Hey, uchicagoadmissions, I’m pretty sure all this furniture is still in use!!! Particularly that dresser in the back… kind of pleased our furniture is so vintage.
UChicago’s writing program has a “helpful” (read: super amusing) tool for writing an academic sentence. Mine is “The illusion of history as such is always already participating in the fantasy of the public sphere.” What’s yours?
It’s not too much to ask men and boys to “look, but don’t touch.” A young woman who wants to be noticed, even desired, without being assaulted isn’t making an unreasonable request. She’s not defying the facts of biology. She’s asking to be watched, appreciated, and left unharmed. Saying that she’s asking to be raped is like saying that a talented actor who portrays an unsympathetic villain particularly well on screen is asking to be attacked by an outraged member of the movie-going public. There’s a difference between a performance and an invitation, and it’s not that hard—really, it’s not—to distinguish the two.
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Co-eds go to school on skates. Miss Lucile Pfaender (left) and Miss Maryellen Falconer, co-eds at the University of Chicago, roll merrily down the Midway on their roller skates. Class-to-class monotony is broken up by this means of locomotion, and at the same time the exercise is extremely healthful. The fad, which the students have followed for several years, is a certain sign of spring.
Pleased to know I have pride of place here! That day was so cold… the purpose of the sponges was to soak up water and ferry it over to bowls.
The Colorful History of Scav
As part of the biggest Scavenger Hunt in the country, we know what it means to make it happen. Bring an elephant to campus? Sure. Build a nuclear reactor? If you say so. Because when it comes to UChicago, you’re either able to Human Jump Rope…or you’re not.
… and that’s number 96 or so
UChicagoan wins Nobel Prize
Chicago-born immunologist and geneticist Bruce Beutler, MD’81, is sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.
