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The Courier

College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier

In an effort to rebuke President Trumps handling of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggis murder, the Senate has garnered support voting on a measure to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in the war in Yemen. After 10,000 deaths and 85,000 children under-the-age-of-five starving to death, the question remains, What took so long?

Let the murder of Khashoggi end the war in Yemen

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
December 17, 2018
COD Professor Marco Benassi takes his speech students canoing in a forest preserve while studying the techniques and beneifts of Interpersonal Communication. Benassi believes experiential education can break down the traditions of lecture teaching and reach and inspire students on a more personal level

Using experiential education to define your own future

Are You Asking Yourself The Right Questions?
Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
December 6, 2018
Ed Yohnka has for 19 years strived to promote the American Civil Liberties Unions mission to protect the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person by the law and Constitution of the United States

The ACLU’s frontline battle challenging Trump’s overreach

The legal efforts to protect the rights of asylum seekers
Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
November 22, 2018
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra performed pieces from Richard Wagners The Ring on Nov. 2. at the Hemmens Cultural Center, Elgin. As part of their Inside The Music With Andrew Grams And The ESO program, Grams broke down the vivid imagery behind Wagners fantastical epic drama based loosely upon ancient Norse sagas

Why college students should listen to classical music

A discussion with Elgin Symphony Orchestra music director Andrew Grams
Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
November 15, 2018
Conspiracies derive from our cognitive disposition to see patterns and meaning in a chaotic universe. Also serving as an antidote to our insecurities, they become enhanced by our suspicions of authority

Anatomy of a Conspiracist

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
November 8, 2018
Salacious lyrics like, I’ve been making a man. With blonde hair and a tan. And he’s good for relieving my....tension,” have helped Rocky Horror endure

The Rocky Horror Picture Show vs. Trump’s America

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
October 24, 2018
COD Professor of Physics Alexandra Bennett worked at Fermilab, and Europe’s CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the detectors along the Large Hadron Collider

Challenging gender inequality in the world of physics

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
October 11, 2018
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