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VOL. 130, ISSUE 7

Hundreds March in Pro-Grad Union Walk Out First-Years

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By MATTHEW LEE contributing writer

More than 350 GSU members and supporters demanded the University bargain in front of Levi Hall yesterday. PHOTOS BY ESTELLE HIGGINS AND EUIRIM CHOI

By WILLIAM YEE contributing writer

In one of the largest campus demonstrations in recent years, over 350 graduate student lecturers, teaching assistants, and instructors participated in a planned walkout on Thursday morning to the steps of Levi Hall, which houses the offices of the president and other members of University administration.

The demonstration was scheduled specifically for 11:03 a.m.,

symbolic of the 1,103 graduate students who voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionization last October.

Ahead of the walkout, Chicago mayoral candidate and current Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle lauded the move on Twitter. She called on President Robert Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier to “honor GSU’s collective bargaining rights and recognize them immediately as a union at the University of Chicago.”

The rally began with a series

of impassioned chants, such as “You’re late, you’re late, you’re late to negotiate,” and “United we bargain, divided we beg!”

Claudio Gonzáles was one of five speakers to address the crowd, which spilled over onto the street.

A fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the math department, he also serves as the copresident of Graduate Students United (GSU).

In an interview with The Maroon, Gonzáles said, “We’re the backbone of this institution. Without us, this place doesn’t function.

Yet, they still pretend that we’re just children and that we don’t have any importance to this place.”

“It’s infuriating the way this institution refuses to listen to our voices.” Gonzáles elaborated, saying that many of his colleagues faced “late pay, pay that doesn’t keep up with the cost of living, inadequate healthcare—we don’t even have Vision or Dental.”

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After an election that ran from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon, the Class of 2022 selected Alex Pu, Anya Wang, David Liang, and Zebeeb Nuguse to serve as their Student Government representatives for the 2018–19 school year.

Running jointly with Laureen Akram, Alex Pu promised improvements to Wi-Fi, free printing and laundry, and a renewed focus on mental health. Anya Wang vowed to expand Maroon Dollars to cover printing and laundry, provide female hygiene products in all dorm bathrooms, host destress events on campus, and expand student discounts among local businesses.

David Liang presented voters with a wide array of promises, including plans to make campus safer, improve student quality of life, and increase student political participation.

Zebeeb Nuguse ran on a platform of social justice and vowed to address workers’ rights and diversity on campus. Issues singled out for specific concern included graduate student compensation and a plan to create cultural centers for minority students.

Over the course of their campaigns, candidates posted flyers around campus, spoke to voters during informal sessions on the Reynolds Club, and advertised their platforms on social media.

St udent Gover nment w ill host their first public meeting on Monday, October 29, at the Booth School of Business.

Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate Who Coined “God Particle,” Passes

By WILLIAM TRLAK contributing writer

Physicist Leon Lederman, professor emeritus at UChicago and a Nobel laureate, died on October 3 from complications caused by dementia.

Lederman’s career extended over 60 years and cemented him as one of the leading names in the study of particle physics, especially in the study of the Higgs boson particle, for which he coined the nickname the “God particle.”

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“ W hat he really loved was people, trying to educate them and help them understand what they were doing in science,” said his wife, Ellen Carr Lederman, following his death.

Lederman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for “the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.”

Lederman’s prize would gar-

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ner significant media attention in 2015, when he was reportedly forced to auction off the medal to afford treatments. It auctioned for $765,002, the fourth highest price paid for a Nobel Prize in the past 30 years.

Lederman received his Ph.D. in physics in 1951 from Columbia University and began his teaching career at Columbia. Eventually gaining full professorship, Lederman took a leave of absence from Columbia in order to become the continued on pg.

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Events 10/19–10/20

Friday Memorial Service for Prof Moishe Postone Rockefeller Chapel, 4 p.m.

A memorial service in honor of professor Moishe Postone will take place on Monday in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 4 p.m., followed by a reception in the Ida Noyes library.

The Impact of Populism and Nationalism on American Democracy International House, 12 p.m.

Join National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg for a conversation on his new book, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy.

Saturday Humanities Day 2018 Reynolds Club, Mandel Hall, 11 a.m.

Keynote address: Christopher Kennedy, “Truth” We are warned with increasing urgency that we are becoming a “post-truth” society.

But what is truth? What role does it play in thought and communications? And why should we care about it?

Monument Destruction in the Past and Present, with James Osborne Harper Memorial Library, Room 140, 9:30 a.m.

The shifting role of monuments in our public spaces has recently consumed public debate across the country. What are we to do with hundreds of statues of slave-owning Confederate generals or native-conquering Christopher Columbus, for example? The answers are rarely clear-cut, and opinions are strong. What few people realize is that these debates are hardly new. Today’s headlines are merely the latest manifestation of a phenomenon that archaeologists have recognized in times and places the world over: the constantly contested nature of monuments and their violent destructions.

1968 Decentered Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

On the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 a diverse set of panelists will examine the expansive orbits of revolution in 1968 and its wake: in Eastern Europe, Brazil, and the U.S. Participants will inquire not only into the intellectual and political causation of these events, but also into their affective and experiential textures.

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Zimmer Cautions Against “Privileging Feelings”

By ELLIE CITRON contributing writer

On Wednesday, conservative media outlets The Blaze and Campus Reform praised comments made by President Zimmer earlier this month, lauding the administrator’s observation that college campuses are expected to be “privileging feelings, to the extent that a child feels they are always entitled to feel good and comfortable.”

Addressing the City Club of Cleveland, Zimmer cautioned that universities should not work by “creating a sanctuary for comfort” to cultivate cultures of inclusivity and as a result fail to properly educate their students.

He went on to admonish individuals who oppose free speech out of “self-righteous, moral, or political indignation, an agenda driven by such moral or political views, and

President Robert J. Zimmer speaks at an event in Cleveland, Ohio. COURTESY PHOTO comfort.”

Zimmer’s language echoes the 2015 Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, also known as the Stone Report. His speech follows Dean of Students Jay Ellison’s

2016 letter to the class of 2020, in which he condemned trigger warnings and safe spaces, and the 2018 adoption of “The Chicago Statement” by 35 universities around the country.

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director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, and a joint project between the University of Chicago and the Universities Research Association.

