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Someone painted the front blue Tuesday night, by Wednesday it was black again.

From the ASG student group directory: “Phi Beta Sigma is a social-service organization that was conceived in 1914 on the ...

The rise of slam poetry in Chicago has given voice to the dreams and desires of all sorts of people.

From the Energy Day NU website: “Energy Day @ NU brings together leaders in the business, academic, and public sectors ...

Northwestern Crew painted the Rock to celebrate their performance at the Dad Vail Regatta last weekend and the completion of ...

This Sunday Alpha Phi will be holding it’s spring philanthropy, the Mud Olympics which will benefit Cardiac Care. The event ...

Rainbow Week – Celebrate equality. Schedule and information from NU Link: Monday, Tech, 11 a.m. – a string quartet in ...

Apparently it is Julie’s birthday. However, under the blue spray paint from Julie’s friends, Zeta Tau Alpha painted the Rock ...

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The Voice for Asia benefit concert will be held this Sunday, May 6 at 1 p.m. on the Norris East ...

Today is Poland Constitution Day. The annual Polish Constitution Day Parade will be taking place downtown on Saturday, May 5th, ...

Delta Zeta and Lambda Chi will hold their Watermelon Bust spring philanthropy Saturday. Games include a wheelbarrow head-poke relay, watermelon ...

The annual Hillel IndepenDANCE party will take place tonight at 10 p.m. at Tommy Nevin’s Pub. The party will celebrate ...

According to the NU Link event description: “Your tuition dollars are funding the genocide in Darfur. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. ...

Before Wednesday night’s vigil, students painted the Rock black with the orange Virginia Tech logo. On the back of the ...

Road Trip Nation comes to Northwestern today. Here is a link to their site. More information to come soon.

From Phonathon supervisor Will Hamlin: Phonathon is currently hiring. We have positions for the spring and summer. New callers start ...

Sigma Chi also painted the Rock on February 27. Here is the link to their website, but it’s a bit ...

The Price is Right Northwestern Edition was held today at 7 p.m. at McCormick Auditorium in Norris. Admission was $5 ...

Jason Gumer launched a write-in campaign for the position of ASG Academic Vice President. From the “Jason Gumer for AVP ...

The Green Cup is an inter-dormitory competition to conserve water and energy use. Residence halls and residential colleges are divided ...

Lacrosse paints the Rock.

The Rock gets very green.

Reformed University Fellowship paints The Rock purple.

A frat paints The Rock.

A frat paints the rock.

Delta Chi fraternity will be grilling around campus all week and talking about Greek life and Delta Chi. Today (Tuesday) ...

The Rock has a new friend: the dome. Here is an email from Micah Stanek, one of the creators of ...

And the rock is splashed red. Happy Spring Break!

For more information, check out their website. Corrected at 10:53 p.m., March 8, 2007.

Check out the Gamma Phi Beta website for more information.

A profile of the NY Times' former Baghdad correspondent.

Northwestern’s Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, also known as Fiji, was founded in 1867. Apparently, there was some controversy ...

Northwestern’s Rho chapter of Beta Theta Pi was installed in 1872. After being kicked off campus in 1992, Beta was ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor opens tomorrow night at Shanley Pavilion. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by ...

The New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins discusses the instability of the American presence in Iraq.

For more information about Phi Psi, check out their website.

The Beta Pi chapter of Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1893 and re-colonized in 1984. Delt organizes the Pajama ...

Also on painted on the Rock – “U of C” “Mock Trial” and “698“.

Vagina Monologues opens tonight at 8 p.m. at Ryan Auditorium. Vagina Monologues, put on at Northwestern by NU College Feminists, ...

The South Asian Student Alliance put on on its annual cultural show on Saturday. The show included dances, musical performances, ...

Chicago lawyer and marijuana advocate Peter Vilkelis will speak tomorrow (February 1) about issues surrounding the legalization of marijuana. Vilkelis ...

I’m not going to touch this one…And I certainly won’t describe the drawing on the back of the Rock.

Words from the painter, Tommy Rousse (a NorthbyNorthwestern.com staffer): “I painted the rock with a couple of friends of mine ...

