TUESDAY • JANUARY 24, 2012
ISSUE 22 • VOLUME 123
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892
CHICAGOMAROON.COM
The double life of a barroom carpenter
Admin agree to cap Woodlawn building height
In Ida Noyes’ Pub, “draftsman” takes on two meanings
Doctor’s abrupt exit has Primary Care scrambling
Madhu Srikantha News Staff
Ben Pokross Senior News Staff
The University has reached an accord with Fifth Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston over planned development on its 12 properties on South Woodlawn Avenue, making concessions on zoning and construction at a community meeting last Thursday. The U of C will create its own zoning division for the 12 buildings named “Sub-Area O” in a pending amendment to Planned Development 43 (PD43), an agreement with the city of Chicago that has specified University land use in Hyde Park since 1966. In addition, future buildings and redevelopments will be subject to a new height limit of 65 feet. During the community meeting, Director of Civic Engagement Ellen Sahli distributed a 45-page document titled “Woodlawn Avenue Plan” that specified the University’s intentions for each of its properties on the 5700 block of South Woodlawn Avenue, all of which are part of the new Sub-Area O. Since the University announced its plans to rezone areas slated for further development in early October, neighbors and activists have been concerned about how the
time expressing what they want at the beginning of the process. “They just don’t know they know what they want,” he said. At the Pub, he knows the flavor and feel of the 24 beers available, and can narrow down what someone would like based on a few beers they’ve liked in the past. “I look at how they live and
The unexpected departure of a single physician at the University’s Primary Care Service (PCS) has hindered the health provider’s ability to see patients on short notice. Now short of full-time physicians, PCS can no longer promise that appointments can be made within 24 hours, according to Alex Lickerman, Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Counseling Services. The physician, whose name Lickerman declined to say, resigned at the end of December without giving PCS enough advance notice, leaving it with a 30-hour shortfall every week. Lickerman would not indicate how much longer in advance appointments would have to be made. “It is a week-by-week state of affairs,” he said. PCS has also curbed its hours slightly, closing on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. He added that emergency cases will always be accommodated. “Emergencies are always a top priority. If someone comes in with an emergency, we’ll be able to cover them,” he said.
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Jay Hayward, a bartender at the Pub, gets gritty with a power sander in his basement studio. When he isn’t serving Fat Tires to U of C students, he runs his own custom furniture business. DARREN LEOW | THE CHICAGO MAROON
Kelsey Reid News Staff If one tries to picture what an artist in a bar should look like, images of someone poring over a sketchpad with a half-pint in hand may come to mind. At The Pub, however, in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall, the artist is not at the counter so
much as behind it. He is a bartender named Jay Hayward, and his work is the paneling that lines the bar’s walls. Hayward, an architect by day and bartender by night, has a precise process for helping someone to choose a beer, which he likens to the way in which he guides his clients in architecture and furniture design, who sometimes have a hard
Years from opening, the Shoreland awaits a return to Jazz Age glory Patrick Fitz News Staff Formerly a campus landmark and a thriving dormitory, the Shoreland now stands vacant on the coast of Lake Michigan, as if washed up. The seemingly abandoned property is strewn with old building permits from previous years, with advertising on the fencing promising luxury apartments and a return of the complex to its former glory. A sign reads: “Restoring a Classic from a Grand Past to a Luxurious Future.” Dumpsters inside the fencing are filled with the refuse of interior demolition, the only indicators of renovation on the site. Those unfamiliar with the Shoreland, formerly Shoreland Hall of the Uni-
versity housing system, might see it only as another lakeside high-rise. Having cut ties with the property in 2004—and preparing to bid farewell this spring to the last class of Maroons to have lived there—the University no longer bears its mark on the 1920s relic. Now in its fourth year of development under Antheus Capital, parent company of MAC Property Management, the Shoreland’s revival is tentative: A representative from the MAC office on East 53 rd Street could only say that it would be “at least two years” before the Shoreland opens its doors again. Built in 1926 as a hotel, the Shoreland once was among the poshest haunts in all of Chicago. Frequented by politicians, movie stars, and bootleggers, the
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Shoreland attracted the likes of Al Capone, Elvis Presley, and Jimmy Hoffa. However, financial difficulties led to the building’s foreclosure in the 1970’s, at which point the University swept in and bought it for $750,000. Over the next three decades, thousands of students and faculty would call the Shoreland home. At the height of its use as a dormitory, the building had an occupancy of 600. Though over a mile from campus and the quads, the dormitory was beloved for its large rooms, personal bathrooms and kitchens, scenic views of the lake and downtown, and the charm of a Jazz Age hotel. However, some were quick to note the deteriorating physical condition of the building. Speaking
to the Maroon in 2006, former Shoreland Resident Master Lawrence Rothfield said that the building “looks like the set of A Nightmare Before Christmas.” Toward the end of its University
days, the building suffered from broken elevators, crumbling plaster, and general maintenance concerns. The final straw was a series of changes to the Chicago building code in
1999, which led the University to begin seeking a buyer for the property; in 2001, a facilities audit of the site found that nearly $50 million in renovations DORM continued on page 2
The Shoreland, a former University of Chicago residence hall, is currently under renovation and will be for some time. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON
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