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Griffin Bonnin Jones, Andrea Zhou

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Katherine Reynolds

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Vivian Psylos

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Justin Bilenker

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Zayna Cheema

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Nik Ochoa, Chase Teichholz

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Did we hurt your feelings, or say something that “rings untrue” in your soft ears? Well you’re paying too much attention to what we said, and not enough attention to what we meant. God is God, the river is swift, and we don’t give a fuck.

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Campus Life, Favorites

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
Chicago Shady Dealer, Favorites

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

Math Department Discovers New Highest Number

A team of mathematicians at the University of Chicago have discovered a new highest number, a new paper reveals. That number, 87382, is nearly 2 higher than the previous highest…

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November 16, 2020
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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
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
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    Midwave Radio Devastated at a Somehow Negative Listener Count

    Jacob Halabe / February 7, 2024

    “It doesn’t make any sense at all,” said Midwave station director Katherine Perth, “There’s no glitch in our analytics software. Somehow, in real life, the opposite of 4 people are listening to our…

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  • Campus Life

    Non-Stem Majors Cheat in Weird Moon Class

    Justin Bilenker / February 7, 2024

    Naturally, some acts of dishonesty were more reprehensible than others. One anonymous third-year who majors in East Asian Languages and Culture and lives in Room 312 in Flint house in Max P stated,…

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  • Campus Life

    Op-Ed From Dean Hale: UChicago Launches Study Abroad Program in I-House

    Philip Yanakov / January 7, 2024

    Since the undergraduate student body clearly seems to be lacking cultural refinement, I have decided to extend your Core Curriculum requirements by adding a mandatory quarter abroad. It is therefore my great pleasure…

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    UChicago Football Loses to Club Rugby

    Chicago Shady Dealer / January 7, 2024

    Will Tackleman, club rugby’s fourth-year captain, said, “Most of us have never played football before, but we thought this would be a good team-building event for the guys.” 

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  • Campus Life

    Student Dressed as “Fun” Found Dead Inside Reg B Level

    Rogert Accelsior Cockleton / December 8, 2023

    Students were shocked to see paramedics so late on Halloween as the ambulance arrived at the Regenstein library at 11am. Students skipping their 8 and 9:30 am classes interrupted their cognitive haze to…

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    UChicago’s Most Eligible Bachelor Found to be “Escaped Specimen” From UChicago Medicine

    Maisie Thompson and 1 more / December 7, 2023

    The women of UChicago were in for a sexy surprise Thursday when “Dangred McPhee,” a human-like bird, escaped from his research enclosure.

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  • Campus Life

    House Misses Apple Season, Forced to Go Rutabaga Picking

    Lena Birkholz and 1 more / December 6, 2023

    As the RA Bob McSchmob explained in his introductory email, this is “the Disneyland of Rutabaga picking in Wisconsin! We’ve got Alta-Sweet, Improved Long Island, and even some Granny Jones Rutabagas! Even though…

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  • Campus Life

    UChicago Login Systems Switch From Duo to Trio

    Alasdair Greenland / December 6, 2023

    First year Micah Powell called the changes “ridiculous.” “There’s no reason the login needs to be this difficult. I went to the tech help desk at the Reg and they told me to…

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  • Campus Life

    First-Year Enchanted by Dead Gazes of Grad Students in Lab

    Katherine Reynolds / December 6, 2023

    First-year biology major Ann Bitious was delighted to find that the graduate students in the lab she joined as an undergraduate research assistant possessed the dead gazes and exhausted slumps she had hoped…

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  • World Affairs

    World Leaders Pledge to Kill Last Black Rhino by 2030

    Griffin Bonnin Jones / December 5, 2023

    The announcement has prompted some pushback from conservation groups. "We can all agree that black rhinos kind of suck," said Adil Najam, President of the World Wide Fund for Nature. "Like, what's with…

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  • First Year Formally Reprimanded for Failing to Intellectualize Homesickness
  • University to introduce affirmative action for guys named Sean (Shaun and Shawn excluded)
  • In his second memoir, “Ignore My First One,” Vance reveals that the root of his anger toward Zelensky was his thick lashes.

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