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Before Midterms, Voters Flock to Polls

By YUEZHEN LI news reporter

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The University of Chicago currently leads the country as the university with the highest percentage of undergraduates registered to vote on TurboVote by a substantial margin. UChicago is ahead of its closest competitor, Harvard University, by more than 30 percentage points.

As of October 31, UChicago had 71 percent of undergraduates registered, while Harvard University had 38 percent. Both universities have a large institute of politics that has launched efforts to increase voter turnout for next Tuesday’s midterm elections.

UChicago’s considerable lead in voter registration comes as its Institute of Politics (IOP) held an early voting location on campus

for the first time. Student-led on- c a mpu s vot i ng advo c ac y group UChi Votes planned and executed this effort with the support of the IOP and the University of Chicago Democracy Initiative.

UChi Votes has not yet disclosed how many students have voted early so far, but students say that having early voting on campus has made voting much easier.

In the past, the IOP bussed students to early voting locations.

Third-year College student Jui Malwankar said the early voting in Reynolds Club “is more convenient then taking a bus…. I’m seeing a lot more people in line then when I went on the bus to early voting.”

The IOP founded UChi Votes this school year with the aim of increasing voter registration to

70 percent of eligible voters in the University and increase voter turnout to 40 percent. Fourthyear student Andrew Mamo, lead coordinator of UChi Votes, said that the strength of UChi Votes comes from students leading the initiative.

“If a voter registration and turnout effort is going to succeed at UChicago, it has to be student lead and student focused,” he said. “Though the IOP could say ‘Everybody go vote,’ that doesn’t have much legs to it.”

In the beginning of the school year, UChi Votes trained 80 students to be “voting ambassadors” throughout campus. Mamo said this ambassador program was a key area of success.

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Martha Nussbaum, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and in the philosophy department, won the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The prize, announced last week, comes with an award of $1 million.

“Nussbaum shows how philosophy, far from being merely an armchair discipline, offers a greater understanding of who we are, our place in the world, and a way to live a well-lived life,” says the prize announcement.

Nussbaum is author of more than 20 books, including The Fragility of Goodness, Frontiers of Justice, and Upheavals of Thought, and is known for her philosophical analysis of emotions in moral and political life. She developed the “capabilities approach,” which measures human flourishing in terms of emotional and intellectual capacities, life expectancy, and education. Her idea is widely understood to be the basis for the United Nations’ Human Development Index (HDI).

Her latest book, The Monarchy of Fear, attempts a philosophical account of how emotions like fear and anger can lead to political division and polarization. Looking at current political crises through the lenses of ancient Greek democracy and Stoic philosophy can show how humans have an “animal vulnerability” that can be used to foster unity and cooperation as much as it can turn into hatred and mistrust.

“Because I know I’d be no good holding or running for political office,

I do not follow the lead of Cicero and Seneca, trying to combine the two careers. I just try to write in a way that offers illumination and guidance for public life.”

Nussbaum disagrees with the idea that philosophy is an armchair discipline. Modern academia, she believes, provides a historically unparalleled level of academic freedom that radical thinkers like Rousseau, Bentham, and John Stuart Mill could only dream of.

Nussbaum is concerned, however, about the wider reach of philosophical ideas to the general public.

“The lack of interest in philosophy on the part of the media, the decline of book publishing, and the virtual extinction of general-reader journals of ideas makes it really hard to get out there into the public realm,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Maroon.

Nussbaum does not believe that all philosophers must enter political discussion; through teaching, she thinks, they can fulfill their civic duty by contributing to the formation of young citizens.

The Berggruen Prize’s jury includes noted philosophers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, David Chalmers, Antonio Damasio, as well as Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen and University of Pennsylvania’s president, Amy Gutmann.

The 2018 Berggruen Prize is in its third year; previous winners are Canadian philosopher and social theorist Charles Taylor and British political philosopher Onora O’Neill.

It is sponsored by and named after German-American financier Nicolas Berggruen.

Metra, Canvas, Phone Bank, Repeat: Campus Political Groups and the Journey to the Midterms

By FIROUZ NIAZI news reporter

Through canvassing trips, phone banks, and speaker events, UC Democrats and College Republicans have campaigned relentlessly for the slate of local and statewide candidates running in the midterm elections.

The groups’ time-intensive engagement with the local elections point to what many UChicago students see is at stake in the midterms. Several incumbent Republicans from Chicago’s suburban districts are fighting for contested seats this year in a reflection of other races throughout the country. Polls show that Democratic challengers have turned

Chicago’s once-solid Republican suburbs into tossups or Democratic-leaning districts.

The groups have been working with local candidates amid unprecedented campus-wide enthusiasm for the midterm elections.

As of October 31, UChicago was leading the country with the largest percentage of undergraduates registered to vote on TurboVote.

This mirrors a nationwide uptick in early voting. As of Monday night, 36 million people have cast their ballots already, nearly 10 million more than the early turnout in the 2014 midterm elections.

Third-year Ridgley Knapp, president of UC Dems, said, “This [midterm election season] is a chance to make up for the mis-

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takes made by the Democrats in 2010, 2014, and 2016.”

“2016, because, obv iously, there wasn’t enough focus on the Midwest in the presidential election,” he explained.

UC Dems kicked off its campaigning in August with a nationwide convention for college Democrats. Among the invitees were J. B. Pritzker, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and Hadiya Afzal, a 19-year-old student at DePaul Universit y running for a county board seat in DuPage County, which is west of Chicago. Knapp and another UC Dems member are also managing Afzal’s campaign.

Since the school year began, members of UC Dems have trav-

eled extensively—often commuting for hours on the Metra—to canvass in congressional districts that were likely to turn blue. Students traveled to Geneva and Batavia in the outer Chicago suburbs to canvass for Lauren Underwood, the Democratic candidate for Illinois’s 14th District. Last weekend, UC Dems visited another swing district, Illinois’s Sixth District, to canvass for Democratic candidate Sean Casten.

W hile the governor ’s race is also heated this year, the UC Dems have not campaigned as actively for J. B. Pritzker.

