I stuck to classes in history/languages/Middle East/Near East/South Asia/divinity and never had any run ins with the administration.
For what it's worth, I loved my time at the University of Chicago, but only because I kept my head down and stayed in a very particular lane
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The closest I came to a real run in was when the university toyed with the idea of shutting down its center for Middle Eastern studies.
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Why? Mostly because the center kept hosting too many pro-Palestinian speakers and it made the administration uncomfortable.
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Consider that when the same administration tries to pretend it's above the idea of "safe spaces"
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The faculty I encountered was wonderful and remains the biggest reason I regret not sticking around to write my dissertation
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Of course, I never had occasion to take any courses with profs in the Milton Friedman Institute for Screwing the Third World or whatever
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I do remember when the university first announced the Friedman Institute, which was *nothing but* a safe space for radical free marketers
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The university got a lot of faculty pushback for that, and I don't know what the Becker-Friedman Institute is like today, but
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the initial proposal for the Friedman Institute was *awful*. Basically an institute for studying the super awesomeness of the free market.
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That super awesomeness was treated as established fact going in. Of course it was mostly meant to be a vehicle for private donations.
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it's really a polarized campus depending on what program you're in
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when i was applying to colleges in ye old ~1999 U of C was known as the place with all the suicides NU? breezy by comparison
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no idea if it was true! U of C lab schools were a heated rival of ours though so idk
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