Late last month, Northwestern officials directed some of the University’s graduate programs to cap their incoming class sizes by deferring enrollment for applicants who had yet to accept their admission offers, according to interviews with faculty and students and emails obtained by The Daily. The...
Three generations of the Grizzard/Wallace family walked to the McGaw YMCA to vote in Evanston’s April 1 consolidated municipal election Tuesday afternoon. The 2nd Ward residents have an ancestor who was told to enlist in the armed forces to secure his right to vote, said Joy Grizzard, the eldest of the three. She said after he finished his service, he still faced challenges voting due to the poll taxes in place. Now, with greater access to voting, Grizzard, her daughter and granddaughter have cast their ballots together in every election since 2020. “We may not always have that power to vote, quite frankly, so I think now more than ever it is important for people of all generations,...
