Favorite son’s rhetoric lost in the details

By Maroon Staff / October 26, 2007

In recent weeks, Barack Obama spoke before a well respected Chicago university on the subject of the war in Iraq. This particular university is known for its campus diversity. It has consistently been ranked top in terms of undergraduate satisfaction, and one of its graduate programs holds a number-nine ranking in the U.S. News and...

Give workers the fair contract that they deserve

By Aliza Levine / October 26, 2007

You wouldn’t be too happy if you found out the candidates for 2008 on Election Day. Nor would you be happy if your Sosc paper were assigned on the same day it was due. Then perhaps you have some idea how campus workers felt earlier this month when they were given a complete version of...

Time to scrap IHC and HARC

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 26, 2007

To tackle its embarrassing attendance record, the Inter-House Council (IHC) is urging the Housing Activities Resources Council (HARC) to penalize houses whose elected members skip IHC meetings. We recommend going one step further: It’s time to abolish IHC and HARC, thereby consolidating student representation and streamlining house funding. IHC ostensibly serves as a governing body...

In spite of his honesty, Paul is wrong for President

By Zack Hill / October 26, 2007

Don’t Google Ron Paul. Despite what the obnoxious student campaign insists (with its ubiquitous “Google Ron Paul” posters and chalkings that, to me at least, imply something fantastic is going to happen when you perform said Googling), your Google time is much better spent finding out if anyone with your name is more famous than...

Obama inspires unique hope in youth

By Matt Barnum / October 26, 2007

The University of Chicago is ground zero for the semi–nation wide Barack Obama lovefest. Here at the U of C, the Hyde Park resident and former Law School professor is probably idolized above, I would venture to say, just about any living American. Students proudly sport “Obama ’08” buttons, speak of “Barack” as if they...

Double, double toil and trouble

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 22, 2007

We’d like to think that at the U of C, credit is given where credit is due. As many fourth-years who are completing job applications and sending in transcripts are all too aware, the University does not follow this principle of fairness when it comes to appropriately crediting students who have earned double majors or...

Dispelling the “great myth” of Planned Parenthood

By Marshall Knudson / October 22, 2007

I was scanning the Tribune not so long ago when I came upon a phrase in the “Voice of the People” section that caught my wavering eyes. “…the great myth of our time: that sex is a right rather than a responsibility.” I shot forward with rage, instinctively jeering at that awful, harrying, grown-up word—responsibility....

Future critics will recognize video games as art

By Ethan Stanislawski / October 22, 2007

If you read as many movie reviews as I do, you’ll notice a disturbing trend: to contemporary movie critics, the term “video games” is used as a synonym for trashy, morally depraved, and childish. Look no further than the reviews for the recent movie Shoot ’Em Up. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune dismissively argued:...

The Freshman 4,866

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 18, 2007

Being forced to eat bad dorm food in college shouldn’t have to be a rite of passage. While the quality of dining at the U of C is debatable, the current policy of forcing students to pay for more University dining than they need is misguided. Every first-year student is forced to shell out $4,866...

It’s always foggy in San Francisco

By Claire McNear / October 18, 2007

I have found in the month that I’ve been at the University of Chicago that my original home of some 18 years has shifted 20 miles south. No longer am I from the sunny suburbs of Greenbrae, California—no, I am now a proud resident of the foggy metropolis of San Francisco. That is not to...

Media seeing red on Wahoo debate

By Tim Murphy / October 18, 2007

Baseball in October means many things: Tim McCarver’s incessant assault on reason on Fox, a debilitating bounty of Dane Cook promos, and this year, hours upon hours of exposure to the most offensive logo in sports, the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo. For years now, the beaming, crimson-red face of Wahoo has been the object of...

As it stands, Core off the Marx

By Nathan Bloom / October 18, 2007

“The position or self-affirmation and self-confirmation contained in the negation of the negation is taken to be a position which is not yet sure of itself, which is therefore burdened with its opposite, which is doubtful of itself and therefore in need of proof, and which, therefore, is not a position establishing itself by its...