
1996 Was a Very Different Time
MAPH Celebrates the graduation of its FIFTEENTH CLASS this year on Friday, June 3. Consider the following:
In 1996, Alanis Morissette won a Grammy Award in the category of Best Record for Jagged Little Pill. Fargo was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (but lost, much to the dismay of Elaine Benes, to The English Patient). President Bill Clinton said the following in his State of the Union Address:
Our economy is the healthiest it has been in three decades. We have the lowest combined rates of unemployment and inflation in 27 years. We have created nearly 8 million new jobs, over a million of them in basic industries, like construction and automobiles. America is selling more cars than Japan for the first time since the 1970s. And for three years in a row, we have had a record number of new businesses started in our country.
And in September, a new class of around 60 of the first MAPHers came to the University of Chicago. Continue reading