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Debating UCPD Transparency BY ALIA SHAHZAD LOCAL POLITICS STAFF REPORTER
In the Hyde Park area, calls for increased transparency from the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) kicked off in 2014, when campus activists and local representatives collaborated to draft House Bill (HB) 3932. This bill, introduced to the Illinois General Assembly (GA) in March 2015 by State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie (D-25) (A.B. ’68, M.A. ’73) and State Representative Christian Mitchell (D26) (A.B. ’08), would have amended the Private College Campus Act such that campus police forces would be mandated to disclose similar (but not identical) information to that mandated of public offices under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bill unanimously passed in the Illinois House in April 2015, and was introduced to the Senate floor in May. The bill eventually died after activists who initially supported the bill opposed the bill’s amendments and couldn’t reach a consensus on how to move forward. After the shooting of Charles Thomas in April, members of UChicago United, a coalition of multicultural student organizations, revived talks about UCPD transparency. They demanded UCPD to comply with FOIA in a list of demands they submitted to President Robert Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier. The story of HB3932’s birth and eventual death speaks to the difficulties of subjecting a private police force to public scrutiny, a problem that activists continue to face today as calls for increased UCPD transparency resurface. A Private Institution With A Public Function In 2011, the city’s Committee on Public Safety passed a city ordinance expanding UCPD’s extended patrol area north to East 37th Street, south to East 64th Street, east to South Lake Shore Drive, and west to South Cottage Grove Drive. “My understanding is that the Superintendent of the CPD has in fact ‘deputized’ the UCPD to have
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CodeNow CEO Declares Mayoral Candidacy BY FIROUZ NIAZI LOCAL POLITICS STAFF REPORTER
At his first campaign rally in April, Neal Sáles-Griffin repeated phrases about “getting real” and expressed that he was “vulnerable” and “scared.” He apologized to the attendees, and admitted that he had “bombed this speech.” Sáles-Griffin is the CEO of CodeNow, a non-profit program that teaches coding to high school students, an adjunct professor of engineering at Northwestern University, and a faculty coach at the Booth School of Business. Last month, he declared his candidacy for mayor of Chicago, running on a platform of term limits for the mayor’s office, campaign finance reform, and full budget transparency. He is running against nine other candidates, including the incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel, former superintendent of the Chicago Police Department Garry McCarthy, and former Chicago Police Board president Lori Lightfoot. The three candidates are leading the pack in campaign
donations so far. Unlike several of the candidates, Sáles-Griffin has never served in a public position or in a publicly elected office. Despite the lack of funding and experience, and despite the missteps in his first rally, Sáles-Griffin has continued to campaign and persist in the race for mayor. T he M aroon sat down with Sáles-Griffin to discuss his background and campaign. Background Sáles-Griffin grew up in Kenwood and Hyde Park, where he attended local schools, including St. Thomas the Apostle School and Mount Carmel High School. While he described some of the more difficult experiences he had growing up on the South Side, he also recalled fond memories of engaging with his community—he helped cofound a health care media business when he was 18 and opened a chain of barbershops on the South Side when he was 19. After graduating from Northwestern University, where he served as associated student government president, Sáles-Griffin founded Code Academy, a cod-
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Mayoral candidate Sáles-Griffin. ing boot camp for students from all over the world, which later changed its name to The Starter League. After selling The Starter League to FullStack Academy in 2016, Sáles-Griffin joined CodeNow. Sáles-Griffin’s tech background has granted him networks that have carried over into his developing mayoral campaign. Jason Fried, the CEO
of Basecamp, a Chicago-based tech company, has been one of the biggest contributors to Unite Chicago PAC, which has donated almost $50,000 to Sales-Griffin’s campaign. The PAC was co-created by Max Temkin, the co-creator of Cards Against Humanity and a University of Chicago alum. Platform Running for mayor wasn’t alContinued on page 4
Singles Turned to Doubles in Snell-Hitchcock BY NEHA LINGAREDDY Several single rooms in the Snell-Hitchcock Hall will become doubles in the upcoming fall quarter, according to several students in the dorm. The University News Office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The news follows reports from other dorms that singles are being transformed into doubles. This year in Campus North Residential Commons, rooms that were large RA singles last year were turned into doubles this year. “Because of the old design of the building, we are lucky to have access to rooms that are much larger than what you might find in some of the newer dorms,” said fourth-year Gabrielle Dulys, president of Hitchcock house. “[But] many of these ‘larger’ singles honestly are not
quite fit to become doubles.” Eugene Miravete, a second-year in Hitchcock house told T he M aroon that Housing decided not to inform residents of the changes they were making until April. The students said that Housing administration also did not consult with members of the house at all and selected rooms that were not optimal for changes. “A lot of residents do not think the University is dealing with the [housing] problem in the right way,” Miravete said. Dulys said that in light of these modifications, Snell-Hitchcock’s traditional sense of community might change for the worse. “I am worried that placing first-years in rooms that are typically occupied by upperclassmen will result in more social isolation during O-Week as they will not have an accessible social cir-
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cle with the people who live on their floor,” she said. Dulys also expressed concerns about the rising number of upperclassmen leaving Snell-Hitchcock due to housing changes. “I am afraid that this change may lead to a higher number of up-
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Events 5/29 – 6/1 Today A Democratic Theory of Judgment: Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli The Seminary Co-op, 6–7 p.m., free. Professor Linda Zerilli will discuss her new book, A Democratic Theory of Judgment, in conversation with Professor Deborah Nelson. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. This event is presented in partnership with the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT). Wednesday Facebook + Regulation: It’s Complicated The Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall, 5:30–6:45 p.m., free. Tony Romm, technology policy reporter for The Washington Post, and Nancy Scola, senior technology reporter for Politico, will discuss the public policy issues that surround the potenital regulation of Facebook. The event will be moderated by Kim Hart, managing editor at Axios. Registration is required and can be done at politics.uchicago. edu/events.
