May 29, 2008
- Student and activist reaction to an on-campus speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman citizen border patrol group, was featured on dozens of television news programs on May 18 through May 20, leading most nighttime newscasts on May 19. Simcox, who was a guest of the DePaul Conservative Alliance student group, has sparked controversy at numerous colleges across the country in the past year.
- John Hagstrom, professor of music at DePaul, was featured on an in-depth interview segment on WFMT-FM on May 20 discussing the DePaul Symphony Orchestra’s annual spring concert at Orchestra Hall. Twelve of his horn students also performed several musical offerings.
- The efforts of Yuki Miyamoto, professor of religious studies, to have mayors from around the world sign a pledge for peace were highlighted in the past month in stories presented on NHK, Japan’s public television network. Miyamoto, whose family survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and her students, recently got Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to sign the agreement.
- Thomas O’Brien, professor of religion, was the main source for a front-page Chicago Tribune story on May 16 that reflected on the Vatican’s recent announcement that beliefs in life forms outside of earth are not at odds with Catholic teachings.
- Inside Higher Education, Animation Magazine and the Gamasutra Web site all reported in May that DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media is launching new degrees in animation.
- Several of DePaul’s 2008 commencement speakers – including Walter Parazaider, David Simon and Bob Edwards – were noted in May 28 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times by celebrity columnist Bill Zwecker.
- In his May 22 column, Chicago Tribune philanthropy writer Charles Storch noted that DePaul had received a $1 million Kresge Challenge Grant for its science campaign. Storch’s May 29 column noted that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence gave $30,000 to DePaul for a national Arabic language conference to be held at the university from June 13 to15.
- The online publication dBusiness News ran a May 22 article about nationally recognized chronic illness expert Patricia Fennell speaking at the School for New Learning’s Chronic Illness Initiative Symposium.
- College of Law Professor Len Cavise was quoted in the May 20 New York Times regarding the R. Kelly trial, where he opined that the way the trial has been conducted combined with its cost, potential outcome and the media circus it’s inspired “makes Chicago look like a laughingstock.”
- Jose Torres, a DePaul senior who has registered more than 5,000 people in Chicago to vote, was interviewed for a May 26 “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” story about politically involved young people.
- In a “Nightly Business Report” interview May 29, Chaddick Institute Director Joe Schwieterman suggested a wholesale restructuring of airfares. He also was interviewed by the Tribune May 29 about new about difficulties posed to O’Hare Airport modernization stemming from financial problems in the aviation industry.
- Economics Professor Thomas Mondschean was a guest May 28 on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” where he talked about rising gas prices.
- Economics Professor Mike Miller said in an interview with the nationally syndicated “First Business” on May 29 that the weak economy is leading companies to raise prices despite concerns about competitors.
- Jody Raphael, a senior researcher in the College of Law, was quoted in a May 16 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin story that discussed family law as a tool for reducing prostitution. The piece also discussed findings of a study on prostitution in Chicago conducted by Raphael and DePaul’s Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center.
- College of Law Professor Patty Gerstenblith was interviewed May 15 by WPKT-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate in Hartford/New Haven Conn., regarding cultural history and a dispute between Yale University and the government of Peru over Incan artifacts.
- College of Law Professor Jeffrey Shaman in a May 15 WKBW-TV (Buffalo, NY) story on “cyberbullying” noted that laws in the area need to be more precisely defined.
- Kenshu Shimada, associate professor in environmental science in the department of biological sciences, was quoted in an on-line story by Discovery News about new discoveries that showed sharks once dominated what is now the American South.
- In a May 24 Tribune story about the Spire condominium project in the Streeterville area, Adjunct Finance Professor Thomas FitzGibbon discussed why condo purchases have been attractive for European buyers because of the strong Euro.
- Israel’s refusal to admit former DePaul professor Norman Finkelstein into the country in late May was widely reported in newspapers around the world and by the Associated Press. The Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post and the London Guardian were among the papers carrying the story. Inside Higher Education also reported on the situation.
- Jody Raphael, a senior researcher in the College of Law, was quoted in a May 16 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article that discussed family law as a tool for reducing prostitution. The piece also discussed findings of a study of prostitution in Chicago that was conducted by Raphael and DePaul’s Schiller, DuCanto, & Fleck Family Law Center.
- College of Law professor Patty Gerstenblith was interviewed by the NPR station in the Hartford/New Haven Conn. area (WPKT-FM) regarding cultural history and the Yale-Peru dispute. The interview aired May 15.
- College of Law professor Jeffrey Shaman was interviewed May 15 by WKBW-TV in Buffalo, NY regarding cyberbullying. Shaman said that laws established to address cyberbullying need to be “more precisely defined.”
