My most memorable evening at the Regenstein

By Daniel Gilbert / June 2, 2005

Lately, one question comes up in just about all of my conversations: “What are your plans after graduation?” Funny thing, but each time, I am no more prepared to respond than the time before. Instead of looking forward to the rest of my life, I find myself sorting through the events and memories that have...

Jacobson gets choice last words on running career

By Daniel Gilbert / May 27, 2005

You might not be able to pick out fourth-year Samuel Iser Jacobson from a crowd. At the very least, you’d have trouble distinguishing him from the kind of crowd he runs with. One of the many startlingly white, dangerously thin-looking Chicago distance runners, Jacobson’s primary identifying physical feature over the past four years has been...

GSB hosts Latin American business talk

By Daniel Gilbert / May 23, 2005

The Graduate School of Business hosted its second Latin American Business Conference, “Investing in Latin America: Insider’s Perspective,” on Saturday, May 21, at the Gleacher Center. The conference, which was organized by students, featured keynote speakers and panels that discussed current and future opportunities for investment in Latin America. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, alumnus and...

Megastars shoot film in hospital

By Daniel Gilbert / May 23, 2005

Another David Auburn-inspired production has hit campus. On Monday morning, Warner Brothers trucks lined 59th Street outside the University Hospitals, stretching across the Midway to the perimeter of Washington Park. This time the film is Il Mare, a romance starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, filmed exclusively in Chicago and its suburbs. According to two...

Laboratory waste spills out of bounds

By Daniel Gilbert / May 20, 2005

An investigation conducted by the Maroon from April 26 to 29 found quantities of discarded lab waste, including potentially infectious waste, outside several research facilities on campus. In selected cases, waste conditions violated University and Illinois policy regarding disposal of hazardous material. A confetti of micro-pipettes tips, test tubes, and vials—capped and uncapped, some containing...

Margaret Bradley Memorial 10K

By Daniel Gilbert / May 19, 2005

The first annual Margaret Bradley Memorial 10K Race will take place at 8 a.m this Sunday, May 22 in the area surrounding Jackson Park. Proceeds will go to the Margaret Bradley Scholarship Fund, which provides financial aid to medical students in need at the Pritzker School of Medicine. Margaret Bradley, A.B. ’02, was an All-American...

General unwinds at the Pub

By Daniel Gilbert / May 6, 2005

General Peter Pace, recently appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid a visit to the University to give a lecture at the Graduate School of Business, where his son is a student. Following the lecture, Pace, the principal military adviser to President Bush, stopped by the Pub to enjoy a few beers and...

Swastikas defile CFI posters in Ex Libris

By Daniel Gilbert / May 3, 2005

Three posters advertising an event for the Chicago Friends of Israel (CFI) were defaced with swastikas on Sunday evening in the Regenstein Library. More of the same posters were found torn down and vandalized in various places around campus on Monday, according to CFI president Jon Hirsch, a second-year in the College. At approximately 10...

Can I buy a vowel?

By Daniel Gilbert / April 25, 2005

Fourth-year in the College Ryan Monarch will appear on “Wheel of Fortune” on ABC at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday. He invites everyone to join him at Uncle Joe’s in the Reynolds Club to watch the show. Monarch, a double-concentrator in economics and history, participated in the show this past March, which will air on Thursday....

Bolivia’s former president revisits alma mater

By Daniel Gilbert / April 19, 2005

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, A.B. 52 and twice-elected president of Bolivia, spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the International House’s Home Room on Monday evening, continuing the Latin American Briefing Series sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. Sanchez de Lozada, who studied philosophy at the University, resigned the Bolivian presidency under pressure...

Smart new director takes over museum

By Daniel Gilbert / April 3, 2005

Anthony G. Hirschel will be the new Dana Feitler Director of the University’s David & Alfred Smart Museum, and will begin his tenure in June, according to a press release on March 29. University Provost Richard Saller, who appointed Hirschel, welcomed the new director, saying that he would “guide an ambitious new phase of growth...

