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UChicago Profs Honored

by Government of Japan

BY TONY BROOKS NEWS REPORTER

UChicago professors Anil Kashyap and Raaj Sah have been named by the government of Japan as recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, the third-highest honor the Japanese government can bestow.

The modern version of the award was made available to non-Japanese citizens in addition to Japanese citizens in 1981. The order, originally established in 1875 by Japanese Emperor Meiji to honor civil or military achievement, now honors those who have made advancements in a specific field, contributed to Japanese culture, or helped developed environmental welfare or preservation efforts.

Kashyap is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance at the Booth School of Business. He has worked at the University since 1991.

His research has focused on the prolonged economic crisis in Japan, which began in the early 1990s, but his interest in the Japanese economy stretches back to his time as a graduate student at MIT. “I actually began working on Japan in graduate school because I had a classmate from Japan who had access to some unusual data at that time on Japanese companies,” Kashyap said in an e-mail through a University spokesperson. “We had written a number of

papers before the crisis began and have continued collaborating ever since then.”

Starting in 2001, Kashyap helped organize conferences that brought prominent U.S. economists to Japan. These meetings, organized under the Cabinet Office of Japan, worked to revitalize Japan’s economy during the crisis.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to work with the Cabinet office on these conferences.

They have generated many good research papers, forged some collaborations and hopefully have helped with the policy process,” Kashyap said.

“Having studied Japan was helpful in thinking about the options for other countries during the global financial crisis…I also have used a lot of what I learned studying Japan in the courses that I teach.”

Sah, professor of public policy and economics at the Harris School of Public Policy, has been interested in Japan’s economy since his childhood. Unlike Kashyap, Sah’s work has focused on Japanese tax reforms, public revenues, deficits, and redistribution.

“I am humbled. My long association with Japan has profoundly influenced how I try to understand the world. I am deeply grateful to my colleagues in Japan who, through these years, have generously shared their wisdom and time with me,” he said.

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Anil Kashyap

Raaj Sah

Feng Ye

Mitski serenades the audience in Mandel Hall for the MAB fall show. More on page 5.

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Donna Brazile (page 2) and Pete Souza spoke on campus this week.

Prof Accused of Mishandling Title IX Case in ’80s at Cal

BY EMMA DYER NEWS REPORTER

A nn L . and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of English Frances Ferguson is disputing an accusation that she mishandled a Title IX case 30 years ago when she was a Title IX officer at UC Berkeley.

Ferguson is a visiting professor of poetry this fall at Princeton University.

Kimberly Latta, a psychotherapist, writer, and former professor, recently wrote in a Facebook post that retired St a n ford pr ofessor F ra nc o Moretti raped her in the mid ’80s when she was a graduate student at UC Berkeley and he was a professor there. Latta alleges that Ferguson disregarded her claims and advised her not to file a report. Latta further wrote that Ferguson gave this advice because

Souza Speaks on White House Years

BY JOSEPH DILLER

she was friends with Moretti, though Moretti and Ferguson deny that they knew each other at the time, according to The Stanford Daily.

The Daily also reports that women allege Moretti harassed them at Dartmouth and Johns Hopk i ns. Moretti was considered for a faculty position at Hopkins where Ferguson backed his candidacy, according to a Hopkins professor contacted by The Daily who asked to remain anonymous.

Moretti said that he had consensual sex with Latta, but has denied the allegations of rape.

The November 5 post gives Latta’s account of her interaction with Ferguson when she attempted to report the rape in 1985. “I reported [Moretti] to the Title IX officer, who was then Frances Ferguson, Ph.D.

Former official White House photographer Pete Souza spoke at International House last Wednesday.

Souza, who worked for former presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, took 1.9 million photos in the Obama White House. Three hundred of them are included in his newly released book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait. His book was for sale and available for signing at the event. When curating photos for the book, Souza was advised

by Obama “to choose the aesthetic over narrative.”

Souza presented photos showing Obama’s rise to the presidency and years in office. He began the night with one of his first photos of then-Senator Obama reclined in his seat with his feet atop his newly acquired senatorial desk.

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Iris a Spectrum of Diversity Page 5 A new theater troupe on campus amplifies silenced voices.

The Best Four Years of Our Lives?

Page 3 One first-year finds that the hype surrounding college leads to unrealistic expectations.

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Events 11/17–11/20

Dean Talks Medicaid Expansion Study

BY DAKSH CHAUHAN NEWS REPORTER

Today Debate: What Democracy Knows Stevanovich Center, 9 a.m.

A classics professor and a professor of political science debate the issue following a presentation by Professor William Howell. This event is part of the Stevanovich Institute on the FOrmation of Knowledge’s inaugural conference.

Tomorrow Middle East Music Ensemble Performance Hall, Logan Center for the Arts 7 p.m.

T he Middle East Music Ensemble (MEME) will celebrate its 20th anniversary, performing its best Turkish classics with guest vocalists and instrumentalists.

Hyde Park Holly-Day Harper Court, 8 a.m.

Come to Hyde Park for a full day of family holiday fun on Saturday, December 2.

Enjoy breakfast and lunch with Santa, ice sculpture carving, cookie decorating, four costumed characters at local businesses, caroling with fourth Ward Alderman Sophia King, a mini preview perofmrance of The Nutcracker by the Hyde Park School of Dance, two live reindeer, and Buddy the Elf! Most activities are free with food for purchase at breakfast/lunch with Santa events. Go to hphollyday.com for details.

UChicago Presents: amarcord Luther and Music Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5:30 p.m.

Founded in 1992 by former members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig, amarcord has since become one of the world’s premier vocal ensembles. Here they offer a program of five Gregorian chants—in the original Latin and in Martin Luther’s translation—alongside Reformation and Counter-Reformation era motets by J.S. Bach.

