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CW: This story contains mention of hazing, sexual assault and suicidal ideation. BREAKING: A former Northwestern football player is alleging that some of the hazing conduct that took place on the team involved coerced sexual acts. 🧵.
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Police are shown getting physically violent with faculty. "You will not touch our students," a faculty member said.
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BREAKING: About a dozen Northwestern student protesters have begun setting up an encampment on Deering Meadow. Updates to follow.
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BREAKING: Three former players said Northwestern football program had a “culture of enabling racism.”.
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Northwestern has parted ways from Pat Fitzgerald, sources tell us.
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Northwestern has parted ways with football head coach Pat Fitzgerald.
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Happy birthday, Meghan! 🎂 To celebrate, look back at the Northwestern alum's road to the palace, written by @StavrosAgorakis in 2018:
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BREAKING: @NorthwesternU and 15 other major universities were named in a federal lawsuit late Sunday for allegedly violating antitrust laws to unfairly limit student financial aid. Story to come.
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The encampment is part of an effort to pressure Northwestern to divest from companies and cut ties with institutions connected to Israel, a student organizer told The Daily. Read more here:
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BREAKING: Three plaintiffs brought a class action breach of contract lawsuit against Northwestern Wednesday, citing a “dystopic cesspool of hate” present at the pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering Meadow.
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BREAKING: Northwestern will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the 2021-22 academic year. Story to come.
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We.really.really.really. really. really. really. really. really.really.really.really.really.really.really.really. really. really. really. really.need sports commentators to use NU instead of NW or *shudder* NWU.
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Northwestern has reported an active threat event on its Chicago Campus. Officials have instructed people to take shelter and barricade doors, run, hide, or fight. The Daily will continue to share updated information.
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"After reviewing the report, I assessed a two-week suspension for Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald, which went into effect immediately. However, upon reflection, I believe I may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction for Coach Fitzgerald," University President Michael Schill.
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In an email obtained by The Daily, faculty and affiliates wrote to Schapiro that they were “extraordinarily troubled” by Monday’s email, especially considering its context and severity.
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Northwestern vaulted to the No. 6 spot in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual National Universities rankings, the highest in the school’s history. —.Reported by Nineth Kanieski Koso
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The player, who asked to remain anonymous, said much of the hazing that took place centered around a practice dubbed “running,” which was used to punish team members, primarily freshman, for mistakes made on the field and in practice.
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BREAKING: Chicago and Northwestern police are responding to reports of shots fired on NU’s Chicago campus, outside Wieboldt Hall. Officials say to await further information.
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Student demonstrators have organized a May Day strike on classes, asking students to forego attending and professors to forego teaching. The strike, occurring now at The Rock, will feature programming throughout the day and culminate in a no-tent sleepover on Deering Meadow.
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If a player was selected for “running,” the player who spoke to The Daily said, they would be restrained by a group of 8-10 upperclassmen dressed in various “Purge-like” masks, who would then begin “dry-humping” the victim in a dark locker room.
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Jordan Hankins, a guard on the women's basketball team, was found dead in her room on Monday afternoon, a University spokesman said.
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An anonymous player who played through the 2009 season alleged head coach Pat Fitzgerald would regularly ask Black players and coaches to cut off their dreadlocks to be in line with the “Wildcat Way.” He said white players were not asked to cut off long hairstyles.
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It has now been 24 hours since the 'Northwestern Liberation Zone' encampment began. An organizer congratulated protesters on making it through the first day and told them to make a barricade around the tents if police arrive.
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NU announced Friday that the whistleblower’s claims were “largely supported by evidence.” In an email to The Daily, University spokesperson Jon Yates declined to comment on the specifics of the investigation.
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Organizers are asking protesters to stop smoking marijuana at the encampment on Deering Meadow.
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The last police vehicle just left Deering Meadow after a row of three were parked for hours. Protesters cheered as the car drove away.
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“The campaign that you are now organizing against the police on the Northwestern campus is so important,” Angela Davis said of @CopsoutofNU. “Get the police off campus. Get the police out of all of our schools.”.
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BREAKING: . Around 50 NU graduates, some holding Palestinian flags, silently stood up and walked out the 2024 Commencement ceremony. Graduates joined a gathering outside the United Center to hold a ceremony for those killed in Gaza.
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Northwestern Divestment Coalition has set up a GoFundMe to fundraise for “food, supplies, legal aid” and other resources for protesters at the encampment. As of Friday afternoon, the organization has raised nearly $8,000.
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NEW: Northwestern issued a statement Saturday disagreeing with the “misogynistic views” expressed by former English lecturer Joseph Epstein in his viral @WSJ op-ed.
