At least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.
You’d think northwestern would be in the northwest, but no. Shows the calibre of education they provide.
I know this is sarcastic, and I love it and I’m sorry the pedantic part of my brain must inform someone that when the school was founded, Illinois was the Northwest part of the United States.
The full extent of the contiguous united states was established before the founding of northwestern university. Illinois territory wasn’t organized until after the louisiana purchase.
IIRC, it was sorta the NW for states admitted to the Union in 1851.
I didn’t name it, I just also wondered this and Googled it in like 2010.
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I guess the term “Midwest” was well established by then. Maybe anything further West was called “The Territories” or something?
The naming of the university was very likely just following accepted naming conventions.
If anything this shows the expansionist nature of the US. And an unwillingness to overhaul conventions (and there’s a lot to unpack there).
The United States is the inheritor of all of Rome’s evils. They are the same culture, the same empire.
Only the east coast matters.