Ibidem: Alumni bus tour, 1968

“This teacher does not exactly lead us to something and show it to us. It is more as if he stands in front of something which he can see and we cannot, pointing at it, talking about it, while all the time we see nothing. ... Then gradually ... we start to see it.”—James Redfield, LAB’50, AB’54, PhD’61, Quantrell Award Winner 1965, 1987
 

• Medium

  • Art and design: Signal to noise
    Actor, writer, and Edes Prize winner Lila Newman, AB’09, on the art of sound.

    Clubs: Calculated risk
    The UChicago Actuarial Initiative promotes math for fun and profit.

    Housing: La vie est belle
    The glamorous, mysterious life of Renée (Rupert) Granville-Grossman, AB’63.

    Obituary: Donald Levine, AB’50, AM’54, PhD’57 (1931–2015)
    Sociologist, professor, College dean, black belt, and Kuvia cofounder.

    Sports: Field position
    Head baseball coach John Fitzgerald, AB’98, on yelling, thinking, and failing.

    Student life: Trivia, pursued
    An evening of details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value.

    You need to know: Nobody cares what you think
    Tips on speechwriting from Larry McEnerney, AB’80, director of the University of Chicago’s Writing Program and longtime instructor of the beloved class Little Red School House.

• Short

  • From the editor
    The aims of what now? Plus: Bird of passage

  • In the classroom
    

    There’s an app for that

  • Short answer
    

    In the final analysis

  • Top 13
    Fundamentals questions

    UChicago creatures
    An octopus’s garden

• Et cetera

  • Poetry
    Call and response

    Recipe
    Tasty invasive

  • Seen and heard
    Big shoes to Phil