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The FIVE WORST Colleges in Illinois for 2024
What qualifies as a "bad college?" One of the most crucial factors to consider when evaluating a college is its graduation rates. If your students aren't graduating from your college, what are you even doing? It's that simple. As someone who attended several different colleges and universities, I won't put...
ETHS Foundation supports school when tax funding falls short
The Evanston Township High School Foundation has provided more than $14.5 million in grants for new and upgraded facilities, resources and programs for ETHS students since its inception 16 years ago. In the 2023-2024 school year, they raised nearly $2 million. The foundation has consistently supported updates to the school’s...
Northwestern University breaks ground on $660 million Ryan Field project
Northwestern University celebrated the formal groundbreaking for the new Ryan Field, a 100 percent privately funded project set to bring thousands of jobs and nearly $660 million in economic impact to the City of Evanston and surrounding areas. A joint venture of Turner Construction Company and Walsh Construction Company will...
‘The world was never the same’: Northwestern protests in 1968 and 2024
They protested in the spring, knowing that they could get arrested and kicked out of college. By then, demonstrations were already spreading across the nation. Columbia University students occupied multiple university buildings, leading to more than 700 arrests when the police cracked down violently. At Northwestern, the students knew that...
OPRF must address antisemitism complaint
This is in response to the Wednesday Journal article: “Complaint claims OPRF fosters a ‘hostile antisemitic environment’” [oakpark.com, July 12] at the July 11 Board of Education Special Meeting, Oak Park & River Forest High School made a statement regarding a formal community-based complaint submitted to the Illinois State Board of Education and to the Illinois Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau. The complaint alleges that OPRF High School is complicit in allowing antisemitism to fester within its halls by not adhering to its own polices and existing case law. I encourage our community to read it (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24798102-request-to-investigate-d200-teachers-and-d200-signed?responsive=1&title=1).
Tiny but mighty: Northwestern University Press is a leader in humanities publishing
From a small house on Noyes Street within view of the main Northwestern campus on Sheridan Road, 15 dedicated employees and one graduate fellow think and write about “works of enduring scholarly and cultural value.” Subjects vary. Eventually a few of these ideas become books. This is the...
More bike racks at OPRF
It has come to my attention that there is an utmost lack of student bike stands surrounding the high school. As a student at OPRF, I faced the issue of limited bike spots often and in most cases I had to squeeze in. With the addition of more bike racks near all entrances, students like me will be able to have enough space to lock our bikes in the morning without having to press in.
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