Many offices and classes of the College are located in the heart of the campus.

The College is the sole undergraduate institution and one of the oldest components of the University of Chicago, emerging contemporaneously with the university at large in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty across all graduate divisions and schools for its 4400 students; however, the college retains a select group of young, propriety scholars who cater to its core curriculum offerings. However, unlike many major American research universities, the college is small in comparison to the universities' graduate divisions in aggregate, with graduate students outnumbering undergraduates at a 2:1 ratio. The college is most notable for its core curriculum pioneered by Robert Maynard Hutchins, which remains the most expansive amongst highly ranked American colleges, as well as its emphasis on preparing students for continued graduate study (sending on the highest percentage within five years to graduate school save the Johns Hopkins University). Image File history File links AQuadBuilding1. ... Image File history File links AQuadBuilding1. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was a philosopher. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

Reputation and admissions

US News & World Reports ranks the University of Chicago at 9th in the nation for undergraduate education, tied with Columbia University and Dartmouth College, with a rank of 6th in a peer assessment by academic deans. In 2007 Princeton Review named the College as having the, "Best Undergraduate Academic Experience," in the United States. For the most recent application cycle the school had the 11th highest SAT score band in the nation (1350-1530). Historically, the school has been noted for a low graduation and retention rate given the strength of its incoming classes. However, several plans by the college to ensure student success have brought the school in the 20th in the nation in this category[1]. The Princeton Review moreover finds in general that applicants to Chicago also simultaneously apply to Ivy League institutions and their associates [2]. Image File history File links Chicagoemblem2. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit U.S. company that offers private instruction and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and MCAT. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in... The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. ...

The school currently utilizes a self-dubbed “uncommon application,” and hence does not accept the more popular, nationalized common application for collegiate admissions that can be sent to multiple institutions (in an effort to deter marginally interested applicants). Its cornerstone is an essay that carries heavy weight in the decision making process according to current Dean of Admissions Ted O'Neill. Prompts for the piece have ranged from the bizarre, “Write an essay somehow inspired by super-huge mustard,” to esoteric quotes by famous individuals such a Zen Master Shoitsu, posing as a prompt the statement (without any question), “mind that does not stick [3].” However, the admissions office in the fall of 2006 announced that it would switch to the common application for the class of 2012, while still maintaining its unique set of questions.[4][5]. The Common Application (informally known as the Common App) is a college admission application that students may use to apply to any of 300 member universities in the United States. ... Theodore A. Ted ONeill is the Dean of Admissions at the University of Chicago and a prominent figure in the college admissions community, as well as a lecturer in the universitys Humanities department. ... This article is about the religion Zen. ...

The Uncommon Application is slated to be replaced with the Common Application in the 2007 admissions cycle, but with the famous questions in-tact as a required supplement.[6]

Culture

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The college’s official motto used in student literature is the “life of the mind,” drawing attention to the school’s serious academic environment. Alternatively, a popular phrase with students is “where fun comes to die,” describing the school's lack of a stereotypical college party culture. Image File history File links Information_icon. ...

Although Greek life is not predominant among the undergraduate population, there are many active--but unrecognized by the University--fraternities and sororities that have established histories with the College, including Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Phi Omega, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Upsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Psi Upsilon, and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities, as well as Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta, sororities. During the school year, one or two of the fraternities will usually throw a house party on the weekend (with the exception of holidays and "finals week"). The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words and , meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Delta Sigma Phi, Rotary International, Optimist International, Ordo Templi Orientis or the Shriners. ... Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ) is a Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada. ... Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ or AEPi) is currently the only international Jewish college fraternity in the United States and Canada. ... Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. ... Alpha Phi Omega (commonly known as APO, but also ΑΦΩ, A-Phi-O, and A-Phi-Q) is a co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership development. ... Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D K E or Deke) is the oldest secret college mens fraternity of New England origin. ... Delta Upsilon (ΔΥ) is a non-secret international gentlemens fraternity founded on November 4, 1834 at Williams College. ... Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... Psi Upsilon (ΨΥ, Psi U) is the fifth oldest college fraternity, founded at Union College in 1833. ... ΣΦΕ (Sigma Phi Epsilon), commonly nicknamed SigEp, is a social fraternity for male college students in the United States. ... Alpha Omicron Pi (ΑΟΠ, AOII) is an international fraternity that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York. ... Delta Gamma (ΔΓ) Fraternity is one of the oldest and largest womens fraternities in the United States, based in Columbus, Ohio. ... Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ) is an international womens fraternity founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. ...

