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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that explicitly using race as a factor in admissions for colleges and universities violated the equal protections clause of the 14th Amendment.This decision renders race an illegal factor in the admission process for colleges or universities. In a combination Students for Fair...

Olivia Perks, 21, was found dead in her room at Sandhurst military academy in 2019.

More than a decade ago, Robert Manuel used a metaphor at his presidential inauguration ceremony at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy) to convey a vision for the future of the institution, then under his helm. To a crowd of colleagues, politicians, faculty and others at Nicoson Hall on UIndy’s campus in Indianapolis, he quoted another...

Editor’s note: ​​This story contains mentions of sex offenses and descriptions of assault.  “On this day I learned a very hard lesson: How to keep living when you have felt the cold grasp of death,” Paria Ghaderi, Student Government Association (SGA) senator for the College of Communication and senior said at a campus safety assembly...

Minister Jené A. Colvin, from DePaul’s Division of Mission and Ministry, said her twice-removed great grandmother Eliza Oakley lived to be 95. Born in 1919, Oakley lived when Jim Crow laws were in place and Black Americans constantly faced the threat of lynchings. “Very often, people imagine slavery in the United States as something that...

Student Government Association (SGA) is taking action on public safety after the attacks on April 13, when according to police, a registered sex offender assaulted two students on the Lincoln Park campus. The offender was arrested and charged with two felony counts of unlawful restraint, one felony count of battery with use of deadly weapon,...

Sandhurst had no support in place for a suicidal officer cadet despite her welfare being discussed by military management, a senior officer said on the first da

Olivia Perks, 21, was discovered dead at the Sandhurst elite military training school in February 2019.

Olivia Perks, 21, was discovered dead at the Sandhurst elite military training school in February 2019.

An army cadet who was found dead in her room had a 'low risk of reoccurrence' when she attempted suicide the year before, an inquest has heard. Olivia Perks was just 21 when her body was found in her bedroom at the elite Sandhurst military academy on February 6 2019.