Naked economist undresses money issues for students

By Daniel Gilbert / March 4, 2005

On Thursday evening, Charles Wheelan, professor, journalist, and author of the popular Naked Economics, joined Allen Sanderson, professor of economics at the University, for a lecture entitled “College Undressed: The Naked Economics of Student Life.” An hour before the lecture was due to begin, scores of students clogged the entryway to Stuart Hall, the former...

Calvert House priest resigns following sexual allegations

By Daniel Gilbert / February 12, 2005

The University’s Calvert House—the Catholic center on campus—became the latest stage for a sex scandal involving a Catholic priest on Tuesday, February 8. Father Michael Yakaitis announced his resignation Tuesday afternoon after a man came forward on Monday to name Yakaitis as the priest with whom he had a sexual relationship 15 years ago. Claiming...

Bouvier leads talk on Plan Colombia

By Daniel Gilbert / February 12, 2005

Virginia Bouvier, a member of the United States Institute for Peace, presented an overview of the controversial Plan Colombia, a multiyear $7.5 billion national development strategy designed to combat the country’s drug-trafficking, revitalize its economy, and strengthen its unstable political institutions, at the International House on February 7th. The talk, part of the Latin American...

The world is too much with us; late and soon

By Daniel Gilbert / February 3, 2005

Editor’s note: This is an installment in a series of articles about a summer spent teaching English in the Peruvian village of Cochas. One night last week, I could not fall asleep. Exhausted, I lay in bed trying not to think too much, but feeling my sleepiness slowly begin to depart in spite of my...

What’s in a name?

By Daniel Gilbert / February 1, 2005

Fun and warm temperatures are not the only things missing at the University of Chicago. According to Rape Victims Advocates (RVA), Chicago is the only major university in the Chicago area without a women’s center, which is seen as a safe haven for women, as well as a site for support groups, activist campaigns, and...

Oriental Institute unveils new artifacts

By Daniel Gilbert / January 28, 2005

Nearly 9,000 years ago, a worker in the Amuq Valley used a small, bronze knife to prepare his evening meal. The worker is now long gone, but the tool he used can be found on display at the Oriental Institute’s new gallery, “Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia, and Israel.” The gallery, which...

Theories swirls as Ida Noyes remains missing

By Daniel Gilbert / January 28, 2005

Investigators have come no closer to identifying a suspect or motive since last Saturday, when University administration discovered a portrait of Ida Noyes missing. Tim Banks, associate director for facilities and event services at Ida Noyes Hall, was first alerted of the incident last Saturday, when the event staff for the International Food Festival noticed...

Slavery scholar compares Cuba and Louisiana

By Daniel Gilbert / January 21, 2005

Cuba and Louisiana might not seem to possess many commonalities. But to Rebecca Scott, an eminent historian from the University of Michigan, the two are a perfect pair. In a Latin American history workshop, co-sponsored by the University’s Center for Latin American Studies, Scott presented a chapter from her forthcoming book: “Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana...

Blue Chips investment group to receive $100,000 gift

By Daniel Gilbert / January 21, 2005

Victor Dupont, president of the student investment group on campus, “Blue Chips,” could not keep from grinning at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. Dupont, a fourth-year in the College, and other founding members had a big announcement to make: Their club had just received a gift of $100,000 to manage a real stock portfolio. “It...

Mfume commemorates MLK Jr. at packed keynote address

By Daniel Gilbert / January 18, 2005

Eminent black scholar, politician, and activist Kwesi Mfume delivered the keynote speech in the University’s “Living the Legacy” commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students, faculty, and community members packed Rockefeller Chapel at noon on Monday for the event, which also featured two musical ensembles and various speakers reading selections on justice. University President...

Mexico’s Cárdenas addresses NAFTA concerns at I-House

By Daniel Gilbert / January 14, 2005

Students, faculty, and community members gathered in the International House’s homeroom on Thursday evening to hear Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the founder of Mexico’s Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), speak his views on the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The event was the second lecture in the Center For Latin American Studies’ NAFTA series. Cárdenas, the former...

Foreign Affairs for free?

