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Sports Shorts: March Madness

by Jordan Holliday

As the Winter sports season ends, some of Chicago's very best are getting the chance to compete for NCAA Championships.

This weekend, the University of Chicago hosted 10 schools—and one member of the Chicago Track Club—at the Chicago Penultimate Invite, the second-to-last chance for individuals to qualify for the national meet.

Sports Shorts: March Madness

by Jordan Holliday

As the Winter sports season ends, some of Chicago's very best are getting the chance to compete for NCAA Championships.

womens track and field

Sports Shorts: March Madness

by Jordan Holliday

As the Winter sports season ends, some of Chicago's very best are getting the chance to compete for NCAA Championships.

wrestling

Wrestling finishes 2–2 at Knox College Duals

by Jake Grubman

The Maroons topped host Knox and Augustana this weekend but lost close contests with Wabash and Loras.

Eric Guo

With UAAs looming, Chicago picks up well-timed victories

by Henry Phillips

With the UAA tournament two weeks away, the Maroons are hitting their stride, riding a three-match win streak.

Eric Guo

Wrestling seeks 14th UAA title as conference tournament comes to Ratner

by Jake Grubman

The Maroons will try to make it two straight Saturday as Case and NYU come to town for the conference championship tournament.

Alex Gleckman

Wrestling captures 14th UAA wrestling title

by Henry Phillips

NYU kept things close in the title bout, but the Maroons won their second straight conference championship on their home turf.

Grey City

Read Grey City

by The Maroon Staff

Did you know President's Zimmer has a complex mathematical discipline named after him? Read about it in this issue of Grey City, the Maroon's quarterly magazine, available at chicagomaroon.com/grey-city

Robert J Zimmer

Presidents

by Ryan McCarl and Michael Lipkin

Each helped to shape the academic and fiscal vision of the U of C

Controversies

by Matt Barnum

The issues debated on editorial pages and in house lounges

Students for a Democratic Society Protests President Zimmer

by Shahzad Ahsan

SDS placed caricatures of the University's President around the quads.

Chris Salata

University, city host global science conference

by Louise Lerner

University co-sponsored a meeting of world-renowned scientists this week, co-chaired by President Robert Zimmer. The event included presentations and posters illustrating U of C research in everything from physics to linguistics, behavioral ecology, and genetics.

Grey City: Features

Tom Tian

Obama's economist

by Tim Murphy

In just a few years, Austan Goolsbee has gone from being just another star professor at an institution brimming with them to the next big thing—an economist in a position to help shape public policy from the top down.

Tom Tian

Fiction: 61st Street Revisited

by Sara Jerome , Joe Riina-Ferrie, Claire Tolan, Noah Weisz, Helen Gregg, and Katy McNeil

Inspired by a prompt on this year’s Uncommon Application (“Tell us the story of a street....”) we asked you for tales about East 61st Street, the U of C’s southern edge. The catch? Stories must be exactly 61 words.

Maroon File Photo

The sit-in: 40 years later

by Supriya Sinhababu

The two-week takeover of the Administration Building in 1969 is nearly absent from the collective memories passed down to each new generation of students, leaving a vacant seat next to tales of Leopold and Loeb, urban renewal, and Hyde Park homicides.

Sara Jerome

Grey City Preview Podcast: Inside Teach for America

by Sara Jerome and Matt Barnum

Sara Jerome and Matt Barnum discuss the upcoming a feature in Grey City, the Maroon's quarterly magazine. Matt's article provided a look inside the high-pressure world of Teach for America. Check out Grey City in this Tuesday's issue of the Maroon, and at chicagomaroon.com/grey-city

Grey City: The Way Things Work

The Way Things Work: Land ownership

by Michael Lipkin

The University's recent investment in Washington Park, and the community’s tense reaction, raise an important question: Just how much land does the University own?

Sharat Ganapati

The Way Things Work: The endowment

by Michael Lipkin

As the University's endowment has reached record levels of growth, it has come under increased scrutiny from all directions. In Washington, the Senate has considered placing caps on endowment spending for the richest institutions, while closer to home, graduate students on campus have called for more endowment dollars to be spent on their financial aid. What is an endowment, and how does it work?

