A Student Government Annual Allocations Committee decision to deny funding for the UChicago Clothesline Project was met with student outrage and the distribution of an online petition on Sunday night.
Bucking its distaste for pre-professionalism, the University will soon grant its first degree in engineering. The pioneering class of molecular engineering Ph.D. candidates will matriculate in fall 2014 through a program run by the Institute of Molecular Engineering. In a May 8 press release, the Institute’s founding director Matthew Tirrell emphasized the interdisciplinary nature envisioned...
Due to Programming Coordinating Council (PCC) funding cuts, this year’s Summer Breeze festival will no longer feature the beer garden typically situated next to Botany Pond. Instead, fourth-year Major Activities Board (MAB) chair Lyndsey McKenna said, the area around Botany Pond will feature alternative sources of entertainment, including vendors and sponsors with giveaways. “I can...
[media id=”106203″ align=”left”/]As this year’s only official candidate for Graduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees, Navin Manjooran, a first-year M.B.A. student at the Booth School of Business, hopes to give a revitalized voice to graduate concerns at UChicago. Manjooran, who served as a representative on the Board of Visitors as a graduate student at...
With an extensive background in campus and community activism, Impact aims to give a voice to student issues and spearhead the establishment of what it envisions as a more politically involved and effective Student Government (SG). Third-year Michael McCown, the slate’s presidential candidate, hopes SG can more accurately embody the concerns of the student body....
The head of the University's private police force talks about how U of C crime differs from other places and what it's like to be in charge of the safety of others.
Administrators are having to tweak, and in some cases significantly change, admissions and housing after high yield has led to another unexpectedly large class.
As part of Rahm Emanuel's project to pave 100 miles of bike lanes in his first term, protected bike paths will stretch from Cottage Grove to Lake Park.
Items on the list for the 26th annual Scav Hunt include getting a side mullet, meeting with Rahm Emanuel, and getting your appendix into a jar by Sunday.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker spoke about the challenges of achieving change and the power of small acts of kindness at the 2012 George E. Kent Lecture in Mandel Hall on Wednesday night.
Today, the name “Hyde Park” inevitably evokes association with familiar places like the Medici Bakery (established in 1962), Harold’s Chicken Shack (established in 1950), and of course the most prominent Hyde Park resident of all, the University of Chicago (established in 1890, first classes held in 1892)—essentially, a list of fine institutions that in our...
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) will partner with Google, LEGO, Scientific American, National Geographic, and the CERN Laboratory this April for the second annual Google Science Fair, an international competition intended for students between the ages of 13 and 18. The grand prize winner will receive hands-on experience at Fermilab, CERN, or Google, in addition to...
The University’s new Student Leadership Institute (SLI) is poised to begin its first workshops for the students who successfully applied for its services, ending months of planning that began before the start of the school year. At its kick-off event over the first weekend of winter quarter, 25 first-, second-, and third-year students traveled to...
Students were invited to test drive three different Chevy models outside the Reg last Saturday in a promotional event that raised money for Colleges Against Cancer.
Hotel employees shared stories of unfair working conditions at Hyatt and Hilton hotels in Chicago at a “teach-in” with students Tuesday night, claiming that similar conditions will exist at the new Hyde Park Hyatt location if the employees are unable to unionize..
On November 7 Court picked up two Jeff Awards, Chicago’s most prestigious theater honor, at the 43rd Annual Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards in Oak Brook, IL.
Fourth-year Louis Wasserman came in first place at the second annual Illinois Technology Association (ITA) Fall Challenge Contest held on Friday downtown, after tackling a series of applied computer science tests.
A meaningful accord between China and Japan will require both countries to put aside their economic ambitions and confront the age-old tensions between them, Osaka University Professor Emeritus Nobukuni Koyasu said at a lecture at Swift Hall on Tuesday..
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