How do you say “bipolarity” in Estonain

By Adam Weissmann / February 18, 2005

For the past decade, pundits and analysts have been counting down the years until China awakens as the next superpower rival to the United States. Despite continued Chinese economic and scientific strides, the Communist Party leaders in Beijing still rule undemocratically, and it will be at least another decade or more before the tiger breaks...

Arguing for engagement over appeasement

By Laura Hamilton / February 18, 2005

Within the Muslim world there is a violent movement whose ultimate goal is to install a theocratic dictatorship in each country worldwide; members of this movement are, therefore, accurately termed “Islamofascists.” Every terrorist act is subordinate to that goal; every terrorist act is, by the Islamofascists’ calculation, expected to have optimal payoff with respect to...

Bring back the ball

By Maroon Editorial Staff / February 18, 2005

During the time of Vietnam and Woodstock, the University of Chicago created its own tradition as a lasting testament to the counterculture era: the Lascivious Costume Ball. In its original form, the ball was a conduit for University students to relieve sexual frustration and break away from their tired intellectual lives through mock beauty pageants,...

Bureaucracy hinders real progress

By Ashley P. White-Stern / February 18, 2005

Soon, very soon, the administration will form a committee that will address the possibility of opening a student diversity center. Most of us, particularly those of us who identify themselves as minority students, will breathe a sigh of relief: Finally, this school is going to do something about the terrible disservice it does to its...

We must stop the spread of meth in U.S.

By Andrew Hammond / February 14, 2005

The war on drugs was never won. We have incarcerated non-violent drug offenders, who are disproportionately black, despite drug users being overwhelmingly white. We have not stopped the steady flow of narcotics into this country from other nations. And dealers continue to push drugs near schools and to prey on kids. And now, there is...

Good motives, bad ideas

By Maroon Editorial Staff / February 14, 2005

The most recent student mobilization efforts to create a University women’s center seek to create a “home for women’s social and activist groups and for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer Community (LGBTQ)”. While it is true that the U of C is the currently the only university in the Chicago area without such a...

Calvert House will endure despite crisis

By Steve Brusatte / February 14, 2005

This past Wednesday marked the start of the Lenten season, a 40-day period leading up to Easter during which Christians are asked to reflect on their own sins and the consequences of those sins. Coincidentally, many members of Calvert House, the University’s Catholic campus center, also woke up Wednesday morning to face an immediate and...

Democrats continue to be delusional

By Eric Blaschke / February 14, 2005

Although many Democrats will likely never emerge from their post-election catatonia, those who do must either face the growing need to redefine their party’s platform or reconcile themselves to the fate of history’s many dodo birds. Radicals can continue to insist that the war in Iraq is doomed to failure, that Bush’s pro-growth economic policy...

Protecting free speech, one idiot at a time

By Barney Keller / February 10, 2005

George Orwell had it right: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.” Take a look at Ward Churchill, chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He has ignited a national firestorm among professors and students on the First Amendment. Among the many offensive things he...

Bush’s values bring great consequences

By Monica Groat / February 10, 2005

By my count, President Bush referred to “children” 15 times in his State of the Union address last week. Most references were in regards to Social Security. Many from across the political spectrum have denounced this plan as not economically sound. Yet Bush is more concerned with political victory than sound economic policy. But that...

A crisis at Calvert

By Maroon Editorial Staff / February 10, 2005

The attributes of a good priest are perhaps too many to name in a single editorial. However, most people on campus seem to agree that Father Michael Yaikatis possessed more than his fair share of them. In the fallout from this week’s scandal, the greatest casualty appears to be the Catholic community’s loss of a...

Ending our love affair with the Co-Op

By Adam Weissmann / February 10, 2005

Since the beginning of the academic year, almost every Friday afternoon, I ritually shop for the upcoming week’s groceries. When my pantry’s shelves seem more empty than full, I know it is time to hop in the car and stock up. When I was living in Max Palevsky and still relying on the CTA to...