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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon

The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

How Vulnerable Are Universities to Financial Pressure?

By Clifford Ando / May 27, 2025
Very. Even the wealthiest institutions are exposed.
Reams of Red Tape

Reams of Red Tape

By Cherie Fernandes / May 23, 2025
Viewpoints’ engagement with ideas that higher-ups on the Maroon may find ideologically inconvenient—particularly criticism of the paper itself—is crucial to our integrity.
The Ripples of Serious Leisure

The Ripples of Serious Leisure

By Anushka Bansal / May 19, 2025
A graduating senior’s missive on the college experience and a yearning for continuity.
Life of the Unsound Mind

Life of the Unsound Mind

By Katherine Weaver / May 18, 2025
A Maroon news editor discusses her experience with OCD at UChicago and examines what makes OCD different in college than at any other point, explaining how the education system isn’t “made for neurodivergent people.”
In Defense of the Language Requirement

In Defense of the Language Requirement

By Adam Zaidi / May 16, 2025
Undergraduate comments on the elimination of the language requirement for the English major.
Bait and Hook

Bait and Hook

By Kaci Sziraki / May 6, 2025
Columnist Kaci Sziraki returns with a new board game—Fishing for Compliments— designed to reel in compliments and social connections.

When Op-Eds Obscure Understanding

By Josie Barboriak / May 1, 2025
Fundamentals major responds to “When Opinion Obscures Art.”
The encampment seen through Levi Hall.

A Call to Institutional Honor and Moral Obligation

By Tanya Zakrison / April 29, 2025
A trauma surgeon reflects on the pro-Palestine encampment, reimagining our University as a site of conscience, violence prevention, and resistance.
My Aims of Education

My Aims of Education

By Anushka Bansal / April 29, 2025
Graduating senior reflects on her arc of education and the life of the mind.
A gargoyle peers down from Cobb Gate.

What Does the University of Chicago’s Silence Say?

By Clifford Ando / April 26, 2025
The assault is already here.
The John Crerar Library.

Who Governs the University?

By Gabriel Winant / April 21, 2025
With authoritarian threats looming, our campus needs democracy.
The Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C.

UChicago Must Protect Its Community

By Maroon Editorial Board / April 19, 2025
The University must take concrete steps to protect its community from unjust federal actions.
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