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Chicago public health commissioner discussed life after Covid-19 at student media press conference
Emma Oxnevad, Online Managing Editor|May 13, 2021
FILE – In this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo, Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, speaks during a press conference in Chicago. Public health officials in Chicago hope more opportunities and incentives to get a COVID-19 vaccine will improve the vaccination rate among people older than 65 and in the city’s largely Black and Latino communities.”We all want to put this behind us, and getting a vaccination is the way to do it,” Dr. Arwady, said Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
DePaul professor writes to university president, calls for actionable anti-racism tactics
Emma Oxnevad, Online Managing Editor|May 3, 2021
Faculty are pushing for DePaul President A. Gabriel Esteban to commit to actionable change against racism.
Professor Valerie Johnson, of DePaul’s political science department, sent a statement to Esteban Friday following the release of an open letter detailing issues faced by DePaul’s Black community. The letter, which was spearheaded by both the DePaul University Black Leadership Coalition (DPUBLC) and the Black Student Union (BSU), was sent to the president April 26.
Following the letter’s release, Esteban responded via a statement to DPUBLC, according to university representatives.
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Emma Oxnevad, Online Managing Editor|April 4, 2021
Jim DeRogatis knows what it’s like to face an artist’s wrath. The veteran music critic, who covered pop music at the Chicago Sun-Times for 15 years, was once on the receiving end of an enraged voicemail from singer-songwriter Ryan Adams following a particularly negative review of a 2003 concert.
The voicemail, which made headlines once it was made public, is perhaps one of the most well-known examples of music critics facing hostility for performing the basic tenets of their profession: providing criticism and analysis of an artist and their work. The rise of social media as a dominant cultural conversation-starter, however, has given critics both more visibility and greater access from angry fans and artists alike.
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My clearest memory of the early onset of the pandemic occurred when I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk to break the latest update of DePaul’s impending closure on Twitter. My role as Social Media Editor had been relatively tame up until that point, mainly involving posting the week’s content and open positions. While heading home from the Lincoln Park Campus for what proved to be the last time ever, I typed away what felt like my 20th thread of the day and hit send.
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I was finishing up what would be my final closing shift at Dr. Martens. As I got the email notifying the cancellation of classes and finals, I was ironically complaining to my favorite co-worker about a project since I had come straight to my shift from renting equipment at the Loop campus after a long day of classes. We were both slightly more concerned about the virus, but neither of us thought much of it as we finished cleaning and closed for the night.