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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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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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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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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

    New “germinAte” Startup Empowers Students to Buy & Sell Grades

    Luke Laurence / September 3, 2022

    “This is a good thing for inequality. It’s actually redistributing wealth... We’re like the modern-day Marx and Engels.”

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  • Campus Life

    Rating the Old, White Men I’ve Read in SOSC Based on Their Abilities to Make a Woman Orgasm

    Jacqueline Proshans / September 2, 2022

    "My vagina is not the Leviathan; stop trying to take up the sword against my clitoris. Trust me, that’s not how you do it. "

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  • Campus Life

    Local Business Spotlight: Looking for a Cheap Coat? This Entrepreneur Has a Large Selection That Is Definitely Not Stolen from Alpha Delt

    Lena Birkholz and 2 more / August 31, 2022

    “I swear, this is my coat. I remember it got bleach all over it at the last party, but for some reason the tag is removed? Who knows though? I liked the coat…

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  • Campus Life

    Review: Locking Your Belt Closed With a Padlock (Then Forgetting Its Combination)

    Kenneth Moss / August 29, 2022

    Before you ask, and I know you’re thinking it already, no this isn’t a sex thing. I mean, it’s about keeping your pants on, so it’s more like the opposite of a sex…

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  • Campus Life

    UChicago Admissions Requires That Applicants Shove Squirrels up Their Asses

    Henry Mackall / August 26, 2022

    “The requirement not only allows us to admit only the most dedicated students out there – it also will ensure incoming students are better adjusted to the difficulties they will undergo within our…

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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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  • Politics

    Congress Announces Long Term Plan to Create More Fossil Fuels by Fast Tracking Anthropogenic Extinctions

    Christian Villanueva / August 22, 2022

    “We see and hear our plants and animals around us going extinct: we’re going to accelerate that, so that our grandchildren and their grandchildren can have what we have today.”

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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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  • Lifestyle

    Op-Ed: Don’t You Know Who My Dad is?!

    Robert UPenn III / August 17, 2022

    You reject moi from the Blue Chips?! I do your RSO a favor by gracing you with my presence, and this is how you repay me?

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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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