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A Look Back at the History of Harper Library BY TONY BROOKS
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Each library on campus has its own distinct personality. They each come from different eras in the University’s history, are constructed in different architectural styles, and cater to various academic fields. One of the most famous and unique libraries on campus lacks something that is often considered necessary to what defines “libraries”: the presence of books. Built in the early 1900s but designed to look like it came from the 1300s, Harper Memorial Library is now a popular study space, housing the third-floor reading room and Common Knowledge Café. But it wasn’t always this way. Back in June 1912, it was the newest building on a new campus, and it would continue to serve as the University’s primary library until the Regenstein Library opened nearly 60 years later. William Rainey Harper was a young Yale professor when he was offered the position as first president of the then-new University of Chicago. He held this role until his death on January 10, 1906 at the age of 49. From his earliest days in office, Harper sought to turn the University into a worldclass institution. Using his proficiency as a businessman and public speaker, he con-
vinced patrons to donate to the University, and in turn offered large salaries to professors willing to work under newly formed departments. “For Harper, in the ideal world every minute was accounted for, and no day properly concluded without a bounty of productive work,” Dean of the College John Boyer wrote in his 2015 book The University of Chicago: A History. Unlike other universities in which departments and divisions arose independently of each other over time, Harper desired to create a more integrated academic atmosphere where each University branch interacted together in the pursuit of knowledge. He sketched out elaborate plans for the University’s future—and among these was the idea of a vast and far-reaching library system. According to University documents, the first library was a one-story temporary brick building which also housed the University of Chicago Press and gymnasium. It stood where Hutchinson Courtyard is currently located from 1892 to 1902. In 1902, the library was moved to a building on the corner of 58th and Ellis, along with the Press. However, this space was inadequate, and at the time of his death, Harper was planning to build a large and permanent library. “On the death of President Harper in
January 1906, there was a widespread feeling that there should be erected on the main quadrangle some permanent and worthy memorial to its first president,” University documents say. It was decided that a library should be built in his memory. John D. Rockefeller donated $800,000 and ground was broken on the fourth anniversary of Harper’s death. In June 1912, the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library opened for use. It was designed by the architectural group Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, who were already well known for their work on the Art Institute of Chicago and other campus buildings. Constructed in the collegiate gothic style and containing then-modern telephone lines and printers, the library was hailed as an architectural and technological marvel. Books from the old library building were moved to Harper, and it grew into an important study location for the young University. It connected to the main reading room of Stuart Hall, which then served as the Law School. By the mid 1920s, Harper had become congested with books and archives, prompting the construction of Wieboldt Hall to its immediate west. Wieboldt contained several floors of bookstacks and connected Harper Continued on page 4
Posters on Quad Placed to Support Refugee Crsis BY ANNABELLE RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Posters for the “Walk a Campus in My Shoes: A Refugee Journey” public awareness effort were set up around the quad for the week of May 14–18, brought to campus by the student group UChicago Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights. The campaign, which is affiliated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, seeks to educate students and community members about the global refugee crisis with basic information about the refugee demographic and the processes of vetting and assimilation. The campaign was founded by Kennesaw State student Matthew Tikhonovsky and his sister Natalie Tikhonovsky, who have traveled across the
country to educate students at over 15 universities, including Yale, Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Georgia Tech. In an e-mail exchange with T he M aroon, Tikhonovsky said that he hopes to “inform the minds and open the hearts of college students towards refugees who have been resettled in America.” “ T hrough the poster campaig n, we hope to first and foremost debunk many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the refugee resettlement process and spark meaningful campus dialogue on refugee policy and relief efforts,” Tikhonovsky said. “One fact we want more students to be aware of is that the refugee resettlement process takes on average 17 years.” Tikhonovsky recommends a handson approach to getting involved in campaigning for refugee justice, citing tutoring refugee youths and lobbying for
refugee rights at a city council meeting as examples of direct actions to take. “One opportunity we strongly champion is Paper Airplanes, an online tutoring service that pairs college students with Syrian refugees to tutor via webcam,” he said. The child of Ukrainian immigrants and the grandchild of refugees who fled to Kazakhstan during World War II, Tikhonovsky shared some of his most memorable experiences on the “Walk a Campus in My Shoes” campaign trail. “Interacting with college students across the nation has allowed me to witness firsthand the level of enthusiasm college students have for refugee advocacy and transitional justice,” he said. “Furthermore, I’ve been able to see the innovative and unique ways that students lobby for refugee rights on their respective campuses.”
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This year has been an extraordinarily productive year for Student Government (SG)! Much of SG’s work involves administering our $2.2 million budget. SG also serves as an avenue for student advocacy with our representative bodies passing legislation in response to campus events and our Executive Slate meeting with almost every major University administrator.
