Content warning: This story mentions sexual harassment and racism. As Mackenzie Ridenour and their coworkers wiped down counters, washed dishes and chatted about New Year’s Eve plans during the closing...
Conservative students on Northwestern’s campus know their politics are unpopular. According to The Daily’s Spring Campus Poll, more than 80% of NU students identify either as somewhat or very liberal,...
In late 2023, Joaquin Clavijo sat alongside his classmates in the hallway of Evanston Township High School to protest the school administration’s response to the deaths of Palestinian...
As members of the class of 2025 prepare to move on from their time at Northwestern, our staff’s seniors reflected on their time on campus in this year’s Graduation Issue. We’ve...
When I arrived on campus for Wildcat Welcome, I knew I was going to be a part of the student newspaper. Just exactly what that meant was not something I could have predicted. My...
For most of my life, I was afraid to be caught caring. I tried too hard in school, obsessed over my favorite celebrities, and knew too much about current events. In high school, I was...
The Daily isn’t a place where you’re allowed to take a break. This was the general sentiment I heard from people coming into my freshman year: you’ll stay up until 6 a.m. to lay...
If I had got $10 for every time someone asked me “Isn’t journalism a dying industry?”, I'd probably make more money than I did at my previous internship. And I think the...
My first article for The Daily took me approximately four whole days to finish. My pitch was to write a simple 600-word piece on the midseason March Madness odds for the Men’s...
You may have heard the advice to have three spaces: one for work, one for home, and one for community. At the beginning of college, I felt like I only had one, really huge space: I...
I have a confession to make. From late 2021 through the spring of 2023 (and including a brief stint in the spring of 2024), I consumed hundreds of Dum-Dums™ lollipops from The...
I remember the time I published my first story in The Daily. After timidly approaching a shopper and the owner of a boutique store in downtown Evanston, I wrote up a visuals-dense,...
Slow down, you’re doing fine. It’s hard to believe those Billy Joel words to be true. I mean what would he know about being a college student trying to get a job in this economy? Although...
If you’ve worked at The Daily, you’re no stranger to being told “no.” Odds are, you’ve interviewed a random person on the street about a serious topic, been asked to put down...
I hate change. Routines are my comfort zone. When they’re upended, and I’m thrust out of the confined box I’ve created for myself, I automatically feel a sense of dread and...
When I was a baby reporter, I was shocked to learn The Daily — which delivers incredible community reporting — is made entirely of a group of (well-trained) college students hooked...
I spent much of my first two years of college in a windowless room on the third floor of the Norris University Center, where The Daily’s newsroom meets. There, I interviewed sources...
