Horowitz, safe zone highlights hypocrisy

By Barney Keller / May 12, 2006

Well known conservative pundit David Horowitz came to speak on campus Tuesday and was everything that I hoped he would be. He was a great public speaker, and very funny. But nothing he said was funnier than the introductory announcement of Student Activities Coordinator Régine Desruisseaux that there was a “safe zone” outside of the...

Ahmadinejad writes Bush a follow-up letter

By Patrick Hogan / May 12, 2006

By now, everyone’s heard about the historic personal letter recently sent from Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President Bush. Well, we here at the Factor have the next big development in this story: Just yesterday, one of our correspondents intercepted another letter sent from the Iranian head of state, and in a worldwide exclusive, we...

With Research, Unity

By The Maroon Staff / May 9, 2006

With the University having recently received money to build a state-of-the-art pediatrics department at the hospital, Time magazine recognizing the impact of our graduates and professors on academia and society, and our competing for control of both the prestigious Argonne National Laboratory and what will be a world-class particle accelerator, it is no surprise that...

Why the media refuses to talk about Darfur

By Harish Amirthalingam / May 9, 2006

Editor’s Note: This is the first in an ongoing series on the crisis in Sudan. Why are we seeing so little of Sudan in the media? Consider these headlines: “Two million Sudanese have died of war-related causes in the past 17 years. That’s more deaths than in Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Indonesia, and Sierra Leone...

Immigrants are a critical component of U.S.

By Samuel Rosenberg / May 9, 2006

As hundreds of thousands of immigrants converged into both Union and Grant Parks on Monday, May 1st, Chicago once again realized something that it has known for over a 150 years: our city needs immigrants. Although Chicago no longer hosts the massive cultural exchanges of the South Water Market and Maxwell Street, the immigrant population...

Immigration reform must let in more, but let’s not open the floodgates

By Andrew Dzwonchyk / May 9, 2006

There’s never a shortage of amusement to be found at a rally the size and scope of the pro-immigration festivities that took place across America last week. Personally, I enjoyed the irony of the rallying call that had pervaded at similar gatherings out west: “Stop Treating Us Like Criminals!” The answer, of course, is “Then...

Over-Hyped

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 5, 2006

The recipient of thousands of dollars in SGFC funding, UChicago Hype describes its mission as creating opportunities “for students to experience the rich culture of Chicago that lies just outside of Hyde Park.” While this goal may be of importance, it’s starting to seem like Hype isn’t promoting the rich culture of Chicago but merely...

The use of force against Iran is only futile

By Andrew Hammond / May 5, 2006

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series on the prospects of democracy and American action in Iran. When Americans talk about Iran these days, the discussion does not focus so much on whether bombing Iran would be a bad idea, but whether or not it could actually happen. Sadly, the answer to...

Gravitational ripples: the newest eco-scare

By Patrick Hogan / May 5, 2006

Since it first emerged as a proclaimed environmental threat in 1989, global warming has become one of the most contentious and hotly debated scientific theories of the modern age. Yet for all its headline-grabbing controversy, global warming is hardly the first or even the most insidious hoax of its kind. If anything, it has been...

CSPI knows what you really want

By Laura Hamilton / May 5, 2006

Wednesday, Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Senseless Policy Ideas (CSPI), released a victory statement following the conclusion of contra-soda litigation. Apparently Jacobson, the CSPI, and their pack of plaintiff-lawyer friends succeeded in cowing soda manufacturers into removing caloric sodas from school vending machines. Worse, they did it in the name of the public....

The liberal approach to xenophobia

By Sam Dolgin-Gardner / May 5, 2006

Recently I stumbled upon the commentary of famed liberal Arthur DeFrench, and with Mr. DeFrench’s permission I was allowed to publish one of his most famous letters: Dear Congressperson: I was taking the Prius to get an environmentally friendly carwash with organic soaps before I got to work on my mural at the abortion clinic....

Beyond the Quads

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 2, 2006

Before spring break, the debate on immigration was terribly skewed in favor of a vocal minority of xenophobic activists. That all changed when, seemingly overnight, a rally in downtown Chicago mobilized a nationwide movement of rational approaches to the illegal immigration problem in the U.S. With yesterday’s nationwide immigrant march—the culmination of a movement that...