Northwestern University Dance Marathon will eliminate its automatic $400 minimum fundraising recommendation and Greek life-centric team system for its first night in the tent since 2019. Weinberg juniors Amy Fan and Aarthi Kottapalli, NUDM’s first-ever Accessibility and Inclusion co-chairs, are directing some of these changes in response to concerns about the event’s accessibility. Some students.
In the weeks leading up to Spring Break 2020, then-Weinberg freshman Andrew Laeuger spent hours arranging and rearranging hiking gear in his backpack. He had to organize it perfectly, he said, for the Northwestern Outdoors Club trip to Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon. “I was all ready to basically pick it.
Nearly 30,000 runners took their marks Sunday in Grant Park to participate in the Chicago Marathon for the first time since the pandemic began. One Northwestern student, Communication sophomore Maggie Stanton, placed first in the 19 and under age group. “I wanted to run a sub-four (hour) marathon, and then I ended up running 3:44(:13),”.