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Campaign Against Church Demolition Continues

No Charges for “Misunderstanding” That Led to False Report of Mugging

BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM NEWS STAFF

An alleged armed robbery reported to have occurred on January 18 outside of Reynolds Club was deemed by the University to be a misunderstanding. No charges will be filed.

According to the original report, a University student was allegedly approached by a short, middle-aged white woman dressed in all white clothing. The initial report claimed that the woman asked for directions to

the nearest shelter and eight dollars. When the student claimed to not have any money, the suspect allegedly presented a handgun and asked him: “Do you have any money now?” The complainant then fled and reported an attempted robbery to a University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) officer.

According to an update to the alert sent just two days later, the UCPD realized the original report Eva I was incorrect after an investigaThe Executive Director of Dining Richard Mason (left), Megha Bhattion of the incident, including a Continued on page 3

BY GABE BENNETT-BRANDT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

On Wednesday afternoon, a panel assembled by the Institute of Politics (IOP) deemed the 2016 primary caucuses too close to call.

In the International House auditorium, former Obama Campaign Strategist David Axelrod, Des Moines Register Chief Politics Reporter Jennifer Jacobs, former Romney Campaign Strategist Stuart Stevens, and Primary Digest Editor Chip Griffin discussed why this year’s primary election season is the decade’s most contentious.

On the Democratic front, the panel observed a divisive clash between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton. According to Jacobs, voters have a choice between Sanders’s “better vision” and Clinton’s superior resume. Despite Sanders’s strength as “someone who is authentic,” the symbolism of Clinton’s recharged candidacy gives her a slight edge.

“I see so many mothers bringing their daughters,” Griffin said on Clinton conventions. “That’s a huge element of her support.” Nevertheless, he later pointed out a signifiContinued on page 3

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At a town hall on Wednesday at Saieh Hall, the University’s Campus Dining Advisory Board (CDAB) and representatives of UChicago Dining discussed the expiration of Aramark’s contract and proposals from Sodexo and Bon Appétit, two alternative food service providers.

At the Town Hall meeting, CDAB and Student Government (SG) members Megha Bhattacharya and Michael Meng discussed food safety and the University’s process of renegotiating its contract. The board presented

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sections from the University’s Request For Proposal (RFP) process, through which the University gives companies an opportunity to bid for the contract. All providers submitted proposals on January 27.

Before companies submitted their proposals, the University released a statement to the bidders, saying, “[We] are looking for a partner who recognizes and respects the resources already available on campus and is willing to work diligently and collaboratively in creating a campus dining program that is considered to be in the top five.”

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170 Bus Route to Lose Funding Due to Low Ridership

BY ANNE NAZZARO DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Zoe Kaiser

Axelrod imitates Bernie Sanders, who told him, “Don’t get me going on on those selfies.” The panelists discuss the differences in Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s approach to voters.

The University of Chicago will stop subsidizing the 170 bus on Friday, May 27, 2016, according to an announcement from Safety and Security. The Ch icago T ra nsit Author ity (CTA) Board will vote in the spring on whether or not to eliminate the 170 route after

Moving Pictures

South Siders Looking to Find Their Footing at Warhawk Invite

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Back page After 11 fi rst-place finishes last weekend, the track teams gears up for another weekend meet.

Despite condemnations of “slacktivism,“ online photojournalism gets results.

Understanding the MOU Page 5 The Memorandum of Understanding demonstrates the University’s commitment to the community.

Black-and-White Morality Colors Lyric Opera’s Nabucco Page 7 “So who is good, and who is evil?

Both and neither; all are human.“

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the University pulls its funding.

The department cited low ridership as the reason for stopping its funding of the route.

The 170 bus currently averages less than 50 riders a day. Its ridership for this past October is down by 19% from October of the previous year, and ridership for the entire year is down by 5% from the previous year.

tacharya (center), and Michael Meng (right) answer questions from Inter-house Representatives during the town hall meeting on January 27.

BY CAIRO LEWIS

BY KAITLYN AKIN

Community members have been rallying for the protection of the Shrine of Christ the King church on 64th Street and Woodlawn since the Archdiocese of Chicago filed for the demolition of 92-year-old building in early January.

The Coalition to Save the Shrine, a group of parishioners, neighbors, and preservationists in favor of protecting the church, has received support from national and local organizations including Landmarks Illinois, the Hyde Park Historical Society, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

“Support for saving the Shrine extends far beyond the parishioners,” Emily Nielsen, a spokesperson of the Coalition, said. “In fact, most of the people working very hard to save the Shrine are not only not parishioners, but not Catholic.”

The main goal of the Coalition is to delay the demolition and use the extra time to meet with developers, raise funds, and determine alternate solutions. Several of the preservation groups that have voiced their support for the Shrine have sent letters urging the Department of Buildings to allow a one- or two-month delay on granting the demolition permit.

Until this permit is issued to the Archdiocese, the Shrine of Christ the King church cannot be demolished. Neither the Archdiocese nor the Coalition members know for certain when the decision to issue a permit might be made.

“Please know the urgency and timeline for this effort have been driven by concerns for safety after the building was deemed to be ‘imminently dangerous and hazardous’ by the City of Chicago,” Susan Burritt, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Chicago, said.

The Archdiocese expressed deep sympathies for the loss of the historic church, and said that they are considering options that would allow the Shrine of Christ

Options After Current Aramark Contract Laid Out at Town Hall

Axelrod, Other Politicos Examine Early Contests

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CVS Pharmacy to Share Patients Health Info with UCMC

BY JONATHAN HOGEBACK NEWS STAFF

The University of Chicago Medical Center ( UCMC) and C VS Pha rmacy w i l l beg i n sharing patient data in an ag reement a n nou nced last week. The affiliation is aimed at providing the patients that utilize the services of both organizations with more effective and low-cost health care, according to CVS and UCMC officials.

Under this partnership, patients who visit CVS Pharmacy

stores and CVS MinuteClinic retail medical facilities will have the option to release prescription and visit information to the UCMC. Any information shared will be sent through a secured Electronic Health Record system, and will only be sent with the patient’s consent.

This collaboration comes in part to improve medical compliance for patients, especially those with chronic conditions who are frequently prescribed medication. A press release from the UCMC emphasized

that primary care physicians a re able t o prov ide bett er treatment for patients when they have access to records from pharmacy and clinic visits they otherwise would not know about. “ We know some patients struggle with taking all their prescr iptions as d i rected — especially those on multiple medications due to a chronic d isease. T he c ol laboration w it h C V S P h a r m ac y w i l l prov ide ef fective pha rmacy management in order to help UChicago Medicine patients

improve health outcomes and lower medical costs by supporting doctor-ordered care plans, communicating critical patient care information and enhancing connectivity,” the press release stated.

Though the affiliation is intended to cut costs by improving access to care and overall community health, it is currently unknown how many patients use both the UCMC and CVS Health services.

The number of patients expected to be encouraged to find healthcare with either provider

as a result of the affiliation is also unknown at this time, according to the UCMC. According to a CVS Health press release, the company will also partner with John Muir Health in California, Novant Health in North Carolina, and the University of M ichigan Health System. This brings the number of hea lth ca re providers affiliated with CVS Health to nearly 70.

Author Talks About the U.S. Culture and the Donna More Takes Her State’s Middle East “After the American Century” Attorney Campaign to the IOP

BY ALEX WARD NEWS STAFF

On Wednesday, Brian Edwards, a Northwestern professor of Middle East studies and English and comparative literature s tudies, held a conversation about h is recent book on the reinterpretation of American media in the Middle East at the Seminary Co-Op. Edwards discussed the book, titled After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East, with University of Chicago Associate Professor of English Deborah Nelson. The event was co-spon-

sored by the Co-Op and the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).

Edwards’ book, which he worked on for about ten years, considers how American media and popular culture are circulated in the Middle East, and how works frequently lose their original associations with the United States. In particular, Edwards highlights the way in which Hollywood movies and other works are reinterpreted via practices like dubbing and bootlegging.

According to Edwards, reinvented media are often enjoyed by people who hold strongly

Freedman Receives Prize for Astrophysics Research

BY XIN SUI ZHANG MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Professor Wendy L. Freedman, the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics for her exceptional achievements in the field.

The Heineman Prize recognizes outstanding mid-career work in the discipline of astrophysics. It was instituted in 1979 by the American Institute of Physics and the American

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Professor Wendy Freedman will receive the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. The prize recognizes outstanding mid-career work in astrophysics.

Astronomical Society and is funded by the Heineman Foundation.

Freedman’s award-winning research focuses on the current and past expansion rates of the universe which is embodied by the Hubble constant, and the nature of dark energy which causes the universe to accelerate its expansion. The Hubble constant not only enables the determination of the size scale, but also the age of the visible universe. Due to the large distances to other galaxies, the making of accurate measurements of the Hubble constant has been challenging.

F reedman and her colleagues developed new techniques to assist them in determining distances with greater accuracy.

“When I started this work 30 years ago, we couldn’t measure distances to better than a factor of two, and there were arguments about whether the universe was 10 or 20 billion years old. Today, we can make these measurements to precisions of 5 percent, and there is a real prospect of making measurements to 2–3 percent precision,” Freedman said.

