Jacob Wendler

The Open Meetings Act stipulates that the public has “the right to attend all meetings at which any business of a public body is discussed or acted upon in any way.”

Northwestern will limit official statements on “public or geopolitical matters except those related to the operation of the University,” University President Michael Schill and Provost Kathleen Hagerty announced in a Friday morning message to the NU community. The decision comes seven weeks after the President’s Advisory Committee on Free Expression, convened by Schill in February,...

Schill said the University has made steady progress on the commitments laid out in the April “Agreement on Deering Meadow.”

In 2005, the University instructed its management firms to sell holdings in four foreign-owned companies that were linked to supporting the government regime of Sudan.

About a dozen students set up a “Gaza Solidarity Sukkah” on Deering Meadow Wednesday evening to honor the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, call on the U.S. to enact an arms embargo on Israel and push Northwestern to divest from companies tied to the country amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Sukkot, an eight-day celebration that runs...

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) questions University President Michael Schill at the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing in May.

Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago led students in prayer at The Rock as they built the second “Gaza Solidarity Sukkah” on Friday afternoon.

The United Center glittered Thursday night for part two of Maggie Rogers’ The Don’t Forget Me Tour. As the triumphant opening chords of “That’s Where I Am” began to play, Rogers emerged into a cloud of artificial fog dressed in a silver robe. The last time I saw Rogers perform, in April of this year,...

At the Human Services Committee meeting Monday, Ald. Devon Reid (8th) emphasized declawing is “unnecessary” for cats, in relation to an ordinance to prohibit declawing practices in Evanston.

Schill previously testified in front of the House committee in May about how he handled the student demonstrations, which paralleled dozens of college encampments across the country U.S.