As a Northwestern student, the Alamo Bowl was heartbreaking. We haven’t won a bowl game since 1949 and last night we came this close against Missouri. The odds were against us but somehow we pulled it together, played well and didn’t choke like we usually do. We even made it into overtime.
 

Upon reflection, it’s easy to wonder, what if our kick...

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You’ve just been accepted to one of the most prestigious business school’s in the country… just kidding! That’s pretty much the scenario facing 50 applicants to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management this week.
 

The business school hopefuls were accidentally sent acceptance letters when in reality they were rejected.
 

The Chica...

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When Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich gets involved in corruption he doesn’t just dabble in it, he goes full throttle.
 

Unfortunately for him, the good governor’s actions caught up with him today. Blagojevich was arrested this morning on charges of “conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill th...

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In the quest to find missing student Trevor Boehm, a sad development occurred yesterday. A man’s body was found in Lake Michigan Sunday morning, but it has not yet been positively identified.
 

It is believed that the body is probably that of Boehm, who disappeared more than a week ago. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office is expected to ma...

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Let me preface this post with the admission that I am not mature. As such, while looking for winter quarter classes, I stumbled upon this gem and couldn't help but laugh. It's a Gender Studies class (of course) and it's Gender Theory: Penetration/Penetrability.

And it's (sort of) what it sounds like. Take a look at the course description and d...

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Campus police announced today that a Northwestern student has been missing since last Wednesday.

Trevor J. Boehm was reported missing when his parents came to the school for Parents’ Weekend this weekend and he couldn’t be found.

An alert on Northwestern’s website gives the details:

Trevor J. Boehm, 20, a freshman in the School of Communica...

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Molly Beucher is a recent Northwestern graduate and an aspiring actress. Well, last night she took one small step toward that goal with some time on the small screen. Beucher was one of the unfortunate souls stopped for the Tonight Show’s Jaywalking segment. You know that never ends well.
 

Let’s just throw it out there that Beucher was an econo...

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So this Saturday is the biggest holiday of mid-October… Sweetest Day 2008 (sorry National Boss’s Day). It’s a poor man’s Valentine’s Day except that no poor man could really afford the lavish gifts and gestures some (re: needy) woman expect.
 

It was a fateful day 87 years ago that brought a team of candy makers in Cleveland together. How, oh h...

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Seems John Edwards has flip-flopped on the issue of public appearances post-scandalous affair.
 

Last we heard, Edwards wasn’t exactly shying away from the spotlight. In fact he was trying to hog it! The cheating scoundrel had added to his public speaking and even upped his price. But now it seems Edwards is singing a different tune – a tune of ...

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Willie seems pretty happy about it.

Wildcats rejoice! Northwestern has climbed a whole two spots in the US News and World Report all-important college rankings list. That puts us at number twelve, tied with Washington University in St. Louis which I’m pretty sure no one has heard of ever.

Still beating us out in the Midwest is the University ...

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