Tag: The University

  • Organizing in uchicago’s Culture of Amnesia (part 1)

    by Motyl, April 10, 2025, 11:00 /// At first glance, Woodlawn Residential Commons is like any other modern building. If you’ve had the displeasure of living there, you might have been hounded by false alarms or driven half-mad by paper-thin walls that didn’t even touch the ceiling—you could hear almost every word your neighbor said,…

  • UChicago’s Guide to “Civil Behavior in a University Setting” Amidst Genocide

    by anonymous, April 4, 2025, 13:10 /// What follows is a set of policies changed following the campus activism of 2024, announced by the University of Chicago this past July. We are sharing this now as figures on campus call for the University to stand up for free-expression in the face of increased repression of…

  • Plainclothes UCPD Officers Return

    by anonymous, April 4, 2025, 12:41 /// A week ago today, on March 28th, at an event hosted by the Chicago Forum on Free Expression about the ongoing assault on Universities by the current administration, a community member identified a member of the audience as a plainclothes University of Chicago Police Department officer. Said officer…

  • Why UCUP Cut Ties With the maroon

    by UCUP Organizer, November 10, 2024, 2:31 /// “the maroon needs us more than we need them.”  The chicago maroon has long asserted itself as the go-to newspaper on campus for good journalism. From the second we get here, it’s where we’re told to look to find rigorous, comprehensive coverage of a whole host of…

  • RECAP: Actions at Uchicago this Year So Far

    by editors, November 10, 2024, 2:25 /// Timeline: Sept 25: Palestine Legal and UCUP filed a federal civil rights complaint against uchicago with the Office of Civil Rights + uchicago announces new protest policies The complaint demands an investigation of uchicago’s discrimination against Palestinian, Muslim and Arab students, as well as students associated with Palestine.…

  • building an antiracist stem space at UChicago

    by ourSTEM, November 7, 2024, 11:50 /// ourSTEM is a new anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-transphobic, decolonial spaces for STEM students at UChicago. Our goals are: -to provide a space for students that explores the potential of our STEM educations when they’re not just used for weapons, war, surveillance, or private capital, -to provide academic and community…

  • Quantum Campus: The $9 billion DoD testing ground coming to the South Side in 2025

    by UChicago Dissenters, November 7, 2024, 11:40 /// The U.S. Department of Defense and the State of Illinois announced in July 2024 plans to build a $9,000,000,000 ‘quantum campus’ at the former South Works steel mill site on the Southeast Side.
This quantum campus is a collaboration between the DOD, Pritzker, Brandon Johnson, and the Chicago…

  • Why the Fight for Divestment on U.S. Campuses is Transformative

    by Hassan, March 8, 2024, 3:18 /// Every day, we student organizers at UChicago, like millions of young people around the world, are confronted with the horrific genocide of Palestinians. This Zionist genocide is backed by “our” government and most of “our” prominent institutions, which makes us directly complicit. I put the word “our” in…