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Students left out of bounds with no access to Wish Field
Luscious green fields that stretch as far as the eyes can see, where students can laugh and throw a Frisbee or just relax and catch up with friends — everyone has imagined this picturesque image at one time or another. Most college students have even been involved in these activities. Yet DePaul students have come down with a case of the landlocked blues, as the urban environment the campus embraces doesn’t quite provide the space needed to recreationally accompany more than 20,000 students and faculty. Each year, students turn to Wish Field and the Ray Meyer Fitness Center to fill their need of a space to go to escape the
concrete jungle surrounding them. From recreational and intramural sports to official DePaul athletics, students have utilized both consistently. But this year with the newly replaced field turf, DePaul’s lack of space has been further exposed as students have been turned away from Wish Field for reasons unknown to them. It’s left students to wonder whether or not they are authorized to use the new turf. “There were a few occasions this summer and earlier this year after the turf was installed where we were asked to leave Wish Field, even though we were just playing soccer like we had done in the past,” Pablo Zayas, a senior marketing
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U of I professor denied job offer speaks at DePaul
Durbin, Warren talk student loans ahead of Nov. election
By Christian Ianniello Contributing Writer
By Brenden Moore Campus News Editor
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) fired up Chicago college students in a joint appearance last week hoping to drive that constituency to the polls in November’s elections about the issue of student loans. The hour-long event on behalf of Durbin’s re-election bid was hosted in a small theater in Harold Washington Library. Students from DePaul, University of Chicago, Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University were among those in attendance. Warren, a champion of progressive causes and a favorite of many liberals, spoke passionately about what she sees as a lack of investment compared to previous generations. “We are not investing in your generation the way we invested in generations before,” Warren said. “We are not making those investments today. And the best place to see that is with student loans.” Student loans have become a hot issue over the past few years as Republicans and Democrats have fought on how to handle them. The GOP prefers to tie interest rates
she 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 a borrow a little money, and there’s an extra tax put on you.” Warren began by speaking about her childhood, and about how government assistance, including low-interest loans, helped her and many others like her to make it. She said, however, that is not the case any more. “They not only have figured out how much you’re going to produce in profits, they built it right into the budget,” she said. “So your money has already been spent.” Warren and Durbin have co-sponsored
Controversial professor Steven Salaita spoke at DePaul last week regarding the issues of academic freedom of speech as well as his views on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, on the final leg of his Chicagoland college speaking tour. The controversy surrounding Salaita regards the tweets he posted during summer that focused on Israel’s policy in Gaza. Some people took them as being anti-Semitic, and it ultimately led to his job offer in the American Indian studies department at University of Illinois being revoked. Students, activists, and people of all ages interested or affected by the conflict in the Middle East, as well as academic freedom, packed the small room in O’Connell Hall. Many in the overflow crowd had to sit on the ground given the lack of available seats. A DePaul Students for Justice in Palestine member appropriately started off Salaita’s introduction with a disclaimer from the university stating, “We welcome open exchange of ideas with this program, but we also have expectations that such exchanges will be conducted appropriately and finally the views expressed here are not necessarily the views expressed by DePaul University,”
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Sen. Dick Durbin speaks to college students about student loans at Harold Washington Library Oct. 10 in an event with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). to the market, while Democrats typically prefer a fixed rate. Last year, the parties came to a compromise that will lock in the interest rate for each loan for the life of it, but it will allow for the interest rate on new loans to fluctuate each year depending on the markets. Most predict that the rate will go up, though it is capped at 10 percent. “After you account for the bad debts and the administrative costs, the loans from 2007 to 2012, are on target to produce $66 billion in profits for the United States government. That is obscene,” Warren said. “So 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,”
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The 37th annual running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon was held this past Sunday, see photos on page 5.
The Museum of Science and Industry attempts to show connections between math and nature, see page 17.
Immerse yourself in the magical perfection that is Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake,” see page 24.
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Game development classes draw in new students By Zhangli Bu Contributing Writer
Dreaming about making his own video game since he was 5 years old, Kansas native Evan Holloway knew what he wanted to do for a living. Now as a sophomore in DePaul’s computer game development program, Holloway has found his way into the gaming industry. He is in good company as many like-minded students across the country now have an opportunity to make their hobby into a career. According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), 385 colleges offer professional certificates and degrees in video game design. This is an increase of more than 50 percent since 2009. DePaul introduced its game design program in 2005 and was one of the first universities to have a program of this type. This year, the Princeton Review ranked the university in the top 20 for undergraduate schools and in the top 12 graduate for schools in game design. Brian Schrank, assistant professor of game development, theory and design, described the program in DePaul as vibrant and dynamic. “Faculty and students have both the support and freedom they need to create innovative, quality work,” he said. “The art and game development community in Chicago is large,
active and friendly, which makes the city attractive as well.” Robin Burke, one of the professors who launched the program, said the idea for the game development program came from the discussion between he and Professor Charley Wilcox. “We saw both the interest in game development and the capacity to meet that interest,” Burke said. “With the diversity of offerings, we had all the expertise needed to teach game development.” Graham Gilreath, a former student now working as a quality assurance engineer at Wargaming.net, said, “There wasn’t a day throughout my four years of study that I even remotely regretted my decision both to study game development and to choose DePaul.” The program gave Gilreath the knowledge and the confidence for his career. “The skills I learned at DePaul allowed me to be a helpful asset to my team,” he said. “I created a glossary of common development terms for new testers to use. This glossary evolved and is now part of the training and knowledge library we utilize for our tests department.” In the early stages of Gilreath’s senior capstone, his group created a character with features of classic puzzle toy, and put up a promotional video on YouTube. “We got some buzz from a major gaming publication,” he said. “It’s totally unexpected and exciting.” A week later, they received a cease and desist letter from a
A student playing video games on the fifth floor of the CDM building. representative of a toy company. “We were entirely taken aback,” he said. “But all things considered, this experience ended up being extremely beneficial for our group because it forced us to rethink and redesign our character and the changes led to a more unique, endearing style.” According to Burke, “play” is a key object in this program. “Video games are just the latest and most visible innovation in play, but play is an essential and durable human activity,” he said. “In the future, I would like to see the game development program broaden into a wider discussion of play as an object of study at DePaul.” “It’s a lot of hard work and it’s also a lot of network and business meetings. You cannot
avoid the paper work, Holloway said. “You may dedicate 70 or 80 hours of your life a week in your program. It’s just about balance.” Balancing the relationship between life and video games is the key to succeeding, according to Gilreath. “Get involved while you’re at DePaul,” he said. “It’s easy to play video games as your sole past time, but getting out there, trying new things and meeting new people is some of the most important learning you’ll do.” Companies look for wellrounded, likable employees. “After all, you wouldn’t want to spend 40 plus hours a week with total weirdos,” Gilreath said. “Being passionate about games and the industry is great and
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important, but there are so many other fantastic things in life as well.” Schrank said games will continue to absorb and use novel technologies. “Take notice of our social and culture shifts,” he said. “Try to think about how games could better relate and seem relevant to our everyday lives.” Gilreath said more companies expect designers to have some sort of scripting or coding experience. “There is no such thing as an ‘ideas guy’ in the game industry. If you want to be a real designer with a real job, you need to learn good theory and great design. Don’t just look to games for inspiration. So game on, and live well,” Gilreath said.
Quigley speaks to DePaul Democrats, answers questions By Dylan Fahoome Staff Writer
The barrage of politicians coming to DePaul continued last Tuesday as Congressman Mike Quigley (D–Ill.) spoke to the College Dems at its general body meeting. Quigley, who represents the North Side of the city, as well as some suburbs, spoke about his career, what he has learned from it, and gave advice to young hopefuls interested in having what he considers a “cool job.” Hosted in the Arts and Letters Hall, Quigley wrote on the whiteboard a scribbled, but clear-cut formula for those interested in politics. Starting with, “learn to write–please,” then leading to “the will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win,” and finally ending with “cool job.” “The United States Senate didn’t want ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ released because they thought it made them look bad – it made democracy look bad,” Quigley said, referencing the film on his whiteboard agenda points. “They were wrong! Democracy’s
messy, but that’s what’s so beautiful about it,” he said. Quigley also had advice for those not interested in politics. “For those who don’t want to, you should,” he said. “This is a cool job. I even wrote it down and underlined it.” “It’s really fun to be a state representative, to be a state senator … this stuff’s fun. Being an alderman is fun. Being a congressman is really a lot of fun. It’s an extraordinary experience.” Quigley said working on other campaigns and getting his name to be well-known in the community took him far. “All the time I have people who come up to me who don’t understand this,” Quigley said. “I ask them, ‘Have you ever been to a community meeting? Have you ever worked on a school board issue? A library board?’” “Have you done anything to get known?” he said. Quigley added the importance of having a story, and helping someone else get elected which could lead to an endorsement. “They say money’s everything. I got
outspent 12 to one, and 11 to two. I just had a bigger district, and I had been to more meetings as a county commissioner,” Quigley said. “I had focused locally.” “Literally it was block by block, and it was the will to prepare to win to get known by somebody—because who the hell are you when you decide to run?” Katelin Foley, a freshman political science major, said Quigley was “down to earth” and appreciated that he just talked to the students, rather than giving them a presentation. “He was awesome,” Foley said. “He was more intelligent than what I think of when I think of the House of Representatives, or when I think of Congress in general.” Quigley’s notable role in Democratic fundraising was recently written about in the Chicago Sun-Times. He currently sits on the House Appropriations Committee, a powerful position that has allowed for him to bring federal money to the city for projects. Some of Quigley’s famous predecessors include Rahm Emanuel, who now serves as mayor, Rod Blagojevich, who went on to be governor before going to prison on corruption charges, and Dan Rostenkowski,
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Rep. Mike Quigley has served the 5th congressional district of Illinois since 2009. the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, whose 36 year tenure in the House ended when he was indicted and sent to prison for mail fraud. Quigley began his term in the House in 2009.
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DePaul’s marketing boosts annual enrollment By Deanna Shilkus Contributing Writer
To keep the enrollment up, DePaul’s Enrollment Management and Marketing office has devised a plan it thinks sets them apart from the other city universities. More than 20 other colleges in the city are in tough competition with one another to compile those graduating seniors, so to keep up the standard rate, DePaul went about it through a specialized process. Through research of a target audience and how best to reach them, DePaul looked at the information and resources available to determine how and where to best achieve the goal of assembling interested students. A process that involved testing campaigns with target audiences is only the beginning, according to Bridget Dore, director of advertising and digital marketing. Dore and her team created a brandnew campaign this summer to set in place in September. Its main purpose utilized the theory of data science, which is an indemand skill set for current college students in the industry. By working with campaign partners and DePaul’s broad experience, the goal was to elevate DePaul’s standing as a university within the market and as a whole. “We wanted to highlight how students can truly gain greater perspective in data science through DePaul’s unique multidisciplinary approach,” Dore said. The results were a success. Sophomore Cassandra Kendall, originally from Washington D.C, planned to attend a theater school. And although DePaul is not as well-known in the beltway, Kendall felt the marketing initiatives DePaul presented to her helped seal the deal on her decision to enroll. She is now in
DePaul’s program for theatre management. students about the outstanding professors “I didn’t know too much about DePaul’s who bring their outside knowledge and values and ideals until I came for orientation, experience into the classroom, Dore said. but I really enjoyed the emphasis that “We strive to promote those from around was placed on accepting the diversity the world who are experts in interesting of the students on campus,” she said. industries and files of study,” Dore said. The marketing team reached out The other initiative is to speak to to prospective and current students to potential students about the benefits ensure the message got across and in the of adult and graduate programs. end, the campaign generated interest To create brand awareness, DePaul’s in data science programs, as well as focus is to advertise up to three campaign increased the overall perception of DePaul. initiatives per year about the different DePaul’s two main marketing goals are schools, colleges and programs to offer. to increase enrollment While the office and the university’s declined to disclose brand awareness, how much they spent on We strive to promote according to Dore. The the campaigns, they are school’s main focus aware of how the efforts thse from around the was to promote the are coming across. world who are experts Catholic, urban and “We regularly Vincentian character. in interesting industries test new messaging In 2013, the school and tactics in order and fields of study. enrolled 24, 414 to reach our target students. Enrollment audience effectively increased from 65 and efficiently, ” Dore Bridget Dore percent in 2009 to 67 said. “We run ads Director of Advertising percent in 2013, with across all platforms in 34 percent as students digital, social, mobile, of color and 6 percent international. Web display, search engine marketing, as DePaul’s diversity is a key to promoting well as radio and outdoor advertising.” different types of campaigns, Dore said. As a way to follow up and see exactly Dore’s marketing team has created two how the enrollment went, Dore said the campaigns that correspond with incoming office performs personalized follow-up students versus the general community. communications. “The general community receives a When Kendall had narrowed message that is more closely tied to our down her choice to two schools, with brand message, while potential students DePaul being one of them, her final receive data-based messaging on why decision was made based on the picture DePaul University may be a good fit DePaul painted of The Theater School. for them to explore further,” Dore said. “I was pleased with the information The Distinctions campaign was they gave me,” Kendall said. “Everything created as a way to increase awareness for I received gave me a pretty clear picture of
what my time here would be like, unlike some other schools that I found to be deceiving.” During the research process, Kendall had to do some searching before she discovered DePaul, while at the same time “most people in my area go to school in state.” “Very few make it over to the Midwest, so I can see why it’s not of the strongest interest to advertise on the East Coast,” Kendall said. Kendall has had success here in the first stages at DePaul, with realizing how important it was for her to be in the city for college. “Through visiting other schools, I realized my need for a thriving social atmosphere and a look into the future to see how much of an advantage it would be for me as someone who is in theater,” Kendall said. Her time at DePaul has changed her fears about coming to a new place. “The school doesn’t feel so big,” Kendall said. “One thing that scared me about coming to DePaul was being at such a large school where I didn’t really know anyone, but Chicago has felt like home to me from the first time I visited last year.” Her confidence in the theater program may be attributed to the success of what DePaul’s marketing initiatives presented to her, but it also stems from the ideals and values DePaul presents as part of its overall mission. “I came from a school that was predominantly white and although everyone was fairly open-minded, I never felt like people’s values could be put to the test in a place that wasn’t very diverse and engaging with people of all backgrounds,” Kendall said. “I think DePaul finds a pretty good balance between being a Catholic institution while allowing the freedom for students to engage and embrace things that are important to their own lives.”
