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

The Daily Northwestern


LTE: Rename John Evans Alumni Center

LTE: Rename John Evans Alumni Center

April 11, 2024

We are members of the John Evans Study Committee, which in May 2014 submitted its report on the Sand Creek Massacre of November 29, 1864, in southeastern Colorado. Soldiers savagely attacked a peaceful...

Students discussed the way carceral logic manifests in education, including in the lack of accommodations for students with disabilities and health issues.

UPEP unpacks carceral logic in NU’s past and present at Disorientation Week event

January 24, 2024

Students gathered in Parkes Hall Tuesday with the Undergraduate Prison Education Program to learn about the history of discipline, justice systems and abolition activism at Northwestern. The event was...

Kiel: After Schill’s inaugural address, it’s time to rename John Evans Alumni Center

Kiel: After Schill’s inaugural address, it’s time to rename John Evans Alumni Center

June 4, 2023

Michael H. Schill’s inauguration as the 17th President of Northwestern University Friday has reignited an ongoing conversation about one of the University’s founders, John Evans. During his inaugural...

Armed NIPAS officers at an NU Community Not Cops protest. Human Services Committee members discussed the city’s relationship with NIPAS in a Monday meeting.

Students pepper-sprayed, one arrested during Halloween action to abolish NUPD

November 1, 2020

Evanston police and Illinois crowd control officers, deployed in riot gear with K-9 support, used chemical ammunition and made one arrest during Saturday night’s anti-policing protest led by NU Community...

A white flag flies beneath the American flag at the John Evans Alumni Center in commemoration of the 151st anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre Saturday morning. The Northwestern Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance launched a petition to rename the alumni center Saturday during the final event of this year’s MSA Native American Heritage month.

NAISA demands removal of John Evans’ name from buildings

November 21, 2015

Members of the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance launched a petition Saturday morning asking administrators to remove University founder John Evans' name from buildings including the John...

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