Ibidem: Computation Center, c. 1961

“Perhaps it is time the ‘work ethic’ was redefined and its idea reclaimed from the banal men who invoke it. In a world of cybernetics, of an almost runaway technology, things are increasingly making things. It is for our species, it would seem, to go on to other matters. Human matters.”—Studs Terkel, Working (1972)
 

• Medium

  • Club news: That was Italian
    A found scrapbook, a lost era. Che bello.

    Forgotten history: Food life
    Fine dining found a fine muse in Alma Lach, EX’38.

    Office hours with Aden Kumler, AB’96:
    Stuff matters
    A College alumna learns you can go home again. You may just have to put your bass guitar in storage.

    Outliers: Bon viveur
    Carl Van Vechten never saw a taboo he wasn’t itching to break.

    That’s nice: Check your ego at the door
    In the community with the Institute of Politics.

• Short

  • Administrivia
    Metcalf madness.

  • From the editor
    

    Double identity.

  • From the Interwebs
    

    LOL scholars.

  • Short answer
    School of hard knocks.

    Top five
    Survival guides.

    UChicago creatures
    Big dog on campus.

• Et cetera

  • Poem by Campbell McGrath, AB’84
    Ode to a can of Schaefer beer.

    Recipe
    French toast, extreme edition.

  • Seen and heard
    Suit you, sir.