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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern

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Captured: Live-in Life: Northwestern’s faculty-in-residences

January 24, 2022

Living where you work may seem astonishing to some, but Northwestern currently has five faculty-in-residences who do just that. They are developing new senses of family through their interactions with...

To visit any dining hall on campus, students have to make reservations, which are spaced out in 15-minute intervals and have a cap of 40 to 50 students each.

New dining hall policies reduce seating and hours, station staff to enforce distancing

February 25, 2021

As Northwestern Dining ramps up its efforts to enforce social distancing and reduce crowds in dining halls across campus, some students say they are struggling to find open reservation slots to pick up...

Elder Hall residents said construction started in the building as early as 8:30 a.m. during the past few months. After expressing their concerns to project coordinators, construction will now start no earlier than 9:30 a.m.

Elder residents compensated for inconveniences caused by prolonged construction

April 28, 2019

After receiving student feedback at an Elder Hall Dining Forum, project coordinators informed residents about changes made to the building’s renovation schedule in an email sent last week. Students were...

Some students with emotional support animals say they don’t feel supported by NU’s Residential Services

April 28, 2019

Weinberg sophomore Debra Duval said she decided to live off campus after the third or fourth complaint she got from students living in Elder HalI. The complaints were about her emotional support dog,...

 Elder dining hall. Elder is one of the on-campus dining halls that will be closed for the fall due to the University’s decision to de-densify campus.

Students say construction to Elder dining hall has made the dorm ‘uninhabitable’

April 14, 2019

Studying for finals in Elder Hall’s first-floor lounge, Weinberg freshman Abby Heath was alarmed when she heard “jackhammer noises” beneath her. She quickly realized where the noise was coming from:...

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