From the humid bog of Washington, D.C., Zachary Leiter studied political science at UChicago. His areas of journalistic interest include Chicago’s hazy administrative systems, theater, and the environment. In his free time, he ballroom dances, plays Magic: The Gathering, draws, and researches American offshore fisheries policy.
This production of Evanston becomes about so many things—anxiety, suicide, climate change, technology, the supernatural, grief, love—that it isn’t really about anything.
Such sweet, magical, well-constructed art as A Red Orchid’s Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin is not just rare to find in the theater. It is rare to find in the world.
UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.
Where Kairos falters is in overestimating its own insight. For a play contending with themes of love, death, eugenics, and immortality, Kairos says frightfully little.
On the first anniversary of UChicago United for Palestine’s “Popular University for Gaza,” the Maroon revisits last spring’s protests and the University’s response.
Prayer for the French Republic is, in its quiet insistence on work and secular hope, as much reminiscent of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya as it is of Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt.
Mamet is, throughout Henry Johnson, precise and unsparing in his criticism of society’s quiet acquiescence to sin, though he could stand at times to be more overt in the rendering of his judgment.
Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest policies and how it communicates them to students.
UChicago Trustee and multibillionaire Antonio Gracias (J.D. ’98), a close friend of Elon Musk, has been tasked with targeting what he called “tremendous fraud” at the Social Security Administration.
This is the University’s second investigation into alleged antisemitism on campus since the Trump administration’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism directed its focus to Chicago-area schools March 13.
Though he lacks the power to do so unilaterally, President Trump moved Thursday to “dismantle” the Department of Education, which determines or provides financial assistance for many UChicago students.
The announcement comes one month after the Department informed institutions and agencies that they had 14 days to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
The University's statement on the vandalism of a pro-Israel installation was released hours after the Department of Justice announced that the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is directing its attention to antisemitism at Chicago-area universities.
As Vietnam War protests raged on campus during the late 1960s, University administrators constructed a new program of discipline that avoided involving Chicago police or the courts.
Despite its institutional commitment to freedom of expression and inquiry, which relies on access to information, the University of Chicago has long operated under a shroud of secrecy relative to its peers.
Instructional faculty will no longer be able to apply professional development funding toward “expenses related to original research activity,” according to an Office of the University Provost memo obtained by the Maroon.
The Department of Education informed educational institutions in a letter Friday that they must end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and policies or risk losing federal funding.
In a February 11 email, University President Paul Alivisatos warned that the NIH’s cuts to indirect cost funding threatened the University’s core interests.
“This is the biggest effort to reshape the U.S. Constitution since the Civil War,” David Super, a Georgetown University administrative and constitutional law professor, told the Maroon.
The lawsuit aims to block a Friday NIH directive that would slash “indirect” cost funding for researchers, threatening 52 million dollars in UChicago’s annual revenue.
A potential Trump administration executive order seeking to fundamentally alter the Department of Education could threaten FAFSA, Pell Grants, and Title IX enforcement at UChicago.
A Wednesday executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” cited two sections of the U.S. federal code concerning conspiracy against civil rights and immigration restrictions on the basis of terrorism.
The complaint alleges that the decision to remove fourth-year Manuel Rivera from on-campus housing and place him on an involuntary leave of absence was a violation of both the First Amendment and Illinois and Chicago housing law.
At a press briefing, Mamayan Jabateh, formerly identified by UCUP as “Student B.,” spoke about their arrest by CPD in December. UCUP did not offer reporters the chance to ask questions during the event.
The student, who has not been identified publicly, was placed on involuntary leave and removed from University housing on October 21, according to his lawyer.
A fourth-year was arrested by the Chicago Police Department at the October 11 pro-Palestine protest and charged with Class 2 Aggravated Battery to a Peace Officer.
A pro-Palestine rally saw three protesters arrested and physical altercations between protesters and officers. Earlier, protesters locked Cobb Gate using a bike lock, and multiple police officers used pepper spray and batons. Protesters damaged UCPD vehicles and kicked at least one officer.
Deputy Arts Editor Zachary Leiter reviews "Describe the Night," a strong, character-driven retelling of the life and death of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel.
By the play’s end, what’s clear is that Right To Be Forgotten has at the very least tried diligently and innovatively to restore personal connection to a COVID-altered world. Where the play failed to fully do so, well, often so do we.
"Outer Banks" season 3 ends with its story and characters in the right places, despite a series of wrong turns and questionable moments, Deputy Arts Editor Zachary Leiter writes.
In Edgewater, Chicago, City Lit Theater’s production of Harold Pinter’s 1957 The Birthday Party is frightening; immersive; and, above all, sophisticated.
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