By Daniel Gilbert / January 11, 2005

Foreign Affairs, a prominent international relations and foreign policy publication, has given students, faculty, and University staff full, free access to its online journal. While most publications charge for a site license, Foreign Affairs is offering a free-of-charge “site license” to 50 American universities—both large and small, state and private—for a period of one year....

Train to be a Medical Advocate

By Daniel Gilbert / January 11, 2005

Quick quiz: Do you live on the South Side of Chicago, and are you bilingual in English and Spanish? If you answered “yes” to both questions, then Rape Victim Advocates is looking for you. This winter, RVA is inviting students to participate in an “intense, life-altering” training program. Once a student completes the 56-hour program,...

Living on the edge: The trouble with always being comfortable

By Daniel Gilbert / January 11, 2005

As a student living in the United States, I find that it is a rare occurrence when my feet come in contact with the ground. I’m talking about real ground, earth, the essence of organic life. Instead I walk across the hardwood floor of my apartment, the paved road, or the cemented sidewalk, and my...

Activists teach students about sex

By Daniel Gilbert / January 7, 2005

If you think coitus interruptus—better known as the pullout method—is a good idea, you should withdraw from whatever you’re doing right now and listen to a new social activist group on campus. Sex Education Activists (SEA) is working to fill in the blanks of sex ed as it is taught in high schools across the...

NSIT’s winter blues

By Daniel Gilbert / January 7, 2005

A hardware failure that occurred on Wednesday, December 29, at 5:30 a.m. prevented students from accessing their e-mail for more than five hours during the day, until the problem was resolved at 11:00 a.m., said Bob Bartlett, director of Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT). NSIT technicians traced the failure to Plaisance, the machine server...

Alumnus found guilty in SUV sabotage

By Daniel Gilbert / November 23, 2004

A recent University alumnus and doctoral candidate in physics at Caltech was convicted last Friday of participation in a series of fire bombings of sport utility vehicles that took place last year in California’s San Gabriel Valley. William Jensen Cottrell, A.B. ’02, was found guilty by a federal court jury of seven counts of arson...

The endangered list of small places

By Daniel Gilbert / November 22, 2004

This is the next installment in a series of articles about a summer spent in the Peruvian village of Cochas Grande. I would like to begin this column with an amendment to my last one, “Traveling and Telephones.” As I found out last week, via an e-mail from a friend in Huancayo, the telephone has...

Venezuelan Ambassadors speak

By Daniel Gilbert / November 21, 2004

Fermín Toro and Nelson Pineda, the Venezuelan ambassadors to the United Nations and to the Organization of American States (OAS), respectively, spoke to a full room of students, faculty, and members of the Hyde Park community on Thursday evening about a new social charter first proposed in the OAS last June. The event, “Venezuela: A...

SCC targets the Reg to soothe stressed students

By Daniel Gilbert / November 21, 2004

The Student Care Center (SCC) and the Peer Health Educators organized a de-stress fest on Wednesday, November 18, which featured the usual leaflets and granola bars as well as a few new additions. If you missed the free chair massages given in the Reg, they will be available in the Reynolds Club on the Sunday...

The man who saved the Y chromosome

By Daniel Gilbert / November 16, 2004

Most people remember from life science or sex education courses how a baby’s sex is determined: The combination of two X chromosomes during fertilization will result in a female being born; the union of an X chromosome with a Y will produce a male. Much to the chagrin of men, there are several genetic deficiencies...

Giving Tree clothes, feeds the homeless and hungry this week

By Daniel Gilbert / November 16, 2004

Before you throw away leftovers from your tray in a dining hall, pause for a minute and remember that this week, November 14-20, is National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. The Giving Tree, an RSO on campus, is encouraging students with extra meal points and overflowing wardrobes to donate to its food and clothing drive....

All Night Study Space may grow to include first floor

By Daniel Gilbert / November 12, 2004

On Wednesday evening, the College Council unanimously approved the Student Government (SG) proposal and cost estimate to expand the all-night study space (ANSS) on the A-level of the Reg to the first floor. David Clayman, a second-year in the College and the chair of the Academic Concerns Committee, originally spearheaded the effort. The current proposal...

