I was counting down the days until my 10 year reunion at Northwestern. Then, last Tuesday night, former president Donald Trump was reelected, and I realized I could not make the trip back to Evanston. As...
October 21, 2024
Caleb Nunes’ recent op-ed in The Daily Northwestern is a shameful position to see from a member of the NU community. While Nunes raises reasonable concerns regarding the potential...
I am writing to state my support for the administration’s amended protest policies and move toward institutional neutrality, and as a response to a recent statement published by a...
I am tired of my university exploiting my Jewish identity to silence those who speak out against genocide. In the past year, Northwestern has repeatedly asserted its commitment to...
Dear Mayor Daniel Biss, During my term on the Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission, the Commission actively worked on several important initiatives. Some of the initiatives...
Dear Reader, My first fall in Evanston was beautiful and filled with anxiety. I was doing terribly in all my classes. I had just met some of my best friends. I frequently ate dinner...
There are few journeys more treacherous for a Weinberg student than the gradual undertaking of fulfilling all of the school’s distribution requirements. Spread out across six continents...
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (GLIOR) was held on Sept. 21 and 22. The course was about two miles east of Navy Pier. There were eight college teams sailing a boat...
Dear Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris, University President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President of Student Affairs Susan Davis: We write as concerned...
Dear Daily Northwestern Editorial Board, I have just finished reading your news report on Sunday night’s Students for Justice in Palestine-sponsored "vigil" and, as a Medill alumnus...
On Thanksgiving Day, over 100 campus workers will be left stranded as reconstruction of the James Allen Center begins. With limited job security protections, workers at the Allen Center...
This summer, I found myself in a bit of a professional exile to work my summer internship in Wilmington, Delaware. While being so far away from my home in the Midwest, I embarked on...
Does University President Michael Schill know what academic freedom means? In a letter he released last month, Schill wrote: “We embrace the values of free expression because they...
For me, 2024’s summer belonged to Chappell Roan. I had her album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” on repeat and almost got a heat stroke lining up for her set at Lollapalooza....
In a joint statement with Provost Kathleen Hagerty Friday, University President Michael Schill announced a new policy on free expression and institutional speech at Northwestern —...
When I applied to college, I purposefully chose schools I knew would let me live on campus for all four years. This was mostly because my previous attempts at cooking had invariably...