DePaul adds new Board of Trustees members
Shane René, Editor-in-Chief
January 27, 2020
DePaul University’s Board of Trustees will bring aboard six newly elected members, including Gery Chico, a former candidate for mayor of Chicago, according to a university press release. The new board members come from a variety of professional backgrounds, ranging from corporate banking and invest...
DePaul senior, elected official Bushra Amiwala talks burnout, image and pushing her limits
Mackenzie Murtaugh, News Editor
January 26, 2020
She was driving her usual route when it happened. Her phone continued to vibrate and vibrate without stopping. She had been getting very little sleep the first week of January. She couldn’t look at her phone without some form of anxiety rising to the surface. The little red bubble on her phone reminde...
Blue Demon Challenge donations double initial goal of $1 million
Maria Garcia, Contributing Writer
January 26, 2020
DePaul hosted the Blue Demon Challenge on Thursday, Jan. 23 with a goal to raise $1 million. The challenge surpassed expectations and impressed students and faculty with $2,006,201 in total donations raised and 2,439 gifts in total, according to the Blue Demon Challenge website. The event honors the seven ...
DePaul event encourages attendees to rethink perceptions of drug use
Patsy Newitt, Assistant News Editor
January 26, 2020
Legalization of cannabis in Illinois after decades of criminalization has spurred many to rethink their perceptions of drug use. DePaul University sociology professor Greg Scott offered a space for this evaluation in an open lecture on drug user advocacy this past Friday, Jan. 24. His lecture, tit...
Programming error registers hundreds of non-citizens
Patsy Newitt, Assistant News Editor
January 26, 2020
After years of pleas by voting rights advocates for the Secretary of State’s office to improve implementation of Automatic Voter Registration, Secretary Jesse White revealed in a letter that over 500 of those who marked they were not U.S. citizens were accidentally registered to vote through AVR between Jul...
DePaul mental health services don’t impress
Taylor Johnson, Contributing Writer
January 26, 2020
Many students suffer from mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and so on. However, over the years it has been common that many students struggle with these issues alone. Most of these issues start at home, or as a child and developed into bigger problems throughout a...
DePaul Faculty Council discusses diversity, renames art school
Lacey Latch, Managing Editor
January 20, 2020
DePaul’s Faculty Council spent much of their Jan. 15 meeting addressing concerns regarding diversity and inclusion throughout their ranks. When Valerie Johnson, the chair of the political science department presented her motion to prioritize diversity in the hiring process for Associate Deans, she noted ...
Declining enrollment will factor into DePaul’s 2020-21 budget
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
January 12, 2020
DePaul has begun its process for preparing a budget for the 2020-21 academic year, and the university says it must take enrollment declines into consideration. The university won’t have a budget until after the Board of Trustees’ meeting in early March, but the process for putting it together began ...
In Brief: DePaul President’s Report highlights university successes, goals
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
January 12, 2020
DePaul President A. Gabriel Esteban released his annual President’s Report last week, highlighting the university’s accomplishments and some of its goals moving forward. For example, DePaul has new scholarships available for some incoming students. The university awarded more than 250 inco...
Former DePaul student’s happy ending after $20k GI Bill debacle
Mackenzie Murtaugh, News Editor
January 12, 2020
In 2008, the government passed the Post-9/11 GI Bill which offers educational benefits to service members who served 90 or more days on active duty since September 10, 2001. The tiered system benefits both those who served the country and their dependents, with much of their college tuition covered ...
‘Know what you owe’: Student loan advice from a professional fitness adviser
Maddie Brockmyre, Contributing Writer
January 12, 2020
Natalie Daniels, a short woman with magenta glasses and a bright smile, sits in her office tucked away in the back of DePaul Central, separated from the bustle of the Schmidt Academic Center. Two computers are propped up on her desk as she quickly types out numbers into a loan interest calculator ...
Holiday histories: DePaul through the decades
Patsy Newitt, Assistant News Editor
December 21, 2019
This timeline shows DePaul holiday celebrations and blunders through the decades, using documents from the university's Special Collections and Archives. Among other events, it includes St. Vincent de Paul's Christmas Eve feast, a statue of Thomas Aquinas stolen from a science building and a Hanukkah...
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday that there are no plans to suspend Illinois' automatic voter registration...
Chicago’s low-income communities receiving a $20M investment
January 28, 2020
Underprivileged areas in Chicago will receive an estimated $20 million investment...
1-year-old Chicago toddler shot in parents’ gun struggle
January 28, 2020
A 1-year-old boy whose father claimed had been shot in the head by a gunman...
DePaul adds new Board of Trustees members
January 27, 2020
DePaul University’s Board of Trustees will bring aboard six newly elected...