Carly Rae Jepsen and Smino blow up Blowout
Zoe Malin, Reporter
November 18, 2018
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Twenty minutes into headliner Carly Rae Jepsen’s set at Saturday’s A&O Blowout, the distinct beat of her hit song “Call Me Maybe” blasted through the speakers. The audience screamed and began to sing like it was 2012. “I wasn’t ever expecting to hear that song live,” said Communication...
Rania Awaad used to dismiss psychology as nonsense — now she’s a clinical psychiatrist
Cameron Cook, Assistant Campus Editor
November 18, 2018
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While in college, now-psychiatrist Dr. Rania Awaad didn’t take a single psychology course. At the time, she thought of psychology as a “Western construct.” “What good Muslim takes psychology?” she asked. “That’s a bunch of nonsense.” It wasn’t until Awaad was a practicing spiritual...
Safe Ride suspends minimum distance in response to campus incidents
Cameron Cook, Assistant Campus Editor
November 16, 2018
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Safe Ride is temporarily suspending its three block ride minimum in light of recent reports of men targeting women on Northwestern’s Evanston campus, according to a Thursday email from Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president of student affairs. In the email, Telles-Irvin told students to be patient,...
New technology fee for international students triggers intense backlash
November 16, 2018
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A technology fee levied this academic year on international students has sparked outrage among many graduate students, who said the fee’s implementation unfairly targets the international student population and was poorly communicated by administrators. The $50 fee assessed by the International...
Marc Lamont-Hill talks black activism and voting third party at annual FMO event
Amy Li, Assistant Campus Editor
November 16, 2018
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Host of BET News Dr. Marc Lamont-Hill reminded black students at Northwestern to look to the black tradition of resistance and freedom fighting as a tool to make sense of the current “moment of chaos.” Hill recalled how in the age of Barack Obama’s presidency he felt the need to prove to people...
Key jangling has been a tradition at football games for years. Some say it is elitist
Maddy Daum, Reporter
November 15, 2018
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When Weinberg sophomore Vicente Rudolph went to his first football game during Wildcat Welcome, he watched as fans jingled their keys at kickoff. He figured it was a form of distraction, to try and throw the opposition off their game. Rudolph said he later found out the tradition implies that Northwestern...
Rising STD rates shine light on college sex-education
November 15, 2018
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Rates of sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fourth consecutive year to a record high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Northwestern hasn’t changed its approach to addressing it students’ sexual health in response to the news. Nearly 2.3 million cases...
Administration sees better budget outlook than previously expected
Alan Perez, Campus Editor
November 15, 2018
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University administrators say last year’s budget deficit will close out in better shape than they previously expected, though it is much higher than what was originally projected earlier this year. Administrators had projected after the third quarter of last year that the deficit would reach $130...
Former chairperson of the National Endowment for Arts emphasizes the importance of art
Aaron Wang, Reporter
November 15, 2018
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Recalling the moment after her dad passed away when she was nine, Jane Chu, the former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, said she didn’t have the vocabulary to fully express her grief. “I expressed my feelings through music,” Chu said. “The piano lessons I took dutifully...
ASG passes emergency legislation after multiple women targeted on campus
Evan Robinson-Johnson, Reporter
November 15, 2018
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Associated Student Government passed emergency legislation Wednesday calling for Northwestern to make greater efforts to protect its students in the wake of several recent incidents on campus. Proposed by Weinberg freshman Margot Bartol and Communication freshman Arianna Staton, the resolution attempts...
Sarah Kliff talks healthcare reporting, Democratic platform for 2020
Avi Varghese, Reporter
November 15, 2018
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Nearly a decade after journalist Sarah Kliff moved into healthcare reporting during the passage of the Affordable Care Act, she is covering the beginnings of a new era of the political fight over healthcare. The senior correspondent at Vox spoke during a moderated talk with Medill Prof. Abigail Foerstner...
Students criticize UP responses to battery incidents, express fear
Cameron Cook, Assistant Campus Editor
November 14, 2018
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Northwestern students have been put on edge by a number of incidents involving men grabbing women by the tops of their backpacks or arms or following them down the street. University Police have alerted students to five separate incidents of men targeting women, a figure University Police Chief Bruce Lewis said is unusually high. In a Nov. 8 email, Lewis alerted the community to t...
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