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Soultwin’s new song, “SKYRIM,” was inspired by a video game of the same name. Listen to the latest episode of Sound Source to hear the story behind Soultwin’s new unreleased song and understand more about why the band’s music is “meant to be felt live.”

The reopening of dining halls on campus spark safety concerns, and local medical experts work to build trust within historically marginalized communities as vaccine hesitancy threatens to increase existing COVID-19 disparities. The Weekly: Week Three Recap breaks down our top headlines with the reporters and editors who covered them.

Evanston City Council passes a resolution to mandate representative water testing.

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Student group NUCNC meets publicly with central administration to address unmet demands and District 219 community members demand reforms to address racism. The Weekly: Week One Recap breaks down The Daily’s top headlines with the reporters and editors who covered those stories.

Student group NUCNC meets publicly with central administration to address unmet demands and District 219 community members demand reforms to address racism. The Weekly: Week One Recap breaks down The Daily’s top headlines with the reporters and editors who covered those stories.

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On the third and final episode of Lead On: Trump’s EPA, 2020 water testing and a new city law. We look at the Lead and Copper Rule’s future and where Evanston is going from here.

Why does biased water sampling matter? What does it mean for communities that are left out?

For about three decades, Evanston has collected nearly 440 water samples for lead testing. 60% came from the historically White and wealthy 6th and 7th wards. Only 1.8% came from the historically Black 5th Ward.

For the final episode, The Weekly sat down with The Daily Northwestern’s outgoing and incoming editors in chief — Marissa Martinez and Sneha Dey — to discuss the past and future of The Daily Northwestern.

Heightened police presence at NUCNC protests, Angela Davis speaks at State of the Black Union, District 202 reports widening racial achievement gap, and Evanston city council is trying to ban beer pong. Check out The Weekly: Week Nine Recap to hear directly from the reporters and editors who covered The Daily’s most recent top headlines.

Following protests led by student group NU Community Not Cops, University President Morton Schapiro alleged that “Some of the instigators appear not to be Northwestern students at all, but rather outside activists” in an October 19 email sent to the Northwestern community. But what and who exactly is an outside agitator? Defining Safe took a close look at the history behind the trope to better und...

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.

After days of ballot counting, Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 Presidential Election. How are Northwestern students feeling about it? Also, Evanston re-elected Representative Jan Schakowsky and Senator Dick Durbin, both Democrats. And the proposed Illinois’ Fair Tax Amendment did not pass. Listen to The Weekly: Week 8 Recap to hear from the reporters and editors who covered our recen...

Northwestern University and Evanston — name a more iconic duo. It’s an age-old relationship, filled with ups, downs and even a battle before the Supreme Court. You know, all the usual couple stuff. Yet they seem to always come back to each other. In this episode of Everything Evanston, we will take a deep dive into the fascinating story of town-gown relations in Evanston — and on the way, we will...

NU Community Not Cops daily protests continued this week, with President Morton Schapiro sending out a second email addressing the protests, and as the presidential election approaches, students are casting votes for both Biden and Trump. Listen to The Weekly: Week 7 to hear directly from the reporters and editors who covered our recent top stories.

From Harry Potter to One Direction to Avatar: The Last Airbender, some Northwestern students have been getting back into their favorite childhood fandoms through the latest TikTok trends.

Weinberg sophomore Sofía Stutz, also known as Audax the Damsel, released “Tempo” on October 2. In this episode of Sound Source, Sofía talks about the creation of the EP and how the theme of time plays out across the five songs.

Student group NU Community Not Cops is marching every day until Northwestern abolishes University Police. The Weekly: Week 6 Recap breaks down the protests as well as President Schapiro’s response this past week.

First-generation, low-income (FGLI) sophomores speak on their experiences with housing this fall. From Evans Scholars losing their on-campus housing to work-study job insecurity, many FGLI students believe that the University’s last minute housing cancellation was inequitable.

Northwestern Facilities staff power washes away the most recent message on the Rock, PHA cancels formal recruitment and Evanston nominates a new city manager. Listen to this episode of The Weekly to hear directly from the editors and reporters who covered our recent top stories.

How much caffeine is too much caffeine? Brainstorm spoke to the experts to find out (and drank copious amounts of coffee while doing so).

In Evanston, hundreds participated in a unity march that was led by family members of Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor. In a screenshot obtained by The Daily, some Gamma Phi Beta alumnae expressed disapproval toward the abolish Greek life movement. And Evanston has announced a proposed 2021 city budget; changes include a reduction in funding allocated to the Evanston Police Department and the creati...

Synchronizing tap dances and vocal cut offs is difficult over Zoom. But the show must go on. Performance groups describe what it’s like to continue performing and building community virtually this Fall Quarter.