Saturday Uncommon Makes Polsky Exchange, 7:30 p.m.

Uncommon Makes, hosted by Uncommon Hacks, is a day-long series of workshops and discussions in which students will build a fun project, like a Chrome extension or iOS app, from scratch. Just bring your computer. All majors are welcome.

Harris School Dean Katherine Baicker delivered a presentation Monday discussing the results of a significant study she conducted on the effects of Medicaid expansion in Oregon.

The study, whose key findings were published in 2013, did not find measurable improvements in health outcomes—which Republican Medicaid skeptics have used to support their position—but did find that people with Medicaid say that they receive better care and report less depression.

Baicker explained the selection of Oregon as the case study for her project. “In 2008, when Oregon expanded Medicaid to extend coverage to 10,000 more people, we saw it as a great opportunity to study Medicaid,” she said. She was also attracted to the state for her project because it used a random number generator to provide Medicaid insurance coverage, naturally creating a randomized trial setting for the researchers.

During the study, Baicker and her partner Amy Finkelstein, an economics professor

“My job is to document history. . .”

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He said he was “fortunate to have taken such an intimate photo on day one,” and how “it was telling of my future as Obama’s photographer.”

Obama’s early years in office were dominated by the Great Recession, and Souza was tasked with photographing the trying times.

“I would use a telephoto lens to capture [Obama’s] emotion,” Souza said. “I thought it important to show things from his point of view—over his shoulder and behind him.”

Learning to balance family life with the weight of the presidency is a theme interwoven throughout many of Souza’s photos.

“I’ve always admired that [Obama] would still spend quality time with the girls. When he was with them, he was all there. I wanted to grasp that,” Souza said.

Souza ended the night describing the final months of the administration. One of the last photos he took was one of Obama

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and Hillary Clinton smiling the night before the election. “The feeling was that Hillary was going to be the next president,” Souza said.

After the election, when Donald Trump met with Obama for the conventional post-election meeting, Souza was tasked with capturing the moment.

“My job is to document history. Others may not have liked that photo, but I decided to take it anyways. However, in my book, I ended up choosing this photo [of Trump on his way out of the Oval Office],” Souza said.

He concluded, “It has to end,” with a heartfelt, high-angled photo of Obama leaving the Oval Office for the last time. This was coupled with a photo from the window of Marine One looking out onto the White House. “We used to live there,” Obama told Michelle as Souza snapped the final shot.

Joseph Diller is an events ambassador at the Institute of Politics. He was not involved in the running of this event.

Donna Brazile Warns of Russian Interference at IOP Event

BY XIAOYU GAO

Sunday

at MIT, looked at health outcomes, use of various health services, and financial well-being among low-income adults in Oregon.

Baicker’s study found that an expansion of the state-subsidized health insurance increased the use of primary and preventive health care and state spending on care by 25 to 35 percent. While the expansion did not lead to any significant improvement in health outcomes, people were shown to be 30 percent less likely to experience depression when on Medicaid than when they were not.

Baicker attributed this variation in depression rates to the greater financial security that comes with having medical insurance.

In addition to talking about the impacts of health insurance expansion, Baicker also commented on the reactions to her study.

She mentioned that many people view only results that fit their ideologies instead of looking at the study comprehensively.

“Cherry-picking results will give you a distorted version of the truth…. What this study aims to do is present the facts so people and policymakers can make key decisions,” Baicker said.

Donna Brazile discussed Russia, the Clintons, and the 2016 election at an Institute of Politics (IOP) event on Monday.

The veteran Democratic political strategist spoke with Fred Hochberg, an IOP fellow and former chairman and president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

Brazile, who has worked in some form on every presidential campaign from 1976 to 2000, recently published a book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.

She began by explaining that the hacking of the 2016 election was primarily aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton in order to help Donald Trump’s campaign. “The hacking that took place was to cause disruption in our democracy, to discredit Hillary Clinton and her campaign, and to distort the DNC,” she said, “…[and] the President of the U.S. today will not recognize the Russians were involved.”

Brazile explained that the hacking

took place across the federal government, including not only the DNC but also governmental agencies. To prevent this, she said, “You have to have a sophisticated system by which you mwwonitor and find traces of evidence destabilizing factors of your election infrastructure.”

In chapter 10 of her new book, Brazile argues that the Clinton campaign made an agreement to bail the party out, which gave the Clinton campaign an unfair advantage in the primary.

As a result of this agreement, Brazile could not spend the money she helped raise for the DNC. Brazile was dismayed by the “arrogance” of Clinton campaign staffers, who “would not hear the concerns of the DNC chair who was travelling two to three days a week.”

“I don’t have to give anyone any kisses,” she said. “I’m not Patsey the Slave.”

At the same time, Brazile emphasized that she was not working for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but trying to help the Democratic Party and Continued on page 3

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She was a friend of his and urged me not to make a report. I insisted, but she persuaded me to leave only his initials in her documents, in case someone else reported that he had abused her,” the post reads.

Latta also stated in the Facebook post that her account of events can be corroborated by colleagues in whom she confided after Moretti’s assault and while still being his student. “ There are upstanding, well-known professors of History and English at other institutions, who would certainly corroborate my story,” Latta said. Multiple people who Latta knew at the time have since endorsed parts of her story.

T he M a roon contacted the news office for comment on Ferguson’s actions and was directed to a conversation between Michele Rasmussen, Dean of Students and the previous Title IX coordinator Sarah Wake where they outline steps taken when the University of Chicago Title IX office receives a report.

The office had no comment regarding University intentions to investigate the allegations against Ferguson.

When asked for comment, Ferguson directed M a r o on reporters to statements made to Stanford Politics and The Daily Californian earlier this week, in which she claims that all standard Title IX procedures were followed while handling Latta’s case. She said that in order for Ferguson to interview Moretti and pursue the case, Latta would have had to file a written complaint.

