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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


The Foster-Walker Complex building. The bricks are brown with green shrubbery on both sides of the main door. Above the door are the words “Foster-Walker.”

Foster-Walker Complex to shift from quarantine housing to residence hall

May 20, 2021

Foster-Walker Complex will return to its original residential hall status in the fall. Over the past year, the dorm, known as Plex, served as Northwestern’s on-campus COVID-19 housing. Students who...

Students who have either been contact traced or tested positive for COVID-19 are put into Quarantine and Isolation Housing.

Students exposed to COVID-19 enter quarantine housing after Winter move-in

January 26, 2021

At Northwestern, both students who test positive and students contacted through contact tracing are placed in Quarantine and Isolation Housing to contain potential infections. On-campus Q/I Housing...

Disarm, defund, disband: Students are marching every day until Northwestern abolishes NUPD

Disarm, defund, disband: Students are marching every day until Northwestern abolishes NUPD

October 18, 2020

For over a month, a mask-shaped sign reading “We’re N This Together” hung from the Weber Arch. It was meant to symbolize a unified start to Northwestern’s academic year but was often mocked by...

Northwestern dining workers. The vast majority of dining hall workers laid off at the beginning of the quarter are now being re-hired, per a press release.

Northwestern dining workers denied extension on health insurance, COVID-19 safety protections amid mass layoffs

September 6, 2020

Compass Group, Northwestern’s food service provider, had the opportunity to extend health and safety protections to its dining workers before the start of the academic year but chose not to. This month,...

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.

Northwestern to close some dining halls this fall, Compass Group to lay off about 100 staff members

September 4, 2020

Northwestern plans to open fewer dining locations this fall because of last week’s decision to bring fewer students on campus than originally anticipated, according to a University spokesperson. The...

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