Without wielding guns, tasers or even pepper spray, four civilians in Evanston answer calls to assist community members experiencing their worst days. The calls come through the city’s 911 number,...
Ziye Wang is a senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at [email protected].
Welcome to the 2026 Graduation Issue! This special issue provides a space for graduating Daily staffers to reflect on their time in the newsroom and at Northwestern, just in time for...
Content warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence, hazing and sexual assault. During the Class of 2026’s time at Northwestern, the University drew national attention...
This collection is a visual journey through the heart and soul of Northwestern and the city of Chicago over the past four years. Here, I’ve gathered some of my favorite moments, from...
Natural disasters are interesting phenomena. Most of the time, the world seems to collectively agree that they’re no one’s fault — just a fact of life. The summer after my...
When you’re the editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, a “ding” from your phone often means dropping everything. We’ve sped out of our apartments, woken up disoriented...
“How much do you want this?” During a 1-hour-and-40-minute train ride back from a 15-minute Daily Northwestern training, I repeated this question dozens of times. Cigarette smoke...
Amid a morning run into Winnetka, reality struck me. No, it wasn’t a red-winged blackbird — at least not this time. Note to readers, the area due north of the Baháʼí Temple...
I’ve always been fascinated by probabilities. I grew up in the horse capital of the world, Ocala, Florida, and my family immigrated to the United States from Colombia because...
#501e4c: that’s the hex code for Daily Northwestern purple. It’s engrained in my memory. As a design editor, you need to know the brand. Being on the design team entailed working...
I have over 115,000 photos on my phone. Most people, especially Mr. “manage storage” from my phone settings, tell me to delete some of them, but I can’t. A screenshot...
ChatGPT can’t make you a crossword puzzle I learned this the hard way when I signed up to be the Daily’s second-ever Crossword and Games editor. Notably, I took the position...
For many staffers at The Daily Northwestern, the April release of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” felt like a holiday. The Daily’s shoutout in the first movie solidified it as newsroom...
My looming graduation caused me to revisit Joshua Rothman’s article in The New Yorker, “Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?” which posits that everyone is either a divider...
This actually isn’t my first time preparing to leave Northwestern. Three Junes ago, I was so ready to transfer that I’d booked a U-Haul east, firmly convinced this school was...
