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In response to DePaul's "duck and cover" attitude toward the Trump administration's attacks on higher education, more th...
03/30/2025

In response to DePaul's "duck and cover" attitude toward the Trump administration's attacks on higher education, more than 50 DePaul faculty and staff members believe this approach "puts each of us in danger."

The signatories of the letter argue "this time requires the DePaul University Administration to stand up as a faith and education leader to fight authoritarianism and repression in higher education."

Read the full guest letter, originally published on March 28, at depauliaonline.com

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The opinions in guest letters do not necessarily reflect the views of The DePaulia staff.

Doug Bruno, DePaul women’s basketball head coach for 39 years, announced Friday that he is stepping down. Bruno has been...
03/28/2025

Doug Bruno, DePaul women’s basketball head coach for 39 years, announced Friday that he is stepping down.

Bruno has been with DePaul for decades when he first came into the program, playing for the Blue Demons from 1969-1973 under Coach Ray Meyer.

“Doug Bruno has left an indelible mark on DePaul University and the world of women’s basketball,” said DePaul President Robert L. Manuel.

Bruno will begin a new chapter in his lifetime of service to DePaul as the Special Assistant to the Vice President/Director of Athletics for women’s basketball, effective May 1.

A national search for DePaul’s next head coach will begin immediately. They will hire a new women’s basketball coach without using a search firm, a source told The DePaulia.

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DePaul men’s basketball has accepted a bid to the new postseason tournament — the College Basketball Crown — in Las Vega...
03/18/2025

DePaul men’s basketball has accepted a bid to the new postseason tournament — the College Basketball Crown — in Las Vegas.

DePaul will take on University of Cincinnati on April 1 at 2 p.m. in the first round.

“We are really looking forward to continuing our season in the Postseason,” said head coach Chris Holtmann in a statement. We truly felt like we were playing our best basketball in the past month, so continuing to play is exciting.”

The Crown is a 16 team, single-elimination format tournament that will run from March 31 to April 6 in Las Vegas, with the first and second round games being hosted at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and the semifinals and finals being hosted at T-Mobile Arena.

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In what turned out to be a double-overtime thriller against No. 2 seed Creighton at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, M...
03/14/2025

In what turned out to be a double-overtime thriller against No. 2 seed Creighton at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, March 13, DePaul could not put the finishing touches on another upset victory.

DePaul found every last bit of energy they could muster in the game, but in the end it wasn’t enough, ultimately losing 81-85.

“We talked all year about at DePaul how we're going to have a strong backbone, and how we're going to respond the right way to face hard things,” DePaul head coach Chris Holtmann said. “And man did they do that in overtime.”

DePaul finished the season with an overall record of 14-19 (5-17 versus Big East opponents). Holtmann, like his players, believes this was the year that set the tone for what they want DePaul basketball to look like.

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It’s not every day your school’s basketball team plays in Madison Square Garden. One DePaul student went the extra mile ...
03/13/2025

It’s not every day your school’s basketball team plays in Madison Square Garden. One DePaul student went the extra mile after getting an “excused absence” note from DePaul head coach Chris Holtmann, to get there during finals.

Michael Ansari, a senior marketing student at DePaul, sent a post on X directed at Holtmann looking for a “note” to excuse him from classes Wednesday to the Big East tournament.

“I applied to get the student tickets for free; I won them, and I was like, crap. I got finals this week,” Ansari said.

Ansari is still struck by the fact that it worked, and that Holtman responded.

“This is just crazy,” Ansari said. “A Division I basketball coach just responds to DM’s, and he says ‘I’ll write you an excuse.’ It’s unheard of. I think him and DeWayne (Peevy) are turning things around.”

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DePaul men’s basketball defeated a Georgetown opponent by the skin of their teeth, capping off a third win against them ...
03/13/2025

DePaul men’s basketball defeated a Georgetown opponent by the skin of their teeth, capping off a third win against them this season, living to see another day of the tournament.

The Georgetown Hoyas were the only Big East opponent the Blue Demons swept in the regular season, getting the best of them once again, but by no easy measure.

After DePaul led by as many as 15 points midway through the first half, Georgetown mounted a furious comeback, finishing the half up 40-38.

“Players win games,” DePaul head coach Chris Holtmann said.

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Seth Botts takes a deep breath and glances around the room. He smiles as he opens his arms, wide and welcoming, to the c...
03/12/2025

Seth Botts takes a deep breath and glances around the room. He smiles as he opens his arms, wide and welcoming, to the congregation at United Church of Rogers Park. He preaches as a man who has lived many lives.

