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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892

VOL. 129, ISSUE 2

Since Last We Met: A Summer Recap

BY DEEPTI SAILAPPAN NEWS EDITOR

Alexandra Davis

Fourth-year Andre Abedian races up the field shadowed by defenders.

University Files Motion to Stay Unionization

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was unsurprising.

“This is simply an extension of the administration’s position that graduate employees are exclusively students,” Lee said.

“Obviously, we strongly disagree with that.”

“Ultimately, the focus is not on what the administration says, it’s on what we as graduate employees say,” Lee said. “[We’ll] continue to organize for a union so that we can have a strong collective voice as workers at this University, regardless of what any impending NLRB decision might be.”

In the stay motion, the University stressed that last year’s Columbia University verdict—which established graduate students as workers for the purposes of federal labor law— was wrong. That decision was the third time the board flipped its stance on the issue as presidents of different parties changed the majority on the board. A new Trump-era Republican majority raises the possibility, pointed towards in the University’s mo-

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The University has submitted a motion to stay the upcoming Graduate Students United (GSU) unionization election, which is scheduled for October 17–18.

If granted, the stay motion would postpone the election, putting the ongoing case on hold.

The administration argues that the election—and all related proceedings—should be stayed in light of two case review requests the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is facing: one from Boston College, the other from the University.

While the stay motion targeted the upcoming election, the case review questioned the legitimacy of GSU’s original petition to unionize.

The University filed both its case review request and the stay motion on Friday, September 22.

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tion, that the NLRB’s stance will change again.

In the stay motion, the University suggested that a Columbia overturning is “probable,” since “the current Board has a different majority than when Columbia was decided.”

The Senate confirmed business lawyer William Emanuel to the NLRB on Monday, swinging the board to a 3–2 Republican majority. GSU members have expressed concerns that the Republican majority board will reverse the Columbia decision before a potentially delayed election.

In an e-mail sent to The Maroon, University spokesman Jeremy Manier expressed the administration’s concern that a union would affect “many areas of the university,” prompting its decision to undergo the appeals process.

“It is important to settle the outstanding legal issues before holding an election, in part to determine whether an election is permitted under the law in this

Over the course of the summer, several Maroon columnists weighed in on the free speech issue.

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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård talked about his craft in Logan early this month.

In case you missed them, some developments from this summer: Unionization: – The University filed a petition on July 24 asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to reconsider its decision to let student library employees unionize. This came after the students announced June 9 that they had voted to form a union. The NLRB has yet to announce when it will review the case.

– The NLRB ruled August 18 that graduate students can vote to unionize, though the University has since filed motions opposing this decision. An election is currently scheduled for October 17–18.

Obama Library: – Barack Obama made a sur-

prise appearance via video conference at a community forum for the Obama Presidential Center on September 14. In response to an audience question, he addressed the Obama Foundation’s decision to oppose signing a legally binding agreement with the surrounding community: “The concern I have with respect to a community benefit agreement in this situation is thatit’s not inclusive enough.... What particular organizations would end up speaking for everybody in that community?”

Sexual Assault: – The Department of Education opened a new Title IX investigation into the University’s possible mishandling of sexual harassment and sexual violence cases on September 1. The investigation comes as the Continued on page 2

Phi Delt Case Settled PETE GRIEVE NEWS EDITOR

A hazing lawsuit brought against the Phi Delta Theta (Phi Delt) fraternity and several brothers of the former UChicago chapter was settled, a September 11 court documentshows.

Dylan Kanaan, who was a spring 2015 Phi Delt pledge, alleged in a June 2016 complaint that he was hazed on the night of his initiation ceremony. According to Kanaan’s complaint, the defendants in the case forced him to binge drink alcohol and physically assaulted him in the chapter house.

Kanaan said the injuries he sustained on the night of the incident included a concussion, a fractured cheekbone, and a large cut under his eye. His complaint sought $250,000 in damages.

None of the parties in the case wanted to comment on the settlement. The agreement includes a confidentiality clause, according to a representative of one party in the case.

“Regarding this matter, because it was a confidential settlement, I and all parties are not able to answer questions or comment,” wrote executive vice president and CEO of Phi Delt Robert Biggs in an e-mail. William Eveland, Phi Delt’s attorney in the case, said he had no comment.

