Pack your hairnets and go

By Luke Dumas / November 21, 2008

The U of C dining staff would not fare well on Top Chef.

Thanksgiving Day charade

By Alice Hur / November 21, 2008

We are led to believe that attending college will ensure some grandiose upheaval of our current ideas and world views.

The Nixon charm

By Emmett Rensin / November 18, 2008

How the 37th president gives hope to the common man

Civil rights and wrongs

By Christian Wentling / November 18, 2008

Gay-marriage advocates undermine their own cause with unfair protests

Advisory advice

By Justin Sink / November 14, 2008

But my adviser and I both know that these annual meetings are mostly a sham, designed primarily to give parents the sense that someone is looking out for their kids’ academic futures.

Best in show

By Luke Dumas / November 14, 2008

“Do your best,” they told me, day after day, year after year, both people who loved me and people who hardly knew me.

A mid–election night’s dream

By Claire McNear / November 11, 2008

The shift of the American Dream after the death of an adventurer

Long divisions ahead

By Nathan Bloom / November 11, 2008

Obama’s message of unity serves only to alienate those not subscribing

Change you can accomplish

By Marshall Knudson / November 11, 2008

Barack Obama was elected on the promise of reform—now he needs to implement the change the country needs

Unenforced alcohol laws are a joke

By Shin Kim / November 7, 2008

Alas, there lay the irony: The consequences were harsh, but the interpretation was lenient.

Swept under the rug no longer

By Matt Zakosek / November 7, 2008

Obama did not have to mention gay people in his first speech as president-elect. This gay person, for one, would have given him a pass, and I’m sure pundits from Andrew Sullivan to Perez Hilton would have followed suit. But he did mention us.

A silent majority

By Tim Murphy / November 7, 2008

But after coming so far only to crash at the finish line, Democratic Patriot fans simply needed an emotional release.