As I left for the Aragon Ballroom on Sunday afternoon, October 5, I was in one of those depressed, angsty sort of moods—angry at the world, frustrated with myself. It turned out to be the perfect mood for an AFI concert. I arrived at the venue half an hour before the doors opened, and was...

When I read in last Tuesday’s Maroon that several campus student organizations intend to protest the Singapore government’s imprisonment of political dissenter Chee Soon Juan, my response as a Singaporean was to roll my eyes. I could just imagine the activists: a bunch of Americans, most of whom had never been to Singapore. “These Americans...

Morton Silverman, director of the University’s Student Counseling and Resource Service (SCRS), has announced his resignation, according to Margo Marshak, Dean of Students in the University In a note to colleagues, Marshak said that Silverman will also be resigning from his positions as Associate Dean of Students in the University and full-time Associate Professor of...

A study by a pair of University of Chicago psychologists has found that speakers systematically overestimate their ability to convey what they mean, even when they know that what they say is ambiguous. In contrast, an overhearer who knows a speaker’s intended meaning does not systematically overestimate the speakers effectiveness at conveying that meaning. The...

The class of 2005 has increased the percentage of National Merit Scholars attending the University of Chicago. According to statistics from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), the University has increased from the eighth to fifth most chosen school by awardees. Of the 8,229 Scholars in 2001, 181 chose to attend the University this year,...