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Northwestern rescinds honorary degree offer to Rev. Wright 21 minutes ago Northwestern University has withdrawn its offer of an honorary degree to the former pastor of Democrat Barack Obama. A university official says the school had offered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Theology. But vice president for university relations Alan Cubbage now says the offer has been rescinded because of the controversy surrounding Wright. He also says the school wants "to ensure that the celebratory character of commencement not be affected." Wright is the former senior minister at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. His...

His autobiography was entitled, "In the Arena" and that is most certainly where Charlton Heston lived his life. When fundamental principles of individual rights and human liberty were at stake, Heston wheeled his chariot into the arena to do intellectual battle. He was the rare iconic figure who did not let his status inhibit him from consistently acting in furtherance of what he knew to be just. News accounts about his passing have detailed his record on civil rights and gun rights but it is on free speech rights that I am able to give eyewitness testimony. There is an...

Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, removed a senior as student ministries director because of theological views that some at the college called "hyper-dispensational." "The matters of concern raised were viewed as being potentially divisive and not accurately representing the theological interpretation of Northwestern College," said an August e-mail announcing Josh Strelecki's removal. Strelecki holds to three controversial beliefs: that the book of James was written for Israel and not for the church; that the church started with Paul and not at Pentecost; and that Israel was saved by faith and works, not by faith alone. Dean Paulson, Northwestern's director...

Network aims to offer more Big Ten programming than ever before CHICAGO – The much-anticipated launch of the Big Ten Network is here, with the network going on the air at 8 p.m. ET with a special edition of Big Ten Tonight. "We're tremendously excited to make television history with the launch of the Big Ten Network on Thursday night," Network President Mark Silverman said. "Fans will enjoy more Big Ten programming than ever before. I think fans will look back years from now and wonder how they ever followed their teams without the Big Ten Network." The network's launch...

A Hindu professor of religion has become the first non-Christian to head St. Olaf College's Religion Department in the college's 133-year history. "It's a great honor," Anantanand Rambachan said of the three-year appointment. "St. Olaf has one of the finest undergraduate religion departments in the country." Rambachan, 55, has taught religion, philosophy and Asian studies at the college in Northfield, Minn., since 1985. He also has been a leading figure in Minnesota's Hindu cultural circles. He grew up on the West Indies island of Trinidad in a devout Hindu family -- both of his grandfathers were Hindu priests. As a...

Amid the cheering Northwestern football fans at Ryan Field, all Ashar Wasi wanted was a quiet place to pray. The only place he could find was a spot of less-than-clean floor in a public walkway. "We had to pray in front of the concession stand, in front of all the people," the McCormick junior said. Perhaps someone noticed. At last Wednesday's ASG meeting, the Muslim-cultural Students Association proposed a bill establishing a designated prayer area at Welsh-Ryan Arena for Muslim students for football and basketball games. McSA President Amir Siddiqui estimates more than 20 Muslim students are in attendance at...

By developing a low-cost method for making high-performance transparent transistors, researchers at Northwestern University have taken an important step toward creating sharp, bright displays that could be laminated to windshields, computer monitors, and televisions but would blend into the background when not in use. For years, researchers have attempted to make flexible electronics based on electrically conducting plastics that can be manufactured inexpensively. There has been some success in making ones are nearly transparent. But these organic materials have produced transistors with disappointing performance, falling well short of the capabilities of transistors made with inorganic materials such as silicon. The...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Ever since the invention of the first scanning probe microscope in 1981, researchers have believed the powerful tool would someday be used for the nanofabrication and nanopatterning of surfaces in a molecule-by-molecule, bottom-up fashion. Despite 25 years of research in this area, the world has hit a brick wall in developing a technique with commercial potential -- until now. Northwestern University researchers have developed a 55,000-pen, two-dimensional array that allows them to simultaneously create 55,000 identical patterns drawn with tiny dots of molecular ink on substrates of gold or glass. Each structure is only a single molecule...

