In Memoriam: 100 Safe Spaces We Lost This Year

By Daniel Ruttenberg

Dec. 25, 2016

In Memoriam: 100 Safe Spaces We Lost This Year2016 was an all-around tough year for many. Movies, music, and literature all lost foundational figures. More importantly, however, comes all the safe spaces we have lost this year. We’ve lost a lot this year, considering how Dean John “Jay” Ellison successfully purged every single safe space from campus. If we forgot a safe space that you lost this year, we apologize. There were just so freaking many. So, without further ado, here are all of the “safe spaces” that have been transformed into “spaces.”

1. The Quad

2. Cobb

3. Cathey Dining Hall

4. Bartlett Dining Hall

5. Baker Dining Hall (Technically built this year, but just as a “space”)

6. The BSLC

7. Eckhart

8. Eckhardt

9. The Reg (While never technically a “safe space” for anyone, its potential is now gone)

10. ACSA

11. MEMW

12. AAPI

13. ACLUofC

14. ASA

15. Asexualitea

16. ASU

17. Baha’i Association of UChicago

18. BSA

19. Buddhist Association

20. Calvert Circle

21. CSA

22. CASS

23. Chabad

24. CAB

25. CSCF

26. CSSA

27. CUSA

28. CUC

29. Confucian Commons

30. Cru

31. DLS

32. The French Club

33. The German Club

34. GCF

35. GSWGSS

36. HSA

37. HSS

38. HBLSC

39. Holy Trinity Church University Ministry

40. HKSA

41. Interfaith Dialogue

42. ISA

43. J Street UChicago

44. JSA

45. JBSA

46. JLSA

47. JewSA

48. KBB

49. KSO

50. LAM

51. LPMSA

52. LLSA

53. LWC

54. UCBA

55. LHCoC

56. MASA (Wow there are a lot of acronyms)

57. Men in Drag

58. MUC

59. MESSA

60. MSA

61. OBS

62. OLAS

63. OSD

64. OCF

65. Out in STEM

66. OutLaw (That’s a really clever name by the way, the Dealer is sorry that Jay has purged you of all of your safeness)

67. PanAsian Solidarity Coalition

68. PCS

69. PSA

70. PASA

71. Platypus

72. Queers & Associates

73. Queers United in Power

74. SSA

75. Society of Women in Physics

76. SDA

77. SALSA

78. SASA

79. SSN

80. SO UChicago

81. The Elephant

82. SAJE

83. SDS

84. SJP

85. TASA

86. ThaiSA

87. TSA (Taiwanse Students Association)

88. TSA (Turkish Students Association) (Not So Fun Fact: Both of the TSA’s lost their Safe Space Status on the exact same day! August 24: The Day Dean Ellison released the letter! Weird!)

89. UCDems

90. UCRepublicans

91. VSA

92. UCWiB

93. All the Frats, I Guess.

94. Classics Café

95. Crerar

96. Everything named “Cathey”

97. Levi Hall (Even President Zimmer didn’t feel safe there! Hope the North Side is treating you well!)

98. Medici (According to leading geographers, the “No Safe Space” Zone extends about 1 mile in each direction off-campus)

99. The Satellites: Maclean, New Grad, Broadview, Blackstone, and BreckinridgeBut seriously: Rest in Peace)

100. Literally Everywhere on UChicago