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funded to 233 unique RSOs with $182,000 funded during the school year funded to the six Academic Teams with Moot Court funded for the 1st time funded to Sports Clubs to purchase new performance attire and equipment allocated towards dozens of community service projects across the globe to the six Programming Coordinating Council arts groups to 15 Student Leadership Recognition and Access Program Award Recpients new RSOs approved
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ways the plan, according to Sáles-Griffin. But when he started thinking about the issues facing Chicago, he discovered he had the experiences and background to make an impact in government. One of the main issues that motivated his candidacy was Chicago’s shrinking population. “When I made the connection between all of my friends and family members and many other Chicagoans moving away, and connected it with what I could do about it—when it came to business, leadership in work, as a teacher...my role as a non-profit leader—and all the different Chicago activities I have my hand in and could be a part of, government was the biggest way to make a difference.” He then asked himself what he could do in government, and finally identified running for mayor as the best option. “I laid out all the problems, I dove straight into the root system cause, and that happened to be concentrated in the Mayor’s Office.” “We need expiration dates on politicians, we need to remove money from politics to the best of our ability, and we need a radically transparent budget so everybody knows where their money is going,” he said. Unlike other large cities such as New York City and Los Angeles, Chicago does not set term limits for mayors. Richard J. Daley served for six terms, from 1955– 1976, and his son, Richard M. Daley, also served six terms from 1989–2011. Sáles-Griffin has committed himself to serving only two terms if elected to office. When asked about details regarding his plans for term limits, Sáles-Griffin said, “New York City’s term limits laws for its mayor would be a good start for Chicago, but Chicago has its own unique challenges and nuances that I’m working through first.” He did not provide further details. Campaign finance reform is another policy focus for Sáles-Griffin, and he said that he will propose specific changes when his full platform is released. However, he has already suggested some changes on his campaign website. His campaign’s donation page states that people who donate to his campaign will not receive undisclosed private and secretive meetings with Sáles-Griffin, political favors, handouts, contracts, or positions. Budget transparency is the last major policy of Sáles-Griffin’s campaign, and his solution will draw upon his background in tech. While the City maintains interactive budget graphics, tables, and reports online,
Sáles-Griffin says he believes that the current website is not fully transparent. “The current online resources in the city of Chicago are not citizen focused or friendly. The city budget reports and online resources are not accessible or easily digestible for everyday Chicagoans. There are many line items and data points that are tucked away in dense PDFs and lack clarity around who decides what funds get allocated where.” His campaign is working to create a digital budget model that would “go beyond PDF reports, and spell out more holistically and accessibly what money goes where and for what reason.” An example of this tool can be found on his website. Other Policy Areas Sáles-Griffin’s campaign differs in context from many of the other candidates. McCarthy’s campaign highlights finance, crime, and education, while Lightfoot’s campaign stresses schools, public safety, neighborhood development, and equity and inclusion. Sáles-Griffin said that these more traditional campaign issues will also be a part of his campaign, and he emphasized that he is aware of other important issues facing the city. “I want a higher minimum wage. I want people to have a right to health care. I want people to have the ability to understand exactly where their property tax dollars are being allocated through TIF [Tax Increment Financing], and I want people to understand that we should have a more democratic process for electing a CEO of Chicago Public Schools.” He also said that in addition to the funds being invested in neighborhoods’ infrastructure and commercial activity, there should also be more resources dedicated to supporting residents themselves, noting Hyde Park as an example. He said that while in Hyde Park “there are more shops and stores and people...there is also a major, major discomfort for people who feel like they’re being edged out or priced out” Sáles-Griffin said he still believes in prioritizing his three main campaign issues. “If we aren’t dealing with the root of issue of money, power, and ego that’s fueling a lot of the corruption in Chicago, then we’re still in trouble.” “No candidate is talking about [these three major campaign points]” he said, “because polling-wise or focus group–wise it’s not going to resonate with voters, but I don’t care—I’ll find a way to make it resonate.”
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the powers of full municipal police officers in that extended jurisdiction off campus,” Craig Futterman, Law School professor and founder of the Law School’s Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, told The Maroon in a recent e-mail. At a recent community meeting about policing, UCPD Chief Kenton Rainey explained that UCPD has access to all crime intelligence information that CPD collects within UCPD jurisdiction. “There is no separation between what CPD is doing and what UCPD is doing,” Rainey said. In light of UCPD’s expanded jurisdiction, activist groups and community stakeholders approached Currie to ask for increased transparency. Jamie Kalven, founder of the Invisible Institute, an investigative journalism and civil law firm, was among the community members concerned about UCPD’s burgeoning authority. “The principle at hand was whether or not a private institution performing a public function should be subject to the same laws as the public institution from which they derive their powers,” Kalven said. Community activists tended to agree the former. After Currie’s office drafted HB3932 and introduced it to the GA, the University’s Student Government passed a resolution in support of the bill. And once HB3932 arrived in the Senate, CEP set up a week-long phone drive in Reynolds Club to encourage students to call their legislators to leverage support. Roadblocks in the Movement: To Legislate or Litigate? After passing unanimously in the House,
the bill ran into roadblocks on the Senate floor. Represenative Currie noted two main reasons explaining why the bill eventually died. Firstly, some senators were concerned that the bill might set a precedent for potential legislation that would further subject private entities to public regulations. In part due to concerns that HB3932 was a stepping stone towards this legislation, the bill lost its steam and ended up dying in the Senate, Currie said. Secondly, activists differed on the most effective way of moving forward with increasing UCPD transparency, Currie said. A huge chunk of the controversy stemmed from the differences between FOIA and the bill’s final amended version. Had HB3932 passed after being amended on the GA’s floor, the public could appeal to a designated Public Access Counselor for access to denied records requests. If the Counselor decided that the appellant had suitable grounds for the appeal, the case would move up to the Attorney General, who would either mandate or deny the records’ release. In addition, the amended bill explicitly outlined two lists. One detailed the items subject to disclosure, and the other detailed the items not subject to disclosure—including records, tapes, and other digital material from campus security cameras, among other items. The amended bill did not make clear what would happen to items that didn’t fit into either list. And in its third amendment, the bill excluded from disclosure officer wages, which can help community members infer average officer experience. Some made the case that there were Continued on page 5
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to the Classics building. It also resulted in a continuous line of gothic buildings across the southern half of the main quadrangle. For the next several decades, Harper served a variety of purposes on campus. In addition to housing the main library, it contained dozens of offices, lecture halls, and study rooms. Exhibits, similar to those now organized by the Regenstein Special Collections, were also held in the library during this time. As the University (and its collection of books) continued to grow, the demand for more book storage and study spaces grew too. With the University’s continuous growth and Harper nearing its capacity, it was decided in the mid 1960s that a new library should be built. By 1970, the Regenstein Library opened, with enough space to store several million volumes. Harper and Wieboldt were then renovated “to preserve their unique architecture and make them better able to meet the university’s growing needs,” according to University archives. The buildings shifted away from being a library and study location towards being used as office and administrative spaces—a trend that would continue for almost four decades. Harper was utilized less as time passed, and more books were moved to other libraries on campus. It also became less popular as a study destination and fell into disrepair—as shown by records from 1987 which reveal that the University had to replace the Library’s carpeting due to 55 cigarette
burns that appeared over the course of winter quarter. In response, the University cut off use of the library to Laboratory School students, whom they believed to be behind the vandalism. Over the next 20 years, enrollment at the University continued to increase, but Harper remained an unpopular study destination. Demand for more study spaces grew, and partly in response to the construction of Renee Granville-Grossman Residential Commons, the University decided to further renovate Harper in 2008. The renovations focused mostly on the Harper and Stuart Reading Rooms, which a University assessment described as “architectural gems” that were “underutilized and in need of significant physical improvement.” In addition to laying new floors and installing more charger ports, the University redesigned the East Tower of Harper so that it could serve as Common Knowledge Café. The Harper and Stuart Reading Rooms were redesignated as the Arley D. Cathey Learning Center, after an alumn donated $17 million. The Learning Center now serves as a 24-hour study space, with tutoring and group studying held in Stuart, while independent studying is held in Harper. After the renovations to the reading rooms, the lower floors and lecture halls were refurbished and redesigned. The library is now a popular study destination with tour guides often calling it the “Hogwarts Room” of the University.