Jason Kleinman, an attorney for defendant Dakota Ford, said upon introduction, “I’ll spare you the trouble, and you can quote me on this, I don’t have any comment.”

Attorneys for the other named defendants in the case, former chapter president Nicholas Luthi and former rush chair Mihir Dubey, did not return voice mails, e-mails, or messagesleft with their assistants.

In January 2016, before Kanaan filed his lawsuit, the fraternity announced that the UChicago chapter would undergo “recolonization,” a process under which the fraternity said the chapter would be dormant until all students who were members have graduated Continued on page 3

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CDS Debates Antifa and Rally Violence

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The Chicago Debate Society (CDS) held a public debate Tuesday on the topic of whether or not anti-fascist groups should condemn violence at their rallies.

The two-person team arguing that Antifa and similar groups should condemn violence framed its argument around the likelihood of negative reactions to violence and the potential for anti-fascist groups to win greater support by rejecting violence. They also argued that, with a presidential administration potentially more sympathetic to the fascists,

violence on the left could be used as an excuse for crackdowns on protests and other freedoms.

The opposing team argued that violence against fascist groups could often be justified as self-defense, and that the benefits of condemning violence would not necessarily outweigh the downsides. They contested that condemning violence would cause division within activist groups and could be taken as appeasement or capitulation, whereas there would be no guarantee of any significant change in narratives about the groups’ movement.

Fourth-year Zach Lemonides, the president of CDS, said that the topic

was chosen because it engaged issues cover the justifiability of violence by relevant both at UChicago and na- anti-fascist movements. The questionally. tion was changed from “Is the use “Even in the University, there’s of violence by groups such as antifa been lots of talk about the sort of justified to oppose hate speech?” to general questions about Antifa and “Should groups, in the United States, the lengths to which opposing fas- explicitly dedicated to opposing fascism can go, on University discussion cism publicly condemn all instances of groups and things along those lines, violence in their protests?” Lemonides so we thought it would be a topic that said the topic was changed to avoid a lot of people would be interested in,” moral issues distracting from the Lemonides said. actual events on the ground. “While The group made clear on Face- rigorous discussions on philosophical book and at the event that it does not principles are interesting, the event have an official stance on the debate was not a dissertation on the different topic, but was trying to promote and systems of ethical reasoning,” Lemonprovide a venue for discussion. ides said.

The debate was originally set to

Underage Students Hospitalized for Drinking

This Summer

been trending upward in recent years. In 2011, six alcohol violations were reported over the course of the year. By 2013, that number had increased to 34 violations, and in 2016, 55 total violations were reported.

Nearly all of this year’s liquor violations were reported at dormitories, which house predominantly first-year students during O-Week. All first-year students are required to complete an online alcohol education program before arriving on campus.

Marielle Sainvilus, University Director of Public Affairs, told the M aroon that it’s likely students did not consume the alcohol in University residence halls.

“Underage drinking is strictly prohibited not only in the Residence Halls, but on the entire

Department, under Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is rolling back Obama-era guidelines on Title IX implementation. University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus said in a statement released September 8 that the University’s disciplinary procedures will remain in place, adding that they reflect the standards required by Illinois state law.

DACA: – After President Trump announced that he would phase out former president Obama’s executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the University sent several e-mails in support of students who were affected by the decision. The University later said it supported a legislative solution that would continue the protections that DACA provided.

BY CAMILLE KIRSCH NEWS STAFF

Eight underage students were brought to the emergency room after consuming alcoholic beverages this O-Week, according to University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) incident reports.

This represents a substantial increase compared to the past six years, during which incident reports for alcohol-related ER transports during O-Week averaged only 0.8 per year.

UCPD reports indicated that eight liquor law violations occurred between Saturday, September 16, and Sunday, September 24.

During the corresponding period last year, only three violations were reported.

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UChicago campus. While many of the calls came from College Housing, the actual consumption of alcohol likely occurred elsewhere.

All students transported to the emergency room were evaluated and released,” Sainvilus said.

Three of the incidents occurred at Max Palevsky Residential Commons. Two occurred at Campus North. International House and Renee Granville-Grossman Residential Commons each recorded one report of a violation, and one violation was reported at 5757 South University Avenue.

Five of the six incidents took place between midnight and 4 a.m., with one individual transported from Campus North at 10:41 p.m.

