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Lena Birkholz, Jacob Halabe, Maisie Thompson

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Andrea Zhou

Deputy Managing Editor

Griffin Bonnin Jones

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Katherine Reynolds

Photo Editor

Zayna Cheema

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Justin Bilenker, Katherine Reynolds

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Visiting Parents Worried about the Cost of Three Weddings after Seeing Son Talk to Three Different Girls in His House

While parents Michael and Jessica Trout carefully budgeted for their son Timothy’s college expenses along with a single wedding, they were abruptly reminded that some costs simply cannot be anticipated…

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October 24, 2021
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UChicago Student Running From College Council

While the beginning of Spring Quarter has marked numerous announcements of ambitious students running for College Council, one student has decided to rival this long-standing tradition by running from College Council. Simon Jorgensen, a second year…

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April 19, 2021
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Kid Makes Anaphylactic Shock All About Himself

Joseph Silverstein, a member of Johnson’s house, said, “Yeah, so while John went to the bathroom, I swapped his muffin with one that had peanuts, and, gosh, after hearing that…

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January 5, 2023
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OI Renamed “Indiana H. Jones Institute of Academic Grave-Robbing”

In an effort to promote diversity, the Institute will showcase numerous artifacts looted and pillaged from cultures around the world.

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November 30, 2022
Campus Life, Favorites

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

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

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December 6, 2022
  • Historical Issue

    We’re Totally Gonna Win This Crusade

    Chicago Shady Dealer / May 2, 2023

    It’s been an arduous hundred years but I’m pretty confident we’ll be able to reclaim it this time.

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  • Historical Issue

    John D. Rockefeller founds UChicago in Hopes of Creating Greatest Quizbowl Team on God’s Green Earth

    Chicago Shady Dealer / May 1, 2023

    “Most of today’s youth listen to music like “Hot Cross Buns,” or “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie”. They couldn’t power a tossup about the 18th century composer Joseph Martin Kraus if their life depended…

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  • Historical Issue

    Op-Ed: Telegraphs are Ruining Our Children’s Productivity

    Chicago Shady Dealer / May 1, 2023

    Back when I was a kid, we went outside and played. We ate Grandma’s lead paint. We sprayed radium pesticides at each other. We lived in the moment.

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  • Historical Issue

    Op-Ed: I Am the Emperor, and I Want Dumplings

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 30, 2023

    Some people are born to eat dumplings fed to them by quaking peasants from a silver platter, and other people are all of you.

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  • Historical Issue

    Area Man Solves Grain Shortage by Inventing Grain

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 29, 2023

    According to a recent source, Cyde was last seen hoarding the grain and proclaiming it all belonged to him, citing his divine revelation of “social hierarchy.”

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  • Historical Issue

    Common Proto-Indo-European Phrases to Learn Before Your Trip to Proto-Indo-Europe

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 29, 2023

    “Vqzwj”- This directly translates to “I enjoy eating birdshit.”

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  • Historical Issue

    Five Code Words Your Teen is Using to Talk About Bootlegging

    Griffin Bonnin Jones / April 28, 2023

    LMAO (Let’s Make Alcohol Outside)

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  • Historical Issue

    How to Block Your Ex on Carrier Pigeon

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 28, 2023

    Shoot the pigeons. This one is pretty self explanatory. Dead birds tell no tales, and shooting a few should send a message to others to stay away.

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  • Historical Issue

    Cavepeople Enjoying Game of Rock, Rock, Stone

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 27, 2023

    "It would be a vast improvement over the classic children’s game of rock, rock, rock."

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  • Historical Issue

    Scientists Finish Figuring Out Which Berries Kill You

    Chicago Shady Dealer / April 26, 2023

    The scientists who have compiled this list have not publicly revealed their methods, but an inside source claims it was done through a highly advanced scientific process known as “trial and error.”

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