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The Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies is offering free creative writing classes on Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6. (However they will be accepting donations for the Young Chicago Authors literacy promotion organization.)
Instructors are students in NU's creative writing MA/MFA program. Classes will be held at 405 Church in Evanston. To register and for further descriptions e-mail scs@northwestern.edu.
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Stage and screen star Regina Taylor will offer An Evening With Regina Taylor at Northwestern University's Annie May Swift Auditorium on November 18. In this public conversation, Taylor will discuss her work for theater, TV, and film.
Taylor is perhaps best known as an actress...
From theatermania.com
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- An Open Letter to The Northwestern University Men's Basketball Team (bleacherreport.com)
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Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sparked campus-wide outrage.
Student leaders at the Evanston school are holding a forum Thursday night to discuss issues of racism on a campus of overwhelmingly white students that two years ago had a similar incident involving two PhD students wearing blackface.
"While I fully support the...
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- Progress (erinoconnor.org)
Every year the boundaries for acceptable Halloween costumes are tested. Every year those boundaries are most certainly crossed, if only for a few of us at Chicagoist that insist on wearing the Ninja Turtles costume we've worn since we were eight. Halloween in some ways has become a social experiment, measuring the capacity for tolerance by exploring what really is in fact taboo by today's standards. For some, we found out where the line was...
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From chicagoist.com
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Northwestern University has issued an alert to warn students of a sex assault on its Evanston campus Monday.
According to the University's Web site, at about 9 p.m. Monday a female student was attacked while she was walking in a hallway on the second floor of the Technological Institute located at 2145 Sherdian Road. School officials said a man approached the student and started a conversation with her. When she tried to walk away, the man...
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- Northwestern student grabbed off train, assaulted (chicagotribune.com)
Laura Miller (Ketchikan Killer Whales, now with University of Wisconsin), Meghan Cavanaugh (Northern Lights Swim Team, now with Northwestern University), Genny Szymanski (Haines Dolphins Swim Team, now with Northwestern University), and Kyle O'Brien (Glacier Swim Club, with now Northwestern University) posed for a picture recently. These former Alaskan swimmers are all swimming at Division I universities and had a mini-reunion at the...
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From juneauempire.com
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Often named one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, a graduate degree from the prestigious Northwestern College will make your resume sparkle. Northwestern's online programs are completely online for the highest degree of convenience. You can request information on two of Northwestern online master's degrees through eLearners.com, and they are listed below...
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- Northwestern Professor Bookends Career with Bernstein's Mass (chicagopublicradio.org)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) and Northwestern University have partnered on an integration to make Google Apps(TM) Education Edition available to students within the Blackboard Learn(TM) platform with a single sign on. Developed by Northwestern's Information Technology development team, the Blackboard Building Block(TM) has been releasedread more
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009) More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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From rss.biospace.com
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Chinese-American says he was subjected to racial slurs and harassment
A Chinese-American police officer at Northwestern University has filed a racial discrimination claim against the university for what he described as a pattern of verbal harassment by white peers and supervisors.
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