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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

The AI Epidemic

The AI Epidemic

By Kaci Sziraki / July 13, 2025
PhoenixAI joins the trend of unwanted AI integration.
Cancel Caffeine Culture

Cancel Caffeine Culture

By Adam Zaidi / June 24, 2025
Undergraduate examines UChicago’s caffeine culture.
Can We Compete with Convenience?

Can We Compete with Convenience?

By Ibrahim Shaheen / June 16, 2025
As the virtual world becomes increasingly convenient and appealing to our social needs, real-world interactions are rapidly degenerating in their ability to compete.
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.
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.
The John Crerar Library.

Who Governs the University?

By Gabriel Winant / April 21, 2025
With authoritarian threats looming, our campus needs democracy.
Tuning Out of Our Phones and Into Our Lives

Tuning Out of Our Phones and Into Our Lives

By Jessica Zang / April 18, 2025
We must try to face life head-on with no technological crutches to protect us.
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.
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