Stories by Nick Castele
"In the spring of 2009, as a freshman and one of this website’s video editors, I slinked in and out of editorial meetings, hardly speaking to anyone else, shy and scared."
If you snooze, do you really lose? One writer examines his unique habit of 4-7 hours of sleep a night.
Dozens of journalists and journalism professors signed a letter released Wednesday seconding Medill professor David Protess’ calls for an independent ...
Updated 4/9/11 2:30 p.m.: Former Medill Innocence Project Director David Protess hit back against the university’s recent allegation that he ...
Updated 4/6/11 10:55 p.m.: Northwestern University accused Medill professor David Protess on Wednesday of misleading the school and the public ...
Updated 10:47 a.m.: University spokesman Al Cubbage released a statement saying that, as part of his leave, Protess will not ...
Students and alumni submitted separate petitions to Northwestern administrators Friday asking for more information about Innocence Project Director David Protess’ ...
Updated 3:30 a.m. 3/20/11: Northwestern told Medill Innocence Project Director David Protess early last week that he will not be ...
Updated 4:24 a.m. 3/8/11 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of inmate Hank Skinner, a Texas death row ...
Professor John Michael Bailey issued a statement today apologizing for permitting a live sex demonstration in a Feb. 21 optional ...
Follow Dance Marathon on NBN, and contribute your DM memories, too.
Call me a hand-crafted man. A man who — in an assembly-line land, in a buy-in-bulk land — values the ...
Northwestern President Morton Schapiro said he was “troubled and disappointed” upon hearing that Weinberg professor John Michael Bailey allowed a ...
Weinberg professor and sexologist John Michael Bailey emailed his students this afternoon with a link to a statement addressing his ...
ASG exploded in debate late winter quarter over a proposal to reduce the size of Senate. Why this might help and hurt you.
A group of nine students has been working since January on a series of proposals that could dramatically restructure Associated ...
Tales of adventure, tales of semi-stalking, tales of long distance relationships that actually worked and more.
Look familiar? Evidently way cooler stuff happens on campus when we’re asleep. Screenshot from WGN. While you were busy worrying ...
The City of Evanston has decided not to step up its enforcement of the “brothel law,” an ordinance prohibiting more ...
Colbert interviews Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army on Flickr, ...
A Medill graduate student who served a combat tour of duty with the U.S. military in Iraq died over winter ...
Media professor Everette Dennis of Fordham University will serve as the new dean of Northwestern University in Qatar, Provost Dan ...
The Men and Women of the Wool strike, and they strike like adders. Students of Shepard Residential College painted the ...
Off-campus parties and occupancy violations were up for discussion Tuesday at a forum in Seabury that brought together about 60 ...
After preparing a proposal for more than a year, the Interfraternity Council will push to obtain university permission to serve ...
It would seem that the new student center has only mediocre student support. But a compromise deal might yield better results.
The university has commissioned Populous, a sports design firm, to create a “master plan” for potential changes in sports programming ...
More than 1,200 students registered online last week for Dance Marathon 2011, which organizers called an all-time high. Last year, ...
A new online poll asks students one question: “If you had unlimited funds, what is one thing you would change ...
NU Stands with Pakistan announced today that it raised more than $17,072 — twice its goal of $1 per undergraduate. ...
Photo courtesy of A&O Productions. Communication sophomore Mori Einsidler will open for Homecoming concert headliner Cary Brothers (WCAS ‘95), A&O ...
Sigma Chi and the Residence Hall Association will bring rising hip-hop artist Shwayze to campus early next month, the fraternity ...
Tickets for the A&O Blowout concert, featuring Snoop Dogg and Kid Cudi, sold out Monday evening. Students, alumni and other ...
Residential hall officials have chosen 15 new senators to represent on-campus students in Associated Student Government. Students living in dorms ...
Later this month, former Gov. Howard Dean and former Sen. Rick Santorum will come together for what's being billed as a part-debate, part-casual-chat. We sit down with the organizers.
Updated 10/1/10 11:56 p.m. CST: The east-west crosswalk to the Arch is now open. The crosswalk heading east and west ...
Members of Secular Humanists for Inquiry and Free Thought painted the Rock white early Thursday morning, planning to invite students ...
This week Northwestern University unveiled a new financial aid program geared at increasing minority and low-income enrollment. In fall 2011, ...
While the ultimate question of Blagojevich's guilt hangs in the air, take a walk through more than a year of North by Northwestern coverage of the former governor.
Updated 8/4/10, 4:09 p.m. CST. Weinberg sophomore James Obremski was found dead in his Evanston apartment on Friday, Dean of ...
Updated 6/7/10, 3:04 p.m. CST A 25-year-old male student was found dead in a bathroom of the University Library around ...
How much can student government actually get done in a year? With the topmost offices seemingly closed to outsiders, does ASG really represent the student body? And is the whole venture just one big boondoggle of a letdown?
William J. Banis, vice president for student affairs, will retire before August 31, 2011. Provost Daniel Linzer released the news ...
North by Northwestern's Editor-in-Chief Amanda Litman sits down with Huffington Post College editor Jose Vargas to interview Sec. of Education Arne Duncan and Melody Barnes, the Director of Domestic Policy.
Pres. Schapiro took a moment with NBN to give his take on students' submissions to the Huffington Post contest.
Today was Professor Stephen Kinzer's last day at Northwestern. We sat down with him to talk about his experience.
North by Northwestern file photo “Man versus food!” shouts a man in a banana suit at Dance Marathon Top Chef. ...
Been cultivating your inferiority complex lately? If not, it’s time to recall the day you received the thin envelope from ...
The Big Ten Network sponsored a slam dunk contest and a three-point shootout Thursday night, as part of their show ...
Been ignoring your friends’ tweets, status updates and “Support John” messages scrawled on dorm room white boards? Take a moment ...
So why’d you study restaurants? The reason I chose restaurants was that I was interested in looking at and hearing ...
A prim restaurant patron presumptuously demands an enigmatic “special omelet” not on the menu. The stressed waiter and cooks snap. ...
You're done with Wildcat Welcome. Now the real fun begins.
Find out what to bring to class -- and what not to worry about -- as a freshman.
Poetry Monday takes a deeper look into the library and what hides beneath the surface.
Drug Week wrapped Thursday night with two drug policy experts talking out the issue of marijuana legalization.
Join Agapito and Ignacio as they try to overcome their obstacles on the river.
Pleasuring female partners was the subject of this prop-infused presentation.
Sixteen students were selected by the Northwestern administration to attend the grand opening of "NU-Q."
Photo by Richard Castele. Dear Cuyahoga River, It must be tough to be you. My parents remember June 1969, when ...
The Ultimate Frisbee team combines work with play, from the field to the "Frisbee House."
Last Sunday, the African Student Association hosted its ninth annual culture show.
Just before noon on Tuesday, a flash mob convened outside of Tech and erupted into total pillow warfare.
Our city was excited to usher in Obama after "eight long years."
Look inside two houses -- and you thought the sidewalks were loud.
The problem with partisanship, as explored by our writer.
The College Republicans brought author David Horowitz to campus Tuesday.
A creepy playground stalker inspires a deeper kind of thinking.
Video from last Saturday's game.
A story of taking risks and finding one's place at Northwestern.