During his tenure at Fermilab, Lederman helped develop the Tevatron, the world’s most powerful superconducting accelerator until the development of the Large Hadron Collider in 2009. The Tevatron was deactivated in 2011.

Lederman was also instrumental in forming the initial team of the Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group at in 1983.

For the group, he recruited UChicago faculty members Michael Turner, the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Rocky Kolb, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences.

The group “would blaze a new trail by bringing together the physics of the very small (particle physics) and the very large (cosmology),” Turner recalled in an e-mail to The Maroon. “Back then this was a radical idea, that was pooh poohed by many.”

The work in uniting particle physics and cosmology had many impacts to how the field is studied today. “The convergence

of quarks and the cosmos has transformed both fields. In cosmology, it changed the lexicon and the questions. Cosmology today is about understanding dark matter, dark energy and inflation,” Turner said.

He added that before Lederman’s work, cosmology was studied merely as the intersection of the expansion rate, the speed at which two distinct parts of the universe expand, and the deceleration parameter, a measure of cosmic acceleration.

In 1989, Lederman resigned from Columbia, retired as director of Fermilab, and began serving as a professor at UChicago.

Lederman also made significant contributions to science education. In 1982, he proposed the creation of a publicly funded math and science academy for Illinois teenagers. The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), in Aurora, Illinois, was approved by the Illinois General Assembly in 1985, with its first academic school year beginning in 1986.

Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall, IMSA’s inaugural president from 1986 until 2007, recalled working with Dr. Lederman on the planning and opening of IMSA. “Some things happen in your life when you just get lucky…because serendipity was activated and an uncommon confluence

of events emerged that lead to something life-changing,” Pace Marshall said of her professional relationship with Lederman. “[Dr. Lederman] loved interacting with students and staff, and the feeling was mutual; a ‘Leon sighting’—seeing Lederman walk around the building with his ice cream cone—was a highlight for students. Stopping to talk to him was even better.”

Lederman remained at IMSA as a Resident Scholar Emeritus from 2012 until his death.

Aside from the Nobel, Lederman received many accolades, such as election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965, the National Medal of Science in 1965, an honorary doctorate from DePaul University in 1995, and the prestigious Vannevar Bush Prize in 2012 from the National Science Board.

“Just trying to recount all that Leon did tires me,” says Turner. “How he had the energy and the vision to do so much is beyond me. But we can all be glad that he did.”

Lederman is survived by his wife and three children.

Remembering Moishe Postone, Marxist Scholar, 1942-2018

By FENG YE news reporter

Professor Moishe Postone spoke out candidly about the less than optimistic time the world was witnessing at the Vienna Humanities Festival last November, astutely critiquing the ongoing political and social climate as he had done throughout his career.

“We have reached an age which is potentially as authoritarian as the interwar period, that most of us thought had been left far behind. I think it’s a very dangerous time. The problem is, there is no compelling imaginary of what could be a different future,” Postone told the crowd gathered at the festival.

“Marx is sort of a historical optimist. You don’t seem to share that part of Marxism, do you?” quipped the host, Austrian historian Raimund Löw.

“My analogy is, if you want to understand the significance of a great work of art, you don’t necessarily interview the artist.... If I were writing a biography of Marx, I think I would try to talk about this tension between Marx the analyst and Marx the revolutionary,” Postone replied.

Coming out of the 1960s–70s New Left as one of the world’s leading scholars on

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Karl Marx, Postone creatively reinterpreted Marx, insisting on the contemporary relevance of the German social theorist’s work.

A teacher as well as a scholar, Postone shared his insights with generations of undergraduate and graduate students.

On March 19, 2018, Postone passed away at the age of 75 after years of battling brain cancer. He left behind two unfinished book manuscripts, Capital: A Reading and Critical

Social Theory and Contemporary Historical Transformations, according to the history department.

“Capitalism, in making us wealthy, increases human potential, but it does so by yoking us to capitalism’s values, not values by which we ourselves freely choose to live.

Moishe believed that even left political movements had become trapped in capitalism’s value system,” said U.S. history professor Jonathan Levy (A.M. ’03, Ph.D. ’08), who was Postone’s co-editor on Critical Historical Studies wrote to The Maroon in an e-mail.

Dean of the College John Boyer remembered Postone as a “real intellectual,” concerned not only with the past, but also with ongoing issues in society.

“He had a very lively, creative, and fertile mind, but it wasn’t restricted to simply the 19th century, it was really the late 20th and 21st century in terms of the problems he was trying to deal with,” Boyer said.

Postone’s first and most renowned book on Marx, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory, was published in 1993. “The book is very widely read...if anything I could say in the last decade, it’s been read more. I’m sure continued on page

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“The people, united, will never be defeated.” non-tenure track faculty. Faculty Forward reached an agreement with the University in March of this year, after years of negotiation and under the looming threat of a strike.

“The University has refused to negotiate with you, instead siding with the Trump labor board, a board hostile to the interests of unions and working people everywhere,” Laurence said, emphasizing that UChicago GSU’s efforts are part of a nationwide struggle for fair representation.

An hour later, the rally proceeded down South Ellis Avenue, as participants marched to the Neubauer Collegium at the intersection of East 57th Street and South Woodlawn Avenue, where Zimmer was at the time of the rally, to ensure he was within earshot of their remarks.

In response to a Maroon request for comment, the University affirmed its commitment to free expression and referred to its efforts to work with graduate students.

“The American Federation of Teachers and American Association of University Professors voluntarily withdrew their election petition, and there is no union with legal status as the certified representative of any graduate teaching or research assistants at the University. We continue to work directly with graduate students on a variety of collaborative efforts across the University, including the Committee on Graduate Education and UChicagoGRAD, to improve the lives, education, and professional development of graduate students,” a University spokesperson said in a statement.

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Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees, agreed. “From unlivable wages to dangerously costly healthcare, the University of Chicago harms the graduate employees who make this University run.”

In his speech, Daniel Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, described the rally as among the largest he has ever witnessed. He also labeled the current plight of graduate students as “an affront to the University.”

Third-year Sam Joyce, president of Students Organizing United with Labor (SOUL), described the University as one that “puts profit ahead of the well-being of all of the members of this community.”

