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Northwestern Beats Illinois, Locks Up Bowl Bid

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Mike Kafka, Northwestern University, Northwestern Football, Northwestern vs Illinois, Illinois Football, Eddie McGee, Jacob Charest, Chicago News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mike Kafka threw for 305 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score and Sherrick McManis made a last-minute interception ...

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Prosecutors Claim Northwestern Journalism Student Paid Witness

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Anthony McKinney, Evan Benn, Tony Drakes, David Protess, Medill School of Journalism, Wrongful Conviction, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Prosecutors claimed in court Tuesday that Northwestern University journalism students paid two witnesses in order to make their case t...

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Prosecutors Still Won't Explain Why They're Subpoenaing Northwestern Journalism Students' Grades

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: David Protess, Medill School of Journalism, Medill Innocence Project, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Anita Alvarez, Anthony McKinney, Northwestern University, Wrongful Conviction, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 197...

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Northwestern Shocks Iowa, Ends Hawkeyes Perfect Season With 17-10 Upset

AP | LUKE MEREDITH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Northwestern University, Northwestern Football, Northwestern Iowa, Iowa Football, Northwestern Iowa Upset, Iowa BCS, Dan Persa, Ricky Stanzi Injury, Mike Kafka, James Vandenberg, Chicago Sports, Chicago News

IOWA CITY, Iowa — With Ricky Stanzi watching from the sideline on crutches, No. 8 Iowa ran out of magic. Dan Persa threw a touchdown pass and M...

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Northwestern Students In Blackface Spark Outrage

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Northwestern University, Northwestern Racism, Northwestern Blackface, Racism, Northwestern Halloween Blackface Costumes, Blackface, Morton Schapiro, Video, Chicago News

Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sp...

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NU Student's Sex Assault Story In Doubt: Police

Chicago Tribune | William Lee and Andrew Wang | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Northwestern University, Chicago Transit Authority, Northwestern Student Assault, Chicago Police, Chicago News

Chicago police this afternoon said a report by a female Northwestern University student claiming that she was forced off a Chicago Transit Authority t...

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Northwestern Rallies From Huge Deficit To Beat Indiana 29-28

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 10.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Northwestern University, Northwestern Football, Northwestern vs. Indiana, Stefan Demos, Mike Kafka, Ben Chappell, Chicago Sports, Chicago News

EVANSTON, Ill. — Stefan Demos kicked a 19-yard field goal with 21 seconds left Saturday and Northwestern completed a comeback from a 25-point de...

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Prosecutor Defends Going After Northwestern Students' Notes, Class Material

Chicago Tribune | Daarel Burnette II | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Anthony McKinney, Dan Kirk, Journalism, David Protess, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Press Freedom, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Anita Alvarez, Chicago News

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez defended subpoenaing Northwestern University journalism students' notes and recordings of witness interview...

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Prosecutors Subpoena Notes, Grade Information Of Northwestern Journalism Students

Chicago Tribune | Jeff Long | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Anthony McKinney, David Protess, Wrongful Conviction, Medill Cook County Subpoenas, Press Freedom, Northwestern University, Medill Innocence Project, Journalism, Chicago News

After spending three years investigating the conviction of a Harvey man accused of killing a security guard with a shotgun blast in 1978, journalism s...

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Northwestern Launching Intramural Quidditch

The Daily Northwestern | Luke Siuty | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Harry Potter Quidditch, Competitive Quidditch, Quidditch, Northwestern University, Harry Potter, Muggle Quidditch, Chicago News

Northwestern students may soon be able to pass quaffles and dodge bludgers on their very own intramural Quidditch team....

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Our Justice System Needs to Protect Children's Human Rights

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Human Rights, Chicago News, False Confessions, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Exoneration, Steve Drizin, Juvenile Justice, Anthony Caravella, Chicago News
Bernardine Dohrn

Routine police interrogation methods have elicited an outrageously high proportion of false confessions -- coerced confessions given by innocent suspects, especially children, who quickly recant.

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Why Young People Falsely Confess to Police

Steve Drizin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Thaddeus Jimenez, West Memphis Three, Center-on-Wrongful-Convictions-of-Youth, Central Park Jogger, Lacresha Murray, Bernardine Dohrn, False Confessions, Juvenile Justice, Steve Drizin, Marty Tankleff, Ryan Harris, Criminal Justice, Northwestern University, Chicago News
Steve Drizin

I've seen police lie to children in all manner of ways, telling one child that his dead sister's blood was found in his bedroom and a different boy that his father had awakened from a coma and told police the boy was his assailant.

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Barney Brown: His First Year of Freedom

John Maki | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Exoneration, Juvenile Justice, Rainbow Coalition, Barney Brown, Innocence Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Double Jeopardy, Wrongful Conviction, Florida, Northwestern University, Criminal Justice, Chicago News
John Maki

On September 24, Barney Brown celebrates his first year of freedom after 38 years of wrongful incarceration. His story is one of the most egregious wrongful convictions in U.S. history.

