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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon

The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

Chicago Maroon

Columns
Oh My, Can We Still Talk About “The OI”?
By Salma Tageldin / June 15, 2023
Navigating names, repatriation, and the legacy of the past.
There and Back Again
Columns
There and Back Again
By Henry Cantor / May 23, 2023
With two years left at UChicago, time feels more elusive than ever.
Why Student Journalism Matters
Columns
Why Student Journalism Matters
By Yiwen Lu / May 18, 2023
College newspapers provides an essential platform for students to engage with their own community and hold power accountable. A free, safe press is necessary to sustain that.
Worth Walking For
Columns
Worth Walking For
By Angelina Torre / May 18, 2023
International House is the dorm farthest from UChicago’s campus, and the distance is easy to complain about—but it’s also something to cherish.
Chicago Architecture Tour Guide of Four Years
Columns
Chicago Architecture Tour Guide of Four Years
By Adam Sachs / May 18, 2023
To fully take advantage of your four years here, get off campus and explore everything Chicago has to offer.
A Hollow Core
Editorial
A Hollow Core
By Maroon Editorial Board / August 15, 2023

If there’s a maxim for the Core, it’s this: If you’re learning how to think, you’re not learning the subject. And if you’re only learning...

The doors to the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), formerly known as the Oriental Institute.
Editorial
New Names Can’t Erase Institutionalized Mistakes
By Maroon Editorial Board / May 15, 2023

As museums around the country grapple with the very essence of what they are due to our country’s ongoing racial reckoning, many have uncovered...

Two students standing in front of a blackboard
Editorial
2023 USG Endorsement: Uplift Marginalized Voices by Voting for upLIFT Slate
By Maroon Editorial Board / April 12, 2023
The Maroon Editorial Board endorses upLIFT for Undergraduate Student Government’s executive slate, Jackson Lee for trustee and faculty governance liaison, and Nina Hafner for vice president of campus life.
GSU members picket, October 2017.
Editorial
Dear Paul, Practice What You Preach: GSU-UE, The Kalven Report, and Unionization
By Maroon Editorial Board / January 19, 2023

For years, graduate students at UChicago have tried to unionize, to secure a seat at the bargaining table, and for years, the University has...

Editorial
The Maroon Editorial Board Announces USG Endorsements
By Maroon Editorial Board / April 20, 2022
The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Good Vibeslations, Ariana Ukaonu, India Hill, and Julia Brestovitskiy.
Letter
A Pedestrian-Friendly Campus Demands Solutions to Mobility Inequity
By Luke Joyner / June 16, 2023
Building on recent LTEs on traffic safety, UChicago must go beyond “Pedestrian Safety Week” and actively address equity issues of mobility through greater investment in access to public transit.
Letter
The University Needs Inclusive and Transparent Pedestrian Safety Initiatives
By Emily Talen / June 15, 2023
In matters of pedestrian safety, the University should incorporate the needs and voices of the very people it aims to protect.
Coalition Statement on Bret Stephens’s Class Day Invitation
Letter
Coalition Statement on Bret Stephens’s Class Day Invitation
By CareNotCops, Environmental Justice Task Force, Students for Disability Justice, University of Chicago Students for Justice in Palestine, UChicago Against Displacement, and UChicago Democratic Socialists of America / May 21, 2023
We, the undersigned students, faculty, and staff, have decided to make our collective voice heard in unequivocally condemning the administration’s decision to host Bret Stephens.
Letter
Open Letter to the University’s Department of Safety and Security on Traffic Safety
By Steven Lucy / April 25, 2023
Improved safety will come by changing the built environment to slow down drivers, not by admonishing pedestrians
Letter
Open Letter to President Paul Alivisatos on the Possible Dissolution of UChicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program
By University of Chicago Urban Teacher Education Program / November 4, 2022
Educators, students, and alumni of the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) at UChicago call upon the University to reconsider disinvestment in teacher preparation.
Op-Ed
From your Public Safety Liaison: Where is the Peace in Arresting Peaceful Protestors?
By Monica Ruiz House / November 16, 2023

 In May of last year, the University announced, to little fanfare, that it was establishing its inaugural Public Safety Advisory Council. Composed...

Op-Ed
Supporting Palestinians Doesn’t Need to Be Anti-Israel
By Anonymous / November 16, 2023

On October 20, an article in The Maroon ran titled, “Emotions Run High on Quad as UChicago Jewish Student Groups and SJP Stage Opposing Protests.”  This...

Op-Ed
In Defense of DEI in Science
By Andrew L. Ferguson, Benoît Roux, John S. Anderson, Adam T. Hammond, Graham J. Slater, Henry Hoffmann, and Aaron P. Esser-Kahn / October 12, 2023

We live in an environment in which the very concept of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs is increasingly under attack. This May,...

