Celeste Alcalay is a fourth-year in the College from Brookline, Massachusetts, majoring in public policy and Fundamentals. She is interested in exploring the town-gown relationship between the University of Chicago and South Side communities through her reporting. She has previously reported for Brookline.News.
To the Class of 2030: Welcome to the University of Chicago! You’ve got four years here to grow, make mistakes, and surprise yourself, and we encourage you to give yourself time to try things out.
On the festival’s 20th anniversary, Dumbleton reflects on exploring narratives around Black music and the complicated relationship between jazz and democracy.
To all graduates: It has been a privilege to learn about the things that matter to you. At a moment of extreme uncertainty, we’re certain that you are prepared for what comes next, including the curveballs. We wish you luck on your next adventure.
Clinic organizers say immigrants are afraid to leave their homes. Volunteers have delivered groceries, accompanied kids to school, and tried to ensure that clients don’t miss their asylum case hearings.
The University’s budget deficit shrank by 44 percent, from $288 to $160 million, in 2025. “That’s probably our biggest singular reduction in any year ever” outside of the COVID era, CFO Ivan Samstein told the Maroon.
In an October 15 interview with the Maroon, University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos discussed doctoral education amid admissions pauses, the University’s protection of free speech and its community, and how AI might fit into the Core Curriculum.
The Maroon used publicly available data to track millions of dollars in research grants that were terminated at UChicago last spring, as the Trump administration cut funding for universities nationwide.
Hospitals across the country have suspended care offerings for transgender youth amid threats from the Trump administration to withhold federal funding.
A historian, religious scholars, and the students who staged a Renaissance-era conclave reflect on the significance of the first U.S.-born pope—and speculate that the Holy Father might pay a visit to Hyde Park.
"This is the one school across the country that promotes speaking for what you believe in, and I don’t feel comfortable doing that," an undergraduate student from India said in an interview with the Maroon.
The Maroon sat down with a member from each student political organization to discuss the major policy changes reshaping higher education and the government from Trump's first few months in office.
The University of Chicago has been less outspoken than some of its peer institutions in responding to government pressure on higher education. To date, hundreds of faculty members have called for the University to publicly defend its autonomy.
On the first anniversary of UChicago United for Palestine’s “Popular University for Gaza,” the Maroon revisits last spring’s protests and the University’s response.
Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest policies and how it communicates them to students.
The University announced on Tuesday that Russian-born private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov (M.B.A. ’05) donated $100 million to support the Executive MBA Program at the Booth School of Business....
As Vietnam War protests raged on campus during the late 1960s, University administrators constructed a new program of discipline that avoided involving Chicago police or the courts.
Drawing upon an interview with journalist Jamie Kalven, son of Harry Kalven Jr. of the Kalven Report, the Maroon annotates this oft-cited but little read document.
The Maroon’s Anushree Vashist and Celeste Alcalay spoke with Jamie Kalven about the legacy of the Kalven Report and its relevance to academic freedom today.
A decade later, the Maroon asked the authors of the Chicago Principles about the drafting process, last spring's protests, and the future of the debate over free expression on campus.
The Trump loyalist discussed his position that ending birthright citizenship is the “right” interpretation of the Constitution. In response, law student groups organized a separate, concurrent event with two law professors opposed to redefining the 14th Amendment.
Founded by a UChicago undergraduate student over a decade ago, the South Side Free Music Program encourages neighborhood kids who participate to express their creativity.
Drawing from University archives, campus maps, academic literature, and news clippings, the Maroon charted the University’s contentious property acquisitions from its charter in 1890 to the present.
Neuroscientists and engineers are paving the way for prosthetics that can handle everyday objects and provide lifelike feedback, two new studies detail.
“Negotiation and Agreement” was the theme of this year’s forum, which addressed who should be in the room for peace talks and why the language of negotiation matters.
The November election will likely determine whether a federal bill calling on all non-sectarian higher education institutions in the country to adopt the Chicago Principles has a chance of passing.
By Celeste Alcalay, Grey City Deputy Editor
/ September 30, 2024
The Maroon's Celeste Alcalay interviews Richard English, Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, in anticipation of the 2024 Pearson Global Forum.
On their third episode, Celeste and Erica interview first-year and cadet Sara Garcia about training at Fort Knox, the first time she put on her uniform, and what being part of the ROTC program at UChicago has taught her.
On Episode 117, Celeste shares her insights into new agreements reached between the administration and nurses and graduate students, averting multiple potential strikes.
The Obama Foundation–University of Chicago partnership marks a long-awaited homecoming for the former president. What will it signify for the South Side?
Hear about our encounters with pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protestors, a new spate of robberies in Hyde Park, and a flyover by the Air Force on Episode 110 of The Weekly.
Hear about the University's newest initiatives for freedom of expression, Hyde Park migrant crisis tension, and a new local green space on the latest episode of the Weekly.
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