College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
The argument goes, those who commit acts of violence should pay for their crimes. However, almost all people on death row are poor. A significant number are mentally disabled. And about 40% of death row inmates are African American

Is there a right end of the noose?

American injustice in the death penalty
Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
January 24, 2019
In an effort to rebuke President Trump's handling of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 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
Ed Yohnka has for 19 years strived to promote the American Civil Liberties Union's 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
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
Trump’s isolationist policies contrast UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ advocacy for globalism

Trump boasts his isolationist policies before an opposing United Nations

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
October 4, 2018
Justice Brett Kavanaugh vociferously denies all allegations of sexual assault and misconduct

Kavanaugh’s sexual assault allegation brings #MeToo’s cultural progress into question

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
September 26, 2018
A refugee utilizes World Relief DuPage/Aurora’s English as a Second Language (ESL) class to help ease the difficulties of settling into a new culture.

Part II of II: World Relief’s mission to aid refugees (Helping provide refugees and immigrants with a new hope in a new world)

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
September 5, 2018
Pulliam Hall at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Column: Red state politics in and out of an Illinois college classroom

Natasha Zaretsky/Southern Illinois University, The Conversation
August 28, 2018
Protesters march through the streets of Minneapolis, MN, demanding President Trump end his “zero-tolerance immigration policy.” Before Trump eventually reversed his policy, capitulating to political pressure and nationwide-public outrage, over 2,500 immigrant children were separated from their families following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy announcement on April 6. Trump’s policies have also made it harder for refugees to claim asylum once they cross the southern border.

Part I of II: DuPage World Relief’s mission to aid refugees (Discussing President Trump’s “zero-tolerance immigration policy”)

Joey Weslo, Sports Editor
August 17, 2018
Igniting the political vitriol in Washington, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s unexpected retirement will dramatically alter the landscape of the traditionally less-partisan Supreme Court. An ensuing battle is expected over the unprecedented importance of his replacement.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy: The drastic implications of his retirement and imminent replacement by President Trump

Joey Weslo, Sports Editor
July 6, 2018
The student's place

The student’s place

Politics, contrarianism not serving students
Editorial Board
September 4, 2014
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