rankings

Law and Medical schools rise in U.S. News rankings

by Ilana Kowarski

The University of Chicago’s graduate programs again received high marks in rankings released by U.S. News and World Report Friday.

U of C nets eighth place in U.S. News rankings for the second year in a row

by Chase Weldon

Princeton and Harvard share the top spot.

Law School, Physics department get a lift in rankings

by Adam Janofsky

Chicago’s Law School moved up one spot in the U.S. News and World Report’s Graduate School rankings yesterday.

Rankings round up 2010

by Jordan Holliday

The big news this week was the release of the latest rankings of colleges and universities. How did Chicago fare? The Maroon's got the recap.

Crime

U of C employee attacked on Ellis

by Michael Lipkin

A University employee was violently assaulted Wednesday evening during an attempted robbery, according to police reports.

Woman sexually assaulted on Hyde Park Blvd.

by Michael Lipkin

Woman attacked as she was entering her apartment building around 10 p.m.

After recent attacks, Security Alert put to test

by Noah Glaser

UCPD's new alert system has been used to quickly notify campus of recent string of violent crimes.

Students hope to foster safer Hyde Park

by Supriya Sinhababu

Students nervous about getting from Burton-Judson to Regents Park after dark would most likely turn to SafeRide, not the University’s Marketplace website. On Sunday night, however, between listings for ride-sharing and babysitting, was a post titled “Are you tired of being afraid to go out at night in Hyde Park?”

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Discharge lounge latest in changes to aid ER wait time

by Nathalie Gorman

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) will open a pilot discharge lounge for recently discharged patients Wednesday, the most recent in a series of changes that came out of a review of the hospital’s emergency room policies.

UCMC says it still qualifies for nonprofit tax exemption under new ruling

by Amy Myers

Though it is unlikely, the case could affect UCMC’s application for property tax exemption after it recently broke ground on a $700-million hospital pavilion.

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Funding drop threatens UCMC's Haiti operations

by Carolanne Fried

The hospital has treated over 1,200 patients to date, but it may close soon. Administrators have applied for funding, but have been caught up in red tape.

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Veteran trustee picked to head UCMC Board

by Asher Klein

Rodney L. Goldstein has served on the Board for 18 years and was vice-chair under James S. Crown, the interim chair of the Board.

Regenstein

Ad hoc committee to probe policy fixes after Reg arrest

by Asher Klein

The committee, also co-chaired by Graduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Toussaint Losier, is slated to work over the course of a year to advise administrators on a slew of policy changes to prevent similar conditions to those that led to Dawson’s arrest.

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Weekly round up for August 6

by Jordan Holliday

IRC report comes down on UCPD for its handling of the Dawson arrest and investigation, Kenneth Polonsky named next dean of the BSD, and the Class of 2014 t-shirt becomes part of an online scam

The Reg

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Hitting the spot

by John Connor

As I near the end of my collegiate years, besides having faced great evolution of both body and mind, I've been absorbed by an unconscious quest to find my "spot" in the Joseph Regenstein Library.

Police academy

by Marshall Knudson

A-Level arrest requires clarification of student–UCPD relations

Eyewitness: Student arrest emblematic of wider racial distrust

by Letter to the Editor

Students' immediate reactions just as disturbing as force used to arrest student in the Reg

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Point–Counterpoint: Civil discourse on an uncivil incident

by Matt Barnum and Andrew Thornton

Columnists debate race, legality, and details surrounding Dawson arrest

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Construction

by Ben Rossi

Projects across Hyde Park will dramatically change the face of campus

As fundraising campaign wraps up, building projects accelerate

by Rachel Cromidas

The University of Chicago may have wrapped up its $2 billion campaign this August, but the milestone marks only the beginning of a slew of building projects that the campaign will fund and that are poised to transform the University’s campus over the next five years.

New quad forces cars off the road

by Nathalie Gorman

Fourth-year Chris Williams, SG Vice President for Administration, said the University did not ensure that vehicles would be able to reach buildings through other paths. In conversations with University administrators, Williams said he was told that the new quad was not as closely reviewed as previous buildings projects.

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Cobb Gate, sidewalk repairs unfinished after winter break

by Asher Klein

The work is part of an initiative to meet accessibility codes on the main quads.

