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It is impossible to see the world as good. I have tried looking at it from every angle, twisting and turning it over in the palm of my hand. I have gazed up at the world from a child’s point of view, and I have observed it from the tops of city skylines and peaks...

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This story is developing and will be updated as more information becomes available. Last updated at 12:39 p.m. A Northwestern trustee slammed Mayor Daniel Biss in text messages with former University President Michael Schill in April 2024 for refusing to send Evanston Police Department officers to make arrests and clear the pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering...

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Nathaniel Foster is a student at the School of Professional Studies and writer of Ducks Dan and Dave. He can be contacted at NathanielFoster2027@u.northwestern.edu. Lia Kim is the illustrator for Ducks Dan and Dave and is not associated with Northwestern. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members...

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Incoming Provost and McCormick Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education and Prof. Erik Luijten sat down with The Daily on Wednesday to talk about his goals for the new role and recent challenges facing the University. Luijten was announced as the University’s next provost on Jan. 7, over two months after outgoing Provost Kathleen...

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As norovirus returns to Northwestern this quarter, campus dining halls have added supplementary precautions to remedy the spread. Food service provider Compass Group, expects to return to normal service Thursday with “enhanced cleaning practices,” according to Mary Belovich, the district marketing manager for Compass Group at NU. “The Northwestern Dining team has implemented several temporary...

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Attorneys for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District candidate Kat Abughazaleh and her five co-defendants sought a spring trial date during a Wednesday morning status hearing at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse. In October, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois filed conspiracy charges against Abughazaleh and five others, including several Democratic...

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When Pritzker Prof. Hari Osofsky was in college, she wrote an essay focused on high-level nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. She had no idea the topic would remain unresolved years later, she said.    Today, the importance of energy innovation and governance has persisted.  Northwestern’s Energy Innovation Lab, which focuses on energy and emerging...

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In Today’s Crossword, 1-Down, 5-Letters: Best-selling salad dressing in the US since 1992

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Crying, laughing and headaches are some of the unusual symptoms of orgasms that 86 women reported experiencing in a study led by Feinberg Prof. Lauren Streicher and co-authored by George Washington University Prof. James Simon. The study, published last month in the Journal of Women’s Health, surveyed women over social media about their experiences with...

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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 officials held two community engagement meetings for Kingsley Elementary School families on Jan. 27 and 28 to address concerns as parents navigate moving schools.  The meetings come less than a week after the District 65 Board of Education unanimously voted to close Kingsley after the 2025-26 school year at a special...

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The voting period for the Associated Student Government presidential election will be from Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. to Feb. 14 at 7 p.m., ASG decided at its Wednesday meeting. The election will be held online and have a ranked choice voting system. To be on the ballot, candidates must collect between 200 and 300...

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Northwestern had no answer for Nebraska’s lights-out shooting during their Wednesday night bout.  Following losses to then-No. 3 UCLA and then-No. 25 Illinois, the Wildcats (8-13, 2-8 Big Ten) fell 89-73 in a foul-ridden fight at Pinnacle Bank Arena, marking the team’s third straight defeat.  Senior forward Grace Sullivan added another milestone to her sparkling...

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In the fall, the Associated Student Government Sustainability Committee began sowing the seeds for their latest project: a cookbook. Now, it is slowly coming to fruition. Co-led by McCormick junior Ella Williams and Weinberg junior Joao Martins, the committee looks to gather sustainable and authentic recipes to make cooking more accessible while celebrating Northwestern’s diverse...

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Northwestern has reportedly hired Ross Kolodziej as its new defensive line coach, according to a Tuesday X post by ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg (Medill ’03). He will join the ’Cats following three years at Stanford, where he coached the 25th-best rush defense in the country in 2025. Kolodziej takes over for Christian Smith, who departs NU...

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The Daily Northwestern · Rapid Recap: City Council votes to pass Envision Evanston After a two-year process, Evanston City Council voted 5-4 to adopt the Envision Evanston 2045 comprehensive plan on Monday. The council also approved a plan to increase Divvy bike stations throughout the city and postponed a vote on changing the code for...

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After tumbling to a 0-7 start to conference play in mid-January, Northwestern appeared deflated and lost. It was searching for answers. The Wildcats had just been blown out 77-58 by then-No. 8 Nebraska. Despite stringing together an optimistic first half and trailing by just five points at the break, they vanished, much like they have...

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The Daily Northwestern · Communal Shower Thoughts: Vroom vroom   I actually did take driver’s ed, which would not sound strange but for the fact that I do not have my driver’s license. It was my junior year of high school, and I made an awesome driver’s ed playlist of all songs having to do...

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The residential Southwest Area held a NARCAN administration training for students Tuesday afternoon at Willard Residential College. The presentation aimed to train students to know how and when to administer NARCAN nasal spray to others in cases of opioid overdose.  NARCAN is the brand name for naloxone, a medicine and opioid antagonist that can reverse...

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Director of Legal Studies and Prof. Joanna Grisinger reflected on the erosion of political norms one year into President Donald Trump’s second term in a fireside chat Tuesday hosted by the Northwestern College Democrats in Kresge Hall. Grisinger discussed the unprecedented nature of Trump’s presidency in the meeting’s conversational format. “A lot of what we’re...

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At 17, when her mother died of cancer, Callie Riley wished talking about the end of life wasn’t taboo in her family. Now, as an adult working as the regional advocacy director for Compassion and Choices, a nationwide nonprofit looking “to transform how people die,” she’s made conversations around the topic an everyday occurrence.  An...

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