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Per the plan announced in July, following Thanksgiving break, all students will be remote. Winter term is also entirely remote. However, all students will be welcomed back to campus for the spring term according to an email sent by Lori White.
As the 11 a.m. bell rang from the Putnam county courthouse, Greencastle residents gathered on the lawn, as they have all summer, holding signs reading “Black lives matter,” and “End racism.”
First there were four. Then throughout the next hour, about 20 mostly older, white protesters showed up holding signs and chanting.
While protests have been seen across the nation, often focusing on violent confrontations in large cities, Greencastle community members have found their own steady voice.
On Sept. 13, DePauw Student Government (DSG) announced in a press release that this year DePauw Dialogue is “taking a grassroots approach.”
Read MoreSitting down for what is presumably his last interview at DePauw University, Matt Abtahi looked ready. The gray walls of his office were the most exposed they have been since he made it his own, with many of the personal artifacts that used to decorate his space already sitting in a box outside the door.
This school year, 19 DePauw University students were hospitalized because of alcohol poisoning. Colleges nationwide are struggling to create a campus balance that allows young adults, often away from home for the first time, learn their limits while keeping them safe.
DePauw is at the center of this issue…
When Anna Werkowski, senior, was applying to colleges the thing that worried her most were standardized tests. “When I was in high school getting ready for standardized tests, I was really afraid because I don’t test well,” Werkowski said. “I get really anxious during testing scenarios.”
If you were watching the first heat of the women’s 100-meter freestyle on the first day of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio you may have seen Nuna Bamatraf, now a first-year at DePauw University, swimming as the sole women’s swimmer representing Yemen.
“Being up on the block and diving in, I guess it didn’t really set in what I was doing until I could see the camera on the bottom of the pool following the track of our race,” Bamatraf said…
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At Student Government’s last planning meeting for ‘Stangs Stand with Parkland, along with deciding the logistics, name, and colors, Student Government was tasked with determining the focus of the event.
“We were definitely focusing on making it (the assembly) not very political, we wanted to focus on the lives that were lost and just honoring them and remembering them,” said Ashley Nita….
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#Marchforourlives, #Protectthesecond, #Neveragain, Moms Demand Action. These and similar hashtags have trended in recent months as movements promoting increased gun control or rights spread across social media. Mother of three, including a MHS freshman, Mrs. Sarah Buck, sought to join the movement after the Las Vegas shooting in October.
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