTE, continued from back page “Great to see her get her basketball rhythm back.” Bruno said he has transitioned Schulte back to game speed exactly as doctors have said to. “I listened to doctor’s orders but when (players) are healthy, they’re healthy,” Bruno said. “So much of it is the player’s individual confidence built day by day.” Schulte has played exactly 347 minutes this season, which averages to 18.6 minutes per game. She’s added depth off the bench, being the sixth, seventh or eighth option, depending on game circumstances. At 5-foot-9, Schulte also adds some size in the frontcourt for the Blue Demons. “Brooke is very productive,” Bruno said. “She doesn’t show any weakness. She’s a great and important part of our team.” Schulte has played in all 20 games this season and is averaging six points per game. She said the new workload doesn’t bother her.

Former DePaul guard Brandon Young was waiting on the perfect opportunity to continue his basketball career. Young participated in pre-draft workouts with the Dallas Mavericks, Charlotte Hornets and the Chicago Bulls, but went undrafted. Now, Young will continue his basketball career. Young signed with the Texas Legends of the NBA’s Development-League (D-League) Thursday, the Legends announced. Young is expected to join the team on Jan. 22. The Legends are an affliate of the Dallas Mavericks. Young hypothetically could get called up or be signed by another team if he plays well enough. Young finished his four-year DePaul career in the spring. He’s the only Blue Demon to total at least 1,200 points, 400 assists and 100 3-pointers. He averaged 15.1 points per game, 4.1 assists and 3.1 rebounds per game through his colligate career. Young is the third player from last season’s Blue Demons team to sign a professional contract. Forward Sandi Marcius signed a contract to play oversas in his native Croatia. Former forward Cleveland Melvin also plays in Mexico with the Jefe Fuerza Lagunera. Melvin also spent time in the D-League, playing with the Erie BayHawks in 2014. He appeared in 10 games and averaged 11.2 points per game.

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DePaul forward Brooke Schulte. “I feel better than ever,” Schulte said. “I don’t really think about it when I’m playing anymore.” Jenkins, the junior starting point guard, said she was able to help Schulte with her rehab because she experienced the same injury. “It’s just being a good teammate,” Jenkins said. “It’s like you’re sisters. You give each other the best support and comfort you can.”

DePaul women’s basketball head coach Doug Bruno signed a contract extension through the 2019-20 season, the school announced Wednesday. This is the second year in a row where Bruno has signed an extension, previously signing an extension in October 2013 that kept him through the 2018-19 season. Bruno, 63, is in his 29th season as a head coach at DePaul. “Very few coaches are blessed to coach at their alma mater, and even fewer coaches are blessed to coach at an institution as great as DePaul University,” Bruno said in a news release. “I am blessed to have the administrative support of DePaul President Father Dennis Holtschneider and director of athletics Jean Lenti-Ponsetto.” DePaul is 572-306 with Bruno at the helm, including 19 trips to the NCAA

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Head coach Doug Bruno. tournament. The Blue Demons are coming off their best season since joining the Big East conference, winning the conference and advancing to the Sweet Sixteen. The terms of the contract were not announced. Bruno made $510,961 in 2011, per DePaul’s 2012 forms filed to the IRS.

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Zero to 12: Drake wears Hrynko gear

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On Jan. 8, Grammy award-winning artist Drake put a photo on Instagram of him shooting hoops in his room. It seemed like a normal photo, except for the fact that he was wearing a sweatshirt featuring the last name of DePaul senior point-guard Brittany Hrynko. “I was very shocked, and at the same time I was excited that he actually noticed women’s basketball and DePaul,” Hrynko said. “I knew he followed them on Instagram but nothing other than that though.” The caption read “Putting shots up anywhere. @bhrynk,” mentioning her Instagram handle. This was not the first time that Drake sent out a photo on Instagram regarding DePaul women’s basketball. On Dec. 12, he published a photo of him watching DePaul’s game against Notre Dame with the caption “This DePaul vs Notre Dame game the other day had me stuck.” The game happened two days prior. DePaul lost that game to then No. 5 Notre Dame in overtime 94-93 after nearly upsetting the Fighting Irish at home. Hrynko scored 32 points and had five assists in the loss. At the time, it was a season-high point total for Hrynko, although she beat that record with 38 points against Georgetown. Bruno was happy that he sought out the game to watch and that he stuck with it to the close end. “He was tweeting out right after our Notre Dame game how great it was to stay with the game and watch the game,” Bruno said. “So I’m just excited that someone of his stature in the entertainment world would care enough to watch women’s hoops.” Hrynko said she never expected something like this. “I guess it’s just exciting,” she said. “I didn’t think I’d see someone like that wear

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something with my name on it.” Head coach Doug Bruno was not just excited because of Drake’s famous music career, but because of his role in the NBA. “This isn’t just a member of the music world this is an (ambassador) of the Toronto Raptors,” he said. “So we have an NBA owner wearing Hrynko gear and that’s really exciting.” Drake has been the Raptors’ global ambassador, a position that puts him on the executive committee and as a consultant for rebranding the team’s image. Bruno hopes that this endeavor in the NBA might translate to some business decisions regarding women’s basketball as well. “I just hope that Drake would decide to buy a WBNA franchise,” he said.

