blushingmaroon (UChicago)

blushingmaroon

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First Snow

First Snow
if only every snow were like the first
Latest comment by Anonymous: anddd one of my roommates actually bought a holiday cd at starbucks... so that pretty much made it official

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Obama's Got Game, Literally

Obama's Got Game, Literally

We've had presidents who golfed, Lincoln liked wrestling, Clinton jogged, Bush Jr attempted to bike but Obama is proving to be a new kind of president: a "baller."

 

Obama showed off his basketball skills Sunday at the UofC Lab School where he was seen playing some pick up.  And it wasn't your little sister's game of horse, oh no.

 

Obama was s...

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Palin Pardons a Turkey, Chats Obliviously while another is Slaughtered

Palin Pardons a Turkey, Chats Obliviously while another is Slaughtered

And we thought she was old news. But oh no, Sarah Palin steals the spotlight once again as she pardoned a Thanksgiving Turkey yesterday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery near Wasilla, Al. Unfortunately after her pardon, not all of our feathery friends were saved. While being interviewed, a Turkey is slaughtered behind a seeminlgy oblivious Palin. Warn...

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Gender Neutral Housing: Finally!

Gender Neutral Housing: Finally!

For over two years the Inner House Council has been debating the issue and appealing to higher administration to have gender neutral housing approved and this past Friday the housing department finally caved. Open Housing has passed and students can now officially live with the opposite sex officially instead of “sexiling” their same-sex roommat...

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Fashion Enthusiasts Clutch their Hems over the Fate of "Project Runway"

Fashion Enthusiasts Clutch their Hems over the Fate of "Project Runway"

Currently in its 5th season of success Project Runway may be on the brink of collapse. It is always drama, drama, drama in the fashion world and the show that has demonstrated how creativity can do it all, including bringing fashion to the masses, is being sued for 200 million with the main question of its continuing on for season 6 circling in ...

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Chicago Rocks the Field

Chicago Rocks the Field
Woman's soccer has made it to the second round of the DIII NCAA tournament, the furthest they've made it in the past three years. GOOD LUCK!
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Fall Fashion Flaunts

Fall Fashion Flaunts
MODA models showing off, off the runway
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Lascivious Ball Calls for Sexual Expression

Lascivious Ball Calls for Sexual Expression

Tonight after 24 years HYPE is bring The Lasciovious Costume Ball back to the UofC. What is it, you ask. Well in the 70s and 80s the ball was put on by Queer and Associates (the equivaelnt organization at the time) as a celebration of sexuality of every form and typle. But eventually the event canceled due to indecent exposure. Tonight in Ida No...

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A Typical Night in Bradbury

A Typical Night in Bradbury
Apparently what happens in Bradbury, doesn't stay in Bradbury
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The New and Improved BSB

The New and Improved BSB

Last week proved that “what’s in a name” is money. Last Wednesday the GSB received the largest gift a single graduate school has ever seen and was immediately renamed that same day to The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The BSB, if you will.

 

 

David Booth gave a $300 million donation to the Graduate School of business, allocati...

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