IN THIS ISSUE

School of thought
In Winning Words classes, kids pose the questions and struggle with the answers.
David L. Hoyt, AB’91
Join the club
Students venture forth into an enchanting universe of potions, dragons, and oversized chess pieces.
Emily Wang, ’14, and Colin Bradley, ’14
Desire for history
A College class uncovers the history of gay and lesbian student life.
Elizabeth Station

PLUS ...

A question of faith

A week after Romney lost the election, Mormon students explain their religious beliefs.

Need a ride—in a bomber?

Then you should talk to Margaret Viola.

Planned partnership

In the 1960s the University almost brought a Catholic women’s college to Woodlawn.

Medium
- Art
  
  A quirky old house becomes Creative Writing’s new home.
  
  Books
  UChicago nerds don't just read science fiction. Some of them write it.
  
  Office hours with Adam Green
  A historian tells his own story.
  
  Outliers
  Alexander Saxton, failed novelist and unapologetic Communist, became an eminent historian of labor.
Short
- From the editor
  
  Please ... and thank you.
  
  Short answer
  Alumni share memories of swim tests and cheating in P.E.
  
  Top ten: Laugh lines
  Ten best jokes from the 2011-12 Off-Off Campus season.
  
  Words and quotes
  Excerpts from UChicago Compliments.
  
  How to ...
  ... cast an ancient Greek love spell.
  
  Administrivia
  Single, double, and triple majors.
  
  UChicago creatures
  Modo Rockefeller, chapel cat.
Et cetera
- Seen and heard
  The student entrepreneurs behind the scooter trend.
  
  Recipe
  Brussels sprouts for people who hate Brussels sprouts
  
  What they’re wearing these days
  Library pins: Collect ’em all.

The University of Chicago Magazine has been published continuously since 1907; here are the features from the Jan–Feb/13 issue:

A passage to India
In 1956, two new PhDs drove a Land Rover from Austria to India to begin the research that would be their life’s work. Notes from their journey.

Under the covers
Isaac Tobin’s designs for University of Chicago Press books provoke readers to take a deeper look.

Twilight zone
Exploring the attributes of low light, an architect and a physicist try to cultivate a dim awareness.

Needle and threat
The road to safe, reliable bioweapon vaccines for children is fraught with ethical peril. On campus last fall, experts began to plot it out.

Spiritual leader
Benjamin Elijah Mays, AM’25, PhD’35, was the conscience of the civil rights movement.