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Textbook publishers find new ways to squeeze students

D. K. Schwartz, Contributing Writer

February 26, 2018

Defying perceptions of a dying industry, one sector of the publishing world is still doing brisk business these days, and it’s all thanks to college students. After raising the average college textbooks’ price nearly 200 percent since 1997—a surge outpaced only by hospital services — the corporat...

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“No human being is illegal”: DePaul students respond to DACA repeal

Amber Colón

September 18, 2017

When President Trump announced on Tuesday, Sept. 5 that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) would be rescinded, sophomore Brenda González decided that she couldn’t stand by as her life became even more threatened than it already is — so she decided to do what she knows best: organize...

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