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more ideal ways to mandate the UCPD to comply with records requests, outside of subjecting UCPD to FOIA. “If the GA wanted to pass a bill to make sure there’s proper scrutiny in campus police forces, they should just amend FOIA to expressly include campus police forces as public bodies subject to FOIA,” said FOIA attorney Matt Topic, who specializes in police transparency at Loevy and Loevy, a leading Chicago-based civil rights law firm. Kalven, among others, consider litigation a viable course of action, as there’s precedent for a case based off a pro-transparency ruling made in Ohio shortly after HB3239 reached the Illinois Senate. In The State Ex Rel. Schiffbauer v. Banaszak Et Al., the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that Otterbein University had to accommodate a student reporter’s previously denied request for “records documenting the [University’s private police] department’s exercise of a government function.” The basis of the court’s ruling was that as Otterbein University’s police officers were “sworn, state-certified police officers who exercise plenary police power,” they could be mandated to produce records as public information. Topic says that as there’s room to argue that FOIA already applies to campus police forces endowed with the same authority as public police departments by the government, there’s a possibility that legislation that mandates
campus police forces to adhere to a lower standard of transparency than FOIA could be less effective than, or perhaps even detrimental to, a lawsuit akin to Schiffbauer v. Banaszak. In short, activists identified several potential paths forward to increase UCPD transparency, be it trying again to enact new legislation, adapting the existing Freedom of Information Act, or bringing a transparency case to the courts. For Mitchell, who co-sponsored the bill with Currie, the question of which route should actually be taken relies on what activists want. “I think that I’m totally opening to revisiting the legislation, but there would need to be consensus among the advocates about what the best way forward is before we were to do so,” Mitchell said. Looking Back Even though the bill ultimately failed to come to fruition, the campaign that surrounded it still enjoyed some success, said Currie. “The University, and the University was, at that time, beginning to become more accountable on its own,” said Currie. “They were kinda like, ‘Okay, before you do this to us, we will do it first.’” After the bill reached the state Senate, the University began to disclose more information, including specific location of traffic stops, background information about how the UCPD and CPD cooperate, and made arrests records requests forms available on its website. The UCPD told The Maroon in a recent email that it
had fulfilled both arrests records requests it had received since the changes were implemented in June 2015. The UCPD also did not attribute increased transparency to the efforts surrounding bill, and told The Maroon it implemented the changes “to ensure transparency of law enforcement activities and “be responsive to requests from the community.” Still, both Currie and Curtis Tarver, the Democratic candidate for Currie’s soon-to-be-vacated seat, see room for increasing responsiveness and transparency, and echoed Mitchell’s support of revisiting HB3932. “I still think there may be some kind of value to having some sort legislation on the books, rather than none,” Currie said. Tarver concurred with Currie. “I am in support of this bill and more generally pushing for as much transparency as possible with public and private police forces as long as the information does not adversely affect the integrity of investigations and discovery in criminal cases,” he told The M aroon in an email. LaBounty, however, would like to see the case taken to the courts rather than left to legislators. Since the bill died once, she thinks a path forward through legislation is unlikely, and that the most feasible way forward is litigation. An Unclear Path Forward The University made video footage of the incident from the officer’s body cam publicly available within 19 hours of the shooting of Thomas. Student reporters scram-
bled to find more information But Gate senior writer Brett Barbin wanted more information— specifically, the UCPD’s General Orders (GO’s), internal regulations governing officer response and conduct. Earlier this month The Gate published a 44-page list of over 80 GO’s, typed by Barbin in the hallway of the UCPD headquarters on 61st and Drexel in a series of sittings that totaled 20 hours. Barbin isn’t alone in his endeavors. Student reporters across the nation are well accustomed to fighting for access to campus police records, often with less success than Barbin. In 2016, the Student Press Law Center, an advocacy group for students’ First Amendment rights, submitted 30 records requests to private university police forces across the nation. Three universities complied, an unsurprisingly small number considering that most states don’t require campus police forces to release their records to the public. In total, Barbin speculates that he was given access to about 75-80 percent of the GO’s that he requested, though he only requested one or two items that fit under the redaction category of the UCPD’s records request process. Redacted information includes details about how the UCPD reacts to crisis scenarios and how information moves from caller to dispatch officer. Barbin said that he thinks the denied requests were legitimate denials, which “in a normal FOIA request would probably not be approved.” Still, he thinks there’s room for increased and more easi-
ly accessible transparency. During the records request process, Barbin said he would ask for an individual GO from the table of contents, and Tsao would leave the room to consult for five to twenty minutes with the a higher-up about whether the GO could be released. Then she’d return with the document, a process repeated for each GO. In contrast, all of the the Chicago Police Department’s GO’s are available on the department’s website. In addition, it’s unclear whether or not UCPD Officer Nicholas Twardak’s bodycam footage of the Thomas shooting would have been released had events played out differently. “[It’s] an open question whether had something worse happened on that tape, like had Officer Twardak gotten out of the car and just shot [Thomas], would they have released that tape?” Still, the UCPD has taken measures to stay accountable to the community. In a recent community meeting, Associate Vice President for Safety and Security Eric Heath told residents that while UCPD traffic stops have been increasing in the last year, the department has formed community relations units to strengthen interactions with residents who live within UCPD’s jurisdiction. But until activists reach a consensus on the best way to move forward with the movement, community members will have to rely on the University’s discretion to gain access to UCPD’s GO’s.