Traditions

Summer Breeze, the University of Chicago's annual spring concert, typically attracts thousands of students. In 2006, George Clinton (pictured) headlined Summer Breeze.

• Summer Breeze - The university's annual late spring concert. Past musicians who have performed at Summer Breeze include Wilco, Eminem, Run DMC, They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Method Man, Moby, Fuel, Nas, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, OK Go, Mos Def, and George Clinton. A three-day outdoor festival (including an all-night dance party on the Main Quads) accompanies the event.
• Shake Day - Milkshakes sell for only one dollar every Wednesday at the Reynolds Club.^[1] The Einstein Bros. Bagels franchise were only allowed to open on campus after adhering to this tradition.
• Midnight Breakfast - A midnight breakfast is held during every "finals week" of the academic year, attracting students and faculty members alike.^[2]
• Track Team Streak - At 10:00 p.m. on the Sunday night before "finals week" of the winter quarter, the University of Chicago track team streaks through the Regenstein Library. ^[3]
• O-Week - Every year since 1934, the University of Chicago has set time aside before classes begin to provide an introduction to the University for all new students.

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Scavenger Hunt

Main article: University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt

The annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt is a multi-day event in which large teams compete to obtain all of the notoriously esoteric items on a list. Held every May since 1987, it is considered to be the largest scavenger hunt in the world.^[4] Established by student Chris Straus, the "Scav Hunt" (as it is known among University students) has become one of the university's most popular traditions and has typically pushed the boundaries of absurdity. Each year, the list includes roughly 300 items, each with an assigned point value; the items vary widely, and often include performances, large-scale construction, technological construction, competition, and travel, as well as the traditional "find this item" listings. Most teams fall well short of completing half of the list and instead compete for total points amassed. The more difficult and time-consuming items earn more points, and teams typically devote more resources into these items. Qwazy Quad Rally: Wacky Races against Judges Dick Dastardly and Muttley! Scav Hunt 2005, item #38. ... Qwazy Quad Rally: Wacky Races against Judges Dick Dastardly and Muttley! Scav Hunt 2005, item #38. ... A scavenger hunt is a game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list. ...

Student organizations

Campus lights illuminate the North Campus Quadrangle at sunset.

Notable extracurricular groups include the University of Chicago College Bowl Team, which has won 118 tournaments and 15 national championships, leading both categories internationally. The Chicago Debate Society has had a top four team at the American Parliamentary Debate Association's National Championship tournament four out of the past five years. Model United Nations is also strong, winning major university simulations each year. Image File history File links EveningQuads. ... Image File history File links EveningQuads. ... Churchill College - Cambridge plays York on University Challenge, a televised quizbowl programme. ... The American Parliamentary Debating Association (APDA) is one of two major intercollegiate parliamentary debating associations in the United States, the other being the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). ... Model United Nations (also known as a Model UN or a MUN) is a simulation education activity focusing on civics, communications, globalization and multilateral diplomacy. ...

Chicago Society, an undergraduate student organization that brings world leaders to speak on campus, is the University's spearhead organization in bringing major speakers to campus. Chicago Society's most famous event titled "China and the Future of the World" Chicago Society (founded 2001) is a recognized student organization at the University of Chicago. ...

