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8 years

In a welcome letter to freshmen, the College made clear that it does not condone safe spaces or trigger warnings:

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EDITORIAL: " @BernieSanders 's vision of the presidency as 'organizer-in-chief' sets him apart from other candidates. It also harkens back to a lesson he learned on campus: Change only happens when people are mobilized to take on established interests."

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BREAKING: The 16 universities named in the lawsuit used a shared formula to determine financial aid, resulting in a higher net cost of attendance for the over 170,000 students alleged to have been overcharged by a total of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Jeanette Taylor, an activist endorsed by @ChicagoCityDSA who campaigned to bring a Level I trauma center to the South Side and led a 34-day hunger strike to reopen Dyett High School, will be the 20th Ward's next alderman.

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Arts reporter Aazer Siddiqui writes, “["LILAC"] is about the queasy recollection of moments where you gambled and lost, and above all, the flat realization that you are "here", "now", looking back at the end of an era.”

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“I want [Oneus] to be known as a group that continues to grow and challenge themselves.” We asked K-pop group Oneus questions. They answered just over half of them. This is the result.

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"Oneus musically wowed their audience, pushing their voices and limbs through rapid-fire rap, challenging vocal runs (from both the vocalists and the rappers of the group), and powerful choreography,” writes Arts reporter Veronica Chang.

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“As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students,” over 275 faculty members write in an open letter to President Alivisatos.

An Open Letter to President Alivisatos Concerning the Encampment and the Kalven Report

Dear President Alivisatos, As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students...

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BREAKING: Around 100 UChicago United for Palestine protestors have set up tents on the main quad this morning. Follow along here, @NewsMaroon , and online for live updates

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BREAKING: Pro-Palestine Protestors Launch Quad Encampment

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6 years

University of Chicago students are marching through campus for a #CareNotCops rally.

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BREAKING: PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS OCCUPY INSTITUTE OF POLITICS BUILDING

Breaking: Pro-Palestine Protesters Occupy Institute of Politics Building

The occupation comes as alumni weekend had been a focal point for protesters calling for divestment.

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Students rapidly organized a demonstration for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at Booth to demand that the University rescind Steve Bannon's invitation. Organizers include @UchicagoYDSA and @UChiStudentsAct .

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5 years

Four people were stabbed minutes ago at Navy Pier, according to @Chicago_Scanner . Our reporter on scene now says people are running around, police telling crowds to evacuate.

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6 years

The Graduate Students United walk out today was one of largest campus demonstrations in recent years.

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5 years

More than 2,000 University of Chicago Medical Center nurses have gone on strike, citing short-staffing, unsafe working conditions, and forced overtime.

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3 years

shout-out to @MaroonArts and @dadfister420 for this article and @_IUofficial for the album (AOTY when)

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6 years

Prof. Zingales instructed Samantha Eyler-Driscoll to do promotional work for his Steve Bannon event. She resigned from his Center's editorial board, and now she's speaking out.

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6 years

A Maroon investigation found that the University has at least one fund in the Cayman Islands. When asked whether it pays taxes on all its offshore investments, the University did not comment.

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4 years

The University of Chicago will transition to "distance learning" for all of spring quarter, and students must leave on-campus housing by March 22, resident heads were told in an email Wednesday evening.

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2 years

OP-ED: "A teacher is not free to do her job if she is fearful that an armed white nationalist, activated by a provocateur, will track her down and shoot up her classroom. This is not hyperbole. This is America in 2022." –Rebecca Journey

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8 years

Prominent #BlackLivesMatter activist @deray is coming to campus in the fall as an @UChiPolitics Fellow

Reg honors Chicago blood bank founder

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BREAKING: Campus police shot a student tonight who was wielding a large metal pole and breaking windows. The student is in stable condition at Northwestern hospital. Officer is on mandatory administrative leave pending an investigation.

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5 years

BREAKING: Trader Joe's will open in the space on Lake Park previously occupied by Treasure Island. The grocer anticipates opening its doors in fall 2019.

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5 years

Members of @uchicagogsu plan to stop work and hold multiple picket lines, starting next Monday, in an attempt to gain University recognition.

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6 years

Eve Ewing, a UChicago assistant professor, is writing a new Marvel series, Ironheart. The comic will feature a heroine named Riri Williams, who is a Black teen girl from Chicago.

