Columnist Sadie Laurel calls out UChicago’s corporate legal shields, anti-libidinal PR tactics, and hollow platitudes on campus sexual violence.
UChicago’s mandatory health insurance plan places a significant financial burden on students with limited means. The University should offer need-based waivers and subsidies so that no student has to choose between staying insured and making ends meet.
If UChicago can see frat row from its quadrangle, why does it insist it has no responsibility for what happens there?
Volunteering at South Side Free Clinic made me question the assumptions I had held about Chicago’s South Side and the people who call it home.
An open letter from 26 Latin American women alums of the Harris School of Public Policy calls on UChicago administrators to “demonstrate, through concrete, transparent, and accountable action, that the safety, autonomy, and dignity of women are nonnegotiable.”
Associate Viewpoints Editor Sadie Laurel sheds light on the Sexy Lamp Test to help a reader parse platonic warmth from a real spark.
Promontory Point is one of the best places in Chicago to feel the healing power of nature. But a government-led restoration project could close the park for as many as five years and destroy much of what makes the Point special.
“You have seen it a hundred times before, on good days and bad ones”—except, Associate Viewpoints Editor Levi Simon argues, that’s exactly the problem. The more familiar our campus becomes, the less we actually see it.
The mass adoption of artificial intelligence by the University is antithetical to the goals of liberal education.
Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?
Arts and Humanities Deputy Dean Eric Slauter offers advice to incoming students on approaching the humanities Core with curiosity, seriousness, and an open mind.
The new politics and policy specialization—and its spiritual predecessor, the business economics specialization—has little to no overlap with the standard track and should be its own standalone major.
A columnist offers tips for O-week that will help you find community.
Columnist Sadie Laurel talks sosc, sex, and social capital in a heartfelt missive to incoming first-year students.
AI is a flawed tool that will impact everyone regardless of consent, and a critical understanding will help you wield it while protecting you from biases and harms.
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UChicago’s mandatory health insurance plan places a significant financial burden on students with limited means. The University should offer need-based waivers and subsidies so that no student has to choose between staying insured and making ends meet.
If UChicago can see frat row from its quadrangle, why does it insist it has no responsibility for what happens there?
Promontory Point is one of the best places in Chicago to feel the healing power of nature. But a government-led restoration project could close the park for as many as five years and destroy much of what makes the Point special.
The mass adoption of artificial intelligence by the University is antithetical to the goals of liberal education.
Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?
Arts and Humanities Deputy Dean Eric Slauter offers advice to incoming students on approaching the humanities Core with curiosity, seriousness, and an open mind.
A columnist offers tips for O-week that will help you find community.
AI is a flawed tool that will impact everyone regardless of consent, and a critical understanding will help you wield it while protecting you from biases and harms.
The new politics and policy specialization—and its spiritual predecessor, the business economics specialization—has little to no overlap with the standard track and should be its own standalone major.
Without significant investments in research faculty, expansion will dilute the undergraduate experience; the University’s track record suggests those investments are unlikely.
A program that grants prospective students a fast track to acceptance, as long as they can pay, makes an already competitive admissions process less fair.
The Maroon Wants to Hear About Your Experiences with Generative AI at UChicago
The University must expand its protections for students and clearly articulate its position in the face of a heightened federal immigration enforcement presence.
Here’s what’s keeping us warm this Thanksgiving.
The University must take concrete steps to protect its community from unjust federal actions.
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.
Columnist Sadie Laurel calls out UChicago’s corporate legal shields, anti-libidinal PR tactics, and hollow platitudes on campus sexual violence.
Associate Viewpoints Editor Sadie Laurel sheds light on the Sexy Lamp Test to help a reader parse platonic warmth from a real spark.
“You have seen it a hundred times before, on good days and bad ones”—except, Associate Viewpoints Editor Levi Simon argues, that’s exactly the problem. The more familiar our campus becomes, the less we actually see it.
Columnist Sadie Laurel talks sosc, sex, and social capital in a heartfelt missive to incoming first-year students.
The backlash against business economics is less a protection of UChicago’s intellectual identity and more a self-fulfilling prophecy pushing students toward Wall Street.
Viewpoints Editor Adam Zaidi offers a step-by-step guide to academic dishonesty (the hard way).
UChicago students have applied Core close-reading logic to their hookups. It is going about as well as you’d expect.
Because student journalism’s longest-lasting and most significant impact is as a history-making tool, newspapers must act with an eye toward that responsibility as they determine institutional priorities.