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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Stories and content by Zach Werner

A more youthful McCain

By Zach Werner / February 26, 2008
[img id=”80366″ align=”alignleft”] Watch out, Washington. Beware, Barack. A new political force is gathering strength, picking up speed, and fueling the Straight Talk Express. Ravishing and Republican, pert and patriotic, this scion of sunny Arizona is ready to remake politics as we know it. Just who is this guru of governance? McCain. Meghan McCain. That’s...

With policy, choose safety first

By Zach Werner / February 5, 2008
At around 10:15 p.m. on January 5, Ethan Stanislawski, a fourth-year in the College and a Maroon columnist, turned around in front of the Ray School on South Kimbark Avenue to find a handgun pointed at his head. Ethan had just picked up a pizza from Edwardo’s on East 57th Street, and now he was...

A call to arms in the fight for tighter gun control laws

By Zach Werner / January 15, 2008
Last quarter I left the United States to study abroad in Paris. To my surprise, this experience taught me as much about our red, white, and blue as it did about theirs, pâté de foie gras notwithstanding. Traveling creates distance, and distance creates perspective. Viewed from afar, America’s hustle and bustle appears remote; only her...

Admin points to Admissions in switch to Common App

By Zach Werner / February 23, 2007
University President Robert Zimmer recently said that Michael Behnke, vice president and dean of College Enrollment, ultimately made the decision to switch to the Common Application for undergraduate admissions. Months after the University announced the change, facts are just now coming to light about how the decision was made and by whom. In a meeting...

Third-year discusses community, decency, honesty at Rockefeller talk

By Zach Werner / November 14, 2006
Third-year Tyler Zoanni, a peer minister of Lutheran Campus Ministry and co-chair of Interfaith Dialogue, gave the latest installment of the “What Matters to Me and Why” discussion series at Rockefeller Chapel last Thursday. Zoanni focused on three topics: community, decency, and honesty. He explained how each idea shapes his commitments and his outlook on...

Common will headline MAB fall concert

By Zach Werner / November 3, 2006
The rapper Common will perform at the Major Activities Board (MAB) fall concert in Mandel Hall November 18. Common is best known for his major-label debut Like Water For Chocolate in 2000 and his 2005 album Be, which includes nine tracks produced by Kanye West. Be has sold more than 800,000 copies and was nominated...

U of C jumps to ninth in U.S. News rankings

By Zach Werner / October 2, 2006
The University of Chicago moved up six spots to number nine in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, released in August. After the College lost its number-nine ranking from 2002 and fell as low as 15th last year, top University administrators decided to evaluate how information was being calculated and reported...

Talk focuses on religious scholarship

By Zach Werner / May 26, 2006
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Marilynne Robinson spoke about the demise of religious scholarship on Thursday in Social Sciences 302. The talk, entitled “Myth and Meaning: Bad Scholarship and the Decline of American Religion,” was sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought as part of its John U. Nef Lecture Series. About 50 people were in attendance....

Crime Report: May 23, 2006

By Zach Werner / May 23, 2006
May 19, 3:09 a.m.-—An armed man approached a male driver who had just parked his car on South Kimbark Avenue between East 57th and 58th Streets and forced him to re-enter the vehicle. The offender, who also entered the car, took a small amount of cash and then instructed the victim to drive to a...

Crime Report: May 16, 2006

By Zach Werner / May 16, 2006
May 14, 9:29 p.m.—A 21-year-old woman was attacked and robbed on the 5400 block of South Kimbark Avenue. Two men approached the woman and asked if they could speak with her. The offenders then grabbed her, pushed her to the ground, took her khaki canvas handbag, and fled eastbound toward Nichols Park. The handbag contained...

Body found off 59th Street Point

By Zach Werner / May 12, 2006
The body of 22-year-old Lanisha Miller was found floating in Lake Michigan on Wednesday afternoon near the 5900 block of South Lake Shore Drive. A spokesperson in the office of the Cook County medical examiner said the woman drowned. Detectives with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) are investigating whether her death was the result of...

Crime Report: May 9, 2006

By Zach Werner / May 9, 2006
May 7, 2:15 a.m.—Two male offenders attacked a man and stole his wallet as he was walking on the 5600 block of South Kimbark Avenue after attending a party. The man and his friend were walking northbound when the two offenders approached them. His friend ran from the scene and called for help, while the...

Crime Report: May 5, 2006

By Zach Werner / May 5, 2006
April 30, 1:10 a.m.—A 20-year-old man was walking west on the 1200 block of East 55th Street when two men approached him and demanded money. One of the offenders told the victim to empty his wallet and pockets while the other served as a lookout. The offenders then fled the area on foot. One of...

Crime Report: April 28, 2006

By Zach Werner / April 28, 2006
April 22, 9 a.m.—A burglary occurred on the 4900 block of South Woodlawn Avenue. The offender entered an apartment through an unlocked rear door. A wallet containing money and identification cards was taken from a kitchen cabinet. April 23, 2:30 p.m.—A burglary occurred on the 5500 block of South Hyde Park Boulevard after a male...