Wang Guangya, the Chinese Ambassador to the UN, speaks at "China and the Future of the World," a two-day symposium organized by Chicago Society.

held in the spring of 2006 consisted of a two-day symposium on China's rapid political, economic, and social development and its impact on the world. For the symposium, Chicago Society brought in numerous high-level American and Chinese government officials including Wang Guangya, the Chinese ambassador to the UN; Christopher Hill, head of the American delegation in the North Korea six-way talks; and Peter Rodman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Image File history File links China-conference. ... Image File history File links China-conference. ...

The university's independent student newspaper is the Chicago Maroon. Founded in 1892, the same year as the university, the newspaper is published every Tuesday and Friday. A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, or middle school. ... The Chicago Maroon is the independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago with a circulation of 7,500. ...

The University of Chicago's University Theater is one of the oldest student-run theatre organizations in the country, involving as many as 500 members of the university community, producing 30 to 35 shows a year, and selling on the order of 10,000 tickets. It also operates Off-Off Campus, the University's improv comedy troupe, started in 1986 by Bernard Sahlins, one of the founders of Second City. Improvisational comedy (also called improv or impro) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. ... The second city of a country is the city that is (or was) the second-most important, usually after the capital or first city, according to some criteria. ...

WHPK, a student-run and University-owned radio station, broadcasts out of the Reynolds Club on the university campus. DJ "JP Chill" has had a rap and hip hop show on WHPK since 1986. It was one of the earliest rap shows in the country and the first in Chicago. WHPK 88. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... very gay West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg performing for the US Navy For information on rap music, see hip hop music. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor...

Vita Excolatur, a student-published erotic magazine, began publication in 2004.

The Chicago Weekly is a student-run newspaper covering the arts on the South Side of Chicago.

The administration has worked closely with students in recent years to combat the university's reputation as "where fun comes to die," which some claim have discouraged top students from taking the university into serious consideration when researching colleges.

Doc Films

Main article: Doc Films

Doc Films, founded in 1932 (originally the Documentary Film Group), is the oldest student film society in the country. Amongst entries in Vanity Fair's "Film Snob's Dictionary" for AIP, Anger, Kenneth and Farber, and Seijun, Doc Films is described as "Hard-core beyond words and lay comprehension, the society is populated by 19-year olds who have already seen every film ever made, and boasts its own Dolby Digital-equipped cinema and an impressive roster of alumni that includes Snob-revered critic Dave Kehr." ^[5] During the school year, Doc Films screens a different film on every night of the week. Featuring 35mm and 16mm projecters that are maintained and operated by students, Foreign films and documentaries are typically screened on weekdays, while recent, mainstream selections are shown on weekends. Occasionally, Doc Films screens works that have not yet been released to the general public, such as Corpse Bride and Brokeback Mountain. Doc Films, or the Documentary Film Group, is on record with the Museum of Modern Art in New York as the longest running student-film group in the United States, founded in 1929 at the University of Chicago. ... A foreign film is a film that is considered foreign in a particular country. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Tim Burtons Corpse Bride is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated stop-motion-animation film based loosely on a 19th century Russian-Jewish folktale version of an older Jewish story and set in a fictional Victorian era England. ... Brokeback Mountain is an acclaimed Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts the complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. ...

Doc Films has hosted many luminaries as guests, including Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Woody Allen. Most recently, in November 2005, director Ang Lee and producer James Schamus visited the University of Chicago to screen the film Brokeback Mountain a month before its American debut, and to participate in a question-and-answer session with students.^[6] Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ... Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, musician, and comedian. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... James Schamus is an American screenwriter and film producer, noted for his work on critically acclaimed independent films such as Safe, The Brothers McMullen and the Academy Award winning film Brokeback Mountain. ... Brokeback Mountain is an acclaimed Academy Award-winning 2005 film that depicts the complex emotional, sexual, and romantic relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. ...

