Letter from the editor

Letter from the editor: The Daily and the pandemic

April 6, 2020

I logged onto my Zoom class for the first time today. My professor was calm and pretty much everything ran smoothly, but there was an underlying sense of worry that has loomed over us all for the past...

Letter from an editor: The purpose of Opinion

September 29, 2019

In June, I wrote what I thought would be my farewell to the Opinion section and The Daily Northwestern. I enjoyed my time as a columnist and assistant opinion editor, but there were times I felt out of...

Letter from the Editor: Celebrating 135 years of The Daily

January 28, 2016

In 1964, The Daily uncovered Northwestern’s Office of Admission had a quota for the number of Jewish students it would admit. The reporting led to the end of the quota. This legacy of impactful reporting...

Letter from the editor: College life brings new challenges and triumphs

August 26, 2012

For the purposes of this letter, let’s say college consists of two groups of things: those you’re afraid of doing and those you haven’t yet realized you’re afraid of doing. It could be because...

Letter from the editor: Begin college life with an open, honest heart

August 26, 2012

Moving to college was easily the most exciting and frightening experience of my life. I was saying goodbye to everything I was familiar with and saying hello to all the new possibilities that awaited me....

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