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NU Students Sue University for Misuse of Word ā€œSpringā€

EVANSTONā€”In a press release issued late last week, a previously unknown coalition of Northwestern students from California and Florida announced that they would be suing the University for ā€œmisuse of the word ā€˜springā€™.ā€ This legal action comes after the discovery that weather during Spring Quarter was neither warm nor sunny. ā€œItā€™s just not fair,ā€ whined a member of the group who spoke to The Flipside on condition of anonymity. ā€œWhen I saw the words ā€˜Spring Quarter,ā€™ I assumed that it