Help get out the vote in a nearby swing state this weekend

By Caroline Buddenhagen / October 28, 2004

When the founding fathers decided on the electoral college system, they assumed the early republic would be full of uninformed plebeians who were too busy farming and fighting Indians to make decisions for themselves. They could be trusted with local decisions, but the important choice of president could only be made by electors chosen by...

Why the GOP is ashamed of Keyes

By Gautham Rao / October 28, 2004

I know, I know. He’s a homophobe, he doesn’t believe in reproductive rights, he’s against stem-cell research, he wants to privatize Social Security, he wants a national flat tax, he doesn’t believe in any firearm regulation, and he’s a pro-tort reform, pro-voucher, pro-school prayer, anti-sex education conservative. But those are reasons for liberal disgust. What...

Merit beyond rankings

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 28, 2004

Last January, the University of Chicago Model United Nations team won recognition for finishing among the top three teams at competitions at both Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. While proving themselves among the best teams in the country, MUN argued that they were insufficiently funded by the University, given the level of funding received...

How to properly invade the South Side

By Garth Johnston / October 28, 2004

“The University of Chicago has a rich architectural and planning heritage. Those who propose to make additions to that heritage must therefore study the early history of the University with care. That history is inspiring and instructive.” – The University of Chicago Campus Master Plan On Thursday, Vice President of the College and Dean of...

The importance of learning English

By Daniel Gilbert / October 28, 2004

This is the third installment in a series of articles about a summer spent in the Peruvian village of Cochas Grande. As I entered the classroom, the children stood up abruptly amid a cacophony of metal chairs scraping the concrete floor. Thirty pairs of eyes watched me, riveted, as I made my way to the...

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart: In the crossfire on media and politics

By Jason Thurkill / October 27, 2004

If you didn’t watch CNN this past week or one of the clips making the rounds on the Internet, you missed The Daily Show host Jon Stewart deliver a damning critique on the media and how it covers politics. In a tense, heated exchange with co-hosts Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, Stewart not-so-tactfully alleged that...

Planning for the future

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 27, 2004

With the completion of the Gerald Ratner Athletic Center and the new Graduate School of Business building, the next major step in the future of the University is set: A new 900-resident dorm at 61st Street and South Ellis Avenue. In its effort to increase both the size of the College and the University’s presence...

Child poverty: A modern American tragedy

By Andrew Hammond / October 27, 2004

Hubert Humphrey once said that “the moral test of a government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life: the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.” Our government has...

Refuting the health care “refusal clause”

By Emily Alpert / October 27, 2004

This past February, in Denton, Texas, a rape survivor obtained a prescription for emergency contraceptive pills from a hospital—a hurdle in and of itself, as I’ve argued in the past. When she arrived at the pharmacy counter, however, she was made to jump through a new series of hoops: The first two pharmacies she entered...

Jewish-conspiracy theorist surfaces at Duke

By Phoebe Maltz / October 27, 2004

The good life. Most people picture seaside vacations, mojitos served by attractive members of one’s preferred sex, and not having a care (or midterm) in the world. Not so for Philip Kurian, a student at Duke University. No, in Kurian’s eyes, the good life is being Jewish in America. There’s nothing quite like it. “It...

Budget deficit shouldn’t be the only concern: Trade deficit anyone?

By Eric Golson / October 24, 2004

With John Kerry and George Bush trading spars about the economy and the cover of the Economist screaming titles such as “Scares ahead for the world economy,” you might be wondering why you can’t just stay in college forever and avoid real life. Sorry, even that plan won’t allow you to escape the forces of...

Degrees of Irrelevance

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 24, 2004

Last spring, the first class of students graduated from European colleges under the Bologna process—an ambitious process that condensed the traditional four-year undergraduate program into a streamlined three-year plan. The recent graduations mean that there will soon be a wave of European applicants to Chicago’s graduate schools who have earned these three-year degrees. Many American...