Chicago startup aims to pay apartment seekers, build community
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
July 16, 2018
Looking for an apartment isn’t always the most glamorous task, especially for college students. Rentgrata is a new service aimed to ease that process and get apartment seekers paid for signing their lease. The Chicago-based company, incorporated in October 2016, is an iOS app and web-based platf...
DePaul’s School of Music to host classical and jazz festival this fall
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
June 29, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News, Showcase
The School of Music’s newly designed Holtschneider Performance Center will be having an 11-day classical and jazz music festival beginning on Nov. 1, not only as a way to celebrate the new three-story, 185,000 square-foot facility, but also to celebrate the School of Music. There are going to be...
Major staff layoffs expected
Jonathan Ballew, News Editor
May 29, 2018
Serious layoffs are likely coming to DePaul. DePaul officials said that the process is “not yet finalized” and any staff reductions “would go into effect before July 1,” which is the beginning of the new fiscal year. Several current DePaul employees described to The DePaulia a culture of fear and...
Editorial: A free press challenged at DePaul
May 29, 2018
The playwright and author Arthur Miller once said, “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” DePaul is, in a sense, a nation in its own right, albeit a smaller one of about 28,000. And we, the students who collectively comprise The DePaulia, are speaking to you when we illu...
No Cop Academy and a thin blue line
Cody Corrall, Multimedia Editor
May 29, 2018
Filed under News
The second floor of City Hall was hotter than usual Friday afternoon. The air conditioning was shut off as hundreds of Chicago activists and organizers protested funding the $95 million cop academy in Garfield Park proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The vote to give $28 million to the academy was initially scheduled for Wednes...
How ‘Peter Rabbit’ teaches kids to save the planet
Evan Sully, Staff Writer
May 29, 2018
Filed under News
When DePaul environmental science professor Liam Heneghan’s children left home for college, he thought of how he had managed to raise such dedicated, concerned young adults who care deeply for the world around them. The answer — children’s books. All of these books personify animals in order...
Open-source, downloadable textbooks could relieve price strain
Duaa Israr, Contributing Writer
May 29, 2018
Filed under News
Students and professors at DePaul University may set a new policy — usurping expensive textbook-buying requirements with the option of downloading the material at a discount price. Students and professors are now getting the survey via email. Their responses will determine whether the library will...
Prolific professor leaving DePaul for greener pastures
Ben Conboy, Managing Editor
May 29, 2018
Filed under News
Patrick Murphy loves this place. He built his career here. He bought a condo that is only a three-minute walk from DePaul’s Loop campus so he could be there at a moment’s notice. But now it’s time for him to move on. He’s been at DePaul for 15 years, since he was only 29-years-old. Murphy,...
Speaker illuminates religious foundations of KKK artifacts
Brian Pearlman, Staff Writer
May 29, 2018
Filed under News
KImages of the Ku Klux Klan, its members clad in hooded white robes and standing alongside burning crosses, are often used as shorthand symbols for an almost otherworldly form of American white nationalism and white supremacy – and they shouldn’t be, according to Kelly Baker, an independent scholar,...
Report of armed weapon in Loop campus lead to evacuation, concerned students
Yazmin Dominguez, Online Editor
May 23, 2018
We just evacuated the Loop campus at #DePaul and were told to move across the street. No word about what’s happening inside. #Chicago pic.twitter.com/VGmpZ3r3AK — Holly K. Sias (@HollySias) May 22, 2018 A professor was told that there was some kind of off-duty plain clothes law enforcement officer in the building who had a gun visible, someone called it in and...
Playing it safe: As national and local violence ramps up, concerns about safety follow suit
Lacey Latch, Arts & Life Editor
May 21, 2018
Multiple students were shot and killed in an shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, according to police. This mass shooting comes almost a month to the day after a mass shooting in a Nashville Waffle House left four people dead. Only six months into the year, there have be...
Chicago’s South Side serving freshly-squeezed LimeBikes
Timothy Duke, Assistant News Editor
May 21, 2018
Streaming along the street atop a light blue Divvy bike, senior hospitality management student Jacob Jandacek anxiously searches for the docking station — the past three docks have been completely filled, and his time is running out. Jandacek says that while finding only filled docking stations is...
