College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
College of DuPage's Student Newspaper

The Courier
DuPage Students for a Democratic Society protest border wall state of emergency

DuPage Students for a Democratic Society protest border wall state of emergency

Tessa Morton, Editor In Chief
February 27, 2019
In 2017, millions protested against President Nicolas Maduro dissolving the opposition-led National Assembly congress to create a puppet congress, the Constituent Assembly. The opposition to his increasingly authoritarian actions signaled support in Hugo Chavez’s 1999 Bolivarian socialist revolution was finally waning

Is American intervention in Venezuela justified?

How to succeed in democracy without really trying
Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
February 7, 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
Bassem Youssef performs his political satire routine before a sold-out theater at College of DuPage on Oct. 19

Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef: A Comedian in Political Exile

Joey Weslo, General Assignment Reporter
November 1, 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
There are about 20 million college students in the U.S.

More college students expected to vote in 2018 midterms

Nancy Thomas/Tufts University, The Conversation
October 16, 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
Opinion: Educators must prepare for the dismantling of affirmative action

Opinion: Educators must prepare for the dismantling of affirmative action

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, American University, The Hechinger Report
September 27, 2018
Why women's colleges play a unique role in the quest for equality

Why women’s colleges play a unique role in the quest for equality

Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Bryn Mawr; Jacquelyn Litt, Rutgers University and ReBecca Roloff, St. Catherine University, The Conversation
September 11, 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
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