“We now measure the universe to be about 13.7 billion years old. We have learned that

BY TAMAR HONIG

negative views of the AmeriASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR can government but have disassociated the country from its cultural products.

Cook County state’s attor“ You could consume Ameri- ney candidate Donna More can culture and not feel guilty spoke about her plans to curb about it even if you’re very gun violence, tackle public corcritical of the foreign policy of ruption, and strengthen comthe United States, as a young munity and police relations on Egyptian, let’s say,” Edwards Wednesday afternoon at the Insaid. stitute of Politics (IOP). Earlier He argued that this is part this month, the IOP hosted Kim of the reason cultural diplo- Foxx, one of More’s opponents in macy, or using American cul- the March 15 general primary ture to win over the “hearts elections. Both candidates are and minds” of people in the seeking to unseat incumbent Middle East, is often ineffec- Democrat Anita Alvarez. tive.

Citing Chicago g un v iolence statistics —2,552 shot Continued on Page 4 and wounded and 443 shot and killed in 2015 —More pledged to make combatting gun violence a top priority as state’s attorney. we live in a universe that is not “Prosecutors can’t be on the only expanding, but also speed- streets, but we can focus law ing up in its expansion. These enforcement so we convict peomeasurements allow us to char- ple who move large numbers of acterize the overall makeup of illegal guns in Cook County,” the universe and its history.”

More said. “The fact is, in 90 Freedman conducted some percent of the cases, the guns of her other studies as the co- used to commit crimes are obleader of the Hubble Space tained illegally. Police are getTelescope Key Project. Freed- ting more guns off the streets man’s early work concentrated than ever, but the violence on the optical and infrared won’t abate until the criminals space-based and ground-based are held truly accountable.” observations of Cepheid stars, A key component of More’s which can function as distance plan is the creation of a cenindicators for other remote ga- tralized Cook County Safety lactic and extragalactic objects. Alliance where parents, prinFreedman’s development and cipals and teachers, pastors, application of innovative anal- police, prosecutors, activists, ysis techniques in her work and elected offi cials can unite with Cepheid stars significantly to tackle crime. improved the accuracy of the More also advocated for distance scale of the universe, reforms to the state’s attorwhich is used by astronomers to ney’s offi ce. In particular, she determine the distances to ce- emphasized the need for the lestial objects that are far away offi ce to be genuinely indepenfrom Earth. dent, warning of the dangers Freedman also served as the chair of the Board of Directors for the Giant Magellan Telescope Project from its inception in 2003 to 2015. The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is scheduled for completion in 2025, will be the largest optical observatory in the world, with a resolution 10 times greater than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

of a state’s attorney that is accountable to politicians and not the public. “ When you base decisions on influence and not evidence, you get some bad results,” More said. “You get cover ups, video tapes that aren’t released, and you get charges that aren’t brought for months and months and months.”

This comment referenced Alvarez’s handling of the Laquan McDonald case, which drew widespread criticism. “ The whole world saw the Laquan McDonald tape. The whole world understood that what the police officer did was criminal, that there was probable cause to indict officer Van Dyke. There was only one person who didn’t understand that from watching the videotape, and that’s our current state’s attorney,” she said.

More f u r ther ex pla i ned that an independent state’s attorney’s offi ce is necessary for fairness and consistency in the criminal justice system.

“If you’re not going to indict a white kid on the North Side who has political connections in a one-punch murder, then you better be consistent and fair and not indict an African American kid in Englewood who does the same thing,” she said.

Concluding with a pledge to implement real solutions rather than simply continue the conversation on criminal justice reform, More asserted her ability to raise money and run a campaign without the political support of establishment Democrats.

“I can run this race without any political person supporting me. The public is who I’maccountable to,” she said.

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CAMPAIGN AT UCMC “No Weapon Was Displayed... No Robbery Occurred” PUSHES HAND HYGIENE Continued from front page

BY KAITLYN AKIN NEWS STAFF

Last month, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) organized the Big Wash, a one-day competition to promote proper hand hygiene procedures among staff. In the 24-hour period of observation, there were almost 97,000 hand hygiene events digitally recorded each time a soap or hand sanitizer dispenser was used.

“We are looking for ways to try to improve our hand hygiene compliance because the truth is harsh when you have an electronic monitoring system,” hospital epidemiologist, Emily L andon, M.D., said.

When a baseline was taken in late October, unit compliance rates ranged from between 20 percent and 50 percent.

The Medical Center aimed to have perfect compliance across the board, but it recognized such an ambitious goal would be difficult to achieve.

The electronic monitoring system measured the number of hand hygiene events against the number of times people entered or exited the room, but had no way to account for visitors, who are not required to wash their hands, or doctors who entered but had no contact with the patient that would warrant hand sanitation.

Regardless of the challenges in measuring, 11 of the 28 units competing achieved perfect hand hygiene scores. Prizes were awarded to these units that achieved 100 percent compliance, as well as to the unit with the biggest improvement from its baseline rate. The reward money was intended to be spent on items that will make work easier for the unit, like more medical devices or sup-

plies, or even something simpler, like a new coffee pot.

Overall, the UCMC was pleased with the enthusiasm and participation of the staff.

“Everybody had time for it, everybody did it, and there were a lot of really positive things that happened on that day,” Landon said. “I think it opened up everybody’s eyes to the idea that we really could achieve this goal and maybe do it all the time.”

Although compliance rates have decreased since the Big Wash, Landon is optimistic about the results of the contest.

“It took about a month for us to get back down to another baseline, and that baseline is higher than the one we had before, so people are doing better all the time because of this one day of hand hygiene.”

Proper hand sanitation is essential in the medical field— the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 722,000 patients in the US develop infections in hospitals each year.

To decrease the likelihood of spreading dangerous microorganisms, the CDC recommends that doctors wash their hands before contacting patients, after touching any bodily fluids (even if gloves are worn), before invasive procedures, and after removing gloves.

Landon suggested that the hospital will be doing similar events in the future, including a longer version of the Big Wash tentatively called Spring Cleaning.

“These kinds of contests always motivate people, they get people involved, and when you do it for short periods of time, it helps to build the habit which is gonna carry them through the rest of the time,” Landon said.

review of security camera footage.

“No weapon was displayed by the alleged suspect, and no robbery occurred,” Associate Vice President for Safety and Security Marlon C. Lynch wrote.

The University was legally obliged to report on the seemingly dangerous incident by the Jeanne Clery Act. This legislation requires that public and private universities participating in federal student aid programs re-

lease campus safety information and respond to situations involving violence according to specific guidelines.

“While conducting an investigation, the UCPD consults a multitude of resources to check the validity of allegations, including eyewitnesses and security camera footage. In accordance to the Clery mandate, any time a crime is reported where the alleged suspect still poses a potential threat to the UChicago community, a

security alert can be issued while the investigation is ongoing, especially if a weapon is alleged to be involved,” the University news office stated.

The student who made the false report will not face charges.

“After further interviews, the UCPD believes the original report was the result of a misunderstanding on the part of the student. As a result, no charges will be filed,” the news office told THE M AROON.

The Panel Deemed the Race Too Close To Call Continued from front page

cant base of support for Sanders in New Hampshire, illustrating that for a sizeable minority, Sanders is the better candidate.

On the Republican front, the panel noted a decline in Jeb Bush’s popularity and a tense face-off between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Axelrod described the Republican race as “a little crazy” thanks to the entry of Trump, a candidate who quickly became an unexpected threat for Cruz. Undaunted by the dispassionate Jeb Bush, the two Republican forerun-

ners have reached a near stalemate characterized by what Stevens calls a system of “lanes.”

“The candidates have gotten into this ‘well we’re only going to go after voters in our lane,’” Stevens said. “I think they’re walking away from a lot of potential voters.”

This sort of “reluctance to be on the attack,” he said, keeps the Republican primary a tight one.

The event’s focus shifted to Trump as audience members stepped up to an open microphone and voiced their questions to the panel.

“Repeated information about Donald Trump has been lacking in this race,” Stevens said. “Most voters really don’t know very much about [him].”

“Donald Trump as a nominee of the Republican Party would be an utter disaster,” Griffin said, and went on to describe a Trump nomination as “self-destructive.”

Jacobs captured the panel’s bewildered consensus: “He’s making our heads spin.”

Zoe Kaiser

(Left to right) Institute of Politics Director David Axelrod, Des Moines Register’s Chief Politics Reporter Jennifer Jacobs, IOP Fellow Stuart Stevens, and Primary Digest Editor Chip Griffin (over Skype) discuss the state of the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries on January 28 at I-House.

Members of the Campaign Take Shifts Watching Website for Signs of Impending Demolition Continued from front page

the King community to remain in Woodlawn, even if the church itself has to be demolished.

The church, which was known

as St. Gelasius until 2003, also faced demolition in the early 2000s. However, the church was saved when it was declared a landmark by the Landmarks Commis-

sion, and the Institute of Christ the King was given ownership of the building.

