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

The Daily Northwestern


Graduate students march from The Rock to Rebecca Crown Center to demand The Graduate School guarantee sixth-year research funding. Opportunities for such funding have been restricted since last year, when TGS stopped allowing sixth-year students from funding their research through assistantships.

Graduate students march for guaranteed sixth-year research funding

April 11, 2019

Graduate students rallied Thursday and presented a list of demands of The Graduate School during Northwestern University Graduate Workers’ first public action to lobby for guaranteed sixth-year research...

Communication junior Shane Eichstaedt shares their experience with bipolar disorder at the Rock. Many students spoke about their negative experiences with mental health at Northwestern at a rally in December.

Students demand mental health reform, criticize administration’s prior efforts

December 6, 2018

Student activists lambasted Northwestern’s handling of mental health issues and urged for increased inclusion and transparency in helping students cope with mental health problems, presenting a list...

Provost Jonathan Holloway in his office in November. Holloway, a scholar in African American history, discussed in his speech the history of black student activism and his role as a professor and dean.

Black organizers share experiences, strategies on campus activism

February 11, 2018

After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, Sarah Oberholtzer (Communication ’17) said she wanted a space for black students to express grief and anger. So she organized a demonstration as a “space...

Deciding divestment: Northwestern student activists face obstacles beyond their control

Deciding divestment: Northwestern student activists face obstacles beyond their control

May 22, 2015

On the night of Feb. 18, more than 400 people crowded into Norris University Center for an impassioned debate about a resolution asking Northwestern to divest from six corporations the resolution’s sponsors...

Students carry mattresses and pillows to the Rebecca Crown Center on Monday morning to protest a Northwestern professor's opinion piece on relationships between professors and students. About 30 students marched and posted signs at the Crown Center.

Students carry mattresses, pillows to protest professor’s controversial article

March 10, 2015

About 30 students marched to the Rebecca Crown Center carrying mattresses and pillows Monday morning to protest a lack of a reaction from administration after Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis wrote...

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