“There are, of course, a lot of people working on the governor’s race,” Knapp said, “but if College Dems see…a place where we

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ourselves can make a difference, [it’s] going to be in the down-ballot races.” Down-ballot races are less high-profile races whose candidates may not be as familiar to voters as candidates for governor are.

On the other side of the aisle, members of College Republicans have also campaigned hard for their respective candidates with biweekly phone banks and weekend canvassing trips.

Four th-year Brett Barbin, president of College Republicans, said, “These are for [Governor] Rauner, primarily. We really want to see Rauner win in November.”

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Events 11/06–11/09

Tuesday Election Night with the IOP Regenstein Library, Room 122, 6–10 p.m.

The 2018 midterm elections are finally here; join the IOP for a night of food and election watching!

Wednesday The Folded Map Project South Shore Cultural Center, 6–8 p.m.

An art and anthropology project connecting Chicago’s North and South sides opens with a conversation between artist Tonika Lewis Johnson and urban designer Paola Aguirre.

Thursday Tea Time Concert: Jazz Combo Fulton Recital Hall, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

This week’s concert features an afternoon of music from the UChicago Jazz Combo. Complimentary tea and cookies will be served.

Public Newsroom 85: A Night with Black Owned Chicago Founder Tanikia Carpenter Build Coffee, 6–8 p.m.

Curator and author Rayshauna Gray speaks with founder of Black Owned Chicago Tanikia Carpenter about supporting Black-owned businesses and creating infrastructures to help consumers become more aware of their entrepreneurial surroundings.

Friday Faculty Recital: Daniel Pesca, Piano Fulton Recital Hall, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Cellist Paul Dwyer of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra joins artist-in-residence Daniel Pesca for a program of powerfully intense music. The evening features the Chicago premiere of Elegy by Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition postdoctoral researcher Tonia Ko. To complete the program, Daniel and Paul will be joined by soprano Ariana Srahl and violinist Clara Lyon for Shostakovich’s late masterpiece, Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok.

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The MacLean Conference will be held November 9­—10 at the Law School, with an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox delivering the keynote.

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Biotech Startup Wins $75k at MassChallenge

By JIHYEON YEO news reporter

Oxalo Therapeutics, a biotech startup founded by a UChicago faculty member and graduate student with the goal of finding new treatments for kidney stones, won a $75,000 grant from the Boston-based startup accelerator MassChallenge, on top of a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Hatim Hassan, an assistant professor of medicine at UChicago, and Yang Zheng, an M.B.A. student at Booth School of Business, founded Oxalo to find new ways to reduce oxalate, a compound contributing to the majority of kidney stone production.

Oxalate, along with calcium, is responsible for the most common type of kidney stone formation in urine. Therefore, reducing oxalate levels in the urine can decrease one’s risk of developing kidney stones.

Recent attempts on new treatments for kidney stones have focused on regulating external sources from diet and internal oxalate production in liver to reduce oxalate levels.

Oxalo Therapeutics is taking a different approach by pioneering a technique using live bacteria called Oxalobacter formigenes to naturally aid oxalate removal in the large intestine.

These bacteria are unique due to their ability to selectively uptake oxalate. The bacteria are then able to excrete oxalate in

Zheng and Hassan are using bacteria to fight the development of kidney stones. courtesy photo the intestines such that it diffuses across the intestinal cells before reaching the urine.

This results a decrease of oxalate levels in one’s urine, which reduces the possibility of kidney stone formation.

The bacteria used by Oxalo Therapeutics, O. formigenes, occur naturally at low levels in the body but their activity can be increased by supplemental nutrients. Oxalo hopes to use their supplement to increase O. formigenes activity and make use of its ability to excrete oxalate in the intestines where it can be removed before reaching the urine.

“We believe we have advantage since we use a natural mechanism. We anticipate

minimal or no side effects because we are exposed to these factors on daily basis,” Hassan told The Maroon.

For next steps in the startup, Hassan explained, “The company now has its own lab at the HTC incubator [at the University of Illinois at Chicago] and the focus will be on developing optimized peptides…to reduce plasma and urine oxalate levels through structural modifications.”

If the company succeeds on such development, “[the startup] will then develop an oral formulation, followed by preclinical toxicology and pharmacokinetics studies in rats and nonhuman primates.”

Eve Ewing Shines Spotlight on Race, Education in Latest Book

By JOSH VILLERS news reporter

Eve Ewing, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA), released her latest book, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side on October 22. In it, she unravels the history and social dynamics at play during the 2013 wave of school closings ordered by Rahm Emanuel in his first term as mayor.

Emanuel’s push for the closing of 54 “underutilized, under-resourced” schools in 2013 and Chicago Public Schools (CPS)’s ultimate decision to shutter 49 schools in May of the same year ignited a wave of protest and backlash, including marches and hunger strikes. Most of these schools had majority-Black student populations, and Ewing’s book seeks to put these closings in the context of “systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history.”

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Ewing discussed the racial overtones of the closures, as well as the disconnect she saw between the rhetoric of “failing schools” and the people in communities protesting to save them.

“The city is so segregated, and most people don’t come to the South Side,” she said. “[‘Failing schools’] was basically a way of using the shorthand of ‘these schools, these kids.’”

She elaborated on the notion of school quality—specifically, the disconnect between average institutional grade metrics and a student’s individual educational experience—in another recent interview with Chalkbeat. “If you go to a school that’s super elite but all the black kids get suspended or tracked into lower-level classes or traumatized by racist things their teachers say,” she said, “that to me isn’t a good school, even though on paper to many people it may be a good school.”

Ewing herself is a Chicago-born gradu-

ate of Northside College Prep, a CPS school.

She graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in English language & literature, after which she taught at Pershing West Middle School—one of the 49 CPS schools closed in 2013. She went on to receive a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, before coming to her current position at the UChicago’s SSA. Ewing is a prominent faculty member with a large following on social media, and has written for a number of national publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. She has also had an especially prolific output and profile over the past year. Besides Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Ewing’s poetry collection Electric Arches was released in the fall of 2017, with the latter receiving accolades from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America. She is also slated to write Marvel’s Ironheart comic book series beginning this November.

