Chicago Maroon

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

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

By Anushka Bansal / April 29, 2025

Graduating senior reflects on her arc of education and the life of the mind.

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

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

By Vivian Li / April 15, 2025

Classroom discussions often favor personal and political takes over close reading and artistic engagement.

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

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...

April Fools: University Reverses Position on Free Speech

By Peter Maheras and Zachary Leiter / April 1, 2025

Initial speech cost set at two cents per word, University announced on April 1.

On the first snowy night of the season, three of my friends and I strolled to a friend’s apartment nearby to pick up some food. With three large, empty Tupperware containers in hand, we stood outside...

Studying Doesn’t Stop at Midnight

By Adam Zaidi / March 6, 2025

UChicago students never clock out, so why do our libraries?

Catan and the Winter Quarter

By Kaci Sziraki / February 27, 2025

The simple board game has become my bridge between academics and self-care.