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Articles by Alison Sider
MAB books diverse Summer Breeze acts
02 May 2008
The Major Activities Board’s (MAB) annual Summer Breeze music festival will feature four musical acts this year. ...
Law School ends classroom Web access
15 Apr 2008
University of Chicago law students faced a new challenge when they returned to class after spring break--: sitting through an entire class session without internet access...
Student examines Indian marriage market
08 Apr 2008
After witnessing a number of arranged marriages among her circle of well educated, upper–middle-class Indian friends, fifth-year graduate student in economics and Mumbai, India, native Divya Math...
Lab bids for $550-million DOE facility
04 Mar 2008
Argonne National Laboratory is one of the country’s leading contenders for a rare isotope beam research facility (FRIB), which will be indispensable to nuclear research, according to members of t...
Doc hosts rare films forum, screening
29 Feb 2008
Doc Films, an organization well known for advocating obscure and rare films, invited like-minded film scholars and archivists to speak Monday night about the issues associated with preserving and...
U of C asks Congress to aid research
26 Feb 2008
President Zimmer joined a coalition of university and research industry leaders on Capitol Hill earlier this month to lobby members of Congress and the Bush administration for more funding for sc...
Redesigned homepage to launch
12 Feb 2008
As part of its efforts to keep pace with a media-rich world, the U of C is preparing to launch a test version of its redesigned homepage Monday, which will be refined until the new website offic...
New lights dim club’s stargazing
08 Feb 2008
Overcast Chicago skies and a snow-covered telescope don’t make life easy at the Ryerson Astronomical Society (RAS), and the side effects of recently installed campus lights haven’t helped stargaz...
Underground U of C fight club channels students’ WWE urges
27 Nov 2007
Fans of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club or the 1999 film adaptation know the famous first rule: “You do not talk about Fight Club.” ...
Reporter calls for central Asian intervention
06 Nov 2007
The Wall Street Journal reporter Steve LeVine, on tour promoting his recent book The Oil and the Glory, gave a lecture last Thursday night at I-House, sponsored by The Center for International St...
Reg makes students historical tourists
26 Oct 2007
Though the prints currently on view in the Regenstein Library’s Special Collections Research Center were created centuries before digital cameras facilitated online sharing of travel photos, they...
Students rock C-Shop with poetry, pizza
12 Oct 2007
Students filed into the C-Shop Wednesday evening for free pizza and $1 milkshakes, and for the poetry, music, and dancing at the Poetry and Performance Night hosted by 2 Much Music and UChicago H...
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