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First Year Was Fun, But Not as Fun as Space Mountain
By Nik Varley May 16, 2016 It feels like yesterday that my parents dropped me off into my new life at the University of Chicago. I remember being filled with nervous excitement that…
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Memorial Day 2016: Honoring Our Fallen Drones
By David North May 13, 2016 For 14 years, the drone program has given the Ppresident of the United States the ability to execute surgical, extrajudicial, and often political murder from the comfort…
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The Wiggles Pull Music from Spotify in Show of Solidarity with Taylor Swift
By Jacob Levin April 23, 2016 In a public announcement Monday, The Wiggles announced that they have decided to remove all of their music from Spotify to show solidarity with Taylor Swift and…
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Area Middle School Troubled Over Emergence of “Super Tuesday” Clique
By Breck Radulovic March 2, 2016 Thomas Jefferson Middle School has seen the development of a new clique in recent weeks. Styling themselves as “Super Tuesday,” the group of spiteful and exclusionary middle…
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This Twelve-Year-Old Played Blindfolded Simultaneous Chess Against Six Grandmasters And Got Slaughtered by All of Them
By Daniel Ruttenberg Feb. 18, 2016 Kyle Jacoby is only in the fifth grade, but already he thinks he’s some sort of chess prodigy. To test his mettle, he challenged six grand–masters to…
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Obama’s Singular Grey Hair Plots Total Expansion by 2016
By Renee Winget, 2008 Jan. 22, 2016 AAt the crown of his head, presidential candidate Barack Obama’s singular grey hair announced a plan to eradicate pigment in visible hair by the year 2016…
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Letter to the Editor
By John F. Kennedy, April 5, 1962 Jan. 18, 2016 To my dear, sweet beloved, Throughout my short presidency, I have been no stranger to clandestine affairs, from the espionage of the Cuban…
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Student to Spend Quarter Abroad in Shondaland
By Chase Harrison Dec. 31, 2015 While other UChicago students will be traveling to Paris, Beijing, and Oaxaca in the winter quarter, third-year Junior Kelsey Shippman will be immersing herself in perhaps the…
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Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoned by Obama Passes Sixth year in Guantanamo
By Grace Quigley Nov. 15, 2015 In a surprisingcurious turn of events, the turkey pardoned by President Obama before Thanksgiving of 2009 has passed its sixth year at the detention camp in Guantanamo…
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10 Republicans You Didn’t Realize are Still Running for President
By Chase Harrison Nov. 9, 2015 1. Bobby Jindal Jindal’s intense fiscal conservatism has not sparked Republican voters interest. Despite strong statements on immigration, Jindal remains a non-factor in the race. 2. “Papa”…