Hrynko continued her dynamic play to help lift the Blue Demons in two big road games this past week. Against St. John’s, Hrynko scored 25 points. At Seton Hall, Hrynko scored 11 points, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a tough loss on the road. The Blue Demons are now second in the Big East, trailing Seton Hall.

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DePaul guard Brittany Hrynko has a fan in rap star Drake.

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DePaul Club Football looks for next step By Ben Gartland Asst. Sports Editor

DePaul Club Football will move into their second season of play in 2015 in a period of transition. The club announced they would move in a new direction, letting go of head coach Carlos Jones after he spent two years working with the club. “It just seemed like the right time for the board and we just decided we wanted to move into a different direction with the team,” club president John Measner said. “It’s just we decided a new direction might be a fresh take on this upcoming season.” The fresh take will not only involve looking for a new head coach but also replacing the seniors who will not be at DePaul for the 2015 season. “The big thing is recruiting kids to get out there on that field,” he said. “We had a lot seniors graduate this year so the big thing right now is getting people on that football field to play for us.” The recruiting for a club that requires a lot of time commitment, including some multi-hourlong road trips for away games, will

take a variety of tactics to find new players. “It’s going to be a team effort,” he said. “It can be from finding a guy in the gym, holding big events, holding fundraisers, fliers.” The biggest thing for Measner going forward, however, is building on what the club accomplished in 2014. “I personally think it was a great season for DePaul,” Measner said. “We had some tough games but if you look at a lot of other club programs they won’t make it through their first season, a lot of them forfeit their first season.” The expectations for the inaugural season, senior running back Tevin Smith said, were around establishing the program and getting it off the ground. “It was definitely as tough as we thought it was going to be,” he said. “Nobody in that room thought it would be a cakewalk or we’d win all of our games.” Having the year of practices without games in 2013, according to Smith, was helpful in terms of just establishing the team. “We went in with quite a few players who had never played football on an organized team

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DePaul Club Football struggle in their debut season, going 1-8. They’re looking to bounce back next fall. before so having that year to find out where you line up on the line, this is where you stand,” he said. “It was good so that we didn’t just throw people into a game not knowing what they needed to do.” The 2015 season, however, will be focused on building in terms of record and proving themselves among other club teams who have either folded or lose players.

“We’re looking for wins,” Measner said. “Our record didn’t show it this year, but we worked hard, we got out there and played every game.” As for the coaching search, the club will be holding interviews in the next few weeks. “The interview is going to be the big thing,” he said. “We have a couple of names lined up that have been floated around. They’re

going to need to impress us in the interview, and it’s going to need to be on multiple different levels.” The biggest thing will still be the ability to build off 2014. “We’re a legit program, he said. “A lot of people were really doubting, like ‘DePaul’s not going to have a football team, they’re not going to get people out there,’ and the fact that we got out there is big.”

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Former DePaul guard Edwind McGhee remains with the team as a graduate assistant.

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With slightly more than a minute remaining in the second Big East tournament game against Creighton in March, former walk-on guard Edwind McGhee made a 3-pointer to bring it to 84. After that shot, McGhee soaked in the final minute of his college basketball career. He received the ball again with nine seconds left and hoisted up another 3-pointer. A miss. As the ball bounced off the rim, McGhee took in the scene. He looked around the iconic Madison Square Garden, his teammates on the floor and watched the clock run down on the top of the backboard. “That’s when you knew it was it. It was definitely a moment for me,” McGhee said. “I went back to the locker room and cried a little bit. I realized that this was the end of a journey.” McGhee graduated in March with a degree in journalism and returned to his hometown of Champaign. In June, however, McGhee received a call from head coach Oliver Purnell. Purnell offered McGhee the job he interviewed for back in the winter — a graduate assistant. Being around basketball would still be an option after all. Now in the midst of his post-playing career, McGhee has transitioned into the other

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Henry lifts DePaul over St. John’s By Ben Gartland Asst. Sports Editor

