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...

Keep race out of curricula

By The Maroon Staff / May 22, 2003

In the May 16 issue of the Maroon was a feature, “Unique local school offers African-centric curriculum,” about the Woodlawn Community School, which teaches an “African-centric” curriculum. (Apparently that term was chosen instead of the more common “Afro-centrism” to distance it from the mostly paranoid and incoherent historical theories of the latter.) I am concerned...

Not all Jews are “white”

By The Maroon Staff / May 22, 2003

In M. Yasser Ghanchi’s May 16 article, “Israeli government mistreats,” he quotes Rachel Corrie’s letters to her mother. Her words expose her ignorance even more than her tragic actions. I won’t go deeply into published reports of how she scrambled to the top of a mound of dirt that was already in motion over the...

Media deregulation ignored

By Mitchell Szczepanczyk / May 22, 2003

On May 7, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting diversity in media ownership. This resolution flies right in the face of sweeping deregulation efforts that the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is proposing and could be implemented as soon as June 2. This possible deregulation stands to abolish six key rules on media...

Commuter students overlooked on campus

By Srdzan Lazarevski / May 22, 2003

As the old saying reminds us, “Far from the eyes, far from the heart.” This applies to the way the University and the campus-resident majority perceive commuter students. Commuters face a variety of issues and problems that have not been properly acknowledged and addressed by the administration or the students who reside on campus. While...

Secrecy clouds critical FCC decision

By The Maroon Staff / May 22, 2003

On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the branch of the government that regulates the media, will make a decision that may have far-reaching consequences in both print and broadcast media. With little to no public debate or discussion, five commissioners in the FCC will vote on further opening up American mass media to...

Talks between Tamil rebels, government stall

By Haider Ghaznavi / May 22, 2003

Truce talks between Tamil rebels and the Sri Lankan government have reached a stalemate despite foreign attempts to break the deadlock. The latest blow came when the rebels passed a deadline last week for accepting an invitation to attend donor talks in Tokyo next month. European governments, particularly Norway, made last ditch attempts to convince...

University catalogs go online

By The Maroon Staff / May 19, 2003

University catalogs go online In their push to emphasize online access to course information, administrators are slowly abandoning the printed versions of both time schedules and course catalogs that were once more easily accessible to students and faculty. But the advance of online technology need not come at the expense of other useful ways of...

Is youth culture to blame?

By Tim Miller / May 19, 2003

Over the last few weeks, many a pundit here in Chicagoland and elsewhere has turned his attention to the hazing incident at Glenbrook North High School. Collectively, a lot of ink has been spilled over issues relating to teen violence, out of control behavior, and general themes that can best be summed up as describing...

Quarters equal semesters

By Nick Tarasen / May 19, 2003

The University of Chicago’s first president, William Rainey Harper, thought up the quarter system as part of the academic plan for his great university. As I understand it, the great purpose of the quarter system is to allow students to take more classes in their time at the University. Three quarters per academic year, with...

“Peace” movement proves violent

By Raphael Satter / May 19, 2003

To the Editor: Having read M. Yasser Ghanchi’s article “Israeli Government Mistreats,” I felt the point of the article, that restraint is needed on both sides if peace is to succeed, was well taken, but that the treatment of the death of “peace” activist Rachel Corrie, prefaced by a call to present a fair and...

Equating racism and homophobia

By The Maroon Staff / May 15, 2003

To The Editor, The anonymous author of the “Campus Homophobia” article unfairly implies that racism on this campus is a moot point. This is based upon the belief that it is a social taboo to refer to a black student as a “nigger.” The fact that racism is no longer as overt as the open...