Apples and Oranges

[motherbear332]

<p>Since David Axelrod has been quoted on this thread, here’s another successful alum, David Auburn, AB '91, who wrote the play (and later movie) Proof. [Auburn</a> returns to Hyde Park for ?Proof? | The University of Chicago](<a href=“Page Not Found | University of Chicago”>Auburn returns to Hyde Park for ‘Proof’) I think it is a pretty good description of the intellectual environment, and it also shows that there were some quality ECs, even back in Cue7’s bad old days. Off-off is still active, by the way.</p>

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Auburn came to UChicago as an undergraduate to study political science. He soon discovered his passion for theater, which started after he began writing for Off-Off Campus, UChicago’s storied improvisational sketch comedy group.
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Auburn says this same UChicago culture equipped him with an academic confidence and conviction, a sort of “intellectual swagger,” he says, that has allowed him to write about topics he initially knew little about. “As a student here, I learned I could teach myself enough about a strange subject in order to say something about it—not necessarily as an expert, but to be able to participate in the conversation. You come to realize that if you read the right books, talk to the right people, and ask the right questions, you will come out a different person.”

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