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Claiming their degrees are “stained with blood,” several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters walked out of Northwestern University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday at the United Center, despite repeated warnings by the elite ....
The walk-out comes as Northwestern grapples with balancing the free speech of students protesting the Israel-Hamas war with the need to guard against discrimination on campus. ....
Content warning: This story contains mentions of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Indigenous violence. Northwestern students held a vigil at Deering Meadow on Thursday to honor Nex Benedict — a transgender, nonbinary and Indigenous 16-year-old high school student from Owasso, Oklahoma, who was attacked at school Feb. 7 and died a day later. Several students delivered speeches celebrating. ....
More than 70 students gathered outside of Sargent Dining Hall in a Tuesday walkout to demand better working conditions for service workers contracted by Compass Group, NU’s food service contractor. Students Organizing for Labor Rights organized the walkout after they received several reports from dining hall workers describing overworking and hostility from management in the. ....
More than a dozen students convened in University Hall on Sunday to mark the first day of “Disorientation Week: What Northwestern Won’t Teach Us,” a series of teach-ins, discussions and bonding events hosted by various campus organizations. Representatives from Fossil Free NU, Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership, Reform CAPS, NU Graduate Workers and Native American and. ....