Country tunes, upbeat folk music and the occasional “yee-haw” echoed through Parkes Hall during an interfaith barn dance hosted by the Catholic Students Association and Northwestern Hillel Thursday night. With cowboy hats on and heels stomping on the ground, more than 40 students were ready to party at the event. Though CaSA hosted a barn.
Students gathered on the Lakefill Monday at dawn for Fajr, a prayer performed before sunrise, to celebrate Eid al-Fitr — the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. “As soon as you pray the sunrise prayer, we all started eating to symbolize the idea that we’re no longer fasting, and we took a bunch of.
Northwestern students and Evanston residents filed into Alice Millar Chapel on Friday evening for an all-night Earth Day event filled with speakers, workshops and live music. The student-led event, “Generations of Environmental Justice,” was inspired by the 1970 “Project Survival,” a NU student-led teach-out organized before the first Earth Day. Anthropology Prof. Melissa Rosenzweig, who.
As part of the 40 Days of Spiritual Wellbeing, the Broadway soundtrack of “The Color Purple” plays softly in Parkes Hall. Guided by writing prompts, students filled their notebooks with their life stories. The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life organized the series “40 Days of Spiritual Wellbeing.” The program, which runs from Feb. 1.
Northwestern will celebrate Black History Month this February with events hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs, the Department of African American Studies and other groups. Here are the Black History Month events to look out for in the coming weeks: AFAM @ 50: Digging in the Archives This virtual presentation by the African American Studies Department.