“I believed that Kimberly Latta did not want to file a formal complaint,” Ferguson told Stanford Politics. “Because Latta did not file a written complaint, I was not authorized to call Moretti into my office to interview him.”

Ferguson felt that Latta’s explanation of the situation at the time did not convey the severity of the case. “I had the impression that [Latta] was saying that he was asking her to have sex with him, but he was not putting pressure on her—past just being initially soliciting her attention [sic],” Ferguson said.

Responding to the supposed friendship between Moretti and Ferguson, both deny acquaintance prior to Ferguson and Latta’s interaction. In e-mail statements to Stanford Politics, Moretti claimed he “did not know Frances Ferguson at the time,” and Ferguson said she was “far from being a friend of Moretti’s at the time” and believed she “hadn’t so much as met him during the time he was at Berkeley.”

Ferguson believes that Latta imagined a greater emotional response from Ferguson after explaining the case, which led Latta to having unrealistic expectations about the support system Ferguson could provide. As Title IX coordinator, Ferguson claims her position required professional and emotionally detached interaction when presented with cases. “I thought I was describing Latta’s options and giving her a chance to decide if she wanted to proceed to file a formal complaint. She thought I was telling her to go away,” Ferguson said.

In a statement to The Daily Californian, Ferguson elaborated: “I tried to maintain an impassive demeanor even when I heard distressing reports, because I didn’t want to jeopardize the possibility of having a later decision that the University legal counsel would throw out for bias.”

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University Expands Efforts to Prevent DACA Crisis Additionally, third-quarter lobbying disclosure documents filed with Congress reveal that the University spent $45,279 on lobbying efforts relating to the DACA controversy, among other federal issues.

President Robert Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier also issued a public letter to President Donald Trump emphasizing the importance of the DACA program in early September.

DACA is an executive order issued by former president Barack Obama in 2012 which grants undocumented immigrants who entered the United States before the age of 16 a work permit and two-year renewable protection from

BY BRAD SUBRAMANIAN NEWS REPORTER

On November 1, the University joined 19 other schools in filing an amici curiae brief challenging the federal government’s planned nullification of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“DACA students enrolled at amici institutions are some of the most gifted and motivated young people in the world. ... The government’s action therefore threatens amici’s ability to attract and educate the most talented individuals and so undermines their educational missions,” the report said.

deportation. The dispute over the implementation of DACA has grown with Trump’s opposition to the program.

The other university co-signers include Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Yale University.

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the country.

“As painful as the experience was, I would do it again,” she said, because she believes Clinton would make a better president than Trump.

Referring back to the Russian hacking and internal disorder of the Democratic Par ty, Brazile commented: “Wounds don’t heal if you don’t expose them. You’ve got to let people see what those wounds look like.”

Brazile concluded by discussing her disappointment with the media, arguing that major news organizations did not sufficiently inform the American people about Russia’s “aggression and attack.”

VIEWPOINTS The Best Four Years of Our Lives?

College Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Zahra Nasser “Get ready for the best four years of your life.”

Those words began when I received my acceptance letter from UChicago and were impossible to evade in the final months of senior year. Teachers and family members would reminisce on their collegiate glory days, tell me about all the opportunities I must take advantage of at an elite university, and worst of all, promise that college would be the place I’d “find myself.” After the longest summer of my life (thank you, quarter system), I teemed with excitement when it was finally my turn to experience it all: meeting new people, living away from home, taking classes I was genuinely interested in, getting lost in the library, going to college parties.

I’m grateful to have experienced a lot of those things in my first quarter here. But my unreasonably high expectations, I’ve found, have been hard to satisfy, leaving me disoriented, slightly disappointed, and above all, worried that I’m doing something wrong. Aren’t these first few months supposed to be the most exciting of my life thus far?

Since coming here, I’ve had pretty much every iteration of the infamous f reshman plag ue — fevers, common

colds, strep throat, and a sinus infection. All my exciting plans were suddenly on pause; I wanted nothing more than to be cooped up in my dorm after a day of classes, too sick to even dream about going downtown or exploring the rest of Hyde Park.

And as I sat miserable, cold, and alone in the pharmacy awaiting my antibiotics, I wondered why no one told me about the ugly parts of college. No one told me that I’d be sicker than I’ve ever been, that I wouldn’t automatically be best friends with all my housemates, that balancing academics, self-care, and a social life is somewhat of a physically and mentally exhausting puzzle.

Like most things in life, I believe college is what you make of it. Thankfully, the wide-eyed first-year in me is not jaded enough to dismiss outright the prospect of an enriching college experience.

But it does take work, and a little bit of discomfort. It means going out of your way to befriend people, joining RSOs, seeking out help in class when you need it. And as frustrating as it feels to be in that weird state of feeling like an outsider, I think it’s important, every once in a while, to not know what to do with yourself. This uncertainty has actually forced me to be more introspective and to better understand what I’m looking to get out of my college years.

Depictions of college filtered through T V and movies, as well as nostalgic stories told by adults who undoubtedly peaked in their 20s, have fed us, since

we can remember, a utopian image of college. As a result, it’s easy to think that feeling bored, disinterested, and unreasonably stressed out at times is simply abnormal. But that perfect college life, full of effortless friendship and crazy parties every night, is a grossly reductive, superficial account of what is actually a jarringly new experience for the average 18-year-old.

It wasn’t until I thought about what college actually entailed—moving away from home, going to school with thousands of people, being more academically challenged than ever before—that I started to be easier on myself. For many of us who had the clear goal of getting

into an elite college throughout high school, it’s only natural to feel unsettled without a path automatically there for us to follow. And paving this new path, or not paving one at all, isn’t something that happens in one quarter, or in one year—it happens organically through an accumulation of experiences, big and small. These may or may not be the best four years of our lives, but they can be formative in their own unexpected, unspectacular way.

