Cecilia Milmoe

A person lights a candle on a menorah for Hanukkah at night. Students at the University have smaller celebrations for the Jewish holiday on campus because the eight-night event does not fall over winter break.

While the Christmas season is only just beginning, for students who celebrate Hanukkah, the eight-night holiday is nearing its end. This year, Hanukkah began Nov. 28 and will end Dec. 6, the earliest the holiday can be.

Hanukkah, which many American Jews celebrate in place of Christmas,

Maya Novik, freshman in Social Work, said up until early October, her GWS 100: Intro to Gender & Women’s Studies professor had made no mention of triggering material in class. However, her professor read a description that Novik said made her feel anxious and uncomfortable.

“My professor read a description of force-feedings of women who were imprisoned for hunger strikes as part of the suffrage movement,” Novik said. “It was just a really, really graphic description of it.”

Novik said she is i

A flu-like sickness is making its way around campus as McKinley Health Center urges students to get their flu vaccines.

When Abby McGuire, freshman in LAS, started feeling sick after partying, she assumed it was just exhaustion. She tried pushing through, but it eventually got so bad that she had to return home. Then, things went from bad to worse.

“My cough got so bad that I actually tore cartilage around my ribs,” McGuire said. “It was really hard to walk.”

While her symptoms were atypicall

A mock set for the at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts upcoming musical “Fun Home” is shown above and was created by scenic designer José Díaz-Soto. Representation is reoccurring theme in the musical.

The cast and crew of “Fun Home,” an upcoming musical at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, said that unlike some productions, people will be able to see themselves in the vulnerable characters.

“Fun Home”, which opens Nov. 4, is adapted from the graphic memoir written by Alis