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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon
Stories and content by Jordan Holliday

Rankings round up 2010

By Jordan Holliday / August 21, 2010
The big news this week was the release of the latest rankings of colleges and universities. How did Chicago fare? The Maroon's got the recap.

Weekly round up for July 23

By Jordan Holliday / July 23, 2010
After five decades in the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore will move next year to McGiffert House on Woodlawn Avenue

Weekly round up for July 16

By Jordan Holliday / July 16, 2010
Talks to resolve a strike that has slowed campus construction will resume next week; slain CPD officer Thor Soderberg was honored at Rockefeller Chapel Thursday morning

History touches down

By Jordan Holliday / October 27, 2009
A dozen teammates from the 1969 football team—Chicago’s first varsity football squad since the 1930s—were on hand to watch the 2009 Maroons top Denison 38–7 in Saturday’s homecoming game.

Ray turns in three All-American performances

By Jordan Holliday / May 29, 2009
Some context for Claire Ray’s performance at nationals last week: Had the third-year been a team unto herself, she would have finished 28th overall, tied with St. Thomas and Montclair State. She would have finished comfortably ahead of every UAA school, save for Wash U. And setting aside Wash U again, Ray would have had as many All-American finishes as the rest of the UAA combined.

Women’s tennis rolls to Final Four berth

By Jordan Holliday / May 20, 2009
The Final Four is underway in Georgia. The Maroons defeated Carnegie 5-0 to reach the national semifinals, where they have taken two of three doubles contests against Amherst. Check twitter.com/chicagomaroons and marooncity.com for more.

Hitting the record books

By Jordan Holliday / May 15, 2009
There’s an astonishing detail waiting for anyone who takes the time to comb through results from track and field events at Chicago. Right above the times from the men’s 100 meters, there’s a line for the Ted Haydon Track record in that event, which hasn’t changed in 70 years and may not change for 70 more.

Maroon City: Scav Storm

By Jordan Holliday / May 8, 2009
See the latest vlog for coverage of women's tennis, getting in the Scav spirit, and a narrated photo-essay (plus some live footage) from the historic Scavegon Trail.

Among U of C chess players, Kane is king

By Jordan Holliday / May 5, 2009
On the second floor of Borders, at the meeting of a local chess club, one mention of Jeremy Kane’s name turns heads. Yeah, I’m assured, the men there know him. Is he good at chess? “Oh, he’s strong,” one man says, looking back at his pieces. “Strong like Ajax.”.

Maroon City: Watch It Zoom By

By Jordan Holliday / April 24, 2009
The latest vlog—it's not a podcast anymore!—including women's tennis and track + field traveling to UAAs, ballpark schwag, and the best of the best monkey videos. Plus Jess talks with Scott Hofer, more SportsTube, and By The Numbers on the Bulls' Big Macs.

Youth pounds experience in frats–profs game

By Jordan Holliday / April 21, 2009
Those frat boys have done it again. In a scene straight from Rocky V, the fraternity brothers overwhelmed their teachers in Sunday’s Professors vs. Frat Boys basketball game, running away with a 66–38 victory before a vocal contingent at Ratner.

Capps’s walk-off double secures sweep in Rose-Hulman doubleheader

By Jordan Holliday / April 17, 2009
On Wednesday, first-year designated hitter Trace Capps walked to the batter’s box and into the situation every kid imagines while playing in his backyard. Bottom of the ninth—well, bottom of the seventh—but baseball only plays seven innings during doubleheaders, so close enough. Team down one to Rose-Hulman (20–10), two away, two on base, one in scoring position..

Before revolutionizing astronomy, Hubble helped rewrite record books

By Jordan Holliday / April 10, 2009
The name “Hubble” has gotten a lot of use. It’s been given to an asteroid, a planetarium, a stretch of highway in Missouri, a crater on the Moon, a finicky telescope satellite, and, of course, to one of the most famous and influential astronomers of modern times, Edwin Hubble (S.B. ’10, Ph.D. ’17). But before he and his name had anything to do with celestial bodies, the young Hubble was a star in the gymnasium who left his name all over the Chicago record books..
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