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

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Jayal: What my experience as the only Gen Z member of my book club taught me about the ‘generational divide’

Jayal: What my experience as the only Gen Z member of my book club taught me about the ‘generational divide’

April 24, 2024

I, like many other people my age, have seen the bad press about Generation Z. We are afflicted with non-existent attention spans, unwavering gazes locked on phone screens, a vocabulary of filler words...

Olivia Rodrigo holds out her arms while singing into a microphone. There is an enlarged black-and-white image of her singing in the back, as well as a moon with her shadow in front.

Olivia Rodrigo Chicago performance screams Gen-Z, announces deluxe album release

March 23, 2024

Pop superstar and singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo commanded the crowd’s attention Tuesday night during a booming performance at a packed United Center. Rodrigo last performed in Chicago in April 2022...

There’s no sophomore slump for Olivia Rodrigo with her second album “Guts.”

Liner Notes: ‘GUTS’ is the soundtrack for your next slumber party

September 20, 2023

Olivia Rodrigo has come a long way since her youthful emergence on the pop culture scene in 2016 when she starred in the aptly-named Disney Channel television series “Bizaardvark.” Now 20-years-old,...

Fine: A New Lost Generation

January 27, 2021

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926 with the epigraph: “You are a lost generation,” a quip expressed to him by fellow writer Gertrude Stein. The term “Lost Generation”...

Tekriwal: To be truly progressive, Gen Z needs to acknowledge its heteronormativity

Tekriwal: To be truly progressive, Gen Z needs to acknowledge its heteronormativity

February 20, 2020

I’m tired of hearing things like “I support the queer community, but don’t want my partner to be bisexual.” Though I always venture to argue that Gen Z is more progressive than its older counterparts,...

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