Other speakers echoed these sentiments in their remarks, condemning the reticence of the administration to act and calling for the University to immediately begin negotiations toward a collective bargaining contract with GSU. Peter Fugiel (A.B. ’07, A.M. ’12), a sociology Ph.D. student, was one of hundreds of participants at the rally. In his time at the University, he has held a range of positions, working as a teaching intern, a lecturer, and a research assistant.

“I believe a union contract would bring much needed transparency, accountability, and fairness to grad student employment,” Fugiel told The Maroon. “That’s why I walked out from my research job today to demand the administration meet us at the bargaining table.”

Ben Laurence, a lecturer in human rights in the philosophy department, spoke on behalf of Faculty Forward, the union of

People across the University, including tenured professor Robert Kendrick (bottom left), turned out to get the University to bargain with GSU. PHOTOS BY ESTELLE HIGGINS AND LEE HARRIS

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that’s going to be an enduring work,” close colleague professor William Sewell said.

Beyond his scholarship on Marx, Postone also studied anti-Semitism. He edited Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century with Eric Santner, the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies.

A “Chicago-Lifer” Although Postone considered himself “Left” or “radical” in the ’60s, he told the leftist Platypus Affiliated Society in 2008 that he did not think Marx was particularly relevant for social concerns at the time until he read the 1844 Manuscripts and English edition of Grundrisse translator Martin Nicolaus’s The Unknown Marx.

“Its hints at the richness of the Grundrisse blew me away,” Postone said to The Platypus Review.

A biochemistry major in the College and later a history master’s student in the 1960s, Postone encountered his early sources of inspirations on campus.

According to Boyer, Postone’s favorite class as an undergraduate was History of Western Civilizations, which was taught by Karl Weintraub (A.B. ’49, A.M. ’52, Ph.D. ’57).

Upon receiving the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 1999, over three decades after taking Weintraub’s Core class, Postone would describe the legendary history professor to the University of Chicago Chronicle as his role model.

“What I remember most is Weintraub’s engagement with the material. He was able to convey his sense that the issues raised by the texts we discussed were really important, which is something I try to do as well,” Postone said.

Postone participated in the 1969 student sit-in at the University’s administration building protesting the firing of sociology professor Marlene Dixon and led a study

group named “Hegel and Marx” after the sit-in.

The study group considered it essential to understand the historical moment by reading social theory, including Georg Lukács, which Postone found to be “an impressive tour de force.”

Postone departed in the early ’70s for his doctoral program at Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, where he would remain for over a decade. He studied with Iring Fetscher, who was a scholar of the “second generation” Frankfurt School.

After completing his dissertation in 1983, Postone returned to Chicago to work with the Center for Transcultural Studies before he became a William Rainey Harper Instructor for the Core at the College in 1987.

It was again on campus where Postone would become a world-renowned scholar of Marx and a central pillar of undergraduate and graduate teaching.

Leader of the Core Postone’s leadership was essential to the construction and development of Self, Culture, and Society, one of the oldest social sciences Core classes in the College. His involvement stretched over three decades.

“The process is interactive. The more successful I am, the more autonomous the students become,” Postone told the Chronicle. “I enjoy teaching at the University a great deal. I draw considerable energy from it.”

Anthropology professor John Kelly, the current chair of the Core course, was recruited in the same group of Harper instructors as Postone in the late ’80s.

“I had just finished my Ph.D., and Moishe and I were part of one of the largest groups ever hired to start as Harper collegiate assistant professors.... Right from the start, there was this conversation about the past and future of social theory in the staff,” Kelly said.

Kelly remembered that at the time there was a division of labor among the staff, with

scholars from different disciplines within the social sciences who were committed to different theorists. Postone was a great scholar of Marx as well as Freud.

“Between the group of us, we covered an enormous territory of the scope of the social sciences core. [Since then] it’s had a backbone, and that was Moishe’s leadership above all,” Kelly said.

In 1995, Postone became the chair of Self, Culture, and Society. He ran the weekly staff meetings during which he advised instructors on how to teach the class, worked with other chairs to hire Harper instructors, and over time built the course into an effective introduction to social theory that aims to teach students how to read and write independently.

According to Kelly, Postone’s mentorship was both charismatic and substantive, such that Harper fellows received almost the highest course reviews in college teaching.

Boyer noted, too, Postone’s important leadership in Self, Culture, and Society. “He was a very strong and forceful leader of that course, and he really was able to articulate a vision for over three quarters because it is a year-long course, in which each quarter built on the preceding quarter,” Boyer said.

“He had a good way of combining higher level, rigorous, intellectual exchange with a colloquial pleasantry, a kind of fun-loving outlook. Fun-loving is maybe a little too light, but he could be very jovial,” said Gary Herrigel, the Paul Klapper Professor in the College and in the Division of Social Sciences.

As chair of another social sciences Core sequence—Power, Identity, and Resistance— Herrigel worked closely with Postone as they developed the Core. Herrigel, who was also interested in capitalism and its modern developments, met Postone as soon as he joined the University.

Although they thought about capitalism very differently and had intellectual disagreements, Herrigel and Postone both

believed strongly in the value of interdisciplinary general education, where students engage with fundamental texts of social theory. Herrigel said that the most important goal of the Sosc sequence for Postone was teaching students to be autonomous, to think about texts and make their own judgments independently.

According to Herrigel, Power, Identity, and Resistance was modeled after the existing, well-developed structures of the Self and Classics sequences.

“Moishe over time became an unbelievably caring, solidaristic mentor friend for me,” Herrigel said. “We were allies in defense of the Core, in defense of general education in opposition to the ever-present desire to make the sequences more discipline-focused.”

Herrigel and Postone both worked to hire Harper fellows to teach the Core, which involved selecting a few candidates each year from a pool of hundreds of applicants.

“Moishe was always engaged, reading the files, learning about the candidates,” Herrigel said.

Jake Werner (Ph.D. ’15), collegiate assistant professor and a current instructor of Self, worked closely with Postone as a Ph.D. student. When Werner met with Postone to prepare for his oral exams, he sometimes found Postone working long hours grading papers. “It wasn’t his graduate students, it was his undergraduates’ papers. He really put himself into that,” Jake said.

When Kelly’s daughter studied at the University as an undergraduate, she took her first quarter of Self with Postone. “It just made common sense. She definitely changed her life to be Moishe’s student, so I still hear about that from my daughter,” Kelly said.

A memorial service for professor Moishe Postone will take place on Monday in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 4 p.m., followed by a reception in the Ida Noyes Library.