Crime Report: 4-11-2006

By Zach Werner / April 11, 2006
April 8, 4 a.m.-—An armed robbery occurred on the 4800 block of South Drexel Avenue. A 19-year-old man was reportedly walking when another man approached him and asked for the telephone number of a taxi company. When the victim looked down at his cell phone, the offender pulled a knife and demanded the victim’s money...

Crime Report: April 7, 2006

By Zach Werner / April 7, 2006
A residential burglary occurred on the 5200 block of South Woodlawn Avenue between 7:30 a.m. on March 31 and 8:30 a.m. on April 1. According to police reports, the offender entered the residence by forcing open the front door. A cell phone and $100 were taken. A burglary occurred at an apartment complex on the...

Admin increases campus childcare opportunities

By Zach Werner / April 4, 2006
University officials recently announced a new $1 million initiative that will create about 40 additional openings in licensed childcare centers for the infants and toddlers of students, faculty, and staff. Officials plan to disperse the funding among licensed centers in Hyde Park, Grant Boulevard, Kenwood, Oakland, South Shore, Washington Park, and Woodlawn. In addition to...

University academics gather to remember Saul Bellow

By Zach Werner / September 30, 2005
Nearly 300 people congregated in Rockefeller Chapel on Tuesday to honor Saul Bellow, a man they knew as a friend, father, teacher, and who some considered one of the most significant writers of his generation. “What a kick Saul would have gotten from this afternoon,” said Richard Stern, friend and fellow novelist, to the chapel...

Famed journalist David Broder will be awarded alumni medal

By Zach Werner / May 23, 2005
Washington Post political correspondent David Broder, A.B.,’47, A.M.,’51, will receive the prestigious Alumni Medal honoring exceptional career achievement at the Alumni Convocation on June 4. The Medal—the highest honor that the Alumni Association can bestow—is given to no more than one person each year. “The award means a great deal to me because I owe...

Administration decides to affiliate with WRC

By Zach Werner / April 12, 2005
Administrators agreed last Friday to affiliate the University with the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a nonprofit organization that monitors working conditions in factories that produce clothing and other merchandise bearing school names and logos. The decision comes as a big victory for Students Organized and United with Labor (SOUL), the RSO that has long advocated...

UCPD catches student’s stalker at Reg on Saturday

By Zach Werner / April 5, 2005
Members of the UCPD reported to the Regenstein Library on April 2 after a female student called to alert them that a stranger was following her throughout the library. Four officers and a sergeant responded to the call and found the man in the library, according to Bob Richards, the law enforcement coordinator for the...

Graduate students debate the merits of unionizing

By Zach Werner / January 21, 2005
Sometime in the past two decades, graduate students stopped simply being students and became university employees. At least that’s the view of Gabe Kirchner, a staff organizer for the American Federation of Teachers. Kirchner’s highly controversial opinion is at the center of a debate currently taking place on university campuses across the country about whether...

Susan Sontag, intellectual heavyweight, dead at 71

By Zach Werner / January 7, 2005
Susan Sontag, a University of Chicago graduate who became one of America’s most controversial public intellectuals and achieved worldwide fame as an essayist, novelist and critic, died Dec. 28, 2004. Leaving behind a legacy of daring and bravery in both her work and her life, Sontag died at age 71 of leukemia at Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

Activists gather at Kent to speak against death penalty

By Zach Werner / November 16, 2004
More than 130 activists from across the country attended the fourth annual national convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty last weekend at Kent Hall. The convention included numerous guest speakers, discussions, and presentations concerning the status of the death penalty throughout the country. The Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a national...

Activists examine death penalty

By Zach Werner / November 12, 2004
Amnesty International at the University of Chicago will host its fourth annual convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty this Saturday and Sunday. Activists from across the country will gather in Kent Hall, at 1020 East 58th Street, to assess the movement, evaluate its victories, and consider its challenges. The convention will include...

Theologians slam Bush’s use of God to justify war in Iraq

By Zach Werner / October 31, 2004
A majority of Divinity School faculty members at the University signed a letter of protest on October 20 condemning President Bush’s use of religious rhetoric to justify the war in Iraq. About two-thirds of active Divinity School faculty members signed the letter, in addition to a majority of associate members and emeritus faculty. The letter...

Democratic director speaks

By Zach Werner / October 17, 2004
Avis LaVelle, the Illinois state director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, spoke last night at 7 p.m. in Harper 130, to a crowd of students. The event was co-sponsored by UC Dems and Students for Kerry-Edwards. Before becoming state director, LaVelle was a fixture in the political life of Chicago and Illinois, having previously worked as...

Gentle Autumn weather pulls scholars outdoors

By Zach Werner / October 12, 2004
Strange forces appear to be at work at the University of Chicago. Students who normally lock themselves in their dorm rooms or seek sanctuary in the library have been found, of all places, outside. First-year in the College David Berger said the sunny and warm weather is responsible for bringing him outdoors. Berger was on...
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