Students try their hand at being funny

By Ryan Uricks / May 27, 2005

The Chicago Shady Dealer, a new humor newspaper, was released Wednesday. Editor in Chief Zachary Binney said he came up with the idea from his managing editor, James Snyder, when the latter suggested that the University needed a tabloid-like publication on campus. Yet what really spurred him to start the publication was when he set-up...

Saul Bellow, dead at 89

By Ryan Uricks / April 12, 2005

Saul Bellow, former Chicago faculty member, world-renowned author, and a Nobel Prize laureate, died Tuesday at age 89. During his most prolific writing period, Bellow joined the University faculty as a professor of English in 1962, and taught at the University for thirty years. Chicago served to inspire many of Bellow’s literary backdrops and characters,...

Installing cMail, NSIT will block e-mail for three days

By Ryan Uricks / February 18, 2005

While students and faculty at the University complain about the current Webmail system’s periodic crashes and its downtime from service, NSIT is preparing a remedy: a brand new e-mail system for campus, dubbed “cMail.” In an e-mail sent out to the University community last Wednesday, February 9, NSIT presented cMail as a “major upgrade” from...

Fulbright scholar updates Chicago from Kiev

By Ryan Uricks / January 11, 2005

Chicago alumna and Fulbright scholar Megan Buskey, currently in Kiev, watched as the “Orange Revolution” swept through Ukraine this past November. The election between pro-western Victor Yushchenko and Russian-backed Victor Yanukovych was the most pivotal in the country’s history. As Yanukovych was declared the winner in the first disputed election, Yushchenko’s supporters took to the...

Planning our southern expansion

By Ryan Uricks / November 15, 2004

With plans for the new dorm underway and completion slated for 2008, the administration once again takes attempts to integrate the south campus with the rest of the University community. Its last major attempt with the Law School and SSA is regarded as an overall failure. This time, the administration seems to have listened to...

Requiem for a jaded citizen

By Ryan Uricks / November 2, 2004

As millions of Americans head to the polls today, it is befitting that we take a look back. Through this year, we have seen the most volatile and vicious campaigns conducted in recent memory. Billions of dollars have been spent attacking each side, while the American people have looked on. Today we seek closure, yet...

Supreme Court should be key election issue

By Ryan Uricks / October 17, 2004

Over the course of the presidential campaign, many issues have been discussed. Iraq and the economy are at the forefront of the debate, while healthcare and education take the backseat on the campaign trail. Yet, there is one issue that has been skipped over this election year: the Supreme Court. To label the Supreme Court...