Cho chose not to “take the high road”

By Steve Brusatte / January 13, 2004

I am conservative. I came to the realization long ago that this university was overwhelmingly liberal, and that really doesn’t bother me. I also realize that Margaret Cho is liberal, and I fully accept her right to speak her opinions, even during a show that was billed as a “comedy act.” But what I don’t...

A new look at University health insurance

By Biella Colem / January 13, 2004

The Maroon ran a news story on Friday, December 5, 2003 entitled “Skyrocketing insurance rates plague graduate students.” The article was a fair examination of the problems both students and administrators face with respect to the rising cost of the student health insurance plan at the University of Chicago. However, the Maroon also ran an...

Red Line shuttle bus would alleviate student travle woes

By Joe Anzalone / January 13, 2004

It is imperative for students to have an affordable and dependable route both to and from campus. In many cases, the current obstacles that impede the return leg of the trip discourage many students from exiting campus at all. Many issues lead to the difficulties involved in traveling away from campus, including and most importantly...

The Iowa caucus will be both close and crucial

By Andrew Hammond / January 13, 2004

On Monday, January 19, Democrats from all over the state of Iowa will convrge in each of its 2,131 different precincts to debate and show support for their respective candidates, giving to ordinary citizens the first opportunity to pick their President. The caucus in Iowa has just recently become two separate races: one between Dick...

Mars: What’s $600 billion between friends?

By William Baude / January 13, 2004

This week President George W Bush will announce his plans to ramp up the space program and put a man on Mars. As Garfield the Cat continually laments, “It’s amazing the things people would rather have than money.” When the first president Bush announced similar delusions of grandeur, the cost was about 400 billion dollars...

Checkerboard protestors misguided

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 13, 2004

The degree to which the University has organized and controlled Hyde Park and its surrounding neighborhoods through its substantial influence and wealth remains an interesting and important question. Over the past 50 years, the University has made many decisions about the kind of community in which it wants its students to live, and occasionally may...

New RSO: Asian American Apathetics?

By Juliana Wu / January 11, 2004

If a new Asian cultural club arose on campus, I wouldn’t be surprised to see RSO status granted to AAA, Asian- American Apathetics. The volume of Asian-American news and buzz on campus is at most a mild hum, if anything above mute. Searching the Maroon archives for articles with the phrase “Asian American” in them,...

France changes an American’s perspective

By David King / January 11, 2004

Before I even begin this article, let me dispel a couple of conclusions you’re probably going to come to by reading it. No, I don’t have any French family. And no, I never expected to become a Francophile. If you had told me a few years ago that I would, I’d have laughed. Here’s the...

Investing 101: Letting your money work for you

By Lee Bollinger / January 11, 2004

In one of history’s most famous real estate blunders, the Native Americans of New York agreed in 1626 to sell all rights to Manhattan Island for the equivalent of $24 in trinkets and beads. Mention of this peculiar fact at a party often results in a joke or two at the Native Americans’ expense, possibly...

Fashion experts debate Ugg boots craze

By Phoebe Maltz / January 11, 2004

As sort of a “welcome back” surprise for the whopping 1 per cent of Chicago students interested in fashion and gratuitous name-dropping, I have set up a point-counterpoint between Prudence Plain, the editor of Misguidedly Self-Confident Woman, a therapeutic and reassuring publication for the less-than-elegant, and Elle Superior, the style director of So Very Now,...

Dean’s new piety poorly timed and insincere

By John Lovejoy / January 11, 2004

So, Howard Dean has decided to get religion, and just in time, too! With Iowa and New Hampshire Democrats looking increasingly likely to select him as their nominee, Dean is now concerned about the Super Tuesday primaries in the South. The feisty Yankee’s understanding of this vast, diverse region often seems drawn entirely from the...

New printing policy on the ball

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 11, 2004

NSIT’s new printing policy, which will be implemented in the next few days and will charge students six cents per page, is a fair and responsible way of controlling the costs incurred by printing. Many arguments against this policy are shortsighted and, in some cases, selfish. Individual students have different needs. Some use the bus...