Why I can’t communicate with the male sex

By Leila Sales / May 16, 2005

I don’t understand boys. I realize I’m not the first woman to point this out, but at least I know why I don’t understand boys: Even boys with seemingly normal upbringings, boys who went to elementary school and watched Snick and listened to Nirvana—even these boys never read the Baby-sitters Club or Sweet Valley series....

The liberal academic bias is a problem in our universities

By Yael Levin / May 16, 2005

I agree with Rita’s call (“The Debate over Academic Bias Is an Ethical One,” 5/12/05) to depoliticize the classroom. Armed with the works of the greatest minds of the past, professors are supposed to teach us how to think, not what to think. A text must be understood first and foremost on its own terms....

Che and our generation

By Hollie Russon Gilman / May 16, 2005

I recently saw The Motorcycle Diaries for Spanish class. It is the story of a young Che Guevera on a journey with his best friend, Alberto Granado. However, what is most powerful about this movie is that it strives not to be a historical film, but rather a coming of age tale that results in...

SG is our Advocate

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 12, 2005

The recent Student Government elections have raised some serious questions about the organization’s scope and function. With voter turnout at a low, this year’s race yielded only two genuine slates and furthered general student opinion of SG that is at best apathetic and at worst highly critical. When faced with the question “What is, or...

Do the French know why they’re saying “non”?

By Rebecca Phillips / May 12, 2005

May 12, 2005—PARIS—In a highly scrutinized referendum on May 29, French voters will go to the polls to say “Oui” or “Non” to the European Union constitution. Opinion surveys conducted in March and April showed the “Non” vote ahead with 51 to 54 percent of respondents, while some new statistics from this month give the...

The Air Force Academy’s extremism is hypocritical

By Joe Katz / May 12, 2005

Wartime tends to emphasize the extremes in human nature. Battles produce unspeakable barbarity and unimaginable courage. Similarly, the effects of war on society simultaneously highlight what is great and terrible about a combatant nation. Americans have given into appalling lapses of their national values in times of crisis. Case in point: the internment of the...

The debate over academic bias is an ethical one

By Rita Koganzon / May 12, 2005

Even if the major players in the current national debate over academic bias are waving some rather comically ironic banners, the recurrence of the issue both in this newspaper and in Diskord indicate that while the national face of the debate might look foolish, there really may be something important at stake. On the one...

A Healthy Democracy?

By Chris Meckstroth / May 12, 2005

Forty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” What would he have to say about health care in America today? He’d certainly say that the American health care system is broken. The U.S. government spends more money...

Offering OMSA to Others

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 9, 2005

The Maroon applauds the hiring of Dr. Ana Vazquez as the new director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs (OMSA) as well as the granting of her additional title of deputy dean of students. The hiring of Vazquez, and the creation of her more prominent position, signal that the University is serious about giving...

Something rotten in Denmark? I think not.

By Adam Weissmann / May 9, 2005

This week marks the 60th anniversary of victory in Europe, and leaders of the Allied states marked the occasion this weekend in Moscow. Across the continent, liberated nations are commemorating the revival of their freedom. On Wednesday, May 4, at a celebration marking Denmark’s liberation from the Nazis, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued...

It’s no surprise that we beat Harvard

By Phoebe Maltz / May 9, 2005

The Wall Street Journal’s “Opinion Journal” ran a piece on April 29 by Michael Steinberger that brought immense, seemingly inexplicable joy to the U of C community. What did Steinberger write? A defense of of cold winters? Of all-night study spaces? No. What really gets U of C students grinning is a definitive assertion, in...

Advocate Health Care benefits the few

By David Whitset / May 9, 2005

It is no secret that Chicago has one of the worst track records of any major city with regards to racial redlining, which is the illegal practice of discrimination against a racial group by insurance providers or real-estate lenders. What is not so readily apparent is that the same discriminatory system often practiced by Chicago’s...