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RIGHT ON TRACK
DePaul senior pioneers after school program on West Side
By Amanda Crane City News Editor
For kids who have gotten in their fair share of neighborhood trouble, there’s now a place to pay it forward to their neighbors. Four Star Bikes is an afterschool program for Chicago’s West Side kids of the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. It’s a workshopbased learning program that teaches students how to repair and build bicycles for community members. And DePaul senior David Pohlad, 22, spent the last four months pioneering the program. “This place isn’t around only to give the kids somewhere to escape to and hang out,” Pohlad said. “It’s in place to provide them with the work training and confidence needed to go out into their own lives and succeed.” Belmont Cragin is a struggling neighborhood, lacking in youth outreach programs, Pohlad said. The organization picked this area, looking to bring a home-based youth center to the neighborhood, and to provide the kids opportunities to gain career skills. “What I want the kids to get from this is how to be a successful individual, despite whatever hardships they are faced with,” Pohlad said. Pohlad said the Albany Park Neighborhood Council, a group dedicated to providing programming opportunities for youth and struggling communities, funds the program at the Prosser Career Academy High School. After briefly volunteering for the Albany Park Neighborhood Council’s youth project Bikes and Roses, Pohlad was asked to launch the new program branch in Belmont Cragin. One of his newer volunteers, high school sophomore Pedro, said he enjoys the program’s familial aspect, and getting to know
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The Four Star Bikes group poses for a photo. Four Star Bikes is an after-school program for Chicago teens in the Belmont Craign neighborhood. everyone he helps. “It’s a great program!” Pedro said. “There are a lot of friendly people here. It’s like a big family.” Shortly before opening, the organization received a state grant through the Summer Youth Employment Program. Then the school offered the garage space for the program, creating new opportunities for the grant money. The organization was able to pay the student volunteers for their work and really let the program grow during the summer. “This was great. With the Four Star budget, I had eight kids getting paid $9 per hour for 25-hour weeks,” Pohlad said. “I was able to afford four big sets of bicycle tools; I had orders of extra bike parts needed for repairs coming in
weekly.” All the students who qualified to work for the summer program came from low-income families of the area, and were chosen through a special screening process provided by the city. Students who didn’t qualify for the grant money opted to volunteer for the summer. “The kids I have now are such good kids,” Pohlad said. “To see them working so hard in a neighborhood that might not offer them as much as I had growing up is hard to see.” Pohlad works as the youth coordinator for the organization. After a successful launch of the summer program, he wanted to continue it throughout the upcoming school year. He created a budget proposal for the project and was approved by the Albany Park Neighborhood Council, eliminating the need for city grants. The after-school program began in September at Prosser and typically meets when school lets out until 5:30 p.m. three days per week. There are currently 15 to 20 student volunteers on a daily basis. Some of the current students volunteering in the program stayed from the summer program, as well. The group has turned into one big family, Polhad said, and it has helped the program blossom, with many students inviting friends to join. And the kids are learning hands-on skills they can take into adulthood. Pohlad said most student volunteers had no experience with mechanics or even riding bicycles before working in the shop. Throughout the summer, the volunteers learned quickly and are now able to complete most of their work without any assistance. Some are even teaching others the skills they have learned. “The best part is being able to work on bikes myself now that I know how, and being able to give
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Four Star Bikes members work on fixing a bike. hands-on training to others,” said high school junior Lizeth. Lizeth was one of the organization’s summer volunteers who continued her work into the after-school program this year. With the program gaining a lot of neighborhood support, the group is finding ways to give back to the community. They participated in a variety of community service projects in recent months, including volunteering at a community garden run by the high school science department chairman. They also participated
in the local farmers markets during the summer, providing free bike services to community members. Pohlad said he looks forward to continuing this expansion throughout the year, and hopes to get more kids involved and create more workspace to accommodate the growing number of members. “We are experiencing a significant amount of growth during this time, so the biggest thing I’ve been focusing on lately are the involvement of the kids,” Pohlad said.
GO RUNNERS GO!
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Nikki Carter, 42, of Chicago high fives a course marshall near mile 10 of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon Oct. 12.
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WGN reporter Andrea Darlas interviews a runner after the race.
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The 2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon was held this past Sunday, the 37th running of the race. Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won in the men’s category, finishing at 2:04:11, while Rita Jeptoo won among women with a 2:24:35, her fourth straight major marathon victory, according to the AP. Runners went through several neighborhoods, going as far south as 35th Street past U.S. Cellular Field, and going as north as Addison Street. The race began and ended in Grant Park, and by all accounts, it was a beautiful day for a marathon.
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The Bean vs. Starbucks
Students compare prices at competing coffee shops By Sierra Getz Contributing Writer
While cramming for a late-night study session or getting up early for that 8 a.m. lecture, many college-age students have felt that incessant need for coffee. DePaul’s own stop for coffee, smoothies, or snacks, The Bean, is quite popular among students on campus. It brings up the question, however, of which is more popular: The Bean or Starbucks? While there are seemingly always long lines at The Bean’s Schmitt Academic Center location that often wrap around the room in the afternoons, the local Starbucks under 1237 West still seems to gather a large amount of business. For many students, the reason for the large rushes of business at The Bean seems to be accessibility; students can stop by before or after class to grab coffee and already be in or near the location of their next class. Starbucks, in contrast, is just far enough away that is it off campus and away from the busy lecture halls that students frequently visit during the weekdays. The Bean in the SAC is the busiest in the morning around 9 to 9:30am, and also in the afternoon, around 2 to 2:30pm, these being the prime times to grab coffee before or after common lecture hours. Starbucks, on the other hand, is busier with students in the afternoon around 3 to 4pm, because most people are there to study or relax, instead of rushing to grab what they need for the day. Another reason The Bean is a frequent stop for students besides the study space is the financial aspect. The Bean is synced up with
DePaul’s meal plan, so any student who has one can freely spend their account money there. “Honestly, the only reason is because it is covered with my meal plan, so I’m not paying out of pocket, like I would at Starbucks,” said freshman Emma Givens. “It’s close by to all of my classes, which is helpful.” In terms of quality, Givens said that The Bean is not bad, but that it cannot compare with the diversity of options Starbucks provides. “The Bean isn’t bad at all, but there are only a few select flavors if I’m looking for a good cup of coffee, whereas Starbucks has various roasts, which I like.” Givens said. “If I’m looking for a smoothie or cold drink, I go to The Bean in the Ray (Meyer Fitness Center), because that’s what I crave after working out.” For freshman Hannah Nicholson, however, Starbucks is the clear choice. “I don’t like The Bean as much as Starbucks because it’s overpriced,” she said. “You get bigger cup sizes for what you’re paying at Starbucks, so if I get coffee I’m going to go there.” As it is for many students, proximity plays a role. Nicholson lives in 1237 West, much closer to Starbucks than to either Bean location. “Well, I live at 1237 West, so my meal plan isn’t my primary source of food,” Nicholson said. “Since I buy my own groceries, it’s not as big of a deal to buy coffee.” Comparing the price of 12-ounce drinks, The Bean’s prices are slightly higher for most of the drinks. However, the difference is not very drastic. “I like The Bean, but if money wasn’t an issue I’d probably revert back to my Starbucks addict habits,” Givens said.
CAMPUS CRIME REPORT : Oct. 1 - Oct. 7 LOOP CAMPUS
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OCT. 5 11) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was
LINCOLN PARK CAMPUS
OCT. 3 5) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed for a person in Belden-Racine Hall. Offender was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.
6) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed OCT. 1 1) A marijuana smell report was filed for a room at Sheffield Square. No drugs were found.
OCT. 2 2) An armed robbery report was filed for a incident at 2245 N.
for a person in Seton Hall. Offender was transported to Illinois Masonic by Chicago EMT.
7) A marijuana smell report was filed for a room at CliftonFullerton Hall. No drugs were found.
8) A theft report was filed for a wallet taken in the Schmidt
Bissell. An email and postings were done.
Academic Center.
3) A public demonstration report was filed for a person in the
OCT. 4 9) An illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor report was filed
Student Center using inappropriate language.
4) A disorderly conduct/indecent exposure report was filed for a incident on the CTA Red Line.
filed for a person found in the alley behind 2347 N. Racine. Offender was transported to St. Mary of Nazareth hospital by Chicago EMT.
for a person in Belden-Racine Hall. Offender was transported to St. Joe’s Hospital by Chicago EMT.
10) A criminal damage to property report was filed for damage on a vehicle parked overnight in the 2400 Sheffield Avenue lot.
LOOP CAMPUS OCT. 1 12) A criminal trespass report was filed for a person asking for money in the DePaul Center.
13) A battery report was filed for an incident in the Lewis Center.
OCT. 2 14) A theft report was filed for a silver recording pen taken from the Lewis Center.
OCT. 6 15) A theft report was filed for a green iPod and headset taken from a bookbag in the Daley Building.
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ELECTION UPDATE BATTLEGROUND ILLINOIS 2014
Who was with Quinn this week? The embattled governor has called on some powerful allies to give him a boost ahead of the election People from all different types of backgrounds packed a room in O’Connell Hall on Thursday to hear Steven Salaita speak.
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FROM LEFT: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D), Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (D), Quinn, and first lady Michelle Obama.
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Actor Martin Sheen appeared with the governor at several campaign events.
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Quinn hugs First Lady Michelle Obama at a rally held last week in Chicago.
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President Barack Obama helped fundraise for Quinn earlier this month.
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Quinn with former Secratery of State Hillary Clinton outside the DePaul Center last week.
Analysis: Quinn, Rauner in tight race, Durbin faring better than other Senate Democrats By Brenden Moore Campus News Editor
Three weeks before Election Day, several dynamics are becoming clearer, while others remain unknown. In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and businessman Bruce Rauner (R) remain in a dead heat in the race for governor. A New York Times/CBS poll released this week showed the governor with a threepoint edge over challenger. Expect the race to remain
tight up until the election. Rauner will be competitive given his money and will also be touting the endorsements he received this week from the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business. Quinn, on the other hand, has had a slew of celebrities and politicians stump for him over the past few weeks, ranging from the president and first lady, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Martin Sheen. In the senate race, Sen. Dick Durbin (D) still holds a solid lead against
challenger Jim Oberweis (R). That will likely not change. Nationally, the climate is looking increasingly hostile for Democrats defending seats in states that Mitt Romney won in 2012. The Republicans need six seats to retake control of the Senate, and they already have three seats (Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia) in the bag. And with Democrats down in the polls in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado and Iowa, it is looking more and more likely that there will be a GOP takeover of the senate.
which got a few chuckles from the crowd. Salaita began his talk addressing the problem of academic freedom. “The board decided I was anti-Semitic in 10 minutes when the hiring process took well over six months,” Salaita said. “Board members have zero evaluations on my teaching skills … let alone how to compose a solid footnote.” This type of story is not unique to DePaul. In 2005, Professor Norman Finkelstein got into a public disagreement regarding Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2005, which led to DePaul denying his tenure bid. “A great surprise would be if Mr. Finkelstein came to speak also because he too got vilified for saying his views on Palestine,” said John Dworkin, a man who has attended all four of Salaita’s speaking tours. Civility was a word that Salaita consistently acknowledged. “They got Norman Finkelstein on collegiality, which in my case has upgraded to civility,” Salaita said, getting laughter from the crowd. Salaita continued to speak about tone and how “the very act of criticism is considered collegial. It does not matter if you say pretty please.” Salaita talked about his use of “civility” in his tweets about Israel. “Nothing
DURBIN continued from front page a bill that would lower interest rates to a point where the profits are miniscule. And in order to fill the hole in the budget that would be left, the bill calls for closing loopholes available to wealthy Americans. The measure, however, is stuck at 58 votes, two shy of the 60 needed to break a filibuster. Durbin and Warren, who had to leave early to catch a train to Wisconsin to campaign on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, urged students to make their voices heard in the coming election. And it was a message that resonated. “(It) was a great event for the DePaul Dems to attend,” said Marcus Cirone, political director for the DePaul Democrats. “It gave a dozen of our members the opportunity to question Senator Durbin and Senator Warren, two leading national
affected me more than the ice cream freezers,” Salaita said. He connected his nostalgia of ice cream freezers storing sweets to make children happy, to ice cream freezers in Gaza storing the deceased bodies of children. He concluded his speech with a gruesome image painted in the audiences’ heads and where it all began, “thus I tweeted.” The issue of academic censorship seems to be prevalent at DePaul according to an anonymous SJP member. “One time a professor told me there was no basis in writing the occupy West Bank because it is a contested phrase” said the SJP member. “(And) after divestment, I realized a lot of students don’t believe in human rights for Palestinians.” Posting political views on social media websites such as Twitter is a controversial topic, which started the problems for Salaita, affecting DePaul students as well. “I am going through a problem now because I will be traveling to the West Bank in December and I have to filter what I say online. I am nervous and hope I will be able to cross,” said the SJP member. Salaita is currently filing a lawsuit against U of I in an effort to get his job back, not to tweet brash ideas, but because he “deeply misses being in a classroom, a place where everyone has space to speak,” Salaita said.
voices on college affordability, on what needs to be done to make college more affordable.” Durbin, who is up comfortably in the polls against perennial candidate Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove), stayed a bit longer after Warren left to answer some questions from the audience. A student from Roosevelt University brought up Oberweis’ remarks that the senator was a bully for pressuring big companies like Walgreens to stay in the United States, and thanked him for it. “When I grew up in East St. Louis, bullies picked on little kids. I just pick on big kids.” Durbin said, getting laughter from the crowd. “The way I see it is if you don’t stand up and fight on some of these things, these folks are going to roll over you. “So whether it’s fighting to keep companies in Illinois or fighting the groups that are exploiting us, I’m going to keep doing it,” he said.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stops for a cup of coffee and takes some selfies with students at the DePaul Center Oct. 8. Clinton was in town stumping for Gov. Pat Quinn (D), who is locked in a tight race with Republican Bruce Rauner.
