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Swimmers from Northwestern, Oakland and Illinois-Chicago dive into the pool at the start of a race. Both NU’s men’s and women’s swimming teams beat both opponents in a tri-meet in Evanston this weekend.

Women’s Swimming: Wildcats cruise to victory

October 26, 2014

Swimming and Diving Northwestern hosted and beat both Oakland and Illinois-Chicago by​ ​180-111 and 211-86 on Saturday in the Wildcats’ second meet of the season. Sophomore Ellen Stello placed...

Evanston Township High School students have started to construct a two-story house in the school’s parking lot. The project is part of a class in which students learn geometry through hands-on experience and build affordable housing for a family with low income.

ETHS construction class hopes to build on last year’s results

October 19, 2014

Evanston Township High School is offering a class for a second year in which students work to build an affordable house for a low-income family. The course, called Geometry in Construction, teaches...

Curt’s Cafe is one of the finalists in the running to win up to $100,000 through a social innovation competition. The Evanston restaurant employs at-risk youth with training in life skills and food services to give them a future after incarceration.

Curt’s Cafe named finalist in competition for $50K award

October 19, 2014

Curt’s Cafe, a local restaurant that employs formerly incarcerated young adults, was named a finalist in a social innovation competition, bringing the nonprofit one step closer to winning up to $100,000. Project...

Students throw colored paint at each other at the third annual Color Roar on Deering Meadow. The event, which raised more than $1,500 for the Summer Internship Grant Program, was the first school-wide activity of Homecoming Week.

Chicago-themed Homecoming commences with color roar

October 12, 2014

About 230 students kicked off Homecoming Week on Sunday with a rainbow assortment of paint packets at the third annual Color Roar. Attendance fees for the event, during which participants threw colored...

Former PBS and NPR correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks at Medill about growing up in the 1960s. Hunter-Gault was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Georgia during the civil rights movement.

Civil rights activist, journalist speaks on segregation

October 12, 2014

When Charlayne Hunter-Gault decided to study at the University of Georgia in the 1960s, she did not expect to become a figure in the civil rights movement.  “I think that wanting to be a journalist...

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