University of Chicago

LOCATION
University of Chicago
Located	Chicago, Illinois, USA

The University of Chicago was founded in 1892 by businessman John D. Rockefeller and the American Baptist Education Society. Located several miles south of downtown Chicago, in the neighborhood of Hyde Park. It quickly became a major university for both education and research.

One unique aspect of the university at the time was that classes were held year-round and that students were allowed to graduate at any time in the year, after completing the requirements. Also, it allowed the enrollment of women and minorities at a time when many universities were not gender or race integrated.

History

In 1920, after having been rejected by Harvard, Yale, and Northwestern, Indiana Jones began attending the University of Chicago, hoping to study archaeology. Though archaeology was his passion, his father pointed him towards linguistics, which was his first declared major; his initial course load consisted of Intermediate Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Introduction to Biology and Genetics, the lab for that course, and Introduction to Russian Civilization.

While at the university, Jones met and became friends with Harold Oxley. Jones's roommates were Eliot Ness, studying business and law, and Jack Shannon.

As Indy became more interested in learning how to play jazz under the tutelage of Sidney Bechet, he brought his soprano saxophone with him to practice in his dorm room. Eliot suggested that he practice elsewhere.

Indy and Eliot attended a party thrown at the Alpha Sigma Chi fraternity house, but were kicked out after Indy, in an attempt to impress Susie Hilt, played jazz, which was looked on disapprovingly by many of the white students.

While working as a waiter, and going out the jazz clubs, Indy's schoolwork began to suffer, though he did attend a lecture where he challenged his classics professor's notion of the reasons behind music by bringing up the blues.

During the investigation of Jim Colosimo's murder in May, Indy and reporter Ernest Hemingway met up in his dorm room, which led to Eliot's involvement on the case. The trio used the dorm room as a meeting point to discuss their discoveries.

After visiting New York City and Los Angeles during the summer of 1920, Indy returned, and continued his academic work. His archaeological studies were done under the mentorship of Abner Ravenwood, until Indy's relationship with Abner's daughter, Marion caused a falling out between the professor and his student. Ravenwood would later be fired as his obsession with the Ark of the Covenant grew.

Faculty and students

Faculty

• Anderson
• Ted Conrad
• Hastrom
• Hunt
• Indiana Jones (After 1927)
• Charles Jacob Kingston
• Richard Manchester
• John M. Manly
• Mallery Mulhouse
• Angus O'Malley
• David Pierson
• Abner Ravenwood
• Williams

Students

• Susie Hilt
• Indiana Jones (1920 – 1922)
• Eliot Ness
• Harold Oxley
• Jack Shannon (– 1922)
• Magnus Völler (– 1922) (Expelled)

Locations

• Dormitory of Indiana Jones and Eliot Ness (Room on second floor)
• Lecture Hall
• Alpha Sigma Chi fraternity house

Behind the scenes

The opening chapters of the novel Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi are set in 1920, during which Indiana Jones graduates from the University of Chicago. However, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles later established that that was the year he began studying there, contradicting the events of Peril at Delphi. The franchise's continuity keeper Leland Chee subsequently stated the discrepancy was accounted for by treating the Peril at Delphi chapters as having covered two periods of time so Jones enters Chicago in 1920 and later graduates in 1922, when he begins his studies at the Sorbonne as depicted in the rest of the novel.

Jones discovers that he has been blacklisted from teaching at his alma mater during a job interview in Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge (1992), set in 1927. However, his character background detailed in West End Games' The World of Indiana Jones (1994) and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook (1995) both include Chicago among his teaching positions.

Appearances

• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Princeton, February 1916" → Spring Break Adventure (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Northern Italy, June 1918" → Tales of Innocence (Mentioned only)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – Winds of Change (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues" → Mystery of the Blues
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" → Scandal of 1920 (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies" → Hollywood Follies (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (First appearance)
• Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates
• Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Mentioned only)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (First mentioned)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Mentioned only)

Sources

• The World of Indiana Jones
• Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates and Other Tales
• Indiana Jones Magic & Mysticism: The Dark Continent
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Three, The Years of Change
• The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Annual 2009
•  The Real Indiana Jones: Courage & Perseverance on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)

External links

• University of Chicago on Wikipedia