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Nation &World
Turmoil in the East
Pro-Democracy riots continue in Hong Kong, raise questions of stability By Kevin Gross Nation & World Editor
Long-bubbling discontent about issues of democracy in Hong Kong finally reached a boiling point, as tens of thousands of protesters have gathered throughout the last few weeks to cry out against the perceived injustices of the Mainland Chinese government. The student-led protests, dubbed Occupy Central or the Umbrella Revolution, began in earnest on Sept. 22. They largely centered around Beijing’s recent refusal of a proposal for Hong Kong to more freely elect its leaders by 2017. Although Beijing claimed to provide an alternate path toward free elections, they proposed a system whereby candidates for Hong Kong chief executive — its highest position of power — would have to be controlled by Beijing officials. The total number of protesters has grown and ebbed throughout the past few weeks, but faced a recent resurgence and was estimated by Singapore based newspaper The Straits Times to number more than 10,000 people as of Oct. 10. Protests have effectively shut down parts of the city as they occupied many of the streets within the city’s financial center. According to The Straits Times, the protests create an estimated economic loss of $38 million per week of continuance, and the stability of the area — a financial powerhouse that is the fourth-largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world — has become a major concern for the international business community. Police have not reacted kindly to the protests, at times utilizing equipment such as tear gas and pepper spray with seemingly little restraint. Additionally, many protesters had been attacked and injured by pro-government counter demonstrators. CNN reported that at least 56 people have been injured since the start of the protests, and at least 89 have been arrested. Stan Hok-Wui Wong, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, told Bloomberg Businessweek, “There are people in Hong Kong (who) fear if you push too hard then you may replicate the Tiananmen incident here.” On Oct. 6, the city government opened up a dialogue to negotiate with the student leaders. However, on Oct. 8, government officials called off the talks because of protesters’ refusal to budge from their previous demands. “Unfortunately, the protesters rejected the (government’s) rational proposal and went back to their old position,” Carrie Lam, chief secretary of Hong Kong, said. “This is sacrificing public good for their political demands.” Members of the community have grown increasingly concerned over student demonstrators’ welfare. The president of the City University of Hong Kong sent a message to its students on Oct. 3. “I understand that many of you feel strongly about political reform in Hong Kong, and that you wish to have your voices heard. … In the meantime, I appeal to our students to continue to remain calm and to support peaceful discussions. … Do not stay in areas where your personal safety might be at risk,” parts of the message read. Although international governments are unlikely to intervene in the situation
A pro-democracy protester holds a sign among throngs of protesters.
A scene of protesters running through tear gas on Sept. 28. because of China’s economic clout, many members of the private international community have come out in support of the demonstrators. Publications such as TIME have produced high profile feature pieces in favor of the protests. Li Jin, DePaul’s program director of Chinese studies, said that in addition to international media activity, “It has been reported that some American nongovernment organizations have been providing support to the demonstrators. However, eventually the responsibility for seeking a workable solution falls on the Hong Kong government and its residents.” Historically, Hong Kong was previously a colony of the United Kingdom, but was handed over to the Chinese government in 1997. Currently, the region is given certain unique economic freedoms and administrated as a “special administrative region” under a form of rule known as One Country, Two Systems. Notably, full voting rights never existed under U.K. rule. However, many in Hong Kong had expected democratic rights to develop in the years following the handover. Chapter 1, Article 5 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law document — which is analogous to their constitution — reads, “The socialist system and policies shall not be practiced in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the previous capitalist system and way of life shall remain unchanged for 50 years.” In the years since the handover, however, some thought that these ideals of civil liberty had been violated. In 2006,
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17-year-old Joshua Wong, one of the main student protest leaders, speaks to the press. Hong Kong legislators had passed a bill giving the police wide authority to wiretap phones and monitor communications, and Reporters Without Borders have dropped Hong Kong from 18 to 61 in its Press Freedom Index since 2002, the first year of the Index’s existence. Reporters Without Borders recently stated, “China’s growing economic weight is allowing it to extend its influence over the media in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, which had been largely spared political censorship until recently. ” “Hong Kong residents have (actually) held quite a number of protests in recent years,” Jin said. “Hong Kong residents, especially the younger generation, are quite sensitive about the democratization process (they) are going through.” Despite these concerns, however, some doubt as to whether the protests will lead to any long-term changes in the way Hong Kong is governed.
“In China, stability is a very important concept for many, especially economic stability,” Yuhao Chen, a DePaul grad student from Shenzhen, a Mainland city across the border from Hong Kong, said. “Although they have the right to assemble, most people may be more worried about harming the image of Hong Kong.” “In mainland China, it is likely that more than 50 percent don’t ideologically support the protests,” Chen said. With animosity boiling, the eyes of the world will likely remain on the Chinese to see whether developments there will affect the long-term stability of this global financial center. Protest leaders have made their intents clear to continue protests indefinitely until satisfactory negotiations are made. “(Let’s) occupy every inch of the streets,” 17-year-old student leader Joshua Wong said on Oct. 10.
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Ebola scare spreads to U.S. Treatment strategies pose questions of equitability between Americans, Africans By Alicya Dennison Contributing Writer
The first time his finances didn’t stand in the way of his travels to the United States, Ebola did. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, died in Dallas on Oct. 8 at 7:51 a.m. Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, was a Liberian native. He left home Sept. 19, U.S.-bound for the first time. He was supposed to visit family and friends whom he hadn’t seen in many years: his mother, fiancee and 19-year-old son, Karsiah Eric Duncan — who has no recollection of his father. Presumably in good health, he reached Dallas on Sept. 20. By Sept. 25, he checked into the emergency room on account of abdominal pains, according to The Washington Post. He was sent home with merely a fever of 101.1 degrees. “(The problem is) we don’t train our doctors in our health care system to think about diseases from other countries,” Craig Klugman, DePaul’s Chairman of the Department of Health Sciences, said. Ebola, formerly known as the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), first reared its head in 1976, taking its name from a river in northern Congo. Upon its discovery, however, it was found that the virus was divided into five strains: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), Ebola-Bundibugyo and EbolaReston — named by their areas of detection. Of the five strains, the Zaire strain was first observed and has proven itself most problematic, causing 10 large outbreaks
with fatalities ranging from 57 percent to 88 percent. Those who contracted the virus experienced symptoms of sudden fever, weakness, muscle fatigue, abdominal pains, diarrhea, vomiting and unexplained bleeding and bruising. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it takes an average of eight to 10 days for symptoms to show, but they can start as early as two and as late as 21 days after exposure. The virus can be transmitted through bodily fluids (blood, urine, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, semen, etc.), infected animals and objects contaminated with the virus. Experiencing the beginning symptoms of Ebola, Duncan was rushed back to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Sept. 28. Two days later, he was officially diagnosed. Duncan was the first human patient ever given the experimental drug brincidofovir. “These are experimental drugs … so we have no idea if they even work,” Klugman said. The death of Duncan raised the question: Who gets to survive Ebola? Nearly all survivors thus far have been Caucasian Americans. Patrick Sawyer, 40, the top official in Liberia’s Ministry of Finance, was the first American to die of Ebola in July. He was taken to a local Nigerian hospital after collapsing, and died there five days later. Sawyer was an African-American. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, of the U.S.-based missionary group Samaritan’s Purse, was the second recorded American to contract the disease, but the first whose story gained
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A patient in Dallas is treated because of possible signs of Ebola exposure. international coverage. As the medical director at a care center in Monrovia, Liberia, Brantly was unsure of how he contracted the virus. In July, around the same time Brantly contracted the disease, his colleague and dear friend, missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, also fell victim. The two were flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment, where they were given the experimental drug ZMapp. Fellow missionary, Dr. Rick Sacra, 52, also contracted the virus in Liberia while delivering babies at a general hospital in Monrovia, CNN reported. Sacra received a blood transfusion, courtesy of Brantly, which contained antibodies that those infected with Ebola needed to help their immune system combat the fatal disease. He also received an experimental drug called TKM-Ebola, which was recently approved by the FDA for expanded use.
In stark contrast, the infected people in West Africa have received no experimental drugs and are confined to makeshift hospitals that are short on beds, resources and staff. Often family members are left to care for their loved ones, causing entire families to be exposed to the virus. A few foreign nations are working together to help send more aid, but their efforts often aren’t enough. “In reality, there is nothing we can do but provide proper support and care,” Klugman said. The latest World Health Organization statistics show that as of Oct. 8, 3,865 fatalities and 8,033 suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola have occurred in the West African outbreak. “The way for us to help stop this from becoming an epidemic is to stop it at the source, (that means) prevention in Africa,” Klugman said.
Gerrymandering poses questions for fair elections By Kevin Gross Nation & World Editor
With the November midterm elections beckoning, concerns are arising as to how the decisions of voters may be challenged via the constantly increasing effects of political gerrymandering. Gerrymandering, or the redistricting of voter districts for political purposes, occurs because state legislatures are allowed to draw new districts after the census, which occurs every 10 years. The ruling party has generally used these opportunities to its advantage, redrawing lines so that strong populations of opposition voters are weakened. Areas of opposition are either split and districted with previously separate populations that may support the status quo, or concentrated into single districts as to eliminate competitiveness in other neighboring districts. The potential ramifications for the upcoming elections are real. The Washington Post claimed that only 30 House races are competitive; in all other races, the incumbent or front-running candidate is calculated as having at least a 90 percent chance of winning a seat. According to an analysis by Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post, gerrymandering was responsible for an additional 18 Republican seats in the House elections of
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Congressional District 4, covering parts of Chicagoland. It's considered one of the most gerrymandered districts in the United States. 2012, based on comparisons between the popular vote and the actual representation different parties received in Congress. That year, House Democrats received 50.6 percent of the popular vote nationwide, but only 46.21 percent of total House seats, thus preserving a Republican House majority that had very real ramifications in the passing of policies between Congress and the Obama administration. Based on polls and historical voting trends, analysts at Politico said if the upcoming elections were hosted on Oct. 1, the Republican House majority would likely widen by an additional eight seats. Democrats have also been
guilty of heavy redistricting, as Republican candidates in Illinois have discovered. Illinois Congressional redistricting occurred in 2011 and helped lead Democrats claim 12 of 18 House seats in 2012 elections, despite only winning 55 percent of the popular vote. Critics of the practice claim that it is unethical on a number of fundamental criteria. In addition to the previously mentioned viewpoints, gerrymandering often concentrates and politically under-represents minorities. Some critics also said gerrymandered districts may simply fail to make geographical sense in accordance to actual community boundaries.
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“A beautiful electoral district is in the eyes of the beholder,” Larry Bennett, a DePaul political science professor, said. “A problem is that there’s no standard for what an ‘ethically districted’ area looks like.” There have been various attempts to stymie practices of gerrymandering. On Oct. 7, U.S. district courts declared Virginia’s gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District unconstitutional on the grounds of racial discrimination. Similarly, in 2011 California established a Citizen’s Redistricting Commission, taking the power of political districting out of the hands of elected officials. However, large-scale pushes
for these types of practices have not been stringent. Except in cases of extreme racial discrimination, there is often little legal basis for striking down the practice. Furthermore, ruling politicians are, understandably, often unwilling to give up their power over districting. “With (citizens commissions), there’s also the issue that their members can potentially be ideologically compromised as well,” Bennett said. Without any large pushes to end gerrymandering, it remains to be seen how the practice may influence the November elections. “I don’t think there are really any ethical validations of gerrymandering,” Bennett said.
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Opinions
Homelessness: The plight of Chicago’s poor By Kate Kownacki
openings, and these people can stay there as long as they want. I want a job and counseling. I want to move forward. I want to make it back to society, not sit there Heidi and Ronnie have been living on with other people who got their life turned the unforgiving streets of Chicago for more upside down by crack,” Heidi said. than three years. Heidi, a single mother According to the Continuum of of three, found herself exhausted by the Care Programs (COC), as of 2013 there struggles of being the sole financial supporter are 610,042 Americans experiencing of herself and her three girls. homelessness on any given night. This One day at work, she was so exhausted figure remains a constant, proving that that she took her first hit of crack cocaine. the current “solutions” to homelessness — This mistake turned her already difficult life especially those resembling the structure of into a nightmare. She lost her children, her homeless shelters — are ineffective. home and her self-respect. Ronnie found To understand the failures of the himself a victim of the same addiction and current approach to homelessness relief, we had been on the streets several years before must first identify the root causes that are meeting Heidi. They now face the cruelty typically mislabeled as “laziness.” Unjust of homelessness together, never knowing drug policy, wealth inequality, limited living whether they are going to make it to the next wage jobs and the cycle of generational day. poverty are just a few of the root causes. “From the minute I wake up, I’m The COC cited that out of the 610,042 hungry, thirsty, depressed and anxious. I’m homeless, 133,230 are homeless as a result wondering how I’m going to get breakfast or of substance abuse, 124,152 as a result of if I’ll ever get my kids back. There’s nowhere mental illness and 63,836 as a result of to eat today, no one domestic violence. to talk to, nowhere According to the to go. We’re being National Coalition dehumanized. We’re for the Homeless, the first ones to help substance abusers anyone out here, and living in extreme KATE KOWNACKI | THE DEPAULIA no one gives a damn conditions of poverty Heidi and Ronnie are homeless people who live on the streets of Chicago together. about us,” Heidi said. are fairly likely to lose People typically their home. Treatment view the homeless for substance abuse as unworthy of is difficult to come something as simple by for the homeless as a friendly greeting and many homeless or smile. We walk substance abusers past them on a daily begin their battle basis, especially in with addiction on the Chicago, and pretend streets with nowhere they only exist as to turn. This cycle of another obstacle of abuse and the failure our rushed morning to address it stunts commute. We fail any progress that can to realize that they be made in defeating are humans, too. homelessness. We cannot continue The U.S. prison to step on the system only continues homeless to get on Heidi, Chicago to exacerbate this top. They deserve homeless woman issue, using our the opportunity to taxpayer dollars to become an active member of society, and incarcerate and re-incarcerate substance they have consistently been denied that. abusers and the mentally ill. The Bureau of According to the Universal Declaration Justice Statistics cited that approximately of Human Rights, “everyone has the right 64 percent of inmates are affected by some to a standard of living adequate for the type of mental illness. These “offenders,” health and well-being of himself and of his both mentally ill and substance abusers, family, including food, clothing, housing and are jailed for short periods of time, thrown medical care and necessary social services, back onto the street, and then jailed and the right to security in the event of again for a similar offense. According to unemployment,” all of which are absent in a study conducted by the Department KATE KOWNACKI | THE DEPAULIA the life of the average homeless person. The of Justice, it costs around $15 billion per Heidi holds a photo of herself and her three girls. The photo with her girls was taken notion that the homeless are completely at year to house the mentally ill people in our in 2011, before she began her battle with substance abuse. fault for their circumstances allows these prisons. Focusing on treatment rather than human rights violations to grow in severity. incarceration could exponentially reduce the “I want to work for everything. I’m not amount of taxpayer money going to fund reverse them. The longer we allow people alone. Challenge your beliefs, and remember lazy. I’ve applied for jobs but I don’t have prisons. Investing taxpayer money in drug like Heidi and Ronnie to suffer as a result that small acts of kindness make a difference. a shower, food, or clothes. Who the hell is rehabilitation and mental health facilities of our carelessness, the worse the problem Solving the issue of homelessness is going to hire me? How can I get a job when solves the problem at its core, effectively will get. no easy feat, but if we continue living in a I’m sleeping in an alley? I want to be good,” stopping the vicious cycle that forced these Understand that the homeless are not society absent of action, the issue will persist Heidi said. people to remain homeless. victims of misfortune, but rather victims of for eternity. We must stand up for what Current approaches to homelessness Make no mistake, the neglect to the same structural violence that threatens we believe in, and actively resist supporting relief, rooted in the assumption that the poor sufficiently aid the homeless is a human all of us on a daily basis. Addressing the the entities at the root of the problem. We are intrinsically inferior, treat the effects rights issue. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners issues at the root of homelessness takes must stop allowing the fear of acting against and neglects the causes. Relying solely on in Health, an organization that helps to time and effort, but that does not mean our oppressors to paralyze us. We must let temporary solutions, such as shelters and provide the poor with proper health care, that we can remain idle while changes to go of our preconceived notion and treat food banks, leaves the problem unsolved. claimed that the key to social justice is the structures of society are in progress. the homeless with the respect they deserve. Although these relief efforts are vital, the seeing, “the conditions of the poor not If you’re wondering where to start, begin This is not just an issue about homelessness, focus needs to be shifted to include solutions only as unacceptable, but as the result of with yourself. Treat the homeless with the this is about human rights, too. If you think such as permanent housing and employment structural violence that is human-made.” same respect you would have for anyone that every human being should have equal opportunities. We must identify our contributions to the else; buy them a warm meal, engage them opportunity, use your voice to stand up for “The shelters here, they have limited growth of homelessness and find a way to in conversation, let them know they are not those who do not have one. Contributing Writer
I want to work for everything. I'm not lazy, I've applied for jobs but I don't have a shower, food or clothes. Who the hell is going to hire me? How can I get a job when I'm sleeping in an alley? I want to be good.
