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As a part of changes aimed toward graduate students with children, the Family Resource Center will be moving from the basement of Ida Noyes Hall to a new, larger location at 960 East 61st Street. PETER TANG | THE CHICAGO MAROON
University pilots grant program for childcare Isaac Stein News Staff Beginning this spring, the University will pilot a grant program for graduate students with children, a move which is intended to help those students partially defray the costs of childcare, in response to concerns raised by graduate student parents. The pilot grants will be available to doctoral students only, and not to other gradu-
ate students. According to Brooke Noonan, Director of Graduate Student Affairs, doctoral student parents were chosen to pilot the grant program because of exceptional financial need. “The various stipends that doctoral students receive are difficult, if not impossible, to raise a family on. The [grant] program is an effort on the part of the University to take this into account,” Noonan said.
NEWS IN BRIEF Eckhart renovated Following major renovations that began in July and continued until December, Eckhart Library officially reopened on January 8. According to the University Library News Blog, the renovations were commissioned in order to accommodate the new faculty offices installed adjacent to the original space. The study space has downsized, with 40 seats available for student use, as opposed to 80 seats in the old library. Prior to the renovations, Eckhart was home to 60,000 volumes of mathematics, computer science, and statistics texts. Most of these reserves have been returned to Eckhart after being temporarily moved to Crerar Library.
Sarah Burgin, a Resident Head in South Campus Residence Hall and the mother of a young child, concurs that it can be difficult for studentparents to live on stipends alone. “I know several [student parents and their families] that are on food stamps or other forms of public assistance,” she said. “It can be easy for childcare to take up a student’s entire stipend.” In tandem with the grant
The renovations also include new walls lined with new bookstacks, replacing the old, multilevel stack system. New lighting and several skylights have also been installed. Eckhart Library will maintain the same hours and checkout procedures as last year: Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. —Avery LaFlamme
NY-style deli now open Meat lovers, rejoice. Bergstein’s NY Delicatessen, located on East 55th Street between South University & Woodlawn Avenues, opened its doors on Monday. In order to train its staff, the deli will run limited hours until its grand opening in February. Menu items include meats, salads, and soups made in-house, and
program, the University also plans to relocate the Family Resource Center (FRC) over the summer from its current location in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall to a larger building at 960 East 61st Street. The FRC offers play space and childcare services and serves as a resource hub for student parents. Many of its services are free for student parents. According to Noonan, the GRAD continued on page 2
smoked salmon and pastrami imported from New York. Restaurant owner William Davis decided to open the location after being approached by the University, which owns the property. After a successful run as a food truck, the Hyde Park location is the second brick-and-mortar store in the Bergstein’s chain, which also has a location in Chicago Heights. Store manager Josh Widen hopes Bergstein’s becomes a “Hyde Park staple, like the businesses that have been in the area for 20 or more years,” he said, adding that its employees all live in and around Hyde Park. The deli hopes to attract University students with open mic nights and extended hours during finals week. Widen also noted that the restaurant might hire students for the odd hours that full-time employees cannot fill. Davis said that response has been positive so far. “We’ve had a lot of inquiries,” he said. “People have been pretty excited
On Friday, President Obama will announce which recommendations he plans to implement based on a report from a panel of legal experts he convened in August. Tasked with studying the legality of the practices of the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies in relation to the civil liberties of Americans, the panel included Law School Professor Geoffrey Stone, known for his expertise in constitutional law. “[I am] well known for being someone who writes about and advocates for interests of free speech and equality,” he said. “I think that the President wanted a balance of perspectives and backgrounds and I fit the bill for that.” Stone discussed his experiences serving on the panel and opinions about the leak of classified information by Edward Snowden, in a recent interview with the Maroon. “[Snowden] is certainly a criminal because he violated the law. It is a crime to unlawfully disclose classified information. So, in a simple sense, he is a criminal,” he said. “The question is, should he be exempt
for [the deli].” —Maxwell Titsworth
New IOP fellow unveiled The Institute of Politics (IOP) officially announced the identity of its “mystery fellow” for winter quarter, two months after releasing the names of the other five fellows. Kasim Reed, the Democratic mayor of Atlanta, will join the IOP as a fellow during the first week of March. According to Amin Cyntje, director of the Fellows Program, Reed will host a couple of Fellows Seminars and take part in a larger public event. “You can expect him to talk about his job as mayor, the policy priorities of his first term, challenges facing his city and urban centers in general, Democratic politics, etc.,” Cyntje said in an
from being punished? Those who tend to think that that he is someone who should be treated as a hero make the argument that he did the public a service and that we wouldn’t be having this discussion, and we wouldn’t be improving these laws if it weren’t for the fact that Snowden had revealed them, and therefore what he did was a public good.” In December, the fiveperson panel produced a report consisting of 46 recommendations designed to ensure both the protection of U.S. national security as well as the civil liberties of all Americans through any actions taken by the federal government. Most notably, the group recommended the permanent termination of the storage of telephone meta-data by the government and for the storage to be conducted by a private third party. Consequently, the data would be accessed by the federal government only through a judicial order. “The reason for preferring a private holder of the information is that it helps to reduce the risk of potential abuse,” Stone said. “The current system allows the government to access NSA continued on page 2
e-mail. Reed, 44, has served as mayor since 2010 and was reelected last November. From 1998 to 2009, he was a member of the Georgia General Assembly. He is a former partner in an international law firm and a graduate of Howard University. Reed previously visited Chicago in October, speaking at the City Club of Chicago, and also gave a talk at the 2011 Chicago Ideas Week. Other fellows this quarter include former Representative Lincoln Davis (D-TN), U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s former senior strategist Steve Hilton, former Representative Sue Kelly (R-NY), Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Beth Myers, and Tommy Vietor, a former spokesperson for the National Security Council. —Christine Schmidt