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Ramon Diaz Jr., a Latino offensive lineman from 2005 to 2008, said that he felt he had to fit in by “acting white or laughing at (his) own people.”.
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Today marks 138 days since students demanded Northwestern disarm, defund and disband campus police. Since last Monday, they have taken to the streets every day:
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After receiving the reports, the University hired outside law firm ArentFox Schiff to lead the investigation.
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Diaz, who was diagnosed with PTSD after graduation, said that what he experienced at Northwestern was a major factor in that diagnosis.
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Demonstrators are expanding the encampment to the east side of Deering Lawn. They are setting up 12 new canopy tents.
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In Opinion:. “It doesn’t matter whether Pat Fitzgerald knew about the hazing. It’s time for him to step down and let the deeply fractured football program heal,” writes Senior Staffer @charvarnes11.
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A group of protesters have formed a line in front of counter protesters.
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BREAKING: Compass workers at Northwestern voted today to ratify a new contract. The agreement includes a minimum hourly wage of $19.88 and a permanent extension of health insurance benefits. Story to come.
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“Our first priority is to support and protect our students. That is why the University immediately opened this investigation upon learning of the allegations and why we took decisive action once we ascertained the facts,” Yates wrote in an email to The Daily.
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Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher is currently speaking to demonstrators. "My friends, you have not just said this is not just, but have put your bodies on the line," Thrasher told the crowd. "You will not stop and not rest until the University meets your demands.".
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In Opinion:. “I was one of the students drugged at Alpha Epsilon Pi. Evanston Hospital staff didn’t believe me when I said I was drugged,” writes op-ed contributor Isabel Podolsky.
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Around 140 protesters remain on Deering Meadow with locked arms.
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All three players said that the team felt “segregated.”.
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The sun has risen on day 3 of the encampment. Many tents remain empty as some demonstrators opted to sleep at home after organizers said they expected no arrests or suspensions overnight. Demonstrators are fixing a handful of empty tents which have been taken down by wind.
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NEW: With 47 of 50 precincts reporting, Daniel Biss has won 73 percent of votes, indicating that he will be Evanston's next mayor.
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In Focus: In Winter 2019, members of the Northwestern cheer team sent letters to program officials that detailed racist and abusive behavior by their coach. For over a year, their allegations were swept under the rug.
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“The rain’s coming; there’s no denying it. But that’s not going to stop us is it?” an organizer said. She said NU alumni have approached her offering to pay for “big-ticket items” and “whatever (demonstrators) need.”. She added that tarps and ponchos will be distributed.
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BREAKING: First and second year undergrad students will not be allowed on campus, including dorms, until Winter Quarter, w limited exception. They are discouraged from moving to Evanston area. Third, fourth and grad students are allowed on campus for FQ as before. Story to come.
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BREAKING: Student demonstrators wrapped up negotiations with the University Monday after five days of demonstrations.
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NEW: .@FMO_NU, Northwestern’s premier Black Student Alliance, will host activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis at their State of the Black Union on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
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"Move, cops, get out of the way," protesters chant. Representatives from NUPD said they are not commenting on whether arrests will happen at this time.
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Summer, an organizer who did not share a last name, said there is a bargaining meeting happening now. “We’re the talk of the goddamn town,” Summer said. “Admin thinks the rain is going to clear us out,” Summer said. Protesters responded in unison: “No.”.
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After several requests to turn off the sprinklers on Deering Meadow to not endanger students, a University Police officer said to not mess with the sprinkler heads because they are expensive.
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BREAKING: Christian Wade and Ada Ogbonna won the election for ASG’s next president and vice president with 80 percent of the vote.
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BREAKING: Evanston police say Gabriel Corona, who had been missing since Tuesday, has been located alive in Chicago. Story in progress.
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Northwestern University President Michael Schill said he believes he may have “erred” in his decision to suspend NU football coach Pat Fitzgerald for two weeks.
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BREAKING: Spring Break will be extended by one week. When classes resume, beginning April 4, they will be conducted remotely for at least three weeks, according to a University statement. We'll have a story up shortly.
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Sixteen students graduated from Northwestern’s Prison Education Program Wednesday — marking the first time incarcerated students have received bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university. —.Reported by @Noracollins02
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Organizers say they are committed to staying on Deering Meadow for "as long as it takes," saying productive conversations with Northwestern administration continue. They added they are "hopeful" NU will not engage NUPD this weekend.
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BREAKING: The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office intends to drop criminal charges against two Northwestern in connection with tampered copies of The Daily circulated in October. —.Reported by @SQPowers04 and @jacob_wendler .
