Gender-neutral housing decision postponed

Adrian Florido - 09 May 2008

The administration has deferred a decision on whether to make a gender-neutral housing option available to students beginning next academic year...


Scav Hunt festivities consume campus

Mimi Yang - 09 May 2008

Smiling, formally dressed students carrying umbrellas and parasols greeted passersby along the main quadrangles Thursday morning...


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Doctors Hospital in question as site for Hyde Park hotel

Aviva Rosman - 09 May 2008

While rumors continue to circulate that developers are considering moving the planned construction of a hotel in Hyde Park from the Hyde Park Doctors Hospital to a site south of the Midway, White...


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Hyde Park’s feral cats gain local and citywide sympathy

Claire McNear - 09 May 2008

Like many areas of Hyde Park, the East 62nd Street alley is a space in transition...


Higher Education Act expires without renewal

Kate Shepherd - 09 May 2008

The Higher Education Act (HEA), the piece of federal legislation that dictates higher education policy, including government financial aid programs, has expired as of April 30...


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Second-year Ryan Uricks of the Max Palevsky Scav team walks across the Midway dressed as client number nine, a reference to shamed former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who earlier this year was implicated in a prostitution scandal. Item 139 of the Scav list asked participants to shelter strangers from rain while running “the best little escort service in Illinois.”

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Four more years

Zack Hill - 09 May 2008

Sometime during your fourth year, you’re bound to have The Conversation. ...


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Goodman reduces Emmett Till to black and white

Ethan Stanislawski - 09 May 2008

One of the biggest challenges that playwright Ifa Bayeza faced in translating the story of Emmett Till to the stage was balancing Emmett Till, the human being, and Emmett Till, the idea...