Take your liberal guilt to the CTA

By Nick Tarasen / May 18, 2004

The University’s recent approval of the Red Line Shuttle for the use of students has caused quite a stir among those same students who argued against Citibank and Taco Bell, with claims that the shuttle will marginalize those in the community by preferentially providing a service to University students, and not to the community as...

The case for same-sex marriage

By Nick Tarasen / February 3, 2004

To be honest, I’d prefer not to have to write this article. I wish that the president I helped elect didn’t feel that “activist judges” were creating a right in extending marriage to same-sex couples. I wish, more saliently, that my peers didn’t buy such arguments. But serious momentum exists to amend the Constitution to...

Gay issues avoided by Democrats

By Nick Tarasen / October 16, 2003

This week has been proclaimed “Marriage Protection Week” in the United States. Marriage, in case you’d somehow forgotten its meaning and needed to be reminded by the President, is “a union between a man and a woman.” The Bush administration is “working to support the institution of marriage by helping couples build successful marriages and...

The U of C needs glory, Division I athletics

By Nick Tarasen / May 29, 2003

“The University of Chicago…is that a state school?” In the three years since I decided to attend our venerable institution, I’ve learned not to visibly cringe in response to this question. Still, when I hear this, my insides get twisty, and I feel my blood pressure start to rise. I often wonder how my parents...

Quarters equal semesters

By Nick Tarasen / May 19, 2003

The University of Chicago’s first president, William Rainey Harper, thought up the quarter system as part of the academic plan for his great university. As I understand it, the great purpose of the quarter system is to allow students to take more classes in their time at the University. Three quarters per academic year, with...

Santorum II: Don’t restrict sex

By Nick Tarasen / April 28, 2003

Senator Rick Santorum’s recent remarks involving homosexuals have brought the already festering debate over consensual sex in the homosexual bedroom to the fore yet again. “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy,...