Dear Reader,
Here’s what the Maroon has been covering this week.
News
A member of the UChicago community was robbed at gunpoint by two suspects in front of William Eckhart Research Center on Monday. The incident was the first on-campus robbery this academic year.
Emails between University Trustee Thomas Pritzker and Ghislaine Maxwell indicate that the two shared a close personal relationship. Pritzker and Maxwell exchanged dozens of emails in the early 2000s, including innuendo-laced conversations about underwear and Pritzker’s “manhood.”
Pritzker also planned trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and advised him on hiring decisions for the island’s staff, according to documents released by the Department of Justice.
UChicago was one of 31 institutions of higher education to end partnerships with the PhD Project, a nonprofit promoting diversity in business Ph.D. programs, according to a U.S. Department of Education press release shared last week.
Three professors applied behavioral economics, management psychology, and leveraged buyouts to answer the age-old question “latke or hamantash?” Over the past 79 years, the annual Latke-Hamantash Debate has featured participants including essayist Allan Bloom, Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, and philosopher Martha Nussbaum.
Fourth-year Joe Zhang and Samuel Levy (A.B. ‘24) were named 2026–27 Schwarzman Scholars. They will receive full scholarships to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing for master’s programs in the fall.
At a meeting last week, the Undergraduate Student Government’s College Council clashed over RSO funding guidelines, discussed several bylaw changes, and worked on representative-led projects.
Arts and Culture
A new exhibition at the Cochrane-Woods Art Center examines the concept of “the horizon,” destabilizing definitions and expectations. Horizon Lines: Reimagining Potentiality, curated by fourth-year Anju Lukose-Scott, features works of video art, photography, collage, and more.
Five student DJs faced off in the Major Activities Board’s (MAB) second Battle of the DJs, turning Cobb Café into a late-night rave. The event was a place to “let loose and be yourself,” MAB crew member Kevin McDermott told the Maroon.
Ponies, sorcerers, and maids descended on Ida Noyes Hall and the David Rubenstein Forum last month for UChi-Con, an annual anime and cosplay convention hosted by the University of Chicago Japanese Animation Society.
Sports
UChicago Men’s Basketball are in the middle of a historic season, thanks in part to new players, collective investment, and support from the campus community. If the team continues to play at this level, winning the Division III National Championship could be “a very real possibility,” writes Sports Reporter Joe Baldwin.
Watching the Super Bowl in a UChicago dorm “felt less like a sporting event and more like a collective exorcism performed in a dorm lounge,” writes Sports Reporter Alexa Walsh.