No liquor violations were recorded in the preceding week.

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from the University. A letter obtained by The Maroon informing fraternity alumni of the decision cited “risk management policy violations” as the reason for recolonization.

It was not clear until October 2016, however, when The Maroon published a report on the hazing incident, that the decision to recolonize came after a Phi Delt investigation into the incident at issue in the lawsuit.

Last fall, former Phi Delt brother Ford decided to share the chapter’s side of the story with The Maroon. Ford shared documents and photos related to the case. In one of the documents he provided, a brother admitted that chapter’s actions were “blatantly irresponsible.” Ford acknowledged he believed that Kanaan had a case against the fraternity: “This kid definitely has a case.... He deserves something, it’s obvious. He has a personal injury case.” But the account Ford presented disputed Kanaan’s core allegations—that he was singled out, trapped in Ford’s basement room, and assaulted—and instead alleged that Kanaan sustained his injuries when he slipped on a patch of ice while drunkenly trying to run out of the fraternity house.

Ford did not dispute that pledges were made to drink significant amounts of Everclear and beer before the incident.

A court filing with Dubey’s response to the complaint denies many of Kanaan’s allegations but accepts some details from Kanaan’s account.

Dubey acknowledged that pledges and members consumed a “green liquid” and beer on the night of the incident. He admitted that Kanaan was in the basement of the house and Ford’s room for a portion of the night, and he admitted that Kanaan tried to leave that room and run outside the chapter house.

Dubey denied or said he lacked the knowledge to respond to Kanaan’s main allegations, and he alleged that when Kanaan attempted to leave “fraternity members attempted to assist Plaintiff who was acting erratically.

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GSU Fights Election Delay case,” Manier wrote in the e-mail.

In response to the University’s motion, GSU representatives filed a motion in opposition on Tuesday, claiming the administration demonstrated, “no justification for a stay or impoundment of the ballots.”

Within the opposition motion, GSU representatives emphasized that the University waited 45 days after the election was ordered to file their request, suggesting that the situation was not as urgent as their motion suggested.

GSU also called the time delay a stalling tactic—one made obsolete by amendments the Board made in 2015 to improve the process of filing review requests in representation cases.

Moreover, the Board’s changing composition does not constitute staying the election, they countered.

Since the Board has changed compositions before, it’s an irrelevant fact to use in supporting a motion to stay, GSU reasoned.

GSU’s opposition concluded that neither of the University’s documents presented the “extraordinary circumstances” needed to justify a motion to stay, so the election should continue as planned.

Despite the administration’s and NLRB’s expressed positions, Lee insisted on strengthening GSU’s membership.

“It’s been very gratifying to see the outpouring of support not just from our own members, but from our faculty supporters,” he said. “[It’s] outweighed any sense we might get from the administration that

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graduate unionization is not a cause supported on campus.”

Since GSU submitted its opposition, the administration filed another opposition, refuting the arguments made by GSU representatives.

Also on Tuesday, the administration sent an e-mail to graduate students publicizing a new website, which displays “compiled information and resources” about unionization.

“Reasonable people can disagree about the issue of graduate student unionization, and it is vital to have a well-informed debate,” wrote Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen in the e-mail. “We hope this new resource will be valuable as you study how a union could affect graduate education at UChicago.”

The website’s data is credited to many outside sources, including government websites and peer institutions, but has received criticism on social media.

“The entire site, especially the bit downplaying wins made by graduate employees at NYU, is at least humorously ironic,” said Claudio Gonzales, a GSU departmental organizer.

Gonzales is a third-year Ph.D. candidate studying mathematics, and has been with GSU since August of last year. “[The site] was written precisely by the people the University hired to stop us,” he said. “...clearly, this is an elitist attempt at implying unions are for a particular brand of worker, not for hoity-toity intellectuals like us.”

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VIEWPOINTS As the issue of free speech reverberates across college campuses nationwide, UChicago—and its longstanding, often unyielding commitment to free expression—has become a flashpoint for controversy. Republished below are two viewpoints pieces from the past summer that reflect

the often-heated nature of the campus free speech debate and problematize the reductive notion that all types of speech merit protection.

