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  • Arts & Culture

    People Magazine Reports No Celebrities Have Drama This Week

    R.E. Stern / March 12, 2025

    "Celebrities have altogether stopped cheating on each other, getting caught in embarrassing moments with paparazzi, or even making mildly controversial clothing choices on the red carpet."

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  • World Affairs

    Divinity School Discovers New, ‘12% Holier’ God

    R.E. Stern / May 9, 2023

    Pope Francis declared the paper a work of heresy, and a Vatican spokesperson estimated the true figure at a mere 4% additional holiness.

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  • Campus Life

    Meet Frank, UChicago’s First International Student from Vatican City

    R.E. Stern / March 6, 2023

    Frank, dressed in all white and sporting a delightfully eccentric hat, reports being “born” in 2003 but “doesn’t feel a day over 60.”

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  • Campus Life,  Favorites

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

    R.E. Stern / December 6, 2022

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

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  • Campus Life

    Meet The Six People You’ll Throw Up On in College

    R.E. Stern / October 19, 2022

    She was funny, smart, gorgeous, everything you could ask for in a future wife. You’d even talked about moving to Massachusetts together, having three kids, getting a mortgage. You’d thought you’d shower her…

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  • Campus Life

    Class of 2026 First-Ever to Feature Diplomats’ Kids from All 193 Nations

    R.E. Stern / October 18, 2022

    “Even before stepping foot on campus, this unprecedented group of students has already made their mark.” Dean of Admissions James Nondorf said. “And I mean that literally. We have renamed a lot of…

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  • Arts & Culture

    How Tall Was Jesus Christ? We Asked Every Academic Department

    R.E. Stern / October 7, 2022

    We built a really big neural network to predict people’s heights based on their faces, trained it on images of humans, and it told us that Jesus was either 3’2” or a golden…

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  • Campus Life

    Five Ways to Avoid the Mysterious Wizard Who Wants to Turn You Into a Dove

    R.E. Stern / August 24, 2022

    It’s the quintessential UChicago experience: there’s a scary wizard staring at you from the topmost window of the I-House tower. He leaps out of the window and chases you across the quad on…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Coming to Disney+ in 2027: The Unbelievable True Story of the Man Who Trained Birds to Sell Opioids

    R.E. Stern / August 19, 2022

    Disney+ has yet to release the series, but the Washington Post has already called it “unexpected” and “probably a financial disaster,” adding that “the line of McDonald’s Happy Meal toys containing actual opioids…

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  • Chicago Shady Dealer

    Breaking: Your New Student Government

    R.E. Stern / April 25, 2022

    The Student Government elections are over, and the Shady Dealer has the scoop on the winners! In other news, we got arrested for breaking into the office of the Elections and Rules committee,…

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