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3 years

USG’s statement on Palestine will remain as-issued.

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4 years

EDITORIAL: After 27 years in Congress, it’s hard to argue that Bobby Rush remains a progressive pick for representative. The Maroon endorses his impressive 27-year-old challenger.

Endorsement: Robert Emmons, Jr., for Illinois’s First Congressional District

Emmons approaches virtually every issue, from environmental pollution to education, with nuance and consideration of all aspects of the problem.

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7 years

. @UChicago Pres said white nationalists, like alum Richard Spencer, should be allowed to speak on campus if invited.

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5 years

Protesters with Graduate Students United are organizing picket lines at 8 a.m. on the midway. Currently, about 200 demonstrators are milling about, waiting to be sent out to picket campus buildings.

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2 years

BREAKING: Spring quarter has officially been shortened to 7.5 weeks. "Once it gets warm around here, the students aren't miserable enough," said Dean Boyer in a new statement to the Board of Trustees.

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5 years

EDITORIAL: Over a year ago, we wrote that the University should voluntarily recognize GSU. Ahead of this week's action, it remains imperative that the University recognize the union graduate workers overwhelmingly voted for. —The Maroon Editorial Board

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Members of @BernieSanders campaign have joined this afternoon's rallies. Campaigner Nanci Ponne told The Maroon that Sanders supports @uchicagogsu as a UChicago alum, because "Bernie supports working people," and because of the recent decades of union-busting.

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6 years

UChicago is ranked third by U.S. News for the third consecutive year.

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Jahné Brown, the President of Student Government, attended GSU’s midday rally. “Supporting GSU is the right thing to do,” she told The Maroon. “Grad students have the right to negotiate with their employer, and UChicago has exploited a lot of people that I care about.”

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6 years

In a blockbuster lawsuit, the Pearsons claim that the University of Chicago hired underqualified faculty using their gift and attempted to avoid hosting an academic forum by participating in a Catholic conference that celebrated heterosexual marriage.

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3 years

Third-year Marcus Goodman died on September 27. His girlfriend, Adrianna Layne, writes about the people and things he loved best.

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5 years

@ChicagoCityDSA @taylorfor20th “By the time I was 19 I had three kids,” she tells gathered supporters. “When they told me my kids wasn’t going to graduate, my kids was going to be statistics, my kids was gonna have a bunch of other kids. Tonight — it’s not just about me.”

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@ChicagoMaroon

7 years

1,103 yes votes were counted, exceeding the combined 479 counted no votes and the 149 votes that were challenged.

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6 years

Their recent hit “Feel It Still” may have nabbed them a Grammy, but @portugaltheman performs live with all the earnestness of an under-the-radar indie group.

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3 years

"Nobody should be dehumanized in the very place they seek care, and no one should be dismissed because their experience does not match the public narrative." -Cassidy Wilson

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5 years

English professor Elaine Hadley, a representative of the UChicago advocacy chapter of American Association of University Professors, is describing the “enlistment of graduate labor as a cover for the reduction of tenure security.”

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5 years

29 current and former editors, including the photographer who took the photo, oppose yesterday's publication of a photo of a young man apprehended on campus and urge Maroon leadership to take it down.

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@ChicagoMaroon

6 years

About a 100 protesters are outside Booth demanding the University rescind Steve Bannon’s invitation.

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5 years

GSU President @ClaudioJacobo leads growing march of 400+ protesters in a march on the quad.

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7 years

UChicago is #3 in the 2018 U.S. News rankings, tied with Yale.

UChicago Stays Third in U.S. News Rankings

The University is tied with Yale.

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5 years

All classrooms are empty at @UChicagoSSA , with just a few staff members and a receptionist in the otherwise deserted building. 📸 via Maroon reporter @UCMatthewL

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5 years

@ChicagoCityDSA “Words cannot even describe the love and the joy that I feel that the 20th ward decided on sending a mother, a wife, a community organizer, an LSC member,” @taylorfor20th opened her victory speech saying.

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4 years

At least 30 tenants with Mac Properties, one of the largest landlords in Hyde Park, have committed to a rent strike beginning April 1 as the COVID-19 pandemic leads to furloughs and layoffs.

