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COVID-19 isolation housing at Stony Island Hall has been discontinued for winter quarter, and students will now be directed to isolate in place if they test positive, according to an email from Assistant Vice President for Campus Life and Associate Dean of the College Richard Mason sent on November 30 of last year. Previously, students...

Northwestern will discontinue asymptomatic testing at its Evanston and Chicago campuses as of Winter Quarter, Vice President for Operations Luke Figora announced Thursday. Symptomatic testing will remain accessible from 10 a.m. through 1 p.m. on weekdays at the Jacobs Center. Students at the Chicago campus who need symptomatic testing should contact Northwestern Medicine Student Health...

Following the last Universitywide communication on COVID-19 on Aug. 15, Northwestern made no mention of the updated bivalent booster vaccine rollout as it posted changes online to its isolation housing policies. The August email stated the potential of reinstating a booster requirement if a new vaccine were to offer different benefits. As of Sept. 1,...

In the past academic year, Associated Student Government initiatives have ranged from serving ice cream in dining halls to implementing internal reforms to make ASG more accessible for campus activists. As the legislative body looks toward next year, ASG President Jason Hegelmeyer said liaising with administrators during a transitional period for the University will be...

It’s gnat time of year.  Walking around campus the past few weeks, students frequently have had to vigorously swat their arms or run to the nearest building for shelter from swarms of gnats. The Chicago area is home to these seasonal non-biting flies, also known as chironomid midges. Located on Lake Michigan, Northwestern provides the...

Northwestern will maintain its policies of no mask mandate or required regular testing through the end of the year, absent any major changes to COVID-19 spread on campus, Vice President of Operations Luke Figora announced in a Thursday email. The University has not observed any significant clusters of positive cases or transmission in classrooms, and...

After last week’s uptick in cases — reaching the second-highest reported positivity rate of the pandemic — Northwestern does not intend to make changes to testing or masking requirements, University spokesperson Jon Yates told The Daily Tuesday. Yates said Quarantine and Isolation Housing continues to be “well under” capacity, though he noted more students have...

Northwestern’s positivity rate reached the second highest reported throughout the pandemic at 5.91% in the absence of testing and masking requirements on campus. The highest positivity rate, 5.98%, was reported at the end of Fall Quarter when about 3,400 tests were received and most students had already left campus for Winter Break. This week’s rate...

Once I saw two pink lines on my BinaxNOW test, I knew that I could kiss the next ten days goodbye. Soon enough, I got a call from Quarantine and Isolation Housing telling me that they were going to pick me up. On the way there, I was brimming with confusion. I had no idea...