Long

• Americans in Paris
  • “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”
  • Dawn of the planet of the apes
• Talking to your parents about improv
  • Arts: Director and improv pioneer Mike Nichols, EX’53

Medium

• Books: Time travel romance novelist Gwen Cready, AB’83, MBA’86
• Games: Chess expert Eric Schiller, AB’76, AM’84, PhD’91
• Outliers: Author, spy, and men’s lady Martha Dodd, EX’30
• UChicago style: Bodybuilder Lauren (Murphy) Siegel, AB’88
• Vox discipulorum: Professors’ books

Short

• Administrivia: Towers of power
• Alumni essay: The accidental entrepreneur
• From the editor: We’ll always have Paris
• Top eight: Dead languages
• UChicago creatures: Cabbage white butterfly

Et cetera

• Poem: “leadbelly v. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934”
• Recipe: Bodybuilder’s breakfast
• Seen and heard: The Class of 2018 and their families

 

Administrivia

Towers of power

A short history of UChicago’s tallest buildings.

Research by Claudette Crump; Illustration by Tom Tian, AB’10

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At 207 feet, Rockefeller Chapel has been the skyscraper of UChicago since 1928; John D. Rockefeller’s gift stipulated that no building could be taller. But it’s not the tallest structure ever built on campus. That honor goes to the 264-foot Ferris wheel, which stood for a year on the Midway at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.

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