Grey City’s deep dive into the Maroon’s archive presents a lineage of civil disobedience and radical action by students against the administration over collegiate, local, and international issues.
On November 30, the world stopped turning for the approximately 250 students of Earth as a Planet: Exploring Our Place in the Universe (PHSC 10800) when the professor Fred Ciesla sent an email titled “Important: Moon Journal Grades”. While on the surface, Ciesla’s email and what prompted it seemed like a run-of-the-mill academic integrity scandal,.
UChicago Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organized a remembrance and prayer outside Kent Chemical Laboratory to commemorate Palestinian lives lost in the ongoing war in Gaza on November 16. Speakers at the event included Palestinian students and community members, as well as members of the Council on American Islamic.