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They say Schill told them NU can have a role in "rebuilding Gaza one day." Students were allegedly told to expect a response from University Police similar to this morning.
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It’s relatively quiet on Deering Meadow, where birds are chirping over the beginning of day 4 of the encampment. Julie Windsor Mitchell, campus minister at University Christian Ministry, is currently leading a church service with communion. About ten students are participating.
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There are currently more than 80 sleeping tents at the encampment on Deering Meadow. The protest is nearing its 19th hour.
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He's Here: Northwestern alumna Meghan Markle announced the birth of her 7lbs 3oz son Monday morning 👶🏽.
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Northwestern had made its first-ever NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats will be a No. 8 seed.
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Thread: Last night, about 2,000 Northwestern students protested Greek life outside the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity houses Sunday night following reports of druggings at both fraternities.
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In Opinion:. “In a world where Hinduphobia is a real threat, how does creating a safe space for all Hindus on campus make us supporters of terrorism?” writes Op-Ed Contributor Sparsh Gautam.
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Some of you have not been Evanston's only daily news source since 1881 and it really shows.
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Men’s Fencing🤺: 1941.Lacrosse 🥍: 2005, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘11, ‘12.Field Hockey 🏑 : 2021. Northwestern, we have a national Champion!! Wildcats defeat Liberty in Ann Arbor, 2-0.
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“Anti-caste struggle needs to be everybody’s struggle,” Harvard University fellow Suraj Yengde said. “It’s just the real, sole investment in correcting something that you realize is wrong.”
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In Opinion: “There is an apartheid being perpetrated by the state of Israel on the Palestinian people, and this movement is an ongoing fight for Black and brown liberation — this is something I will not debate,” writes Op-Ed Contributor Rivers Leche.
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After receiving updates, organizers said they don’t believe police are arriving on the scene tonight. They said they plan to spend the night on Deering Meadow.
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@prisonculture praised student organizers and @CopsoutofNU for carrying out Dr. King’s legacy and implored administrators to take their concerns seriously.
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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. The second night on Deering Meadow was marked by heavy rain, poetry and music.
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Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.
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Northwestern has one of the highest voting rates among universities.
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BREAKING: An employee in the Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub on the Evanston campus has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an email from the University to the NU community. This is the first confirmed case of COVID-19 on campus.
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It’s Friday morning, and protesters are beginning to wake up. There’s less than an hour until police are expected to arrive at Deering Meadow, the NU Divestment Coalition says.
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NEW: “By centering your own affective response, you shifted the narrative away from concrete policy demands of students,” @PoliSciatNU grad students wrote in response to President Schapiro's email about the recent protests.
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Northwestern has alerted community members the situation on the Chicago Campus has been secured and is all clear. Assailants are in custody and it is still unclear if there have been injuries, the school announced.
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NU President Michael Schill announced an interim addendum to the University’s demonstrations policy that includes restrictions on when, where and how demonstrations may occur in a message to students at 9:20 a.m. Thursday.
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University President Michael Schill sat down with The Daily on Monday to discuss the football program. Notably, he said athletic director Derrick Gragg will remain at the University.
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"We are dismayed to learn that our students have been victims and also perpetrators of hazing, sexual assault, and racism," 263 members of Northwestern faculty wrote and signed.
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@jacob_wendler As of 8:08, tents are back up, after students began chanting “tents up.” Protesters are now playing music and banging drums.
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Jim Foster – NU’s 2022-23 head baseball coach – was not fired, as had been reported by many outlets including The Daily. President Michael Schill told The Daily Foster has been placed on “indefinite suspension.”. “He wasn’t fired,” Schill said. “He won’t be coaching again.”.
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The Medill junior is currently a print managing editor and diversity and inclusion editor for The Daily.
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The Daily Northwestern named best daily student newspaper by Society of Professional Journalists
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Northwestern has fired baseball head coach Jim Foster.
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Here’s a current look at the encampment at Deering Meadow. As previously reported, organizers expect to spend the night there. “The key is to not leave,” an organizer said.
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BREAKING: Seven members of the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate informed University step down.
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Northwestern hazing reports have prompted State Rep. Kam Buckner to include increased protections in student athlete “bill of rights” legislation.
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NU freshman Sarah Bock has burst onto the scene in season two of Apple TV’s Severance, appearing as Ms. Huang. Bock joined a cast that includes NU alumnus Britt Lower, whose advice shaped Bock’s journey to Evanston. —.Reported by @EliKronenberg
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“There's a better way we can do this, right?,” 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh asked upon launching a campaign to represent Illinois’s Ninth District in Congress. —.Reported by @AudreyPachuta.
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