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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

Bait and Hook

Bait and Hook

By Kaci Sziraki / May 6, 2025

I still remember the first time I set foot on this campus as a UChicago student. O-Week was full of smiles and fresh faces; everyone was excited to be part of a new community. As the quarters passed, however,...

When Op-Eds Obscure Understanding

By Josie Barboriak / May 1, 2025

Dear editors, In the days since reading Vivian Li’s “When Opinion Obscures Art” in Viewpoints, I’ve wondered if the act of publishing this letter was a ploy on the Maroon’s part. Perhaps spotlighting...

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

For fourteen years, my mornings started at 7:00 on the basketball court of my school. Everyone stood in queues under the 104-degree Delhi sun, segregated by grade and gender and ordered by height. We had...

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.
Tuning Out of Our Phones and Into Our Lives.

Tuning Out of Our Phones and Into Our Lives.

By Jessica Zang / April 18, 2025

In my first year of college, I learned to do something I deemed necessary for my social survival: walk through campus zoned out. This entailed never focusing my eyes on the people that passed me; on my...

When Opinion Obscures Art

When Opinion Obscures Art

By Vivian Li / April 15, 2025
Classroom discussions often favor personal and political takes over close reading and artistic engagement.
Snell-Hitchcock Hall.

The Faculty Speak

By Clifford Ando / April 7, 2025
University senates around the country are organizing and speaking up. It’s time for University leaders to end their silence.
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. Under Illinois state law, hazing is classified as a Class A...

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