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Stocker: Canada Goose and the subtler forms of sexism

November 10, 2015

Winter is coming. With the unseasonably warm days of early November behind us, it will soon be time to break out the thick winter coats. Come January, the snow-strewn walks of Northwestern will be graced...

Matney: Yik Yak offers genuine discourse, however ugly it can be

April 13, 2015

Every year a new startup rattles the cages of the Internet world, amasses millions in venture capital investments, then turns into an empire or, more often, fizzles out. The social media startups that...

Students, faculty form committee for Black Lives Matter movement

February 8, 2015

Students and faculty members have formed a new committee within Northwestern’s Center for African American History to create programming focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. The Black People...

Ao: Social media is becoming less social

November 17, 2014

I remember when I signed up for a new Twitter account at the beginning of my freshman year. My journalism professor made it part of our assignments to tweet links to our stories, just to get us freshmen...

Matney: Anonymity, security are divided while intertwined

October 13, 2014

In an interview Sunday on "60 Minutes," FBI Director James Comey attacked Apple’s most recent iPhone software security improvement as a development that would protect pedophiles and kidnappers from...

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