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We’re all too familiar with the feeling when you’re introduced to a new atmosphere and you’re using Google Maps to get around campus. And when you ask for directions, you get hit with jargon like “Norbucks” and “SPAC,” and your phone returns no search results. The Daily has compiled a reference list to help you...

Graduation Issue 2022 Halfway through my time at Northwestern, I thought a combination of factors would have cost me any chance of having things worth remembering from my college experience. I was what could be generously described as socially nomadic, constantly experiencing FOMO and isolation. With COVID-19 still forcing Zoom lectures and activities, I considered...

Johnnie Harris, a dining worker of 19 years who cooks for the Foster-Walker Complex dining hall, said chefs have no control over the food served in dining halls or how it is prepared, as Northwestern and Compass Group, the University’s food supplier, are responsible for dining hall menu selection. “(Cooks) have a recipe that we...

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...

The problem of practice room access is not new to the pages of The Daily’s opinion section. In 2019, Kelly Miller wrote an op-ed about the difficulty to obtain access to practice rooms. But since then, nothing has changed. The Bienen School of Music does not allow non-music majors to access practice rooms unless they...

After over a year of student advocacy to expand the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center to a house on Sheridan Road, Student Affairs has identified the first floor of house five in Foster-Walker Complex as a “mid-term solution” for the relocation, University spokesperson Erin Karter told The Daily Wednesday. While the University plans to work...

Excited chatter and laughter filled the Parkes ballroom walls as over 300 people –– Muslims and non-Muslims alike –– gathered Monday night to break their fasts together and share a meal.  The evening of April 1 marked the start of Ramadan, the holy month observed by Muslims every year. Over the course of 30 days,...

Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic across Illinois today.

University Police identified multiple students as suspects in the theft of over 4,500 Northwestern-owned COVID-19 tests from Foster-Walker Complex, the University announced in a Tuesday crime notice. The tests were stolen Monday from a secure storage room in a common area of the residence hall. Most of the tests were recovered on Tuesday after UP...

Thousands of COVID-19 test kits have been recovered from Northwestern University students who allegedly stole them from an Evanston campus dormitory.