Don’t forget the summertime

By The Maroon Staff / September 18, 2001

Like an artist’s hand or the sustain pedal on a piano, summertime has a way of smudging the sharp edges of things, making everything a little less pointed. We emerge from summer with our ties undone, our hair down, and our gait a little slower, only to collide head on with fast fall. Fall arrives...

Adler’s Legacy

By The Maroon Staff / September 18, 2001

While some University of Chicago students consider the Core curriculum to be a badge of honor marking intellectual prowess, many others are more inclined to regard it as a bothersome hurdle to jump. Over the last few years, the academic climate at the University of Chicago has seemed more comfortable to the second group than...

We don’t come for the books

By Ryan Mayo / September 18, 2001

Ahh, another summer has ended and we have all been called back to our seasonal home in Hyde Park, to attend the 9th best college in America — at least according to certain rankings. What I don’t understand is why we actually do return each year like salmon going upstream to lay their eggs (I...

MAB knows its situation

By Mark Hendrickx / May 24, 2001

Much incorrect information has been printed in the campus newspaper — namely the Chicago Weekly News — over the last several weeks in regards to the Major Activities Board’s (MAB) spending habits and why we do not release to the media the booking fees we pay to artists who perform at our shows. I am...

I-House: 1 year after

By John K. Wilson / May 24, 2001

One year ago today, Hugo Sonnenschein announced that the Administration would reverse its previous decision and allow International House to stay open. It was a remarkable event, and I-House residents will mark the date Saturday night with a free Save I-House 1st Anniversary Party (to which everyone 21 and over is invited). This was the...

Higher education’s purpose

By Max Grinnell / May 24, 2001

As another year draws to a close, friends and family will descend upon Harper Quadrangle to see their loved ones graduate from this institution. I can remember almost every minute of my own graduation, which was but three years ago: The balmy temperature, the low murmur of the Motet Choir singing Bruckner’s “Locus iste,” and...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / May 24, 2001

To those who do not smile Dear Ms. Niedzielski-Eichner: You may be unaware that your life is in the constant care of millions of human beings who work together to make sure your life of solitary misanthropy is both possible and comfortable. We make your shoes with which you walk down the street for no...

The purest French in Tours

By The Maroon Staff / May 21, 2001

The new Paris Center being created by the University will provide a number of significant benefits for study-abroad students in Europe, especially (and obviously) those in the Paris program. In addition to providing useful facilities and something of a “home base” for students in the city, the various colloquia, research opportunities, and interactions with French...

If you’re feeling guilty, you’re making society ill

By Tim Miller / May 21, 2001

Recently, in my Classics of Social and Political Thought class (yes, the common core Soc sequence that many of you know and love) we have been reading the works of the philosopher Nietzche. Far be it for me to attempt to distill the works of a very complex and influential philosopher into relatively simple statements,...

The legend of the people and of the Proetheus

By Sener Akturk / May 21, 2001

It is true that many politicians and political scientists alike think of the people as a pool of political resources. A politician resorts to the people only when he/she is in need of political or economic power in the form of votes and/or fund raising. In this political elitist discourse, politically active and powerful people...

Architecture grows with the new press building

By Andrew Yang / May 21, 2001

One day a few years ago, I was walking across 55th Street from my apartment. As I walked across the busy boulevard that is 55th, a female student advanced toward me with her mother. In the middle of the busy street, the student abruptly stopped, turned and pointed at Pierce Tower. With her mother looking...

Marooned south of the Midway

By Max Grinnell / May 21, 2001

The South of the Midway Study, developed by the Bruckner Studio, first saw the light of day in the spring of 2000. Since its release, the study has not received the attention of any local newspapers or journalists, and has largely gone unnoticed. While some of my fellow commentators have seen fit to dismiss the...