New season, different feeling
Lawrence Kreymer, Asst. Sports Editor
November 12, 2018
Filed under Sports
When DePaul walked off the court for the final time last season after losing to Marquette in the first round of the Big East tournament, questions on whether the team was moving in the right direction intensified. During the ensuing offseason the program tried convincing fans and the students that goi...
Lack of interest remains inside and outside Wintrust
William Hopper, Asst. Sports Editor
November 12, 2018
Filed under Sports
With DePaul men’s basketball tipping off its second season at Wintrust Arena Wednesday night, the question is whether interest in the program will increase in the arena’s second year. An unscientific survey of 100 students conducted by the DePaulia last week found that 65% of participants had n...
Student-athletes or athlete-students?
Liliana Trifilio, Contributing Writer
May 21, 2018
Filed under Sports
You wake up. The alarm clock is still buzzing in your ear as you scarf down a breakfast burrito and begin packing your uniform. For a moment you think about the final project you haven’t started yet and decide to shake the thought. You need to concentrate on what counts. You need to be prepared for an...
The termination of textbooks
Mackenzie Murtaugh, Opinions Editor
February 26, 2018
Filed under Opinions
It sits at my bedside table. The wood-panelling of my walls makes its blue and orange colors dance along with old receipts and gum wrappers drifting across my floor. The dust it has collected makes me reflect on simpler times, perhaps a time when this arrangement of paper didn’t sit beside my bed, plott...
St. Vincent DeJamz: Songs reminding DePaulia grads of freshman year
May 31, 2015
As the end of the school year approaches, The DePaulia’s graduating staff members are quickly getting all of the feels. To reminisce on their time in college, the graduates chose songs that reminded them of their freshman year. Read More »...
Switching gears: Buying a car a gateway into adulthood
April 19, 2015
Filed under Focus
With graduation approaching, some students are in the process of purchasing their own graduation gift: a new car, reliable enough to get them to their first handful of job interviews this summer. Read More »...
‘Two years free’: Economic ramifications of Obama’s community college tuition proposal
January 18, 2015
Filed under Nation & World
High schoolers, adult learners and school administrators sighed in relief as the Obama administration proposed a plan on Jan. 8 to make two-year community colleges free for many Americans. Read More »...
Chicago college students struggle to pay tuition in absence of higher minimum wage
Nana Aduba-Amoah and Amanda Crane
November 9, 2014
For Chicago college students like Venice Adams, raising the minimum wage in Illinois is the only way to continue pursuing a college degree. Read More »...
Pulling out pockets
September 15, 2014
Filed under Nation & World
Rising college costs defy simple solutions, confound governments As another school year dawns and students scramble for another set of school payments, people may wonder: What changes, if any, are being established to help curb the ever-rising costs of attaining a higher education? As the Obama Administ...