When I first started at COD, it was hard to make friends. Although I talked to people in my classes, most of them would go home or have to go to work right after the class ended. So, I started joining...

The Video Process: The Courier’s Managing Editor, Nicole Littlefield, reached out to Michael Beary and worked out a time and date to come to the Correctional Facility. When Courier staff got on site,...

Now that the COD campus has reopened to the public after a year of being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, many new students are coming on campus for the first time. Here are some tips to help navigate...

Bartlett Martial Arts studio owner offering weekly ladies self-defense classes Monday and Wednesday nights at 7:15 to 8. Although Karen Sugino is currently a black belt in martial arts and instructs...

COD student Isabel Santana enjoyed learning about and experiencing the Frida Kahlo: Timeless exhibition. The exhibition has over 100 photos, multimedia replicas including Kahlo’s bed, clothes...

In March 2020, try-outs for the Bartlett High School (BHS) badminton team had already ended, and each member of the team was given her uniform. Junior and varsity badminton player, Isabel Cuellar,...

The first week of witness testimonies in Derek Chauvin’s trial ended Friday afternoon. Chauvin is on trial with charges of the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, who was killed in police...

As the student elections came closer, SLC Adviser Stephanie Quirk had no idea how well information about the elections would travel. Since the COD campus remains closed to most students, the election commission...

Going into her second semester at Western Michigan University, Annie Walinder was excited to be at a four-year university. As an engineering major, most of Walinder's classes were geared toward her degree....

Jillian Cook became a club officer for the Biotech Club in Fall 2020 and began working with the faculty adviser Karen Persky. Although meeting the COD guidelines during the pandemic made it harder to run...

The Lincoln Laureate is awarded to students who have shown the qualities of President Abraham Lincoln: excellence, service and honor. As an active member of the COD community, Samiha Syed decided to apply...

Since the invention of the personal computer and the internet, technology has innovated rapidly. The clunky operating system that took up an entire room has been reduced to a handheld device. Much of our...

Traditional Christmas songs like “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey, “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby, or “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” by Frank Sinatra will always have a...

Student participation and involvement have dropped immensely since the start of the pandemic. Last year COD had over 100 clubs; now COD has around 40. Participation rates continue to decrease from the...

Serenity Gray spent most of her life trying to live a life for other people, but that changed at COD’s third annual Gayla hosted by Pride Alliance, Serenity revealed her true self and came out as a transgender...

Many baby boomers recall metal speakers sitting on the car window that filled the enclosed space with scratchy movie audio, or packing friends in the trunk like sardines to see how many of you could get...

Denice Frohman grew up going to diverse public schools with curriculum that didn’t reflect the history and achievements of people of color. Having a Puerto Rican mother and a Jewish father, Frohman...

The impact of current events and multitude of changes to our everyday lives is causing unprecedented stress levels for COD students, faculty and staff. To help, COD now offers three mindful meditation...

DuPage County with 15,997 (updated Sept. 13) confirmed COVID-19 cases raises demand for contact tracers (dupgehealth.org). COD now offers a 4-week online Contact Tracer Training Program. A contact tracer...

As the new semester begins, the COD campus remains closed to most students and faculty continues to teach remotely. The athletic director, Ryan Kaiser, made the decision to postpone all high-risk sports...

The transition to online learning has been difficult on students and teachers across the nation. Some of the team leads from COD’s New Student Orientation (NSO) shared their online study tips.   1....

COD librarian, Christine Kickels, has been working at the library for over 10 years and never thought she’d be working for a virtual library. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, for...

In an effort to keep student-athletes safe, College of DuPage announced that there will be no contact sports in the fall 2020 season. Which leaves three sports remaining: cross country, golf and women’s...

Diana Martinez was all set to host the biggest art show of her career. She'd overseen the gallery expansion. She'd navigated the hassles of getting all the necessary approvals. She'd raised all the money....

“Fantasy Island”, the 1978 TV show created by Gene Levitt, has come to the big screen. The television show followed Mr. Roarke as he somehow made the guests’ fantasies come true. Blumhouse Productions’...

Every spring and fall semester Remic Ensweiler, the prairie manager at COD, and some students with the love for the outdoors come help maintain the prairie on campus. The Russell R. Kirt Prairie is located...

When Angela Rose was 17 she was kidnapped while she was walking to her car in the parking lot of Woodfield mall. Rose created PAVE as a student organization in 2001 at UW-Madison and the organization continued...

You may have seen the several different posters on the walls around campus or a notification on Chaplife about the various different intramural events that occur regularly on campus. Matt Cousins, the...

“The Cake” by Bekah Brunsetter, the writer of NBC’s show “This Is Us,” is being presented by the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble until Mar. 1. The comedic yet tear-jerking play is a great story showing...

The Student Leadership Council’s (SLC) elections for student body president, vice president, and trustee are coming up. All of the information is available in the SLC packets distributed by the Student...

On Jan. 13 the Starbucks on COD’s campus issued a new policy that customers now have to pay for water. The new policy was set in place by the Sodexo, the company that manages the Starbucks, to reduce...

The trees down Main Street in Glen Ellyn are dressed in string lights lighting up the town's center. Residents of Glen Ellyn and towns nearby are laughing, chattering and holding warm cups of hot chocolate...

Students from colleges and high schools nearby gathered into the room, most of them with heavy bags on their backs. They sat down at the circle tables and began to pull their computers, chargers and computer mice...