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The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

Students participate in a game of loteria during their meeting. MESA aims to support Latino students of all backgrounds.

New student organization, MESA, hopes to provide an inclusive space for Latino DePaul students

Erika Pérez, La DePaulia Managing Editor / March 6, 2022

The student organization Movimiento Estudiantes de Solidaridad y Apoyo (MESA) held its first event of the year on Feb. 25 in the Latinx Cultural Center. The students played a couple of lottery rounds while...

Activists advise college students learn about dating violence

Activists advise college students learn about dating violence

Lilly Keller, Editor in Chief / March 1, 2022

February marks the month-long awareness of violence and abuse within young adult relationships. Dating back to 2006, the practice of bringing awareness to abuse within teenage relationships was initially...

World braces for cyberwar as Russian invasion intensifies

World braces for cyberwar as Russian invasion intensifies

Jackson Healy, Nation and World Editor / February 28, 2022

As bombs, bullets and bodies fall to Ukrainian streets in the nation’s battle against an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion, cyberattacks between the two nations continue, stoking fears that such attacks...

Students dancing during Friday night's Queer Prom event.

Love under neon lights: Student Government Association hosts Queer Prom on Feb. 25

Kiersten Riedford, News Editor / February 28, 2022

In close quarters and glitter on nearly everyone’s eyelids, several couples dance against each other as single people form dance circles. Everyone starts to scream at the top of their lungs in excitement...

DePaul updated their mask guidance on Friday, Feb. 25 before the Chicago mask mandate ends on Monday.

Masks will not be required outside of classroom, labs

Amber Stoutenborough, Managing Multimedia Editor / February 28, 2022

DePaul altered its mask mandate to only permit KN95 or N95 masks on Jan. 13. Six weeks later, DePaul is dropping the mandate to only be in classrooms. DePaul sent out an announcement Friday evening...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker addressed a crowd at Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Catholic Church on Sunday, Feb. 27.

Chicagoans rally in Ukrainian Village amid Russian invasion

Patrick Sloan-Turner, Online Managing Editor / February 28, 2022

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and more than a thousand Chicagoans came together to show support for the Ukrainian people in the Ukrainian Village on Sunday. “Whether you come from Ukraine,...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, at the court in Washington.President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, DePaul faculty reflect on diversity in law

Nika Schoonover, Print Managing Editor / February 28, 2022

President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, he announced Friday. Jackson, if confirmed, would make history as the first Black woman to serve as a justice. “I...

Freshmen Jillian Muncaster, Amber Rosegay and Casey Fong organize their donations. All donations will go towards the Grace House.

Student collect menstrual, hygiene products for Grace House

Nadia Carolina Hernandez, Former Editor in Chief / February 28, 2022

Three freshman students have collected over 370 menstrual and hygiene products to donate towards The Grace House. Freshmen Jillian Muncaster, Amber Rosegay and Casey Fong partnered with nationwide campaign...

A Lincoln Park High School student cleans a treadmill during her shift.

Internship at the Ray strengthen job skills for high school students

Salvador Salazar, Contributing Writer / February 27, 2022

One Chicago Public Schools teacher has helped bridge this experience for his students. Justin O’Donnell, a diverse learning instructor at Lincoln Park High School (LPHS), began an internship program...

Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx speaks during a Chicago Police Department press conference in Bronzeville on Jan. 26, 2022. Foxx also participated in a press conference with DePaul student media on Feb. 17, 2022. (AP | Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx continues to push for special prosecutors, independent panel

Nika Schoonover, Print Managing Editor / February 27, 2022

When Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016, she ran on the position that special prosecutors should be involved in deciding whether criminal charges should be brought to police officers...

Presidential uncertainty: Five years ago, President Esteban was hired. His replacement remains unknown

Presidential uncertainty: Five years ago, President Esteban was hired. His replacement remains unknown

Lawrence Kreymer and Josephine Stratman / February 22, 2022

DePaul plans to hire a new university president by Easter weekend, according to Student Government Association (SGA) President Watfae Zayed during their general body meeting Thursday night. The university,...

Banderas de EE.UU y Ucrania en el vecinadario de Ukrainian Village.

Guilty, helpless, afraid: Ukrainian Chicagoans witness from afar

Stephania Rodriguez / February 20, 2022

Somewhere in London, DePaul alumnus Julian Hayda, 29, sits and anxiously awaits the day he’ll be able to return to Ukraine — his motherland, and the country he and his wife, Summer, recently made their...

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