Managing Editor Michael McClure is a fourth-year from Buffalo, New York, studying political science and music at the College. Michael believes accurate writing is essential to conveying challenging truths with clarity and poise. It’s the principle that guides his work as an editor as well as the ideal he strives to follow in his reporting for The Maroon and elsewhere. Before becoming The Maroon‘s managing editor, Michael served as a reporter and editor in the News section, updating the campus community about major University news, covering rallies on the quad, and interviewing students and professors about groundbreaking initiatives on campus and in Hyde Park. He also served as a copy chief from 2021 to 2023 and copyedited more than 500 articles during his time in the section.
Outside of UChicago, Michael moonlights as a motorsport journalist at Feeder Series and InsideF2, reporting and editing stories on domestic and international junior single-seater racing from Formula 2 to Formula 4. In whatever spare time he has left, Michael is usually practicing the piano, exploring American suburbia on Google Maps, going on adventures with friends and strangers, or planning trips to racing paddocks and faraway islands that will probably never come to fruition.
Former Maroon managing editor Michael McClure reflects on how being diagnosed with autism affected his college experience and his career as a student journalist.
At 6:15 p.m., UCUP protesters engaged in a sit-in at the admissions office were arrested by University police officers and began to be processed inside adjacent Walker Museum.
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Fisher, an information technology administrator at the University, is focusing her campaign on community involvement, financial literacy, and public safety.
Former North Dakota senator Heidi Heitkamp discussed lessons from her political career, her perspective on UChicago, and her vision for the IOP as its incoming director.
Elijah Jenkins, Tim Lu, Juan Simon Angel, Meera Dasgupta, and Luz Maria Montiel were elected to be the five College Council (CC) representatives for the Class of 2026 on Wednesday, October 12. CC, a board...
Ilan Naibryf, who was due to graduate as a member of the Class of 2022, died when the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed last summer.
Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, tells The Maroon about how the January 6 insurrection was a harbinger of the increased support for political violence brewing in the United States.
In response to the increase in cases and elevated positivity rate following spring break, the University encouraged participation in the Voluntary Surveillance Testing Program.
The email also reported 49 cases and a 1.56 percent positivity rate from surveillance testing, although residents of three residence halls could not get tested until Friday because of inclement weather during the week.
Abbott, previously the executive vice president of internal affairs, will assume the position after Natalie Wang, who was first in USG’s line of succession, declined the offer.
The Lyft Ride Smart program, which previously allowed students 10 free Lyft rides per month Thursday through Saturday nights, will become available every night from November 10 to November 24.
Organizers from Graduate Students United (GSU), National Nurses United, and #CareNotCops gathered outside Levi Hall on October 19 to commemorate the four-year anniversary of GSU’s vote to unionize.
Miriam Sills was elected as a College Council (CC) representative in a special election for the Class of 2023. First-years Devin Johnson, Jordyn Flaherty, Ariana Ukaonu, Chelsea Wu, and Kate Wehle will also join CC this fall.
During his seven-year tenure as University president, Sonnenschein embarked on campaigns to improve the University’s finances, upgrade its facilities, and make it more appealing to undergraduates.
The installation, a collaboration between the Phoenix Survivors Alliance and Student Government’s Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Committee, aims to put “something that is insidious but incredibly common in plain view” of the campus community.
“We’ve done our best to push the [Earth Week] events to as broad of a digital audience as possible,” said third-year Terra Baer, one of Phoenix Sustainability Initiative’s co-presidents.
The Thrive slate, comprising Parul Kumar as president, Murphy DePompei as vice president for administration, and Natalie Wang as vice president for student affairs, ran unopposed in the spring 2021 Student Government elections.
Despite the extension of the stay-at-home order, medical experts from the University and the Chicago Department of Public Health noted that there were “hopeful signs,” including the decline in positive cases and close contacts relative to last week.
In a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic, a nationwide reckoning with racial injustice, and mass mobilization via social media, activists and community organizers in Chicago have found new ways to inspire change.
Despite barriers to visiting campus and taking standardized tests and the competitiveness of this year’s admissions cycle, Class of 2025 students took comfort in the support from their communities and in the defining traits of UChicago.
Fourth-year swim captain Nadia Redza, a member of the Malaysian national team, has set a standard for athletic leadership with her team-oriented approach.
Committee members mentioned expanding disability accommodations and increasing data transparency for sustainability initiatives as some of their goals.
Though they may have not expected their first quarter in college being a remote one, UChicago first-years are adapting to the challenges posed by online coursework and finding community on campus.
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