Freshman applications near all-time high

Northwestern has received 16,222 applications for admission next fall, the second highest number of undergraduate applicants in school history.

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Noted composer begins residency

John Adams, inaugural winner of the School of Music’s Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, will visit the Northwestern Evanston campus in February for his first one-week residency.

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Northwestern adopts new policies on evaluative authority

The University has adopted two new policies that address situations in which a faculty or staff member has evaluative authority over another member of the University community, who is or has been a romantic partner or family member.

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Talking baseball

Robert A. DuPuy, Major League Baseball (MLB) president and chief operating officer, delivered the Pope & John Lecture on Professionalism earlier this month at the Law School.

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Upcoming talks: CPS chief Duncan will discuss Renaissance 2010

Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan will present an overview of Renaissance 2010, Mayor Daley’s controversial initiative that aims in the next six years to replace Chicago’s most troubled and under-enrolled public schools with 100 new, smaller schools.

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Wards' rightful return

Portraits of pioneer Chicago catalog retailer A. Montgomery Ward and his wife, Elizabeth, have been restored and returned to the lobby of the Montgomery Ward Memorial Building.

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