The student newspaper of the University of Chicago, the Chicago Maroon, broke some shocking news on January 3 about their school president. It was such a big scoop that the newspaper's Editor-In-Chief, Euirim Choi, wrote it up.
Are you prepared to find out what that newspaper discovered? Well, the news that must have shook up that campus was revealed in the article's blaring headline, "UChicago President Robert Zimmer Voted in the 2016 Republican Primary."
Oh, no! Diversity in political thought! How could it have happened on our beloved campus?
Fortunately Choi did some investigatory journalism and brought this disgusting divergence from the acceptable norm to light:
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer voted in Illinois’s Republican primary in the 2016 election, according to public voting histories.
Illinois requires voters at the state, congressional, and presidential levels to declare their affiliation with a political party at the polling place before voting in that party’s primary. Such declarations are recorded and made public.
Thus he was caught committing the heinous act that he thought he could get away with.
Zimmer has long been coy about his politics, declining to answer a question on the subject in a 2016 interview with The Maroon. In recent years, however, he has become somewhat of a celebrity in conservative circles, earning praise from commentators for publications like the National Review and The Federalist for attacking “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” as the public face of the University of Chicago’s purportedly pro-free speech stance.
He would have to be coy to avoid triggering the SJW snowflakes on campus.
The voting histories were aggregated and made easily accessible by the mobile application VoteWithMe, a project run by the New Data Project, a progressive nonprofit founded by former Google engineer and Barack Obama administration alumnus Mikey Dickerson. Data for the most recent election cycle was not yet available at the time of publication.
Oh goody! Perhaps other faculty members could be caught in the criminal act of voting Republican.
