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DePaulia

The Volume #110, Issue #3

DePaul's student-run newspaper since 1923 October 13, 2025

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DePaul Chartwells employees protest new Aramark food service By Sofia Joseph La DePaulia Editor-in-Chief

DePaul dining employees rallied outside the Lincoln Park student center on Tuesday, Oct. 7, after the university announced that a new food service company will replace its longtime provider, Chartwells Higher Ed. Chartwells employees picketed and handed out information on the corner of Belden Avenue and Sheffield Avenue with their union, Unite Here Local 1. Community members and students also joined. Starting in December 2025, Aramark Collegiate Hospitality will be DePaul’s new dining services provider. Current Chartwells employees will need to reapply to their jobs through Aramark in order to stay. Ariana Goode has worked for Chartwells at DePaul for 13 years. Despite her familiarity with the community, she feels unsure about working for Aramark. “Why should we have to reapply for the jobs that we’ve been doing for years?” Goode said. Unite Here Local 1 represents about 108 food service workers employed by Chartwells at DePaul. They launched a petition calling on the university to cancel the contract with Aramark due to uncertainty about whether current employees will be retained. Tiffany Perez has worked as a cashier for Chartwells on DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus for the last 25 years. The reasons for

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Joyce Mayweather protests with Chartwells employees outside of DePaul University’s Student Center in the Lincoln Park campus on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Mayweather attended the protest to support her daughter, Tiffany Perez, who is a Chartwells employee.

the protest were to fight for respect, job security and to stand with their union, she said. “Right now, the tension is really high,” Perez said. “Everyone is nervous with anxiety about the uncertainty. The whole thing is to make sure that we have a job, that we are employed.” Perez plans on reapplying to Aramark to make sure she keeps steady employment and to stay in the DePaul community, whom she considers to be like family.

“When these young people come to DePaul, they’re away from home,” Perez said. “They’re trying to figure out who they are. So in the process, what we do, we’d be able to give them some type of sense of comfort, security.” Goode also feels the dining employees have a special bond with the students.

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Tiffany Perez pickets outside of DePaul University’s student center in the Lincoln Park campus on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. Perez, a cashier for Chartwells at DePaul, said the purpose of the rally was to fight for respect and job security after the university announced Chartwells will be replaced by food servicing company, Aramark.

Chicago Satanists are collecting pads and tampons for neighbors in need By Brielle Kohlbeck Content Managing Editor

The Satanic Temple of Illinois gets people what they need, period. This is a mission that they take literally with their yearly “Menstruatin’ With Satan” campaign. They gather boxes of tampons, menstrual pads and other hygiene products to donate to the Pilsen Food Pantry and the Phoenix Center in Springfield. “I mean, it’s a true labor of love on their part, it’s not just a token donation,” said Steve Wiley, Pilsen Food Pantry manager. “It’s a really great thing they do.” With members worldwide, the Satanic Temple (TST) is a federally recognized nontheistic religious organization whose goals are to promote empathy and kindness, oppose oppressive power and support a realistic, commonsense approach to justice. Their website says most members reject the idea that Satan is a real god or entity.

The Pilsen Food Pantry has worked with TST for three years. Wiley says the donations from their campaigns typically last five to six months while serving the demands of their clients. The pantry was operating out of a church when the temple first reached out. They worked under “the watchful eyes” of the archdiocese who already had some issues with their stay, Wiley said. At first, the pantry was worried about being too closely associated with the Satanic Temple. But once they heard the name “Menstruatin’ With Satan,” they were hooked. Shortly after, they gave TST permission to put their logo and name on the flyers. This year, the campaign has 13 participating locations across the city and Chicago area, mostly with businesses that align with the mission and “aesthetic” of the temple. Horror cafes and oddity shops are just a few of the locations taking donations in the city. Graveface Museum in Wick-

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