— Cole Martin and Urvi Kumbhat, Viewpoints Editors

Free Speech Overreach Time and Again, College Republicans Regurgitate Tone-deaf Platitudes About Free Speech

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Zimmer, Call Them What They Are President Zimmer’s Recent Letter Depicts a University Willing to Discuss Free Speech But Reluctant to Discuss White Supremacy

BY JAY GIBBS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Dear President Robert J. Zimmer, I certainly do not know the extent of the enormous pressures that are surely upon you. As the president of a university that prides itself on free speech and expression, it must be extremely difficult to navigate issues such as the tragedy at Charlottesville, especially considering the mixed responses from our nation’s president, let alone the rest of the country. I believe that the University should keep true to those values that define it and strive to maintain UChicago’s reputation as the academic hub it always has been. However, I also believe that the University has a responsibility to directly condemn malevolent forces, especially those which directly affect its students. As

an institution with an increasingly diverse student body, and as one of the world’s most respected centers for higher learning, I had hoped that the University would act on its clear responsibilities and unilaterally denounce the racist demonstrators for the horrors they inflicted in Charlottesville. President Zimmer, you had an obligation to call these figures what they are: white supremacists and Nazis. Your letter fell short.

What white supremacist demonstrators did in Charlottesville does not merely constitute “an attempt to intimidate, overtly threaten, and arrogate for themselves an exclusive right to speech.” Groups in Charlottesville that have preached hatred and advocated violence against vulnerable communities since their inception propagated a vicious attack on Charlottesville’s unarmed masses.

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The language of “free speech,” while certainly a comfortable and oft-repeated discussion point for the University, is secondary.

So, while I recognize and welcome the steps taken in your e-mail of August 22, I am disheartened to know that only a first step was taken. Many times since I enrolled, the University has taken stances that don’t directly oppose or encourage a particular political party or agenda.

However, the rejection of racism has no party. To disavow Nazis or members of the KKK does not put one on the right or the left; it simply is an action that upholds basic standards of human decency and morality. For African Americans, the Jewish community, and all persecuted minorities (ethnic or otherwise), this “historical resonance” is one that reverberates in the present day.

To clarify, it is right to rebuke the murderous behavior of those who rallied in Charlottesville, but racism does not become acceptable—merely “offensive” discourse—when the threat of violence ceases to exist.

Each time the actions and opinions of racists are sanitized as merely “offensive,” hatred is normalized.

White supremacists use these same tactics to mask their repulsive beliefs under the guise of legitimate intellectual disagreement. When events like those at Charlottesville occur, esteemed institutions like our own have a duty to denounce the reprehensible conduct of bigots without reservation or deflection. Protecting free speech is indeed important, but it is not the only value our University should cling to. Creating an environment where minority students feel actions that threaten their existence are unequivocally unwelcome is just as important.

Racism is alive and well, President Zimmer. Encourage true free speech all you want, but for the sake of your students, strike against active racism where it stands.

Jay Gibbs is a second-year in the College majoring in public policy and East Asian languages & civilizations​.

Donald Trump’s unexpected rise to power put College Republicans nationwide in an unenviable position. Young representatives of a party with an historically unpopular figurehead, College Republicans chapters across the U.S. adopted a number of different coping mechanisms. On some campuses, such as Harvard and Cornell, College Republicans unequivocally denounced him. The decision by the executive board of Yale College Republicans to endorse Trump for president precipitated the group’s fracture. On campuses like our own, the College Republicans simply pretend Donald Trump does not exist.

Even so, the leadership of the College Republicans at UChicago has been remarkably adept at keeping themselves relevant, mostly due to the the particularly prominent role the University plays in the socalled campus free speech debate.

The College Republicans have styled themselves as vanguards of free speech on campus against a rabidly intolerant left. And if TV news appearances are to be our metric, this strategy is working fairly well. This is also happening at the national level; the current president of the College Republican National Committee made it very clear that he believes “the Republican Party is the party of free speech, we’re the party of tolerance, [and] we’re the party of inclusion,” which—I mean, come on, seriously. Free speech advocacy provides a narrative framework for young Republicans to escape the indictment of intolerance aimed at a Grand Old Party administration that is still vehemently anti-gay and apparently has trouble condemning white supremacists. It gives them a means to challenge and oppose the left without risking too overt an association with Trump, and particularly for the group’s figureheads, it provides significant limelight on a national level.

