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To some of those outside the Northwestern football program, forcing five turnovers and taking No. 18 Michigan down to the wire may constitute a valiant effort. Coach David Braun doesn’t want to hear it. In an emotional press conference, Braun made it clear that his Wildcats (5-5, 3-4 Big Ten) will not settle for close...

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As the minutes ticked down in Northwestern’s NCAA Tournament first round clash with eighth-seeded Alabama on Friday night, the Wildcats (9-4-8, 4-2-5 Big Ten) held on to a precious 2-1 lead. Junior winger Megan Norkett had put the ’Cats ahead in the 74th minute with a cracking near-post finish, and they were just over five...

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CHICAGO — Not even five forced turnovers could grant Northwestern an upset victory over No. 18 Michigan on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field.  In what have become “unfriendly confines” for the hosting Wildcats (5-5, 3-4 Big Ten), the Wolverines (8-2, 6-1 Big Ten) capitalized on a made-field goal attempt as the clock ran out to...

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I was pretzel bread. I was also the color green. I was an introvert. I was a rose. I was a cat. And if I was a Minecraft biome, apparently, I’d be the mushroom fields. Most of all, I was someone who used to let BuzzFeed tell me who I was. I’ve now come to...

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CHICAGO —  In a Friday night matchup with referees’ whistles galore, Northwestern seized a late opportunity at the charity stripe to pull past DePaul 81-79. Faced with a silent warm up spurred by what were presumably Wintrust Arena audio troubles, the Wildcats (4-0, 0-0 Big Ten) vowed to make their own music in its first...

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Northwestern marched to a comprehensive 69-54 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore Friday night. Junior guard Casey Harter led the game with a career-high 19 points, followed by senior forward Grace Sullivan and sophomore forward Tayla Thomas.  The Hawks (2-2, Mid-Eastern Athletic) from the eastern shores of Chesapeake Bay initially gave the Wildcats (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) from...

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The NCAA Tournament is here. After weeks of regular season play followed by conference tournaments, it’s time for the final stretch of the field hockey season.  The quest for No. 2 Northwestern’s second consecutive national championship and third in program history began Friday with a 5-1 win over No. 12 Yale. After missing out on...

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I’m not usually one to go to a club on a Wednesday night. But when I heard Andrew Yang, a 2020 presidential candidate, was throwing one of his signature “no-phone” parties, I put on a dress and headed downtown. The event was exactly what it sounds like: He rents out a venue in an American...

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No. 2 Northwestern waited to see when broadcaster Will Haskett would call its name during Sunday night’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show. Earlier that day, the Wildcats (18-1, 8-0 Big Ten) finished up business in Bloomington, Indiana, winning the Big Ten Tournament championship and securing automatic qualification into the tournament. But for the first time since...

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Consider this my love letter to Planet Fitness. Arriving at Northwestern, one of the things I was most excited about (besides a world-class education, of course) was having access to a high-quality gym. As a gym-goer with humble origins, I found the prospect of a facility built for serious lifters to be a major draw....

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Starbucks Workers United members from across the Chicago area stepped out from behind the counter and onto the picket line to rally for the finalization of a fair union contract with their multi-national employer in Evanston Thursday. At 4 p.m., over 30 workers and community members alike filled up the Starbucks on Dempster Street’s parking...

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The room falls silent as the members of Zen Society settle into zazen meditation, a form of meditation central to Zen Buddhism.  Weinberg senior and club President Damian Vincent Dobrowolski instructs participants to lower their eyes and move onto the edge of the cushion or bench they are seated on.  The scene is a familiar...

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Content warning: This article contains mentions of domestic violence and suicide.  The YWCA Evanston/North Shore launched “In Her Voice,” an event series focused on uplifting women and hosting conversations about domestic violence that will inspire change, on Thursday. The inaugural event featured a conversation with Taylor Armstrong, an author, former reality TV cast member and...

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Northwestern Political Union hosted four Democratic candidates for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District at a town hall Thursday, allowing each candidate to inform Northwestern students about their platforms.  As the primary race heats up for a seat that U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) has occupied since 1999, two of Thursday’s attendees — Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss...

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Indigenous chef and educator Jessica Walks First delivered a lecture about her culinary “journey to healing” to Northwestern faculty and students at Harris Hall Thursday evening. Walks First is the executive chef and owner of Ketapanen Kitchen, a Native American-owned catering company in Chicago. At NU, she teaches Indigenous foodways as a Radulovacki Visiting Scholar....

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As winter begins at Northwestern, with the season’s first snowfall arriving earlier this week, students face a flurry of changes, ranging from picking Winter Quarter classes to seeking out future romantic relationships. The Marriage Pact has similarly gone through a shift this academic year.  The annual questionnaire, designed to find students’ “the one,” matches students...

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Comedians Mary Beth Barone and Wally Baram took the stage at A&O Production’s sold-out fall speaker event Wednesday. They recently starred in “Overcompensating,” a Prime Video hit comedy-drama series about college students struggling to fit in, released in May.  The event opened with a stand-up performance by Communication senior Ainslie Wilson, who called “Overcompensating” her...

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Northwestern’s BlackBoard Magazine and Middle Eastern North African Student Association co-hosted a screening of the documentary “Sudan, Remember Us” on Wednesday. Directed by journalist Hind Meddeb, the film follows youth activists Shajane Suliman, Maha Elfaki, Ahmed Muzamil and Khatab Ahmed as they navigate the social and political turmoil brought about by the 2019 Sudanese revolution...

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Stephanie S.E. Lee, a 2024-25 graduate fellow at the Block Museum of Art, hosted a talk on Wednesday titled “Printmaking in Process,” diving into printmaking and the inspiration behind renowned works by various artists. In connection with the Block Museum of Art’s exhibit “Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper,” the event...

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