Bobb Hall News Today

Dillo Day had a rude start. I had smug plans to sleep in to avoid the midday exhaustion that would no doubt afflict most Northwestern students. Unfortunately, I live in Bobb Hall, and was awoken early in the morning by the sound of freshmen shrieking “Happy Dillo!” to one another in the hallway. As an...

When Weinberg freshman Savannah Hsu enrolled at Northwestern, she never imagined being sick for the first five months. She never imagined that an ear, nose, throat specialist would discover enlarged adenoids and say they were likely due to mold in her Bobb Hall dorm. She never imagined surgical removal would be her best option.  Hsu...

Though Northwestern received the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy in March, environmental sciences Prof. Patricia Beddows said the University still has a long way to go. She said NU’s energy consumption costs would be a fraction of what they...

Weinberg sophomore Anna Patten started looking for off-campus housing for next year when she returned to campus in September. “It can be alarming to feel like you’ve started your year already behind on something that’s important,” Patten said.   Northwestern requires students to live on campus for two years. Juniors and seniors, however, can choose to...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of a tragic incident. An incident involving a Northwestern student occurred Wednesday night at Bobb Hall. In an email sent to Bobb and McCulloch Hall residents, Residential Services acknowledged that a “tragic incident” had happened. It added that representatives from Residential Services and the Dean of Students Office, as...

After more students requested single rooms this spring than past years, some students have reported frustrating outcomes from Northwestern’s housing lottery system. Every spring, sophomores and upperclassmen who want to live on campus are randomly assigned housing priority numbers ranging from one to more than 1800. Some students with high priority numbers said they had...