In light of the blackface incident and recent instances of racial profiling, Associated Student Government, Student Affairs and the Coalition of Colors united to put on a public forum Thursday evening to discuss blackface and other racial issues at Northwestern.

In response to two e-mails from Northwestern Police last week, the Sexual Health and Assault Peer Education group organized a panel to provide information and to discuss sexual assault on a larger scale.

Colorado State University professor Michele Betsill speaks on climate change. Photo by Kevin Short.

A sense of urgency about the hazards of climate change echoed through the McCormick Tribune Center today, as people gathered to discuss global warming at Northwestern’s first Climate Change Symposium. With just about a month left before the global climate conference [...]

International children’s book exhibit “An Imaginary Library,” open since October 9 for a three-month stay, showcases striking artwork. The exhibit consists of 75 original pieces accompanied by a description of what the illustrator envisioned for the story.

Following a loss to Penn State on Saturday, Northwestern football fans are not the only ones worried about the rest of the season. The peddlers at Ryan Field came close to losing their jobs last week, when the Northwestern University Police Department attempted to ban them from selling food, beverages and merchandise at Wildcat games [...]

This year, Northwestern has received 179 awards totaling $91.9 million under the new federal stimulus program. The university says they will use the money to hire more scientists and further research.

Northwestern’s Asian Pacific American Coalition (APAC) held a forum Tuesday evening to discuss racial profiling and discrimination in employment. The event featured four panelists who spoke of their experiences and opened the floor up for questions from the audience in the Multicultural Center.
APAC organized the forum in light of the struggle between Freddie Lee and [...]

To Prajwal Ciryam, a 2006 Weinberg graduate and member of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern, the process of applying for Fulbright grant last year through the Northwestern Fellowship Office was as important as the result itself.
“Every [Northwestern Fulbright applicant] goes through a process of identifying a [research] question, struggling with how that [...]

The scene at Sheridan and Foster at around 8 p.m. Photo by Matthew Connolly / North By Northwestern.

Updated at 8:30 p.m. with a photo.
A woman was hit by a car on Sheridan Road at around 7 p.m. this evening and taken away by ambulance, according to witnesses. An Evanston police officer at the [...]

Update: According to the Chicago Police Department, the report of a sexual assault of a student has been deemed “not bona fide,” said Alan Cubbage, vice president for University Relations, in an e-mail. The news officer of the Chicago Police Department told Cubbage that after detectives interviewed the student, they determined it to be “not [...]

After reaching a peak of $7.4 billion in April 2008, Northwestern lost a significant portion of its endowment during the fall of 2008. The recent growth of the endowment could be a sign of a slow recovery.

This was the first year Dance Marathon offered registration online. According to a press release, the organization is moving towards a paperless registration system in the future.

Of 109 applicants, 32 Northwestern students won Fulbright scholarships, more than any other school in the nation.

Located at 610 Haven Street, the Great Room, a refurbished historic dining hall which previously served as a reading room in the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, will offer food, TV and wireless access to Northwestern students. The room will be open from 5 pm to 2 am Sunday-Thursday.

Medill Innocence Project students’ notes, interviews, academic information have been subpoenaed by the Cook County state attorney’s office. Northwestern has turned over the documents related to on-the-record interviews, but is battling the subpoena on the students’ academic information.