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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


NUVotes and local colleges’ initiatives encourage voting, civic engagement

NUVotes and local colleges’ initiatives encourage voting, civic engagement

January 9, 2020

The National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) at Tufts University reported in September 2019 that national college student voting increased from 19 percent in the 2014 midterm elections...

Northwestern voting participation rate more than doubled in 2018 midterm elections

Northwestern voting participation rate more than doubled in 2018 midterm elections

October 30, 2019

Northwestern’s student voting participation rate more than doubled in the 2018 midterm elections, showing an increase from 2014’s 22.1 percent to 51.5 percent, according to a University release. Though...

50 Years of Queer Anger: Camp and the Met Gala

50 Years of Queer Anger: Camp and the Met Gala

May 9, 2019

This is the twelfth column in “50 Years of Queer Anger,” a series examining LGBTQ+ issues in the United States since 1969. Susan Sontag described camp as “love of the unnatural: of artifice and...

A rendering of the new residence hall being built at 560 Lincoln Ave. Architectural firm William Rawn Associates was selected to build the new building by the University following a competitive bidding process.

Northwestern selects firm to build new residence hall

October 18, 2015

Northwestern has selected Boston-based architectural firm William Rawn Associates to design and construct a new residence hall at 560 Lincoln Ave., the first to be built since 2002. The University created...

Chicago residents watch election night returns on a big screen CNN put up on the Thompson Center in Chicago. Young people like those at the Election Night watch party were pivotal in re-electing President Barack Obama, according to a new analysis.

Electoral analysis: Youth vote decisive in some battleground states

November 8, 2012

Northwestern students may have woken up Wednesday morning to President-elect Mitt Romney if it were not for their peers’ votes, according to exit polls in Tuesday’s presidential contest. Early estimates...

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