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Tinder changes hookup culture By Gracie Covarrubias Contributing Writer
As a culture, young adults have managed to change countless societal norms to match the pace of the mass media movements surging through pop culture. In the case of Tinder, our generation has become a victim of this mass media app’s manipulative effects. Tinder has changed the way young adults view the constructs and gender-biased stigmas existing in hookup culture. In September 2012, Tinder was launched, and so began a new era of hookup culture. The app itself is best described as a matchmaking service that links users based on information found on their Facebook. Tinder takes into account each user’s interests as liked on Facebook, their age, their first name, a selected few profile pictures and 500 text characters, all in an effort to find the user a perfect match. The task of marketing yourself has proved quite enticing for the estimated 10 million active daily users. While some see this app as an opportunity to meet new people, others see it as a method of objectification and degradation of the sexes. The app has become a center of controversy. Simple Pickup, a maledriven dating site, performed a social experiment to highlight the shallow motives behind Tinder. For its viral experiment, Simple Pickup created fake Tinder profiles for both a man and a woman. It then arranged a date between their fake profiles and someone from the vast Tinder pool of contenders. The catch? When the date took place, Simple Pickup disguised the participants in their experiment with makeup and
body adhesives. While the man’s and woman’s pictures portrayed them as fit and attractive, their fake appearances garnered shallow responses from actual Tinder users. These users were not simply looking for someone with a kind heart; their angry responses accusing the user of lies and deceit via Tinder proved just how superficial the motives of Tinder users were. DePaul University freshman Carson Gengler stated that Tinder was a hot topic in her circle of friends. “I don’t actually use it for its purpose,” Gengler said. “I don’t meet up with people. I use it for entertainment value. The conversations are interesting, you send a message saying ‘Hey’ and the immediate response is, ‘Will you have sex with me?’ If that’s not entertainment, I don’t know what is.” In addition to entertainment purposes, the popular app has essentially become a virtual speed-dating vehicle that allows for snap judgments based on the simple profiles. Tinder is designed so that the client is never truly rejected; as a user you are solely notified of your matches. Not only are these matches a self-esteem boost, but they also open the door to further things, which to many of the app’s college users, means sex. While there are certainly many negativities attached to Tinder, a positive factor of the app that goes largely unnoticed is its ability to rid our society of gender-biased stigmas. The responsibility of the match lies on both parties as opposed to suggesting that one gender should make an advance first. “Tinder is just branching off of what we already recognized as hookup culture.
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It’s encouraging people to explore relationships with the people around them and while it has its drawbacks, it is empowering,” Gengler said. “Tinder helps communicate the idea that serious relationships and marriage are not the only immediate option. It encourages people to find out more about what they want.” It’s clear that Tinder has various connotations in peoples’ lives. For some, it is an entertaining activity; for others it has become the new face of hookup culture. It’s sexy, convenient and simple. But the bottom line here is that it’s a mass media app that has molded user’s social and sex lives. As a society we’re giving this manipulative app too much credit and enabling it to form relationships in our lives that aren’t
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necessarily natural. Essentially, Tinder’s ability to eliminate the getting-to-knowyou-part of relationships shows the extent to which we’ve lost control of the dating world.
Drone deliveries are a win-win invention By Sam Schwindt Contributing Writer
Despite a lack of regulatory rules or governmental oversight, companies such as Google, Amazon and DHL have prepared to test the plausibility of drone deliveries. Are these our future — flying machines filling the skies? Will the newest gadget replace people? There is no status quo for automated delivery systems, primarily due to the arbitrary barring of projected plans for aerial deliveries. According to The New York Times, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intervened earlier this year when a local brewery in Minnesota sought to pilot test the feasibility of using aerial drones to transport beer to nearby ice fishermen. Although this may seem like a ridiculous example, the entrepreneurial drive to pursue this new delivery method is alive and well. Under what circumstances would governmental agencies in the United States sanction drone deliveries? In Germany, DHL used a drone to deliver medicine to an isolated German island. It’s a win-win scenario.
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DHL drones in Germany on Sept. 24 are starting Germany’s first-ever drone package delivery service, a test program transporting medication to a pharmacy on a difficult to access North Sea island. The company offered faster and more efficient service and the consumer gained access to a vital commodity that might have otherwise been unavailable. In the United States, drone deliveries could potentially provide dire supplies such as food, water and medicine to rural communities with limited access. The possibilities are endless. So, why not have drone deliveries? Important questions must
be answered to resolve the issue. Are they safe? Reliable? What are the chances they will crash and burn, and, as a result, injure someone? In an interview with The Atlantic, the founder of Matternet, a company focused on creating a system of delivery drones, addressed some of these questions. Andreas Raptopoulos said, “We need to design these vehicles to make sure they don’t represent a public risk. If we’re able to do that, we’re ready for
primetime.” Ensuring public safety means fewer lawsuits. The general public gets faster access to products and the company makes a profit. Another winwin scenario. As with all new discoveries, inventions and ideas, there are positives and negatives. Whatever side you may fall on, it seems clear that drone deliveries are the next step in technology. Despite denouncements based on safety
and privacy issues, drones are likely to become the status quo. When looking past current predicaments of reliability, there is no longer any reason to dismiss drones. It is a more efficient way to transport goods; it is a more practical approach for delivering supplies, medicine and other things to far off, isolated places. Drones are the future innovation, and represent a step forward in our technologically advanced world.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The DePaulia staff.
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Focus
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Biking is as popular as ever in the city, and on campus. Take advantage of the amenities, and stay safe cycling. By Zhangli Bu Contributing Writer
As the third largest city in the nation, Chicago is a busy city. According to the City of Chicago website, about 882,430 vehicles pass through Chicago on an average weekday. This has caused safety to become a serious problem for campus bikers, especially for bikers in the Loop Campus, which is one of the busiest campuses located downtown. Mallory Ewart, a senior American studies student at DePaul, has been biking on campus for three years. “People feel very insecure about riding a bike on campus, especially in the Loop,” Ewart said. “It’s super busy here.” But Ewart said it would not be a problem if people could figure out how traffic worked. “That’s the key to riding a bike,” she said. Wearing a helmet is also a good way to protect yourself. Ewart said she once fell off her bike, but luckily her helmet protected her from sustaining a severe head injury. Phil Marcinek, assistant director of facilities at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center, also had the same concerns about safety. “People should learn the rules of the road, and make sure you are paying attention,” he said. Sticking with the bike paths is important. “Even though a lot of streets don’t have bike lanes, cars realize that there are bikes everywhere, so they are going to give you a little bit more ground,” he said.
Although safety is a big problem for many bikers, Ewart has other concerns about the unfriendly relationship between bikers and drivers. “Most of the time bikers know exactly what they are doing. They understand that they are not going to get in the way of these cars at all,” she said. “But the cars don’t understand that. The cars don’t realize that we are just humans.” Ewart said some drivers are inconsiderate when it comes to sharing the road. It happened to her many times. She was riding a bike in Lincoln Park one night with her friend. It was quite late, and the road wasn’t busy at all. Then a car came up to them, and people yelled “Get the f--- out of the road.” Ewart said she just didn’t understand. “I mean, you have so much room. You are in the car, and you can destroy us,” she said. “Just give us some space.” The same thing happened when she was stopped at a stop sign. Then the cars just skirted along. She said it just felt like the drivers were saying, “Don’t get in my way, you are making me stop right now.” “Go and do your own thing,” she said. “Let us do our own thing as well.” Ewart said biking is still worth a shot. “Instead of being mean back to cars, just say something like ‘Have a nice day.’ Just something foolish.” she said.
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Campus spots to gear up Sitting on the bench outside of the Barnes & Noble at the DePaul Center, Mallory Ewart was reading her book. Her brown bike leaned against the bench, bathed in the late afternoon sun. “I love biking around,” Ewart said. “I feel more active to the city, and I get to discover a lot more of the city.” It’s true — Chicago is a good place for bikers. According to Bicycling magazine, Chicago is ranked as the No. 2 bicyclefriendly city in the United States. DePaul University, with two campuses located in Chicago, has done its bit to create a bikefriendly campus.
According to the website of the DePaul Facility Operations Department, biking to and around campus has become a friendlier activity since increasing the number of bike parking spaces to just under 1,000 in 2013. John Washo, senior assistant director of Outdoor Recreation at the Ray Meyer Fitness Center, said DePaul has done a very nice job of both encouraging and increasing opportunities for biking on campus. “We have seen a growth in bike stalls that afford more individuals the option of biking to campus,” Washo said.
According to Washo, several new stalls were installed around the campus during the summer, including two brand-new ones outside of the Ray. DePaul students and staff can always turn to the Campus Recreation Department for any bike-related activities. According to Marcinek, the center offers rental bikes at just $7 for the day. It also offers a series of bike workshops, such as the Bike Maintenance & Safety Workshop, Lakefront Bike Cruise and City Biking Intro. “We want everyone at DePaul to have the chance to ride on campus,” Marcinek said.
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dents make use of the bike corrals that DePaul provides to lock up their bikes.
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Arts & Life
e-sports are more than just a
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By Joseph troiano Contributing Writer
The Staples Center, one of the most glamorous arenas in the United States is sold out, once again. Fans pack in wearing hats, T-shirts and jerseys for their favorite player and team. The crowd chants, applauds, oohs and aahs at the big plays of the game, cheering exasperatingly for the winners as they put the finishing touches on a tough match. The teams shake hands; the winners conduct interviews and the analysts and commentators break down the defining moments of the competition. But, this isn’t a Lakers, Clippers or Kings game, the three teams that call Staples Center home, this is a “League of Legends” tournament (or “LoL”), the fastest growing E-Sport in the world. Simply put, Electronic Sports or E-Sports, is simply competitive gaming. But it’s not really that simple. Long gone is the “Ms. PacMan,” “Centipede” and “Donkey Kong” battles for the highest score that made documentaries like, “The Kings of Kong: Fistful of Quarters,” popular. Now they are replaced with “StarCraft,” “DotA 2” and “League of Legends” tournaments that regularly pay winners anywhere from the lower six figures up to just more than $1 million dollars. And yes, you read that correctly. This isn’t a group of kids betting their allowance on a game of “Mario Kart” — this is the big leagues. “The minimum salary is $30,000 per player, except with sponsorships and twitch streaming revenue, they often get more,” DePaul senior Harrison Fang said. Fang is a digital cinema major, and manager of DePaul’s inner collegiate “League of Legends” team who is trying to help put DePaul on the E-Sports map. “My goal is to really get the E-Sports scene here at DePaul going,” Fang said. These aren’t pickup games at your neighborhood park either. These are league games and
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From left: Christopher Djaja and Harrison Fang met at DePaul because of their passion for League of Legends and are now key members of the university’s E-Sports community.
Top “League of Legends” players in the world Name
Sang Hyeok Lee Bo Wei Cheng Eon Yeong Jung Jeong Hyeon Lee Gwang Jin Chae
Gamertag
“Faker” “Bebe” “Impact” “PoohManDu” “Piglet”
Country Korea Taiwan Korea Korea Korea
Total earnings $272,603 $270,869 $256,603 $255,253 $254,337
Top American player Marcus Hill is 24th in world and earned $88 thousand. Source: esportearnings.com tournaments with a lot at stake. According to esportsearnings. com, the top earning “League of Legends” players made over $200,000 in 2013. And these are teams with a full roster of players, each with a defining role. From your supports, think of a point guard like a Steve Nash, but to attack and carry the team, think aggressive scorer like Kobe Bryant. Either way, all players know exactly what’s expected of them. The competitions are worldwide and can be compared to the world cup of gaming, pitting nations against one another. “You narrow it down to the top eight teams in every region, so you have worlds, university and then high school levels also,” DePaul senior Christopher Djaja said. “In between high school and the top eight there’s actually an amateur series.” Djaja is a business and
finance major at DePaul and the university’s “League of Legends” team leader. Fang and Djaja met at DePaul through their passion for “League of Legends.” After countless hours and gaming session inside the computer lab on campus, they decided to take “League of Legends” seriously and create a “LoL” community at DePaul. Like any sports team, they have team practices where they go over game film and plays, and outings to promote cohesiveness among teammates. “We have a regiment, we schedule practices and we have scrimmages with other universities,” Djaja said. Even though Djaja and Fang are just now jumping into the competitive scene as a team, E-Sports is not a new phenomenon. E-Sports started in 2000 and was mostly based around games that were first person
shooters (“Call of Duty”), realtime strategy (“StarCraft”) and fighting games (Street Fighter). With the introduction of MOBAs (Massive online battle arenas) like “DotA” came a wave of interest unlike any game before it, but it was the 2009 release of video game developer Riot Game’s “League of Legends” that changed it all. “Riot, unlike any other company before, took the initiative to build an infrastructure for E-Sports and teams, so players wouldn’t have to be dependent off competitions that are randomly sponsored,” Djaja said. With the growth of “LoL” has also come the growth in popularity of E-Sports and one key ingredient to the success of E-Sports is Twitch TV. Twitch is a website that lets gamers live stream footage of their gameplay and has paved the way for pro gamers to earn an income off sponsorships.
