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Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law is launching an LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic in the Bluhm Legal Clinic, the University announced Wednesday. The clinic is designed to advance litigation and advocacy work to promote LGBTQI+ rights.  Pritzker Prof. Kara Ingelhart will be the inaugural director of the new clinic. She will be tasked with shaping the sustainability...

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A group of Chicagoland residents exited a white Hummer limo Saturday afternoon. Their destination: local bookstore Bookends & Beginnings. To celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, the group rented a limo to visit 15 Chicago-area independent bookstores, said Nina Barrett, owner of Bookends & Beginnings. This was the group’s final store, so many in the group had...

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Flashes of blue, green, purple, pink and red filled the air as students donning white splattered water and colors on each other on the Lakefill Saturday afternoon. Shrieks of excitement rang through the sound of wind blowing and music in the background. Hundreds of students gathered to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. Hosted...

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“Just love me” is the central idea throughout Women Initiating New Directions Lived Experience Leader Mariah Greer’s poem. The poem was featured in “Women Writing Their Futures,” an anthology of poems written by women at Logan Correctional Center, Cook County Jail and Grace House. These women wrote their poems as part of a writing workshop...

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Divestment demonstrators stood off with pro-Israel counterprotesters for more than an hour at Deering Meadow on Sunday afternoon.  Just before 11 a.m., University Police set up bike racks on the northeast corner of Deering Meadow to act as barricades for a pre-planned pro-Israel counter-demonstration. About a dozen pro-Israel counterprotesters, none of whom appeared to be...

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Palestinian-American activist Rami Nashashibi shared a message of unity with a sizable crowd on Deering Meadow Saturday evening as demonstrators prepared to spend their third night in the “Northwestern Liberation Zone.” Nashashibi, the founder of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, has advocated for South Side residents in his advocacy work for decades. Saturday night, he...

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The Middle Eastern North African Student Association held its annual Arab Expressions programming Saturday night in the ongoing pro-Palestine encampment on Deering Meadow. In its third year, Arab Expressions is a dynamic cultural showcase that aims to bring together students from different MENA backgrounds through authentic Arab cuisine and a variety of live performances, like...

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Daily staffers Samantha Powers, Jacob Wendler and Beatrice Villaflor discuss what they’ve seen in their reporting on the pro-Palestine encampment at Deering Meadow. [nat sound of student activists chanting] CARLOTTA ANGIOLILLO: On Thursday morning, about 50 student activists began setting up tents on Deering Meadow in an effort to pressure Northwestern to divest from companies...

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Northwestern College Democrats in a statement Saturday afternoon explained its vote in the Associated Student Government Senate on the Northwestern People’s Resolution and gave thoughts on the ongoing encampment on Deering Meadow.  In the 20-2 vote Wednesday on the People’s Resolution, which calls for the University to protect the civil liberties of pro-Palestinian community members...

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In a letter obtained by The Daily, the Northwestern Chapter of the American Association of University Professors’ executive committee condemned University President Michael Schill’s response to the ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering Meadow In particular, the letter takes issue with Schill’s interim Code of Conduct addendum on demonstration policy announced Thursday morning shortly after the...

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Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher addressed a crowd of around 100 at the Deering Meadow encampment Saturday afternoon, calling on University administration and the free press to better understand the plight of Pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Thrasher has been at the encampment at several different points since it began Thursday. In the early hours, he participated in a...

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Fifty hours in, the ‘Northwestern Liberation Zone’ entered its third day with no signs of imminent escalation from administration or University Police. Around 10:15 p.m. Friday night, Josh — a representative for NU Divestment Coalition organizer — announced that organizers expected no arrests or suspensions overnight. “We won a huge f— battle today,” he said....

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Over 50 years ago, we members of the Black 100 engaged in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. While our action was non-violent, it was intentionally disruptive to the affairs of the University to force them to address the racism experienced by the Black students of Northwestern. Today you demonstrate for the rights of all...

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About 100 tents remained on Deering Meadow as of 4 p.m. Friday afternoon despite heavy rain and counterprotests as the “Northwestern Liberation Zone” encampment continued into its second day. Several hundred students slept on the lawn Thursday night despite a threat from the University to “move forward with other options to protect the safety of...

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About 50 members of Northwestern Hillel and NU Chabad gathered on Foster-Walker Complex Lawn Friday afternoon to sing Hebrew songs with motifs of peace. The action came as several hundred pro-Palestine protesters entered their 32nd hour on Deering Meadow.  Weinberg junior Jess Moskowitz said while she supports a ceasefire, she does not support the mission...

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It was the Spring of 1970; The War in Vietnam was in full force and U.S. troops were going into Cambodia. American college students went full bore into protest mode, and four students at Kent State (as well as students at Jackson State) were murdered by National Guard Troops. NU went on strike, the iron...

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After more than 18 hours on Deering Meadow, several hundred pro-Palestine protesters prepared to spend the night in tents and on the grass as part of an ongoing encampment, despite threats of police escalation. Northwestern Divestment Coalition set up the ‘Northwestern Liberation Zone’ Thursday morning to pressure the University to divest from and cut ties...

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In today’s mini crossword: 2-down, five letters: What a particularly expensive item might cost, along with a leg

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In the first episode of Bite Sized Banter, Kevin Hu and Lili Bannister review their experience at Koi, an Evanston restaurant. LILI BANNISTER: I think this would be the perfect place to go if you’re a Northwestern student that’s looking for somewhere nice to go, but you want to pay a ton of money. Because...

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With new app Talk to me if, Northwestern students can reach out to one another if they have ever painted The Rock, want to try a new coffee shop or plan a trip downtown. Vlada Bortnik (McCormick ‘01), creator of TTMI, graduated with a background in computer engineering and art. Having previously worked in tech...

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