Even without sports, photographers’ creativity still runs high
Ryan Gilroy, Copy Editor & Staff Photographer
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We’ve seen the coronavirus shut down sports as we know it – yet, for the people who capture those split-second moments during those games, there is still a dire need to create. Photographers around the country have effectively been stripped of work since mid-March, leaving many questions unanswer...
Lightfoot says Chicago’s reopening to go on despite unrest
June 2, 2020
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday that the city will proceed this week with its next stage of reopening after coronavirus stay-at-home orders, despite days of unrest and violence. Vandalism and violent clashes have followed peaceful protests citywide after George Floyd’s death. Numerous...
Bookshelves offer glimpses into others’ lives during pandemic
Regina Bressanelli, Contributing Writer
June 2, 2020
A few weeks into the semester, DePaul students have settled into a new normal of remote education. While not ideal, the world cannot stop completely because of the pandemic, and both students and teachers have adapted a more flexible approach to classes. While there are advantages and disadvantages t...
What I miss the most: live music
Sam Ellenby, Contributing Writer
June 1, 2020
A concert is far more than a performance. In a world largely devoid of communal ritual and ceremony, the opportunity to gather for an evening of live artistry with a roomful of strangers, and maybe a friend or two, is invaluable. The people in a crowd often have far more in common with one another t...
Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control
June 1, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement's response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway. Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyo...
COVID-19 pandemic sees rise in fostering pets
Abby Yimer, Contributing Writer
May 27, 2020
As business closed their doors and shelter-in-place orders were put into effect around the nation, many people opened their homes to some furry friends. Mark Rutkowski and his partner, Rebecca Taylor, took in a terminally ill corgi named Daisy. They are fostering her through Lakeshore Pembroke W...
Former DePaul basketball players working at the same hospital helping the fight against COVID-19
Lawrence Kreymer, Sports Editor
May 26, 2020
When former DePaul women’s basketball player Brooke Schulte was waiting to have her interview with Northwestern Memorial Hospital back in December, she received a text message from a former DePaul men’s basketball player — Peter Ryckbosch — who had already been working at the same hospital in...
Pritzker issues rules as Illinois prepares for reopening
May 26, 2020
Barbers and their customers will have to wear face masks. Restaurants will be able to serve diners outdoors only, with parties no larger than six people, spaced apart. And youth sports may hold practices and drills for 10 or fewer people, as long as the water fountains are shut off and other rules are...
The rise of horny posting
Carly Travis, Contributing Writer
May 25, 2020
What is it about a global pandemic that makes everyone horny? A week after the stay at home orders were put in place, Twitter timelines everywhere were flooded with tweets about wanting some. Most of those tweets were from yours truly. Twitter is a horny domain to begin with. With fewer restri...
La pandemia ha traído fin a la cultura deportiva y sus aficionados
Ernesto Hernandez, La DePaulia Sports Staff Writer
May 25, 2020
Lo que los partidos demostraron es que en el fútbol los aficionados forman una parte importante en el espectáculo. Sin ellos, los equipos deportivos tienden a perder a menudo una vez que están jugando en la cancha. El estadio de los Borussia Dortmund, el Westfalenstadion, lució vacío en su parti...
COVID-19 has disrupted international sports tournaments that were going to take place in the summer
Sahil Gujarati, Contributing Writer
May 23, 2020
UEFA convened a telephone call featuring its major stakeholders back on March 14 to plan European football's response to the coronavirus. The governing body's 55 member associations, the EU Club Association, European Leagues and the international players' union Fifpro were all represented. Reschedul...
Lightfoot estimates Chicago can begin reopening in June
May 22, 2020
Chicago cannot begin to loosen restrictions designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus before early June, officials in the nation's third-largest city said Friday. Chicago, like the rest of Illinois, has been under a stay-at-home order since March 21. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said all parts of the state are on track f...