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Serving on NSA Pediatric care suggested as next step for graduate student families parents, as well as the excellent services of the SHS does not offer specialized pediatric serreview panel a “U of GRAD continued from front move coincides with increased demand for FRC, have done a great deal towards making vices. Having pediatric services available to C–type experience” childcare services. She feels the changes place graduate students feel supported,” she said. student-parents would continue to make those NSA continued from front
the data whenever NSA analysts decide that there is appropriate justification. Our judgment was that there should be a judicial order required to access the data.” During his work on the panel, Stone was given top-secret security clearance due to the sensitive nature of the documents that he and the other members of the panel were reviewing. “Anytime I wanted to work on the report in Chicago, I had to work out of the FBI field office in order to have access to any top-secret information,” he said. Stone recalled that the panel’s discussions were often intensely divisive but ultimately constructive. “It is a very U of C–type experience in the sense that people who may disagree with one another were able to sit down and talk things through and try to understand what you know that I don’t know and enrich my understanding by listening to your understanding,” he said. “I don’t think that we believed that we would be unanimous when we started.” Stone stressed, “There are costs as well as benefits from what Snowden did.” “Many of those costs damaged the United States in its relations with other nations. It may damage the infrastructure of the Internet, causing countries to put up barriers to ordinary access. It made it more difficult for the nation to protect itself,” he said. “Those costs need to be weighed in the balance, not just the benefits. For the most part, those who have celebrated [Snowden] have no conception of the cost.” As a remedy to the prospect of government employees wanting to release sensitive information to the public to inform them of potential injustice, like Snowden did, Stone and his fellow panelists recommended setting up a more clearly defined agency that can address the concerns of whistle-blowers. The panel’s other recommendations included the development of a new public agency to oversee the federal government’s actions to ensure that civil liberties are not harmed, as well as new government positions, such as a public interest advocate to represent civil liberties interests in federal court. Though the NSA has faced criticism after Snowden’s leak of classified information, Stone believes that the NSA plays a vital role within the federal government. “The NSA is absolutely essential for the protection of the United States. On many occasions since 9/11, the work of the NSA enabled the U.S. to thwart terrorist attacks both in the U.S. and abroad,” he said.
CORRECTIONS The January 10 article “Hitchcock Residents Report Four Stolen Laptops” misstated the year of Griffin Cox. He is a first-year. It also incorrectly stated Emma Goldberg’s house. She lives in Hitchcock. The January 10 article “A Better Shopping List” incorrectly described the improvements being made to the system and when the changes would be made. The Registrar is improving how efficiently all the necessary information can be coordinated. The changes should be ready for the bidding cycle for autumn quarter of 2014. The January 10 article “With New Series, Doc Aims To Reel In Community” misspelled the first name of actor Nicolas Cage.
the University ahead of peer institutions regarding services for student-parents. “In the past few years, it became apparent that more and more students needed to have childcare services available on campus. The new FRC location will incorporate an outdoor play space, which I think is a real ‘value added’,” she said. “When compared to other institutions, Chicago is close to the front of the pack. For example, the University of Pennsylvania has developed their own FRC, and Stanford began to offer a childcare co-op after Chicago did.” While UChicago offers childcare services at the FRC and plans to offer grants via the new pilot program, Penn’s FRC does not offer childcare, and Stanford does not provide grants to student-parents, according to their websites. Though she recognizes the University’s efforts to expand childcare services, Burgin thinks more could be done, noting that the Student Health Service (SHS) does not provide pediatric care for the children of studentparents. “The pilot grants for doctoral student-
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Open-door policy New UCPD satellite office provides opportunity for greater community interaction The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 REBECCA GUTERMAN Editor-in-Chief SAM LEVINE Editor-in-Chief EMILY WANG Managing Editor AJAY BATRA Senior Editor DANIEL LEWIS Senior Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Senior Editor EMMA THURBER STONE Senior Editor MARINA FANG News Editor ELEANOR HYUN Viewpoints Editor LIAM LEDDY Viewpoints Editor KRISTIN LIN Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor ALICE BUCKNELL Arts Editor WILL DART Arts Editor LAUREN GURLEY Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor SARAH LANGS Sports Editor SONIA DHAWAN Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor MARA MCCOLLOM Social Media Editor CONNOR CUNNINGHAM Head Copy Editor ALAN HASSLER Head Copy Editor SHERRY HE Head Copy Editor
Last month, the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) took a welcome step toward better community engagement by announcing that it would open an interim satellite office on 53rd Street. The new office, which will not be staffed as a full-time police station, will serve as a “point of contact between the UCPD and the community—a place where [UCPD] can hold small meetings on police matters, or where officers can meet with business owners,” according to UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch. As the UCPD is developing the specific uses of the office, there is much potential for a unique space that can play a pivotal role in bringing together students, business owners, residents, and the police to shape their neighborhood. Even if the station is not staffed full-time, the UCPD can capitalize
on the visibility of the new office to create a forum where residents can have access to more information about crime in their community. The office would benefit from a public information officer to whom residents can go to find out more information about any incident that happened in the UCPD patrol area, which spans from 37th to 65th Streets and Cottage Grove Avenue to Lake Shore Drive. Positioned along what the University hopes will be a major commercial corridor, the new office should make all residents feel as comfortable walking in the UCPD office as they do walking into any business on 53rd Street to discuss their concerns. The UCPD should also take advantage of heavy foot traffic and offer services such as bicycle and laptop registration from which students and residents can benefit directly.
