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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


Student activists gather outside University President Morton Schapiro's house. While protesters marched to Schapiro's Orrington house, Schapiro was holding a dinner for students, including ASG members.

Student activists protest outside Schapiro’s house

April 5, 2016

Student activists protested Northwestern’s investment policies Tuesday evening, both by marching to and walking out of University President Morton Schapiro’s Evanston house. Schapiro was hosting...

Northwestern to create socially responsible investment committee

March 9, 2016

Northwestern will create a committee on socially responsible investment to advise NU’s president and chief investment officer on issues related to the University’s investment activities. The committee...

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.

Fossil Free NU plans sit-in after Board of Trustees refuses to meet at March conference

February 16, 2016

The full Northwestern Board of Trustees will not meet with Fossil Free NU — a group seeking coal divestment — at the board’s March conference, Chief Investment Officer Will McLean said. Community...

Northwestern has more than $15 million directly invested in oil, natural gas company

January 27, 2016

Northwestern owns more than $15 million worth of stock in Black Stone Minerals, one of the largest oil and gas mineral and royalty companies in the country, according to the University’s filing with...

Activist talks ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ at Unshackle NU’s first speaker event

January 22, 2016

Chicago-based organizer and educator Mariame Kaba said Thursday one of the driving forces behind the disproportionate incarceration of black people in the U.S. is an unfair education system. Kaba was the...

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