All this is not to say the issue of free speech and its proper boundaries on college campuses is not an issue worth consideration; however, the most recent way in which UChicago’s College Republicans rhetorically deployed the issue is beyond inappropriate. This past week proves the extent to which some of the UChicago College Republicans, or at least their leadership, will go

to forcibly contextualize national events into the existing narrative of the intolerant, anti-speech left.

I am not going to relitigate the issues surrounding what happened in Charlottesville save to say that our President completely failed to marshall any measure of convincing spiritual and moral leadership in the wake of a Neo-Nazi terrorist attack against anti-racist protestors. This should come as a surprise to exactly no one. Our College Republicans’ statement regarding the tragedy, while certainly better than Trump’s, is still profoundly misguided.

The University of Chicago College Republicans opted to frame the Charlottesville tragedy in terms of free speech. This is ridiculous and unacceptable. To be clear: What transpired that day is absolutely not “a reminder that the fight to protect the rights to free speech and peaceful assembly” remain paramount. It is a reminder that racism and racists are evil and their ideals are incompatible with the values of a truly free liberal democracy by their very nature, something philosophers like Karl Popper have argued for a long time already. The statement is a transparent attempt to appropriate the heroism of protesters confronting literal neo-Nazis sporting MAGA hats, some of whom were mortally injured or killed as a result, and use it to bolster their own image.

The leadership of College Republicans on campus is obviously in an awkward position. With clear future political ambitions, they cannot make explicit criticism of Donald Trump, lest they wish to face the wrath of the RNC in the same way the groups at Harvard and Cornell did, to say nothing of an apparent minority of Trump supporters within their own ranks.

That same ambition necessitates a proud, aggressive image of young, intelligent Republicans fighting for free speech. Using what happened in Charlottesville to that end, however, is incoherent and indefensible.

Jake Eberts is a fourth-year in the College majoring in political science.

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ARTS Karl Ove Knausgaard on Novels and Knowing

BY ROSEMARIE HO CONTRIBUTOR

On September 11, the Seminary Co-Op and the University’s creative writing program presented a reading with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard at the Logan Performance Hall. Knausgaard’s novel, Out of the World, was the first debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004, and his autobiographical My Struggle series has been hailed as a masterpiece by literary critics worldwide.

Professor Srikanth Reddy of the English department and creative writing program led the conversation with Knausgaard about his latest collection of books based on the seasons. Autumn, released in August, is the first in this quartet. A collection of pieces detailing quotidian objects and phenomena,

the text began as an exercise for Knausgaard in which he roots an entire writing session in a word.

In the far-from-packed auditorium, Knausgaard began by reading the opening to Autumn, a letter addressed to his unborn daughter. Gently swaying, he performed the piece, conveying a particular tenderness and humility that highlighted the wonderment within.

When asked about his writing approach, Knausgaard emphasized the irony of describing objects with fresh eyes. “We don’t think about the way in which things are organized,” he said, crediting one of his favourite books, Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things, as part of the inspiration for his project. “But it is all man-made…. I wanted to expose the processes of our world.”

Autumn, Knausgaard added, is “very

much directed towards the world, whereas My Struggle…is very much about [his] material life.”

Knausgaard handled questions with self-deprecating humor throughout, drawing attention to the problems that still confuse him—including why people do things the way they do.

“Something adds up when you lose yourself in writing,” he said. “I have nothing to say, and I don’t think much. But I write because writing opens up the world.”

Other topics raised in the conversation included the “profound” influence of Marcel Proust on his writing; prior to reading Remembrance of Things Past, Knausgaard’s writing was merely “little nonrepresentational things that looked like literature.”

In response to a question about his opinions on recent trends in autobiographical

literature, Knausgaard also called for other ways of assessing literary worth. “I just wrote it because it is true,” he said. “The notion of quality…I don’t care for it—it is looking for perfection somehow.”

When asked about the structure of Autumn, Knausgaard admitted that he preferred an “emotional, intuitive way” of making connections between objects, noting that he wrote about things that had emotional significance to him. He read a section from the book about a suspended plastic bag in the depths of a lake in Norway and noted how drawn he was to the sight.

“You don’t understand it, but it is sublime.”

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new book Autumn, translated by Ingvild Burkey and illustrated by Vanessa Baird, is sold at the Seminary Co-Op and other major bookstores.