Zahra Nasser is a first-year in the College.

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A Case of Mistaken Identity Escaping Some Stereotypes While Embracing Others Presents a Difficult Task

Lucas Du Stereotypes have always followed me around. In elementary school, the “Asian” accent was a running joke. All my friends did it and I did it too, perhaps as a way of deflecting the joke, owning the joke, showing that it didn’t matter and that I could be a good sport about it.

In middle school, I was the Asian math nerd. I had transferred to a mostly white private school in seventh grade, and before anyone really knew me, they were asking for my help on their algebra homework. “You’re good at math,” they would say. “You’re Asian!”

It didn’t help that I rarely saw an Asian person given a f leshed out—or even marginal—role in the television shows I so ravenously consumed. When The Walking Dead came out and Glenn, an Asian American, developed into a character with real depth and a real fan base, I was beyond ecstatic. I didn’t even like zombies, but I watched the show religiously for a good couple of seasons just to watch Steven Yeun play him. He was one of the first Asians I had ever seen, real or fictional, that seemed cool and badass enough to hang with the white people, and it made me feel as if I could belong, that there was nothing wrong with me, and that I was just as worthy as the people around me.

For a lot of minorities, stereotypes become these things that they desperately want to break out of. See me for who I am!

But for me, it was even harder because in many ways, I was the stereotype. After all, racial assumptions are often just generalized truths. I was the skinny Asian math nerd with minimal social skills. I was awkward. I liked learning and I liked getting good grades. I didn’t really know what to do with myself in this world that wanted to slap an easy label on me and move on, especially when that label was the truth.

So I doubled down on who I was. I swaddled myself in the Asian stereotype and became a caricature of it. I focused entirely on school and the math competitions that I was, at the time, so invested in. I withdrew from the middle school world of relationship drama and sleepovers and hangouts at the mall. If I was just the typical Asian boy that people seemed to expect, I could become invisible. I could fly under the radar and no one would care enough to judge me.

But there was the nagging guilt, almost, that I was failing people somehow. A lot of Asian American literature has been written about characters that don’t quite fit the prescribed mold. The Asian girl who isn’t good at math, who feels like she somehow isn’t worthy because she doesn’t live up to this racialized expectation, who finds liberation in rejecting the stereotype and in owning who she was. Meanwhile, I felt like I was reinforcing these backwards assumptions

about Asians that people had. Sometimes it feels like there is a responsibility, as minorities, to do everything in our power to break those calcified notions of who our people are. And I wasn’t living up to that responsibility at all. I was somehow setting us all back.

At a certain point, I got sick of the invisibility that came with embodying a racial stereotype. Perhaps it was part growing up, part rebellion, but in the last couple years of high school, I did whatever I could to distance myself from who I used to be. I threw away my glasses and put in contacts. I quit doing math competitions. I stopped trying so hard in school.

I found myself slowly cutting out all the parts of me that I deemed “too Asian.”

I renounced all things stereotypical. I didn’t want to be known as that Asian kid who was good at math and liked classical music and was horrible at sports. And while I did begin thinking more clearly about who I was and what I wanted, I found that more often than not, I would push away things I truly identified with just because they vaguely reflected certain Asian tropes. In my quest to escape what confined me, I inadvertently ran into another box. I was still letting stereotypes dictate what I could and could not do, but in reverse.

Perhaps worst of all, I found myself caring less and less about my education.

I wanted to project an air of nonchalance that would show I was above it all, that good grades weren’t the only part of my identity that mattered. It also seemed

to me that no matter how well I did in school, those grades, those achievements would always be lessened by my Asianness. Of course he did well, he’s Asian!

And not only would they be lessened, but they would stick me right back in the racial mold I had tried so hard to escape. It was easy, too, to pretend like I didn’t give a damn. But deep down, I did care—I do care—and the contradiction at the heart of all of this still eats at me.

I’m still trying to figure out who I really am, what I really want and like. It’s so much harder because I’ve been trying to navigate my cultural identity too, and all the generalizations and assumptions people sometimes make about that. And in some ways, I feel like it’s impossible to truly separate who I am from these stereotypes. To completely extricate some real version of myself from the racialized caricature of myself. The way I negotiate those tropes, the way I interact with them, determines in part what I like, what I don’t like, what I want, what I don’t want.

These stereotypes are going to be part of who I am, no matter how far I try to run from them. But I hope I can find a version of myself in all of this that feels true and authentic. I hope I can find something solid in this mess of self-discovery, that I can hold onto and claim as my own. And I hope I can find it soon.

Lucas Du is a first-year in the College.

Taking a Knee Refusing to Stand During the Anthem Is an Act of Protest and Patriotism

BY OLIVIA JORDAN & CONNIE SHAO MAROON CONTRIBUTORS

Earlier this month, faculty, staff, and students from the University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine “took a knee” to raise awareness of the police brutality, racial prejudice, and systemic oppression that afflict predominantly minority communities in America today. This photo was inspired by the choice of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem as a way to peacefully protest these unconstitutional threats to life.

Taking a knee represents our acknowledgement of the unequal and often inhumane treatment of marginalized minority populations in this country. Taking a knee is an act of patriotism, honoring both the American flag and our country in taking action against the prejudices that are harming American citizens. In aligning our actions with Colin Kaepernick, the participating students, housestaff and faculty at the University of Chicago chose to take action in response to these issues, which have been recurrent across many facets of American life. Kaepernick’s recent display is not the first instance of protest in the athletic arena. Olympic medalists Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Muhammad Ali, and other professional athletes have used their status to highlight social justice issues.

