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...Daily Northwestern (DN) is on fire, and under it. The Associated Collegiate Press, based in Nashville, recently awarded the daily the Pacemaker Award, an honor bestowed on the top 25 campus publications in the country by delegates from America’s major newspapers. Still, not everyone on campus is as enthused as the people in Tennessee...
...over news coverage and editorial opinion—the DN is no different. In fact, it is probably often better about avoiding controversy with students and administrators than a certain Cambridge campus daily. But mining for the downsides and mistakes of campus newspapers can hide their real triumphs. At Northwestern, a seven-part series last year highlighted funding gaps in the university’s mental health system, leading administrators to add funding and employees. But though the DN’s series on mental health was certainly at the forefront of effective campus reporting, it doubtless benefited from something...
It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. And at Northwestern and other campuses, for all their faults, students do it pretty damn well...
...accepted conceptions of musical and cultural identity has been a Taha trademark for more than 20 years. He's focused on merging the influences of his native Algeria with the European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons...
...because it’s virtually impossible to accept more than one transfer per year, the Crimson was faced with the enviable dilemma of choosing between Mathews and the kid from Northwestern...