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A DePaul student receives a COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the Lincoln Park Student Center. The Moderna vaccine clinic was open to DePaul students, faculty and staff April 27-30, 2021 and was conducted in partnership with Michigan Avenue Immediate Care. (DePaul University/Jeff Carrion)

DePaul removes Covid-19 vaccine requirement

Kiersten Riedford, News Editor May 15, 2023

DePaul is no longer requiring students, faculty and staff to receive a Covid-19 vaccine as of May 12.  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that May 11 was the end date of Covid-19 being a public health...

Mahboubeh Gorgband, of McKinney Texas, lays flower petals at a memorial established for the victims of the Wednesday shooting.

Tragedy in Allen, Texas continues to ignite gun control debate

Lucia Preziosi, Editor in Chief May 14, 2023

Eight victims. A dead gunman. Yet another point on the exhausted list of gun related tragedies that is only growing larger, as a shopping center in Allen, Texas becomes the most recent target of a mass...

(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,...

"554" by Jr Alvarez displayed at the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) gallery on Monday, May 1. The gallery sought to highlight APIDA student artwork.

‘Untold Stories’ reflects Asian Pacific Islander Desi American student experience at DePaul

Lilly Keller, Editor in Chief May 7, 2023

The theme of untold stories came naturally to Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) art gallery curator Sophia Iqbal. "The idea of untold stories is very prevalent among Asian American communities...

COLUMN: Catholic Church struggles to attract young people because of hateful messsaging

COLUMN: Catholic Church struggles to attract young people because of hateful messsaging

Olivia Zimmerman, Staff Writer May 7, 2023

Last year at my parent’s parish – where I grew up in – held a meeting about church attendance. In this meeting, they discussed a pertinent topic that church officials have been concerned about: getting...

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...

Cherry tree in Jackson Park begins to blossom on Tuesday, April 25. Unusual April weather conditions have disrupted the seasonal blossom pattern for the trees.

Blooming connections: Jackson Park’s Sakura cherry blossom trees bridge the city to Japan’s cultural roots

Una Cleary, Focus Editor April 30, 2023

Pink and white hues color the skies of Chicago’s Jackson Park in late April, as over 190 budding Sakura cherry blossom trees sprawl over green grass in the Hyde Park neighborhood, symbolizing the long-awaited...

Ezra Constante also known by his drag name Testostermoan performs at the end of his senior thesis event, Drag teach-in on April 28 in the Richardson Library.

DePaul hosts first drag teach-in event showcasing Chicago’s drag culture

Amber Stoutenborough, Managing Multimedia Editor April 30, 2023

When Ezra Constante first moved from Kentucky to Chicago to attend DePaul, he did not expect in four years to be a drag king.  But on April 27, in a small room in the back of DePaul’s Richardson...

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