Susie Allen, AB’09, recalls the human drama and sitcom qualities of the Reg’s One True Floor.

This alumni essay was also published in the University of Chicago Magazine's Sept–Oct/14 issue. 

"We paid close attention to our fellow regulars and monitored their joys and sorrows. If you looked hard enough, you could see the entire drama play out on the fourth floor."

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Performed by Susie Allen, AB'09. Edited by Jake Smith, AB'13. Musical segments ("Little Chance," "The Wrong Way," and "Take Me Higher") created by Jahzzar: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/jahzzar.


UChicago Magazine: Alumni Essay—"The regulars"

Five scholars discuss how the looting of antiquities puts our cultural heritage in peril, and what to do about it.

"The terrorist connection is going to help fight this more than any kind of cultural arguments we could make."

An excerpt of this conversation was also published in the University of Chicago Magazine's Summer/17 issue. http://mag.uchicago.edu/heritage-peril

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Discussion participants: UChicago’s Lawrence Rothfield, associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, and Gil L. Stein, senior advisor to the provost for cultural heritage and professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; DePaul University’s Patty Gerstenblith, distinguished research professor of law, and Morag Kersel, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology; and Fiona Greenland, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.  

Music ("Wataridori 2") written and performed by Cornelius. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Wired_Magazine/The_WIRED_CD_Rip_Sample_Mash_Share

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