Injustice of the Equal Protection Clause

By Samuel Owens / August 1, 2003

Nietzsche wrote of the unjust nature of laws predicated on class inequality. Within America, it seems that the just spirit of the laws transcends the limitations of behavioral evolution. While our Constitution upholds the inalienable rights of all people, we still harbor ancient mores of racial and cultural based inferiority. What is the redeeming value...

Race blind criticism

By William Baude / July 10, 2003

Ah, the affirmative action debate. Those optimists expecting a sweeping rule from the Court have been disappointed. Twenty-five years after Bakke, Justice O’Connor has clarified a few lines and submitted the whole thing for another 25 years of revision, like those maddeningly unhelpful professors who make one or two cryptic marks, and write “Pretty good...

Culture war — what is it good for?

By Tim Miller / July 10, 2003

In his dissenting opinion regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a Texas sodomy law, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that that body had, “taken sides in the culture war.” Wednesday’s New York Times reported that a judge sentencing a former Virginia Republican Party executive director to probation for eavesdropping on a Democratic Party...

Dean is best Democratic candidate

By The Maroon Staff / July 7, 2003

President Bush is doing it all wrong, and one of the only Democrats with the balls to say it is Howard Dean. On the environment, on the economy, on the continuing war in Iraq, Dean has been unabashed in decrying President Bush’s methods and motivations. And it may well save the Democratic Party. Dean is...

Liberty, justice, and hair products for all

By Phoebe Maltz / June 26, 2003

This week has been a good one for the gay and gay-ish. Not only has the Supreme Court ordered police across the nation to stop breaking into any well-decorated home they are referred to, but The New York Times reports that it has officially become acceptable for straight men to run around giving every impression...

Repetitions on the culture industry

By James Liu / June 26, 2003

Certain recent developments in the music industry have brought me not the least bit of consternation. First, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become quite a bit more vigilant about what they take to be “piracy.” The second is iTunes, a new proprietary music service by Apple. As anyone with any knowledge about...

U of C Greeks; no, not Plato

By Justin Palmer / June 5, 2003

On campus, when the word “Greek” is used, most people think of the University’s acclaimed Classics Program. But there’s another meaning to the word “Greek” for a number of us students that I’d like to address in this column. That’s the Greek life found in the University’s fraternities and sororities. Joining a fraternity, in my...

U of C experience unmasked

By Tim Miller / June 5, 2003

The University of Chicago has changed a lot over the past four years. I increasingly realize that as I walk across the quads or grab a bite to eat in Cobb coffee shop. Lest this column be construed as a sappy and trite batch of remembrances, I will assure the reader that there is a...

The U of C needs glory, Division I athletics

By Nick Tarasen / May 29, 2003

“The University of Chicago…is that a state school?” In the three years since I decided to attend our venerable institution, I’ve learned not to visibly cringe in response to this question. Still, when I hear this, my insides get twisty, and I feel my blood pressure start to rise. I often wonder how my parents...

Phone etiquette elicits stress

By Persis Elavia / May 29, 2003

As the year is drawing to a close and classes are wrapping up, summer is on the brain of most students. Summer time, in the words of the boy sitting behind me on the bus, is “Dude, I’m so gonna hook up this summer.” Classy. If that’s your goal, then you’ll need a specific method...

Bush misleads public

By Joshua Steinman / May 29, 2003

With sky-high poll numbers and a neat little picture of him in a flight suit now on his Oval Office wall, the President once again recently avoided the nagging question of his own credibility. President Bush made the case to the American people that the “war” (fought without a constitutionally required declaration) was worth hundreds...

GOP on campus, NYT warns

By Phoebe Maltz / May 29, 2003

The New York Times’s decision to feature college Republicans in its magazine (“The Young Hipublicans,” by John Colapinto) is sure to elicit two responses. Liberal readers will read curiously to see what those misguided youths are up to, as though the article were an expose on sexually active 13-year-olds. Meanwhile, more conservative folk will have...