After a trial period in the fall, Freenters is on the rise. Five months after the campus printing service was launched, Freenters has 1,800 registered users, 40 advertisers, and prints 7,000 to 8,000 pages per week. They recently opened a new printer in Stuart Hall, bringing the total number of printers up to five. But...
The University's Office of Sustainability was created in 2008. Since then, its staff have been fixing up the Quads' oldest buildings, tracking greenhouse emissions, and changing lightbulbs all over campus. But how does it pick its projects—and how can we tell they're doing any good?.
The University of Chicago Medical Center received an A grade as its Hospital Safety Score, released on Wednesday for Illinois hospitals. The Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Scores grade acute care hospitals using a combination of “performance measures” from a variety of national organizations, including those of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and the Agency...
As the site of the Republican election-viewing party, McCormick Lounge hosted a very different set of political enthusiasts than the Place that shares its name. A core group of conservatives stayed throughout the event, but the crowd also included other students wandering through to check the returns and sample the catering. The College Republicans were...
A new U of C start-up, Freenters, is bringing free printing to students, from students. Launched on October 1 by third-years Hye-Sung Kim and Rho Kook, Freenters currently permits users to print up to 100 pages a month for free. To fund the printing, Freenters places banner advertisements in the bottom margin of each page,...
A pledging activity at Alpha Delta Phi and a party thrown by Delta Upsilon have been seen as racially insensitive by Latino groups on campus, bringing in the larger campus community, as well as administrators and OMSA.
A new pre-orientation program, Chicago Bound, will allow first-year students to learn about community service opportunities in the city of Chicago. Twenty first-years will participate in a pilot from September 16 to September 22 this fall, the week preceding O-Week. Amy Chan, director of the University Community Service Center (UCSC), said she wants it to expose incoming...
After the sudden departure in January of a physician left the Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS) unable to take patients on immediate short notice, recent organizational changes aim to make the office’s response to student need timelier and friendlier. SHCS has hired a locum tenens, or placeholder, physician to replace the one who left...
A year after her unsuccessful bid to unseat fifth ward Alderman Leslie Hairston, Anne Marie Miles is mounting another campaign against her former adversary for another of her posts: Democratic Committeeman. Hairston is currently both the fifth ward’s alderman and democratic committeeman—a situation not legally mandated, but still common in Chicago, including in Toni Preckwinkle’s...
A physician left suddenly at the end of December, leaving the Primary Care Service too understaffed to guarantee that it will take appointments made just 24-hours in advance.
As part of her tenure as the 2011 Kestenbaum Writer-in-Residence, author Joyce Carol Oates spoke to a crowd in I-House Wednesday on her husband's death and the changes in her writing process.
Some course book lists are still not available on the time schedules website, despite a federal mandate that requires the lists to be accessible to students.
According to CAPS director Meredith Daw, recent classes of admitted students are more career-oriented.
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