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said, ‘I want to learn the do’s and don’ts of registration and turnout efforts and then go back to my community and make sure that everyone is registered and voting,’” he said.

On top of the early voting location at Reynolds, UChi Votes gave out food and held performances on Bartlett Quad. José Morin, a second-year who performed with his dance group Groove Theory, said this election holds particular importance for him.

“A lot of us [in Groove Theory] are from more marginalized groups,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we had that voice [in the elections].”

The majority-Republican Congress is hoping to maintain its stronghold this

election season, while a Democratic minority will try to net the 23 seats needed to overtake the House of Representatives and the two seats needed to control the Senate.

Madeline Beattie, graduate student in the Committee on International Relations, said, “This midterm election I’ve seen a lot of change in the government that I haven’t been really comfortable with, so this seems like a really good way to take a voice and have that opportunity to shift the trajectory.”

This mindset echoes that of the country at large. According to USA Today, most states have seen an increase in voters registered when compared to the past election, a statistical oddity during a midterm election year.

Mamo said that UChi Votes hopes to

build on the political momentum of the midterms leading up to the Chicago municipal elections in February, when Chicagoans will elect a new mayor and aldermen.

In the future, Mamo hopes to see UChi Votes and the IOP supporting RSOs in their efforts to promote civic engagement.

“I think often a challenge for RSOs is that they have a great mission and real core group of supporters willing to get the job done, but you need manpower,” he said.

“We see ourselves more as a collective of groups working, with student leads taking whatever pieces of the puzzle they can grab.”

Today, Illinois voters can register to vote and cast their vote at the registered precinct of their permanent residence.

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visited by UC Dems last weekend, to campaign for Republican incumbent Peter Roskam.

Inviting candidates to campus to speak to students has been a larger part of the College Republicans strategy.

“I know there are a lot of people who are energized to vote based off of national politics,” Barbin said, “but what we’re trying to do as a club is educate people about the choices that they can make at different levels of government.”

In October, College Republicans hosted an Illinois College Republicans Convention. Throughout the day, students from across Chicago heard from Republican candidates including Jim Dodge, who is running against incumbent Illinois Trea-

surer Mike Frerichs.

T hey have a lso hosted spea ker s throughout the quarter. Institute of Politics fellow Tom Davis, the former chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, sat down with students at a College Republicans meeting last week.

Several other candidates running locally have also made appearances at College Republicans meetings, including Jimmy Lee Tillman, a candidate for Illinois’s First District, which covers most of Hyde Park, Kenwood, and large areas of the South Side.

“We go to cheer on candidates and rallies, go to debates for candidates, whenever they need support in the area,” Barbin said.

“We’re basically there to help out for any campaign in the state, whatever’s feasible.”

South Siders Support Obama Center

By MADELEINE ZHOU deputy news editor

The Southside Neighbors for Hope (SSNH), a group of community members who support the building of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Jackson Park, was formed last month, establishing themselves with a website and various social media pages. The organization was founded by the community members who wrote a letter of support for the OPC last winter.

Their letter was signed by over 200 University of Chicago faculty and local community members.

The SSNH believes that the building of the OPC will be greatly beneficial to Jackson Park and its surrounding communities by helping the creation of a stronger, cleaner, and safer environment. On their website, they write, “We do not

believe that building this stronger community is the sole responsibility of the Obama Foundation or of the OPC, but rather that it must come from community members working together with elected officials to make sure that progress serves the majority of the Southside resident.”

The founding of the SSNH comes after several complaints regarding the building of the OPC from other organizations, such as Protect Our Parks and Jackson Park Watch. In the past, there have been concerns about a lack of transparency in the planning process, negative environmental impacts, and gentrification.

Additionally, on May 14, Protect Our Parks, an environmental activism group, filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, claiming that the plan to use 19 acres of Jackson Park for the site of the OPC was illegal.

The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Prize Lecture:

Dr. William Foege, MD, MPH

“Global Health: Ethical Challenges” Saturday, November 10 at 9:30 AM

William Foege, MD, MPH is an American epidemiologist and infectious disease physician, known for his strategy of “surveillance and containment” that led to global eradication of smallpox in the 1970’s. Since then, there has been no deaths from smallpox, a disease that had led to more than 200 million death earlier in the 21st century. Dr. Foege’s strategy soon came to be adopted across the globe. Dr. Foege has also been the Gates Foundation adviser on vaccination policy for Africa and Asia for the past 20 years, and has had a major role in the control of Guinea worm disease, polio, measles, and river blindness.

The MacLean Conference on November 9 & 10 will also include many exceptional lectures on issues such as reducing disparities in health care, reproductive ethics, surgical ethics, pediatric ethics, and end-of-life issues.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 – SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2018 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL – 1111 EAST 60TH STREET DR. FOEGE’S LECTURE – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 FROM 9:30 – 10:30 AM The event is free and open to the public!

Register today at MacLeanConference2018.eventbrite.com

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VIEWPOINTS Growing Up With Obama What I Took For Granted Growing Up Under the Obama Administration

Today, Democrat Andrew Gillum will face off against Republican Ron DeSantis for the governorship in Florida. As a Floridian, I’ve been following the race closely since the primaries.

The race is certainly an important one in history, with the potential for Gillum to become the first Democratic governor the state has had in 20 years.

It wasn’t until recently, however, that I realized the race’s even bigger significance: Gillum may become the first Black governor of Florida, almost one exact decade after Obama was first elected president back in 2008.

This realization was jarring for me. It forced me to recognize just how enormous a role Obama has played in my life and just how incomplete a description of my life is without a discussion of the role he played in it. The tone set by the Obama administration was one of good temperament and stability, which afforded me many niceties that children born after the Obama era, like my seven-year-old nephew, won’t remember. Today, I want to take some time to reflect on the qualities I valued most in the Obama administration.

