Senior sign-off

By Jane Huang / May 30, 2014

What place you finish in life isn’t what’s important.

Civil complaint

By Jane Huang / May 16, 2014

Rejecting complaints on campus as nothing more than annoying stifles open expression.

Underrepresented among minorities

By Jane Huang / April 29, 2014

Schuette v. Coalition dialogue marked by a failure to acknowledge Asian perspective

Uncommon Sense

By Jane Huang / April 18, 2014

Uncommonness should not be sought as an ends in of itself, but instead be a side effect of the exceptional pursuit of other goals.

Go for the bold

By Jane Huang / March 7, 2014

Education shouldn’t be risk averse.

Results may vary

By Jane Huang / February 21, 2014

Upperclassmen can advise underclassmen without damaging self-confidence.

Coke-existence

By Jane Huang / February 7, 2014

America is inherently multilingual.

STEMming the flow of acronyms

By Jane Huang / January 24, 2014

The shorthand, while convenient, conflates its associated fields into one.

Accountability in the absence of anonymity

By Jane Huang / November 15, 2013

On an internet that is beginning to phase out anonymity, care must be taken when assuming identity.

How the tables have turned

By Jane Huang / November 1, 2013

Don’t judge a college by its ranking.

Experiencing déjà blue

By Jane Huang / October 18, 2013

In the age of innovation, Web site design remains surprisingly stagnant.

Pearls of wisdom

By Jane Huang / October 8, 2013

The most peripheral knowledge may be what we want to remember.

Summer Musings: Simple laughs, serious thought

By Jane Huang / September 13, 2013

Comedy’s often disarming façade should not bar it from academic attention.

Summer Musings: The moral of the story

By Jane Huang / August 16, 2013

When the media criticizes entertainment for being a bad influence, it overlooks the audience’s ability to form a nuanced conception of right and wrong.

Getting around, the problem

By Jane Huang / May 31, 2013

Making the CTA a world-class transit system means extending its services to the places it currently underserves.

Don’t sugar-coat it

By Jane Huang / May 16, 2013

In light of recent dining hall health code issues, UChicago Dining’s explanations prioritize public image over honest accountability.

Mistaking identity

By Jane Huang / May 2, 2013

We shouldn’t paper over the gaps in our knowledge of individuals with things we feel safe to assume.

Becoming yourself

By Jane Huang / April 19, 2013

The adage “Be yourself” is not the right message for those trying to come to terms with their accomplishments and failures.

Full-court pressure

By Jane Huang / April 4, 2013

College basketball player Kevin Ware’s injury reveals flaws in a scholarship system that gives insufficient security to student-athletes.

American History X-perience

By Jane Huang / March 8, 2013

Though done to death in grade school, U.S. history deserves a more prominent place in college curricula.

The merits of diversity

By Jane Huang / February 21, 2013

Students from a variety of backgrounds are essential to the development of an ideal learning environment.

The good, the bad, and the armed

By Jane Huang / February 7, 2013

The reality of firearms is more complex than the gun-slinging do-gooder and the villainous desperado.

Stranger in a familiar land

By Jane Huang / January 29, 2013

One doesn’t have to travel far to experience different ways of thinking, or to realize that culture shock happens at home too.

Post, “Like,” Memory

By Jane Huang / January 10, 2013

I’ve been a little wary of nostalgia ever since I read One Hundred Years of Solitude, which seemed to imply that feeling too much of it will cause you to have children with corkscrew tails (all right, that may not exactly be the point of the book). Nevertheless, winter break is a nice time to...

A promising start

By Jane Huang / November 9, 2012

The University has the right idea with UChicago Promise, but its goals should be national.

Minding the gap

By Jane Huang / October 25, 2012

The media’s characterization of the gender wage disparity as a “myth” is harmful to necessary progress.

Promotional considerations

By Jane Huang / October 11, 2012

New applicants may be playing the name game, but popularity won’t necessarily hurt the U of C.

Embracing the unknown

By Jane Huang / May 21, 2012

College isn’t about learning all there is to know—it’s about knowing all there is to learn.

Damage control

By Jane Huang / May 7, 2012

Desire to avoid condoning harm underlying SRIC movement is more common sense than contentious.

In need of a mentality check

By Jane Huang / April 23, 2012

Current methods of evaluation in science classes discourage hard work and learning.

Funder pressure

By Jane Huang / April 9, 2012

Universities too often end up in compromising positions in the search for donations.

Racial recognition

By Jane Huang / February 23, 2012

Affirmative action gives the role race plays in applicants’ lives the recognition it warrants.

It’s not all relative

By Jane Huang / January 27, 2012

Republican candidates’ attempts to portray themselves as relatable “Everymen” are misleading.

Irrational expectations

By Jane Huang / January 12, 2012

CAPS offerings reflect troubling job market realities, not program bias.

Asian, not alien

By Jane Huang / November 11, 2011

Media portrayal of Asian students reinforces negative, unjustified stereotypes.

Work in progress

By Jane Huang / October 24, 2011

Required visits with a career adviser would help alleviate student confusion regarding the future.