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Junior Daniel Svärd shot a team-best 4-over 214, finishing 19th individually as No. 27 Northwestern placed 12th at the Big Ten Men’s Golf Championships at the Baltimore Country Club in Timonium, Maryland, over the weekend. The Wildcats finished 28 strokes over par — 26 strokes behind championship winner No. 12 UCLA — though no team...

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Battling back from adversity has been a common theme for Northwestern baseball this season, and this past weekend proved to be more of the same.  Despite losing the first two games of its series against Washington via run rule, the Wildcats (19-22, 9-12 Big Ten) stormed back in game three to avoid being swept by...

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Evanston’s bookstores were buzzing Saturday as bibliophiles from across the Chicago area trekked across the city on an Independent Bookstore Day crawl.  Bookends & Beginnings and Booked were two of more than 50 independent bookstores to participate in the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl. As part of the event, shoppers visited 10 or 15 stores in one...

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For Northwestern researchers operating sensitive instruments, a sudden vibration from nearby construction of the Kellogg Education Center could mean lost time and compromised data collection. The building — previously the Allen Center — is scheduled for completion in fall 2027 and will become home to the Executive MBA and Executive Education programs. Until then, the construction...

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Film production company MUBI brought its film festival, MUBI Fest, to Chicago for the second consecutive year this weekend. Founded in 2023, the festival took place at the Music Box Theatre and The Salt Shed.  This year, the festival is visiting 11 cities worldwide — Chicago being the only U.S. city and the festival’s first...

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There are times we all find ourselves dreaming the impossible dream. But the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ production of “Man of La Mancha” ensures that — at least for one night — we come a step closer to making that dream a reality.  The 1965 musical adapted from Dale Wasserman’s novel...

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Northwestern tap dance group TONIK Tap started without a performance floor.  After Leo Lamontagne (Communication ’05) founded the dance group in 2001, campus venues worried the dancers’ shoes would ruin surfaces like the Wirtz Ballroom stage, he said.  Despite this initial pushback, TONIK marked its 20th spring show with “Hall of Fame” Friday and Saturday...

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In a dimly lit room with hovering disco balls hovering, Evanston event venue PALMHOUSE, pulsated with music. Students sang and swayed along to songs from “Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder to “Red Wine Supernova” by Chappell Roan with all eyes on the night’s performers.   Student DJs and bands took the stage Thursday night at...

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The sound emanating from Shanley Pavilion this weekend was almost tangible. Drumming and dance group Boomshaka performed its annual spring show, titled “After Hours,” four times between Friday and Saturday night. In the club’s hour-and-a-half-long set, members rattled the room while drumming trash cans, dancing numerous choreography styles and showing a wide range of rhythmic...

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In celebration of Earth Day, about 200 community members took to Evanston’s streets to pick up trash. Participants received trash bags, safety vests, trash grabbers and gloves, and formed groups responsible for picking up litter in small sections of downtown Evanston.  Downtown Evanston, The Woman’s Club of Evanston and BrightView Landscapes co-sponsored the event. “I...

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Northwestern softball won its weekend series over Wisconsin, nabbing the third and final game 4-3 with a walk-off home run Sunday. The Wildcats took game one 11-3 in five innings, a game in which five NU players recorded at least two hits. In game two, the bats went quiet as the ’Cats fell 8-2. In...

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Junior Skye Ellis and senior Anna Hightower both ran the 5,000-meter at the Penn Relays Thursday. Ellis finished in 14th place with a 16:15.62 time. She secured her personal best in the event, topping her time of 16:32.88 set at the Raleigh Relays in March. By shaving over 17 seconds off of her time, the...

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Katareena Roska is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at KatareenaRoska2028@u.northwestern.edu. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Former Northwestern tight end Marshall Lang has inked a deal with the Seattle Seahawks after going undrafted. Lang spent five seasons as a Wildcat, notching 48 receptions, 491 receiving yards, and four receiving touchdowns in his career. This past season, he started three games and hauled in 11 catches for 115 yards and a touchdown....

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