In case you were busy building snowforts, here’s a recap of some news you may have missed this week.
Blizzard exhausts campus reserves of road salt, snow puns
In what some are calling the Snowpocalypse, SNOMG and, less frequently, Snow! MTV Raps, Evanston was blanketed with snow that began Tuesday night. After canceling classes that afternoon, Northwestern followed the Nickelodeon script and closed down on Wednesday. You can read our liveblog of the two-day affair right here.
Screenwriters already planning epic film adaptation; Michael Bay rumored to direct
More than one hundred Northwestern students gathered north of the Library on Wednesday for a massive snowball fight. The battle brought Northwestern together, all while turning friends into enemies, enemies into friends and teaching us all a valuable lesson about the horrors of war. We’ve got a video of the event right here.
Not to be outdone, SESP and Theatre program announce partnership – “acting like you care about education”
Professors in the McCormick and Medill announced a new partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on Thursday to create a joint laboratory combining journalism and engineering. The new program will invest $4.2 million in innovative technology and journalism at Northwestern over the next four years. Our snow angels at The Daily Northwestern have the full story.
Unmoved critics warn of fluoride, superintelligent sharks
After reports of high concentrations of the carcinogen hexavalent chromium in Chicago water last December, Evanston officials sent water samples to be tested at an independent laboratory. The results will be in Friday, and the city is confident that its water will pass EPA standards. Head over to The Daily for the whole thing.