From honesty to willingness to service, Botts lives by the words of God, as well as the Twelve-Step Program, to navigate his journey out of addiction and into a life of helping and healing others.

“I’ve tried everything,” Botts said. “I wish I could have gotten spiritual relief from a stone or a sweat lodge. Luckily I was able to discover the full grace of God and not the limited or restricted grace of God that I learned as a kid.”

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03/10/2025

Wired, wireless, over the ear-- whatever it is, it seems like everyone is using headphones all the time. Maybe it's for listening to music or a podcast, or maybe just to tune everyone out. Everyone has their reason, but contributing writer Linnea Cheng believes the chronic use of headphones can be isolating.

"Sometimes I can’t help but think of the lost casual connections I could’ve made on transit had I not been enveloped in my own little world. So many times, I’d get on the same train car as a classmate and rather than striking up conversation, we’d both plug our ears and avoid eye contact," Cheng wrote in her opinion article for The DePaulia.

Contributing writer Avery Schoenhals spoke with DePaul students to find out if they use headphones and what purpose they serve to college students.

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The DePaul Blue Demons ended their 2024-25 season in an unexpected upset by the Xavier Musketeers, 73-80. The Musketeers...
03/08/2025

The DePaul Blue Demons ended their 2024-25 season in an unexpected upset by the Xavier Musketeers, 73-80.

The Musketeers, the last seed team in the Big East, defeated the demons of an 11-game losing streak on Friday, March 7, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

The game also marked Jorie Allen’s last time playing for the Blue Demons. She was the only senior on the roster. Allen finished the season averaging 19.7 points per game and started in all 31 games.

“The joy of the game is not always in the big moments; the joy of the game is practicing, and I firmly believe that,” Allen said.

While the team and coaches had high expectations for the Big East tournament, it did not turn out as they had hoped.

I wanted this to be their moment, but you gotta work and make it your moment; we didn’t get that done,” Jill Pizzotti, interim head coach, said.

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Behind Enemy Lines, an organization banned from DePaul’s campus, held a “Week of Defiance” from March 3-6 to show suppor...
03/07/2025

Behind Enemy Lines, an organization banned from DePaul’s campus, held a “Week of Defiance” from March 3-6 to show support for Palestinians and to protest being banned from the campus in November 2024. The week ended in a rally on Thursday, March 6, and originally planned to take place on the Quad.

Behind Enemy Lines was banned from DePaul’s campus after distributing flyers that “incited violence and referred to a recent hate crime as ‘a small taste of justice,’” according to a letter sent to the group from Robert Wachowski, DePaul’s director of public safety.

This week, administration increased safety patrols on campus and made safety escorts available to students. The university is also working with the Chicago Police Department.

The protest also comes on the heels of DePaul’s “Failing” grade on its Antisemitism Report Card from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. In a statement to The DePaulia, Rebecca Weininger from ADL said the assessment is based on administrators’ actions and campus environment including the “robustness of Jewish life and the prevalence of incidents," and that while DePaul has “implemented some of the necessary policies to address campus antisemitism,” the university has done so “inconsistently.”

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Behind Enemy Lines, an organization banned from DePaul’s campus, held a “Week of Defiance” from March 3-6 to show suppo...
03/07/2025

Behind Enemy Lines, an organization banned from DePaul’s campus, held a “Week of Defiance” from March 3-6 to show support for Palestinians and to protest being banned from the campus in November 2024. The week ended in a rally on Thursday, March 6, originally planned to take place on the Quad.

Behind Enemy Lines was banned from DePaul’s campus after distributing flyers that “incited violence and referred to a recent hate crime as ‘a small taste of justice,’” according to a letter sent to the group from Robert Wachowski, DePaul’s director of public safety.

This week, administration increased safety patrols on campus and made safety escorts available to students. The university is also working with the Chicago Police Department.

The protest also comes on the heels of DePaul’s “Failing” grade on its Antisemitism Report Card from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. In a statement to The DePaulia, Rebecca Weininger from ADL said the assessment is based on administrators’ actions and campus environment including the “robustness of Jewish life and the prevalence of incidents,” and that while DePaul has “implemented some of the necessary policies to address campus antisemitism,” the university has done so “inconsistently.”

