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3 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
Clouds formed as a group of protesters, led by Northwestern’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, gathered underneath a tree at Evanston’s Tallmadge Park on Tuesday afternoon. As the protesters left the park for campus at about 2:30 p.m., a light rain began to fall. Undeterred, the demonstrators marched down Sheridan Road toward The Arch. They chanted, “Free, free Palestine,” and took two Palestinian flags and a white flag reading, “This is GENOCIDE” with them.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
A Chinese international student at Northwestern told their sister they planned to return home for summer break. Her response was stark: Don’t come back. But the student still plans to go. Even though the student’s visa won’t expire for a few years, their choice to return home could put them at risk.
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1 month ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management recently inaugurated the Matt Caldwell Veterans Program, aimed at increasing veteran enrollment and support for current veteran students, the school announced in a May 21 news release. The program will increase scholarships for veterans, establish new networking events and mentorship opportunities for veteran students, and create a new Kellogg Veterans Council to inform future veteran-focused Kellogg programs, according to the news release.
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1 month ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
May 20, 2025 Scott Thomas, who attended Northwestern from 2018 to 2019 before being expelled, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of a fellow NU student and has been sentenced in state court to two years’ standard probation and 80 hours of community service. Thomas, a Weinberg freshman at the time of the incident, was arrested in March 2019 and expelled from NU after allegedly sexually assaulting a fellow student outside the Jacobs Center.
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1 month ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Isaiah Steinberg
Skip to Content May 16, 2025 Compass Group, Northwestern’s food service provider, agreed to a new contract with UNITE HERE Local 1, a union that represents roughly 500 contracted workers across dining, retail and hospitality locations on campus, according to news releases from the union and the University on Friday. The agreement is nine months in the making. Over that period, hundreds of workers picketed across campus, according to union Communications Director Sarah Lyons.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
