October 23, 2017
Filed under Letters to Editor, Opinion
In response to the brave student who shared his story of accepting his sexuality:
I also don't remember how old I was when I figured out I wasn't just slow to hit puberty, but that I actually liked guys. And only guys. I didn't even believe...
October 12, 2017
Filed under Letters to Editor, Opinion
In 2015 I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with Chicago Public Schools seeking documentation that would bring to light how the internationally-acclaimed graphic novel “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi came to be banned...
October 11, 2017
Filed under Letters to Editor, Opinion
In response to Jonah Dylan and his column “Northwestern is running out of excuses,” I urge sportswriters to expand beyond the realm of what you think you know about NU student-athletes before writing another piece criticizing us. ...
October 8, 2017
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Last Thursday, Daily sports editor Jonah Dylan wrote a column arguing Northwestern is running out of excuses for mediocrity. Dylan opened his column by highlighting a weekend’s worth of relatively negative results for Universit...
September 25, 2017
Filed under Latest Stories, Letters to Editor, Opinion
I read with great interest and sadness Isabella Soto's essay for The Spectrum. In the late 1980s, I also experienced high levels of stress and short nights of sleep as a Weinberg undergraduate. For years after graduating, I would j...
September 25, 2017
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Recently, The Daily published an op-ed by Jake Gordon about how people should criticize Ta-Nehisi Coates more. Looking at a variety of prominent black intellectual writers, NONE of them, including Coates, go unchallenged. If ...
September 25, 2017
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Last week, Daily opinion contributor Jake Gordon wrote in his column referring to Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent essay in The Atlantic: “The truth is many low-income whites in the United States do face struggles and Coates’ implicit denial of that w...
September 24, 2017
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To the Editor:
In just two days we have seen both the best and worst that the Northwestern community has to say. Let us hope that, like the football team so far, the wins outnumber the losses.
Starting at the bottom, it...
September 21, 2017
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Northwestern’s administration is breaking the law. We do not write that sentence lightly, but in its refusal to sit down at the bargaining table with the Northwestern Non-Tenure Track Faculty Union, Service Employees International...
September 18, 2017
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If politicians make strange bedfellows, academic administrators make even stranger ones. The unlikely partnership between University President Morton Schapiro and newly elected Board of Trustees Chairman J. Landis Martin is a good example. Schapiro condemned President Donald Tr...
June 10, 2017
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As a Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication alumnus, I'm surprised and angry at how The Daily and other Chicago area news media ignored an important local aspect of the air, sea and land blockade...
May 25, 2017
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As we remember our son Jason Arkin on the two-year anniversary of his death by suicide, we wanted to reiterate our letter to the University originally written in September of 2015 with suggestions we made at that time with pertinent u...