Although it remains a landmark, the Landmarks Commis-

Courtesy of the Department of Buildings Report

A picture showing damage to the building’s structural supports.

sion had to allow the Archdiocese addition, they have been running to proceed with demolition plans advertisements in local newspabecause the Department of Build- pers and picketing on busy street ings for the City of Chicago de- corners to promote awareness of clared the building unsafe in its the looming demolition of the landmark. Members of the Coalition current state.

The engineering report sup- have organized shifts to monitor porting that finding details the the Department of Buildings webdamage from the fire. According site and stay abreast of the permit to the report, the roof of the build- situation. “Because the building ing would have to be completely re- has been deemed ‘dangerous,’ the placed, and many other structural City does not require notifications elements would need extensive re- to be sent to the Shrine’s neighpairs. The report outlines a plan bors, which means it is up to us for temporarily stabilizing the to let people know the building is building, but a full repair would be threatened,” Nielsen said.

“Discussions have been and “a significant effort from both a design and construction standpoint.” are ongoing with the ArchdioThe Coalition obtained the report cese of Chicago leadership, with from the city through a Freedom whom the Shrine clergy are asking for everyone’s full cooperation, of Information Act request.

Until an official decision is for the best possible solution for made, the Coalition is maintain- the Shrine community’s future,” ing an active social media pres- Shrine of Christ the King Canon ence at its main site, savethe- Michael Talarico said over e-mail. shrine.org, and on Twitter and “Options are being examined and Facebook as “savetheshrine.” In discussed carefully.”

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“We Are Trying To Make Sure That the Student Body is Aware of the Process” Continued from front page

CDAB also explained that they and Dining are searching for a provider with a commitment to cleanliness, customer service, and the ability to consistently supply healthy, high quality food to the Bartlett, Cathey, and Campus North Dining Halls.

The CDAB members, Executive Dining Director Richard Mason and Assistant Director of Dining Operations Stacey Brown, then discussed the selection process. After reviewing proposals, they will invite the companies back for interviews on February 23 and 24. Following the interviews, they will do site visits at Northwestern University, which maintains a contract with Sodexo, and Wheaton College, which has a contract with Bon Appétit. Dining primarily sought contracts with providers that are located in Illinois so the University can continue to locally purchase at least 40 percent of its produce.

Dining and CDAB will compile the information that they gathered and make a recommendation. That recommendation will then be sent to Vice President for Campus and Student Life Karen Warren Coleman and senior administration for the final part of the decision-making process.

The chosen vendor will have the same dining responsibilities

as the current vendor but will not be responsible for the Booth School of Business and the University of Chicago Medicine, because those institutions still have a separate contract with a different division of Aramark.

After the initial discussion, CDA B members Mason and Brown conducted a Q&A session in which they collected students’ comment cards and addressed concerns about food safety, transparency between the student body and Dining, and the contract renewal. Among the student body were eight members of the Fight for Just Food movement, a new organization that favors an in-house, self-operating food service instead of a contract.

Some students, including the Fight for Just Food members, were concerned about the choice between self-operated dining and the University’s decision to remain on a contract. For the University, self-operation would entail not only purchasing food but hiring staff to cook it and repairing equipment each time it is damaged as well. Currently, Aramark is responsible for repairing any of the equipment that the University originally purchased and for supplying plates and eating utensils.

Mason elaborated on the University’s work with the National Association of College and Uni-

versity Food Services (NACUFS) over the past year to consider whether the University is fit to sustain itself independently. After reviewing the University’s contract, NACUFS concluded, according to Mason, that “we were not prepared to be self operated and there were issues that made us feel like this was not in the best interest for us, moving forward.”

Mason also explained the history of the University’s switch to a dining contract in 1989 and gave several reasons for maintaining this contract.

“Since then, there has been an increasing percentage of schools that have moved from becoming self operated to contracts, because there are issues around purchasing, training, and also capital investment, so that’s a big part of the issue… And there are challenges securing safe food, which has obviously been in the news and is very difficult to maintain, and that’s just one example,” Mason said.

Third-year Fight for Just Food member William Thomas believes that the University should consider self-operation instead of potentially signing with companies that he says both profit from prisons and provide low-quality food.

“Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group, which is Bon Appétit’s parent company, all profit

Book Describes How Works from the U.S. Lose Their American Associations In the Middle East from the role of language to the Cold War. Responding to a E dwa rd s has publ ished multiple books about America’s question about the role Amerirole in Morocco and around can wars had played in bringthe world. Recently, Edwards ing about the titular “ends” of wrote a pair of articles for Sa- the United States’ role in the lon about how Donald Trump’s Middle East, Edwards claranti-Islamic rhetoric is hurting ified that his title refers to perceptions of America abroad. more than just the literal conThe articles incited angry re- clusion.

“The ‘Ends’ is a bit of a pun: sponses over social media, as well as a critical counter piece ‘where does it end up, where does it go, how does Shrek end

by Breitbart Media.

After a brief discussion of up in Tehran?’” Edwards said, the book, Edwards answered referring to an anecdote from questions on topics ranging his book.

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A fter the Q&A , Edwards sig ned copies of the bo ok.

Speaking later about the event, Edwards said that he enjoyed being able to interact with his readers.

“What you hope to get out of the event is having a conversation around the work, because ultimately writing a book is about having a conversation, even though it seems that it’s a passive object,” he said.

by serving terrible food in prison.

Profit is one of the driving forces behind mass incarceration: the more people we put in cages, the more money Aramark and other prison food service providers make. Furthermore, Aramark has a record of serving inadequate, rotten, and maggot-infested food to prisoners,” Thomas said.

As the meeting drew to a close, Meng reinforced CDAB’s and Dining’s objective of equally judging vendors despite receiving overwhelming feedback from students who would prefer to discontinue a contract with Aramark.

“We will just have to judge them holistically—judge them and consider different factors because you can provide the very best food, but if it’s not cost feasible, then it just won’t work.

But luckily, there are only three, so I definitely think we can find what’s best for the UChicago community,” he said.

Meng also addressed the reason that the University has maintained its contract after failing city health inspections twice and closing Cathey Dining Hall as result, and after dealing with several dining hall incidents.

“I think the reason we’re here, at this point now, has a lot to do with our responsiveness to these issues... I think that if we carefully review these applications

and strongly consider that we can fi nd another food provider, then we’ll be in good shape. If things do happen again, then we’re right where we were, but I hope we can make a decision this time around that’s good enough,” he said.

“When you’re serving over 1.3 million meals, unfortunately, with all the steps we’ve taken, unfortunate things like the screw happen, and it doesn’t mean that it should happen, but it can.... The ultimate thing is, do you cancel a contract? Do you cancel a contract over a screw?

Do you cancel a contract over closing a dining hall? [Canceling the contract] is certainly something that was very strongly considered,” Mason added.

CDAB members reinforced the importance of transparency between the student body and UChicago Dining. SG representative Battacharya stated her hope that the town hall meeting is a beginning for CDAB, Dining, and students to voice their opinions freely amongst each other.

“Part of the process is that we are starting right now…. We are trying to make sure that the student body is aware of the process, what role we play in it.

That’s why we provided that comprehensive timeline, and we hope to update you guys as the process continues,” she said.

The 170 Bus Averages Less Than 50 Riders a Day Transit Authority (CTA) were According to the announce- planning to eliminate the 170, ment, the 170 is redundant. 171, 172, and 192 bus routes Its route around the Midway due to low ridership. At the Plaisance echoes that of many time, the CTA paid for 25 perother forms of transportation cent of the costs of running the in Hyde Park, including that of routes, while the University the 171 bus, the 172 bus, and paid the other 75 percent.

However, the University other University shuttles like agreed to pay for the entirety the South and the Central.

The 170 also stops at the of the costs of running the four Metra stations on 55th-56th- bus routes. Per the agreement, the University would also re57th and 59th Street.

According to an article from ceive the fares collected from DNAinfo, in May of 2013, the the buses.

University and the Chicago Continued from front page

Director of Institute of Molecular Engineering Hosts Reddit AMA

BY ALEX WARD NEWS STAFF

Matthew Tirrell, Pritzker director of the recently founded Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) and deputy laboratory director for science at Argonne National Laboratory, held an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) event last Monday on Reddit.

During the hour-long event, Tirrell responded to 27 of about 70 questions from site users about his work at the IME and

Argonne. According to Tirrell, a colleague suggested the idea of holding an AMA at Argonne, where he spent the duration of the event. Other Argonne employees have previously held AMAs, including Marius Stan, a senior scientist and actor known for his role as the character Bogdan on the television show Breaking Bad. Tirrell emphasized the institution’s focus on engineering, and how the products of scientific inquiry carried out elsewhere can be best applied to

society. Tirrell also spoke about several of the projects currently under development at Argonne and the IME. In particular, he highlighted the development of nanoparticles for medical purposes such as the treatment of heart disease, as well as techniques for water purification and conservation.

Tirrell says that he enjoyed doing the AMA and feels that this type of outreach is very important to his field. “Engineering is all about providing some good for society, so I think it’s

really important to be in touch with people to do engineering well. What do people need, what would provide value?”

