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You may have not heard, but it’s Election Day. What are we going to do now?
The anticipation that has been building during months of presidential campaigning ends on Tuesday, and [...]

From left, Martha Biondi, Mary Pattillo, Marcus Shepard, Iva Carruthers, Latasha Levy, and C. Cole Dillon head one of the panels of the two-day conference. Photo by Darren McRoy / NBN.

A mixture of nostalgia and anger was on display Friday and Saturday at the McCormick Tribune Center. Alumni assembled for a series of [...]

Tuition will not increase this upcoming year any more than it normally does, despite national economic troubles and expected tuition increases nationwide, a Northwestern official said today.
Although an article in The New York Times on Thursday said that “private colleges may soon be in serious financial straits,” Vice President of University Relations Al Cubbage [...]

“You matter. He can make ASG matter too,” promised flyers on campus last spring, when Neal Sales-Griffin was running for president of the Associated Student Government.
As the first full quarter of his presidency unfolds, Sales-Griffin and ASG’s executive board have laid the foundations for change across most parts of ASG. But in addition to debating [...]

Northwestern has begun renovation of its health services building, the university announced Tuesday.
Among the planned changes to Searle Hall are nearly 30,000 square feet of added space and new areas to separate clinical services from faculty and staff offices. “The layout, including the reception/waiting area, will be designed to protect patients’ privacy,” the university said [...]

Some of Northwestern’s most beloved professors received banquet treatment on Tuesday when Associated Student Government celebrated more than 70 faculty members who were selected to be on the “Honor Roll.”
The professors were selected in the Spring by a hybrid process of student voting and CTEC evaluations, Associate Provost Ronald Braeutigam said.
But the rewards can be [...]

Updated, 5:10 p.m. Illinois supporters were informed this afternoon of tickets for Sen. Barack Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park, but there is already a waiting list.

The author of a letter describing items thrown at a dinosaur skeleton at the Field Museum did not see the events herself, a Kellogg spokesperson said Monday.

The sparse audience at Alianza’s Rock the Vote event. Photo by Katherine Tang / North by Northwestern.
Lone Republican Jonathan Green debated four Democrats on the stage of the Fisk Auditorium Sunday evening for a “Rock the Vote” event.
Alianza, the Hispanic/Latino Student Alliance, sponsored the event as a dialogue for Northwestern’s political bipartisan groups to present [...]

Northwestern football suffered its second loss of the season on Saturday, falling to the Indiana Hoosiers 21-19.
The Wildcats, now 6-2, will play at Minnesota next weekend.

Drastic climate change may have become unavoidable by the time the freshman class graduates, famed environmentalist Bill McKibben told an audience in the Ryan Family Auditorium on Thursday.
“There’s not much use in waiting to get out of college before doing something about global warming,” said McKibben, the guest speaker of Students for Ecological and [...]

Paul Meadlo, along with his division, was shooting at the civilians in the ditch in the Vietnamese town of My Lai. One Vietnamese mother, in an attempt to protect her son, tucked the little toddler underneath her, and the boy managed to avoid the gunfire. Toward the end of the afternoon, the men heard a [...]

Northwestern’s President wrote a letter to the head of For Member’s Only supporting Jeremiah Wright’s Nov. 7 speech on campus.

The Soweto Gospel Choir has performed for Nelson Mandela.