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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon
Smile Design Every Other Week
The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon
Stories and content by Rebecca Guterman

O-Issue 2013: Administration

By Rebecca Guterman / September 22, 2013
While RHs and professors may facilitate some of your day-to-day activities, the UChicago administrators are at the top of the food chain when it comes to both your life at the University and the life of the University itself.

Updated: Cathey reopens after closing Thursday night

By Rebecca Guterman / December 4, 2012
Update as of Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.: Cathey Dining Commons reopened earlier today. Cathey Dining Commons remains closed four days after it failed two consecutive inspections, the second of which took place last Thursday. UChicago Dining and Aramark performed a thorough cleaning over the weekend. Administrators suspected the third inspection would come early this...

Dems pour into Grounds

By Rebecca Guterman / November 9, 2012
Hallowed Grounds was filled to the brim Tuesday night for a Democratic viewing party of the election on CNN, one of three viewings in Reynolds that evening. CNN called the election for President Obama at around 10:20 p.m., to prolonged clapping and chants of “four more years” and “Obama” by those in attendance. Just after...

Sleigh Bells to ring in MAB’s fall show

By Rebecca Guterman / October 23, 2012
Indie noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells will headline the Major Activities Board’s (MAB) fall show on November 3rd at 8 p.m., according to MAB Chair and fourth-year Lyndsey McKenna. The Board hopes that Sleigh Bells will appeal to a diverse crowd in the same way that Matt & Kim attracted audiences to last year’s fall show....

Sleigh Bells to headline fall show

By Rebecca Guterman / October 22, 2012
Indie noisepop duo Sleigh Bells will headline the Major Activities Board (MAB) fall show on Nov. 3 at 8 p.m., according to Chair and fourth-year Lyndsey McKenna. The Board hopes that Sleigh Bells will appeal to a diverse crowd, following on the heels of last year’s headlining act Matt & Kim. “One of the things...

O-Issue 2012: Administration

By Rebecca Guterman / September 23, 2012
While RHs and professors may facilitate some of your day-to-day activities, the U of C administrators are at the top of the food chain when it comes to both your life at the University and the life of the University itself

Board of Trustees Chair talks tuition, trauma center

By Rebecca Guterman / February 3, 2012
Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees Andrew Alper (A.B. ’80, M.B.A. ’81) discussed the University’s financial standing, the demand for a trauma center, and other student concerns at the quarterly Trustee breakfast with 25 students yesterday morning in the West Commons of South Campus Residence Hall..

Fourth Cisse murderer sentenced

By Rebecca Guterman / November 15, 2011
The latest man convicted in the fatal 2007 shooting of University graduate student Amadou Cisse has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for first-degree murder. Demetrius Warren, 21, became in August the fourth person convicted for Cisse’s murder, following the convictions and sentencing of three other suspects in the case. Of the four men...

Controversy left behind in housekeeping move

By Rebecca Guterman / September 30, 2011
Administrators and unions reached an agreement this summer on the consolidation of housekeeping staff and buildings engineers into the Facilities Services department, concluding a protracted, and often fiery, series of negotiations that saw faculty, students, and workers erupt into open protest on more than one occasion. The University moved approximately 70 people from its payroll...

Fourth Meal marked by huge turn-out

By Rebecca Guterman / May 13, 2011
According to numbers collected by dining administrators, more people turned out for late-night dining at South Campus then they do for other meals during the day. Going into the pilot run, advisory board members were hoping it could attract a fraction of its current figures..
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