Although the AMA was originally intended to be a one-time event, Tirrell says that he is now considering the possibility of holding future Q&A sessions on a quarterly basis. Although both the IME and Argonne have Twitter and Facebook pages, Tirrell says that he enjoyed the immediacy of his interactions over Reddit and plans to create an IME account on the site.

In response to a question about the part of his work he enjoys most, Tirrell explained that he likes educating others about what he does. “I enjoy fi nding new ways to get important messages across about my field, my research, IME, the University of Chicago, and Argonne. You have to like interacting with students and other audiences to do this job.”

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the online edition of THE M AROON.

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VIEWPOINTS Understanding the MOU The Memorandum of Understanding Demonstrates the University’s Commitment to the Community

Alice Xiao

On Saturday the University and the City of Chicago signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ). The non -binding MOU, which the city of Chicago signed with seven other local universities, renews a 2011 agreement between the city and the University. We applaud the University’s commitment to the surrounding community and encourage the University to listen to it as it enacts the MOU. The 2011 MOU, in which the University committed 1.7 billion to existing development and new projects in Hyde Park, led to efforts to improve Metra, to expand the University of Chicago Police Department ( UCPD) patrol area, and to a University position tasked with job creation. The 2015 MOU, in which the University will commit $750 million over the next three years, will continue to improve Metra in the neighborhood, expand edu-

cation initiatives, and develop the Garfield Boulevard corridor and other corridors on the midSouth side.

T he MOU embod ies the work of the civic engagement office since the then vice president for civ ic engagement, Derek Douglas, arrived at the University in 2012. Douglas created the target area of the mid-South side, defining it as Hyde Park, Kenwood, Oakland, Douglas, Grand B oulevard, Wash i ng t on Pa rk , Great er Grand Crossing, Woodlawn, and South Shore. W hile the University’s involvement with the community is not perfect— ranging from displacing business to make way for Harper Court to fighting over parkland for the Obama Library and continued questions about racial profiling by the UCPD— the University is clearly making an effort to invest and engage with the communities around it.

It is important to put the University’s recent civic engagement policy into its historical context. Throughout its history the University frequently used real estate to gain and leverage influence, a practice that plays a role in its relationship with the neighborhood and the city. The University’s history of racial segregation spans decades, creating the South East Chicago Commission in 1952 to lead its urban renewal plan. As ugly as this history is, it shows the sharp shift the University has made in recent years.

We commend the University’s efforts to contribute to the community in a positive way through the new MOU. We urge the University to listen to the community as it shapes its policies so that its effect can be as meaningful as possible.

–The M AROON Editorial Board

Moving Pictures Despite condemnations of “slacktivism,” online photojournalism gets results

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Alphabet Soup They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But in today’s endless void of Facebook memes, YouTube videos and live tweets, a picture seems to have become so

much more than just an immortalized memory. The power of the still frame has only become more impenetrable with time—and it’s a power that makes things happen.

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The picture of three-yearold’s Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body on a beach, for example, sent the world into a frenzy of debate and reform. Somehow, this was the image to pierce through the multitude of photographs of refugees and cause a marked shift in the world’s attitude. Political leaders all over the world began to see this as a call to action, and some organizations saw a tenfold increase of donations for refugees. The refugee crisis finally had a face. But why Aylan?

Why not one of the thousands of other pictures of fearful refugees photographed in their suffering? Perhaps it was the fact that this little boy, in his red t-shirt and brown shoes, looked like he could have been anyone’s son, the neighborhood kid, someone’s younger brother. Perhaps it was because he looked like he was ready to go to school or to the park, not to flee from terrorists. His innocent face was peaceful as if he was taking a short nap, his body oblivious to the waves washing over it.

Aylan Kurdi hit the global conscience hard because viewers fi nally felt like they were seeing something they understood, no matter how far removed his reality was from theirs. And the world suddenly became determined that he should not have died for nothing. Breakthrough shots like this one are impossibly rare.

And then there are photos like those on Brandon Stan-

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ton’s blog, Humans of New York (HONY ). It’s safe to say that HON Y, focused on documenting the stories of random strangers on the streets of New York, is not a passing trend or social media’s latest fancy. It’s an unprecedented phenomenon. Each of Stanton’s photos makes an impact on his audi-

ence, prompting hundreds of responses. Stanton has a way with his lens and with the words he so carefully extracts from his subjects—he makes the ordinary extraordinary in the most unexpected way. People love HONY because it makes our normal lives seem worthy of Continued on Page 6

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Black Beauty Young people of color deal with navigating their sexuality under the added pressure of oppressive European beauty standards

BY ADA ALOZIE MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

I grew up with five brothers, so the way I learned to show my affection for people was through insults and curse words. Standing in the cafeteria line in elementary school, I was playing around with one of my fellow classmates. He reached a point where he was tired of my disparaging remarks and, in a fit of rage, he called me “ Blackie Chan.” I laughed because crying would ruin the t ough persona I had worked so hard to maintain.

But, it was at that moment that I realized my dark skin was a trait that could be made fun of.

For 19 years of my life, I thought I was ugly. I blamed my dark skin. W hen I was seven years old, the f irst allusion to my skin color bubbled up. “Blackie Chan,” this boy called me, with the grimiest smirk and the most devious eyes. I laughed at the insult and was relieved because at least I wasn’t the darkest g irl in my g rade.

“Char baby ” was reserved for her. W hen I went to middle school, the darkest girl was called “ Tar baby ” instead. That wasn’t me. In high school, they threw away the theatrics and just called the darkest girl “ugly.” At least they got straight to the point.

Besides the odd schoolyard boyfriend I picked up in elementary school, I lived a largely celibate life. This was not by choice. Through-

out middle and high school, I simply didn’t have any romantic prospects. Guys never had crushes on me. No one liked me in that way, and in those adolescent and teen years when I was doped up on schmaltzy Gerald Butler romantic comedies and Cary Grant, I craved someone with whom I could share an all-consuming romantic love. I wanted the first meeting to resemble Troy and Gabriella’s “Start of Something New,” the first date sitting on a table à la Sixteen Candles, the promposal an unabashed declaration of his love reminiscent of Lloyd Dobler with his boombox. But that didn’t happen to me in high school. Seeing all of my friends matched up and dating, I couldn’t help but feel that something was wrong with me. Not having a boyfriend was a sign of failure.

To be an ugly girl was the worst card to be dealt. Only pretty girls get the opportunity to be loved and to fall in love. I resigned myself to the reality that love for me would always be a hazy cloud hovering over my head, the ghost of my long-dead self-confidence.

Then I started college. The mix of alcohol, freedom, and foolishness ushered me into an unfamiliar and reckless period in my life. For the first time in my life, guys weren’t an issue for me anymore. After the first time, hooking up with strangers lost most of its appeal, but I continued to do it because I finally felt complete. Spring quarter, depression dragged me down the rabbit hole, and after an incident with this guy whose face I still can’t recall, I

had to reevaluate my relationship with guys.

Besides the token brown guy I had hooked up with to prove to myself that I wasn’t racist, all of the guys I had ever been with were white.

None of them were nice. None of them were funny. None of them made me feel something.

They were just white bodies who, through their touch and willingness to engage with my body in a sexual way, validated my worth.

In contrast to my darkness, their whiteness is ethereal.

It is the standard by which s o c iet y pr e s c r ib e s b e aut y.

A ll desirable facial features a nd idea l aesthetic models are rooted in ty pical white features. W hen it comes to beauty standards and expectations, whiteness is the proverbial Rome, and white men its clandestine emperors. I interpreted the acknowledgment and sexual acceptance from white guys as proof that I was worthy of love. Their touch endowed my soul with the beauty that genetics couldn’t give me, the validation self-love had never afforded me.

But, what I had thought was a year of liberation turned out to reveal an insecurity that I had pushed down.

The theme for this quarter’s edition of Blacklight is gender and sexuality. W hile d iscussing it, someone had mentioned that desire lies at the center of any talks concerning sexuality. I couldn’t help but think that if desire is at the center, then lust must, also, be put into the conversation. Lust can’t be discussed

without mentioning love, and love can’t be discussed without thinking about who gets loved.

So, who deserves love? What bodies are deemed lovable?

Growing up, I received and internalized the messages of inherent ugliness that surrounds those with a darker skin shade. Feeling as though my body, coded as inferior and ugly, could never be loved, I reser ved love solely for my imagination and my dreams.

But reflecting on my first-year hookups, it’s clear that love was not buried in the depths of my dreams. Rather, every guy was an attempt to capture the love that I so desperately coveted. Every Saturday night, a challenge to prove that I am not ugly because ugly g irls don’t get kissed. My fear of never being loved fueled every hook-up and desire I had my first year. However, instead of finding love for myself, I sought it out in white boys.

I f I ’ve learned any thing from my first year, it is that white boys make the worst t her apy. I c on f l at e d f i nding love with finding a man.

And when it comes to popular talks about and media representation of love, it seems to always be conceptualized as an external display. Love as expression. To show one’s love to someone is to give them a hug or a kiss, or to be a shoulder to cry on. To show one’s self-love is to exercise or to look good.

