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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon
Smile Design Every Other Week
The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon
Stories and content by Ella Christoph

Nance works the body

By Ella Christoph / March 8, 2011
SG President. Truman Scholar. Gates Scholar. Marathon runner. Boxer. Entrepreneur. Community servant. Greg Nance is a man on a mission.

Let’s be Franco

By Ella Christoph / March 2, 2011
"James Franco gets Blackboard to do what he wants." A grad student is tweeting on the privileges conferred upon recent Yale doctoral candidate James Franco as he bursts onto the academic scene.

Obama rallies on Midway

By Ella Christoph / November 2, 2010
“It is good to be home,” President Barack Obama said at his rally Saturday night. Appearing alongside the President were Mayor Richard Daley, Senator Dick Durbin, Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, and rapper Common.

Executive Slate: Moose Party

By Ella Christoph / April 20, 2010
The Moose Party, fraternity Delta Upsilon’s (DU) perennial slate, said it would advocate for a biodome protecting the school, with a surrounding moat and a dragon guarding the campus, if elected as Student Government’s cabinet.

DU brings party to SG debates

By Ella Christoph / April 13, 2010
Next Generation and Delta Upsilon’s Moose Party traded promises and pithy remarks at a Student Government (SG) elections debate in the Reynold’s club yesterday.

UTEP gets federal grant

By Ella Christoph / April 6, 2010
The $11.6 million grant will allow UTEP o quadruple its class size, certify teachers in mathematics and science, and improve its curriculum and recruitment.

Students gather for garden party and protest

By Ella Christoph / October 27, 2009
While some held out hope that the garden might be retained, administrators said plans to stage construction of the Chicago Theological Seminary on the plot are unlikely to change before November 15, when the University plans to fence off the garden.

Firms put jobs on hold for Law School graduates

By Ella Christoph / May 5, 2009
Many graduating students at the University of Chicago Law School are scurrying to make plans post-graduation, after being deferred for up to 18 months from the law firms that hired them after internships last summer. Law school career services says this level of deferral is unprecedented.

YouChicago wins SG elections

By Ella Christoph / April 24, 2009
YouChicago plan to start their term by addressing smaller issues that they hope can bring quick change, starting with bringing more bike racks to campus. They also plan to immediately begin reexamining the Kalven Report and gathering the input of students, especially current fourth-year students..

Student shot at over break

By Ella Christoph / April 3, 2009
A group of people were socializing outside a Kansas bar when a man leaned out of the passenger window of the car, shooting at the crowd multiple times with a handgun.

Students honor MLK with day of service

By Ella Christoph / January 23, 2009
Students at the University of Chicago may be used to pulling all-nighters on the A-Level of Regenstein Library, but rarely do they wake up early on Saturday mornings to do manual labor. But on Saturday, more than 120 shivering students gathered at 7:30 a.m. to board school buses in honor of Martin Luther King on Chicago Cares Day, an annual Chicago community service event that attracted 4,000 volunteers citywide.

University and city solicit Harper Court development partners

By Ella Christoph / November 21, 2008
The University moved forward with plans to bring mixed-use development to Harper Court on Tuesday, beginning the process that will allow developers to submit proposals for the site. The University asked the city for a Request for Proposal (RFP), a city document that solicits responses from developers on how they would develop the site.

Fifth ward meeting probes after-school activities, South Side crime

By Ella Christoph / October 31, 2008
The setting for Alderman Leslie Hairston’s monthly community meeting evoked the neighborhood concerns and aspirations discussed when locals gathered Tuesday night at Gary Comer College Prep. The building is home to a rapidly expanding high school with plans for ambitious after-school programming to help mitigate student crime. But indicative of persistent concerns over local violence, the building’s windows are made of bulletproof glass.

Madeleine Albright briefs U of C crowd

By Ella Christoph / May 16, 2008
[img id=”80618″ align=”alignleft”] Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke of her passion for democracy in front of a large crowd in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel during the Tomás G. Masaryk Lecture on Democracy Tuesday evening. “The future is shaped not only by what we learn from the past but also by what we forget,” she...