Profs. Susan Braunhut and Kenneth Marx have teamed up to pursue a “mind-blowing” innovation—to cause a limb to re-grow in an adult mammal.The UMass Lowell research group has joined groups from five other institutions and secured funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The UMass Lowell portion of the DARPA grant is $1.2 million for the first two years, with an anticipated continuation of $1.4 million for the next two years. The research groups expect that by working together they will gain a more complete understanding of the cellular and molecular processes that allow certain creatures, such as...

Football Coach Randy Walker Dies Suddenly of Apparent Heart Attack Walker, 52, was set to begin his eighth season with the Wildcats Randy Walker led the Wildcats to a Big Ten title and three bowl appearances in his seven years as head coach. Football Home June 30, 2006 EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern University Head Football Coach Randy Walker died suddenly Thursday night (June 29) of an apparent heart attack. He was 52 years old. "Our deepest sympathies go out to his wife, Tammy, and his two children, Abbey and Jamie," said NU Director of Athletics Mark Murphy. "This is a...

By Diana Leone dleone@starbulletin.com The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council will ask for continued commercial fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, despite a presidential order yesterday that will ban it in a large region declared as a monument, a council member says. Westpac council member Edwin Ebisui said the council thinks fishing is "palatable and consistent with a monument or reserve." "Westpac's position is and has been that the two fisheries going on up there (bottom-fish and pelagic) have been for years absolutely consistent with marine protection," Ebisui, Hawaii member of the council, said yesterday by telephone from a meeting...

By Diana Leone dleone@starbulletin.com President Bush is expected to announce in Washington today that he wants to make the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a national monument. In doing so, Bush would establish permanent protection for the 1,400-mile-long, 100-mile-wide section of the Hawaiian archipelago and coral reefs, a move that environmental groups, native Hawaiians and others have been seeking for years. "Building on all the work that was done in the last five years under the marine sanctuary process, the president has decided to elevate the designation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands area to national monument status," said a statement released yesterday...

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Northwestern University suspended its women's soccer team Monday while the school investigates alleged hazing involving players last year. The school learned of the allegations Monday, athletics director Mark Murphy said in a statement. "If the investigation shows that there has been a violation of Northwestern's policies, appropriate sanctions will be imposed and the Athletic Department may take additional action as well," Murphy said. The statement did not provide details about the alleged incident, and a Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage said the school would not comment further. A Web site on Monday displayed pictures allegedly of Northwestern...

Hundreds Flee Northwestern Pakistan Unrest Sunday March 5, 2006 6:31 PM By BASHIRULLAH KHAN Associated Press Writer MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Hundreds of Pakistanis lugging bags and bundles of clothes fled a northwestern town Sunday after pro-Taliban tribesmen and foreign militants battled security forces in clashes near the Afghan border that left at least 53 people dead. The fighting, which started Saturday and largely died down early Sunday, was the worst in two years in the lawless North Waziristan region, where well-armed, fiercely independent tribes have long resisted government control. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said sporadic gunfire...

DePaul University is rapidly becoming ground zero in the battle to reform academia’s corrupted political culture. For the third time in less than a year the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has publicly rebuked the university for its politically motivated abridgment of free speech, this time for shutting down an anti-affirmative action bake sale and threatening to punish one of the organizers for violation of a newly instituted anti-discrimination policy. The DePaul Conservative Alliance set up a table in the Student Center where they were selling cookies and suggesting differing prices based on race, ethnicity and gender. It...

Bill Ayers (scroll down the below post for more about him) is married to fellow ex-Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. She's a clinical associate professor of law at Evanston's Northwestern University. Her NU biography is here, and like hubby's UIC biography, it leaves out her terror past. Today I found this Dohrn dropping, courtesy of FrontPage Magazine's Discover the Network. In 1969, the infamous Manson Family mass murder took place--that same year, this is what future-Professor Dohrn had to say about that crime: "Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them....

