GRADUATION ISSUE Class of 2018
MAY 25, 2018 / VOL. 129, ISSUE 51
EDITOR’S NOTE This can be a taxing school— academically, financially, and socially. Tallying 42 credits is quite an achievement, but you’ve done so much more than that. You’ve built up student groups and social movements. You’ve contributed to research projects that are changing the world. You’ve landed internships and jobs (or not, but it’ll all work out soon). You’ve won athletic championships, poetry awards, and quiz bowl competitions. You’ve been our TAs, our RAs, our housemates, our classmates, our teammates, our meme page moderators, our coworkers, our role models, and our friends.
To get into the University of Chicago, some students in the Class of 2018 wrote admissions essays responding to a Don Delillo quote, “[History is] the sum total of all the things they aren’t telling us,” and you tried to answer the question, “What is history, who are ‘they,’ and what aren’t they telling us?” For the last four years, T he M aroon has tried to tell you some of the stories that “they,” the administrators, shy away from discussing. Graduation is a time that calls for honest reflection about your time here, your “history.” That’s what this issue aims to do.
INSIDE A look back at the last four years of campus news PAGE 2 Part-time status is needed when life intervenes, a former editor writes PAGE 4 Recognizing the year’s top athletes PAGE 7 The College stops charging extra for five classes PAGE 16