Articles By: Suyeon Khim

The “Diskord Bump”

Pictured here: MySpace pageviews for The Webelos, courtesy of Next Big Sound In case you have ever hesitated to take the call of a Diskord reporter … check out the awesome peak in site stats for The Webelos on March 22, the day the Diskord article “Making It As A College Band” went up. Now,...

April 9th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More

Entrepreneurship Panels Winter 2010

The U. of C.’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship hosted multiple entrepreneurship panels in Winter 2010, with excellent turnout. Here’s a quick mash-up of the highlights: Exploring Entrepreneurship: Innovations in the Midwest Education Industry Best Talk: Provider of online learning K12...

March 13th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

by Sue Khim Just returned from watching the band Califone, one of Chicago’s own, play a live soundtrack to their Sundance-selected film All My Friends are Funeral Singers at Lincoln Hall. The film lives in the world of the supernatural, with superstitions lingering on the screen (e.g. It’s...

March 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Diskord Panopticon Road Trip

Do you enjoy visiting prisons? Join the Diskord staff at the Stateville Correctional Center to visit one of the few facilities in the world modeled after Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. It’s a long road trip, yes, but on the way we will read from trip-related classic Kafka’s The Castle...

February 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

Is NSIT Reading Your E-mails?

by Sue Khim Call me a cynic, but market forces say that when the going rate for student information is high, people with access to it are probably selling it. And think about it: You’re tech savvy. You have admin access privileges to the e-mail of everyone you see at the gym. It’s been a...

February 9th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

For your pleasure … Lady Robot

by Dahlia Rizk The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free. This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with technological news regarding items that until recently, we never knew we needed, but now, will never be able to live without. One such item has been the Apple iPad—the iPhone...

February 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Chicago Artists Month: Interview

I clicked away on my camera as Ted Harris wove through his large, high-ceilinged West Side warehouse studio stacked bottom to top with musty, junk-like matter. “Photographers love the clutter,” he grinned. The warehouse featured an open-door crawl this past Sunday, inviting in the public...

October 26th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

The U. of C.’s Ties With Citibank

There are only two institutions on campus that offer banking services – Citibank and the University of Chicago’s Maroon Financial Credit Union, and in case you’re still searching around campus for an ATM by any other name, you’re out of luck. Chances are, you’ll open an account with one...

September 21st, 2009 | LOCAL | Read More