The public parts of the U of C’s website are indeed nice to look at and easy to navigate and full of, uh, “life and diversity”, but most everything designed specifically for student use (e.g. cMore, course evaluations, time schedules, the pre-SG revolution apartments page) is stuck somewhere in 1998 with Craigslist.

The UChicago Magazine Twitter account tweets today, “As UChicago’s upward trajectory + global economic crisis intersect, the University lowers budgets but not expectations.

I’m not going to even try to beat The Economist’s headline…. Little known fact: Russian President and sinister statesman extraordinaire Dmitry Medvedev has his own video blog, on which he sends threatening messages to other political leaders.

Two recent lists have the U of C at #7 and #8, respectively.

Chicago Pop has a great post today on Hyde Park Progress about the Hyde Park Herald and its latest editorial railing against the University.

The Trib reports that James Madara, CEO of the U of C Medical Center as well as dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, will resign on October 1.

The more one studies Chinese, the more one realizes that the introduction of simplified characters in mainland China was a mistake, an abject and utter mistake.

Apparently inspired by Lynn Sweet’s everyone-in-Washington-is-from-Chicago-EVENTHEPRESIDENTOMG column on July 26, the News Office has put out a piece about all the Labbies who’ve joined the administration.

John Hughes, writer/director/producer extraordinaire and the genius behind such Chicago-based classics as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Home Alone, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science, died today. He was 59.

University has issued an official move-out date for the 61st Street Community Garden. Gardeners must be out by October 30; the University-aided transplant to another Woodlawn location.

Today is my birthday and my mother – now an active Facebook user and possible blog reader – mailed me a book of notable events that have occurred on this day over the years.

A car crash last night at 63rd and Woodlawn left one dead and four injured. Apparently the driver of one of the cars was drunk.

The United States House of Representatives officially

President Obama spent a mere four hours in Chicago last night – but, with 750 people attending a fund

I always like getting vague e-mails from the University, because it either means a) no one knows what

Never mind about Zihuata

President Obama is in town today, and the neighbors around Penny Pritzker’s home – where a private fundraiser dinner is taking place tonight – are whining about the security preparations.

Former University CIO Peter Stein has found a new job. When he announced his departure in January on

When the University

Not a good couple of days for Harvard. The

In Hyde Park, even groceries aren’t neutral. The Capital Fax Blog

Uh oh. UCPD Chief of Police Marlon Lynch just sent out a security alert detailing the following crime

It is a well-established fact that people at the University of Chicago love to hate Harvard. Our Camb

Allow me to start off with some math:

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In the past, University of Chicago graduates did one of a couple of things after getting their diplom

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After weeks of bickering and delays, Governor Quinn

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Here is something you should not do: Approach President Obama’s Kenwood home with a gun, try to get i

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Hyde Parkers might remember a hubbub of discussion about the hypothetical CTA Gold Line as the Intern

The Editors Blog just got a massive face-lift. Check it ou

The Office of College Admissions has posted

Probably worth noting that a group of U of C folks started something called the

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The New York Times

As the new kid on the block, I thought I’d take the O-Week approach to things and come not by myself