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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


New organization vows to preserve Black House student spaces

August 24, 2015

A new social justice organization launched Monday in opposition to a Northwestern plan to reorganize the Black House that would make room for administrators and limit student space. The Sheridan...

The Black House has been a gathering space for black students at Northwestern since the early 1970s. The University suspended a plan Sunday to reorganize the space to include more staff offices following objections from students and alumni.

University halts reorganization of Black House, Multicultural Center space

August 24, 2015

In response to opposition from students and alumni, Northwestern has postponed moving administrative offices into the Black House and the Multicultural Center, a decision that would have forced several...

Communication senior Sean Earley, a member of the A-status finances committee, speaks to Senate at its meeting Wednesday. He said the committee spent more than 80 hours drafting the proposal for the roughly $1.1 million A-status funding plan, which Senate approved.

Star, Kim launch campaign to include students in task force

May 28, 2015

ASG’s president and executive vice president launched a campaign at Wednesday’s Senate meeting to pressure Provost Daniel Linzer to include more students in a faculty task force examining the undergraduate...

Chicago rappers Saba (center) and Mick Jenkins (right) discuss their brand of socially-conscious hip-hop with African American Studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma.

Two Chicago rappers talk violence, socially-conscious hip-hop

May 27, 2015

Two Chicago rappers answered questions about their brand of socially conscious hip-hop and broader issues of race and violence during a Q&A on Tuesday. Mick Jenkins and Saba answered questions from...

Faculty to call for Asian American Studies major 20 years after hunger strike

Faculty to call for Asian American Studies major 20 years after hunger strike

May 6, 2015

Twenty years after a hunger strike to establish the Asian American Studies Program shook Northwestern’s campus, the program’s faculty plans to submit a proposal to establish an Asian-American studies...

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