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Stories and content by Al Gaspari

U of C book gets Glenn Beck bump

By Al Gaspari / October 22, 2010
After Glenn Beck dedicated an episode of his show to a 1944 treatise by former U of C Professor F. A. Hayek, sales of his book shot up, and even topped Amazon.com

Logan, Alper dig into Arts Center

By Al Gaspari / May 14, 2010
“If you take the vibrant energy of the arts and you add the intellectual vigor of a core curriculum… and you whip it up, you will have the Logan Arts Center,” said actress Marilu Henner (X ‘74) at the Center's groundbreaking ceremony.

Bolton calls Obama’s foreign policy “post-American”

By Al Gaspari / October 16, 2009
Bolton criticized Obama's foreign policy in the nine months of his administration. "His post-American policy is in plain view. When combined with weakness and indecision, this is a potentially toxic combination in areas around the world," Bolton said. To Bolton, a post-American views America as just another country in the world. “[Obama]'s above all that patriotism stuff that all those working people feel when they wave their flags,” he said..

Classics Café closes back room

By Al Gaspari / October 9, 2009
The back room, which once drew professors and students in to read, write, study, and converse in large chairs or at wooden tables, now functions as a classroom, Classics 21.

Acceptance rate falls with Common Application

By Al Gaspari / April 7, 2009
The admissions rate for the University of Chicago class of 2013, the first to use the Common Application, reached a record low of 26.8 percent, down one percentage point from last year and 13 points down from admissions rates four years ago.

Breckenridge wins Battle of the Bulbs

By Al Gaspari / March 6, 2009
For the second year in a row, Breckinridge House won the Battle of the Bulbs, a contest sponsored by the Green Campus Initiative (GCI) that challenges dorms to conserve electricity in February. Breckinridge reduced their consumption by 16.7 percent, earning the Green Cup, a trophy made of found materials..

Student group targets community health with new condom machines

By Al Gaspari / October 24, 2008
Condom machines in bathrooms around campus, installed in time for fall quarter by the Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), are selling far more lubricated than non-lubricated Durex condoms. And students seem to be happy about the selection, even when the new machines catch them off guard..

Student group targets community health with new condom machines

By Al Gaspari / October 24, 2008
Condom machines in bathrooms around campus, installed in time for fall quarter by the Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), are selling far more lubricated than non-lubricated Durex condoms. And students seem to be happy about the selection, even when the new machines catch them off guard..

Author Harr shares experience in Chad

By Al Gaspari / May 16, 2008
Writer-in-residence and best-selling author Jonathan Harr attracted a sizable crowd on Tuesday to a talk in which he discussed portions of his upcoming article about the central African country Chad, to be published in The New Yorker. Harr spent time at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in search of inspiration for a...

Admissions blog sweetens college application process

By Al Gaspari / May 6, 2008
Libby Pearson tries to personalize a process high school students often find daunting: navigating a college application. As assistant director of admissions, Pearson writes a blog for prospective students that showcases a side of the University not always presented in recruiting brochures. Pearson’s Uncommon Blog features photos of talking dinosaur skeletons and Q&As about the...

Prof details economics of 2016 Olympics

By Al Gaspari / February 29, 2008
Larry Bennett, a professor of political science at DePaul University, discussed the potential economic effects the 2016 Olympics might have on the city of Chicago, particularly in the South Side, in a speech Monday night. A specialist on the topic, Bennett co-authored the 2003 book on Chicago development It’s Hardly Sportin’: Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the...

U of C to revamp student ID cards

By Al Gaspari / February 22, 2008
[img id=”80345″ align=”alignleft”] Networking Services & Information Technologies (NSIT) will introduce a new University of Chicago identification card at the start of the upcoming spring quarter. The new ID was designed to improve security and convenience, and both incoming students and those who replace their current card will receive the new ID. The redesigned card...

Theological seminary seeks new president

By Al Gaspari / February 5, 2008
A search committee appointed by the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) is reviewing candidates to replace current CTS president Susan Thistlethwaite. Don Clark, chairman of the CTS Board of Trustees, said that the committee will interview “six candidates that they have identified as finalists” on February 6 and 7. He did not release the candidates’ names....

Music prof links dance and social issues

By Al Gaspari / January 25, 2008
Ingrid Monson, the Quincy Jones professor of African-American music and music department chair at Harvard University, discussed the importance of mind and body in a speech entitled “Music, Politics, and Perception in Mali” last Friday. In recent years she has researched Malian music and dance and their relevance to West African social issues. She presented...
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