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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

Can We Compete with Convenience?

Can We Compete with Convenience?

By Ibrahim Shaheen / June 16, 2025

I was exploring downtown just the other day, revisiting some old haunts from my childhood, and found myself shopping at the Water Tower Place. The last time I’d been there, easily over a decade ago at...

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.
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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