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Hyde Park’s Rapid Response network called the detention “federal immigration activity,” writing that officers also “attempted to detain multiple people outside their homes” at the same location.
La Respuesta Rápida de Hyde Park calificó el incidente como “actividad de inmigración federal" y señaló que los agentes también “intentaron detener a varias personas afuera de sus casas” en el mismo lugar.
Federal policy changes like grant terminations and increased barriers for international students have the potential to throw the University off track, administrators said at a town hall last week.
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.
Drawing from nearly three decades of military experience, Kirby said he hopes to incorporate an additional focus on national security in IOP programming.
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One year after 10 students faced disciplinary hearings for their participation in the pro-Palestine encampment or occupation of the Institute of Politics building, faculty remain concerned about a lack of transparency in the University’s disruptive conduct disciplinary processes.
Provost Katherine Baicker and CFO Ivan Samstein sat down with the Maroon to discuss the impacts of grant freezes, visa revocations, and other federal policy changes on the University’s finances.
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.
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.
UChicago’s policy on institutional neutrality has not stopped the University from spending millions on federal lobbying, drawing both criticism and support from the University community.
A Wednesday executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” cited two sections of the U.S. federal code concerning conspiracy against civil rights and immigration restrictions on the basis of terrorism.
On the second day of UChicago’s pro-Palestine encampment and the eighth day of Passover, students and community members gathered at two separate celebrations of the same Jewish holiday.
As UChicago’s first on-campus hotel option, The Study plays into a desire for an all-inclusive package of intellectuality and high culture. Yet the hotel sends a conflicting message when part of its appeal is its separation from the local community.
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