DePaul’s 12th Chinese New Year Gala celebrates Year of the Golden Rat, giving hope to faculty, students entering the new decade
Mackenzie Murtaugh and Jessica Grekowicz
January 26, 2020
The idea of celebrating a rat is lost upon many in Western culture. Rats are the scurrying figures you avoid on the subway, the hidden creatures in the walls of your apartment and what one DePaul student affectionately called: “garbage squirrels.” DePaul University celebrated the year of the Golden Rat on Frida...
DePaul event encourages attendees to rethink perceptions of drug use
Patsy Newitt, Assistant News Editor
January 26, 2020
Legalization of cannabis in Illinois after decades of criminalization has spurred many to rethink their perceptions of drug use. DePaul University sociology professor Greg Scott offered a space for this evaluation in an open lecture on drug user advocacy this past Friday, Jan. 24. His lecture, tit...
Organización estudiantil revela nuevo mural representando a países Latinoamericanos
Hillary Flores, La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief
January 20, 2020
Después de 4 meses – con una sonrisa y despegando una tela azul con la mano izquierda – estudiante de segundo año en la Universidad DePaul, Lupe Casas, reveló un nuevo mural en el Centro Cultural Latinx. El mural, que fue revelado el pasado 16 de enero, es dicho ser una representación d...
DePaul shows solidarity to people experiencing homelessness with ‘Big Sleep Out’
Xavier Ortega, Photo Editor
December 8, 2019
On a cold, cloudy Chicago night of about 38 degrees Fahrenheit, DePaul hosted the Chicago Sleep Out on Dec. 7. About 130 participants joined together to spend one night sleeping outside in the Lincoln Park Quad. Many were only equipped with sleeping bags, blankets and layered clothing to keep them w...
DePaul celebrates annual tree lighting
Aaron Somo, Contributing Writer
November 21, 2019
DePaul University officially ushered in the holiday season with its second annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Nov. 13. Another brisk November night didn’t stop the appearance of a sizable crowd in St. Vincent’s Circle where the tree stands, all looking forward to the holidays. As students, staff a...
Immigrant organization founder spoke about misconception of undocumented citizens
Veronica Schoonover, Contributing Writer
November 18, 2019
Define American, a nonprofit media organization, seeks to use storytelling to shift the conversation on immigration and citizenship. Jose Antonio Vargas, founder of the organization, appeared to speak at DePaul’s third annual President’s Lecture Series on his life and experience as an undocument...
DePaul students celebrate Day of the Dead
Ebony Ellis, Contributing Writer
November 12, 2019
When walking into the Student Center on DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, the last thing one would expect to see are pictures of people who have died. These pictures are surrounded by colorful skulls, flowers and fruit, showing that honoring loved ones is not always a sad affair. Día de los Muerto...
DePaul students, Chicagoans alike will participate in event to fight homelessness
Ebony Ellis, Contributing Writer
October 28, 2019
In 2017, 86,324 people experienced housing insecurity in Chicago, according to the Chicago Coalition of the Homeless. World Homeless Day on Oct. 10, is a reminder that homelessness or housing insecurity is more than what it may look like. As a call to action, DePaul University will host the “Big Sleep Out,...
CIEE gives out over 100 free passports at DePaul
Luke Murphy, Contributing Writer
October 28, 2019
Over 100 DePaul students received free passports as part of an event held by the CIEE Passport Caravan on Friday afternoon in room 325 of the Lincoln Park campus Student Center. Originally offered to students in the Daily Newsline email, the event was held in an effort to increase the accessibilit...
Two-credit course allows DePaul students to experiment with public speaking on major platform
Veronica Schoonover, Contributing Writer
October 27, 2019
Public speaking terrifies pretty much everyone — even professionals. A new two-credit course at DePaul University encourages students to overcome their fear of public speaking. The course, “YOU, on the TEDx Stage,” teaches students how to choose and develop a topic into a final pitch. The cours...
Journalist who first broke R. Kelly sexual abuse allegations talks life, work at DePaul event
Brian Pearlman, Nation & World Editor
October 27, 2019
Jim DeRogatis says there are at least 48 women he knows of whose lives were ruined by R&B superstar R. Kelly, and he believes the true number of Kelly’s alleged victims is likely at least twice that number. The former Sun-Times music critic and “Sound Opinions” co-host spoke last Tuesday with...
College of Science and Health hosts climate change experts at DePaul
Alayne Trinko, Staff Writer
October 19, 2019
DePaul College of Science and Health associate professor and department chair Mark Potosnak and associate professor Hugh Bartling of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences mediated a climate change panel on the Lincoln Park campus Friday. “The climate policies are currently at a crossroads,”...
Lacey Latch, Print Managing Editor
February 16, 2020 • No Comments
A report released by Faculty Council last week pointed to a notable lack of diversity among full-time...
J.B. Pritzker proposes Illinois to go first in primary
February 16, 2020
With Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker, Julián Castro and Andrew Yang dropping...
CTA Red and Purple Line Modernization Project continues
February 16, 2020
Three Red Line stops on the North Side have been closed for the past few weeks...
TedXDePaul 2020 speakers announced
February 16, 2020
DePaul’s fifth-straight annual TEDx event will be held on Friday, April 24...
Jovan Gonzalez, Contributing Writer
February 15, 2020
El sueño americano puede reflejarse distintamente....
Adriana Talavera, Contributing Writer
February 14, 2020
La presencia del mariachi ha existido en los Estados...
Lissi Nuñez, Contributing Writer
February 12, 2020
Todos conocemos el estereotipo de que las mujeres latinas:...
Sara Luz Torres, Contributing Writer
February 11, 2020
Un adolescente mexicano dice que se siente como una...
Hannah Mitchell and Shane René
February 16, 2020
On this week's episode of Page 29, we sit down with...
Ryan Gilroy, Copy Editor & Staff Photographer
February 16, 2020
DePaul men's basketball just had one of its most humiliating...