2009

Sunday, October 25, 2009
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Healthy recipes on a college-kid budget

It’s possible — even easy — to eat healthy for under a hundred dollars a week.

Recap

The Big Ten’s best just got better in this weekend’s football

Ohio State, Penn State and Iowa all rolled over very formidable opponents, while Northwestern and Purdue won in the battle of who was worse.

The best of Miley on YouTube

In honor of our greatest guilty pleasure, this post will highlight a few of Miley’s greatest moments, tributes and blunders.
“Party in the U.S.A.,” ASL-style

There is something absolutely hypnotizing about the movements in this video. It’s almost more like a dance-a-long than an aid for the aurally challenged. Maybe someday drunk college students can sign [...]

Sports

Zone Coverage

Tribune columnist Teddy Greenstein said that losing the Valero Alamo Bowl last year against Missouri was a lost opportunity for attention and exposure. The ‘Cats need to have high impact victories to impress analysts from Sports Illustrated and ESPN.

Pop Culture Confessional

Go ahead. Rock that Hannah Montana backpack.

I envision a world where my love for Miley doesn’t have to be so wrong.

Julie in Paris: I am a cliché.

Julie will be in Paris, France until Dec. 17.

Let’s see.
I’m a 19-year-old Northwestern junior from the Midwestern suburbs spending fall in Paris.
I think the most unusual thing about that sentence is the fact that I’m 19, not 20. (I skipped first grade. This is Northwestern, it happens.) Either way, I don’t think [...]

Streakers get caught purple-handed

Photo courtesy of Brenda Chang.
While she was walking on the bridge between Tech and the Seeley G. Mudd Library on Friday afternoon, Weinberg freshman and North by Northwestern contributor Brenda Chang spotted a group of streakers getting caught displaying a little too much purple pride.
“They kind of looked confused and scattered a bit,” Chang says, [...]

Cooking 101

How to make your dorm’s kitchen less nasty

Tips and tools to make dorm food taste like real food.

Poetry Mondays

Cuba Road

I hear the whispers in the wind/ that aren’t alone in watching me.

Glee: “Mash-Up”

This installment, though lacking full ensemble choruses, gives focus to single characters: Will sings and dances (breakdances, rather) like whoa to “Bust a Move” and “The Thong Song,” Emma sings My Fair Lady and Puck sings “Sweet Caroline” to Rachel, yet gets some puppy-eyed looks from Quinn. The premise is that Emma and Ken are [...]

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Cardiac ‘Cats earn their name: NU beats Indiana 29-28

Though it seemed headed towards a blowout loss for most of the first half, Saturday’s homecoming game concluded as arguably the greatest win of the season for the Northwestern Wildcats. On Saturday, the Cardiac ‘Cats pulled off a school-record 25 point comeback to defeat Indiana 29-28.
After trailing from 20 seconds into the first quarter, Northwestern [...]

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Taylor in Buenos Aires: A few things that still leave me baffled

Taylor is studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina until Nov. 28.

Being abroad brings so many new experiences and customs; some you love, some you don’t. When it comes to amenities such as shaving cream and peanut butter, it really is true that distance makes the heart grow fonder. And despite having been here [...]

Let's be blunt

How the medical marijuana debate is lighting up in Illinois

Illinois, in a joint effort with the Obama administration, could very well be the next state to hash out a plan to legalize medicinal cannabis.

our clever school

Brian Odom keeps winning us awards

Physics professor Brian Odom talks six-figure moneys.

The Weekender

The Weekender: Oct. 23-25

Get ghoulishly glamorous this weekend.

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