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Griffin Bonnin Jones, Andrea Zhou

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Katherine Reynolds

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Nik Ochoa, Chase Teichholz

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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
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
Chicago Shady Dealer, Favorites

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
Chicago Shady Dealer, Favorites

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
  • Historical Issue

    Dear Zorbak: What Do I Do With His Slime While We’re Phylopotastisizing?

    / February 6, 2019

    Kaphid asks: Dear Zorbak, whenever me and my boyfriend are about to phylopotasticize, I get anxious that I’m not doing enough with his slime. He sometimes asks me to put it in his…

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  • Historical Issue

    How to Keep Bae from Smelling Your Chamber Pot

    Nico Aldape / February 6, 2019

    So, you have your lover over, you’ve managed to not step in horse shit all day, and you’re lying in bed together. Nothing could go wrong – or could it? Suddenly, the foul…

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  • Historical Issue

    God Needs a Damn Cigarette After Week Four

    Kevin O'Sullivan / February 6, 2019

    After a fortnight of constructing reality, a local deity reported that He “just wants a fucking moment of peace.” “It’s not as easy as it looks,“ he started while lighting up a Marlboro…

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  • Chicago Shady Dealer

    Word of the Week: Schadenfreude

    / February 3, 2019

    Ever heard of banging a ‘uey? Do you like jimmies on your ice cream? Super Bowl LIII is upon us, so now’s the time to learn some useful new terms about our buds…

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    Campus Life

    Forget Kuvia: Here are 8 Easy Ways to Get a Free T-Shirt on Campus

    / January 28, 2019

    6:00 am. Tuesday, January 15, 2019. A couple hundred students rise before the sun and shuffle into Henry Crown Field House to do suspiciously cult-like “sun salutations.” And all for what? A Capri…

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  • Campus Life

    “First Year Drops HUMA, Claims It Does Not ‘Spark Joy’”

    Emily Feigenbaum / January 28, 2019

    Inspired by the KonMari organizational methods popularized by the Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” a first-year in the College announced that she will drop her HUMA class because it “does not…

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  • Historical Issue

    Oops! My SOSC Essay Accidentally Started 100 Years of Religious Conflict

    John Buterbaugh / January 26, 2019

    WITTENBURG 1540 – I knew I made a mistake by taking Classics for SOSC. Everyone always told me “Martin, just take Mind, it’s by far the easiest and you can seem cool by…

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  • Historical Issue

    Prohibition is the Moral Cause of Our Time

    Nico Aldape / January 26, 2019

    By Concerned  Citizen Alphonse Capone Hello, my name is Alphonse Capone, a humble Chicago resident and humble laundromat owner, definitely not up to any illicit activities. I merely write as a concerned capo…

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  • Historical Issue

    Why Did They Do That Which They Did? Interviews with History’s Notorious Change Makers

    Nishant Aggarwal / January 26, 2019

    We all know that a few seminal figures changed the course of history forever with their bold ideas and actions. Legendary people like: Jesus. Pasteur. Hitler. But, no one really knows why they…

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  • Chicago Shady Dealer

    How to Closed-Mouth Smile at Your Bar Night Hook-Up

    / October 22, 2018

    We’ve all been there: you wake up on a Thursday morning to find yourself next to the Econ Bro who let you take a rip off of his Juul at Alpha Delt the…

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