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  • Campus Life

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

    R.E. Stern and 1 more / 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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  • Campus Life

    Allen Sanderson Becomes Sociologist by Light of Full Moon

    Maynard Oster / August 15, 2022

    As the full moon emerged, economics professor Allen R. Sanderson was seen declaring himself a sociologist on the quad for no explicable reason.

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  • Campus Life

    After Years of Confusion, PSI Decides to Just Become a Frat

    Jacob Halabe and 1 more / August 12, 2022

    The new frat, officially named “PSI, no, not that one”, will begin recruiting in April in honor of Earth Day.

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  • Campus Life

    Why is the Trolley Problem On My Econ P-Set, and What Did Y’all Get?

    Jordan Norberto / August 3, 2022

    On the one hand, 40 minutes is a lot of time, time that could be spent improving the PowerPoint I’m gonna use to fire my unpaid intern Jenny.

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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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  • Campus Life

    Heartbreaking: Child in Mongolia Doesn’t Know Who Nestor Is

    Chicago Shady Dealer Newsdesk / May 26, 2021

    The University of Chicago community was shocked Monday after reports surfaced that a six-year-old child from a village in northern Mongolia is unaware of the existence of Nestor the Midway Cat. Nestor the…

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  • Campus Life

    Pluto Becomes Planet Again after Quarantine Weight Gain

    Jackson McNamee / May 12, 2021

    After a long stint of exclusion from planetary classification, Pluto has finally put on enough weight to qualify as a planet. Its weight gain results largely from a breakdown of daily habits and…

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  • Campus Life

    New Admissions Essay Prompts To Produce the Worst Roommates You’ll Ever Have

    Victor Tyne / May 4, 2021

    “We were a little disappointed with last year’s haul,” admitted Jim Nondorf, Dean of Admissions. “This time, I know we’ve got it right. These prompts are specially designed to find the people who…

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  • Campus Life

    The Shady Dealer Interviews the Thrive Slate

    Chicago Shady Dealer / May 3, 2021

    Two weeks after the Student Government election, we sat down with Parul Kumar and Natalie Wang of the Thrive slate to determine if they were worthy of our endorsement.

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  • Campus Life

    To Combat Talks of a Meatless Future, Undergrads Create Culinary Magazine The Chicago Carnivore, Promise to Uphold Chicago Principles of Slaughtering Cattle by the Millions

    Gill Kiunnak / April 23, 2021

    Everyone on campus has been talking about the future of meat in our food - Burger King’s Impossible Whopper is now a mainstay item on their menu, Taco Bell serves a Beyond Sausage…

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