Speakers inspire campus as part of city-wide Ideas Week
Manifesting Ideas, an affiliate event of Chicago Ideas Week, featured a series of 12-minute talks on the power of an idea last night at International House. The event showcased several talks by members...
View ArticleStudents discuss presidential debate for national org
A vibrant atmosphere filled Hallowed Grounds last night as students gathered to watch and comment on this year’s final presidential debate on foreign policy. The event featured not only a screening of...
View ArticleHumanities Day 2012: Humans can be reasonable without logic
Reason and the unconscious are not necessarily as opposed as many have made them out to be, philosophy Professor Candace Vogler argued in her talk during Humanities Day on Saturday. Vogler, the David...
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City snubs South Side food trucks
Photo: Jamie Manley/The Chicago Maroon The Chicago City Council provoked the ire of some South Siders last week when it did not include any South Side locations in an ordinance exempting 21 areas to a...
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Logan’s walls are worth a thousand words
Photo: Courtesy of The Reva and David Logan Center for the ArtsStephanie Brooks, Lovely, Caution, barricade tape, 2010. If you have visited the Logan Arts Center recently, you may have noticed the...
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Students campaign in WI, participate in local efforts
Photo: Jamie Manley/The Chicago MaroonMembers of Students for Barack Obama volunteered at Obama's Hyde Park campaign office on the corner of Hyde Park Blvd and Lake Park Ave. In the waning days of the...
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Village Foods becomes Whole
Photo: Julia Reinitz/The Chicago MaroonVillage Foods, on the corner of 51st and Lake Park, is closing to make way for City Hyde Park, a new luxury apartment complex. Village Foods, a low-cost grocery...
View ArticleA birthday bash for the ages: U of C celebrates Friedman centennial
Students, faculty, and alumni gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman (A.M. ’33), who would have turned 100 this past July, in the Charles M. Harper...
View ArticleChicago transit dept. shares its bikes with Hyde Park
Chicago will join a host of cities around the world that have implemented bike share programs for short-term use in and around the city next year. By the end of 2013, the program will place around...
View ArticleFood trucks sue City for rights
The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship (IJ Clinic) at the Law School filed suit against the City of Chicago last Wednesday morning on behalf of three food truck owners with the hope of...
View ArticleTen Chicago hoop-stars named to UAA Silver Anniversary Teams
Ten former University of Chicago athletes were listed on the UAA 25th Anniversary Teams for men’s and women’s basketball last week in honor of the conference’s silver anniversary. “We decided that one...
View ArticleStudy abroad builds bridge to Oxford
Students now have the opportunity to study at one of the only universities in the world that looks more like Hogwarts than UChicago. While the University’s seven other study abroad programs in Great...
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Chicago Cards get the boot
Photo: Johnny HungThe new Ventra system will be replacing the Chicago Card as a new way to pay for the CTA starting this summer.Your CTA card will soon go the way of pay phones and print journalism....
View ArticleAP credit here to stay
Despite Dartmouth’s recently announced decision to cease offering Advanced Placement (AP) course credit to its students, the University of Chicago remains decidedly in favor of maintaining its...
View ArticleBooth professor examines investment bank fraud of 2008 crisis
A new paper co-written by a Booth professor reveals how frequently investment banks misrepresented important information about the quality of loans sold to investors during the housing bubble that...
View ArticleUncommon interview: Jeff Zeleny
Surprising his colleagues across the journalism world, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jeff Zeleny recently announced his decision to leave his post as national political correspondent for the New York...
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