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Northwestern announces plans for Spring Break, Spring Quarter February 4, 2021 Northwestern announced plans for Spring Break and Spring Quarter, including a Spring Wildcat Wellness quarantine period. In a Thursday email from Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Student Affairs Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, Northwestern announced that students living on campus could continue to live on campus throughout Spring Break with no additional charges, including full dining hall services. Regular COVID-19 testing will be available for those staying on campus. The email added that the University ex...

“While the attempted coup was a scary act of white power, the end of Spring Quarter 2019-2020 and the following months after that were horrifying for black students on campus,” the statement continued. “We were scared for our lives, we saw our friends get beaten and arrested, if not worse, and DePaul’s delayed response in contrast to the quickness in which they’ve replied to this week’s events is just another indicator of how little DePaul cares for their black students,” added the students, referring to previous social justice protests. “It took petitions and a campus-wide mo...

In the Ford Center, Weinberg junior Saurav Khadka and Communication sophomore Jared Kimmel attended their first in-person class since the pandemic began. Twelve students were seated six feet apart as the instructor lectured the class through Zoom, with several students tuning in from home.  Since the end of the Wildcast Wellness quarantine period on Jan. 17, Northwestern began in-person meetings for its hybrid Winter Quarter classes. For some students, classes where they have the option to meet their classmates and professors in person are a much-needed break from the abnormalities of remote...

January 14, 2021 at 11:35 pm by Katherine Swartz Lea Toubian kept her victory statement to the Nexus short: “I’m incredibly humbled to have been elected. Time to get back to work.”  Toubian is currently the chief of staff for the president’s office.  Courtesy of Lea Toubian. Students elected the fourth-year political science and environmental studies double major to be the third Associated Students (A.S.) president of the 2020-21 school year, A.S. Elections Board announced Thursday evening in a live webinar.  Toubian won with 53.83% of the vote, while Ca...

December 15, 2020 at 9:58 am by Katherine Swartz and Atmika Iyer The Academic Senate — a collective of faculty members at UC Santa Barbara — recently extended the deadline to change grading options for courses from letter grade to pass/no pass until the end of Week 10, but Associated Students and others within the UCSB community continue to ask for greater flexibility in grading.  The Academic Senate recently extended the deadline to change grading options for courses from letter grade to pass/no pass until the end of Week 10. Max Abrams / Daily Nexus Though the window...