Viewpoints columnists and staff discuss the election
To the other John McCain supporter on campus, I want to use this space to write something encouraging, something to make it worth watching the election results (on FOX!). But if I were to do so, it...
View ArticleBest in show
“Do your best,” they told me, day after day, year after year, both people who loved me and people who hardly knew me—my mother’s colleague, perhaps, or my father’s old friend. To me, these people meant...
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Pack your hairnets and go
Photo: James Stand/The Chicago MaroonTruly insane combinations. As I grudgingly take my meals at the Burton-Judson Dining Commons, I often like to imagine how the U of C dining staff would fare were...
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Taxi cab concessions
Photo: Tom Tian/The Chicago MaroonAn unenviable position. I was heaving my luggage past the sliding glass doors and onto the sidewalk at Midway Airport when two taxis full of U of C students slammed...
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Uniquely terrible
Photo: The Maroon Staff/The Chicago MaroonDon't worry, the violin enjoys it. Sure, there’s something to be said for opening one’s mind to new cultural experiences—for trying new things and broadening...
View ArticleRunning late
Yes, I know you’re very busy. I know you have places to be, people to meet, and lots and lots of things to do. I know Sosc starts in three minutes and you’re trying to hustle. But if you push me off...
View ArticleWalking a mile in Jesus sandals
Since only a year has elapsed since I, like many of our current prospie visitors, was an overanxious high school senior agonizing over every trifling preparatory detail of my U of C experience, I can...
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Having a gay old time
Photo: Tom Tian/The Chicago MaroonLuke Dumas It is no secret on our campus that the U of C’s LGBTQ Programming Office, though led by a team of the city’s best and brightest gays, is perhaps the least...
View ArticleA springtime strip
RETRACTION, MAY 13, 2009: On May 12, this op-ed made claims that were intended as satirical, but read as discriminatory against female students. The article has been heavily amended to retract these...
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