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

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

The Daily Northwestern


NU Dissenters: Northwestern is complicit in US militarism. We call an end to it.

NU Dissenters: Northwestern is complicit in US militarism. We call an end to it.

February 2, 2022

We are Northwestern Dissenters.  We are a revived campaign in which previous students laid the foundation for the fight against militarism on campus.  Dissenters is a national anti-militarist,...

 Rom Brown. The 22-year-old freshman comes to Northwestern after serving in the Israel Defense Forces.

Men’s Soccer: Rom Brown joins NU at age 22 after service in Israel Defense Forces

September 9, 2020

Men’s Soccer Rom Brown, a defensive center midfielder from Hod Hasharon, Israel — a city roughly 15 miles from Tel Aviv — knew he wanted to play soccer in the United States. So, last...

The Northwestern chapter of Hillel. The organization has not yet had to confront questions of Birthright Israel’s legitimacy on campus.

IfNotNow movement calls on college Hillel chapters to end ties to Birthright Israel

May 1, 2019

IfNotNow, a Jewish-American movement to end support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, recently encouraged the University of Chicago’s chapter of Hillel to cut their ties with Birthright Israel,...

Alon Schneidman, 25, is a McCormick junior. Schneidman came to Northwestern after serving in the Israel Defense Forces for three and a half years after high school.

International students adjust to Northwestern after military service

April 25, 2016

After three and half years in the Israeli military, Alon Schneidman found himself wondering what he was doing in a Northwestern chemistry class. To Schneidman, schoolwork felt pointless compared to his...

Guest Column: Taking sides on contemporary injustice

August 10, 2014

“I am a Palestinian Arab, and I am also an American. This affords me an odd, not to say grotesque, double perspective.” Edward Said spoke these words, in a lecture on academic freedom, at South Africa’s...

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