It might seem dramatic to claim that Obama had such a significant influence on my life. But the comportment of the person occupying the Oval Office can influence national discourse even at the most granular levels. I remember having disagree-

ALEX BISNATH ments over the ’08 election with some of my conservative peers at lunchtime, then playing on their kickball team two hours later. For so long, I took for granted this ability to compartmentalize politics as separate from the rest of my day-to-day life. Today, the political climate has become so volatile that differences in opinion can place stress on bonds years in the making. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a cousin or a classmate with whom I’ve lost contact since the 2016 election.

Secondly, under the Obama administration, the government was, more or less, trustworthy. From the Iran Deal to Net Neutrality, regardless of whether or not you agreed with the stance taken by the Obama administration, there was an understanding that a genuine effort was being made to do what was best for the public interest. The idea that the president was insincere in their actions was fringe, and the notion that the president of the United States might be deferential to a foreign head of state would’ve been inconceivable. It used to be the case that things said during White House press conferences or on government web pages could be trusted. I doubt that, at 13 years old, I would have had the critical thinking skills necessary to distinguish between facts and fake news, a skill which, given the misinformation so pervasive in politics right now, is critical in our country. I

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took for granted that the EPA’s website would contain accurate information about climate change, that government agencies were not being censored. Kids growing up in 2018 won’t have the same luxury and, sadly, will have to become cynical much earlier than I did.

Politics has always been personal, especially for people from marginalized or disadvantaged communities, for whom policy can often be a matter of life and death. From the 1960s civil rights movement to the recent Kavanaugh hearings, political action in this country has more often than not been driven by the desire of citizens to protect their rights and liberties. The Obama era, however, stands out as a moment of reprieve when juxtaposed with today’s America. Under Obama, activism was more an exercise of one’s liberty, as it should be, and less of a life-or-death imperative undertaken

to protect one’s safety; there was a feeling that the government was—to a certain extent—benevolent or, at the very least, nonthreatening. The Obama administration passed the Fair Sentencing Act and repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” advocating for oppressed peoples, meanwhile in 2018 the government is locking up immigrant children and attempting to define transgender people out of existence. It is scary to think that members of Generation Z will have to grow up with the constant pressure to defend their basic rights, to labor for access to health care, to fight for clean air and water. I resent the idea that minorities, ethnic and otherwise, must always be on guard, that we must advocate for our community and selves in order to prevent the robbery of even our most basic rights.

But so it must be in times when people in high places choose to be antagonists rather than allies.

What I will miss most about the Obama administration, however, is having a role model. As cliché as this sounds, it meant a lot to me growing up to have living proof that I could be anything I wanted, even president of the United States, regardless of my complexion. It’s something more that Obama was as dignified a leader as he was; it was inspiring that he and Michelle could be so poised and focused in spite of all the adversity they faced.

The prospect that the next generation will grow up without someone to look up to is ultimately what brought me to the polls this election season. Voting is how I show my gratitude. Voting is the clearest way we can express our malcontent with the status quo and our desire for a better future. It is essential.

Alex Bisnath is a first-year in the College.

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Harvard and Other Elite Institutions Shouldn’t End Race-Based Affirmative Action The heavily publicized Harvard admissions trial surrounding racebased affirmative action policies wrapped up this past Friday, but the case—and the issues it poses—are far from resolved. Regardless of the decision, which is expected to be released in early 2019 and will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court, there will be far-reaching effects throughout the world of highly selective college admissions, a world that includes UChicago.

This case is deeply personal to me. I am Asian American, the demographic at the forefront of this current push to end race-based admissions and the racial group perhaps most conscious of the possible injustices of affirmative action policies. I submitted applications to multiple highly selective schools, Harvard included, and received a slew of rejection letters. I have, at times, felt frustrated by the way in which college admissions seem to give people who look like me such short shrift.

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That being said, I don’t believe that ending race-based affirmative action is the proper way to address the existing issues with college admissions, issues that include a lack of transparency in the system, the usage of personality-trait tests easily subject to racial stereotyping, and the reality that certain qualified students are not given a chance, simply because of their race. Race-blind admissions, the solution that Students for Fair Admissions advocates, is not the answer. No matter what we might want to believe, race matters. Race has always mattered. As a minority, it is a fundamental part of my identity, something inextricably bound to who I am and what I have experienced.

To ignore that part of me, as Harvard alum Sarah Cole so eloquently stated in her testimony, “is an act of erasure.” If colleges truly want to look holistically at all of their applicants, if they truly want to foster diversity on their campuses, then they must take race into account.

Much of the anger surrounding race-conscious admissions policies seems to be severely misplaced. Many Asians and Asian Americans who are campaigning against affirmative action direct undue blame toward Black and Hispanic applicants, arguing that it is those students, many of whom are viewed as under-qualified, who are taking spots away from ostensibly more deserving Asian Americans. Indeed, through-

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out both the trial and news coverage of the case, the statistic that Asian Americans need to score hundreds of points higher than Black and Hispanic applicants on the SAT in order to receive the same admissions consideration has been heavily emphasized. While these numbers are true, and unfortunately so, it is sobering to see them used as a basis for such a cynical story.

Black and Hispanic students, despite the benefits they might receive from affirmative action, are still underrepresented across the board at elite, highly selective universities.

By ending affirmative action in its current form, by eliminating race entirely from the admissions equation, the Asian admit rate will certainly rise, but the white admit rate will rise as well, at the expense of every other minority group. Some in the Asian-American community may still see this as a win, but a win for Asian Americans at the expense of Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities is not a win worth celebrating. Not when, at the end of the day, white privilege will again be affirmed. Asian Americans, despite their anger, cannot allow themselves to become pawns in a white man’s game.

None of this is to say that the anger is unwarranted. While the arguments made by the Asian-American groups spearheading the case against Harvard often feel simplistic and off-the-mark, there are real issues at play that Asian Americans should be angry about. It is

frustrating to see Harvard employ a personality scale on which Asian Americans score markedly lower than any other demographic group, despite the fact that interview impressions are roughly equivalent. It pains me that former MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones would label a Korean-American student as “yet another textureless math grind.” It makes me angry that a system designed to lift up underrepresented minorities, to combat systemic racism and oppression, seems to actively flatten the Asian-American applicant, ironically perpetuating the tired, racist trope that “all Asians are the same.”