Similarly, the choice among medical professionals to kneel and interrupt the current narrative with peaceful acts of protest brings the responsibility to address social injustices into a broader sphere. The

mission statement at the Pritzker School of Medicine declares the school’s intent to create leaders that advocate for the betterment of humanity. At Pritzker, we aim to provide equitable treatment to all individuals, so those from different backgrounds and with different capabilities are given what they need to pursue their dreams.

The white coat is more than a sartorial choice—it symbolizes a dedication of our lives to the betterment of others. This vow extends beyond the limits of the hospital doors. We can use our voices to advocate for those who do not have the privilege of our academic standing.

Kaepernick’s protest is not the first public response to police brutality and oppression highlighted in national media outlets. The past few years have been riddled with headlines that have reported injustice against marginalized individuals, many of which highlighted violence specifically against people of color. Black people made up almost 25 percent of those killed due to police brutality in 2016 while comprising only 13 percent of the total population. Latinx individuals comprised almost 17 percent of those killed. A significant percentage of those murdered, 16 percent, were unarmed. Our decision to stage this protest was influenced by the inflammatory and maligned statements that have increasingly precipitated individuals to act against systemic discrimination and oppression. We are following similar UChicago demonstrations of support for DACA recipients, immigrants, and refugees that similarly sought to dismantle unjust societal hierarchies. However, the work that needs to be done cannot end with symbolism.

While changing police brutality can seem like a daunting task, collective efforts create real change. Contact your local city or state representative and urge them to take a stand against police brutality if they have not already. Campaign Zero is an easy way to contact your representatives who are considering certain issues surrounding police reform that include educating our police officers on implicit racial animus, encouraging critical thinking and de-escalation, and improving trust with community members. We urge you to donate funds that support minoritized victims of police brutality and work to protect the civil liberties of those under attack.

You can additionally donate to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund or the American Civil

Liberties Union to help.

We believe taking a knee is symbolic of recognizing the injustices against citizens of our country who have been the victims of fear, hatred, ignorance, and bigotry. With this photo, we hope to illuminate the need for collaborative work between those from varying backgrounds and privilege to unite our country. However, above all, we encourage all members of the University of Chicago, regardless of affiliation or school, to take action and join the many students, physicians, and citizens around the country working together for social justice.

Olivia Jordan and Connie Shao are medical students at the Pritzker School of Medicine.

Teresa Jiang

Pritzker faculty, staff, and students take a knee outside the BSLC.

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ARTS Song, Dance, and Inclusivity Fill Hutch in Annual Diwali Festival

BY PERRI WILSON MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Last Friday, Hutchinson Commons transformed into an unrecognizable venue for South Asian Students Association (SASA)’s annual Diwali festival. The typically dim room was filled with a shimmering array of saris and candlelight. Students began to file into Reynolds at 6:30 p.m., eager to get their share of food from Udupi Palace. Everyone struggled to make room on their paper plates for some of everything— saag paneer, gulab jamun, naan, and more.

There was a communal atmosphere in the room as students settled around crowded tables, quieting to hear Anirudh Duvvuru and Uditi Karna, director and fundraising director for SASA, introduce the event. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is one of the religion’s most sacred holidays. For many of the attendees, the event was an opportunity to celebrate this important holiday even while far from home. For those new to Diwali, a number of speakers, including SASA’s co-presidents Anirudh Pennathur and Meghana Rao, explained the importance of the holiday and the ways in which the North and South Indian celebrations vary. The puja (religious ceremony) took place in October, so Friday’s event was mainly a festive affair that aimed to showcase

the many South Asian groups on campus and to celebrate the pan–South Asian Diwali traditions as a whole.

This focus on inclusivity was palpable throughout the evening, which began with two Indian classical music performances, the Northern Hindustani music and the Southern Carnatic music, performed by Nikhil Mandalaparthy and Akash Dixit. The tonal sounds of the traditional Indian violin reverberated through Hutchinson Commons, gradually picking up speed with an elaborate drum beat before evaporating back into the high vaults of the hall.

As the music performances came to a close, dancers from Apsara, a classical Indian dance group, took the stage in their impressive white headpieces.

By this point, most of the audience had given up on any hope of staying seated. Everyone clamored to their feet to watch the dancers’ footwork.

Meanwhile, at the back of the room, Fatima Ali offered henna. Those willing to wait in line were rewarded with an elaborate lacework of design running over their wrists. By the time Apsara had finished their lively dances, UChicago Aag was in the wings.

The a cappella group, which focuses on South Asian fusion music, performed their rendition of “Stereo Hearts” with an unmistakably Indian twist. Their seamless interweaving of languages

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Dancers from the classical Indian dance group Apsara pose in McCormick Lounge.

and cultures seemed to be the perfect reflection of the festival as a whole—a showcase of varying traditions that complemented, and never contradicted, each other.

UChicago Bhangra, the Punjabi folk dance group, then took the stage with their elaborate collection of props. Their first dance incorporated large, accordion-like pieces, which they slammed and swung with incredible speed. The dancers’ infectious energy immediately filled the room as, once again, the audience rose to their feet.

Then, with the same impressive swiftness, the wooden props were replaced with flags, which the dancers swirled

around themselves in beautiful unison.

The evening focused on celebrating the festival’s universal values, such as “the triumph of good over evil,” inclusivity, and positivity, and their implications for the wider UChicago community. These values could be seen in the sheer diversity of performance groups over the course of the night. The warmth of the festival and the sense of community it created, with groups of strangers and friends gathered around candlelit tables, were practically enough to ward off the cold of this year’s first snow.

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Third-year performers Megha Chandni Bhattacharya and Nikhil Mandalaparthy.

Students from campus’s many South Asian student organizations participated in the celebrations.

