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In today’s mini crossword: 8-Across, three letters: Yoda’s humble Dagobah abode.

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No. 1 Northwestern and No. 12 Johns Hopkins’ Thursday Big Ten Tournament semifinal clash pitted a perennial powerhouse against a covetous challenger in Martin Stadium. Sixty minutes of action separated the teams from a trip to Saturday’s championship game, and every play proved pivotal. While the Wildcats (14-2, 5-1 Big Ten) fell out of favor...

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The Evanston Reparations Committee heard a presentation from Wendy Ryce Smith, regional director of Liberty Bank in Chicago, at its meeting Thursday. At its April 4 meeting, the committee announced they would be depositing the Evanston Reparations Fund into Liberty Bank, one of the nation’s largest Black-owned financial institutions. A minimum of $17 million will...

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The Sexualities Project at Northwestern kicked off its 2024 workshop “Masculinities: Hazing, Homosexuality & the Construction of Sexuality” on Thursday with a keynote address by Brown University Prof. Matthew Gutmann. About 50 students and scholars from several universities attended the keynote address, “The Fallaciously Primordial Male: Desires, Norms & Links,” which was followed by an...

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Content Warning: This article contains discussions of violence and hate crimes. This Father’s Day, residents from the greater Chicago area will gather at Northwestern’s Long Field for a morning of running and community unity during the 25th Annual Ricky Byrdsong Memorial Race Against Hate. Event organizers said they expect about 4,500 people to participate in...

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To Chairman Barris, the Life Trustees, and the Charter Trustees of Northwestern University: We, the undersigned NU faculty of different backgrounds and political viewpoints, come together to salute Northwestern students, faculty, and university leadership for reaching an historic agreement that provides a national model for responding to student protest peacefully and thoughtfully during this critical...

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Weinberg freshman Asha Mehta walks from Elder Hall, where she lives, to Chapin Hall more than five times a week for one reason: the community. Mehta is a non-residential, or “non-res,” member of Chapin Humanities Residential College. She said she started going to Chapin during Fall Quarter because some of her close friends live there....

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A writer’s room as large as the Waa-Mu Show’s student team comes with benefits and drawbacks. For one, there is an almost boundless well of ideas to work with. However, having too many hands on the pen can (and usually does) make a show incohesive. “Taken Away: A Musical Trilogy” seems to be the team’s...

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Evanston Police Department issued 46 citations for hands-free law violations in April, it announced in a Thursday news release. EPD said these citations were a combined effort with the Illinois State Police, local law enforcement and highway safety partners as part of the April Distracted Driving Awareness Month enforcement campaign. “Issuing a citation is a...

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Laufey left her audience “Bewitched” by her natural charm and enchanting voice at her Sunday night concert at The Chicago Theatre. The singer visited Chicago on her “The Goddess Tour,” singing many songs off her 2023 album “Bewitched.” Wasia Project, a brother and sister duo from London with cool energy, opened for Laufey. Lead singer...

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Weinberg senior Chloe Chow, treasurer of Northwestern’s Books & Breakfast student chapter, cherishes drawings that local school children made of her. One includes a portrait of Chow wearing the NU hoodie she always throws on at 7 a.m. before she reads, plays and eats with students at Kingsley Elementary School. “It’s the kids — they’re...

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Starting Monday, May 6, students will see adapted food retail hours and meal exchange policies at Norris University Center, according to Executive Director of Norris Corbin Smyth.  MOD Pizza and Starbucks will now close at 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, moving up from 10 p.m. Rather than 8 a.m., Market at Norris will now...

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Production vehicles, security guards and film cameras lined Lincolnwood Drive and surrounding streets while the hit TV series “The Bear” filmed in Evanston Thursday. With the potential of seeing actors Jeremy Allen White and Jamie Lee Curtis on set, Evanston residents lined the outskirts of the permit lines to watch the production in action. “I...

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The President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate will cease its work following the Wednesday resignations of seven committee members, the 11 remaining committee members wrote in a Thursday letter to University President Michael Schill and Board of Trustees Chair Peter Barris.  In the letter, obtained by The Daily, the members write that —...

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Five days after student demonstrators started a pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering Meadow, Northwestern Divestment Coalition representatives and University officials reached an agreement Monday. In the agreement, the University promised additional support for Muslim, Middle Eastern North African and Palestinian students and faculty — in addition to more transparency about its investments — in exchange for...

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The Northwestern University-City Committee convened Wednesday night to tackle plans for a temporary football game facility at Martin Stadium. The committee meeting began with University representatives presenting plans for the temporary facility slated to host a number of home football games for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. Vice President of Operations Luke Figora said the...

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The Anti-Defamation League Midwest, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law called for University President Michael Schill to resign in a Tuesday statement. The reaction comes after Northwestern administrators reached a deal with the NU Divestment Coalition on Monday to deescalate a five-day encampment on Deering Meadow, which the statement...

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In this week’s crossword: 21-Across, seven letters: Bureaucratic tangle.

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Demonstrators staged a May Day strike Wednesday, calling on students and teachers to abstain from attending class and show solidarity with Palestine and divestment efforts. Around 9 a.m., about 50 students gathered at The Rock to rally while handing out fliers to oncoming passersby that read “No grades. No class. No finals. Strike for Gaza...

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A group of more than a dozen Jewish Northwestern students lobbied in Washington on Wednesday for the passage of the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, which passed the House of Representatives in a 320-91 vote. If the policy passes the Senate, the U.S. Department of Education will be required to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s...

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