I didn’t want to write a story about the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover last spring, but I wanted one to be written.
When I first pitched my vision for the story, I basically said...
In 1968, Eva Paterson (Weinberg ’71) became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement as a Northwestern student. Decades later, she looks back on historic anti-war demonstrations she took part in, her...
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On May 3, 1968, about 120 black students took control of the University’s Bursar’s Office for 38 hours to protest the treatment of black students at Northwestern. The Takeover’s 50th anniversary...
Northwestern University hosted a community luncheon on Wednesday to recognize the organizations and members of the Evanston community who supported the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover.
About 125 people...
As the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover passed last week, I found myself doing a lot of thinking about the history of this campus, and particularly about how much those student activists...