Iris a Spectrum of Diversity on Stage

BY EGE YALCINDAG MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Iris is a new theater troupe on campus devoted to uplifting the voices of people of color. Not only does Iris tell stories written by people of color, it also shares narratives from members of the group itself.

Representation in entertainment is limited and hasn’t changed much over the years, despite popular shows such as Hamilton featuring diverse casts. Professional theater continues to be dominated by white actors and producers. Daniela de Diego Arozamena, a third-year in the College and co-executive director of the group, ex-

plained that part of this problem is a result of art funding being cut at an early stage in underserved areas around the country.

“You have middle schoolers not receiving the opportunity to take art classes and develop in that field or that interest,” she explained. This trend hits especially close to home for students in Chicago, who recently discovered that King College Prep’s vocal music program had been shut down.

In the past, King College Prep had sent students from its choir to perform at former President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in Washington, D.C. Iris aims to combat underrepresentation by creating a theater space that is

all-inclusive and socially aware. The group is composed of students from a diverse range of ethnic and theatrical backgrounds.

Each rehearsal is a dialogue between commonly and uncommonly heard voices on campus and in theater.

“A lot of theater troupes have specific roles for director, stage manager, and actor, [but] we don’t really have those divisive roles,” Daniela noted. “We really believe in a collaborative unit.”

Iris gives its members the creative freedom to assume roles that they have never tried, and to go beyond what is simply written on the page. For example, the group produced a choreographed representation

of Shel Silverstein’s poem “Masks,” and an adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in a high school class president election setting.

“Even though we may be telling a story UT would have told, we’re telling it in a different way with different voices,” Daniela said. Over the course of its existence, Iris has shifted from splitting tasks by job as seen in traditional theater rehearsals to a more open process that involves each member.

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Lee, a second-year in the College and board member of Iris. These theatrical risks, based solely on a shared passion for art and unconditional support of one another, are particularly appealing to many members of the group.

Rehearsals for Iris may not resemble the typical theater rehearsals of other groups on campus. “The direction came from everyone, not just one person,” described Kenjiro when talking about his experience with blocking a scene for a particular show. “One scene would be the focus of the blocking and everyone would help block it—giving input on how a character would enter.” Each production is no longer just one person’s vision; it is the synthesis of visions from each member of the group. Kenjiro also described beginning a rehearsal with a group analysis of The Raven, a story written by Edgar Allan Poe, for their next project. Kenjiro said that in this exercise the group hoped “to get a better sense of how to approach [the story] and what sort of in-

spiration [they] could take from the words.”

Though only two years old, Iris has put on a range of productions including an opening at the Revival, a comedic improv show titled Bartender, Story Time, a winter show composed of adaptations of existing stories, and several choreographed works.

Last spring, Iris hosted Chris Lee and Karen Olivo of the Chicago cast of Hamilton on campus to speak about their experience with the theater world as artists and people of color.

“Make the theater you want to see on stage,” Olivo and Lee encouraged the group during a discussion session. The troupe was named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow and the part of the human eye that is in color. After all, as both the goddess and the part of the eye, Iris represents a wide spectrum of colors. “We want to bring [all our perspectives] to the table and start a conversation,” said Daniela. For the members of Iris, this range in voice and color is exactly what the group aims to portray.

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Iris aims to challenge the underrepresentation of people of color in theater by creating an inclusive environment for students of all acting and ethnic backgrounds.

Aesthetic Confusion: Anime, Orchestras, and Poetry

BY JAD DAHSHAN ARTS STAFF

Last Friday, the University’s Chamber Music Organization hosted graduate student, composer, and musician Alison Yun-Fei Jiang at the Logan Center, where the former physics major shared her inspirations with attendees in an intimate setting filled with music, laughter, and warm cookies.

Born in Nanjing, China, Jiang grew up in Toronto and spent her childhood listening to traditional Chinese opera, western classical music, and the scores from Japanese animated films.

At the University of Toronto, Jiang began looking at music composition more seriously upon finding that she could not fulfill her musical aspirations while pursuing a STEM major. On Friday,

she conceded her love of “pretty things”; the early work she played was particularly melodic, linear, and pentatonic, influenced by French impressionistic symphonies.

Moreover, the literary arts also exert a certain allure over Jiang. She composed “And the Abyss Gazes Back” and “Journey” for a full orchestra in 2015, providing a musical counterpart to the concepts of “travelling, transformation, and transmigration” that she stumbled upon in her readings. The drama in these pieces is poignant, apparent in the heavy, thundering percussion and sweeping string section.

“Birds Reincarnate” (2016) is a string quartet that, albeit not a programmatic work that evokes a narrative, attempts to bring to life the soundscape of bird sounds, wind, and rain in the poetry of

Ko Un. The contemporaneous “Waves, Exile” was written for the orchestra and is informed by Tim Nolan’s “My Dead,” from which Jiang cited the following lines: “They live in The Land of Echo, The Land/ Of Reverb, and I hear them between/ The notes of the birds, the plash of the wave.”

“Waves, Exile,” Jiang explained, had more of a conceptual start than “Birds Reincarnate.” She was interested in the ways she could manipulate her musical material to accommodate the concepts of “Echo” and “Reverb,” repeating the same melody in different incarnations throughout the piece. Jiang demonstrates an experimental and inquisitive spirit through her eclectic approach to her work.

At the end of the evening, the audience sat in contemplative silence,

digesting the artistry they had just witnessed. The air was naturally nostalgic, charged by the phantoms of Studio Ghibli and dead French composers.

It may even be said that their silence reflected a state of “aesthetic confusion,” which Jiang described as the fusion of the diverse musical, poetic, and artistic sources that have influenced her propensities as a composer as well as her oeuvre. A brief Q&A session followed in which listeners and Jiang exchanged thoughts, career advice, and other sources of admiration for both.