As we have written before, regular community meetings would allow Hyde Park residents to recognize beat officers by their faces and could be the basis for a positive communitypolice partnership. The UCPD could also hold regular forums in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department, which already hosts monthly public meetings for residents to share and learn about safety concerns. Such meetings would also be an opportunity to highlight the too often overlooked nonstop work that the UCPD does to keep our community safe. Most significantly, the UCPD can use the new office to help ease ongoing concerns regarding racial profiling, some of which were raised at its fall quarter Leadership Conversation. The new office can serve as a neutral meeting ground where students and community
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By Clair Fuller Viewpoints Columnist I’ve always described myself as someone who doesn’t get angry very often. It came as somewhat of a surprise to me, then, when I recently found myself raising my voice on the phone with my ex-boyfriend. After a long period of ambiguously “trying to be friends,” I’d finally drawn a line and decided that we shouldn’t talk anymore, only to wake up the next morning to see he’d messaged me overnight. When I hung up the phone, after finally and emphatically telling him in no uncertain terms that I didn’t want to hear from him, I was startled at how good I felt. I realized then that it’s not that I hardly ever get angry—I just hardly ever get angry at the people who are pissing me off. While usually ready for a political or academic argument, I find myself deferential in personal conflicts, not wanting to start a messy confrontation. Even in interactions with strangers who are clearly in the wrong, or in customer service situations that require being firm—haggling is my personal nightmare—my first instinct is to be understanding while someone royally screws me over, or even to be apologetic. Later, fuming in private and complaining to anybody except the person I’m angry at, I kick myself for not being firmer about what I needed in the situation. I’m not sure how much of this is
a gendered phenomena. Women who are assertive are perceived as domineering ; if you’re not polite and accommodating, especially to men—especially to men in positions of authority—you’re a bitch or too pushy or need to “just calm down.” This certainly confirms the dynamics of confrontation and apolog y, but at the same time I wonder if we women don’t hold back a little bit, particularly in close relationships where conflict is perceived as a fault of the relationship instead of a natural part of it. Failure to maintain perfect harmony is a failure of the relationship; never mind the fact that no two people have identical thoughts and desires. With friends, family members, and especially romantic or sexual partners, we fear that to fight is to damage or ruin the relationship— and so our boundaries remain unspoken, amorphous, and all too easily violated. Minor concessions become sources of resentment that do far more damage than speaking up in the first place would have. It’s true that no one likes confrontation. At the same time, though, no one ever told me how great actually speaking up about your boundaries, needs, and desires can feel, especially when it actually works. When I do articulate my desires and express my anger or frustration, it is almost always effective at resolving whatever the conflict or misunderstanding was in the first place. Not only that, but it’s also empowering. Pushing back against the passivity that is expected of me, as a woman or a significant other or a stranger, simply feels good— like a way of taking control and getting things done as my
life becomes increasingly more complex and filled with tasks and responsibilities. Healthy relationships require strong boundaries—not just in relationships with your friends, family, or partners, but also in your relationship with yourself. In order to maintain these boundaries, though, we need to reframe how we think of confrontation. Instead of imagining the perfect couple as one who never fights, instead of talking about conflict as something that must always be destructive or symptomatic of deep incompatibility, we must embrace disagreement, confrontation, and the occasional
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members who feel that they are being unfairly treated can meet with Lynch and beat officers to discuss their concerns. We encourage the UCPD to partner with minority groups on campus and in the community to strive to ensure that every well-meaning person walking down any street in the neighborhood feels welcome. In the long run, the UCPD should consider making the office on 53rd Street permanent because meaningful engagement simply cannot be achieved on an interim basis. As it considers how the office will be used, the UCPD has a great opportunity to show that it is committed to creating a long-term partnership with all members of our community.
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resulting argument as a natural result of existing in a diverse and varied world. A friend of mine claims to see two types of people in the world: those who apologize for everything and those who apologize for nothing. Although I do see his point, I have hope for a middle ground, one that belongs to people who refuse to feel sorry about their boundaries and healthy relationships. If this makes me rude, overly confrontational, or, god forbid, a bitch—so be it. Clair Fuller is a second-year in the College majoring in gender and sexuality studies.
Facebook changes memory-making
By Grace Koh Viewpoints Columnist I’ve heard legends of a war that others have fought, but I never thought I myself would have to face. But now, sitting in my bedroom on this blustery winter day, one question hangs heavy in the air as my fingers hover over the mouse pad: to deactivate, or not to deactivate, my Facebook account? Maybe the thought had crossed my mind once or twice, but it was always in a whisper, easily brushed away by my excuses. Over time, however, as reason began to shed light on reality, my excuses started to crumble, and I was forced to accept the truth: that my relationship with Facebook was an unhealthy one, and that I had to end it. The most notorious characteristic of Facebook is its uncanny ability to facilitate the frittering away of time, particularly in the face of an important assignment. But time management was not my concern when I was forced to face the aforementioned question. The question of deactivating my Facebook was more a final step in the evolution of my relationship to photographs. When I was young, I absolutely loved old photographs. My answer to the oft-asked question, “If your house was on fire, what would you save first?” was undoubtedly family photo albums. I envisioned a small me, running to grab a giant suitcase, stuffing it full of photo albums, and FB continued on page 4
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Cash rules everything around me Summer Links alum: UCSC restructuring has shifted focus of Summer Links program away from actual social justice Michael McCown Viewpoints Contributor Since controversial changes were enacted at the University Community Service Center (UCSC) fall quarter, the continuation of previous programs such as Summer Links (SL) has been rhetorically important for administrators to justify the absence of student input in the Center’s restructuring. The restructuring is ostensibly designed to expand the appeal of UCSC programs to a broader cross-section of the student body through its four new subfields. SL will now be part of “Social Innovation and Philanthropy.” From my perspective as a former SL intern and later staff member, this conceptual shift threatens to eliminate SL’s unique focus on social justice. The UCSC director claims that social justice underpins all the work at the UCSC. But primarily preparing students
to understand the world of philanthropy as the underwriters of nonprofits does not amount to the kind of critical engagement and social justice framework that SL has traditionally represented, which is a great loss for this campus. SL is an 11-week summer program that places 30 students in different community organizing and social service organizations around the city. Each week, the students come together for discussion in addition to trainings on social issues such as housing and health care. Programming brings SL participants to a wide variety of speakers and organizations around the city. Through dialogue, participants are tasked with coming to grips with the views of their peers, as well as the often contentious disagreements between labor unions, healthcare providers, and other community organizations engaged with issues such as trauma, poverty, and social
