When people hear the term ‘Israel Advocate’ a certain connotation may come into mind. When we both arrived to campus – Cameron in 2011, and Lyric in 2014 – we had very little passion or connection...
Graffiti has persisted in Chicago. One of the louder times graffiti artists have spoken up was in Feb. 2010 when the Modern Wing of the Art Institute was graffitied less than a year after it opened. Stretching...
Parents have kicked their gay and transgender kids out of their homes due to lack of acceptance, intolerance, bigotry and hate on countless occasions. These kids are then forced to move from place to place;...
As the amount of high school graduates enrolling in college increases, so do the stereotypes surrounding them. College students seem to be known for partying, sleeping and consuming highly caffeinated...
As the Honors Student Government liaison to the Student Government Association (SGA), I have had the unique experience of observing this group of student leaders from a somewhat detached perspective. On...
As the end of the quarter approaches, every day I am greeted by an annoying email from “DePaul NoReply.” They flood your inbox at ungodly hours of the night and early mornings. Students are doomed...
The Guardian, a British newspaper, published a series of articles about a Chicago Police Department (CPD) facility known as Homan Square, painting the site as a “C.I.A.-style black site.” The story...
My grandmother (who is of German and Norwegian descent) went on a family road trip to Texas when she was 12 years old, around 1945. While stopping at a laundromat in the South she threw all of the white...
As we inch closer to the painful process of watching candidates for student government spam their campaign messages across social media, we have to ask the question: Does Student Government Association...
It all started from a generous act of compassion, but turned south for a motive unknown. Eddie Ray Routh, former U.S. Marine and diagnosed schizophrenic, will spend the rest of his life in prison for...
Whole Foods is here and so are the higher prices for food. Long gone are the days when DePaul students could walk into Dominick’s and purchase something that they would otherwise pay much more for...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not likely running for president in 2016 — unless, of course, you ask her supporters.
According to The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, NPR and DePaul political science...
