The signs are there. Take a walk along the lake on Northwestern’s Evanston campus, and you’ll see it. Venture a bit further west from the campus, past Central St. onto Ashland Ave. toward Welsh-Ryan Arena, and it’ll be there too. And if you took a brief L-ride into Chicago on Tuesday, you would’ve seen it there as well.
That “it” is a new Northwestern. Northwestern now has world-class athletics facilities. Northwestern can now compete for some of the country’s best recruits. Northwestern is, in many ways, on an equal playing field with its large, public Big Ten rivals.