05 May 2008

05 May 2008

05 May 2008

Renowned feminist activist Gloria Steinem spoke at the Progressive Gala event in Ratner on Saturday night, encouraging students to

25 Apr 2008

25 Apr 2008

21 Apr 2008

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04 Mar 2008

04 Mar 2008

Alderman Leslie Hairston's plan to remove the route #171 bus stop on the corner of East 57th Street and South University Avenue to accommodate four parking spaces would eliminate one of the Universiyy's most popular boarding locations.

04 Mar 2008

At a loss to entertain an audience five years older than his normal crowd, Ben Folds has a mental blockage and atttempts to entertain concertgoers with shadow puppets. Failing that, he soon moved on to juggling fruit.

26 Feb 2008

25 Feb 2008

First-year Ed Wagner swam a leg for the 400-yard medley relay, contributing to the team’s second-place effort in the event. Despite a 7–0 dual meet record, the Maroons couldn’t top last year’s UAA standing. Story page 12.

18 Feb 2008

Heading to Rochester with a perfect 5–0 record against ranked teams, first-year Sebastien Davis-VanGelder and the Maroons should be prepared to contend with the four other top-25 squads in the pool.

18 Feb 2008

Third-year Rachel Zarnke and her teammates head to the UAA Championships in Rochester this week poised to place higher than the team has in program history. Led by a corps of elite first-years, the women will need contributions across the board to make a dent in the host of ranked squads in the stacked conference.

12 Feb 2008

Political science professor John Mearsheimer spoke to the Chicago Friends of Israel about his recent book on the Israel lobby last Thursday. At least one student was visibly shaken by his address.

12 Feb 2008

President Robert Zimmer fielded a wide range of questions and concerns during a dinner with students at the Reynolds Club on Friday. The President was met with familiar discussion topics ranging from graduate funding to University-community relations.

25 Jan 2008

A shopper examines some of the options at the new Hyde Park Produce.

20 Nov 2007

Comedian Demetri Martin at Mandel Hall

13 Nov 2007

Ex Libris, the student-run coffee shop in the Regenstein Library, was fined and forbidden from storing perishables in one of its refrigerators.

02 Nov 2007

Posters begging for the return of lost starling "Baby" have become a ubiquitous sight on Hyde Park telephone poles, message boards, and garbage cans.

19 Oct 2007

MAC founder and president Eli Unger addresses a crowd of tenants at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club Tuesday. The forum was organized to respond to a litany of complaints lodged against the realtor since its acquisition of K&G Management last year.

30 Sep 2007

The former Doctors Hospital, owned by the University of Chicago, sits vacant, awaiting possible demolition to pave the way for two possible hotels.

19 Sep 2007

Construction continues on the new residence hall and dining facility being built south of Burton-Johnson Hall. The University is selling bonds to finance this and other construction projects.

11 May 2007

Members of the Max Palevsky Scav Hunt team, Take, Acquire, Copy, or Steal (TACOS), strategize in the Max Palevsky East common room Thursday afternoon.

08 May 2007

Rubble lies in the former pool at Ida Noyes as work continues on the exterior façade. Construction is set to finish by spring quarter next year.

08 May 2007

The Graduate School of Business announced the renaming its Hyde Park location last Friday following a large donation by Charles M. Harper (M.B.A. ’50), and former chief executive of ConAgra Foods.

04 May 2007

President Robert Zimmer talks with students about financial aid Wednesday afternoon at the Bartlett Lounge as Michael Behnke, vice president and dean of College Enrollment, looks on.

01 May 2007

Eli Albert (left) and Ryan Julian, both first-years in Wallace House, participate in a game of Assassins. Assassins, a game where participants hunt each other with water guns, is significantly less popular than in years past, causing University housing to consider not sponsoring the springtime diversion.

24 Apr 2007

Representatives from Zipcar take part in a transportation fair, one of the many events composing Earth Week 2007, sponsored by Green Campus Initiative.

20 Apr 2007

Third-year Adam Brunk of the Moose Party participates in Student Government’s annual slate debate Wednesday at McCormick Lounge.

17 Apr 2007

30 Mar 2007

Students examine a painting by local Latino artist Roy Villalobos at Arte popular, at the Smart Museum. Run by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, the show was just one of the many events put on for the 6th Annual César E. Chávez Commemoration.

06 Mar 2007

At the closing ceremonies for Battle of the Bulbs last Thursday evening, organizers Kate Michonski and Dan Schnitzer held a raffle for those in attendance with the winners receiving Patagonia fleeces and jackets.

02 Mar 2007

First-years (left to right) Christopher Williams, Kimberlee Pestler, and eventual winner Ben Esparaza answer questions posed by College Council representatives as they run for a recently vacated position in a special election.

27 Feb 2007

A library patron pulls a copy of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage from the shelves. Bergman’s masterpiece was one of the few movies from the Regenstein’s newly acquired Criterion Collection not already checked out.

23 Feb 2007

Fourth-year Antonia Pocock works on a line drawing during her Visual Language 1 class at Midway Studios. The University proposes bolstering such programs with the creation of a new arts facility.

13 Feb 2007

President Robert J. Zimmer addressed students at his open forum last Thursday in the Reynolds Club.

06 Feb 2007

Undersecretary General Greg Kamstra helps coordinate activities for the Model United Nations Conference of the University of Chicago at the Palmer House Hilton last Saturday evening.

02 Feb 2007

The Green Campus Initiative and the Inter-House Council kicked off a month-long energy conservation competition amongst houses in the campus house system this Wednesday.

30 Jan 2007

A building currently owned by the University on the corner of 53rd Street and Harper Court is slated to be sold for redevelopment.

26 Jan 2007

Candidate Bobby Zacharias delivers a speech prior to the vote for a new third-year representative at last night’s College Council meeting as eventual victor Zach Binney looks on.

23 Jan 2007

The Hong Kong Students Association served up sweet-and-sour pork and broccoli stir-fry at the Asian Students Association’s annual International Food Festival in Ida Noyes Hall last Saturday evening.

24 Oct 2006

Third-year Nithya Anantharaman danced the night away at the annual Diwali Garba Night held by SASA on Friday.