Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert Zimmer, was to do what once might have seemed oxymoronic:…
Break out the broomball!
The U of C’s golden age and return to glory
The debate over Sonia Sotomayor shows that America is not yet post-racial.
Ann Marie Lipinski takes charge of the U of C’s plan to engage with the surrounding community.
Scav Hunt would benefit from wider community involvement.
It may not signal a return to the glory days of Amos Alonzo Stagg, but for the first time in school history, baseball will finish its season undefeated in the Big 10.
Recent (and prehistoric) events suggest that you can run from the past, but you can’t hide.
Campus groups should bring in speakers who provoke real debate and discussion
Editors discuss the articles in the upcoming issue of Grey City, the Chicago Maroon’s quarterly magazine.
New Republican Party chairman should emphasize substance, not style.
The idea that the stimulus package is akin to the New Deal is bad logic and bad history
The Rick Warren dustup teaches us that tolerance needs to go both ways
The Rick Warren dustup teaches us that tolerance needs to go both ways
Colorful risk codes do nothing to achieve Department of Homeland Security’s goals
The inane application to be on the Uncommon Fund’s committee is an unnecessary hurdle
In just a few years, Austan Goolsbee has gone from being just another star professor at an institution brimming with them to the next big thing—an economist in a position to help shape public policy from the top down.
This is why we don’t get nice things, here in Hyde Park:
Given the run on newspapers across the country Wednesday, we were hoping something similar would unfoRichard Epstein sips the haterade
Well, it’s official now. Robert Zimmer, clearly pining for a prime cabinet post or ambassadorship to
Well, I guess this was inevitable. From the Hyde Park
In case you haven’t seen it, NEWSWEEK has prod
But after coming so far only to crash at the finish line, Democratic Patriot fans simply needed an emotional release.
An extended roar emanated from the crowd, and extended into various pockets of the media area.
Apparently none other than my geography professor was waiting in line when the senator showed up and, presumably, cut everyone.
Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight’s Grant Park excursion: A middle-aged man with an official Chicago board of elections ballot receipt stapled to the front of his jacket
In one last delicious bit of red meat for FOX News, the secret service very nearly extends to Louis Farrakhan’s house at 49th and Woodlawn.
Well, we survived the exodus from Grant Park on the horribly re-routed (and slow) 6 bus, and just got
Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight’s Grant Park excursion: A middle-
Over the last 48 hours, the security perimeter around Barack Obama’s slum-landlord-Rezko estate has aThe safest block in Chicago1
As a quick follow-up to my earlier
If potatoes a
Well, if you were planning on staking out the Shoesmith Beulah Elementary School to watch the Obama vObama votes
Today is now Tuesday, which means it’s election day, which means it’s the biggest thing to happen to
Long maligned in these parts and elsewhere for its hellacious winters and formerly rotten grocery sto
We probably should have blogged about this long ago, back when the site was new and wasn’t attracting
Maybe you’ve seen this already, but if you haven’t check out Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s astounding attack
Well, maybe FOX was right. We
In an exclusive interview, Sunday, with the BBC, Eminem announced, with characteristic sobriety, his intention to vote for Barack Obama on November 4.
I should start by prefacing that we are all probably going to die, probably by some sort of asteroid
UNLV professor David S. Tanenhaus has a piece in Slate
Tremendous news today, as the Obama campaign released a new ad featuring footage of the Ramada Inn, w
The true value of the town hall is not to field questions from “ordinary Americans,” but rather, to hear from Americans who in their eccentricities are decidedly not ordinary, thereby challenging the candidates to depart from their talking points and confront the situation at hand.
Of all the stories about Hyde Park that ran in recent months, Andrew Ferguson’s June
The summer that was: Unrepentant terrorists
People like to make a big deal about all of the U of C’s Nobel Laureates, which is fine I guess, if y
As part of our continuing series on the months of June, July, August, and September, we turn to Jodi
As we get back into the swing of things here at headquarters, I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a little c
From loveable losers to just losers, Chicago offers it all to sports fansChicago sports
The U of C has more than its fair share of club sports and competitions.
My first year in Hyde Park was marred by an unfortunate incident of homegrown, domestic terrorism.
The folks at Hyde Park Progress were kind enough to (kind of) link to the newest member of the Chicag
The U of C may look different now, but many of the forces that made it tick 40 years ago are still active today.
The road to the Democratic nomination has taken on a distinctly local flavor in 2008. The U of C can lay claim to both the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama, a former Law School professor, and also the man least likely to win the nomination: his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who holds an M.A. from the Divinity School.
Years from now, supporters of Ron Paul’s ill-fated run for the White House will have no shortage of stories to tell their freedom-loving grandchildren.
Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert Zimmer, was to do what once might have seemed oxymoronic:…
Whew. It’s been a long weekend over here at the Editors Blog as we all recover from our post-Scurvy A
When it comes to fighting scurvy, 4 out of 5 doctors recommend a healthy intake of Vitamin C. The oth
It’s Scurvy Awareness Day. By now, the festivities have been
Finally, someone with the courage to speak the truth:
After watching the actual foota
Big, big news concerning the Indiana primary: The Supreme Court just
George got the Saturday Mike Gravel-blogging off and running with
Dave Barry notes
The [probably rigged] online voting doesn’t end for another 50 minutes or so, but we’re already heari
There are downsides to writing a B.A.—almost too many to list, actually. Fourth-years waste thousanAll in the name of science
And so we beat on.
In the end, after the weeks of manufactured drama, negative ads, and ch
Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert Zimmer, was to do what once might have seemed oxymoronic:…
Joshua Marshall doesn’t like Hillary C
I’m not one to read too much into natural disasters. I usually accept the meteorologists’ explanation
Keith Russell Judd will be the next President of
With the Co-Op and its Evergreen no longer in existence, the
Like the Chicago City Council,
Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert Zimmer, was to do what once might have seemed oxymoronic:…
One of the more frustrating situations for any basketball fan is the incessant fouling at the end of
Of all the charges leveled against Barack Obama over the last two months, few have been more absurd t
Regular readers of this blog are no doubt familiar with the famous “Maroon column boost,” wherein one
If there is such a thing as the “Commander-in-Chief Threshold,” I imagine one of the main criteria is
International Scurvy Awareness Day is still five weeks away,
Because it was linked to me on facebook, and because I haven’t used the “animals that also sound like
Our series of point-counterpoints on Obama’s race speech has generated what 90 percent of our posts f
Since Barack Obama’s pastor has oddly become the single most important issue facing Americans in 20
As I was looking through our archives today (Spring Break! Whoo!), I discovered this unpublished nugg
The most interesting criticism to arise from Barack Obama’s speech on race stems from the nature of
Like most patriotic Americans, I plan on spending the the next four days on the couch, watching the N
Every once in a while, usually in times of extreme academic crisis, I forget where I go to school. IfWanted: Elvish speakers
In addition to missing a second “t” in his last name, the new Governor of New York is also the
In yesterday’s Maroon, I called for John McC
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Alec blogged (here and
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When Robert Zimmer became the 13th president of the University of Chicago in October 2006, something
Pre-registration ended an hour ago, but you should still read Zack Hill’s
A while back we commented on an outrageously awesome Jimmy Carter campaign video in which he sat at h