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There’s absolutely nothing new about the idea of “voting” with your dollars. Consumers have long threatened companies with desertion or boycott for unsavory political stances or acts. This tactic has been wildly successful at times — the Montgomery Bus Boycott, beginning in 1955, is one of the most notable examples. R e cent h ist or y abou nds with instances of consumer retaliation. After Parkland, gun control advocates boycotted advertisers and retailers that were too cozy with the N R A or too willing to stock certain guns. And gun rights advocates retaliated, boycotting pro–gun control restaurants and eliminating a $40 million tax break for Delta a f ter the a i rl i ne shelved an NRA discount that
only 13 passengers had ever used. Insufficiently Christian coffee cups are an affront to some ca ffeine add icts; racist coffee servers are equally galling to others. Donating to PACs and other groups with a political bent is always a risky maneuver for retailers. Modern examples of “dollar voting,” however, have evolved a great deal. Today, boycotts and consumer deser tion no longer represent just reactions to something a company has done, but opinions on what they should do. Consumers don’t just retaliate against companies for what they believe are incendiary political stances or acts. Instead, people demand active political stances from ostensibly nonpartisan institutions, like ordinary work-
places, retailers, and major universities. The rise of these moral demands goes to show how even routine affiliations have themselves become increasingly political acts. Eating, for instance, has become a curiously partisan endeavor. It isn’t simply that you might have felt obliged to snub Chick-fil-A in 2012 for its CEO’s comments on gay marriage. The “kiss-ins” and boycotts that followed were reactive; they represented a more conventionally political response to an offensive stance. Today, however, you might eat at Ch ick-f i l-A — or perhaps not—because of the basic “Christian values” system it promotes. Chick-fil-A is wellknown for its religious bent; they close on Sundays to allow employees to go to church, for instance. Its corporate purpose states that it aims “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A.” If that lofty ideal seems mostly irrelevant to sandwich sales, apparently you’re missing something Continued on page 6
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key in the intersection of God and the poultry industry. Although less in your face, plenty of other establishments have used savvy marketing to link their brands with inclusive values and tolerance, or else with some America First sensibility. In either case, the values mostly have nothing to do with the products themselves. Although the racist expulsion of two black men several weeks ago is a prominent exception, Starbucks has a long history of marketing itself as a bastion of liberalism—from creating refugee hiring programs to supporting baristas’ college ambitions to openly marketing books on mass incarceration. And you would have had to be living under a rock to have missed the furor that accompanied Target’s gender-inclusive product labeling. Even though these companies often take stands on issues central to their field, it’s not always about the coffee or the toddlers’ toys or whatever other product is ostensibly at stake. Chickfil-A doesn’t simply facilitate church attendance for employees. Rather, it makes a point of telling you, the potential consumer, that this is something it cares about. The same is true with Starbucks’s book choices. These moves represent calculated signals to and for consumers: It’s OK, you’re buying evangelical chicken. Or, that Venti latte is for Bernie supporters with strong opinions on the tax bill. In some sense, we should welcome this insistence on bringing our values into our daily lives. We’re right to think that we should act on the ideas we espouse, that we make grand principles real by dragging them down from their lofty abstractions to the gritty business of our day-to-day lives. Although our moral demands reflect a welcome focus on the profound implications of our “boring,” routine affiliations, they can go too far. Responding to others is one thing—our desire to react to stances we find offensive can be
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admirable and just. Few would contest the idea that when possible, you should avoid financing “evil.” But we can veer into risky territory. We don’t actually gain much when we insist on bringing out a full-f ledged value system every time we open a wallet; we might, however, add to our existing divisions. This isn’t even to mention the absurdity of pitching “family values,” for instance, in fast food, retail, or any service industry. Why should I have to choose between pious and open-minded chicken? What are you gaining when you suss out the implied ballot choices of a cup of joe? It’s raining and late,
your car needs gas, and you find an intersection with a BP gas station on one corner and a Marathon station on the other. What sort of due diligence are you required to conduct before picking one? Do you have to review their corporate mission statements? Track down their political donations? That particular kind of moral demand adds little to our lives and risks sorting us further into strict partisan bins. I don’t want my choice of food chain to tell you anything about what I believe. It won’t actually change those positions. (Who on Earth has ever been converted by a sandwich?) It probably
won’t materially support those positions, either —although companies routinely make political donations, the process by which your coffee funds a campaign is arguably more shadowy, objectionable, and self-serving than it is high-minded. In the rush to be virtuous buyers, we can easily become over-obsessed with our gratuitous, empty signals about the people we think we are. That’s what bumper stickers—not coffee choices—are for. Natalie Denby is a third-year in the College majoring in public policy studies.
