University Admits Record Low 7.9 Percent to Class of 2020

By Peyton Alie / May 31, 2016

The yield rate for the Class of 2020 is 66%, up from 61% last year.

High-Profile Speakers and Protests Come to the IOP

By Peyton Alie / May 27, 2016

“Free and open debate should not be muzzled by government, university administrations, or angry mobs.”

City Inspectors Find Code Violations at Remake the World Veterans Center

By Peyton Alie / May 24, 2016

Violations at the Washington Park building include defective plumbing, a broken fence, and wood rather than tile floors in the kitchen.

Student Government Rejects FJF’s Petition for Providing Dining Services In-House

By Peyton Alie / May 10, 2016

The Student Government General Assembly rejects the Fight for Just Food’s resolution aiming to reduce the University’s financial support of mass incarceration.

Resident Masters Announced for Campus North, I-House

By Peyton Alie / April 22, 2016

Two RMs will succeed Scott and Laura Stern in I-House, while four RMs will join Campus North in its inaugural year.

Alum Recalls Experience “in the Closet” in the ’60s

By Peyton Alie / April 8, 2016

Esther Newton wrote the first ethnography of gay people in anthropology while hiding her own sexuality.

Stigler Talks Principles of Statistics at Seminary Co-Op

By Peyton Alie / March 8, 2016

“What do statisticians do that is different from computer scientists or from mathematicians or from economists?”

Housing Spots in Campus North Announced

By Peyton Alie / March 4, 2016

Breckinridge House will keep its name as it moves into International House.

Center for Identity and Inclusion Hosts Discussion on Queer + Asian Experience

By Peyton Alie / March 1, 2016

“There’s this interest in intersectionality. It’s not just a queer Asian issue, it’s a queer person of color issue…What does it mean to sit at that unique intersection of identities, and what are the unique challenges you face?”

Community Members Consider Next Alderman

By Peyton Alie / February 23, 2016

“[Currently], the person that gets to claim this spot is not accountable to the citizens they’re supposed to represent, but represents the political patrons they’re indebted to."

Phoenix Survivors Alliance Marches to Demand Title IX Training

By Peyton Alie / February 16, 2016

“Recent events on campus have called into question what the University is doing to prevent sexual assault.”

UC Dems, College Republicans Host Mock Caucuses

By Peyton Alie / February 2, 2016

IOP trip sends students to Iowa to observe the much-anticipated election.

Petition Calls for University to Continue Housing Graduate Students in I-House

By Peyton Alie / January 26, 2016

“The purpose of International House will be violated if International House becomes exclusively undergraduate housing.”

Undergrad House Will Move to I-House, Replacing Graduate Student Housing

By Peyton Alie / January 15, 2016

One of the undergraduate houses whose dorm will be closed next year will move into International House (I-House), College Housing announced Wednesday. This means that I-House will house no graduate students for the first time in its history. College Housing previously planned to move all nine house communities from Blackstone, Breckinridge, Broadview, Maclean, and New...

Kenwood Academy rated one of two best public high schools in Chicago

By Peyton Alie / December 1, 2015

“As a school community, we have been successful at creating a space where students have the necessary wrap-around supports to ensure a successful academic and beyond curriculum experience.”

University panel celebrates author James Baldwin’s 90th birthday

By Peyton Alie / November 24, 2015

Baldwin on being a black, poor, and gay writer: “I thought I hit the jackpot–it was so outrageous, you could not go any further. So you had to find a way to use it.”

Gordon Parks Arts Hall opens at Lab School with new art exhibits

By Peyton Alie / November 24, 2015

The George Lucas Family Foundation pledged $25 million to the Laboratory Schools to finance the creation of the Arts Hall.

Campus buildings disrupt bird migratory patterns

By Peyton Alie / November 13, 2015

Despite implementation of bird safety techniques, many birds continue to fly into campus buildings

New RSO aims to increase political participation on campus

By Peyton Alie / October 20, 2015

“The goal is to try to solve the problem of people feeling disconnected from their representatives."

Krista Franklin’s Like Water exhibit explores female ability to shapeshift

By Peyton Alie / October 15, 2015

"I wanted to create a contemporary shape shifter character, another young black woman, and look at how she would move through the world when she figured out that she could change herself to anything from an animal to another person,” Franklin said.

University geneticist wins MacArthur Genius Grant

By Peyton Alie / October 12, 2015

Associate Professor John Novembre won a MacArthur fellowship for his work on human evolutionary history.