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Chants of “This rent is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S,” split the quiet morning in front of 910-916 Judson Ave. on Sunday.  Over 50 members of the Quadrel Evanston Tenants Union and their supporters gathered to protest “excessive rent and fee hikes” by Quadrel Realty Group, which owns several apartment buildings in the city. Union members demanded that...

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The last 30 years of Northwestern football have been defined by inconsistency. After a historic Rose Bowl appearance in the 1995-96 season, the team has only had 13 winning seasons, emerging victorious in just six bowl games and not earning a playoff berth since the 2014 inception of a new postseason format. However, five of...

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The Wirtz Center debuted its rendition of “Doctor De Soto” on Thursday as part of Imagine U, the center’s theater for young audiences series. The play showcased humorous rhymes, a 12-foot-tall fox puppet operated by three puppeteers and a heartwarming story.  Based on the book “Doctor De Soto” by William Steig, the play brings familiar...

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This weekend, sweet tunes filled the “world’s saltiest shed,” as dubbed by My Morning Jacket’s lead vocalist Jim James. 1357 North Elston Ave. was where every Northwestern student’s middle-aged parents wanted to be as the Salt Shed hosted alt-rock band My Morning Jacket. My Morning Jacket released their 10th studio album, “Is,” in March. The...

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Abu Hoque (SESP and Weinberg ’25) said he recalls struggling to remember the languages he grew up with. After moving to Atlanta from Bangladesh at age seven, his Bengali, Hindi and Urdu stopped growing with him.  “In terms of community in the U.S., I had no one to speak to,” he said. Feinberg student Ramzy...

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Community Connect, a new Center for Civic Engagement program piloted this fall, is a new pathway for Federal Work-Study students to complete volunteer work with local organizations, earning pay while developing career skills.  CCE seeks to use the program to fill gaps left by federal funding cuts to Jumpstart, a program that allowed students to...

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Before she stepped on campus to start her freshman year, Weinberg senior Jelidiah Gyamfi was already thinking about creating a praise dance team at Northwestern. The idea emerged during her senior year of high school after she realized no such group existed at NU. Having performed praise dance since middle school, she wanted to continue...

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From serving food to educating on international crises, students in Northwestern’s chapter of the United Nations Children’s Fund are finding ways to promote the human rights group’s mission locally.  UNICEF NU organizes volunteering, fundraising and education opportunities within the Evanston and Chicago communities to further their mission.  Weinberg freshman Sofia Casias said she joined UNICEF...

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You can easily recognize one: his shoulder is usually seen with a tote bag that has a Labubu securely attached. In one of his hands, a book on feminist literature — in his other, a matcha. The performative male is making his mark in the world of fashion, one graphic tee at a time. The...

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A boy brandished a plastic sword high above his head before plunging it into an oversized foam eye mask, prompting raucous laughter from the audience. This playful and imaginative scene captured the spirit of Mudlark Theater’s fall production of “The Odyssey,” the first of three shows in the company’s 20th anniversary season. Mudlark Theater is...

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In one of his oldest public Instagram reels, Tae Lee claimed he found “the best study method” to ace a college exam in one day: Turbo AI, an artificial intelligence note-taking platform. But Lee hasn’t needed to use the tool in a while.  Now Turbo AI’s head of marketing, the self-proclaimed Northwestern dropout left Evanston...

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The last 30 years of Northwestern football have been defined by inconsistency. After a historic Rose Bowl appearance in the 1995-96 season, the team has only had 13 winning seasons, emerging victorious in just six bowl games and not earning a playoff berth since the 2014 inception of a new postseason format. However, five of...

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The Evanston Police Department will respond to reported incidents of federal agent activity, the city wrote in a statement Monday. An EPD supervisor will respond to reported activity and may interview witnesses and collect video footage as part of the investigation process, the release reads. The Chief of Police will review each case and determine...

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Viewers gathered for a screening of “Bad Press,” a story about the fight for press freedom, followed by a Q&A with co-director Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Angel Ellis, the subject of the documentary, at McCormick Auditorium in Norris University Center on Friday. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and...

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In this episode, The Daily reports on the Evanston Scream Club. The organization, which began in June of last year, started in Chicago and spread across the country in the following months. Its members discuss the community-building and stress release benefits of joining the club, and its founders explain how it began.  [screaming] JACK BAKER:...

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Throughout early fall, Evanston has experienced an influx of activity from federal immigration agencies, with several community members taken by agents in September and October.  The city first informed residents it expected ICE agents in Evanston in a Sept. 8 statement. The agents’ presence is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Operation Midway Blitz, a...

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Volunteers stood with clipboards and tally sheets at more than 29 Evanston intersections throughout October, counting bicycles and scooters to assist the Public Works Agency in its update to the city’s Bike Plan. Project manager Chris Sous told City Council at its Sept. 8 meeting that the count will help Public Works identify corridors in...

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The doors to the Technological Institute opened Friday to Northwestern University Graduate Workers members in bright yellow shirts on their laptops, as they staged a campus-wide work-in from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  The work-in was the final day of NUGW’s “Workers Over Deals” Week of Action, which included events like walk-throughs, flyering and phonebanking....

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The rapidly growing trend of pop-up competitions for overcompensating men reached Northwestern over the weekend, in a competition to label the “most performative man.”  The collection of men in sweaters with chipped black nail polish gathered in Cornelia Lunt Park Saturday afternoon. Participants who brought novels like “The Feminine Mystique” and “My Lesbian Experience with...

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Under bold purple lights, students danced, struck dandiya sticks and sang mashups of pop and South Asian beats on Saturday evening at the South Asian Student Alliance’s Festival of Lights in Norris University Center’s McCormick Auditorium.  The event included performances from the Northwestern Raas and Garba, Brown Sugar, Ahana Dance Project, Bhangra, Deeva and SASA’s...

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