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

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

The Daily Northwestern

LTE: Rename John Evans Alumni Center

LTE: Rename John Evans Alumni Center

April 11, 2024

We are members of the John Evans Study Committee, which in May 2014 submitted its report on the Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 1864, in southeastern Colorado. Soldiers savagely attacked a peaceful...

Northwestern community responds to new John Evans report

November 6, 2014

Following the University of Denver’s release of its John Evans Study Committee findings, some Northwestern students praised the new report, while a member of NU’s committee defended its own conclusions...

Law Prof. Andrew Koppelman, History Prof. Peter Hayes and English Prof. Carl Smith discuss the findings of the John Evans Study Committee at Firehouse Grill. The three professors were part of the eight-person committee that was tasked with determining whether John Evans played a role in the Sand Creek Massacre.

John Evans Study Committee discusses report with Evanston community

September 30, 2014

Members of the John Evans Study Committee gathered Tuesday night to inform Evanston residents and Northwestern students about findings in their May report on John Evans' relationship to the Sand Creek...

Northwestern releases John Evans report, committee concludes he had no direct involvement in massacre but University ignored ‘significant moral failures’

May 29, 2014

Northwestern released Thursday a report detailing NU founder John Evans’ involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre, finding no evidence that Evans was directly involved in planning the massacre but that...

The University will form a second committee to investigate the role John Evans played in the Sand Creek Massacre. University President Morton Schapiro said the University should improve campus culture toward Native Americans.

John Evans Study Committee offers first opportunity for public feedback

October 23, 2013

Emotions ran high Wednesday night at University Library as the John Evans Study Committee held an open forum to give an update on its research, answer questions and take suggestions from the Northwestern...

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