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The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

The DePaulia

MARLEE CHLYSTEK | THE DEPAULIA

Trump free speech executive order complicates DePaul’s history with controversial speakers

Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor April 8, 2019

DePaul officials do not yet know how the university will be affected by a recent executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump’s order requires colleges and universities to “promote free and...

Conservative speakers denied visit, event forced off campus

Conservative speakers denied visit, event forced off campus

October 15, 2018

Two speakers from the conservative advocacy organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) were scheduled to speak with the DePaul chapter of TPUSA on Oct. 16 as a part of the TPUSA Campus Clash Tour,...

Former Breitbart and right-wing icon Milo Yiannopoulos (left) and John Minster, current president of DePaul College Republicans (right) chat while walking outside in DePaul's Lincoln Park campus following the disrupted Q&A on May 24, 2016. (Josh Leff/The DePaulia)

Milo denied again: Patio theatre cancels “Troll Academy” tour

Evelyn Baker October 23, 2017

What would have been Milo Yiannopoulos’ second appearance in Chicago since protesters disrupted a May 2016 event at DePaul University hosting the former Breitbart editor has been cancelled due to cries...

Early this morning, college Republicans wrote messages criticizing the university on free speech. (Brenden Moore / The DePaulia)

DePaul Republicans chalk it out, again

Brenden Moore September 13, 2016

A sequel to April's 'chalkening', members of the DePaul College Republicans harshly criticized the university's position on free speech Tuesday in a series of messages chalked on the sidewalk outside university...

Prominent conservative and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Wire Ben Shapiro at an event earlier this year. (Gage Skidmore / Creative Commons)

Banned by DePaul, Shapiro speaks with The DePaulia

Brenden Moore August 4, 2016

Conservative writer and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Wire Ben Shapiro faulted DePaul for its supposed inability to “control its own student body” Wednesday in an interview with the DePaulia, only...

Prominent conservative and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Wire Ben Shapiro at an event earlier this year. (Gage Skidmore / Creative Commons)

Student groups agree DePaul ‘crossed the line’ with Shapiro

Jackson Danbeck August 2, 2016

In the wake of DePaul University denying conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s request to speak on campus, student political groups have, in a rare show of solidarity, come out to say that the university’s...

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