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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


Letter to the Editor: A (counter) report on university finances

January 13, 2021

As we look back on 2020, a year with record unemployment and financial ruin for many, it is clear the ultra-wealthy had a banner year. Despite claims from the university that it, too, was struggling financially,...

The Rock. After it was given a Pilgrim hat in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, Indigenous graduate students responded by repainting it with phrases such as “Native land” and “land back.”

“This is Native land”: Indigenous graduate students’ Rock painting covered, repainted

December 8, 2020

The Rock, previously painted orange with a yellow smiley face since late October, had a new addition last week — a Pilgrim hat. It was a few days before Thanksgiving, a day many Indigenous people...

A sign from a previous NUCNC demonstration. NUCNC co-hosted a teach-in Tuesday with FMO on the history of prison abolition.

Northwestern Graduate Workers condemn Saturday police escalation, reprehend Schapiro email

November 1, 2020

In a Sunday statement, Northwestern University Graduate Workers condemned the police escalation — including the pepper-spraying and shoving student protestors — at Saturday’s NU Community Not Cops...

A sign from Friday’s protest. The teach-in included a range of abolitionist speakers and a Halloween-themed learning activity.

NUCNC partners with NUGW, hosts speakers in Friday teach-in

November 1, 2020

About 200 Northwestern undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff joined together Friday to hear abolitionist speakers and protest University Police. After gathering at The Rock,...

Graduate workers lead a march for equal rights on campus in spring 2019. Today, NUGW held a virtual day of action to address graduate students’ roles as workers.

NUGW hosts TA “Disorientation” to shine light on how graduate workers are “more than students”

September 11, 2020

While Northwestern hosted a one-day teaching assistant training orientation Thursday, graduate workers held a virtual day of action to contend that their labor for the University should designate them...

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