AEPi is the Jewish fraternity of Northwestern. More information to come later.

The Muslim Cultural Students Association is celebrating Islam Awareness Week with a variety of philanthropy and awareness events. “We just ...

The Evans Scholars program provides “full tuition and housing grants to deserving caddies.” The house is located in the sorority ...

Bill Strausser and his son Sean spent their Sunday afternoon practicing their windsurfing skills — in a parking lot. Windsurfing ...

According to El Cuatro Chica y El Cuatro Chico Tambien, the last two days have been part of The Fourth ...

Several groups of creative folk seem to have gotten to the Rock. The Rock, now sporting some lovely yellow, brown, ...

¿Que es eso? No se! Pero es en español. El numero cuatro… The year 4 Four horsemen of the apocalypse ...

This is the first part of the 18 campaign – a campaign meant to encourage students to embrace life, according ...

Kaibigan is Northwestern’s Filipino student association. From their website: “Kaibigan, meaning “friend” in Tagalog, is a Northwestern University student-run organization ...

Players served and volleyed Monday night at the Norris table tennis tournament.

Chapin will be holding its first ever “Stoop-a-thon” November 27. Participants will sit outside Chapin on their stoop for 24 ...

The STAND Regional Conference on Darfur took place today at Pancoe Pavilion. The conference, which was one of six held ...

Support the Evanston Battered Women’s Shelter in Alpha Chi Omega’s fall philanthropy, Kiss the Frog. Alpha Chi members have been ...

Real Life, Cru’s weekly large group meeting, was hosted by freshman tonight. The topic of the night: If you could ...

400 people registered to vote at Norris this year, but only about 30 showed up.

Poet and author Nikki Giovanni will speak tomorrow night at 7:00 in Ryan Auditorium. Sponsored by FMO. For more information ...

“Project Wildcat is an outdoor orientation program for incoming freshmen at Northwestern University. Campers spend a week backpacking, camping, and ...

More information to come… For more general information about recruitment, click here and to register, click here.

A&O Productions presents… Jurassic 5 and Clipse. This Sunday, Patten Gym, doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 ...

SESP sophomore Neal Sales-Griffin and McCormick sophomore Mario Montes Sujo will be camped out at the Rock all week in ...

In case you missed the Rock the first time, the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series.

The Turkish Student Association celebrated Cumhuriyet Bayrami, Turkish Republic Day yesterday. They painted the Rock red and white like the ...

Missed the Halloween chemistry show? We've got the firebreathing, wands of death and explosions on video.

Kappa Delta is holding its annual 5K Demon Dash this Saturday. The Halloween-themed race begins on the field behind SPAC ...

Chi Omega is hosting “Wish upon a rock star,” their annual philanthropy benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, tonight at Fisk hall ...

It started during New Student Week of 1999. Now, seven years later but back at the Rock, Ross Grimes (Medill ‘03) proposed to Tiffany Berry (WCAS ‘03.)

Ramadan is a Muslim holiday during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. One major tradition is fasting between dawn ...

So Peace Project didn’t exactly paint the Rock, they just taped a sign on instead. Author and advocate Howard Zinn ...

Today is National Coming Out Day. To celebrate, Rainbow Alliance has planned several events. Adrianne Rich, an openly lesbian poet, ...

This one is us – North By Northwestern, NU’s new online magazine. You’re already here, so go check out the ...

Co-ed business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi begins rush today with an information session at 8:00 in the Kemper Residential Hall ...

Yeah, sorry, we’re not too sure about this one. But here’s what Urban Dictionary said. OK everyone, it’s time to ...

Multiethnic Intervarsity Christian fellowship will meet tonight from 7:00-8:30 for a large group meeting in Harris 107. The topic for ...

The Lambda Phi Epsilon Step Team will preform at the Rock tonight for “the first annual minority bone marrow drive ...

Habitat for Humanity asked Rock-goers to help “raise the roof.” “We painted the Rock so everyone could see what we’re ...

Freshman from the fourth floor of Elder kicked off their Northwestern careers by Rockin’ it. “We wanted the whole school ...