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

The Daily Northwestern


Students are taking sustainability initiatives at the Northwestern campus.

NU students welcome new decade of sustainability on campus

January 22, 2020

Growing up near the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, Communication junior Maggie Olson said she naturally became passionate about the environment. At Northwestern, Olson started working at sustainNU,...

Over a hundred undergraduate students gathered in Scott Hall Thursday. Students expressed frustrations over the lack of progress in implementing Fossil Free Northwestern.

One year after calls for divestment, Northwestern’s Board of Trustees continues to refrain from action

November 8, 2019

After a year of inaction from the Board of Trustees, students renewed their calls for Northwestern divest from fossil fuels during the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility’s open meeting Thursday. Students...

Student activists gather outside University President Morton Schapiro's house in April 2016. Northwestern’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is trying to build strong relationships with other activist groups on campus.

2020 Vision: Students for Justice in Palestine reckon with administration, future activism

November 4, 2019

This is the first article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years...

Students protest Northwestern’s investments in the coal industry in 2014. Members of Fossil Free Northwestern, the group pushing for divestment from coal, oil and gas companies, have been fighting against the University’s investment in the fossil fuel industry for years.

ASG passes resolution calling on University to divest from the fossil fuel industry

March 15, 2019
The resolution will now be reviewed by Northwestern’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, a coalition of students, alumni, faculty and administrators. The committee will decide whether to recommend the proposal to the Investment Committee of the University’s Board of Trustees, who will then vote on the resolution.
Students march to a Board of Trustees meeting in 2014 to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry. After four years of debates, discussion and waiting, Fossil Free Northwestern wants to see concrete action on the University’s divestment from nonrenewable energy.

The battle for fossil fuel divestment: How students are rebuilding a movement in the face of defeat and bureaucracy

February 25, 2019

It was 2015, and everything was falling into place for Fossil Free Northwestern. For one, the group had won student support: In a referendum included on the Associated Student Government presidential...

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