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Trailer Outside Northwestern Stadium Memorializes Killer In Murder-Suicide

Chicago Tribune | John Byrne | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Northwestern University, Frank Larkin, Ryan Field, North Shore Van Lines, Dorothy Striblen, Jim Larkin, Nancy Striblen, Chicago News

The message "In memory of Frank Larkin" may not mean a thing to the legions of Northwestern Wildcats football fans who stream past the North Shore Van...

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Big Spenders Likely To Marry Big Savers

Yahoo! News | Kristina Cooke | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Savings Rate, Northwestern University, Fatak Fiscal Attraction, Savers Marry Spenders, Wharton School of Finance, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters Life)- Frustrated by your spouse's spending habits? It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled "Fatal (F...

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In Qatar and Egypt, Education Reform Means Learning In English

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Usaid, Doha, Middle East, Northwestern University, Education-City, Qatar, Muslim World, English Language, Brain Drain, Arabs, Education, Academic, The American University in Cairo, Arab, Cairo, English Language Skills, Georgetown University, Arabic, Education Reform, World News
Journalism Boot Camp

English instruction in Qatar's schools, according to government plans, is to tailor students for higher education and jobs in English-language workplaces and universities.

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Nick Jonas Spotted Visiting Northwestern On Prospective Student Tour

Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas, Northwestern University, Jonas Brothers Chicago, Nick Jonas College, Jonas Brothers College, Chicago News

Teen idol Nick Jonas, one of the three Jonas Brothers, was spotted touring Northwestern University in Evanston with his father, Paul, Monday. Another...

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The Only Thing Toxic About The White House Kitchen Garden Is The Misinformation: Scientists Correct The Record On Contamination

Eddie Gehman Kohan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Michelle Obama, Dr. Kimberly Gray, President Obama, Poltical Symbols, Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Andrew Kimbrell, Children Gardening, State University of New York, Misinformation Campaigns, Mother Jones, Organic Gardens, Northwestern University, Sam Kass, Urban Gardens, Indiana University, Dr. David L. Johnson, White House Kitchen Garden, Sewage Sludge, Malia and Sasha Obama, Green News
Eddie Gehman Kohan

No one is being poisoned by eating the bounty of wonderful crops that have been grown in the White House Kitchen Garden, period.

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The Newest College Sports Dynasty You Don't Know

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Women's Lacrosse, Lacrosse, Northwestern University, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

On Sunday, for all the near-impossibilities of a team to win two NCAA championships in a row, this team won its fifth consecutive.

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Northwestern Student Has Swine Flu

AP | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Swine Flu Northwestern, Swine Flu Illinois, Swine Flu, Swine Flu Chicago, Northwestern University, H1n1, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Northwestern University health officials say a student has a confirmed case of swine flu. Officials announced Thursday that th...

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The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Placeless Society, Wmd, Chicago, University of Chicago, Syracuse University, Informed Public, Twitter, Obama, Northwestern University, Thomas Jefferson, Wikipedia, Facebook, Critical Thinking, General Motors, The Internet, Bob Thompson, Youtube, Popular Culture, Aids, Texas Governor, World Wide Web, Authority, Liddite, Datafox, Guttenberg, Media News
Tom Alderman

Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.

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Viral Video Class: Northwestern Offering College Course On Making Viral Videos

Walletpop | Jason Cochran | Posted 05.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: How to Make Viral Videos, Northwestern University, Viral Videos, Viral Video, Northwestern Viral Video Class, Chicago News

Validation of cultural realities previously thought of as throwaway come through academic settings, and as proof, Northwestern University, near Chicag...

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Unlike Dubai, Doha Puts Education First, Stresses Collaboration (VIDEO)

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Abu Dhabi, Education City, Northwestern University, Education, Doha, Qatar, Seymour Hersh, Mira Nair, Michigan State University, Dubai, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

What if there were a small city whose entire purpose for existing was to promote education for an entire country?

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Spewing Joy: The Supermarket Shuffle

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Fear, George Crane, Fearlessness, Compliments' Club, Northwestern University, Dance, Choice, Joy, The Balanced Life, Happiness, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Readers, what a joy you are! In fact, priceless. As usual, your responses have been heart-warming, contagious. Last week, one of you said something...

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Northwestern Names Morton Owen Schapiro President

Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: New Northwestern President, Henry Bienen, Schapiro President Northwestern, Schapiro Northwestern President, Northwestern President, Williams College, Northwestern University, Morton Owen Schapiro, Northwestern, Patrick Ryan, Chicago News

Northwestern University announced today that Morton Owen Schapiro, president of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., will become the university's ...

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