Northwestern Beats Illinois, Locks Up Bowl Bid
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mike Kafka threw for 305 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score and Sherrick McManis made a last-minute interception ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mike Kafka threw for 305 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score and Sherrick McManis made a last-minute interception ...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Prosecutors claimed in court Tuesday that Northwestern University journalism students paid two witnesses in order to make their case t...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 197...
AP | LUKE MEREDITH | Posted 11.07.2009 | Chicago
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...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago
Two white Northwestern University students are in hot water after photos of them wearing blackface for Halloween surfaced this week on Facebook and sp...
Chicago Tribune | William Lee and Andrew Wang | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
Chicago police this afternoon said a report by a female Northwestern University student claiming that she was forced off a Chicago Transit Authority t...
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 10.24.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Daarel Burnette II | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez defended subpoenaing Northwestern University journalism students' notes and recordings of witness interview...
Chicago Tribune | Jeff Long | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
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...
The Daily Northwestern | Luke Siuty | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
Northwestern students may soon be able to pass quaffles and dodge bludgers on their very own intramural Quidditch team....
Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
Routine police interrogation methods have elicited an outrageously high proportion of false confessions -- coerced confessions given by innocent suspects, especially children, who quickly recant.
Steve Drizin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago
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.
John Maki | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Tribune | John Byrne | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
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...
Yahoo! News | Kristina Cooke | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business
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...
Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
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.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
Teen idol Nick Jonas, one of the three Jonas Brothers, was spotted touring Northwestern University in Evanston with his father, Paul, Monday. Another...
Eddie Gehman Kohan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
No one is being poisoned by eating the bounty of wonderful crops that have been grown in the White House Kitchen Garden, period.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment
On Sunday, for all the near-impossibilities of a team to win two NCAA championships in a row, this team won its fifth consecutive.
AP | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Northwestern University health officials say a student has a confirmed case of swine flu. Officials announced Thursday that th...
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
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.
Walletpop | Jason Cochran | Posted 05.18.2009 | Chicago
Validation of cultural realities previously thought of as throwaway come through academic settings, and as proof, Northwestern University, near Chicag...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
What if there were a small city whose entire purpose for existing was to promote education for an entire country?
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living
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...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Northwestern University announced today that Morton Owen Schapiro, president of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., will become the university's ...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago