Hop on the Q-Train

By Maroon Editorial Staff / April 8, 2005

The University of Chicago is an intense place. Students are encouraged to go wild only once a year, during that fateful weekend in May known as Scav Hunt. But fun needn’t be confined to an annual event, which is why the Maroon commends the efforts of two professors, Allen Sanderson and José Quintans (of the...

Criticizing Summers harms free inquiry

By Barney Keller / April 7, 2005

A lot of times, I find it hard to understand what people were thinking at a given moment. Steve Bartman is a good example. Everyone in Wrigley was giving Cubs left-fielder Moises Alou as much room as possible, and then this guy decided it would be a good idea to try and take home a...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe is a harbinger for the West

By Rob Katz / April 7, 2005

APRIL 8, MUTARE, ZIMBABWE -What would you think if you were from New York City and traveling on a dusty road in South Africa and saw someone proudly wearing an Osama bin Laden T-shirt? Here, in what was once the breadbasket of Africa, the name of Zimbabwean President Robert G. Mugabe resonates, like bin Laden’s,...

Sexual Assault Awareness Month deserves some serious thought

By Nissa Thompson / April 7, 2005

This April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month will be observed across the nation. On campus, student and university organizations will recognize this month with many events on sexual violence. But what exactly do these events have to do with you? One in four women and one in six men are the victims of some sort of...

Anti-Semitism deserves focus

By Teresa Mia Bejan / April 7, 2005

I appreciate Mr. Wagner’s concerns; let me take this opportunity to clarify some points. One could not get away with overt racism or sexism in the same circles detailed in my article (the Larry Summers debacle serving as a cautionary tale to anyone tempted to say, well, anything). Why, then, is anti-Semitism still OK? Why...

Why Is Everybody Pickin’ On Me?

By Adam Weissmann / April 7, 2005

In the last two weeks there has been a plethora of discussion on anti-Semitism in this paper. From Teresa Mia Bejan’s reflections on European attitudes to Daniel Wagner’s appeal to consider anti-Jewish sentiment only within the broader context of global racism, a discussion of the goals and practices of discussing anti-Semitism has taken center stage....

The Woodlawn Organization isn’t working

By Emily Alpert / April 6, 2005

Many University students maintain a privileged transience—spending a quarter in Paris, a summer at home, shuttling belongings in brown cardboard boxes from one apartment to the next. However, in Woodlawn, Hyde Park’s southern neighbor, longtime residents and new ones alike are facing unwanted moves, as the area’s remaining subsidized housing is illegally preyed upon by...

Iraq is ripe for ethnic conflict and tyranny

By Patrick Burke / April 5, 2005

The very fact that the newly formed Iraqi parliament is in a functional state may seem to bode future political stability. President Bush, with the utmost optimism, seems to believe the tensions that the Iraqi parliament experienced this past Tuesday are nothing more than growing pains for what he views as a nascent democratic powerhouse....

We must rethink the discourse on anti-Semitism

By Daniel Wagner / April 5, 2005

The greatest error we can make as critics of social ideas is to extrapolate general conclusions from the words of the loudest, the dumbest, and the most obnoxious. In her article, (“Anti-Semitism Seems To Be All the Rage in England and the Continent”, 4/1/05) Teresa Mia Bejan displays this mistake in a thousand words of...

Reflexive Verbs and Self-Reflection in Paris

By Rebecca Phillips / April 5, 2005

“Non, Rebecca,” sighed Vanessa in exasperation, “we worked on this last time. On attend quelque chose ou on s’attend à quelque chose. Do you understand the difference?” My oral practice session on Wednesday morning had gone well enough, but I was apparently still having trouble making phrases with the reflexive verb s’attendre à (to expect)....

UCPD can do better

By Maroon Editorial Staff / April 3, 2005

While Hyde Park has become safer in the past years, the last few weeks have demonstrated that vigilance for potential crime is still crucial to campus life. Not only have there been armed robberies, but they have occurred in broad daylight, holding victims up at gunpoint in the entryways to their own apartments. In light...

Adventures in Real/Rock Journalism

By Leila Sales / April 3, 2005

Because I am a Real Journalist, sometimes I do Real Journalistic things like sit in front of my computer for hours, or mock people’s grammar, or interview rock bands. Yes, that’s right, rock bands! OK, one rock band. Specifically, Athlete. If you don’t know who Athlete is, that’s probably because you’re not indie enough. Being...