Exhibit [A]rts [9/29] Friday 11:30 a.m. See the inside of Rockefeller Chapel while you listen to music echoing through the hall for the Carillon Tower Tour and Recital. Rockefeller Chapel. $5 suggested donation, free for students.

6 p.m. Come enjoy the 26th Annual Eid al-Adha Cultural Celebration and Banquet, an evening featuring Muslim scholar and academic Doctor Yamina Bouguenaya and nasheed artist Khalil Ismail. Learn,

reflect, and enjoy the banquet feast. International House. Tickets are $10 online and $15 at the door.

[9/30] Saturday 8–10 p.m. Watch the product of six teams who have written, directed, designed, and rehearsed a play all within 24 hours for Theater[24]. Don’t miss your one-time opportunity to see these never-before performed works of art. FXK Theater, Reynolds Club.

LCD Soundsystem Dreams, But Not Big Enough

BY DAVID NORTH CONTRIBUTOR

LCD Soundsystem’s most recent album, American Dream, is a half-baked collection of languid meditations with stale B-side “dance” rhythms under the meandering diatribes of an aging James Murphy. Despite what many fans might like to think, this album did not come out of a vacuum. What could have been a solid LCD album in 2014 is exactly that—but a few years too late. Instead of being musically or lyrically adventurous, the only gamble LCD has made with this album is their artistic integrity. Murphy and friends have sold their artistry for their first No. 1 album.

With American Dream, Murphy grasps at whatever thin straws of profundity are left over from his prime days of music writing.

But instead of coming across as shrewdly self-aware, the writing is clunky and self-accepting of its own laziness. The most telling example of this is in the song “Tonite,” which laboriously laments the decay of modern pop music. In a ridiculous self-parody, Murphy casts shallow criticisms on the repetitive and unimaginative nature of new artists who constantly emphasize the importance of living life in the present. Meanwhile, what feels like a 10-second drum and synth loop found in the audio samples of GarageBand pounds on in the background. It is an atavistic critique of “YOLO” culture that may have been impactful a decade ago. What was intended to be self-reference quickly becomes self-reverence as Murphy sings, “Oh I’m a reminder/ The hobbled veteran of the disk shop inquisition/ Set to parry the cocksure of mem-stick filth/ With my own late era middle-aged ramblings.” He portrays himself as the noble

vanguard to a bygone era of artistic purity.

Any humility that surfaces in this album is a facade for what Murphy really thinks is unquestionably sage wisdom. I hate to be the one to tell him it comes across as a morose geriatric diary.

American Dream’s greatest strength lies in its contradictory emotional threads, eliminating any apprehension toward incompatible emotional complexity. In “Emotional Haircut,” themes of resounding self-affirmation, love, loss, and admiration weave around each other in a fulfilling, familiar way. The song also offers a recurring homage to lost heroes in the musical development of LCD Soundsystem (“You’ve got numbers on your phone of the dead that you cannot delete”).

Murphy has mentioned lost figures in his personal life (such as his therapist) in previous albums, but the influence of icons like Lou Reed and David Bowie is more prominent than ever before. Bowie is especially present in “Black Screen” as Murphy embodies the same obsessive fans that he sees worship LCD Soundsystem.

Despite these glimpses of emotional depth, Murphy nonetheless plays fast and loose with the respect of these very fans on this reunion album. Many of the tracks on American Dream feel like old, unrefined ideas that could have been released without a reunion tour or any grand pontificating from Murphy. The more I look at it, the more this whole project feels like a cash grab—which isn’t worth people’s time or attention unless the album is great. This one is middling at best.

Tickets are $4.

7:30–11 p.m. Ever wanted to learn how to dance for free? The Chicago Swing Dance Society is hosting their first “Java Jive.”

There will be a free beginner lesson until 8:30 p.m., followed by dancing to DJed swing music until 11 p.m. Third Floor Theater, Ida Noyes. Free.

[10/1] Sunday 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Want a work by Pablo Pi-

casso hanging in your dorm? Choose from 75 works from the Smart Museum’s Art to Live With collection at Art Match. Smart Museum. Free.

12–5 p.m. Find your favorite book, hear your favorite writer speak, and meet other book lovers at the 2017 Chicago Book Expo. Featuring a spread of speakers from author Eve Ewing to journalist Sarah Conway, this event is sure to have something for everyone. Columbia College Chicago. Free.

