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Are your shoulders starting to feel knotted? Has your primary food for the last week been coffee? Are your arms locked in typing position? If so, it could be the onset of Final-itis! The best treatment for a critical case of the finals is eating right, relaxing and maybe patting
I first enjoyed Chris Ware’s comics in weekly installments, starting in 1992 in the free Chicago newspaper NewCity. Many of those early comics centered on the character Jimmy Corrigan, an awkward boy who longs for the father who abandoned him, and a superhero resembling a seedy version of Superman. What
In 1981, a national design competition was held to create a memorial for veterans of the Vietnam War. The winner of the competition was a 21 year-old Yale undergraduate named Maya Lin. Lin’s design, a sunken V-shaped wall cloaked in black granite and inscribed with the names of the fallen,
At first glance, this month’s selection of books from the DePaul Library collection don’t appear to be thematically related: two are about cities, and the third explores a little-known history of gun ownership in the United States. On closer reading, the common thread in all three books are the contributions of African
Near the beginning of Savage Park, Amy Fusselman describes a swimming demonstration at her children’s New York City day camp. “There were eight plastic orange chairs stationed around the pool…In each of these chairs, a lifeguard sat and watched a group of six to eight children as they worked with
We label and stamp them, charge them out, and then back in again. We gather them in great piles from the drop boxes. We shelve them, a never-ending task, much like bailing out the ocean with a teaspoon. Still, we love them – the books. Our first books were about