Grad Students Interrupt Budget Meeting PHOENIX STAFF Their Attempts to Negotiate a Contract Reported

New practice facility still Nick Schultz breaks down “on schedule” as winter his men’s basketball approaches preseason poll votes Alfie 13 Nick Knacks 16 Volume 50 Issue 8 October 17, 2018 LOYOLA PHOENIX Fifty Years of Excellence: 1969 - 2019 Grad students interrupt budget meeting PHOENIX STAFF their attempts to negotiate a contract reported. [email protected] with the university. On Oct. 10, members of the union Some graduate student workers — went to Dean Thomas Regan’s office to Some of Loyola’s graduate students who are expected to work a set num- demand the university bargain with interrupted a meeting led by school offi- ber of hours per week, grade papers them for a contract, according to the cials on the university’s budget Tuesday, and hold office hours on top of taking Loyola Worker Coalition’s Facebook calling for higher wages and union rec- classes themselves — voted to unionize page. The request marked the one year ognition. in February 2017. Despite the vote and anniversary of the university’s initial re- About 15 minutes into the meet- recognition as a union by the Nation- fusal to bargain, the page said. ing — as Loyola’s chief financial of- al Labor Relations Board, the graduate “We are fed up,” members of the union ficer, Wayne Magdziarz, was speak- students haven’t been able to negotiate said at the meeting. “We have played by ing — members of the graduate with the university, which views gradu- your rules. And still no contract.” student union stood up throughout ate students as “students in every sense the crowd, chanting slogans about of the word,” The Phoenix previously Town Hall 3 Michael McDevitt reports Rogers Closer Look 7 Park residents on edge KATIE ANTHONY [email protected] With the Rogers Park community still on edge after two shootings at the be- ginning of the month by a suspect still at large, students, community members and businesses share a common goal to make the neighborhood feel safe again. Following increased community awareness around Rogers Park, student Facebook groups like “Roam RoPo” have popped up, while the ride-sharing service, Lyft, has offered 50 percent off to Rogers Park community members through the 49th Ward office until the end of the month. This comes after 73-year-old Douglass Watts was killed Sept. 30 while walking his dog about 1.5 miles away from campus. The following day, 24-year-old Eliyahu Moscowitz was shot dead near Loyola Park, just over a mile from campus. Chi- cago police believe Watts and Moscowitz were killed by the same suspect, who’s still at large at the time of publication. The student Facebook page, “Roam RoPo,” — RoPo being short for Rogers Park — was created Sept. 29 by junior accounting student Ryan McMullin. Mc- Mullin said he and his friends reach out to one another to share information and walk together and he wanted all students to have a similar space. Students have been abandoned late at night after requesting a free “I was thinking what would I do, or how would I feel if I didn’t have that sup- ride from Loyola. The university thinks a glitch is to blame. port system around, so my intentions were to give people that bridge to con- nect with others if they ever felt unsafe,” “Bad Times at the El Royale” takes cues from Quentin Tarantino McMullin said. MATT DRISCOLL hotel stradling the California-Nevada the Woods”) takes some obvious cues latest blockbuster, might even have a Other community Facebook groups [email protected] border near Lake Tahoe. As the night from acclaimed writer-director Quentin tough time seeing “Bad Times” as any- — such as “Rogers Park Neighborhood grows weary, the past-its-prime lodging Tarantino (“The Hateful Eight,” “Pulp thing other than a 1960s-themed “The News” — intended for neighbors to share Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the becomes the battlefront for each of its Fiction”). Hateful Eight” with marginally less recommendations and events have seen El Royale,” released Oct. 12, is the lat- guests own struggles, which intertwine “Bad Times at the El Royale” is hateful characters. an increase in crime related posts follow- est film in a routinely hit-or-miss genre, in ways they never saw coming. Tarantino-esque to the point where Goddard’s employing of a few of ing the incidents. sure to give every mystery-loving, sus- The star-studded cast and alluring, it’s pushing the envelope of being de- Tarantino’s classic ingredients works for Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward) and pense-seeking moviegoer exactly what diverse characters make for an in- rivative from rather than inspired by his film. The movie periodically chang- the Chicago Police Department (CPD) they’re looking for. triguing and must-see film. The sheer Tarantino’s art. es in perspective and includes startling held a community meeting Oct. 3, where The roads of seven strangers — a volume of talent on-screen, especially Goddard borrows heavily from scenes of violence that keep the audi- about 500 Rogers Park residents gathered priest (Jeff Bridges), a singer (Cynthia from Hollywood veteran Bridges (“Hell Tarantino’s signature style, from his cut- ence engaged during the movie’s nearly to hear from police and ask questions about Erivo), a traveling vacuum salesman or High Water,” “True Grit”) and up- ting “Bad Times at the El Royale” into two-and-a-half hour runtime. It’s only the shootings, The Phoenix reported. (Jon Hamm), a hotel desk manager and-coming actress Erivo (“Widows,” chapters divided up by title cards to his Goddard’s poor incorporation of a Mac- On Oct. 10 Moore sent an email (Lewis Pullman), two sisters (Dakota “Broad City”), holds onto the viewer’s utilizing those chapters to present the Guffin — plot-advancing object that newsletter to residents announcing the Johnson and Cailee Spaeny) and a mys- attention even when the movie’s some- same scene from the points of view of lacks intrinsic value — comparable to neighborhood would be working with the terious man looking for something sto- times uncommonly lengthy shots start various characters. that found in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” ride-sharing company Lyft to offer trans- len from him (Chris Hemsworth) — to get old. In fact, some die-hard fans of (the briefcase) that fails to impress. portation at a discount in Rogers Park. lead to the El Royale, a one-of-a-kind Goddard (“The Martian,” “Cabin in Tarantino’s catalog, particularly of his Bad Times 11 RoPo 3.

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