When sixth-year Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences student Patrick Madden arrived at Northwestern in 2016, students in The Graduate School could access two lounges in NU’s Chicago Campus. Just a few years later, they could not access any. These lounges have been opened up to the broader Chicago Campus or allocated specifically to Feinberg.
Early in the days of COVID-19, the pandemic was said to shine a light that illuminated unacceptable health inequities within our society. In reality, the pandemic has become a searchlight, probing the horizon for all manner of both injustice and new opportunity.
Academia requires exchange of ideas, to learn from others, and to watch for searchlights. With intention, we develop programs that benefit our students and assist our employees and faculty members in their pursuit of lifelong learning. We also secure the opportunity to learn from very wise people in other institutions, often from very far away.
While COVID-19 has put the brakes on in-person interactions with visiting professors, it has also allowed us to become adept at learning from afar by virtual means. Two recent examples give pause for reflection.
0 obama administration because irs. when you start polly graphing c.i.a. agents once a week, the normal pattern is about three to five years for a polygraph. it suggests a leak of classified information you are getting into territory that clearly makes this administration uncomfortable. that obama doesn t want to explore. that suddenly makes this issue a scandal. jon: you are no supporter of what the white house does. they seem to suggest that the irs targeting conservative groups was not a scandal, benghazi was not a scandal. is he right? he did his interview, first interview with the new york times in three years. i m talking about the president. he would not have done it if this was not beginning to affect his base. some of these quote, unquote, phony scandals. you have people like from the new republic talking about larry summers and what is going on with that. i am telling you this is beginning to affect the base and that is a problem. jon: a piece of tape on the doorway t