Take Back the Night extends support to sexual violence survivors, highlights institutional shortcomings
Ella Lee & Cailey Gleeson, Focus Editor & Contributing Writer
April 22, 2019
Technicolored shirts displaying personal narratives and messages of support for survivors of sexual assault covered the Schmitt Academic Center as a part of the Clothesline Project, just one component of DePaul’s Take Back the Night. Charlotte Byrd, one of the event’s organizers and member of Students for Reprodu...
Joy is Coming: Take Back the Night gives platform to survivors of sexual violence
Yazmin Dominguez, Online Editor
April 30, 2018
On Wednesday evening, in room 302 of the Arts and Letters Hall, an intimate moment was taking place. Sitting in a circle gathered around bunches of white flowers, a heart shaped stone with the word “healing” engraved on its face and a glass figurine of a pink swan, fellow graduate students Fabiola Rosiles ...
Highest number of sexual assaults reported
October 10, 2016
Sexual assault on DePaul’s campus has been a topic of conversation in the past, and that trend will continue this year despite initiatives by the school focusing on sexual and relationship violence prevention. In the 2016 Safety and Security Information Report and Fire Safety Report, which prov...
DePaul, other universities make strides, still struggle to fight sexual assault
April 26, 2015
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n an unseasonably warm evening in mid-April, about 20 students — a few alumni as well — met in a lecture hall in McGowan South. They weren’t there for a chemistry lecture, but instead for a lesson on consent, why the phrase “Consent is Sexy” is “problematic,” what the “pizza model” of consent is, and ...
Joe Biden on campus sexual assault: ‘No means no and no exceptions’
April 23, 2015
URBANA, Ill. – Vice President Joe Biden visited the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday to applaud the efforts of the university’s “It’s On Us” campaign. Read More »...
Letter to the Editor: What individual citizens can do to combat campus sexual assault
October 7, 2014
Educate yourself about the dynamics of sexual assault Hold you and your peers accountable Know how to respond to a friend Continue working with the university response to these issue Don’t rape people In last week’s DePaulia, students raised issues surrounding how the DePaul community is dea...
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DePaul hires new Title IX coordinator, retitles position
September 16, 2019
DePaul has hired Ann M. Skiffington as the university’s new director of gender...