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In Today’s Crossword, 1-Across, 4 Letters: 15th track on Taylor Swift’s first album

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When I stepped inside Foxtrot on Friday, “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk was blasting through the speakers, and the song was too good to just ignore. I had to dance for a couple of minutes inside the bathroom. As I walked outside, I worried my friend might think I had massive stomach issues because it...

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For 173 years, Northwestern University has been run by white men. Come summer, someone new will finally take the helm. The appointment of Mung Chiang is an undeniably monumental moment in higher education history. He will be the first Asian American president at NU, and that milestone carries great symbolic weight. Yet, symbolism alone is...

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Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music staged a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Rondine” in Cahn Auditorium May 28-31. Guest conductor Christopher Allen and the NU Chamber Orchestra accompanied the vocalists.   “La rondine” — Italian for ‘the swallow’ — follows Magda (second-year voice and opera masters student Katelyn Cox), as she leaves her rich lover Rambaldo...

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At times, “Corporate Retreat,” released May 22, felt more like a superhero movie than a horror film — the good guys won, the bad guys lost, and there wasn’t much complexity in characterizing either camp. The main difference? A lot more gore. The 89-minute horror-comedy written and directed by Aaron Fisher follows a group of...

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The Daily Northwestern · The Weekly: Evanston resident in ICE custody, alleged discrimination in NU genetic counseling program, Biss’ support of unionized Starbucks baristas   REGAN HUIZENGA: Last week, The Daily reported on an Evanston resident held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, allegations of discriminatory behavior in Northwestern’s Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling and...

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In Today’s Crossword, 4-Down, 5 Letters: Radiohead’s debut single

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Northwestern men’s basketball continued its offseason rebuild by picking up former Penn guard Dylan Williams, he announced Friday on his social media. Williams transferred to Penn after two seasons of play at junior college. His sophomore year at Triton College saw him transform into one of the top players on a team that made the...

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Morton Grove resident Patty Wong didn’t expect to spend her Saturday afternoon at the Umbrella Arts Festival. She and her friend were visiting Evanston and accidentally stumbled upon it, she said. “We went to the farmers’ market, and we happened to walk around,” Wong said. “It’s beautiful. There’s so many crafts, beautiful products. This event...

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The Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees approved a request for proposal, with revisions discussed by board members at its special meeting Friday, continuing the search for a permanent executive director. The request for proposal will seek proposals from search firms to aid the board in its search. The special meeting was scheduled after the...

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An Israel Defense Forces reservist born in the U.S. debated with students about the Israel-Hamas war at a table by The Arch on Friday afternoon, jointly organized by the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern and the Chicago Jewish Alliance. Eli Wininger, who was previously deployed to the Palestinian territories during the Israel-Hamas war, sat at...

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Caught up with current events? See if you can ace this week’s news quiz.

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The announcement that Purdue University President Mung Chiang would be taking the helm at Northwestern caught faculty by surprise. So far, we’ve learned that he likes ice cream (a lot) and loves it with a heavy dose of chips from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Chiang, when reporting to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in...

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Walk into many Medill offices and one can find artifacts from recent history collected across journalism careers: a fragment of the fallen Berlin Wall, decades-old international press passes, a signed certificate from the Basketball Hall of Fame. Each object carries a story that reflects the experiences of Medill faculty, who have spent decades documenting some...

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By the end of the Associated Student Government Senate’s annual Student Activities Finance Committee appeals meeting, 24 clubs walked away with varying success in securing their requested portions of the $60,000 in additional funding available Wednesday night in Harris Hall. In the nearly five-hour Funding Senate, clubs appealed for additional funds on top of the...

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As part of Evanston’s effort to solicit residents’ input on what to do with its most valuable underutilized buildings, a new city-run website has produced a hodgepodge of competing visions for those properties. The Putting Assets to Work program launched in 2024 with $985,000 in federal grant money. It aims to redevelop city properties, with...

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Six months after Northwestern struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore frozen federal funding for research, student researchers remain worried about the future of research funding and its impact on their careers. In April 2025, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal research funding for NU, resulting in research labs, primarily in...

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Four weeks before Weinberg senior Narmeen Chahal leaves for the summer, she started preparing a classroom of kids at the Learning Bridge Early Education Center — and herself — to say farewell. “I have to prepare myself for it because this is one of my favorite things I’ve done here at Northwestern,” Chahal said, referring...

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Preserving the neighborhood around the soon-to-close Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies dominated conversations during an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 community event Thursday evening.  At the event, Bessie Rhodes parents and other community members discussed the building’s future. The group relocated to the school’s auditorium to accommodate high attendance. Bessie Rhodes, which the District...

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In this episode, Opinion Editor Alexia Sextou, Assistant Opinion Editor Ivy Frater and history Prof. Susan Pearson discuss the use of artificial intelligence in university spaces, and the road to crafting a healthy campus culture around academic integrity and AI use. ANAVI PRAKASH: My hot take is that winter is so much better than summer,...

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