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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


The experienced group posing for a photo on top of the Grand Canyon holding hiking poles and gear with gray cloudy skies in the background.

NU Outdoors Club backpacks the Grand Canyon, faces “hip-deep snow” and other unexpected weather

March 29, 2023

Though the Northwestern Outdoors Club expected warm Arizona weather this Spring Break, they faced snow, wind, rain and hail as they backpacked through the Grand Canyon National Park for five days.  Eighteen...

A tall snowman in the fraternity quad with four people standing around it.

Captured: Students go rogue after first major snowfall of the year at Northwestern

February 4, 2022

After a mostly snow-free December, Northwestern experienced more than 10 inches of snowfall this week. While the wind may persuade people to stay indoors, the snow brought them outdoors — from the student...

Two students dressed in long sleeves and activewear stand on a sand dune in front of brown shrubbery, smiling for a photo.

Northwestern Outdoors Club isn’t indoors anymore

October 18, 2021

In the weeks leading up to Spring Break 2020, then-Weinberg freshman Andrew Laeuger spent hours arranging and rearranging hiking gear in his backpack. He had to organize it perfectly, he said, for the...

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