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Siebel Scholars Class of 2018 The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 to recognize the most talented graduate students in business, computer science, bioengineering, and energy science. Each year, over 90 outstanding graduate students are selected as Siebel Scholars based on academic excellence and leadership and join an active, lifelong community among an ever-growing group of leaders. We are pleased to recognize this year’s Siebel Scholars.

BIOENGINEER IN G JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

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Sarah Friedrich Daniel Lewis Worawan (Boombim) Limpitikul Alyssa Kosmides Randall Meyer

Benjamin Kotopka Steven Leung Maya Nagasawa Sung Jin Park Wen Torng

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Tammy Hsu Jasmine Hughes Elisabet Rosas Olivia Scheideler Zhi Wei Tay

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COMPUTER SC I EN C E CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Karan Goel Nika Haghtalab Jeffery Helt Kirthevasan Kandasamy Danish Pruthi

HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCES Hongyao Ma Andrew Miller Jean Pouget-Abadie Brandon Reagen Samuel Wiseman

MIT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Sayed Abulnaga Neerja Aggarwal Eric Bersin Gladynel Saavedra Pena Yu Wang

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Mila Schultz Howard Anthony Small Jr. Crystal Tjoa Borui Wang Catherine Wong

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING YuXuan Liu Michael Zhang

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Jacob Bailey Milica Hadzi-Tanovic Unnat Jain Sujay Khandekar Jayasi Mehar

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Kaiwei Li Qiao Qian Chenming Wu Han Zhang Jiacheng Zhang

ENERGY SCIEN C E CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Sean Weerakkody

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL Arthur Marronnier

MIT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Marco Miotti

POLITECNICO DI TORINO DOCTORAL SCHOOL Gianluca Serale

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Ross Kerner

Varun Badrinath Krishna

STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EARTH, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Kasidit Toprasertpong

William Gent

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY LABORATORY OF LOW CARBON ENERGY Zhifang Yang

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Ming Jin

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SPORTS Maroon Women Remain Unstoppable WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY MIRANDA BURT SPORTS STAFF

With a school-record-tying 18–4–1 record and a Final Four berth, the 2016 UChicago women’s soccer team set the bar high. The 2017 team, however, is exceeding these expectations. The Maroons are off to a 9–0 start, and both the United Soccer Coaches and D3soccer.com national polls list the women as the top team in NCAA Division III. UChicago opened by going 2–0 on a cross-country trip to California. Despite five of their nine opening games being on the road, the South Siders outscored their oppo-

nents 35–4, including a 3–0 victory over No. 10 ranked Pomona-Pitzer. During this ninegame stretch, UChicago has outshot their opponents 245–31. Third-year Jenna McKinney has led the team offense, producing six goals and four assists, while fourth-year Mia Calamari leads the team with seven assists and three Maroons have produced four or more goals.

Fourth-year Kelsey Moore, who scored the game-winning goal against Wheaton this past Tuesday, spoke of their team’s fast start, “We’ve had an incredible run so far, and it’s something that we are looking to continue to build upon. I think our success can be attributed to a variety of things. In

preseason we created a team culture that focuses on being the best teammates to one another that we can be, and I believe it’s this team-centric mindset that has really gotten us to this point and will continue to carry us through the rest of the season.”

UChicago opens UAA play this Saturday on the road against Rochester (5–2–1), who fell to the Maroons 1–0 last year. The Yellow Jackets finished the 2016 campaign with a 5–7–6 record, going 2–3–2 in UAA play. Five out of the eight UAA teams are currently ranked in the national top 25, including No. 3 Wash U. “Coming off of the Wheaton game was extremely helpful going into our first UAA

weekend,” Moore added. “They provided us with a level of play that helped in our preparation for UAA competition and the competition we expect to see for the rest of the season.”

The Maroons will finish their UAA schedule with a showdown against rival and nationally third-ranked Wash U Bears at home on November 4. UChicago will also play nonconference foes Kalamazoo and Illinois Tech sprinkled into their UAA schedule.

The Maroons open UAA play at Rochester tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. EDT, looking to continue their perfect record.

New Season, New Conference for UChicago Football FOOTBALL

BY ALYSSA RUDIN SPORTS STAFF

The Maroon football team will face a new set of challenges this season, returning to the Midwest Conference, a highly competitive regional conference, after playing in the Southern Athletic Association for the past two years. Three games into their season, the Maroons are handling the higher level of competition well, taking two tough losses and one win so far.