Large legislative shoes to fill

By Daniel Gilbert / November 12, 2004

While Barack Obama may be on to bigger and better things, someone had to fill the void that the newly elected senator left in the Illinois State legislature. On Saturday, November 6, Kwame Raoul, a Hyde Park attorney, was named Obama’s successor by an 11-member committee mostly made up of aldermen from the 13th District....

Aunt Jemima makes bubbly breakthrough in scientific world

By Daniel Gilbert / November 9, 2004

Quite a few people enjoy playing with their food. Scientists, however, sometimes make important discoveries as they munch. Researchers in Sidney Nagel’s laboratory at the University have studied the behavior of air bubbles in breakfast syrup in hopes of discovering how to make extremely thin liquid threads for biomedical applications. The threads, which measure one-fifth...

Reg honors Chicago blood bank founder

By Daniel Gilbert / November 9, 2004

Known by some for its creepiness, the Reg currently features an exhibit on the Count Dracula of the medical world. As of November 1, students, faculty, and staff can view a feature at the Regenstein’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) on the man who founded the world’s first blood bank here in Cook County. Bernard...

Laureate discusses themes in contemporary poetry

By Daniel Gilbert / November 9, 2004

A small crowd gathered on Thursday evening to hear Mark Strand, the Andrew MacLeish Professor on the Committee on Social Thought, read poetry as part of the Divinity School’s 2004 John Nuveen Lecture. Rick Rosengarten, dean of the Divinity School, introduced Strand in Swift Hall and spoke of John Nuveen’s life as a Chicago businessman...

Reg book sale empties stacks

By Daniel Gilbert / November 9, 2004

What begins with the number 10,000 and ends with zero five days later? A book sale at the Regenstein, of course. Beginning Monday, November 8, and running through Saturday, the Reg is holding a book sale of fabled proportions, featuring over 10,000 duplicate and discarded volumes for sale. Students will have the opportunity to enhance...

Traveling and telephones: a cultural gap

By Daniel Gilbert / November 8, 2004

This is the next installment in a series of articles about a summer spent in the Peruvian village of Cochas Grande. One night, we all sat around the table waiting for Marco to come home. He had gone to Huancayo hours earlier to rehearse with a band without letting anyone know of his intention to...

Even the Reg needs a nap sometimes

By Daniel Gilbert / November 2, 2004

Students and staff in the Regenstein Library were surprised to find themselves in partial darkness as the majority of the lights went out on all floors of the library at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. According to James Vaughan, assistant director for access and facilities at the Reg, the power outage was mostly concentrated in the...

The importance of learning English

By Daniel Gilbert / October 28, 2004

This is the third installment in a series of articles about a summer spent in the Peruvian village of Cochas Grande. As I entered the classroom, the children stood up abruptly amid a cacophony of metal chairs scraping the concrete floor. Thirty pairs of eyes watched me, riveted, as I made my way to the...

Neighborhood Club turns 95

By Daniel Gilbert / October 28, 2004

Last Saturday marked the 95th anniversary of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club (HPNC). It also served as occasion to appoint a new executive director. The event, which took place in the Hyde Park Bank lobby, welcomed Gayle McCoy, a social worker with a distinguished record, to her new position with the service institution, as reported...

Bicyclists surprised to learn that University clips locks

By Daniel Gilbert / October 27, 2004

A solitary blue sign at the front entrance of the Biological Sciences Learning Center reads: DO NOT CHAIN BIKES TO HANDRAILS. This sign provides one of the few clues to the University’s new push to maintain facilities in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In the last few weeks, the University’s policy has...

Strand wins Wallace Stevens Award

By Daniel Gilbert / October 24, 2004

Mark Strand, the Andrew Macleish Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee of Social Thought and renowned poet, has received this year’s Wallace Stevens Award. The Wallace Stevens Award, given by the Academy of American Poets, recognizes a poet for demonstrated mastery of his craft, and includes a stipend of $100,000. Awards of such magnitude are...

Families flock and frolic to campus

By Daniel Gilbert / October 24, 2004

It’s a holiday, it’s a convocation. No—it’s Family Weekend! Beginning Friday, October 22, parents, siblings and extended family are invited by the University to tour campus and observe with their own eyes why they pay $40,000 a year for their child to attend the University. Parents may register on Friday and Saturday at Ida Noyes...