As COVID-19 Economic Crisis Deepens, Hyde Park Renters Strike

Beginning April 1, Hyde Parks residents, including UChicago students, are participating in what could be a months-long rent strike in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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6 years

BREAKING:

University of Chicago Releases Statement About… Something

“Recent events”

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@ChicagoMaroon

7 years

"I am writing to urge you to support the rights of all working people on your campus to come together and form unions."

Senator Bernie Sanders Urges Zimmer to Let Unionization Vote Stand

Sanders had previously written a letter of support to graduate students preceding their vote in mid-October.

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@ChicagoMaroon

5 years

No writing tutors today in Harper Memorial Library, and the reading room is unusually empty.

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7 years

Breaking: University of Chicago graduate students have voted to unionize.

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5 years

GSU protesters are rallying outside Levi Hall, which houses the Office of the President.

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8 months

At 6:15 p.m. today, several UCUP protesters who had been engaged in a sit-in at the admissions office since 11:30 a.m. were arrested by University Police and began to be processed inside adjacent Walker Museum.

UCPD Arrests Protesters Engaged in Admissions Office Sit-In and Faculty Members

At 6:15 p.m., UCUP protesters engaged in a sit-in at the admissions office were arrested by University police officers and began to be processed inside adjacent Walker Museum.

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@ChicagoMaroon

5 years

GSU members and supporters are today holding a picket line at Hull Gate—a major choke point for campus traffic—and are encouraging students and faculty not to pass.

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8 years

The University of Chicago is named as the 3rd best national university in U.S. News & World Report's 2017 Rankings.

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6 years

UChicago has the highest percentage of students registered to vote on TurboVote, ahead of its closest competitor, Harvard, by more than 30 percentage points.

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@ChicagoMaroon

5 years

EDITORIAL: The Maroon Editorial Board urges undergraduates to aid GSU's labor action, and lists several ways to show support. Number one: Don't cross a picket line, if you don't absolutely have to.

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@ChicagoMaroon

6 years

Hundreds of people with the #GoodKidsMadCity youth movement marched through campus yesterday for #NationalSchoolWalkout in the largest recent demonstration at the University of Chicago.

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5 years

State senators @danielbiss and @robertjpeters and Cook County Board President @ToniPreckwinkle are here at GSU’s rally outside Levi Hall.

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4 years

UChicago will pay contracted food service, janitorial, and security personnel for the Spring Quarter despite the partial campus shutdown in response to COVID-19. Direct University employees will get six weeks of pandemic-related sick leave.

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@ChicagoMaroon

7 years

@idsnews @StanfordDaily @dailycal Hey @idsnews wanna fight about something?

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2 months

While covering the raid, two reporters’ property were taken. Please consider donating at the link at the end of our Live Updates to help us recoup the costs.

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2 months

To follow what happened during and after today's raid, check out The Maroon's Live Updates.

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Ending a nearly two-year wait, Jewel-Osco will open at the corner of 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in early March.

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6 years

Non-tenure track faculty are getting ready for a strike if the union does not reach a deal with the administration by Thursday.

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5 years

Eckhart Hall, which houses the Department of Mathematics, picketed at all entrances:

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4 years

EDITORIAL: The University can begin to right its numerous wrongs against the predominantly Black South Side by abolishing its private police force and replacing it with unarmed emergency responders.

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6 years

Graduate Students United members are gathered outside the Reg for an Alice in Wonderland-themed rally, demanding that the University bargain with them.

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5 years

With more than 1,800 votes to Reform slate's 906 votes, CARE slate will be the next executive slate of Student Government.

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At Lake Park and 54th Place, Trader Joe’s sign is up, and inside the space previously occupied by Treasure Island, TJ-brand shelves and displays are being set up. The supermarket plans to open this fall.

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“Our livelihoods are collectively exploited by the administration and our struggles are intersectional,” said incoming SG executive slate member Kosi Achife. “We, [the incoming student government executive slate] demand recognition. Bargain now.”

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6 years

Five generations of maroon news editors meet up in DC! 🏛

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“The Palestine solidarity encampment on the quad represents a significant trial for the University of Chicago’s frequently emphasized commitments to academic freedom and free expression,” assistant professor Gabriel Winant writes in an op-ed.