I think that all Asian Americans who have applied or are applying to college, particularly elite, highly selective colleges, have felt acutely conscious of their Asian-ness and of all the stereotypes and burdens that come with it. When I was in high school, preparing to start my applications, I was very aware that my race would be seen as a strike against me. And for me, it hurt, not so much because I was afraid of rejection, but because it felt like, in this moment where we were all being judged, all the self-doubt, all the identity struggles, all the small confusions that come with growing up Asian in America were being hammered into me yet again. But this time, the same message I had heard for so much of my life was practically being shouted by the very gatekeepers of privilege: If you are

Asian, you are not enough.

It made me bitter that nothing I was doing seemed to matter. I cared about school, I liked learning things, but it felt like the more I worked to get the grades I wanted, the more I became just another typical Asian robot in the eyes of society. And it was infuriating that colleges seemed to reward Asians for being “different,” as if it were somehow an insult to be likened to other Asians, fueling the self-hate that already permeates the Asian-American community.

Affirmative action is complex and engenders similarly complex problems, ones that don’t present easy solutions. While race-conscious admissions practices can at times play into painful stereotypes, race-blind policies are misguided, wayward stabs at an answer. But what other solutions are there? And will those solutions be measurably better than what we have now? Perhaps these issues will never truly disappear. Perhaps we, as a society, simply place too much faith in our elite educational institutions. But amid these uncertainties, one thing is for sure: College admissions will change, and those changes, for better or for worse, will alter the future of privilege in America.

Lucas Du is a second-year in the College.

ARTS Maggie Rogers’s Warmth Can Melt Alaskan Glaciers

Maggie Rogers is on the rise, playing to a sold-out crowd at the Riviera last Tuesday. courtesy of Jenn Five

By PERRIN DAVIDSON arts reporter

Someone passed Maggie Rogers a sparkling blue cowboy hat as she danced and darted across the stage at the Riviera this past Tuesday The hat only amplified her vivacious stage-presence—embodied in her signature dances on full display during the final song of the show: “Alaska.” The audience was clearly awaiting the hit track in high anticipation. “We’re playing ‘Alaska’—of course we’re playing ‘Alaska’!” Rogers said before a faithful rendition of her cool

stream and tall mountain–inspired ballad. She concluded her performance gracefully: bowing low and removing her hat in one sweeping motion, a wonderfully spontaneous moment. But, then again, that was a theme for the night. The perfection in Maggie Rogers’s live performance stems not just from practice, but seemingly from some creative hot spring under the Alaskan coolness of her persona.

It’s a rare talent that commands the attention of an audience as Rogers did. When she first appeared onstage after her opener’s heavi-

ly electronic set—from Australia’s “most expen- and fan with rapport and to bring each audience sive rapper,” Mallrat—she gasped at the sight of member into her life by telling stories. the sold-out Riviera. She had just finished her “Overnight” addresses the stress of fame single “Give A Little” when she stopped dead in while “The Knife,” the broodiest song on the front of the mic: “This is the biggest show we’ve new LP, describes the shared experiences of ever played…” she said before trailing off in awe. drinking with friends. The previously released It was obvious the 23-year-old Maryland blue- “Light On” contemplates the break from fame grass musician–turned–pop icon was not quite that performance provides, while “Back in My aware of her reach.

Body” is a reminder of her humanity. Thus, RogThis is the magic of Maggie Rogers. She has ers made it clear on Tuesday that she is indeed achieved fame based not on heavily produced human, not some robot produced by the pop beats and a repertoire of formulaic songs. She industry. achieved popularity through her genuineness.

Her energy was infectious. “After ending a Producer Pharrell Williams felt it (he cried), and show, I have a lot of adrenaline!” she confided so do all of her admirers. Based heavily on ca- in front of her amped audience. “But, I feel that thartic experiences with nature with audio bits the best shows are those where we come down from her various wilderness travels to Alaska together,” Rogers continued. With that, she sang, and the Pacific Northwest, her music is a unique unaccompanied, the opener from her 2016 EP, synthesis of folky rasp and pop electronica. She “Color Song.” The simple yet memorable melody, makes every listener feel that they knew her per- sounding similar to a clip off a Lomax recording, sonally, an intimacy that means that every step reverberated throughout the theatre. Her entire toward fame for Rogers brings both excitement audience stood captivated not by her vocal techand the loss of a special secret. nique so much as the raw emotion she brought While her 2017 EP Now That the Light Is to every word.

Fading is her only release, she has been dropBefore Rogers’s triumphant, cowboy hat– ping singles from her upcoming album Heard enthused goodbye, her folk roots shined with It in a Past Life. But on Tuesday she gave more a cover of John Prine’s ageless “Angels from to Chicago. “I’m sick of waiting for my record to Montgomery.” The bright and bubbling synths, come out, so we’re just going to play the entire pop harmonies and drum kit gave a new, modthing,” Rogers said before starting into the me- ern meaning to Prine’s anthem. And it aided in lodically folky “Burning,” a new song featuring hammering home an undeniable fact about Rogfiery synths and glowing harmonies. ers’s moment in music: Propelled by her recent Throughout, it was clear that Maggie Rogers performance on Saturday Night Live and proven isn’t here for the fame. Her goal was to replace by her enthusiasm for and command of music, the prevalent power dynamic between artist Maggie Rogers has arrived.

