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Jon Zaghloul admits that his life as a University of Chicago student and aspiring sports broadcaster is “just a bit hectic.” In addition to managing a full academic schedule each week, the second-year economics major records a show for campus radio station WHPK, provides color commentary and play-by-play for UChicago athletics, and also tapes a weekly podcast from his UChicago dorm room. This past summer, Zaghloul, a standout high school baseball player, made national headlines by both broadcasting and playing in a game. A former pitcher from suburban Chicago, Zaghloul was offered a full baseball scholarship to play at a smaller college program in Illinois. But that possibility only reaffirmed his desire to attend UChicago, where he hopes his degree will one day lead to a role with a pro sports team—either in the front office or the broadcast booth. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-

Too often, editors are regarded with fear, characterized as steely authorities slashing red pens left and right. Instead of collaborators, they loom as stern gatekeepers, eager for the chance to slap down draconian rules. Full Story: As a contributing editor at UChicago Press and the Chicago Manual of Style's de facto public face, Carol Saller has spent much of her career trying to fix that misconception. To her, style guides are simply guides, couched with words like “may,” “sometimes” and “usually.” What should matter most is context and clarity, she said, prioritizing the reader over a set of rules. Saller was chief copy editor of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, revered by style sticklers and grammar geeks everywhere. Before retiring from the Press last year, Saller wrote The Subversive Copy Editor, which she considers “a relationship book” for writers and editors. That book grew directly out of her 20 years as the voice of The Chicago Manual of Style Online Q&A, a

“Are the peanuts going to eat the fork?” That possibility weighed heavily on one little girl during a recent Saturday afternoon at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Sitting among other children and parents, she had just finished watching Hank the Cave Peanut, an animated short in which a pith-helmeted legume leads a successful hunt for an untamed fork. For director Ron McAdow, AB’71, the MoMA screening and Q&A marked the latest stop on a filmmaking journey that began at the University of Chicago, where he’d turned his apartment dining room into a makeshift studio. After McAdow graduated, he moved to Holliston, Massachusetts, creating short segments for the television show Jabberwocky. McAdow followed up on Jabberwocky with two longer independent shorts: Hank the Cave Peanut (1974), which led to a gig on the math-oriented program Infinity Factory, and Captain Silas (1977). He distributed the films himself to libraries and nonprofits, one of which later sold copies to MoMA. Last summer,

Meet a UChicagoan: Sam Pluta didn’t learn how to play an instrument until he was 18, when he started taking piano classes in college. Now an assistant professor in UChicago’s Department of Music, his popular classes help bridge the gaps between art, math and computers. On a campus immersed in theory, they represent for students a creative outlet—a chance for to make their own music, unconstrained by genre. Although he performs in concert halls, most of the music Pluta makes doesn’t sound like untouched voices, strings or horns. His work is electronic and experimental, like a less radio-friendly version of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

Meet UChicagoan Justin Kasper: he once created a nuclear reactor in his dorm. Now he’s building the impossible for NASA. Kasper heads a team that built a key instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is flying closer to the sun than any previous craft. But he has experience making things that shouldn’t exist; he and roommate Fred Niell, AB’99, became campus legends when they built a working breeder nuclear reactor in Kasper’s Burton-Judson dorm room for the 1999 Scav Hunt... Read the full story here: *** ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or