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The Second City Brings Politics and Hysterics to Campus BY ERIC-ANTONIO GUZMAN ARTS STAFF
Started by a trio of University of Chicago students, The Second City comedy troupe returned to Hyde Park this past Friday for a night of improv, musical sketches, and political satire. Organized by the Council on University Programming, the event included an after-show reception featuring food from local vendors such as Hannah’s Bretzel, Portillo’s, Native Foods, and Bang Bang Pie & Biscuits. By opening with a musical dance number about America’s nationalist fever, The Second City made it clear that they were going to present a very politically-charged show regarding the current administration. This is to be expected, of course. Ever since Donald Trump began his presidential campaign, he has been a comedic gold mine for entertainers, dominating every late-night talk show opening monologue and stand-up routine. Hell, every Saturday Night Live cold open is now just an excuse for Alec Baldwin to exercise his Trump impersonation. So, going into this show, I was intrigued to see how the
troupe was going to tackle this trite topic. The troupe, which is made up of Second City touring members Jackie Southee, Jordan Savusa, Alessandra Drapos, E.J. Cameron, Mark Campbell, and Alison Banowsky, was successful when politics supported the jokes rather than overshadowed them. In one short sketch, two people go on a date and, after the man attempts and fails numerous times to grope his date, are revealed to be Trump and his daughter Ivanka. Combining the man’s exaggerated attempts at physical contact with the unexpected punchline, the sketch was funny because it succeeded first as a joke and then as a political statement, not the other way around. Throughout the show, The Second City was at its best when troupe members were free to be as outlandish and silly as possible. By far my favorite sketch was about three middle-aged men (played by Savusa, Cameron, and Campbell) trying to relive their glory days in college by overindulging in Miller Lite while golfing. Another highlight was the troupe’s recreation of news anchor introductions across different cities, including Chicago, New York,
and, as suggested by a member of the audience, Mazatlán in Mexico. Although there were only two improv sketches, both were hilarious for the ridiculous results produced by audience participation. To say that the crowd was lively is a gross understatement. Nothing was funnier than one audience member, full of life and passion, bellowing at the top of her lungs, “PORN STAR!!!” for a suggested occupation. Another highlight was when an audience member named Ada was invited on stage
for a bachelorette party sketch right before the intermission. With Cameron performing improvisational raps about Ada, and Ada herself providing fantastic fodder for comedy, the sketch was the best of both an absurd premise and audience participation, making for the most memorable instance of student engagement that night. Struggling to strike the right balance between political satire and a political lecContinued on page 7
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ture, however, The Second City’s attempts at critiquing the Trump administration often felt uninspired and unoriginal. Usually this occurred when the troupe concentrated more on the politics of their jokes than on subverting those politics.
One sketch in particular involved a rap battle between the everyday struggles of a black man in America versus those of a white man. The conceit of the sketch was funny enough—Cameron rapped about police brutality and diminishing education budgets while Campbell rapped about
peach frozen yogurt. But it was full of banal generalizations that were neither clever nor insightful, and stretched on for way too long. Overall, the show was indeed a comedic success. The troupe performed a healthy variety of short sketches, improv,
and longer, elaborate set-pieces, ensuring a sense of vibrant energy throughout the show. Admittedly, while I wish the political humor was not as heavy-handed, The Second City definitely delivered a night full of laughs, thrills, and, for one very special audience member, porn stars.
Senior Spotlight: Shubha Vedula BY JULIA PAZ MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
Shubha Vedula is not just a graduating fourth-year majoring in sociology; she’s also a singer and songwriter whose life was forever changed when, at 17 years old, she auditioned for American Idol and made it to the top 20 female competitors. Now, Vedula performs under the stage name “Shuba,” singing on campus, at local Chicago venues, and even in other cities such as New York. “[American Idol] was my stamp of approval,” remembers Shuba, who hails from Mount Pleasant, Michigan. What had begun as a fun pastime when she was three years old was now something much more. Going on American Idol opened up many new doors for Shuba; she opened for violinist and singer Lindsey Stirling as well as for the band Train in 2014, and she sang for the Chicago Bulls last January. Despite these impressive gigs, however, it wasn’t until recently that she learned how to succeed as a musician. “I thought that you just got discovered or [became] famous by singing at a bar, and I didn’t realize until my second year of college that you actually have to do something,” Shuba said. “You have to put out content, you have to have a vision, a sound. I wrote 40 songs that summer and defined my sound. Since then I’ve just been putting music out and performing a lot.” Attempting to start her music career while also focusing on academics at a place such as UChicago was, without a doubt, challenging. For her first two years in the college, Shuba was part of the Voices in Your Head a cappella group, with which she competed at the 2015 ICCA Finals and
was awarded “Outstanding Soloist” for her solos in “Show Me How You Burlesque” and “Bang My Head.” With Voices, Shuba also received honors from the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards and even toured to the White House to perform for the Obamas. As a second-year, Shuba joined the Dirt Red Brass Band and toured with them in New Orleans over spring break. On top of her musical endeavors, Shuba has been an RA for DelGiorno House since her third year. “It was hard to balance all these things. I had to drop some things,” she explained. “I make a to-do list every day, kind of get [homework and other] things out of the way and use the rest of the day for music.” Shuba not only sings, but also writes her own music. “I am a melody person. I love catchy melodies and chord progressions,” she said. As a first-year, Shuba sang two original songs, “You Are” and “The Incredible Unknown” at UChicago’s TEDx Conference. “I like to work with a lot of other songwriters, send ideas back and forth with other people, just on guitar or piano, just on my iPhone, and then we’ll put something together and get it produced,” she explained. When asked about her music idols, Shuba listed Rihanna as a main inspiration. “I think she’s just phenomenal,” Shuba said. “She knows how to evolve her music while staying true. Ariana Grande and Whitney Houston, vocal-wise, [are also inspirational to me].” Shuba also gets inspiration, however, from most anyone, friends and family. “I look up to anyone who has had a series of failures and then a big success. I’m always such a fan of the underdog.... People who work hard towards something and eventually get it—that’s always who I look up to.”