Chris Salata

The Way Things Work: Nuclear waste

by Claire McNear

The U of C's nuclear experiments—as well as modern efforts to clean them up—trace their roots to a killjoy administrator, an Italian physicist, and a gang of singing teenagers.

Gangs in Chicago

by Hayley Lamberson

And how to [try to] stop them

tuition

The Way Things Work: Tuition Hikes

by Jordan Holliday

As competition for top faculty, staff, and students has increased, so has tuition.

open forum

Jeremy Martin

Zimmer optimistic at open forum

by Al Gaspari

Zimmer said the recently announced faculty expansion is only possible because the University made budget cutbacks last year.

Student arrest forum live blog coverage

by Asher Klein

The Maroon live blogged the forum, held in response to last week's A-level arrest.

Darren Leow

Arrest uproar prompts forum, answers from admins

by Asher Klein

Administrators outlined preliminary steps yesterday to remedy percieved racial profiling within the UCPD and to revise Library behavior policy and protocol in how staff ask for ID

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?”

A-Level

Student arrested in Reg

by Asher Klein

While UCPD claimed the student was charged because he refused to show officers his identification or leave the library for unruly behavior, witnesses deny that police asked the student for ID or that the student was causing a disturbance.

Admins to discuss A-level arrest today

by Michael Lipkin

Students have reacted strongly to the arrest, sending dozens of e-mails to various administrators and listhosts to spread awareness. According to Kim Goff-Crews, the Library Department and UCPD are conducting internal reviews of the incident, and a complaint has been filed with the UCPD over the arrest.

Student arrest forum live blog coverage

by Asher Klein

The Maroon live blogged the forum, held in response to last week's A-level arrest.

Darren Leow

Packed forum presses admins on Reg arrest

by Asher Klein

Concerns over other potential cases of racial profiling dominated proceedings. Administrators had few specific answers to attendees' questions, citing three ongoing investigations.

ucpd

Hyde Park airs concern over UCPD’s working relationship with community

by Ilana Kowarski

“The relationship between the University and the community has a lot of room for improvement,” said third-year Stephanie Zwiebel, citing what she perceived as a lack of University “subtlety” and communal focus in its dealings with the community.

University outsources unarmed security coverage

by Michael Lipkin

Some community members protested the changing of the guards.

New federal security program introduced at International House

by Asher Klein

Training focused on calming violence-prone students

Police academy

by Marshall Knudson

A-Level arrest requires clarification of student–UCPD relations

Graduate Aid Initiative

Emily Lo

Grad students twiddle thumbs for University commitment to maintain teaching positions

by Alison Sider

Admin says there is no indication students seeking T.A. positions will be turned down.

Students should take their Time to Degree

by Joe Grim Feinberg

The U of C should not charge fees to Ph.D. students in Advanced Residence.

Aiding graduate students

by Eli Thorkelson

The U of C should make the process for hiring graduate student instructors more transparent.

Julia Silverman

Graduate students rally for advanced residency tuition cuts

by Al Gaspari

Wearing cardboard mouse ears and holding mousetraps, about 50 members of GSU yesterday said they had fallen into the advanced residency “trap."

Graduate Financial Aid

Graduate students decry aid package

by Hassan S. Ali

Nearly two months after the University announced a new $50 million aid package for incoming Ph.D. students in the social sciences and humanities, graduate students currently on campus are complaini...

Graduate-aid study group preps report

by Dan Lambert

Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and newly appointed Deputy Provost Cathy Cohen met with graduate student representatives of the Working Group earlier this month to discuss a forthcoming University-issued ...

Provost’s office outlines new plan for graduate aid

by Adrian Florido and Nathalie Gorman

The Office of the Provost yesterday announced significant changes in the allocation of financial aid to current graduate students, who benefit little from the $50 million Graduate Aid Initiative fo...

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