For several key votes during last month’s divestment debate, vote totals were recorded but the votes of individual representatives were not. The Maroon’s attempt to poll representatives yielded different...
As a part of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction, a pyrotechnic colorful mushroom cloud designed by artist Cai Guo-Qiang ascends from the roof of the Joseph Regenstein Library.
By Adam Thorp, Editor-in-Chief (’18–’19)
/ October 19, 2017
Approximately 100 new researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Army Research Lab will join the expanded Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Hyde Park.
Graduate council can keep its medley of methods for selecting representatives, general assembly decided yesterday, rejecting an attempt by executive slate to bring them into line.
Some representatives asked to give explanations of their votes on the divestment amendments in response to The Maroon’s poll. The two amendments (the resolution can be found here): Cottrell’s Amendment: Insert between the two “let it be resolved clauses,” “Let it be further resolved that the resolved that the College Council of the University of...
“The Illinois Department of Public Health has not yet been notified that the University of Chicago Medical Center is full prepared to implement its proposal.”
One of the nine houses in Campus North will be named after Robert Behar, a doctor, businessman and graduate of the College (‘83), the Pritzker Medical School (‘87), and the Booth School of Business (‘11).
Last Thursday, a bill was introduced in the Senate that will give grants to colleges in order to make textbooks that would be freely accessible online.
That is to say that the adaptation, which is now being broadcast as part of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater, is a remarkably careful and faithful representation.
“I do think that the lesson here is that the legal battle is only a vehicle for the community discussion. It doesn’t matter so much that we lost the legal case in the end because the community relations part is so important.”
Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. ’65), a former CEO of the Aramark Corporation and serial donor to the University, was elected as the next chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees last Thursday. Neubauer will replace Andrew Alper after the Board’s next annual meeting on May 28. Neubauer takes over the role after working at...
"They're not looking for less America; they're looking for more America. Insofar as they get alienated it's because they're getting less than they want."
The University of Chicago’s Department of Safety and Security placed third in Security magazine’s yearly ranking of 19 self-selected college and university safety and security departments. The department came in fourth out of 24 in last year’s Security 500 Benchmarking Survey, the first time it participated. Associate Vice President for Safety, Security, and Civic Affairs...
On Tuesday, Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Harvard First Generation Alumni group, discussed how elite colleges often fail to adequately accommodate first-generation college students and what can be done to correct that weakness. The talk was sponsored by the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance and University of Chicago Quest Scholars. Jennings, who was the first person...
Dining halls get perfect 100 percent rating in inspection by Gluten Intolerance Group.
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