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

The Daily Northwestern


Students and faculty raise lights at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday as part of the nationwide Ghostlight Project. The movement aims to demonstrate the role theater has in providing a safe space in the face of oppression.

Students, faculty ignite ghostlight to promote inclusion on eve of inauguration

January 20, 2017

More than 150 students and faculty simultaneously lit flashlights at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday as part of a nationwide movement to support inclusion the day...

(Colin Boyle/Daily Senior Staffer) Allison McCann, a visual journalist for Vice News Tonight, discusses the role of data visualization and graphics in storytelling. The event, held Tuesday in Swift Hall, was part of One Book One Northwestern programming as well as the Cognitive Science Speaker Series.

Journalist Allison McCann discusses role of data visualization, graphics in storytelling

January 17, 2017

Allison McCann, a visual journalist for Vice News Tonight, explained the role of data visualization in newswriting on Tuesday, saying that it should be used to augment the reader’s understanding of a...

(Daily file photo by Colin Boyle) Godwin Igwebuike runs with the ball in the Pinstripe Bowl. The junior will return to Northwestern for a senior season.

Jochnau: There is more to Northwestern athletics than wins and losses

January 12, 2017

When it comes to men’s basketball, Northwestern isn’t a perennial NCAA Tournament contender like Duke. Instead, the Wildcats have been perennial losers, missing the Dance every year since the inception...

(Colin Boyle/Daily Senior Staffer) Adam Davies, a Weinberg freshman, stands in Northwestern’s sorority quad. Davies, who identifies as transgender female-to-male decided to join Northwestern Panhellenic Association’s winter recruitment, partly because he wanted to set an example for deconstructing the gender binary in Greek life.

As institutions face a blurring gender binary, a transgender student tests the bounds of Northwestern sorority life

January 11, 2017

On Tuesday night, hundreds of Northwestern women were invited to join a sorority. For five days, they had devoted themselves to a long, intricate and sometimes below-freezing recruitment process hoping...

Captured: Obama's Farewell Address

Captured: Obama’s Farewell Address

January 11, 2017

Welcome to The Daily’s photo blog: Captured. This will be a space to share photos by The Daily’s staff as well as photos from members of our community. Students can submit entries to be considered...

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