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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Stories and content by Maroon Staff

Traveling Pants cure cancer, make asses look great

By Maroon Staff / June 3, 2005
We initially counted ourselves among the privileged few to attend a May 10 sneak preview of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, which opened nationwide June 1. The film is yet another adaptation of a young-adult novel—this time bringing the first book in Ann Brashares’s New York Times bestselling series of the same name to...

U of Cers mock stereotypes, assert pride with T-shirts

By Maroon Staff / April 29, 2005
University of Chicago students are rarely accused of being style innovators. Glamour usually takes a back seat to survival during the cold winter months—witness the shapeless, floor-length down coats that many students sport while dashing from the library to class—and academic concerns leave little room for vogue frivolities. The U of C, however, has always...

Chicago’s “Dean of Love” shoots Cupid’s arrows in the Big Apple

By Maroon Staff / April 3, 2005
To prospective University of Chicago undergraduates, Dean Ted O’Neill may be the embodiment of the foreboding stone dragon perched on Hull Gate. Students in the College see him as the hunky, personable face of the administration. But as it turns out, these dreamy students may have been right in associating O’Neill with romance. O’Neill was...

Sex and the South Side: a Valentine weekend tale

By Maroon Staff / February 15, 2005
Seemingly nobody at the University celebrated Valentines Day on February 14. Lovers citing hectic Monday nights and stress-filled seventh weeks have turned the Friday and Saturday before the actual saint’s day into “Valentine’s Weekend.” Even those without boyfriends or girlfriends host Valentine parties, where revelers can chase their gin and tonics with heart-shaped sugar cookies....

Red Line shuttle stats add to campus debate

By Maroon Staff / February 12, 2005
Sometimes University proposals take campus by storm, stirring debate from the dorm lounges to the Crerar computer labs. Last spring, the Red Line shuttle, a Chicago bus service implemented by Student Government that would transport students from the Reynolds Club to the Red Line Garfield stop on weekend evenings, became such a hot button topic....

Kuvia consumes restless minds and bodies

By Maroon Staff / January 25, 2005
It occurs to me as I traipse down a frigid University Avenue that my participation in the Kuviasungnerk Kangeiko winter festival will be the perfect climax of my four years at the University of Chicago. It will involve terrible, terrible cold, irregular sleep patterns, weird ritualistic activity with perverse and decrepit students, and, probably at...

All-night crowd filled first floor over finals week

By Maroon Staff / January 14, 2005
Although Chicago students may have found the 2004 autumn quarter exam period nearly identical to previous stressful, sleepless finals weeks, there was at least one new luxury: The first floor of the Regenstein was added to the all-night study space, giving students a place to go outside o f the A-Level. Student Government (SG) and...

Commuters see signs of disrepair at Metra stop

By Maroon Staff / November 12, 2004
News of the CTA budget deficit has University of Chicago students watching city buses and trains for symptoms of fiscal malnourishment, and some have noticed signs of disrepair at the Hyde Park Metra station. Several weeks ago, commuters were distressed to witness concrete rubble strewn on the sidewalk under the bridge that spans Lake Park...

U of C “Companion”: NPR’s Keillor will speak Wednesday for new hospital

By Maroon Staff / November 2, 2004
Radio personality, writer, and humorist Garrison Keillor will speak at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, November 3 in celebration of the upcoming opening of the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. The new hospital, slated to open in the winter, is a $135 million facility. Keillor’s radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,”...

CTA budget cuts threaten to stall city commuters

By Maroon Staff / October 17, 2004
The Chicago Transportation Authority (CTA) recently announced that it faces a $77 million budget deficit. If the agency does not receive $82.5 million in financial assistance from the Illinois General Assembly, commuters may face a 20 percent decrease in service expenditures. On October 4, the CTA released two budget proposals for 2005, one that anticipates...

Few surprises in the NBA

By Maroon Staff / November 21, 2003
While football and baseball have in recent seasons been maddeningly unpredictable, basketball fans have lacked the same level of unpredictability. The last 17 champions: Lakers, Lakers, Pistons, Pistons, Bulls, Bulls, Bulls, Rockets, Rockets, Bulls, Bulls, Bulls, Spurs, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Spurs. Kind of blurs together on the page, doesn’t it? Quick: how many titles have...

Midway broomball competition heats up as weather gets colder

By Maroon Staff / March 7, 2003
As the sun descended on Tuesday evening, it took with it the mild weather of the day. In with the darkness was a prolonged, steady sprinkling of snow. In fact, it was more than a sprinkling. Sprinklings of the duration seen on Tuesday evening are no longer classifiable as such. By 9 that evening, not...

IM Insider

By Maroon Staff / February 14, 2003
Forty days ago, the students of this University converged once again in Hyde Park at the start of a new quarter. Their minds and bodies rested and souls rejuvenated, their single thought, as fresh calendars were mounted onto walls, was that a return to school was imminent. Like noble knights they arrived, albeit not on...

IM Insider

By Maroon Staff / January 31, 2003
Under the pleasant glow of the fluorescent lights at Henry Crown Field House teams continued to do battle this week. Their competition strayed from the normal University of Chicago attentiveness to text and detail. Instead, it was the proper mixture of sweat, emotion, skill, and blood that would determine the victors. The orange orbs that...

I’m getting too old for this

By Maroon Staff / November 1, 2002
The Cleveland Indians recently named Eric Wedge as their new manager. Get this: he’s only 34. I guess this should come as no surprise; after all, we’ve been seeing a youth movement in sports in recent years. Kevin Garnett led the charge, starting a trend of NBA players logging their first minutes on the court...

NASCAR is tool of class rule

By Maroon Staff / August 15, 2002
I want to start this out by saying that I have never really “gotten” auto racing. When I received Sports Illustrated back in middle and part of high school, I faithfully read each article. That is, except for the auto racing features—they just never really did anything for me. I’ve tried, believe me, I’ve tried,...

A.I.’s woes not part of the plan

By Maroon Staff / July 25, 2002
With luxury tax concerns taking away oxygen from the flame that is off-season trade and free-agent activity in the NBA, basketball news updates are filling the news vacuum with the biggest piece of dirt they can find: Allen Iverson’s legal trouble. Though player movement varies from season to season, Iverson’s on-again-off-again flirtation with a stint...

Rockets will regret drafting Yao Ming

By Maroon Staff / July 7, 2002
The Houston Rockets chose Yao Ming with the first pick in the NBA draft last Thursday, hoping to replicate their success with Hakeem Olajuwon. Like Olajuwon 18 years ago, Ming is a foreign-born center who is headed to a Houston club fortunate enough to win the draft lottery. Unlike Olajuwon, who was the backbone of...

Random Rants

By Maroon Staff / May 6, 2002
If there is one thing in all of sport that can be universalized and recognized as a quality to be respected and admired, that quality is the ability to play through pain. The more the better. Pain is universal; its knowledge requires no special athletic skill. When the crowd sees an athlete grimace, wrinkling his...

Baseball is back in season

By Maroon Staff / April 11, 2002
Spring is here. I’d like to point out that when I say spring is here I don’t mean that it’s past March 21. Spring is finally here in the sense that its more than 50 degrees outside and more importantly, baseball is back with full force. The Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox have...

Response to “Preventing Rape at the U of C”

By Maroon Staff / April 8, 2002
To the Editor: I am deeply offended by the recent editorial by Stephanie Ye entitled “Preventing Rape at the U of C.” This article displays a surprising lack of sensitivity on the part of the MAROON editorial staff and the University community to the disturbing problem of sexual assault and harassment on this campus. Ye...
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