Laura Hamilton’s recent Viewpoints column on the removal of caloric soda from public schools is absolutely ridiculous. Her main point seems to be an issue of choice: she decries a “liberal” desire to circumscribe what she considers the “right to choose” one’s own school food. I can only assume Hamilton has never been in a...

In the January 23 issue of the Maroon, the following sentence appears in Alec Brandon’s article “Blaming Wal-Mart Is Counterproductive”: “While Wal-Mart may be unsightly, it is a boon for America’s poor, providing beneficial competition in areas where savings on essentials is needed the most.” This could not be further from the truth. Brandon goes...

“Her work ethic and determination were, quite simply, second to none,” said Pritzker medical student Tom Ring about his friend and classmate Margaret Bradley at a memorial service in her honor this past Sunday. During the ceremony, which was held in Fulton Recital Hall, the speakers returned again and again to Bradley’s remarkable ability to...

Many University of Chicago students have had the unpleasant experience, after a night spent in downtown Chicago, of waiting for the #55 bus on the south side of the Dan Ryan overpass on 55th Street. On a cold winter night with Chicago wind blasting off I-90 from the North, this can be a truly unpleasant...

In last Friday’s Maroon, Viewpoints columnist John Lovejoy joined the ranks of conservative critics of Howard Dean, the current democratic front-runner, on the issue of his religious faith. Though Lovejoy’s article was essentially a regurgitation of recent articles in major newspapers tinged with his own crass depictions of how liberals understand God, the issue itself...