University hiring full-time jazz professor with endowment funds

By Andrew Lamb / April 24, 2003

New steps are being taken to expand the University’s jazz course offerings and performance opportunities in the music department, the result of the Parker and Julie Hall endowment for jazz studies. Parker Hall, a member of the University’s Board of Trustees, donated $1 million endowment to further the University’s jazz program. The $1 million earmarked...

New campus play a Gift

By Andrew Lamb / February 7, 2003

The American premier of British playwright Tom Lister’s play The Gift will be staged this weekend in the First Floor Theater. A significantly stylish hipster crowd will definitely enjoy this mélange of pop culture references, slapstick comedy, and alcohol-soaked bantering. “What I liked most about this play was the sense of paranoia that everyone has,...

Hillel Center hosts inter-faith dialogue on civility

By Andrew Lamb / January 14, 2003

Students and faculty assembled in the third floor of Swift Hall yesterday evening for “Civility: The Resources of Different Religious Traditions,” the first forum of a series staged by the Civility Project, a committee of faculty and members of the University’s Hillel Center formed to debate secular notions of civility between different faiths. “It grew...

Students protest war each morning, night

By Andrew Lamb / November 19, 2002

Students of the Meadville Lombard Theological School have recently organized a candlelight vigil protesting the possibility of a war in Iraq. The Corner Project meets every weekday from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. on the four corners of 57th and Woodlawn to protest what they believe to be the Bush administration’s...

Death penalty convention held

By Andrew Lamb / November 12, 2002

The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) staged its second annual national convention in Hyde Park last weekend. Representatives from chapters around the country came to the Oriental Institute to hear distinguished opponents of the death penalty lecture on the state of the movement. Marleen Martin, the national director of the campaign, addressing students...

James and the Giant Peach, now live on stage

By Andrew Lamb / October 29, 2002

Inequity Theatrical Collaboration has put on a menagerie of theatrical whimsies with its recent production of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach. However, it seems that Inequity has resurrected this timeless classic of children’s literature for rather suspect reasons. Let’s just say that this production is not one to bring the kiddies to. However,...

NSIT administrators modify Chalk Web site to accomodate users

By Andrew Lamb / October 21, 2002

By Andrew Lamb Maroon News Staff Due to unexpected traffic, the blackboard software that runs the University’s Chalk system broke down last week, causing NSIT administrators to place all of the old courses in a saved archive database. Though the original software had a performance ceiling of 300 courses and 3000 users, the system had...

Student arts groups use Bartlett rehearsal space

By Andrew Lamb / October 14, 2002

Campus arts groups have begun to use the new Bartlett Arts Rehearsal Space (BARS) despite lack of equipment. The new facility has been open for student groups since the beginning of the quarter. “It’s part of a renovation which includes turning the former trophy room into a student lounge,” said Bill Michel, deputy dean of...

SSA student holds booksigning

By Andrew Lamb / March 1, 2002

Max Grinnell, a student in the School of Social Service Administration and author of the book Images of America: Hyde Park, Illinois, spoke to a crowded room of longtime residents, members of the sociology department, and students at 57th Street Books on Wednesday. Grinnell’s book, a pictorial history of Hyde Park, charts the University’ interest...

Is the death penalty worth it?

By Andrew Lamb / February 22, 2002

The death penalty has come to the forefront of the public consciousness over the last few years, particularly with Governor George Ryan’s decision to institute a moratorium in Illinois in January 2000. This debate spans more than simply the legal issue; it is evidence of how our present society thinks about religion, politics, and law....

Study links loneliness to health effects

By Andrew Lamb / February 22, 2002

Chronic loneliness is a major risk factor for emotional and physical disorders that lead to early death, according to a study recently published by John Cacioppo, director of the social psychology program and co-director of the Institute of Mind and Biology at the University. “Chronic loneliness is the feeling of isolation and disconnectedness from others,”...

Jackson gives keynote at anti-death penalty fundraiser

By Andrew Lamb / February 8, 2002

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a host of exonerated death row inmates, and family members of those on Death Row assembled at Hyde Park Church on 53rd Street last Thursday in order to galvanize support for the abolition of the death penalty and to raise money for the Illinois chapters of the Campaign to End the...

UCSC event examines education from students’ view

By Andrew Lamb / October 22, 2001

Aspiring teachers and concerned students gathered last Saturday in the Reynolds Club South Lounge to discuss the marks of good and bad education with local Chicago Public School grade schoolers. The University of Chicago Community Service Center (UCSC) sponsored program “The Best Teacher I Ever Had” allows University of Chicago volunteers to hear about the...