When I left high school this past June, it was in shambles. Amid teachers being put on administrative leave for voicing their opinions and a head of school unwilling to address the Israel-Hamas war, one...
Over the last year, in response to national press reports on the University's debt load and structural deficit, the University of Chicago's leaders have held a sequence of "budget town halls." In these,...
It’s 2 a.m. on a Friday evening, and I stand outside Campus North Residential Commons with two friends. We need to get back to Woodlawn. It’s a 20-minute walk, it’s cold, it’s dark. It’s a trek...
As the 2023–24 Harris Student Government (HSG) Board, we wish to address the op-ed written by Aïcha Camara, published in the Maroon on March 30, 2024. Our response is guided by a commitment to transparency...
After an unprecedented summer in politics culminating in Kamala Harris receiving the Democratic nomination right here in Chicago, we, UC Dems, believe she has earned our votes in her bid to become the...
Because I refused to cooperate with UChicago’s disciplinary hearings against me in relation to the Popular University for Gaza encampment last May, I have been suspended for the autumn quarter. Or, as...
On October 23, President Alivisatos will deliver his annual report to the University's Senate—loosely speaking, all tenure-stream faculty, plus the president, provost, and vice presidents—and “discuss...
I was heartened to read the Maroon’s coverage of Professor Ben Zhao. His project, Glaze, employs developments in AI to both hinder and attack the ability of image models to recognize and catalog faces....
I don’t know much about sororities. A friend in Pi Phi has told me about group songs and voting traditions and a brother getting kicked off a boat at formal. I’ve seen the aesthetic instagram accounts...
When I first set foot on campus, I collected club brochures like pastry selections at a lavish breakfast buffet—I wanted a little bit of everything. After the social appetizers and academic entrees,...
Recently, it’s seemed impossible to go one day without hearing about the war between Israel and Palestine. There are moments when conversation wanes, then news of an atrocity or a new policy emerges,...
Dear Editors-in-Chief,
110 days. That was how long it took my writing to be mutilated and published in the Maroon. As a long-time editor for our paper, I thought I was well-acquainted with the Maroon’s...
