While UChicago wasn’t included on The Princeton Review’s list of top 20 party schools this year, there are still several traditions that spice up the life of the mind.
The University has fully leased the former Borders building in the continuing development of 53rd Street, which has begun to earn praise for environmental sustainability. CorePower Yoga, which has nine other locations in Chicago, will open in 2013 and rent 4,347 square feet of space in the former Borders building at 1539 East 53rd Street...
Notoriously rife with corruption, the Chicago political system is one of the most hard-nosed institutions in the nation. Chicagoans elect a mayor and a city council every four years. The City Council, responsible for making the city’s laws, is comprised of 50 aldermen elected from 50 different wards across the city. Chicago sits in Cook...
Even though you’ll quickly learn that sky can remain gray for several consecutive weeks, here are some of the traditions that warm up the life of the mind.
After vocal student dissatisfaction over security and wait times, University administrators have decided they will eliminate SafeRide and expand evening shuttle service.
Vice President for Campus Life Kim Goff-Crews announced this week that she will leave her post at the end of the academic year to take on a similar role at Yale University.
Dining administrators are re-evaluating parts of the University’s new dining plan after fewer students than expected have been utilizing the Phoenix meal plan and the meal exchange program.
Twenty first-years will vie to represent their class and fill the four open seats in next week’s College Council (CC) election, tying the record size of last fall’s candidate pool.
Mandeep Bedi (A.B. ’10), who wrote his senior honors thesis on American graffiti and taught Chicago high school students about the politics of soccer and contemporary freedom of speech, died from his injuries last month just days after being struck by a car. He was 23. Bedi, who graduated with a degree in anthropology, worked...
The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation will donate $42 million to the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, the foundation announced last Thursday.
After your first quarter at the University of Chicago, most of your friends will ask you the age-old question: “Is it really where fun goes to die?” Although the early morning trips in the freezing cold after an all-nighter at the Reg might make you want to transfer to that school in Southern California you declined, here are some of the traditions the U of C has cooked up to make campus life a little hotter..
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty discussed his economic policy and criticized Barack Obama's as settling for a "second-rate economy" Tuesday morning.
In a Q and A session after John P. Walters' lecture, students challenged his claims made against ethically legalizing marijuana. He called it the most dangerous drug in youth culture.
Illinois General Assembly Democratic Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie (A.B. ’68, M.A. ’73) spoke on the state’s current financial impasse.
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