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Mount Olympus in a Basement: A Case for Space

By NUR BANU SIMSEK & SALMA ELKHAOUDI viewpoints columnists

When students trek to Ida Noyes Hall, it’s usually for Pub Trivia, meetings with Career Advancement, or free movie screenings at Doc. But if you were to walk down the creaky stairs into the basement, go down the hall (past the dance studio and the Pub), turn right, then left, and continue straight ahead—you’d see the Spiritual Life Office (SLO). Sandwiched between a small prayer room, and an even smaller meditation room, the SLO is the umbrella office managing 80 different student groups and community organizations on campus.

From theist to Zoroastrian, students from every tradition, every religious background, and every philosophical conviction can find a network here for their spiritual needs.

However, the SLO doesn’t just cater to the spiritual needs of students. According to the University’s Health and Wellness Promotion office, there are seven facets of wellness: spiritual, emotional, social, intellectual, mental, physical, and financial. For some students, the SLO is primarily a space where they can find their community in weekly meetings, dinners, and workshops.

For others, the SLO most importantly serves as a place of constant learning and curiosity, fostering honest dialogues and discussions.

Whether it is through office hour meetings with religious advisors or regular yoga and meditation ses-

sions, the SLO tends to a variety of student needs.

To this extent, the SLO is a haven for many, particularly on a campus that often idealizes struggle and glorifies unhealthy habits.

However, you couldn’t tell by walking into the space that the SLO sustains several hundred students and dozens of student groups. Beyond three shoebox-sized openings near the ceiling, allowing for a few rays of natural light here and there, and one plant—recently deceased, RIP Wilfred—the tiny office feels mostly divorced from nature. A space meant for wellness should have, at the very least, some natural sources of happiness. One of the saddest scenes in the Spiritual Life Office is that of a group of students seeking meditative calm, huddled around the office’s infamous Happy Light in the dead of summer. Don’t get us wrong, Happy Lights are important, but they are no substitute for a simple window in an office meant to provide spiritual solace.

Of course, the SLO is not a haven for all students, and we are not arguing that it does or should serve that role. But given the University’s seemingly endless space for new dormitories and other campus expansions, there’s little justification for relegating an important office with such a broad mission to the depths of a basement—or forcing the inclusion of every campus minority under the roof of a single three-story Hyde Park home, known fondly as the Center for Identity and Inclusion (CI+I). In both cases, it seems that the ad-

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ministration is pushing minority communities and their practices to the fringes when it comes to asset-based support.

As such, our “case for space” is one that compels the administration to provide more: more room for spiritual activity and more room for cultural and racial safe spaces, particularly for minority communities on campus.

As most marginalized students know, we’d be lucky if diversity and inclusion issues started and ended in the lecture hall. The issue (read: lack) of inclusivity is somehow a harder pill to swallow outside of the classroom, in the social sphere, at frat parties and at graduate mixers.

If you’re worried about anti-Blackness as a Black student, or the lack of vegetarian options as a Muslim or Hindu student, or sexual assault as a female student—or all of the above as a Black Muslim woman, for example—our campus has failed to be socially inclusive.

The things that force us all under the umbrella of CI+I are not the things that make us unique and worthy of celebration; they’re the things that make us marginalized and politicized. We don’t need a space to remind us that we are not cisgender, heterosexual white men.

And the administration’s haphazard designation of space, like the SLO and CI+I, feels like a political strategy more than an earnest attempt to ensure marginalized students have the ability to thrive on

campus. When one group protests, the administration is quick to point to the spaces already designated, in an attempt to say, “We have already done our part for the sake of diversity and inclusion.”

Queer and Black? CI+I. Brown and Poor? CI+I. Latinx? CI+I. Trans? CI+I. Undocumented and First Generation? CI+I. Confucian?

Hindu? Pagan? Muslim? Try the basement of Ida Noyes.

Here we are, stuck in a cycle of dismissal and erasure because we seem ungrateful and aggressive when we want our own spaces, ones where we can focus on the vibrancy and variety of our own identities. We want spaces that focus on the pluralistic notion of identities, not on the singular concept of identity and inclusion. We want to feel included and at peace within our communities, so that we may then feel confident and understood outside of them. This is a conversation that many—both peers and administrators—are reluctant to have with those of us who need it most.

The nuances of our practices, our backgrounds, and our values are erased, and the only space we have is a space that does nothing but remind us that we are simply tokens, mostly here to pose for marketing materials for the University, to showcase its diversity and inclusion on alumni weekend or during prospie events.

When groups in pursuit of their own spaces on campus meet with

administrators, the answer has always been the same: “Why don’t [insert name of marginalized community] students just fundraise from their alumni networks to build their own spaces?” Responses like these presume that all groups are equally capable of leveraging enough resources to finance and construct their own spaces, but marginalized groups necessarily have less access to affluent alumni networks and national support systems. That’s why campus has well-established spaces like DU or Calvert House; the communities these spaces serve benefit from a legacy of wealth and representation, both on and off campus.

Black feminists have argued for years that you have to look no further than those individuals nestled at the intersection of oppressions—historically poor Black women—to see the manifestations of (and solutions to) institutional inequality. We argue there is a similar case here, on our campus, at the intersection of race, culture, and spirituality; a case that begs administrative support in the form of a social impact investment for sizable social impact returns. The University has the means to provide cultural and religious groups with spaces to build community— so, why doesn’t it?

Nur Banu Simsek and Salma Elkhaoudi are fourth-years in the College.

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ARTS “The Hate U Give” and the Hate We Give Back

Amandla Stenberg as Starr Carter straddles two worlds.

By ERIC-ANTONIO GUZMAN arts staff

The Hate U Give opens with a seemingly commonplace, yet unsettling, familial scene: The kids are all gathered around the kitchen table as the head of the household, Maverick, played by Russell Hornsby (Fences, Creed II ), imparts some fatherly w isdom about the undisclosed facts of life. Except instead of talking about the birds and the bees, Maverick instructs his children on how to act in the event a police officer pulls them over. Heads down. Hands on the dash. Clearly, so the police officer can see them. It’s a brutally honest look at the harsh reality we live in, and only the beginning for the rousing tour de force that director George Tillman Jr. (Mudbound, Notorious) delivers. With

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their heads down and their sense of safety shaken, the children begin to understand for themselves the true meaning of “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.”