justice. Because the phrase “social justice” is necessarily aspirational, it is difficult to define precisely, but it is distinct from philanthropy and social innovation. Social justice is a critical category that evaluates macro processes and the reproduction of social inequality. It is about achieving fairness. A social justice framework does not blame the victim, and it does not attribute social ills to the supposed cultural, racial, or class defects of the poor and dispossessed. Instead, social justice attempts to confront inequality as it is inscribed in our social structure and perpetuated by powerful interests. Philanthropy, as the driving force of the burgeoning “social service sector,” does not itself assume a critical social justice framework. Neither does “social innovation,” which from what I understand is the establishment of businesses meant to solve social problems. However,
“Facebook was turning my life into a PowerPoint” FB continued from page 3 running out to make it just in time. Each of these pictures held a moment in time. Most of them were candid, taken at vacations and old church plays without my looking or caring, so the memories felt pure and undefiled. They took me back to a moment when I wasn’t even thinking about a camera. It was just me and my surroundings, and nothing else. As I got older and spent less time with my parents and more with my friends, I inevitably found myself burdened with the responsibility of taking pictures. Looking back at the pictures I took, my memory was not only of the moment, but also of the conscious decision to pick up my camera and take the picture. The act of photographically capturing the memory invaded the purity of the memory itself. The desire to document for the sake of the future takes me away from that moment. It is a pressure external to the moment one that shifts my state of mind to a much broader scope of time than just the present. And then social media enters, making a total of three players on the scene: the moment, the choice to document, and all of my “friends” or “followers.” Now my audience is not only
a future, nostalgic me, but also all of my Facebook friends. The idea of wanting to preserve or capture a moment through a picture is already complicated in itself. Social media takes this little decision to remove ourselves from the moment and adds a completely new layer of complications to it. What used to be just taking responsibility for our future selves to remember this moment or feeling mutates into a convoluted thought process about our entire social network and how we fit into it. When I found myself spending a disproportionately large amount of time at a Christmas party trying to find the best lighting in front of the Christmas tree or making sure my hair looked good as I posed for the perfect picture with my gingerbread house, I finally realized how much the process of making memories has been corrupted by the need to document them. I was using social media to manipulate events and circumstances into an idea of how I wanted others to perceive me, instead of letting these moments become memories that gradually shape and build who I truly am. And I decided I’d so much rather use the time and energy I’d spent being controlled
by this insecure sense of selfindulgence catching up with old friends or decorating another sugar cookie instead. The act of documentation itself is a distraction from being fully engaged in the making of a memory, but the pressures of social media expand that distraction into a complete export of the mind from the present to a state overwhelmed by the idea of creating a certain self-image. Instead of social media being used as a means, subordinate to real life, of documenting and sharing memories, memories become a means to build and serve social media. Facebook was turning my life into a PowerPoint presentation and all of my pictures into just a series of slides. I would never run into a burning house for a pile of photographs, but for the memory of my last day of kindergarten, or hugging my little brother for the first time, I think I would. Or maybe I wouldn’t, who knows? That’s some hypothetical future; this is the present. So for now, on this blustery winter day with excuses crumbling around me, my finger falls onto my mouse pad and I click. Deactivate now. Grace Koh is a second-year in the College.
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it is the philanthropic and nonprofit management aspects of “Social Innovation and Philanthropy” that appear to be newly emphasized in SL— particularly since the program will now encompass “corporate responsibility” internships at forprofit businesses. Administrators have said that an increased focus on philanthropy is important to a program like SL and to community service more generally because so many nonprofits rely on philanthropic largesse in order to do their work. True, but students in SL have always been asked to engage with this perspective while maintaining a critical eye toward the relationship between money, power, and social inequality and asking questions such as: “To what extent is the nonprofit and foundation ‘sector’ just a place for the rich to warehouse tax-exempt capital?” Currently the UCSC is looking to hire an M.B.A. to oversee SL, an indication that the pursuit of reckless NGO growth and financial remuneration will supersede the difficult intellectual project of helping students navigate privilege, build solidarity between different communities, and maintain a critical perspective toward social inequality, none of which is emphasized in business school. The conflation of business with social service and social
change work is dangerous and suggests ideological captivity to the interests of the philanthropists themselves, as is the norm in the “social service sector.” Inequality, as it is produced through social relations of power and domination, is a largely discredited category for poverty researchers and nonprofit managers who depend on philanthropic giants to receive their grants. Rather, ostensibly self-reproducing social pathologies such as teenage pregnancy, lack of business acumen, and backward values, among others, are proffered as the behaviors that NGOs must fix in order for poor people to then bootstrap themselves into the middle class. I do not wish to say that all giving is bad; after all, SL has been sustained in part by the philanthropy of an alumnus. However, focusing SL on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as a panacea to social problems will at best require students to assume a vague sense of noblesse oblige. After such a shift, to maintain that the program continues to be rooted in social justice is simply wrong. As part of the restructuring, the UCSC has been tasked to align its programs with its “campus partners,” which include “Career Advancement, Institute of Politics, Booth School of Business, [and] departments
in economics, sociology, and public policy.” The goal of this alignment is to create more harmony between disparate branches of the University. With regards to SL, it appears this has been achieved at the expense of its unique focus on social justice, as indeed social justice (or even community service) is a category of perhaps dubious significance to these “partners.” Barring a merely logistical harmony, the notion of alignment strikes me as inimical to a university that so regards argumentation and intellectual distance. At UChicago I have have been exposed to the din and discord of real thinking and have been allowed to parse out for myself within the tonal disarray the notes that resonate with my own conscience. Let’s not eliminate that freedom by “aligning” a unique and successful program with what already exists in plenitude. Among its many summer internship opportunities, the University should have a program that is vitally and wholeheartedly committed to social justice. Like in the song “Cream,” it appears increasingly that cash rules everything around me. Michael McCown is a fourthyear in the College and the president of Student Government.
