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No. 3 Northwestern’s battle with No. 13 Michigan had all the makings of a big-game atmosphere.  Food trucks dotted tailgate zones. Youth lacrosse players streamed in by the busload. Program legends Izzy Scane and Erin Coykendall signed autographs ahead of the opening draw as fans packed Martin Stadium’s north and west stands on a blustery...

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression educated roughly a dozen students and faculty about their First Amendment rights and civil discourse on college campuses at a Thursday event. FIRE is a non-partisan nonprofit organization founded in 1999 that defends and promotes free speech and free thought on campuses and in courtrooms across the country....

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Four speakers from across Evanston and the greater Chicago area spoke at an Earth Day panel Thursday on environmental justice, the transition to renewable energy and how to build coalitions for effective local environmental advocacy. Fossil Free Northwestern hosted the panel on campus, with similar events planned  around the world this month in cooperation with...

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Prof. Ricky Hill was celebrating their birthday late last month the day they began to hear “rumblings” about cancellation of LGBTQ-focused research.  Last week, second-year biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Juliana Feng received an official stop-work notice from her lab the day after reading about the orders in a New York Times article. The same day,...

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Welcome to The Daily’s photo blog: Captured. This is a space for The Daily’s photographers to share their best work, including photos from weekend performances and events around the community. You can contact the photo editor by emailing photo@dailynorthwestern.com. Northwestern joined universities nationwide on National Day of Action for Higher Education on Thursday. Different organizations...

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The first three months of President Donald Trump’s second term have been marked by consistent efforts to entrench the president’s ideological control over major public and private institutions, including Northwestern. Since Trump took office, his administration’s tiff with higher education has increasingly besieged elite universities. In his first term, Trump adopted a sometimes contradictory approach...

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When Jack Parker (McCormick ’23) and Cora Pancoast (McCormick ’23) DJed together as juniors at Northwestern’s studio radio station WNUR, they had disparate tastes in music.  Parker wanted to play ambient folk music and songwriter-oriented records, while Pancoast preferred hardcore punk and riot girl. Today, they have a rock band together, Truth or Consequences New...

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As director of the Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience Lab, communication sciences and disorders Prof. Elizabeth Norton’s work bridges neuroscience and education to better understand language, reading development and disorders. Her work with the LEARN Lab focuses on uncovering the causes of differences in language and reading development in children. LEARN Lab is one of...

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DEATH TO ISRAEL. INTIFADA NOW! Early Monday morning, these words were smeared onto the steps of University Hall and The Rock, hours after I departed a traditional Passover celebration at Hillel. On my admissions tours, I refer to this area of campus, adjacent to Kresge, as “the epicenter of free expression at Northwestern.” Among the...

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This Wednesday, Northwestern undergraduate students looking to live on campus next year received their room selection priority numbers, which will determine where they get to live next year. The Daily examined the evolution of Northwestern’s non-fraternity and sorority housing rates and compared them to those at other Big Ten schools. Northwestern housing costs tend to...

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The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police named Evanston Police Department’s Schenita Stewart its Police Chief of the Year earlier this month. Stewart has served as the EPD’s chief of police since October 2022 and has worked in law enforcement for more than 25 years. She is the first woman to have ever won the...

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Former Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will be honored with a sign reading “Elizabeth Tisdahl Way” on McDaniel Avenue after a unanimous vote from City Council on Monday. Tisdahl, who served as mayor from 2009 to 2017, was also on the Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education and represented the 7th Ward on City...

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Two new international eateries may be coming to downtown Evanston in the near future. Both will be located near Fountain Square. Last spring, the Cinnaholic at 1596 Sherman Ave. permanently closed after opening its doors in 2021. Now, Wafflavor, which will offer Korean-style waffles, is set to take its place. While Wafflavor’s website teased a...

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Northwestern will continue to fund research affected by more than 100 stop-work orders announced last week, Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris and University President Michael Schill announced in a Thursday email. The decision comes amid the federal government’s $790 million funding freeze for NU. According to the email, the University intends to sustain research...

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In Today’s Crossword, 1-across, 5 letters: A month, or a family in “Little Women”

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Not long after buying a plane ticket home for the summer, an international student at Northwestern is now second-guessing her decision. “It’s hard for me to think about going back to (my country) with the possibility of not being able to enter back,” said a student who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution....

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Amid potential cuts to Medicaid funding from Washington, some Illinois lawmakers, advocates and medical practitioners are pushing to protect access to a federal program that discounts prescription drugs in what could be a clash with the nation’s top drug makers. Legislators in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly are currently considering a bill that...

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The Land Use Commission sparred over language used to describe housing in the Envision Evanston 2045 comprehensive plan Wednesday.  Envision Evanston is a sweeping overhaul of city policy that has continued to attract a bevy of controversy since Mayor Daniel Biss unveiled the plan in February 2024. Critics seized on the plan, arguing against its...

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In this episode, The Daily reports on the last org fair of the 2024-25 school year. Students explain why they want to join new clubs and club leaders explain their incentive to recruit during the last quarter of the year.     ANGELINA EGBE: I have more time this quarter, which is unlike fall and winter quarter,...

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Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault. Northwestern Health Prevention and Wellnessand the Center for Awareness, Response and Education hosted author and child sexual abuse advocate Alisa Zipursky at a speaker event Wednesday evening as part of its Sexual Assault Action Month campaign. Throughout April, CARE is hosting a series of events to...

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