At halftime, head coach Oliver Purnell told his players to keep playing how they had been and the shots would start to fall. “I said at halftime ‘just pick your heads up and keep playing because we will play better offensively, we’re going to shoot better than 21 percent,” Purnell said. “We’ll take a little better care of the basketball and we’ll be fine.” It worked as DePaul erased a 2919 deficit Sunday and took St. John’s to overtime, defeating them 71-67 in a comeback victory. DePaul forward Myke Henry scored 19 points — 13 of those coming after the half — and guard Billy Garrett Jr. added 20 to give the Blue Demons the team’s most Big East wins under Purnell. DePaul (10-9, 4-2 Big East) scored 52 points after coming out of the locker room, and sealed the game when Henry hit a pair of late free-throws to give the Blue Demons a 69-67 lead with 13.6 seconds left in overtime. “Shots weren’t falling in the first half and they started to fall in the second,” Henry said. “Coach just said to keep our heads up and to keep playing our game.” The Blue Demons got off to a sloppy start, going 1-6 from the field and 0-4 from three-point range, as well as turning the ball over twice going into the first media timeout. Purnell burned one of his first timeouts only a minute into the game after the Blue Demon defense let up an easy jumper, the first points of the game. As the half wound down, the mid-range jumpers that St. John’s was having troubles making started to fall and they raced out to an 8-0 run. The Red Storm matched their early five-point lead with a 24-19 advantage with 2:42 to go in the first. The Red Storm closed the half

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DePaul forward Myke Henry hit two free throws late to give DePaul a 69-67 lead in overtime. on another mini-run, adding five points to their lead and took the momentum into the locker rooms up 29-19. DePaul was shooting just 22 percent from the field and 18 percent from three. But the Blue Demons found their rhythm, thanks to Henry and Garrett. Henry finished with his second-career double-double, 19 points and 12 rebounds. DePaul started off the second half well, making some headway into the deficit. Two threes by Aaron Simpson and Durrell McDonald cut the lead to 36-32 going with 15:29 to go. The teams traded baskets back and forth after being tied at 38. A big moment, however, came for the Blue Demons as the clock continued to tick away. Down 55-53, Simpson knocked down an open three from

the corner to put the Blue Demons up by one with 3:09 to go, leading to a timeout. “We knew that every game comes down to six minutes, we’ve practiced for this,” Simpson said. “It wasn’t really new to us, we knew what to do.” St. John’s, however, capitalized on a rare free throw miss from Simpson in the final 13 seconds, and Red Storm guard Rysheed Jordan hit a pair of free throws to tie the game. DePaul guard Durrell McDonald missed a last-second three for DePaul and the game went to overtime. In overtime, the two teams traded baskets in the first couple minutes of overtime until Forrest Robinson hit a three from the corner to put DePaul up by three. Simpson added a free throw to

Schulte said. “At the six-month point, I was about 80 percent better.” When asked about the drudge for an elite athlete to go through rehab, Schulte cited her best friend and teammate, Chanise “Trixie” Jenkins, who suffered a torn ACL in high school, as the main part of her support. “Trixie helped me through it,” Schulte said. “Other than that, I didn’t really think about it. I just knew I wanted to get back as soon as possible.” Flash forward two years later and Schulte, the redshirt sophomore guard, just logged three straight 20-plus minute games, including a 27-minute showing in a

win against Xavier Jan. 11. DePaul head coach Doug Bruno said it was hard to see Schulte go down, as it is to see any player go down with an injury. “You have ultimate empathy for these players,” Bruno said. “One of the worst things as a coach is to see a talent like Brooke get injured. It’s hard for the whole team to see one of them go down.” Bruno said Schulte is now performing at the top of her game in an already burgeoning 13-6 Blue Demon season. “Brooke Schulte, what can I say, it’s great to see her healthy after a year of not playing,” Bruno said.

Brooke in action: Schulte shines By Kyle Tyrrell Contributing Writer

In her freshman year in 2012, things were looking up for DePaul guard Brooke Schulte. That was until she made a defensive move at practice and heard a loud pop in her knee. Schulte knew right then. “I was guarding Britt (Hrynko),” Schulte said. “She went one way, I went the other and I heard a pop then all of a sudden I just went down.” Schulte tore her ACL ended her season, and began the long road of rehab for one of the most crushing sports injuries there is. “The rehab was six months,”

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make it a two-possession game, but St. John’s cut the lead in half on the next possession. Jordan then tied it with 42.2 seconds to go. With 13.6 seconds to go, Myke Henry got fouled driving into the lane and knocked down two free throws to go up 69-67. Chris Obekpa missed a shot on the other end and DePaul rebounded, sealing the victory at 71-67 for DePaul. The Blue Demons finished the game 25-29 from the line, including a perfect 13-13 from Garrett. It was another win where DePaul sealed it with free throws, and DePaul leads the conference in free throw percentage. “This was a similar game to all of our home wins,” Purnell said. “If you take care of the basketball and make your free throws you have a great chance to win.”

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DePaul redshirt sophomore Brooke Schulte has worked her way into the team’s rotation.