See that picture? That's Richard J. Elrod. He's been partially paralyzed since 1969 after suffering a broken neck. More on him later. Yesterday I had a couple of posts on the husband-and-wife professors who were formerly members of the 1960s domestic terror organization, the Weather Underground. The professors are Bernardine Dohrn of Northwestern University and Bill Ayers of the University of Illinois-Chicago. Feel to drop by Marathon Pundit for more on information on them. On October 8, 1969, The Weather Underground decided to jumpstart the "People's Revolution," in Chicago. They blew up a statue of a policeman (that statue...

My nine year-old daughter and I decided to attend Evanston's First Night New Year's Eve celebration. Evanston, IL is a very liberal town--it's the home of Northwestern University. Jan Schakowsky, one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives, has lived in Evanston for many years. The Chicago suburb turns out huge Democratic majorities each election. Our first stop for First Night was the Evanston Public Library, where we bought our tickets to the fair. We encountered a table staffed with war protesters from Neighbors for Peace, there they are in the picture below. Visitors to the library...

The Illinois-Northwestern game is over and it ended in another Illini defeat. Chief Illiniwek's last gridiron dance may have taken place yesterday. The "braintrust" at the NCAA has ruled that the Fighting Illini nickname is okay for the University of Illinois to use--but the Indianhead logo and the Chief Illiniwek mascot have to go. As with every Big 10 football game yesterday--Ohio State-Michigan being the exception--the game was played for a trophy. The winner of the annual Illinois-Northwestern game gets to take home the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk trophy, which is pictured below, next to the Chief. (But keep that quiet,...

The Anthony Porter case dominated local news here for weeks, and its effect was felt in early 2003, when departing Governor George Ryan emptied Illinois' death row. Yesterday, a jury in Chicago ruled against Porter, stating the City of Chicago did not act in a malicious matter when they investigated the double murder Porter was convicted of in 1982. Six years ago, two days before Porter was to be executed for that crime, a Northwestern journalism professor, David Protess, and some of his students located a Milwaukee man who confessed to the murders. That man has since recanted. Hmmm... What...

Linked to the ESPN College Football Scoreboard. Should be a great day today for football! There is a nip in the air, the leaves have turned colors (mine are on the ground), and the sun is out and bright!!

Under the title of "DePaul's predicament: The choice--Stop--or stop justifying--anti-Israel sentiment," the Chicago Jewish Star returns to the issues haunting Chicago's DePaul University. In its previous edition, the Star summarized Thomas Klocek's free speech struggle against DePaul, and it included this quote from Klocek, "I stood for Israel, because it is in the right. I paid the price at a Christian University." The Chicago Jewish Star is not available online, it's a free-weekly. If you're in Chicago's Loop, look for a Jewish Star newspaper box and pick up a copy to see the entire editorial. Here are some excerpts: During...

<p>Kathy Boudin, carrying roses she was given after her mother died, walks out of a Westchester prison yesterday (above). She was jailed 22 years ago for her role in the infamous Brinks heist that left two cops and a guard dead.</p>

On its official Web site, Northwestern offers an impressive biography of Law Prof. Bernardine Dohrn, detailing her work in children's law, her educational background, her academic appointments and other notable accomplishments. The university's profile curiously omits one of her most significant leadership positions: She was a principal organizer of the Weathermen, a radical cabal, during the late 60s and early 70s. Among its many criminal exploits, the group claimed responsibility for no fewer than 12 bombings between 1970 and 1974, and Dohrn spent a decade hiding from federal authorities to avoid prosecution for assaulting a police officer. A basic Internet...

Although the controversy over University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s pro-terrorist ravings has captured national headlines recently, the flirtation between America’s institutions of higher learning and radical, left-wing activism is hardly a new phenomenon. U.S. colleges and universities are rife with Marxist holdouts like Churchill and other relics from the Sixties. And while many, like Churchill, have openly supported America’s terrorist enemies, a dubious few have actually held prominent positions in terrorist groups. One of the most notable examples of this disturbing phenomenon is Bernardine Dohrn, an Associate Professor and the Director of the Children and Family Justice Clinic at...

