Tagged: Artemus Ward

Presidential priorities

Political scientists speculate on Donald Trump’s first months in office

  • January 23, 2017
As Donald Trump begins his term as the 45th president, several NIU political science professors expect him to undo policies of the Barack Obama administration and to address taxes, immigration, health…

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American dream

Parents of NIU Student Lincoln Laureate Kiranjit Gill emigrated
from India to U.S. for opportunity—and their daughter found it

  • October 20, 2015
In 1998, when Kiranjit Gill was just 4 years old, her parents left their homeland of Punjab, India, and traveled to the United States, settling in Palatine, Illinois. They wanted…

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Question for the ages

Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs actually better than the famous 1908 champions?

  • October 8, 2015
With the Chicago Cubs headed to the National League Division Series, the NIU Newsroom posed a question for the ages to Artemus Ward: Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs better than…

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F-bombed

Is our culture really more profane than in the past?

  • September 30, 2015
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain, a Biography A few years back, Jeff Chown was teaching an NIU…

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