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The Ransom Notes
Strong Singers, Stronger Bonds
Grey City Reporter Olivia Chilkoti takes a look at the thriving a cappella scene on campus, from auditions to competitions.
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February 18, 2019
Folklore Society Prepares the Latest Chapter in a Long History of Folk Music
Grey City gets to know the UChicago Folklore Society as they prepare for their annual Folk Festival, one of the oldest in the country, and takes a trip through the history of folk music from its roots to today.
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February 5, 2019
Dimitriy Leksanov
Community Redevelopment, a Dollar at a Time
Grey City visits I Grow Chicago's Englewood headquarters, a product of Chicago's new Large Lots program, to discuss the initiative's benefits and potential drawbacks.
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January 10, 2019
Sarah Wasinger
Innovation, Explosion, and Reckoning on Ellis Avenue
Grey City Reporter Rory Nevins dives deep beneath the "Nuclear Energy" statue to investigate the origins and implications of the Chicago Pile-1 reaction
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December 3, 2018
Dumbbells, Diving, and Dining: Bartlett's Varying Role on Campus
Grey City reporter Mallory Moore looks back at Bartlett dining hall's inception and traces how the building's function has changed along with the University's ethos in the intervening century.
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November 20, 2018
A Reckoning Inside Levi Hall
Comic journalist Sofia Garcia Martinez explores the 1969 student protests and expulsions that rocked the University in response to an assistant professor's firing.
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November 14, 2018
Chuck Flores and Dan Koehler
The Next Final Frontier: The Efforts to Save Yerkes Observatory
Community groups work to continue as many of the Yerkes Observatory programs as possible.
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November 8, 2018
Jeremy Lindenfeld
Treasure Island Sinks, Employees Left Without a Line
Treasure Island closed on Monday, leaving many employees without jobs and locals with fewer grocery options.
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October 12, 2018
University of Chicago
U of C’s Arts Block Wrangles With Neighbors, Winter Weather
“How many times have we been played about everything that comes to this community that’s supposed to be for us, that’s not supposed to push us out?”
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September 21, 2018
Philip Grew
Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017): The College’s Iconoclastic, Beloved, Chainsmoking Dean
President Gray: "He gave more courses than anyone I know because he really loved it."
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March 23, 2018
Ben Nikodem
Decoding the Decrepit
Fourth-year Ben Nikodem conveys his fascination with urban landscapes and industrial decay through this illustration series.
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October 29, 2017
Meera Joshi
Kafka in Visual Translation
"Worlds that are...stripped down to an uncanny, distorted, and persistently incomplete version of what is typically perceived as reality."
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October 19, 2017
Amelia Frank
It will never quite be this way again
"There is something immediately nostalgic about a photograph."
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October 5, 2017
Brooke Nagler
What Now?
The IOP grapples with its role in the Trump era.
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May 22, 2017
Amelia Frank
'A Special Problem': The University of Chicago’s Troubled History With Sexual Assault, Harassment, and Campus Safety
It is time to turn the lens inward.
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May 1, 2017
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Disciplining Disruption: Inside the High-Stakes Faculty Debate
There's an ultimatum of sorts.
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April 13, 2017
Meera Joshi
Revisiting the Past
An illustration series meant to convey the potentiality, hope, and realism that comes with the undergraduate experience.
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April 6, 2017
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