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At Experimental Station, artists handle new gun law the sphere is tracking the motion of the fly collective, sending data to the robotic “arm” of the revolver, which points and shoots the gun in the relative direction of the flies. When a fly hits the center, the gun goes bezerk. The destructive duo, produced by David Bowen, is titled simply as “Fly Revolver.” I pull back from the corner and let myself drift to a distinctly corporeal bundle of a blanket slumped on the gallery floor: The object is “Fear and Danger Under a Blanket” by Margaret Crowley. Small and pitiable, it
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“Untitled (Fear and danger under a blanket).” Mixed media. COURTESY OF MARGARET CROWLEY
Alice Bucknell Arts Editor Immediately upon entering the gallery, I hear the sound of a gunshot echoing on a tight loop. The occasional whirring of a mechanized gun sticking out of one of the room’s far corners offers up a response. It stirs from a type of eerie immobility to perform a quick round of epileptic firing, jerking around rodeo-style on the thin metal rod supporting it. Just as quickly as it starts, the gun quits its tantrum and settles down, letting
an almost embarrassing silence unfold throughout the room. The space is unmistakably a warehouse; exposed brick and concrete walls openly reveal its identity. But rather than being a distraction, the intensely worked surface of the space gives an instant sense of purpose to Concealed Carry, a two-week show dedicated to exploring and problematizing the new state law allowing concealed carrying of firearms. This law, effective on January 1, made Illinois the final state to adopt this policy as the new status quo.
Next to the moody hunk of metal is a spherical acrylic object a couple of feet in diameter. I get closer and the globe becomes an incubator for hundreds of swarming houseflies. Toward the back of the transparent container is an object so beautiful and so subtle that I don’t even notice it at first: a thin piece of smoothed white material with a traditional target neatly engraved into its surface. I watch a fly crawl to the center and the gun cracks: With that snap the cerebral light goes on and I get the synchrony at last. A monitor inside
begs for me to crouch down to have a better look—and after the aggressive encounter with the robo-gun I am more than relieved to extend that empathy. The piece is immediately distinguishable in its fragility and exposure. A dreamy blue-pink colors the outside of the papier-mâché, while the inside radiates with a quiet brilliance: An extensive collage of religious iconographies, mailed out by organizations to their donors and hand-collected by the artist for a year, is saturated with the warmth of sparkling gold embellishments. Combined with the doting gesture of the draped blanket, Crowley’s work bubbles over with tenderness. In both her delicate handling of material and the vulnerability of the
symbolized figure, its humanism is gorgeous, and I’m amazed by these artists’ separate abilities to talk about the same subject matter in two such drastically different ways. Moving through the gallery, I revise my initial casting of the relationship between the beautiful and the violent as something more complex than exterior and reactionary: It becomes interior and instinctive. But this new proximity operates in paradox, making me feel more alienated from my own humanity and not less, I realize while admiring the chiaroscuro of Jennifer Ray’s exploded still-life photographic triptych “Range.” The beauty of scraps of melon shot to bits is only outdone by two heaps of luminescent glass shards that lap up the brightness of the camera’s gaze. The aesthetic and psychological pleasure of destruction is nothing new, but things get complicated here when the source of that implied violence is placed on the viewer. The cathartic effect of explosion documented and displayed gets stuck somewhere on its way out, the divide between interior and exterior melts and that sensation of pleasure suddenly breeds guilt. The obvious beauty I pull from the photographs becomes a source of anxiety. I end my visit on a piece that extrapolates the violence from that creepy liminal space between me and the world, just to conceal it again through commodification: “Grenade Cosies” by Barbara CARRY continued on page 6
The Lyric’s Die Fledermaus is Die party of the season MJ Chen Arts Staff The Lyric’s production of Die Fledermaus easily outshines every other show so far this season. Laughs come quickly and naturally—Strauss’s bourgeois comedy is unforced and buckets of fun. The music is lavish and glamorous, abounding with some of the Waltz King’s greatest tunes. Despite weaknesses in lead casting, a solid supporting cast and a powerhouse coloratura in soprano Daniela Fally served up true Viennese flair. Die Fledermaus is one big champagne-fueled party filled with outrageous characters. While philandering husband Gabriel von Eisenstein (Bo Skovhus) skips jail time for a lavish New Year’s party, respectable housewife Rosalinde (Juliane Banse) entertains her former lover, Alfred (Michael Spyres). Things go awry when their late-night rendezvous is interrupted by prison warden Frank (Andrew Shore). Persuaded by Rosalinde to take her husband’s place, Alfred is arrested and taken away. Unbeknownst to Eisenstein, the party is an elaborate prank orchestrated by his friend Dr. Falke (Adrian Eröd). Rosalinde, Frank, and the Eisensteins’ housemaid Adele (Daniela Fally) are also invited. They assume false identities and thoroughly embarrass Eisenstein in front of the other guests. Pretending to be a masked Hungarian countess, Rosa-
linde seduces her husband and steals his watch as evidence of infidelity. The final “recognition scene” takes place next morning in Frank’s prison. When Eisenstein shows up to serve his sentence, he finds Alfred in his cell—“I arrested Eisenstein last night,” laughs Frank, “having dinner with his wife.” Thoroughly confounded, Eisenstein nearly comes to blows with Alfred when Dr. Falke shows up, party guests in tow. All is revealed and forgiven—except for Eisenstein’s jail term, which he is compelled to serve. Bo Skovhus plays a surprisingly unlikeable Eisenstein. Skovhus fixates on Eisenstein’s naughtiness so much that there’s not much else left of his character. Skovhus does an awful lot of acting and not enough reacting: His misbehavior feels overdone and quickly becomes tiresome. Eisenstein’s comedy comes from his persistence. He recovers from embarrassment with dignity even as it slips farther and farther away from him. By playing up the oaf, Skovhus loses the gentleman—and delivers a sleazeball performance. Though well characterized, Juliane Banse’s Rosalinde suffers musically. The part requires two timbres—a lighter voice for the housewife and a smoky, exotic one for the Hungarian countess. Her power aria “Klange der Heimat” comes in the second act, when she is called to defend her Hungarian-ness. It’s a sultry, seductive piece with gorgeous vocal fire-
works— but Banse’s voice lacks the sexiness and agility to pull it off. Her big coloratura finish feels lethargic and her high notes shrill. Rosalinde does not inspire. Yet Daniela Fally’s Adele is so charming and so brilliant that the leads seem forgettable by comparison. Her voice is cute, silvery, and uncomplicated—the ideal soubrette sound. Fally nails Adele’s famous “Laughing Song” effortlessly, chirping out some of the prettiest trills I’ve ever heard on stage. As a finisher, she throws in a lofty D6 (that’s two octaves above middle C) with surprising ease. Fally’s Adele is the sweet, flirty maid to a tee. She really delivers the character’s honesty and simplicity, serving natural humor without overdoing it. Fally sells Adele’s lesser known aria “Spiel ich die Unschuld vom Lande,” in which she plays stock characters to prove her theatrical skills. Just as her voice cycles through country maid, queen, and Parisian wife one after another, her manners shift accordingly. More impressively (for opera, that is), she convinces us that it’s Adele acting rather than Daniela Fally. As a bonus, she throws in a few splits and Broadway-worthy high kicks. She’s the best Adele I’ve ever seen. The label “immortal” rarely applies to an opera’s plot. Die Fledermaus is a refreshing exception: People get drunk, do stupid things, and blame it on alcohol. It’s like college, but with better vocal performances.
