A summer fling is clearly not a click away

By Leila Sales / April 21, 2006

Look out: The summer is closing in upon us! Sure, it may seem impossibly far away, but I promise you, the next six weeks will fly by, so we need to make our summer plans now. We need to find summer jobs and summer sublets, and, above all else, we need to find summer boyfriends....

Media, academic journals in cahoots on global warming

By Laura Hamilton / April 21, 2006

According to Brian Montopoli writing for the CBSNews.com blog, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley said, “There is virtually no disagreement in the scientific community any longer about global warming. The science that has been done in the last three to five years has been conclusive…. What you do see in the data again and again...

Divest From Sudan

By Maroon Editorial Staff / April 18, 2006

Freedom of academic inquiry is critical for the operation of any university, and U of C professors certainly need it, whether they are proposing the relationship between abortion and crime or the power of an informal “Israel Lobby.” Commissioned in 1967 by the University, the Kalven Report, which sets the guidelines for the University’s role...

Chicago Weekly: Ethical journalism needed

By Andrew Hammond / April 18, 2006

The next time you pick up the Chicago Weekly (CW), do me a favor. Grab the first two sheets, and let go of the rest. You will have, in your hand, all of the content for that week’s issue. At your feet will be a copy of New City, a free citywide publication that better...

Chicago has hot political summer ahead

By Samuel Rosenberg / April 18, 2006

As our South Side boys of summer took the field yesterday, the other boys of summer had already set their lineups and begun playing ball. With the primaries now complete and the Democratic and GOP slates set for the November elections, it is shaping up to be another interesting political summer in Chicago. Oddly enough,...

Benjamins aren’t band-aids; Socially responsible investing is, though

By Daniel Schnitzer / April 18, 2006

It has recently come to my attention that the aspiring investment bankers and economic policy makers that matriculate at this University are woefully unaware of an important fact. I found it hard to believe that they had no idea that almost 10 percent of assets under financial management in the U.S. ($2.29 trillion) are invested...

Butt Out

By Maroon Editorial Staff / April 14, 2006

Regardless of what one thinks of the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act, soon to be signed into law, a recent amendment to the act is troubling. The amendment would ban smoking in private and public dorms across Illinois, thus superseding the University’s current policy and severely threatening our rights in housing. State Representative John Fritchey...

Ways to keep the U of C on the right track

By Joshua Steinman and Jonathan T / April 14, 2006

As we near the end of the $2 billion Chicago Initiative, we find ourselves in a position of unprecedented power to shape the experience of students at this University. To understand what steps we should take in order improve our University, it behooves us to examine where we are and then ask what we must...

AOL-speak is destroying language’s beauty

By Patrick Hogan / April 14, 2006

“Haha JK!!! JK 4EVR! U R SO LOL – SOL!!! U R SBC CIA! NBC FBI FUBAR? NATO; BFF!!! :)” After seeing this, my first thought was, “What the hell am I looking at?” Since then I have been puzzled over my irate, troubled gut response to this note, an excerpt from an e-mail a...

Co-Op’s monopoly only harms Hyde Park

By Patrick Burke / April 14, 2006

The Co-Op Markets have come to represent an economic phenomenon of the worst kind. The fact that the franchise is still running in a purportedly capitalist society simply boggles my mind. Quite frankly, how can a supermarket chain that charges higher prices and offers lower quality products sustain itself? Are we now living in the...

Kalven Report doesn’t justify the University’s decision not to divest

By Daniel Benjamin / April 14, 2006

Would divesting from Sudan amount to the University deciding that it is its “place as an institution to speak for the individuals in it,” as Chief Investment Officer and University Vice President Peter Stein claims (“U of C Will Not Divest from Sudan,” 4/11/06)? Stein seems to think that the impetus for such an action...

The Numbers Game

By Maroon Editorial Staff / April 11, 2006

The U of C has generally not gone out of its way to look good on paper. Every year the dauntingly unique “Uncommon Application” discourages potential applicants who might otherwise raise the University’s “selectivity” ranking. But no student here honestly thinks that a marginal increase in the U.S. News and World Report College rankings is...