Based on the best-selling novel by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games, The Darkest Minds) as Starr Carter, a 16-year-old girl who likes to keep her home and school lives separate. At home in Garden Heights, a predom ina ntly Black work ing-cla ss neighborhood, Starr is Starr Version One: a slang slinging, hip-hop loving girl. At Williamson Prep School, a predominantly white upper middle-class institution located nearly 40 minutes away, Starr is Starr Version Two: calm, cool, collected.

However, Starr’s carefully constructed walls come crumbling down when she be-

comes the sole witness to the murder of her childhood friend Khalil by a white police officer. As both communities react to the shooting in very different ways, Starr must choose between speaking up on the behalf of Khalil, thereby putting the lives of her and her family in danger, or remaining silent and attempting to protect her dual identities.

Although not the first film in 2018 to feature minority code-switching—Sorry to Bother You, BlacKkKlansman, and even Crazy Rich Asians also explore this topic— The Hate U Give is the first to imbue the craft of code-switching with such dramatic ferocity and emotional vulnerability. To say that Stenberg gives an Oscar-worthy performance is a gross understatement. It is as heartbreaking as it is heartwarming to witness the various ways in which Stenberg portrays her character as a victim of a divided world, struggling to define herself through her clothing, language, and friendships. Starr tries so hard to keep her relationships between her two friend groups separate, but ultimately she is unable to escape the longstanding history of antagonistic and often violent race relations between Black and white people in America. Caught in a world that continues to see in black and white, Starr resolves to decide for herself not only who she is, but also who she wants to become. “The Hate U Give Fucks Everybody,” but Starr refuses to let that hate bury her down.

Much credit for the touching resonance of this film must be given to director Tillman Jr., whose ability to construct powerful set pieces is top notch. In a scene

after the murder of Khalil, Maverick relays to Starr the notion that “Nightmares are always the worst the day after,” serving as a fitting exemplification of the various emotions—sadness, despair, fear, and eventually hate—purveyed throughout the film. Tillman Jr. creates a world in which every day is spent silently mourning the death of another victim of police brutality or racial injustice. It is harrowing, but Tillman Jr. makes sure to keep that nightmare from feeling too oppressive. Within the nightmare, Tillman Jr. instills a ray of light that keeps things hopeful and moves audiences forward. In the film, that ray of light is Starr, but more generally speaking, the film asserts that the ray of light can be any youth willing to stand up and be the change they want to see in the world.

At a roundtable discussion, Tillman Jr. said, “The reason we did the film was to enlighten, to inspire, to keep people pushing, keep using their voice, keep protesting. In the film, Starr says that ‘We will not stop protesting. As much as we shout and as much as we do, they do not hear us.’ And that’s what we gotta do. I was at a screening with the Emmett Till family and they came up to me afterwards saying how proud they were of the film, but I just wish we had the ability to tell stories for them back then in the ’50s. They weren’t allowed to use their voices at the time until Emmett Till’s mother did what she did and opened up the civil rights movement.

Imagine what would happen if we all used our voices?”

The Hate U Give is rated PG -13 and opens in theaters nationwide today.

In Warlight Michael Ondaatje Illuminates the Darkness and Light of Post-War London

By BRADLEY TIAN maroon contributor

“‘In 1945, our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.’ I had no idea where I was going after I wrote that first sentence,” admitted Michael Ondaatje as the audience burst into laughter.

Ondaatje, the Sri Lanka–born author of seven novels and 13 poetry collections, visited the Seminary Co-Op this past Thursday to discuss his latest novel Warlight. He was joined in conversation by Sonali Thakkar, assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Included on Barack Obama’s 2018 summer reading list, the book delves into the nature of war, memory, and family.

Warlight follows 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel after they are abandoned by their parents and left in the care of the Moth, named after his quiet and secretive demeanor, and the Darter, a smuggler of racing dogs. After months of silence, their mother returns without their father, explaining nothing. The chil-

dren’s story of parental separation and eventual reunion is a trope associated with fairy tales.

Ondaatje plays with this idea, speaking through Nathaniel: “Whenever my sister and I recalled this story, it felt like part of a fairy tale we did not quite understand. Our mother told us about it without drama…the way things happen in twice-told tales.” The novel itself is such a twicetold tale, delivered in two parts, spanning over a decade. In the second part, an adult Nathaniel embarks on a painful journey of retelling and reconstructing his mother’s story, and by extension, his own. “It is like clarifying a fable, about our parents, about Rachel and myself…there are traditions and tropes in stories like this.” But as old secrets unravel and the family breaks apart once again, the prospects for a happy ending are grim. For survivors of war, it seems, the past never stays in the past.

The novel challenges the notion that the destruction that came about because of World War II ended in 1945. The word “warlight” refers to the dim ambient light that people and ships in London had to rely on to navigate the city at night,

since blackouts were mandated to prevent enemy aircraft from using the city lights to identify targets. Ondaatje recounts, “When I was finding a title for the book, ‘warlight’ was apt because it was a reflection of war, a reflection that continued on like light on a cloud.” Thakkar added to his point, “It seems in a way like we’re still living in warlight. The emergency lights are still on and the bright illumination never quite returned.”

“It’s not romantic,” said Ondaatje about his experience in post-war London, which informed his writing of Warlight. “The version of England that I have [is] a place where whatever you were born into, you became that, simply. When I was in school there was no sense that you were going to suddenly become something unusual like a rock star or a writer. If you were from a family of laundromats you became a laundromat.”

Despite this, Ondaatje has managed to become one of Canada’s most renowned authors, where he relocated in 1962 to attend university.

Over the course of the talk, he offered insight into his writing process, which could best be described as spontaneous.

“When some people write novels, they have all the research done, and then they can write the book,” he said. “But for me I have a tendency to do the research simultaneously.” He emphasized that he does not force his characters into molds, but rather lets them emerge organically.

“I never base characters on people I know because then I would be limited to what I know about them, and I know that person is much more interesting than [that],” Ondaatje said. His characters largely write themselves, and none of them turn out quite the way he planned. Still, others were not planned at all— “I wasn’t expecting the Darter to be in the book until he was there in the living room when [Nathaniel and Rachel] came back from school. Often some of the most interesting characters are the ones who turn up uninvited.”