Chicago Booth

Taking care of business

by Maroon Editorial Board

The Booth family’s $300 million gift to the Graduate School of Business—now the University of Chicago Booth School of Business—will do more than just set a record.

Booth donation could be better spent

by Letter to the Editor

The idea of going to school to learn best how to squeeze money out of other people offends me to begin with, but to amass millions of dollars and put it back into that cause is closed-minded, ignorant, and inhumane.

Edging out Harvard, Booth School remains on top of Business Week ranking

by Zach Wehrwein

The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business retained Business Week’s top rank on its biennial rankings of the best graduate business schools.

Booth prof to advise Congress budget office

by Erin Robertson

Booth School professor of economics and finance Anil Kashyap will serve on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) panel of economic advisers, the CBO announced last week.

law school

Former law professor appointed to International Monetary Fund reform committee

by Hannah Fine

Kenneth Dam, professor emeritus at the Law School has been appointed to an IMF committee to enhance internal functioning.

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The Professor and the President

by Michael Lipkin

Former colleagues and students reflect on implications of Obama presidency - including Douglas Baird, Richard Epstein, Saul Levmore, Geoffrey Stone, Dennis Hutchinson, and Austan Goolsbee

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Law School dean Saul Levmore announces 2010 retirement

by Rachel Cromidas

Saul Levmore announced that he will be resigning his position as dean of the University’s Law School in an e-mail sent to students and faculty on Tuesday. As dean, Levmore received praise and criticism for cutting off wireless internet access in the Law School’s classrooms in an attempt to prevent students from distracting themselves during class last year. He also rejected pressures to change the school’s complex letter-grading system.

Firms put jobs on hold for Law School graduates

by Ella Christoph

Many graduating students at the University of Chicago Law School are scurrying to make plans post-graduation, after being deferred for up to 18 months from the law firms that hired them after internships last summer. Law school career services says this level of deferral is unprecedented.

Crime Report

Crime Report: January 10

by Hassan S. Ali

A burglary occurred between 8:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on January 6 in the 5400 block of South Everett Avenue. Police reported evidence of forced entry on the front door of the apartment and suspected...

Crime Report 1-13-2006

by Hassan S. Ali

An aggravated assault occurred on January 10 at 8:19 p.m. in the 800 block of East 48th Street. Chicago police officers on routine patrol in the neighborhood observed a man standing on the street f...

Crime Report: January 17

by Hassan S. Ali

Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers shot and wounded a man after staking out a building at 1332 East 52nd Street in the late night hours of Friday, January 13. CPD officials reported receiv...

Crime Report: January 24, 2006

by Hassan S. Ali

A strong-arm robbery occurred in the 5400 block of South University Avenue at 8:25 p.m. on January 14. Final police reports of the incident were only recently filed this week. A man was walking ...

Safety

U of C employee attacked on Ellis

by Michael Lipkin

A University employee was violently assaulted Wednesday evening during an attempted robbery, according to police reports.

Editorial: Asleep at the wheel

by Maroon Editorial Board

The University should now turn its attention to the other flaws in the SafeRide program.

Woman sexually assaulted on Hyde Park Blvd.

by Michael Lipkin

Woman attacked as she was entering her apartment building around 10 p.m.

After recent attacks, Security Alert put to test

by Noah Glaser

UCPD's new alert system has been used to quickly notify campus of recent string of violent crimes.

Voices: Film

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Hostel influence can’t spoil Ruins’s B-movie charm

by Matt Zakosek

Thanks to the likes of Hostel and Saw, it seems every horror movie of the last four years has run on a surfeit of gore and a deficit of wit. The lone exception, Michael Haneke’s Funny Games—not tec...

Second-rate cinematography sours My Blueberry Nights

by Seth Satterlee

Today, My Blueberry Nights makes its American debut as director Wong Kar-Wai’s first English-language film. For the past year the film has been surrounded with an understandable amount of intrigue....

Film skims surface of family, fascism

by Jingru Yang

Those who have never been to Italy—and whose only lens on the place comes in the form of that nation’s artistic exports—generally have good reason to picture the country as nothing but one giant me...

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Jackie and Jet join forces against evil—at last

by James Conway

The plot of Forbidden Kingdom is not that important. More significant is that the film features Jackie Chan and Jet Li, two of the greatest kung fu artists since Sonny Chiba and Bruce Lee, sharing ...

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