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The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

(Left) President Robert Manuel and Min. Jené Ashley Colvin read the agenda for DePaul's Confronting Our History event on Monday, May 1.

Acknowledgment & atonement: DePaul apologizes for Vincentian history of slaveholding

Minister Jené A. Colvin, from DePaul’s Division of Mission and Ministry, said her grandmother Eunice Jones Hawthorne lived to be 95. Born in 1919, Hawthorne lived when Jim Crow laws were in place and...

Senior Paria Ghaderi, Student Government Association (SGA) senator for the College of Communication recounted her experience being attacked on campus on May 4.

Student’s story ignites safety conversations at SGA assembly

Claire Tweedie, Former Editor in Chief / May 7, 2023

Editor's note: ​​This story contains mentions of sex offenses and descriptions of assault.  “On this day I learned a very hard lesson: How to keep living when you have felt the cold grasp of death,”...

The west entrance to the Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) on Jan. 9, 2023. Many Faculty Council representatives voiced their criticism on the budget to Provost Salma Ghanem last Wednesday, May 3.

Ghanem addresses Faculty Council reps criticism of DePaul’s budget process, lack of cohesion

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor / May 7, 2023

The agenda for this month's Faculty Council meeting did not list either DePaul's budget gap or the Strategic Resource Allocation Committee (SRAC). Still, the topic dominated a portion of the May 3 meeting,...

Flo Milli will be headlining the 2023 FEST performance on May 26. Emblem3 will be opening for her.

Flo Milli, Emblem3 to headline, open at FEST

Kiersten Riedford, News Editor / May 7, 2023

Flo Milli and Emblem3 will headline and open for FEST on Friday, May 26. Students gathered for the announcement at noon on May 4 in the Lincoln Park Student Center Atrium. DAB members had students build...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott answers questions during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas.

Texas Gov. Abbott responds to Mayor Lightfoot’s letter about migrant situation

Olivia Zimmerman, Staff Writer / May 7, 2023

“These people are humans [and] these people are traumatized already.” President of the Little Village Community Council, Baltazar Enriquez said in response to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision...

(Left) Parveen Mundi and Avery Schoenhals won the SGA presidential race. They will serve as SGA president and vice president in the 2023-2024 academic year.

SGA election results announced: Parveen Mundi, Avery Schoenhals to serve as SGA president, vice president

Kiersten Riedford, News Editor / May 7, 2023

Student Government Association (SGA) announced on May 5 that Parveen Mundi and Avery Schoenhals will serve as the 2023-2024 SGA president and vice president.  Mundi and Schoenhals won with 52.3% of...

The Little Village entry arch on 26th St. The gate is the first landmark many migrants, who are coming into the city, see when they are welcomed into the neighborhood.

Little Village residents speak out against high rate of unsolved homicide cases

Olivia Zimmerman, Staff Writer / May 7, 2023

The Little Village Community Council held a meeting of Mothers and Families United for Justice on Thursday. The group is made up of residents who have lost a loved one to violence, and whose cases remain...

(Center) Karen Malave, an immigrant from Venezuela, smiles as she fixes her daughter Avril Brandelli's hair. They and other families are taking shelter in a Chicago Police Department station.

Impending end of Title 42 looms over city officials and community organizers amid influx of asylum seekers

Jacqueline Cardenas, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief / May 7, 2023

Another influx of migrants arrived in Chicago at the beginning of May, leaving many waiting for shelter in police stations. But as city officials and community organizers grapple with the lack of resources,...

Implications and impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act

Implications and impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act

Ruchi Nawathe, Nation & World Editor / May 7, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a sprawling piece of legislation that covers many different economic areas, including one of the largest steps taken by the U.S. government to reduce carbon emissions,...

SGA fails to uphold transparency requirements, Holechko petitions for removal

SGA fails to uphold transparency requirements, Holechko petitions for removal

Jake Cox, Digital Managing Editor / April 30, 2023

As DePaul continues to face its $56.5 million budget gap, calls for radical transparency echo throughout all corners of the university’s administration. The lack of transparency in DePaul’s discussions...

Visitors walk by "The Bean" on April 26 in Millennium Park. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has reinforced the parks curfew for minors after large youth gatherings resulted in recent violence.

‘Just once we try something that might actually work’: Activists, Chicagoans speak out against youth curfew laws

Samantha Moilanen, Former Online Managing Editor / April 30, 2023

When Myles Francis, the project director for the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, entered a movie theater last April with his younger brother, he was immediately faced with a sign that read,...

The Clothesline Project focuses on bringing awareness to stigmas surrounding sexual assault.

‘It needs to be taken seriously’: 2nd annual Clothesline Project continues its work on breaking the silence

Lilly Keller, Editor in Chief / April 30, 2023

More than 30 colorful T-shirts hung in the Lincoln Park Student Center Friday night, beckoning many who entered to look closer. However, the display revealed its somber message to students who neared it. One...

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