Michael Ondaatje’s foray into a deeply scarred England is incredibly powerful. Although the novel’s ambiguous characters and melancholy progression land far from its fairy tale roots, Ondaatje hints that “there is more hope than you might think.”

Anything But Shrewish: Improv Group Reimagines Shakespeare

By MEERA SANTHANAM viewpoints editor

Sh a kespea re? Mat h pu n s? A fa i r y court and a feminist spin? These are just a few of the improvised golden nuggets from last Wednesday ’s performance of The Shrews’ Unsex Me Here at the Second City’s Judy’s Beat Lounge. Although performed at the venue, the production is oth-

erwise not affiliated with the Second City.

The Shrews, composed of a n a ll fema le-identif y ing cast, ser ve up Sha kespearean improv with a refreshing feminist twist. The show captured the best of the Bard all while turning Shakespearean conventions on their head. Unlike in the orig ina l Sha kespea re per forma nces, women actually play women in this show. A nd they play men. The k ing is played by a woman, the fairies are played

by women, and it is the women who are delivering the jokes. The Shrews’ punchy one-liners perhaps best capture this spirit: “Thou smells of stale views and unrelenting opinions…thou art an old man!”

The Shrews had the audience laughing from the get-go with a charismatic fairy named Pink W histle, a k ing “Ha l” the 52nd who can’t count, and a mathematically incompetent population. Hal said himself, “I must have my subjects able to

subtract, divide…and the other ones as well.”

Impressively, the Shrews managed to weave together a series of seemingly unrelated plot lines into a remarkably cohesive narrative: A man who just woke up from a slumber of nearly 40 years fits nicely into commingling plots of mathematical ineptitude and unrequited love. In a mere continued on pg.

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45 minutes, the Shrews enchanted with the mischievous deeds of the fairies presiding over the noble fairy court (deeds as bad as—dare I even say it—moving a doorknob), induced awe at the number of possible milk-related puns, and served up a hefty share of political criticism.

The show’s closing line perhaps best

showcases its political timeliness: “With their newfound math knowledge, the fairies had the chance to take up even more advanced endeavors, like election tampering and climate change!” a Shrew quipped.

In other scenes, the show also uses traditional language (“thou”, “art”) to make a progressive point, both honoring the Bard and building on his signature moves from

a 21st-century angle.

To see a show so willing to make fun of both itself and our current political problems was a breath of fresh air. And the best part is that this kind of show never gets old. Quite literally, one could attend all four performances in The Shrews’ onemonth run and see an entirely different show each time, thanks to the nature of

improv. The cast didn’t have to tr y too hard to be funny either. The lines of improv ised Sha kespea re felt ca ndid, not verbose or overly contrived. My only criticism is that 45 minutes simply weren’t enough—there were more Shakespearean insults to be hurled and ridiculous math puns to be made.

88rising Brings the Heat

By KIERA YU maroon contributor

“Jake! Jake! Jake! Jake!”

The pulsing 88rising logo on the screen at the back of the stage cast a neon blue glow over the upturned faces of the chanting crowd. All eyes were fixed upon the figure at stage center. Cheers rang out from all corners of the venue and several voices demanded an encore as Jake—the maintenance guy—finished his last check of the stage.

A loud voice yelled out: “You’re doing amazing sweetie!”

It would be no exaggeration to say that the crowds of people gathered at the Aragon Ballroom for the Chicago stop of 88rising’s “88 Degrees and Rising” tour were wildly enthusiastic.

Founded in 2015, 88rising is a mass media collective focused on producing and marketing music. It has become increasingly popular due to the innovative style of music it promotes and its group of primarily Asian artists. Featuring popular names such as Joji, Rich Brian (formerly Rich Chigga), Keith Ape, Higher Brothers, and Niki to less

familiar ones like August 08, Kohh, and Sen screeching guitars, and strobing lights, Kohh of the Higher Brothers, did not dampen the Morimoto, there is no doubt that 88rising inarguably kept the overall mood in the mood. He ended his performance with a has made itself known in the hip-hop world. room on a continual upswing. rendition of his crowd-pleasing new single, Their thirst for success and talent was made Then it was time for Niki’s performance. “Slow Dancing in the Dark.” abundantly clear at their concert in Chicago In quick succession, she ruled the crowd with Last up was Rich Brian. The 19-year-old on October 14. hit after hit, from “Vintage,” “I Like U,” and Indonesian rapper, producer, and songwriter Opening their performances was Sen “La Cienega” to her new single “Warpaint.” has become a well-known figure in the hipMorimoto. Though relatively new to the She held the crowd in suspense during the hop world since his debut single “Dat $tick” scene, he knew how to animate the crowd. self-empowerment anthem when the back- went viral in 2016. Performing hits such as People screamed when, during a break be- ing-track faded with the lyrics “Keep my “Cold,” “Amen,” and “Arizona” from his 2018 tween rap sections, he started playing the head high, I’ll survive,” only to turn back up debut album, Amen, he had a frenetic energy. saxophone, an instrument more common at the drop of the chorus.

During several points of Rich Brian’s perin jazz than hip-hop. Morimoto performed Next up were Higher Brothers. Hailing formance, the screen on the stage showed several songs, ending with “People Watch- from Chengdu, China, many of their songs large photos of him. Weird under any other ing,” which discusses paranoia and the fear had either Mandarin or Sichuanese lyrics, a circumstance, this expression of self-love of judgment—a relatable topic and an infec- fact that in no way hindered their fans from added just the right amount of eccentricity tious tune. yelling along with the lyrics. Giving the and hilarity to his performance.

The temperature in the venue turned up crowd no time to catch its breath, the HighFinally, all the 88rising artists came up when August 08 performed several songs er Brothers built anticipation with songs like onto the stage for the finale. Performing their from among the crowd, followed by a red, “Isabellae” and “7-11,” before finally leading collaborative single “Midsummer Madness,” pulsing spotlight. His slower, more rhythmic up to their ultimate hit “Made in China.” they led the crowd to a final grand chorus, songs, such as “Lately” and “Missed Calls,” Joji’s highly anticipated performance bringing the energy inside the ballroom to kept the momentum going. Next was a per- came next. Lit under the spotlights and its exceptional climax. formance from Japanese artist Kohh, whose doused in a light mist, Joji, his deep voice With their dynamic stage presence, remusic leaned more in the direction of heavy resonating with the heavy bass, turned the latable lyrics, and unique sound bringing tometal. It received a mixed response. Though ballroom into an alternative universe. His gether music styles from the East and West, some did not appreciate the speedy rapping, songs, more melodic and laidback than those 88rising electrified the night.