With a B.M. from the Manhattan School of Music and an M.M. from New York University, Jiang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition at the University of Chicago.

This crossword originally appeared in The Maroon on November 3. One team submitted the winning solution: Spencer Dembner and Mahria Baker.

Across 1. GCD’s dual 4. Decrees 9. Henry VIII, for one 14. “Are you a man ___ mouse?”

15. In Japanese it’s transliterated as hakushon 16. Manga’s sibling 17. Suavity, congeniality, etc.?

19. Queens’ homes 20. Mic holder 21. Fat meas.

23. Tolkien creature 24. Maroon section 26. Stingier 28. Ed Sheeran, for one?

32. Leviathan 35. Turn down 36. Brewery product 37. It can be prepared in at least 10 different ways 38. Be in debt 41. Ken Ham’s debate opponent 42. Tales and such 44. Dignity, as of Morgan Freeman 46. Trash from the Reg? 50. One playing at

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BY CHRISTOPHER JONES Progressive Field 51. Billy ___ (2000 film) 55. CXXI times V 57. Spam container 58. The Metamorphosis character 59. Pokémon Sun region 61. What you want from the local butcher?

65. Not as common 66. Cancer isn’t compatible with it 67. Just manage, with “out” 68. Massage 69. Old flame 70. Cigarette ingredient Down 1. Home Depot rival 2. Muscle spasm 3. First name in exploration 4. Default iPhone app 5. German “I” 6. “Now I see!”

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8. Humorless 9. Baba ghanoush ingredient 10. Prefix with cellular 11. 2011 Veronica Roth novel 12. Black cat, for some 13. Nighttime goal 18. Common place for an accident 22. Humanities program degs.

25. Suck face 26. “I’ve seen better” 27. It can be tight or loose 29. L8R M8 30. Singer of “Only Time” 31. Seedy loaves 32. You might have it when you attend it?

33. Race in The Time Machine 34. Caterpillar or camel 38. Globe 39. Bit of merchandise 40. “Rats live on no ___” 43. West end?

44. ___-X 45. Moroccan faith 47. Your UChicago Arts Pass 48. “Chandelier” artist 49. Hang, as spaghetti on a fork 52. “How about ___ you then?”

53. Japanese seaport 54. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew 55. “My Songs Know What You Did in the ___”: Fall Out Boy 56. Extended family 60. Grassy expanse 62. Pacific ___ 63. Recede 64. “You ___ beautiful” Send pictures of correctly completed articles to editor@ chicagomaroon.com with your full name. The names of the first three successful solvers will be published with the solution in next Friday’s Maroon.

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Maroons to Host Phoenix Fall Classic SWIMMING & DIVING

BY KEVIN JOHNSTON SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR

The UChicago swimming and diving teams go back to the pool this Friday as they host the annual Phoenix Fall Classic, featuring a multitude of schools competing at UChicago’s very own Myers-McLoraine Pool. The meet spans three days, ensuring that there will be plenty of competition on display throughout. The meet will be the Maroons’ last official competitive action until the season begins to pick up in earnest in January. Last year, both the men and women came away from the meet with victories, an accomplishment both teams will be looking to repeat again.

The UChicago women are looking to continue their winning ways, having been victorious against Wash U, while the men are still searching for their first victory of the season. Nevertheless, both squads will be looking to continue building of their encouraging performances from their last meet. The highlight of that meet was provided by second-year diver Agnes Lo, who won the one-meter and three-meter dives by an average margin of victory of 31.6 points, while also shattering the UChicago one-meter dive record in the process.

A trio of first-years on the women’s team, Gillian Gagnard, Margaret Wolfson, and Nadia Redza, have been excellent so far, having each grabbed

two victories at the previous meet. Nicole Lin was another standout performer at Wash U, participating in the two winning relay squads while also taking first place in the 50-yard freestyle event.

Looking forward to this weekend’s competition, Redza said, “I think the Phoenix meet this weekend will be a very exciting one. Everyone is looking good in the water, training really well, and we are all aiming for NCA A cuts.

Swimming in our own home pool for the last meet of the quarter makes it especially exciting and everyone is looking forward to it.”

Meanwhile, although the men’s side has yet to record a victory, there have been some promising individual per-

formances, with second-year Reona Yamaguchi (200 -yard breaststroke), third-year Alexander Farrell (50-yard freestyle), and second-year Taye Baldinazzo (200-yard freestyle) all grabbing victories at the Wash U meet. Fourthyear Dean Boures was victorious in the one-meter and three-meter dives as well. With plenty of talent on the squad, the men’s team will surely be in the running to grab their first win of the season.

The Phoenix Fall Classic will begin Friday, November 17 at 6 p.m. at the Myers-McLoraine Pool (located inside Ratner Athletics Center), followed up by two Saturday sessions at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., and finish with an additional two Sunday sessions at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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SPORTS Maroons Dominate in Season Opener WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY THOMAS GORDON SPORTS STAFF

The Maroon women’s basketball team started the season off strong on Wednesday with a suffocating defensive display against Lake Forest College.

The UChicago defense held the Foresters to a pitiful 10 points in the first half and only two points in the entire first quarter. With the Maroons taking a commanding 44–10 lead at halftime, the game as a contest was over unless there was a monumental collapse.

However, compared to the first two quarters, the Maroons struggled to begin the second half, allowing 16 points in the third quarter. This is forgivable, though, considering the huge lead potentially leading to the lack of laser focus to begin the third quarter. UChicago ended up closing a dominating win by a margin of 44 points, 76–32.

There are some aspects to improve on for the No. 22 team in DIII. For example, first-year Ionie Banner lamented the number of turnovers (23) that the team committed.

“To play a more complete game, we need to stop rushing and play smarter

to avoid silly turnovers,” she said.

