Staff Editorial

By The Maroon Staff / November 8, 2002

Both Stanford and Yale announced Wednesday that they will drop their early decision programs in favor of the non-binding early action. While we at the Maroon feel that this is a step in the right direction, we believe that there are structural flaws in the entire college application process. Rarely are high school seniors cognizant...

No alternatives to Bush

By Tim Miller / November 8, 2002

So the Republicans are back in control of the Senate, the House Democratic leadership is in disarray, and most ordinary Americans are breathing a collective sigh of “so what.” While all the pundits are absolutely shocked about the GOP under President Bush gaining seats in a midterm election, it’s not really all that surprising. Ever...

Iraq invasion not to America’s benefit

By Tim Sikes / November 8, 2002

It’s been a while since I’ve done this, so I may be a bit rusty. Writing for the consumption of the general population takes a certain amount of finesse. Writing for a population made up of intellectuals and would-be intellectuals takes as much prudence as it does finesse. I have neither. The best I can...

Diplomacy… and other means

By Justin Palmer / November 5, 2002

“Whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart and that is the weakest of faith.” —the Prophet Muhammad With the Muslim holiday of...

Right as usual

By John Lovejoy / November 5, 2002

I have elected to adopt a less confrontational tone in my column. This change is largely because my ignoble visage now accompanies my byline, and I am wary of my readers recognizing me on the street and pelting me with batteries and lemons. Therefore, this column is the first in a series in which I...

Staff editorial: Make yourself heard

By The Maroon Staff / November 5, 2002

The faculty of the Divinity School recently circulated a petition decrying a possible war in Iraq. Though the petition was small in scale—it had only 35 signatories—it bespeaks the ease with which the public can voice its opinion. It also says something about the value of doing so. Today is, as we hope everyone has...

Good-bye Karl, my friend

By Brett Rodriguez / November 5, 2002

How do you go about saying good-bye to a friend? What can you say when confronted with that fact that a person you love is gone? A person you counted on to help you in any situation, someone who has always been there, protecting you, looking after you. Karl Adam Jonske was the person that...

Applying restraint

By The Maroon Staff / November 1, 2002

The University of Chicago has often backed up its claim of drawing a “self-selecting applicant pool” by offering unusual application essay questions; this year has been no exception. “How do you feel about Wednesday?” is the latest in the University’s series. The Maroon appreciates the spirit of the question “How do you feel about Wednesdays?”...

A reader’s omniscent planner

By Online Editor / November 1, 2002

The Planner Edition The anonymous student who wrote the last question into my sex column last week submitted this pièce de resistance: To Whom It May Concern, I am in proud possession of a University of Chicago student planner. Although it is of recent vintage, it is already falling apart. Its cover, which I’d already...

Remembering Senator Wellstone

By Sean Wereley / November 1, 2002

It was a front-page headline for sure. A sitting senator, engaged in a tight re-election race, killed in a plane crash along with his wife and oldest daughter. The news immediately shocked political insiders, who calculated the effect Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone’s death would have on the makeup of the Senate next year. It also...

Watching the watchers

By The Maroon Staff / October 29, 2002

University of Chicago professors who teach or write about Israeli-Palestinian relations and the place of Israel in the Middle East now find themselves with an audience besides that of their students and peers: Campus Watch. The Web site was founded by Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and columnist for the New York...

Cities create crass culture clash

By John Lovejoy / October 29, 2002

While riding a train to Washington from my home in Baltimore, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses and a Winston cigarettes hat eased into the aisle seat next to me. After the train started moving again, he declared, “I’ll sure enough remember where I was last September 11…flying a plane into the World Trade Center, hah!”...