With COVID-19 sending the DePaul community into self-isolation, students have taken our needs and those of our community and demanded they be met. From the fight to treat laid-off Chartwells dining workers...
Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault.
College is a fresh start, or so I thought. To say I was excited to leave my life in Kansas behind is an understatement. Stepping onto...
The sound of video games being played in the background as I sipped my strawberry margarita at Dave & Buster’s on a Friday night. My family decided to go out for dinner, as part of a tradition; ...
We’ve heard it a million times before: time is a weird construct right now. But looking back to my first day of college feels like eons ago, given that the past three months have felt like three years...
The last time the census was counted, I was ten years old, and I don’t even think I knew it was happening. It wasn’t until recently that I understood anything about the census.
Questions like...
Jorge Valdano, former coach and general manager of Real Madrid, once said, “of all the unimportant things, football is the most important.” I feel like that message rings loud and clear today for me.
The...
Dear fellow white people,
Now is not the time. It’s not the time to post on Instagram a picture of yourself in a bikini, a throwback of you and the boys hitting the shotski, or a video of you bouncing...
A concert is far more than a performance.
In a world largely devoid of communal ritual and ceremony, the opportunity to gather for an evening of live artistry with a roomful of strangers, and maybe...
Valerie C. Johnson, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair, Political Science Department
• May 31, 2020
Those who have not experienced American racism may have found a degree of solace in President Esteban’s letter to the university community — “The nation’s grief... and our response.” As an African...
The #MeToo movement has been an essential mechanism for questioning positions of power, and for allowing the voices of survivors of assault to be heard. With the conversation just getting started, we need...
Emma Oxnevad, Online Managing Editor
• May 22, 2020
The last 60-odd days sure have been a drag, huh?
I’m sure you’re tired of thinking about COVID-19, and talking about it, and certainly reading about it.
It is now the official second-worst...
“Please post, talk, and text after the show. Don’t ruin the movie.”
I can hear that message echoing through the theater but don’t remember the last time that I was seated, popcorn in hand, getting...
