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A protestor, who wishes to remain anonymous for safety reasons, hangs a sign on the gates of DePaul University's quad on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Throughout the demonstration, this protestor and many others hung banners that completely covered DePaul's fence.

BREAKING: DePaul President responds to divestment demands

Lucia Preziosi and Lilly Keller May 6, 2024

The office of DePaul’s president, Robert L. Manuel, emailed the university community at 2:14 p.m. today in direct response to the DePaul Divestment Coalition’s various demands. President Manuel...

CPD separates counter-protestors from DePaul's Quad, on May 5, 2024. A counter-protest began around 10:30, and concluded around 1:50.

Tensions flare, CPD present during counter-protest of DePaul’s encampment

Rose O’Keeffe and Lilly Keller May 5, 2024

Members of DePaul’s encampment locked arms and guarded the site's perimeter the morning of May 5 as counter-protesters amassed outside the Quad on Fullerton Avenue. The Chicago Police Department was...

A professor wears a button, “I work for the students not the endownment,” as they stand on the Quad with other faculty in support of the encampment, May 2, 2024.

Faculty faces and DePaul’s ‘Liberated Zone’

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief May 5, 2024

Lilly Keller, Editor-in-Chief, contributed to this report.  Laura Kina, a DePaul professor, wears a button on her shirt as she stands near the perimeter of DePaul’s encampment, created recently in...

Protesters and commuters travel down the main sidewalk of DePaul University's Quad on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. On the opposite end of the quad, organizers served dinner to demonstrators and a handful of community members brought by donations of toiletries, food, water and other supplies.

Photo Gallery: Day two of DePaul’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”

The DePaulia Staff May 1, 2024

Members of DePaul’s encampment, protesting for DePaul to divest from Israel, spent their first night on the Quad on Tuesday. They awoke Wednesday morning, securing a 24-hour encampment. At 9 a.m. on...

Students with United DePaul storm the quad in Lincoln Park on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, to demand better wages and conditions for DePaul workers and divestment from Israel. John Gould, one of the organizers of the strike, said to the crowd: “DePaul student workers don’t have health insurance, but they’re investing in genocide.”

‘We’re going to make them care about us’: United DePaul holds May Day strike

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief May 1, 2024

United DePaul, a group of undergraduate, graduate student workers and adjunct faculty members staged a strike Wednesday, May 1, across DePaul’s Lincoln Park Campus to voice their demands for higher wages...

A person striking holds a sign on DePaul's Quad, on May 1.

‘United DePaul’ organizes one-day strike

Jake Cox, Digital Managing Editor May 1, 2024

On Wednesday, May 1, United DePaul, a group of DePaul students, student workers and adjunct faculty asked students and faculty members to “strike” for one day.  United DePaul planned this strike...

Tents sit on the Lincoln Park Quad on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, as protestors ready for the night after day one of DePaul’s encampment. Protestors are expected to spend the night on campus without any interference from Chicago police.

Photo Gallery: Day one of DePaul’s divestment encampment on the Quad

The DePaulia Staff April 30, 2024

Members of the DePaul community gathered on the Lincoln Park Quad for an encampment to encourage university administration to divest from Israel on Tuesday. The protest began at 10 a.m. and grew to about...

Pro-Palestine protestors chant at a row of Chicago Police Department near the intersection of Seminary and Fullerton by a gas station May 16, 2024. Officers formed a line to block access to the Quad while the encampment was cleared.

Live Updates: CPD, Public Safety raids encampment on LPC Quad

The DePaulia Staff April 30, 2024

Jump to most recent update. | Jump to first update. DePaul Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine launched an encampment on the Quad Tuesday morning. About 30 protesters set up roughly...

Sister Helen Prejean speaks to a room of people in a panel discussing problems in the incarceration system on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in the Lincoln Park Center. Prejean recognized fellow panelist Ervin Robinson for his work in supporting previously incarcerated people.

‘Freedom Dreaming’ with Sister Helen Prejean

Rose O’Keeffe, Content Managing Editor April 28, 2024

“Show of hands, how many of you dream?” This was the question moderator Kim Hunt asked a crowd of students, faculty and staff to kick off Wednesday evening’s panel discussion titled “Freedom...

A vending machine stocked with narcan and other forms of aid stands on the 3rd floor of Harold Washington Library in the Loop on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Machines like this are being installed in locations across the city as a way of making life-saving medication more accessible.

Fentanyl taking more students lives

Anna Radloff, Contributing Writer April 28, 2024
Several fentanyl overdose deaths  locally have involved college students and teenagers.
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