Nineteen Years Later
Op-Ed
Nineteen Years Later
By Elizabeth Goetz / September 19, 2023
Class of 2008 alumna's advice for her first-year self
Moving in Place
Special Issues
Moving in Place
By Audrey Scott / September 19, 2023
A letter to my first-year self
Op-Ed
Cancer is Not the Problem
By Dominic Robolino / March 23, 2023
UChicago Medicine owes the people of the South Side the mental health care they need, not a $800 million cancer center that no one asked for.
Images of the chalk from before and immediately after the action. Note that chalking facilitated by anti-abortion groups on campus frequently remains for days at a time and is washed away by students—not by maintenance workers.
Op-Ed
Why Is the Administration Using UCPD to Silence Pro-Palestinian Students?
By University of Chicago Students for Justice in Palestine / February 28, 2023
The administration’s recent attempt to suppress an on-campus SJP demonstration using armed UCPD officers fits within a larger pattern of anti-Palestinian bias on the part of the University.
Op-Ed
There’s Something Rotten in the State of UChicago’s M.A. Programs
By Galen Tsongas / February 21, 2023
UChicago’s master’s programs are fundamentally broken, and nothing short of institutional reform can fix them.
Op-Ed
Advancing UChicago’s Distinct Culture of Free Expression
By President Paul Alivisatos / January 17, 2023
At a time of political polarization, President Paul Alivisatos outlines priorities for the “tough work” of upholding UChicago’s free expression principles.
From your Public Safety Liaison: Where is the Peace in Arresting Peaceful Protestors?
By Monica Ruiz House / November 16, 2023

 In May of last year, the University announced, to little fanfare, that it was establishing its inaugural Public Safety Advisory Council. Composed...

Supporting Palestinians Doesn’t Need to Be Anti-Israel
By Anonymous / November 16, 2023

On October 20, an article in The Maroon ran titled, “Emotions Run High on Quad as UChicago Jewish Student Groups and SJP Stage Opposing Protests.”  This...

In Defense of DEI in Science
By Andrew L. Ferguson, Benoît Roux, John S. Anderson, Adam T. Hammond, Graham J. Slater, Henry Hoffmann, and Aaron P. Esser-Kahn / October 12, 2023

We live in an environment in which the very concept of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs is increasingly under attack. This May,...

Nineteen Years Later
Nineteen Years Later
By Elizabeth Goetz / September 19, 2023
Class of 2008 alumna's advice for her first-year self
Moving in Place
Moving in Place
By Audrey Scott / September 19, 2023
A letter to my first-year self
A Hollow Core
A Hollow Core
By Maroon Editorial Board / August 15, 2023

If there’s a maxim for the Core, it’s this: If you’re learning how to think, you’re not learning the subject. And if you’re only learning...

A Pedestrian-Friendly Campus Demands Solutions to Mobility Inequity
By Luke Joyner / June 16, 2023
Building on recent LTEs on traffic safety, UChicago must go beyond “Pedestrian Safety Week” and actively address equity issues of mobility through greater investment in access to public transit.
Oh My, Can We Still Talk About “The OI”?
By Salma Tageldin / June 15, 2023
Navigating names, repatriation, and the legacy of the past.
The University Needs Inclusive and Transparent Pedestrian Safety Initiatives
By Emily Talen / June 15, 2023
In matters of pedestrian safety, the University should incorporate the needs and voices of the very people it aims to protect.
There and Back Again
There and Back Again
By Henry Cantor / May 23, 2023
With two years left at UChicago, time feels more elusive than ever.
Coalition Statement on Bret Stephens’s Class Day Invitation
Coalition Statement on Bret Stephens’s Class Day Invitation
By CareNotCops, Environmental Justice Task Force, Students for Disability Justice, University of Chicago Students for Justice in Palestine, UChicago Against Displacement, and UChicago Democratic Socialists of America / May 21, 2023
We, the undersigned students, faculty, and staff, have decided to make our collective voice heard in unequivocally condemning the administration’s decision to host Bret Stephens.
Why Student Journalism Matters
Why Student Journalism Matters
By Yiwen Lu / May 18, 2023
College newspapers provides an essential platform for students to engage with their own community and hold power accountable. A free, safe press is necessary to sustain that.
Worth Walking For
Worth Walking For
By Angelina Torre / May 18, 2023
International House is the dorm farthest from UChicago’s campus, and the distance is easy to complain about—but it’s also something to cherish.
Chicago Architecture Tour Guide of Four Years
Chicago Architecture Tour Guide of Four Years
By Adam Sachs / May 18, 2023
To fully take advantage of your four years here, get off campus and explore everything Chicago has to offer.
Appreciating Hyde Park Parks
Appreciating Hyde Park Parks
By Elena Tiedens / May 16, 2023
As we approach the warm weather of spring quarter, take a break from the rush of college life to embrace natural spaces under threat from the anthropogenic climate crisis.
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