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At 7:39 p.m., the Chicago Police Department’s communications division told The Maroon that the threat was “non–bona fide.” The University later confirmed that there was no evidence of a shooting.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law accused UChicago’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association of serving the Chinese Communist Party after the organization asked Harris administrators to withdraw invitation of Law at a Harris School event.
At all divisions except the Law School, the quarter will now begin on April 6th instead of March 30th, Provost Ka-Yee Lee wrote in an email. The quarter will still end on June 13th.
On Saturday, the Division of the Humanities hosted its 35th Humanities Day, an annual series of talks and tours showcasing the work of University professors. Comparative literature professor Françoise Meltzer delivered the keynote address, titled “In Search of Nostalgia: Ruins.” “The Persistent Puppet: Pinocchio’s Afterlife in Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture” with Rebecca West— Pinocchio’s emphasis on the self...
In an Uncommon Interview, freelance journalist Clare Gillis (A.B. '98) reflects on her capture by Qaddafi loyalists, the death of a colleague, and the "it" moment of writing great stories.
Friday’s UChicago Conference on “Jersey Shore” Studies brought academics together to discuss, among other things, “Guido” culture, Marxism, and labor economics. For coverage of the conference as a whole, see “Beside Plato and Foucault, “Jersey” treads on foreign shores.” For an interview with conference organizer and fourth-year David Showalter conducted in May, see “Uncommon Interview: David Showalter.”...
On Saturday, the Division of the Humanities hosted its 33rd Humanities Day, an annual series of talks and tours showcasing the work of University professors.
Welcome Class of 2014! Whether you're wondering about the Core, worrying about about learning the U of C lingo, or hankering for Hyde Park's best jerk chicken, the Orientation Issue—the Maroon's annual guide to the University, Hyde Park, and Chicago—has the answer you're looking for..
The full text of a press release issued by a faculty group in response to the University commissioning an architectural firm to renovate the Chicago Theological Seminary.
Did you know President's Zimmer has a complex mathematical discipline named after him? Read about it in this issue of Grey City, the Maroon's quarterly magazine, available at chicagomaroon.com/grey-city
With the University having recently received money to build a state-of-the-art pediatrics department at the hospital, Time magazine recognizing the impact of our graduates and professors on academia and society, and our competing for control of both the prestigious Argonne National Laboratory and what will be a world-class particle accelerator, it is no surprise that...
While the chairs in the library might seem like an insignificant topic, student comfort is essential to the intellectual experience at the U of C. This may be the place for the Life of the Mind, but our asses have rights too. The chairs haven’t been replaced since any of us have been at the...
The University’s recent announcement that it will purchase wind-powered energy credits for the undergraduate residence halls bodes well for its long-standing commitment to the environment. At $160,000 a year, the money spent on the energy contract hardly strains a campus energy bill that already totals $1,990,000. On top of that, we applaud the fact that...
Alec Brandon, The Radical Centrist More than anything, Bush’s State of the Union is the best glimpse of how his presidency may have looked had 9/11 never occurred. With no wars to lead or evil axis to call out, he is nothing but a mediocre speaker who can’t appeal to anyone outside of his circle....
In Voices “Stuff to Do” in the last issue of the Maroon, “This American Life” was incorrectly described as an NPR (National Public Radio) show. NPR neither produces nor distributes this program, which is produced by WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio and distributed to public radio stations nationwide by Public Radio International (PRI). The Maroon regrets and...
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, an associate professor of Asian-American Studies at the University of California-Davis, shed some light on children of global immigration in her talk titled “The Overlooked Second Generation: Children and Transnational Families in the Global Economy.” Parreñas talked about her new book Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes April 1...
Council on University Programming will be hosting its fourth annual Dance Marathon, beginning at 2 p.m. this Saturday, April 9, in the Ratner Athletics Center Competition Gym. Organized primarily this year by COUP members Maylea Ma and J.P. Jewell, both third-years in the College, Dance Marathon’s goal is to raise more than $10,000 for the...
Model United Nations competes A staff of 80 U of C students successfully ran the seventh-annual University of Chicago Model United Nations Conference (ChoMUN) this weekend, from April 8-11, at the Hyatt Regency downtown. There were 182 students from 17 different schools in attendance, including delegates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of...
A front-page article in this issue of the Maroon explores the University’s policy on suicide attempts. The policy is a delicate one, balancing tensions between the students’ need of confidentiality and the administration’s need to protect students, between the University’s responsibility to each student and its commitment to the overall community. For students in need...
Three University of Chicago students last week posted confidential information about Diebold, a company that manufactures voting machines, on their personal websites. The 13,000 pages of documents, consisting mainly of inter-office memos, revealed the possibilities of miscalculation of election results and unsecure software in Diebold’s machines. While the rest of the world is just now...
When Brody Dalle screams, you know she means business. Her voice is perfectly pitched over the punk riffs that run rampant through the new Distillers album, Coral Fang. She projects a rawness that rivals Courtney Love’s, and her screeches put Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland’s to shame. But beneath this brawn is the beauty that...
