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Rock Salt Flavor Retrospective: Hyde Park, Winter 2020-2021
A note on methodology: in our blind testing, sampling teams tasted salts found on streets and sidewalks alike.
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Exclusive: Top Brass Dispels Rumors of SSA/Crown Remilitarization
Lieutenant Commander Zimmer denies that the school has become complicit in hyper-militarism, stating that the Main Quadrangle’s helipad has been there all along, and that anyone who disagrees will be dishonorably discharged.
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Bummed about a Pandemic Breakup? It May Be an Opportunity for Growth
For better or for worse, human relationships have been altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. While some people’s relationships are accelerating as social circles become more limited, others are experiencing a more difficult shift…
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Friendship During COVID–19 Requires Communication and Consent
You may or may not have heard of this dude named Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, according to Wikipedia, “was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer.” I certainly hadn’t until I took SOSC while microdosing…
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How UChicago’s Class of 2025 Navigated an Unprecedented Application Cycle
Applying to college is stressful in the best of times, but for UChicago’s Class of 2025, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic added an additional level of stress to the process. The Dealer sat down…
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The Talker Versus the Texter
As the pandemic developed and we settled into remote living for the long haul, social life at UChicago changed significantly. Pretty quickly into the pandemic, two competing social structures had emerged: the Talkers…
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During Year of Coronavirus, Local Businesses Forced to Adapt
Small businesses face a landscape forever altered as the first wave of economic disruption from the pandemic settles. To get a sense of how this is impacting our local businesses, the Dealer talked…
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$100 Million and a Million Tests: How The NFL Played Throughout a Pandemic
The NFL spent an exorbitant amount of time and money to hold in-person activities and games in the months leading up to the season, culminating in the super bowl. If something as meaningless…
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Practicing for an Uncertain Season
"I just don't see the point of swimming back and forth alone in individual lanes in a way that in no way affects the performance of others also swimming alone in individual lanes…
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Changing the Script on Love at UChicago
The admissions department tried to tell me that even nerds like me could get laid at UChicago. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a legally enforceable contract. The University owes me a girlfriend,…