Although the controversy over University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s pro-terrorist ravings has captured national headlines recently, the flirtation between America’s institutions of higher learning and radical, left-wing activism is hardly a new phenomenon. U.S. colleges and universities are rife with Marxist holdouts like Churchill and other relics from the Sixties. And while many, like Churchill, have openly supported America’s terrorist enemies, a dubious few have actually held prominent positions in terrorist groups. One of the most notable examples of this disturbing phenomenon is Bernardine Dohrn, an Associate Professor and the Director of the Children and Family Justice Clinic at...

...Bloody-minded optimists say... the climactic shake-out is finally upon us. Once the cleansing is done, the airlines will go back to being profitable and sustainable like "normal" industries. Don't bet on it. Airlines have shown an ability to mint short-term profits in an economic bounceback when demand grows faster than they can lay on more jets and gates. But that's not the same thing as being able to make profits consistently enough to pay back the capital invested in the industry. The airlines have never been able to do this, at least not since deregulation.... Airports, meanwhile, are local monopolies...

Although high grades have some academics concerned about grade inflation, students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism offer a simple explanation: They deserve them. A's accounted for 56 percent of the undergraduate grades during the just-completed winter quarter at Medill, according to an internal university report.

(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- A federal appeals court quashed Friday an attempt by the Department of Justice to obtain medical records from Northwestern Memorial Hospital of patients who have received late-term abortions. The 2-1 ruling found that if Northwestern Memorial turned over the records it would invade patient privacy, upholding a ruling made by Chicago's chief U.S. district judge last month. "The government does not deny that (Northwestern Memorial) is an appropriate representative of the privacy interests of its patients," Judge Richard Posner wrote in the majority decision on behalf of the 7th U.S. District Court of Appeals. The Justice...

The other day I ran across a newspaper report of a most remarkable and bizarre study wherein the researchers decided to examine the responses of 24 white college students to determine the hidden racial beliefs of white Americans overall. The students were shown ambiguous facial expressions in pictures of both blacks and whites. As a result of their recorded reactions, the researchers (headed by a Professor Bodenhausen) found that the students were more likely to read hostility in the faces of black Americans than in those of their fellow whites. Another experiment of theirs reached a similar conclusion when the...

Protestors clash over abortion rights Students, community members line Sheridan Road in demonstration By Sheila Burt and Nick Collins March 11, 2004 Joe Scheidler positioned his 5-foot-high picture of a bloody fetus head in plain view of the passing cars on Sheridan Road. The national director of the Pro-Life Action League wanted to raise students' awareness about abortion through an on-campus protest on March 10. Two women -- joining a group of more than 75 Northwestern students and community members to protest the anti-abortion group -- jumped in front of the tall man as they held abortion-rights signs. Scheidler calmly...

Northwestern University tailback Jason Wright closed out his college career as the school's fourth-leading rusher, and was a two-time first team Academic All-American. On Saturday, however, he recorded a first: he gave his first formal speech, as the keynote speaker at the Rolling Meadows Community Prayer Breakfast. "I'm just glad for the opportunity," Wright said afterward. "This is the only group I've ever spoken to, besides my (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) group." It won't be his last. He already is booked to speak to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes coaches meeting on March 13 at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire....

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Gary Barnett, the University of Colorado's head football coach, is in the midst of a college recruiting sex scandal, which has stirred up allegations regarding Barnett's tenure at Northwestern University. Barnett said he knows nothing about allegations at Colorado that strippers were used to entice recruits to enroll. One former Northwestern player says the same thing happened to him when Barnett was coach of the Wildcats, but that player also says Barnett never knew recruits were enticed by exotic dancers. David Beazley won two Big Ten championships at Northwestern as part of two teams Barnett led to...