Given that it was the first game of the year, turnovers were always going to be a problem. Hopefully, further along into the season, the team will become more in sync with each other, resulting in fewer turnovers. The way that the Maroons counteracted their own turnover numbers was to force the Foresters to commit 29 of them. Aside from that sloppy play, it was a dream start to the season for the Maroons, with a comprehensive display.

The games come quickly for the Maroons with their next game this Saturday at 1 p.m. against No. 25 Illinois Wesleyan. It will be a stiffer test than what the Foresters were able to put up, and should be an early measuring stick for the potential of the upcoming season. Last year, UChicago struggled against Illinois Wesleyan, losing by 27 on the road.

The main factor that resulted in that loss was the number of turnovers.

Illinois Wesleyan plays a very aggressive full-court press that resulted in a staggering 44 points off turnovers in the previous matchup. It is vital that the Maroons break down this press

Chicago Takes Down Elmhurst in Dual Meet

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Fourth-year Madison Dunbar dribbles the ball for the Maroons. to have a good chance of winning this game.

The team will have to improve on their turnovers from their last game, and be cautious with their passes. The main key against a full-court press will be to not panic, and to pass the ball

South Siders Look for Fast Start MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY ANNA ROSE

WRESTLING

SPORTS STAFF

BY JOEY GUTBROD SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago wrestling team won their first dual meet this season against Elmhurst College.

Winning seven of 10 matches, the Maroons captured the victory with a final score of 31–9. The meet started out in Elmhurst’s favor with the Bluejays winning two of the first three matches, with their one loss being due to forfeit. However, Maroons came back with a vengeance.

Second-years Grant Morrison (149 lbs.), Steve Bonsall (157 lbs.), Kahlan Lee-Lermer (157 lbs.), and Nick Carola (174 lbs.), and third-year Jason Lynch (184 lbs.) gathered five wins in a row to give the Maroons a dominating lead.

Lee-Lermer and Carola each won their matches under major decision, with respective scores of 14 – 4 and 12 –1.

Lynch’s match ended with a technical fall, as he crushed his adversary with a score of 18 –1. After ceding one more match to Elmhurst, first-year Maroon heavyweight Will Hare shut out his opponent 7– 0 and sealed the win for the Maroons.

This victory is also a sign of hope for the future, as three of the 10 Maroon wrestlers were first-years and

several more were coming off serious injuries in the previous season.

The UChicago wrestlers themselves were satisfied with their performance. “ The team went in expecting a close meet since we had lost to Elmhurst by a small margin last year,” third-year John Jayne said. “But, our hard work this year must have paid off as we dominated the meet and won 31–9.” It was truly a meet that could propel this squad into a great season.

The Chicago wrestling team hopes to continue this success at the Concordia Invitational in Wisconsin this Saturday. Along with the Maroons, the tournament features some great teams, including the host team, Concordia University. This opponent is coming off a difficult 28 –19 loss in a dual meet versus Lakeland University. However, Concordia, and the rest of the teams in this competition, will present quite the challenge for Chicago.

Despite this daunting opposition, the entire Maroon squad is working hard to make themselves a competitor in this meet. The team has talent across all weight classes. If situations go their way, this wrestling team could come back from Wisconsin with a trophy in their hands.

UPCOMING GAMES SPORT

Swim/Dive Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer Women’s Basketball Men’s Basketball

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Phoenix Classic Wheaton Calvin Illinois Wesleyan Rose-Hulman

instead of dribbling through the entire team. No matter what, the press will add excitement to the match and will probably create a back-and-forth, high-tempo game. It will be perfect for fans to come in and hide from the increasingly cold weather.

The UChicago men’s basketball team kicks off the 2017–18 season this Saturday, and there is no better way to do it than at home. This year, for the first time, the Maroons will host the Midway Classic, a three-team weekend tournament.

The Maroons first take on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology at 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 18, and then play Texas’s Trinity University at 3 p.m. the following day.

The squad is excited about the home opener on Saturday.

“The team is thrilled that we’re able to host the Midway Classic. The tournament is a very exciting way to start the season,” said fourth-year captain and three-point season record holder Jake Fenlon.

Second-year forward Sam Sustacek echoed his teammate’s sentiments.

“Starting the season at home is awesome. We’ve been doing a lot of outreach with local schools, and we will be bussing a lot of kids in for the game. Combining that support with our friends and family, we should have a great showing of fans and an excited environment come Saturday,” he said.

After falling short last year, the Maroons are looking to make a name for themselves and improve their 16–9 record from last season.

“Our primary goal this year is to com-

pete for a UAA championship,” Fenlon said. “This year we are fortunate enough to have multiple guys who can really shoot the ball, but there is a lot of progress to be made in other areas if we want to be successful when conference play starts.”

Putting in work in the off-season and preseason was a priority for the squad, and pushing each other and competing in practice remains critical.

“The team has really been pushing each other in preseason practice,” Sustacek said. “We’re really pumped up about the season, and it shows in how hard we are working on the court to prepare for our first game.”

“This weekend will be a great opportunity for us to get a feel for the progress we’ve made over the past few weeks, as well as what areas we need to focus on moving forward,” Fenlon added.

Overall, the Maroons are ready to kick off the season and compete. After several weeks of preseason, the Maroons will finally be able to see the payoff of their hard work come Saturday.

“I think we are most excited to see our hard work over the offseason and in preseason translate to a game setting. We should be a really exciting team to watch, and it will be super fun to play with all the guys,” Sustacek said.

The Maroons play at 3 p.m. this Saturday at their home opener, when they take on the Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers.

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11 a.m.

5 p.m.

1 p.m.

3 p.m.

SPORT Wrestling Women’s Basketball

SCORE BOARD W/L

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Elmhurst

31–9

W

Lake Forest

76–32