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The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

California legislature passes right-to-die bill

California legislature passes right-to-die bill

Fabio De Simone September 20, 2015

After being diagnosed with brain cancer, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard wrote a piece for CNN in November 2014 describing her fight against the terminal illness titled “My right to die with dignity at...

New discoveries for NASA despite falling budget

New discoveries for NASA despite falling budget

Eric Traphagen September 13, 2015

Nine years ago, engineers at NASA launched a piano-size spacecraft into the void of outer space to explore what was, at the time, the farthest planet in our solar system. Earlier this summer, after...

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis sparks national debate

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis sparks national debate

Fabio De Simone September 13, 2015

In early August, Kim Davis, a clerk in Kentucky for Rowan County, began denying marriage licenses to all couples in an effort to protest the recent and historic ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges mandating...

Donald Trump and the American media: A love story

Donald Trump and the American media: A love story

Danielle Harris, Former news editor August 13, 2015

Donald Trump’s race for the presidency has proven to be less of a political campaign and more of a media spectacle. The businessman and television personality has teased the idea of running for high...

On the winding streets of Amsterdams Red Light district, the red lights above the doors mean Amsterdams prostitutes are open for business, legally. (Ellen Creager/Detroit Free Press/MCT)

Amnesty International takes realistic stance on prostitution

Danielle Harris, Former news editor August 4, 2015

Long considered “the world’s oldest profession,” prostitution has existed virtually as long as the human race itself. Though the morality behind an occupation requiring a man or woman to sell...

Caitlyn Jenner critics only further prove her courage

Caitlyn Jenner critics only further prove her courage

Pat Mullane July 25, 2015

June 1, 2015, we witnessed two things occur simultaneously: Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner was announced as the recipient for the Arthur Ashe Courage Award for this year’s ESPY’s. Hundreds...

In this July 6, 2015, photo, supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cheer at a campaign rally in Portland, Maine. Sanders is packing em in: 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin. More than 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Another 7,500 this week in Portland. The trick for the independent senator from Vermont is to turn all that excitement into something more than a summer fling.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

‘Feel the Bern’: Why Bernie Sanders is the ideal candidate for millennials

Danielle Harris, Former news editor July 18, 2015

Government Involvement Study | Create infographics Millennials are a highly coveted group among candidates in the 2016 presidential race. The generation is certainly an influential one, as 18- to 29-year-olds...

President Barack Obama listens as Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Washington. Trong is the de facto leader of Vietnam despite holding no official government post, and is visiting Washington to boost ties 20 years after the U.S. and Vietnam normalized relations following the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama’s potential clemency push: A temporary solution for a long-term issue

Danielle Harris, Former news editor July 9, 2015

President Obama promised to use clemency power “more aggressively” during the remainder of his time in office, and will likely make true on that promise within the next few weeks. The president...

Religious liberty questioned after same-sex marriage ruling

Religious liberty questioned after same-sex marriage ruling

Danielle Harris, Former news editor July 6, 2015

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage on June 26, prompting celebrations nationwide and temporarily hijacking practically everyone’s Facebook Newsfeed.  While most...

Dylann Roof ‘loner’ rhetoric excuses the inexcusable

Dylann Roof ‘loner’ rhetoric excuses the inexcusable

Rachel Hinton June 25, 2015

After the capture of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old alleged shooter who murdered nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the media began to look...

In this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the Today show set on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York. Dolezal was born to two parents who say they are white, but she chooses instead to self-identify as black. Her ability to think she has a choice shows a new fluidity in race in a diversifying America, a place where the rigid racial structures that defined most of this country’s history seems, for some, to be falling to the wayside. (Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)

Rachel Dolezal case: Racism is not as simple as black and white

Danielle Harris, Former news editor June 22, 2015

Rachel Dolezal is a former NAACP leader, a graduate from the historically black Howard University and previously worked as an African studies professor at Eastern Washington University. With a caramel-colored...

Questionable coverage: Police brutality is only part of the problem

Questionable coverage: Police brutality is only part of the problem

Zoe Krey May 31, 2015

Police brutality has become a central piece of media coverage in the U.S. this year, and with the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Harris and Freddie Gray, it seems that police brutality...

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