Students discuss open housing decision

By Ella Christoph / May 16, 2008
About 30 students joined Director of Student Housing Katie Callow-Wright at an open forum on Wednesday evening to discuss the postponement of the Inter-House Council’s (IHC) gender-neutral housing proposal. Callow-Wright cited administrative procedure as the primary reason for the administration’s decision. Vice President and Dean of Students Kimberly Goff-Crews postponed the proposal’s implementation in order...

Gloria Steinem gets progressive at Gala

By Ella Christoph / May 6, 2008
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem encouraged progressive activism to a crowd of about 500 people gathered for the keynote address of the Progressive Gala: Women in Washington in Ratner gym on Saturday night. “Progressives have taken over the University of Chicago. They said it would never happen,” Steinem said at the beginning of her talk. The...

New dean appointed to Rockefeller

By Ella Christoph / April 22, 2008
The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Davenport has been appointed dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel after a nearly seven-month search to fill the position. She will begin her duties on July 1. “I’m greatly looking forward to engaging the intellectual issues in a context where that is highly valued,” Davenport said, adding that the University reminds her...

New facilities VP an expert on sustainable campuses

By Ella Christoph / April 14, 2008
The U of C has hired Steve Wiesenthal, a newly appointed fellow of the American Institute of Architects with experience in facilities management, capital projects, and resource planning and management, as associate vice president for facilities services and university architect. On a campus with buildings by renowned architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...

Hyde Parkers discuss area development

By Ella Christoph / March 7, 2008
Community leaders and University administrators gathered Tuesday to discuss plans for bringing appealing retail options to Hyde Park at a panel discussion entitled “Making Hyde Park: Development in Our Community,” hosted by the Southside Solidarity Network. Wallace Goode, associate dean of students and head of the University Community Service Center, moderated the event, which was...

U of C names Heineman to lead sustainability push

By Ella Christoph / March 4, 2008
The U of C Sustainability Council has hired Eric Heineman, an expert on sustainable practices, technology, and education, to fill the newly created project manager position for the Council. The Council, created in 2004 through student-initiated dialogue about environmentally sustainable practices on campus, is currently composed of student, faculty, and administrators. “The whole [sustainability] movement...

Owners of indie bookstore address students

By Ella Christoph / February 1, 2008
A cozy gathering of students got the inside scoop on running a radical independent bookstore at a luncheon sponsored by the Center for Gender Studies on Monday. Co-founders Linda Bubon and Ann Christopherson opened Women and Children First in Andersonville in 1979 in an effort to provide both books and a community environment for feminist...

Students fret looming summer internship apps

By Ella Christoph / January 25, 2008
First-year Lauren Pulido attended the Venture to Adventure dinner in the hopes that the seminar—in which upperclassmen share tales of their summer experiences—would motivate her not to make the same mistake over the summer she had made over winter break. “I kind of felt like winter vacation I blew it,” she said. “All I did...

Quad Club to get multi-year upgrade

By Ella Christoph / November 6, 2007
The Quadrangle Club, the private University faculty club on the corner of East 57th Street and South University Avenue, will soon undergo a recently approved multi-million dollar renovation to repair the 85-year-old building’s many functional problems. The plans for renovation are still in the early stages but will primarily address basic issues such as insulation,...

New exhibit explores Judaism in the Orient

By Ella Christoph / November 2, 2007
A new exhibit entitled “The Spirit of the Orient and Judaism” opened last month at the Special Collections Research Center in the Regenstein Library. The exhibit, organized by Divinity School History of Judaism graduate student Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, investigates the relationship between Jews and the Orient during the 19th and 20th centuries through novels, essays, sheet...

Students rock C-Shop with poetry, pizza

By Ella Christoph / October 12, 2007
Students filed into the C-Shop Wednesday evening for free pizza and $1 milkshakes, and for the poetry, music, and dancing at the Poetry and Performance Night hosted by 2 Much Music and UChicago Hype. The event was one installment in a series of Caras de Americas events offered by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs...
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