On Expression and Disruption

The Palestine solidarity encampment on the quad represents a significant trial for the University of Chicago’s frequently emphasized commitments to academic freedom and free expression. This challe...

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5 years

The demonstration is audible from third-floor classrooms in Eckhart, on the opposite side of the quad.

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4 years

1/ Today's paper: a special issue on university governance (cover: @lakeeater ) In recently obtained minutes of faculty senate meetings and in dozens of interviews, professors and students said top UChicago administrators have shut down meaningful dialogue over the past decade.

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4 years

The Maroon’s servers are currently struggling to keep up with a high volume of requests. We hope to have the issue resolved shortly, and we apologize for the delay.

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2 years

LETTER: “We, Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago and our allies, call on the University administration to speak out against the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s deplorable campaign.” -SJP UChicago

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6 years

Promontory Point has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places.

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6 years

GSU members, who filled nearly the whole room at UChicagoGRAD, just got up, walked out of the town hall to protest the University’s refusal to recognize @uchicagogsu .

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“We provide valuable labor on which the university depends. This place would not run-and will not run-without us.” -Danya Lagos, GSU member, at GSU’s mid-day rally on the first day their industrial action.

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4 years

RAs now have the choice to work remotely. The University's earlier announcement that it would not pay RAs for spring quarter had drawn a flood of criticism from students and alumni.

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5 years

These are normally peak hours for classes in Cobb hall, but most classrooms are currently empty. As picketers march outside, a UCPD officer is stationed inside the main entrance to the building, surveiling them.

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6 years

The “Life of the Mind” apparently now includes mandatory attendance at meet-and-greets with wealthy donors.

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6 years

The University made the decision to go test-optional after studying the admissions files of students who underperform, concluding that testing isn’t an indicator that a student will struggle, Dean Nondorf said.

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6 years

A march led by Kenwood students is happening now to “uplift the Trauma Center campaign, talk about UCPD and their violence, and discuss how the UofC Crime Lab cooperates with the Chicago Police Department."

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The union representing student library workers on campus has won its legal fight with the University.

SLEU Wins in NLRB Case with University

The Board’s decision ends a year-long legal fight over the outcome of last June’s vote.

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@idsnews @StanfordDaily @dailycal Only love to other student journalists who volunteer their time for the good of their campus. 💕

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Protesters have brought their dogs.

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Food truck @Medexchi is giving GSU members free sides and drinks. 📸 via Maroon reporter @OrenOppenheim .

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OP-ED: "When a young Hispanic woman joins a fun 'get out and vote' initiative and receives this level of social shaming ... conservative students get the message: There is a price to pay for daring to speak your mind." —Evita Duffy

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Eric Wessan, Law School: “I don’t think the real world is a safe space.” Third-year Mary Blair: “I can assure you that all people of color who have existed in a primarily white space know that the real world is not a safe space.”

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UPDATE: According to a University spokesperson, police received an anonymous threat, but there is no evidence that a shooting occurred.

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1 year

BREAKING: The University has sent out an alert about reported police activity around the area of Regenstein Library. The University is urging people to avoid the area.

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Breaking: Classes will be cancelled this Wednesday, Jan 30, due to extreme low temperatures.

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6 years

The Maroon Editorial Board endorses @DanielBiss in the democratic primary for governor of Illinois.

Endorsement: Daniel Biss is a Solid Progressive Pick for Governor

The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Daniel Biss as the strongest democratic candidate in Illinois’s March 20 gubernatorial primary.

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5 years

Meanwhile, @GroundsofBeing , the coffee shop in the Divinity School, is closed in solidarity with strikers.

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4 years

“The administration's single-minded obsession with GSU has had a more negative effect on the university's intellectual climate than unionized graduate students could possibly have.” Faculty say UChicago mishandled its response to graduate unionization.

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6 years

"Bannon’s potential presence doesn’t necessarily mean the school supports his odious worldview. A look at its 162-year history, however, paints a clearer picture: the University of Chicago has always been a white supremacist institution." —Aram Ghoogasian

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“Chicago is a union town,” alderman @taylorfor20th tells crowd gathered outside admin building. “This is what’s right. Keep fighting.”

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BREAKING: A car crashed through the window of Hyde Park Produce. Police and firefighters on the scene. More info to come. (pr: Laya Gollapudi)

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