It's reprehensible that an accepted student would ever feel any sort of discouragement from the University (especially concerning volunteer work), but perhaps more importantly, the University needs to be more careful about potentially reinforcing outsider stereotypes of Chicago life. After all, not only are these generalizations ignorant, but pragmatically, they have the potential to limit current students' opportunities for outreach..

[img id=”80491″ align=”alignleft”] The other day in class, a science professor remarked that the two most popular biology courses at the U of C were the Biology of Gender and Nutritional Science—or, in other words, sex and food. Sex I can understand, but the overwhelming interest in food surprised me a bit. After privately ridiculing...