Love demands expression. My search for love was an expression and manifestation of my fears of loneliness, and, in my times reflecting, I learned that I had to learn to internalize

my conceptions of love. I began to learn how to love myself instead of looking for others to love me. As a black woman, learning to love myself outside of the paradigms of whiteness demanded that I look inwards. Seeking love under the confines of European beauty standards and popular western notions of love never offered me any sense of personal satisfaction or security. There is no way to navigate those ideas when my gendered and racialized body makes those waters tempestuous. When one ’s b o dy c l a s he s w it h the model archetype of the skinny white frame, the laws of attraction seem murkier.

Ada Alozie is a secondyear in the College majoring in anthropology.

E dit or’s n ot e : S ubmit your ideas about the intersections of your race and sexuality or gender to blacklightuchicago@gmail.com for this quarter’s Gender and Sexuality issue.

BLACKLIGHTxMAROON is a column curated by by the Viewpoints editors and the editors of Blacklight, UChicago’s premier literary publication for students of color and minorities. If you would like to contribute, email blacklightxmaroon@ chicagomaroon.com

Internet Users Have Proven They Can Make a Difference Continued from Page 5 memory, of being cherished and celebrated. There is something in the nuggets of wisdom and honesty scattered throughout HON Y ’s page that resonates with audiences worldwide.

Yet his photo blog transcends shares, likes, comments, and follows. Some pictures have spiraled into the public conscience and stayed there—creating real change. Take, for instance, the photo of a young, poised, earnest-looking Vidal, talking about his inspiring principal Mrs. Lopez at his school in Brownsville, the poorest neighborhood in New York City. In about three days, the post was shared over 145,000 times. Stanton and Lopez began a funding campaign to send students to visit Harvard, an endeavor that earned the school

1.4 million dollars. This is no small feat for an institution located in a poor, crime-ridden area. There’s no denying that Stanton’s platform is especially effective; he has an eye for stories that touch everyone who reads them.

But HONY’s reach is global, and in recent times the photo series that highlighted the abject state of refugees garnered attention even from President Obama.

The stories of the families were raw and visceral, and yet there was still hope in their words and eyes. As seen before, things invariably get going when tragedy is painted with a human narrative. HONY’s online fundraiser for 11 Syrian families raised over $700,000 in just three days.

Aya, born in Iraq, has received over 800,000 signatures on her petition for resettlement in the

US after her story was featured on HONY. Dr. Hamo, who now lives in Michigan, received thousands of dollars in aid and an invitation to Obama’s State of the Union address. Dr. Hamo, well known as “The Scientist,” put it simply: “I want to be a person again. I don’t want the world to think I’m over. I’m still here.” It is this resolute hope and humanity against all odds that is breaking through the divides of the virtual world into the real one.

But are people’s reactions to these pictures really about affecting social change? Are they sincerely aimed at starting debate and discussion? One could argue that these pictures are merely a way to feel good about your own morality, to find reassurance in the fact that you can grieve for some-

one you do not know. Critics often say that “slacktivists” express sympathy in a misguided attempt at self-validation. As Brendan O’Neill says in his op-ed for The Spectator, “It’s cheap moralism, emotionalism taking the place of thoughtfulness.” Do grotesque images like Aylan Kurdi’s take into account the feelings and wishes of his family? Surely they too were affected by seeing his lifeless body plastered over the news. It also seems strikingly odd that a crisis, which has been raging on for years now, garners so much attention from just one picture.

What does it say about our humanity when only drastic images can force us to humanize the victims of the Syrian civil war?

But the question we have to ask ourselves is this: in the face

of countless lost lives, wrecked homes, and shattered dreams, is every little change, every spark of compassion worth it?

Should we grab onto the kindness and generosity we feel, and change at least one life instead of none? The media, the people of the world, our leaders: we all have long strides to take, and many changes to implement.

Nothing justifies the loss of innocent lives or the indifference to these losses. Our humanity has gaping tears and deep scars, and there’s an incredible amount of work to be done. But the stories of all those whose lives have been bettered tell me that as long as someone cares, more people will follow.

Urvi Kumbhat is a first year in the college double majoring in English and computer science.

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ARTS Black-and-White Morality Colors Lyric Opera’s Nabucco

BY CAITLIN HUBBARD ARTS STAFF

W hen the curtain closed on the final scene of Nabucco, now playing at Lyric Opera of Chicago, there was the semblance of a happy ending: good triumphed over evil, love over hate, salvation over paganism.

However, this seemingly perfect finale was tinged with uncertainty. The last image featured the villainess Abigaille, lying dead at the feet of her virtuous sister Fenena.

Yet Abigaille, for all her hate, arrogance, and paganism, was cloa ked in innocent white; Fenena was draped entirely in black. The final costuming of these two women blurs the conventional understanding of good and evil, forcing the audience to reconsider the motivations and development of both characters.

Nabucco, written in 1841, was the opera that launched Giuseppe Verdi’s career. Based on biblical stories from the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Daniel, it recounts how the Babylonian K ing Nebuchadnezzar—translated as Nabucco in Italian— conquered Israel and exiled the Jews from their homeland.

Nabucco is renowned for its choral numbers, and the Lyric Opera Chorus, directed

by Michael Black, did not disappoint. In an opera concerned with the power of both men and God, the booming voices resounding through the theater achieved the intended sense of awe. However, Nabucco’s most celebrated chorus of Hebrew slaves, “ Va, pensiero” did not make as deep an impression as

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Tatiana Serjan’s Abigaille commands the Babylonians—and the Lyric Opera stage—in Verdi’s Nabucco.

I had hoped.

B a r it one Ž eljko L uc ic — while good as the brash, egotistical King Nabucco in the first two acts—excelled in the second half as a vulnerable old man and distraught father.

The more Nabucco’s arrogance battled with his soul and his

pride battled with his love, the more Lucic rose to the occasion, turning out a convincing and moving performance.

However, the true star of the night was Tatiana Serjan, playing the role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s fiery, power-hungry eldest daughter. Her voice was

arresting, and her range incredible. She commanded the stage and, at some point or another, almost all the other characters. In a male-dominated society, she came on stage dressed in a long cloak and pants with her sword drawn, flanked by a legion of soldiers.

In comparison to the cloistered women in the Temple of Solomon and her modestly-dressed sister Fenena (played by Elizabeth DeShong), Abigaille was a burst of female strength and confidence. I was slightly disappointed when she came back on in Act II wearing a dress.

K ing Nabucco’s evolution through the opera is clear.

Through trials of the heart and mind, he transforms from an arrogant king who believed himself better than God to a humble man who finds faith and saves both his daughter Fenena and the Jewish people.

But the character developments of the daughters are not so straightforward. Like Abigaille, Fenena was also designed to be a strong character, and the production should have done more to highlight this strength. She defies her father on multiple occasions, leaves her family and pagan religion to convert to Judaism (arguably for no other reason than to be with her love Ismaele), and opposes Abigaille when she takes control of the crown.

From the Babylonian perspective, Fenena is the dissenter and Abigaille the one preserving the interests of the empire. A lthough ambitious, Abigaille is the only sane one in the family; based on their actions, it seems less likely for Abigaille to be blinded by hatred than Fenena by love.

Abigaille dies by her own hand after wishing happiness to her sister. The truest words are the ones that come in the moment before death. So who is good, and who is evil? Both and neither; all are human.

DuSable Museum Preserves Chicago’s Tumultuous Racial Past

BY DAVID MILLSTEIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

On the edge of the University of Chicago campus sits a nearby yet often overlooked

r e s ou r c e. T he 5 5 -ye a r - old D u S able Mu s eu m of A f r ican American History is currently showing an exhibit titled Freedom, Resistance and the Journey Toward Equality.

T his exhibit, which opened last summer, contains over 200 objects, archival videos, and images narrating a story spanning from the early Slave Trade to the election of the

first African American president. While the exhibit itself does not focus exclusively on Chicago, it does feature a few key artifacts of Chicago’s past.

Chicago has long been an

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The DuSable Museum is a Hyde Park mainstay and historical treasure trove which remains woefully underutilized by students.

important site for pivotal moments in black history. The end of the ’60s, in particular, was a dark time for the city of Chicago. While American soldiers were entering Vietnam, thousands of A mer icans at home marched for racial, religious, and gender equality.

W hile preparing to host the Democratic National Convention of 1968, Chicago faced antiwar protests objecting to the Nixon administration’s actions in Vietnam. Over 10,000 people descended on Chicago to participate in the protests, which lasted for five days. Police and protesters clashed in Grant Park on August 28, the third day of the protests —a fight that ended in tear gas.

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Spektral’s “Minty-Fresh” Album is Anything but Serious

BY REBECCA JULIE ARTS STAFF

There are very few parallels to be drawn between the classical concert hall and the comedy club—that is, until now.

The Chicago-based Spektral Quartet’s newest album, Serious Business, has finally found a way to make classical music laugh-out-loud funny. The album features four humorous tracks that span centuries; three are world premieres written within the last two years while the final track is by 18thcentury composer Joseph Haydn. Yet all four pieces were written with humor in mind.

Ch icago -based per former Ch r is Fisher-Lochhead’s “Hack,” the inspiration for the album, captures the pitch, cadence, and harmonic content of the voices of such comedians as Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle, and Robin Williams.

