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Even with Northwestern's football team bowl eligible after a big upset win over Iowa, some (more bookish) folks may be looking for a non-football opportunity. Lucky for you, those clever NU students have the answer: Quidditch. Yes, Quidditich: the (until now, apparently) imaginary game from the Harry Potter universe. The Sun-Times spoke with NU student Marc Bourgeois who's in charge of getting the Quidditich team up and running: "We're gathering equipment and organizing meetings and practices and all that. We should start having pickup games in the next two weeks or so." Bourgeois hopes to get NU's team involved with the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association - yes, it's real - to compete against teams from other schools across the country.

A recent study released by Kiplinger lists Northwestern University as the top Illinois school in its recent Top 100 private school rankings (top 50 private universities and top 50 liberal arts schools). NU (tuition: $51,850/year) came in at Number 15 overall, just ahead of Notre Dame (tuition: $49,795/year) at Number 16. The Sun-Times has all the Illinois schools that were ranked and you can check out the full list here.

• The Cook County state's attorney's office is doing battle with Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project over students' work in securing a new hearing for Anthony McKinney, who the project claims was wrongfully convicted for a 1978 murder.
• After months of pressure as a result of the Clout College scandal, University of Illinois chancellor Richard Herman announced his resignation, effective Monday.
• Anger is spreading over a fundraiser being held by the Fraternal Order of Police for Chicago Police officer Joseph Frugoli, who was charged with a DUI and reckless homicide for a drunk driving accident this past spring that claimed the lives of two men. Frugoli was off-duty at the time of the accident.

• A judge ruled today that Blago can appear on the reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice though are still concerns about how is appearance could affect his upcoming trial.
• The mother of James Degorski, recently convicted for the 1993 Brown's Chicken murders, testified on his behalf today during the penalty phase of his trial.
• Still no word on why a group of federal agents, led by the Chicago FBI office, raided an area goat meat plant.

Love doesn’t hurt. It kills - literally. Or at least it does in the loud world of Girls vs. Boys, the new American Music Theatre Project musical. We’re not surprised that a musical about the battle of the sexes contains loud music, strong language, violent themes and nudity, but we’re a little frightened that breaking up leads to death in this show. (We’d probably all be dead if this happened in real life.) Emotional pain becomes actual pain, and when people break up with each other, they actually kill each other, according to director Nathan Allen. When trying to describe the show, one cast member says, “Can you turn orgy into an adjective?” We’ll get back to you on that one.

In 1989 Juan Johnson, then 19, was arrested for murdering a rival gang member with a two-by-four outside a nightclub in Humboldt Park. He was later convicted and sentenced to a 30-year prison term and served eleven and a half years before he was acquitted in 2004. On Monday, Johnson was awarded $21 million in compensatory damages which is the largest award for wrongful conviction in Chicago history according to Chicago Breaking News.

We’ve done and heard lots of complaining about the lack of new musical theater in Chicago and even on Broadway. But there are some glimmers of hope, and while they may not be in Chicago yet, one of them is coming to a television near you.

Members of the Northwestern community are organizing a hunger strike in solidarity with imprisoned American journalist, Roxana Saberi. The hunger strike - organized by the FreeRoxana campaign - will last from May 3 to May 15. Volunteers are asked to fast in 24-hour shifts. As of this morning, more than 100 people have signed up. Alexis Grant, FreeRoxana campaign manager, told the Daily Northwestern she will fast this Sunday "so that Roxana doesn't have to."

If you happened to miss last night’s Chicago Reader Book Swap, fret not, because Northwestern University is holding a book sale which began yesterday but continues tomorrow and Monday. Northwestern has done some serious spring cleaning—this year’s sale features over 8,000 items. Beyond books, this is your chance to snag discounted CD’s, DVD’s, and sheet music. While the cost of a Northwestern education might break your bank, their books are bargain priced: hardcover books go for $3, quality paperbacks for $2, and mass-market paperbacks for 50 cents.

If your calendar has an opening sometime between 8:00 p.m. Friday and 10:00 p.m. Saturday, check out the Music Marathon at Northwestern University's Regenstein Recital Hall, a 26-hour-long extravaganza packed to the gills with performances by the school's faculty, alumni, and students.

Cirque du Soleil meets Shakespeare in The Tempest at the Steppenwolf. The Tempest is the company's first Shakespeare show, and instead of taking the obvious route, they teamed up with circus and performing arts school The Actors Gymnasium in Evanston, where some actors had to "learn to fly."

The all-star septet SFJAZZ Collective will play a show a week from today at Northwestern University for a mere $16.

The results of the study still need to be duplicated in a randomized trial to be proven, but it's certainly a ray of hope to find a cure for this crippling disease that affects 1 in 1,000 Americans.