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Twitch also provided Riot an outlet to broadcast its tournaments, giving them international recognition and access to an even wider audience. But don’t think that it stops there. E-Sports has gotten so popular that one college in the United States is now giving out athletic scholarships to “League of Legends” players. According to ESPN.com, Robert Morris University has recognized the rise of E-Sports and started giving players scholarships that covered 50 percent of the student’s tuition and 50 percent of their room and board. “They have players who are in the top 200 on the North American ladder,” DePaul sophomore Gerard Lamb said. Lamb is a digital cinema major and also the coach for DePaul’s A-team (kind of like the Phil Jackson to DePaul’s starting line up). Though not every college is convinced of the legitimacy of E-Sports, players like Fang, Djaja and Lamb at Universities like DePaul are still trying to carve a piece of the pie out for themselves. “We try to model it as a real sport, even though we’re not sponsored or anything yet,” Fang said. “We still want to play as if we are sponsored.” With the help of Lamb, Djaja and Fang have started putting together a respectable group of players at the university. “On our premiere team,all the players are in the top 1 percent of the community,” Fang said, referring to the “LoL” community. Though Fang and Djaja may soon be gone, they have already set a strong foundation for DePaul’s future success in E-Sports with Lamb at the helm. “We just want to show that DePaul has a real a good pool of players, a strong community,” Djaja said. For that tournament that happened at the Staples Center last season, that sold out the first hour that tickets were available. “Last years’ world championship had more viewers than the NBA finals and the PGA tour combined,” Fang said.
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COMMENTARY
Elle’s Timberland trend creates controversy By Vanessa Bell Contributing Writer
Fashion trends come and go as frequently as the weather changes. One thing that remains consistent in the industry is that most trends repeat themselves. However, Elle magazine’s most recent blast from the past landed them in hot water on social media. On Oct. 7, the magazine tweeted, “Are YOU a fan of this winter's major celeb shoe trend?” Attached to the tweet was a photo of Rihanna, Gwen Stefani and North West wearing Timberland boots. The problem is, Timberlands —specifically their Premium Waterproof collection—have been a trend in the African-American community and hip-hop for more than 20 years. Twitter reacted almost immediately with the hashtags such as #TrendsRevivedByElle and #EllesNextHeadline. The argument largely made by users was that the magazine was appropriating hip-hop and black culture. Timberland boots were originally manufactured for yearlong sustainability, despite the weather. They were not particularly a fashion-forward brand. Around the early ‘90s when R&B regularly topped music charts and hiphop was becoming more popular, mostly rappers —and the “bad boys” of R&B— wore the boots as a fashion statement to complete their rugged look. The Elle article read: “Last year, Adidas’ Stan Smith sneaker was the shoe that was everywhere. The progression from casual sneakers to must-have item was fast and furious. This season, I predict a similar ascent to fashion greatness for the Timberland boot. Here’s why: All cool girls are wearing Timbs, from Cara Delevingne
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Timberland boots have been popular for years in the black community, but Elle Magazine took notice only recently when celebrities began wearing them. to Rihanna to Gwen Stefani…Anyway, now that stylish babies North West and Blue Carter have been spotted in Timbs…I know that they’re about to explode. They. Are. Happening. And if you don’t believe me, here’s proof. Click through the coolest girls in their Timbs and then tell me you don’t want a pair.” Tweets using the two hashtags were a satirical response to this. Users jokingly tweeted that bonnets, Kool-Aid and cocoa butter will soon make the magazine’s headlines. After the tweets from AfricanAmericans started to flood the magazine’s notifications and #EllesNextHeadline was trending, the publication rephrased its tweet to include that Danielle Prescod,the
site’s black fashion editor, wrote the article. The tweet was an attempt to settle the steam, but it completely backfired. “Throw the black girl under the bus,” was one of the responses. Another user tweeted, “Elle Mag really said, ‘Go attack the black girl for the article. Not us.’ Hilarious.” After the Twitter uproar, Elle, reworked the lead and ultimately rewrote entire story to include that Timberlands are a recurring trend. Though it’s still wrong, it sounds a lot better than the previous article. However, in a world where technology is constantly progressing, the screenshot is a feature that takes away the simplicity of a delete button. Photos of the original article are still floating around,
and the original tweets with the link to the old article are still posted, but the links no longer work. But, if trends repeat themselves, why were people so upset? The answer is simple: Timberlands haven’t gone anywhere. They are just as popular in the AfricanAmerican community today, as they were when Naughty By Nature was the hottest new rap group in 1991. Some social media users consider the article, and others like it, “appropriation of black culture.” Not because they don’t think trends resurface, but because it was marketed as a new fashion trend. This isn’t the first time a major publication made this mistake. Recently, fashion magazines such as Marie Claire, Livid, Lucky Magazine and Seventeen have also come under fire on social media for attempting to coin old fashion trends from the African-American community as new. Livid used Instagram to show models in a new, trendy “urban tie cap” known for years in the black community as a do-rag. Lucky magazine’s “slicked down tendrils” have been called “baby hair” since the beginning of the ’90s. Marie Claire considered Kendall Jenner’s undercut braids “bold” and said she took them to “a new, epic level.” The argument of appropriation comes in where the publications fail to acknowledge the fact that all these fashion trends have always been around. All these headlines suffer from a bad case of “words mean things.” If the titles were reworked, and the articles revealed more attributions, social media users say they would’ve reacted differently. Prescod said she stands by her Elle article and sees nothing wrong with it.
A NUMBERS GAME
Museum of Science and Industry combines math and nature in new exhibit By Jordan Sarti Staff Writer
The Museum of Science and Industry’s newest permanent exhibit, “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze,” seems to answer the question every elementary school math teacher hates most: “When will I use this?” The exhibit, which opened last Wednesday, attempts to engage people with math observable in nature. Its centerpiece features an 1,800-square-foot funhouse-style mirror maze. “The museum is thrilled to open an exhibit that illuminates mathematics and numbers in a fun, interactive way,” Kurt Haunfelner, vice president of exhibits and collections at the Museum of Science and Industry, said. “By showcasing that fascinating numerical patterns are all around us, we hope kids and adults will become inspired to discover more about how math has a strong and important presence in our daily lives.” MSI links mathematical patterns to everyday life, the human body, and the arts. Upon entering, viewers are greeted by a wraparound screen that spans half of a large oval room,
looping a video about parallels between human constructions and natural patterns, like spirals in the head of a sunflower. The video makes connections between architecture and nature in surprising ways. Museumgoers then enter a small area with a stylized white plant structure, around which there are various touch screens where people can play games to engage with the golden ratio, spirals, Voronoi patterns, and fractal branching. The main draw of the exhibit is the mirror maze. Though the concept is familiar, this maze is far more elaborate than its carnivalstyle counterparts. Hallways of crystal-clear diagonally placed mirrors serve to disorient, while the path splits into multiple deadend alcoves and a secret interior room with additional puzzles. The maze is lit from the ground with effervescent blue light bulbs. The objective of the installation is to allow guests to immerse themselves in its repetition, symmetry and tessellation, which focuses on shapes. Children traversed the maze giggling and screaming, while adults navigated cautiously. Emerging from the maze, museum guests enter a second
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In “Numbers in Nature,” guests can navigate a seemingly infinite 1,800-square-foot mirror maze, which features a pattern of repeating triangles. room of interactive displays. Included are motion sensor explorations of different patterns, mirrors to observe patterns of symmetry and the golden mean in guests’ faces and bodies, a table where they can arrange musical note blocks and hear their composition, and displayed ant hill and beehive formations.
Museum guests can spin a wheel to match architectural landmarks from a multitude of cultures with their geometric counterparts. In another touchscreen game, you create your own fractals. The mathematical patterns in the natural world become evident through a range of interactive mediums, engaging people of all different learning
styles. The MSI clearly made it its mission to get young people excited about math and numbers through a multimedia presentation, making use of popular gaming technology and fun, group-based activities. The exhibit is part of a permanent collection, and entrance is included in the museum fee.
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Breaking barriers: Speaker sheds light on slut phobia, gender equality By Parker Asmann Copy Editor
With her head barely peaking over the podium, Favianna Rodriguez waited eagerly for students and faculty to pile into the first floor of the Student Center on Thursday afternoon. She took the audience on a roller coaster of uncomfortable discussions surrounding topics of slut phobia, gender equality, immigration and climate change that are typically left unaddressed and hidden in the dark in today’s culture. She attempted to shift these dialogues from being taboo toward a more open and comfortable interaction. “Discomfort is a necessary part of my art,” Rodriguez said. “To be honest, it’s my objective because it forces people to talk about the things they don’t want to address.” A native of Oakland, California, Rodriguez has traveled the world, leading workshops and discussions while using her different lines of artwork to convey her feelings about migration, global politics, social inequality, patriarchy and the power that art has to confront and combat these topics. She is dedicated to empowering women and people of color to transform the current sate of the nation. Through using an informal approach to run her talks, the event morphed into more of an open dialogue, rather than somebody spewing facts and opinions onto an audience. As she smiled and stomped on stage with every word, audience members chimed in from time to time, creating a true communal feel that had almost everyone in attendance feeling comfortable. “There’s only one way to break the
silence on these topics, and that’s to talk about them in an authentic way to inform the uninformed,” Rodriguez said. Through growing up in the era of NAFTA and witnessing the contradiction between the decisions of those in power and the realities taking place on the ground firsthand, Rodriguez pledged to dismantle the negative representations of women and people of color who she saw growing up as a Latina. “Why is it that women are constantly framed as somebody’s property, as these docile little figures who don’t have any power?” she said. “I’ve used my art to allow me to speak out against these issues and not have to be apologetic about it. It’s a safe zone where I can showcase my power.” In creating her own identity as a Latina, Rodriguez coined the formerly derogatory terms of “slut” and “pussy” and has redefined them to fuel her campaign titled Pussy Power. The campaign is designed to provide women with a feeling of power and control over their bodies, and how they choose to use them. Along with this project, Rodriguez is constantly creating art, along with different T-shirts and posters, which convey her views as loudly and as passionately as she did in person. Throughout this process, the Monarch butterfly emerged as an overreaching symbol for her work consistently featured in her designs on immigration and women’s rights. “Twenty-two percent of deported parents have an American child, and the Monarch butterfly is the longest-migrating insect in the world which is why I wanted to use it to symbolize the true beauty in migration, whether it be with people or insects,” Rodriguez said.
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Artist Favianna Rodriguez spoke at DePaul last week on sex and female empowerment. With only a handful of unoccupied seats sparsely scattered across the room, those in attendance erupted into a loud round of applause after Rodriguez finished up her speech that followed with a Q&A segment. Ana Karen is a California native who previously knew of Rodriguez’s work. She’s now working for a nonprofit organization in Chicago, and said Rodriguez’s work is inspiring. “Favianna makes me feel right at home, and it’s always so refreshing to see her speak to such large crowds,” Karen said. “These are very taboo topics that don’t get addressed all that often, so it’s nice to hear somebody who feels comfortable sharing their own personal stories to shed a different, much needed, light on these things.” And Rodriguez was nothing short of upfront when it came to her personal connections to these topics. From details on her love life, her emotional journey after having an abortion, and discovering her body and who she was, Rodriguez left a piece of herself at DePaul. “Pleasure is a beautiful thing, and my body never ceases to amaze me, I continue
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Favianna Rodriguez’s Pussy Power campaign seeks to help women feel in control of their bodies.
to learn new things about myself every day,” Rodriguez said. “I just want women to feel empowered and comfortable with being who they want to be, and not someone society tells them they should be.”
Improvising Samuel Beckett ‘From Almost Nothing’ By Erik Summerville Contributing Writer
Beauty was to be found in chaos last Monday night as the DePaul Humanities Center kicked off its season with “Sounds Generated from Almost Nothing from a Fully Corrupted Material,” featuring members of Chicago’s Theatre Y improvising an aural deconstruction of Samuel Beckett’s 1962 play “Happy Days,” through vocalization, sound manipulation and sampling. The concert, as the artists described it, compelled audience members to reflect upon preconceptions of language and sound, merely using Beckett’s play as a platform on which to challenge these ideas, and to create a memorable experience, “from Almost Nothing.” “If you hate this kind of performance that’s OK, because it’s interesting. Because if you hate this kind of performance you have to ask yourself why you hate it,” director and performer Andras Visky said. While indeed, the performance might not be immediately enjoyable to every viewer, it was certainly impactful, prompting viewers to question
their notions of sound, music and performance as a whole. And if there were audience members asking themselves why he or she “hated” the performance at the beginning, by the end they likely found themselves not really hating it at all. Actress and vocalist Melissa Lorraine delivered lines from the text, accompanied by conceptual artist Peter Szabo’s audio manipulation and director Andras Visky’s sampling. Approached by the performers as a concert, and in line with Beckett’s own desire to explore the lack of meaning in sound and also the meaning in the lack of sound, words and concrete ideas are forgone in favor of an overwhelmingly corporeal experience. There is meaning to be found, but those are meanings evoked in the viewer by the experience itself, rather than read explicitly from the text. “We don’t create meaning for the audience, we just offer a possibility for everybody to put together,” Visky said. The visceral nature of the piece was compounded by the conversational flow of the performers. Visky said the creative process
was largely instinctual. Lorraine would react to Visky and Szabo, and vice versa. “We try to simply follow our body,” Visky said. This improvisational method resulted in a performance that demanded the attention of the audience, and while at times abrasive, the results were never boring, and consistently challenging. Its impact, in part, was derived from the performers’ welcoming of artistic accidents of chance. DePaul Humanities Programmer Peter Steeves said that this facet of the performance, in its conveyance of the power and profundity of the accident in art, put him in the mind of John Cage and Merce Cunnigham, choreographer, as well as Cage’s partner, collaborating. It was also reminiscent of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Cambridge 1969,” in which Lennon accompanied Ono’s vocals on guitar feedback. The fact that the performance provoked a comparison of two sets of romantic partners is a testament to the intuition and amazing kinetic energy conveyed between the performers. Lorraine’s vocal performance is similarly powerful
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Péter Szabó, Melissa Lorraine and András Visky of Theatre Y’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” DePaul Humanities Festival’s adaptation featured the actors improvising an aural deconstruction of the play. to Ono’s, and, at its dynamic apex, awakens the listener from the proceeding hypnotic interchange of words and persistently droning distortion of the amplifiers. Whether the performance had any meaning to convey, and whether it successfully functioned as a deconstruction of Beckett’s text, has no significance. What matters is that it was a unique experience that can never
be reproduced, at least not in the same form. It will leave a mark on the audience and open its mind. Theatre Y’s adaptation opens Oct. 17. The DePaul Humanities Center’s season continues Oct. 15, with “Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians,” a film screening and Q&A session with director Ben Harbert.
