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Mark Walden

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  • University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer speaks at podium in Love Auditorium
    The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits government institutions from restricting freedom of speech. Private colleges are under no such obligation. So what does that mean for free expression in some of the nation’s most creative, intellectually curious places? Back in July of 2014, with protests taking place at universities across the country, University […]
    April 24, 2017
  • Former Vice President Joe Biden points his finger while chatting with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø President Brian W. Casey
    It was a pivotal policy day in Washington, D.C., as Congress failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who helped the Obama Administration enact health care legislation seven years ago, brought current events to the doorstep of Sanford Field House, where he addressed the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø community during the Kerschner […]
    March 24, 2017
  • Suppose, for a moment, that the Good Samaritan didn’t rescue just one person merely by chance. Let’s say that he spent his entire life walking up and down mountain passes, finding wounded travelers by the hundreds, spending his children’s lunch money on the medical bills. Would we still respect him? When New Yorker staff writer […]
    December 6, 2016
  • Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø students take selfie in front of Beijing skyline
    Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø students are taking lessons in the liberal arts outside the picturesque Chenango Valley — and in impressive numbers. The university has been ranked first among baccalaureate institutions for student participation in semester-long off-campus study opportunities. The rankings appeared in the annual Open Doors report, published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with the […]
    December 2, 2016
  • Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Ho Tung Visualization Lab’s domed screen.
    Some say that the death of a great philosopher in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹Ù꿉۪s Ho Tung Visualization Lab on October 27 was a miscarriage of justice and a stain on Athenian democracy. Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Vis Lab’s domed screen by actor H.C. Selkirk, didn’t require the response of law enforcement, but it did draw a crowd […]
    November 10, 2016
  • Vassar professor Nicholas Adams delivers lecture at podium in the Chapel House Sanctuary
    Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹Ù꿉۪s Chapel House is at once an architectural novelty and a sanctuary. Beneath the flat roof, behind the 1950s abstracted formalism, you’ll see rare works of religious art and books on world religion; you’ll find a dining room, music room, and living quarters. In silence and meditation, you can lose yourself or find yourself at […]
    November 9, 2016
  • President Brian W. Casey addresses a full Memorial Chapel during his inauguration ceremony.
    Within the historic precincts of Memorial Chapel, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø community looked forward to a bright and exciting future when it inaugurated Brian W. Casey as its 17th president on September 30. Hundreds of well-wishers packed the chapel for the ceremony — the highlight of a weeklong celebration of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø. Daniel B. Hurwitz ’86, P’17’20, chair […]
    October 3, 2016
  • Flaherty Film Seminar participants sit outside and engage in conversation
    They came. They saw. They confabbed — on culture and identity politics, the ethical responsibilities of a documentarian, and the proper balance of race and ethnicity in a program lineup. Then, the 170 attendees of this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar, held at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø from June 18 to 24, disbanded. For the university — Flaherty’s home […]
    July 14, 2016