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...
Photo gallery: Law School Commencement all smiles at McCormick Place
Jacob Emerson, Photographer
May 14, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
DePaul's College of Law commencement ceremony took place in the McCormick Grand Ballroom on Sunday, May 13.
Joy is Coming: Take Back the Night gives platform to survivors of sexual violence
Yazmin Dominguez, Online Editor
April 30, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
On Wednesday evening, in room 302 of the Arts and Letters Hall, an intimate moment was taking place. Sitting in a circle gathered around bunches of white flowers, a heart shaped stone with the word “healing” engraved on its face and a glass figurine of a pink swan, fellow graduate students Fabiola Rosiles ...
Commentary: Student Gov. elections were undemocratic
Benjamin Conboy, Managing Editor
April 30, 2018
Filed under News, SGA Elections
It’s surprisingly easy to run for the President of the United States. You’re qualified to run if you are at least 35-years-old and a natural-born citizen who has lived in the U.S. That, when combined with at least 270 electoral college votes, will deliver to you the highest office in the free world. ...
Dysfunctional Discipline
March 5, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
It started as an average October evening last fall for seven fraternity members at DePaul. They decided that they were going to get together and hang out at the apartment of Matthew, one of their frat brothers. Like any night together, the men were laughing, goofing around and having a good time. As the ev...
DePaul recognized as a top military-friendly college
Jonathan Ballew, Assistant News Editor
March 5, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
The SR Education Group has ranked DePaul as one of 2018’s “Top Military-Friendly Online Colleges.” The ranking puts DePaul among 60 other colleges to earn the distinction. The SR Education Group, a leading educational ranking publication, said colleges that made the list “provide strong mi...
Law professor draws ire of students after using ‘N-word’ in lecture
Shane Rene, Sports Editor
March 5, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
DePaul College of Law professor Donald Harmann is under fire from students for using the N-word multiple times in a lecture to his criminal law class on Feb. 22 and refusing to apologize in following classes. During that class, Harmann says he was posing a hypothetical situation — a standard teach...
DePaul fails at discipline transparency
March 5, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
The disciplinary process at DePaul is conducted in secrecy. Students who have gone through it say they are kept in the dark, and the information that the university does release is negligible. The university won’t reveal how many students are suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned. The DePau...
DePaul administration defends free speech after denying Steven Crowder
Jonathan Ballew, Assistant News Editor
February 26, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
DePaul has found itself in the spotlight for receiving an award from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) — only this award isn’t the type most universities hope to win. FIRE awarded DePaul the inaugural “lifetime censorship award” for, what they say, is a pattern of atta...
Study abroad trip to Israel reviewed following State Department advisory
Graciella Saucedo-Riviera, Contributing Writer
February 19, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
A few months ago, the United States Department of State Travel adjusted the way that it measures its worldwide travel warning system. Now, those changes in the State Department’s reporting procedure are having effects on some of DePaul’s study abroad programs. In January the Department of State Travel li...
The great debate
Amber Colón, Editor in Chief
February 19, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
In an evening rife with political disagreements, perhaps nothing was as shocking as DePaul College Republicans member Brenden Newell’s comments towards the end of Tuesday’s debate between the Republicans and DePaul Socialists. “I would’ve rather had a person (in office) who mildly sexually assaulted...
“By any means necessary”: DePaul Socialists remember Malcolm X
April Lane, Assistant Online Editor
February 16, 2018
Filed under Campus News, News
During the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-50s, while Martin Luther King Jr. offered a message of justice by way of peace, Malcolm X led an alternative movement focused on combating racism by enforcing the values of black empowerment, liberation and achieving social justice “by any means ...
