By Bridget Killian
14 East Magazine, 2020
Student organizations across DePaul have had to adjust to running their groups completely online throughout Autumn Quarter, making them use technology in new ways.
Sarah Rudy, the coordinator for student organizations and campus activities in the Office of Student Engagement (OSI) at DePaul, said being online has forced people to get better acclimated with technology and its benefits, and find new ways to think about running events.
“We use technology in a very different way than we did before,” Rudy said. “I think it has changed our perspective on how we can use technology to continue to make [involvement] more accessible to all students..." continue reading
By Bridget Killian
The Kirkwood Call, 2019
In a room full of adult women, Taj Muldrow, senior, felt out of place. She anxiously awaited her turn to see the doctor. Once the time came, Muldrow and her mother entered a room and were greeted by the doctor who proceeded to explain all her options. After a health class at KHS piqued her interest, Muldrow visited her OB-GYN to go on birth control August of her junior year...continue reading
By Bridget Killian
The Kirkwood Call, 2018
There are 437,465 children in foster care in the United States.
Of these children, 36 percent are over the age of 10, according to the Administration for Children and Families, and children over the age of 10 are 50 percent less likely to get adopted based on a study done by Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri. According to Jennifer Beavers, a licensed clinical social worker in St. Louis, older children in foster care have a significant disadvantage due to the increased amount of emotional trauma they have experienced.
“For kids who are born into their birth families, [it’s like] their birth mom is standing on one side of a frozen lake,” Beavers said. “That birth mom says, ‘Come, we want to love you,’ and that kid starts walking out on the ice and the ice breaks out from underneath them..." continue reading