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:: By Hana Yoo, '07
On the quads
The College admissions office received a record 9,567 applications for the Class of 2010, up 6.9 percent from last year. Applications from students of color rose slightly, while international applications soared 33 percent, the highest-ever yearly increase. Admissions dean Ted O’Neill, AM’70, attributed the upswing to recruiting efforts in East Asia, Europe, and a few African countries Chicago admissions staffers visited for the first time....
University of Chicago Police Department officers arrested four demonstrators, including Jeremy Cohan, ’06, Ben Fink, ’06, and Tom Discepola, ’07, February 21 as they protested military recruiters in the Reynolds Club Marketplace. Cohan and Fink held a swastika-decorated poster that read “Don’t Join the Marines, Join the American Nazi Youth” and chanted such slogans as “We do what the Marines do, but better.” The protesters, charged with disorderly conduct, were scheduled to appear in court April 5....
After a two-year streak at the top, Chicago dropped to a tie for second place among Peace Corps volunteer–producing schools with 5,000 or fewer undergraduates. The U of C and Wesleyan University placed just behind Dartmouth College. Chicago Peace Corps spokesman Scot Roskelley called the U of C “one of our greatest joys”....
The joy of publishing hit campus during winter quarter, with the debut of two student-run publications: the Midway Review, a nonpartisan journal for political and cultural analysis and criticism, and Noyes: The Chicago Maroon Magazine, a news magazine....
The College’s economics department has raised its statistics requirement for majors, making Statistical Models and Methods the new prerequisite for econometrics classes. “To become good economists, students must be literate, numerate, and able to analyze real-world problems,” Grace Tsiang, AM’83, PhD’91, who directs the undergraduate economics program, told the Maroon, noting that American students’ mathematical and statistical training lags behind what students in many Asian and European countries receive.
