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Serbian- and Albanian-American students talk about the conflict that is tearing their homeland apart.

The toilet paper’s cheap, so where’s our money going?

Illustration by Claire Anderson / North by Northwestern.

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Northwestern’s Methodist trustees graciously set the party tone for over 120 years when they amend the university’s charter to prohibit all “spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors” within four miles of campus. Imbibing comes with a $25 fine.
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The woman who resigned as dean of Northwestern’s Women’s College, [...]

The Mee-Ow cast. Not pictured: Connor White. Photo by Julie Beck / North by Northwestern.

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Mee-Ow is an eight-member comedy troupe which boasts notable alumni like Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. They’re preparing to entertain you on Feb. 26 – 28 in the Louis Room of Norris with a recipe calling for one-third sketch comedy, one-third improv, and [...]

Watch as DM members and Project Kindle officials celebrate the final fundraising total.
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Already forgotten? Blocked it out? Or just a DM groupie? Here’s a recap of the 30-hour dance, demonstrated by Communication juniors Josie Chai and AJ Aguado.
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Scott Olstad, fresh off completing his first run as a Dance Marathon emcee along with Ben Singer, still couldn’t believe what transpired in the tent for the past 30 hours.
“I still can’t comprehend what just happened,” he said from the ground floor of Norris, peeling his socks off. “My head is still spinning, it’s [...]

DM announced that it raised $917,834 this year, will donate $64,052 to the Evanston Community Foundation and $576,470 to Project Kindle and raised a total of $640,522 for its two beneficiaries.
That’s slightly less than the $933,855 it raised last year. DM donated $659,711 of that money to its beneficiaries.

Highlights of the dancers’ run into the final block:
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Zeta Beta Tau and Delta Gamma raised more than $100,000 for DM this year, the largest amount of any group or individual. DM announced the top group and individual fundraisers just before midnight:
Top committee member: Lauren Berry, Alumni & University Relations ($2,500); Michael Fenech, Corporate Relations ($1,467); Deb Michaels, Dancer Relations ($1,424)
Top independent fundraising [...]

Block 10 has reached its midway point, and dancers are still super energized. Certain songs help the crowd out immensely though; Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” both set the crowd wild. Though neither of those ’80s classics got dancers to strip off their T-shirts and whirl them around “like a [...]

DM Emcees Benjamin Singer and Scott Olstad. Photo by Max Brawer / North by Northwestern.

Most people start to break down after 27+ hours of no sleep, but for DM emcee pair “BS” Scott Olstad (Medill junior) and Benjamin Singer (Communication junior), ninth block fatigue means nothing to them. With slightly more than three [...]

DM cordoned off a section of the dance floor shortly after the final block began:

Dancers energetically entered the Dance Marathon tent around 10 p.m. to the sounds of Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl.” Wearing white shirts loaded with small text on the front, participants look and sound as energetic as they were during the first block. Check in for more updates from the floor.