To read more, head to depauliaonline.com or click the link in our bio.
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Despite anxieties surrounding President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, local vendors continue to endure frigid...
03/06/2025

Despite anxieties surrounding President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, local vendors continue to endure frigid temperatures in Chicago working to make ends meet for their families.

Mari, a Mexican merchant who sells teddy bears, going by her first name for fear of her safety, said she worked Valentine's Day weekend out of “deliberate necessity.” That’s a sentiment echoed by many vendors on the streets.

“I haven’t been able to pay my rent or anything. And that’s why I’m out here in the cold like yesterday when the snow got me and everything,” Mari said in Spanish with tears in her eyes.

Mari said she finds solace in a possible miracle touching President Trump’s heart, such as a nationwide amnesty for all the immigrants who work hard and contribute to the US’s economy.

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Following one of their best seasons in recent memory, the DePaul’s women’s soccer team is back on the field for spring b...
03/05/2025

Following one of their best seasons in recent memory, the DePaul’s women’s soccer team is back on the field for spring ball. The 2024 season marked the first time the team made the Big East tournament since 2019, and they advanced to the semi-finals for the first time since 2016.

Much of the program’s recent success can be attributed to head coach Michele O’Brien, who joined the coaching staff as an assistant in 2009 and was promoted to the top spot ahead of the 2021 season. Since taking over, O’Brien has found success by shaping the roster to her liking.

“I think that (the extension) really is the sign of being validated and valued,” O’Brien said. “When administrators believe in the process and see the vision that I have communicated to them, I think that just speaks highly of the program and the team.”

O’Brien shared that her goals for the team this fall are to “win the Big East,” “advance in the tournament” and generally “be better than we were last year.”

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03/05/2025

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Amy Colucio has been living in a tent since Sept. 29, 2024, with her sister and cat, Little Man, after they were evicted...
03/04/2025

Amy Colucio has been living in a tent since Sept. 29, 2024, with her sister and cat, Little Man, after they were evicted from their apartment. They have not been able to find housing with their Social Security benefits since then. Colucio, like thousands of other Chicagoans, was displaced from her home and ended up on the streets. According to the 2024 Chicago Point in Time Count of homeless people, 18,836 Chicagoans were facing homelessness, which is triple the amount from 2023.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed the One System Initiative in October 2024. The initiative promotes a unified shelter system for all Chicagoans, by combining the current systems for unhoused individuals and migrants.

The new initiative is raising concerns among those who are working to help these populations. Danielle Walker, the volunteer coordinator at Lincoln Park Community Services, is concerned that under the city’s One System Initiative, unhoused people will be placed in shelters that lack the proper resources to support them.

Walker also worries about the volunteers and workers there who have to do jobs they were not trained for or expected to do. Without proper training and preparations to deal with specific migrants’ circumstances, their work has become more complicated.

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Goody bags and roses sat on a table as songs like “Like A G6” by Far East Movement boomed out of the speakers in the Cat...
03/01/2025

Goody bags and roses sat on a table as songs like “Like A G6” by Far East Movement boomed out of the speakers in the Catalyst gym in Avondale. On a snowy, chilly Saturday afternoon in Chicago, woman powerlifters were warmed up and ready to lift.

On Feb. 15, the DePaul powerlifting club hosted an event called “The Ladies Lift” to empower female lifters in a largely male-dominated sport. Some women lifted alone and some lifted with someone keeping an eye out for them. In the powerlifting club, women are achieving greater heights, proving that muscle and toughness knows no gender.

“Powerlifting holds a lot of femininity in the sense that … I think womanhood is about strength and unity as women in lived experiences,” said Georgie Casaletto, the club's social media officer. “Joining a community of like-minded individuals and strong women, I was like, I seriously could not find a better place to see women who step outside of the standards that I felt I never fit into.”

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02/27/2025

An electric wave of guitar riffs tears through the audience, charting a path for the 88-year-old blues legend Buddy Guy. He solos all the way to the bar swarmed with fans and photographers. He raises a glass, takes a sip — and goes right back to shredding.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer regularly hosts blues musicians at his Chicago club Buddy Guy’s Legends downtown on South Wabash Avenue. But earlier this month, he took to the stage, as he sometimes does, to remind the audience who helped establish the Chicago blues scene.

At the early February performance, the audience answered in cheers when asked if any of them had come from out of state or even outside of the country to see Buddy Guy play. The audience included die-hard Guy fans, his family, friends and blues enthusiasts, such as audience member Julie Kennedy. This was her first time at Legends.

“This was an opportunity that I could not pass up,” Kennedy said.

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