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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


Justice John Paul Stevens. The former Supreme Court Justice and Northwestern alumnus died Tuesday from stroke complications.

Northwestern alumnus John Paul Stevens dies at 99

July 17, 2019

Former Supreme Court Justice and Northwestern alumnus John Paul Stevens died from stroke complications Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 99. Stevens (School of Law ’47), who retired in 2010...

An adversity score will be added to SAT college entrance test results, rating applicants on environmental factors meant to offer admissions officers a glimpse into a students socioeconomic background, the College Board said Thursday. Northwestern was among the schools who participated in a pilot program.

Northwestern was a pilot school for SAT’s adversity score to assess a student’s privilege

May 21, 2019
Northwestern was among the 50 schools that participated in a pilot program, though it said Monday that it did not use the score to make admission decisions. The reaction to the news was mixed.
The undergraduate financial office, 1801 Hinman Ave. Education Reform Now is advocating for Northwestern to increase its financial aid commitment to low-income students.

Advocacy organization says Northwestern should retool early decision, eliminate legacy admissions

April 24, 2019

In recent years, Northwestern has made low-income admissions a priority, creating and achieving its “20 by 2020” Pell-eligible initiative to have a minimum of 20 percent of incoming classes be made...

Morton Schapiro, right, and Gary Morson, left, discuss their book “Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities” in 2017. Schapiro and Morson co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that more people should think like economists.

‘It’s time for a recommitment to prudence,’ Schapiro writes in a Washington Post op-ed

April 11, 2019

Thinking like an economist could help solve the problems of modern democracy, Northwestern President Morton Schapiro and Slavic languages and literatures Prof. Gary Morson wrote in a Wednesday op-ed in...

Elynnor Sandefer speaks at an ASG Senate meeting. Sandefer said the legislation will provide much needed options for transgender and non-binary students.

ASG passes legislation demanding University immediately expand gender-open housing options

February 14, 2019

Associated Student Government passed legislation asking the University to commit to an “immediate expansion” of gender-open housing options for undergraduate students during Wednesday’s Senate meeting. Currently,...

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