A Weekend of Wonder: A Review of University Theater’s Workshops

By BRANDON ZANG arts reporter

It is often difficult to correctly predict the quality of student-directed theater. Sometimes, they are powerful works of art possessing impressive depth and quality; other times, they resemble the parody shows in Saturday Night Live’s High School Theatre Show. The series of shows that were presented during University Theatre’s A Weekend of Workshops,

a diversity of performances ranging from wit- they confront the sex-crazed Nurse Ratched ty social commentary to beautiful folktales, (Matilda Kupfer) and try to decipher, through proved to be the former. overhearing adult lingo and obscure referencThe Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where es, the world of sex. While the play is short and Babies Come From, written by Christopher lighthearted, it contains a poignant message Durang and directed by Afriti Bankwal- about the discussion of sexuality in the modla, opened up the Friday show. A humorous ern day and the stigma associated with it. twist on the classic mystery series, the play Peach Boy: A Japanese Folk Tale (writputs protagonists Frank and Joe Hardy ten and directed by Kenjiro Lee) and A Story (played by Emil Sohlerg and Gabriel Rourke, About Dragons (written and directed by Felix respectively) in a high school setting where Lecocq) are both adaptations of traditional

Asian folklore. While both rely heavily on presentation through voice (both shows featured actors wearing all-black attire), the two plays took different directions in interpretation. A Story About Dragons, telling the story of the Vietnamese dragon Lac Long, uses choreographic and visual elements to complement the storytelling. Using fans to form shapes and figures, the actors move in accordance to their vocal delivery of the plot. Meanwhile, continued on pg.

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“[T]he directors of the shows brought forward a uniform desire for quality” continued from pg. 5 of Emily Lovett, whose depiction of Gingy Peach Boy: A Japanese Folk Tale was set in the showed a deep understanding and appreciaformat of a puppet show in front of a moving tion for the character as she delivered a raw backdrop. The best parts of the play were in and compelling interpretation of the characthe cleverly written dialogue that often had ter’s biographical lines. The blocking of the the actors break the fourth wall and interact performance also added to the enormous with the audience. The modern and meta- depth of the writing, often using the movephysical comments sprinkled in the lines gave ment of the actors to transition between the work a refreshingly avant-garde vibe. scenes and complement the riveting dialogue.

The award-winning play Love, Loss, and The intermittent questions of “What should What I Wore, written by playwrights Nora I wear?” and “Does this dress look good on and Delia Ephron in 1995, was brought to me?” powerfully illustrated the heavy social life by director Ruthie Dworin. The powerful burden on women to associate their worth rendition was made possible by the superb with their appearances.

The night ended with The Sandbox, a coacting and narration delivered by the five actors. Most outstanding was the performance medic and cryptic play written by playwright

Edward Albee in 1959 and directed by Kendall Phillips. The performance featured a scene in which characters Daddy (Leo Alvarez) and Mommy (Aliza Oppenheim) bring Grandma (Isabel O’Malley-Krohn) to a sandbox, where she laments her maltreatment. Each actor adequately portrayed their character’s specific traits, and through their wacky interactions, touched upon themes of what can be interpreted as generational differences and love.

The underlying message is unclear; after all, The Sandbox is known for its strange plot and was heavily criticized for it when it premiered.

Despite the unspecified intention, the actors did their best to advance the story. Especially outstanding was the performance of O’Mal-

ley-Krohn, whose narration for Grandma provided exceptional comic relief.

Overall, the performances were impressive in their scope and delivery. Working from strikingly different scripts, the directors of the shows brought forward a uniform desire for quality and their own individualistic interpretations of the stories they had to bring to life. The actors were exceptional in their performances and understanding of complex characters. Within their budget limits and the walls of the claustrophobic theater in Reynolds Club, the entire team of writers, directors, actors, and stage managers produced a series of performances that, from beginning to end, never ceased to amaze.

Doing Supergroups Right: Boygenius Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

By JULIAN STUART-BURNS arts reporter

An unspoken rule of the music world is that the sum of the parts is not necessarily equal to the whole. For this reason, the “supergroup” is an imperfect concept. It seems like individually awesome musicians teaming up together would make an awesome group no matter the circumstances, right? But often in these circumstances, people clash, ideas blend in ways that they really shouldn’t, and, voilà, the album is nothing better than OK. But Boygenius, a new supergroup formed by indie rock superstars Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, has avoided the problems that plague most supergroups, crafting a marvelously new self-titled EP. Bridgers, Baker, and Dacus all rose to indie stardom at around the same time, releasing their breakout albums within six months of each other: September 2017, October 2017, and March of this year, respectively. To add, Dacus and Bridgers have both opened for Baker in the past, the latter for a legendary sold-out show at the New York Bowery Ballroom in 2016 where the two joined forces to cover Elliott Smith’s “Ballad of Big Nothing.” After meeting on tour, Baker and Dacus started discussing Henry James and other literary fascinations on a long-lasting email chain which Bridgers soon joined. After discovering many mutual interests, the three organized a tour together. Boygenius only became

an idea when they realized that the chemistry they shared had too much potential to pass up: They could make these songs really, really good .

Boygenius doesn’t sound like an album any of the three artists involved would have made individually, but rather a collection of all the best characteristics of each artist. Baker’s haunting vocals and ghostly guitar twangs are present throughout. Bridgers’s knack for catchy yet intimate folk permeates each minute, and the climaxes of “Me & My Dog,” “Bite the Hand,” and “Salt in the Wound” are suspiciously reminiscent of “Night Shift,” the anthemic lead single and cornerstone of Dacus’s Historian . The musical styles of all three musicians complement each other beautifully, each bringing their own unique methods (and voices) to the table.

Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus released an album as under their new group name, Boy“Bite the Hand,” the album’s opener, show- genius. courtesy of Kristy Benjamin cases the group’s harmony beautifully. On this The best song on Boygenius has to be “Me the lyrics, the song is performed with triumsong, Dacus takes the lead while Baker and & My Dog,” the track that immediately follows phant and anthemic feeling, as if the members Bridgers sing stunning backup vocals above “Bite the Hand.” It’s a deeply moving song, with of Boygenius are reveling in their own pain and her alto. The song’s instrumentation is sparse Bridgers on lead vocals singing about the horri- belting it out for all to hear. The result is terrific. at first, with just two quiet guitars marching the ble, life-changing realizations she’s had after the The problem with most supergroups is that song forward, but it quickly expands after the end of a recent relationship. During the song’s the musicians aren’t really supposed to be first refrain, a hauntingly angelic joint affair climax, she sings, “I wish I was on a spaceship working together—often leading to a final sound from all three singers. The ending is the high- / just me and my dog and an impossible view.” that consists of a weird and unnatural amallight of the song. Dacus, Baker, and Bridgers sing The instrumentals here mirror the lyrics: the gamation of each artist’s talents. Boygenius, the refrain in a row, the melody slowly creeping beginning is mournful and even somewhat ema- though, shows us that a supergroup composed upwards with each new utterance of “I can’t ciated, a single guitar strumming back and forth of artists with completely different styles can love you like you want me to.” For as good a song between two chords, but the climax is enormous, sound just as good as any of the solo artists that as this is, though, you could never even hope to distancing itself from the bare nature of the be- compose it. In fact, Boygenius shows that such prepare yourself for what comes next. ginning of the song. Despite the pain present in a group can sound even better.