“Chris wanted to write us a piece in which the music of comedians’ deliveries would form the launch-point for the material,” explained Spektral violist Doyle Armbrust. “Capturing the [tendencies] of the human voice is profoundly difficult, but Chris is just the kind of artist to take on such a Sisyphean task… It’s infrequently the joke itself that gets the laugh—listening to a friend unsuccessfully recount a comedic bit is testament to this—but the delivery, which is what Chris harnesses so effectively.”

Though “ Hack” was the catalyst for Serious Business, the quartet soon realized that two of their other commissions—David Reminick’s “ The Ancestral Mousetrap” and Sky Macklay’s “Many Many Cadences”—were also rid-

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Not your grandparents’ string quartet: the Spektral Quartet— Clara Lyon (violin), Russell Rolen (cello), Austin Wulliman (violin), and Doyle Armbrust (viola)—hope to tickle eardrums and funny bones alike with their new CD, Serious Business.

dled with humor.

“The Ancestral Mousetrap” features the macabre poetry of Russell Edson as the libretto, with all four members of the ensemble singing in harmony against their own instrumental lines.

Like the work of all great comedians,

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the humor in Reminick’s piece proved to be thought-provoking for listeners and musicians alike.

“The thing about singing and playing in a piece like Dave [Reminick’s] is that the music is constantly creative, moving through different textures and harmonies,” second violinist Austin Wulliman said. “As a musician, you have to be able to command your best instrumental technique as one layer, and create a compelling vocal performance at the same time. That double-duty was an incredible challenge to my musicianship and interpretive imagination.”

The third new piece on the album, “ Many Many Cadences,” moves at a breakneck tempo: the piece consists entirely of the conclusion of cadences from the top range of the quartet in a rhythmic frenzy. “ We played this for a fairly traditional audience at Fermilab…and had the over-60 segment of the crowd cackling,” Armbrust said.

Given that three-quarters of the album is new music, it initially seemed odd that Spektral chose to include a piece by one of the most quintessential composers for string quartet, Joseph

Haydn. However, his String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 33) is nicknamed “The Joke.”

“That’s a 250-year-old joke that still kills,” Armbrust said.

According to Armbrust, the inclusion of Haydn is also in keeping with the quartet’s mission to “bring the works of the past into conversation with the pieces being written today” and “to dispel the concert hall binary of new vs. old.”

Spektral’s album may be entitled Serious Business, but in actuality it encompasses anything but the austere classical stereotype. Filled with music that is new and old, classical and comedic, it is boundary-defying in every way.

“Leaping between the skill sets necessary for each of these four pieces, or any concert we program, is what keeps the experience minty-fresh for us,” Armbrust said. “ We love that composers venerate the string quartet and write so energetically for it.”

The Spektral Quartet will celebrate the new album with release parties at Maynes Stage on Friday, January 29 at 8 p.m. and at the Logan Center on Sunday, January 31 at 3 p.m.

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Kitchen Sink Presents: A Pop Up Museum Kitchen Sink, a student organization dedicated to promoting UChicago’s visual art community, will showcase the work of 16 artists at tonight’s Pop Up Museum.

The exhibit will focus on the theme of mental health and will take place at Cornell Florist on 55th Street. Space heaters, tea, flowers, and, most importantly, Mindy’s Hot Chocolate will be provided.

Friday, January 29, 7–11 p.m., Cornell Florist. Free admission.

Quad Club Revels 2016 Quadrangle Club Revels, a musical revue starring UChicago professors and members of the Hyde Park community, returns for its 2016 show. This year’s performance tells the story of a ruthless developer and tech-thief that is threatening the Hyde Park community. It features House Representative Barbara Flynn Currie and author Sara Paretsky, as well as UChicago professors David Bevington, Philip Hoffman, Ruth O’Brien, and Urs Schmidt-Ott. Friday, January 29 and Saturday, January 30, 8 p.m., Quadrangle Club. Tickets are $10 for students and $30 for adults. A special dinner-and-show package is available at the Quadrangle Club on Friday for $60 and on Saturday for $70. For information and tickets, call 773-7022550 or e-mail megan.smith@ quadclub.org.

UChi-Con The UChicago Japanese Animation Society (UCJAS) will hold its annual UChi-Con, a student-run anime convention.

Among other events, UChi-Con features panels by UCJAS, Sex Week, and Humans v. Zombies; a Kimono dressing booth; a date auction, where attendees can bid for the company of members from UCJAS and Tri Chi honor soci-

ety; The Cat Returns, a movie screening by Doc Films; and a swing dance lesson by the Chicago Swing Dance Society. Attendees are encouraged to dress up, but all costumes must follow the PG-13 dress code.

Saturday, January 30, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Ida Noyes Hall.

Preregistration for the event has closed, but the event is open to the public. Free admission. For more information, go to uchi-con. tumblr.com.

for the Arts. Presale tickets $5 for students, $10 adults. Tickets at the door are $7 for students and $12 for adults. Tickets available at ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.

The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Musical Skamps The University Symphony Orchestra (USO) presents its first concert of the new year with a rollicking array of pieces inspired by folk tales. Excerpts from Edvard Grieg’s inciden-

tal music to Peer Gynt open the program, followed by the Dream Pantomine from Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.

Saturday, January 30, 8 p.m., Mandel Hall. Admission free, with recommended donations of $10 adults / $5 students.

BlaxploItalian: Film screening and discussion with Fred Kuwornu The Department of Romance

Languages and Literatures and Chicago Studies co-present a screening of filmmaker Fred Kuwornu’s documentary BlaxploItalian. Kuwornu’s fi lm juxtaposes the struggles of past and present Afro-Italian and African diasporic actors, casting a critical eye towards the racial homogeneity of international cinema in the process.

Wednesday, February 3, 5 p.m., Kent Hall, Room 107. Admission free.

Satchmo Saturdays at Promontory In homage to Louis Arms t r on g, t he P r omont or y ’s Satchmo Saturdays feature a new jazz act every Saturday in January. This event runs in conjunction with the Court Theater’s play about Louis Armstrong, Satchmo at the Waldorf, and is a key component of Court’s Louis Armstrong Festival. This weekend’s performer is the South Side’s own Marquis Hill, a trumpeter and composer.

The Promontory restaurant will also be featuring New Orleans-inspired dishes on Saturdays, and tickets to Satchmo Saturdays are half-price for diners who order the New Orleans specials.

Saturday, January 30, 8 p.m., Marquis Hill at The Promontory.

Dinner hours 5–11 p.m. Tickets available at promontorychicago. com.

UBallet’s Giselle Disguises, betrothals, and resurrection: This Saturday and Sunday, the University Ballet of Chicago will present choreographer Marius Petipa’s interpretation of Giselle. This iconic romantic tragedy, set to the score of French composer Adolphe Adam, and will take place in Logan Center’s main performance hall.

Saturday, January 30, 7 p.m., and Sunday, January 31, 2 p.m., Performance Hall, Logan Center

Kaitlyn Akin | The Chicago Maroon

“Chicago has long been an important site for pivotal moments in black history...”

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burned through Chicago like the Great Fire, including one at the offices of the Black Panthers.

Entering the galleries of the DuSable museum, there is a poster mounted on a door riddled with bullet holes. It reads: “STOP FA SCIST R A IDS ON BL AC K PA N T H E R S .” T he poster serves as an artifact of these 1968 raids. But why target the Black Panthers?

The Black Panther movement evolved out of the generation of black youth growing up in the wake of the Great M ig ration. T his generation faced new conditions of poverty and racism, and the Black Panthers sought to develop a dynamic political platform to address them, instituting a

variety of social programs like Free Breakfast for Children and community health clinics. All the while, police forces ruthlessly targeted their headquarters.

W hen not a day goes by without a headline highlighting CPD racial targeting, posters like those at the DuSable Museum serve as reminders of how far back the history of police brutality stretches. Chicago harbors a rich cultural history, but there are few museums housing these artifacts.

Taking a trip to the DuSable Museum is a way to discover parts of Chicago’s past one may be unfamiliar with.

The DuSable Museum of African American History is open Tuesday–Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Sunday noon–5 p.m. Admission is $10, $7 with student ID. Additional discounts are available for Chicago residents and students. The museum is located in Washington Park at the corner of 57th Street and Cottage Grove. For more information about special events and current exhibitions please visit: http://www.dusablemuseum.org.

David Millstein | The Chicago Maroon

The “STOP FASCIST RAIDS” poster and the bullet-riddled door on which it is mounted are potent reminders of Chicago’s history of racial unrest.

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Maroons Compete in Field of 32 at Pete Willson Invite WRESTLING

BY GARY HUANG SPORTS STAFF

This weekend the University of Chicago wrestling squad is set to travel to Wheaton college for the annual Pete Willson Invitational. The Maroons will be one of 32 teams participating in the largest small school wrestling tournament in the country. While UChicago fi nished 21st of 32 teams last year, they will certainly be looking to improve in 2016.

