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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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Kempis: Northwestern’s hyper-professional atmosphere is detrimental to students’ long-term goals

January 3, 2017

In 2011, Karl Pillemer, a professor at Cornell University, published a six-year research project designed to curate advice from America’s older population. He asked 1,200 Americans aged above 70. “Over...

Phillips: Stop patting yourselves on the back, ‘woke’ white people

November 21, 2016

In October, I sat in a packed room in Harris Hall listening to Barbara Ransby, the Allison Davis Lecture Series speaker. I was excited to see so many white students in the audience, but I felt a twinge...

Off Script: After Trump, using art as political resistance

November 15, 2016

On Wednesday night, I had to pull myself out of bed. As director of the 75th Annual Dolphin Show, “Little Shop of Horrors,” I should have felt the six months’ worth of daily preparation and giddy...

Op-Ed: We will not look away from Trump’s threat to the two-state solution

November 14, 2016

The result of last week’s election challenged the values that many students on this campus hold dear. A Trump presidency poses dangerous threats to our country’s most vulnerable people. Trump’s policies...

Vargas: Facing my return to a country under Trump after quarter abroad

November 13, 2016

Tuesday was one of the worst night sleeps I have ever had in my life. Because I am studying abroad in Italy this quarter, I’m six to seven hours ahead of the United States and went to bed awaiting results...

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