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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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Letter to the Editor: Student activists denounce university’s co-optation of Bursar’s Office Takeover, demand action

May 3, 2018

This week the university has been commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, when about 120 students occupied the Bursar’s Office on May 3, 1968, in order to demand improvements...

Martinez: Dolezal documentary more damaging than helpful

Martinez: Dolezal documentary more damaging than helpful

May 2, 2018

Last week, Netflix released “The Rachel Divide,” its documentary about Rachel Dolezal, a former NAACP chapter president who made headlines in 2015 after being outed as a white woman presenting herself...

Shirola: Comey’s memoir should be taken with a grain of salt

Shirola: Comey’s memoir should be taken with a grain of salt

May 1, 2018

I’m not quite sure what James Comey set out to accomplish when he published his No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” in April. While there is a driving...

Schwartz: Michelle Wolf’s jokes needed to ‘push the line’

Schwartz: Michelle Wolf’s jokes needed to ‘push the line’

April 30, 2018

Good comedy should do more than make you laugh. It should make you cringe and think to yourself, “Yikes.” It should make you question yourself and the world around you. And it should rarely leave you...

Allen: Consider racism in criminal justice system holistically

April 30, 2018

In 2015, Lakeith Smith, A’Donte Washington and three others committed a burglary in Alabama. When police arrived at the home they had broken into, the two groups began to exchange gunfire. Washington...

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