The Evanston Township High School District 202 and Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Boards of Education spoke about Northwestern’s district partnerships and literacy updates for both districts at a joint meeting Tuesday. Several members from the Office of Community Education Partnerships at NU presented their efforts to engage with the local school districts. NU and District.
The Evanston Public Library is working to make sifting through newspapers less tedious and more inclusive. Jeff Garrett, a current part-time reference librarian at EPL, is spearheading a newspaper digitization project to upgrade EPL’s online search system and make historical newspapers more accessible for the Evanston community. “One of our big purposes with the Evanston.
Madison Houk, manager at Great Harvest Bread Co. on Central Street, said she disliked throwing out all of the bakery’s leftovers at the end of the day. But last year, the bakery joined Too Good To Go, an app that allows restaurants to sell leftover food at a discounted price with the goal of reducing.
On top of challenges with virtual recruitment due the COVID-19 pandemic, students considering joining sororities and fraternities face a second layer of concerns: the Abolish Northwestern Greek Life movement.
In July 2020, an anonymous Instagram account began to post current students’ and alumni’s negative experiences with NU Greek life to shed light on injustices and advocate for abolition.
The account made many freshmen, including Weinberg freshman Avanti Parkhe, question whether they wanted to go through recruitment.
“I don’t think I was going to end up rushing anyway, but all of the stuff that was coming out about the movement made me more sure that I didn’t want to rush,” Parkhe said. “I just think that people who are rushing should probably do some research and make sure they’re not joining something that is perpetuating a bunch of bad things.”