Cold War Covens and Witchcraft: Suspiria Laces Its Aesthetics With Politics

By NOAH LEVINE arts reporter

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is as similar to the Dario Argento original as it is to his previous work, Call Me by Your Name. The 1977 film is a sleek but straightforward horror flick, famed for its striking color palette and prog soundtrack. This 2018 remake transposes the cult classic’s threadbare story onto our 21st-century desire for ever-more depraved spectacles. While it does not change the orig-

inal’s 1970s setting, Guadagnino’s “cover version” could only have been conceived exactly now—with our knowledge of the intervening 40 years and our equal uncertainty about the future.

At the film’s throbbing heart is Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson), a Mennonite from Ohio who appears on the doorstep of the Markos Dance Academy in West Berlin on the eve of the German autumn. The company’s previous prodigy, Patrizia, disappeared under mysterious circumstances assumed to be

Suspiria is filled with horror and gore that will make your skin crawl. courtesy of Alessia Balzoni/ A mazon Studios

related to recent left-wing terrorist activity.

Under the tutelage and suspicious influence of Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), Suzy quickly takes Patrizia’s place as the academy’s principal dancer. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, the matrons of the academy, being a coven of witches, have planned a ghastly role for her in an impending occult ritual. Their plans are slowly revealed when Josef Klemperer (also Tilda Swinton), the missing dancer’s psychoanalyst, begins investigating his client’s ostensibly paranoid delusions about the company.

As its plot descends into degeneracy, Suspiria rigidly adheres to an austere color scheme tailored to its Cold War setting, eschewing the giallo original’s vibrancy. But while many films set in the shadow of the Berlin Wall contain little aesthetic excitement, Suspiria’s director of photography Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is able to match the original’s visual flare. Expert application of light and focus, overlaid with an (authentic) film grain, endow each frame with a fascinating texture. Complementing this visual spectacle is a sonic one, courtesy of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, whose lyrical score is in many ways the highlight of the experience.

As Suspiria’s “six acts and an epilogue set in divided Berlin” unfold, its horror conceit sharply diverges from the mere unease that characterized the original. Instead, the adaptation puts more emphasis on dance and motion—with body horror scares that make your

skin crawl. The witches use their students to weave spells, channeling the movement of their bodies to manipulate those of their victims. The torture is physical: Bodies are bent beyond their limit and uncannily disfigured, while the camera observes unflinchingly.

The film’s climax is coated in gore, carefully displaying each decapitation and disembowelment during the witches’ sabbath. Here is where Suspiria casts a spell of its own: Torn between revulsion and fascination, it is hard to look away.

While horror may be Suspiria’s most primal aim, it also harbors other ambitions. Besides adding almost an hour to the original’s 92-minute runtime, the new script adds a political dimension to the story. It continuously references the historical bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings that are purportedly occurring outside the mirrored practice rooms of the academy. And of course, no picture with this setting may leave the scars of Nazism unexamined. These gestures are not subtle— there are references to the history of the German people through fascism, motherhood, and witchcraft. But their intended goal is not made explicit, and the allusions are mostly used for aesthetic rather than thematic purposes. In spite of this shallowness, Suspiria remains a haunting Cold War fairy tale, as much influenced by Goya’s Black Paintings as it is by the original.

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SPORTS UChicago Falls in UAA Championship VOLLEYBALL

By MATTHEW LEE sports reporter

The Chicago Maroons women’s volleyba ll tea m foug ht va lia ntly at this weekend’s University Athletic Association tournament in Rochester, New York, beating rival Washington University 3–1 in the semifinals before falling to top-seeded Emory University 3–0 in the finals.

St atistica lly, the Ma roons bested Wash U’s Bears across the board Friday night. UChicago hit 24.6 percent of attempted shots compared to the Bears’ 17.1 percent, made six blocks to Wash U’s four, and posted two more aces than their St. Louis rivals. Standout performers includ-

ed third-year Anabella Pinton, who posted 14 kills; third-year Anne Marie Stifter and fourth-year Sarah Muisenga with 13 kills each; and second-year Emma Griffith with 42 assists.

Led by these strong performers, the Maroons took sets one, three, and four in a dominant fashion. The match culminated in set four as the Maroons took 13 points in a row, deflating the Bears’ hopes of clawing back into the game.

Emory University’s Eagles proved to be a far tougher opponent. The Eagles’ defense was dominant in the championship finals, recording 12 blocks to the Maroon’s one. With a slightly higher hitting percentage—21.9 percent to the Maroons’ 15.1 per-

cent—Emory was able sweep all three sets.

The game was nevertheless a hardfought one. The Maroons barely lost set one 24–20 and briefly led set two 10–6 before falling to 11–17 and eventually losing the set 25–20. UChicago again captured a lead early in set three with a 20–15 start but ultimately fell to the Eagles, 33 points to 31.

Standout athletes for the Maroons include Stifter and third-year Madison Pearson with 10 kills apiece as well as Griffith, who posted 37 assists.

When asked about the games this weekend, Pinton said, “Overall, I am very proud of how we did this weekend. Although we did not accomplish one of our goals, to win

a UAA championship, we came very close and gave Emory a good fight. I also think it was a great last game before we head into NCAAs this weekend!”

The Maroons left the Rochester tournament ranked No. 10 and needed an at-large bid to qualify for the NCA A Division III Championship. The committee reached a decision on Monday, November 5, that the team qualified.

