FDA plays God and denies Plan B access

By Andrew Moesel / May 15, 2004

As if it isn’t bad enough that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been raining down its fire and brimstone morality on the American public, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected a proposal earlier this week to allow over-the-counter sales of a morning-after abortion pill, in an unusual move that appears to be motivated...

For the sake of democracy, public deserves full disclosure on Abu Ghraib

By Stephen Kim / May 15, 2004

The Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal has been devastating to the reputation of the U.S. armed forces stationed in Iraq in the eyes of the international community, tarnishing those men and women who have served courageously and honorably. Yet the Department of Defense’s behavior in handling the aftermath of these abhorrent abuses also represents a serious...

Shuttle is normal University Perk

By Courtney C. Wassell / May 15, 2004

Like many students, I initially found the idea of a Red Line Shuttle bus distasteful. I believe my exact reaction was, “Um, yeah, we already have that, and it’s called the #55.” But now that it’s here, and it’s available, I have a hard time impeaching it on any kind of ethical grounds. And the...

Open shuttle to all

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 11, 2004

Students returning from a night on the town this past weekend got to take a peak at the pilot service of the Red Line Shuttle. The shuttle, which runs from the Garfield Red Line stop to the Reynolds Club, no doubt expedites the return trip for students, faculty, and members of the University community. But...

Facebook defies utilitarianism, insults Mill

By Kellen Alexander / May 11, 2004

It has arrived. The University of Chicago is now on the popular computer friend-networking system called The Facebook. The Facebook is a website that was started by a student at Harvard University earlier this year and has since spread to other top universities across America. Much like Friendster.com and Myspace.com, The Facebook is an outrageously...

Secretary Rumsfeld must resign

By Andrew Hammond / May 7, 2004

If you have not emerged from the academic bubble of this University recently, I urge you to come out and look at the photographs that are consuming Washington, D.C. and enraging the world. They show a U.S. soldier dragging a naked Iraqi prisoner across the floor with a leather leash. They show American soldiers posing...

Americans demand Iraqi justice

By Justin Palmer / May 7, 2004

When I first saw the now-infamous pictures of our soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, my initial reaction was downright Churchillian: “Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much good carried out by so many, negated by so few.” However, the more I thought about it,...

Kerry proves Friedman wrong, finds free lunch

By Laura Hamilton / May 7, 2004

John Kerry is the perfect candidate. Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Either way, John Kerry agrees with you. Do you support the Iraq war or oppose it? Kerry voted for it, but he’s come to see the error of his ways. Why search for a leader who can make good decisions before the fact, when...

An authentic pro-choice movement

By Emily Alpert / May 7, 2004

If life were hewed to a legal definition, the abortion debate might be easier. But human development does not submit easily to the taxonomy of legal categories. Defining adulthood at age 18, for instance, is a matter of convenience, not science; clearly, people aren’t transformed from dependents into consenting, fully rational agents at the stroke...

Springing into Action

By Maroon Editorial Staff / May 7, 2004

In recent years, weather has played a cruel joke on spring quarter, robbing it of the warmth it implies. This year, however, we have lucked out and those who thought springtime would never come seem to be taking full advantage of it. Warm weather was by all accounts the key motivation behind the waves of...

Slates need a reality check

By Jeremy Guttman / May 4, 2004

The Student Government (SG) executive slate is an excellent and necessary conduit between the students, administrators, and faculty. I have very little SG experience, and I thought that the people running for SG this year would be much more knowledgeable and experienced than I am. But what I heard at the SG debates the other...

A tribute to Jock Weintraub: University of Chicago legend

By Brad Glaza / May 4, 2004

We do not write requiems for the dead. It is rather for the living that we write of those who have left us, for perhaps the only way to overcome our grief is in an act of making, a poetic expression for our own catharsis. So one could justly call this piece a self-indulgent act....