A seeming innocuous tweet by Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald about NBA sensation Jeremy Lin had him backtracking later when some of his followers accused him of being racist. more ›

Northwestern University professor Charles Mills married his wife Elle in 1993 to help her secure U.S. citizenship. The two are splitting ways, and Mills is on the hook for support payments — even though their “shell marriage” was never consummated. more ›

So how do Oliver Purnell's Blue Demons match up against the top-ranked college basketball team in the country? They don't. more ›

The Blackhawks couldn't solve Kings goalie Jonathan Quick at the United Center last night, while Northwestern ran into a Buckeyes buzzsaw in Columbus. more ›

If you dig movies with super corny dialog, exquisitely bad acting, sub-par special effects and sets that fall over as actors move through the scenery, then boy do we have the film festival for you. more ›

Phoenix 4, Blackhawks 1 more ›

Several NU students forwarded Gawker an email sent out by campus emergency personnel warning them of warning them to be on the lookout for someone who was caught doing what people sometimes do when still waters run deep, but in the privacy of their own showers. more ›

Bill Carmody's Wildcats improved to 4-0 on the season and won the Charleston Classic in Charleston, SC, thanks to Drew Crawford's 27 points. Crawford scored 72 points in Northwestern's three games to earn tournament MVP honors. more ›

The Blackhawks couldn't see the smoke for the fire on Friday night against the Calgary Flames. more ›

It's been two years since Northwestern has beaten a top 10 ranked team, and Saturday they broke that drought by fending off the Cornhuskers. more ›

Viktor Stalberg's first goals of the season paced the Blackhawks' third-period run past Columbus. more ›

Relive the Great Chicago Fire with this detailed iPhone app. more ›

The man behind the "Medill 2020" plan is set to retire Aug. 31, 2012, according to a statement released by Northwestern this morning. more ›

It's never too early for folks in South Bend to start considering a replacement for Irish head coach Brian Kelly. more ›

Judge Diane Cannon said the students were acting as journalists in a criminal procedure and therefore not covered by the shield law. more ›

Researchers have uncovered some secrets of the root cause of the ALS and will help find ways to treat the disease, as well as other neurological diseases. more ›

Of course he managed to make a somewhat family-friendly fucksaw joke. And a lot of other really good jokes. more ›

An influential historic preservation think tank adds old Prentice Women's Hospital to its list of America's 11 most endangered buildings. more ›

The founder of the Medill Innocence Project, under fire for alleged ethics violations for months, leaves Northwestern. more ›

Northwestern psychology majors hoping to learn about human sexuality from J. Michael Bailey are going to have to fall back on their second choices after NU dropped the course from the Department of Psychology's curriculum. Bailey's Human Sexuality course, if you'll remember, is the course where an after-class, optional live demonstration of a marital aid called a fuck saw generated tons of publicity for the university. And not the kind they wanted. more ›

A little over a month has passed since the notorious sex toy demonstration at Northwestern University, but it doesn't look like things are completely settled on the Northwestern front. Actually, the whole ordeal is coming back to kick NU in the butt a little bit, as a church in Tennessee has refused to host a group of volunteers from NU over spring break because of the demonstration. more ›

The back-and-forth between Northwestern University and on leave Medill Innocence Project founder David Protess continues. NU finally came out yesterday and accused Protess of doctoring records and lying to university officials and attorneys investigating ethics questions related to a wrongful conviction case he and Innocence Project students were working on. more ›

David Protess, founder of the Innocence Project at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, announced he'll be taking an indefinite leave of absence from NU. If hindsight was 20/20, a blind man should have seen this coming once news broke last week that Protess was pulled from teaching classes at NU this spring while the university continues its investigation into whether Protess violated ethics with the Innocence Project. more ›

Study after study shows Americans---and especially Illinoisans---are getting more obese. And there are no shortages of reasons: but two more stepped into the limelight this week. One, a lack of activity, is a no-brainer. The other…well…a Northwestern University study blaming religion is a bit less obvious. more ›

Lord help Northwestern's instructors. If they aren't allowing live sex toy demonstrations, they're being pulled from class for the upcoming quarter. That's what happened to Medill School of Journalism professor David Protess, the founder of that school's Innocence Project. more ›

The now-infamous Northwestern University professor who gave his students the option to view a sex-toy in action is now showing pangs of regret over the whole ordeal. While he stood behind his decision to go through with the explicit demonstration just before the weekend began, Professor John Michael Bailey issued a statement in the Daily Northwestern Saturday expressing his regret and concern over his post-class demonstration:

"I regret allowing the controversial after class demonstration on February 21st. I regret the effect that this has had on Northwestern University's reputation, and I regret upsetting so many people in this particular manner. I apologize," wrote Bailey.

Northwestern Professor J. Michael Bailey sat down with the Tribune's Mary Schmich to discuss his decision to have a couple use a now-notorious sex toy in front of a group of students as part of an optional after-class demonstration. Bailey told Schmich he probably wouldn't do it again, but he doesn't regret what happened. "If I decide to say I shouldn't have done this,it will be because this could have been avoided, not because anybody has been harmed by it," Bailey said more ›

Yesterday Northwestern University officials had the back of Professor J. Michael Bailey and his unique and optional after-class demonstration of a sex toy called the "fuck saw." But that was before the story went national and nucular. more ›

If there's one piece of fallout over the Dan Sinker/MayorEmanuel twitter epic, it's that anyone with access to Twitter and an ability to at least be conversational with it is trying to do the same thing. more ›

A noted psychology professor at Northwestern who's no stranger to controversy or unique teaching practices is being defended by NU officials and students for an after-class demonstration of a marital aid last week. John Michael Bailey, who teaches Human Sexuality at NU, staged an explicit demonstration of a device called a "fucksaw" (and our day has been made typing that) to an group of 120 students. The operator of the device repeatedly brought a non-student woman to orgasm with the fucksaw. more ›