About Us

The DePauw is a tabloid-sized newspaper published most Wednesdays of the school year. The newspaper receives no funding from DePauw University. Its offices are located in the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media on DePauw's campus in Greencastle, Ind. The DePauw is delivered free of charge to students on the dates of publication. Free issues also are provided to the faculty, staff and administration. Paid circulation is limited to mailed copies of the newspaper. The newspaper also has a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and a youtube account. The DePauw is Indiana's oldest college newspaper, founded in 1852 under the name Asbury Notes. It is a completely independent, not-for-profit organization and is fully staffed by students. Katie Hunger is the current editor-in-chief of The DePauw.

The DePauw strives to cultivate an environment of open and respectful debate within our comments section. In order to achieve this environment, The DePauw will pre-screen comments and will not approve, or will rightfully remove comments including: Hate speech, defined by the American Library Association as, “Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground.”; Any sexual, lewd or suggestive comments; Any comments that are submitted incessantly, which will be categorized as spam; Any comments considered off-topic and unrelated to the article in which the comment was posted; Comments discovered to be from fake names will not be accepted; Any comments that incite violence or the threat of violence will be removed and may be forwarded to the police if perceived as an active threat; Comments that are libelous or defamatory in nature