Daniela Fally’s Adele, in lilac, out-lilacs her fellow performers in the operetta Die Fledermaus. COURTESY OF DAN REST
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All adventurous Girls do: New season premieres on YouTube
Marnie (Allison Williams), Hannah (Lena Dunham), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet), and Jessa—er, Adam (Adam Driver)—make a welcome return. COURTESY OF HBO
Jon Catlin Arts Staff Editor’s note: This article also appears on theairspace.net. HBO’s hit series Girls returned for a third season of the funniest, most confused young women on television Sunday night with two back-to-back episodes, after months of hyping up the new season with Vines, Snapchats, and GIFs of the Girls cast. Earlier that night at the Golden Globes, Girls was passed up for both of its nominations, best comedy series and best actress in a TV comedy (Lena Dunham), both of which it won at 2013’s awards. Having an HBO contract gives Dunham and producer Judd Apatow a level of artistic freedom and variety that has increased with each season. Season one played it relatively safe: Almost all the episodes gave each of the girls equal attention, and Dunham’s focus was on character development. Season two broke radically with this model, giving us, for example, “One Man’s Trash,” in which Dunham spends the entire episode on a fantasy fling inside an older man’s brownstone. While many critics labeled such episodes self-indulgent navel-gazing, they’re also where Dunham came into her own as a writer
and actress, and began taking creative risks—ones that undoubtedly worked. In its first two episodes, season three recalls both earlier seasons. The first episode is called “Females Only,” so named after a sign the rabble-rousing Jessa has to wear in rehab, where she flew off to from her father’s house after abandoning Hannah in season two. In this episode we catch up on each of the girls’ work and romantic lives. While Hannah ended season two in tears, having punctured both her eardrums and cut off all her hair, she’s now happily back with Adam and diligently working on her e-book. “My only limitation is my own mind. Like, I hold the keys to the prison that is my mind,” she relays to her shrink. Hannah has her shit together for once, but don’t think she’s on track to trade places with Marnie; knowing Hannah, this doesn’t mean that she won’t continue to mess up and learn from everyone else’s unpleasant experiences, which she has the burden of collecting as a writer. Season three opens with a shot of Hannah in bed, panning up from her feet to her head, to see that she’s now sleeping next to Adam; it was a shot of Marnie in Adam’s spot that opened season one, and Elijah in season two. If we read these
scenes as markers of Hannah’s development, she’s moved from depending on her best friend from college, to relying on her high school boyfriend when that didn’t work out, to finally achieving some independence with Adam. Together with Adam, Hannah is growing up. “It’s really liberating to say ‘no’ to shit you hate,” she proclaims to Adam. The second scenes also fit the same pattern. In the pilot episode, we next see Marnie handing her retainer to Charlie for cleaning, back when he was the kind of boyfriend who would do anything for her. Now the tide has turned. Marnie wakes up alone on her mother’s couch, an emotional wreck after Charlie up and left her just when it seemed they would finally stay together. This marks a break from Sex and the City, the show Dunham introduced Girls as a postrecession commentary on in season one. Marnie is beautiful, smart, and driven, yet there’s no promise that everything will work out for her. But is Marnie really so different now from when we meet her in season one? Recall that the reason she wakes up next to Hannah in the pilot is that she’s avoiding Charlie. In season three, Adam now fills Charlie’s former role of committed boyfriend by
making sure Hannah takes her OCD medication each morning. As Dunham said, “In the third season, the characters start to go off in directions we never imagined.” But this switch isn’t exactly neat. When Adam goes to visit Hannah at work, the two run into Natalia, Adam’s ex, whom he sexually humiliated and dumped in season two, earning him the description “off-thewagon, Neanderthal, sex-addict sociopath who’s going to fuck you like he’s never met you,” which Natalia spews out in front of a terrified Hannah, who knows Natalia is right about Adam but loves him anyways. “Though Hannah and Adam love each other, they
are up against things,” Dunham said. “We didn’t want it to seem that easy to shed all your demons and enter into your old relationship again.” In episode two, Hannah, Adam, and Shoshanna go on a road trip to pick up Jessa after she is kicked out of rehab for bad behavior. Now that he’s in a relationship with Hannah, expect to see a lot more of Adam in the season to come. He shuts down the idea for the three to play the classic teen game “Truth or Dare” (also the episode’s title), from an overeager Shoshanna, who is revealed to be totally oblivious to her former roommate Jessa’s drug problems. Broken up with Ray,
Shoshanna has entered a “sexually adventurous” phase. A post-breakup Marnie supports Shosh’s new lifestyle: “I think it’s really smart. If you can avoid love and feelings and matters of the heart and soul, you will be so much better off.” Sure enough, Adam is the one to remind Marnie of who she once was: “That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.” Adam’s emotional stability makes him a role model for each of the girls, not just Hannah—and it doesn’t hurt that he’s the only one old enough to rent a car for the trip. Told by Hannah on the road trip that he doesn’t understand the nature of female friendship, he responds tellingly. “You’re right, and I don’t want to if it involves ignoring all logic and being totally hysterical,” he says, noting as a former addict himself that it’s a bad idea to take someone out of rehab early. When Adam quips that he doesn’t dislike Hannah’s friends, but that he’s also “not interested in anything they have to say,” Hannah concedes, “I’m not interested in what any of them have to say! That’s not the point of friendship.” Yet with Jessa’s honesty in question, Marnie in shambles, and Shoshanna’s immaturity fully revealed, we are left to wonder if anything still holds the girls together. In a rare move to expand Girls’ reach among its target 20-something audience, HBO has put episodes one and two of season three on YouTube, so you can at least start the series without subscribing to HBO GO. HBO has also just confirmed a fourth season (to come out early next year).