Currently standing with a record of 3–8, the South Siders will go into the tournament trying to overturn a string of unfortunate results, including its most recent loss at Elmhurst College, placing them sixth of 11 teams at the Elmhurst Invite. The Maroons got off to a great start against the Bluejays, taking a lead of 9–0 with wins from second-year Devan Richter and first-year Louis Demarco, but Elmhurst was able to take the last seven of eight matches.

Third-year Paul Papoutsis salvaged UChicago’s third

win of the day, but ultimately Elmhurst came out the victors to a score of 37– 12. Richter was later announced the UAA Co-wrestler of the Week, providing the team with some positivity after a rough result.

With a relatively young roster this year, featuring only seven upperclassmen, the team has had to rely on strong performances from the first- and secondyears. When asked for his thoughts on the underclassmen’s performance so far in the season, Papoutsis discussed two first-years he thought had transitioned well into collegiate wrestling: “Pat Mulkerin has recently bumped up to heavyweight, so I am excited to see how he competes at this larger weight class.

He is pretty quick, which should serve him well, but he is a little light so it will be interesting to see how he does.”

Fellow first-year Louis Demarco, who recently moved up to the 133-pound weight class, is another first-year that Papoutsis

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Second-year Nick Ferraro pins his opponent earlier this season.

has recognized. “Louis Demarco is another freshman that I am excited about. He has been doing very well at his new weight class (133).

I expect to see him on the podium” Papoutsis said.

When asked for the keys to success for the team this weekend, Papoutsis contin-

ued, “The team is going to have to be really focused on the techniques we have been practicing the past couple of weeks. There will definitely be some tough competition, but if we focus on being tactical I think we can have a good showing on the podium.”

Speaking more on techniques, he emphasized second-year Nick Ferraro’s technique, saying, “I am especially excited to see Nick Ferraro utilizing the front headlock to his advantage.

I think he has a really good chance of placing”.

Bright and early Friday

morning at 9 a.m. the Maroons will be at King Arena for weigh-in and skin check.

Wrestling starts at 11 a.m.

The 32 teams will then compete Saturday at 9 a.m. with the championship, third-place, and fifth-place matches beginning at 12:15 p.m.

PhoeniX-Word: Existential Angst Created by Daniel Ruttenberg ACROSS

DOWN

1 Sec. Of Treasury statistic

1 Makeup item

4 22 year old gift givers

2 Passed out on the table?

9 Group of popular CBS shows

3 Backyard barbecue area

13 Seydoux of “Spectre”

4 Diplomat: Abbr.

14 Asian gambling mecca

5 Like the common-man

15 Gambling city in Nevada (not THAT one)

6 Conway campus

16 Granola bar component

7 Some Borneo dwellers

17 “Totally!”

8 Dictator of Rome 82-79 BC

19 Like a person in oversized jeans

9 Some people in New Orleans

21 Detached

10 Ishmael, for one

22 Spanish ones end in “eria”

11 B&B

24 Like a book with “Walters and Dwan” on the

12 Dot Dot Dot Dash Dash Dash Dot Dot Dot

cover?

18 6.022 * 10^23 atoms

27 Notices

20 Title for a married woman

29 Lake named after an Iroquois tribe

23 Long poem

30 Marilyn ___ Savant (high IQ haver)

24 A/C measurement

33 Room with IV-covered walls

25 Baseball team count

34 Mark on an attendance sheet

26 Stages

36 Bold font

28 Antepenultimate mon.

38 Article of clothing for a formal event

30 Opposite of muerte

39 Hi-___ (1080p)

31 “Forget”

40 French Christian?

32 Telling people that the trees were making

41 “YOLO”, in a Drake song

people kill themselves

43 Line in a dirty “Garfield” comic?

34 Small British island

46 Inquired

35 Lesser, as a wolf

50 Who Old Major represents in “Animal Farm”

37 Hunter in an temple in Ephesus

51 Create ashy lines on a steak

38 Part used when counting from 11 to 20

52 Moment in Ecclesiastes 3:2

41 Inhabitant of ancient Crete

57 Less “super” Freudian subject

42 Spy group under FDR

58 Hindu princess

44 Number associated with 28-across minus

59 Brownish-gray shade

25-across

60 As needed, to a pharmacist

45 Gooey pink Pokemon

61 Hen product

47 Remains

62 ClickHole Corporation

48 High tidal wave

63 Sense with eyes

49 ISIS attacker 52 “We ___ Young” (fun. hit)

DIAGONAL

53 Phrase preceding “you’re it!”

1 “I WANT TO BE FREE”, or the relationship

54 Cause of a revoked driver’s license

between 17-across and 24 -across , and

55 2012 Facebook event, in brief

52-across and 43-across

56 Dark time for a poet

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Top-ranked Chicago Squads Face Off Against No.5 Olivet

Coe, Augustana Slated for DIII Debut

SWIM & DIVE

MEN’S TENNIS

BY FRANCES MCDONALD SPORTS STAFF

As the last meet of the regular season before UA A and National championship meets, the Maroons are traveling to Lake Forest to compete against the Foresters and Olivet Nazarene.

Coming off of huge wins against nationally ranked Calvin and DePauw this past weekend, with many individuals winning events, the South Siders are expecting a fun last regular season meet that would propel them into success for the post season.

The women’s team is currently ranked No. 8 in the nation, while the men’s team has moved up in rankings to No. 9. Although the squad just took down two ranked opponents, the teams they face this weekend are not to be taken lightly.

This past weekend, the Foresters men’s team split with a win against Lawrence and a loss against U W–W hitewater while the women lost both. Both Lake Forest squads will almost certainly look to use this match as a rebound from their somewhat disappointing week-

end.

While the fact that the Foresters haven’t done as well as the Maroons this season should give them some confidence, Olivet Nazarene is coming into Ratner with some swagger. The Olivet men’s and women’s teams are both ranked No. 5 in the country. The women’s team also has revenge on its mind; on January 9 they split a meet with a win against Lewis and a loss against the Maroons. In the same January meet, the men’s Olivet Nazarene team won against both squads.

Olivet Nazarene also has another meet the day before they take on the Foresters and the South Siders. They will face W heaton College, and since Chicago took on Wheaton in October, perhaps it will be an indication of how the meet on Saturday will go. Both the men’s and women’s squads defeated Wheaton at the beginning of the season.

T h i rd-ye a r M aya S cheidl, who won the women’s 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events and contributed to the 400-meter freestyle relay this past weekend, believes this meet will be a

good one to end the regular season with.

“I think this weekend will be exciting because it marks the end of our dual meet season, which means we are entering championship season soon after! I think most of us are pretty pumped to have a fun and successful last meet,” said the perennial leader.

A lthough they have taken on a slew of ranked opponents which translates into tough meets, Chicago is far-sighted in their training methods.

For the sake of preserving their bodies and staying healthy, the men’s and women’s swim and dive team will experience a drop-off in training and workouts in preparation for UA A and national championships.

Scheidel comments on the way the South Siders will treat this meet as a last chance for the squad with the post season on the horizon. “ Because many of us will start to taper in a little over a week, this meet is one of our last chances to race in a formal meet setting before Conference,” she said.

The meet will be at Lake Forest College on Saturday at 1 p.m.

BY ERIK WONG SPORTS STAFF

After finishing with a commanding 6 –1 victory in its last match against Chicago State University, the Maroons look forward to their upcoming match against No. 36 Coe College.

With the v ict or y against Chicago State, the men’s squad moved up two spots in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings from No. 8 to No. 6, leaving the Maroons as one of the top teams in DI I I Tennis Competition. This upcoming match against Coe (who has yet to play a match this season) is important for the Maroons, who look to start their season with another win in order to prepare for a tough schedule ahead.

Coe can certainly not be taken lightly, though.

“Against Coe specifically, we played them l a st ye a r a nd it wa s closer than the score indicated,” second-year David Liu said.

This proves the impor tance of this ea rly mat ch up because the M a r o ons do not wa nt to let a quality win slip away from them. Liu also

said, “We have a few important matches in the coming weeks, including two against top 20 teams at home, and it will be important for us to be well rested and focused,” showing the kind of mentality the South Siders have going into this next match up, as well as the weeks that follow.

In men’s singles play, C o e w i l l f ield st a ndout second-year Brady A nderson , as wel l as fourth-year Ryan Hickman, both of whom will provide some tough competition for Chicago. On the other side, though, Chicago will f ield several outstanding players of their own.

One of these players, second-year Nate Chua, i s t he N o . 2 s i n g le s player in the Central Region for DIII. Chua won with comfort last week, a nd looks t o conti nue his success against Coe. The Maroons will also call upon the steady performer in David Liu, as well as first-year Charlie Pei, who won his match last week in high fashion.

As for doubles, look for Chua and Liu to combine their strengths as the first team. The sec-

ond team w i l l consist of Charlie Pei and second-year Peter L eung, and the third team will feature f irst-year Max Liu and third-year Max Hawkins.

Liu provided some key insight into the strategy the team has when he said, “We can really set ourselves apart in doubles play, so if we can jump to a 3– 0 lead going into singles, we should have no problem finishing from there.”

Despit e th is con f ident approach, the Maroons have treated practice this week the same as any other match up.

