Why this day off has been a “day on,” rallying students to continue Dr. King’s legacy.

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It’s a little-known fact among Northwestern students that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on three separate occasions in Evanston — which is why the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day planning committee decided to focus this year’s series of events on the relationship between the civil [...]

Chris Wade, writer of Vertigo Productions’s play Gulch, sits down for 20 Questions.

In their first four Big Ten contests, all losses, the Northwestern Wildcats followed a similar script. They would stay close in the first half and sometimes even lead before being completely outplayed in the second half.
On Sunday afternoon against no. 18 Minnesota, the ‘Cats finally flipped the script. NU was down three after the [...]

Learn what you can make by picking up unusual products at Trader Joe’s.

Mavis Staples. Photo by jcrawford3505 on Flickr, licensed under the Creative Commons.

Through message songs like “Why am I Treated So Bad?” and “March up Freedom Highway,” Mavis Staples, as part of the family group The Staples Singers, became the voice of the Civil Rights movement. Staples, who will be the keynote performer for Northwestern’s Martin [...]

You liked refried beans and Roy Lichtenstein and fog and the Beatles. I liked your soft skin…

Students volunteer during Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend.

Since he worked exclusively with undergrads at Williams, we’re hopeful he’ll pay close attention to NU’s young’ns.

Images of a wintry Northwestern around Norris University Center.

The first episode of the final Battlestar Galactica season (I’m pretty sure it’s the final season this time) aired on Friday. Let’s get to it!
Warning: Spoiler Alert! If you haven’t seen the season premiere yet, stop reading now!
Season 4 recap:

Though the identity crisis this young goat faces later in life makes this clip a little less adorable, we can still enjoy the cuteness of this goat who looks very similar to a cow. Of course, this video comes from the only place on Earth where such a story would be featured prominently on [...]

After the university pulled funding earlier this week for a $100,000 mid-winter event, officials at A&O Productions said that significant plans had already been made.

The 2009 Dance Marathon will be held held in a climate-controlled tent on the East Lawn of Norris, committee members announced Thursday.
DM Executive Co-Chairs Elizabeth Banks and Philip Reich said they wanted to make sure that more than 1,000 dancers could dance in the same area, unlike last year when about 750 registered dancers were [...]

The Muslim Cultural Students Association’s Islam Awareness Week concluded Thursday night with an address by the man who represented Salim Hamdan, one of Osama bin Laden’s chauffeurs in a Supreme Court case in 2006.
Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal’s speech, titled “Guantanamo Bay on Trial: Toppling the President’s Terror Tribunals” detailed his winning argument against [...]