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Fear of “liquid-smooth transparency of change” CARRY continued from page 5 Koenen. Like in Crowley’s work, the idea of concealment as an act of protection is there, but this work is less emotional and tender than it is ironic and jarring. Six deactivated grenades are wrapped in bright woven fabrics and displayed as merchandise. It’s obvious what Koenen has done, turning a potentially lethal weapon into something harmless, lush, and funny. But I’m less interested in her subversion of the grenades’
power though commercial gags than disturbed by its suggestion: how easy it is for the simple act of concealment to seamlessly rework the relationship we hold with these violent objects, from an anxious ambivalence to a type of reflexive forgetfulness. What does this transformation of feeling spell out for the future of the new gun law? I turn to leave the gallery and suddenly that looped gunshot comes roaring back to my attention. Had it re-
ally been playing all this time? For me, that’s proof: The fear the show ignites more than any other is that of the liquid-smooth transparency of change—metaphorical or real, material or through time. Concealed Carry urges the persistence of memory, and the need to fight against our own tendencies to adjust to and get comfortable with any change—especially now, when the stakes are simply too high to brush under the blanket.
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Bears, however, closed out an impressive performance in which sophomore guard Jordan Thompson joined four of her teammates in double figures, leading all scorers with 27 points. According to third-year guard Morgan Donovan, the key for the Maroons from here on out will be consistency. “We obviously didn’t get off to a good start, which put us in a tough position, but once we started executing better, the game became more competitive,� Donovan said. She led the Maroons in scoring with 17 points. “I love playing Wash U because they always bring their best game; it’s a great way to test yourself as a team. I think this Saturday was a great way for our younger girls to see the type of competition that UAA play brings, which can only help in our games going forward,� said fourth-year guard Maggie Ely. She contributed 16 points and eight rebounds in the defeat. “We’ll be a very different team the next time we play Wash U in March, and each game until then will be another opportunity for us to get better,� Ely said. The Maroons will look to return to their winning ways with home matchups against NYU and Brandeis later this week. Chicago will tip-off against NYU (12–0, 1–0) at 6 p.m. on Friday, January 17. The team will then face Brandeis (6–6, 0–1) on Sunday, January 19 at 3 p.m.
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CH: My roommates [and teammates] Sam Gage and Derrick Davis and I are as big of NBA fans as I know. I grew up rooting for the Phoenix Suns, but they’ve been so terrible lately that I’m sort of an adopted Bulls fan. My favorite players to watch are probably James Harden, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry, but there’s probably twenty or so other guys whose games I really love. From a personality standpoint I have a lot of respect for Kevin Durant. He carries himself
CH: I’ve been fortunate to play with a ton of great guys during my four years as a UChicago basketball player. This year we have a nice mix of youth and experience, and everyone gets along really well. All of the guys are good friends, which makes going to practice and traveling around together that much easier and more enjoyable. This team is a bit different from my high school team because all of the guys here are bonded in the shared experience of being a UChicago student-athlete, which I think brings us closer together. CM: As a fourth-year on the team this year, do you have any additional goals? Things you want to impart to the younger players? CH: Winning the UAA is my major goal for this year. We need to have a strong second half of the season, but I think it is very attainable. As far as the younger guys go, I try to set a good example by working hard and being a good teammate. Occasionally they’ll have questions about school and other things outside of basketball, and I try and be helpful with that kind of stuff as well. Those guys are like little brothers to me and I always try my best to help them out when I can. When I was a freshman and sophomore, the older guys on the team were great and always looked out for me, so it’s nice being able to pay it forward now as a senior.
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IN QUOTES “You may not be aware that there is a football game starting in just a few moments....Would you all like to be forgiven for your sins? OK, that’s great, you are.” —49ers fan pastor Tim Christensen delivers an abbreviated service due to a time overlap with a football game
Men, women dominate one-sided affair, grab 11 first-place finishes Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff In the warm confines of Henry Crown Field House Saturday, the Maroons gave a preview of what’s to come this indoor track and field season. Both the men’s and women’s teams took first at the meet, but the real excitement came from the individual efforts of the weekend. The South Siders took 11 first-place finishes and often found themselves competing against other Maroons for top spots. The uniforms of the runners as they raced to the finish line sported Maroon “C” after Maroon “C,” only to then be followed by the blueoutfitted athletes of Aurora University, who took second by more than 50 points in both the men’s and women’s meets. “I think we have a much deeper team this year than what we had last year,” said second-year pole-vaulter Michael Bennett. Bennett easily snagged first for the Maroons, trailed by second-year Nick Lyon in second and second-year Chase Wilson
in third. More impressive than the podium sweep itself, Bennett smashed the school record he previously held and replaced it with a stellar 4.90m vault, which currently ranks as the best height in Division III in the nation. “Clearing 4.9 was crazy,” Bennett said. “It was my last attempt, the running events were over, and everyone was watching either pole vault, triple jump, or the shot put. My coach and I weren’t really expecting me to jump so high this early in the season, and it feels great to have a good start. I want to jump at least five meters by the end of the indoor season.” In addition to the pole vault sweep, the men took spots one through four in the mile race, with secondyear Michael Frasco beating fourth-year Dan Povitsky by less than an eighth of a second with a time of 4:25.45. The women shone as well. First-year pole-vaulter Jadylin Tolda won her first collegiate meet with her height of 3.21m. Secondyear Rachel Jackson took first in the 55-meter hurdle and second-year Brianna
Hickey took first in the mile. The 4x400 relay team placed first with their time of 4:05.05. First-year Eleanor Kang started off the relay strong, but the Maroons still trailed Aurora slightly. Michelle Dobbs, who won the 800 earlier that day, took off in pursuit and maintained the gap. Dobbs passed the baton to secondyear Mikaela Hammel, who overtook Aurora’s runner and gave the lead to the South Siders. Second-year Alison Pildner, who had taken first in the open 400, finished the victory for the Maroons. The 4x400 team’s time is the third fastest in the country. “We lost a lot of highend talent [last year], but we will cover more events now, and that will help us match up better against UAA competition,” Bennett said. “I want to see the team continue to improve and believe we can contend for the UAA team title this year.” The Maroons have only just begun this season, and will look to go faster, higher, and further next week at the Private School Championships.
