The Associated Student Government Senate passed its first legislation of the quarter Wednesday, voting to approve the Federal Funding Resolving Legislation. By passing the resolution, ASG took an official stance on the Trump administration’s $790 million federal funding freeze on Northwestern announced last week. The resolution strongly condemned the freeze and approved an open letter...
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Nestled beside the shore of Lake Michigan, the Norris University Center has long served as a social hub for thousands of students at Northwestern’s Evanston campus. Behind the building’s revolving doors, students do classwork and order smoothies on the first floor, and socialize over quick-serve food options on the ground floor. Soon, though, they might...
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A&O Productions hosted comedian and actor Devon Walker as its spring speaker in Lutkin Hall Wednesday night. In a stand-up set and Q&A, Walker discussed his career journey, comedy inspiration and life in the public spotlight. Walker is best known for his role as a repertory cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” which he joined...
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It appears that Congress is asleep at the wheel and Trump has hijacked the car to change the country as he sees fit. He has identified many problems — ranging from unfair tariff policies to soggy paper straws to antisemitism — that he can fix with a quick stroke of the pen, and no one...
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The amps are dialed up, condensation drips from cups and cans and the crowd squints against the sun to see student band Tavern take the stage. The stage –– in the case of the band’s first performance as freshmen –– being an elevated wooden platform in the backyard of an off-campus frat house. As the...
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It’s not everyday that a Northwestern pitcher bats in the lineup. It’s even less common that she hits a homerun. In her fifth collegiate at bat, on a day she made her first defensive appearance outside the pitcher’s circle, redshirt freshman utility player Signe Dohse launched a first-inning 3-run shot over the left field fence...
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Incoming Evanston Township High School Principal Quiana McNeal said she noticed a troubling pattern while working as a prosecutor in Minnesota: as students in her community fell behind in reading, they were more likely to drop out of school — and end up incarcerated. That realization inspired her to pursue a different kind of justice:...
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This article contains spoilers. Finn Wolfhard from “Stranger Things” has left the Upside Down for the director’s chair. Wolfhard made his directorial debut alongside Billy Bryk with “Hell of a Summer,” a much-needed slasher — a genre that’s taken a backseat in recent years, apart from series like “Scream” and “Fear Street.” Wolfhard and Bryk...
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This article contains spoilers. There was a time, nearly half a decade ago, when the future of “Black Mirror” was as opaque as its name. Amid the constant violence, illness and injustice of 2020 — Charlie Brooker, creator of the series, expressed a disinclination towards more tales exposing the wicked underbelly of the modern human...
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Farmers’ market staple to open brick-and-mortar location this summer.
Northwestern officials announced Wednesday that the Department of Energy could terminate all of NU’s research awards unless it adopts a new, substantially reduced indirect research cost rate of 15% by the middle of next month. The decision marks a significant escalation by the Trump administration to take further aim at NU’s research funding, as the...
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