A group of about 50 student activists began setting up a tent encampment on Deering Meadow Thursday morning. According to a student organizer, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, the students intend to remain until Northwestern agrees to the demands laid out in the Northwestern People’s Resolution. Throughout the morning, the protesters...
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Michigan forward Taylor Williams will don Northwestern’s purple and white ahead of the 2024-25 season as a graduate transfer, she announced on Instagram Thursday. As a graduate transfer in Ann Arbor, the 6-foot-2 forward averaged 4.3 points and 3.3 rebounds per game in 24 games for the Wolverines last season. She started six games, most...
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Northwestern Hillel released a statement Thursday on the ongoing encampment set up by pro-Palestinian student activists on Deering Meadow and a Wednesday evening vote by the Associated Student Government Senate to sign onto a People’s Resolution calling for NU divestment from Israeli institutions. The statement said the protest reflects “a disturbing and quickly escalating trend...
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Northwestern has enacted an interim addendum to the University demonstration policy amid the start of the encampment at Deering Meadow, according to University president Michael Schill. “The goal of this addendum is to balance the right to peacefully demonstrate with our goal to protect our community, to avoid disruptions to instruction and to ensure University...
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Content warning: This article contains mention of war, sexual assault and death. Dear Editor, Reasonable people can certainly disagree about Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. But neither your readers nor The Daily Northwestern should be publishing as fact any information that contradicts known facts, as Ms. Wilson’s letter does. Let’s start with the myth...
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