“Mo Bamba” to MUDBOY: Sheck Wes Debuts His First Album

By LUCAS DU maroon contributor

In June 2017, less than a year after a family-imposed exile to Senegal, where his parents are from, Harlem-born rapper Sheck Wes recorded the track “Mo Bamba” on top of a beat by producers 16 yrold and Take a Daytrip. He released it several days later on 16yrold’s Soundcloud page. “Mo Bamba” brought Sheck Wes almost instant acclaim from within the music industry and a degree of underground hype. He later revealed that he had signed with both Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music and Travis Scott’s Cactus Jack. However, mainstream appeal and widespread popularity were slow to materialize—the song’s lyrics weren’t even transcribed on Genius until almost two months after the initial release. The song was not truly a hit until about a year later, after the song’s namesake—the highly touted basketball prospect Mohamed Bamba— was drafted to the Orlando Magic and Sheck Wes was touring with mainstream rappers like Travis Scott, Pusha T, and Drake.

“Mo Bamba” is an intense listen—raw and unruly vocals set over a menacing lofi trap beat. In an industry that at times seems saturated with highly produced, guest-artist packed, cookie-cutter content, “Mo Bamba” felt fresh, different, and most of all, aggressively authentic. It possessed a strikingly unique sound, a killer flow, and an unfailing ability to bring the house down at parties, sometimes quite literally. It was a brilliant introduction to Sheck Wes and the star that he seemed destined to be.

MUDBOY is Wes’s first full-length album and a highly anticipated follow-up to “Mo Bamba” that, for the most part, lives up to the hype. It possesses the same dark, brutal energy that characterized “Mo Bamba” and the handful of other singles Sheck Wes has released in the run-up to the album,

then builds off of them, crafting a refreshingly raw, genuine coming-of-age story for the barely-20 rap sensation.

In a recent interview with Pigeons & Planes, Sheck Wes explains the meaning of the word “mudboy,” saying: “I’m a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I’m not a rose. I’m a mudboy, I came from nothing.” And this fundamental knowledge of where he’s from is something deeply important to Sheck. His identity pervades the entirety of the album, from the lyrics to the very muddiness and griminess of the production. This is made clear nowhere more than on the standout track “Live Sheck Wes,” in which he raps about his rough upbringing in lines like: “It gets tragic where I live, everything is negative/ Hold the roaches in the crib, elevator full of piss.” Sheck Wes is unafraid to show the world the places he’s been to and the things he’s seen, and he raps about it all without a hint of shame or embarrassment. As he has said in past interviews: “This is me, why should I hate it?”

As Sheck raps through his days in Harlem, his rise to fame, and his exile in Senegal, he finds time among the standard amped-up, self-aggrandizing lyrical flexing of the genre for moments of softness and moments of sharp insight. “They don’t like my rap style/ Now they want features/ I turned all my doubters, into my believers,” he lilts in “WESPN,” at once criticizing the machinery of the music industry and boasting about staying true to himself. And on “Wanted,” he raps: “Where we from, they don’t give, so we don’t got shit/ They leave us young n***** with no options/ They leave us young n***** with the robbin’,” offering up a simple but piercing perspective on the social dynamics that shaped his adolescence.

“Mo Bamba” is, without a doubt, the centerpiece of the album, and perhaps still

The rapper has signed with Kanye West and Travis Scott’s labels. the best song on MUDBOY. It is three minutes of raw energy that is still rough around the edges as a result of the one-take, in-themoment recordings that Sheck Wes seems to prefer; that moment when the instrumental cuts out and Sheck screams, “Oh! Fuck! Shit! Bitch!” is as gravity-defying as ever. Despite its minimal production, the track feels enormous and oppressive, and implores you to jump, thrash, and dance.

However, it is the aptly titled “Fuck Everybody,” two songs later, which serves as emotional climax of the album, the moment in which the anger that courses through MUDBOY finally comes to a head. Sheck Wes, backed by a buzzy, dangerous-sounding synth, practically screams his verses, railing against all the doubters, all the fake friends, and all the forces that have held

him down and gotten in his way. It is a fittingly unruly catharsis for a tense album.

While the album does start slow, there are moments when the minimalistic production and the simplistic, sometimes insistently repetitive verses cause the energy to flag. MUDBOY is a surprisingly well-conceived first effort from a promising young artist, a coming-of-age album that feels fully realized. Within its eerily high-octane turn-up tunes, there are moments of raw truth and authenticity that shine through all the griminess and noise. Indeed, Sheck Wes has often complained that people get lost in the melody, in the emotion, and never stop to listen to the real things he wants to get across. He need not worry. Wes’s star is clearly on the rise, propelled by his countless talents and infectious authenticity.

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SPORTS Maroons Look to Return to Form SOCCER

By CAMILLE AGUILAR sports staff

The men’s soccer team hosted Carthage College Wednesday night at Stagg Field. Before game time, it appeared the odds favored the Maroons. The Maroons’ winning record (12–1– 1) dwarfed that of the opposing team (8–7–0).

Furthermore, during warm-ups, it was evident that last Sunday’s loss against Case Western Reserve, the team’s first loss, had made the men hungry. From the start of the game, fans saw this hunger in the defense and physicality of the Maroons. In fact, by the end of the match, both teams had racked up an incredible 28 fouls and five yellow cards.

The Maroons maintained possession for the majority of the first 15 minutes. In this time, fourth-year forward Max Lopez had one successful shot on goal; however, referees were not too quick to give him credit, as they called the Maroons offside and the goal did not count.

The Maroons, however, were not jaded. With their heads held high, Lopez and the team outran Carthage’s defense, creating the opportunity for two more shots on goal. Unfortunately, these shot attempts, much like the majority of Maroon shot attempts on Wednesday, did not

find net.

In the remaining 15 minutes of the first half, both teams racked up an impressive 13 fouls. Carthage managed seven consecutive shots on goal; however, due to the diligent work of the Maroon defensive line, all attempts were thwarted. Third-year defender Renato Corghi’s quick reflexes at the end of the half sent the ball flying away from the Maroon goal and back to the midfield.