Facing Case Western Reserve University, currently ranked No. 22 in the country, in their first game of the season, the team started out hot offensively, earning two touchdowns early in the first quarter. Case struck back with a touchdown of their own, and the game stayed at 14–7 through half-

time. The Maroons unfortunately could not hold onto their lead, as the Case quarterback found his receivers routinely and led his team to a 34–14 victory. In another non-conference matchup, the Maroons faced Wash U and again were dealt a tough loss. The South Siders briefly held a three-point lead in the first quarter, but the Bears quickly scored to take the lead back before halftime and maintained it for the rest of the game. Yet again, the Maroon offense could not find the end zone in the second half, and the Bears came away with a 28–12 win. The Maroons quickly rebounded from these disappointments last weekend to beat conference foe Illinois College 28–7. The Maroon offense maintained their excellence the whole game, scoring in every quarter. The defense, not to be outdone, held the Blueboys scoreless until

the last nine minutes of play.

Chicago football has been boosted by some fantastic individual performances, notably from first-year cornerback Ryan Montgomery and first-year defensive tackle Jackson Ross. Both have received UAA Athlete of the Week honors for their performances against Wash U and Illinois College, respectively. Ross dominated defensively against the Blueboys with seven tackles, two tackles for loss, and one sack. Montgomery also made his presence felt defensively with 14 tackles and two interceptions against the Bears. He currently leads the team in tackles.

Looking ahead, the Maroons are facing Cornell College in another Midwest Conference matchup. The Rams are currently 2–1 and coming off of a massive offensive effort in their most recent game, in which they

On Fire & Undeafeated MEN’S SOCCER

BY ANDREW BEYTAGH SPORTS STAFF

The UChicago men’s soccer team sits atop the NCAA DIII rankings, which seems almost commonplace for the Maroons, who spent a good portion of last year also being ranked No. 1. This season started off September 1 with a hard-fought 2–1 win against Whitworth. Then the Maroons started rolling, notching scores of 4–0, 7–1, and 6–0, to highlight a few of the contests. Fourth-year goalie Hill Bonin commented on the start to the season by saying, “Our matches at Wheaton and Loras have definitely been highlights so far. We actually had not beaten Loras until this year. Those were both gritty and hard-fought wins where we didn’t play our best but still had the determination to get a result.”

At about the halfway point in the season, UChicago has outscored its opponents 32–5.

They have also defeated two ranked teams and look primed heading into UAA play. UAA play kicks off this weekend at the University of Rochester. Last season, UChicago rallied

to beat the then No. 4 Rochester 2–1. Bonin commented on UAA play, saying, “Going into conference play in the UAA, you have to get results even if you aren’t playing your best.” With talented teams and difficult travel on the horizon, Bonin said that the Maroons are simply “taking it one game at a time and making sure that we put our best effort into every game.”

The Maroons returned a loaded roster of nine starters but they have dealt with a few injuries so far. Another challenge facing coach Mike Babst this season has been incorporating a talented first-year class into an already stacked roster. Third-year defender Josh Scofield commented on the year so far: “I think we are starting to hit our stride now that we are healthy and have established more of a team identity. Every year the team is different, and it is exciting to have a uniquely deep roster as we head into UAA play.”

UChicago begins UAA play at the University of Rochester this Saturday, September 30, at 11 a.m.

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scored seven touchdowns just in the first half. This game will certainly challenge the South Siders’ defense, but fourth-year Chandler Carroll believes that his team is ready.

“I think we have learned to compete again.

In the years past, we have been so caught up with wins and losses that we forgot to compete. Competition has been instilled in our team this year,” Carroll said. Learning from past mistakes is a key to success, and Carroll believes his team has come away from their first three games with some valuable insights. “Our mindset has changed a little bit, which will help us this week. We have moved on from being fearful of making mistakes to just having fun and playing football,” Carroll said.

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SPORT Football Men’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Volleyball

SCORE BOARD W/L

Opponent

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Illinois College Benedictine Wheaton Wheaton

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Opponent

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Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer Volleyball Volleyball

Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday

Rochester Rochester Brandeis Rochester

1:30 p.m.

11 a.m.

12 p.m.

2 p.m.