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Shubha Vedula is a singer-songwriter and graduating fourth-year. Looking back at her time at UChicago, Shuba pinpointed this year’s Summer Breeze as one of her favorite experiences. “It was so fun to see all the seniors—the people you started this entire journey with,” said Shuba, who also performed at the carnival that afternoon. “[You see] all the people that you may have had drama, awkward interactions, fun nights, or amazing conversations with all in one place, ... after four years. I learned that everybody is following their dreams. It sounds cheesy, but everyone is doing what they want to do. I just think that’s amazing.” Reflecting on her time in Chicago, Shuba also remembers her performance at Taste of Chicago last July as one of her most memorable gigs. “When I first moved to the city, I saw the stage and I remember telling my mom ‘I really want to do a show there,’” she said. The
performance marked the first time Shuba had performed an hour-long set of original material with a big band, and she recalls that a group of UChicago people came out to support her. As she says goodbye to college, she looks forward to working hard to accomplish her musical goals. In April, Shuba launched her new EP Around Me, featuring the single “Stupid,” for which she recently released a music video. She is also starting an interview series, “Shuba Crush Sundays,” where she interviews female creatives in Chicago. “It’s a fun time where I’m creating, writing, and meeting new people,” Shuba said. “The goal is to live the rest of my life only doing what I’m doing now and never having to work a nine-to-five.” Shuba will be performing at Elbo Room at 7 p.m. on June 6.
The Underground Collective Blossoms at Final Showcase of the Quarter BY BROOKE NAGLER ARTS EDITOR
“We are the only really genre-defying performance art group on campus,” explained second-year Felix Lecocq, the managing director of the Underground Collective, after their show on Friday. “We will have someone performing poetry over someone playing guitar while someone else dances to the beat of the poem—no one else does that. That’s us.” This genre-defying quality adds complexity to the ever-packed quarterly showcases. In their spring showcase, As is the Garden, there was rock music, electronic beats, stand-up, poetry, and skits. The performances were moving, taking on intense personal issues with bravery and, at times, humor. The performers touched on a range of themes—all of which were marked with trigger warnings—from family to body image to racism to depression. Second-years Trish Zulueta and Ashvini Kartik-Narayan began the night with their poem “look mom, I’m on stage,” a vivid ode to each of their mothers’ personalities and accomplishments. The poem provided distinct vignettes, ranging from their mothers’ professional lives to their persistent combat with racism. Lecocq and third-year Jhanelle Smith performed another striking duet, “die genaue worte.” As one gave a bilingual monologue in English and German, the other spoke in
hushed German, creating a humming undertone. “It’s really strange that I cannot learn Vietnamese at the University of Chicago, but I can learn German,” said Lecocq after the show. “I have some absence in me for some culture, or language, or being understood in a way that I am not understood in English, being a brown body.” At As is the Garden, the collective also performed their first-ever rock song, “Wanderlust.” With Smith on vocals, Zulueta on keyboard, and second-year Jeremy Lindenfeld on guitar, it felt like the space had transformed into a concert venue. Through Smith’s graceful transitions between quiet and loud moments, and Lindenfeld’s accompanying harmonies, the yearning of the lyrics worked its way into the song’s entire sound. There were a number of notable solo poetry performances, all delivered with bold vulnerability. Fourth-year Maddie Anderson’s “trying” documented her continued efforts in her relationship with her mother. In “GDN,” fourth-year Bryan Waterhouse spoke with piercingly clever lines of his struggles with depression, and of an “angel” who helped him. As he said, “she gave me encouragement, look, she showed me what courage meant.” Equally powerful was fourth-year Emma Preston’s “how deeply was it buried & who did the digging?” She wove her realizations about her sexuality with her efforts to accept her body, stating, “I no longer see
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The Underground Collective at their last showcase of the academic year. my body as a metaphor.” As many of their pieces touch on possibly triggering topics, the collective is constantly working to ensure their shows are safe spaces for their audience. Along with including content warnings on the program, they provide a safe space with comforting objects for anyone to enter throughout the show. As Lecocq explained, “having a space for you to leave—I think that’s so important. If you have content warnings without an escape route, it’s just performative.” These initiatives are part of the group’s ongoing efforts, since they were founded four years ago by Anderson and Natalie Richardson (A.B. ’17), to create a safe space at their performances. Friday’s show was the last one for one
of the group’s founding members, Anderson, as well as first-generation members Waterhouse and Preston who are graduating this spring. As Lecocq described, a future without that original group is intimidating: “Having that institutional memory was so helpful, so it is a bit scary.” But this performance, like their previous ones, demonstrates a level of talent across the board that guarantees an exciting future. In outlining upcoming goals for the collective, Lecocq shared that he hopes the group will foster a larger artistic community. “I am interested in building a community that is…a wider circle in which other people feel that they are involved somehow or able to access the safe space that we have.”
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UChicago BLDA presents: SASS N’ CLASS Ida Noyes, 7:30–9:30 p.m., free Hosted by the Ballroom and Latin Dance Association, this event will have you tapping your toes to all sorts of styles, from salsa to foxtrot to waltz.
UT/TAPS Presents: Animals Out of Paper Logan Center, 7:30 p.m., free on Thursday, $6 advance/$8 at the door for performances on Friday and Saturday Centered on an origami artist, a high school teacher, and his origami prodigy, this play explores the search for hope and methods of healing and catharsis in times of great grief.
Voices in Your Head presents: The 20th Anniversary Concert Logan Center Performance Hall, 7:30–9:30 p.m., $12/$10 in advance with UCID, $18/$15 in advance general, varying prices for the pre-concert reception For their final performance of the academic year, a cappella group Voices in Your Head will perform classic arrangements, a new song, and their set that took third place at the 2018 ICCA Finals. The group will be joined by members from all generations of Voices.
