Chicken coops, coming soon to an Evanston backyard near you.
The latest news on the H1N1 vaccine is a mixed bag, and leaves us wondering when, exactly, students will have access to these long-awaited shots. The Daily reported this morning that while the Evanston Health Department expects the vaccines sometime in the middle of October, clinics at NU aren’t planned until Nov. 17, 18, and 19, nearly a month later. And according to the Evanston Review, Evanston public school students will begin receiving free vaccines in school starting Oct. 22. If the vaccines will be in Evanston next week, why won’t they be at NU sooner? [The Daily][Evanston Review]
The Evanston Backyard Chicken Committee is organizing. About 15 members met Tuesday night to discuss the possibility of legalizing backyard chicken coops in Evanston, which one attendee called “a vital part of living in an urban environment.” Next step: a sustainable farm in the basement of Bobb. [Evanston Review]
Up until this year, NU was the only top 15 national university that made the final decision for early applicants right off the bat. For the class of 2013, that all changed: About 30 lucky freshmen were deferred before their eventual acceptance. But while schools like Yale deferred nearly half of last year’s early applicants, NU has taken a more conservative approach, telling only 3.5 percent of those early deciders that they would have to wait for a final answer. [North by Northwestern]
