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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

Letter to the Editor: From a student veteran, ASG should vote ‘no’ on the Eikenberry resolution

April 6, 2016

This Wednesday the Associated Student Government will vote on a resolution calling on Northwestern to rescind the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. and former ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as...

Author Naomi Klein talks about capitalism’s connection to climate change at an event hosted by the Buffett Institute. Klein authored “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate,” a book on climate change how it is connected to other social issues.

Author Naomi Klein discusses climate change, capitalism at Buffett Center event

March 3, 2016

Climate change goes far beyond planetary science, said author Naomi Klein at an event hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies on Wednesday night. “Capitalism vs. The Climate,” co-sponsored...

Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ’54) smiles at a crowd gathered in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to honor her more than $100 million donation to the University. More than a year later, Elliott’s donation has allowed the Buffett Institute for Global Studies to fund several new and existing programs and create an executive director position.

Buffett Institute expands programs, launches new initiatives

February 12, 2016

A new executive director position, visiting postdoctoral fellows and expanded programs are among the developments that have come out of Roberta Buffett Elliott’s (Weinberg ’54)  donation of more than...

 The Buffett Institute, which will be under the leadership of former ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry starting September. Faculty are protesting Eikenberry’s appointment, calling on the University to withdraw the offer for his position.

More than 40 Northwestern faculty call for withdrawal of Karl Eikenberry’s appointment as Buffett Institute executive director

February 11, 2016

Forty-six Northwestern faculty members called on University administrators to withdraw their appointment of Karl Eikenberry as executive director of the Buffett Institute due to his incompatibility with...

Political science and legal studies Prof. Jacqueline Stevens discusses how private prisons profit from immigrant detainees’ labor at an event held by Unshackle NU on Tuesday night. Stevens was the second speaker in the group’s quarter-long series, which began last month with activist Mariame Kaba.

At Unshackle NU event, Northwestern professor talks prison profit from detainees’ cheap labor

February 3, 2016

Political science and legal studies Prof. Jacqueline Stevens highlighted the way private prisons profit from the labor of immigrant detainees at Unshackle NU's event Tuesday evening. About 45 students...

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