The 2020 NFL Draft wrapped up Saturday afternoon, with 32 owners scouring a pool of the best talent in college football. Everybody’s talking about the big first-round picks and who “won” or “lost” the draft. Read more
When asked about his recovery and return to the football field, Lorenzo Neal changed the subject.
Columns
Given that a lot of us are stuck inside for longer periods of time than normal, I’ve assembled a list of some of my favorite books. Included are several novels that seem fitting for the present circumstances. Or, after skimming through the list, you can just go back to watching Netflix. Read more
I recently wrote about finding a large Purdue basketball sign near a dumpster behind Sylvia Street. That sign has been resting comfortably in my room ever since, and on Sunday, it got a buddy. Read more
In our last print edition, we sports editors detailed our favorite sports movies of all time. I raised some eyebrows when I revealed that my favorite is “Caddyshack,” the 1980 farce about sex, drugs and golf directed by Harold Ramis. Read more
The best advice to avoid contracting the coronavirus is to stay home. Read more
Two Walmart shoppers walked into the toilet paper aisle last week. It was empty. They turned to look at one another, mouths gaping. Then they began laughing hysterically. Read more
If there’s one word in the English dictionary to describe the Boilermakers’ season, it would be “inconsistency.” More specifically, how inconsistently they play against ranked teams at home. Read more
With its choice of speakers for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Purdue has again demonstrated its tone-deafness and opted to whitewash a topic meant to commemorate racial progress forged by people of color. Read more
Purdue’s next opponent, Jacksonville State University, is recovering from a blowout loss to Virginia Commonwealth University. Read more
Thursday night football this past week featured the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns in a rivalry game, but what happened at the end might have changed National Football League history. Read more
We’re writing to show our support for the staff of The Daily Northwestern, from one student newsroom to another. Read more
To those with enough grit to stand up to the injustices of discrimination that still ripple across this campus, stand proudly. Read more
Purdue released a statement on Sept. 13 confirming, after recent controversy, that it would bring a permanent Chick-fil-A to campus. Read more
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These selections are based upon criteria to limit recency bias, favoritism and the impact of an athlete’s career. The selections are based solely on the athlete’s success at Purdue, not factoring in professional or international competitions and victories. They also do not take into consider… Read more
Since Purdue’s founding, the military has played an integral part in the University’s development. The existence of military training was a condition of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, the law which authorized the foundation of Purdue and many other public universities across the country. Read more
Billionaire Howard Schultz delivered his first national policy speech to the country Thursday from a podium in the usually intimate, but on that day relatively roomy, confines of Fowler Hall in Purdue’s Stewart Center. Read more
A recent column written by Purdue President Mitch Daniels touts the value of GPAs when used hand-in-hand with ACT and SAT scores to determine the “grit” of college applicants, a thesis statement clouded by his contradictory rhetoric and antagonistic view of students’ mental health. Read more
Entering the third year of his five-year contract, athletics director Mike Bobinski has been the architect behind the revival for the Purdue football program. His short tenure included the hiring and — more importantly — the retention of head coach Jeff Brohm. Read more
On the morning of Nov. 8, 1968, I was eating breakfast in my Grant Street apartment when the phone rang. Read more
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White people can sometimes become defensive when the subject of racism is discussed, the author of a book on white fragility said. Oftentimes this stems from the dislike of being generalized.
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As students search for apartments and sign leases, the ongoing pandemic proves to be an additional hurdle in an already difficult process.
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In a Sept. 8 meeting, service staff employees at Purdue complained to their advocacy committee about being overworked and scared for their future employment, as well as not being informed when co-workers had contracted COVID-19.
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For Purdue’s highest-paid professor, the joy of teaching has endured the fallout of COVID-19.
The Purdue Board of Trustees' executive committee approved motions to plan, finance, construct and award construction contracts for a Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility and a Secure Research Facility Wednesday afternoon.
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Ebony Stewart was performing her final poem of the night, titled "Mental Health Barz," when she paused. The poet watched as a thin red outline of a penis slowly formed across her screen.
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The writer who coined the phrase “white fragility” will speak to viewers Thursday night as part of Purdue’s ongoing “Pursuing Racial Justice Together” series.
Letters to the Editor
As a 1958 BSEE graduate, I have represented Purdue University for more than 40 years of sharing my experiences relating to the professional side of engineering with more than 75,000 students in 203 universities. This includes speaking at five conferences at Purdue.
Reading through the proposed J-Term, I found that this calendar change will impact students more negatively than they realize. Purdue has a massive internship and co-op program. The co-op program is ranked #11 in the country and contains 1300+ students. That number doesn’t even include the h…
Specifically to Charles Seed,
I saw the Twitter post saying to write in with things we had to say ... Purdue does not care about your health. Regardless of what the Protect Purdue protocol calls for, it is not focused around health. More people die each year from heart disease and obesity related causes than COVID-19. Ev…
The Exponent’s Jan. 28 story “Mitch Daniels ready to admit defeat on federal safety-net spending” did not address another defeatist point in President Daniels’ Jan. 27 column in The Washington Post. In the column, he also says "if the climate change computer models prove accurate, it is alre…
On Jan. 20, Purdue provided educational programming around the nation’s 46th presidential inauguration. In a day packed full of discussion, from First Ladies’ fashion; to historical transitions of power; to defending the truth, it’s what we dared not discuss that says the most about us.
This semester Purdue is supposedly not allowing attendance in person to be counted against students. However, we have found that students are experiencing otherwise.
Many students say it is their right not to wear a mask in public.
News recently broke that Purdue will be requiring students wishing to go online for the spring semester to show “significant” changes in personal circumstances, such as medical concerns, family health, financial situations or visa restrictions. This requires students to rely on extenuating c…
Let’s state the obvious: being a student in any capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult.
The symbol of the President of the United States is an eagle holding 13 arrows, representing our desire to defend our rights, and in the other talon is an olive branch, symbolizing an equal desire to maintain peace, cooperate, treat people with mercy and forgiveness and to be fair to all. Th…
