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Photos: Faculty protest NU’s demonstration limits
Sarah Schulman, a professor in the English Department at Northwestern University, speaks Wednesday at a faculty protest at The Rock against the university’s limits on demonstrations. A leaflet...
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In first season, NU’s temporary football stadium mostly a hit
The shores of Lake Michigan were captivated by a new phenomenon on Saturdays this fall. Chants, cheers and marching band music filled the air as a purple wave took over the Evanston lakefront. The...
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ETHS chess enjoys award-winning start to fall break
ETHS chess players at the Niles North Turkey Classic on Saturday. From left: Will Zalmezak, Rogelio Portales, Manu Zerega, Alastair Keely-Walker, Adam Elgat, Josh Beatty, Shane Asbra, Zach Gudwien...
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Revelle seeks parking restrictions for Welsh-Ryan games, concerts
Council Member Eleanor Revelle (7th Ward) plans to seek passage of an ordinance at Monday’s City Council meeting to limit parking in the area around Northwestern University’s Welsh-Ryan Arena when it...
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District 65 schedules community meetings on budget cuts
As part of its ongoing effort to address spending issues and reduce the budget going forward, Evanston/Skokie District 65 is hosting three community meetings — branded as “Listen & Learn” sessions...
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ETHS honors five distinguished alumni at annual awards fete
Evanston Township High School honored five distinguished alumni Monday evening with a reception, dinner and awards ceremony where current ETHS students introduced each awardee. The school has...
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District 65 begins journey toward budget cuts, school closures
At Monday’s Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board meeting, the public got its first high-level view of what the next year and a half of budget cuts and school closures could look like.Susan Harkin...
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Disciplinary incidents, suspensions, racial disparities rise at ETHS
Disparities between the number of recorded disciplinary incidents attributed to Black and Hispanic students compared to white students grew between the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years at ETHS,...
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ETHS officials request another staffer to address student mental health
Data from student mental health reports led ETHS’s student services team to ask the board of education on Monday for help to address student needs. Associate Principal of Student Services Mia Lavizzo...
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District 65 candidates move to dismiss objections
Two candidates for the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education facing objections and potential removal from the ballot argued for the challenges to be dismissed Tuesday afternoon during...
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Students spending more time in classrooms, but ‘unauthorized presence’...
ETHS students are spending more time in the classroom than immediately after the pandemic as chronic absenteeism and chronic truancy levels fall, according to the recently released Illinois Report...
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Early music brought back to life by musicologist and Newberry Consort
Credit: Bonnie RobinsonPaul-Gustav Feller-Simmons is a musicologist and doctoral degree candidate at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. A musicologist is someone who studies the...
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District 65 superintendent addresses community concerns at latest budget meeting
Evanston/Skokie District 65 Superintendent Angel Turner wanted to set the record straight on Thursday night, when she hosted the second community meeting on upcoming budget cuts required because of the...
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NU joins Giant Magellan Telescope’s international consortium
Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based telescope currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.Launching in...
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ETHS seniors take 5th at chess nationals
ETHS players at chess nationals, from left: Lucia Scrimenti, Wayra Sheridan, Sam Kemeny, Will Zalmezak, Ryan Cowan, Adam Elgat, Manu Zerega, Adam Sklar, Alastair Keely-Walker, Lucas Lazaro, Daniel...
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Groundbreaking children’s Fontan Choir makes debut
The Fontan Choir logoDr. Andrew Pelech had been thinking about this idea for a long time: measuring the impact of breathing and singing instruction on children born with a specific congenital heart...
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Families talk of rebuilding trust at last District 65 budget feedback meeting
About 40 community members gathered Monday morning at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center for the third and final preliminary listening session for residents to give Evanston/Skokie District 65 leaders...
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ETHS grad competes on Jeopardy!: ‘A little nervous,’ but ‘I had fun’
Class of 2023 Evanston Township High School graduate and former Scholastic Bowl captain Henry Barbaro took on two fierce competitors in a game of Jeopardy! on Monday, which aired locally at 3:30 p.m....
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District 65 approves $23.4 million in Foster School construction contracts
The Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board took the biggest step yet in funding Foster School construction Monday night, greenlighting $23.4 million worth of work on the new building, including...
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District 65 teachers’ union, board approve new contract
After getting word earlier in the evening about savings on Foster School construction, the Evanston/Skokie District 65 board continued the good news on Monday night, unanimously passing a new contract...
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