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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


Attendance-taking policy differences have taken the national stage, with educators debating over whether attendance requirements are ultimately harmful or beneficial. At Northwestern, professors see attendance requirements as a way to foster engagement.

Attendance requirements can be used to foster engagement, but students say it can sometimes be unnecessary

November 13, 2018

Present or absent? Attendance is a straightforward question. How it’s taken, however, is not so simple. For some professors, attendance is extremely important — research shows that students who...

Pope: A stronger football culture isn’t attainable for Northwestern, and that’s OK

August 24, 2018

It’s the year 2048. A grizzled, white-haired, Bill Snyder-lookalike Pat Fitzgerald roams the Wildcats’ sidelines. Quarterback Clayton Thorson Jr. will earn a $1.5 million bonus if he completes 25...

Willie the Wildcat parades the sideline at Welsh-Ryan Arena during Northwestern's game against Indiana on Sunday. The game against the Hoosiers was sold out.

Men’s Basketball: Northwestern home attendance on rise

February 3, 2017

Men's Basketball Northwestern had sold out three out of its five remaining games as of Thursday, the program announced in a news release. Remaining home contests against Rutgers (Feb. 18), Michigan...

Men’s Basketball: Attendance continues upward trend in 2015-16

March 10, 2016

Men's Basketball Long a laughingstock for its small crowds when compared to the rest of the bigger, more sports-rabid Big Ten schools, Northwestern is slowly filling more and more of Welsh-Ryan Arena...

Medill junior Michael Payant (center) attends nearly every Northwestern football or men's basketball game — often decked out in face paint and a purple costume — and encourages other students to do the same. "It takes so little to hop on the shuttle and walk down to the game,” he said.

Where are the students? Breaking down Northwestern’s attendance challenges

March 3, 2015

Gram Bowsher has heard it all. For more than two years as president of Wildside, the official student section of Northwestern Athletics, Bowsher fielded all kinds of complaints about his peers: that...

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