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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Photo Essay: SASA Wows Audience with “Pagal Khaana: House of Madness” Cultural Show
Photo Essay: SASA Wows Audience with “Pagal Khaana: House of Madness” Cultural Show
Directed by Antrita Manduva, Raghav Pardasani, and Ishi Sood, the almost two-and-a-half-hour show was high energy from beginning to end, keeping the audience excited and laughing or clapping along.
By Natalie Earl / April 5, 2025
The film poster of A Minecraft Movie, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.
Does Could Imply Should?
By Shawn Quek / April 6, 2025
Associate Arts Editor Shawn Quek reviews A Minecraft Movie by Jared Hess, an unfortunate adaptation of a beloved video game.
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where DOGE is located.
UChicago Trustee Joins DOGE, Targets Social Security
By Zachary Leiter / April 4, 2025
UChicago Trustee and multibillionaire Antonio Gracias (J.D. ’98), a close friend of Elon Musk, has been tasked with targeting what he called “tremendous fraud” at the Social Security Administration
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses many of the University’s administrative offices.
UChicago to Investigate Faculty Member’s Posters for Alleged Antisemitism
By Zachary Leiter / March 31, 2025
This is the University’s second investigation into alleged antisemitism on campus since the Trump administration’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism directed its focus to Chicago-area schools March 13.
The University's administration building, now Edward H. Levi Hall. Courtesy of the University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
“Choosing to Govern Itself”: How the Protests of 1969 Shaped UChicago’s Disciplinary System
By Zachary Leiter, Elena Eisenstadt, and Nathaniel Rodwell-Simon / March 7, 2025
As Vietnam War protests raged on campus during the late 1960s, University administrators constructed a new program of discipline that avoided involving Chicago police or the courts.
88. Stranger Danger
88. Stranger Danger
By Noah Sodickson / April 2, 2025

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View safety incidents in Hyde Park and the surrounding area here.
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses many of the University's administrative offices.
UChicago’s Secrecy Thwarts Discourse
Despite its institutional commitment to freedom of expression and inquiry, which relies on access to information, the University of Chicago has long operated under a shroud of secrecy relative to its peers.
By Maroon Editorial Board / March 5, 2025
Edward H. Levi Hall, which houses many of the University's administrative offices.
The Lines We Will Not Cross
The University must make a full-throated defense of its core values, even—and especially—in the face of an administration that would have it deny them.
By Clifford Ando / March 27, 2025
The University of Chicago Bookstore.
AI Professor
By Camille Cypher / April 4, 2025
When professors elect to use AI, they replace teaching with efficient but harmful shortcuts.
The Cost of Brotherhood
The Cost of Brotherhood
By Sophia Zeglis / April 2, 2025

​​In Chapter 720 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, which contains the Illinois Criminal Code, the reader finds Section 12C-50 on hazing....

The Arts Podcast, E5: Looking Back At the Grammys
By Nolan Shaffer, Tiffany Li, and Elizabeth Eck / April 3, 2025

It’s episode five of the Arts podcast! Your hosts are back with an episode on the Grammy awards! Who deserved it? Who didn’t? Find out...

Special Episode: Annotating the Kalven Report with Jamie Kalven
By Celeste Alcalay and Anu Vashist / March 6, 2025
The Maroon’s Anushree Vashist and Celeste Alcalay spoke with Jamie Kalven about the legacy of the Kalven Report and its relevance to academic freedom today.
Special Episode: “Does UChicago Have a Culture of Free Speech?”
By Nicole Ochoa / March 6, 2025
The Maroon’s Nicole Ochoa conducted interviews with non-tenure-track faculty and student interns from the Department of Physics and the Pozen Center.
The Arts Podcast, E4: What’s under Chromakopia’s mask?
By Elizabeth Eck, Tiffany Li, and Nolan Shaffer / December 6, 2024
It’s episode four of the Arts podcast!
The Maroon Weekly, E119
By Pravan Chakravarthy, Eli Lowe, and Jake Zucker / November 15, 2024
On Episode 119, Pravan and Jake finally return to the studio with Eli, who's new to the section.
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