Metcalfs: Only the divine need apply here

By Patrick Burke / March 3, 2006

“You have not been pre-selected for an interview at this time. Please continue submitting resumes.” How familiar has this slogan become for so many U of C students this lonely, jobless winter? Even if one is fortunate enough to attain the sacrosanct status of “pre-select,” the dispassionate e-mail vaguely discussing a deficiency of qualifications all...

Chicago remains at the forefront of the world’s architecture scene

By Samuel Rosenberg / March 3, 2006

What I have never understood about car companies is why they spend their time and money on concept cars. If there is never any chance to buy the “bullet car,” why get me all excited about it? Far too many afternoons at the barbershop were spent by yours truly ogling the pictures and then being...

Philippines stuck in cycle of vicious dictators and failed democracies

By Joel Lanceta / March 3, 2006

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency on February 24 because of reported coup plots from leftists, rogue army officers, and political adversaries. In doing so she heaved the troubled country into a state characterized by: ransacked news media offices, troops in the streets, arrests without warrants, and general disarray. For foreign...

Liberalize the Arts

By Maroon Editorial Staff / February 28, 2006

The University announced the creation of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts in 2001. It is not projected to open until 2010. With all the construction and spending slated for the next 10 years, more than ever, we cannot afford to forget the arts. The art departments and artists on this campus require resources...

Reading between the lines on Iran’s nukes

By Joshua Steinman / February 28, 2006

On February 16, a cleric-disciple of Mesbah Yazdi, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s spiritual advisor, issued a fatwa legitimizing the use of nuclear weapons for “defensive” purposes. Logically, to use nuclear weapons for defense, one must first have them. The fatwa gives President Ahmadinejad carte blanche to publicly declare his desire for an Iranian nuclear weapon....

SG can do a better job funding our RSOs

By David Courchaine / February 28, 2006

I would like to offer a new perspective on the current status of registered student organization (RSO) funding. I continue to maintain that Student Government (SG) was too extravagant in spending at the beginning of the year and that RSOs are now starting to feel the effects. In the fall, SG allocated $6,471 to the...

Snow is more fun than you’d think

By Leila Sales / February 28, 2006

I have recently developed a real obsession with blizzards. By “recently,” I mean “over the past two days,” because that is approximately how long I’ve been snowbound in Boston. I wish I could complain about being stuck here, but I wouldn’t have a great case, since it’s entirely my fault that I didn’t fly back...

Stop the sophistry: Quit justifying offensive speech with ignorance

By Jared Davis / February 28, 2006

Free speech has gotten a good deal of press in the last week, and none of it good. I want to try and put at least one thing in perspective: Islamophobia is alive and well despite all the denials. First, look at the tasteless joke: “Mo’ Mohammed, Mo’ Problems.” Imagine I say to you, “Watch...

Pod University

By Maroon Editorial Staff / February 24, 2006

A new podcast service at Stanford allows students to access lectures by downloading files from iTunes. While the system may prompt justified concerns about class attendance and intellectual property, these issues are easily surmountable. Podcasting U of C lectures only stands to increase access to our professors’ cutting-edge ideas and world-class lectures. The implementation of...

America: Isolation leads only to decline

By Alec Brandon / February 23, 2006

During this year’s State of the Union address, President George Bush made a gratuitous number of references to “isolationists and protectionists.” At the time it seemed like he was merely building a straw man with which he could easily repeat the same points on the war on terror that he has made since 9/11. In...

Protect—don’t persecute—campus speech

By Jacob Green and Robin Scheffle / February 23, 2006

This past Tuesday University administrators called in the UCPD to arrest four students who were eventually charged with disorderly conduct. Two students had initially been staging a mock recruitment rally for “The American Nazi Youth Corps” as part of what they asserted was a protest of the presence of Marine Recruiters in the Reynolds Club....

Muslims are not exempt from toleration

By Teresa Mia Bejan / February 23, 2006

With the possibility of disciplinary action being taken against a University student for posting an original cartoon of Muhammad on his door, the international cartoon controversy has come to our door. Many suggest, including Rahaf Kalaaji in the Maroon (“The Cartoons of Muhammad Are Only Racist Islamophobia,” 2/16/06), that the problem is one of racism,...