Ibidem: Midway Skating Rink, 1992

“The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.”—Michel de Montaigne, Essays
 

• Medium

  • Books: Oral history
    Dean John Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, tells the story behind his new book, The University of Chicago: A History.

    Clubs: Merrily we row along
    The crew team explains the joy of those predawn practices.

    Out of the classroom: Hate speech
    Keegan Hankes, AB’13, on how he learned to talk to racists.

    Politics: Wonkette and Axe
    Ana Marie Cox, AB’94, talks with David Axelrod, AB’76, director of the University’s Institute of Politics.

• Short

  • Administrivia: Fill in the blank
    Google Poetics is ...

  • From the editor: Dangerous
    

    On Robert Hutchins, John Boyer, and “an imagined noble past.”

  • Short answer: Extra credit
    

    When you were in the College, what influential teachers did you have outside the classroom? And what did you learn?

  • Top 10: Cross listed courses
    An exercise in interdisciplinarity.

    UChicago creatures: Symbolic scavengers
    Please don’t make assumptions about these nonheteronormative turkey vultures.

• Et cetera

  • Poetry: Illiterate
    Winner of the Study Abroad 2013–14 writing contest.

    Recipe: Tropical revue
    The recipes of Katherine Dunham, PhB’36, were as eclectic as her art.

  • Seen and heard: Mathematical model
    Mary Pierce, AB’15, on her secretly fashionable life.