Chicago snags top spot among Onion science articles

Seems some important research is being done at the U of C.

From the Onion "In spite of billions of dollars spent and decades of research, scientists at the University of Chicago said Monday that the scientific community is no closer to finding a cure for the potentially fatal disease of obesity."

A cure for obesity right on the Chicago campus may have just slipped out of these scientists fingertips. The Burton-Judson dining hall, uh, problems* earlier in the year may have caused a pound or two to be shed:

The U of C Magazine reported: "Losing a battle, if not the war, against rodents and roaches, Burton-Judson Dining Commons was closed February 21–22, when Health Department officials found mouse droppings in the kitchen. Although the hall reopened for lunch the following Monday after passing an early-morning inspection, B-J and Housing officials reported cockroach sightings later that week—but the hall remained open."

*I assure WWPD readers that, as far as I know, the situation has improved, and do not wish to imply otherwise. Nevertheless, for my own paranoid reasons, I may never set foot in that particular dining hall again.