Every week, SESP junior Jess Klein spends 20 hours downtown working for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, a routine she began last September. Next month, she might launch a presidential campaign of her own - one that could make her Northwestern's next Associated Student Government president.…

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Until recently, scholars would have to book a plane flight to access rare African manuscripts in Arabic. Now, Northwestern's creation of a database of documents from its Africana collection has made previously unavailable artifacts accessible online. Since the 1960s, approximately 5,000 donated West African manuscripts written in Arabic and indigenous African languages have been compiled in NU's Herskovits Library of African Studies.…

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When the results from today's Super Tuesday presidential primaries roll in, many Northwestern students will experience the media circus for the first time. NU's 2,318 international students are just as interested in the results of the 2008 presidential election as students who grew up in the U.…

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Concerts for students, an auction and a mock beauty pageant are just some of the alternative fundraising methods used by Northwestern students to raise money for the 33rd annual Dance Marathon starting March 7. NU's DM, one of the largest student-run collegiate philanthropies in the nation, is sponsoring Bear Necessities, a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 working to eliminate pediatric cancer.…

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