One year after 10 students faced disciplinary hearings for their participation in the pro-Palestine encampment or occupation of the Institute of Politics building, faculty remain concerned about a lack of transparency in the University’s disruptive conduct disciplinary processes.
UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.
On the first anniversary of UChicago United for Palestine’s “Popular University for Gaza,” the Maroon revisits last spring’s protests and the University’s response.
Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest policies and how it communicates them to students.
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.