RnJ Presents: Rhythm and Barbecues! International House, 12:30–1:30 p.m., $5 Rhythm and Jews is celebrating their 27th anniversary with song! They will be debuting new arrangements as well as performing old favorites. Burgers and hot dogs will be served.
UW Presents: Rush TriU Logan Center, 8–10 p.m., $5 in advance, $7 at the door Unaccompanied Women is putting on its final performance of the year, dressed in true fraternity fashion. Featuring plenty of a cappella jams and ice cream sundaes, this event won’t be your typical frat party.
Study at the Smart Smart Museum, 9 p.m.–midnight, free The quarterly opportunity for you to study surrounded by the Smart’s unique exhibits is coming up. Offering pizza, snacks, and drinks, this night will allow for some productive studying surrounded by inspiration, as well as for you to keep your stomach satisfied.
CMAC presents: QED 5600 South Woodlawn Ave (Hyde Park Union Church), 7–8:30 p.m., $5/$4 in advance with UCID, $10 general Chicago Men’s A Cappella is rounding off a week of much music and song with a diverse selection of choral works, folk music, and drinking songs.
CROSSWORDS Across 1. Tollway system for Illinois 6. Litmus test nos. 9. Shade of purple 14. Structure typically oriented east/west 16. Follow, as advice 17. Band with the hit song Deconstructing Chicago ? 18. Nadella of Microsoft 19. Tax expert, for short 20. Band with the hit song NO SLEEP IN NASHVILLE ? 22. Wheel of Time Warder 23. Adds sprinkles, say 24. Descarte’s therefore 25. Ides utterance 27. Some shirt sizes: Abbr. 29. Stick end 30. Bring home 32. Michelangelo masterwork 34. Soph. and sr. 35. Band with the hit song Trumpets Over Omaha ?
LET’S START A BAND BY CHRISTOPHER JONES 38. Emergency! 41. Does some presses 42. Cut 45. Tsk! 46. Place: Abbr. 47. Mario Kart character 49. Resting on 51. [Sigh!] 54. Space station that fell into the Pacific Ocean in 2001 55. Band with the hit song Tallahassee Bop ? 59. Intense indignation 60. Some pet store visitors 61. Band with the hit song Indianapolis is my home, but I’m a free kinda girl anyway ? 63. TV show portraying serial killers in the first person 64. High-___ 65. Descartes and Magritte
66. Glance at 67. Lies down Down 1. Result of some chilly dripping 2. Examine, physically 3. Home of the Braves 4. To be, in Beijing 5. Mailed 6. Followup to 42A 7. ___ chill (isn’t calm and cool) 8. Sadly unrestful 9. Fem.’s opposite 10. I haven’t got ___! 11. Absolutely 12. Name of the manmade object farthest from Earth 13. Drives mad, in a way 15. Four-footed forest female 21. NCOs two ranks above cpl.
26. Keat’s Ode on a Grecian ___ 28. Rice wine 31. Famous first name of 1969 32. Fighting for mothers (or maybe against them?) 33. 007 creator Fleming 36. Like the Core 37. U-verse creator 38. Newsroom employee 39. Last longer than 40. Substituted (for) 43. Arrivals 44. Bon Appétit furnishing 48. Rastafarian hair style 50. One who has nothing to lose but their chains, according to Marx 52. Time, if you believe a common idiom 53. Actor Murphy of Shrek 56. Terrorist group that calls itself a caliphate 57. Feel unwell 58. Scion 62. Single-bond suffix
SPORTS Maroons End Season Strong WOMEN’S TENNIS
BY TRENT CARSON SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR
The 2018 University of Chicago women’s tennis season came to a close this past weekend with a tough loss to top-ranked Emory University in the NCA A DIII Championship quarterfinals. The Maroons finished out another fantastic season with a strong run, dominating their way to the program’s 10th-straight NCAA DIII tournament appearance, and the program’s eighth quarterfinals appearance. After handling Grinnell College in the second round and University of Wisconsin–Whitewater in the third round, the Maroons faced off against Emory. It was a rematch of the UAA Championship match, where the Eagles were able to hold off the
Maroons, who lost 7–2 in a hard-fought battle. This time around, the Maroons were unable to top the tournament favorites. Despite an impressive start by the No.1 doubles duo of second-year Marjorie Antohi and first-year Claire Handa with a huge 9–7 victory, the Maroons were unable to hold onto the early momentum. The Eagles took both No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, giving themselves a 2–1 lead heading into singles. Antohi, the Maroon’s No. 2 singles player, and first-year Catherine Xu, the Maroon’s No. 3 singles player, each took the first set of their respective singles matches. Handa was able to bounce back from losing her first set to take the lead 4–3 in her second set before the match was called at
decision with an overall score of 5–1. Reflecting on the match against Emory, Xu said, “For our final match of the season against Emory, I think during many moments in the match we were right there head to head with them—it definitely felt a lot closer than what the score says. Marj and Claire did an amazing job leading the team to get us a point with the doubles win. Although in the end we fell short in singles. I think we all competed really hard under our given circumstances. Emory came out strong and brought really high energy throughout the entire match from start to finish, and I think in the end that’s what made the difference.” As for the tournament and season as a whole, Xu is happy with the effort and hard
work the team has put in. “Overall I think our team did a really good job this year in NCAAs, it’s not easy to be competing at the biggest tournament of the year while still having to maintain academics, especially being so close to finals week,” said Xu. “I’m really proud of all of the girls on the team and their efforts not just during NCAAs but throughout the entire season. We’ve grown and improved so much as a team since the beginning of season and I’m definitely looking forward to an even better one in the next year.” While the team’s season has ended, both Handa and Antohi have qualified for the NCAA DIII Singles and Doubles tournaments, which begin on Thursday.