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America’s Role in the World - Reagan’s View or Obama’s?
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The 50th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s “Time for Choosing Speech,” with a special emphasis on foreign policy and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
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DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus Cortelyou Commons
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In a zombie apocalypse, no character is safe By Eric Domingo Staff Writer
In season four of AMC’s popular TV show, “The Walking Dead,” the directors and writers of killed off three main characters — Lizzie, Mika and Hershel. In season three, Andrea, Lori and Merle departed. It seems every season of this zombie show, some main or secondary character gets the ax. And Jeffrey Carrion, DePaul College of Computing and Digital Media Center lecturer, said season five won’t be any different. Carrion said another major character will definitely bite the zombie bullet. “You hear a lot of talk about Daryl not making it out,” Carrion said. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) has been a fan favorite, including Carrion’s, in the series, and he said many people won’t respond well if he dies. “People say, ‘If Daryl doesn’t make it out (of Terminus, a safe zone the characters have recently found), I won’t watch the show any more,’” Carrion said. According to Carrion, Dixon is fan favorite because he is the perfect guy to have around in an apocalypse. Dixon knows how to kill zombies with a crossbow, catch wild animals for food, and track missing people. A meme has been circulating around Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr stating, “If Daryl dies, we
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Some fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” say that they will stop watching the show if Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) is killed off in season 5. riot” in response to the possibility of the character exiting the show this season. Although Carrion said it’s a possibility that Dixon might die this season, he wouldn’t be mad if the directors and writers killed him off. “I would be all right with that because I respect the writers with what they would want to do,” Carrion said. “I’m sure they have a plan, and if he goes, someone else
will come in and fill that void.” Sergeant Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) was introduced in season four and resembles Dixon. He has military survival skills, and can kill a herd of zombies by himself. According to Carrion, Dixon is one of his favorite characters, but he is also drawn to Ford. “I like Sgt. Abraham, too, because he seems very practical. I
feel like I would be a lot like that in an apocalypse,” Carrion said. Carrion said he appreciates that Ford will do anything to survive, and has a plan. He understands another character in the main survivor group, Dr. Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt), may know about a cure for the zombie disease, and that is Ford’s main mission. He has to protect Porter at all costs and get him to
Washington, D.C., so they can cure the epidemic. Although there have been rumors about Dixon dying this season, it is very likely that a secondary character might die instead of the fan favorite. According to Carrion, a lot of auxiliary characters have died, such as sisters Mika (Kyla Kenedy) and Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino) in season four. If a main character doesn’t die, one of Ford’s crew members is likely next on the chopping block. “I don’t think Dr. Porter will die because he is too important and (supposedly) has the cure,” Carrion said. This leaves Rosita Espinosa (Christian Serratos), Ford’s female muscle. Another possible secondary character who might buy the farm is Bob Stookey (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.), a former army medic who struggles with alcoholism. Stookey has had few highlights since he was introduced in season four, and seems to cause more harm than good. Early on in season four, he put the group in serious danger. He grabbed alcohol on a supply run instead of medical supplies for a flu virus that spread in their prison camp. “It’s getting to be slim pickings,” Carrion said about who’s going to die next. “It’s getting slim pickings,” Carrion said.
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Television’s anti-hero archetype reflects society By Cooper Packard Contributing Writer
As fall television season kicks into gear, viewers are dusting off their remotes and preparing for the return of their favorites. It’s time to say out with that Netflix documentary, and in with the likes of “Modern Family,” fresh after nabbing its fifth Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series in a row. Meanwhile, the Drama Series winner (“Breaking Bad”) ended anti-hero Walter White’s critically acclaimed story after five seasons. But that doesn’t mean you should say farewell to the archetypal anti-hero on TV. Of course, categorizing a character is subjective. An obligatory Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition said they’re “conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities,” and an even more obligatory Wikipedia search of “List of fictional antiheroes” illustrates the rich history of these characters — among them, Holden Caulfield, Batman and Scarlett O’Hara. Nowadays, Don Draper, Piper Chapman, Nick Brody, and, of course, Walter White have ushered in a new golden age. In essence, they’re the characters we love, but should hate.
Then why does the antihero have such a strong grip on modern audiences? As cliche as it sounds, perhaps it’s society. “Any time there is some sort of commonality across television, there’s a very good reason for it,” Paul Booth, a DePaul associate professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication, said. “Especially in a post-9/11 world, the vast majority of people feel relatively powerless in their own lives.” Our societal distrust of leaders produces cynicism, so it only makes sense to gravitate toward entertainment equally as gritty. Why watch a TV show that glorifies drama when a show with an anti-hero protagonist will treat said drama honestly and, albeit, poorly? It’s the inner conflict that makes a character real; viewers want to see more of Walter White murdering for the protection of his family and less of inherently “good” Superman saving Metropolis. “Watching someone (especially a father figure, as all these anti-heroes are) being able to ‘take matters into their own hands’ is quite appealing,” Booth said. This quality has propelled the television anti-hero to both
critical and commercial success. For his portrayal of Walter White, actor Bryan Cranston won four Emmys — more than any other dramatic actor in history. Similarly, a massive 10.3 million viewers viewed the drama’s series finale, far more than the 1.4 million who tuned in for its first episode. But this transcends “Breaking Bad.” Of the past 15 Emmy winners for Best Actor in a Drama Series, 13 were anti-heroes. So it’s not just a minor fad, but a steady reaction to our culture. Don Draper has become synonymous with the blatant sexism of the “Mad Men” era — a time when women were expected to only pursue motherhood. Working as a nurse, teacher and secretary were backups. Contrast this with today. Women make up more than half the workforce, yet continue to face the gender pay gap. As viewers watch Don Draper dupe new women each episode, his attempts to skirt morality act as a reminder for not only how far the women’s rights movement has come, but perhaps more importantly how far it has yet to go. Or look at “Orange is the New Black,” a show that’s been
lauded for its groundbreaking casting, themes and impact on television. Piper Chapman “lacks heroic qualities” like the definition stated and proved the term “anti-hero” is not restricted to a lone gender. She and other inmates constantly scramble to survive prison through desperate actions, and barters under a modern social justice backdrop. Most viewers won’t relate to prison, but they will to the characters. “There’s a type of release in watching them, a vicarious thrill of people doing illicit things that we aren’t allowed to do because of our repressive society,” Booth said. “The entertainment lies in the containment.” Despite this, Booth said how people take in media varies for everyone. “Some people may identify with the character; some may hate him and want to see his downfall; some people may want to find out what happens next; some people may love spoilers,” Booth said. “There’s no wrong way to enjoy media.”
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Draper and Piper Chapman are all characters fans love to hate. Photo courtesy of NETFLIX
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YOUNG PUNK’S PARADISE House shows offer a unique space for underage music fans
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Japanese group Your Pest Band performs at a DIY space in Chicago. The band says the underground music scene in the United States is much more active than it is in Japan.
By Gabriella Lewis Contributing Writer
On a chilly September night, about 30 young adult punk rock fans gathered in a basement in Pilsen. Inside, splashes from the bright yellow walls peek through the mass of hundreds of fliers from previous shows, punk rock posters and ironic signs. A narrow, wooden staircase leads down to a large basement, which is dimly lit by the glow of rainbowcolored Christmas lights set up above the stage. The house vibrates as the headlining Japanese-punk bands Your Pest Band and Sanhose play, supported by Chicago native bands Boilerman, Sick Sad World and Box Sledder. This is just one of many venues where people can come and enjoy the underground music scene that Chicago has to offer with house shows. For those new to the DIY scene a house show is a house or the basement of a house that the owners have allowed bands to play for the night. Putting on a show in a house, versus in an actual concert venue, cuts out the middleman and the extra costs associated, such as liquor licenses, management and security. Many feel this is the ideal concert venue for entry level or beginning bands, as it gives them exposure to their local communities for a low cost. “House shows are a place where anyone can come and enjoy music while bringing together the surrounding community,” said Mez, co-owner of this particular venue. House shows are the topic of much controversy, though, and they are essentially illegal because they are operating as a business without a city license. Animal Kingdom, a popular DIY space in Logan Square, was recently closed because of neighbor complaints, among other things. Most of the time, the main issue with house shows is the noise. “It’s at the point where there are so many law and ordinances, and we could get shut down for so many things like fire safety hazards, underage drinking, and noise violations,” Bert said. For this reason, both Mez and Bert asked that their last names not be used for this story. House shows are particularly popular with fans under age 21. They offer a space where people can enjoy music without an age limit, unlike many other clubs and bars in the city that host similar events. Evie Schenk, a 20-year-old from Skokie, said she loves coming to house shows because of the good music. “The reason I come to house shows is because it’s a place where music is still genuine, and so are a lot of the people,” Schenk said. “Being in a house also makes for an unconventional and really fun environment to see live music in.” These kinds of spaces can make a world of a difference to people who don’t have other appropriate or supportive outlets for their creativity. “All-ages spaces are crucial,” Split Free guitarist Jes Skolnik said. “From my life experience, I absolutely would have died before age 18 without the
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Plagued with over-the-top acting and a petty plot, “Miss Julie” is a Victorian love story that fails to be enchanting.
‘Miss Julie’ flops at CIFF By Andrew Morrell Multimedia Editor
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Dozens of posters from previous shows line the walls of one DIY space in Pilsen. positive, creative, punk scene.” Skolnik, who grew up surrounded by music and DIY spaces in Washington, D.C., is also a member of the board of directors for Pure Joy. Pure Joy is a collectively run, nonprofit community center and performance space that offers a free or low-cost community meeting space, as well as hosts shows. They are currently looking for a space accessible by public transportation, on the first floor entirely, so it is physically accessible and affordable to host such events. Pure Joy hopes to open its doors in Chicago by the end of 2014. “There aren’t as many all-ages spaces here as there were there when I was growing up, and house shows are basically the only non-bar options at this point,” Skolnik said. “The scene doesn’t just sustain kids. Kids sustain the scene.” Fumito Yamazaki, the lead singer of Your Pest Band, said he appreciates how much people value America’s underground music scene. “It is much more popular and appreciated here,” Yamazaki said. “In Japan, underground music doesn’t get much attention.” Chicago in particular has many great options when it comes to underground music and spaces for art. Though the legality and rights for such shows are still being actively fought for, the shows can offer culture, as well as an important community for underage music fans to express themselves. Without the young community driven spaces like these, many would be lost. “I’m 35 years old now, but house show lifers like me won’t keep underground music alive by ourselves,” Skolnik said.
Do you want to see some exciting, gripping, boldly innovative film at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival? Looking for thrilling stories of love, betrayal, vengeance or other stirring adjectives? Wishing you could’ve attended opening night of CIFF and seen the movie, Liv Ullmann’s “Miss Julie” which was shown during it and was billed as most of these? Don’t be upset, because “Miss Julie” was none of the above. Full disclosure, I have never seen an Ingmar Bergman film, which perhaps would have helped me to the idea of “Miss Julie.” Director Ullmann was a former muse actor of Bergman’s, a Swedish filmmaker known for crafting cerebral dramas ahead of their time in the middle of the last century. I assume Ullmann took it upon herself to make something of an homage to Bergman, and adapt this period piece play based in “a country estate in Ireland, 1890.” To her credit, it probably wouldn’t have mattered if Steven Spielberg or Peter Jackson had directed this adaptation of a supremely melodramatic play. No amount of explosions or blood and death could’ve saved “Miss Julie,” and it already has some blood and death in it. Part of the trouble is that so much of the drama is internal, which doesn’t bode well for the visual medium of the screen. Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell, the two central characters in “Miss Julie,” do their darnedest to bring that drama out into the open, with over-the-top theatricality and expressive delivery. Credit is due to them for accomplishing the feat of making this movie at least passable. The onus of the criticism, then, should
focus on writer and director Ullmann, who decided to bring stage acting to film, which has always been notoriously fraught with problems. The main problem is that it looks bad — ridiculous even. To make the conflict palpable to film audiences, the actors must be emotive, and they were. But on film, that emotion does not translate into entertainment. It reads as what it looks like: ridiculous. Imagine a scene you may have experienced in your own life, one where you might be complaining to your friend about how a guy or girl is romantically out of your reach. To you, this situation is dire and very emotional. To your friend, this might seem just as important, maybe a little less than you do. Now imagine if someone were to film it and make a movie out of this conversation, and you get a sense of how petty the entire plot of “Miss Julie” is. Was it just the circumstance in which I saw this movie that caused it to fall flat as a piece of printer paper? My press pass for CIFF, while allowing me access to a few select screenings before the festival actually opened, does not allow me to attend any actual festival events, including the opening night gala at which “Miss Julie” premiered, and where Ullmann and Farrell were in attendance. At least not without paying the $45 base ticket price. Perhaps if I had been there and allowed myself to be swept up in the magic of the silver screen, “Miss Julie” wouldn’t have seemed like such a “Victorian firstworld problems” movie, but something greater, even transcendental. Instead, as I sat in a cold, barely occupied theater watching this, all I could feel was tired.
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“The Walking Dead” AMC Sundays, 8 p.m.
The fifth season of AMC’s longrunning zombie drama “The Walking Dead” premiered Oct. 12. After Lizzie, Mika and Hershel were killled off in season four, it seems like no character is safe.