Editor of the Onion peels her layers in Maroon interview

By Daniel Gilbert / October 17, 2004

The Onion does not have a particular political agenda, according to its Editor-in-Chief, Carol Kolb, though the political leanings of most of its writers are fairly evident. “We try not to be too preachy and heavy-handed,” Kolb said. “We actually avoid being too political. Our number-one job at the Onion is to be funny, and...

Time abroad provides students with new political views

By Daniel Gilbert / October 12, 2004

Brittin Romero, a third-year in the College studying in Rome, may not speak Italian, but has no problem reading the political writing on the wall. “Just going on the amount of graffiti I’ve seen on the streets of Rome denouncing Bush, I would say it is something that weighs heavily on the minds of Italians,”...

Academics tiptoe line between teaching duties and research

By Daniel Gilbert / October 6, 2004

Students in the College who had enrolled in Professor Steven Levitt’s section of Economics 200 were dismayed to find that the Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics would not be teaching the course after all. Levitt—who was slated to teach the introductory course as late as this summer—illustrates how academics fill their schedules, balancing research...

Reflections on a summer in rural Peru

By Daniel Gilbert / October 2, 2004

I used to laugh ironically when people called me a “tourist” last summer. At some 13,000 feet of elevation, Huancayo, Peru is far from the country’s largest tourist attraction, and Cochas Grande, a small village of some 300 people, is even less so. As the only zone in the central Sierra not conquered by the...

Local 743 negotiates with University on employment

By Daniel Gilbert / October 2, 2004

Contract negotiations between Local 743, a group of clerical and service/maintenance employees on campus, and the University, remain at the discussion table to work to reach an agreement that will please all. As an amendment to the Maroon article published on 09/18/04, the University has not proposed a wage reduction for the employees in Local...

Local 743 still in contract negotiations

By Daniel Gilbert / September 18, 2004

Contract negotiations between the University and the construction group Local 743, begun last March, have still not been settled. The 1,100 clerical and service/maintenance employees belonging to Local 743, a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, have been working for the University since the 1970s. They finished their four-year contract last March, and have...

With graduation near, love is in the air

By Daniel Gilbert / June 8, 2004

“Will you marry me?” Benjamin O’Glasser, a graduating third-year in the College, asked his girlfriend Avital Strauss-Benjamin, as the two enjoyed a picnic at the Point two weeks ago. As Strauss-Benjamin snacked and listened to the words of O’Glasser’s proposal, she began to realize what was happening, her hands began to flutter, and she began...

Students scramble to A-level for finals

By Daniel Gilbert / June 8, 2004

Enter the A-level in the Regenstein library after 1 a.m., and you’ll think you’ve stepped into to your high school cafeteria. With spring quarter coming to a close, students are flocking to the all-night study space amidst the frenzy of finals week. The 24-hour study space began as pilot program in the spring of 2002,...

Barenboim conducts talk with Randel

By Daniel Gilbert / May 25, 2004

University President Don Michael Randel hosted Daniel Barenboim, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), at the International House on Sunday, as the two addressed contemporary critiques of classical music, and the latter spoke on his vision for music in society. Barenboim, renowned as one of the world’s finest conductors, has led the CSO...

GoreTV seeks attention of nation’s youth

By Daniel Gilbert / May 21, 2004

Al Gore has a new day job. The former vice president announced at the National Cable and Television Association convention May 4 that his company, IndTV Holdings, has acquired the Canadian-based Newsworld International network (NWI) from Vivendi Universal Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. The channel will be re-launched as a progressive news and information channel...

SG elections witness spike in voting

By Daniel Gilbert / May 18, 2004

The voter turnout for this year’s Student Government (SG) election surpassed that of past years, yet early coverage did not do justice to the electoral importance of the graduate student votes. A dramatic rise in votes from graduate students may reveal a new trend in SG elections at the University. The votes from graduate students...

