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Stories and content by Tim Murphy

Town vs. Gown

By Tim Murphy / September 19, 2010
Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert Zimmer, was to do what once might have seemed oxymoronic: Make the University of Chicago into the new model for how an urban research institution...

Jungle booked

By Tim Murphy / April 28, 2009
Recent (and prehistoric) events suggest that you can run from the past, but you can’t hide.

Deal or no Deal

By Tim Murphy / February 6, 2009
The idea that the stimulus package is akin to the New Deal is bad logic and bad history

Obama’s economist

By Tim Murphy / December 2, 2008
In just a few years, Austan Goolsbee has gone from being just another star professor at an institution brimming with them to the next big thing—an economist in a position to help shape public policy from the top down.

A nation of letters

By Tim Murphy / November 8, 2008
Well, it's official now. Robert Zimmer, clearly pining for a prime cabinet post or ambassadorship to

A silent majority

By Tim Murphy / November 7, 2008
But after coming so far only to crash at the finish line, Democratic Patriot fans simply needed an emotional release.

“Elated!”

By Tim Murphy / November 5, 2008
Apparently none other than my geography professor was waiting in line when the senator showed up and, presumably, cut everyone.

He voted

By Tim Murphy / November 5, 2008
Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight's Grant Park excursion: A middle-aged man with an official Chicago board of elections ballot receipt stapled to the front of his jacket

The safest block in Chicago

By Tim Murphy / November 5, 2008
In one last delicious bit of red meat for FOX News, the secret service very nearly extends to Louis Farrakhan's house at 49th and Woodlawn.

Because of Ashley

By Tim Murphy / November 5, 2008
Well, we survived the exodus from Grant Park on the horribly re-routed (and slow) 6 bus, and just got

He voted1

By Tim Murphy / November 4, 2008
Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight's Grant Park excursion: A middle-

The third way

By Tim Murphy / November 4, 2008

Well, I don't think anyone thought that Hyde Park was McCain Country, but if this flier at 57th Street Books is any indication, Mac is a third-party candidate in Chicago, behind Obama and "Duck." Who is...

Decision ’08: The potato or the cookie

By Tim Murphy / November 4, 2008

Posters in Stuart Hall--and all over campus--advertising the upcoming Latke–Hamantash debate are taking on a familiar motif. So much for "change versus more of the same." It should be noted that Obama...

Obama votes

By Tim Murphy / November 4, 2008
Well, if you were planning on staking out the Shoesmith Beulah Elementary School to watch the Obama v

Tuesday4

By Tim Murphy / November 4, 2008
Today is now Tuesday, which means it's election day, which means it's the biggest thing to happen to

Oh. My. God.1

By Tim Murphy / October 13, 2008
I should start by prefacing that we are all probably going to die, probably by some sort of asteroid

Calling all crazies

By Tim Murphy / October 10, 2008
The true value of the town hall is not to field questions from “ordinary Americans,” but rather, to hear from Americans who in their eccentricities are decidedly not ordinary, thereby challenging the candidates to depart from their talking points and confront the situation at hand..

27 days: The Real Barack Obama

By Tim Murphy / October 8, 2008

Longtime readers of this blog may remember the Hyde Park Herald's special issue about Barack Obama, published when our junior senator first announced his candidacy for president. It was, quite simply,...

String theory

By Tim Murphy / October 3, 2008
People like to make a big deal about all of the U of C's Nobel Laureates, which is fine I guess, if y

Back to school blogging

By Tim Murphy / September 27, 2008

It's been a while since I (or anyone) last posted to this blog, and longer still since anyone actually read it. But we're back for another year in Hyde Park, and with it, another year of inane, hopefully...

Intramural

By Tim Murphy / September 25, 2008
The U of C has more than its fair share of club sports and competitions.

Grey City4

By Tim Murphy / June 7, 2008
The folks at Hyde Park Progress were kind enough to (kind of) link to the newest member of the Chicag

Grassroots: The next generation

By Tim Murphy / June 2, 2008
The road to the Democratic nomination has taken on a distinctly local flavor in 2008. The U of C can lay claim to both the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama, a former Law School professor, and also the man least likely to win the nomination: his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who holds an M.A. from the Divinity School..

Most likely to secede

By Tim Murphy / May 20, 2008
Years from now, supporters of Ron Paul's ill-fated run for the White House will have no shortage of stories to tell their freedom-loving grandchildren.

The new kid

By Tim Murphy / May 10, 2008

Our newest contributor to the Editors Blog has overcome debilitating cross-sightedness to write extensively about lost birds and feral cats. She is also the inspiration behind item #198 in this year's...

The Right stuff

By Tim Murphy / May 5, 2008
[img id=”80574″ align=”alignleft”] Buried by the debate over whether Hillary Clinton will win Indiana (she might), and whether it even matters (it doesn’t), the revelation that Dick Cheney is on a one-man mission to destroy an American icon swept by unnoticed like a flock of plankton drifting beneath the stormy political seas. Primary or no...

Voter ID

By Tim Murphy / April 28, 2008
Big, big news concerning the Indiana primary: The Supreme Court just

Helms deep

By Tim Murphy / April 24, 2008

This new ad by the North Carolina GOP is causing a bit of storm. John McCain was quick to condemn it, which was nice of him, but it will hit the airwaves anyway, proving once again that in the "national...

The Penn-sieve

By Tim Murphy / April 23, 2008
And so we beat on.In the end, after the weeks of manufactured drama, negative ads, and ch

Dirt off his shoulder

By Tim Murphy / April 22, 2008
[img id=”80511″ align=”alignleft”] It had been a rough month-and-a-half for Barack Obama. Since the Texas and Ohio primacaucusaries on March 4, he’s jumped from one mini-controversy to another, sometimes with grace, sometimes with agility, and oftentimes with neither. At a stop in Scranton, he bowled a 37 over seven frames and then scored about as...

Absolut nonsense

By Tim Murphy / April 7, 2008
[img id=”80451″ align=”alignleft”] When then–World Bank President Ismail Serageldin forecast a future in which societies fight over water rights, he may have had the wrong liquid in mind. If recent events are any indication, the wars of the future will be fought not over water, but vodka. Taking a break from its usual ad campaign...

Hill-stoppers

By Tim Murphy / March 31, 2008
One of the more frustrating situations for any basketball fan is the incessant fouling at the end of

Poetry slammed

By Tim Murphy / March 25, 2008
If there is such a thing as the "Commander-in-Chief Threshold," I imagine one of the main criteria is

Fresh Parsley

By Tim Murphy / March 23, 2008
Because it was linked to me on facebook, and because I haven't used the "animals that also sound like

Not so bad?1

By Tim Murphy / March 22, 2008
Our series of point-counterpoints on Obama's race speech has generated what 90 percent of our posts f

Hagee-isms

By Tim Murphy / March 21, 2008
As I was looking through our archives today (Spring Break! Whoo!), I discovered this unpublished nugg

The Wright Stuff

By Tim Murphy / March 19, 2008

It aint easy being whiteIt aint easy being brownAll this pressure to be brightI got children all over town —Gob Bluth (w/Franklin)My initial reaction to Obama's speech yesterday was not to break...

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