Features

School for Sandals
In the Bahamas, students spent spring break at work in the field—of dreams.
Laura Demanski, AM'94
Making It Up as She Goes Along
For comedy writer Tami Sagher, improvisation offers rules for art and life.
Elizabeth Station
Karl Popper and Antarctic Ice
The climate debate and its problems
Peter Borah, Class of 2012

Departments

A Good Innings

Batting and bowling with the cricket club.

Composition of Forces

Alumni Vicki and Thomas Flippin make waves in their fields.

In Deep Water

Why is this class being taught by robots?

Loose Canon

“Don't you write a book about this, George Orwell!”

Web Feature
- Interview with a Gentrifier
  Young Bohemians and gentrification in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
In Every Issue
- Editor's Note
  Why no Core staffers got to go to the Bahamas.
- Letters
  Boring articles, lazy writers, football should be banned—again!
Marginalia
- Seen & Heard
  After 34 years of teaching, Amy Kass, AB'62, is still unraveling Moby-Dick.
- Top Ten: Double Feature
  Philosophy prof Robert Pippin lists the best noirs and Westerns.
- Loose Canon
  “Don't you write a book about this, George Orwell!”
Go Ask Alumni
- What was your job during college?
  Pin-setter, morgue diener, coffee slinger…
Beyond the Quads
- Getting the Story
  Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert, AB’05, breaks big news at a small paper.
- In Deep Water
  Why is this class being taught by robots?
Eye on the Quads
- Books on Film
  In 1969, did the card catalog need protecting?
- Bill Michel, AB'92, MBA'08, as himself
  Questions for the longtime dean, now Logan Center director
- Secret Society
  James Fallows would like to correct your grammar.
- Digital Diehards
  A search for the oldest computers on campus.
Web Extras
- Spies, Hittites, Talk Like Barack
  A short list of cool enrichment classes taught by undergrads.
- What Was High School For, Anyway?
  Alexander Elnabli, AB'10, tries to answer.

The University of Chicago Magazine has been published continuously since 1907; here’s the latest bimonthly issue:

True grit
In a heated showdown with Western cattlemen, Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel, AB’72, tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands.

Eye robot
Chicago geophysical scientist Patrick McGuire, AB’89, develops artificial-intelligence technology to turn astronauts into “cyborg astrobiologists.”

A nurse’s shift
Former academic Theresa Brown, AB’87, PhD’94, finds personal fulfillment—and a different set of intellectual problems—amid health-care shortfalls and patients who face matters of life and death.

A novel approach
Presumed dead by the Alumni Association, Alan M. Charlens, SB’58, PhD’63 shares some life benchmarks, told through four writers’ lenses.

Are you ready for some broomball?
In early February students from Crown and Alper houses converged on the ice rink for a match-up in intramural broomball, a favorite of College students since the rink’s 2002 construction.