Could Dean still be what the Democrats need?

By Monica Groat / January 18, 2005

What the Democratic National Committee (DNC) needs is a swift kick in the pants from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Don’t get me wrong. I was as tired and hung-over last November 3, like all of you who did not vote to elect Karl Rove for another four years. But I have never...

Bush’s service record is still a mystery

By Jesse Zink / January 18, 2005

The recent release of the Thornburg-Boccardi report about the fraudulent memos used by CBS News in a report about President Bush’s National Guard service has sparked gloating on the behalf of many Republicans. Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ed Gillespie said, “The public has made their judgment: They know the President served and was honorably...

The time is now of Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Joel Lanceta / January 13, 2005

The relatively peaceful election of Mahmoud Abbas, nicknamed “Abu Mazen,” as president of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) shows a new willingness on the part of the Palestinians to move towards stability, perhaps for going the violence and chaos of the past four decades. Abbas promises to reform the corrupt and mostly unproductive P.A. created by...

La dissertation: An antithese of one’s own

By Rebecca Phillips / January 13, 2005

January 12, 2005—PARIS—While putting off writing a paper on Antigone, I felt both contempt and appreciation for the style of la dissertation that I have been struggling with ever since French 205 last winter. It is excessively formal, relentlessly disciplined, and infuriatingly bureaucratic, but it does offer an appealing new way to look at both...

Pack the Place, tonight

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 13, 2005

Coming off a weekend in which the men’s and women’s basketball teams gutted out close wins over top rival Washington University, the Maroon urges U of C students to stop their Friday evening entertainment searches and “Pack the Place” tonight at Ratner. Our basketball program has been a key contributor to the community, with the...

America and the Olympics, remembered

By Leila Sales / January 13, 2005

You know what’s so amazing? The Olympics. Consider: The Olympics offers drama, intrigue, passion, desperation, and half-naked men crying at the sound of the national anthem. The only things that could possibly improve the Olympics would be a couple fuzzy kittens. But this is true of pretty much every major political or cultural event, so...

Log off: The case against The FaceBook

By Jason Thurlkill / January 13, 2005

Not long ago, when a guy or girl met someone at a party there was only one way to get to know them better: Ask for their number, hope they write down the right one, and pray for a callback. Today 20- and 30-somethings are just as likely to ask, “Are you on Friendster or...

Bush’s awful plan to privatize social security

By Andrew Hammond / January 11, 2005

Two-term Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower once wrote, “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again…There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Their number is negligible and they are...

U of C: A feminist and post-feminist utopia

By Phoebe Maltz / January 11, 2005

It’s hard to be a girl. Or at least it’s hard to be a girl at the U of C. No, strike that, it’s hard to be a U of C girl looking to snag frat guys predisposed to finding the school’s women “ugly.” Julie Fredrickson’s piece in the Chicago Weekly, “Squirrel Crazy: Being a...

Free of the fashion police

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 11, 2005

At the University of Chicago, students enjoy a lack of social restrictions. Neither the students nor the administration enforce social norms of ideas or fashion types. The Chicago student is an empowered, independent person who can make her own decisions rather than bending to the conforming forces that exist at other schools. Here at the...

Living on the edge: The trouble with always being comfortable

By Daniel Gilbert / January 11, 2005

As a student living in the United States, I find that it is a rare occurrence when my feet come in contact with the ground. I’m talking about real ground, earth, the essence of organic life. Instead I walk across the hardwood floor of my apartment, the paved road, or the cemented sidewalk, and my...

Isn’t it possible that red America is right?

By Allison Kuhns / January 11, 2005

Despite what many liberal Democrats may think, there are still honest Americans out there who believe in a hard day’s work and taking only what you can earn for yourself. I know because I come from Kansas, where hard-working people go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and ask only that their lives be as...