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  • Arts & Culture

    Rockefeller Chapel Bells Now Exclusively Play for When BeReal Notification Is Sent

    Andre Dang and 1 more / November 7, 2022

    In a recent statement, Dean of Students Michelle Rassmussen wrote, “I’m sick and tired of students posting their BeReals hours after when the notification was sent out. Students are disobeying the purpose of…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Dealer Investigates: How Many 4pm Cigarettes Outside the Reg Does It Take to Write The Great American Novel?

    Audrey Leonard / October 27, 2022

    He’s agreed to put a brief pause in his literary machinations to speak to the Dealer, since, in his words, “this interview will be important in five years. I’ll be published then.”

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  • Arts & Culture

    How Tall Was Jesus Christ? We Asked Every Academic Department

    R.E. Stern and 2 more / 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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  • Arts & Culture

    House Movie Night Just Sex Scene from Mulholland Drive

    Jacob Halabe and 1 more / September 5, 2022

    “I like to think that Behar house has always appreciated the highest class of film, and as such, we wanted to pick something that would engage our residents."

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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 and 2 more / 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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  • Arts & Culture,  Campus Life

    3 Sex Poems from My Poetry Workshop That Scream “I’m a Virgin”

    Kelvin Lototoaster / January 27, 2022

    When I signed up for this poetry workshop, I had no idea that the people in it would be so horny — or so repressed. Somehow, every single poem submitted has been explicitly…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Oscars Nominate Viewers Like You for Best Actor

    Henry Mackall / April 26, 2021

    Many have lauded your ability to persevere through our host’s lousy jokes and fake interest in the boring shit as you patiently await the actually relevant parts of the ceremony (you know, the…

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  • Arts & Culture,  Campus Life

    UChicago to be Film Location for New ‘Community’ Documentary

    Dan Harmon's Secretary / November 18, 2020

    Universal Pictures has just announced plans to release a Community Documentary in early 2023. The President of Universal Pictures, Peter Cramer, said his team made plans to the put the movie in production…

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  • Arts & Culture

    Nobody Ever Talks About How Great John Wilkes Booth Was as King Lear

    Anna Katz / November 15, 2020

    In our modern political climate, we tend to judge the figures of our history through one defining action. For Abraham Lincoln, that would be the Emancipation Proclamation. For Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of…

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  • Arts & Culture

    I Broke My Pencil and Now I’m Sad I Can’t Fix It.

    Kate Kaplin / October 19, 2020

    That’s the title I am ashamed to declare I broke my pencil

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