Northwestern University has announced Morton Owen Schapiro will become the school's 16th president on September 1, 2009. Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick Ryan said in a statement, "We are delighted that President Schapiro has accepted our offer to become Northwestern's next president and we look forward to his arrival on campus next fall." Schapiro, currently the president of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will take over for Henry Bienen, who has been president for 14 years.

Like a lot of people, we like The Beatles (our favorite Beatle: George) and their music (our favorite album: Revolver), having first first discovered them at the ripe age of 13 in the form of our parents' dusty LPs. So mark us down as very likely to get ourselves up to Evanston and check out a new exhibit happening at the Northwestern University Music Library. What the Tribune is calling "seven handwritten specimens from the band's creative peak" (which we take to mean "handwritten lyrics and doodles") have made their way to the library, courtesy of donations from Yoko Ono and composer/musician John Cage. One of the highlights of the collection is a version of Paul's "For No One" written on a manila envelope, including some missing choruses. While you won't get to the originals (for security reasons), the Library will be displaying super duper high-resolution scans for the viewing. According to Northwestern University, the seven manuscripts featured are "Eleanor Rigby,” “Good Day Sunshine,” “For No One,” “The Word,” “I’m Only Sleeping,” “And Your Bird Can Sing” and “Yellow Submarine.” The manuscripts are only on display for a few weeks, until mid-April, so get ye to the Purple Line post-haste! [Trib]

Yeah, people knew how to fly the friendly skies on November 21st, 1965, when the menu above was served on a United Airlines flight from Denver to San Francisco. This and 380 other menus from airlines, ocean liners, and railroad lines are available for perusal online at the Transportation Library archives of Northwestern University. The archives hark back to a time when multiple course meals were de rigueur not only for first class passengers,...

Some of you foodies may have heard that Alice Waters, the godmother of the American localvore and slow food movements, is in town this week. If you don't have reservations to Saturday's sold-out farm-to-table brunch at North Pond Restaurant, you can still catch Chef Waters at Green City Market at 9 a.m. Saturday, where she'll be signing copies of her book The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution. She'll...

Don't worry, this isn't a post about Flavor of Love, Age of Love or Rock of Love. But we will look at two recent surveys surrounding the nature of love, romance and relationships. First up is a survey done at Northwestern University that seems really out of whack. The findings of the authors say that people tend to overestimate the pain surrounding a breakup. However we don't think that "on average a group of...

Last night, North Side/North Shore Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky sat down with Stephen Colbert to discuss her participation in the House Hunger Caucus' Food Stamp Challenge. After accidentally introducing her as Jane (and insisting on calling her such for the rest of the evening, not wanting to admit an error), Colbert dished out his usual satire, suggesting that the food stamp allotment be decreased to $2 to combat obesity. Although she had some difficulty getting...

In his autobiography My Last Sigh, filmmaker Luis Bunuel describes going to the movies as a child during the silent era: "In addition to the traditional piano player, each theatre in Saragossa was equipped with its explicador, or narrator, who stood next to the screen and ‘explained’ the action to the audience." The movie experience wasn't just what was on the screen, there was also a live component. As we posted last week, in his...

Northwestern University has decided to discontinue its Jazz Studies undergraduate major for next year after closing the search for a new director. The jazz department had been searching for a new leader since the departure of its director, Don Owens, in 2005. Jazz studies enrollment has been around 12-14 students in the last couple of years with only two freshman entering the program this year and no prospective students passing the auditions for next year's class. The previously enrolled students will be able to complete their degrees and the Music Department will continue to carry a jazz minor and operate the jazz band.

Plenty of people have had one of those moments where they thought for sure that bottle of generic Vicodin said to "Take four with bottle of pinot grigio," but it turns out that kind of behavior could actually cause some serious problems.

Note: “Behind the Scenes” is a new series exploring the arts as a business and a craft. For every playwright enjoying a production on a Chicago stage during this busy theater season, many more are waiting their turn. Rebecca Gilman knows both sensations well. Ms. Gilman is one of Chicago’s most acclaimed playwrights, her work has been produced at the Goodman Theatre, London’s Royal Court Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club and regional theaters across the country....

Don't let your ex-hippie parents try to convince you that they invented the student protest back in the 60's. Even with all the sit-ins, marches, slogans, and weed, they were just continuing a long tradition of student oppostion to everything from the physical fitness of their professors to too much emphasis on trigonometry in the curriculum.

Two local collegiate soccer programs clash on Wednesday night at University of Illinois at Chicago's Flames Field. The UIC Flames, ranked 10th in the nation, take on Northwestern University at Flames Field at 7:00 p.m. in a Great Lakes Region battle.

College is a time of experimentation. You take some classes that have no discernible real-world applications and listen to bands that smell like patchouli. Maybe you cozy up to someone you wouldn’t otherwise get to know. Or maybe you cover yourself in tomatoes and call it art.

Hugh Hefner was educated at Steinmetz High School, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University. He is credited with ushering in the sexual revolution throughout the country with the release of Playboy Magazine in 1953.