Chua said, “ This weekend will be more about playing our games than chang ing any thing for our opponents particularly,” which shows that the Maroons will have to be fundamentally sound to come out with a win.

W it h s uc h a de ep roster, the men have a chance for great success th is season , but they must remain calm under pressure and focused on their goals. Coe is another check on the list.

Come out to the match this weekend, which is home this Sunday, January 31 at 11 a.m.

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South Siders Looking to Find Their Footing at Warhawk Invite TRACK & FIELD

BY MAX HAWKINS SPORTS STAFF

After kicking off their season with a stellar opening meet at home, the Maroons faced a deadly combination of Illinois Wesleyan and Washington University in St. Louis last weekend.

At the Triangular Invite, the men’s team posted eight first-place finishes getting second place overall as a team, while the women had three first-place finishes placing third overall. This Friday, the Maroons will head to the Warhawk Invite hosted by UW–Whitewater where they look to translate key individual performances to team success.

Both teams feel confident despite enduring an injury-riddled few weeks.

Despite their injuries, individuals stepped up to try and help carry the team.

Third-year Temisan Osowa snatched first in the 60-meter and the 200-meter while second-year Patrick LeFevre was able to leap his way to a win in the 60-meter hurdles. The men also finished well in the field events; third-year Joey Gary took the triple jump, second-year John Schultz won the pole vault, and throwers thirdyear Andrew Maneval and fourth-year Nathan Massey garnered wins in shot put and weight throw, respectively.

The women were not as successful, but still garnered promising wins. Firstyear Alexandra Thompson won the high jump, and perennial favorite fourthyear Nkemdilim Nwaokolo grabbed the weight throw win.

Fourth-year Ryan Manzuk and first-year Nicole Vacaguzman both finished

first in the 400-meter race last weekend and look to lead the men and women’s team again on Friday. “We lost to Wash U by a very slim margin even though we were without nearly 10 key contributors due to injures and the like. So, we feel like we’re in a good spot to compete with them at season’s end at the conference meet,” Manzuk said.

“I’m excited to see how the team does this weekend because many runners who were injured will once again be running, so it should be a fun meet. Last year we placed fifth, so this year I’m hoping to place even better!” said Vacaguzman.

As the Maroons heal up for the weekend they also have to adjust as the academic quarter starts to pick up. “Coping with the demands of both academics and athletics is certainly a

challenge. For me personally, I just make sure that I am focused on the tasks I have immediately in front of me…It’s important to be efficient and not sacrifice sleep,” Manzuk said.

On the women’s side Vacaguzman echoed Manzuk’s thoughts. “Since we have meets every weekend, time management is crucial and necessary if we want to do well in both areas,” the sprinter said.

Despite the injuries and the academics, the Maroons feel confident going into the Warhawk Invite. Even though this meet is early in the year the South Siders look to make a statement to the rest of D III. “This is easily the best meet we go to all indoor season. The field will be littered with All-Americans. This offers us a really good opportunity to run well because

the competition around us will push us to good marks,” Manzuk said.

That extra competition will be a good indicator to the Maroons but could be a much better indicator if

all the injured runners are able to compete. The season continues 5 p.m. on Friday at the Indoor Warhawk invite in Whitewater, WI. The women will complete their events on Saturday.

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Third-year Madison Hetzner competes in the Windy City Invitational during the 2015 season.

Smith & Co Host Emory, Rochester at Home South Siders Take on Undefeated Rochester MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY HELEN PETERSEN HEAD SPORTS EDITOR

With a perfect conference record and a 13-game winning streak on the line, the Maroons are heading into this weekend with a chip on their shoulder.

Fourth-year guard Jordan Smith, however, is not satisfied with just the wins.

He said, “We just have to stay consistent and play to our ability for a change. If we do that, we will do great.”

The Maroons (14–2, 5–0) will face off against Emory (11–5, 4–1) on Friday and then turn around and compete against Rochester (10–6, 3–2) on Sunday. With the University Athletic Association (UAA) being one of the toughest conferences in the nation, even a top ranked team like Chicago cannot take any game lightly.

Second-year forward Collin Barthel said, “We approach every weekend with the same mentality. Coach obviously gives us different game plans, but guys try not to over stress every individual game and just play our game.”

The Eagles are heading into Chicago with some momentum. Last weekend, Emory knocked off Carnegie Mellon by 14 points, a team the Maroons defeated by just two points, and then defeated

Case Western by four points.

Lead by sharp shooting second-year forward Adam Gigax, Emory boasts a balanced attack with third-year Jonathan Terry, fourth-year Will Trawick, and fourthyear Davis Rao, all averaging over 10 points a game. The squad shoots consistently from beyond the arc with Gigax ranked No. 6 in threepoint percentage in the UAA, while Terry and Trawick own the 16th and 17th spot in that category, respectively.

Rochester knocked off both Carnegie Mellon and Case Western this past weekend. They will play Wash U before heading north to take on the Maroons on Sunday.

Fourth-year Jared Seltzer led the attack for Yellow Jackets, earning a double-double against Carnegie Mellon with 25 points and 10 rebounds. Seltzer is averaging close to 19 points a game and is shooting 45 percent from the field. Rochester has dropped matches to NYU and Emory thus far in conference play.

The Maroons head into the weekend having defeated Brandeis and NYU last week. A balanced attack allowed Chicago to flourish against Brandeis. Fourthyear guard Alex Voss ended the game with 11 points and three assists and was joined in double digit scoring by sec-

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ond-year guard Jake Fenlon, who shot 50 percent from beyond the arc on the day, and Barthell, who was 4–5 from three-point range. The team held the Judges to just 50 points on the day.

Against NYU, a different string of players led the team in scoring. Smith brought in 15 points, while his fellow fourth-year forward Nate Brooks brought down 10 rebounds. Third-years forward Waller Perez and point guard Tyler Howard, also scored in double digits with 14 and 11 points, respectively.

All of this is to say that the Maroons are deep and have found ways to score from different places and with different people on the floor which has contributed to the 13-game winning streak.

Looking forward, the Maroons have lofty goals for the rest of the season. Barthel said, “Our goals will continue to stay the same. Win the UAA and make a deep tournament run. We believe two more wins this weekend will put us into contention with the other top 10 teams in the country and that’s where we want to be.”

Tip-off against Emory begins at 8 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. Both games will take place on the Maroons home court at the Ratner Athletic Center.

BY DAVID KERR SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons will be taking on the Emory Eagles this Friday, and with both teams standing at 10–6, it will certainly be a solid battle. This marks the first matchup of the season between the two and will be the sixth straight UAA matchup for the Maroons.

The South Siders are coming off of an up and down weekend where they split their two games between New York University and Brandeis. They lost to No. 9 NYU on Friday 71–55 and then came back on Sunday to blow out Brandeis 73–59.

Second-year forward Mary Grace Bilby believes that the team learned a valuable lesson in their loss to NYU and have used it as motivation to get better. “We lost a tough game last weekend against NYU and then turned it around on Sunday to beat Brandeis. This week in practice we’ve been working on fixing our mistakes from Friday and fine tuning what worked successfully on Sunday.”

Bilby continued, “For the past couple weeks our team has made it our priority to be consistent and in control.

This weekend in our game against Emory if we stay true to these aspects, we can

have a great game.”

The Eagles have struggled mightily in the month of January as they have lost four out of their last five games. The Eagles are coming off of a 76–62 loss on Sunday against Case Western Reserve where they only shot 30 percent from the field. The Eagles are led by Michelle Bevan and Shellie Kaniut who are averaging 10.5 and 9.1 points respectively. Bevan also leads the Eagles in rebounding with 4.4 rebounds a game. Although Emory’s record may not reflect it, they played both NYU and Brandeis to within three points, and their lone win of the UAA season came against No. 25 Carnegie Mellon.

However, Chicago is confident that if they play their brand of basketball, they will be in good shape on Friday. The Maroons were able to hold Brandeis to 39.7 percent from the field, and only 7.1 percent from three-point range. They also forced the Judges into turnovers 19 times. Since defense has been a focus for the squad all year, the Sunday game was certainly a testament to the work that they have been putting in.

S econd-yea r g ua rd Elizabeth Nye echoed this sentiment. “I think we’re taking what we did against

Brandeis and carrying it forward. That was a good win for us. We played well together as a team. Emory is another tough team who presses a lot, so we’ll work more on that this week. Executing our press break well and carry forward the good team work from will help us be successful against Emory,” the starting point guard said.

After taking on Emory on Friday, Chicago will turn around to take on their toughest opponent of conference play in their Sunday matchup against Rochester.

The No. 7 Yellowjackets are the lone undefeated team left in the UAA and have only dropped one game throughout the course of the season.

Second-year Alexandra Leslie leads the team, averaging almost a double-double with 16.6 points per game and 9.7 rebounds per game. They will first have to play Wash U who falls right behind them in UAA standings with just one loss before taking on the Maroons.

Chicago will look to take down the Eagles and to use that momentum to continue their success in UA A league play. Tipoff against Emory is at 6 p.m. this Friday at Ratner Athletic Center. The game against Rochester begins at 1 p.m. on Sunday.