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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


African American studies librarian Kathleen Bethel speaks at the Fleetwood Jourdain Community Center. The luncheon honored NU alumni and Evanston communities that supported black students during the Bursar’s Office Takeover in 1968.

NU honors Evanston community for 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover support

June 28, 2018

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...

Phillips: Despite University inaction, students still retain power

May 8, 2018

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...

Alumni Harry Lennix, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Joanne Williams join filmmaker Eric Seals (left to right) during a panel after the premiere of a NUBAA-commissioned documentary on the Bursar’s Office Takeover. Takeover participants Maxwell Reid and Williams reflected on their time at Northwestern and its evolution since 1968.

NU Black Alumni Association premieres documentary on Bursar’s Office Takeover

May 6, 2018

CHICAGO — Black students’ transitions to Northwestern in the late 1960s, their experiences on campus and the context of the national civil rights movement were highlighted in a full-length documentary...

Banners urging University action in commemoration of the Bursar’s Office Takeover hang outside the Multicultural Center. In May, students released a list of 47 demands for improvement in black student experiences, departmentalization efforts and the campus dining transition.

Students demand University action on black student experience, departmentalization, dining transition

May 4, 2018

Students released a list of 47 demands Thursday — the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover — urging the University to improve campus culture for black students, departmentalize the Asian...

A sign above the Multicultural Center. Alumni and administrators discussed the Bursar’s Office Takeover and black student experience at NU during a Thursday panel.

Panelists discuss Bursar’s Office Takeover, culture for black students at NU

May 4, 2018

Provost Jonathan Holloway welcomed participants of the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover decades after they set the course to transform the black student experience at Northwestern. “Welcome back, I’ve...

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