Word: northwesterner
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Five other U.S. colleges are associated with the program, which this year will allow 75 teachers in all to pursue individual study along the lines of their own choosing: the University of Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern, and the University of California...
...plan which include an influential group of Indiana citizens, labor unions, many members of Congress and President Kennedy, are employing several tactics to protect the Dunes. First they have asked the steel companies and the Engineers to explore other available sites for both mills and harbor. They have requested Northwestern University to cancel its purchase of two and a half million cubic yards of Dunes' sand from Bethlehem Steel (one would expect the trustees, faculty and students of the University to realize the significance of this unfortunate deal). Finally Senator Douglas and his colleagues have proposed a bill in Congress...
Agnostics for Catholics. At the Roman Catholic University of Santa Clara, students formed a group to invite agnostic, anticlerical speakers to the campus. At Northwestern, student funds are being spent on a big scale to bring advocates of all causes into college forums. With a sense of moral purpose, students have adopted countless ideological orphans. "In a week of passing through Sather Gate," says Berkeley's Political Science Professor Eugene (The Ugly American) Burdick, "I must pick up 100 pieces of literature urging me to do things like send textbooks to the Philippines or get a fallout-shelter booklet...
More than 33 schools attended the Ninth Annual Harvard Invitational Debate Tournament held at the University last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Of the 102 teams participating, first place finally went to Northwestern University...
Recalled an African student at Northwestern University: "When I first came to Chicago I was very interested in American Negroes and their difficulties. I wanted to show solidarity with oppressed brothers, that sort of thing. So I took the elevated to the South Side one night. There were many lights, which dazzled me, and many people about, which rather frightened me. I went into a bar and listened to the talk and understood little enough. When I finally tried to enter the conversation, no one understood what I was saying at first. Then they all started laughing at my accent...