Conservative author Ann Coulter answers questions after her speech Thursday in the Owen L. Coon Forum. More than 600 students attended the event, where Coulter discussed racial profiling and religion's role in the war on terrorism. photo by Peter Stephan Need for racial profiling, 2004 election predictions top conservative's agenda November 21, 2003 More than 600 students filled the Owen L. Coon Forum on Thursday with intermittent applause and nervous conversation as conservative author and political activist Ann Coulter spoke on the war in Iraq, liberals and racial profiling. "The war has been a magnificent success," said Coulter, author of...

Evanston police arrested a Communication freshman Monday and charged him with felony disorderly conduct, alleging he lied about two hate crimes to bring attention to race relations on campus. Jaime Alexander Saide, nicknamed Xander, told police he found the words "Die Spic" written on a poster and wall adjacent to his first-floor room in Chapin Residential College on Nov. 4. Four days later Saide told police someone grabbed him from behind on the street nearby the dorm, held a knife to his neck and whispered "Spic, we didn't run away this time," into his ear. Saide "made up" both incidents,...

Host of ABC's "This Week", Former Senior Adviser to President Clinton, George Stephanopolous Will Be At Northwestern on Wednesday, October 29 at 7PM at Pick-Staiger Concert HALL. Tickets are FREE and available at the Norris Box Office.Sponsored by the College Democrats, Political Science Department and ASG. Paid for by SAF.

Northwestern University police have reportedly launched an investigation and increased patrols after several students reported they were hypnotized by an unidentified man in the university library. At least one of those students has claimed she was sexually assaulted. Sarah Bush, a junior at the university, wrote in a guest column for the Daily Northwestern that a man at the library asked her to take part in "a psychology study" that involved some relaxation techniques. Bush wrote she later awakened from a hypnotic state and realized the man was asking her to lie down on the floor. Bush said she doesn't...

<p>NorthWestern Corp., which provides electricity and natural gas to nearly 600,000 customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, said Monday that it has filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws.</p> <p>The company had been trying to restructure without filing for bankruptcy. But it was unable to get enough shareholder votes to approve a plan to issue up to 200 million additional shares of stock to raise cash to help pay part of its $2.2 billion debt.</p>

Academy releases video of punch incident Northwestern assistant coach struck Harridge with forearm By MARK FITZHENRY THE GAZETTE A Northwestern assistant coach walked onto the field and delivered a blow with his left forearm under Air Force quarterback Chance Harridge's chin during a game Saturday, as shown on a videotape released by the academy Tuesday. In the same motion, defensive line coach Jay Peterson wrapped his left arm around the neck of one of his players to complete a hug. Harridge responded by punching Peterson in the left side of his torso. The academy released the videotape of the incident,...

Campus leaders air grievances As campus police investigated racial epithets found scrawled in a Northwestern University dormitory, members of student government blasted the school's efforts to combat hate crimes. A list of grievances approved by the student senate and presented Thursday to university officials read in part: "It is the opinion of the undergraduate student body at Northwestern University that the administration's efforts to combat hate on campus are woefully inadequate." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------snip--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I feel the feedback we're getting from the administration now is good," said Tracy Carson, coordinator of the black student alliance For Members Only.

<p>NEW YORK — As time runs out for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to disarm or face a military thrashing from the United States and its allies, "pro-war" — or "anti-anti-war" — Americans are saying they have had enough of the recent protests in various cities at home and abroad.</p>

Want a dose of optimism? Look at the URL accompanying this post. Seeing these kids stand up for our President, our government, our policies strenghtens my confidence for the future of America. God bless them. Let's hope their example spreads to other campuses.

<p>Why is the Fed. Gov't Paying Women to Watch Dirty Movies?</p> <p>This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, January 16, 2003.</p> <p>BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the Back of the Book segment tonight, a federal study funded by us at Northwestern University in Chicago. Women were paid as much as $75 each to watch dirty movies. Two-year study cost the American taxpayer $147,000.</p>

The Governor will outline his reasoning for issuing 156 death row pardons in a live address to Northwestern Law School in Evanston at 2PM CST.No mention of which networks will go live yet.