When I first moved downtown, I tried to bike to campus a few times. Unfortunately, I always forget that I am a really sweaty person, and I quickly learned why biking would be a bad idea.
Alternative Housing
What Does it Take to Take on Your Management Company?
by Christopher Riehle •
What would it be like to have the resources of a management conglomerate arrayed against you? Shane Desautels—a health-literacy instructor, self-described activist, and tenant at TLC’s Flamingo property on the corner of 55th and South Shore Drive—doesn’t have to ask.
Harper Livin’
by Justin Krivda •
A Renaissance Man With A Panda Covered BlanketFor about four weeks in March and April 2011, I didn’t have what most would call a home. I like to say that I didn’t have a house—the world is always my home.…
All Together Now
by Rachel Wiseman •
While renting an apartment or living in University housing may be the default choices, there are other alternatives. In Hyde Park alone there are three established housing co-ops—Bowers, Concord, and Haymarket—which provide room and board at a low premium, plus…
Inhabiting the Frat
by Rebecca Stoner and Nandini Ramakrishnan •
“It’s sort of like being at an overnight summer camp,” says AEPi brother Jacob Rabinowitz, describing what it’s like to live in a frat on the UofC Campus. “It’s the little things that happen all the time. Just hanging out…spontaneous…