LIVE Oct. 13 Charlie XCX Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., $18
Oct. 16 & 17 Foxygen Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., $15
Oct. 16 King Tuff Subterranean 2011 W. North Ave., $15
Oct. 17 The Glitch Mob Aragon Ballroom 1106 W. Lawrence Ave., $26
Glammy psych outfit Foxygen “...And Star Power” is a double LP, beginning with a side called “The Hits,” includes a suite, and showcases their even odder tendences. Yes, it’s over the top, but this is coming from the same group whose last album had 10 words in its title and who is certainly not afraid to wear its influences on its sleeve. While there are fewer quotable gems like, “There’s no need to be an asshole/We’re not in Brooklyn anymore” from their sophomore effort, their third album allows Foxygen to not only indulge their grandiose theatrical tendencies, but showcase their incredible breadth. KIRSTEN ONSGARD | THE DEPAULIA
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright In The End
What happens when Weezer, deconstructs “Pinkerton” and lays the same foundation and structure as the “Blue Album?” You’ll get their latest record “Everything Will Be Alright in The End.” River Cuomo and the band have once again joined forces with Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who also helped produce the “Blue” and “Green” albums, to produce this album. Fans can expect the band returning to their earlier post grunge/ alternative roots. Their single “Back To The Shack,” begins with an apology to fans and leads into what can be expected of the album,“Kick in the door, more hardcore, rocking out like its ‘94.” Tracks like “Lonely Girl”, which touches on their post grunge sound reminiscent of “My Name is Jonas” mixed with “Buddy Holly.” It’s a blast from the past. ROXANE PAHLDAD | THE DEPAULIA
OK Go Hungry Ghosts Oct. 14
We Were Promised Jetpacks Unraveling Oct. 14
The band made famous for creating viral music videos of jumping on treadmills and giant Rube Goldberg machines is releasing a fourth album that relies more heavily on electronic elements.
The Scottish alternative rock group’s first album in three years promises to have a polished studio shine without compromising a roller coaster ride of punchy riffs and crescendos.
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Find this and all our DeJamz playlists on depauliaonline.com and on our spotify account the first time it’s introduced the best. It’s slow and creepy at first, because you know evil’s coming. And then builds to epic levels, this is when you start flapping your arm-wings. 3. Act II Scene So this starts all innocent like some crazy stuff itsn’t about to go down, but then you hear the trumpets about a minute in and you KNOW they’re announcing Odile and it’s about to get real. 4. Act II Danse Espagnole This movement comes in towards the middle of the second act, which statistically speaking is right about the time that most middle aged men begin to fall asleep at these sort of things. I can only guess that Tchaikovsky
make exceptions for this sixmovement playlist. Also the photos have nothing to do with the movements, we just like “Black Swan.” A lot. 1. Act I (scene 2) Danse de petits Cygnes Swans are quite possibly the worst. Ever. They hiss. They spit. They’re horrifying. This particular movement elicits images of a small group of young avian derelicts, sneaking about at night doing what I can only assume are unspeakable crimes. These are the bad-boy swans. The kind of swans you wouldn’t bring home to mom and dad swan. 2. Act I (scene 2) Scene Finale This isn’t the first time the main theme is introduced, but it’s
By Courtney Jacquin & Max Kleiner Editor-in-Chief & Design Editor
In this world, there is only one concretely perfect nugget of human creativity and inspiration: Piotyr Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” It tells the story of a young woman who gets turned into an actual swan who (spoiler alert) kills herself because another, evil swan/ girl hybrid swoops in to steal her man. And so, to honor this magnum opus dedicated to illicit bestiality, we have curated the six most gratifying movements of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. You should never listen to “Swan Lake” out of order, but we must
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had the wherewithal to understand this, which explains why he would put such a poblano pepper of a movement in the middle of his most beautiful creation. 5. Act II Grand Pas de deux Coda This is one of those pieces of music that gets stuck in your head and you’re totally cool with it. As a note, at this point in the ballet the evil twin swan/ girl hybrid has stolen the heart of the prince and as celebration pirouettes for roughly thirty years. Okay, it’s more like a full minute and a half, but that’s a really long time to be spinning on your toenails.
ACROSS 1. Flavorful seed source 5. Croquet surface 9. Used a bench 12. Calculation for a tiler 13. Big or bright thing 14. “The check is in the mail,” usually 15. Laid up 17. Banquet holder 18. Albums, these days 19. Chronic butterflies 21. Like tough guys 24. Artist’s inspiration 26. Back 27. Bandit’s refuge 29. Pricing spec 33. Blushing 34. Hold to the fire 36. Slip in a pot 37. First place? 39. Monopoly card 40. “Frankenstein” setting 41. At all 43. Hurricane hazards
6. Act III Scene finale Obviously the finale of the most perfect piece of music ever has to be next levels of amazing, and it is. The theme returns, but this time in a different, more ominous key — nothing good is to come. It’s not because Odette kills herself. A good time for this movement: parties to scare everyone away, or at the end of a long studying session. It will get you really pumped to finish your paper and at the end you can furiously shut your laptop and yell, “It was perfect, I was perfect” to the entire library and run out. Flapping of arm-wings optional. Stomach puncture from mirror shard also optional.
45. Gozo neighbor 48. Dental concern 49. “___ momento” 50. Way below 56. Till bill 57. Choice cut 58. Alpine reflection? 59. Baa ma 60. Leaves home? 61. Matting material DOWN 1. Apply salve 2. Boiling point? 3. Began a hand, perhaps 4. Noble fir 5. Eye liners? 6. Do the math? 7. Bairn-sized 8. Grandmas, affectionately 9. Phony nickel 10. Show of vanity 11. It may be pitched 16. Causes of swoons, maybe
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Men’s soccer loses to top-ranked Georgetown By Ben Gartland
THE RUNDOWN Georgetown
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Despite a valiant defensive effort, DePaul men’s soccer was unable to hold off the No. 7/5 Georgetown attack as the Hoyas defeated the Blue Demons 2-0. DePaul dropped to 4-6-2 on the year and 1-2-0 in the Big East, their third straight match without a win. “Our preparation was good and our players played at a very high level,” DePaul head coach Craig Blazer said. “We’re disappointed with the result but we’re encouraged with our performance.” Brandon Allen and Keegan Rosenberry were the goal-scorers for the Hoyas. The Blue Demons came out in a defensive formation with Senior Art Garza, the defender-turned-forward, sliding back to the defense to give DePaul more cover defensively. In addition to the initial defensive coverage, the Blue Demons created some good scoring opportunites early. DePaul almost took the lead in the 13th minute when Hans Wustling received a rebound at the top of the box. He set up his shot and went far post where it went just wide of the goal. Had it been on frame, the keeper was out of sight and likely wouldn’t have been able to make the save. The Blue Demons came close again in the 21st minute after Garza sent in a cross that was headed towards goal by Jalen Harvey but was blocked. Alessandro Thomas had an opportunity for a shot on the rebound but it went over the bar and out for a goal kick. Georgetown controlled the time of possession for the most part, but DePaul was able to stop multiple shots before they took
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DePaul defender Jake Douglas goes back to kick the ball against Western Michigan. off and only allowed three shots in the first half. All three of them were either off target or saved by keeper Mack Robinson. “We were both trying to keep the zero and score the first goal and we did a good job in the first half of almost both,” Blazer said. “All of our best looks came in the first 10 minutes of the game and we gave ourselves a good chance.” The visitors continued to control the possession in the second half while also ramping up their attack. They doubled their shot total from the first half and were finally able to put a couple goals into the net in the final 20 minutes of the match. Georgetown finally broke through in the 72nd minute when Keegan Rosenberry fired a shot from the top of the box that snuck right inside the post and in for the score. It was his first goal of the year and it gave the Hoyas a 1-0 lead. The Hoyas would put the nail in the
coffin in the 79th minute when Allen was taken down in the box by Robinson and earned the penalty kick. Robinson guessed the right direction and dove left, but Allen had too much power and height on his kick, putting the ball just out of reach. His ninth goal of the season put the Hoyas up by two, which would end up as the final scoreline. Georgetown almost made it 3-0 in the 84th minute when Alex Muyl sent in a low cross that met the sliding foot of Austin Martz, but it sailed just wide. That would end up being the last good chance of the game as the Hoyas closed out the 2-0 victory. Even with the loss, Blazer said he was pleased with his team’s performance, especially defensively. DePaul next plays at 3 p.m. Oct. 15 at Xavier. “Statistically, we did do a good job and the guys responded well,” Blazer said. “Now we go on the road, and we have to find a way.”
Douglas, a junior defender, played all 90 minutes and was a force in the backfield to keep Georgetown scoreless in the first half.
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Up Next Xavier DePaul travels to Cincinatti to take on Big East rival Xavier at 3 p.m. Oct. 15.
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Women’s rugby club levels the playing field By Ben Gartland Asst. Sports Editor
One of the fastest growing sports in the United States is already here at DePaul in the form of the women’s rugby club team. For the past several years, the club has brought the sport that gave birth to American football to DePaul, traveling around the Chicago area to play teams in both tournament and fixture-style seasons. Rosemary Onyeali, who has been playing rugby overall for four years, likes the way that rugby has encompassed some of the spirit of football, but how it also brought about a lot of new elements. “There’s the spirit, the ball, the tackling, the outdoor playing field,” Onyeali said. “I like to think of it as the ‘mother of football.’” The club aspect of the team allows for a lot of socialization between teams and teammates, especially since most of the teams that DePaul plays are in the Chicago area. “It’s a really social sport,” Onyeali said. “You get to know the girls you play with, you get to know the other team and it’s all about camaraderie.” Onyeali said the camaraderie among the team is a result of the tough, physical nature of the
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DePaul women’s rugby club lines up to kick-off. The team is winless, but are “scrappy” and improving, club president Cara Goad said. game. “You lay your life out on the field, and if you make it out alive, you have best friends afterwards,” she said. The club season is split into two seasons with one being in the fall and the other in spring. The fall is more competitive with the teams playing one game per week most of the time, while the
spring is more recreational and can feature multiple games per week. The lengths of games are also different between the seasons, with the fall season having 80 minutes of continuous play, while the spring season is more lax and has different lengths of times separated into halves. The club plays their home games at a field near Diversey
Harbor, which is where three of their fall season games will be held. In the spring, the team travels more and can play against teams that might not necessarily be college teams. In tournaments, they’ll play against women’s teams and even national teams. In the fall, the team plays in the Great Waters Women’s Rugby Conference in the south division.
This conference encompasses teams such as the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Marquette, Loyola-Chicago, Northwestern, University of Chicago and University of Illinois-Chicago. They play each of these teams once, three home and three away. They moved to this conference for the 20142015 season after previously participating in the Chicago Area Rugby Football Union. The team has not won a match in their 2014 fall season yet, but club president and junior Cara Goad said the team is “scrappy” and showed improvement each time out. “I’m always surprised at how well we’re doing,” Goad said. “Especially for having nine new girls out of 15.” As club president, Goad works a lot with recruiting girls to the club. She also said that the club is always accepting new members and that there is no hard deadline to join once the season starts. But first, she sometimes has to break some myths about women’s rugby. “There’s this misconception that we’re all 300 pound manly women,” she said. “No matter what body type, there’s a place for everybody. It doesn’t matter as long as you’re willing to try.”
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CHAARGing on A new women’s health group at DePaul rebrands women’s health and fitness By Octavia Johnson Contributing Writer
Society expects women to look and act a certain way. But a group of DePaul women are branching out to change that. Carina Coss, a sophomore, adopted a popular health and fitness club that is catching on across the nation. CHAARG, which stands for Changing, Health, Attitudes, and Actions to Recreate Girls, is a new health and fitness group for all women that started at DePaul this fall. Racking up more than 100 members in less than a month, this fast-paced growing organization’s goal is to empower college-age women to live and overall healthy and happy lifestyle for themselves. “You don’t have to fit into a certain mold to think that you’re beautiful at all,” Coss, president of CHAARG, at the DePaul chapter said. Founded by Elisabeth Tavierne on Oct. 5, 2012 at Ohio State University, Tavierne’s mission is to raise awareness and bring CHAARG to every university in the United States. There are currently 14 active chapters and one virtual chapter with about 2,500 members, hitting this milestone about two weeks ago, to support and empower one another along their fitness journey. Not to be mixed up with
just any workout group, this organization is here to let every girl know that healthy does not equal skinny. The workouts vary from employing techniques of CrossFit, Pure Barre, salsa dancing and any other unique workout. “Healthy equals being healthy emotionally, physically and spiritually,” Coss said. The idea to form CHAARG at DePaul happened when Coss was an employee at the Nike store on Michigan Avenue. While browsing for shoes, Tavierne met Coss for the very first time. Small talk about their mutual passion for health and fitness led Coss into becoming the president of CHAARG at the DePaul University chapter. “I always felt that I needed to do something to impact the world,” Coss said. CHAARG’s main goal is to liberate girls from the elliptical machine and show them a cleaner, healthier lifestyle while also having fun, Coss said. With seven executive members in DePaul’s chapter, each executive splits into small groups that meet up once per week to work out. One of those executives is Andrea Kinnerk, who is a film major. Even though she played tennis her entire life, Kinnerk never thought she was fit. Not having any particular fitness goals, Kinnerk would just like to be the best version of herself that
she can be with healthy eating and being active as much as she can within the organization, and one day she hopes to become a fitness instructor in the next few months to a year. “Being a big motivation to the girls and showing them that working out is fun, while keeping a positive attitude at the events girls can take charge of their own lifestyle,” Kinnerk said. Another executive, Courtney Clinkert, said she joined CHAARG to help her prepare for her brother’s wedding in March. But what she got out of it was much bigger than what she originally thought. “I like that it kind of encourages you to be independent and motivates you to make better decisions,” Clinkert said.
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TOP: CHAARG works out in the Courtelyou Commons. ABOVE: President of DePaul’s CHAARG Chapter sophomore Carina Coss leads a workout.