Athletics

The schools Division III, University Athletic Association NCAA teams are not a major focus on campus today, appearing almost “minimal” in their role on campus to “non-existent” according to students [7]. However, in the early half of the twentieth century the school was power house in Big Ten Conference play, notably football. Yet, President Robert Maynard Hutchins suspended sports for several years though during his tenure fearing their digressive nature from academic endeavors, ending the prominence of most athletic programs. Today the many programs aim to cultivate the “student-athlete,” the emphasis being on balance between the two. Division III consists of institutions who recognize that collegiate athletics can be an integral part of the educational process. ... The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Big Ten redirects here. ... Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was a philosopher. ...

Core curriculum

The University of Chicago requires all undergraduates to fulfill "the core," which demands work across all areas of the liberal arts for both A.B. and S.B. concentrators, albeit in a form reduced from the Hutchins era. Currently, 15 courses are required in addition to tested foreign language proficiency (one year of de novo study being expected as preparation) if no Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examinations are used for exemption (a reduction of six credits, or two full-time quarters, may be achieved via this method). While the science curriculum has largely followed the intellectual evolution of its respective fields, the requisite humanities and social science sequences now have several variants that encompass non-Western, non-canonical, and critical theory texts. This is a departure from the school’s traditional ties to texts of the European tradition such as Plato and Locke. While in totality the core curriculum’s goal is to impart an education that is both timeless and a vehicle for interdisciplinary debate, the increasing number of options to students within its confines produces a wide variety of backgrounds amongst graduates. Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was a philosopher. ... In general usage, de novo is a Latin expression meaning afresh, anew, beginning again. In Banking, a de novo bank is defined as a state member bank that has been in operation for five years or less. ... Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ... The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a group of three educational programmes, as established by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). ... In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories, one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. ... Template:Plato/Aristocles For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation). ... This article is about John Locke, the English philosopher. ...

Academics

The college offers 52 majors (originally called 'concentrations,' but changed in 2004). A primary departmental or committee affiliation is denoted for those whose names differ from that of their field designation. A student is awarded either the A.B. or S.B. degree, which is equivalent to the more popular B.A. and B.S. degree (the reversal resulting from the use of Latin). The College is known for its world-class Economics Department, as a result, nearly one-third of the undergraduate population pursues an economics major. The college notably does not offer study in preprofessional areas such as engineering, finance or nursing, however, students going on to graduate study in these fields often can select work in an areas such as physics, economics or biology, respectively, that will provide adequate preparation within the liberal arts tradition. The college recently introduced minors in a select numbers of fields, and also offers several joint bachelors / masters programs to high performing students. The majors are: Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

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House system

The college employs a house system whereby undergraduates living in dormitories are assigned to a block of students of usually no more than 70 which serves as a focal point for university events. Some campus dormitories contain several houses, while other domiciles have only one. Each building is overseen by a resident master, and should there be more than one house, each a resident head. An upper division undergraduate is then selected to serve in addition as a resident assistant for each house. All first years are required to live in housing, however, the availability of affordable, off campus apartments makes them a popular option with a sizable segment of the student body. Moreover, students are free to bid or request switches amid houses both between academic years and during them. As such, the house system is rather fluid, and many students often have more than one affiliation during their time at the college. The current building and attendant houses of the college are:

• Blackstone Hall
• Breckinridge Hall
• Broadview Hall
  • Palmer House
  • Talbot House
  • Wick House
• Burton-Judson Courts
  • Dodd-Mead House
  • Chamberlin House
  • Vincent House
  • Coulter House
  • Mathews House
  • Linn House
  • Salisbury House
• 5700 Stony Island
• Maclean House
• Max Palevsky Residential Commons
  • Alper House
  • Flint House
  • Hoover House
  • May House
  • Rickert House
  • Wallace House
  • Woodward House
  • Graham House
• Pierce Tower
  • Shorey House
  • Thompson House
  • Henderson House
  • Tufts House
• The Shoreland
  • Fallers House
  • Bishop House
  • Dewey House
  • Michelson House
  • Fishbein House
  • Compton House
  • Hale House
  • Filbey House
  • Bradbury House
  • Dudley House
• Snell-Hitchcock
  • Hitchcock House
  • Snell House