Audrey Champelli News Today

Scattered between the raised plant beds and gardening tools, students share fruit and swap stories at the Fruity Party. The event on June 1 hosted by DePaul Urban Gardeners (DUG) and the LGBTQIA+ Resource Center kicked off Pride month in the comfort of the fenced garden on the corner of Belden and Bissel. With an...

A Columbia College freshman describes what art as a career means to them. It was early May 2015, and in sixth grader Frankie Buente’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, this  meant one thing:

“Dread. Panic. What [is he] going to do next?” This is what ran through DePaul freshman Hailey Bosek’s mind on an October morning this past fall. Bosek stood on the Fullerton platform for the late-arriving Red Line train when a middle-aged male turned his attention to her, approached, and began to spew vulgar remarks. “He...

Bubble tea, pearl milk tea or boba — whatever you wish to call it, just be delighted that the concoction of flavors had made its way to campus. TSAoCAA, pronounced “tao-tah” joins the handful of shops specializing in freshly brewed tea as it debuted on Sept. 10 located at 1337 W Fullerton Avenue. Prior to...

Supporters of all ages and genders gathered to protest against Texas’s abortion ban Sat. Oct. 2. The protesters gathered at the Daley Center before marching through the Loop to protest against Texas’s Senate Bill 8, which outlaws abortions after six weeks. Opponents to the law argue the month and a half window is too narrow,...

Recently, the CDC updated its Covid-19 safety guidelines and announced  that fully vaccinated people can be indoors and outdoors mask-free, while their unvaccinated counterparts are recommended to continue to mask up. However, with few businesses actually checking the vaccination status of their patrons, it seems as if we are relying on the honor code to...

What do Seth Rogen, Rick Santorum and J.K Rowling have in common? They, and many other public figures from celebrities to senators, have spoken about “cancel culture.”  Merriam-Webster defines it as a mass withdrawal of support for someone such as a celebrity to “express disapproval and exert social pressure,” but opinions on the phenomenon vary. ...

What used to be an automatic fee deducted from tuition for the summer U-Pass is becoming an optional $86 fee for students enrolled in at least one course.  Announced earlier this week, only eligible students who specifically opt-in for the U-Pass by July 20 will be charged a fee, meanwhile the rest of students enrolled...

Freedom of the press is a quintessential part of our democracy. In 1892, journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells investigated and reported on lynchings in the South, making data on racial discrimination and lynching accessible to the public for the first time in the U.S., which led to the publishing of her 1895...

The DePaulia Nadia Hernandez, Opinions Editor|April 25, 2021 Protesters march near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square to protest the fatal shooting by Chicago police of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, Friday, April 16, 2021. Video of last month’s encounter was released Thursday and provoked an outpouring of grief and outrage. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Our racist, white supremacist society has dehumanized people of color to a fatal point. When America sees police brut...