COUNTDOWN TO BASKETBALL SEASON
Stimage aims to fill the void at power forward By Ben Gartland Asst. Sports Editor
Rashaun Stimage came out of one of the first practices of the season with ice on his knee, slowly walked over to a chair where he sat down and let out his breath. “It’s been great for me these first two days,” Stimage said. “But it’s been kind of hard. That’s the most I’ve ever run.” Stimage committed to DePaul in August 2013 before playing his second season of junior college ball at Daytona State College. He officially signed in November. Nearly a year later, he’s practicing with the team and he’s working on adjusting to the level of Big East basketball. “Division I basketball is a lot harder and a lot faster,” he said. “The pace is a lot faster from junior college, where I came from.” Stimage, a Chicago native, attended Farragut in the Chicago Public League and The Hoops Report ranked him second amongst Illinois prospects for the Class of 2012. After high school, he sepnt a year at Blinn College before moving to Daytona State College his sophomore year, where he won All-Mid-Florida conference honors and averaged 13.9 points per game
with 7.2 rebounds per game. Stimage describes himself as a versatile player who likes to play defense and box out, bringing a good inside defensive presence to the team. For a team player who changed his stance toward getting up to the level of DePaul basketball, however, this attitude adjustment impressed head coach Oliver Purnell. “Rashaun has worked extremely hard and is very coachable,” Purnell said. “He’s tough but just as important he wants to get better and he seeks out coaching. From a coaching standpoint that’s what you want.” As for actual in-game play, Purnell has also been impressed with Stimage’s defense. “It looks like he can defend inside and out,” he said. “Lots of versatility and a toughness to his game.” At Daytona State, Stimage was also known for his defense. His head coach, John Ridder, called him “one of the best players in the country at the junior college level.” “He was one of the best defensive players in the conference,” Ridder said. “He had great timing.” Ridder also said his defense was very physical, adding that he would not back
away from guarding any player. Another thing that Stimage brings to DePaul is his chemistry with fellow transfer Darrick Wood. Wood, a sophomore guard who transferred from Hutchinson Community College in Kansas, said that the two keep each other going in positive ways. “On the court, we help each other a lot and in class too,” Wood said. “We keep each other going in the right direction, going up, not down.” Stimage came into DePaul as a forward at 6-foot-8, but weighed only 217 pounds. He’s been working for the past few months on putting on more muscle to help his physicality inside. “Over the summer I put in a lot of work,” Stimage said. “I gained 5 pounds so I’m trying to keep it going in the weight room.” Purnell said the improvements in the weight room have shown on the court. “I think as he’s gotten in better shape, spent more time in the weight room you can see a marked improvement in his conditioning and his physical ability,” he said. Stimage said his goal is to get to 235 pounds by the start of the season, which
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Rashaun Stimage will be in contention for the starting power forward spot this year. starts in early November. Although it is too early to accurately make a depth chart, Purnell said that Stimage would certainly have a presence on the court. Stimage will likely be in contention for the starting rotation with Forrest Robinson, Tommy Hamilton IV, Greg Sequele and fellow transfer Myke Henry “I definitely see him in the mix because of his ability, because of his basketball IQ and the fact that he’s anxious to get better,” Purnell said.
Sports. Oct. 13, 2014. The DePaulia | 27 TURF, continued from front page major at DePaul, said. “We just wanted to know why we couldn’t play anymore.” Zayas said he was confused because he and other students recreationally played on Wish Field during his first three years at DePaul. Making matters more confusing, Wish Field was also open to the public throughout the summer. During the summer, the athletic department partnered with local community groups and allowed them access to the field when school was not in session. Despite the short-term agreement, the athletic department saw community members utilizing the field as a public space rather than the private space that it PARKER ASMANN | THE DEPAULIA was intended to be for DePaul students and A sign at Wish Field states the field is reserved for DePaul students and personnel only. faculty. As a result, this caused the staff to meticulously monitor the field, giving enjoy playing soccer with his friends for a scheduling,” Lenti said. “I give a tremendous amount of credit to our academic advisors students the feeling of being unwanted. couple of minutes. “We just don’t have anywhere else to go who work so hard to schedule these athletes’ Mike Lenti, director of athletics facilities and it really bums me out, ” Zurita said. “It’s classes around the practice times we have at DePaul, expressed little worry about the so convenient having the field right outside available on the field.” DePaul community using the field. of my dorm, and it’s a safe place to play and Rodrigo Aldecoa, a resident advisor at “DePaul students (using the field) are escape the stress of classes. ” Seton Hall, hoped that the field could be not our concern, and we have absolutely Another potential issue for Lenti and shared, as many times those occupying it no issue allowing them access,” Lenti said. his staff is safety on the field, which he are only using one half of the field. “However, it’s not that simple. There’s said is a top priority. “In previous years we would always play obviously a pecking They’re required to on the field without any issues, and if the order type system monitor and oversee coaches asked us to leave we never had any as Wish Field was the duration of any problem doing so, ” Aldecoa said. “But there There’s obviously a designed for our activity that takes were times that they didn’t mind sharing athletic program, and pecking order type place on or in any either. ” it’s the only space system as Wish Field was athletic facility on Although sharing the field in this we’ve got.” designed for our athletic campus to ensure manner would provide optimal usage, Lenti Aside from the the well-being of said that it was more of a liability concern program, and it’s the only Ray Meyer Fitness the participants, rather than the sole fact that there were Center that has space we’ve got. whether official or students on the field while athletic practices provided basketball, Mike Lenti recreational. were being conducted. volleyball, and other “Regardless of “I don’t know if a softball player is going Director of Athletics Facilities courts for students to who is on the field, to crank one and hit a student playing use, students do not a monitor needs to be present, ” Lenti said. on the other end of the field,” Lenti said. have an alternative to Wish Field where the “We can’t control if games end early or “We’re liable for those injuries, and that’s only other public parks available in the area things get cut short, making the field appear something that we can’t risk out there. It’s are Oz Park just east of campus, and Jonquil as if it’s open, but the gates are locked after just not worth it. ” Park farther to the north. While other public and private On a good day, Lenti and his staff have a the staff leaves at a certain time each day, and public safety is told to ask anyone to universities situated outside city limits full 12 hours to work with when scheduling leave that’s on the field when the gates are have significantly more space to utilize the necessary practices for the day. With locked. ” in providing students and athletes with both men’s and women’s soccer, fall softball Lenti said all DePaul students have the places to practice and play, DePaul’s urban workouts, club football and other intermural option to reach out directly to him and his campus remains landlocked with little room sports filling up his fall schedule, Lenti said staff to schedule a specific time to utilize to spare. The issue isn’t rooted in who is every second of those 12 hours is crucial. the field when it doesn’t conflict with any authorized to use the spaces, but more so in Consequently, it has left students who want other athletic events. With 12-hour days the lack of space that has provided Lenti and to use the field recreationally having to find dwindling down to single digits as winter his staff with the difficult task of scheduling. somewhere else to play. “All we want is a safe place that allows us Daniel Zurita, a freshman resident at approaches, the already small window of extra time has nearly disappeared. to play without conflict, and if Wish Field is Corcoran Hall, expressed his discontent “Ideally, the addition of lights over Wish too crowded, we should have another place with being asked to kindly leave the field by Field would offer us a lot more flexibility with to go to unwind, ” Zayas said. public safety officers after only being able to
CONFIDENCE, continued from back page final four games of the regular season. “Our group is really focused game-to-game and we understand that there are good teams in our conference and any given team can win on any given day,” DePaul head coach Erin Chastain said. “I think it’s good for our confidence to get results.” “I think we needed a home win to bring everyone together, and when we get a shutout it’s one of the best feelings because they couldn’t break down our defense,” Wyatt said. As the confidence builds, however, the team is wary of going into games overconfident. “Obviously we’re very confident, but I think we take it a game at a time,” Pitman said. “We’re not overconfident in that we’ll take teams lightly and that we can easily beat them because
this conference is so tough.” With games against the two teams tied with DePaul at the top of the Big East, Marquette and St. John’s, still to come, the Blue Demons are still coming into games with a hungry attitude. “We get confident the more that we play and the more that we win,” Pitman said. “But I also think that this team is a really humble team and no matter who we play, we always play like we’re the underdogs.” Pitman said the underdog mentality has been a driving force in getting the team to their undefeated record and their standing atop the Big East conference. The same ideals of avoiding distractions or complacency, she said, will need to continue to be practiced. “We’re all together in saying that we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves because, realistically, you can still throw it away,” she said. “If you start to get
Alternatives to Wish Field Need somewhere else to go because Wish Field is booked? Check out these options.
Oz Park
2021 N. Burling St. Located just to the southeast of DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, Oz Park provides the community with a large grassy area to utilize with two baseball and softball fields also available. Regularly frequented by community members and Lincoln Park High School students, Oz Park offers many options for DePaul students.
Jonquil Park
1001 W. Wrightwood Ave. Equipped with multiple tennis courts, a large playground area and a grassy space for passers-by to take advantage of, Jonquil Park is located just north of campus at the corners of Sheffield and Lill avenues. Often frequented by locals year- round, this park provides an easy escape for DePaul students only a short walk away.
Trebes Park 2250 N. Clifton Ave.
Just to the southwest of DePaul’s campus at the corners of Webster and Racine avenues lies Trebes Park. Fitted with ample grass space and basketball courts situated off to the side, DePaul students can venture to the outskirts of campus to take in this lovely space.
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DePaul freshman Alexa Ben passes to a teammate against Creighton Oct. 11. complacent, that’s when you can start losing games you should be winning.” With four matches to go, DePaul has their eyes set on more achievements to this already special season. There’s
still the Big East tournament to clinch a berth in and the chase for the regular season title, as well as possible entrance into the NCAA tournament. Chastain said that the team has realized their successes to date but are still
searching to meet their goals. “I really like our group, it’s fun to be at training, it’s fun to be around them and I feel lucky to be a part of this season,” Chastain said. “But we’re not satisfied with where we’re at yet.”
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DePaul women's soccer one of two teams left undefeated in the nation By Ben Gartland Asst. Sports Editor
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FROM LEFT: Freshman Alexa Ben lifts senior Amber Paul after a goal; Amber Paul celebrates a goal; Paul embraces junior Elise Wyatt after a goal against Creighton Saturday Oct. 11 in a 2-0 victory.
A loud standing ovation greeted the DePaul women’s soccer team as they walked over to the stands to acknowledge the fans who came to watch them. DePaul had just beaten Creighton 2-0 off a strong defensive performance and improved their record to 12-0-2 on the year. Still undefeated. The No. 9 Blue Demons are one of two remaining undefeated teams left in the nation — the other team being No. 1 UCLA. “I can’t even describe it,” junior forward Elise Wyatt said. “It’s just such an amazing feeling to still be undefeated and to get a win on our home field, which propels us into our next game.” After two road wins in a row, DePaul came back to Wish Field on Saturday to take on a Creighton team situated in the middle of the pack in the Big East. The Blue Demons were able to put on one of their best defensive performances of the year, only allowing two shots on goal in their fifth shutout this season. On the other side of the
ball, Wyatt scored on a cross from Rachel Pitman in the 38th minute, her ninth of the year. Amber Paul scored her sixth goal of the year off of Alexa Ben’s teamleading seventh assist of the year in the 57th minute. The variety of playmakers, Wyatt said, is a big part of the team’s undefeated season. “Last year it was hard to score goals, and I think that’s what’s special about this group,” Wyatt said. “Everyone can score, everyone can put it away and everyone does their job.” Senior defender and captain Rachel Pitman said having a high-powered offense helps the defense as well. “Just because we’ve never had so many people scoring, it takes the pressure off the defenders and the defense as a whole,” she said. “We’re trying to keep a shutout ,but it makes it that much easier if people are scoring for us.“ In the midst of a stretch where the Blue Demons played four out of five games on the road, continuing to achieve solid results has boosted the team’s confidence as they head into the
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Freshmen make impact for men’s soccer By Kevin Quin Staff Writer
For most incoming freshmen involved with college sports, experience playing against top-ranked teams isn’t acquired until after enduring several seasons. Hans Wustling and Caleb Pothast however, both freshmen on the men’s soccer team, have demonstrated potential to help take the team to new heights. Wustling, originally from Hamburg, Germany, got his first kicks on the soccer field at age 3 by just learning to walk the ball in his free time. A couple of years later at age 5, Wustling began to play club soccer, which eventually led to him playing in the highest division in Germany. He was also named most valuable player at an international tournament in Belarus in 2009. Throughout high school, Wustling led his team to several victories including first place at the World Championship of Schools Tournament in 2011. Then, at a soccer showcase hosted by a German sports organization, American coaches expressed interest in having Wustling play for their respective teams. The offers began rolling in. “I kept in contact with all of them to see what school would be the best fit for me,” Wustling said. “In the end, I chose DePaul because I like the atmosphere here and it’s in the city.” Playing as a midfield and forward, Wustling’s skill in this position helped contribute to the team’s success, DePaul head
coach Craig Blazer said. “He is a great left-back which is hard to find,” Blazer said. “His relationship to soccer has instilled a lot of pride in him.” Adjusting from life in Germany to a fast-paced environment like Chicago could be hard for most transplants, but Wustling admits to not being affected by the move. Though he’s been through the emotional part of being away from home, he’s found comfort through the camaraderie and support system his team has built. “I haven’t begun to feel homesick yet because my team here feels like a family,” Wustling said. “They’re always there to help me with whatever I need.” Growing up in Lake Zurich around two older brothers that dedicated their lives to soccer, Pothast developed his competitive spirit as a child, watching them play from the sidelines. By playing at the age 4 Pothast’s drive to outshine his brothers landed him a spot on their recreation team. “I started playing at a very young age for American soccer,” Pothast said. “When you have two older brothers who are very good at playing, you’re going to try your hardest to be just like them.” Though his older brothers’ achievements were his original inspiration to get on the field, Pothast is careful not to let that interfere with his own success. Because both his older brothers went to Marquette University, they were very adamant on persuading their younger brother to continue the tradition. Pothast resisted and decided to make his
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LEFT: Freshman Hans Wustling fields a header. RIGHT: Freshman Caleb Pothast intercepts a pass mark at DePaul instead. “My brothers were really standout players there,” Pothast said. “Sometimes I do get left in their shadows, but I don’t want to just be the next Pothast. I came to DePaul because it would be the best way to show who I really am.” Between traveling for games and attending daily practices, Wustling and Pothast have made their coursework a main priority. “It hasn’t really been a challenge for me,” Wustling said. “In Germany, I used to have school in the morning until 4 p.m. Then, we would practice and have study hours so we could get our homework done.” Pothast, who was a four-year honor roll
student at Lake Zurich High School, said academics is the main reason he was allowed to play on the team. He plans on pursuing marketing as well. “It’s tough having practice every morning, then going to class after and trying to stay focused,” Pothast said. “The upperclassmen really help us out with being on top of everything when it comes to classes. We are student athletes; student comes first.” Blazer said that Wustling and Pothast have both contributed to the team in their own unique ways. “At the end of it all, we look for guys who just enjoy coming out and playing soccer everyday, Blazer said. “Both of these guys have skills and technique that you just can’t teach.”
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