What Would Phoebe Do?

By Phoebe Maltz / November 15, 2002

Recently, The Criterion put on its back cover a list of the prep-school graduating class to which each of its contributors belongs, along with the words, “Some of my best friends went to public school.” To what end? The Criterion’s prep-school listing demonstrates the desire to regress back to high school that some students, who...

Staff Editorial: Promontory problems

By The Maroon Staff / November 15, 2002

Many of the protesters in Hyde Park’s “Save the Point” campaign have found the city of Chicago’s response to their efforts unsatisfactory. The Task Force for Promontory Point spent the past five months researching and formulating a counterproposal to the city’s, one that they allege would be cheaper and more agreeable to local interests. We...

A defense of U.S. liberals

By Igor Serebryany / November 15, 2002

Have you ever read words that made your blood boil? In an attempt to “thoughtfully explain” his views, John Lovejoy has written such words, all the while displaying an utter lack of reflective capacity. Let us examine his views. He claims that “liberals,” secluded “in college campuses or…affluent areas like Manhattan or Beverly Hills,” have...

Correction

By The Maroon Staff / November 15, 2002

The following names were inadvertently left out of the letter about Campus Watch published on November 7. Arnold I. Davidson, Professor of Philosophy; Peter Dorman, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Walter Farber, Professor, Oriental Institute and NELC; Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of Psychology; Gene Gragg, Professor of Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages and...

Patriot Act is unpatriotic

By David Noah / November 15, 2002

As President Bush and his cabinet continue to roll forward with the War on Terrorism while most Americans look backward to September 11, we need to rethink how we’re fighting it. Though it seems that the war in Iraq would provide the wake-up call required to make Americans leery of their government, we still gaze...

Faculty politicize the classroom

By Talia Magnas / November 15, 2002

I’d like to respond to the allegations made by 97 faculty members against a number of University of Chicago students and their faculty supporters. (“Accusations on Campus Watch,” 11/7/02) But first I’d like to express my concern about the threats and the spamming which Professor Khalidi has received. These acts do violence not only to...

Decisions for Democrats

By Joshua Steinman / November 12, 2002

When John F. Kennedy ran for Congress in 1946, he billed himself as a “fighting conservative.” He did this in Massachusetts. And won. As a Congressman Kennedy routinely supported a like-minded center-left Republican who had billed himself as a “practical liberal” in his first run for Congress, also in 1946: Richard Nixon. Their offices were,...

Risky admissions decision

By James Liu / November 12, 2002

The decision of Yale and Stanford to change their admissions style to Early Action from Early Decision reminds me of the summer before last, when after having finished high school and the college admissions game, I engaged in an online argument with James Fallows on the Atlantic Monthly discussion board. His recent article suggested that...

Enough about Campus Watch

By John Lovejoy / November 12, 2002

All summer I worked in a lab listening to National Public Radio. Every day it seemed one of the shows was devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Experts representing both sides would come on the show and proceed to disagree for the next hour. Every one of these shows was the same and after about a...

Look at recent world elections

By Sener Akturk / November 12, 2002

The months of October and November 2002 were doomed to be a critical period for global politics since elections were supposed to be held in four countries, each one of them having its own pivotal role. Let’s go over these election results chronologically. The elections in Pakistan were potentially the least interesting and insignificant, simply...

Simplify financial aid bureaucracy

By The Maroon Staff / November 12, 2002

It was good news indeed that a study by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education listed the U of C as having the fifth highest proportion of Pell Grant recipients among first-tier universities. This is a sign that the University’s commitment to attracting top students from all economic backgrounds is alive and well. There...

What the Democrats should do next

By Joshua Steinman / November 8, 2002

I hate excuses. I’ve been listening to the radio over the past few days, and excuses are all I’ve heard from Democrats. A friend of mine came by my room Tuesday night and asked me how I could be angry, the people voted, and the results came in. He was absolutely right. I wasn’t angry...