This university, along with other universities nationwide, has a strong non-discrimination policy, one that promises students equal access, regardless of “race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability.” As well it should. The federal government is threatening to revoke funding to similar institutions with similar policies because they have the audacity...
In this world there are things that can stand on their own but reach their full potential only when combined with something else. Peanut butter and jelly, summer time and ice cream, barbeques and the Fourth of July — there’s no denying these perfect pairs. But sometimes these couples aren’t quite as obvious as, say,...
President Bush is doing it all wrong, and one of the only Democrats with the balls to say it is Howard Dean. On the environment, on the economy, on the continuing war in Iraq, Dean has been unabashed in decrying President Bush’s methods and motivations. And it may well save the Democratic Party. Dean is...
The Big Dig, the University’s plan to dig up the campus in order to make it possible to install air conditioning in all of the buildings on the Quads, is underway. The project is expected to last most of the summer.
In this age of complete media saturation and mammoth publicity campaigns, it’s amazing that any record, let alone a truly great one, can slip through the cracks anymore. Yet here we have an album that was released over a month ago that has gone relatively unnoticed. While their fellow NYC residents, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,...
I’m not sure how obscure this major-label LP was/is/will be, nor am I sure that I care how obscure I think it should/could/would be, but I do know one thing: I wish I had known about this record a long time ago. I can say that after one song, “Oblivious,” which is actually the best...
Beverly Hills, 90210 Ok, so the 90210 thing kind of sucked. Actually, not even kind of. This is because it was a weird phony love-fest and, though I wished on all my eyelashes, not a new installment of the show. Instead everyone was… nice to one another. Tell me, what’s the fun in that? Watching...
The University Symphony Orchestra will perform its final concert of the year, Berlioz's "Roméo et Juliette", Saturday at 8 P.M. and Sunday at 4 P.M. with the Motet Choir and University Chorus.
In the May 16 issue of the Maroon was a feature, “Unique local school offers African-centric curriculum,” about the Woodlawn Community School, which teaches an “African-centric” curriculum. (Apparently that term was chosen instead of the more common “Afro-centrism” to distance it from the mostly paranoid and incoherent historical theories of the latter.) I am concerned...
In M. Yasser Ghanchi’s May 16 article, “Israeli government mistreats,” he quotes Rachel Corrie’s letters to her mother. Her words expose her ignorance even more than her tragic actions. I won’t go deeply into published reports of how she scrambled to the top of a mound of dirt that was already in motion over the...
On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the branch of the government that regulates the media, will make a decision that may have far-reaching consequences in both print and broadcast media. With little to no public debate or discussion, five commissioners in the FCC will vote on further opening up American mass media to...
University catalogs go online In their push to emphasize online access to course information, administrators are slowly abandoning the printed versions of both time schedules and course catalogs that were once more easily accessible to students and faculty. But the advance of online technology need not come at the expense of other useful ways of...
Second-year in the College Debora Ayoub celebrates her victory over Marianglea Anzalone, also a second-year, as they slide out of the obstacle course at Saturday's Summer Breeze carnival on the quads.
To The Editor, The anonymous author of the “Campus Homophobia” article unfairly implies that racism on this campus is a moot point. This is based upon the belief that it is a social taboo to refer to a black student as a “nigger.” The fact that racism is no longer as overt as the open...
The recent hazing at a powderpuff football game between junior and senior suburban high school girls was horrifying and upsetting because of the atrocities they committed, including the smearing of feces and animal intestines on people, as well as the serious physical injury to the head of one girl. But the incident has gained attention...
The hyde Park Shopping Center mall holds its 45th annual Garden Fair today (9 A.M. -4 P.M.), at 55th Street and Lake Park. It is sponsored by the Hyde Park -Kenwood Community conference Garden Fair Committee.
This past Sunday The New York Times printed an extensive retraction on its front page apologizing for the actions of one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, who had apparently fabricated parts of at least 36 different stories during his four years at the newspaper. The worldwide reactions to the apology have made clear how powerfully...
To The Editor: The front page of last Friday’s Maroon contained two articles side-by-side about Israel-related events on campus. One article, “Israeli inequality addressed,” spoke about the visit to campus by the Israeli group Sikkuy, which seeks to promote civic equality in Israel between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. The other article, “Students mark Israel Week,”...
Spring has finally made it to Chicago in all its annual brevity, and the quads are alive with excitement. The Festival of the Arts is back for its third year in a row, the Scav Hunt tomfoolery is already underway, and next weekend’s Summer Breeze promises to liven up even more an already vibrant campus....
Starting this week the Maroon is going to begin publishing some of our Photo staff’s more interesting photographs for your enjoyment. Make sure to pick up our print edition though, since the pictures are not the same…
Recently listening to this album with a friend of mine, I made the comment that I kind of like its sound. Her response was something like, “Apparently, you haven’t ever heard good R&B.” While perfectly understandable, it should not be used to dismiss the new album from some of nu-R&B’s best soul-men. Blackstreet’s Level II...
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