Members of the Secular Humanists for Inquiry & Freethought brought the Darwin fish to the Rock Thursday. SHIFT is a newly founded student group that advocates “religious freedom and freedom from religion.”

Cast and crew of the Purple Crayon Players’ fall play Holes painted the Rock midnight Wednesday. The adaptation of Louis Sachar’s well-known novel runs Thursday through Saturday at the Shanley Pavilion. Tickets are $5.

Members of Amnesty International’s Northwestern (AINU) chapter painted the Rock for Stop Violence Against Women Week, which runs Monday through Friday. AINU will celebrate Stop Violence Against Women Week with programs including a viewing of a documentary addressing international sex trade and a discussion by women’s rights activist Ahmed Ghasmery on Friday at Norris.

University Health Services, in conjunction with the Evanston Department of Health and Human Services, began providing free H1N1 vaccinations to students on Tuesday. The vaccinations, which health officials administered between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at Patten Gymnasium and Norris Student Center, were reserved for “priority groups” on Tuesday, which includes anyone between the ages [...]

Donald Kohn, the vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discussed the factors that led to the current financial crisis in front of a few hundred people in Leverone Auditorium on Monday.

The reported sexual abuse at Tech on Nov. 10 has Northwestern students concerned about how to stay safe, especially on campus.

Members of the Northwestern chapter of the Roosevelt Institute painted the Rock to promote the Illinois Youth Town Hall event, which will be held Sunday afternoon at Dyett High School to address violence, unemployment and access to education among young people in the state. The Roosevelt Institute is a network of college student think tanks [...]

An in-depth look at the creation of the strategic plan for the next ten years at Northwestern.

The Northwestern team beat 17 other schools in the regional competition, and will represent the Chicago Federal Reserve district in the national college Fed Challenge.

Members of the Taiwanese American Students Club painted the Rock at midnight Thursday morning to advertise their upcoming event. Karaoke Night: Taipei Drift will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Norris Louis Room.

Rapper Lupe Fiasco and actor Michael Ealy were part of a panel discussing grassroots history and participatory democracy during an event Wednesday night promoting a History Channel documentary The People Speak. The event featured live readings, excerpts of the film and in-depth discussion.

Individuals across Northwestern are coming together to further cancer research thanks to a five-year, $13.6 million grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute. The result of this interdisciplinary collaboration will be a Physical Sciences-Oncology center (PS-OC) that brings new models and perspectives to the study of cancer.

The annual survey of the Chronicle of Higher Education showed that Bienen’s total compensation dropped by $438,835 in the 2008 fiscal year. But Bienen’s salary from 2007 was reportedly inflated by payments that he had deferred from previous years.

The state’s attorney office filed a new motion on Tuesday suggesting a private investigator working with the Medill Innocence Project may have paid off a witness to provide exculpatory evidence for the case of Anthony McKinney, who was convicted in 1978 of killing a security guard in the Chicago suburb of Harvey.

An alert on Northwestern University’s Web site stated that a female student was reportedly sexually abused Monday at around 9 p.m. in a hallway on the second floor of Tech.
According to the report, a male subject began to speak with the woman, and when she walked away the man grabbed her by the arm [...]