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Lena Birkholz, Jacob Halabe, Maisie Thompson

Managing Editor

Andrea Zhou

Deputy Managing Editor

Griffin Bonnin Jones

Layout Editor

Abby Beckler

Deputy Layout Editor

Katherine Reynolds

Photo Editor

Zayna Cheema

Copy Editors

Justin Bilenker, Katherine Reynolds

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Campus Life, Favorites

Math Department Discovers New Highest Number

A team of mathematicians at the University of Chicago have discovered a new highest number, a new paper reveals. That number, 87382, is nearly 2 higher than the previous highest…

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November 16, 2020
Chicago Shady Dealer, Favorites

UChicago Student Running From College Council

While the beginning of Spring Quarter has marked numerous announcements of ambitious students running for College Council, one student has decided to rival this long-standing tradition by running from College Council. Simon Jorgensen, a second year…

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April 19, 2021
Campus Life, Favorites

University Introduces New Way to Get Downtown: “Walk, Motherfuckers”

This option has been poorly received by undergraduates, as several would-be ‘motherfuckers’ told the Dealer.

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December 6, 2022
Campus Life, Favorites

Kid Makes Anaphylactic Shock All About Himself

Joseph Silverstein, a member of Johnson’s house, said, “Yeah, so while John went to the bathroom, I swapped his muffin with one that had peanuts, and, gosh, after hearing that…

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January 5, 2023
Chicago Shady Dealer, Favorites

OI Renamed “Indiana H. Jones Institute of Academic Grave-Robbing”

In an effort to promote diversity, the Institute will showcase numerous artifacts looted and pillaged from cultures around the world.

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November 30, 2022
  • Campus Life

    Rockefeller Chapel to Get Sleek, Cool Upgrade Once They Figure Out Who Put That Scaffolding Up There.

    Pauline Singer / May 14, 2025

    University leadership admitted in a press conference Tuesday that the scaffolding was not actually theirs. When asked how this could have happened, University President Paul Alivisatos dabbed his forehead with a gold monogrammed…

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  • Politics,  World Affairs

    Pete Hegseth Accidentally Challenges Houthis to Game of iMessage Cup Pong

    Jacob Halabe / May 13, 2025

    In what a spokesman for the Department of Defense is calling, “a completely understandable and tactically secure wrong-number mix-up,” Hegseth reportedly attempted to challenge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a friendly game…

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  • Off-Campus Life

    Huzzah! Progressive Parent Pledges to Merely Threaten Queer Kid Instead of Denouncing Them This Year

    Vivian Psylos / May 12, 2025

    Needless to say, Jade was still viscerally disgusted at their father’s comments. While The Shady Dealer initially attempted to reach Jade for comment, the paper was informed that quoting them could be construed…

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  • Politics,  World Affairs

    Donald Trump Comes Out as Serbian Nationalist, Returns Kosovo to Serbia within 15 Days

    Vivian Psylos / May 9, 2025

    "It’s a beautiful city, the food is great, the women are great. My wife Melania once made me a pljeskavica, it was the greatest food I ever experienced. Since I was ten, my…

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  • Off-Campus Life

    Everyone’s Talking About the Price of Eggs, but What About the U.S. Trout Population?

    Vivian Psylos / May 4, 2025

    But what happens when egg prices get too high? People resort to other items for food. Sometimes it’s steak, sometimes it’s lentils. But in the end, some people will choose trout. This will…

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  • Campus Life

    Student Disgusted by “Horripilating” Decline of UChicago’s Intellectual Culture

    Noah Burdick / May 2, 2025

    "I applied ED to this derelict institution under the fatuous impression that it was still a citadel of higher thought. Yet with each passing day I am compoundingly impelled to think that we…

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  • Campus Life

    UChicago Sends Melina Hale to Scope Out Northwestern for Potential Takeover

    Elliot Florack / May 1, 2025

    Hale’s actions have spurred rumors that UChicago is trying to take over a school with fewer Big Ten football wins than it (UChicago 7, Northwestern 0). 

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  • Campus Life

    Phoenix AI to Stop Saying Key Words Like Bankruptcy or Debt

    Edward "Snowman" Snowden / April 30, 2025

    “Letting Phoenix AI tell the few students who didn't know about the University’s debts would’ve killed the last bit of fun they had left. Come on, let ‘em live a little.”

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  • Off-Campus Life

    Five Caricature Artists to Befriend if You Want to Make it in This Town

    Griffin Bonnin Jones / April 29, 2025

    “Wait, Mitt Romney is a caricature artist?” Yes, and he’s very good.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Joe Rogan to Star as Catherine Earnshaw in New Wuthering Heights Adaptation

    Katherine Reynolds / April 27, 2025

    Fans of the book have praised the casting of Rogan, 57, especially following the leakage of set photos showing Rogan frolicking on the moors with Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. 

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Read It and Weep

  • Rockefeller Chapel to Get Sleek, Cool Upgrade Once They Figure Out Who Put That Scaffolding Up There.
  • Pete Hegseth Accidentally Challenges Houthis to Game of iMessage Cup Pong
  • Huzzah! Progressive Parent Pledges to Merely Threaten Queer Kid Instead of Denouncing Them This Year
  • Donald Trump Comes Out as Serbian Nationalist, Returns Kosovo to Serbia within 15 Days
  • Everyone’s Talking About the Price of Eggs, but What About the U.S. Trout Population?
  • Student Disgusted by “Horripilating” Decline of UChicago’s Intellectual Culture
  • UChicago Sends Melina Hale to Scope Out Northwestern for Potential Takeover
  • Phoenix AI to Stop Saying Key Words Like Bankruptcy or Debt
  • Five Caricature Artists to Befriend if You Want to Make it in This Town
  • Joe Rogan to Star as Catherine Earnshaw in New Wuthering Heights Adaptation

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