Isaiah Steinberg

Evanston

Campus Editor at Daily Northwestern

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Judge allows one count to proceed in lawsuit against Pritzker deans

2 days ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

A federal judge dismissed one count in Yasmeen Elagha’s (Pritzker ’24) civil rights lawsuit against three Pritzker School of Law deans Tuesday, allowing another count to proceed. A practicing attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Chicago, Elagha filed suit against Pritzker Dean Hari Osofsky, Associate Dean and Dean of Students Susan Spies Roth, and Associate Dean George Langford II in Cook County Circuit Court in November. The case was moved to federal court that same month.
The Daily Northwestern

3 days ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

May 12, 2025 The Daily Northwestern earned 19 Society of Professional Journalists 2024 Mark of Excellence Awards spanning multiple categories on May 6. Six of The Daily’s accolades were first place finishers. The Daily was considered in SPJ’s Region 5, which is comprised of student newspapers in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. Established in 2000, the Mark of Excellence Awards recognize the best student journalism each year.
NU dining workers allege labor law violation at picket

5 days ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

May 10, 2025 Editor’s note: Some interviews in this story were conducted with the help of a translator. Responses originally stated in Spanish have been translated to English. Nine months into a protracted contract dispute, about 30 Northwestern dining, hospitality and food service workers employed by Compass Group picketed Friday morning by The Arch and alleged Compass retaliated against striking workers. Since Aug. 31, about 500 NU workers employed by Compass have worked without a contract.
Keenan Fitzmorris talks saying ‘yes’ to opportunities

1 week ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

May 9, 2025 Each time Northwestern men’s basketball center Keenan Fitzmorris says yes to opportunities, things seem to come his way. It’s how he met 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, how he came to represent his fellow Division I men’s basketball players in meetings with the NCAA and how he became friends with Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer. “Sometimes doors can open,” Fitzmorris told students at a Wildside Q&A event in Annenberg Hall Thursday night.
Medill junior Emily Lichty named The Daily’s next editor in chief

1 week ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

May 8, 2025 Medill junior Emily Lichty will be the next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, the paper’s publisher announced Wednesday evening. Lichty currently serves as The Daily’s arts and entertainment editor. She has previously served as print managing editor, opinion editor and Best of Evanston editor.
CAAN brings NU students to D.C. to talk antisemitism with lawmakers

1 week ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

Eighteen Northwestern students traveled to Washington on Monday and Tuesday to meet with lawmakers and attend a press conference on antisemitism on college campuses. The trip was organized by the Coalition Against Antisemitism at Northwestern — an advocacy and lobbying group of thousands of Jewish students, faculty, parents and other NU community members — in order to expose alleged antisemitism on campus.
NIH begins funding freeze, Northwestern left in the dark

3 weeks ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

Officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have instructed the National Institutes of Health staff to pause all agency awards to universities whose funding the Trump administration froze, according to an internal email verified by multiple news outlets. The email, first posted on X by Nature reporter Max Kozlov, was sent to grant management officers by Michelle Bulls, director of an NIH office that oversees compliance and manages grant policy.
NU removes “hateful” graffiti outside University, Kresge Halls

1 month ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

Early Monday morning, Northwestern University Police responded to reports of vandalism — including “hateful” graffiti and flyers — outside University Hall and Kresge Hall. The area south of University Hall, including The Rock, was cordoned off Monday morning as NU Facilities Management removed red spray paint from the steps of the building.
The Weekly: Student visa termination, antisemitism relation to federal funding freeze, Deering Library renovation

1 month ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Dov Elul |Finian Hazen |Nineth Kanieski Koso |Isaiah Steinberg

Why are student visas being taken away? What is going on with the Trump administration and the $790 million funding freeze? When will Deering Library reopen? The Daily answers these questions and recaps other top stories from the last week. DOV WEINSTEIN ELUL: On today’s episode: The federal government terminates several Northwestern student visas. The HHS cites incidents of antisemitism while confirming the Northwestern federal funding freeze.
NU issues guidance in response to stop-work orders

1 month ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg

As the Northwestern community attempts to grasp the implications of the Trump administration’s funding freeze, two University administrators advised researchers and principal investigators to delay staffing changes and reduce spending in a Friday afternoon email obtained by The Daily.