Coming from the halftime break, the Maroon offensive line maintained control of the ball, shooting the first six shots of the half. Unfortunately, their shots were not placing. To add insult to injury, the referee calls were not playing out in favor of the Maroons. The Maroons were hit with nine offside calls through the entire match. At the 65-minute mark, following a Torchie corner kick, foot connected with ball, and ball with net. Carthage took the lead and held it for the remainder of the match.

Carthage took home the win, changing the Maroon record to a still impressive 12–2–1. With just three games left in the regular season, my question became, how will the Maroons make sure that these losses do not continue?

Seeking the answer to this question, I spoke with second-year goalkeeper Aaron Katsimpalis.

Second-year Isaiah Holquist kicks the ball cross the field against Carthage. sophia corning Though the Maroons did not win in goals, they did beat the visitors in saves, with Katsimpalis totaling five saves and only one goal allowed.

Speaking on the game, Katsimpalis said he does not even consider the Carthage goal to be a lowlight. In fact, he told me it was his “highlight.”

He added, “We were sloppy on the clearance on a corner and they capitalized.” His optimism

about the loss was the same optimism he held regarding the rest of the season. When speaking of the remainder of the season, Katsimpalis wrote that the team “needs to get back to focusing on the details and executing from the start.”

The Maroons will next face NYU at Stagg Field on Friday, October 26, at 5:30 p.m.

Chicago to Finish Regular Season Football Looking for Fourth Win WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

By ALYSSA RUDIN sports staff

The volleyball team, currently ranked No. 11 in the country, will be heading to Augustana College on Saturday for a non-conference matchup. The Maroons are 24–3 overall and 6–1 in University Athletic Association play heading into the match, and Augustana is 13–11 overall. After a tough UA A competition last week, the Maroons can enjoy one match this weekend before heading off to the UA A Championships next Friday.

The team has had a fantastic season so far, being ranked as high as eighth in the country. The Maroons have earned a variety of upsets so far in the season.

T hey defeated Wa sh U i n t hei r f i r st round of UA A matches and defeated No. 6 Trinity Texas in the Illinois Wesleyan University Classic in four close sets. The South Siders also beat Illinois Wesleyan University earlier in the season and pushed dow n the top-ranked team in the country, Calvin College, to five sets.

Chicago is currently ranked sixth in the conference right behind Emory. The two teams have the same conference record, but the Maroons lost to the Eagles, so they are sitting behind the Eagles in the rankings.

The team has been boosted by consistent solid performances from a variety of players. Second-year setter Emma

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Griffith has captured four UA A Athlete of the Week accolades so far and thirdyear middle hitter Madison Pearson has won offensive athlete of the week honors. Additionally, Griffith was the Gargoyle Tour na ment M V P a nd Pea rson and third-year Anne Marie Stifter were nominated to the all-tournament team.

In the IWU Classic, Pearson and fourthyear Sarah Muisenga were named to the all-tournament team. The Maroons are sitting atop the conference in hitting percentage (.252) a nd a ssists per set (12.45).

Looking ahead to the rest of the season, second-year Aasha Dave has high hopes for the team. She said, “ We are feeling good about our performance, but we understand we still need to take it one match at a time before we can even begin to think about post season goals.

We have a few more important regional matches to go and our conference championships but we are continuing to work hard and aren’t going to stop until we reach our goals!” Additionally, the hard work the team has put in has clearly already started paying off and she can’t wait to see the end results. “I’m most excited to see how all of our training from preseason has prepared us for the final push for conference and post season.”

The Maroons head to Augustana College on Saturday and play at 4 p.m.

By MIRANDA BURT sports staff

The University of Chicago’s football team hits the road on Saturday, squaring off against the Beloit Buccaneers. UChicago enters the contest 3–3 overall, 1–1 in conference. The Maroons opened up the season 0–2, rattled off four straight wins, then dropped a 21–20 decision last weekend after a late rally against St. Norbert. The Bucs enter the contest at 1–5 overall. Their only win occurred two Saturdays ago at home, where they defeated Knox College 23–20. UChicago and Beloit have played one common opponent: Illinois College. The Maroons won their matchup 56–9, while the Bucs lost 20–63.

Third-year leader defensive lineman Jameson Clay said of the season so far, “This season has been a blast. Some of the results haven’t been what we have wanted but our goal is to send the seniors off right.”

The Maroons had been struggling offensively, but statistically look to improve this performance on Saturday. The Maroons average just over 100 yards per game on the ground, and the Bucs, on average, give up over 220 rushing yards per game. Beloit is also allowing 37.8 points per game, higher than the South Siders’ season average of 31.8. The Maroons will look to stop the most consistent unit on the Bucs’ sideline: their offense. Beloit averages 19.2 points per game, gaining 149.2 yards per game on the ground, and throwing for 172.6 yards through the air. UChicago is only allow-

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ing 12.5 points per game, 140.2 rushing yards, and 161.7 passing yards per game.

Clay spoke on the Beloit game, saying, “We are looking forward to playing Beloit. After a tough loss, our team can’t wait to get back on the field for another opportunity.”

UChicago has played three quarterbacks so far in the year, but is led by first-year quarterback Jeffery Jackson. Jeffery Jackson has thrown for 12 touchdowns and rushed for three, while averaging over 230 passing yards per game and just over 30 rushing yards per game. The receiving corps includes Jeffery Jackson’s first-year brother, Jacob Jackson.

The two have connected for five touchdowns and an average of over 93 yards per game. On defense, the Maroons are led by second-year Jackson Ross, who has totaled 65 tackles on the year, 3.5 for loss. Fourth-year Mike McGinley and third-year Ben Christensen each have three sacks on the year.

Beloit is led by Erick Mitchell their quarterback, who has thrown for 10 touchdowns and averages over 160 yards per game in the air. Tyler Korous is the leading Bucs receiver, accounting for six of their 10 touchdowns and averaging over 70 yards per game. Joey Werner leads the Bucs on the ground, averaging 82 yards per game but only getting into the end zone once. On defense, Patrick Nicolas leads the way with 50 tackles in the year. Linebacker Trey Bichop is also a key defensive piece, with six tackles for loss.

The Maroons and Bucs kick off this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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Carnegie Mellon

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