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  1. 12/4/1957: Stdnt Gov. Brd oks "all possible steps" to aid student Hsuan Wei fight deportation/execution re: criticism of Chiang Kai-shek.
  2. 12/3/1944: Former NU baseball coach and Navy Lt. Stan Klores dies after his ship, the USS Cooper, is torpedoed by a Japanese destroyer.
  3. 12/1/1960: Announced that over 50 NU faculty members signed petition for the disbanding of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  4. 11/30/1952: The Northwestern Reviewing Stand, a WGN radio program, asks, "How Should the United States Regulate Immigration?"
  5. 11/25/1932: NU professor of psychology Dr. George W. Crane publically protests the proposed merger of NU and the University of Chicago.
  6. November 24, 1969: 50 protesters gather at Lunt Hall, home of Northwestern's ROTC program, to engage in a sit-in.
  7. November 23, 1981: Police forcibly break up a sit-in demonstration of Northwestern students at the Norris University Center.
  8. 11/20/1958: An outbreak of German measles is reported on the NU campus, with over 20 students contracting the disease over 3 days.
  9. 11/19/1954: The NU theatre department opens a run of Romeo and Juliet at Cahn Auditorium--the 300th show put on by the department.
  10. November 18, 1960: Poet Carl Sandburg speaks at Cahn Auditorium.
  11. Expedite your erudition! Check out the GIS workshops at the Library here: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/reference/workshops/index.html
  12. November 13, 1926: The official dedication of Dyche Stadium takes place. Northwestern defeats the University of Chicago, 38-7.
  13. November 10, 1956: Northwestern coach Ara Parseghian records his first conference victory, as the Wildcats defeat Wisconsin, 17-7.
  14. 11/9/1958: Chicago Tribune announces the creation of an 8-week atomic attack safety course to be held at NU's Technological Institute.
  15. 11/6/1943: NU's Otto Graham runs for 4 TDs, passes for 1, & kicks 3 extra points (still a school record) in a 41-0 rout of Wisconsin.
  16. November 5, 1902: A smallpox scare erupts on campus; all students are required to get vaccinated.
  17. November 2, 1940: Northwestern's second Patten Gymnasium is dedicated during homecoming.
  18. October 30, 1956: Members of the Psi Upsilon fraternity withdraw Chinese-American student Sherman Wu on the basis of his race.
  19. 10/29/1945: Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of the FM radio, delivers a speech on the uses of radio in war and peace at the Tech Institute.
  20. October 28, 1908: John F. Hayford is named as the first dean of Northwestern's new engineering school.