Home win sets tone for season Swimming & Diving Charlotte Franklin Maroon Contributor The Maroons had yet another successful weekend at the Myers-McLoraine Pool, finishing first in the Chicago Duals. After returning from a long break, the swimmers and divers jumped back into a tough practice schedule last week, which undoubtedly paid off as the Maroons improved to 2-0 in dual meets. They have also won both of their invitationals this season. “We won a decisive victory for both men’s and women’s teams,” second-year Brian Weisbecker said. “A couple people really stepped up and had terrific meets despite the break and hard week.” The South Siders faced a number of talented opponents on Friday, but the Maroons won six of their 12 events to finish at the head of the pack. Fourth-year Eric Hallman, first-year Jonas Fowler, and second-years Thomas Meek and Matthew Veldman clinched the top men’s finishers spot in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:26.70. Third-year diver
Matt Staab dominated the one-meter dive with a score of 462.80. The women also held their own with first-year Maya Scheidl finishing first in the 500-yard freestyle (5:16.31). Scheidl, along with fellow first-year Michelle Law, third-year captain Jenny Hill, and fourth-year Vivian Yuen took first in the 400yard medley relay (4:00.54). Other top finishers include first-year Alison Wall in the 200-yard IM (2:11.46) and Hill in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.60 seconds. Saturday was no different for Chicago. After securing their spot as the top finisher on Friday, the Maroons maintained the title the following day. Veldman continued his strong performance by taking first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.77), and third-year Anthony Restaino took first in the three-meter dive (522.25). The women also continued to hold the top spot, winning a majority of their events. Hill prevailed yet again, taking first in the 400yard IM (4:39.34). Other individual top place finishers
were second-year Ciara Hu in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.10), Wall in the 200yard backstroke (2:08.64), and Scheidl in the 100-yard freestyle (52.95). In addition, the women gained victories in relays; the 800-yard freestyle relay team consisted of first-years Abby Erdmann, and Cara LoPiano, secondyear Karen Chu, and Hill, and the 400-yard freestyle relay team was made up of first-years Elizabeth Joyce, Scheidl, Michelle Law, and second-year sister Jen Law (3:38.17). Ultimately, the Maroons won the mens’ field with 981 points and the womens’ field with 947 points, both teams finishing ahead of runner-up Olivet Nazarene, which came in second in both fields. “Overall it was a strong performance and we’re hoping to carry it through to next weekend when we face off against tough DI opponent University of W i s c o ns in–Mi l wau ke e ,” Weisbecker said. The South Siders will host UW–Milwaukee on Saturday, January 18 at 1 p.m. at the MyersMcLoraine Pool.
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Maroons put up fight against No. 7 Wash U Men’s Basketball Mary MacLeod Sports Staff Heading into their first UAA game against No. 7 Wash U (10–2), the Maroons (7–4) were coming off a two-game winning streak. On Saturday, that streak ended with an 80–69 loss to the Bears. “Wash U really came out and executed their game plan. Both teams were playing hard, but they did what they wanted on offense, and we didn’t take it away as we had practiced,” said second-year forward Alex Voss. The difference between the two teams’ ability to play within their respective offenses was most notable in the beginning of the game, as the Maroons got off to a rough start, giving up a 21–3 lead to the Bears in the first few minutes. However, Chicago rallied back, largely due to fourthyear forward Charlie Hughes, who poured in 16 points in the first half, and the ability of several
members of the team to knock down three-pointers. In fact, Chicago was trailing by 14 later in the first half when they went on a 10–2 run, propelled by the sharp shooting of Voss and fourth-year forward Sam Gage. The Maroons went into halftime only trailing by five points as the scoreboard read 41–36. “The team fought back into it. After being down by 18 so quickly at the start, we came together to play even harder,” Voss said. However, Chicago’s first half push was not enough. After exchanging baskets for most of the second half, the Maroons got into foul trouble, and Wash U was able to convert on ten of their 11 attempts from the line, ultimately winning by 11. The stats depict a closer game than the score might show. Although Chicago shot a lower field-goal percentage and pulled down fewer rebounds than its opponent, it had higher three-point and free-throw
percentages and turned the ball over less than Wash U did. However, what was most notable about this contest was the Maroons’ reliance on their long-range shooting to get them back in the game. Nevertheless, Hughes doesn’t think that they rely too much on the three-ball. “We’ve been shooting it very well, but I don’t think that our success is necessarily dependent on making threes,” he said. “We’re athletic and scrappy, and I think that’s more important to our success.” Even though Chicago didn’t come away victorious, this game still affirmed that the Maroons are a force to be reckoned with. “This weekend our team learned that we can compete with anyone. We have the talent, and we play hard, but if we play smart as well, then we can beat anyone in the league,” Voss said. The Maroons will next battle NYU at home on Friday. Tip-off is at 8 p.m.