News in Brief

By Daniel Gilbert / May 18, 2004

Several University organizations will hold a press conference Thursday at the Federal Building at 3:30 p.m. on the corner of Adams and Dearborn, and then participate in a rally on the Federal Plaza. Action Toward Peace (ATP), and the University of Chicago chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International will protest the...

A Policy of rejecting rejection letters

By Daniel Gilbert / May 18, 2004

“I am sorry to inform you that your project will not be among those that we are able to fund this year. The committee had many strong applications to choose from this year, and it could not fund them all. I hope you will find another way to pursue your interests…” As I read these...

Gala marks opening of Paris Center

By Daniel Gilbert / May 15, 2004

Joining their French academic and civic counterparts in Paris, University and city officials from Chicago will celebrate the University’s new Paris Center this weekend. Both parties are toasting the Center as a symbol of rapprochement between Chicago and Paris academia. University President Don Michael Randel, Dean of the College John W. Boyer, and Chairman of...

Shuttle incites student protest

By Daniel Gilbert / May 11, 2004

A protest posed questions about the credibility of the new pilot program for the Student Government (SG) Red Line shuttle during its inaugural run this Friday. In the weeks before the new shuttle plan became a reality, many students began to have second thoughts about the effects it might have on relations between the University...

Social website draws heavy traffic

By Daniel Gilbert / May 7, 2004

In its first week at the University of Chicago, thefacebook.com has achieved rapid, widespread popularity among students, with some 1500 students registering in the first 75 hours. After one week, there are 2,380 students registered at the University, with 118,560 students registered throughout the United States, according to the website’s founders. Some students have wondered...

Students offer counseling to rape victims

By Daniel Gilbert / May 4, 2004

For victims of sexual assault on campus, help is at hand. Volunteers for Rape Victim Advocates (RVA) offer their services to any victim who checks into an Illinois hospital and requests assistance for sexual assault. RVA is an Illinois non-profit organization founded in 1974 by obstetrician and gynecologist Natalie Stephens, and a group of Northwestern...

Oriental Institute will return 300 artifacts to Iran

By Daniel Gilbert / April 30, 2004

The Oriental Institute announced at a press conference on Wednesday that it would return 300 ancient Persian tablets on loan from Iran since 1937. This will mark the first return of archeological objects on loan from Iran since the 1979 revolution. U.S. legislation regarding the return of antiquities, and decades of strained diplomatic relations with...

U of C connects to new social website

By Daniel Gilbert / April 30, 2004

A new website known as thefacebook.com may be the largest Internet trend to hit college campuses in recent months, and it will be available to University of Chicago students as of today, April 30, according to the website’s founders. The Facebook is an interactive website allowing college students to create profiles and view those of...

Hospital expansion encroaches on real estate

By Daniel Gilbert / April 23, 2004

Faculty and staff living in apartments on the 5700 block of South Drexel Avenue received notices that they must vacate their residences by this summer. The apartments, owned by University of Chicago Real Estate, will be razed to accommodate an expansion of the University hospital—including a new pediatric emergency room and a surgical pavilion. The...

Researcher investigates Deep Throat’s identity

By Daniel Gilbert / April 16, 2004

William Gaines spoke Thursday about his work in revealing the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous source who led the press to the web of corruption at the heart of the Watergate scandal, which tore down the Nixon administration. What began as an undergraduate project for a class on investigative journalism has gained national attention...

Researcher investigates Deep Throat’s identity

By Daniel Gilbert / April 16, 2004

William Gaines spoke Thursday about his work in revealing the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous source who led the press to the web of corruption at the heart of the Watergate scandal, which tore down the Nixon administration. What began as an undergraduate project for a class on investigative journalism has gained national attention...

Interest in diversity draws more students abroad

By Daniel Gilbert / April 13, 2004

With some 345 students studying abroad during the current academic year, more students are choosing to study abroad in the College, according to Academic Director of Study Abroad Programs Lewis Fortner. The quarter-long civilization programs—through which Chicago has sent 211 students to such locations as Barcelona, Oaxaca, Rome, and Paris this year—have been the most...

