Studs Terkel’s national diagnosis

By Andrew Hammond / March 12, 2004

On Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to hear a great American speak: Studs Terkel. An alumnus of our law school, Terkel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has written eleven books on various topics of 20th-century America, including the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Terkel is unique in his...

A treatise on dating: the Prisoner’s Dilemma

By Joshua Steinman / March 12, 2004

After reading V.R. Dupont’s hilariously honest contribution on Tuesday (“The Economics of Meat Markets: Addressing the Question of Efficiency”), I felt compelled to stand up for the social sciences (in particular, international relations) and share with you a portion of a theory I’ve been working on. At moderately large schools like Chicago where social interactions...

Departing EIC reflects on time at the Maroon

By Carolina Bolado / March 12, 2004

I was told I should write a farewell column in keeping with some sort of outgoing editor-in-chief tradition. Naturally, as a news reporter, I did some research last night in our archived issues to see exactly how other Maroon staffs in the past announced the retirement of an editor. I found that a column from...

Conseratives have created a plan for resurrecting liberalism in America

By Joel Lanceta / March 12, 2004

I was once told by my roommate, whose-upper-middle class upbringing probably explains his views, that the United States is actually more conservative than expected, and that, in general, college students are now becoming more conservative. There was a time that I did think liberalism in the United States was dying. It was early 2001; George...

Leila discusses human rights protests

By Leila Sales / March 12, 2004

H&M is similar to a Hum teacher in that it presents us with a fascinating moral dilemma: are sweatshops OK if they result in really cute clothes? Clearly, the correct answer is no, but this is hard to remember when you go downtown and you’re trying to walk past H&M and then you see this...

The University of Chicago must address healthcare funding

By Andrew Dilts / March 12, 2004

As students we get the amazing opportunity to think, to write, to study, to argue, and to live what has been called the “life of the mind.” Some of us pay dearly to be here, some of us are paid handsomely to be here, some of us are the partners and children of students here....

The economics of meat markets: addressing the question of efficiency

By V. R. Dupont / March 9, 2004

This column was inspired by two women, one of whom I know well, the other, well, not so well. Starting with the latter, Viewpoints columnist Persis Elavia has enlightened us on the “ethics” of dating for the past year or so. This is all very fine and good, but I realized that I’d be remiss...

Allen a good deal for the U of C

By Maroon Editorial Staff / March 9, 2004

Some say that those who can’t do, teach. The sad fact is, some who do teach, especially in the world of academia, couldn’t instruct a cat to catch a mouse. Genius and teaching ability often do not easily mix in the same person. But Danielle Allen is one of those exceptions where a great mind...

U of C brutality and racial profiling

By Barney Keller / March 9, 2004

The Clemmie Carthans police brutality incident has put a spotlight on the longstanding controversy over racial profiling. The Young Democratic Socialists put up flyers in Bartlett calling it an “example of the police violence that is systematically employed against the black population under racist American capitalism, where all black youths are treated as potential criminals...

Campaign TV ads showcase editors’ talents

By Kenneth Aliaga / March 9, 2004

Just recently the Association of Independent Creative Editors held a contest for editors in the advertising business. The challenge was to edit a new trailer for a popular film, placing it in an entirely different genre. Forrest Gump became a stalker-thriller. Platoon became a love story. The winner of the contest was Kevin Halleran who...

Re: Staff editorial attached

By Maroon Editorial Staff / March 5, 2004

In the past week, a particularly tricky virus has flooded inboxes with e-mails bearing increasingly convincing subject lines that lure users into opening the infected files. While the intellectual population at the University has been able to withstand the majority of these clever ruses, it appears that some people have still been fooled into unwittingly...

Fashion tips for the “warm” weather

By Jennifer Barnes / March 5, 2004

I don’t hold the highest expectations for fashion at the University of Chicago. Most of the time, I don’t hold any. I’m pretty pleased with the fact that no one in my civ class is donning a Taz sweatshirt, of the black and non-hooded persuasion. Sure, the kid next to me often wears pants that...