The Maroons will look forward competing in the postseason tournament this coming Friday as they match up against Dubuque University at home. Six other teams will also be competing at Ratner Athletics Center through the weekend with UChicago acting as a regional host.

Maroons Advance to NCAAs

Women Outswim Rivals

SOCCER

SWIM & DIVE

By ANDY PRESHER sports reporter

A trip down to St. Louis ended with a 3–1 victory for the University of Chicago men’s soccer team over Washington University in St. Louis and a 2–0 loss for the women’s soccer team to their top-ranked opponents. These final games of the season resulted in the men’s team clinching its third-straight UAA title, receiving the No. 1 seed and a bye in the first round of the NCA A DIII Championship. The women’s team also made the championship and will face Grove City in the first round.

The men’s game remained scoreless until the 50th minute, when University of Chicago fourth-year Max Lopez headed in a cross from second-year Scott Lich.

Despite having far fewer shots, Wash U kept the match close and equalized in the 64th minute. The score remained even until fourth-year Matthew Koh stepped up to take a free kick in the 76th minute.

He fired it in off the crossbar; two minutes later first-year Kyle Ruark received the ba ll from Lopez a nd chipped the keeper to make the score 3–1. Although the game was marred by 19 fouls by Wash U—12 in the first half alone compared to a total of seven by UChicago—the Maroons ma naged to put in three goa ls and kept Wash U to a mere five shots all game.

The University of Chicago women’s soccer tea m faced of f a ga i n st a top ra n ked Wa sh U tea m that, w ith this

match, completed its regular season with a record of 17–0–0. The scoring opened in the 28th minute, when a free k ick from 40 yards out was headed in. Despite facing an opponent who had been dominant all season, the Maroons held on and, in the second half, began to look as though they would equalize. However, Wash U was determined to hold on to the win and its streak. After a series of University of Chicago shots and corners, Wash U counterattacked and scored in the 83rd minute when a shot from just outside the box skimmed the crossbar.

While the Maroons continued to battle, the game was eventually out of reach.

The men’s team finished the season w ith 15 w ins, t wo losses, and a draw, with a record of 6–1 in conference play.

The women’s team ended with 13 wins, four losses, and a draw, with a UA A record of 4–3. Look ing for wa rd to the NCA A tournament, a first-round matchup between the men’s teams of Carleton College and Transylvania University will ta ke place on November 10, deciding which team the Maroon men will face the next day, Sunday, November 11, at 5 p.m.

The Maroon women will play Grove City in Danville, Kentucky, at 1:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, November 10. Grove City finished with a 16–3–1 overall record, going 8–0 in conference play and winning the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for the first time in 17 years. With both Maroon teams making the NCAA Championship, the University of Chicago has plenty of postseason soccer to look forward to.

By ALISON GILL sports reporter

O ver the weekend, the Chicago men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams took on Wash U and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in a tri-meet of nationally ranked teams. Against the strong competition, the women emerged victorious in the tri-meet, while the men finished second to Wash U. T he No. 11 Ch ic ago women defeated No. 7 Wash U and No. 13 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps by scores of 159–139 and 180.5–119.5, respectively.

A strong showing by the Chicago divers compelled the women’s team to victory. Highlighted by third-year Agnes Lo, the Maroons swept the top three spots in the one-meter and three-meter dives.

First-year Elizabeth Cron captured first place in the three-meter dive with a score of 291, while Lo and first-year Alice Saparov posted NCA A provisional qualifying scores as well. In the one-meter dive, Lo once again cemented herself in the school’s history books, besting her previous school record with a score of 302.80, while Cron recorded another NCA A provisional qualifying score in the one-meter dive.

In the pool, the efforts of the talented underclassmen secured the victory. Firstyea r A lice Ye won the 200-ya rd backstroke and 200-yard butterf ly, adding a second-place finish in the 400-yard IM for good measure. In the 200 yard butterfly, Ye was joined by second-year Hadley

UPCOMING GAMES SPORT Women’s Basketball

DAY Thursday

MAROON

Opponent

TIME

SPORT

Lake Forest

7 p.m.

Dubuque

SCORE BOARD W/L

Opponent

Women’s Soccer

L

Wash U

8 p.m.

Men’s Soccer

W

Wash U

Football

W

Women’s Volleyball

Friday

Wrestling

Saturday

Trine Invitational

9 a.m.

Cross Country

Saturday

NCAA Regional

11 a.m.

Saturday

Lake Forest

12 p.m.

W Swim & Dive

W

Saturday

Grove City

1:30 p.m.

M Swim & Dive

W

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Ackerman in second place and third-year Michaela Mullison in third. Second-year Gillian Gagnard won the 100-yard backstroke, and third-year Nicole Garcia won the 100-yard butterfly.

In a highly competitive and charged environment, the Chicago women reinforced their standing as a top contender this season with the win. “Our meet aga i nst Wa sh U is a lways a h ig h- energ y meet. I think that adding [Claremont-Mudd-Scripps] as an additional challenge really forced us to focus and swim even faster. Coming out of it with a win for the women is really exciting, and I know that will carry on through our next few weeks of training up until the Phoenix Fall Classic,” said Gagnard.

The No. 9 Chicago men faced a similarly competitive meet, beating No. 12 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 156–132 before falling to No. 10 Wash U 197–83.

Third-year Taye Baldinazzo won the individual 200-yard freestyle and finished runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle, the event in which he holds the school record. The other winner was the Maroons’ 200-yard freestyle quartet of second-year Jonatha n Mend ley, third-yea r By r ne Litschgi, fourth-year Winston Wang, and fourth-year Alexander Farrell.

Both men and women now shift their focus to the Phoenix Fall Classic meet, which runs from November 16 through November 18. It will be their last meet of the fall quarter before resuming competition against Lewis University and Olivet Nazarene on January 18.

Women’s Volleyball

Macalester

L

Score 2–0 3–1

28–21

Emory

3–0

Wash U

159–139

Claremont-Mudd

156–132

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