Tired of dorms, students begin apartment search

By Daniel Gilbert / April 9, 2004

With the onset of spring quarter, students in the College are turning their thoughts to living arrangements for the next academic year, acting rapidly to find apartments. People began scrambling for apartments around Tuesday, April 6, when K&G released a list of apartments available for rent for the coming academic year. With 400 apartments leased...

Pippin addresses issues of freedom

By Daniel Gilbert / April 9, 2004

A standing-room only crowd of students and faculty listened to Professor Robert Pippin address the question of whether modern life has made mankind free. Before delivering the Nora Edward Ryerson lecture Thursday evening, Pippin was introduced by President Don Randel, who emphasized the merit of the speaker, noting Pippin’s selection by his colleagues. Pippin, in...

Council cites Point as one of ten most endangered places in Illinois

By Daniel Gilbert / April 6, 2004

The efforts of local community activists for the preservation of Promontory Point received a boost last month (March 24), when the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois (LPCI) added the Point to its list of the state’s “Ten Most Endangered Places.” According to Lisa DiChiera, LPCI director of advocacy, the council hopes the announcement will serve...

Protests increase pressure on administration

By Daniel Gilbert / March 12, 2004

As a result of Friday’s protest, which called local and media attention to the alleged incident of police brutality involving the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD), University administrators have been forced to grapple with the difficult issue more openly and quell the potential tide of animosity within the community. By marching in front of...

Professor’s research investigates new language in Nicaragua

By Daniel Gilbert / March 12, 2004

Researchers from the University are studying a new language that is emerging in Nicaragua without ever hearing a single word of it. A developing community of deaf persons in the Central American country created a common sign language that has helped establish a shared culture that did not exist 20 years ago. Before then, deaf...

Officials, Aramark still battling bugs at B-J

By Daniel Gilbert / March 2, 2004

Burton-Judson dining hall passed inspection more than a week ago, but many remain concerned that the infestation problem has not been fully resolved. B-J officials reported that five cockroaches were sighted last Wednesday, and three more “baby” roaches were sighted in the west-dining hall in B-J on Thursday. Students were informed of the latter incident...

Regenstein officials cracking down on book hogs

By Daniel Gilbert / February 27, 2004

For students who think they can keep books in lockers in the Regenstein Library without checking them out, the Privileges Office has another message: Do so only if you wish to lose your locker privileges and forfeit your rental fee. While the policy is stated on the locker rental receipt and on the Regenstein website,...

Electricity loss blacks out Mardi Gras festival at Ida

By Daniel Gilbert / February 24, 2004

Night fell twice on students who attended last Friday’s Mardi Gras celebration at Ida Noyes; a power outage shut down the event, one in a series of outages that struck the campus during the evening. The lights went out at 10:24 p.m., less than an hour and a half after the event had opened, and...

Econ applied to art

By Daniel Gilbert / February 20, 2004

Consider Picasso, Gaugin, Degas, Cézanne. At what stage in their lives did they produce their most important work? With his answers to these questions, economics professor David Galenson has sparked controversy among art historians and gained increased attention from multiple academic disciplines. Galenson’s theory is based on the assumption of two different personalities. The “conceptual...

Ratner dress code covers student body

By Daniel Gilbert / February 13, 2004

On entering the weight and cardio rooms at the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, users are now confronted with signs that detail a new workout attire policy banning the use of sleeveless shirts. The new policy of wearing shirts with sleeves has created a stir among users, many of whom say they have not read the...

Printing remains free at USITE computer labs

By Daniel Gilbert / February 3, 2004

“Printing is still free! Temporary pay-for-print amnesty. Charging will begin soon @ $.06 per page,” reads the whiteboard in front of the USITE lab in Crerar. The lab and the Harper cluster are the last bastions of free PDF printing at the University. With a glitch still blocking the pay-for-print software—supposed to be implemented at...

Students bare all in mad dash across quads

By Daniel Gilbert / January 27, 2004

“I’m bigger than this, I swear!” shouted second-year in the College Tyler Brooks, as he ran naked across the snow-covered quads last Friday. Brooks was one of at least 50 Chicago students participating in the Polar Bear Run, a dash from Harper Memorial Library to Hull Gate in which students wear minimal or no clothing....