Can you form a friendship with someone you’ve never met in person? During Winter Welcome, residential services brought back speed friending, an event that’s based on speed dating. New students participated in the event with other people from their dorms and residential areas. Students like freshman Natalie Norquist enjoyed meeting new people and putting a...

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One student matched with their ex-hook-up’s twin. Another found a platonic best friend. You thought the Marriage Pact hype was over, but you were wrong. NU Declassified sat down with the creator of the Marriage Pact to hear some of the wildest stories, learn how the algorithm works and attempt to answer the question: Can...

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Northwestern’s most iconic monument: The Rock. For decades, The Rock has been a pillar of student life but also controversy. How did a dilapidated fountain go from an object of pranks to a battleground for free speech on campus? Listen now to NU Declassified’s dive into The Rock’s history and its present. ANUSHUYA THAPA: From...

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Peer Advisors, members of the Wildcat Welcome Board of Directors and incoming freshmen talk about the transition to a remote Wildcat Welcome. Between updating TNDs, hosting fun online social events and tackling accessibility issues, this year’s programming was unprecedented. MORTON SCHAPIRO: This is certainly not how I ever imagined I would be greeting our first...

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Teaching classes from home can be tough, and doubly so when you’re raising children at the same time. Weinberg profs. Sera Young and Mark Witte talk about how parenting and teaching have changed under lockdown. SERA YOUNG: My name is Sera Young. I’m a professor of anthropology at Northwestern and I do a lot with...

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Evan Hill and Brian Rosenthal have a lot in common: They both graduated from Medill, were editors at The Daily Northwestern, are now New York Times investigative journalists — and recently won the highest honor in journalism: a Pulitzer Prize. MEGAN MUNCE: Last week two more awards joined the long list of Pulitzer Prizes won...

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After the National Guard killed four Kent State University students for protesting the invasion of Cambodia in the Vietnam War, Northwestern launched a university-wide strike. Fifty years later, Eva Paterson reflects on trying to stop a war as a college student. CHRISTOPHER VAZQUEZ: I want to introduce you to someone. His name is Amos Brown....

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For work-study students, COVID-19 brought their income into question. But even after the University’s decision to continue paying work-study students, junior Cameron Cook says she feels that the University is still not doing enough to answer all questions and support all students who rely on the school for a source of income. Other students ran...

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When Northwestern offered little guidance for the path ahead, student groups like Tufaan Entertainment were left to decide whether to cancel their events or risk everyone’s health in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois. NU Declassified takes an inside look at what this decision process looked like for the co-directors of Tufaan...

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RAYNA SONG: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Rayna Song. This is NU Declassified, a look into how Wildcats thrive and survive on Northwestern’s campus. In an email on March 11, the University announced a switch to remote classes and encouraged students to go home to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus. Even though...

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